"So heavy!"

Perhaps it was because he'd soaked too long, Luo Di felt unusually heavy as he crawled out from the corpse oil pool.

Whether lifting his legs, arms, or making any movement, he felt ten times heavier than before.

His body seemed to have grown a full circle bigger, and between the skin and flesh, there appeared to be an extra layer of solidified grease, making him appear abnormally bloated, with some parts looking like malignant tumors, swollen and dark.

Considering the anomaly at the Jiang Mansion, he didn't have much time to ponder. He must quickly manage his condition and go out to inspect the situation.

Luo Di first attempted to put on his skin, only to find it had become incredibly stiff from soaking too long, making it impossible to wear.

Lady Linglong had mentioned one hour, but now it had soaked for more than double that time, so the skin problem would have to be set aside for now, until he found Lady Linglong to resolve it.

Luo Di focused his attention on himself.

"These solidified lumps between the skin and flesh resemble wax. A little heat might turn them into liquid and be further absorbed.

There's no time left, let's try opening the spine."

Consciousness sends out a signal, the old spine expresses the state.

The back splits open, revealing the spine.

Body temperature rises, grease dissolves.

Sss~ Steam releases in waves, only this steam is no longer white, but black, like a sinister air, yet distinct.

Just as Luo Di thought, the dissolved grease continued to penetrate, merging slowly with the internal flesh.

This refined corpse oil, strictly filtered through the Hell Shell and gray tentacles, only offers beneficial attributes to the body.

The spine is revealed.

Unlike before, what emerged first from the rift in the back was not the spine, but a tuft of gray hair.

This hair grew from the cracks in the spine, fluttering in the wind, emitting a unique scorching sinister aura.

Luo Di's body quickly returned to normal size, but the heaviness persisted, with his weight at least tripled.

Veins appearing black and gray emerged under the skin, resembling worms spreading across his body.

"Huh? Why does my body feel so hard..."

Luo Di directly used Consciousness Slash, aiming at his wrist. In the past, this would have slashed a deep wound down to the bone, but now it barely cut through the epidermis.

Moreover, the cut area was steaming, with the wound bubbling before quickly healing.

"I'll check the bodily changes later, for now, let's head out to investigate."

With a swift move, Luo Di dashed out, so hurried that he completely overlooked the changes in the room,

The corpse oil pool, crucial to the Jiang Mansion, had lowered by a full three meters.

Making his way to the Corpse Refining Hall, he found no one there.

Not to mention Lady Linglong; the maids who frequently moved around here were all missing too.

Just as Luo Di planned to leave the Corpse Refining Shop via the stairs... Buzz! A ringing sound echoed in his ears, his back hair seemed to sense something, or perhaps the newly integrated Zombie Attribute reacted.

Following the direction of the sensing,

he opened a wooden compartment filled with the scent of sandalwood.

Luo Di immediately noticed the item on the wooden table,

A wooden waist tag carved from fragrant fir wood, wearable around the waist with a red string, imprinted with a large black character "Luo."

The source of this black corpse material was Luo Di himself, gathered by Lady Linglong while he was immersed in the corpse oil pool.

"Is this the 'talisman' Lady Linglong mentioned, a wooden tag representing the housekeeper's identity?"

Luo Di instinctively reached out to touch it, feeling a thin, invisible soul thread drawn from his fingertips, intertwined with the tag.

The specific effects are unknown, but since it's made by Lady Linglong, it should be fine.

As Luo Di secured the waist tag, ready to head outside.

After a long time of no contact, Gust suddenly reached out, revealing a tongue from his palm, waving around.

"Be careful... There's a different scent outside the Jiang Mansion, a smell of unfamiliar flesh. That old thing with half its body paralyzed, its flesh utterly destroyed, indeed struggles to guard the Jiang Mansion.

But Luo Di, there's no need for you to wade into this murky water; the risk is too high, offering no benefit to you as an outsider."

Luo Di had already made up his mind, responding, "Perhaps there's a tempting fresh tongue taste, Mr. Gust."

"Hiss~ Alright! You go ahead and check the situation outside, I'll lend you a hand... But Luo Di, you smell rotten, a zombie scent, though somewhat different. Your essence hasn't changed, but it seems your flesh has gained some unique enhancement.

I've been in meetings from yesterday to today, without noticing what's happening on your side, what happened?"

"I'll explain later, right now it's urgent."

Luo Di swiftly rushed out of the underground area, stepping over the threshold of the Corpse Refining Shop.

A corpse stench quickly overwhelmed him, unlike the scent of a zombie, more like the odor of flesh thoroughly pulverized.

Three maids had been killed in the courtyard area where the Corpse Refining Shop was located.

Their bodies severely damaged; some only half remaining, others nearly ground to pieces with half a face left on the ground.

At the courtyard gate,

A mysterious entity cloaked in a trench coat stood there, its height and width astonishingly impressive, the muscle tissue beneath the clothing appeared enormously large.

The strangest thing was,

Luo Di, known as the Black Door Killer, couldn't detect the scent of life from this figure, unlike the creatures in the corner.

"What is this thing?"

By this time, the entity at the door had already caught a scent, the unique corpse stench emanating from Luo Di.

Buzz!

The ground was stomped with a deep footprint.

Despite its bulky appearance, its speed was shockingly fast!

Slap!

A large hand with sewing marks had already gripped Luo Di's neck, lifting him into the air.

At the same time,

The scorching yin energy emanating from Luo Di's spine was being absorbed by the figure's palm.

This strongman seemed to be adept at dealing with zombies, or perhaps he was specifically designed to handle them.

With a vigorous squeeze of the hand,

He intended to crush Luo Di's neck directly.

But found he couldn't, especially the cervical structure, which was incredibly hard.

Seeing this,

The creature's other hand came slamming down with great force, intending to crush Luo Di into pulp.

Slap!

A gust of wind pressure was unleashed,

and Luo Di's seemingly smaller hand effortlessly caught the figure's wrist, stopping the blow.

Also simultaneously,

A tongue grew from Luo Di's palm, quickly slipping into the figure's sleeve reaching the face, trying to extract a tongue. But unexpectedly, the figure had no mouth, the mouth was sewn shut, and all related oral structures and organs were removed.

Click!

Gust made a clicking noise with his tongue.

Seeing this,

Luo Di no longer held back; hellish red light emerged from the contact point on his hand, a metallic structure rapidly enveloped the figure, creating an Iron Maiden to completely enclose him, severing any mental connections.

The tongue in his palm wriggled, giving an assessment: "Luo Di, you're a bit smart~ Instead of killing him, you sealed him. This way, you won't alert any others, and no one will know that Jiang Mansion harbors an intruder like you.

But from the taste just now, I've already detected a flavor.

The taste of roses… Be careful, 'that pervert' might have come personally, and at your current level, you could be killed."

...

The central courtyard.

A massive amount of wax spread through the area, covering the ground completely.

Over a dozen huge monstrous figures had been made into wax statues, currently sinking and dissolving slowly in the wax.

However, Lady Linglong covered her continuously bleeding arm, retreating to the mansion entrance, gasping for breath.

The wound on her arm seemed unable to heal, even with more wax, blood continued to seep out.

Her eyes fixed unyieldingly on a direction, staring at a particular foreign visitor.

A man dressed in a white mink fur coat stood there, paired with a red shirt and pure white pants, the trousers completely tucked into gold-striped long boots.

Most eye-catching was the deep red tie on his chest, carved with lifelike rose patterns.

His right foot stepped on the back of a young zombie,

and he leaned over to pull out the axe embedded in the zombie's head.

As he straightened up, he brushed aside the black hair hanging down his face, a smile at the corner of his mouth.

Petals fell.

Indeed, rose petals drifted down from the tie.

The man instantly appeared before the lady, swinging the axe to cut open the wax wall blocking her, aiming straight for the lady's face.

Clang!!

A huge collision echoed.

Wax oil splattered wildly within the courtyard.

A gray figure exuding black smoke stood in front of the lady, a black knife made from spine forcefully deflected the axe.

A wooden plaque engraved with the character [Luo] hung on a red cord at the waist, swaying from the recent impact...

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