Published: February 9, 2025
Just as Garan returned, Ye Zhongming found himself perplexed by the Silver Corpse he had created himself.
This all started after Garan and Mina left.
The people from Surge Power went to clean up the devastated slums, and according to Ye Zhongming's request, they found several seriously injured individuals and brought them back.
Garan's guess was not wrong; the blood of the star sunfish was prepared for this purpose.
Helping Yang Yixi gain control over Surge Power was just part of Ye Zhongming's plan. He was not accustomed to placing all his hopes on others; the human puppet technique was the only method he could think of at that moment.
He deliberately flaunted the star sunfish, enticing some individuals in the underground city to become greedy, and afterwards... the outcome was predictable.
Perhaps this was 'fishing'; perhaps it was cruel; perhaps it was a form of hypocrisy.
But Ye Zhongming truly did not care.
Although in this life, Ye Zhongming no longer craved killing as he did in his previous life, in essence, it was merely that he no longer needed to take action himself. His goals were simply different from those struggling for survival in the apocalypse.
The situation determined the mindset; this also applied to Ye Zhongming.
If he wanted to unravel the mystery and declare war on the entire apocalypse, how could he focus on conflicts with his own kind?
Although many of his kind did not intend to let him off the hook.
However, when it came to the time when Ye Zhongming needed to take action, he did not reject the idea, just like this operation. He brought people from Cloud Summit and Ying City to charge into Linhai, which should be feasible, but the losses would certainly be heavy. Completing the mission and rushing out would lead to a bloody baptism, and by then, Ye Zhongming had no certainty about how many of his subordinates would survive.
He did not want his people to die, yet he wanted to complete the mission, so utilizing the people in Linhai City became the best choice.
When it was only a choice between companions and himself, Ye Zhongming was not reluctant to choose the former to perish.
As for relying on his immense mental strength to create more human puppets that would obey orders unconditionally, that was also for this goal.
Of course, after witnessing the Yama Tree and Death Vine, Ye Zhongming did have other thoughts, but for now, he was still unsure about whether he should act and how to do it.
Sooner or later, the people from Surge Power would find out about it, and Ye Zhongming did not shy away from them. It was not surprising that some fear was derived when he created several Iron Corpses.
Controlling Iron Corpses was not as effortless as managing the Silver Corpse, and to conduct some experiments, one of the Iron Corpses was infused with the great thousand soul refining technique, which made this particular Iron Corpse much more closely linked to Ye Zhongming than the others.
What truly puzzled Ye Zhongming was this Iron Corpse.
He discovered that the Silver Corpse, Yani, could actually control this Iron Corpse!
Could it be that the great thousand soul refining technique allows these puppets of the same origin to have some peculiar connection?
This answer seemed almost certain, while what remained uncertain was that his sister, Yaten, could also command this Iron Corpse...
Although her commands were not as efficient and precise as Silver Corpse Yani's, she could indeed drive the Iron Corpse.
Ye Zhongming found this quite confusing; his sister Yaten was just a little girl who had become an evolver thanks to the Evolution Potion given by Ye Zhongming. She was not a human puppet created by him, so how could she control his Iron Corpse?
Even if she and Silver Corpse Yani were twins, strictly speaking, Yani was already dead. No matter how strong the twin's telepathy was, it shouldn't maintain such a connection in the face of death, right? Wasn't that a bit supernatural?
Ye Zhongming saw the bond between the twin sisters, but could such profound feelings have such an effect?