Chapter 281: Heartless One

. "Flesh Puppet Level 1"

"This flesh puppet was transformed from an Awakened One with 【Heaven Fortune Gathering Spirit】."

"Limited to the flesh puppet's transformation, this awakened ability transforms into 【Heartless One】."

"Heartless One: Having lost judgment and basic logic toward the world, as a flesh puppet you will be completely dominated by the desire to devour flesh and blood."

"Units possessing this talent can gain power by devouring existences such as zombies, mutants, humans, demonic beasts, fantasy creatures, and mythological beings."

"Note 1: A flesh puppet that has completely lost its reason, retaining only the power of belief, will ignore all mental control methods such as illusions, psychic deception, spiritual phenomena, thought distortion, and psychic control. It will also ignore the pressure of high-level mutants and demonic beasts, and will not suffer strength reduction due to rank differences."

"Note 2: This unit will have a strong desire to devour any existence."

"Lin An silently gazed at the bald flesh puppet, unsure how to define it."

"Who would have thought that Li Lei, who was immersed in life and brainwashed into the 'Child of Heaven,' would still retain those traits after transforming into a flesh puppet."

"His original timidity, cowardice, and arrogance actually turned into extreme 'fearlessness'."

"There was no increase in strength, yet he gained extreme potential."

"The description of the Heartless One's ability, when summed up, means only one thing."

"Li Lei's transformed flesh puppet will devour everything it sees."

"Eat, and you will become stronger."

"It will not be suppressed by any level, and will madly attack everything."

"Compared to zombies' instinctive fear of mutants, this flesh puppet truly deserves to be called utterly fearless."

"In the apocalypse, the suppression of high level over low level is extraordinarily terrifying."

"An ordinary Level 2 mutant can make zombies dare not move, while Level 3 can even cause zombies to follow spontaneously."

"Like the draconic might of a black dragon."

"A fully mature black dragon can suppress a Level 3 demonic beast to immobility with just its aura, making it bow its head and await death."

"Conversely, low-level zombies and mutants dare not actively attack high-level beings."

"Therefore, even if Mo Ling forcibly issues an attack command against high-level beings, the zombies or flesh puppets she controls will also 'shrink back'."

"But Li Lei's 【Heartless One】 trait will ignore the innate fear of high-level beings."

"In other words, even if a god stands before it, it will still frenziedly charge forward and devour the 'god'."

"Compared to the flesh puppet transformed by Wang Kun, Li Lei, who possesses the Heartless skill, has greater potential."

"One can only gain skills by eating mutants, while the other enjoys endless all-around enhancement."

"Beside the blood cocoon, Mo Ling, seeing that Lin An had not spoken for a long time, gently pulled his hand:"

"\"Lin An. \""

"\"Controlling the Heartless puppet is so exhausting... \""

"\"The psychic power consumption is much greater than controlling the Corpse-Split puppet. \""

"\"I can feel that it wants to devour everything except me... \""

"Before them, the bald Heartless puppet stood stiffly in place."

"Who could have imagined that beneath its dull, foolish exterior lies the desire to devour the entire world."

"Lin An pondered for a moment, as if he had thought of something:"

"\"Mo Ling, first control it to go to the hospital. \""

"\"After reaching the hospital, release your psychic control over it. \""

"\"Let's test its devouring effect. \""

"Mo Ling's face turned slightly pale as she nodded, then she used psychic control to move the Heartless puppet, setting its attack target on the hospital."

"Moments later, under the loli's control, the Heartless puppet swiftly rushed into the hospital interior."

"\"Cut off. \""

"\"Hum-\""

"A faint sound of psychic disconnection rang out."

"Instantly, the Heartless puppet, deprived of psychic suppression, staggered and then lunged at the surrounding zombies with almost mad movements."

"It was seen moving at extreme speed, its hands directly twisting off the heads of nearby zombies, then it 'drilled' into a zombie's chest cavity and began devouring it in large bites."

"Intestines, organs..."

"Clumps of bloody flesh and organs were pulled out from the chest cavity."

"The targeted zombie was like a bag full of delicacies, while the Heartless puppet was like a scavenging hyena."

"Chewing, swallowing."

"In just a few seconds, a zombie of similar size to the Heartless puppet was eaten down to only its two lonely feet."

"With its powerful digestion, the Heartless puppet even devoured the zombie's spine."

"There was no pause."

"After devouring the entire zombie, the Heartless puppet continued to lunge at the next target, frenziedly tearing and biting."

"\"Damn it... \""

"\"Captain Lin, this thing is kinda disgusting... \""

"Zhang Tie wore a look of wanting to vomit; even he could barely stomach this scene."

"He had seen zombies eat people many times, feeling nothing."

"But a puppet eating zombies is somewhat disgusting."

"Watching the Heartless puppet plunge into the corpse horde, its gaping maw stretched to the limit bit into a zombie, tearing it apart in large bites."

"Slurp slurp."

"The sounds of swallowing and sucking are chilling."

Damn it, this thing tastes really fragrant.

Just like his mother's tofu brain.

Ugh—

After hearing Zhang Tie's vivid metaphor, Gao Tian could no longer hold back and bent over to vomit.

As a Linjiang local, breakfast here is tofu brain with steamed buns.

Lin An, on the other hand, didn't have much of a reaction, although the scene before him was a bit horrifying and disgusting.

As a variant of zombies, the flesh puppet, no matter how it attacks zombies, will not provoke a reaction from them.

Thus, the corpse horde merely lets out a dazed loud roar, then stands there like a fool, allowing the heartless puppet to open its skull and devour it in big mouthfuls.

Mo Ling, how much has the puppet's strength increased?

Lin An silently counted.

Within just ten seconds, seven zombies have already died inside the puppet's belly, and there is not the slightest sign that the puppet has had enough to eat.

Its digestion speed is astonishingly fast, leaving almost no residue.

Mo Ling, upon hearing the sound, closed his eyes to reconnect with the heartless puppet, hesitated a moment, then slowly spoke:

About 6.1%.

Its strength has been enhanced by 6.1%.

The first zombie eaten added 1.5%, and each subsequent one adds a little less.

Lin An, upon hearing this, flashed a hint of solemnity in his eyes.

A 6% strength increase is not that much, and the effect gradually diminishes.

But the units being consumed are just zombies.

Doesn't this mean that each zombie, before the heartless puppet, is equivalent to a spirit energy fruit?

As long as the bonus doesn't drop to zero.

Calculating at this efficiency...

Even if the enhancement efficiency is weakened a hundredfold, a single zombie would only increase strength by %...

Based on the heartless puppet's current First Level elementary strength:

Consuming ten thousand zombies doubles its strength; sixty thousand approaches Second Level; three hundred sixty thousand reaches the peak of Second Level; four hundred to five hundred thousand reaches Third Level...

Eating one per second equals 86,400 per day.

At most ten days...

No, 7 days!

The heartless puppet could advance to Third Level purely by devouring zombies!?