Later, she finally became pregnant. It was supposed to be a joyous occasion, but unexpectedly, she suffered a massive hemorrhage on the day of delivery right after the child was born. When the master of the house waiting outside heard that she had given birth to a daughter, he flew into a rage. He refused to have her treated, and she breathed her last that very day without even getting to hold her baby girl.
Even so, they still turned her into a Coffin Lady. Their reasoning was that since she had married into their family, she was their person in life and their ghost in death.
The team members sighed endlessly as they listened. Fang Zhiyi, who had come over at some unknown point, unceremoniously smacked her on the head and said, "Damn it, did I kill you? Did I nail you into that coffin? Seek your revenge if you must, but don't bite at random targets!"
The female corpse held her head with a miserable expression. "I am not seeking revenge. They have all been dead for many years... It has been so long that I do not even remember."
Shen Yue's initial defensiveness also shifted to a look of sympathy. "Hearing that, you are quite pitiful."
"Pitiful my foot! It's not like we killed her!" Fang Zhiyi's face was full of murderous intent. "They messed with you, so you mess with us? What kind of bullshit logic is that!"
"I was wrong, I was wrong! I won't dare do it again!" The female corpse hugged her head. She really could not figure out the background of the man in front of her, as he carried the exact same aura as she did.
"Captain, did you... did you set her coffin on fire?" Li Fei pointed to the side with a somewhat blank expression.
Hearing this, the Coffin Lady immediately turned her head, only to see the coffin that had accompanied her for over two hundred years engulfed in raging flames. Her entire face fell.
"So what if I lit it." Fang Zhiyi clapped his hands. "Consider it a lesson for you. This time I burn your coffin, but next time, hmph, being unable to die isn't necessarily a good thing."
Everyone backed away from him a little. They then watched the Coffin Lady frantically bustling around her coffin in a panic. However, she had absolutely no way to put out the fire and could only pace around in circles out of sheer anxiety.
Fang Zhiyi finally felt a bit of satisfaction, but watching the Coffin Lady's actions, he suddenly thought of something.
"Unable to die... that actually is a bit troublesome."
The Coffin Lady tried to extinguish the flames but ended up breaking off a piece of wood that had already burned to charcoal. She clumsily tried to reattach it, but it was to no avail. It was almost unbearable for the others to watch.
"Captain, shall we go?" Shen Yue said. She had suffered too many shocks today. No, she had received more shocks recently than ever before.
Fang Zhiyi suddenly turned back to look at them. After a moment, he shook his head. "I am not leaving. You guys go."
The group was stunned.
"After you go back, report that the former captain Fang Zhiyi was invaded by an anomaly and his whereabouts are unknown. Shen Yue will take over as captain."
"Captain."
"Boss..."
"Stop pretending. You guys probably knew a long time ago, didn't you?" Fang Zhiyi looked at Shen Yue with a meaningful gaze.
Shen Yue bit her lip for a moment before saying, "But you are different, Captain. You are still you... You are not an anomaly."
Li Fei also chimed in, "Yeah! Whoever dares to say you are an anomaly, I'll be the first to tear their mouth open!"
Zhao Lei remained silent.
Zhou Hao looked somewhat at a loss.
They had all actually noticed Fang Zhiyi's abnormalities, especially the fact that he had not eaten normal food for a very long time.
Besides, what normal person could tear the head off an anomaly with their bare hands?
What normal person could take a direct hit from heavenly lightning and still survive?
It was just that everyone had an unspoken understanding. After all, Fang Zhiyi was their most trusted captain. Even if he was an anomaly, he would never be the one to hurt them.
Watching the changing expressions on their faces, Fang Zhiyi smiled. "Alright, it's not like I'm dead. We will meet again in the future. Hurry up and get out of here."
"But... Captain, where are you going?"
Fang Zhiyi looked at the Coffin Lady slumped on the ground, seemingly muttering to himself, "Anomalies can never be completely killed off..."
Shen Yue looked at him in confusion.
Fang Zhiyi turned his head toward them. "Anomalies like her feed on human malice. As long as human malice exists, she will exist forever. This world has already been completely invaded by anomalies... If we want to thoroughly eliminate the scourge of anomalies, there is only one way."
"What is it?"
"Kill all humans." Fang Zhiyi grinned. "Once humanity is extinct, the anomalies will naturally die out too."
Li Fei shuddered. "Boss, you're joking, right?"
Fang Zhiyi glanced at him. "I am not joking. I am merely stating a once-and-for-all method..."
The faces of the group turned somewhat ashen.
Fang Zhiyi just laughed. "Alright, hurry up and get out of here. We will meet again."
Shen Yue grabbed the three men who did not want to leave, nodded at Fang Zhiyi, and bit her lip as she walked away.
From far away, they saw Fang Zhiyi put his arm around the Coffin Lady's shoulder, saying something to her, before heading off in the opposite direction.
"Do you guys think the boss did all this just to hit on that Coffin Lady?" Li Fei suddenly said. "Speaking of which, that anomaly is actually quite pretty when she isn't throwing a fit."
The response he received was a swift kick to the buttocks.
In an abandoned hillside villa, a figure with long, slender limbs flashed by.
Foul-smelling saliva dripped from the corner of this anomaly's mouth.
"Hungry..." It uttered two blurry syllables. A face covered in scales gradually appeared in the candlelight. It had been a long time since any human had come here. Looking at the gloomy environment, the lizard-like anomaly glanced left and right.
It seemed it needed to change its hunting grounds.
Truth be told, this house was its most satisfying nest. The various complex passageways allowed it to appear in places humans would never expect. Even when facing human guardians who possessed weapons capable of harming it, it could use the terrain to its advantage to protect itself.
But now, most humans had retreated into the cities, forcing it to leave this nest in order to fill its stomach.
Its eyes blinked, and its vertical pupils suddenly widened.
Was something moving around inside its nest?
It instantly squeezed into a narrow ventilation duct, its mind filled with thoughts of fresh human flesh. To think someone would actually deliver themselves to its doorstep! A surge of joy welled up within it.
But when it emerged at the entrance porch, it saw no sign of anyone.
"Did I mishear?"
After a brief hesitation, a faint noise sounded again. It sprinted rapidly in that direction, its long, slender limbs supporting its body as it chased after the sound like a giant spider.
Yet it still saw absolutely nothing.
This situation left the lizardman somewhat baffled. Could it be those so-called guardians?
The faint sound of footsteps came from behind it once more. Its body remained perfectly still, but its head abruptly rotated one hundred and eighty degrees backward, its mouth slightly open to reveal a maw full of fangs.
A shadow vanished behind it.
"Stop!" it cried out indistinctly, then continued the pursuit.
But when it turned the corner, it found the area completely empty.
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
