Chapter 121: Blood Curse

Hearing the sound, Zuo Zhicheng raised his head and saw Jiang Qing standing at the door, her face pale.

There was no time to ask why she had followed him onto the ship. Zuo Zhicheng continued his attack. With a palm strike, he pushed Marie off his body, and his Dagger slid along her bones and muscles.

Through a series of previous attacks and tests, he had roughly figured out the weaknesses and flaws of her Super Rapid Regeneration.

He did not attack her head because Marie had always protected it well. Instead, she allowed Zuo Zhicheng to attack and stab other parts of her body.

‘Your excessive confidence in your regeneration ability is your first weakness.’

Like a skilled butcher carving an ox, Zuo Zhicheng’s Dagger moved smoothly. With a single slice, Marie’s right hand was severed along the joints.

“Ah!” Marie’s voice carried a rare note of panic. Zuo Zhicheng’s Dagger flashed again, this time aimed at her other hand.

This time, Marie did not dare to take the hit head-on. She leaped backward, trying to dodge Zuo Zhicheng’s attack. But without relying on her regeneration to defend, her pure strength and speed were no match for Zuo Zhicheng.

In an instant, Zuo Zhicheng grabbed her by the neck and slammed her against the wall. With a loud crash, the wooden wall dented deeply. He pinned her elbows and legs firmly. A crisp sound followed as Zuo Zhicheng’s Dagger pierced through Marie’s chin, penetrating her mouth and brain, until the tip emerged from her skull.

Blood gushed out. A look of disbelief flashed in Marie’s eyes as she trembled and collapsed.

“A Zuo!” Seeing this, Jiang Qing worriedly moved forward to run over.

Zuo Zhicheng frowned and shouted over his shoulder, “Don’t come over.”

The next moment, accompanied by a piercing scream, Marie, who had been lying on the ground, pushed herself up on three limbs and lunged at Zuo Zhicheng like a leopard. Rows of sharp teeth in her mouth churned as she aimed for his neck.

But even when he saw Marie trembling and falling, Zuo Zhicheng had not let his guard down. Facing such a monster that defied common sense, how could he relax? In fact, Marie’s final lunge used all her strength and abandoned defense, exposing an unprecedented opening.

Without even turning his head, Zuo Zhicheng swung his right fist like a heavy hammer, striking Marie squarely on the forehead. A bursting sound erupted, like a watermelon being smashed. Marie’s forehead and skull exploded instantly, scattering blood like fireworks in the air.

She collapsed to the ground, her limbs trembling uncontrollably. The top half of her head was completely shattered, with no trace of eyes or nose left. Yet, strangely, the lower half of her head remained intact, her gaping mouth still moving up and down, rows of sharp teeth shaking.

At this point, she actually laughed, “Sweetie, do you think you’ve won?”

“I believe so.”

Even though Marie possessed some degree of immortality, her structure still shared many similarities with humans. With half her head gone, she trembled and struggled to stand but never succeeded.

After a few more tremors, whether from excessive blood loss or severe injuries, she finally stopped breathing altogether. Her head tilted to the side, and she lay motionless on the ground.

Jiang Qing looked at the corpse with lingering fear and asked, “Is she dead?”

“In theory, she should be dead.” In Zuo Zhicheng’s Infrared Vision, her body heat seemed to be dropping. But to be safe, he cautiously approached Marie’s corpse. He needed to examine carefully what this thing really was.

“Close the door.”

Jiang Qing seemed stunned for a moment before she understood, “Shouldn’t we call the crew? This kind of monster is too dangerous!”

“If we call them and they see this scene, they’ll just think we’re murderers. No one will believe this woman was a monster.”

Jiang Qing nodded thoughtfully and closed the door as Zuo Zhicheng instructed. When she looked back, she saw Zuo Zhicheng calmly examining the corpse on the ground. The sight made her nauseous, and she leaned against the wall, vomiting uncontrollably.

“You’ll get used to it.” Zuo Zhicheng used his Dagger to slice open her chest, revealing a strange tissue structure. “A dead person is no different from pork.”

Hearing Zuo Zhicheng’s words, Jiang Qing retched again and vomited even more.

Zuo Zhicheng frowned and asked while inspecting the corpse, “How did you get on the ship?”

“I…” Jiang Qing wiped her mouth and was about to say something when she suddenly screamed, “Watch your back!”

Hearing this, Zuo Zhicheng immediately turned and grabbed a blood vessel that had shot out from the sole of Marie’s foot like a crossbow bolt aimed at him.

When he saw the blood vessel, he was startled. Without looking back, he threw himself forward.

Zuo Zhicheng immediately realized that if the opponent could still attack with blood vessels, he was in great danger being so close to Marie’s body.

Just as he thought, the moment he dove forward, dozens of blood vessels shot out from various parts of Marie’s body like spears, stabbing toward Zuo Zhicheng.

The first blood vessel from behind was a setup. If it hit, great; if not, it would draw Zuo Zhicheng’s attention to his back.

At that moment, the real attack came from the front. Dozens of blood vessels whistled as they stabbed at Zuo Zhicheng’s body.

The distance was too close. Although Zuo Zhicheng dodged as much as he could and used his Yama Golden Body to withstand some of the attacks, one blood vessel still pierced his shoulder.

He immediately cut it off with his Dagger and pulled it out, but he still felt a slight chill.

He turned around and coldly stared at Marie’s corpse. The blood vessels seemed to have only one strike in them and now lay limp on the ground.

Marie, with no eyes or nose and only a mouth left, laughed heartily, “Sweetie, you’ve been hit with the Blood Curse. You won’t live much longer… I’ll be waiting… in the Underworld… for you…”

As the words “for you” were spoken, Marie’s body finally stiffened completely, truly dead this time.

In Zuo Zhicheng’s mind, he was still thinking about what this Blood Curse she mentioned could be.