My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

The zombie, covered in black blood and rotting flesh, stood obediently beside you.

Its eyes, crawling with maggots, looked at you affectionately, eagerly awaiting your next command.

Though its body was mangled beyond recognition, it remained loyal to you.

It held its belly, the pink symmetrical pattern faintly glowing under the dim light, exuding a hint of wicked charm...

"Damn it, don’t draw such terrible things on a zombie!"

Shen Sui slapped Alice on the head.

"Ouch~!"

Alice held her head in pain and looked at Shen Sui with an aggrieved expression.

What did I do wrong?

"I think this suggestion is great?"

Clearly, Lin Zhen, never having read this kind of work, was still a very innocent person and didn’t see the problem in Alice’s description.

"You! You did it on purpose." Shen Sui glared at Alice fiercely, grinding his teeth as he spoke.

Alice pouted.

Drat, I’ve been found out.

But this really is a lot of fun.

Zombies with X marks and all.

With Shen Sui’s obstruction, Alice couldn’t achieve her ideal vision.

But the puppet virus truly began to manifest in reality.

The rules of this world caused such viruses and bacteria to spread easily.

Though Lin Zhen acknowledged Alice’s approach, he couldn’t help worrying: "This puppet virus, won’t it infect humans?"

"Infect humans..."

"Yeah, if that’s the case, wouldn’t others be able to command the infected? That would be really bad for this world." Lin Zhen said, furrowing his brow.

Alice blinked: "Oh, you mean like going to work!"

Shen Sui looked at Alice with exasperation: "Work at least pays a salary."

"You don’t have to pay either." Alice argued confidently.

You damned...

Shen Sui was momentarily speechless.

The next day, after getting ready, Lin Zhen invited Alice to the laboratory at the human camp for further research.

"No need to go through such trouble."

Alice waved her hand and then opened her palm.

A glow flickered in her palm.

If your vision is good enough, you might see a constantly moving, smiling alien puppet within.

"I’ve made it already." Alice said eagerly, unable to wait, "Let’s find a place with more zombies to test it!"

Even Lin Zhen, usually expressionless, showed a surprised look at this efficiency.

Ye Yiyi didn’t understand what Alice held, but judging by Lin Zhen’s reaction, it must be something important, right?

She held onto Lin Zhen’s arm and cautiously watched the glow in Alice’s hand.

Ye Yiyi was a very pretty girl, except for not being very curvy, fitting the image of a stunning beauty in people’s minds.

Lin Zhen didn’t show any rejection to her affectionate gesture.

Though he hadn’t clearly accepted Ye Yiyi’s feelings, it seemed they were just one step away from breaking the ice.

Thinking this, Shen Sui glanced at Xinyuan Yingxue.

Her sister had complained many times to him about her relationship issues.

Xinyuan Yingxue was indeed looking at Ye Yiyi and Lin Zhen, with a peculiar emotion in her eyes...

But damn, why does this feel more like she’s shipping them!

Shen Sui silently looked away.

He was not good at handling relationship issues.

The only move he knew was accepting them all.

They’re all my wives in the game, accepting them all isn’t a problem!

Meanwhile, with Alice’s assurance, Lin Zhen really began looking for a suitable testing site for her.

In this world, zombies weren’t hard to find; the key was their quantity.

"I know a place with loads of zombies!" Lin Zhen thought for a moment and suddenly lit up.

With that, he led the group off again.

"So, has Haral been found?" On the way, Shen Sui asked.

Lin Zhen frankly replied: "Couldn’t find its trace at the previous sighting location, it’s either come back to life or those folks over there took it."

"The guys over there..." Shen Sui rubbed his chin, thinking, "I should indeed go and see them, after all, they are my old subordinates, hard to say I came all this way and didn’t take a look."

The people Lin Zhen referred to were undoubtedly the zombies from the Zombie Empire.

However, after a thousand years of development, whether those creatures still count as zombies is uncertain.

After all, true zombies don’t engage in species reproduction; their way of expanding is infecting other species, transforming them into new zombies.

But the zombies of the Zombie Empire are different; they have a stable reproductive behavior.

"This technology seems to come from the founder of the Empire!"

When Vivian initially read the information related to this, she prominently recited this sentence and then looked at Shen Sui with suspicious eyes.

"As far as I know, the founder of the Empire should be you, right?"

This question directly made Shen Sui break into a cold sweat.

"I’m curious... what purpose led you to develop a technology enabling zombies to have children?"

"Could it be someone wants to reproduce offspring with zombies?"

Even just remembering it, Shen Sui couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

To be fair, Shen Sui was indeed innocent.

Zombies having children was a setting from a folk MOD.

He simply installed a comprehensive MOD package, really had no intention of enabling zombies to have children!

The place Lin Zhen took them to seemed to be the base of the previous zombie tide.

As the origin of this zombie apocalypse, this place undoubtedly gathered a huge number of zombies,

Along the way, Alice had started testing her puppet virus.

This, without a doubt, was a terrifying virus.

Under the rules of the Apocalypse World, the puppet virus demonstrated astonishing infectious power.

Once released, it takes only fifteen minutes to infect all the zombies in an entire city.

The improved puppet virus greatly slows down the mobility and burst ability of zombies after infection.

On the third day after infection, zombies completely lose their mobility, becoming zombie puppets that won’t act without human operation and command.

This slow-down is directly lifted once the zombies are contracted by humans.

After contracting, zombies will completely follow human orders.

Watching the zombies ahead cultivate the land under his command, Lin Zhen’s eyes showed both joy and worry.

"What’s up?" Shen Sui sensed Lin Zhen’s emotions, asking, "With the puppet virus, the zombie problem should be solved, right? Why do you still look worried?"

Lin Zhen was silent for a long time, then smiled bitterly: "I try to picture humans as sufficiently good, envision a future where humans rebuild homes with the help of zombies, restoring peace, but..."

After pausing, Lin Zhen shook his head: "Given what I know about humans, such a future won’t exist."

Lin Zhen sighed and said: "The puppet virus indeed solves the zombie problem nicely, but it’s too excellent, too excellent."

"It transforms zombies into human puppets."

"Turns zombies into tools for endless exploitation."

"Isn’t this great?" Shen Sui said.

"No... I just feel fear."

"If there’s only the zombie virus." Lin Zhen raised his hand, looking at the magical markings on it, "Although many humans will become my enemies, my primary enemy remains the zombies."

"But with the puppet virus... I worry that my primary enemy will become humans."

Lin Zhen really wanted to believe in humans.

But his experiences continuously stripped that trust from his mind.

Since the puppet virus can mass-produce excellent labor without needing any pay or rest, then...

Might someone deliberately spread the zombie virus to create more such labor force?

"Here we are." At this point, Ye Yiyi said.

"But why has this place turned into this?"

Ye Yiyi looked at the scene ahead, unbelievably saying.

The originally vast city had now become a wasteland.

"Ah... so you were talking about this place..." Alice scratched her head.

It turns out the place Lin Zhen referred to was where Alice and Shen Sui landed.

And this city had already been destroyed in a nuclear explosion by Alice’s doing.

"I blew it up just as I arrived. Uh... just due to a little accident~!" As she spoke, Alice gestured.

Seeing this scene, Xinyuan Yingxue felt her pupils quake.

Truly, Alice, the goddess of swipes!

Just as they were speaking, a tall figure slowly stood up among the ruins.

Standing at the forefront, Ye Yiyi recognized the figure, crying out in terror:

"It’s the Tyrant! Zombie Tyrant!"