Chapter 44: How Can It Be Considered Corpse Abuse? I’m Treating It

Chapter 44: How Is This Abuse? I’m Just Healing

Looking at the quietly relieved Blaze members, still stunned after narrowly escaping disaster,

Richard, now fully recovered, sneered coldly, "Why so quiet now?

Keep talking! Weren’t you all trying to outdo each other just now?

Worried about bullets, shells, fuel, yourselves—what *don’t* you worry about?"

The group fidgeted awkwardly.

"Come on, we were just being naive kids."

"Yeah, yeah! We didn’t know it’d be *this* dangerous!"

"Exactly! Even if we were annoyed, we only dared to whisper about it!"

"That’s enough."

Wu Yue understood Blaze’s team all too well. They’d sooner lose or toss those cores than let Shadow benefit for free.

Compared to Shadow’s snide members in her past life, Blaze’s people were genuinely worried for her.

Shadow was now in chaos. Su Mo, already injured, was being evacuated by Shen Qingci toward the refugee camp they’d mentioned earlier.

After the Frozen Crack Canyon’s entrance was breached, the remaining half of the zombie beasts poured out.

In her past life, Richard had sacrificed himself to save the refugees.

This time, the bats under contract had been completely destroyed by Jie Chen.

Yet, under the relentless chase of these beasts, events still followed the past timeline—heading toward the refugee camp alongside Shadow’s group.

Richard frowned deeply. "They’re leading the beasts straight to the refugees!"

"Shadow’s crew has no shame!! They tried to scavenge and got themselves in trouble, and now they’re dragging the beasts to harm the refugees too?!"

"If they hadn’t gone scavenging, the beasts wouldn’t have lost control again!!"

"These pests—they go down but take others with them!"

"Are we really just gonna sit back and watch?!"

Blaze’s team was frantic, but remembering how Wu Yue’s decision had saved them earlier, they all waited quietly for her orders this time.

Wu Yue turned to them.

"Who said we’re sitting back?"

"We’ve brought the most advanced combat weapons available, backed by the best fighters."

The Blaze team stood taller with pride.

"We also have the Wu Clan’s strongest shaman to bless our fight and crown us in glory."

Wu Chong’s red mane shook with excitement. "That’s me! She’s talking about me!!"

"And the noble Father Richard to shield us from mental attacks."

Richard placed a hand on his chest, "Happy to serve, Captain."

"And our Master Jie Chen—takes on tigers and dragons barehanded!"

Jie Chen slammed his staff onto his back, "Cut the crap. Speak if you have something to say, or give your orders."

Wu Yue smiled as she looked at the group,

"I hope everyone will do their utmost to assist me in securing victory in this battle.

In the end, I hope we can all enjoy this fight to the fullest!"

"YES!!!"

This time, Blaze's skimmers unleashed full firepower, directly intercepting the beasts' pursuit path in midair.

Under the barrage of gunfire, a blazing line split the battlefield.

The members of Shadow stood behind the line, roaring in rage:

"Captain!! It seems Blaze knew exactly what was going to happen earlier!!"

"Yeah!! They deliberately sacrificed us!"

"And now they’re playing heroes? Two-faced snakes!! We’ll never owe them anything!"

Shen Qingci’s eyes burned with suppressed rage, "Of course I won’t owe them anything. Not only that—Shadow has suffered heavy losses, with so many dead.

They’ll pay for this in blood!"

"I... I just noticed that Blaze’s commander moves just like Wu Yue...

Could it be that Wu Yue is deliberately trying to get back at us?"

"How could Blaze’s commander be Wu Yue?! She’s the thief here!"

Su Mo snapped angrily before turning to Shen Qingci.

Sweat beaded on her white face, "Qingci-ge, it hurts... Am I dying?!"

The gunshot earlier had only grazed Su Mo’s shoulder, but she’d never known pain—how could she take this?

Shen Qingci’s chest clenched as she whimpered, heart aching. "Mo’er, I’ll take you to get treated first.

Blaze will pay for this."

Chen Zhou spat, "Are we just going to run away with our tails between our legs?!

We’re letting Blaze steal our cores?!

And Wu Yue! That bitch cost me my arm!

It’s all because of that whore! I’ll tear her apart!"

Shen Qingci picked up Su Mo and sneered, "Don’t forget who insisted on taking those cores in the first place, Chen Zhou. This disaster is YOUR fault!"

"Shadow can no longer keep you. Get out!"

Chen Zhou couldn’t believe it. "Shen Qingci! You were the one who agreed to this! Now you're pinning all the blame on me?!

You sanctimonious bastard... You... ugh—"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before Chen Zhou finished speaking, he looked down at his chest—Shen Qingci had freed one hand and fired multiple shots into him.

"Dead men tell no tales."

"Mark my words—this time, it was Blaze who betrayed Shadow, bringing Shadow to its knees.

When Shadow regroups and returns, Blaze will pay the price!

Go!"

"Understood!"

By the time Blaze secured the battlefield and landed their skiffs, Shadow's forces were gone without a trace.

Only Chen Zhou's corpse remained on the ground, long since dead.

Wu Yue walked up to Chen Zhou's body, while Wu Chong stood nearby, disgusted. "Ugh, Yueyue, why are you looking at this trash?"

To his surprise, Wu Yue didn’t just look—she crouched down and began studying the body in detail.

She even pulled out her communicator, recording Chen Zhou's fatal wounds, bullet marks, and the trajectory of the shots on the ground.

Wu Chong, confused, asked, "Yueyue, what are you doing?"

Snap! Click! Whirr!

Wu Chong, stunned: "!!!???"

Once she’d documented everything—filming, live-streaming, and everything in between—Wu Yue took out a dagger and began jabbing the corpse over and over.

Just as she had once told Jian Suiyu—one stab to the left chest, one to the right, a slash across the neck's artery, and finally, after a struggle, she decapitated him and kicked the head far away.

After seeing all this, Wu Chong spoke weakly, cautiously:

"Yueyue... the Alliance bans corpse desecration."

Wu Yue nodded. "Yeah. But I didn’t kill him. I just desecrated the corpse, so technically, I didn’t break any rules."

Wu Chong: "...Is that really how it works? Isn’t that just bending the rules?"

Wu Yue frowned at him.

"Wu Chong, you gotta be flexible. What even counts as desecration?

You’re hurting my feelings here. Do I seem like the kind of person who’d desecrate a corpse?

I was just checking if he was really dead, if he was *completely* dead. All those actions were just... medical tests.

Shocking him might bring him back.

Oh well, too bad. Guess he’s really dead."

If Wu Yue hadn't spoken with such gleeful spite, there might have been a hint of genuine regret in her words.

Wu Chong nodded meekly, "You're right."

So after all that arguing, she outright denied even desecrating the corpse, Seriously?!

Shortly afterward, not long after Wu Yue and Wu Chong left Chen Zhou's corpse, a faint sigil slowly emerged beneath it.

This sigil was unmistakably the same vampire contract Richard had just tried to establish.