Escape Plan

Eden Garden, Mechanical Processing Sector, research room.

On the table, the Lich Old Man's soul had already fused into the corpse of the dead old man, Ford, causing the corpse to undergo drastic changes.

"Bzzzz!"

The corpse seemed to reject the Lich Old Man's soul fusion intensely, vibrating at high frequency.

When the vibrations reached their peak, it fell straight off the table with a bang. It rolled across the floor while violently crashing into nearby iron racks, cabinets, workbenches, chairs, and other objects, producing piercing noise.

"Bang, bang, crash, crash..."

The noise continued for quite a while before gradually weakening, as if the corpse had run out of strength.

At last, the corpse lay motionless on the ground without the slightest movement.

After ten seconds like this, the corpse's chest suddenly swelled high, and its nostrils let out a whoosh. It forcefully and greedily drew a large amount of air through its windpipe into its lungs, taking one long breath.

Then bluish energy seeped out from beneath the corpse's skin, covering its entire body and rapidly repairing the damage caused by death.

"Inhale—exhale—"

"Inhale—exhale—"

The corpse continued breathing, with the intervals between each breath growing shorter and shorter, gradually approaching a normal person's state.

After more than a dozen breaths, the corpse's eyes suddenly flew open. Bracing itself against the ground, it stood up stiffly, like a rusty robot.

The Lich Old Man had successfully revived! The first thing the revived Lich Old Man did after standing was inspect his new body.

He looked at his hands, then his legs, then his emaciated torso. He touched his wrinkled cheeks, counted the few yellow, rotten teeth he had left, breathed out, caught the strong stench from his mouth, and revealed a somewhat disgusted expression.

"This body is far worse than