Blood Corpse

Biodata

Appearance

• The first specimen is a blood-red, shriveled humanoid corpse. Half its head is missing, and the brain remaining inside is dried out 5.
• During combat, it sprouts blood-colored fleshy limbs from its back. Its abdomen splits open, exposing flesh and organs that grow into new structures 5.
• After this transformation, it retains few recognizable human features; dissection reveals tissues and structures jumbled together 5.
• Mutation organs are internal, although the affected body region can appear visibly abnormal 10 13.

Abilities & Skills

Bodily Transformation

• A wounded Blood Corpse can undergo extensive restructuring rather than immediately dying. The first encountered specimen begins transforming roughly two seconds after being shot in the head 5.
• Newly grown back limbs support its body like spider legs, allowing it to move despite its corpse-like condition 5.

Strength and Mobility

• One survivor reports that these creatures are stronger and faster than him despite his regular physical training 6.
• The transformed specimen in Lin Ye’s first encounter crosses seven or eight meters in two leaps, springing from the floor to the ceiling and then toward him 5.
• Blood Corpses can pursue targets through ventilation shafts and ram doors open 13 18.
• A crowd of them begins buckling the bars of a laboratory cell, although the bars hold long enough for the defenders to kill them 19.

Vitality and Weak Points

• Head damage is not reliably fatal: the first specimen is already missing half its head before Lin Ye shoots the remaining half, and it continues fighting afterward 5.
• Mutation organs are the decisive targets: Lin Ye initially presents this as a cautious hypothesis, then confirms it through his study of mutation and later combat 6 13.
• Precise attacks conserve ammunition: a K1 Pistol can kill the institute’s Blood Corpses with a single shot to a mutation organ 18.
• Joint damage impairs movement: Lin Ye breaks one specimen’s knee before stabbing its abnormal flank; it limps after him briefly, then collapses 13.
• Their flesh is vulnerable to suitable blades: the Red Blade cuts through a dead specimen with very little resistance 14.

Harvestable Materials

Story Role / Major Encounters

First Maze Exploration

Lin Ye ambushes his first Blood Corpse with a pistol, but its survival and transformation force him to fire repeatedly. After killing and dissecting it, he later returns to harvest its mutation organ. He shares a photograph and his preliminary weak-point findings with the survivor group 5 6.

Second Nighttime Exploration

Seeking the remaining organs for his Shelter upgrade, Lin Ye deliberately searches for Blood Corpses. His successful dagger kill demonstrates how much his understanding has improved since the first encounter. He then finds the Red Blade in the room the creature occupied 13 14.

Underground Research Institute

Blood Corpses pursue Lin Ye, Hans, Neil, and Dr. Caroline through the ventilation system and into a laboratory cell. Hans and Neil reload pistols while Lin Ye targets mutation organs; he later switches to his blade to conserve ammunition. He notices that these specimens are unusually weak, as though they have been screened 18 19.

Ruins Site Mission

Recognizing Blood Corpses helps persuade Lin Ye’s group to choose the seventh bus stop. Their numbers still make the open streets dangerous: without ready ammunition, he takes an alley route rather than risk attracting a crowd 22 23.

Fourth Maze Exploration

After the beginner period ends, Lin Ye encounters Blood Corpses amid the maze’s increased mutated-creature spawn rate. He can now sense a specimen’s mutated part without the Cross Necklace, sever its upper body, and extract the organ from its abdomen 32.