Chapter 1031: The Devouring Shadow

“What’s wrong?”

Xu Shuhan continued to ask, but Ling Mo had already stepped into the empty corridor.

He placed one hand on the wall, his eyes fixed ahead, as his feet slowly moved forward.

“There’s definitely something wrong…”

Suddenly, Ling Mo’s hand stopped at a particular spot.

“What’s happening?” Xia Na halted as well, grabbing Li Yalin’s arm.

“Something’s not right… definitely not right…”

Ling Mo’s expression was tense, and he began to frantically feel around the wall. This action made Xu Shuhan, standing at the intersection, furrow her brows.

“Ling Mo, are you just too worried…”

“Here! Right here!”

Ling Mo suddenly exclaimed, cutting off Xu Shuhan’s words.

He pressed a section of the wall and said, “The texture here… it’s completely different from what I felt before…”

“I… I don’t understand…” Xu Shuhan replied, startled and bewildered.

Throughout their search, everyone had been meticulous in their observations, but no matter how she looked, Xu Shuhan couldn’t see any difference between that part of the wall and the rest. She couldn’t help but wonder if Ling Mo’s suppressed emotions were finally erupting due to the prolonged search for Ye Lian. If that were the case, then she should…

“Do you know how I discovered this? This place has a stronger Psychic Shield than the others!”

Upon hearing this, Xu Shuhan’s eyes widened in astonishment. Ling Mo had been using his psychic power to meticulously scan these areas all along… How strong must his concentration be to achieve this? And even with the Psychic Shield in place, he hadn’t given up. Instead, he used the opponent’s shielding method to find this flaw…

Such calm and calculated thinking was truly impressive!

Bang!

Ling Mo suddenly raised his foot and kicked the wall forcefully.

With most of his strength landing on an empty spot, a cloud of dust exploded in front of him. Quickly, the dust began to disperse, revealing an extended corridor before Ling Mo’s eyes… This wasn’t a dead end, and the wall itself didn’t even exist… It had been shattered, and beyond the broken wall stood the little girl with her back to him, and the familiar figure leaning against the opposite wall, staring at him with wide eyes… ʀＡꞐỔＢĘ𝘚

“Ling-Ge… run!” Ye Lian shook her head at him and suddenly shouted.

Ling Mo felt his heart jolt… Everything around him suddenly became eerily quiet and slow, including the little girl’s giggling and her movements as she turned her head. Only Ye Lian’s voice continued to echo in his ears, reverberating in his mind.

After a year, he heard those words again. The last time he heard them, she was still human, and her voice came from a mobile phone. This time, she was a zombie, but her eyes and expression gave Ling Mo a momentary illusion.

She hadn’t changed. What he saw was the same girl holding a mobile phone, despairingly watching the bus crash ahead… But this time, she wasn’t alone. In front of the bus wasn’t the alley that was destined to trap her, but another man holding a mobile phone…

“Run!” Ye Lian shouted. She tried to move, but in her current state, she was much slower than the little girl…

“This time, I’m not running,” Ling Mo said softly.

“Ling-Ge!” Ye Lian called out.

The little girl had fully turned to face Ling Mo, tilting her head and smiling as she slowly approached him.

This time, there would be no busy signal…

This time, he wouldn’t stand frozen in shock…

This time, he wouldn’t helplessly pound on walls…

“Really, this time I’m not running,” Ling Mo repeated.

The little girl suddenly lunged forward, rushing right up to Ling Mo, her fist aiming directly at his head, laughing, “Got one!”

“Ling Mo!”

Xu Shuhan was rushing, Xia Na and the others were rushing too. Even Mu Chen and the others, upon hearing the commotion, were turning back…

But Ye Lian, who was closest, still felt she was too slow…

“Die,” the little girl laughed.

Boom!

Perhaps a long time passed, or maybe it was just a second later…

“Huh?” The little girl remained suspended in the air, looking somewhat bewildered at the figure before her.

Ling Mo… had caught her fist.

He stared at her calmly, coldly, his face showing no change in emotion.

“Huh?” the little girl said again in surprise, “Aren’t you supposed to be dead?”

Everyone had rushed nearby by this point, but seeing this scene, hearing those words, they were stunned.

Though everyone’s minds had been screaming “Ling Mo, don’t be hurt,” how did such a scene come to be?

“You…”

“Aren’t you quite aware?” Ling Mo interrupted, questioning her back.

Upon hearing his words, the little girl was momentarily stunned. Then, the look of surprise slowly faded from its face.

“Hehehe…” it chuckled, asking, “When did you figure it out?”

“A second ago,” Ling Mo replied.

The little girl’s eyes widened again, “What?! So that means…” But soon, its expression returned to normal, still smiling broadly as it asked, “Hehe, I see, you don’t know much, do you?”

“Maybe…” Ling Mo said.

“Ling-Ge… what’s going on, why are you… and it…” Ye Lian approached Ling Mo, asking with great confusion. Her eyes had returned to normal, and her voice seemed as usual.

Ling Mo gave her a gentle look, then turned his cold gaze back to the little girl, saying, “You all want to know why its attacks are ineffective, right? The answer is simple: because it doesn’t truly exist.”

“What do you mean?”

Everyone was taken aback, and Yuwen Xuan quickly said, “How is that possible? Didn’t we just fight it?”

“I mentioned it before, think back to our encounter,” Ling Mo said.

“Well, you could say… it’s really strong…” Xu Shuhan replied.

“Exactly, that’s the impression it left us with. But think again, did we feel it was strong because of its attacks? No, it’s because the moment it appeared, it exerted immense mental pressure on us. In other words, we first had the concept of its strength in our minds, and then during the fight, we were utterly powerless against it. And what puzzled me the most was that Yuwen Xuan, who was thrown away, wasn’t injured, yet I was… why?”

As Ling Mo spoke, the little girl kept staring at him. At first, its face was full of smiles, but gradually, that smile became rigid…

“Because it’s a spiritual body…” Xia Na murmured.

“Exactly!” Ling Mo nodded, “It’s a spiritual body… so it can only exert pressure on opponents through mental means, creating illusions and even the real sensation of combat. And that’s why, despite being covered in wounds, it remains lively. And Ye Lian, she wouldn’t be hurt either… But if it uses real experiences and repeated suggestions to make the opponent believe they will die at its hands, then at the moment it strikes, the opponent’s spirit is bound to collapse, allowing it to seize the opportunity to enter and control the opponent’s body… Am I right?”

Everyone immediately thought of Miao Zhe… he was most likely the one being controlled.

“The majority, yes… But you should know that controlling them is just a small part of me.” The little girl’s face had turned icy cold, her voice dripping with chill as she rolled her eyes and stared intently at Ling Mo. “Is that how you figured it out?”

“Of course, there were many clues pointing to this flaw… You clearly have an overwhelming advantage, yet you insist on playing tricks. That alone was puzzling to me. For questions I can’t understand, I naturally put all my effort into solving them,” Ling Mo replied.

“You’re quite something… I originally planned to control her and then continue having fun with you,” the little girl glanced at Ye Lian, speaking with cold detachment. “But even if you’ve guessed everything right, so what? I’m merely a spiritual body. To put it bluntly, I can disappear from your sight at any moment.”

“You can try…” Ling Mo said.

“You really think…” The little girl sneered, but just as she was about to dissipate her body, a look of astonishment flashed across her face. Suddenly, she began to struggle fiercely in mid-air.

No matter how much she stretched and elongated her form, she couldn’t make herself vanish…

“What is this… here… what is this net!”

The little girl quickly realized that from Ling Mo’s hand, an invisible net had been cast, firmly ensnaring her, making escape impossible.

Soon, her body elongated into a dark shadow, with only her eyes remaining. Seeing the little girl transform so suddenly, everyone couldn’t help but widen their eyes in disbelief.

“Capturing me is useless!” she screamed in the air.

“You must have things you’re curious about too, right? Like, what did I do to them in that room? How did I kill them?” Ling Mo suddenly asked.

The shadow ignored him, continuing to scream and struggle. But to her surprise, Ling Mo’s mental energy seemed inexhaustible… Despite the intense mutual cancellation, he remained expressionless, staring at her…

“You’ll find out soon enough…” Ling Mo said calmly.

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