Chapter 1111: The Strongest Enemy Is Always Yourself

Chapter 1111: The Strongest Enemy Is Always Yourself

“They’ve gone up…” Xia Na looked up at the top of the passage and murmured.

The other side had proactively shifted the battlefield to the surface, which made Xia Na faintly feel a sense of foreboding. Although this underground area was dark and oppressive, overall it was a terrain very advantageous for Ling Mo and his group… The crisscrossing passages provided them with room to maneuver, and the passages themselves allowed Ling Mo’s group to be in a more advantageous position… That is, the enemy couldn’t easily engage them in face-to-face combat…

With a numerical advantage, once the enemy showed themselves, they would inevitably face a joint attack from the whole group… Now it seemed the enemy had clearly realized this as well, so even though they held hostages, they immediately used this initiative to forcibly reverse the most unfavorable factor for themselves… Once they entered the warehouse above, Ling Mo and his group gathering together would instead become a prime reason for the enemy to launch a sneak attack…

“But it’s strange… Since they didn’t want to clash with us underground, why did they let us discover this place? With their abilities, it should have been easy to block the entrance before we found it… Not to mention, if they just wanted to fight us, then… that woman shouldn’t have sneaked out and been discovered by us, but should have stayed hidden in the warehouse. That way, once we entered, they could use their familiarity with the environment to launch all kinds of ambushes against us… Was it for the hostages? But at that time, Gu Shuangshuang and Skinny Monkey were also left alone at the entrance…”

“Can’t refute that… Alright, then we’ve found a second problem… Why did they let us enter a place they shouldn’t, and didn’t want us to stay in?” Ling Mo said in his mind.

Xia Na thought for a moment and replied, “This… Right, Ling-Ge, you said that Zombie was coming for you. Right?”

“If I didn’t sense it wrong…”

“No mistake, although you do smell delicious, he hasn’t even smelled you yet! So in his eyes, the priority of us ‘food’ should be like this-Ye Lian, me, Senior Sister, Shiran, Xu Shuhan, and then you guys…” Xia Na said.

“It’s a dark cuisine, the other side might not even plan to eat it. I guess more likely he wants to keep it captive… or take it apart and see. I’ve always wanted to know if it’s really a dog wearing human skin…” Xia Na said.

“About that…” Ling Mo immediately thought of the process when Black Silk parasitized that body. “It actually really is…”

“Aha! I knew it! Wait, we’re getting off topic… To sum up, he doesn’t want to eat you, so what is he after?” Xia Na asked.

Ling Mo blurted out, “Psychic power! Although I don’t know how he Devours others’ psychic power, since he’s willing to cultivate…” At this point, Ling Mo suddenly paused. After two seconds of silence, he suddenly said, “I get it…”

“That Finished Product just now… As the only successful work, that Progenitor Zombie planned to use it as a sample. But now the big Spider is dead, and a group of strangers like us have arrived, the Progenitor Zombie has lost its collaborator, and the chances of success are even lower. But just eating that one sample, he wouldn’t be satisfied…” Ling Mo said.

“Then do you think… he’s treating you as the last possible Finished Product that could be made here?” Xia Na asked.

“That’s exactly what I mean. He’s not satisfied with just one Finished Product, so he simply wants to use me to make a better one. The reason he let us enter the underground was mainly to make me and that Finished Product kill each other, while he sits back and reaps the benefits… Now that I’ve Devoured that Finished Product’s psychic power, it’s double the nutrition for him… No wonder, at the time I felt he wasn’t angry, but actually excited. Now I’ve found the reason.”

The essence of many things is actually very simple. As long as you piece together these scattered clues, it’s not hard to deduce a complete event. For example, what Ling Mo has now reconstructed is the Zombie’s motive and his entire plan…

“Anyway, Ling-Ge, since you could Absorb that psychic power, we actually came to the right place. Otherwise, just like I said earlier, even if we refused to go down, they would have launched a direct attack in the warehouse. At that point, we’d be even more passive.” Xia Na quickly said.

“Sigh… You’re right.” Ling Mo sighed and said, “I just came to find a granary, why is it so hard!”

“Buy one get one free isn’t good enough for you…”

“The problem is, who knows if I can handle this freebie…”

While the two were communicating in their minds, Li Yalin had already silently pushed open the half-closed door.

Outside was also a Corridor, but it was bright… And on both sides of the Corridor were rooms…

“Wait, I think we didn’t end up in the warehouse, but in their Dormitory Building.” Xia Na leaned close to the crack in the door and took a look, then said. ŖÁŊȎBЁʂ

“The Dormitory Building… Xia Na, you all stay inside for now…” Ling Mo said.

After speaking, he immediately raised his hand, and Xiao Hei instantly emerged from the psychic link Tentacle between him and Xia Na, forming a huge human-shaped shadow behind the door…

“Uh… okay…” Xia Na couldn’t help but feel a bit of pressure. This pressure was different from what she usually experienced; it was as if something was forcibly tightening her nerves, acting entirely on the spiritual level.

Even Ye Lian and Li Yalin, who couldn’t see Xiao Hei, couldn’t help but glance toward where Xiao Hei was, a hint of confusion in their eyes.

“I’ll send him out. You all just wait for us here.” After Ling Mo finished speaking, his perspective immediately switched to Xiao Hei. In an instant, he felt as if he had become a nearly three-meter-tall shadow with no physical body, only able to float forward…

Controlling Xiao Hei didn’t have that sense of physicality, but Ling Mo’s synchronization rate with it was ridiculously high. Of course, that was because this psychic puppet was essentially a part of him…

Ling Mo couldn’t feel a body, but he could sense the powerful strength contained within himself, and he could vaguely sense that he had a burden…

“Oh… it’s the main body behind me… Wait! Did I just think of myself as a burden? No, that must be Xiao Hei’s thought! Why does it look down on its own main body! Hey, hey, I never complained about how ugly you became after your variation, and yet you secretly dislike your own appearance! And… why are you even thinking!”

Ling Mo was instantly thrown into confusion… He vaguely felt that something was off here…

“Isn’t it obvious? Because most of what’s in here is me… that is, your Subconscious… You made your spiritual body like this because deep down you wanted to be a shadow hidden in the darkness! Did you forget how, when you were a kid, you fantasized about hiding outside the window to peep at Ye Lian taking a bath?”

This thought suddenly popped into his mind, startling him again.

“So not only did I just evolve the Flame Armor! But what kind of side effect is this!”

“Speaking of which, deep down you were quite proud… Finally came up with a good name, but for some reason it feels strongly familiar, like you’ve seen it somewhere before and just borrowed it now…”

“Shut up!”

“How can I? These are just your own thoughts…”

“And why did childhood fantasies become Subconscious! How did they end up affecting my variation more than ten years later!” Ling Mo said angrily.

“How can you ask yourself that kind of question…”

“Then don’t answer yourself! And I never disliked myself!”

“Tsk tsk, haven’t you ever wanted to be a quiet, handsome guy deep down? When Senior Sister was tormenting you, didn’t you wish you could evolve a stronger waist… These are all forms of self-dislike… But don’t worry, although the handsome guy issue is hard to solve, at least you look pretty good, and now that so many people have died, your level of attractiveness has definitely risen with the tide…”

“Hey, hey, don’t say such crazy things!” Ling Mo quickly interrupted, then couldn’t help but ask, “Did I really think that in my Subconscious?”

“…”

“Huh… I really didn’t expect that…”

“Nobody’s perfect…”

“Stop, stop, stop! So about the waist issue…”

“Oh… about that, the Flame Armor will solve it for you. Just imagine, when Senior Sister pounces on you again, then Xia Na joins the fray, and finally even Ye Lian, that little seductress, jumps in, you can directly transformation… ah, no, put on the armor, and your waist movement will instantly enter Frenzy mode, so…”

Ling Mo frowned as he listened… So deep down, his thoughts were actually this unreliable!

This was just too depressing!

“By the way… don’t talk to me anymore in the future…” Ling Mo said.

“Then you’ll have to evolve a switch for yourself… You think I want to expose myself? I’m your Subconscious! I want to hide in the depths of your mind for a lifetime!”

“…So how far have I evolved now…”

“Oh, it’s still early, it’s like you’ve just made a button, but haven’t pressed it yet… Eh, why aren’t you saying anything?”

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