Chapter 1262: I Am in the Fishs Belly

Chapter 1262: I Am in the Fishs Belly

Above is the fourth floor.

At the moment he stepped onto the stairs, Ling Mo quickly pulled out his flashlight and swept it over the steps ahead.

If his earlier speculation about the numbers was correct, then the place most likely to have something fishy should be right here.

After scanning back and forth, Ling Mo indeed found several newly carved characters on the first step.

“I am in the fish’s belly.”

These marks were carved very shallowly. If Ling Mo hadn’t come looking on purpose, they might never have been discovered at all. Once someone stepped on them, there would be no trace left.

The first step of the stairs leading to the fourth floor… 4, 1, everything matched up.

This sentence was clearly written for them to see.

But when Li Yalin looked over, she suddenly let out a surprised “eh” and said, “This isn’t that human’s handwriting.”

The “that human” she referred to was, of course, Fang Zhou.

Ling Mo was stunned for a moment… it actually wasn’t his?

He naturally wouldn’t doubt Li Yalin’s eyesight… Even though, as a Zombie, she often made some basic mistakes, she would never go wrong on this kind of issue. Because her way of observing things was simpler and more direct than a human’s, she could actually distinguish the differences between strokes and lines more quickly.

“Then… is there still any warmth left on it?” Ling Mo asked.

Li Yalin’s eye color changed, her gaze lingered on the marks for a while, then she glanced up the stairs. She bit her lip and shook her head, saying, “No, too much time has passed. And there’s a lot of blood here, some of it still pretty fresh. It all looks a bit messy to me.”

Ling Mo couldn’t help but feel it was a pity, but thinking about it, they had already been delayed in the Corridor for quite a while. The other side had no reason to risk staying here to observe the fight, right? Besides, Senior Sister’s variation ability hadn’t fully evolved yet, so it couldn’t be used all the time.

“It’s fine, at least we already know who left these marks.”

The “inside man” responding to Fang Zhou… that person was indeed here too.

But what troubled Ling Mo at this moment was… what exactly did this sentence mean?

“I am in the fish’s belly”… no matter how you looked at it, it had to be a code phrase…

“Could it be that Fang Zhou just wanted to divert my attention? He hurriedly wrote this sentence just to distract me? No… from his ability to endure until just now, it’s clear this person is absolutely someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Such a person would definitely make meticulous arrangements for his plans… Whether it was him or the ‘inside man’ who wrote this, there must be a deeper meaning. Just like I speculated earlier. He wants me to figure it out myself. Because only then would I not be suspicious. So, with such a nonsensical, clue-lacking sentence, it would be hard for me to find the answer in a short time.”

“Thinking carefully, this must be related to this place! ‘I am in the fish’s belly,’ is it some kind of code?”

“No, thinking like this won’t get me anywhere.” Ling Mo suddenly realized that his line of thought might be a bit off in this matter. He actually shouldn’t be thinking this way.

Ling Mo glanced at Xia Na behind him and asked, “If someone thinks they’ve already escaped another’s control and can turn around and scheme against them, but in reality, all their actions are still within the original controller’s plan, then when this controller wants to influence this person’s actions and interfere with their schemes without them knowing, how would the controller do it?”

Xia Na was just coming out of battle. She thought for a second and then answered without hesitation, “If that’s the case, then the first thing the controller needs to understand-or rather, to have planned in advance-is this person’s next goal, right? As long as you grasp the goal, it’s not hard to deduce all their actions from it. Especially if the controller knows this person very well, then it’s even easier to predict. It’s like how we Zombies hunt-every hunt is actually for one ultimate goal: evolution.”

“Exactly, that’s it!” Ling Mo immediately reacted. If it weren’t for the urgent situation, he really wanted to hug Xia Na and give her a kiss. In fact, he was only one step away from the answer himself, but with too much information in hand, he couldn’t immediately see the essence of the problem.

“Goal… According to Fang Zhou himself, his goal is to obtain Miracle Base, or at least gain some real power within it. This goal has lasted so long, it’s not likely to change easily. When he realized that following me would never make him my trusted aide or partner, he started looking for a way out. Or rather, he was preparing for both outcomes from the very start. Someone as good at pretending as he is couldn’t have failed to think of all this. That ‘traitor,’ no matter what ‘reason’ he had for helping Fang Zhou, it’s clear that all of this was arranged by Chief of Staff Wang.” Ŕ𝘢ŊỐᛒĚṤ

Chief of Staff Wang is a meticulous person; he must be using this method to keep track of Fang Zhou’s movements. And once he’s got a handle on Fang Zhou’s movements, it’s as good as having a handle on ours. It’s just that, up until now, he hasn’t had a chance to get specific information about our group. That’s why he’s cooperating… he might even have deliberately guided Fang Zhou’s rebellion this time.

Fang Zhou suddenly choosing this moment is definitely not without reason. Even though he has his own motives, without the traitor’s cooperation, things wouldn’t have gone so smoothly. So even if Fang Zhou thinks he doesn’t have one, in reality, he’s still being manipulated by Chief of Staff Wang. This is a precise ring within a ring-everyone in the ring thinks only they’ve seen through everything, but the only one who’s truly stepped outside, for now, seems to be Ling Mo.

But if he’s still inside the ring, then everything becomes passive.

Next is Fang Zhou’s objective… For Fang Zhou, he once tried to defect to Ling Mo, and the people he brought to assassinate Ling Mo all died. To make up for such a mistake, and to atone for his crimes, besides reporting everything to Chief of Staff Wang, the best way is probably… to inflict some real casualties on Ling Mo’s group.

But that’s the hardest thing to do… As Ling Mo thought of this, he suddenly understood the meaning of that phrase.

I am in the fish’s belly… I am in the big Zombie’s lair.

And Ye Lian also said, the real mastermind controlling these Zombies is still above.

Using Zombies is indeed the most effective way to weaken Ling Mo’s group.

But since he doesn’t know the details about these Zombies, Fang Zhou is gambling too.

Maybe he’d planned even more attack methods, but when it came time to actually carry them out, he ended up trapped here together with Ling Mo’s group.

At this moment, Ling Mo’s group had already retreated to the fourth floor. Yuwen Xuan and the others were at the rear, constantly fending off the endless surge of Female Zombies and their young. Every time Yuwen Xuan’s fireball exploded, everyone could see countless ferocious faces squeezed together, those blood-red eyeballs staring dead at them-it was truly terrifying.

Xu Shuhan called out, “What do we do? These Zombies… their behavior isn’t the same as the ones just now! Their activity area doesn’t seem to be limited to this floor! If this keeps up, we’ll be hunted down nonstop.”

Black Silk listened intently for a moment, then suddenly said, “Actually, it’s not just them-the ones from the second floor just came up too.”

Everyone instinctively listened, and sure enough, from the constant cries, they could make out a dense “Squeak” sound.

This sudden turn of events made Ling Mo’s expression look a bit grim, but at the same time, his heart tightened. This situation proved Ye Lian was right-the Boss here really is upstairs.

It’s trying to stop Ling Mo and the others from going up…

Ling Mo couldn’t help but curse inwardly, “Damn, we’ve already snuck into your belly, and you’re still stupidly blocking us here…”

But cursing aside, the first thing to do now was to come up with a plan.

At this moment, Black Silk pulled Yu Shiran and said, “We’ll hold them here, you guys go up.”

“Then… I’ll stay too.” Xu Shuhan weighed the dangers of upstairs and here… In the end, she chose the known side. Upstairs looked too dark, probably because those green plants outside had completely covered that floor…

Yuwen Xuan was about to speak when Ling Mo said, “That madman comes with us.”

No kidding, with him here, how could Black Silk and the others do their thing? There were a lot of Zombies, but with Black Silk’s Hair, it was like one person holding off a thousand… Although Ling Mo didn’t intend to hide everything from Yuwen Xuan, there were some things too shocking to witness firsthand.

Besides, Ling Mo always felt that if he was the only one who knew about the Zombies around him, then at least on this level, the humans around him would still be safe.

Yuwen Xuan was stunned for a moment, but quickly caught on. Since Ling Mo trusted a woman and two kids to guard here, it meant they could definitely hold the line.

“Brother-in-law, you really do need me. I knew you had a reason for taking me along.” Yuwen Xuan said, looking deeply moved.

Ling Mo immediately glared at him… Who the hell needs you! Wasn’t it you who jumped on the car yourself?

But every second counted now, so Ling Mo couldn’t be bothered to argue. After shouting “Go,” he charged into the fourth floor without looking back.

As soon as he entered the Corridor, his psychic sensing activated. Almost the instant he sensed, a psychic light cluster appeared above his head. Immediately after, a Dark Shadow swooped down with a “whoosh”…

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