Novel Full Chapter 1066: He Must Survive!
Chapter 1066: He Must Survive!
“Tsk tsk… This madman bares his heart to you, and yet you just brush him off?”
Not long after Yuwen Xuan left, a childish voice suddenly came from behind.
Ling Mo rolled his eyes and said, “Some things are better left unsaid, don’t you think? And you… hiding by the side to eavesdrop is one thing, but then you just stroll out and start giving your opinion like it’s nothing!”
“But judging by the way he spoke, he probably saw right through you a long time ago,” Black Silk said, swinging her hands at the edge as she climbed up with her short legs, muttering, “This body is really inconvenient! You know… if you convert dog years, I’m almost thirty already…”
“You mean to say you’re older than me? Just live honestly according to your dog age! This body looks about three years old, just perfect for you.” Ling Mo said, then sighed softly, “Even so, I couldn’t just tell him directly, could I? ‘Yalin is actually a Zombie,’ and then what?”
Black Silk wobbled over to his side and said, “So you’re just afraid he’ll start asking questions… But about this, didn’t you plan for it a long time ago? Honestly, I think the appearance of these Hellforged Monsters actually gives you some great material… Even though they only temporarily undergo transformation into humans, doesn’t that show that it really is possible to exist as both a Zombie and a human?”
“Yeah… That’s what I was thinking too…” Ling Mo nodded.
Black Silk paused, then asked doubtfully, “But you don’t look excited at all… Isn’t this what you wanted most? And… why aren’t you yelling at me for peeking into your thoughts? You’re suddenly so tolerant. I’m not used to it…”
“Well… maybe it’s because your current form reminds me you’re only three years old. So I can’t be bothered to argue with a little brat…” Ling Mo replied.
“Hey… if you keep this up, I’ll eat you before those Spiders even get here…” Black Silk scowled, her little face scrunched up in anger.
But Ling Mo reached out and said, “Alright, let’s be serious… It’s not that I’m not excited, it’s just… maybe I’m like Yuwen Xuan. Now that the thing I want is right in front of me, I’m actually starting to hesitate. To recover all human memories and emotions, to exist as both a Zombie and a human at the same time… Is that really what they want?”
Seeing Ling Mo’s outstretched hand, Black Silk instinctively placed her little paw on top of it, her hips wiggling as she replied in all seriousness, “Tch… I thought you were worried about something big. Humans just overthink everything! Did you forget they’re still Zombies? Xia Na is a special case, let’s not count her… Normal Zombies are all single-minded! They know what you want, but still follow you faithfully. Isn’t that explanation enough? For a master to need their pet to enlighten them… truly, humans are idiots…”
“I knew that whenever you guys act all cutesy, you’re actually saying this! Fine… I get what you mean. But humans are human because even if they understand things, they still worry… All in all, I’m happy. Something that was once hopeless now seems possible. The first thing to do next is to wait for Old Lan’s research results on those Hellforged Monster corpses. And these Spiders that can coexist with humans might also be a useful clue, right?”
Ling Mo patted her head again, and Black Silk immediately sat down reflexively, raising her hands in front of her… But she soon came to her senses, scratching her ear with a claw and growling softly, “Enough already, human…”
“No wonder you’re so well-trained…”
But suddenly, Ling Mo’s expression changed. He let go of Black Silk and asked seriously, “Now, tell me… what’s really going on with you? You said before, this is only half of you…”
“I thought you weren’t going to ask anymore…” Black Silk sat forward and said, “I wasn’t lying, what’s sitting here now really is only half of me. You remember, don’t you? When I was living with Shiran, we already started to show signs of assimilation. After all, having two central controls in one body is bound to cause problems. Unless, like Xia Na’s master, they’re actually the same person in essence; if you put it that way, she’s really just two sides of the same person, right?”
“But Shiran and I are completely different. Not only are we not one whole, we’re not even the same species. I did have plans to take her place, inherit her obsession with eating you, and finally pull off the ultimate pet uprising… but it’s just too difficult…”
“Saying something so outrageous with a straight face! I always thought you looked at me like you were checking if I’d stopped breathing… turns out I wasn’t wrong!” Ling Mo exclaimed.
Black Silk held her face in her hands, “Don’t sweat the details, those are in the past. A man should learn to let go and move forward… Anyway, after realizing it was almost impossible to accomplish my grand plan with her, I started considering other options…”
“So you just haven’t given up! This new form is still for eating me!” Ling Mo retorted.
Black Silk corrected, “No, no, all I ever wanted was to turn the tables and become the master…”
“Nothing’s gotten better! If anything, it sounds worse…”
“I originally wanted to be like Xia Na… but in the end, I realized it’s just too hard for a dog-girl to forcibly split into two personalities… So I started thinking of other ways… Like, since I’d pretty much abandoned my body, why not abandon it completely? That is, to transfer my main body entirely onto psychic power, especially the central node entangled with Shiran. The process was very slow, and that’s why I stayed at the simple drawing stage for so long, making no real progress…” Black Silk explained.
“All the difficulty is in the simple drawing, huh…”
“The breakthrough came after Shiran fought that human called Butterfly. She was almost completely exhausted, her instincts pushed to the limit, and I was deeply affected, falling into a state of unconsciousness. When I woke up, I’d succeeded…” Black Silk continued, “But after becoming psychic energy, Shiran’s psychic light cluster couldn’t contain me very well. So I split half of myself back into the original body. To realize my wish of having my own body, I started looking for a suitable symbiote… You know the rest.”
“So…” Ling Mo was a bit overwhelmed. Even a dog-girl worked so hard… This world really is mad for evolution… He gathered his thoughts and asked, “So now, you actually have two symbiotes? One is this one, and the other is Yu Shiran?”
“Correct.” Black Silk smiled, “So don’t worry, that little girl-she’ll never escape your grasp!”
“…You’re the one who caught her in the first place! Don’t make it sound like I’m the mastermind behind it all!” Ling Mo fell silent for two seconds, then suddenly snapped. 𝙧𝒶ΝŎ𝖇ÊṤ
At that moment, both of them fell quiet.
The silent night, the deserted Town… In this darkness, something seemed to be approaching…
After listening for over ten seconds, Black Silk suddenly looked up and whispered, “Did you hear that?”
Ling Mo nodded, his expression grave. “Yeah… I heard it.”
Not just them-those left on the wall and car roofs from the Observation Team, and the combat group waiting at the factory entrance, all stood up, looking in the same direction…
Rustle, rustle, rustle!
Everything was still eerily quiet, not a soul in sight, but that faint, dense, nerve-wracking sound was swiftly sweeping toward them from afar.
They’re here!
Ling Mo stared tightly ahead, clenching his fists.
As his scalp tingled, he could hear his heartbeat…
That’s right. Now that hope has appeared, to achieve his goal… he must survive!