Chapter 1178: Live or Die, It All Comes Down to This!

For a moment, Liu Yang’s movements came to a halt.

Ling Mo stood where he was, his expression grave as he stared at him…

Did it work?

After a long second, the Tentacle dissipated, and Liu Yang’s eyes were revealed.

No blood…

He suddenly opened his eyes, and it looked as if countless Tentacles were writhing within his eyeballs. Then, these “Tentacles” slowly retracted back into his eyes…

Ling Mo’s scalp tingled as he thought to himself, “Looks like he’s blocking attacks with those blood vessels… So, his eyes actually don’t have the function of seeing anymore… Then, how does he ‘see’ me? Smell? Sensing?”

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Ling Mo launched several more attacks in quick succession. After Liu Yang opened his eyes, he continued walking toward him.

Ten meters… nine meters… eight meters…

Ling Mo’s attacks landed precisely on various parts of Liu Yang’s face and on the locations of his vital organs… Yet, whether it was his skin’s defensive capability or those countless blood vessels, Ling Mo felt he couldn’t find a way in.

Those blood vessels drilled out from his skin without causing any damage at all. The most troublesome part was that they could suddenly emerge from anywhere, or all concentrate in one spot. In this way, even if Ling Mo focused all his attack power on a single location, it wouldn’t yield any good results.

“So troublesome…” Ling Mo finally understood where Liu Yang’s confidence came from… Just as he’d said, Ling Mo only now truly understood the strength differences between Puppets of different Levels.

The lowest Level 3 Puppet is just parasitized by a Level 3 Host Body. Although they’re stronger than their original human main body, their strength is still limited. But a Level 2 Puppet like the Niepan captain is much more formidable. Not only does he retain his original human consciousness and Superpower, but he can also be Controlled. The degree of physical enhancement is more than a notch above Level 3.

But he still has flaws… And that flaw is precisely because he remains conscious. One body, two Controls-at first glance, it’s shocking, but over time, the drawbacks become apparent. Even so, dealing with him isn’t easy. Take Ling Mo, for example… He used a trap and tried his best to avoid getting entangled, but still expended a huge amount of psychic power. At this moment, the psychic energy he had left was actually only about half.

That full-force attack on Level 1 Puppet Liu Yang just now cost him a lot… And during Liu Yang’s approach, he was also burning through it rapidly…

“What, you’re not going to keep fighting?” Liu Yang looked at Ling Mo, who was staring at him intently, and said, “If it were under different circumstances, maybe I’d think you’d already given up. But… I can tell you haven’t lost hope yet. So, still trying to figure out how to deal with me? It’s useless. Level 1 Puppet… is made specifically to deal with you. With your current strength, even if I stand here and let you hit me, you still won’t be able to hurt me. In the end, you’ll just collapse from exhaustion. Compared to us Zombies, once you humans fall, you have no chance to struggle. Because, aside from your Superpower, your main body is just too weak…”

“So what if I’m weak? I haven’t fallen yet.” Ling Mo glared at him.

But even as he said this, anxiety began to build in his heart.

Indeed, if this goes on, he’s definitely going to lose…

“No, I can’t die like this… I still have to help Ye Lian, I still have to go further with them…”

Yet in this tense moment, Ling Mo suddenly recalled Ye Lian’s diary of memories.

Deep inside… she’s hoping too…

Ling Mo even thought of those nights hiding in residential buildings… Zombies everywhere outside. In the dead of night, sometimes a shrill scream would suddenly pierce the air… And outside his door, there would occasionally be some bone-chilling noises.

Back then, what kept him alive with bloodshot eyes, even going out to fight Zombies, was that helpless, terrified voice…

Everyone needs a reason to keep going, and Ling Mo’s reason started as one, but now he has many more…

“I want to live.” Ling Mo’s mood suddenly calmed.

Five meters left…

He began to calmly observe Liu Yang, carefully recalling the scene of his earlier attacks.

“He’s right… The way I’m attacking, I can’t hurt him… Basically, I’ve attacked every possible spot on his body, and every strike was with full force. If I can’t break through now, then no matter how many more times I hit, I definitely won’t break through.” Ling Mo quickly reached a conclusion. Ȑ𝓪ƝȰ฿Èś

“But this thing can’t be invincible… Otherwise, the Spider Queen could have become Lord of the City just with these Puppets, and wouldn’t need to bother me. So… where’s the flaw?”

“Hmm… From a normal perspective, as long as my attack power is stronger than his defensive capability, I should be able to defeat him. But he’s defending with his whole body, and his reactions are faster than anything… I’ve used a lot of Materialized Tentacles, but when attacking his head I also mixed in quite a few psychic tentacles, but none of them worked…” Thinking of this, Ling Mo was puzzled again.

“I found it strange before-he clearly has the ability to think, can talk to me, and is very similar to that Niepan Member and the Controllers of those Level 3 Puppets… But why isn’t he affected by psychic power attacks? Even if he’s completely under the Spider Queen’s remote Control, that still requires a psychic link, right? Like the last Progenitor I met, he had an Avatar, but they communicated through psychic power. Or Black Silk, who split himself into two parts, but ultimately it’s psychic power at work… Right, this Level 1 Puppet just said it himself, he’s made specifically to deal with me… So, I shouldn’t think about this in the usual way…”

“Ling Mo, you can sleep now.”

Liu Yang had already raised an Arm.

But at that moment, Ling Mo’s eyes finally lit up.

He’d figured it out!

“Hahaha, I get it now…”

As long as all these points are sorted out, the answer becomes obvious! And the answer was actually spoken by Liu Yang himself!

It’s just that at the brink of life and death, it’s hard to think of so much all at once…

“The answer is in what he said… With my current ability, even if he stands there and lets me hit him, I still can’t kill him. Hahaha… I really can’t kill him!” But Ling Mo’s lips slowly curled up… Why can’t he kill him? Isn’t it because he’s being worn down? So… why do these Puppets have to wear him down first?

“In other words, at my peak, I might be able to kill him. But my Tentacle attack power is almost evenly distributed-if one can’t break through, even hundreds probably won’t pierce it. Because I can concentrate my attack once, but he can also concentrate his defense in one spot, it’s practically a stalemate. But there’s one thing he can’t defend against…”

“And that’s the psychic power he doesn’t care about!”

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Liu Yang, who had just made a move, was stopped again… The blood vessels that had just spread from his Arm were beaten back by Ling Mo.

Next, as Ling Mo’s face grew paler, Liu Yang’s whole body was bound by Materialized Tentacles.

These Tentacles kept tightening, finally trapping him in place for the moment.

But Liu Yang wasn’t nervous. He still looked at Ling Mo expressionlessly and asked, “Are you planning to run away? You should know, with your physical condition, you have absolutely no chance of escaping in front of me.”

“I know, of course I know,” Ling Mo replied.

“So you’re planning to try again? It’s useless, I’ve already…”

“Useful or not, you’ll know soon enough…” Ling Mo showed a trace of excitement, his heart pounding wildly.

Live or die, it all comes down to this!

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