Chapter 1179: Hollow Man

At this moment, Liu Yang also keenly sensed something was off… Yet before he could react, Ling Mo suddenly clenched his fist.

With this silent motion, Liu Yang immediately felt a dense muffled sound ringing in his ears…

“Hmm? Why is there a sound?”

He froze for a moment… He wasn’t hurt, nothing seemed abnormal, he was still standing in place, and a few meters away, Ling Mo was standing with a clenched fist, looking at him with a deathly pale face.

“Strange, it’s still ringing…”

Liu Yang felt as if he’d been thrown into a blender… The commotion seemed to come from every part of his body. And this sound was clearer than any other noise…

“Ah… I think… I’ve been attacked…” Liu Yang realized… But as he fell, all he could think about was another question…

Why?

…

“Thud!”

As Liu Yang collapsed directly to the ground, Ling Mo’s body also swayed, and he quickly reached out to support himself against the wall.

He let out a long breath, his gaze complex as he looked at the fallen Liu Yang.

“Right… the master ball…” Ling Mo hurriedly took out the master ball.

Strictly speaking, this little guy hadn’t fully absorbed the “nutrients” provided by the previous Progenitor. When Ling Mo released it this time, it hadn’t completely finished evolving. So after draining the Niepan captain, it once again fell into a half-asleep state.

Even now, as Ling Mo held it in his hand, it only trembled slightly, its body contracting and expanding, and with a “plop,” it burped. Several psychic light points immediately floated out…

“I’ve long been prepared for this kind of situation…” Ling Mo panted, and his five fingers squeezed the master ball tighter…

Puff, puff, puff…

A surge of psychic energy began to pour out…

Half a minute later, when Ling Mo put the master ball away again, his complexion had improved a lot. His previously dull eyes now shone brightly again.

“Hey.” Only then did Ling Mo walk over and squat down in front of Liu Yang.

After a brief silence, Liu Yang slowly turned his head to the side.

Seeing his current appearance, Ling Mo, who was about to speak, was instantly stunned.

“You look…”

In less than a minute, Liu Yang… or rather, this shell that had been transformed into a Level 1 Puppet, looked completely different from the moment he fell. ṙＡ𐌽o͍βĘS

Liu Yang had originally been a Youth, but now, as he “stared” at Ling Mo with a pair of utterly ashen eyes, his skin was covered in wrinkles. The whole person looked as if he’d instantly aged forty or fifty years…

Not only that, when he opened his mouth, several loose teeth fell out…

This scene… was truly chilling…

“You seem… quite surprised…” Liu Yang said with great effort.

“A bit,” Ling Mo paused, then replied honestly.

“This isn’t… a complete mutation…” Liu Yang said.

Ling Mo nodded… He’d vaguely guessed as much.

The real mutation was actually in the Host Body inside, and the virus it carried was also secreted from the Host Body. As it replaced the “shell’s” brain, the viruses in its body would quickly erode every part of the human body. It could start as a dormant seed, but once it “awakened,” in a short time, this human body could become an extremely powerful Monster.

Efficient, fast, a truly superb killing tool.

But the drawbacks were deadly… like decay… like… aging and atrophy.

“You should… be able to empathize with this feeling, right?” Ling Mo suddenly asked.

Liu Yang grinned strangely, then twisted his neck with a click and asked, “How did you… do it? In the end… you clearly… seemed to do nothing…”

“That’s just what you felt.” Ling Mo paused, then said calmly, “The answer is simple, I just used my best attack method.”

“Psychic attack?” Liu Yang was stunned again, “Impossible…”

“There’s nothing impossible about it,” Ling Mo interrupted him, saying, “You thought this Puppet could make my ability useless, but in fact, as long as it’s still a Puppet under your command… no, as long as it’s a living creature that moves, there must be psychic power, right?”

“But…”

“Yes, and you just don’t have it… But that’s against common sense. So here’s the question: where did you hide your psychic light cluster?” Ling Mo continued, “At first I couldn’t figure it out… But then I realized, the answer had been right in front of me all along… It’s not that I couldn’t find it, but because it’s everywhere. Your psychic power is spread throughout your whole body, isn’t it?”

Liu Yang didn’t speak… But his body clearly twitched again.

“So my psychic attack was useless… Because even if I hit one part and drained some of your psychic power, compared to your whole self, it wasn’t a significant injury. That’s why you said… with my current self, I couldn’t beat you…”

“In theory, I could keep attacking, draining a bit each time, and eventually exhaust your psychic power completely. But in the state I was just in, how could I possibly hold out that long? I might not even notice before you caught me.”

“But if I attack your whole body at once like this, you can’t withstand it… After all, the psychic power in your body is still far weaker than mine…”

At this point, Ling Mo suddenly smiled slightly, his tone relaxing: “You can’t catch me.”

“That… can’t be certain,” Liu Yang replied. He was aging even more rapidly, and a faint stench of decay began to emanate from his body…

“Why don’t you come yourself?” Ling Mo finally threw out an important question.

“I…” Liu Yang opened his mouth, but didn’t answer.

But Ling Mo didn’t look disappointed, and quickly asked again, “How many more Puppets are here?”

“Why don’t you… go see for yourself…” Liu Yang said.

Then, his face suddenly began to rot…

And just before his mouth disappeared, he suddenly gave Ling Mo a meaningful smile and said, “See you soon…”

“…I would have anyway, even if you didn’t say so,” Ling Mo replied.

Gulu…

Liu Yang’s head suddenly rolled off, and as Ling Mo quickly stood up, he found that inside the shrunken, hollow corpse, not a single drop of blood had flowed out…

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