Chapter 1260: A Game

“Damn!” Ling Mo was shocked on the spot.

The others also widened their eyes instantly, clearly stunned.

What the hell is this?

But soon, Ling Mo reacted and shouted, “Damn, it’s Fang Zhou!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of muffled “thud thud thud” sounds suddenly echoed in the Corridor. When the noise faded, a number of dense, shallow round pits had appeared on the walls around the wheelchair.

Ling Mo stretched out his foot to stop the wheelchair that had rushed up to him, his face dark as he said, “He ran.”

“That’s not surprising. He’s been following us for so long, he must have already gained a certain understanding of each of our attack methods, especially yours. After tampering with things, he definitely left immediately,” Yuwen Xuan analyzed regretfully. Just thinking that Fang Zhou had been watching them from not far away made Yuwen Xuan a bit depressed. But on the bright side, at least Ling Mo’s deduction was correct.

As for why Ling Mo didn’t use Sensing when he came up… it was mainly because he was worried about alerting the Zombies here too early.

But as soon as he thought of this, Ling Mo’s heart suddenly skipped a beat. He suddenly realized that this concern seemed to have come a bit too late…

At this moment, Xia Na was also staring at the wheelchair and said quietly, “Let’s not worry about how fast he escaped… I think what we should be concerned about now is, what was Fang Zhou’s purpose in doing this? His goal can’t just be to stun you all for a moment…”

As soon as she said this, a chill rose in Yuwen Xuan’s heart. He couldn’t help but mutter, “Crap…”

He had just finished speaking when a faint, dense sound began to come from around them…

It seemed that after escaping here with his Superpower, Fang Zhou had been careful not to make any noise. And this wheelchair was probably something he had deliberately brought here. Other things like cabinets could also make noise, but first, he couldn’t move them, and second, something like that suddenly appearing in the Corridor would definitely draw extra attention from Ling Mo and the others. Maybe before he could act, Ling Mo would have already struck first.

From this, Ling Mo’s earlier deduction was indeed correct. Even if Fang Zhou wasn’t clear about the situation here, he had some way to find out. The only question now was, how did this situation come about?

“That guy wants to kill us!” Xu Shuhan shouted as she listened to the sounds.

Black Silk shook her head in a childish voice, “Not necessarily. Maybe he just wants to delay us. I guess his real goal is to use this chance to shake us off. As for why now… the answer is obvious, because we’ve reached the final stop. And the current chaos is his only chance.”

“But his actions also indirectly reveal something else,” Ling Mo added. By now, he was already cautiously pressed against the wall, because the sounds around them were gradually becoming clearer. Whatever was approaching them, it probably wouldn’t be any easier to deal with than the Zombies on the second floor.

“What?” Yuwen Xuan also pressed himself against the other side of the wall and asked loudly.

He was the only one with the energy to ask right now; Xu Shuhan was already shivering all over with her eyes closed. Seeing her like this, Ling Mo couldn’t even figure out why the virus in her body had to mutate… This had completely triggered her greatest weakness!

But thinking back, wasn’t he the one who had been watching her the whole time she mutated…

“Think about it, he has such a big advantage. Even if he can’t get out for now, he should be able to run straight up to the Rooftop. Staying there would be safer than here. And even if he didn’t trip us up, the result would be the same. Since it’s something that would happen naturally without risking his life, why would he deliberately trigger it early?” Ling Mo asked.

“Uh…” Yuwen Xuan was also quick-witted. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly understood what Ling Mo meant and said, “You mean, he wants to go up. But he can’t.”

“That’s exactly it.” At this point, Ling Mo thought of that “4,1.” What could those two numbers mean? Most importantly, why would someone leave such a message for Fang Zhou?

But as he thought about it, a strange feeling suddenly surged in Ling Mo’s heart. Almost instantly, he shivered. No! Something’s wrong! If the message was left for Fang Zhou… then it means this traitor must have entered the building before Fang Zhou, which also fits Ling Mo’s theory that “Fang Zhou got Intelligence from the traitor.”

But thinking calmly, that’s a paradox!

No matter how Fang Zhou contacted or even kept in touch with this traitor, the traitor couldn’t have entered the sanatorium before Fang Zhou.

The most likely situation was… Ling Mo thought back carefully and finally remembered the time Fang Zhou hesitated and observed at the entrance.

At that time, he might have been acting scared… but if there was another purpose behind his act, it must have been to wait for the traitor!

The more Ling Mo thought about it, the clearer it became, and he even felt the whole thread of the matter forming in his mind. But after thinking it through, Ling Mo found a loophole, a bug. ℞аℕ𝐎ᛒÈṤ

If they entered together… then what was the meaning of the note Li Yalin found?

Thinking carefully, the note could represent this situation: while Fang Zhou was waiting for Ling Mo and the others, his accomplice-the most likely traitor here-had already scouted upstairs. So he came back and left the note at the information desk…

“No, that’s not right, that’s too much trouble. If he really had time to leave a note, he could have just hidden behind the information desk and told him directly…”

After Ling Mo denied himself, another guess suddenly popped up in his mind. What if… this note was exactly what Fang Zhou used to lure them in?

Fang Zhou left the note, then waited for Ling Mo and the others to find it. After they reached the second floor, he suddenly took the opportunity to slip away…

“That’s it!”

Ling Mo was almost instantly certain. He even thought of the moment Fang Zhou deliberately paused on the stairs, and that glance he gave toward the information desk. He did it on purpose, just like Yuwen Xuan said-he had been observing Ling Mo’s group the whole time. Even if he had no idea what evolution ability Li Yalin had, he knew all those girls were sharp-eyed. When they had just come upstairs, everyone’s attention was highly focused; any subtle reaction from him was almost impossible to escape everyone’s notice.

This was his real acting skill… The so-called overacting was actually to make people pay attention to all his “real” reactions. And only after peeling back these two layers would they possibly see his true self.

After eliminating all other possibilities, the one left is most likely the truth-unless all these possibilities were wrong from the start. But compared to guessing wrong from the beginning, Ling Mo trusted his current judgment more.

This was a kind of remote game… Ling Mo didn’t even feel like he was fighting against Fang Zhou. The real opponent was still that Chief of Staff Wang…

Only he could come up with such a chain-linked scheme… Even every step in the middle was meticulously designed. He must have wanted Miracle Base too much…

But Ling Mo could understand his obsession… If his own achievement was suddenly snatched away, he wouldn’t be happy either.

So, in this calculation, it was Chief of Staff Wang who lost the first round. No wonder he had to target Ling Mo with such a precise assassination.

Ling Mo even admired his eye for picking people… Take Fang Zhou, for example-he was full of flaws, yet when it came to psychic sensing, he was flawless. This showed that everything he said was indeed true. As for what he was hiding… Even though Ling Mo knew he was hiding something, he couldn’t help but want to play along.

This was Chief of Staff Wang’s brilliance. He used Ling Mo’s caution and then engaged in a battle of wits with him in the details.

Thinking of this, Ling Mo suddenly felt a chill. Dealing with people like this was just too disgusting.

“In that case, those two numbers, 4 and 1, now have two possibilities. One is that they’re just random, the other is a further kind of misdirection…” And whether considering Fang Zhou’s personality or Chief of Staff Wang’s, Ling Mo believed more in the latter.

“Think… I found those two numbers in that situation… Then I found out Fang Zhou really escaped, and used a method that made me hesitate, making it hard to catch him. At this point, I would definitely analyze the meaning of those two numbers… In such a hurried situation, the numbers the other side came up with couldn’t be too complicated, and they must be related to the sanatorium, at least something I could quickly think of…” Ling Mo’s guess was well-founded, because although the plan was made by Chief of Staff Wang, the one adapting on the spot was still Fang Zhou. No matter how scheming he was, he couldn’t possibly know Ling Mo’s group’s situation at all times.

“Fourth floor, Number 1? No, it shouldn’t be that simple… Could it not represent a floor? But since it’s numbers, it must be related to something that can be counted. Counting… numbers… stairs! That’s it! Fang Zhou deliberately stopped on the stairs not just to ‘remind’ us, he was also hinting for us to pay attention to the stairs!” The stairs here were covered in bloodstains; normally, no one would want to squat down and examine them closely. But for the same reason, this was also the easiest place to tamper with! Just as Ling Mo thought of this, he suddenly heard Xu Shuhan let out a sharp scream. His heart skipped a beat-he knew trouble had finally arrived…

When the sound was amplified to the extreme, everyone realized that this time it wasn’t scratching… but the sound of something being dragged.

Just as they realized this, a door in the Corridor suddenly banged open, and immediately after, something was hurled fiercely at them.

Damn, so these Zombies were hiding in these rooms… If they had just walked along the Corridor when they came in, they might have been beaten all the way through by now.

“Why does this feel so much like a game?” Yuwen Xuan still had the mood to make associations at this time. “Like that game where you get hit by bamboo poles as you walk.”

“That’s called jumping bamboo poles, it’s a sport of some ethnic minorities. A game where you get hit… Only your family would have such an SM-flavored game!” Ling Mo retorted angrily.

But as soon as he said it, he lost his temper himself… Senior Sister’s favorite actually did have something to do with this… No wonder they said it was so wild and violent…

But after thinking about it, he was speechless. Sure enough, people get influenced by those they spend time with. Now he was just like Xia Na and the others, always thinking of weird things at any time.

But thoughts in his mind were just fleeting; Ling Mo’s gaze was still focused on that thing. He knew his dynamic vision wasn’t good, so he had already shifted his view to Ye Lian. Sure enough, with Ye Lian’s extraordinary eyesight, she saw what it was at a glance, and even its projectile-like movement seemed to slow down for a moment.

But unexpectedly, he actually recognized this thing… And the moment he saw it, it even brought up some unpleasant memories…

This thing… turned out to be a damn Zombie baby…

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