Chapter 1333 – Girl, All Men Must Die

Back when Ling Mo and the little girl “locked eyes” through the window, he had already noticed something unusual about her.

Now, what she said just confirmed his suspicion.

So not only did he show no surprise, he even smiled with satisfaction, then walked straight toward the little girl with the door wide open.

There was an advantage to doing this… A closed door is always more intriguing than one left open. Anyway, most people were openly or secretly watching here, so it was better to act openly and not arouse suspicion.

This was another difference between Ling Mo and Zhang Dongyao himself… Even though he was in someone else’s lair, under their surveillance, his behavior was unusually calm and casual.

According to Ling Mo, this was called “loose outside, tight inside.”

But the zombies had twisted the meaning of the term… Xia Na seriously corrected him: “I’m soft outside, tight inside. I just checked.”

“Where did you check with what?!” So before coming, Ling Mo used his main body to double-check her.

Turned out she was telling the truth.

“Back to the point.” Ling Mo controlled Zhang Dongyao to sit next to Anan. The little girl’s eyes flickered for a moment, but she still didn’t move.

This surprised Ling Mo a little… The little girl’s mind was truly mature beyond her years. Maybe for her, whether Zhang Dongyao had changed or not, she was facing the same situation…

No way to resist. Even if she retreated or screamed, it wouldn’t help, only increase her chances of getting hurt. So she chose to face it calmly.

But knowing is one thing, actually doing it is another. Even adults can’t always manage that…

“What exactly happened to you? With the zombies?” Ling Mo asked.

The bat didn’t know much… This made Ling Mo think the problem might be more complicated than he imagined. Now, seeing the little girl’s reaction, his feeling grew stronger.

The little girl glanced at him quietly, then after a moment of silence, lifted her clothes.

Ling Mo’s thoughts instinctively scattered… Wait, I’m not a Loli-con!

But the next moment, his face darkened.

On the little girl’s belly lay a… transparent thing, like a pupa. It was clear that this thing was connected to her body.

And the little girl herself whispered, “They said, when it grows up, I’ll fuse with it. Then we’ll grow together. That way, I won’t have to wait to grow up slowly. I’ll become a zombie, become a zombie just like them.”

At this point, she lowered her head and added, “If I behave and listen to them, they’ll let my intelligence recover faster, and I’ll be able to reappear in the world in a different way.”

“Do you want to become a zombie?” Ling Mo asked.

The little girl was silent for a while, then shook her head. Actually, Ling Mo could already tell from her eyes without her saying it…

He finally understood why this little girl was so calm… With a ticking time bomb strapped to her, it’s either self-destruction or silence, just two choices.

“Can this be removed?” Xia Na asked.

She actually didn’t feel much sympathy for the little girl’s situation… But it was obvious she was curious. To let someone remain human for a while, but also threaten her with inevitably becoming a zombie someday… She’d never seen such a method before.

Besides, Ling Mo’s attitude influenced her to some extent. At least she wasn’t thinking about whether the little girl could be eaten… and that was without switching to Nana mode.

A pleasing improvement.

“I… I don’t know.” The little girl shook her head and said.

Ling Mo used his psychic tentacle to observe closely, then gave up on trying to remove it.

“So, is it because of this that you can sense us?” Ling Mo asked.

“Mm… Those… zombies said, with this on me, they can always track me. But I won’t know where they are. If I want to know, I have to wake it up.” The little girl pursed her lips.

No need to say more… She had obviously already awakened the pupa.

“Why did you do that?” Ling Mo asked in confusion.

The little girl bit her lip, looked at him and said, “I want… I want you to die. Just now in the Laboratory, if I pointed out you were there, you would have killed to silence me, right? Then you’d die, and you wouldn’t kill me. Then I could protect Wang Lin sister…”

Ling Mo was stunned for several seconds before he realized… The “you” Anan referred to was Zhang Dongyao from before.

Looking at the little girl’s calm eyes, hearing her resolutely lay out a murder plan, Ling Mo suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable.

A character who might be nothing in others’ eyes could be plotting to ruin the lives of other ordinary people…

But Ling Mo also understood why the little girl could say what she did at the start… She knew Zhang Dongyao very well, even if his aura was no longer human, she could still tell this wasn’t Zhang Dongyao.

That’s what it means to see through appearances to the essence…

But Ling Mo was sure she hadn’t heard any of the conversation…

After silently marveling at the little girl’s maturity, Ling Mo said in his mind, “This is a GPS targeting Central City zombies. She can sense zombies and Central City zombies at the same time. She used this to locate the bat.”

“Also, we’ve deduced incorrectly. These Survivors are all spies arranged by Central City, and they’ll all eventually become variation zombies.”

After a long while, Black Silk’s voice finally came: “So what do we do?”

“What else can we do?” Ling Mo said.

After discussing for quite a while, he turned his head to look at the little girl: “Anan, right? You should know your current situation…”

She was a very special key point at this moment… all orchestrated by Zhang Dongyao.

In fact, she really was. As a “spy,” she knew quite a lot.

But her true “significance” was still as a ticking time bomb and a signpost.

Zhang Dongyao didn’t know this, nor did Falcon Camp.

“So, I need your cooperation,” Ling Mo said.

The little girl thought for a moment and asked, “Otherwise, you’ll kill my sisters?”

“No.” Ling Mo forced a slight smile, “I’ll help you deal with this GPS.”

The little girl was stunned…

Ling Mo tugged at the corner of his mouth with his hand. He knew this smile must look awful, but he’d tried his best…

“Human, how do you plan to help her remove it?” Yu Shiran asked in his mind.

“The bat definitely knows.”

“Master, I don’t know.”

“Then your Boss must know.”

“…Master, do you want to capture them alive?”

“That’s right.” Ling Mo really did think so.

But capturing these Zombies alive definitely wasn’t easy-in fact, it should be very difficult.

“But we have a way,” Ling Mo said with a smile.

“Capture Senior Zombies alive? I want to go, I want to go!” Senior Sister’s voice chimed in.

This was a new ability Black Silk developed after “growing a bit”… it even gave it a name: Consciousness Web.

It’s just like the human Internet. Ling Mo was the main and core presence, while Black Silk was a kind of splitter.

Compared to the previous connection dialogues, this Consciousness Web was much more refined.

Ling Mo could choose to shield any one of them, or “mute” any one. The former was rather crude, since it meant she couldn’t hear anything at all. The latter just prevented speaking, which was especially useful for the troublemaking Yu Shiran. Yu Shiran was a rather special user, connected directly with Black Silk. Unfortunately, with Ling Mo holding “administrator” privileges, that specialness didn’t help much.

Most importantly, this Consciousness Web also came with Black Silk’s “projection ability.”

In Ling Mo’s words, this thing was just like a brain video call, except the processing load was so huge that usually only one scene could be shared at a time.

And besides custom maps, these scenes were finally no longer just Black Silk’s mental sketches, but were shared visually by Ling Mo, then distributed by it to all Consciousness Web “users.”

This improvement was warmly welcomed… mainly by Ling Mo. As a dog-eared girl, it simply hadn’t evolved any artistic genes yet.

The biggest artistic change was that all key targets were marked with dog paw prints instead of “X”…

That’s totally useless! Who knows that a bigger dog paw means “danger”! No matter how big you make a dog paw print, it doesn’t look dangerous at all!

“Alright, Master, we’ve seen your side of things, so I’ll switch to ours now?” Black Silk said cheerfully.

They were now acting in three separate groups… Black Silk and Xu Shuhan, along with Ling Mo’s main body in one group, Ye Lian and the others in another.

Ye Lian’s group’s main task was to keep an eye on Ye Lian and temporarily hide with the others.

What Ling Mo needed to do now was make all the preparations possible before the meeting started.

As soon as Black Silk finished speaking, another scene appeared before his eyes…

Actually, for Ling Mo, this felt pretty weird… wasn’t the other just his main body! So why did it feel like his left and right eyes were seeing different scenes!

“This is a bug, I’ll improve it, feedback welcome,” Black Silk helpfully noted.

Ling Mo’s main body rolled his eyes and looked at Xu Shuhan, who was rubbing her hands and completely out of the loop: “Shall we go?”

Xu Shuhan shivered and instinctively grabbed his arm: “G-go…”

Alright then, just drag her along…

The squirrel was already waiting outside the door… taking advantage of Director Huang’s absence, she was going to take them somewhere important.

In Ling Mo’s words, she was ready to sell out Falcon without any psychological burden.

The squirrel’s change wasn’t just about being a “bookworm”… from the moment she nodded in agreement to his request, Ling Mo sensed that this girl was actually very clear-headed.

She hoped to use Ling Mo’s hand to change the status quo. As for the reason…

“Well… if things go on like this, we’ll die sooner or later.” The squirrel adjusted her glasses and said with a smile.

As expected… even the squirrel could see it…

“By the way, since you want to do this, why not ask Chief of Staff Su?” Xu Shuhan asked in a low voice, a bit puzzled.

Ling Mo thought for a moment and replied, “She has her own position after all.”

“You promised to cooperate with her… do you have other plans?” Xu Shuhan asked.

But Ling Mo didn’t answer that question.

It was precisely because he was silent that Xu Shuhan confirmed her guess.

She opened her mouth, as if wanting to say something, but in the end closed it again.

After all, she no longer thought entirely like a human… for her, Ling Mo’s decisions were always more trustworthy than a stranger’s.

“Will we definitely succeed?” That was her final question.

As she asked, she couldn’t help trembling again.

Her true nature revealed…

Ling Mo patted her shoulder and comforted her: “Don’t be afraid, death comes to all…”

“I hate you,” Xu Shuhan said through gritted teeth.