Chapter 246 – The Materialization of Tentacles

“Enjoy your meal.”

After delivering four servings of food to Ling Mo and his group, Wang Heng stepped out and closed the door behind him, then turned and headed towards the hall.

A peculiar smile played on his lips as he muttered to himself, “First time seeing someone playing with that kind of thing… Superhumans sure are more relaxed than regular survivors…”

As he walked through the corridor into the hall, a shadow suddenly appeared at the entrance of the hallway.

Yang Ying glanced around nervously. Seeing that no one had noticed her, she hurriedly ran towards the small storage room.

Her steps slowed as she approached the door. She took a couple of deep breaths to calm her nerves.

“What am I afraid of? He’s a special abilities user, but he’s also a man… As long as he’s a man, I can handle him.”

Yang Ying tidied her hair, patted her cheeks with her hands, adjusted her clothes, and then walked to the door of the small storage room.

Before knocking, she hesitated for a moment and unbuttoned one button, revealing a deep cleavage.

Just as her knuckles were about to touch the door, the doorknob suddenly turned, and the door opened a crack.

The suddenness of it startled Yang Ying, turning her recently reddened cheeks pale again.

“It’s you.”

Naturally, it was Ling Mo who opened the door. With such a strong perfume scent wafting through the crack, how could he not notice?

“Um… Can I come in?” Yang Ying asked, a bit flustered.

Ling Mo stared at her for a couple of seconds, frowned, then turned his head and said to Ye Lian and the three girls, “Hey, let’s stop playing for now.”

Ye Lian looked up at Ling Mo with a blank expression, then reluctantly pulled a white object off Li Yalin’s butt.

Xia Na also quickly removed the other two from her hands and stuffed them into the black plastic bag.

“Don’t move.” Li Yalin suddenly sat up, reached out, and pulled something off Ling Mo’s back.

“Swish!”

Watching the sanitary pad being pulled off, Ling Mo felt a sudden throbbing pain in his temples. “When did you stick that on me again… And besides, these are important supplies!”

“Wasn’t it you, Ling-Ge, who opened the packaging first? Have some self-respect…”

“I was just curious because I’d never seen one in person before…”

Yang Ying stood there, dumbfounded, staring at Ling Mo. She was quite confident in her looks and figure, but the young man in front of her seemed completely indifferent to her.

However, on second thought, the three girls he was with were all quite attractive…

It was precisely because of this that she had unbuttoned her shirt to give herself an edge! Yang Ying thought, feeling extremely frustrated.

“Excuse me, may I come in?” She asked again, trying to stay patient.

She was treating Ling Mo much more courteously than she had treated Sun Zeya.

“Alright, come in.” Ling Mo stepped aside to let Yang Ying enter.

She could have walked in close to Ling Mo, but as soon as she stepped through the door, she deliberately turned to face him directly.

In such a narrow space, her breasts immediately pressed against Ling Mo’s chest.

Ling Mo looked down to find the deep cleavage right in front of his eyes.

“Whoa…” Ling Mo quickly looked up at Yang Ying, only to find her gazing at him with eyes full of flirtation.

For a moment, Ling Mo felt a bit flustered. Even though he knew she was just acting, this posture, along with her expression…

But he quickly thought of that bald guy, and a sense of alertness washed over him.

“Have a seat. Don’t you feel cramped standing like that?” Ling Mo said, his words carrying a double meaning.

Yang Ying showed a trace of embarrassment, quickly squeezed past him, nodded to Ye Lian and the three girls, and found a place to sit down.

“What do you want?” Ling Mo asked.

“Let me introduce myself first. My name is Yang Ying. You might have seen me before. I was the beauty pageant champion of S Province a few years ago, and I’ve acted in a few TV dramas…”

Yang Ying gave a modest smile, combed her hair with her fingers, and said.

This was her most prized weapon. Even though Ye Lian and the three girls were more beautiful and elegant than her, she had great confidence in her ability to act coquettishly.

“Uh… sorry, I don’t really watch TV dramas,” Ling Mo said.

“What about commercials? I did an ad for a tonic supplement before…”

“Yang Ying, what exactly do you want?” Ling Mo interrupted her impatiently.

“I heard you’re a superhuman?” Yang Ying looked at Ling Mo expectantly. “You heard the argument I had with that woman earlier, right? Don’t you think their approach is completely wrong?”

Ling Mo glanced at her with some surprise. “What do you mean?”

“They’re the military. They should have started rescuing survivors a long time ago, but they only took action now. That’s already inexcusable. After finding survivors, they irresponsibly drag us along, taking us to even more dangerous places without considering our physical exhaustion or mental state… Am I wrong in saying this? But you saw it too, that woman is just too arrogant!”

Yang Ying said angrily, “I’m just an ordinary woman; I don’t have the ability to protect myself.”

At this point, she gave Ling Mo a pitiful look, her eyes seeming to redden slightly.

“So Sun Zeya looks down on me and doesn’t take anything I say seriously. But you’re different. If you speak up, they should assign some people to take us back to the camp to recuperate.”

This woman spoke quite logically, but to Ling Mo, it all sounded like one thing: boring.

“I think you might be mistaken. I haven’t joined them. So, I can’t help you with this,” Ling Mo said.

Yang Ying stared at Ling Mo for a couple of seconds, clearly not believing what he said. “This could benefit you too. You haven’t seen the base they talked about, nor received any benefits. Are you really willing to help them carry out tasks? They might be taking us along to use us as cannon fodder! For someone as powerful as you, they’ll definitely ask you to join the fight.”

“This really isn’t something I can get involved in,” Ling Mo said, increasingly impatient.

These trivial matters had nothing to do with him. If Yang Ying hadn’t come in flaunting her cleavage, Ling Mo wouldn’t have even let her in.

Now that he’d seen the cleavage and listened to her nonsense, Ling Mo pulled the door open to show her out. “Go back and rest.”

Yang Ying’s face turned pale, and a flicker of anger rose in her heart.

Ling Mo’s gaze seemed to have a penetrating quality, constantly sweeping over Yang Ying’s chest, making her feel as if his eyes had stripped her naked.

But what she didn’t expect was how decisively he rejected her!

Wasn’t this just a waste of being ogled?

After giving Ling Mo a furious glare, she got up and ran out of the room.

As soon as the door closed, Ling Mo revealed a satisfied smile. “My Psychic Tentacle seems to be becoming more tangible. Will it eventually lead to the materialization of my Psychic Power?”

Since Yang Ying came in flaunting herself, Ling Mo was more than happy to play along. Although he didn’t touch her physically, he used his Psychic Tentacle to examine her entire body.

No weapons, nothing unusual on her, though not wearing any underwear could be considered a discovery…

Ye Lian asked curiously, “What… what do you mean by tangible?”

“Like this…” An invisible Psychic Tentacle reached out to Ye Lian and slipped down her collar.

“Ah!… It… it tickles…”

Ye Lian immediately covered her collar, her body shrinking slightly, looking at Ling Mo in surprise.

“Ahem, it does consume a lot of Psychic Power though…”

Ling Mo wanted to explore further, but his head started to feel dizzy, so he had to give up.

Xia Na pulled Ling Mo and asked, “What did that stinky human want?”

“Just afraid of dying, that’s all. Who cares about them? We’ve basically figured things out. We’ll leave tomorrow. That Tom and Sun Zeya aren’t easy to deal with. That woman and the Bald Man are just clowns.”

Ling Mo comfortably lay down on Li Yalin’s lap and said, “Judging by their progress in A City, who knows how long it will take them to establish a Quarantine Zone in X City.”

“Quarantine Zone…”

Xia Na suddenly fell silent for a moment, then asked seriously, “Ling-Ge, will we be isolated outside human society? I remember humans are social creatures… Ling-Ge, will you feel lonely?”

“Uh… looks like Nana is getting more conscious…”

Ling Mo glanced at Xia Na, then grabbed Ye Lian’s hand to squeeze it. Smiling, he said, “Lonely? Of course. So, you two need to comfort my lonely, empty, and cold… uh, soul!”

“Ling-Ge, I remember what you mean by that… But don’t change the subject…”

As he pulled Ye Lian and Xia Na into his arms, a complex expression flashed in Ling Mo’s eyes.

Xia Na’s question, along with the thoughts that had just crossed Ling Mo’s mind, gave him a deep headache.

But no matter which issue it was, none seemed to be urgent.

“I think I’m treating them as zombies… but deep down, I hope they can turn back into humans, even though that’s almost impossible… That’s a far-off concern for now. Xia Na and Ye Lian’s evolution is what’s most important.”

Ling Mo rubbed Xia Na’s hair and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, “That membrane… damn, what is that membrane anyway! Can’t touch it, can’t poke it, can’t even see it!”

He could locate the membrane on Xia Na’s body, but the one in her mind was beyond even probing.

Ling Mo had some ideas, but he would need the right opportunity to try them out.

At this moment, he wanted to shift his perspective to Black Silk. The Mutation Giant Dog had been controlled to hide in a corner, and it was still there.

“Huh?”

Ling Mo immediately frowned.

Unable to switch? This was the first time such a situation had occurred… Could it be that his Puppet Control Ability had malfunctioned?

Ling Mo stood up abruptly.