Chapter 398 – Beauty and Danger Coexist

The temperature inside the room plummeted once again, as if they were standing in the heart of an ice cellar.

Ye Lian’s eyes, wide open, were undergoing a bizarre transformation.

Blood vessels gradually converged toward the center, but constantly spread out again from the middle.

The veins on her body became more distinct, while her skin turned even paler, resembling the fine cracks that appear on delicate porcelain.

She looked like a fragile and exquisitely made, red-eyed doll, seemingly brittle to the touch.

Yet, she also resembled an exceedingly dangerous creature, with her ten fingers spread wide, ready to tear any living being to shreds in an instant.

These two starkly contrasting impressions combined to define Ye Lian at this moment.

The intensity of her mental fluctuations caused the psychic link between Ling Mo and her to waver slightly.

Soon, Ling Mo felt that although the mental connection was not severed, it was being blocked!

He could sense the link was still there, but he was unable to locate it amidst the storm of mental fluctuations!

Ye Lian’s body was evolving under the stimulus of the virus, and her mental world was as tumultuous as a stormy sea.

Countless memories were being churned up from the depths of her consciousness, making Ling Mo’s mental link seem like a lone boat, powerless against the onslaught.

Suddenly, Ye Lian leaped upwards, her fingers clawing into the ceiling, and hung directly above Ling Mo’s head.

Before Ling Mo could react, she pounced downward.

Ling Mo was forced to lean back instantly, feeling as though a weight of thousands of pounds had been pressed onto his shoulders, immobilizing him.

“Hiss…”

From Ye Lian’s gaze, Ling Mo once again felt the powerlessness of facing a zombie attack without any ability to resist.

Yet, even in such peril, the scene when he had first found Ye Lian flashed before his eyes.

Back then, his Zombie Puppet had been ambushed by Ye Lian, and now it was his own turn…

Her eerie blood-red eyes stared fixedly at him, her delicate face devoid of any expression.

“Eat…”

A garbled growl emanated from Ye Lian’s mouth.

“Girl…”

At this moment, Ling Mo was faced with three choices: he could have Li Ya Lin and Xia Na subdue Ye Lian, or he could use mental Tentacles to launch a mental attack on Ye Lian, stopping her actions.

But almost without thinking, he chose the third option: to trust Ye Lian.

After locking eyes with Ye Lian for two seconds, she suddenly opened her mouth wide, revealing her snow-white teeth, and moved swiftly towards Ling Mo’s neck.

The instant her teeth touched Ling Mo’s skin, his mind was actually blank…

In that restless society, many factors influenced most people’s lives beyond their control.

To Ling Mo, Ye Lian was once just an object of secret admiration.

A confession might have led to a precious relationship or might have destroyed the peaceful harmony that existed.

And Ling Mo, he didn’t even dare to gamble on it.

Only when he lost her did Ling Mo think to make every effort to win her back.

No matter what Ye Lian had become, what kind of creature she was, to him, nothing had changed.

Even now, as she attacked him, there was not the slightest hint of regret in Ling Mo’s heart.

On the contrary, his heart was calm, and he even reached out to gently stroke Ye Lian’s soft and smooth long hair.

“I remember when I first found this girl, she was all grimy…”

Seconds later, the excruciating pain he anticipated didn’t appear.

Instead, Ling Mo felt a touch of moisture and softness pressed lightly against his neck.

As Ye Lian’s teeth were about to sink in, she slowly closed them, her lips gently brushing against Ling Mo’s neck.

The hands clutching at Ling Mo’s shoulders, nearly crushing his collarbones, gradually loosened, trailing down his chest and finally gripping his hands.

Under the complete breakdown of their psychic link, Ye Lian, almost fully controlled by instinct, did not attack him…

After a moment of stunned silence, Ling Mo’s face broke into an ecstatic grin!

He could feel that, after this ordeal, Ye Lian’s mental fluctuations were slowly returning to calm.

Could this mean that she had overcome the final hurdle…

It took a full two hours for Ye Lian to gradually come down from that frenzied state.

Just like the Yellow-haired eccentric professor had said, this method of enhancement was hard for zombies to accept, but it was actually very effective.

When Ye Lian lifted her head from Ling Mo’s embrace, her eyes had transformed, becoming identical to those of a leader level zombie.

Her pupils shone like radiant gems, and the sclera was as white as porcelain, the previously visible veins under her skin now looked normal, giving her an appearance of delicate refinement.

“Ling Mo… what are you doing…”

Ye Lian said, a shade of embarrassment crossing her face as she tried to push herself up from the couch.

“Crack…”

A faint noise suddenly came from beneath them, and Ling Mo instantly sensed trouble.

“Boom!”

As the couch split apart, Ling Mo and Ye Lian fell through together.

Debris scattered everywhere, but Xia Na and Li Ya Lin had leapt away the instant the sofa gave in, effortlessly brushing off the splinters that posed no harm to them.

“Damn! What strength…”

Ling Mo struggled out of the broken couch and then turned to pull Ye Lian out as well.

Clearly, Ye Lian, having just completed her enhancement, could not yet control her strength.

“Crunch!”

Ye Lian stepped onto the floor, and another tile cracked under her foot…

“Wow.”

Ye Lian stared at the crack beneath her with amazement.

“Wow!” Li Ya Lin also cried out, equally a leader level zombie known for her agility, yet unable to wield such terrifying power in every gesture.

Xia Na pondered for a few seconds, propping her chin, then remarked, “If Ye Lian casually slapped Ling Mo, would we witness a flying human head like a frisbee?”

“Why would you think something so horrifying…”

After Ling Mo shouted, he turned to look at Ye Lian, asking expectantly, “So… girl, what do you… remember?”

“Hmm…”

Ye Lian tilted her head, staring at Ling Mo for a moment, her expression as blank as before.

She suddenly stretched out her finger and wiggled it in front of herself, saying, “Hehe… guess what.”

“I wouldn’t even know where to start guessing…”

Although her expression hadn’t changed much from before, this kind of tenderness mixed with a hint of slyness in her tone was indeed identical to the Ye Lian that Ling Mo remembered.

The psychic connection had returned to normal, but the complete loss of control from before made it impossible for him to use his memory-reading method to find out to what extent Ye Lian’s memories had progressed.

“Ah, the room is so dirty. I feel so filthy too.”

Ye Lian glanced down at her clothes and fanned her collar lightly, the pale white of her skin flickering in and out of Ling Mo’s view.

“There are clothes in the bag…”

Ling Mo’s gaze remained fixed on Ye Lian’s face, the deep cleavage not capturing his attention as much.

However, when Ye Lian changed her clothes, Ling Mo felt a wave of faint sadness.

This girl was no longer carelessly undressing in front of him…

She walked to a partition, stood behind the semi-transparent glass door, and then began to change.

Her silhouette, barely visible and graceful, was like a beautiful painting etched onto the door.

Her long hair draped over her shoulders, and when she looked up, her slender, delicate neck and the high swell of her soft chest…

“Ling Mo, your eyes are about to pop out…” Li Ya Lin leaned on Ling Mo’s shoulder and said with a laugh.

Xia Na smiled wickedly, bent over to peer in front of Ling Mo, looking towards his little buddy…

“Hey, do I look like that kind of person?”

Ling Mo quickly covered his crotch and said.

When Ye Lian came out, not only Ling Mo but also Li Ya Lin and Xia Na were stunned.

Apart from her eyes, there wasn’t much change in her appearance, but after tidying her hair and changing into clean clothes, the sight of Ye Lian walking out from behind the door was captivating.

“Aren’t you going to clean up the trash? Ling Ge, you’re still the same as before…”

Ye Lian casually picked up the two broken pieces of the sofa and threw them out the door.

“Bang bang!”

Seeing how effortlessly Ye Lian handled the task, Ling Mo had a more accurate guess about her current strength.

Her strength was probably more than doubled from before, and this was just the beginning.

After the Virus Nest formed, her body would undergo a long and continuous transformation internally.

The ability to easily unleash ferocious strength, as well as higher… but currently unknown levels of intelligence…