Chapter 416 – A Fool Always Trips in the Same Place Twice

“He appeared so directly!” Ling Mo exclaimed at the sight of the figure.

However, his expression quickly turned into a sneer. “So, it’s another spiritual body. Looks like you haven’t learned your lesson…”

Ling Mo’s tentacles eagerly reached out for the mental energy delivered to his doorstep.

But this time, he grasped at empty air.

The long-haired youth’s spiritual body vanished like a soap bubble the moment Ling Mo touched it.

At the same time, a human head slowly emerged from a shadow farther away from Ling Mo. It gradually rose higher…

First came the hair, then the face, and the torso…

“Do I really need to remind you that this level of attack won’t make me waver?” Ling Mo said expressionlessly.

His tentacles quietly extended again. Though he had missed earlier, trying again cost nothing…

The earlier miss had given Ling Mo an idea…

“Do you think I’ll give you another chance?” the newly appeared long-haired youth’s phantom said with a cold smile. “Hehe, a friendly reminder: your companions are in a very bad situation. Do you know what they’ll do when trapped in an illusion? They’ll turn on each other!”

As the long-haired youth’s phantom spoke, he watched Ling Mo’s reaction. However, he was somewhat disappointed.

The phantom raised his voice, making it sound mysterious: “But that’s not the worst part…”

“Let me guess… Your companion is waiting for the right moment? Planning to take them down one by one as they fight each other, capturing them all?” Ling Mo interrupted.

The long-haired youth was momentarily stunned, feeling puzzled.

But he kept an eye on Ling Mo, certain that Ling Mo hadn’t encountered any of his companions yet.

And by now, the armored man should have nearly finished everything…

Despite his doubts, the long-haired youth continued with his prepared lines: “Exactly. While you’re wandering around here, your companions are being taken down one by one by my friend…”

The long-haired youth stretched out his hand and made a slicing gesture across his throat: “Now, in this building, aside from you two still struggling, everyone else has already…”

“Still trying to deceive me!”

Several psychic tentacles shot out simultaneously, wrapping tightly around the long-haired youth.

Before he could react, a powerful suction force came from the tentacles.

The long-haired youth’s expression remained relatively calm: “What are you trying to do? Aren’t you worried about your companions?”

“Your trickery isn’t very convincing,” Ling Mo snorted.

This kind of trick might work on others, but for Ling Mo, who was the main body, he was very clear about Xia Na and the others’ safety.

On the contrary, the long-haired youth’s attempt to deceive him just confirmed that his companions were still in action and that they hadn’t yet exchanged the latest information.

“Heh, you think you can still attack me? Now I’ll just… Ah! You… No, what are you doing?!”

The long-haired youth’s phantom felt a huge suction force from the tentacles just as he was about to disappear.

Even his main body felt like something was being forcibly pulled out of his brain through his ears.

“A fool always trips in the same place twice,” Ling Mo replied with a sinister smile.

“Ahhh!”

The long-haired youth immediately screamed in terror, staring at Ling Mo through the phantom, utterly horrified: “What kind of superpower is this? What are you doing?!”

The sensation of his brain being sucked out nearly drove the long-haired youth to the brink of collapse!

His main body had already collapsed to the ground, clutching his head, unable to escape the powerful suction coming from Ling Mo’s direction.

“Would you believe me if I said it’s the Great Star Absorption Technique?” Ling Mo said calmly. In reality, he was also ecstatic!

He had initially just wanted to test it, but he didn’t expect it to actually work.

The tentacles were absorbing the opponent’s mental energy. Theoretically, as long as the transmission line wasn’t severed, the tentacles should be able to directly absorb the source.

The opponent wanted to sever the psychic link with the phantom, but was forcibly held by Ling Mo’s suction force.

Under this ebb and flow, the long-haired youth’s psychic power soon began to flow into Ling Mo’s psychic light cluster, as if a straw had been inserted into it.

However, after taking control, Ling Mo realized that the tentacles’ absorption had certain drawbacks.

For instance, now that a large amount of psychic power was being transmitted through the tentacles, Ling Mo felt a throbbing pain in his temples…

It was as if he had a large water source but the pipe used to draw the water was undersized…

“Ah!!”

With a scream, the long-haired youth’s phantom shattered.

“An idiot who uses psychic power as a physical attack almost killed me…”

After being beaten twice, the long-haired youth’s main body was now lying on the ground, his face pale with resentment: “What exactly is his superpower?!”

At the same time, Ling Mo clutched his head in discomfort.

“…Ling-Ge, what’s wrong?”

Even though Ling Mo in Ye Lian’s eyes might have looked like an ugly monster, she still held his hand tightly without hesitation, her eyes showing a trace of concern as she hesitantly asked.

“It’s nothing, just… overstuffed…” Ling Mo thought for a moment and found a suitable analogy.

“It seems I can’t be too greedy. I originally thought I could drain him all at once.”

Ling Mo shook his head and cursed in frustration, then turned his gaze to the shadow, frowning: “I’m not good at probing, and this superhuman can shield himself… The chances of finding him through search are low. In that case, I won’t waste my psychic power.”

He retracted the extended psychic tentacles and continued analyzing: “This person’s superpower is similar to my psychic interference, but much stronger. Whether it’s the duration, the number of people it can simultaneously affect, or the range, it far exceeds my psychic interference.”

This is the difference between being versatile and specializing.

The long-haired youth’s ability mainly involved creating illusions.

Ling Mo, on the other hand, had many ways to use his psychic power, each of which could come in handy, but not all were strong.

Among them, what he excelled at were Puppet Control and tentacles.

Based on Puppet Control, Ling Mo had developed vision switching.

Based on tentacles, he had evolved materialization, and…

“Devour.”

The tentacles’ evolved absorption ability was named “Devour” by Ling Mo.

The long-haired youth’s earlier disdain had not shaken Ling Mo’s confidence in his chosen path of evolution.

Indeed, his psychic power abilities might seem scattered on the surface, but precisely because of this, the long-haired youth had fallen into his hands twice.

“In a battle between superhumans, who has the leisure to slowly get familiar with each other’s abilities? So what if my abilities are varied? As long as they can kill, that’s all that matters. Speaking of which, after absorbing his power twice, how much psychic power does he have left?”

Ling Mo wondered curiously. At this moment, within his psychic light cluster, a small cluster of white energy was being converted, replenishing his consumption.

He thought about the direction he sensed while absorbing and turned his gaze to an iron door.

“Over there…”

Ling Mo walked over, grabbed the doorknob, but just as he opened a crack, a hand covered in blood and emitting a pungent stench suddenly reached out, nearly grabbing him.

“Pathetic.”

A psychic tentacle moved, and the arm went limp. Ling Mo then kicked the door open.

“First, use two fake ones to scare me, then place a real one here to see if I’ll foolishly get killed by a zombie?”

Ling Mo sneered.

Actually, this method was quite insidious. After seeing two fakes, then suddenly being startled, even if one could react in time, they might still get hurt by the zombie.

For an average survivor, this was almost a death sentence.

However, when Ling Mo turned around, he found Ye Lian still standing where she was.

Ye Lian gave him a blank look, then walked over, stepping over the corpse and entering the mall.

“Be careful, there are more zombies inside.”

After Ling Mo said this, he followed her in, but as he stepped through the door, he intentionally or unintentionally looked back, smiling slightly at a specific spot in the air…

“The long-haired youth should be hiding here, right?”

Ling Mo asked Ye Lian as he slowly walked along the wall.