Chapter 443 – Replication

“Indeed, everything needs to be resolved once and for all…”

Ling Mo furrowed his brows as he paced back and forth along the edge of the ravine. “At that time, I only made their connection closer… but the root of the problem still wasn’t solved.”

Xia Na’s psychic realm was previously in a state of fragmentation. Although it has now fused, it has fallen into chaos.

Despite having strong psychic power, its true strength cannot be manifested due to the chaos.

The energy source itself is faulty, no matter how much you absorb it, it won’t work…

“So… is Ultraman also because of chaotic thoughts…” Ling Mo asked.

“No,” Black Na answered without hesitation, “That was a product of normal thinking.”

“Hahaha… I was just asking casually…”

Ling Mo glanced at Silly Na, only to find her eyes closed.

“The Silly Na here is just a fragment of her consciousness, but she’s coming over now…” Black Na explained.

As soon as she finished speaking, a black hole suddenly appeared out of thin air behind Silly Na.

“When I heard ‘coming over’, I thought it would be a pillar of light descending from the sky…” Ling Mo sighed in relief. “It’s good that it’s this familiar black hole.”

Although this was the psychic realm within Xia Na’s consciousness, where anything could appear, Ultraman had already made Ling Mo feel a bit disillusioned…

Red Glimmer flickered within the black hole, and a blurry figure suddenly appeared inside it.

“Is another Silly Na going to crawl out and merge with this one…” Ling Mo couldn’t help but think.

A hand suddenly appeared, gripping the edge of the black hole, and its owner struggled to crawl out.

A body made of blue plastic, a round head, and fingerless “hands” gripping the edge of the black hole suddenly sprouted several long claws. Once it climbed out, the claws retracted silently.

“Ding!”

The bell on its neck rang softly as it landed. This expressionless cat-shaped robot1, which looked like a model, suddenly opened the pocket in front of it and reached inside…

“What is this…”

Ling Mo was already stunned. When the Cat-shaped Robot pulled out a large ball of Red Glimmer from its pocket and stuffed it into Silly Na’s head, Ling Mo felt as if something had been stuffed into his own head as well.

“It actually came from a four-dimensional pocket! Where does Silly Na usually hide? What on earth are you all doing in the psychic realm? Won’t you break something playing like this?!”

Ling Mo stared blankly at the Cat-shaped Robot. This robot, standing about as tall as a person, looked like it needed some oiling, its movements were so stiff…

Seeing Ling Mo staring at it, the Cat-shaped Robot actually raised its arm and waved at him.

A few seconds later, it slowly turned around and crawled back into the black hole…

Once it had dived back into the darkness and the black hole suddenly disappeared, Ling Mo finally snapped out of his shock.

“Doesn’t it seem incredible?”

Silly Na opened her clear black-and-white eyes and looked at Ling Mo:

“People’s minds are full of unrealistic fantasies. Most people just think about them and then forget. What they don’t realize is that in their subconscious, a world created by their fantasies is slowly forming. However, for many, the subconscious is like a safe. They know it’s there but can never open it. Only when one’s psychic power reaches a certain strength do they have the ability to open the safe.”

“You make it sound so profound… but isn’t this just some childhood expectation of yours? Most people just want to have that Cat-shaped Robot, but you actually wanted to crawl into its four-dimensional pocket!”

Ling Mo couldn’t help but shout.

“When I was little, I practiced swordsmanship every day, always thinking about escaping to somewhere…”

Silly Na suddenly sighed and said, “Everyone has had thoughts like that in childhood, right? Whenever things didn’t go well, they wanted to hide somewhere no one could find them.”

Before Ling Mo could comfort her, she smiled and said, “But those are all things of the past. Actually, when I think about it, I’m quite grateful. If it weren’t for the hard training back then, I might have died at the beginning of the Cataclysm, and I wouldn’t have met you…”

Having such a sentimental side and reminiscing about the past is indeed something only Silly Na would do.

In the psychic realm, Ling Mo had come to understand Xia Na even more deeply.

Black Na, being a Zombie, acted purely on instinct, doing whatever made her happy.

Silly Na, on the other hand, retained human thoughts. Even if she killed someone who deserved it, she would still feel uncomfortable.

The three of them looked at each other in silence, each lost in their own thoughts.

Black Na and Silly Na looked expectantly at Ling Mo, while he pondered a solution.

The truth is, Ling Mo didn’t want to give up on either Black Na or Silly Na.

If they really had to devour each other and leave only one behind, Ling Mo wouldn’t have stopped them back then.

“I often heard people say, if only they could bury their girlfriend and grow a new one with a completely different personality… Sigh… I really wonder what kind of mindset those people have.”

Ling Mo sighed and habitually raised his hand to pinch his brow.

But when he did, he felt his “head” deform. Startled, he silently lowered his hand.

Black Na and Silly Na exclaimed in unison, “Who would say such a thing!”

Ling Mo stared at them for a moment, then suddenly his pupils contracted. “You usually share one body, which causes conflicts… but if…”

An idea that had come to him before was slowly taking shape and maturing in Ling Mo’s mind.

“Come to think of it, this method is very similar to that superhuman who created illusions, but there’s a significant difference…”

The psychic phantom created by that Long-haired Youth had some similarities to Ling Mo’s idea.

But that phantom lacked consciousness, couldn’t last long, and had no offensive capabilities.

Ling Mo’s idea, however, was completely different…

“Ah… that method…”

Black Na and Silly Na both suddenly had an expression of realization and said.

“Isn’t this just like having twins! At most, they just have different personalities!”

Ling Mo glanced at them and thought, “It’s actually much more impressive than having twins… Originally, Xia Na’s main body is a Zombie, which gives her strong close combat abilities. On the other hand, she also possesses strong mental abilities. If they could coexist, their combat power would likely double.”

Retaining the Zombie instincts would allow Xia Na to fully utilize her close combat abilities as a Zombie.

However, in terms of psychic power, maintaining human emotions is necessary to use it to its full potential.

“Moreover, this would be a great cover for her identity…”

Ordinary Survivors wouldn’t notice anything, and even if mental ability superhumans detected her, they would undoubtedly assume she was one of them…

This could be a win-win situation!

However, achieving this wouldn’t be easy…

Ling Mo looked through the deep ravine into Xia Na’s psychic realm and thought, “How much effort would it take to duplicate all of this…”

…

“It looks like he won’t be waking up tonight.”

Lucy, clutching her collar, sat at the table, looking at Ling Mo lying on the sofa.

Glancing at Ye Lian and the others, she seemed a bit uneasy. Without Ling Mo, being alone with them always made Lucy feel like a lamb among wolves…

“Get a grip, Lulu. They’re just girls. What are you so afraid of?”

Seeing Lucy clutching her head and shaking it vigorously, Yu Shiran gave her a curious look before turning her gaze back to Ling Mo.

The Zombie Loli’s eyes slowly moved downward, finally stopping at a special area. She swallowed hard, “While he’s unconscious, at least I can freely look at my treat…”

Ye Lian, meanwhile, looked blankly at Xia Na beside her and suddenly reached out to push her. “You… what’s wrong with you?”

Xia Na slowly opened her eyes. Though it was just for a moment, Ye Lian still saw her eyes.

One pupil was red, the other white, and they were constantly shifting like a Kaleidoscope…

“Ah…” Ye Lian was about to scream but quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

Her eyes widened, and in her usually blank gaze, there was now a hint of surprise. “It seems… it seems like I saw Ling-Ge in Nana’s eyes.”

Footnote:

1. Cat-shaped Robot(猫型机器人): “猫型机器人” (jīqì māo) translates to “Cat-shaped Robot” in English. Specifically, it refers to Doraemon, a popular Japanese manga and anime character known as a blue robotic cat from the future who helps his friend Nobita with various futuristic gadgets from his 4D pocket.