Chapter 474 – Why Are You So Foolish

At this moment, Ling Mo suddenly noticed something at Shorty’s lower back.

When Shorty fell, his clothes lifted slightly, revealing something very familiar to Ling Mo.

With a flick of his tentacle, Ling Mo snagged the item into his hand.

“Heh… Isn’t this a Falcon Camp communicator?”

Ling Mo had one of these in his backpack and had used it many times before.

Falcon Camp and the Air Force Corps were allied partners, so it wasn’t unusual for a Falcon-specific communicator to appear within the Air Force Corps.

Just like the weapons the Air Force Corps possessed, without Falcon Camp’s support, they wouldn’t be so well-equipped.

Although this communicator was stained with blood, the green communication indicator light was still blinking continuously.

“So, when you said killing you would be pointless… you meant this, right?”

Ling Mo weighed the communicator in his hand, a cold smile appearing on his face.

It seemed that Shorty (Yin Jie) had been prepared for this and had accepted his fate long before.

“No… it’s not necessarily about his own acceptance of death, but rather about this Shorty himself, right? Just a disposable pawn meant to be sacrificed…”

Ling Mo shook his head. Compared to these people, he still wasn’t ruthless enough.

They calculated and schemed, treating both their comrades’ and enemies’ lives as worthless.

In their eyes, human life was indeed worthless…

That helicopter, in their eyes, was probably worth a hundred of Ling Mo’s lives.

“Zzz…”

Suddenly, a faint sound came from the communicator: “This is Li Hao.”

Ling Mo thought for a moment and then put the communicator to his ear: “This is Ling Mo.”

This seemed to catch the person identifying himself as Li Hao off guard. After a long silence, he chuckled: “Impressive… So, it seems Yin Jie and the others have all fallen by your hand? Truly admirable.”

“You must have heard the commotion just now; why pretend?” Ling Mo retorted with a cold smile.

“Heh heh heh…” Li Hao chuckled indifferently, and then his tone turned cold and sinister. “You know we’ve completely grasped all your intel, yet you’re still so arrogant?”

Ling Mo walked to the side with the communicator and sat down on the edge of a flowerbed. “If I’m not arrogant, will you stop bothering me?”

Li Hao remained silent.

“Let’s not pretend there’s any room for negotiation here. Even if there was, playing the submissive dog isn’t my style. By the way, add that to your little notebook,” Ling Mo mocked. “You must have a blacklist or something, right?”

A few seconds later, Li Hao’s voice came back, calm and chilling. “We do. But the list you’ve made it onto…” He let out a sinister laugh and continued, “is the kill list. I remember the screams from earlier, and so does the Air Force Corps. You better prepare yourself; in this world, no one will clean up your corpse when you die.”

“Same to you. We’ll see who comes out on top.”

Ling Mo suddenly tossed the communicator into the air, and several psychic tentacles immediately wrapped around it.

“Crack!”

A piercing shattering sound and a sudden surge of electricity echoed simultaneously, forcing Li Hao to hastily pull the communicator away from his ear.

He stared at the communicator for a moment, then let out a cold laugh and scratched his white hair. “Interesting… no matter how strong, he’s still just one person. How can he not understand? But Yin Jie and the others were truly disappointing. If I report this, the regimental commander might go mad. Never mind the fire; the Falcon must be eagerly waiting to see us fail. They’ve wanted to swallow us up for a long time after we’ve suppressed them for so long…”

“Clap! Clap! Clap!”

Li Hao suddenly put down the communicator and clapped his hands.

The door opened, and a man dressed in black, wearing a duckbill cap, walked in and lazily saluted. “Captain, you called?”

“I’ll give you the intel in a moment. I won’t report the results of this battle for now. Pick three… no, pick five of our strongest men,” Li Hao ordered.

The man in the duckbill cap looked surprised. “What’s going on? What was the outcome of this battle?”

“This time…” Li Hao leaned forward, resting his chin on his interlaced fingers on the table, his expression becoming serious. “We’ve encountered a tough opponent.”

“No way! Who dares mess with the Air Force Corps?”

The man in the duckbill cap started to protest, but Li Hao cut him off with a wave of his hand. “Get to it. I want this handled before word spreads.”

“Got it!” The man exaggeratedly made an “OK” gesture but paused at the door, turning back. “Captain, can we discuss something? Could you, uh, stop summoning me the same way you summon the girls who serve guests?”

“Huh?” Li Hao was taken aback. “What are you talking about?”

The man in the duckbill cap smiled awkwardly, raised his hand, and clapped: “Clap!”

“Whoosh!”

A teacup immediately flew towards him, but with quick reflexes, he dodged and escaped out the door before it could hit him.

Meanwhile, the mutation panda Xiao Bai was still shaking its head vigorously. Ling Mo walked over, parted the branches, and looked at the panda’s big head with amusement.

Xiao Bai had tried to pull its head out, but its chubby face was stuck between the tree trunks, causing its eyes to squint even more. Its front paws clung to the tree trunk, scratching it wildly, but this position made it difficult to exert force.

“MeGu… MeGu…”

Seeing Ling Mo approach, Xiao Bai immediately began whining for help.

“Why are you so foolish!”

Ling Mo said each word slowly and deliberately, flicking Xiao Bai’s forehead with each syllable.

When Ling Mo raised his hand again, Xiao Bai closed its eyes and whimpered.

“You sure learn quickly when it comes to taking a beating…”

Ling Mo couldn’t help but laugh. He covered Xiao Bai’s head with his hand and extended two psychic tentacles.

“Crack, crack, crack…”

The ground started to loosen slightly, and the two trees swayed before slowly leaning apart.

Once the gap widened enough, Xiao Bai’s head finally popped free.

Ling Mo, looking a bit pale, raised his head to see the giant panda vigorously shaking its head, appearing very excited. “When are you going to lose some weight?”

Suddenly, Xiao Bai buried its head and nuzzled towards Ling Mo, as if sniffing him, and slowly rubbed its big head against him.

“Not bad, you’ve learned how to get affectionate so quickly…”

Just as Ling Mo was about to reach out and pet it, the air suddenly became tense.

Xiao Bai opened its big mouth, attempting to swallow Ling Mo’s hand…

However, it couldn’t bite down, as Ling Mo’s psychic tentacles had already grabbed its mouth.

“Hey… so you haven’t learned your lesson, huh…”

Ling Mo frowned, about to get angry, when he suddenly noticed that the mutation beast’s eyes seemed different from usual.

Previously, Xiao Bai looked at him as if he were just a piece of wood.

There was no apparent hostility, but also no sense of closeness.

But now, the mutation panda was staring at him with a very unique expression in its eyes.

With its pink tongue sticking out, Xiao Bai was still trying to lick Ling Mo’s hand, despite not being able to close its mouth.

“Uh… what’s this about?”

Ling Mo was taken aback, then looked down at his hand in confusion.

“Oh…”

It turned out that there were a few abrasions on the back of Ling Mo’s hand from friction.

Instinctively, he had covered Xiao Bai’s head to prevent it from getting hurt during the rescue.

This was a subconscious action, but Ling Mo had forgotten that his own hand wasn’t as tough as Xiao Bai’s skin.

The wounds weren’t bleeding, so Xiao Bai couldn’t have been drawn by the scent of blood.

“Right… mutation beasts tend to lick their wounds to speed up healing, don’t they?” Ling Mo mused, looking at Xiao Bai with some gratification. He patted its head and let his psychic tentacles dissipate. “Smart! You’ve learned to repay kindness… Hey! Stay back, no licking! I’m human; are you trying to infect me? Stay away, keep your distance!”

“Thud!”

Caught by its paws, Ling Mo fell into the grass. He slowly raised his head and roared, “I’ve decided that today’s breakfast will be you! I’ve never had the high-class dish of roasted National Treasure before!”

“MeGu~”

“Stupid panda, don’t run!”