Chapter 579 – Can We Still Have Fun?

“Whoosh!”

At midnight, Ling Mo suddenly sat up in bed, drenched in sweat.

In the moonlight, his face looked terrible.

“What’s wrong?” Three heads emerged from the covers, all staring at him in confusion.

“Nothing…” Ling Mo shook his head, then leaned back, breathing heavily.

Xia Na propped her chin on her hand and looked at him. “No, your psychic power is very chaotic.”

Xia Na had a pure spiritual body inside her, making her highly sensitive to psychic fluctuations.

“Yeah… just a nightmare.” Ling Mo said with a bitter smile.

Xia Na stared at him for a few seconds, then sighed and shook her head, believing him. “Humans are such a hassle…”

“What is a nightmare?” Li Yalin started asking questions.

After glancing at Ling Mo, Ye Lian suddenly raised her head and lightly touched Ling Mo’s cheek with her lips, stammering, “Don’t… don’t be scared…”

“Got it.” Ling Mo felt a warmth in his heart and rubbed Ye Lian’s head.

A nightmare?

Only he knew, it was definitely not just a nightmare.

In reality, ever since he was captured by the Spider Queen, he had been experiencing this.

During the day he could control it, but at night when his mind relaxed, those strange feelings became extraordinarily clear.

Blood flow speeds up, psychic fluctuations become intense, and hallucinations frequently appear in his mind…

The Spider Queen, that variation zombie, must have done something to him while he was unconscious…

But he had thoroughly checked his psychic light cluster multiple times and found nothing, no omissions. Yet still no discoveries.

This could only mean that whatever she did was hidden somewhere in his body.

But how would he find it? Dissect himself?

“It feels like having a ticking time bomb strapped to me…” Ling Mo looked at his palm, feeling frustrated.

He didn’t blame anyone else for this; if blame was to be placed, it was on his own carelessness.

He was only thinking about Niepan, never expecting the Spider Queen to be targeting him as well.

For now, there seemed to be no other solution. To find the anomaly in his body, he would probably have to wait until his body fully transformed into a zombie.

Zombies are extraordinarily sensitive to their own bodies, far more so than humans.

“At least before she reproduces, I still have time. It won’t be fatal for now, so thinking that way reassures me…” Ling Mo tried to comfort himself with these thoughts but suddenly became frustrated, “Reassures me my foot!”

Being calculated by a zombie like this, Ling Mo was very annoyed!

However, it’s fortunate that his opponent wasn’t just any ordinary zombie that would be impossible to find if it hid among others. As long as she harbored ill intentions towards him, he would eventually find her.

But before finding her, he had to figure out a way to defuse this bomb.

To find the bomb, he needed to transform his body, and to transform his body…

Ling Mo turned his gaze to the female zombies lying beside him, then reached out and supported his waist…

“Ling-Ge’s expression… looks so weird…”

Ye Lian, who had been secretly observing Ling Mo, quietly pulled up the blanket and covered her head…

…

Meanwhile, in a small room somewhere within the F Team’s territory, a figure also suddenly sat up in bed.

“I sensed it again!”

Mu Chen rubbed his temples, excitedly looking around.

The other person obviously wouldn’t be here, but they definitely were somewhere within the TV Station.

After days of continuous sensing, he felt he was getting closer and closer to the target.

“But why does this person always appear in the middle of the night…”

Mu Chen quickly threw on his clothes and silently slipped upstairs.

By now, he could confirm the approximate location of the other person and could start trying to find them.

As for Xia Zhi and Xu Shuhan, he didn’t wake them because having too many people might ruin everything.

He had gone out searching a few times over the past days but hadn’t found anything due to the difficulty in pinpointing the exact location. He didn’t have high hopes for tonight either, but he figured it was worth a try.

The F Team was quiet in the middle of the night; occasionally, he could hear the footsteps of patrolling personnel.

With Mu Chen’s skills, it wasn’t hard to avoid their patrols.

Inside the pitch-black TV station building, only a few places were dimly illuminated, and these spots usually had their windows covered with black cloth to ensure they wouldn’t attract zombies.

In this eerie atmosphere, under the light, a shadow suddenly darted by and then stopped in some darker corner.

Mu Chen was both sensing and searching upward.

“Lost it again!” Mu Chen suddenly became anxious, “Come on, don’t disappear on me now!”

He quickened his pace, but just as he reached a staircase silently, he suddenly froze and stopped.

Mu Chen sharply turned around, his eyes quickly scanning the shadows, and asked in a low voice, “Who’s there?”

No one answered, but the feeling of being watched a moment ago had made Mu Chen extremely alert.

He looked around for a moment, and, seeing no one, slowly turned back.

“Holy crap!” Mu Chen was nearly scared out of his wits. Right in front of him stood a shadowy figure, menacing in the dim light.

“What are you doing here at this hour?” the figure asked.

“I… why is it you?” Mu Chen was about to respond when he suddenly realized that the person standing there was his “big brother.”

Something felt off. He was in the midst of tracking someone, so why did it have to be his big brother that he encountered here?

Moreover, at that moment, his sensing had suddenly become stronger than ever.

This was just too coincidental…

“Why couldn’t it be me? My room is on this floor. What are you doing here?” Ling Mo asked suspiciously.

Not to mention he was already awake. Even if he had been asleep, he’d have sensed someone approaching. Even if he didn’t, wasn’t there still Ye Lian and the others?

However, the fact that Mu Chen had gotten this close before being discovered indicated he had some pretty good stealth skills.

In fact, Mu Chen was currently just about ten meters away from Ling Mo’s room.

Mu Chen didn’t speak, and Ling Mo didn’t press further.

The two of them, each with their own thoughts, silently faced off.

After two minutes of silence, Mu Chen suddenly spoke, “Let’s not beat around the bush…”

“Yeah, I know who you are,” Ling Mo cut in.

Mu Chen was instantly taken aback, feeling choked by the words.

The ominous premonition became increasingly apparent—was the person in front of him really just a greedy opportunist?

When Ling Mo said he knew something, what exactly did he know?

Mu Chen suddenly realized he was in a passive position. If he responded to that statement, it would be like revealing his own identity.

“And I also know why you’re here,” Ling Mo added.

At this point, Mu Chen finally understood. This person truly wasn’t just trying to trick him…

“So…” Mu Chen posed a crucial question, “Who exactly are you?”

Before Ling Mo could answer, Mu Chen continued, “You’ve kept us tied to your side, training your team for you while keeping us under constant surveillance… You…”

“Damn!! Are you Ling Mo?” Mu Chen pieced it together himself.

As soon as this thought emerged, Mu Chen suddenly realized that there had been ample evidence pointing to this all along, evidence he had completely overlooked.

His initial encounter with Ling Mo had left a deeply ingrained first impression, causing him to ignore all the subsequent finer details…

“Ahh, ahh,” Mu Chen grumbled internally.

Ling Mo was too shameless! Such a powerful person lied to three strangers and even robbed them!

Who would have thought that he was the very formidable figure described in the rumors?

Could it be that he knew who they were from the very beginning?

Thinking it through, it actually made sense. Ling Mo’s initial hesitance wasn’t due to difficulty but rather because he was calculating how to manipulate them!

Grinding his teeth, Mu Chen fumed, “You bastard…”

“Come on now, haven’t we been getting along well lately?” Ling Mo said with a smile.

“Getting along? I’ve been working for you!” The more Mu Chen spoke, the more frustrated he became. He suddenly felt like he needed to boost his intelligence.

While it’s common for people to be deceived into a simple scam, never realizing the numerous flaws until too late, Mu Chen had always believed he wasn’t the type to fall for it so easily…

But now he was deeply doubting himself. Blame it on his overly exaggerated perception of Ling Mo—the idea of Ling Mo being some omnipotent figure was so fixed in his mind that he couldn’t imagine reality being so different…

Never in a million years did he expect this!