Chapter 686 – Cutting It Open Reveals It’s Completely Black Inside!

“Don’t… don’t shout! Shh!”

Ling Mo quickly squatted down and covered Yu Shiran’s mouth, then looked her up and down nervously: “Are you alright? How’s Black Silk?”

The sudden scream made him uneasy. Did the early emergence cause some problems?

But after taking a closer look, it didn’t seem like it…

Yu Shiran slowly calmed down, though her eyes remained wide open.

Seeing Ling Mo’s confused expression, Xia Na said from the side: “She’s just shocked. Waking up and seeing the Sausage she’s been dreaming about—how could she not scream…”

Yu Shiran, with her mouth covered, blinked her eyes and nodded vigorously.

Reflexively, Ling Mo looked down and immediately frowned: “It hasn’t even broken. How could she see it…”

“It’s just a layer of cloth, how hard is it to imagine?” Xia Na said matter-of-factly.

“The reason humans invented clothes is to prevent perverts from imagining things freely, okay…” Ling Mo said helplessly.

Once the truth was out, Ling Mo could feel the malicious glare from Yu Shiran. It made his scalp tingle and sent shivers down his spine.

“Stop shouting, or you’ll attract zombies over here.” Ling Mo warned seriously, then slowly let go of Yu Shiran.

Just freed, the zombie Loli lunged forward and hugged Ling Mo tightly with outstretched arms.

“Wait a second, no need to be this eager to hug my leg. Why don’t you tell me your situation first…”

Before Ling Mo finished speaking, he noticed that Yu Shiran wasn’t just hugging.

Her face was pressed against Ling Mo’s leg, rubbing against it with a satisfied expression, eyes closed in bliss.

“…”

Ling Mo gave her a stunned look, then turned his gaze towards Ye Lian and the three girls.

“What’s going on?!” Ling Mo asked in a low voice.

But it wasn’t just him; Ye Lian and the other three girls were equally shocked.

If Yu Shiran had just lunged in to bite Ling Mo, that would have been expected.

But such intimate behavior was absolutely baffling!

Xia Na kept gesturing to Ling Mo, signaling him to tap Yu Shiran on the head.

“See if she was interrupted halfway through evolution and ended up malfunctioning…”

“Makes sense…” After all, there’s no harm in trying.

Though hitting her might be too much, it was still necessary to sense her mental state…

Ling Mo’s hand was just about to touch the top of Yu Shiran’s head when he suddenly heard a very faint sound from the zombie Loli’s small mouth: “Woof…”

“Holy shit!”

Ling Mo’s body froze instantly, filled with shock!

What the hell was this?!

Though Yu Shiran’s voice greatly differed from the actual Black Silk, sounding more like a little girl acting coy, that similar utterance at such a close distance was unmistakable to Ling Mo!

As he gradually snapped out of his stupor, the first thing that came to Ling Mo’s mind was Black Silk’s previous “human body,” the zombie girl dressed in a maid outfit…

“But… but Yu Shiran is a symbiote!”

Still shaken, Ling Mo quickly reached out and brushed aside the hair on Yu Shiran’s head.

“It’s still there…”

The furry collar was still wrapped around Yu Shiran’s neck, and to the naked eye, it even looked fluffier.

To be sure, Ling Mo reached out and touched it a couple of times.

“Almost thought it was a fusion…”

But no matter how you looked at it, this behavior seemed like Black Silk taking over again. How could this be explained?

At that moment, Yu Shiran suddenly shuddered and opened her eyes.

Her first reaction was to stare at Ling Mo’s leg cradled in her arms, then her gaze slowly moved upward…

“Stop.” With quick reflexes, Ling Mo pressed her head down with one hand.

Having been in a continuous state of shock earlier, Ling Mo hadn’t noticed that his own situation had quietly changed.

With Yu Shiran’s and Black Silk’s evolution coming to an end, Ling Mo’s condition also gradually recovered.

Not only did his stamina return little by little, but his control over every part of his body also came back.

Fatigue disappeared, and his strength increased significantly, making his limbs feel even more powerful than before.

“It even cured my longstanding lower back pain…”

Instinctively, Ling Mo touched his lower back, feeling a wave of gratitude.

However, at that moment, he suddenly felt a chill from behind.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Yalin staring intently at his hand movements.

“Sausage Humans…” Yu Shiran slowly raised her head, her small face taking on a menacing look as she glared coldly at Ling Mo.

Before Ling Mo could say anything, she started waving her short arms and shouting, “Now Black Silk’s thoughts have fused with mine. I’m half-zombie, half-animal; how are you going to compensate me? Hurry up! How are you going to make it up to me?!”

“Ban Yue definitely won’t want me anymore. If Black Silk wants to find a mate in the future, how will she manage? She won’t want me! Go! Go get Ban Yue back for me!”

The zombie Loli was nearly hysterical, while Ling Mo listened in stunned silence.

“Fusion?”

He thought for a moment, then quickly extended his psychic tentacle to probe inside.

As he examined, Ling Mo’s expression gradually turned strange.

“It’s true…”

Generally speaking, the psychic light clusters of different individuals cannot fully fuse. Even if forced together by external power, there would certainly be many side effects.

For example, No.0 was a vivid example…

But Yu Shiran’s and Black Silk’s situation was very unique; they were symbiotes, bound together from the beginning of their evolution.

Previously, Ling Mo’s understanding of their survival mode had stayed at a level similar to “parasitizes.”

But now, it seemed not that simple.

In their usual state, they were two closely connected individuals, but during evolution, they would truly become one entity.

This was likely the true purpose of the cocoon. When their psychic light clusters fused, the cocoon provided protection, creating a private space for them.

Once the evolution ended and the psychic light clusters separated, the cocoon would collapse under Black Silk’s control.

But no one expected the cocoon to be so fragile this time… Even though Black Silk’s silver thread was supposed to be very resilient!

Thinking of this, Ling Mo, feeling frustrated, reached out to grab a silver thread from Black Silk and gave it a tug: “How did you suddenly regress into a weakling…”

But after the first tug, Ling Mo froze.

Unconvinced, he yanked it a couple more times before finally realizing the truth.

This silver thread wasn’t fragile at all; it was stronger than steel wire!

But if that’s the case, how did the cocoon, woven from so many of these silver threads, break so easily?

Ling Mo turned to glance at the ground and picked up another silver thread.

One look, and Ling Mo suddenly understood.

This silver thread looked similar to the ones on Black Silk, but if you pulled it gently…

Snap!

The broken thread dangled from Ling Mo’s fingertip, and his gaze toward Black Silk changed entirely.

What looked like a simple furry scarf, occasionally protruding a thumb-sized mini dog head that tilted cutely…

Why was it so deviously cunning?

When Xia Na had previously mentioned that cutting open Black Silk revealed nothing but black, Ling Mo hadn’t grasped what she meant. But now he saw it firsthand!

And the scapegoat turned out to be him!

A chill shot up from Ling Mo’s feet, and he suddenly noticed that Yu Shiran had stopped shouting and wasn’t moving at all…

“Wh-what’s wrong?” Ling Mo asked softly.

Yu Shiran was silent for two seconds, then suddenly lifted her head. Her red eyes were wide open, staring unblinkingly at him, and she said in a chilling tone, “You figured it out.”

Even with Ling Mo’s strong will, his heart nearly leaped out of his throat at that moment.

This tone, this expression, and what she said…

Who was this?!

“The opportunity has finally arrived; I’ve been waiting for a long time…”

The “Yu Shiran” continued ominously, “How could that add-on body satisfy me… Shared with that little idiot, this body is at least powerful enough… A bit shorter is fine; as long as the important parts are adequate…”

Ling Mo stared at “Yu Shiran” in stunned silence. If he wasn’t fully aware and the surroundings devoid of any psychic fluctuation, he might have thought he was experiencing some kind of hallucination!

This tone… it was clearly Black Silk!

“Alright, our time is short, so let’s get to the point. I’ve just fused with her, and it’s not stable yet. Once we evolve and make a breakthrough, things will improve.”

Yu Shiran—no, Black Silk—forced a stiff smile at Ling Mo and said, “I’ve always wanted to have a word with you. And there’s something very important that I’ve long wanted to tell you.”

“Go ahead…” Ling Mo nodded with difficulty.

This felt incredibly strange. Although Ling Mo knew that Black Silk had evolved into some unknown creature, he never imagined there would come a day when he could speak to her face-to-face.

However, Black Silk’s tone was indeed peculiar. Unlike a zombie, her manner sounded more mechanical, lacking the vividness of a living being.

Ling Mo could hardly even sense she was a living creature…

Or rather, she seemed more like a pure spiritual body than a biological entity.

“Staying with that combat-zero, delusional Yu Shiran who thinks disguising herself as a male can hide her lack of combat ability—I’ve long had enough! It’s so nice to be with you. You’re exactly the kind of master I appreciate! Although you don’t feed me often enough, at least you don’t pet my head all day or ask me to roll over… By the way, my combat ability is now exceptional.”

Standing proudly, Black Silk raised a hand, placing it on Ling Mo’s palm, her eyes suddenly becoming slightly misty, “Until next time.”

“Goodbye—”

“Wait, I almost forgot. Now, you can communicate with me directly on a psychic level. However, because there’s a one-plus-one situation in my head, to avoid confusing thoughts, let’s keep it this way. I’m not the primary entity; my time is limited each day. But with continued evolution, I will eventually become a super creature, transcending both human and zombie beast, and then these limitations won’t apply…”

Black Silk rambled on for a while before her body suddenly stiffened, and her expression gradually reverted to Yu Shiran’s usual look.

“Where was I? And Black Silk, stop taking over my body without permission!” Yu Shiran shouted indignantly.

“She really is a chatterbox…” Ling Mo, still in a state of shock, muttered.