Chapter 852 – Virus Liquid

Two days later, inside the abandoned house.

A hand moved aside a pen that was weighing down a piece of paper, then pulled the paper up.

“Waiting for the signal?”

…

“So this is the Second Camp…” Wang Lin’s voice suddenly sounded from within the grass. She excitedly used her knife to part the leaves in front of her and looked forward.

It was already evening, and in the dim light, everything in the Second Camp seemed to blur.

Under the tall Barbed Wire, a group of guards, armed to the teeth, was patrolling with solemn expressions.

Not far away was a Watchtower. As its searchlight suddenly lit up, two silhouettes and the dark gun barrels came into view.

The slowly moving searchlight soon approached the patch of grass. A hand immediately reached from behind, grabbed Wang Lin by the collar, and pulled her back.

“Ah!”

Wang Lin exclaimed before struggling to lift her head and looked forward, saying, “I didn’t expect them to use a searchlight… What’s the point of waiting for night in that case? Even if it’s a bit better than during the day, we’re still likely to get exposed! The Airport is huge, and there’s nothing sufficient to hide us…”

Xia Na emerged from her side, looking serious, and said, “This is the wilderness, after all,” she suddenly shifted her tone, speaking thoughtfully.

Though there were many dangers in the wilderness, the number of Zombies was still far less than in the city.

Considering the special location of the Second Camp, they indeed had the audacity to turn on the searchlight…

“But this thing isn’t very useful. It’s probably because of the tense atmosphere lately that they installed it…” Xia Na continued to analyze.

“That makes it even harder to get closer,” Wang Lin frowned.

Behind them crouched two very quiet figures. Li Yalin couldn’t participate in such conversations at all, while Ye Lian, amidst her perplexity, had a hint of contemplation… She occasionally reached into her pocket and then blankly looked ahead.

“Where’s Ling Mo?” Li Yalin suddenly asked.

“Said he had something to do. But who knows…” Wang Lin replied.

Xia Na’s gaze flickered as she glanced toward the depths of the grass, her lips curving into a faint, knowing smile before she quickly turned her head back. “Let’s wait for the signal for now.”

Meanwhile, in the direction she had just looked, Ling Mo was sitting in a small clearing with a frown on his face.

Xiao Bai’s massive frame was lying nearby, while Yu Shiran squatted next to him, propping her cheeks up with both hands, looking at Ling Mo with a bored expression.

She muttered under her breath, “Oh… so what you’re saying is, he wants to sneak in, huh?”

The moment the words left her mouth, her expression turned odd, and her tone suddenly grew dry, “Yes, yes, spending this much time with me has surely made you smarter. Pity there are too many humans following him. Even though he managed to send off that father-daughter pair and the one with dark circles, that girl insists on sticking with them…”

“Ugh…” Yu Shiran’s expression shifted again. After nodding a few times, she heaved a dramatic sigh, “Humans are so complicated…”

At that moment, her eyes snuck a glance at Ling Mo, and she whispered conspiratorially to herself, “I wonder when Ban Yue will finally notice me…”

“You know, he might already know about all those sneaky things you’ve been up to…”

“Hey, why are you saying that so loudly!”

“Fool, this is your own mouth talking!”

“Argh, get out of my body already!”

“I’m not some waste you can just ‘get out.’ Like it or not, I’m part of you now…”

“But you’re female!”

“Oh, I see, you want this human to be your ‘other half,’ huh…”

“My other half is Ban Yue! That’s it, I’m going to kill you!”

“Go ahead, try it…”

Yu Shiran and Black Silk were bickering fiercely, their argument growing more and more absurd by the second. Meanwhile, Ling Mo, who was sitting nearby, twitched the corner of his lips as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he remained silent.

“Stay sharp! We need to step up patrols during this time!”

As the Patrol Team made another round through the area, the captain at the rear suddenly spoke up.

He couldn’t explain why, but as he glanced toward the distant wilderness, a sudden, ominous chill crept up his spine.

“Is it just my imagination…”

Just as the captain withdrew his gaze, a Red Glimmer flickered in the corner of his eye.

“It’s not an illusion! Something is coming out of there!”

But before the panic could fully register on his face, his expression quickly turned vacant.

The distance between him and the Team Members ahead began to grow. The captain slightly parted his lips, staring blankly at their retreating figures as a trace of despair flashed in the depths of his eyes…

“Help… help me…”

“Ahhh!”

With a low, almost inaudible cry escaping his lips, the captain’s expression suddenly twisted in agony.

A few minutes later, his eyes sprang open, now filled with a chaotic, blood-red hue.

But just as swiftly, the blood-red color faded away.

He moved his body slightly, his neck producing two audible clicks as he twisted it left and right. Then, a rigid, unsettling smile began to creep across his face.

“Ugh…” A guttural sound escaped from his throat, and his voice grew deeper, “Though only fragments of memories remain, this guy really must be one of Falcon’s men… Didn’t expect to succeed on the first try-it saved me quite a bit of time.”

He reached back to touch the Hindbrain. As his hat shifted slightly, a semi-transparent, blood-red Jellyfish emerged from beneath it.

Traces of blood were still visible inside the Jellyfish’s body, and its tentacles had rooted deeply into the man’s brain.

“Using the master ball for stimulation speeds up the mutation process. While it doesn’t cause a complete mutation, it does eliminate the waiting period entirely. I can start the Control much earlier…”

During the process of using the master ball to control the sunglasses man, Ling Mo had uncovered several insights.

It could confine an opponent through Suction Power or disrupt them by injecting influence. However, neither of these abilities was truly limited to just psychic power alone.

If Ling Mo wanted, he could even use the master ball to inject Liquid directly into a person’s brain…

However, every ability has its limitations. The master ball’s primary function is to serve as a platform to accommodate Ling Mo’s psychic tentacle. On its own, it cannot perform the injection.

This time, Ling Mo injected the captain with a partially diluted virus Liquid. The source of this Liquid was the remnants left by the Spider Queen in the abandoned Town…

As a Progenitor, the Spider Queen’s power is difficult to categorize by level. For instance, if her main body’s strength could be classified as King level, her ability to rapidly cultivate countless Advanced Zombies makes her destructive power incomparable to ordinary King level Zombies.

Ling Mo hasn’t had the time to study these Liquids yet, but here, they can be put to some use.

As the captain was injected with the Liquid, his psychic realm began to experience Interference from the master ball. Already in a state of psychic disorder, his resistance to the virus was drastically reduced, accelerating the Infection process several times over.

However, this only resulted in a partial mutation of his body. For instance, in this body, only the head underwent mutation…

Over time, unexpected changes might occur…

“But since it’s from the Progenitor, it might help him last a bit longer.”

The “captain” blinked and touched the master ball. With a “plop,” it retreated back into his hat.

Ling Mo adjusted himself and turned to look at the buildings within the Airport.

“The news of the Destruction Squad being wiped out has probably spread, but they wouldn’t expect me to return under these circumstances… Su Qianrou wants to make a deal with me, Chief of Staff Wang wants to kill me, but the focus is still on this Second Camp…”

“Why do they insist on breaking ties…”

Lost in thought, Ling Mo slowly walked toward the buildings.

Not far ahead of him was the Patrol Team making another round…