Published at 12th of February 2026 7:13 am

Chapter 1240: The Intelligence of a Single Bone

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“Whimper whimper…” Seeing Ling Mo walking toward him, the man immediately scooted himself and the chair back twice with all his might.

Ling Mo was a bit puzzled by the look in this man’s eyes. He asked, “Have you seen me before?”

The man froze, then shook his head vigorously.

Ling Mo then looked at Xia Na. “Then why is he so afraid of me?”

“Hehehe…” Xia Na squinted and smiled, pulling Ye Lian over.

“Alright then…” Ling Mo didn’t dwell on the question. He also kicked a chair over, sat down in front of the guy, and asked calmly, “Is there something you want to tell me? If not, then there’s no need for us to waste each other’s time…” As he said this, he even showed a slight smile.

The man shivered again… He looked at Ling Mo, then at Xia Na… Sure enough, this man wasn’t a good person either! When he smiled, it meant he was about to resort to torture without hesitation!

Honestly… If Ling Mo had come at him all fierce and menacing, he might have felt a bit calmer… But the most terrifying thing was this kind of pervert! No one knew what they might do! In the hands of someone like this, dying cleanly and quickly would actually be a kind of luck…

“Why didn’t the Intelligence mention this at all! Great… I missed my chance to kill myself…” the man thought in despair.

“Have you decided what you want to tell me?” Ling Mo observed the man’s reaction and asked. At the same time, he waved his hand, and an invisible force swept by, snapping the cloth gag around the man’s mouth.

“Cough cough…” The captive coughed for a while, then looked up at Ling Mo and gritted his teeth.

“What is your Superpower? Will my companions be in danger?” Ling Mo asked these two questions very seriously.

The captive wasn’t surprised. He forced a smile and said, “They won’t… My Superpower is called octopus…” As he spoke, he gestured to his arm. “You can take a look if you want.”

Ling Mo stared at him for a moment, then used a Tentacle to cut open his sleeve.

An arm covered in wounds was immediately revealed… One of the wounds was quite fresh, and its length was about ten centimeters. Judging by the look of that “leech” after it was pulled out, Ling Mo instantly understood most of it.

“Mutation system, right… I get it…” Ling Mo nodded. Since the flesh strip came from this guy, after a roundabout trip, at most it was just a bit dirty… As long as it’s properly disinfected, Mu Chen will be fine.

“So, octopus. That means, the one controlling these corpses is actually you, right?” Ling Mo asked again.

“I’m not called octopus… Whatever. Yes, mantis and I are partners.” Octopus resigned himself and said, “Before every battle, I cut flesh from my own body and put it into the corpses. My flesh, once separated from me, can still be controlled by me for a while. But only for that period. So once the fight starts, I have to control them to attack you with everything they’ve got. The more flesh I put in the corpse, the more parts I can control, even down to small movements like blinking…”

“So, that’s one of the reasons you use music? To time things.” Ling Mo said.

“Yeah…” Octopus nodded.

“Alright… You should already know what I want to ask next.” Ling Mo said again.

The man’s expression immediately became complicated. He looked deeply at Ling Mo, then sighed, “I’ll talk…”

A minute later, the man died under Ling Mo’s Tentacle.

“How was it?” Xia Na and Black Silk asked at the same time.

Ling Mo was still sitting in the chair, looking at the corpse in front of him. “Actually, from the moment that expression appeared on his face, I already knew he and mantis were the same kind of people.”

“Still no results? Then master, why did you bother asking him?” Black Silk asked.

“Because these two have another thing in common…” Ling Mo continued to stare at the corpse. “They were both ordinary people, both had attachments in their hearts. So… they’re both afraid of dying.”

“When someone is very afraid of dying, but has no choice but to die, what do you think is the last thing they’d want to accomplish?” Ling Mo turned and asked.

Xia Na and Black Silk each bit their fingers and started thinking…

“Eat? Not get eaten?” Black Silk asked.

Xia Na shook her head. “It should be… Ah! I’m still a virgin…”

“Stop! Stop before you say anything worse!” Ling Mo pushed the chair away and stood up. “Simply put, it’s to die quickly, or to die with more value. The former can be achieved by confessing to me, the latter by saying nothing or misleading me… In other words…”

“They’ll choose to mislead you! That way they get both!” Xia Na said suddenly.

“That’s right.”

“But I don’t quite get it. If it’s a misdirection… then what meaning does it have for us?” Black Silk asked.

Ling Mo said, “One said it was some XX Holy Order they’ve never even heard of… The other said it was Niepan.” At this, he glanced at octopus and said regretfully, “When Falcon picked people, they considered their loyalty, but didn’t realize that everyone’s adaptability is different… Their thinking is worlds apart…”

Xia Na was stunned for a moment, then a faint smile appeared on her face. She continued, “Maybe they didn’t expect their people to get caught so quickly either…”

As she spoke, she spread her hands and said, “This was on him.”

Ling Mo took it and glanced at it, then sneered, “Communicator…”

But when it was first found, Xia Na had already turned it off.

However, at this moment, Ling Mo thought for a moment while holding the communicator, then turned it on.

“Bzzzz…”

After a burst of static, there was a moment of silence in the receiver…

After two seconds of silence, Ling Mo spoke into the microphone, “Hello…”

“Ling Mo, right?” A slow, steady voice immediately came from the other end, “I’ve heard a lot about you…”

This time it was Ling Mo’s turn to fall silent. He thought for a moment and said, “Oh… But since you’re hiding your head and showing your tail, there’s no need for us to exchange pleasantries.”

“…”

Xia Na and Black Silk’s reactions were fine… but the atmosphere on the other end was obviously awkward.

“True, I know you, but you don’t know me. But you can call me Fang Zhou. How about this, let’s make a bet.” The other side chuckled and said, “Let’s bet on… who dies first. How about it?”

Ling Mo started off with a mocking expression, but when he heard this, he finally couldn’t help but snort coldly, “Bring it on.”

“You’ve already killed two of my people.” Fang Zhou said blandly, “From a probability standpoint, my chances of dying first should be higher than yours. But… you don’t have enough people. Can you make it here alive?”

“Why don’t you guess?” Ling Mo replied just as indifferently.

“Hehehehe…” Fang Zhou chuckled, “Then let me guess what you know now… You know you’re trapped in an Illusion created by a superpower, and you know you’ll be facing many superhumans… Most importantly, you know you’ll always be on the defensive, right? Even if you can hold out, your companions will die one by one… isn’t that so?”

“Well…” Ling Mo also laughed, “Who knows… Maybe we’ll soon find a way out, you never know… By then, you’ll be the one at a disadvantage, right?”

“Then good luck to you.” Fang Zhou laughed heartily again and said.

“Likewise.” Ling Mo said, then hung up the communicator.

But as soon as the indicator light went out, the smile on Fang Zhou’s face as captain disappeared. He stood up, looked toward the distant hotel, and said, “Everyone… move out!”

“This old fox…” Ling Mo played with the communicator meaningfully.

“What did you guys talk about?” Black Silk asked curiously.

“Nothing but probing each other…” Ling Mo said, “He’s lost two people… especially the octopus. Before the octopus died, the communicator was taken, so this Fang Zhou must be very worried about what the octopus told me.”

“Did you hint that he did?” Black Silk asked again.

“No, precisely because I kept acting like I didn’t know anything, he became even more worried.” Ling Mo said.

Now Black Silk was even more confused, “Why?”

“Silly… We have a captive, how could we not try to pry something out of him? Whether the information we get is true or false, as long as we’re in the dark, we should have some confidence. But Ling-Ge said we still need to find the exit… Isn’t that obviously admitting we don’t know? But the more it’s like this, the more that human Fang Zhou won’t believe anything, and will instead suspect Ling-Ge already knows more…” Xia Na analyzed.

Ling Mo nodded and praised, “Exactly.”

Black Silk hugged her head and said, “So troublesome… Are humans really such complicated creatures? But it’s true… zombies are actually pretty complicated too, after all, it’s all the same brain…”

“So many feelings all at once… But after all, she’s a dog-girl, as long as she has a bone, she’s happy.”

“Yeah, after all, it’s just the IQ of a bone…”

Xia Na and Ling Mo both sighed…

“Who are you talking about!”

“Next, let’s see if he falls for it, right?” Xia Na asked.

“Hey, just ignoring me like that!”

“Don’t worry, he’ll definitely fall for it.” Ling Mo said confidently, “The more someone arranges everything down to the last detail, the less they can tolerate even the slightest mistake. Even if he suspects I’m deliberately bluffing, he’ll still act.”

“Because he can’t afford to lose…”

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