Chapter 559 – The Human Tank

“Wait for me, it’s almost time…”

As the figure landed, a gust of wind swept through, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes beneath the disheveled hair.

And behind this figure, there was another shadow.

Beneath their feet lay a dense mass of corpses, and the building’s ruins below were also filled with swarms of zombies.

From somewhere in the city, a muffled roar sounded, and at the same time, the ground beneath their feet trembled slightly…

“Here it comes.”

…

“Let me think… tentacles won’t work, mental attacks won’t work either.” Ling Mo, wrapped in tentacles, was anxiously pondering his situation.

He could probably guess his current predicament… It must be like Yu Shiran before, wrapped into a cocoon, right?

A more accurate description would be… he was stuffed into a meat grinder.

These fine strands didn’t look like much, but once their owner exerted force, they would become thin saw blades, grinding him into mincemeat while sucking him dry, leaving not even residue behind.

“Hiss… the thought of it is quite terrifying.” Ling Mo took a sharp breath, then rolled his eyes, “But she won’t do that for now, I’m still her partner in her breeding plan…”

After ruling out the immediate danger, Ling Mo closed his eyes, beginning to focus intently on sensing the fluctuations of mental energy around him.

Like before, six clusters…

No, wait, there was one more.

This cluster of mental energy was stronger and purer than the Spider Queen’s, and the connection with Ling Mo was extremely tight.

It was as if… they had merged into one…

“Eh? Isn’t this me?” Ling Mo realized with a sudden epiphany.

This feeling was actually quite strange, like an out-of-body experience, seeing oneself from another perspective.

“Right, there’s also me…” Ling Mo murmured to himself.

But what could he do with mental Tentacles to himself?

“Yeah… what can I do?” Ling Mo chuckled bitterly in his mind.

“Wait a minute!” Ling Mo suddenly opened his eyes, staring intently at the blood-red strands close in front of him, “Who said I can’t do anything? It’s all about rigid thinking! Think about it from a different angle, I can’t do anything to the Spider Queen, but she can’t stop me from doing something to myself, right?”

“Not much time, worth a try!”

He calmed his emotions, his gaze shifting from anxious to focused.

Trying this method for the first time, he needed to concentrate his Mental power…

“Whew… take it slow, take it easy…”

…

Bang!

A tentacle shot out and struck a wall ahead, and as it swung its body into mid-air, the middle section of the tentacle suddenly burst open.

The body immediately accelerated its fall from the air, but the moment it was about to hit the ground, several tentacles shot out from her wrists, bracing against the ground in advance.

She landed gracefully on the roof of an abandoned car, then turned her head expressionlessly to look behind.

At the end of the street, a long-haired girl and a Mutated panda stood side by side.

“Hello there.”

Xia Na raised her arm, gesturing towards the Spider Queen.

But as she spoke, her eyes had already shifted to a large cocoon on the Spider Queen’s back—clearly, Ling Mo was inside, and she could feel it.

“Oh…”

The Spider Queen paused, surprised that this being, who was on the same intellectual level as her, would greet her so calmly. She was momentarily at a loss.

Mimicking Xia Na’s gesture, she awkwardly lifted an arm and then stiffly moved it: “Hello.”

“Spider Queen?” Xia Na inquired.

“Ah?” The Spider Queen pointed at herself, somewhat bewildered, and replied, “Me?”

“Who else could it be…” Xia Na tightened her grip on the scythe, while stopping the Spider Queen’s intent to jump down, “You better not move.”

As soon as she spoke, a crisp “bang” resounded. The car beneath the Spider Queen’s feet had its front and rear windows shattered.

“Ah…” The Spider Queen halted her step, “Fellow being, are you collaborating with humans?” Her other tentacle had already swiftly followed the bullet, catching it and bringing it back.

At this point, her expression turned somewhat angry.

Ever since her true birth and entering City X, these kinds of human weapons had been trying to harm her.

However, it wasn’t until the battle in the Air Force Corps town that she truly realized the danger humans posed.

That’s why she chose to “steal” Ling Mo this time, instead of boldly attacking and wiping out Team F.

But a fellow being teaming up with humans? She had never even considered such a thing.

“Here we go again…” Xia Na seemed a bit impatient, “One after another, all with the same tune. What’s wrong with humans? Which of you wasn’t human before? The virus is really something, completely turning you inside out… uh… I didn’t mean you, senior. Ah! Don’t pinch me…”

Xia Na covered her pert buttocks, frowning and crying out in alarm.

“It was a slip of the tongue, can’t you let that slide!” Xia Na begged for forgiveness, “Don’t do this in front of the enemy! You’re ruining my image!”

The Spider Queen, however, stared at Xia Na strangely. With her olfactory capability, she could naturally sense the presence of others here.

Yet, what was odd was that she couldn’t pinpoint their location.

What was even stranger were Xia Na’s words… she really couldn’t understand them.

Image… what was that?

“What do you want to do?” the Spider Queen asked.

“What do we want to do? It’s simple.” Xia Na casually swung the scythe in her hand, the crescent-shaped blade casting a beautiful cold light in the air, “Of course… return my partner to me!”

With that, she leaned forward, the scythe drawn back, and dashed swiftly towards the front.

“Poor fellow being… attack.”

The Spider Queen then glanced at a mutated zombie beside her and spoke.

This particular mutated zombie, just from its appearance, looked much more normal than the average mutated zombie… relatively speaking, of course.

In fact, the five mutated zombies that followed the Spider Queen all appeared to be of the same breed…

The female zombie’s body looked robust, full of muscle, especially her powerful arms which were longer than those of an average human.

Her fingers, too, were about three times the length of a standard finger, with nails that seemed to have grown seamlessly from the fingertips, coming to a sharp point like hooks.

Without a doubt, these were incredibly powerful claws.

When the Spider Queen commanded the mutated zombie to leap into action, her toes, which were similar to her fingers and equipped with hook-like ends, were fully exposed, revealing their significant lethality and her ability to traverse most terrains with ease.

The distance between them was over fifty meters, but the mutated zombie, much like a humanoid tank, jumped and landed with such force that it sent cement debris flying, then dashed towards Xia Na with incredible speed.

The place where she had just landed was marked by two deep footprints, about two centimeters deep…

With every step she took, covering a span of three to five meters, she left a shallow imprint on the ground.

Her speed and strength were unmistakable.

“Sending a small fry to fight me…” Xia Na was angry, her gaze turning icy as she watched the mutated zombie rapidly closing the distance between them.

When they were less than ten meters apart, Xia Na raised her scythe, and the figure of Red-Eyed Nana appeared from her shadow.

One tangible and one intangible, the two figures approached side by side, then swung their scythes in succession.

“I’ll chop you down!” Black Na sneered.

With a blood-red trail, the scythe of Red-Eyed Nana swung down first, aiming straight for the mutated zombie’s head—or more precisely, the location of its Mental Sphere.

But at the moment the blade was about to make contact with the Mental Sphere, the mutated zombie suddenly opened its mouth wide and let out a piercing scream: “Wuu!”

“Wuu!!!”

The scream was incredibly shrill, like someone holding a megaphone right next to your ear and broadcasting the sound of glass being scraped, and it was the upgraded version, no less.

“Ah!”

Yu Shiran, who was about to step forward, immediately covered her ears, and even Xiao Bai let out a “meh” sound, lifting its two paws.

Unfortunately, with paws too short and a body too plump, no matter how much it tried to scratch, it could only keep bleating helplessly.

Just out of reach!

Luckily, at that moment, a large clump of silver thread emerged, splitting into two strands and plugging Xiao Bai’s ears…