My Girlfriend is a Zombie

Chapter 1226: Between Illusion and Reality

“Isn’t this… the scene when I attacked earlier?” Ling Mo thought in shock. As he looked up, sure enough, he saw a figure rushing out from the darkness. There was no need to guess; this person was most likely the “himself” from a few dozen seconds ago…

“If we meet… it’s probably not going to be a good thing… I’d better figure out what’s going on first.” Ling Mo rubbed his temples and quickly retreated back into the darkness. When he retraced his steps and saw that car again, Ling Mo even felt his thoughts starting to get tangled…

“Captain!” At this moment, Mu Chen also ran out from behind the car. Seeing his ghost-stricken expression, Ling Mo knew that what he had encountered was probably no better than his own experience.

“Just say it… did you see yourself or did you beat yourself up?” Ling Mo asked.

“Uh… neither.” Mu Chen replied, “I guess I… pushed open the door to another world…”

“Did you finally realize the truth behind your thirty years of being single?” Ling Mo asked.

“Of course not! Why do you have to bring up other people’s wounds at such an inappropriate time! And why are you looking at me with such a guarded expression!” Mu Chen took a breath and said, “I walked in the darkness for about thirty seconds, then light started to appear in front of me… and the light kept getting brighter until I completely walked out of the darkness…”

“I saw this town.” Mu Chen returned to that dumbfounded look from earlier.

Ling Mo also showed a trace of a strange expression… No wonder Mu Chen reacted this way. After all, the direction he walked was toward the wilderness, and they had just come from there. To see a small town in the exact opposite direction, where it shouldn’t exist, really was bizarre. And even more bizarre…

“That town is in broad daylight…” Mu Chen took a breath and continued.

Now Ling Mo’s expression also started to look like he’d seen a ghost: “Alright… opposite direction, opposite time, this really is… quite thorough.”

A minute later, everyone had gotten out of the car.

Among them, Xia Na and the others probed the road again… but the results they got were almost the same as what Ling Mo and Mu Chen had seen. Black Silk even tried to leave her silver thread behind and use it as a rope to slowly walk forward. But even so, she still couldn’t figure out what was going on… because halfway there, she found another silver thread coming from the opposite direction…

“Let’s sum up then… If we aren’t all hallucinating, then most likely the other side has already tampered with this place in advance… Judging by the current situation, I personally lean toward the latter…” Xia Na blinked as she spoke. A flash of blood light passed through one of her eyes, which proved… she had already probed with her spiritual body. And the conclusion… was exactly what she had just said.

“I think so too…” Black Silk and the others nodded in agreement. At least on the surface, there seemed to be nothing wrong with this place. But the more that was the case, the more it showed the other side was well prepared. At the very least, they couldn’t find any flaws for now.

“So here’s the question… where did the other side start tampering with things?” Ling Mo continued to ask.

“That’s really a question…” Ye Kai replied with a twitch of his mouth.

If it was before they entered the town, then they might have already lost their way. What they saw before and after would be completely meaningless…

“So except for the reversed time, we can’t be sure about anything else right now.” Xu Shuhan said thoughtfully.

“Then what about that loop?” Li Yalin asked. For her, this kind of almost inexplicable problem was… just too interesting; she couldn’t stop playing with it. If Ling Mo hadn’t sensed something was wrong and dragged her back, she would probably still be going back and forth in there, marveling. Even now, her face still wore an extremely excited expression.

Ling Mo pinched his chin and thought for a moment, then answered, “Hmm… I couldn’t figure it out at first, but after your explorations, I started to get an idea… Judging by the surroundings… I think this is a continuous environment.”

“Continuous?” Everyone fell into thought.

“Void, chaos, and then reality?” Xia Na asked.

Ling Mo replied uncertainly, “Maybe you could put it that way… In short, there must be a connection between this darkness, the loop, and that town in daylight. Also, the other side is using this loop to stop us from choosing that direction.”

No matter what kind of Superpower it is, the user must first make themselves believe…

Like Ling Mo’s Tentacle, even though it’s made of psychic energy, the moment it condenses is because Ling Mo’s Subconscious believes in its existence, only then can it succeed.

Even for strengthening superhumans, it’s the same… They first need to know what part of themselves needs to be strengthened and how, then they can mobilize energy to achieve it. ȓàꞐƟʙЁṢ

This is also the difference between human superhumans and Zombies. Zombies rely on instinct, while humans need practice. First comes imagination, then belief, and finally the Subconscious… Only by reaching the Subconscious can one use their Superpower at will.

“But judging by the situation here… even if the other side has reached this step, it must have taken a long time to prepare… But at the very least, this kind of Superpower was constructed in their mind long ago. Because things that are completely unrelated are always hard to imagine, let alone believe in. For superhumans, the closer something is to what they believe is real, the easier it is to imagine. If we can find the connection, maybe we can easily break these scenes and return to reality. But… the other side knows us well, so they’ve probably already prepared for this and won’t let us succeed so easily.” Ling Mo analyzed.

“Oh… so your Tentacle…” Black Silk had just started to speak when Ling Mo covered her mouth with his Tentacle.

“So what exactly are you focusing on! Can you not damage my image so casually!” Ling Mo shouted.

Everyone coughed dryly and silently ignored this scene, then Mu Chen said, “So these people already knew we were coming here…”

“Then… it must be Niepan.” Zhang Xincheng said calmly.

“Yeah…” Ling Mo nodded as well. Judging by their experience in the granary… the ones waiting here were either Niepan or the Spider Queen, or maybe a Fusion of the two. But for some reason, Ling Mo felt a vague sense of unease… Was it because the other side was too well prepared? Even after they had already set up an ambush in the granary, they still made such thorough preparations?

“Doesn’t matter… whoever it is, their goal is the same, isn’t it? It’s all to kill us.” Ling Mo looked ahead and thought to himself, “And what we have to do is the same… kill them and survive.”

“Judging by the current situation… the other side is forcing us into that town.” Xia Na said, biting her nails.

Everyone immediately exchanged glances, and finally all eyes focused on Ling Mo.

“Go in!” Ling Mo thought for a moment, then looked up and said firmly.

Rather than staying here on edge, it’s better to take the initiative…

And the sooner they went in, the sooner the other side would act.

An enemy you can’t see and can’t identify is actually the most troublesome…

“Let’s go.”

After checking their weapons again, everyone headed toward the back of the car together…

As the light around them grew brighter and brighter, soon a long, chaotic street appeared under their feet. As for the surrounding buildings, they were shrouded in a thick fog…

And no one could be sure whether this place was real or imaginary…

All they knew was that every step from now on could be a deadly trap…