"You destroyed our energy supply hub!"

The Heart-Devouring Demon gritted his teeth, clenched his fists tightly, and stood up with a ferocious glare.

All the high-ranking members in the fold-jump hall were wide-eyed with fury, drawing their weapons as they stared intently at Lynn standing atop the massive head.

Lynn gazed at him calmly, lightly wiping his cheek where a vertical eye slowly opened.

"Since you have a device capable of fold-jumping, I knew you would escape. But since it's a machine, performing a fold-jump must be very energy-consuming, right?"

He cocked the revolver's safety.

"I just didn't expect you to be so insane, actually activating the base's self-destruct sequence before leaving. Did you want to blow up your entire base along with everyone here?"

Lynn revealed his white teeth in a smile:

"Don't mention it, it suits me perfectly."

It was precisely because he detected this intention that Lynn didn't rush to have Little One come here, but instead sent her immediately to destroy the base's power supply facilities.

And with the help of Evil Spirit Vision's vertical pupil.

It allowed him to effortlessly locate their base's energy center.

He didn't destroy the power core itself, only wrecked the transmission hub supplying energy to the base, which directly caused the entire base to temporarily shut down.

The shrill alarm sounds continuously ringing around them reported the countdown to the base's explosion:

6 minutes 21 seconds!

"Good! Very good!"

The Heart-Devouring Demon's eyes turned increasingly icy, the fury in them receding like a tide as he said coldly:

"Three Root-level beings indeed possess the strength to completely destroy us. However, you overlooked one thing—you shouldn't have... appeared before me."

Almost in that instant.

His pupils instantly turned completely silver.

Buzz—

One after another invisible ripple spread out from his body, and Lynn immediately felt his entire brain as if about to explode, with a thunderous roar.

[Warning! Warning! You have suffered intense psychic blast! HP decreasing! HP decreasing!]

The change came too quickly, and Lynn's eyeballs instantly became bloodshot and swollen, blood streaming down.

Everything happened too fast!

So fast there was no time to react!

"Head?!"

Zuo Zuo was greatly alarmed. She and Lynn shared one body, so she immediately sensed that brain-tearing psychic pain.

This was a mental attack!

Little One clearly hadn't reacted yet, her gaze bewildered, evidently having no prior experience with similar assaults.

At this moment, Zuo Zuo hesitated almost not at all.

She suddenly opened a huge mouth, emitting a sharp, evil spirit-like shriek.

The entire arm rapidly dissolved, turning into puddle after puddle of viscous, pitch-black liquid that splattered down onto the ground.

"Waaah—"

A baby's cry.

The black viscous fluid that fell on the ground immediately struggled, metamorphosing into baby after baby that looked exactly like Lynn.

And the moment these babies appeared, they opened their black mouths wide, emitting waves of eerie cries.

Distortion!

Bizarre!

Contamination!

If the Blood-Robed Evil Spirit were here, she would certainly recognize with shock that those terrifying viscous infants were the same mutation that appeared when Lynn was inside that Flesh Puppet before!

And almost simultaneously.

The Heart-Devouring Demon immediately felt an intensely strong sense of nausea and dizziness wash over him.

Those cries were like an extremely malicious curse, a terrifying psychic pollution that instantly caused massive interference with his mental waves.

"You actually... can also..."

He bent over painfully, interfered.

And the psychic shockwave he launched at Lynn immediately experienced a brief interruption due to this sudden interference.

And almost in that same instant, Lynn suddenly opened his bloodshot, swollen eyes, abruptly raised his revolver, and coldly aimed it at the Heart-Devouring Demon's forehead.

Bang—

Three gunshots.

The demon-hunting bullets instantly struck his body, massive holy electricity crackling and spreading over him.

And almost simultaneously, Little One's tentacles followed right after.

Thwack—

Sharp tentacles instantly pierced through his neck, severing his head from his body.

...

He endured the intense pain in his brain, tumbling down.

Looking at his left hand that had dissolved into countless black viscous fluid, Lynn said gravely:

"Zuo Zuo! How are you?"

Splash—

The viscous fluid began to gather again, then slowly crawled up his body, congregating on his left arm, reforming into his left hand.

Zuo Zuo's condition was clearly somewhat listless.

Evidently, utilizing that terrifying method just now had consumed enormous energy from her.

Zuo Zuo retched and vomited a mass of black viscous fluid, going o(x﹏x)o as she said:

"I'm fine... just have a bit of lost appetite, probably won't feel like eating for several days." Official source is ɴovelfire.net

Seeing Zuo Zuo's dizzy state, he knew that if she hadn't reacted in time just now, he would likely have suffered mental explosion and direct brain death by now.

This world is truly dangerous indeed!

Even with a Root-level being like Little One by his side, absolute safety is impossible!

"Doctor—what was that—just now—"

Lynn looked up and said: "A mental attack, an ability that directly assaults the opponent's will and mind. Hard to defend against, extremely fearsome!"

Clearly, Little One wasn't a being specialized in this area.

Her understanding of mental attacks was only partial.

And that guy just now was clearly targeting him specifically. He must have known that even if he tried to launch a mental attack against Little One, given her Root-level consciousness, it would likely have little effect.

He really wanted to kill me.

Actually, after learning his name from the System's prompt, he should have realized that this guy possessed extremely strong mental power and would inevitably use psychic techniques.

If not for Zuo Zuo, he might have capsized in a minor ditch just now.

"That guy—is he dead?"

Lynn narrowed his eyes and said: "He probably transferred his consciousness out at the last moment. This guy likely has more than one body."

Because the System's mission completion prompt hadn't sounded.

That proved the guy was still alive now.

Without another word, Lynn immediately activated Evil Spirit Vision, smiling deeply:

"Little One, let's go. Since he didn't finish me off the first time, don't let him think there will be a second chance!"

...

Meanwhile.

The deepest core area of the base.

From the depths of a massive vessel, faint mechanical synthesized sounds could be heard.

"Consciousness transfer complete... Body No. 1 aggregation finished... Rebooting..."

Crackle—

Countless electric sparks burst out within the vessel.

And the next moment, a precise mechanical hand shattered the vessel's hard outer wall with a crash.

A pair of eyes flickering with red light faintly lit up.

"The flesh is weak... machinery is supreme..."

A hoarse voice spoke.