TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 149

Chapter 149: The Source

Luo Shuyou didn’t remain idle after that. He needed some zombie cores from healing ability users to speed up the leveling of his healing ability.

Although he had the Wood Spirit Crystal Soul and zombie cores as two major energy sources nourishing him, they were ultimately no match for those two with their solid inherent strength. He had to give himself a little extra boost.

In this base, the level two and above ability users had their cores dug out by Li Meng to fill the energy gaps needed for the illusion, leaving only some level one and two small fries. But even mosquitoes are meat, no matter how small. It wouldn’t be worth Luo Shuyou’s effort to come all this way if he didn’t take a few cores.

Li Shi wasn’t sure if that dead zombie Li Meng would set her sights on him to take his core to replenish her energy. Now, in this base, besides Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye, who were a bit stronger, he was the most nourishing tonic. He couldn’t let Li Meng find an opportunity to get him, lest he become the eaten instead of the eater.

Therefore, Li Shi didn’t dare to leave Luo Shuyou’s side to wander around. He could only honestly follow behind Luo Shuyou to pick up scraps.

……

Fortunately, they didn’t run into Li Meng head-on. Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye successfully gathered all sorts of information and returned to the house.

Letting out a long breath to relax a little, Xie YunChuan slumped into a chair and asked, “When do we make our move?”

Shen Ye poured a glass of water and drank it all down. Hearing this, he replied without thinking, “Tonight.”

“What?” Xie YunChuan was so surprised that he immediately jumped up and sat up straight. “I didn’t expect you to be so eager! I wonder who it was before who was crying and refusing to kill Li Meng.” He didn’t expect him to be so active now. Was he thinking that since he couldn’t avoid it anyway, he might as well die early and be reborn sooner?

Shen Ye put down the glass and sat back on the stool, retorting, “Heh, I’m not in a hurry. Isn’t it you who’s anxious to save your little friends?”

Whether they fought sooner or later, they couldn’t escape a fight anyway. Now that they had a good grasp of the information, when else would they make a move?

Xie YunChuan: “I’m not in a hurry either. It’s okay, my teammates are all thick-skinned and sturdy. They can hold on for a few more days.”

Xie YunChuan thought: At worst, he could have Luo Shuyou give them a few more energy amulets to protect them. Luo Shuyou always left room for maneuver in his words and actions. Since he could let Gu Tangxi and the others hold on for two more days, he must have a way to let them hold on for four more days.

Gu Tangxi and the others, who were struggling in the dream, thought: “…” Hehe, they thank you, Xie YunChuan, you great good man. They three can hold on until the end of time.

Shen Ye didn’t care: “Okay, then since neither of us is in a hurry, let’s just stay here for three or five days, learn more about the situation before we act. After all, knowing yourself and your enemy is the only way to win every battle. It’s always good to be more prepared.”

Xie YunChuan: “…” No way, he was just habitually fond of mocking Shen Ye a little. If they could resolve the battle quickly, it was better to do so, lest things get complicated.

“Let’s forget it, let’s do it tonight. Maybe the place where I hurt her last night hasn’t fully healed yet. We have to strike while the iron is hot.”

Shen Ye glanced at Xie YunChuan and said seriously, “Then stop arguing and let’s discuss how to act tonight.”

Xie YunChuan also put away his lazy posture and plunged into a serious tactical discussion.

Shen Ye slowly said, “In fact, the talent skills evolved by zombies and the abilities awakened by humans have something in common.

If a human awakens their ability in a critical moment when they are under a life-threatening attack, then there is a high probability that the ability they awaken will be an offensive and self-protective ability. If the ability is awakened under a strong desire to survive after a serious injury, then the ability will most likely be a healing ability that treats injuries… and so on.

Similarly, when zombies have a strong subconscious desire in a certain aspect, the evolution of their virus is very likely to evolve into a talent skill that can satisfy their wishes.”

Just like Wei Donglin, who was a person who liked to bully the weak, had great ambition, and was highly predatory, naturally evolved a powerful ability to devour his own kind after becoming a zombie.

Li Shi was a small clerk who was good at figuring out the leader’s thoughts and trying to please his superiors in every possible way, so he awakened the Bewilderment ability, which could understand people’s hearts and bewitch others.

Xie YunChuan: “So…” Could it be that the subconscious wish of this zombie Li Meng was world peace, family happiness, people living and working in peace, and no more suffering in the world?

This was so great that Xie YunChuan, a human, should be ashamed…

Shen Ye continued, “So, the reason why Li Meng has the ability to create dreams and create this illusion is because she has related prayers. Think about it, what is it that usually causes the greatest obsession in a person when they are dying?”

Xie YunChuan: “Two aspects – unwillingness and reluctance. Either, life is happy and fulfilling, there are too many people to worry about, generating obsessions and thinking about all the good things in the world. Or, things that have been painstakingly pursued for many years have not been achieved until death, turning into obsessions that are deeply buried in the heart for a long time.”

Shen Ye followed Xie YunChuan’s train of thought and analyzed, “Li Meng is a little girl, looking like she’s no more than twelve or thirteen years old. If a half-grown child has a happy and healthy life, she shouldn’t have generated such a strongniàn-thought that she still misses it even after becoming a zombie. More often than not, people tend to crave what they don’t have.”

Xie YunChuan: “So, you mean, the reason why she created such a beautiful and happy illusion is because she lived a very unfortunate life before her death?”

Shen Ye nodded: “Very likely.”

Xie YunChuan continued to ask, “Then do you think that the woman in her house is really Li Meng’s mother before her death, or is she also fabricated by Li Meng?”

Of course, the woman was a real, flesh-and-blood human being. Here, Xie YunChuan was asking about the authenticity of her identity information.

Shen Ye said, “In my opinion, it’s probably her real biological mother, what do you think?”

Xie YunChuan agreed: “I think so too. Look, the stories passed down by word of mouth in the base are all about how much the woman loved Li Meng, and how filial Li Meng was to the woman. When people talk about Li Meng and her family, they are full of envy and yearning, and when people in the base talk about daily life, the topic is always about praising Li Meng’s happy family every three sentences, as if it was deliberately set up like this.”

As for who set it up, it was of course Li Meng. It was as if all of this existence was only to highlight the happiness of Li Meng and the woman’s small family.

Li Meng needed to gain recognition and praise from those people, and the existence of those people also made Li Meng a promising, powerful, and very filial daughter in the woman’s mouth, her pride.

Xie YunChuan: “So, that woman is the breakthrough point!” What was important was not the woman, but the fact that the woman was Li Meng’s mother, the source of all illusions and the crux of the problem.