Free Web NovelLynn lowered his head and calmly lifted his left hand, which had returned to normal.
Because this was the mental domain, was the appearance he took on simply how he perceived himself in reality?
"I wonder if Zuo Zuo was also pulled into this godforsaken place in her conscious form?"
Lynn hesitated.
Because he knew.
In truth, Zuo Zuo was the true consciousness of the Colossus's Heart. It was only due to some reason he didn't yet understand that he had encroached upon the heart consciousness's space, forcing it to the margins of his own body, making her his appendage.
This was also the best explanation for Zuo Zuo's very existence.
"If that's the case, since I've also seized a portion of the Colossus's Heart's authority, shouldn't I be able to establish some connection with the other parts of the Colossus?"
Lynn stood up thoughtfully, casting a wary glance ahead.
But how was he supposed to make that connection?
Using the mysterious hyper-dimensional link between the Colossus's consciousnesses?
That should be the best method.
But that led to an even more important problem.
He didn't know how to use it.
And even if he did, that brought up an even more crucial issue.
Zuo Zuo was a brain-dead idiot.
Of course, he didn't mean that as an insult or a slander. It was simply because when he had bio-armored this heart, it had already been a broken, half-baked thing. So the consciousness born from it, Zuo Zuo, was naturally missing a few screws—simple-minded and incapable of doing anything right.
After all, if she had been a proper heart consciousness, how could she have been so easily duped and led around by the nose by him?
"Regardless, the top priority right now is to find Zuo Zuo as soon as possible."
Lynn muttered to himself, glanced around, and decided to pick a random direction to start exploring.
After all, he and Zuo Zuo were one entity.
Even if they had been pulled into this mental space, they shouldn't be too far apart.
Now that his noisy left hand was gone, it actually felt a little... weird not having her around. He really must be twisted.
"But if all living creatures were dragged in here, then this place is probably pretty dangerous."
Lynn walked while deep in thought.
Because he clearly remembered.
The red light had also enveloped Sir Aiwen and the Three Roots all at once. That meant if they had come in too, and he happened to run into them in a narrow corridor or turn a corner and bump into them, he wouldn't even know how he died.
After all, the God of All Machines, the Desire Mother Tree, and the Flesh and Blood Dominator probably all wanted to kill him, right?
He couldn't let them succeed.
"I hope that idiot Zuo Zuo doesn't start screaming her head off. If she really attracts one of the Roots, there'll be no surviving that!"
Lynn thought as he walked.
Of course, he didn't really think Zuo Zuo would be stupid enough to go that far.
No matter what.
She was the true master of the Colossus's Heart.
Even if she was damaged.
She should at least have some common sense, right?!
(￣▽￣)／
Ha.
But almost the moment he had taken no more than a few dozen steps, a painfully familiar loud shout suddenly rang out from the blood mist in the distance.
"Brain!! Stupid Brain!! (Shrieking)"
"Where are you?! Answer me if you can hear me! I'm lost! I've turned into some weird form!"
"Brain!! Brain!!"
The voice grew closer, basically yelling its head off every two seconds without restraint.
Lynn: "..."
Alright.
Take back everything I just said.
It seemed that without him around, she really did tend to lose her mind. After all, she was just a hand; the brain was something he kept.
With this kind of pace, and her always talking about cutting ties with him and striking out on her own, she'd probably get tricked and taken away to who-knows-where the moment she stepped out the door.
Lynn stared with dead-fish eyes.
He turned toward the direction of the voice, then smoothly arced around in a circle, pivoting and moving toward the source of all that shouting.
...
Meanwhile.
Within the blood mist.
"Achoo—"
With a mighty sneeze, a little black-haired girl with long, disheveled hair, (ó﹏ò｡) hugging her arms and shivering, was slowly walking forward.
Barefoot on the barren ground, with nothing to cover her body, she had to use her long, waterfall-like hair to barely shield her thin, delicate frame. A long trail of footprints stretched behind her—she had clearly been walking for a while.
She didn't understand exactly what was going on.
But there was one thing that needed no explanation.
Before this, she had always been some guy's left hand, following him (눈‸눈) every day as he climbed mountains, waded through water, and crawled through sewers. She never had to worry about anything else, because even if they ran into monsters, they would definitely go after him first, not the hand.
But what was going on this time?
Why, when she opened her eyes, had she turned into this weird two-legged sheep-like form and been stranded alone in a bizarre place?!
[Ding! Zuo Zuo's Fear +2]
[Ding! Zuo Zuo's Fear +3]
"Brain!! Stupid Brain!!"
She opened her throat and shouted again.
But there was no response at all.
She sneezed forcefully again and shivered.
"Why isn't there anyone here? At least send someone, boohoo."
It was like a young girl suddenly forced to carry a schoolbag and travel alone, completely unprepared. If she happened to run into some wolves or tigers, she wouldn't have any ability to fight back.
She kept walking forward, looking left and right.
And it was right then.
Suddenly, from deep within the blood mist on her left, she heard the faint sound of rustling movement and a low, short cry.
"Squeak—"
Shiver—
Zuo Zuo's hairs instantly stood on end. Her long hair flared up like a cat's, and her whole body froze in place.
She subconsciously swallowed a gulp of saliva, her eyes wide, then turned to look in the direction of the sound.
"Wh... what's that?"
Gurgle gurgle gurgle—
From behind her came the sound of something squirming and crawling.
Zuo Zuo whipped her head around, but behind her, there was nothing except the churning blood mist.
Zuo Zuo was now thoroughly creeped out.
Sure, she had said before that she wasn't afraid of anything, but being thrown alone into a place like this still made her feel a little intimidated.
And right as she was lost in wild thoughts.
Suddenly.
Slap—
She felt a chill on her shoulder, and a slimy tentacle instantly landed on it.
Zuo Zuo's whole body went rigid.
From behind her came the ear-piercing sound of squirming movement, and countless dancing shadows were reflected on the ground in front of her.
Is it... what?
Could it be Stupid Brain?
With his rotten personality, if he heard her shouting, he definitely wouldn't appear normally. After all, he had just played a nasty trick on Doctor 315, and he really was the kind of bastard who liked to show off tentacles.
She widened her big eyes, swallowed another mouthful of saliva, and finally, slowly, she whirled around.
Instantly.
She saw clearly the indescribable, monstrous mass squirming behind her. It was like a huge spider and swollen flesh had been crushed together, with tentacle-like things crawling all over its body, twisted in a way that defied description.
But Zuo Zuo immediately relaxed.
"Stupid Brain, you're sick!!"
Zuo Zuo grabbed the tentacle on her shoulder and yanked it down hard, then angrily stomped on it, slap-slap-slap, crushing it underfoot.
"Turning into some weird thing to try and scare me?! Don't you know that could easily scare a hand to death, ahhh?!"
She pointed at the massive, grotesque fusion of spider and flesh across from her.
She wasn't afraid at all anymore!
Because his disguise was just too shoddy!
"Turning into a giant spider with your big Plague Doctor Mask on its head, don't you think you're underestimating other people's intelligence a bit?!"
Zuo Zuo yelled, pointing at the monster's head.
Right.
On that immense, twisted body, right where the spider's head should be, was an extremely incongruous Raven Mask. Anyone could see something was off.
Zuo Zuo instantly (▼ヘ▼#) climbed up like she was scaling a mountain. Grabbing the spider's barbed, spindly legs, she scrambled up onto its body like she was rock climbing.
Then she grabbed the bristly hair on its body and started yanking it out with force (Angry expression).
"Idiot! Idiot! Change back already!"
"Is this the time to mess with me?! Alice and the others are missing, and you still have the mood to joke around with your left hand?! You're hopeless, you big idiot!"
Slap—
That little girl brutally grabbed the tentacles and (Furious expression) yanked them out.
"Pretend! Pretend! I'll make you pretend!"
...
Deep in the distant blood mist.
Lynn, who had just extended two tentacles, stood frozen, staring at the completely naked little black-haired girl standing on top of that monster's head.
He didn't dare say a word.
