Free Web NovelRushing swiftly into the blood mist, Lynn could still feel those furious mechanical consciousnesses hot on his trail through his perception.
At this moment, Lynn immediately recalled what he had just seen and heard.
When he had charged in to rescue Little Treasure earlier, he hadn’t spotted any flesh-and-blood components of the Colossus among those mechanical consciousnesses.
But the bizarre thing was that the hyper-dimensional perception originating from the Colossus was still clearly present.
Lynn glanced sideways.
Clearly, the Mechanical Cult must have tampered with the consciousness of the Colossus’s flesh components in their hands, because Lynn quickly realized that the ones he could establish a connection with were precisely a few of those mechanical consciousnesses.
“Could it be that they’ve used some method to merge the Colossus’s component consciousness with their own mechanical consciousness?”
Lynn’s gaze deepened.
It was highly possible.
As expected from the Mechanical Cult.
They were thoroughly prepared, because if such a technique existed, they could act as locators for the Colossus’s Brain themselves, while also preventing many complications.
And if that were the case.
Then in this mental space, most of the Colossus’s flesh consciousness he could sense would represent dangerous signals.
They had to find Sir Aiwen and Little One quickly, and act ahead of the God of All Machines and the Flesh and Blood Cult before they located the Colossus’s Brain’s consciousness. Otherwise, the Mechanical Cult’s arrival there was only a matter of time.
“Little Treasure, so where the hell have you been all this time? The entire Cursed City outside has blown up. I thought you’d been turned to ashes.”
Little Treasure: “……”
“I know you must be angry with me for leaving you alone back there. Miss Puppet left you a message on the wall, but I know you’re a complete illiterate, so you probably couldn’t read a single word.”
Little Treasure: “……”
“But I want to tell you that after I got back, I cried hard for you. I even personally went all around the Cursed City looking for you, but I just couldn’t find you. I’ve been gloomy and in agony ever since! Look at my eyes—they’re all red from crying!”
Little Treasure: “……”
Lynn sprinted at full speed, his voice gloomy. “Little Treasure, do you have nothing to say to me now? I know I’m a terrible little master, but at least give me some kind of response. Even if you cursed me out, it would set my mind at ease!”
Lynn wiped his suddenly reddened eyes as he ran.
But still, no sound came from behind him.
Zuo Zuo stared wide-eyed, Ծ‸Ծ, glancing back at Little Treasure before whispering to remind him, “Brain, has it ever occurred to you that there might be a possibility—like, even if Big Tongue got his tongue grabbed and dragged forward, he still couldn’t make a sound? Is there any chance of that?”
Lynn froze.
Then he turned his head.
There he saw his hand gripping the tongue protruding from the slit at the tip of Little Treasure’s tongue, and the entire tip of that tongue was covered in one furious wrinkle after another, forming a series of giant “╬” symbols. Little Treasure was being dragged along, leaving a long trail in his wake.
“Hahahahaha!”
Lynn burst into loud laughter and immediately released his grip on Little Treasure’s tongue with a smack, using the hearty laughter to cover up the nonexistent awkwardness.
“Yes, that’s highly possible. Sorry, I grabbed it out of habit, but we don’t need to discuss this now. Little Treasure, you can go ahead and speak freely now!”
Big Tongue opened a mouth-like slit and hissed angrily at him dozens of times.
But because the content was far too vulgar.
No effective translation was possible for it.
Finally, after finishing his cursing, Little Treasure reluctantly hissed out a few normal sentences.
Lynn hesitated. “You’re saying your body is inside the Colossus’s Tower right now? Are you kidding me?! Wasn’t that tower always wrapped up in the Desire Mother Tree’s main trunk? How did you get in?”
Little Treasure replied indignantly, “Hiss hiss hiss! Hiss hiss!”
Lynn was taken aback. “You just naturally walked in?!”
Little Treasure then told Lynn about his experience after waking up. When he came to after the Mind Suppression ended, he only saw the empty battlefield that had been blown open in the center of the Cursed City. Chronologically, that should have been the time after Sir Aiwen appeared and took them away.
And just as Lynn had guessed.
He had indeed seen the message Miss Puppet left for him on the wall.
But expecting a tongue to read words was like expecting a dog to speak human language.
After that, unable to sense their location, he had been wandering and lurking around the Cursed City until he was drawn in by the aura emanating from the Colossus’s Tower.
And Lynn understood that for Little Treasure, the attraction of the Colossus’s Brain far exceeded that of himself. In his inability to find them, the pull of that Blood Source had subconsciously caused him to drift closer to the Colossus’s Tower wrapped in the Desire Mother Tree during his wandering.
But things got increasingly mystical from there.
Lynn frowned. “You’re saying that after unconsciously approaching a certain distance, you suddenly fell into some kind of hallucinatory state, and when you recovered, you were already at the gates of that tower wrapped in the Desire Mother Tree?! And without suffering any attacks?”
Little Treasure vigorously nodded the tip of his tongue up and down.
Instantly.
A massive wave of unease surged up from the depths of Lynn’s heart.
“Not good!”
In that moment, Lynn looked up sharply, realizing the hidden problem.
The Colossus’s Tower wrapped in the Desire Mother Tree—even the God of All Machines had no chance to get close. So how could Little Treasure have safely reached it?!
There was almost only one explanation!
That was the Desire Mother Tree had influenced him, actively controlling him to approach the Colossus’s Brain!
Because Lynn was very clear that during the time he was underground taming Silver Fantasy, the Desire Mother Tree had already been lurking around him, watching the show with a mocking posture. And at that time, she certainly couldn’t have failed to sense that Little Treasure was a component of the Colossus!
And if that were really the case, what was the Desire Mother Tree’s goal?
In that instant.
Lynn came to a sudden halt and sharply looked around at the surrounding blood mist. A massive sense of crisis swept over him.
“She wanted to use you to lure me out in this mental space!”
Lynn roared sharply.
Both Little Treasure and Zuo Zuo shuddered.
Because up to this point, compared to the Colossus’s flesh consciousnesses controlled by the God of All Machines, their weight was clearly greater!
Little Treasure was the Colossus’s tongue, and Lynn was bio-armored with the Colossus’s heart. Together, these two relatively complete consciousnesses were absolutely the key with the greatest weight for finding the Colossus’s Brain!
“Run!”
Lynn bellowed, immediately giving the order to scatter.
But almost the moment that word left his mouth, a gentle breeze suddenly sprang up around their location. The surrounding blood mist swirled into a massive vortex, spinning around them with a roar.
And from the ground beneath their feet, thick vines, like snakes, slowly sprouted and took root, writhing and spreading around them.
