Hunter: I'm really not a mind remover

Chapter 467 For Whom the Death Bell Tolls
The world is divided into two types.

One is the world within cognition, and the other is the world outside cognition.

Six continents, explored sea areas, undeveloped sea areas, imaginary continent groups, dark sea areas, and dark continents.

The real world is made up of these.

But each "part of the world" is divided by a line.

This kind of boundary can represent taboo, danger, or isolation...

Human cognition of the present world is the result of dividing by boundaries.

Boundaries can divide the world as well as regions.

Just like the boundary-defending plants in front of you, it is the embodiment of some kind of boundary.

its existence……

Is it necessary?

Dong Fulishi once thought about this problem, but he still couldn't come to a conclusion.

For the entire Dark Continent, he is really too small.

It's as small as an inconspicuous cell in a human body.

He couldn't judge the significance of the existence of the boundary-defending plants, but he knew that the complexity of the ecological circle of the Dark Continent was unimaginable, and the degree of chaos was beyond ordinary theory.

How to find a trace of order in this chaos, perhaps the meaning of existence of boundary-defending plants?
The answer is unknown.

Dong Fulishi looked back from a certain direction, and turned to quietly staring at the thick tree roots lying on the hillside.

This boundary can divide regions and even ecological circles, but it cannot stop human beings and other creatures with intelligence.

click-

Dong Fulishi walked to the thick tree roots, raised his hand and tore off a vine that throbbed like a pulse from the "lichen" parasitic on the surface of the body.

"..."

Pausing in front of the tree roots for a few seconds, Dong Fulishi suddenly threw the rattan in his hand into the air.

In an instant, the roots whose meaning is the boundary suddenly boiled and changed, and tentacles were born in the boiling phenomenon, and then spread to the lichen and vines thrown into the air by Dong Fulishi.

Dong Fulishi, on the other hand, fearlessly walked towards the tree roots that had turned into a boiling liquid.

I saw that the uplifted and boiling tree roots took the initiative to open a hole for Dong Fulishi to step over.

at the same time.

The dense tentacles that climbed up and spread devoured the lichen vine, and then retracted to the ground at an extremely fast speed, turning back to the original tree root shape.

At this moment, Dong Fulishi has already crossed the boundary and stepped into the area where many coral-like rocks stand.

He didn't look back at the root-shaped boundary-defending plants, but walked forward in one direction.

He wants to meet the group of humans who are traveling this route.

Walking through many coral-like rocks, you can clearly feel the changing terrain.

There is a section of the road that is steep and difficult, but a few hundred meters later is another downhill route.

This kind of route change goes round and round, like a wavy line that keeps up and down.

The sun shines through the hollowed-out caves on the coral rocks, projecting on the rocks with strange lights.

Everyone in the team walked through it, and did not encounter any creatures along the way.

Even so, everyone is always vigilant on the way.

Now that I have traveled to many places, I have a new understanding of the term vastness.

The coral rock area that is currently trekking is also an area that may take at least half a month to cross.

Moyu was already mentally prepared.

Right now, he only hopes to meet a creature with the possibility of communication as soon as possible.

The team moved forward steadily.

Until dusk, when the team passed a hollowed-out coral-like rock block as high as tens of meters, they suddenly heard a faint ticking sound.

"Ok?"

A strange color flashed in everyone's eyes, and they quickly looked at each other.

Kang Jae was the first to ask, "Did you hear any sound?"

"Have."

"It's a small sound, it sounds like a pendulum clock."

"It does sound like a pendulum clock."

Everyone, you speak my word.

They all heard the faint sound of the pendulum clock.

Mo You frowned and said, "I can't tell which direction it is coming from, so don't be careless."

"I know, there's no need for you to remind me of this kind of thing."

Kang Jae's eyes suddenly became serious.

For them who have seen the horror of the Dark Continent, not to mention the ticking of the pendulum clock, even the sound of a small stone rolling down the hillside is worthy of their attention and vigilance.

Bi Siji thought for a while, and suggested: "To be on the safe side, plug your ears first, or go to the space to avoid it."

He suggested it just because he heard a faint ticking sound coming from nowhere, not because Bisji was a frightened bird.

But the Dark Continent itself is an unreasonable place, and we must follow the iron rule of being careful and making no big mistakes.

"Well, go read the space, just take a rest."

Moyu very much agrees with Bi Siji's proposal.

Suddenly encountering a sound of unknown origin in a specific environment, this kind of thing needs to be highly vigilant even in the Six Continents.

After all, some people who release or operate mind-type abilities use "voice" as the activation condition...

For example, the melody in the original work.

She is a dual-element ability user of the emission system and the operation system, and can create the operation system effect only by the sound of the instrument played.

With such vivid reference examples, one must beware of the sudden ticking of the pendulum clock.

After reading this, Moyou manipulated a shadow unit that was always ready, and soon a passage leading to the "Shadow World" appeared at his feet.

"Enter."

Moyou hurriedly urged.

Hearing this, Sambika immediately walked towards the shadow space channel.

She is the person who needs protection the most in the entire team, so she is the first to enter the shadow space every time there is an emergency.

But for some reason, she stopped suddenly after taking two steps, and stood motionless on the spot.

Also at this moment, Moyou noticed that the ticking sound coming from nowhere was much clearer than before, and then saw Sambika's strangeness, and felt bad in his heart.

"Is it similar to the ability of the operating system..."

The figure of Melody quickly flashed across Moyou's mind, his eyes changed, and he quickly looked at other teammates.

But everyone saw the same sluggish expression as Sambika, standing motionless in place.

This phenomenon suddenly shocked Moyou's heart.

Just faintly heard a ticking sound, and then fell into this state directly?
Isn't such an ability too overbearing?
Do you want to send them into the space of thoughts, or find the source of the sound?
Or get rid of...?
No, the number of readings is only three times, which is not enough at all.

And it's unclear what the effect of this voice's ability is.

When Moyou was thinking about the countermeasures quickly, Kang Jae, who was standing not far in front of him, suddenly fell to his knees, and then kowtowed to him!

Boom!
Accompanied by a dull sound, Kang Zai knocked out a gap in the hard rocky ground.

"???"

Mo You was caught off guard by Kang Jae's sudden kowtow.

Before he could react, Kang Zai kowtowed again, and the gravel flew in an instant.

If it weren't for the protection of the mind energy wrapped around his body, Kang Zai's fierce aura when kowtowing would have made a hole in his forehead no matter what.

Mo You then realized that Kang Jae's kowtow behavior was more like self-harm...

"It should be the effect of the tick-tock operation system ability, but after the ability condition is met, the state of mind energy of the controlled target cannot be revoked, and the way of manipulating self-harm is a bit of a joke."

Seeing Kang Zai knocking his head several times in a row to self-mutilate, Moyou's fear of the ticking sound was reduced a lot.

The inability to cancel the mind energy on the manipulated target means that the effect of the ability is not mandatory, but more suggestive.

Compared with the manipulative ability of the operation system that can directly erase the target's consciousness, the hint ability has more room for saving.

Mo You didn't immediately stop Kang Jae from kowtowing.

Because even though Kang Jae was harming himself at the moment, with the protection of Nian Qi, he didn't have to worry about his safety for a while.

While remaining vigilant, he paid attention to the status of the rest of the team.

Perhaps it was the ability effect brought about by the ticking sound that started to activate, and other people except Kang Jae also started various forms of self-mutilation.

It's just that everyone has a layer of "hardness" as a protection, and the way of self-mutilation is quite child's play and sloppy, so don't worry about safety for the time being.

At the same time, Moyu noticed that the ticking sound that echoed in his ears became louder and louder, and the frequency began to become more rapid.

Do not know why--

Moyou felt a rush of impatience from the faster ticking sound.

"Is it because you saw that I didn't win the bid?"

Listening to the louder and louder ticking sound, Moyou tried to find out the location of the sound source while paying attention to the state of his teammates.

He didn't delve into the reason why he was not affected by the sound too much.

Presumably it should be the mental toughness effect of "When the Human Stars Shine".

This may be the first time he has enjoyed the benefits of mental toughness.

The most important thing right now is to find out the unknown object hidden in the dark as soon as possible.

Mo You decided to take the risk, concentrated his mind, and tried his best to distinguish the direction of the sound source.

Tick, tick-

The voice became more irritable, as if trying to stuff all the dissatisfaction into Moyou's ears.

But no matter how the voice changes, Moyou remains unaffected.

A mental toughness of 186% would make him immune to manipulative abilities from the tick.

"found it."

As the sense of presence of the ticking sound became stronger, Moyou finally confirmed the direction of the sound.

It's just that he didn't act immediately, but calmly controlled the shadow who used "hidden" to eliminate the traces and quietly touched the source of the sound.

at this time.

The last afterglow between heaven and earth covers the coral-like rocks that can be seen everywhere, and the numerous hollow holes shape the orange-red light into strange light balls, obliquely reflecting on the ground.

A figure flashed through the orange light.

The figure was about the size of a basketball, and its upper body was a small, simple pendulum clock surrounded by thick branches. There were many gravel-like light spots under the swinging pendulum.

And under the pendulum clock, there is actually an oval copper base, which is supported by slender mechanical feet.

If you only looked at the second half, you would think it was some kind of special crab.

The ticking sound that Moyou and his party heard came from it.

It quickly traveled through the interior of the coral-shaped rocks reflecting the colorful light ball, and the pendulum in the pendulum clock on the base was shaking rapidly, and the ticking sound became more and more rapid.

From a bystander's point of view, it does appear a little impatient.

As for the reason-

It was indeed as Moyou had guessed.

Because the ticking sound had no effect on Moyu, he became irritable.

In order to control Moyou, it accelerated the frequency of the pendulum clock and moved closer to Moyou.

But this move of it exposed its own position.

Moyou saw this unknown object that could barely be called a pendulum clock through the vision of the shadow clone, and then manipulated the shadow clone to attack the pendulum clock from behind without hesitation.

A pendulum clock moves much like a crab, and is quite fast.

But it obviously didn't realize the approach of the shadow clone, and it was only able to react when the shadow clone's attack approached.

And it doesn't make sense to react at this time.

The shadow clone punched the pendulum clock.

Click!

Under this attack, the pendulum clock surrounded by branches suddenly shattered, and many light spots flickering inside it fell to the ground like gravel.

The oval-shaped chassis that originally carried the pendulum clock seemed to have suddenly lost power, and it staggered a few steps forward before slowly falling to the ground.

After manipulating the shadow clone to smash the unknown pendulum clock, Moyou quickly looked at his teammates.

I saw Kang Jae's forehead hit the ground heavily, and then suddenly stopped moving.

The same is true for others, they all stopped their self-harm.

"It should be lifted..."

Looking at the changes in the crowd, Moyou could only wait for the final result when he thought to himself.

But at this moment, a slight wind sound came from above, but it was a human figure falling straight down from the air.

Moyou's pupils shrank slightly, and even though he didn't sense any killing intent, he was still ready to fight back immediately.

However, that figure did not intend to attack Moyou at all, but landed on its head, like a green onion planted straight on the ground.

"people……?"

Moyou was startled, and he looked at this man who suddenly fell from the sky with full vigilance.

The opponent's body was wrapped tightly in vines, and even his face was covered by most of it, only a pair of eyes were exposed.

But it can barely be seen that the other party is a human being.

But why did this person appear on stage with his head on the ground?

A little novel?

Suddenly, Moyou thought of a possibility.

Could it be that this person was also affected by the sound of the pendulum clock, and then resorted to self-mutilation by falling from a height and hitting his head on the ground?

If he had solved the pendulum clock a second earlier, maybe this person would not have to do this?
wrong--

What should be considered now is the origin of this person.

Could it be the native humans of the Dark Continent?

Moyou's thoughts turned quickly, and he carefully looked at the man who fell from the sky in front of him.

While feeling vigilant and alert, it was a little pleasantly surprised.

He needs information urgently now.

The man who fell from the sky was Dong Fulishi who had been pursuing all the way.

Indeed, as Moyou speculated, Dong Fulishi, who had just chased here, was also controlled by the pendulum clock, and then adopted the "jumping building" self-mutilation method.

Now, he's a little embarrassed...

"What am I doing...?"

Kang Jae's blank voice came from beside him.

Moyou glanced sideways at Kangzai, and answered enthusiastically, "I'm kowtowing."

"???"

(End of this chapter)