The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 252 Another Personality

The mud beneath our feet was boiling.

The thick, black mud surged and billowed like a giant iron pot thrown into a raging fire.

Lin Nan smelled the scent of the alien species.

From the open wound on her back, little by little, like a cold, venomous snake, it invaded her mental landscape.

It's starting to mutate?!
It was this slight coolness that brought her back to consciousness, which had been fading several times.

Lin Nan quietly opened her eyes, her gaze passing over the tangled insect threads and landing on Su Ping standing in front of her.

The woman's hunched back was exceptionally thin, yet she maintained an elegant posture, but a near-obsessive smile graced her face, her cloudy eyes gazing into the void, as if she were immersed in a self-woven dream—

How sad.

Lin Nan said.

Emotions in the human heart are a terrible thing. Extreme excitement can lead to madness, and extreme loneliness can lead to depression. Any extreme can cause a loss of control over one's personality.

Moreover, people nowadays possess extraordinary abilities, making the path to achieving results simple and brutal. However, while power can protect one, it can also harm one.

Su Ping probably still doesn't realize that in her relentless pursuit of a "new order," she herself has become a tool for plunder.

When emotions devour reason, the spirit is corrupted; this is the true reason for the "mutation" of this world.

It turns out that what the alien said was true; the pollution of the human world has never been the alien's problem.

"Good child, you'll feel better soon, just bear with it a little longer..."

As Su Ping manipulated her spiritual body, she gradually sank into the mud beneath her feet. Her body was undergoing visible changes; grayish-green patches appeared on her skin, like mold spreading on a damp wall, climbing up her neck and wrists.

Her finger joints began to swell and twist irregularly, and her nails became sharp and long, resembling insect legs more than human fingers.

An indescribable sense of madness rose from the bottom of Lin Nan's heart. It felt like magma being scorched by fire was churning in her blood vessels, or like countless needles being pierced into her nerves at the same time, making her whole body tense up, and her body uncontrollably wanted to go crazy and get angry!
These symptoms are remarkably similar to those of citizens who inexplicably become irritable.

So that's how it is. After Su Ping controlled the sound waves of the White Tower, the pollution hidden in her mental power spread to every corner of the city in this way.

This white tower, which once guarded Granville, became the root cause of the entire accident and tragedy.

The guide's mental power is outside the monitoring range, which is why, despite having so many sophisticated devices, the source of pollution could not be found.

Moreover, over the years, Su Ping has used this spiritual power to heal most of the people.

When the last part of the butterfly's wings had burrowed into her body, Lin Nan's eyes completely lost focus, her pupils dilated into a hollow gray-white, no longer able to reflect any light.

Su Ping stood below, watching the unconscious girl in mid-air, a twisted satisfaction appearing on her mutated face. She gently lifted her remaining human finger, manipulating the silken threads to pull Lin Nan's body closer to her.

"It's over... You're mine now..." Her voice was laced with a hoarse cry, her compound eyes gleaming with greed. "This time, I beat her... I won, my good child. Don't be afraid, I will take you to the most prestigious seat..."

After saying that, she closed her eyes, feeling the joy of her soul being reborn in her new body, but as time passed, the expected fusion did not happen.

what happened? !
Su Ping stared in confusion at the girl in front of her who had already lost consciousness.

Just then, an undeniable pressure force forcefully pressed her down into the murky mud.

"Ugh—!"

Su Ping screamed, but the sound quickly disappeared.

The turbid waves swallowed her up, and she instinctively struggled violently, her fingertips futilely scratching at the air, but she couldn't break free from the grip.

Her spiritual entity, already inside the other's body, faced the same situation: a powerful suction force was slowly devouring it. Not only did her soul fail to take over the body, but it also began to experience a tearing, burning pain under that suction force!

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--

Unable to bear the excruciating pain, Su Ping screamed in agony.

Due to the mutation, its throat emitted a mournful howl mixed with the hissing of insects; the pupils of its compound eyes contracted into thin slits due to extreme pain; and large patches of its already aged skin began to peel off, revealing the sinister and terrifying flesh and bones beneath.

No, this is not "fusion", it is "sacrifice"!
By the time Su Ping realized what was happening, it was too late. The butterfly had already been dragged into the abyss by that terrifying monster. Without even a chance to struggle, it turned into dust and disappeared into the vast darkness.

"No...no...you..."

For a human to lose their spiritual body means they are not far from death. Su Ping's lips moved, but she could not utter a complete syllable.

Turbid tears rolled from the surviving human eyes, mingling with the rotting flesh that had fallen from their faces, dripping down the cracks in their bones and splashing into the mud at their feet.

In just a few seconds, a living person vanished without a trace.

The stench of the surrounding swamp dissipated, replaced by a vast expanse of white. The insect threads binding Lin Nan's body dissipated on their own, and he continued to float in mid-air without any assistance.

There is nothing here—no sky, no earth, no physical boundaries—only a faint breeze carrying a pure breath, stirring up tiny particles of light.

Lin Nan felt as if she were in the most primordial space of consciousness, stripped of all concrete constraints, making herself as light as a feather.

【So hungry...】

Deep within my consciousness, that mysterious voice rang out once more, unlike its previous vagueness and weakness. This time, it had finally awakened from its slumber, scanning every corner of my consciousness with hungry eyes.

Immediately afterwards, he made a "gulp" sound, as if he had swallowed something.

It doesn't taste good... I'm still hungry...

He kept repeating this sentence, and a powerful energy burst out from Lin Nan's back, spreading along his bones to his limbs and bones—something was breaking through the soil from there, bursting through his clothes, and growing wildly upwards.

The phantom of a towering tree flashed by, and in the blink of an eye, it grew into an enormous form.

The twelve vines extended and grew outwards from the center of the tree. Wherever they passed, the energy in the white light was absorbed and transformed into nutrients for the vines' growth, making them thicker and stronger.

Not enough... I need more...

The voice carried a satisfied sigh, yet it also gave rise to a new yearning.

As if receiving a command, the twelve vines suddenly accelerated their extension, their tips splitting into countless tiny roots, like a huge green network that quickly filled the white space...

Lin Nan's body, in the center of this green dome, slowly merged with the towering tree behind him.

Her eyes remained lifeless, her pupils like glass veiled in a thin mist, staring blankly ahead, unfocused and devoid of emotion.

But the moment she closed her eyes, an image of a city appeared beneath the tree's vast root system.

This city is bustling with traffic and people coming and going.

The asphalt road was crowded with brightly colored cars, and the sound of horns blared everywhere.
Pedestrians hurried along the sidewalk; some carried ice cream and walked quickly, while others chatted and laughed at the shop windows on the street.

The sounds of cicadas, wind, cars, and human voices... countless subtle sounds surged from the city below, weaving a huge and warm net that enveloped Lin Nan completely.

She felt a sense of warmth and familiarity, as if these sounds had appeared in a distant memory before. Slowly, she lost all consciousness—

(End of this chapter)