Black Beetle really was playing dead.
Though Luo Nan's second mental attack was much stronger than the first, there was still an end to it. After enduring the most painful period, Black Beetle regained his soul and regained his ability to move.
However, Black Beetle could no longer find his position in the current situation. He saw it clearly. This group of people from Headquarters were all unreliable cold-blooded people. After he made a move against Luo Nan, he severed his friendship with the Xia City branch. He did a pirate-style jump and finally smashed into the sea.
Right now, Black Beetle hated Luo Nan to the core. He hated Puppeteer to the core, and his teeth itched. Presumably, both sides felt the same way about him.
Black Beetle didn't know how to deal with this awkward situation. He could only lie on the ground and play dead. He thought about how to adapt to the situation. It would be best if the sandpiper and the clam could fight and the fisherman could profit from it. But if not, he would retreat unscathed.
Who would have thought that Luo Nan would talk about those inexplicable concepts right when the two sides were about to completely forget about him? Then Luo Nan picked him up in passing.
What happened next?
The 'demonstration' caused a chill to run down Black Beetle's back. Luo Nan didn't have any good intentions. Should Black Beetle continue to play dead? Or should he rise up in revolt?
Black Beetle was so conflicted that he wanted to hit the ground.
Luo Nan didn't care about Black Beetle's reaction at all. His voice didn't even pause. "From what I can see, Black Beetle's gear set, oh, I mean order frame, has a total of four gears inside and out. In the middle is a large gear formed from the structure of body and soul. Practically all power must circulate through it. Every ability user must possess such a central hub. "
This was relatively simple, and Puppeteer had no trouble understanding it. However, Puppeteer's attention was a bit off. His ice-cold gaze swept back and forth over Black Beetle's motionless body.
Needless to say, Puppeteer believed eighty percent of Black Beetle's story of Luo Nan playing dead. Puppeteer had let Black Beetle down earlier, but since he had offended Black Beetle, there was no point in thinking too much about it. Puppeteer was more concerned about how to deal with this variable.
"Black Beetle has an outer gear aside from the central gear. That is, the twenty-seven beetles scattered on the viewing platform and the six beetles in his necktie. "
The precise number Luo Nan spoke drew Puppeteer's attention back. Luo Nan gave a rough sense. The numbers scattered on the platform should be about the same. However, that gaudy necktie was Black Beetle's core tool. It was always hidden tightly. How did Luo Nan confirm it?
After hesitating for a moment, Puppeteer decided not to take it seriously.
Luo Nan continued to speak, "The thirty-three beetles appear to be scattered, but they are actually intimately connected through the activation of soul strength. They can form another gear structure at any time. This method should be more flexible, and it wouldn't matter if he threw a few of them. However, the material was relatively brittle, and if he really used it, it would probably only have enough power for one attack.
"Hmm, also, his necktie looks pretty good. It should be polished with gears often. What I mean is that he often uses interference force to communicate with his Qi. It can be used as a medium for activation, and it's not that fragile, so it should be more practical."
"It's Insect Explosion and Poison Sting. The former is a corrosive poisonous mist, while the latter is a killing move of the Flexible Sword Style. They are Black Beetle's two secret skills." Zhang Yingying's voice passed through the wristband to supplement Luo Nan's words. It allowed the stupefied Xue Lei to hear it a bit more clearly.
At the same time, Xue Lei could tell that Zhang Yingying's voice was a bit shaky at the end. "What the hell!"
"What the hell!"
Black Beetle was unable to hear Puppeteer's thoughts. He was also unable to hear Zhang Yingying's explanation, but he didn't need to. Even though he was unfamiliar with descriptions like Gear and order frame, what Luo Nan said was something that had fused into his blood. It was the foundation of his foothold in this world. Now that Luo Nan had pointed them out one by one, it would be strange if he felt comfortable.
Black Beetle was instinctively unwilling to believe it.
"No, no, this isn't logical! Oh, think about it. My information is confidential, but the Society is a place with openings on all sides. Zhang Yingying and that mechanical woman know my ins and outs. This little bastard probably knew the result long ago, so he used that so-called order frame of his to wrap things up and mess with my mind? Or maybe this kid doesn't care if I'm awake or not. He just wants to use me to divert Puppeteer's attention? "
The more Black Beetle thought, the more suspicious he became. The more he thought, the angrier he became. He was conflicted in his mind for quite a while, but he still clenched his teeth and made a decision. He would deal with the myriad of changes by remaining unchanged. In any case, his face was stuck to the ground. He might as well just leave his face on the ground. He would just treat Luo Nan's words as farts, and he wouldn't move!
At this time, Puppeteer took the initiative to ask Luo Nan, "Didn't you say there are four gears? There are only two. "
"The third gear is a bit different from the first two. It is independent from Black Beetle's body and soul structure. It's called coupling, but it's more like a parasitic. Parasitism... can also be considered a type of coupling. I think it counts. "
Luo Nan's words were unclear, but they nailed Black Beetle to the ground the instant they entered his ears.
"Impossible!"
Black Beetle felt as if someone had used an ice blade to cut open the back of his neck. A bone-piercing chill and pain spread from the center of his spine to the two ends. In the blink of an eye, even his toes were covered in ice.
Others might be confused, but Black Beetle's mind was crystal clear.
What Luo Nan was talking about was his life bug.
The source of his ability was a Mutant beetle. He had accidentally swallowed it into his stomach in his early years, and it fused with his extraordinary power to build a unique ability structure. He had nurtured it for many years, and the Mutant Demon Bug had already been deeply rooted within his body. It had become the most important foundation of his ability.
This was the number one secret of his life. He had always kept it rotten in his stomach, never mentioning it to anyone. How could Luo Nan possibly know? Unless … Unless this kid had a pair of clairvoyant eyes that could see through his internal organs and see through all of his secrets!
It was also at this time that Black Beetle recalled the feeling of being transparent and bright, unobstructed and unobstructed.
The wind blew through the gaps, and the light shone on the earth. Was there a pair of incorporeal eyes behind this unfathomable sense of transparency? Staring at him all the time, not leaving a single hair behind?
Black Beetle's heart beat wildly with this thought. He slapped the ground across his chest, and the aura on his body fluctuated. Everyone present had keen senses. Naturally, it was impossible to hide it from them.
"This kid is really playing dead!" Xue Lei had a straightforward temperament. He shouted out.
"Go f * cking die!"
Even though Black Beetle's face was pressed against the ice-cold ground, it was as if a fire had been ignited at this moment. An explosion rang in Black Beetle's mind, and a buzzing noise similar to tinnitus poured into his mind. This noise was mixed with emotions of fear and fury. It was like a rising flame, incinerating his plan of playing dead into ashes.
He suddenly bent his elbows and straightened his body. Whether it was his body or his consciousness, his first reaction was to charge forward and tear apart the demon that had exposed the greatest secret of his life.
Xue Lei had been moving forward by half a body's length from beginning to end. Now he took a diagonal step, blocking Luo Nan behind his broad shoulders.
Speed wasn't Black Beetle's strong suit, but strange shifting was engraved in his bones. Even though his mind was a mess right now, Black Beetle still instinctively chose to move when faced with Xue Lei's rock-solid stance.
With a few slight movements, Black Beetle shifted Xue Lei's center of gravity, and he saw the face behind Xue Lei.
A small portion of Luo Nan's face was revealed. He only had one eye, and only a slit could be seen in his eye socket. The deep red color absorbed all the light, and it was pitch-black. It transformed into an incorporeal pressure that pressed against Black Beetle's chest.
"There's still the fourth gear. I just put it on not too long ago."
Before Puppeteer could finish speaking, a gale rose on the half-open viewing platform, and Xue Lei and Black Beetle collided together. Explosions rang out one after another, and Luo Nan's hoarse and weak voice drifted away. It was far away, and Puppeteer might not be able to hear it clearly unless he focused his mind.
Puppeteer wasn't sure if Luo Nan was talking to him or not, but it sounded very much like Luo Nan's tone.
"The fourth gear doesn't belong to him at all. It comes from the outside. At first, it served a defensive function. It was like a lampshade, shielding against mental attacks. But right now, the coupling method has changed. It has changed from a lampshade to a lasso …. "
Black Beetle grunted and retreated. Xue Lei's close combat ability was at least a level higher than his own. Black Beetle had no chance of victory in a direct confrontation. Plus, Luo Nan's voice lingered by his ear without dispersing. Luo Nan's words pierced his mind over and over again, making it hard for Black Beetle to continue fighting.
Black Beetle shifted his body greatly to the side. He no longer exposed his back to Puppeteer. Instead, he formed a long and narrow triangle before stopping. He gasped for breath slightly. His gaze first stared at Luo Nan, then turned to Puppeteer. Then, his gaze flitted across the various shadows of the platform. His mind wavered like his gaze.
As for Luo Nan and Puppeteer, the gazes cast over from both sides seemed to be quite subtle.
Intense unease and fear materialized, rolling within Black Beetle's chest and abdomen. "Snake Tongue. Give me a reply …."
What responded to him was a hissing sound. It was quiet and dark, like the hissing of a viper in the darkness. Scales slithered. Black Beetle was overwhelmed with shock when he wanted to move. A terrifying feeling of numbness rose from his abdomen all the way up, drowning his internal organs and drowning his throat. The power of the numbness continued to rise.
A buzzing sound pierced into his brain.
Black Beetle's eyeballs bulged, and veins crawled over the whites of his eyes. His eyes were filled with fear and despair. This was his life bug. He had always carefully kept it within his abdomen, keeping it separate from his internal organs. But now, the demon bug had gone out of control.
The Mutant demon bug's terrifying instincts awoke under the influence of the strange hissing sound. It bit its way through Black Beetle's intestines, stomach, chest, throat, and all the way to the brain.
Black Beetle wanted to struggle, but his opponent didn't give him any chance. As the feeling of numbness and the buzzing sound of the bug entered his brain, his consciousness darkened. His spiritual light was lost forever.
The violent wind masked Luo Nan's long and drawn out sigh.
Luo Nan didn't want to save Black Beetle. He just wanted to give Black Beetle a warning and trip up his opponent's secret plan. However, he never thought that Black Beetle's methods would be so ruthless. Black Beetle had directly awakened the Mutant bug parasitizing within Black Beetle's abdomen. The roles of host and guest were reversed.
Black Beetle died rigidly in the wind. He was thoroughly dead. Right now, his body only existed as the exoskeleton of the Mutant demon bug. He was tossed about at will.
Xue Lei wasn't too sure. He sized up Black Beetle with vigilance and asked Luo Nan, "Is he …."
Luo Nan nodded. "Dead."
Before Xue Lei could finish speaking, Black Beetle opened his mouth. "Yasakasha."
"...."
Black Beetle wiggled his lips, tongue, and throat. The range was very clear, but his voice was vague and hoarse. When he used too much strength, a green spike even protruded from his mouth. It even swayed left and right.
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