The skin of the 'beast' was dark red, and its bulging muscles were covered with a layer of fine scales. Its bald skull was wrapped in a thick layer of wrinkled skin. The top of its skull was deeply caved in, and its eyes bulged out. Its pupils were dark red, and its background was dark yellow. Its mouth and nose were almost indistinguishable, forming a circle of dark purple that looked like a paste. Saliva flowed from its mouth, making it ugly and ferocious.
Just by looking at its appearance, there was no doubt that it was some kind of mutant species. It looked a little like a gibbon, but it was a hundred times uglier.
Luo Nan didn't know whether or not this fellow belonged to the type of Mutant that had already been discovered. In any case, he had no impression of it at all, so he gave it the name of Mushed Mouth Ape at the last minute.
At this moment, the Rotten Mouth Ape was staring straight at him with its crimson eyes. It was clear that the enemy was able to lock onto Luo Nan's specific location on the mental plane even though the enemy was unable to attack him. Just this point alone surpassed the vast majority of people Luo Nan had encountered.
After about a minute, the Mushed Mouth Ape seemed to have grown tired of the pointless staring. Its strong body slowly sank and disappeared into the clouds. Its gaze never left Luo Nan's location until the very end. Its gaze was turbid, but it possessed the cruelty and greed of a predator.
This made Luo Nan understand that this Mushed Mouth Ape was treating him as prey. It had no intention of giving up in the short term. As long as it grasped the opportunity to break through the isolation on the mental plane, it would slaughter its way over without the slightest hesitation. It would tear Luo Nan to pieces, then it would devour and digest him.
Some time later, Luo Nan's thoughts were verified.
Sure enough, the Mushed Mouth Ape didn't leave. It maintained a high level of patience and intense desire. It constantly wandered around Luo Nan's surroundings, ready to make a move. Sometimes, it really did launch an attack. Its tyrannical and overbearing attack pattern was able to exert pressure on Luo Nan even if its attacks failed.
From this point alone, the Mushed Mouth Ape truly lived up to its name as a top predator. It was trying to turn a failed ambush into a marathon of death that tested its endurance and determination.
Controlling his soul in the depths of the mental plane at all times to avoid the attack range of the Mushed Mouth Ape was indeed quite tiring. He had to use the 'cloak' to interfere at all times, and the consumption of his soul power was considerable.
But it needed to be emphasized once more: Luo Nan wasn't afraid of consumption. He wasn't afraid of consumption. He wasn't afraid of consumption!
Important things must be repeated three times.
It wasn't easy to move around in the depths of the mental plane. The current rate of soul power consumption had indeed surpassed the output of the 'production line', but only by a little. It was like the evaporation of seawater by the sun. Although the amount was considerable, compared to the total amount of seawater, the consumption was negligible in a short period of time.
If Luo Nan wanted to, he could race this Mushed Mouth Ape for several days and nights. They would see who would tire out first.
However, Luo Nan didn't have any thoughts of torturing himself. He was even more unwilling to waste his precious time on a meaningless chase. After taking the opportunity to observe for half an hour, he sped up with all his might. With the astonishing flying speed of his soul body, he forcefully shook off the Mushed Mouth Ape's pursuit and regained his peace.
Even though Luo Nan had gotten rid of the threat, he saw that the cloud region that Gear and the external neuron had guided him to had such a vicious being. This greatly exceeded Luo Nan's expectations.
Luo Nan wasn't purely observing the Mutant during the previous half hour of pursuit. He followed the scouting method he had just learned not too long ago. He circled around a temporarily set center, crossed and flew, and did his best to expand the range of his senses.
He was unable to obtain an exact number at the moment, but he made a rough estimate. His soul body continued to expand outwards at high speeds. The cross-sectional area it covered probably exceeded ten thousand square kilometers. It was a vast airspace with a diameter of a hundred kilometers. It was equal to the size of the core city area of Xia City.
But not only did he not discover the limits of the cloud layer, even the top, bottom, and four directions became blurry in the end. Only one thing was clear. The Mushed Mouth Ape he encountered had appeared again and again in this airspace.
He no longer had any thoughts of two or three kittens. Even though there were only a few of these valiant and tyrannical kittens in the hundred-kilometer area, it was still too crowded for apex predators.
They moved like lightning, and their range of activity was frighteningly large. Luo Nan tried to lock onto two of them. He only followed them for a few minutes before the targets jumped out of the limits of his senses. But at the same time, new Mushed Mouth Apes leaped in.
Last time, Luo Nan had only stayed here for a dozen or so seconds due to falling from a high altitude. He had avoided a direct confrontation with them. It was simply first-rate luck.
Sigh. He seemed to have overlooked something …. He needed to sort it out.
First of all, his encounter in the atrium of Gear and the marvelous use of the external neuron proved that his mother, and that person, had come here back then.
Second of all, regardless of his mother's fate, they had indeed escaped unscathed back then.
Luo Nan made a rough estimate of the Mushed Mouth Ape's strength. Judging from its attack power alone, it should be above B-rank, not yet A-rank. And it seemed to live in groups. It could be said to be quite terrifying. There were a limited number of similar locations on Earth, and all of them were places where even Extraordinaries had to take a detour.
Did his parents already possess this level of strength back then?
It was truly impossible to judge from the bits and pieces of information related to his mother in his memories. Luo Nan could not deny this possibility, but there were other explanations. For example, the cloud world back then wasn't this dangerous ….
This thought popped up in Luo Nan's mind because he noticed that only the Mushed Mouth Ape and the others flew through the cloud layer. They were extremely monotonous. According to his limited knowledge of ecology, this didn't make much sense.
Even if they were Mutants, they were still a type of living creature. They needed to survive at the very least, and eating was the most basic. The Mushed Mouth Ape did indeed possess a powerful desire to hunt, but the cloud layer environment was too monotonous. So far, Luo Nan had only discovered this type of living creature. There were no others. There were no other minerals or plants with high energy densities that could be ingested. The basic conditions for feeding them were not present.
In addition, even though they maintained a distance from each other and maintained vigilance, Luo Nan couldn't see any intense desire to kill each other. Devouring each other and the like was not a normal option.
Of course, Luo Nan considered the Mushed Mouth Ape to be a Mutant, to be a living creature. If this thing was a fantasy breed that ate the wind and drank dew, a legendary demonic god, then Luo Nan would ignore what Luo Nan said.
Was this the case?
The possibility was very, very low. Luo Nan was temporarily unable to draw a Life Sketch for the Mushed Mouth Ape due to the interference of the powerful life magnetic field. However, the berserk and scorching life energy could not be faked, let alone the corporeal desire to hunt.
All in all, Luo Nan concluded that these Mushed Mouth Apes were very likely affected by special factors. They had temporarily entered this area.
For example, hunting prey.
The Mushed Mouth Ape that had just killed Luo Nan not only possessed brilliant and skilled hunting techniques, but its choice of attack was also very appropriate. It hunted with caution and patience, as if it had practiced this frequently. Luo Nan drew a simple inference from this. They should have a target, at least in the near future:
They were adept at roaming the mental plane. They very likely possessed the ability to interfere with the material world.
They possessed a certain counterattack method. They had even caused a vicious Mutant of B-rank strength to suffer a loss.
They were mainly active in the cloud layer, but it was very likely that they had gone to other places and provoked a pile of trouble.
All right, there must be a target …. Luo Nan's chaotic thoughts finally became clear. But after becoming clear, his first thought was to slap himself in the face.
If his guess was correct, he had personally thrown the target in. It was that Snake Tongue!
That's right. He had hurriedly entered and exited the cloud layer through Gear that day. Luo Nan still had Snake Tongue, who had suffered a backlash from the curse, in his hands. He didn't know how he had thrown Snake Tongue away, but he thought about it carefully. Indeed, it was most likely that he had thrown her here.
If this was the case, Snake Tongue wouldn't have suffered a backlash from the Nightmare Vine Spell while she was in a fugue state. She shouldn't have fallen to her death and been here for ten days, right?
Luo Nan was a layman when it came to the curse branch. But after that day, he did some understanding of Snake Tongue. He knew that this woman was one of the few curse experts of the inner world. Her mental state was extremely formidable. No matter how fierce the backlash from the curse was, it wouldn't be able to trap her for long.
If he were to consider this line of thought, then the current situation would have a relatively clear explanation.
Of course, this was pure conjecture. Perhaps his mind was obstructed, and his train of thought was wrong, leading him in the opposite direction.
But in any case, Luo Nan's current mood was showing signs of worsening.
The joy and sense of accomplishment from overcoming countless difficulties and finally entering the cloud world had long since been scattered and scattered by the volcanic eruption of the Mushed Mouth Ape.
But before he could sort things out, he thought about the matter with Snake Tongue.
He thought about the great secret his mother had hidden for many years. He didn't even have a clue about the bizarre and wonderful cloud world, and he had been tossed about by a wandering soul for ten days.
What if some extremely valuable clue was destroyed by Snake Tongue? Or perhaps she deliberately hid it and spread it? What should he do?
The more he thought, the more anxious he became. Luo Nan made a firm resolution to find Snake Tongue. If she was alive, he wanted to see her. If she was dead, he wanted to see her …. Even if he was dead, he wanted to see convincing evidence.
Luo Nan pondered for a moment and chose to follow a Mushed Mouth Ape. He would observe it for a long time before making a decision.
But the stalking didn't go smoothly. Luo Nan's chosen target wasn't the one that had attacked him before. It was just a random choice. This fellow's body was a bit smaller, but it was just as valiant. Luo Nan was deep in the mental plane, exceeding the attack range of the Mushed Mouth Ape, but the ape still sensed him.
The long stalking caused the target to react greatly. It turned around to chase and attack many times, but it was never able to touch Luo Nan's true body. It became extremely manic, constantly going in circles, refusing to cooperate.
Luo Nan was annoyed, but he couldn't help but sigh in admiration at the same time. Such keen senses and the ability to suppress the material and mental planes at the same time were simply perfect methods in the domain that the Mushed Mouth Ape could reach.
From the information obtained by the Society, Extraordinaries were excluded from the various ability users due to the different nature of their abilities.
For example, the Format of Fire of the Burner could attack a Darksider species like the Human-Faced Arachnid, but its destructive power was a bit weaker than in the material world. It wasn't like the Mushed Mouth Ape. Its destructive power was astonishing no matter what plane it was on, and there was no obvious loss in conversion.
As for how it was used, how much experience could Luo Nan earn from observing it a few times? Even if Luo Nan wanted to copy it, it would be hard for him to do so. He could only drool at the Mushed Mouth Ape's methods.
Time passed like this, second by second. Luo Nan knew that it would be hard to find any clues related to Snake Tongue if this continued. He was just about to change his train of thought when a strange feeling spread over from the other side of the void.
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