Chapter 8: Means Are Not Ends

However, without the spiritual bridge, that is, without awakening, why would he be covered with such a shadow-like pollution mark?

The thought body directly killed people?

The Yanren in white was silent for a moment.

The spiritual residue of the old human beings, with a certain characteristic as the core, will form a thought body after being highly condensed.

These thought bodies are like a phenomenon, and basically only act with their own characteristics as the target.

Just like the thought body code-named "sorrow" that was dealt with before, it will only act with the purpose of hunting the "sorrow" thoughts of the old humans or "creating sorrow".

The old humans polluted by it will act with the corresponding people or other things in the events related to "sorrow" that they have experienced as the target.

Although these polluted old humans will show abnormal conditions in their actions, there will be no pollution on their bodies.

Pollution will only leave such pollution marks when the power of the thought body directly takes effect.

In addition, there are the receivers.

After the containment is contaminated, because the mind and body are integrated, if the containment's mind is contaminated, the body will gradually change.

However

Around Yancheng, the containment should all become similar to their mechanical Yan forms.

He looked at the huge Yan wolf:

"Lang An, are there any other contaminated targets nearby?"

The huge Yan wolf raised its wolf-like mechanical Yan head, and its hard, crystal gem-like eyes scanned the surroundings, looking for the traces of the thought body contamination that the two had discovered before.

However, the crystal wolf eyes did not seem to find anything.

"No."

The opening and closing sound of the mechanical Yan was accompanied by a dull tearing feeling. Except for the slightly stiff mechanical tone, it was like the roar of a real beast.

"Really?"

The eyes with vertical lines reflected the falling light, and the white-clothed Yan man responded while moving one step to the right.

The next moment, the two made a move almost at the same time.

The giant mechanical wolf leaped out with a bang, like a meteorite falling from top to bottom.

The white-clothed Yanman was like a white snake lying on the ground, leaving a white trail.

The two mechanical Yans, one man and one wolf, attacked the same location.

Under the attack of the two, there was no movement at the place where the waste was piled.

Boom!!!

With the bang, blood splashed out, staining the white-clothed Yanman and the giant mechanical wolf red.

Such a quiet situation seemed to be beyond the expectations of the two, and they couldn't help but look at each other.

The integration of the spirit and body of the receivers, the attacks launched by their bodies can directly cause damage to things in the form of spirits and to the thought bodies.

Their spiritual power can also directly interfere with entities.

However, the specific interference performance of receivers with different ability types is not consistent.

Their hard eyes looked at each other, and they seemed to see each other's doubts.

However

At this moment, a voice sounded:

"If you dodge, you may die."

Accompanied by the voice, two black shadows rushed out, respectively, towards the white-clothed Yanren and the Jiyan Giant Wolf.

The Jiyan Giant Wolf subconsciously made a dodging action.

The white-clothed Yanren also wanted to retreat, but the moment he had this idea, he felt a strong tearing feeling.

It seemed that if he continued this action, he would be seriously injured or even die.

Even

A black and a white, two-headed snake-like phantom seemed to flash in front of his eyes.

The last time he encountered this situation was when he just became a shelter.

However, this also made him realize one thing.

This is very likely the ability of the thought body.

As his thoughts flashed, he immediately warned his companions:

"Lang An! Don't hide!"

While shouting, he used his ability, and a black snake shadow emerged from behind him, attacking instead of defending, biting the black shadow that pounced on him.

However, although he thought quickly, it was too late when he spoke.

The moment the giant wolf Ji Yan subconsciously retreated and dodged, the black, vague shadow that looked like a bird suddenly accelerated and was about to hit the giant wolf's body.

On the other side of the white-clothed Yanren, the snake shadow that jumped out of his body almost instantly bit the bird shadow to pieces.

The white-clothed Yanren could also feel through the contact of his ability that the black shadow that pounced on him was just a bait to interfere with his vision!

The experience of countless battles with thought bodies or contaminated receivers made him seem to understand what the other party wanted to do.

If he and Lang An retreated together, they would be injured together, and the thought body hiding in the old human's body could escape.

If one of him and Lang An retreated, it would be safer for the other person to take a defensive posture against the thought body.

Then the other party could also take this opportunity to escape!

Direct attack!

Giving up on reinforcing Lang An, the vertical lines in his crystalline pupils flashed, and two snake shadows, one black on the left and one white on the right, pounced towards the corpse at the same time.

However, at this moment, when he attacked the corpse of the old human, he suddenly discovered from the corner of his eye that the bird shadow that pounced towards Lang An suddenly grew larger.

A vague black shadow that was half the size of Lang An and looked like a giant crow pounced on Lang An's head.

He also saw that Lang An opened his huge mouth, and the sharp teeth of the mechanical parts were like several sharp blades interlaced and stabbed together, biting the giant crow, and the sharp teeth seemed to be able to tear the giant crow-like thought body into pieces immediately.

However, the giant crow did not move at the moment it was bitten and torn apart.

The giant crow, which seemed to have lost its ability to resist after being bitten, opened and closed its beak slightly:

"If you attack after being seriously injured, you may be more seriously injured."

Zero distance.

Another shadow-like dark thing tore out from the body of the giant black crow and flew directly into the mouth of the giant wolf.

Oops!

The Yan people in white widened their eyes and realized the danger.

The other party did not intend to escape, but planned to attack at a distance where they could not react and defend immediately!

If he had not known that this was a thought body, he would even think that this was a contaminated receiver, a desperate receiver.

The violent fluctuations of emotions made the two snake shadows that jumped out of his body suddenly grow larger. The phantom giant snake with the sense of mechanical joints returned suddenly with his will and bit towards the giant crow.

When the black crow spoke, the mechanical giant wolf that bit the black crow suddenly stagnated, biting the wolf mouth of the black crow, and loosened half of it as if it had lost its strength.

Black crow, Yao Yan flapped his wings violently, flew up in the pain that spread throughout his body, and flew away without looking back.

He had no intention of risking his life, nor did he think that he could escape by simply running away without fighting.

His means was to create trouble for the pursuers to continue chasing him + escape, and to create the best result in the increase and decrease.

Whether it was to kill the two Yan people, or to injure them severely before running away, or to attack them, it was not the goal, not even the means.

What he wanted, his goal, was to escape from the crisis.

Treat the means as the goal? Or treat the goal as the means?

He would not make such a mistake.

Creating the best opportunity for himself to escape from the crisis was his means.

He did not pursue no injury, nor the fastest, but the most cost-effective result under relatively certain circumstances -

Under circumstances that he could foresee.