Hunter: I’m Really Not a Mind Remover

The world is divided into two kinds.

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

Six continents, explored sea areas, unexplored sea areas, imaginary continental groups, dark sea areas, and dark continents.

The world in the true sense is made up of these.

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

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

Humanity's understanding of the current world is precisely the result of boundaries.

And boundaries can divide the world, and they can also divide regions.

Just like the boundary-guarding plant in front of you, it is the embodiment of a certain boundary.

its existence……

Is it necessary?

Dong Fulisi has thought about this problem before, but has never been able to come to a conclusion.

For the entire dark continent, he is too small.

As small as an inconspicuous cell in the human body.

He could not judge the significance of the existence of boundary-defending plants, but he knew that the complexity of the ecosystem in the Dark Continent was unimaginable, and its degree of chaos could not be explained using normal methods.

How to find a trace of order in this chaos, which may be the meaning of the existence of boundary-guarding plants?

The answer is unknown.

Dong Fulisi's gaze retracted from a certain direction, and he turned to stare at the thick tree roots lying on the hillside.

This boundary can divide regions and even ecological circles, but it cannot stop the footsteps of humans and more other intelligent creatures.

Ta-ta-

Dong Fulis walked to the thick root of the tree, raised his hand and tore off a vine that beat steadily like a pulse from the "lichen" parasitizing the surface of his body.

"..."

After pausing in front of the tree root for a few seconds, Dong Fulis suddenly threw the rattan in his hand into the air.

In an instant, the tree roots whose existence was defined by boundaries suddenly boiled and changed. Tentacles were born from the boiling phenomenon, and then spread towards the lichen vines thrown into the air by Tou Fulis.

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

I saw that the rising and boiling tree roots actually actively opened a hole for Dong Fulisi to step through.

at the same time.

The dense tentacles that climbed up and spread swallowed up the lichen vines, and then retracted to the ground at an extremely fast speed, returning to their original tree root shape.

At this moment, East Fulis has crossed the boundary and entered an area where many coral-like rocks stand.

He didn't look back at the root-like border-guarding plant, but instead stepped forward in one direction.

He wanted to meet the group of humans traveling on this route.

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

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

This route changes over and over again, like a wavy line that keeps going up and down.

Sunlight shines through the hollow caves on the coral rocks, projecting all kinds of strange light shapes on the rock ground.

The team walked through it and did not encounter any living creatures along the way.

Despite this, everyone was always vigilant during the journey.

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

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

Moyu was mentally prepared.

Now, he just hopes to meet a creature with the possibility of communication soon.

The team moved forward steadily.

Until dusk, when the team was passing a hollow coral-like rock mass tens of meters high, they suddenly heard a faint ticking sound.

"Um?"

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

Kang Zai asked first: "Did you hear anything?"

"have."

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

"It does sound like a pendulum."

Everyone said something to me.

They all heard the faint sound of the pendulum clock.

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

"I know, you don't need to remind me about this kind of thing."

Kang Zai's eyes suddenly became serious.

For them who have seen the horrors of the Dark Continent, let alone the ticking sound of a pendulum clock, even the sound of a pebble rolling down a hillside is worthy of their attention and vigilance.

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

He just heard a faint ticking sound coming from nowhere, and it was not because Bisiki was frightened.

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

"Well, let's go to the space and take a break."

Moyu strongly agreed with Bisji's proposal.

Sudden encounter with an unknown voice in a specific environment requires a high degree of vigilance even in the Six Continents.

After all, some people who release or manipulate telekinesis abilities use "sound" as the activation condition...

For example, the melody in the original work.

She is a user with dual telekinesis abilities of both release and operation systems. She can produce operation system effects just by the sound of musical instruments she plays.

With such a clear reference example, you must be wary of the sudden ticking of the pendulum clock.

Thinking of this, Moyu controlled a shadow unit that was always ready, and soon materialized a passage leading to the "Shadow World" at his feet.

"Enter."

Moyu urged quickly.

After hearing this, Sambika immediately walked towards the shadow space passage.

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

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

At this time, Moyu noticed that the ticking sound coming from nowhere was much clearer than before, and then he saw Sambika's strangeness, and felt something bad in his heart.

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

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

But he saw that everyone had the same dull look on their faces as Sambika, standing motionless.

This phenomenon immediately shocked Moyu.

Just vaguely heard the ticking sound, and ended up falling directly into this state?

Then such an ability is too overbearing, right?

Should we send them into the mind space, or find the source of the sound?

Or except Nian...?

No, the number of times of elimination is only three times, which is not enough at all.

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

Just as Moyu was thinking about countermeasures quickly, Kang Zai, who was standing not far in front of him, suddenly fell to his knees and kowtowed towards him!

Boom!

With a dull sound, Kang Zai suddenly made a gap in the hard rock ground.

"???"

Moyu was caught off guard by Kang Zai's sudden kowtow.

Before he could react, Kang Zai kowtowed heavily again, causing gravel to fly in an instant.

If it weren't for the protection of mind energy wrapped around his body, Kang Zai's ferocious aura when kowtowing would have caused a gash on his forehead no matter what.

Moyu then realized that Kang Zai’s kowtowing behavior was more like self-mutilation...

"It should be the effect of the ticking operating system ability. It's just that after the ability conditions are met, the state of mind energy of the controlled target cannot be canceled, and the way of manipulating self-harm is a bit funny."

Seeing Kang Zai's self-mutilation behavior of kowtowing his head several times in succession, Moyu'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 coercive, but more suggestive.

Compared with the operation system's coercive ability that can directly erase the target's consciousness, the suggestive ability has more room for redemption.

Moyu did not immediately stop Kang Zai from kowtow.

Because although Kang Zai is hurting himself at the moment, he is protected by his mind energy, so he won'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 the ability effect brought about by the ticking sound started to activate, and everyone except Kang Zai also started various forms of self-mutilation.

It's just that everyone has a layer of "hardness" on their bodies for protection, and the way of self-mutilation is quite childish and careless, so there is no need to worry about safety for the time being.

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

Do not know why--

Moyu felt an impatience from the ticking sound that became faster in frequency.

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

Listening to the increasingly louder ticking sound, Moyu paid attention to the status of his teammates while trying to find the location of the sound source.

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

I guess it's the mental toughness effect of "When Humanity's Stars Shine".

For perhaps the first time, he enjoyed the benefits of mental toughness.

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

Moyu decided to take advantage of the danger and concentrated on trying to identify the direction of the sound source.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock——

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

But no matter how the voice changed, Moyu remained unaffected.

186% mental toughness makes him immune to Tick's manipulation abilities.

"found it."

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

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

at this time.

The last ray of light between heaven and earth covers the strange coral-like rocks that can be seen everywhere. The numerous hollows shape the orange-red light into strange balls of light, which are reflected diagonally on the ground.

A figure passed through the orange-red light.

The figure is about the size of a basketball, and its upper body is a small and simple pendulum clock surrounded by thick branches. There are many gravel-like light spots below the pendulum that is swinging left and right.

And underneath the pendulum clock, there is actually an oval copper base, which is held up by slender mechanical legs.

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

The ticking sound that Moyu and his party heard was coming from it.

It moved quickly through the interior of the coral-like rock that reflected the colorful ball of light. The pendulum in the pendulum clock on the base was shaking rapidly, and the ticking sound it made became more and more rapid.

From the perspective of an onlooker, it does appear to be a bit impatient.

As for the reason——

It was exactly what Moyu had guessed.

Because the ticking sound had no effect on Moyo, it became impatient.

In order to control Moyu, it increased the frequency of the pendulum bell and moved closer to Moyu.

But its move revealed its position.

Moyu saw this unknown object that could barely be called a pendulum clock through the shadow clone's vision, and then without hesitation, he controlled the shadow clone to attack the pendulum clock from behind.

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

But it obviously didn't realize the shadow clone's approach. It didn't react until the shadow clone's attack came.

And there is no point even reacting at this time.

The shadow clone punched the pendulum clock.

Click!

Under this attack, the pendulum clock surrounded by branches suddenly fell into pieces, and the many flashing light spots within it fell to the ground like gravel.

The oval-shaped chassis that originally supported the pendulum clock seemed to have suddenly lost power. It staggered forward a few steps and then slowly fell to the ground.

After controlling the shadow clone to destroy the unknown pendulum clock, Moyu quickly looked at his teammates.

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

The same was true for the others, who all stopped their self-mutilation behavior.

"It should be lifted..."

Looking at the changes in everyone, Moyu thought to himself and could only wait for the final result.

But at this moment, a slight sound of wind came from above, but a humanoid figure fell straight down from the sky.

Moyu's pupils shrank, and although he did not sense any killing intent, he was still ready to fight back immediately.

However, the figure had no intention of attacking Moyu, but instead landed on its head, like a green onion planted straight on the ground.

"people……?"

Mo You was startled and looked at this person who suddenly fell from the sky with vigilance.

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

But he could barely tell that the other person was a human being.

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

A bit novel?

Suddenly, Moyu 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 high altitude and landing on his head?

If he had just solved the pendulum clock one second earlier, maybe this person wouldn't have to do this, right?

wrong--

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

Could it be the indigenous humans of the Dark Continent?

Moyu's thoughts were spinning rapidly, and he carefully looked at the man who fell from the sky in front of him.

Although I felt vigilant, I was also a little surprised.

He needs information now.

This person who fell from the sky is Dong Fulisi who has been pursuing him all the way.

Indeed, as Moyu speculated, Dong Fulisi, who had just chased here, was also manipulated by the sound of the pendulum clock, and then adopted a "jumping off building" method of self-mutilation.

Now, he is a little embarrassed...

"What am I doing...?"

Kang Zai's confused voice came from the side.

Mo You glanced sideways at Kang Zai and answered enthusiastically: "I'm kowtow."

"???"