155: Chapter 155: The Dazzling Debut of Li Mumu!
155: Chapter 155: The Dazzling Debut of Li Mumu!
[Your name is Li Mumu, born on April 4, 1357, in Safo City on the West Coast of the Federation.
You are a third-generation Chinese immigrant, with one-sixteenth Italian bloodline; you have a complete family and a blissfully happy childhood…]
[…Finally, that Evil Spirit claiming to have traveled back from a future era has died, and you have reclaimed your own flesh.]
“Shut up!
Stop talking in my head!”
Li Mumu stood up, spreading her four hands in front of her, her face showing a look of disgust.
Then she lifted her foot and delivered a powerful kick to the head on the ground.
With a bang, the tightly closed door was smashed open by the head, leaving a hole behind.
Li Mumu pushed the door open and walked out, picking up the head from the ground and holding it in front of herself.
“Now, who’s the copy?
Huh?
Speak up!”
The head was, of course, mute, and the feeling of her two sets of eyes looking at each other was also uncomfortable; staring too long would make her dizzy.
Li Mumu held the head in one hand, while her other hand took out a surgical knife, another hand picked up a notebook, and yet another hand scratched her head.
“Let me think…
forget it, I won’t think about it.
I’ll go find Wendy first, heh, thanks for the reminder.”
The plethora of knowledge crammed into her brain occupied a large amount of memory, making her thinking sluggish.
What kind of sane person uses two heads to study two books at the same time?
You don’t even have magic power; what’s the use of learning witchcraft?
Crazy!
The feeling of swelling in her brain made Li Mumu wish she could crack open her skull, take out her brain, and rinse it under a faucet to cool off.
If only she could wash away the knowledge that had been forcibly crammed in.
The hallway was dimly lit and deathly silent.
Li Mumu, holding the head, walked to the room next door, which belonged to Li Ya and Mu Yuming.
About to knock on the door, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a plaque in the corner of her eye along the hallway.
“Welcome to Olympus.”
From her memories, the text on that plaque should have said “Welcome to Cosmos.”
Olympus…
why did that name sound so familiar?
[You suddenly remember, in that world you accidentally entered last time, those giants walking in the sky, that huge ship docked at the harbour.]
“Shut up!”
“I’m not that social-phobic shut-in loser.
I don’t need you to repeat what I’m thinking!”
Li Mumu raised her hand and knocked on the door noisily.
The knocking sound broke the silence of the corridor, and it was a while before the door was opened from the inside.
The one who opened the door was Mu Yuming, who managed to squeeze out a somewhat humanized smile at the sight of Li Mumu: “Mumu…”
Pfft—
Li Mumu raised her hand and stabbed Mu Yuming in the throat.
A thin line of blood spread across Mu Yuming’s throat, but before he could react, Li Mumu kicked him in the chest and into the room.
Entering the room and closing the door behind her, Li Mumu raised the surgical knife and coldly asked the expressionless Li Ya sitting on the bed, “What are you creatures?”
Li Ya tilted her head and didn’t answer, Li Mumu didn’t care whether she responded or not and glanced at the notebook.
“Elemental Body detected – Miasma Giant, distance 1”
“Elemental Body detected – Miasma Giant, distance 2”
“Elemental Body detected – Miasma Giant, distance…”
The pages of the notebook were filled with dense text.
“Well, aren’t you having a sea outing group-build,” Mumu said mockingly.
Not waiting for Li Ya to react, Li Mumu walked over and swiftly slit her throat.
If they had been ordinary people, that cut would have been enough to end their lives.
However, it was clear that at this moment, Li Ya and Mu Yuming in this place were obviously not her biological parents.
This fleshly shell was nothing more than their disguise.
Gray smoke poured out of the mouths and noses of the two corpses, quickly enveloping the entire room.
However, Li Mumu remained unmoved.
Only the unknown was truly frightening, but once she had understood the true nature of these things, they had lost their threat.
“Modern Magic has eight major branches, ritual, idol, transducer, transformation, synaesthesia…
Which category do you belong to?”
Li Mumu lifted her eyes, void of any light, and looked coldly at the smoke taking shape on the ceiling.
“Mutated Elemental Bodies, freaks spawned by modern industrial civilization without natural selection, lacking even the most basic survival instincts.
I see now, this is irredeemable trash.”
Putt— Putt—!
The two plumes of smoke scattered into black mud.
Without a second thought, she killed two Elemental Bodies, then looked pensively at the two motionless corpses on the floor.
Without the support of the smoke, the appearance of the corpses withered in an instant, and they hardly bled at all.
They resembled crushed cans.
“Phantoms…
disguises…
replacements?”
Li Mumu tilted her head in thought for a moment, when suddenly a flash of insight struck her.
“Wendy and I, did we trigger a crucial clue named ‘replacement’?”
“These people, this ship…
they’re not reflections, nor are they from Dreamland, they’re just hiding in the shadows, accurately replacing the Cosmos and everyone aboard the Cosmos in the Real World?”
What on earth did they intend to do?
A sense of foreboding rose faintly in Li Mumu’s heart.
The destination of the Cosmos was Tianmen City on the eastern coast of Ming Country.
Could it be that these monsters…
intended to smuggle themselves in?
But if it was just smuggling, at the very least, only those who could afford the smuggling fee would be considered smugglers.
This ship full of Elemental Bodies…
could such beings, devoid even of normal intelligence, really be considered smugglers?
Or should they be regarded as “cargo”?
The matter of utmost urgency was to find Wendy…
no, to return to the Real World!
This was no longer a small situation that she and Wendy could handle alone; such a significant event must be communicated to Li Ya.
She was a real Witch…
No, that’s not right!
Li Mumu suddenly realized something.
Li Ya was indeed a real Witch with the power to divine fate.
Hadn’t she predicted anything about this trip in advance?
Did she truly know nothing?
Or was she involved in it as well?
A mother naturally wouldn’t have a reason to deceive her own daughter.
But to Li Ya, was Li Mumu—who had undergone Possession by a transmigrator—still her real daughter?
Although she said she didn’t mind, who knew what she truly thought?
No, no, this isn’t right.
If Li Ya was involved, then why would she have arranged for a corresponding Elemental Body for herself?
The existence of these two corpses before her was proof in a way; whoever was behind this didn’t know about Li Ya, otherwise, they wouldn’t have made the laughable mistake of trying to replace a Witch with an Elemental Body.
No, this is making my head spin, I need to sort this out…
Li Mumu was not good at contemplating.
Though reluctant, she thought that at times like this, it was better to flexibly use the experience accumulated by the transmigrator rather than waste time trying to come up with a solution herself.
When she couldn’t find the task thread, she remembered to check the task panel.
Li Mumu flipped open her notebook.
The notebook still had a dense passage of “Elemental Body detected…”
But among this group of Elemental Bodies, there abruptly appeared a line that stood out from the rest.
“Detected a Hell subordinate—Bloodthirsty Hound, 20 distance away, approaching.”