flstandardbreds Chapter 157 The mastermind behind it all is someone else!
Chapter 157 The mastermind behind it all is someone else!
Zhizhi~!
But just as Cangnian was about to unleash his killing spree, the little sable beside him suddenly clutched its head and began squeaking incoherently.
Ouch~!
Then, Cangnian felt his head sink, as if an invisible hand was digging into his brain!
"Damn it! You finally couldn't sit still anymore? Since you're looking for death, I'll grant your wish!"
Despite the excruciating pain in his head, Cang Nian's eyes were bloodshot as he cursed inwardly.
Immediately, he moved 50% of his defense attribute to the spirit column!
After this series of actions, Cangnian's spirit attribute immediately surged to 253.8!
As he moved, the excruciating pain in his head disappeared, and all negative symptoms vanished abruptly.
But after looking around, he still couldn't find anything.
"Hmph! Your mental strength is quite strong, then... 20% mental power, second-level overlimit burst!"
Seeing this, Cang Nian sneered and, without any hesitation, increased his mental power once again!
Suddenly, Cang Nian's mental attribute surged, exceeding four hundred points!
As the skill was used, Cang Nian instantly smelled a somewhat familiar pungent odor.
Then, Cangnian saw a black, white, and orange fox with extremely bright fur appear out of thin air, just two tree branches away from him!
This fox has a very strange body shape. It doesn't seem to have changed due to evolution. It's only the size of an ordinary fox, weighing about ten or twenty kilograms.
But its eyes are as deep as the starry sky, as if one would be captivated by them and unable to look away once one glanced at them.
But now, seeing that Cangnian was looking directly at it, it immediately showed a look of horror!
Chirp chirp~!
As it fled downwards, it cried out as if calling for help!
But how could the ravages of time allow it to escape?
Whoosh~!
Cangnian shifted 50% of his power to speed, transforming it into lightning, and pursued at lightning speed!
Although the fox's speed is not slow among second-tier evolved creatures, how could it escape from Cang Nian's claws?
Pa~!
With just one swipe of his claw, this small creature, weighing only ten or twenty pounds, was smashed into a bloody spray that flew through the air!
Zhizhi~!
At this moment, the little sable, who had been clutching its head and groaning in pain, stopped hurting. It stood up groggily, looking around for Cang Nian's figure.
Meanwhile, the second-tier evolved creatures who were still fighting against Tiger Dad and the others were stunned in place for two seconds, as if they had switched to a different path at the same time.
Tiger Dad and his companions quickly seized the opportunity and attacked their opponent!
However, the second-tier evolved creatures regained their senses immediately. Although they were completely bewildered, they still hurriedly launched a counterattack.
"As expected, the mastermind behind all this was not the dodder."
After dealing with the fox, Cangnian breathed a sigh of relief.
All of this looked as if the dodder had controlled these nearly twenty evolved creatures, accumulating strength in preparation to seize the pine cones.
But upon closer inspection, it's full of flaws.
The dodder can devour flesh and blood, injecting energy into other evolving creatures to help them evolve.
This ability is already incredibly powerful!
How then does it control other evolved organisms?
It's worth noting that this thing most likely evolved to the second tier by taking advantage of its own family's success in benefiting from the deaths of so many evolved creatures.
Before this, it would never have possessed two such incredible abilities at the same time!
Superpowers vary in strength, but they are never so strong as to be without limits.
For example, the Fisherman's [Laws], if used well, can become an all-around superpower, but the strength of each law has not reached its limit.
Take the Tiger Dad for example; he has top-notch destructive power, but he has no other means of dealing with people.
Superpowers either lean towards versatility and multi-purpose applications, or towards the extreme application of a particular aspect.
Its versatility is unparalleled; even its own "numerical master" wouldn't dare claim such a feat.
Cang Nian himself has no means of long-range attack.
Therefore, there must be someone else controlling these second-order evolved creatures behind the scenes!
Do not!
There is another beast!
Cang Nian suspects there is another mastermind behind the scenes, and the second reason is that he is hiding!
These guys showed up so suddenly!
Even when they were only at the first level, the tiger father couldn't have missed them while he was usually wandering around the pine trees.
Moreover, such a large-scale dodder plant couldn't have developed in just twelve hours.
So, how did these guys manage to hide?
Cang Nian originally thought it was the superpower of one of the evolved creatures, namely, group invisibility.
However, none of the evolved creatures that later appeared exhibited the ability to become invisible; instead, they all displayed other different forms of supernatural abilities.
Therefore, if the other party is bound to be invisible, but does not appear at the same time, then the answer is quite simple.
It has become invisible.
Previously, when Cangnian was chasing after the dodder seed, he was ambushed and attacked repeatedly. One thing is also very suspicious!
Not only are they invisible, but even senses like taste have disappeared!
With Cang Nian's keen sense of smell, he wouldn't have noticed any strong-smelling creatures like tigers, porcupines, or groundhogs approaching. He was even ambushed by a groundhog and scratched in the abdomen.
Later, the boulder in front of him suddenly transformed into a giant bear, giving Cangnian a more accurate assessment of the supernatural abilities of the evolved creatures hidden behind the scenes!
Later, this group of evolved creatures came to the pine tree together and scrambled for the pine cones, which made Cangnian even more certain of his guess!
The means of controlling these evolved creatures must be mental!
As for mind control, the scope of control it can exert is probably not very large!
Dodder can extend its body to expand its control range, but it did not climb pine trees!
Therefore, the mastermind must have come with these second-tier evolved creatures!
The fox that was just killed is the mastermind!
Its main method is mind control, and invisibility and eliminating smell are extensions of mind control!
It doesn't make itself invisible visually, but rather invisible to the eyes of the elderly!
This is not invisibility through optical means, but rather invisibility through psychological means!
If you take a picture with a camera, the fox will still appear in the frame.
It deceived the eyes of the elderly, it deceived the nose of the elderly, but in summary, it deceived the brain of the elderly.
What it wants the people to see, the people can see; what it wants the people to smell, the people can smell.
Therefore, when Cangnian saw those second-tier evolved creatures climbing trees, he immediately tried to move 30% of his speed attribute to the spirit column in an attempt to find out what was going on.
But in the end, that mental value wasn't enough to see it.
Thinking that the pine cones were ripe and eating them would make him stronger again, Cangnian did not use [Overlimit Burst] at that time.
Only after eating pine nuts and gaining a way to significantly enhance his mental strength did he finally seize the opportunity to find the fox hiding beside him, which he was completely unaware of!