Monster Dismantling Company

Chapter 62 What I Really Want

He turned to look at the mirage and smiled slightly: "You think you can fool me like this? Your true form is actually right behind me, isn't it? But your true form only appears at night?"

"How...how did you know?!"

"Because you're a mirage, you idiot. Your true form exists only in dreams, which means you only appear when you're sleeping..."

"Don't come any closer!"

The mirage is in a hurry.

Li Lin charged towards the true form of the mirage. Despite her eloquent words, the mirage's true form was actually quite fragile. While the shell's exterior was incredibly hard, the interior was merely a soft mass of flesh. She needed time to kill the prey she had swallowed.

"Lord Ghoul! I truly want to cooperate with you! I'm serious!"

"Tsk, haven't you forgotten something—I'm a dragon too. At least one thing I'm clear about: dragons never speak the truth. For dragons, only actions matter. Whether it's gifts for courtship or inviting me to dinner, I only believe those things. And you actually think you can stall for time with some words? You're seriously underestimating me."

"Then why did you talk to me for so long!"

"I want to see if you deserve to live. After all, you may be foolish, but you're undeniably delicious, a tasty dragon. Your mirage is even more alluring. I've been chatting with you for so long, trying to convince myself to let you go—tsk tsk tsk. Now it seems you still haven't convinced me. Well then, see you in the pot."

"No!" Shen grabbed Li Lin's arm from behind. "Please! I'll give you anything! Please! I can give you the Dragon Palace, please spare me!"

"Get out of here! I've been wanting to say this since earlier. Don't you know you're using a male human body right now? How disgusting!" Li Lin couldn't help but punch him, mainly because Luo Yinchang was indeed a decent person, and he didn't want to embarrass his friend.

But Luo Yinchang's suffering will soon be over.

Li Lin stepped into that invisible boundary—

All around him was emptiness, nothing at all. Standing before him was only a gigantic pearl, a pearl so white it was multicolored. Countless illusions radiated from it, each halo displaying seven colors. In the illusions, bubbles overlapped with bubbles, and the sound of tides overlapped with the sound of tides.

In this psychedelic space, a drone was parked at his feet, with golden optical fibers still trailing behind it.

Just as he was about to kick the drone away, the distance between him and the drone suddenly increased—while the distance between him and the pearl suddenly decreased until his own image appeared on the pearl.

"Hahaha...hahahaha! You've finally gotten in!" His figure spoke from above the pearl, "You've finally fallen for it!"

His shadow suddenly sprang up, and his hands stretched out from the pearl, crawling out with five-colored light.

Although its exterior is still coated with a layer of pearls, the mirage now looks exactly like Li Lin.

"Your death is nigh. This is my Dragon Palace, my domain. I created a body exactly like yours, and I am just as strong as you. But in my home turf, you are destined to lose! I've prepared for so long just to lure you here—unbelievable, isn't it! Whether I want to make a deal with you or I'm afraid of you, it's all for this! To entice you into my territory!"

The mirage grinned maliciously, its goal finally achieved: "I finally got to eat you! Ah! The power of the Ghoul Emperor is so immense! Your cravings, your thoughts. And... your insatiable desires!"

"Ah...you tricked me." Li Lin shook his head. "I really didn't expect that what you wanted was this—you want my body?"

His body was indeed very powerful by human standards. But by dragon standards, it was actually quite weak, after all, it was a human body.

"Fool!" the mirage finally spoke. "Don't you know what your true power is?! That's what you hate most about yourself! You..."

"What am I?" Li Lin asked expectantly. The mirage seemed close to the final answer, which also appeared to be its greatest secret.

"You are the only male among the dragons!!! Heaven knows why you were born male. And me... I am a mollusk! How could you, living such a fulfilling life, know how much I suffer! Now, let's reverse roles! It's your turn to be here. Your identity, your life, and your wife, are all mine! Aha! Heat! I'll have my heat too!"

The mirage is a mollusk, lacking even a gender, but the dragon's consciousness is not limited by its mollusk body. Although it doesn't acknowledge Li Lin's current strength, the mirage approves of Li Lin's choice, because it is the Dragon King's choice.

"What secrets have you figured out..." Li Lin said helplessly. The mirage in front of him seemed to have misunderstood something.

However, Li Lin now understood. Just as he was very interested in the Mirage's seashell palace, the Mirage was also very interested in his body. Those outside wanted to get in, while those inside wanted to get out—of course, both sides wanted to be able to come and go freely.

This is Mirage's home turf, and the body he replicated is exactly the same as Li Lin's. Coupled with the home advantage, Li Lin really can't win.

By this point, the mirage had everything under control and began to inspect its spoils.

"Ah, let me see what functions your body has... You have antlers on your head?" Shen touched the two antlers that had materialized on her head, as magnificent as deer antlers. "I see, growing these antlers grants power, and then..."

The mirage's eyes began to glow: "I know everything! I can see everything. But... this isn't what I'm looking for."

The mirage touched its back again, and the dragon's tail emerged from behind: "Oh...that's it! This is the power of mating season, this is what I wanted! So tails are really for mating after all!"

Li Lin reminded him, "Did you make a mistake just now...? First of all, you weren't using a tail. Secondly, what secrets were you looking for...?" He wanted to point it out, but decided against it, "This is for the best, so you won't touch anything you shouldn't."

"Shut up, you defeated wrestler. I'm inspecting my spoils; you have no right to speak here... Hmm? What's this? Claws and teeth can mutate too? Not bad, it has this function..."

Suddenly, the mirage fell silent.

Suddenly, an unlockable option appeared. The option was located between the eyebrows.

There is a vertical scar between his eyebrows.

"Huh? What's this?"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" Li Lin stretched out his hand, "Don't touch that! Don't touch the one between your eyebrows!"

"Aha, I refuse."

"Are you deaf?! I told you not to touch your forehead! Don't touch it! You'll regret it!"

"Fool, that's what I called you just now. Now, it's your turn to be trampled under my feet, isn't it! I knew it, this is your true power, I'm going to touch you..." Shen's voice stopped at this moment, these were Shen's last words.

...

On the shore, Master Wang was staring intently at the water, his heart filled with anxiety.

"Is it really alright?" the colonel asked. "Li Lin should be quite capable..."

"That's what I'm afraid of! You don't know... he really is amazing—he's even more amazing than you think!"

He has made several connections with the missing carriages via the Silver Dragon, but he still cannot find Li Lin's carriage.

"You mean when you have horns on your head?"

Master Wang shook his head and said, "No! That doesn't matter at all. The tail growing back is just a little troublesome. The scar on his forehead is the thing between his eyebrows—his eye is behind that scar!"

"Is it a third eye?"

"No...that's not his third eye. As a human, he only has two eyes. That eye belongs to the dragon! That's why I've been following him, to prevent anyone from accidentally knocking him unconscious or putting him into an illusion, because he needs to fall asleep in the right way. Otherwise, if his human consciousness is suppressed...that would be a huge problem! A really huge problem!"

Before the words were even finished, a bolt of azure lightning shot from the bottom of the water straight into the sky, blasting through the mist, clouds, and the higher atmosphere, creating spiderweb-like cracks at the edge of the atmosphere, and then piercing through it—

"It's over..." Master Wang closed his eyes.