Why?
Could someone have said something to her? For instance...
Its knife-like glare shot toward A9, who was passively watching the drama unfold. Those inorganic, black button eyes looked as if they wanted to gouge a chunk of flesh right out of it.
【Did you say something to her? You exposed yourself! You exposed us! You're a traitor! I'm going to report you to the higher-ups and have you erased along with this bug!】
A9 panicked and hurriedly made excuses: 【No, no, that's not it! Lin Mo has a mental condition! She always thought that the people she killed vanishing was just her hallucinating. Since she hallucinates all the time, she doesn't find it surprising or scary! It's not my fault, I definitely haven't exposed even a single hair of us!
Besides, she already killed Tourist in my district long ago and saw a body vanish back then. How surprised could she possibly be at this point?!】
Was that really so?
B1 stomped its feet hard, its webbed feet slapping against the ground with loud thwacks.
Even though A9 provided a seemingly reasonable explanation, the suspicion in its heart didn't fade.
【Out of all the victims you could pull, you pulled a psychiatric patient!】
A9 could only cry innocence: 【I didn't know! The first time I saw her, she was totally normal!】
B1 didn't give up. It remained convinced that its lack of success was simply due to insufficient intensity. Having learned a lesson from the death of that important character last time, it figured ordinary Catchers would suffice now.
Meanwhile, A9 was harbouring its own malicious intent, determined to let this guy taste its pain. It followed behind, munching popcorn the entire time without giving B1 even the slightest warning.
Perhaps all these endless incidents in her daily life had made Lin Mo impatient; her eyes, which had been cast down, suddenly darted upward.
A9 froze. In reality, Lin Mo definitely shouldn't be able to see it and could only communicate with it through her subconscious. What was going on? Did she see it? That was impossible!
Was it a sixth sense, or did it actually emit some kind of magnetic field?
That glance might have just been a coincidence. If Lin Mo wanted to find it, she could simply speak to it in her subconscious.
The more A9 thought about it, the worse it felt, and the more anxious it became.
That stinky B1 had better not drag it down!
Taking advantage of B1's departure, it took the initiative to speak in her subconscious: 【Lin Mo, Lengjing's manager has left. The reason I haven't made a move these past few days was because I was afraid it would notice something fishy going on between us.
None of the recent accidents were my doing! They were all B1! Every debt has its debtor—please, whatever you do, don't take your anger out on me! Waaah!】
Lin Mo was meticulously scrubbing her fingertips in the sink. She asked, “Why can't you just kill it? It's caused me quite a bit of trouble. Two of my jobs have already been ruined because of it...”
A9 shook its head repeatedly. Even though a betrayal should be thorough, this was something it still couldn't do: 【I can't, I really can't! I'm no match for it in a fight.】
“Do you want to die?” Lin Mo lathered up with soap once more. Finding that the mark on her pad wouldn't scrub off, she applied a bit more force, her expression so solemn it looked as if she were about to rub off a layer of her own skin. “It poses a massive threat. It will end up killing us. It makes me feel very afraid and very annoyed. We need to dispose of it quickly.”
We...?
It seemed to be the first time A9 had heard her use the word “we.”
Lin Mo was right. If B1 was allowed to keep going, there was no guaranteeing it wouldn't catch wind of some clue. When that happened, both it and Lin Mo would be erased together. They were in the same boat, bound together in life and death!
It grew serious: 【Right! Exactly! It carries the future plotlines of Lengjing! I can devour and merge with it! Once we know Lengjing's plotlines, we can properly dodge cases and leech some stats—our actions will be so much easier!】
Stinky duck! Daring to threaten it—it was going to teach it real quick what it meant to ride on borrowed power!
Having made up its mind to betray B1, as soon as B1 returned, A9 eagerly went up to greet it, acting out of goodwill: 【B1, give up. This won't work against her. I have an idea—do you want to hear it?】
B1 looked at it suspiciously: 【If you had such a good idea, why didn't you use it yourself?】
A9: 【...For one thing, my conscience was troubled.】
B1's eyes grew even more vigilant; it immediately became certain that A9 was plotting something.
A9 shifted its tone: 【Fine, don't look at me like that. I'll tell you the truth, okay? I entered Lin Mo's subconscious before and tried to destroy her mind, but her subconscious memory fragments are hidden so deep that I had no way to begin. Maybe if we work together, we can find a foothold!】
B1's eyes, previously vigilant, gradually turned into disdain: 【You even resorted to destroying her mind, which just shows how useless you are.】
【...】 A9's expression turned grim: 【Her willpower is weak, so her subconscious is easy to invade, but her memories are hidden deep down. We need to prepare and be careful.】
B1 really didn't want to do something like this; dying suddenly in the comic was far too low-brow. But if it could reduce its losses, maybe it was worth trying with A9.
【Fine. Once she falls asleep, I'll go in with you.】
However, as soon as B1 entered her subconscious, all it saw was a pure white space. Before it could even be shocked by the scenery of her subconscious, it spotted "A9" sitting in the corner.
"A9" seemed somewhat weak, remaining completely motionless.
But... A9 hadn't even come in from the outside yet! Why was there another A9 inside Lin Mo's subconscious?!
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