Chapter 340 Are You Doing This On Purpose?!

But whether it was intentional or not, at least Ling Mo was acting quite seriously.

He looked directly at her: “Xinyan, I don’t want you to suffer even the slightest harm in the future, so trust me, I will definitely give you a satisfying result.”

Xia Xinyan fell silent for a moment, then nodded: “Alright, what should I do?”

After all, she had been taken advantage of before; it wouldn’t cost her a chunk of flesh.

If Ling Mo could really create a set of battle armor suitable for her, that would only be beneficial.

And the most important thing—results were achieved.

She held the upper hand.

Look, Ling Mo now wouldn’t dare touch her without her permission.

Indeed, she still had authority between the two of them. No matter how much Ling Mo grew or changed, his essential nature would surely remain the same.

So she could find ways to keep him in check.

Thinking this, her mood became much brighter.

Ling Mo felt equally cheerful.

Xinyan was really easy to manipulate; she preferred softness over hardness.

However, just as he was about to reach out to explore that wonderful layer—

Slap! The door was suddenly pushed open: “Yo! Long time no see, you two! Miss me?”

It was Monica.

Xia Xinyan immediately distanced herself from Ling Mo, frowning as she scrutinized her: “…Where have you been?”

Monica hadn’t shown up for some time, and they had thought she was busy at home.

“Just went back to my hometown,” Monica said casually, sitting by the bed without any sense of being a guest, smiling, “You know, civilization data is all about timeliness. I had to find a buyer for the information I collected. Oh boy… This time I really struck it rich; I had several apprentice goddesses wanting to buy materials from me for reports, made a good chunk of change!”

Ling Mo: “…”

He really wanted to report this person.

Seriously.

Fortunately, his rationality was still intact, and after some time, he barely calmed down and asked, “Didn’t you say you can’t leave Earth during the mission?”

“I can’t leave, but I could just slip away without anyone noticing, right?” Monica shrugged, “And don’t worry, I left a beacon here to cover my tracks and also to monitor things; if this world faces a catastrophe while I’m absent, the monitoring beacon will immediately teleport me back.”

“Teleport back to save the world?”

“Nope, just to take a farewell photo.”

“…So what exactly are you here for?”

“Didn’t I mention before? I’m mainly here to watch over you two. You guys are basically test subjects,” Monica grinned, “So your individual value is pretty much like this experimental field. Even if this world is destroyed, I could make an exception to bring you back—now don’t talk about wanting to share the fate of this world; let’s decide when the time comes. I’m just giving you a heads-up.”

Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo stayed silent.

Then Monica continued chatting: “By the way, who’s that girl downstairs? Her life form is pretty strange, never seen anyone like her.”

“Source of Invasion,” Xia Xinyan explained, “An accessible source of invasion; I’ve never seen one before either.”

“Source of Invasion? Demon?” Monica paused.

Ling Mo nodded: “Right, aren’t you supposed to know more about this than us? Can’t you tell?”

Monica immediately stood up and headed for the door: “Aha! I knew I came to the right place! More fresh data! I’m going to get rich!”

Ling Mo: “…”

Xia Xinyan: “…”

The bedroom fell silent for a moment before Ling Mo couldn’t help but sigh: “This person is actually responsible for maintaining the order of the universe… I really worry for the futures of the worlds she oversees.”

Xia Xinyan smiled wryly: “Well, that’s just how it is; we just need to take care of ourselves.”

“Shall we continue what we were discussing?” Ling Mo tilted his head toward her.

Xia Xinyan: “…”

After a pause of a few seconds, she nodded: “Mm.”

Forget it, let’s treat it as a serious matter… it is a serious matter…

—Then bang, the door swung open again: “Oh wow! You really found a treasure!”

Ling Mo immediately snapped: “…Are you doing this on purpose?!”

Monica halted at the door: “Huh? What’s wrong?”

“What do you mean what’s wrong?” Ling Mo glared at her, wanting to say something more, but ultimately couldn’t find the words.

What could he say? She ruined his good fortune?

Tch, he was going to replace this door with a solid steel one tomorrow.

At this moment, Monica seemed to sense that the atmosphere was off and let out a laugh: “I just got a bit excited—this Source of Invasion is really a treasure!”

“How so?” Xia Xinyan perked up with interest.

She was already quite curious about Xiao Bai; she just hadn’t been able to probe too much. Originally, she intended to let Monica check it out, which saved her some trouble.

“That’s a new species successfully de-demonized.” Monica stated directly before starting her explanation—

As mentioned before, a world of destruction has its own forms of life, but life born from a zero-state world cannot integrate into a one-state world. Thus, if such a collision occurs, the life forms will be forcibly rewritten by the world’s rules—this is manifested by the demon races in the Dark Zone that look free.

Not only do they look free, but their life forms are also completely chaotic. If such life had a creator, that creator would definitely be someone who, after ten levels of drunkenness, watched “Ten Minute Creation Guide” while using poor quality raw materials bought from a street vendor.

—Therefore, theoretically, creation cannot succeed because life is far from that free, but this distorted life objectively exists, so it can also be said that life does have this sort of freedom.

How can we say that the study of creation is vast and profound? Even a whole bunch of genuine gods that Monica knows cannot understand this aspect, while this precinct cop might just know a bit of the surface.

But that’s enough.

Life evolves in cycles, and the world does too. The one-state world’s natural state will eventually evolve into a zero-state world, and the zero-state world will also become a one-state world. During this evolution process, the destructive beings of the zero-state world will gradually be rewritten and dedemonized to become beings that adapt to the one-state world, although in most cases, they will be completely erased and start over—either destroyed by the world or by their own kind.

So even though life logs such beings, very few have seen them alive, just like how apes evolved into humans—most of the demons appearing in the Dark Zone now are like apes in the evolutionary process, while Xiao Bai might be the first to evolve into a human. The concept of evolution may not have a precise line, but if detailed enough, conclusions can be drawn.

Thus, for Monica, Xiao Bai represents something big.

She felt she was about to get rich.

This world is simply a treasure trove.