"Oh?" Bai Ye pinned Lu Chen beneath his foot, refusing to let the big man get up.
Lu Chen kept roaring, but all he could do was rage helplessly.
"What do you mean, there are no Mutants?"
Ling Xia hurriedly explained, "Everything you're seeing is an illusion, just like Fake Persons—it's all fake!
"I don't know the specifics either, but Brother Lu definitely hasn't mutated. He was talking to me just a moment ago."
Roar!
Lu Chen roared, meaningless syllables spilling from his mouth.
Bai Ye laughed. "You can understand that?"
"He wasn't speaking with sound, but through the mind..." Ling Xia suddenly paused, as if listening to something.
Then she said, "Brother Lu asks Mr. Bai to open his mind. He can establish a mental link with you, and then you'll be able to communicate normally."
A mental link?
This guy had become a Transcendent?
A flash of surprise crossed Bai Ye's eyes. He recalled that Lu Chen had indeed been extremely agitated after learning that Ling Xia was a Fake Person.
Had he been stimulated at that time?
"Tell him to establish a link with me." He agreed readily.
Very quickly, Bai Ye felt an ethereal strand of mental power bore into his soul.
Then...
Lu Chen just straight-up died.
"Brother Lu!!" Ling Xia threw herself onto Lu Chen and burst into tears.
Bai Ye glanced at Big Eyeball in the Mind Space. "..."
Big Eyeball, you motherfucker...
Time Reversal!
"Brother Lu asks Mr. Bai to open his mind..."
Bai Ye cut her off at lightning speed. "Tell Lu Chen to open his mind and not resist in any way. That way, I can establish a mental link with him and communicate normally."
Ling Xia froze. Weren't those my lines?
She relayed Bai Ye's words, and Lu Chen