Broken Horn

Looking at the blurry mass of color in the cage, Mo Ling couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of the Abyss.

But he always felt something was off.

"Its horn is gone," Li Luo reminded him.

Mo Ling suddenly understood.

This docile Dream Qilin didn't have the single horn mentioned in the records. The blurry colors had almost made Mo Ling miss it.

When he noticed this, he instantly thought of something.

That Black Horn outside!

Although one was pure black and the other was colorful, both shared a common characteristic.

That strange color, like a texture error.

Li Luo must have noticed this too.

Mo Ling leaned closer to the Dream Qilin and compared them.

The length of that slender Black Horn did indeed match this Dream Qilin.

If it really was this Dream Qilin's horn, why would it end up in reality?

Mo Ling was puzzled.

Then he suddenly remembered what Li Luo had said about the Red String Worms.

So he extended his vision into the Dream Qilin's body.

Still endless color.

The Dream Qilin was like a creature formed from a puddle of paint, completely without flesh and blood, and without any of the tissues a normal creature should have.

The Kimchi it ate also turned into colorful light after entering the Dream Qilin's mouth, merging into its body.

Soon, amidst the surging rainbow, Mo Ling found that conspicuous red string.

A seemingly very large Red String Worm was hiding inside the Dream Qilin's body.

It had been gnawing at the Dream Qilin, causing its entire body to glow.

This giant Red String Worm perfectly matched the characteristics of the Red String Worm Mother described in the records, being much larger than the male worms.

The target the Shock Beasts were searching for was precisely this Dream Qilin!

Mo Ling quickly informed Li Luo of his discovery through the electronic screen.

This also confirmed Li Luo's idea.

A group of male worms in reality were searching for a mother worm that existed in a dream!

But they would never be able to find it.

Mo Ling fell into deep thought again.

Why hadn't this Dream Qilin's horn healed?

He suddenly thought of the essence of the worms again.

All evolution was for the two to meet.

The healing ability of other creatures before was evolved so that the infected creatures could successfully find their target.

And this broken horn, on the contrary, created an opportunity for the two to meet.

The horn created a bridge between the two worlds of dream and reality, which could never meet.

Therefore, the Red String Worm determined that this was not an obstacle and did not make the Dream Qilin evolve healing ability.

This was the rule of the Red String Worm.

Although the Shock Beasts outside did not have the ability to enter the dream now.

But perhaps, one day, that group of Shock Beasts would also evolve the ability to enter the dream.

Then they would be able to find this Dream Qilin.

And at that time, the worms and Shock Beasts that had completed their mission would perish, and naturally there would be no more unusual movements from the Shock Beasts.

Was this the only way?

Going around in circles, it returned to the initial Procrastination Therapy.

Mo Ling thought about it and still felt that the horn that went to reality was the key.

But first, he had to be 100% sure that the Black Horn was related to the Dream Qilin in front of him.

Mo Ling picked up the electronic screen and asked Li Luo, "Do you have a weapon?"

Li Luo was stunned for a moment, but quickly took out a handle.

With a twist of her hands, a sharp spike extended from the handle. She directly handed this spike to Mo Ling, trusting him completely.

Under Li Luo's shocked gaze, Mo Ling raised the spike in his hand and stabbed it towards the Dream Qilin.

Rainbow-colored blood gushed out from the wound where the Dream Qilin was stabbed.

The blood, which was like paint, gradually lost its color after splashing onto the ground and turned pure black.

It was exactly the same color as the Black Horn in reality.

After turning pure black, it quickly disappeared into the air.

The change in the blood made Mo Ling believe his guess even more.

After being attacked, the Dream Qilin kept thrashing around in the cage, but it couldn't escape the cage at all.

Mo Ling continued to attack, poking many holes in the Dream Qilin's body.

The Red String Worm quickly played its role.

The wounds on the Dream Qilin's body kept healing.

Mo Ling's attack directly made the Dream Qilin evolve the ability to heal.

Hoo~

After doing all this, Mo Ling breathed a sigh of relief.

This was a very risky move, as he didn't know what other methods the Dream Qilin might have.

After all, there was very little research on this type of creature.

After the Dream Qilin evolved its healing ability, a short horn suddenly sprouted from its head and then continuously grew longer.

Under the effect of healing, its originally broken horn quickly grew back.

It works!

Mo Ling looked at Li Luo again and returned the sharp spike to her.

"Get me a different knife, the sharpest one."

Upon hearing this, Li Luo found one for Mo Ling.

Taking the knife, Mo Ling chopped off the Dream Qilin's horn with a single cut.

The Dream Qilin writhed on the ground in pain, making Mo Ling himself feel a pang of sympathy.

Picking up the horn from the ground, Mo Ling watched as it continuously turned black, eventually becoming identical to the Black Horn in reality.

Then the Black Horn disappeared into thin air.

Seeing Li Luo's confused expression, Mo Ling explained on the electronic screen: "Body parts that detach from the Dream Qilin will go to reality."

This was originally just Mo Ling's guess; he had simply found the most plausible explanation that fit reality.

But the previous experiment had confirmed this point.

"If we can't send the Shock Beast into the dream, then we'll send the Dream Qilin into reality."

Mo Ling had already planned his next step.

"What we need to do now is make all of the Dream Qilin's body detach from it."

In other words, instantly kill all parts of the Dream Qilin's body!

Mo Ling told Li Luo his plan.

Li Luo was first surprised, then fell into contemplation.

After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Do we need a nuclear bomb?"

Mo Ling was so scared he quickly waved his hands. He had already thought of how to do it.

Asking the girl to wait for a while, Mo Ling walked to the balcony, found a small worm in a flower pot, and activated the teleportation.

He then entered the space filled with Kimchi and found the dead worm on the ground.

This was the method Mo Ling thought of to instantly kill the Dream Qilin.

He planned to directly teleport the Dream Qilin into the Kimchi space and kill it instantly.

Previously, Mo Ling didn't understand the principle behind why his teleportation caused creatures to perish.

The first possibility was that creatures entering the cube would perish, meaning the Dream Qilin entering the Kimchi space would still be alive.

If this were the principle, Mo Ling had planned to teleport the Dream Qilin out and then throw it into various extreme environments.

However, this also had the possibility of causing the Dream Qilin to continuously evolve.

But currently, it seemed unnecessary to go through such trouble.

This was the second possibility: any creature that underwent his teleportation would directly perish.