"Wait a minute!" Lin Mo quickly recovered. "According to the settings of Earth's fantasy novels, while manually stabbing a nuclear bomb is powerful, it doesn't seem to be..."
"Holy crap, poking a nuclear bomb with your bare hands isn't strong enough?" the giant rat exclaimed in surprise. "Then what level do you have to reach to be considered strong?"
Hearing this, Lin Mo chuckled, "Heh heh, how about blasting a planet apart with one punch!"
"What a load of bull! What kind of setting is this? One punch and a planet is gone?" the giant rat snapped. "What you're saying is just nonsense, I'm telling the truth!"
"Alright!" Lin Mo nodded slightly, his eyes gleaming with wisdom. "I have an idea. Think about it, Zhao Wushi is being hunted down by those guys right now, and because I'm close to him, I've become a thorn in their side. As for you, you've been framed and suffered so miserably by them."
Ultimately, we're comrades-in-arms standing on the same front!
The giant rat blinked its beady eyes and asked curiously, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? You little rascal, you're quick-witted. Tell me more, what are your plans?"
"You've known those scum for a long time, haven't you?" Lin Mo said. "So, you should know at least some of their weaknesses..."
"After all that, you still insist on fighting them?" Confusion and bewilderment flickered in the giant rat's eyes. "Even poking a nuclear bomb with your hand won't scare you?"
Lin Mo shrugged slightly, a bitter smile playing on his lips. "So what should I do? Surrender and wait for them to turn me into a monster?"
At this moment, Lin Mo had reason to believe that the giant rat in front of him was a replica of himself.
The so-called time travel was nothing more than an elaborate hoax. Those so-called time travel pioneers used some mysterious power to bring him from Earth to this strange world.
They masquerade as their predecessors, using sweet words and false promises to lure him into working for them. Once his usefulness is exhausted, they ruthlessly transform him into a monster.
Yesterday, in that dark underground incubation room, the bizarre scenes Lin Mo witnessed were gradually becoming clearer in his mind. These bodies were undoubtedly the work of those so-called pioneers of time travel.
Whether it's the giant rats or Lin Mo himself, they will be ruthlessly discarded once they lose their usefulness. The possessed souls are merely playthings in their hands, forcibly stuffed into the bodies of demons, becoming their puppets.
A lucky few managed to perfectly merge their souls with the demons, thus gaining coveted divine power. They possessed superhuman strength, seemingly becoming what were called gods.
However, those less fortunate were called servants of the gods. Although they also gained power, that power acted like shackles, binding them to the control of the pioneers.
Those who were the most unfortunate met the same fate as the giant rat before them. Their souls were forcibly forced into the demon's body, but they could not merge with it. Their bodies became twisted and ugly under the demon's corruption, turning them into true monsters.
"Hahaha!" The giant rat suddenly burst into laughter. "Could you and Zhao Wushi be long-lost brothers? Based on what you just said, fine, I'll help you!"
Then, the giant rat continued, "Those scum can strip away souls and possess other bodies. I won't go into details about that! The reason I became this grotesque is because those scum forcibly possessed me!"
In the beginning, they were pioneers who gave me a lot of help.
Unlike you, they didn't create a so-called system; instead, they provided one-on-one, hands-on assistance.
"Is it like an old man who lives inside an object?" Lin Mo thought of Xiao Mouhuo, who possessed dozens of different kinds of strange fire!
"More or less!" the giant rat said leisurely, as if immersed in memories. "With their help, I am truly thriving in this chaotic world, enjoying boundless glory."
Power, I once held in my hands; beauty, I once embraced. Yet, life always has its inescapable regrets.
Lin Mo smiled slightly and continued the conversation: "That is the constraint of lifespan."
The giant rat sighed deeply, its voice filled with helplessness and desolation, "You're right. Life is but a few short decades, like a long dream. When you wake up, you find that your youth has passed and your hair has turned white."
"So, those guys used immortality as bait to lure you into their trap?" Lin Mo asked softly.
The giant rat sighed deeply, its tone filled with helplessness and regret. "Isn't that right!" it said softly. "They once proposed a seemingly tempting plan: to transfer my soul into another young body through spirit possession, thereby achieving immortality!"
"But those scum didn't let you possess a human body, but instead..."
"Hmph!" It snorted heavily, as if it wanted to unleash all the anger in its heart. "These shameless bastards, they actually found me a body at first, but..." At this point, the giant rat's tone became low again, as if it was lost in deep memories.
Lin Mo listened quietly, already having some guesses in his mind.
It seems that the giant rat's soul failed to match with other bodies, so those guys settled for second best and fused it with the monster rat's body!
"Alas!" the giant rat sighed again, its eyes flashing with complex emotions. "I wonder if this is a cruel twist of fate. My soul has somehow become so perfectly intertwined with this body."
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