Looking at the blurry mass of color in the cage, Mo Ling marveled at the wonders of the Abyss.
But he couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
"Its horn is gone," Li Luo reminded him.
Mo Ling had a sudden realization.
This docile Dream Qilin didn't have the single horn mentioned in the records. Its blurry colors had almost made Mo Ling overlook it.
The moment he noticed this, he instantly thought of something.
The black horn outside!
Although one was pure black and the other was multicolored, they both shared a common trait.
This strange, almost texture-glitch-like coloration.
Li Luo must have noticed it too.
Mo Ling leaned closer to the Dream Qilin, making a comparison.
The length of that slender black horn did indeed seem to match this Dream Qilin.
'If it really is this Dream Qilin's horn, why did it end up in the real world?'
Mo Ling was puzzled.
Just then, he remembered what Li Luo had said about the Red Rope Worm.
So he extended his perception into the Dream Qilin's body.
It was still an endless expanse of color.
The Dream Qilin was like a creature formed from a puddle of paint, completely lacking flesh, blood, or any tissues a normal creature should have.
The kimchi it ate also transformed into colorful light after entering the Dream Qilin's mouth, merging into its body.
Soon, amidst the churning rainbow, Mo Ling found the incongruous red cord.
A seemingly enormous Red Rope Worm was hiding inside the Dream Qilin's body.
It was constantly gnawing on the Dream Qilin, so much so that its entire body was glowing.
This giant Red Rope Worm perfectly matched the recorded characteristics of a queen Red Rope Worm, being much larger than the males.
The target that horde of Vibrating Beasts was searching for was this very Dream Qilin!
Mo Ling quickly used the electronic screen to tell Li Luo his discovery.
This also confirmed Li Luo's theory.
A horde of male worms from the real world was searching for a queen worm living in a dream!
But they could never find it.
Mo Ling fell into deep thought again.
'Why hasn't this Dream Qilin's horn healed?'
He suddenly thought of the worm's fundamental nature again.
All evolution was geared toward allowing the two to meet.
The healing abilities of other creatures had evolved to ensure the infected hosts could successfully find their targets.
But this broken horn, conversely, had created an opportunity for the two to meet.
The horn had created a bridge between two worlds that could never meet: dream and reality.
Therefore, the Red Rope Worm determined this was not an obstacle and didn't cause the Dream Qilin to evolve a healing ability.
This was the rule of the Red Rope Worm.
Although the horde of Vibrating Beasts outside currently had no way to enter the dream.
But who's to say that one day, that horde of Vibrating Beasts wouldn't evolve the ability to enter the dream?
Then, they would be able to find this Dream Qilin.
And at that time, having completed their mission, the worms and the Vibrating Beasts would perish, and naturally, there would be no more abnormal movements from the Vibrating Beasts.
'Is this the only way?'
After all this, he was back to the original do-nothing approach.
Mo Ling thought about it and still felt that the horn that went to the real world was the key.
But first, he had to be one hundred percent certain that the black horn was related to the Dream Qilin before 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 she quickly took out a handle.
With a twist of her hands, an incredibly sharp spike extended from the handle. She handed the spike directly to Mo Ling, trusting him completely.
Under Li Luo's shocked gaze, Mo Ling raised the spike in his hand and stabbed it down at the Dream Qilin.
Rainbow-colored blood gushed from the wound where the Dream Qilin was stabbed.
The paint-like blood splattered onto the ground, then gradually lost its color and turned pure black.
Identical to the color of the black horn in the real world.
After turning pure black, it quickly vanished into thin air.
The change in the blood made Mo Ling even more certain of his hypothesis.
After being attacked, the Dream Qilin thrashed about wildly in its cage, but it couldn't escape.
Mo Ling continued his assault, poking many holes in the Dream Qilin's body.
The Red Rope Worm quickly began to do its work.
The wounds on the Dream Qilin's body began to heal continuously.
Mo Ling's attacks had directly caused the Dream Qilin to evolve a healing ability.
PHEW.
After doing all this, Mo Ling breathed a sigh of relief.
It had been an extremely risky move, as he had no idea what other abilities the Dream Qilin might possess.
After all, very little research had been done on this type of creature.
Once the Dream Qilin evolved the healing ability, a short horn suddenly sprouted from its head and began to grow longer.
Under the effect of the healing, its originally broken horn quickly grew back completely.
'It worked!'
Mo Ling looked at Li Luo again and returned the spike.
"Swap it for a blade. The sharpest one you have."
Hearing this, Li Luo found one for Mo Ling.
Taking the blade, Mo Ling swung it and lopped off the Dream Qilin's horn.
The Dream Qilin collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain. The sight even made Mo Ling's heart ache.
Picking up the horn from the ground, Mo Ling watched as it steadily turned black, eventually becoming identical to the black horn in the real world.
Then, the black horn vanished into thin air.
Seeing Li Luo's confused expression, Mo Ling explained on the electronic screen: "Body parts that separate from the Dream Qilin cross over into the real world."
This had originally been just a guess from Mo Ling; he had simply come up with the explanation that best fit the facts.
But his previous experiment had confirmed it.
"If we can't send the Vibrating Beasts into the dream, then we'll send the Dream Qilin into the real world."
Mo Ling had already figured out the next step.
"What we need to do now is make all parts of the Dream Qilin's body separate from it."
In other words, to instantly kill every part of the Dream Qilin's body!
Mo Ling told Li Luo his plan.
Li Luo was surprised at first, then she fell into thought.
After a moment of contemplation, she asked, "Do you need a nuke?"
Mo Ling was so startled he quickly waved his hands. He already had an idea of what to do.
Asking the Young Lady to wait a moment, Mo Ling walked over to the balcony, found a small bug in a flowerpot, and initiated a teleport.
He then entered the Kimchi Space and found the now-dead bug on the ground.
This was the method Mo Ling had thought of to kill the Dream Qilin instantly.
He planned to teleport the Dream Qilin directly into the Kimchi Space to kill it instantly.
Previously, Mo Ling wasn't clear on the principle behind why his teleportation caused living things to perish.
The first possibility was that creatures entering the Block would perish. In that case, a Dream Qilin teleported into the Kimchi Space would still be alive.
If that were the principle, Mo Ling had originally planned to teleport the Dream Qilin out and then throw it into various extreme environments.
However, that also risked causing the Dream Qilin to evolve continuously.
But now, it seemed it wouldn't be so troublesome.
This was the second possibility: any creature subjected to his teleportation would die instantly.