Chapter 154 - Waking Up
Lin Mu touched his face and ensured that he really was in the real world and had woken up. He then sat up and touched his surroundings as well. Once he confirmed that everything was as he had known, he took a breath of relief.
’So that really was a dream, a strange one at that. It was as if my spirit sense was really trapped.’ Lin Mu thought.
But just as he thought that, an idea popped into his mind. Acting on this idea, he released his spirit sense and extended it. As soon as he extended it though, he was shocked. He had a hidden feeling that what had happened in the dream was not completely fake.
And that’s what it was. In Lin Mu’s dream, he remembered that his spirit sense was hundreds of meters long and was incredibly strong. The same had happened here. Except that it was not exactly the same. While it had increased its range, it was only extended up to eighty meters, ten times of what it was before he went to sleep.
"This is amazing! How is this possible though?" Lin Mu spoke out loud in surprise.
But him extending his spirit sense had another effect.
~Shing~
A strange sound was heard that was similar to how unsheathing a sword felt. A swooping sound was heard as a few people shouted out loud.
"WATCH OUT!"
"WHOA!"
~Rip~
A tearing sound was then heard as the canvas walls of the tent were torn and an object entered from it. It came to float in front of Lin Mu and hovered there while humming faintly. It was none other than Lin Mu’s short sword. Somehow it had come flying to him.
"What?..." Lin Mu spoke in shock as he saw the short sword floating.
"Hold it, it’s responding to you now." Xukong suddenly spoke.
Lin Mu heeded his words and held on to the handle of the short sword. As soon as he held it, the short sword stopped thrumming and calmed down. Lin Mu looked at it from top to bottom and couldn’t see any differences in it.
Xukong saw this and knew what Lin Mu was thinking.
"It’s not a physical change. It just the spirit control link that it had established with you. While it responded before back when you didn’t have a strong enough spirit sense, it was only acting on instinct. But now that your spirit sense is sufficiently strong, it will heed your commands." Xukong explained.
"At least he’s improving." Lin Mu muttered.
After checking up on Hei Yingjie, he walked back outside and saw that the men were cleaning up the destroyed tent. One of them saw him and walked up to him.
"Do you have any orders, senior?" The man asked. It was the same man who was the first in supporting Lin Mu in healing Hei Yingjie.
"We need to inform the other team. I don’t think we can continue the mission like this." Lin Mu spoke stating the problem.
The man’s expression fell, and he nodded.
"That is true senior. With our strongest expert down, there isn’t much we can’t do. Before you woke up, we were discussing our course of action, but we didn’t want to decided it without you. Now that Senior Hei Yingjie is injured, you’re the one who’s in command." The man spoke.
Only now did Lin Mu realized that he had never asked the man for his name. In fact, he had not asked anyone’s names somehow.
"Umm, what’s your name?" Lin Mu asked.
"Ah, my name is Xie Bohai." The man introduced himself.
"Xie? Not Hei?" Lin Mu asked, feeling perplexed.
"Oh yes, Senior. We did not take up the Hei name as we were to be the reserve force of the Hei Corps. Since we had to disguise and live a normal life for a long time, the Lord had decided that it was better this way." Xie Bohai explained.
Lin Mu nodded in understanding and then took a look around at the rest of the members.
"Xie Bohai, tell me how are the others? Have they recovered?" Lin Mu questioned with a straight expression.
"Yes, Senior. All of us have recovered and are ready for any task you may deem necessary." Xie Bohai spoke in a respectful tone.
"That’s good. Now the first task is to inform the other team, do you have any suggestions?" Lin Mu questioned.
Lin Mu didn’t know if they had the means to contact others, but seeing their previous methods and them being resourceful, he was kind of expecting something.
"Of course, Senior. We still have the locating compasses. As long as we are close to them, we will be able to find them." Xie Bohai spoke.
"Very good. How long will it take you to inform them then?" Lin Mu questioned.
"I’ll dispatch two of our men right away. It shouldn’t take more than a day or two at the most." Xie Bohai answered.
"Yes, do that. Meanwhile, I have something to do." Lin Mu replied and then walked towards the copras of the alpha steel back wolf.