"Excuse me... may I sense your emotions?"
The mantis woman looked a bit nervous, standing cautiously not far from Fang Mo, wanting to reach out but not daring to do so, a timid look on her face.
"You want to sense my emotions?"
Fang Mo laughed upon hearing this, directly saying to the mantis woman, "I've never heard such a ridiculous request before, woman, you are playing with fire..."
"Is that not okay?"
The mantis woman, already somewhat timid, instinctively withdrew her hand and took a step back in fear.
"It's not that it's impossible," Fang Mo said with a shrug and a smile. "But how should I put it... would you want to feel the emotions of the abyss? To tell you the truth, when Ego first met me, he was scared into a cold sweat."
"What is the abyss?"
The mantis woman asked somewhat blankly.
"Well..."
Truth be told, Fang Mo was also stumped by her question. This was the first time someone had asked him this; the mantis woman is said to have lived here since she was young, so Ego never properly taught her?
"This vile little thing is actually quite innocent."
Drax couldn't help but speak up when he heard the conversation: "Honestly, she reminds me of my daughter..."
"What, your daughter is also vile-looking?"
Rocket Raccoon asked.
"Are you sick?" Drax glanced at Rocket Raccoon: "I'm talking about that pure innocence, who the hell would describe their own daughter as vile-looking?"
"Huh?"
The mantis woman, of course, heard the two's conversation, and asked a bit aggrievedly, "Do I really look so vile?"
"Of course."
Drax affirmed without a second thought: "You're so ugly it's startling."
The mantis woman, upon hearing this, seemed to grow a bit more self-conscious, slowly lowering her head, looking somewhat sad.
Just then, Drax suddenly added, "Being ugly is actually a good thing."
"???"
Mantis looked up at him, full of surprise.
"If you're ugly and someone still loves you, then you know that person truly loves you," Drax stated his own philosophical view seriously. "Beautiful people... ha, they never know who to trust."
"In that case..."
Mantis looked thoughtful, "I should be glad I'm ugly then."
"Not that ugly,"
Rocket Raccoon chimed in upon hearing this, "Rather, Drax's taste is pretty odd. That time he went out with Quill..."
"You little sharp-mouthed monkey, shut up."
Drax's face couldn't hold up, and he quickly interrupted, "I didn't do anything! Don't talk nonsense!"
"Hahaha..."
Fang Mo also laughed a little, then explained to the confused Mantis, "Don't worry, our team is always like this. The atmosphere is very harmonious. By the way, you're just not in line with other cosmic species' aesthetics. Maybe you're quite attractive in your own species."
"Is that so?"
Hearing Fang Mo's words, Mantis nodded subconsciously, "That makes some sense. I've actually thought that Drax's species is a bit..."
"What?"
Drax was stunned, "That's a personal attack now..."
"Hahaha!" Rocket Raccoon laughed out loud, "I'm dying of laughter. I knew it, who would like Drax's crap?"
"Hey? I can't say that?"
The mantis girl was a bit puzzled: "I'm sorry, I've lived here since I was little, and may not be very good at interacting with others…"
"Don't mind these details, that's just how they are. You'll get used to it slowly," Fang Mo said with a smile, waving his hand. "By the way, didn't you say earlier that you wanted to feel my emotions? Do you really want to try?"
"Can I?"
Upon hearing this, the mantis girl felt a bit intimidated: "But... I don't even know what the abyss is?"
"It's okay, I'll try not to let you see those."
Fang Mo smiled and then slowly opened his arms: "You've probably often sensed the emotions of Ego since you were young, right? Come on... from now on, you can feel the emotions of another deity."
"...Alright."
The mantis girl was indeed a bit curious and after a slight hesitation, she slowly reached out and pressed her hand on Fang Mo's shoulder.
And at that moment.
The mantis girl became completely stupefied in place.
With Fang Mo's cooperation and her racial talent, the mantis girl's thoughts were fortunately able to penetrate that shell and directly face the other's indescribably dark nature.
Beyond that void deeper than darkness, a place no dream, subconscious, or psychic power could touch, the mantis girl saw a mass of terrifying chaos she couldn't understand: loneliness, confusion, madness, unease, pain, distortion... All these ugly emotions intertwined, boiling and churning incessantly in the endless darkness.
Like a vortex named Chaos, furiously stirring.
And around it, there were many differently colored orbs of light: persistence, joy, memories, desire, humanity... it was unclear what exactly these were.
These orbs of light burned like flames, their light temporarily dispelling the darkness.
At the same time, this light also suppressed the spread of that amorphous mass.
"This... this is..."
The scene before her was too astonishing; the magnitude of these emotional fluctuations and the complexity of their content overwhelmed her.
In an instant, her pupils dilated, and her body trembled.
Before long, the mantis girl couldn't hold on anymore and suddenly screamed, then fell straight back, fainting.
It's worth mentioning that the mantis girl was bleeding from all seven orifices, looking very frightening.
"What the heck... what happened!?"
Rocket Raccoon was also startled and was about to rush to check her injuries, but Fang Mo was faster. His hand, with a green magic circle, twisted counterclockwise, and in a very short time, the mantis girl was rewound back to before everything began.
"What's this..."
After the reversal of time, the mantis girl had forgotten what exactly happened just now, only vaguely remembering some uncomfortable emotions. With her palm suspended in mid-air, she asked in a puzzled manner: "What happened to me just now?"
"As you saw, you just looked directly at the abyss and your SAN points dropped to zero."
At this point, Fang Mo didn't play coy anymore and directly said to the mantis girl: "Your racial talent is very useful, of course, that's also why I noticed you. To be honest... I need your ability."