In the explosion, Cao, whose vision had returned but ears were still ringing, noticed a trace of anomaly.
He thought he had a good relationship with his "friend", and they were friendly enough, so why hadn't that friend warned him when the enemy tried to attack?
Delving deeper into this thought, he discovered a chilling fact:
He didn't even know that good friend's name!
Something's wrong... Cao, a veteran of many battles, reacted immediately.
He stopped "True Dream" and cast "Forced Sleep" on all human consciousnesses in the area again!
In an instant, Kanna, who was regretting not seizing the opportunity and was about to give up "Friendly Aura," closed her eyes and slowly slumped to the thick carpet.
The "Virtual World" master, the old woman with the black beanie, who had just opened her eyes and hadn't figured out the situation, fell asleep again.
Avia, who was hesitating whether to use her tattered phone, leaned to the side and rested on the armrest of the armchair.
She fell into slumber again, as if all the scenes she had just seen were just a dream.
Shang Jianyao, holding the "Grim Reaper" individual combat rocket launcher, also fell to the ground.
Because he was holding a heavy object, he fell quickly, almost like a crash.
The pain of the fall would definitely wake him from his slumber.
Unfortunately, Cao had enough experience in this regard and added a "Material Interference" to slow down Shang Jianyao's fall.
Shang Jianyao barely caused any shaking before falling to the ground and snoring loudly.
In order to prevent Jiang Baimian from waking up strangely like before, Cao immediately switched "Forced Sleep" to "True Dream."
After doing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The continuous changes just now made him worry that he would not only fail to achieve his intended goal, but also encounter something bad.
Fortunately, after several rounds of confrontation, he, who had always been in the lead, relied on a little external influence and finally saw the light of success.
Avia has been eliminated. Now it's time to deal with those guys who know the password... After finishing the disposal, immediately enter the villa, find that dangerous item, and take it away... While his thoughts flashed, Cao turned his gaze to the "Old Task Force's" military green jeep.
His next target was the woman with the alias Xue Shiyue or the man with the alias Zhang Qubing.
The previous series of accidents were brought about by these two people and must be eliminated first!
For some reason, compared to the master of the "Virtual World" and the "Mind Corridor" level Awakened who made him feel friendly, Cao believed that these two people were the biggest hidden danger.
After all, no one knows if they will use "True Dream" to summon that boy named Xiao Chong.
Just as Cao locked onto Shang Jianyao not far from the jeep and was about to make his "heart stop," he suddenly felt very dizzy and quickly entered a state of inability to think.
Slowly, he fell down and crashed onto the top of the black car with a bang.
However, he did not wake up from this, as if he had become a vegetable.
The last image he saw was:
At the driver's seat window of the military green jeep, there was a hand resting, a woman's left hand with wheat-colored skin.
After being deprived of hearing, Jiang Baimian, while driving the car towards Cao, took advantage of the fact that she had not yet fallen asleep and did one last thing:
She opened the car window, stretched out her left hand, and released the anesthetic gas equipped on the electric eel-type bionic limb!
She suspected that the enemy also possessed "Olfactory Deprivation" because he used "Auditory Deprivation."
And for an Awakened who is sensitive to certain smells and afraid of them, the best option for mass killing or avoiding corresponding accidents is to shield one's sense of smell in advance.
That way, he will be invulnerable.
Even if Cao did not have "Olfactory Deprivation" related items, Jiang Baimian also believed that he had already, or would, affect his senses in advance, making his sense of smell dull—Cao showed the ability to manipulate the intensity of the senses on Long Yuehong last time.
When the target loses his sense of smell, or his sense of smell becomes dull, he will definitely not smell the anesthetic gas!
At the end, Jiang Baimian stepped on the brakes while driving the jeep towards the enemy's car, partly because the other party had already "flown" to the top, and it would require a lot of luck and would be easy to lose more than gain if she wanted to directly crash into an explosion. The other reason was that she did not want to scare away the enemy, hoping that he could still stay in place, within the range that the anesthetic gas could affect.
--In this open environment, as long as a distance can be opened, the anesthetic gas will not have any effect.
As Jiang Baimian expected, Cao, who was busy completing various operations and did not want to be distracted by "Material Interference," chose to land on the top of the car and deprived himself of his sense of smell.
Therefore, he had been breathing anesthetic gas throughout the process of doing those things, but he himself never noticed.
If Shang Jianyao hadn't given Cao a rocket just now, passively clearing the gas around him, he would have entered a state of anesthesia sooner.
For a time, everyone inside and outside Avia's classic villa was "asleep," whether they were the attackers or the attacked, they all lay down.
Next, whoever wakes up first will have the greatest initiative.
The wind, which started to get hot in the morning, blew past. In the extremely quiet environment, a green parrot flew in from somewhere.
It flew and muttered:
"Dead woman, why do you have to act as stupid as most people in the Senate? Why do you think a parrot is trustworthy? So dangerous...
"You can trust a parrot's morals, but you must never trust its mouth and its brain...
"I don't agree with all the swear words I say, it's all pure imitation...
"Too dangerous, too dangerous..."
While scolding, the parrot flew into the third floor of Avia's classic villa and landed on its owner, Kanna.
Then, it began to peck the woman who taught it many swear words.
Cao's "Forced Sleep" only worked on humans and did not care about animals.
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Red Wolf Zone, Senate.
Jialuolan floated outside the window, her emerald green eyes always watching the demonstrating citizens below.
She tried her best to reduce the number of people in the minds of other "Mind Corridor" level Awakened, protecting their safety to the greatest extent possible.
She already felt that many people hidden in the dark were turning their attention to her, and could launch an attack at any time.
Just then, it got dark, it got dark within the visible range.
Immediately afterwards, a light burst out and swept across the area.
It was like the nuclear bombs that exploded when the old world was destroyed, or the light tubes that suddenly lit up in a confined room.
Jialuolan closed her eyes subconsciously.
This is everyone's instinct.
Inside the Senate behind her, the people who were crying and laughing because of former Governor Beuliss also returned to normal.
As soon as the light subsided, a figure quickly emerged in the central area of the conference hall.
He was wearing a general's uniform, had an gloomy temperament, and had a prominent hooked nose. It was Gaius, the commander of the Eastern Legion who had disappeared before.
A trace of smile finally appeared on Gaius's face, seemingly having enough confidence because of the strange changes just now.
He didn't know when he had grasped a mobile phone in his left palm.
A cracked screen, an old black mobile phone.
Without giving everyone a chance to react, Gaius pressed the speed dial key.
The screen lit up, but no number appeared, and no corresponding name was highlighted. Only words such as "Dialing" existed alone.
Ring, ring!
Although the mobile phone did not make a sound, a ringtone echoed in the ears of all humans and animals in the surrounding area.
Ring, ring…
The ringtone suddenly stopped. On the cracked screen of Gaius's old mobile phone, "Dialing" changed to "Calling."
Suddenly, these words seemed to come alive and sank inward.
The entire screen seemed to transform into a "black hole," constantly swallowing the displayed content and the surrounding light.
In a short second, the Senate Conference Hall became abnormally dim, giving people the feeling that dusk was about to pass and the sun was about to sink below the horizon.
At the same time, the senators and their entourage and guards, such as Inspector Alexander, who had returned to normal, seemed to have become statues, or had been cast with a spell that prevented them from moving.
In their minds, the interrupted ringtone continued to echo.
Beuliss, who suffered from "Heartless Disease" and had lost all sanity, turned his head to look at Gaius, and at the mobile phone in his palm. A hint of fear actually appeared in his bloodshot, cloudy eyes.
The next second, the "black hole" on the mobile phone screen seemed to solidify, and a pair of heavy doors, the specific appearance of which could not be seen clearly, vaguely appeared inside.