Dozens of meters away, the enemy with the paragliding device descended all the way down, crashing into the ground and stirring up a lot of dust.
For Bai Chen and Long Yuehong, such a commotion was impossible to ignore. Seeing that their team leader was temporarily okay, they almost simultaneously turned their gazes to Weierfu, who was wearing sunglasses and a windbreaker and had fallen face-first into the dirt.
Immediately afterward, they raised the guns in their hands and aimed at the target.
However, before pulling the trigger, they both bit their tongues without hesitation, hoping to use the pain to confirm whether they were in a state of sleepwalking and whether they would accidentally injure their companions.
--Being completely enveloped by the bionic intelligent armor, they certainly couldn't use methods such as slapping themselves or hitting their stomachs to cause pain.
After biting down lightly and feeling a jolt, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong found that there was no change in what they saw, so they confidently pulled the trigger.
The "Orange" rifle and the "Berserker" assault rifle fired simultaneously, and bullets poured out.
On the other side, Xu Lan, who had failed in her assassination, was surprised but not stunned.
With her rich experience, she lunged to the side, gradually concealing her figure in mid-air.
This was a powerful manifestation of the "Invisibility" ability, which allowed the user to escape the lock and return to an undetectable state with a good chance, even after contact had already been made and the user's consciousness could no longer be hidden.
Xu Lan's level was obviously stronger than Shang Jianyao's, and the escape was very smooth. In the blink of an eye, she disappeared from the sight of Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao.
Just then, the area she lunged towards, which seemed to be empty, emitted the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
"Loss of limb movement!"
Although Xu Lan had forcibly escaped Shang Jianyao's lock, the influence that had been applied would not disappear.
Having been hit by "Loss of Limb Movement" the moment the assassination failed, she couldn't land safely. She rolled away from the area where the enemies could have predicted her trajectory based on her previous movements, and fell there in a rather embarrassing posture.
Thump!
Her figure was about to become visible.
Jiang Baimian, who had lowered her body, extended her left palm forward.
Streaks of silver-white electric arcs shot out, weaving into a dense net that enveloped the area Xu Lan lunged toward.
Unable to sense the enemy with human consciousness and bioelectrical signals, unable to find the enemy using eyes, ears, nose, and other organs, Jiang Baimian's choice was to calculate the trajectory with mathematical ability and cause indiscriminate damage with a range-type attack!
Zzzzz!
Xu Lan's figure was directly shocked out. Her wide-brimmed high-top felt hat rolled to the side, and some of her black hair smelled burnt, while others stood on end.
She knew things were bad, but her brain and body were in a state of paralysis, and she couldn't make any self-saving movements for a while.
Just as Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian each locked onto Xu Lan, preparing to use the "Six Senses Beads" and the "Angel of Life" necklace, they saw a frightening scene out of the corner of their eyes.
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, wearing bionic intelligent armor, raised their guns and, aimed in this direction, pulled the trigger!
Their target was not the "Mind Corridor" level Awakened from the "Endings" domain, but Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao!
"Dream within a Dream" followed by "Sleepwalking!"
Weierfu cried out in horror. When he glided and fell to the ground, the tablet that he and Xu Lan had placed on the roof suddenly changed.
A blurry figure that resembled the surrounding snowflakes appeared on it.
This was the "Doctor" from the Eighth Research Institute, a powerful figure who had already entered the "New World."
Using the tablet as a repeater, he had influenced Bai Chen and Long Yuehong.
Considering that the targets had already been subjected to "Sleepwalking" once, they would definitely be on guard, so he used the ability "Dream within a Dream" first.
Therefore, the behavior of Bai Chen and Long Yuehong lightly biting their tongues happened in a dream, and was not actually performed. The pain caused them to "break free" from the innermost layer of the dream.
Still in the dream, they "naturally" began to "sleepwalk."
And the enemies in their dreams actually corresponded to Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao.
Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian, who were only wearing bulletproof vests and had no more self-protection measures, instinctively abandoned the attack on Xu Lan and made evasive maneuvers.
They exerted force with their legs, either jumping directly out or propelling themselves, sliding along the ground.
Bang bang bang, da da da, where they had originally stood, dirt splashed, rocks cracked, and the area was a mess.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Lan's brain recovered from the paralysis, and she habitually concealed her figure.
The next second, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao stopped. The former, who was already close to the ground, simply lay there, while the latter, who had just jumped to a roadside abandoned vehicle, leaned weakly against the dirty car door and sat down, closing his eyes.
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were also affected, and their bodies swayed, slowly but surely collapsing to the ground.
The scales of the "Black Marsh Iron Serpent" and "Chameleon" bionic intelligent armor collided with hard objects, but did not wake their respective owners.
"Sleep!"
The "Doctor" used "Sleep" on the four members of the "Old Task Force" with the help of that tablet!
After entering the "New World," he could already use all the abilities in the "Dream" domain.
However, because he had not truly returned and his body was still in the distant Eighth Research Institute, his strength was greatly reduced, and the further effects of many abilities could not be manifested.
At the same time, he had to guard against Wu Meng.
Otherwise, he would have better options now, such as "Eternal Sleep," which could directly put the members of the "Old Task Force" into a permanent sleep, like vegetables, unable to be awakened by normal means, such as, wait, wait.
Of course, for the "Doctor," in this situation, "Sleep" was actually enough. As long as he controlled the four targets, Xu Lan, who had recovered, could naturally solve them one by one.
The front of the Holm Reproductive Medical Center suddenly became extremely quiet, with only the wind blowing gently through the ruined city.
Xu Lan was in no hurry to appear and launch an attack, because her hands and feet were still trembling, and the effects of the electric shock still lingered.
Seeing the asymmetrical scenes before her, her anger grew more and more, and she couldn't wait to recover and destroy everything.
Just then, a ball of electric arcs emerged from Jiang Baimian's left palm again and landed on herself.
In the zzz noise, Jiang Baimian suddenly bounced up.
The auxiliary chip in her electric eel-type biological prosthetic limb monitored that she had entered a state of sleep, so it gave her a stimulus to wake her up.
In the remaining paralysis from the electric shock, Jiang Baimian, as if she had rehearsed it dozens or hundreds of times, skillfully submerged her consciousness into the "Angel of Life" necklace wrapped around her left wrist.
She remembered that the company had reminded her that she could rely on this prop when encountering danger!
However, now, besides being able to lock onto that panicked "Endings" domain enemy, she couldn't find the source of the "Nightmare" power at all, and couldn't solve it in a targeted manner.
Similarly, she couldn't sense the assassin from the "Golden Balance" domain and couldn't prevent the next assassination.
At this time, "Cardiac Arrest" couldn't play any role at all... Did the company's reminder have another meaning? While Jiang Baimian's thoughts flashed, she tentatively expanded her perception range of human consciousness with the "Angel of Life" necklace, just like Shang Jianyao had achieved a similar purpose with the "Blindness Ring" back then.
In an instant, Jiang Baimian felt like a nearsighted person had put on glasses with the right prescription, or like she was far away, controlling multiple surveillance cameras in this area, "seeing" some things that she originally couldn't "see" or "see" clearly:
A illusory darkness enveloped here, wrapping around Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen, and Long Yuehong, extending backward to the top of a distant high-rise building.
The company's modified "Angel of Life" necklace really had something special! Jiang Baimian was overjoyed and decisively touched the illusory darkness with her consciousness through the prop.
As soon as the two sides made contact, she had the feeling that the other party was in an extremely distant place, yet somehow overlapped with the current area.
It was as if two worlds had intersected.
This made Jiang Baimian feel that she could use "Cardiac Arrest" on that illusory darkness at this distance.
In a critical situation, she did what she thought of and immediately activated the pendant-shaped silver necklace.
A glimmer of light flashed, and at the end of the illusory darkness, in a very distant place, it seemed as if an angry roar was heard.
It was more surprised than afraid.
The illusory darkness receded, and Shang Jianyao shook his head, bounced up from the spot, and woke up.
He saw Weierfu dozens of meters away at a glance. This man wearing sunglasses and a windbreaker had not yet fully recovered from the fear brought by the "Gloomy Sister" gaze.
A blue-green light lit up, and Shang Jianyao directly used the "Six Senses Beads" on him.
"Consciousness Deprivation!"
Weierfu closed his eyes and completely fainted.
That way, he wouldn't have to be afraid anymore.
With Bai Chen and Long Yuehong awakening, the four members of the "Old Task Force" each monitored an area.
The assassin from the "Golden Balance" domain was currently nowhere to be found.