Ai Nuo's body stiffened instantly.

Then, like an ostrich, she shrank back again, burying her head low.

"It's fake, it must be fake..." she muttered, while moving the mouse, continuously clicking on the latest portable computer, changing the game's scheduled operations.

An eerie wind swept through the hotel lobby, the light from the overhead lamps growing dimmer, giving the feeling that they might go out at any moment.

"Fake, how could there really be ghosts..." Ai Nuo kept comforting herself, but refused to take any action, still focusing her attention on the three electronic devices.

She acted as if she could immerse herself in something, forget about the changes around her, and it would be as if nothing had happened.

In the dim and flickering light, black shadows appeared on the walls of the hotel lobby.

They twisted and moved, but there were no corresponding entities, as if they had appeared out of thin air.

Ai Nuo's body shrank even more, she forced herself to focus on the drama, the novel, and the game.

Suddenly, she felt a chill blowing on the back of her neck, making the hairs there stand on end.

Ai Nuo almost jumped up, screaming and running out of the hotel, but she finally "controlled" herself, making a choice that no normal person would make:

She still shrank there, "focusing" on watching the drama, playing the game, and reading the novel, even though she could feel someone lingering behind her, a cold breeze blowing gently on her neck, incessantly.

"Hallucination... it's all hallucination..." Ai Nuo encouraged herself, while forcing herself to forget the changes in reality.

...

Inside the "Wild Pigeon" bar, the mangled corpse caused quite a stir.

Although most of the customers here were Ruins Hunters, because Tarnan was so well protected by "Machine Paradise," and the surrounding urban ruins had been explored for many years, the hidden dangers weren't too great. Many of them hadn't seen true killing and such a horrifying corpse.

In this regard, they were vastly different from the townspeople of "Redstone Collection."

For a time, chaos spread like a plague. Those who were playing cards, playing mahjong, haggling, or waiting to dance all stood up, either shrinking into corners, gathering together, and discussing what had happened in a panic, or summoning up courage, walking in groups to the entrance area, examining the incomplete corpse.

The bar owner, Cai Yi's "Intermediate Hunter" status wasn't slowly accumulated by various small tasks and time. After a brief moment of panic, he stabilized his emotions and carefully examined the corpse in front of him.

After a few seconds, he said in a deep voice:

"It's someone from the 'Mountain Fox' bandit gang."

He recognized the deceased's identity.

At the same moment, Jiang Bai Mian confirmed his judgment.

"'Mountain Fox' bandit gang encountered an attack after leaving?" she asked herself rhetorically, "That's right, they left after a sudden gust of wind and a series of banging sounds."

In this way, the problem appeared from that time.

Cai Yi withdrew his gaze from examining the corpse and looked at the Ruins Hunter team in front of him:

"Why are you back again? Did you sense danger?"

He felt that this hunter team had discovered something, made a decisive decision, and returned the way they came, thus successfully avoiding repeating the fate of the "Mountain Fox" bandit gang.

"We came back while walking." Shang Jian Yao answered quickly.

Then, he imitated the eerie tone of the hotel landlady, Ai Nuo:

"I suspect we encountered 'ghost wall.'"

The bar crowd's bodies stiffened upon hearing this. Some couldn't help but move closer to the door, wanting to flee and find the robot guards.

Jiang Bai Mian glanced at them and reminded:

"If you blindly go out now, you might end up like him."

She pointed to the corpse on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, she stated her judgment:

"I suspect that the high-level 'Heartless' from the southwestern mountains has come to Tarnan.

"The wind outside, the banging sounds just now, and our getting lost were all caused by illusions."

This guess not only didn't calm the bar crowd down, but instead made them even more nervous:

Previously, a full ten members of the robot guard team disappeared while clearing out this "high-level Heartless"!

This showed that, when facing this terrifying enemy, the robot guards weren't so reliable!

Relatively speaking, no one had ever encountered ghosts before. Who knew if the robot guards would be affected by ghosts? Anyway, they habitually believed that robots weren't afraid of this.

Cai Yi looked up at the ceiling, trying to calm himself down:

"Is this corpse also an illusion?"

His wife and children were upstairs, and he had to determine the situation as soon as possible and make a response.

"I'll confirm it." As soon as Jiang Bai Mian finished speaking, Shang Jian Yao, instead of her, walked to the corpse and squatted down.

He took out rubber gloves, put them on, and pressed his hands on the corpse.

Then, using it as a fulcrum, he did a handstand.

A handstand... Bar owner Cai Yi was a little dumbfounded, and so were those nervous customers.

What kind of confirmation method was this?

Could it be that allowing blood to rush into the head could effectively improve intelligence?

Seeing that the surface of the corpse only sagged slightly, and Shang Jian Yao didn't directly sink into it, Bai Chen turned her head and said to Jiang Bai Mian:

"It's real."

She didn't know when she had already drawn her guns, one "Frost Moss," one "Union 202."

Jiang Bai Mian "mm"ed, while watching Shang Jian Yao flip over and stand up, she looked at bar owner Cai Yi:

"Do you have a grenade launcher here? I plan to fire a 'signal flare' outside, to see if the robot guards can react."

In any case, robots were definitely better at seeing through illusions than humans.

At the same time, Jiang Bai Mian also wanted to notify the people from Nan Ke Temple of the "Mirage Dragon Church".

In this regard, she felt that Zhou Yue, the seemingly unreliable Zhou Temple Master, might be more reliable than Li Zhe of the "Furnace Church" and Mike of the "Glory Balance".

Leave professional matters to professionals as much as possible.

Cai Yi was stunned upon hearing this:

"Why use a signal flare?

"Just call the robot guards directly.

"Afraid of interference?"

Uh... Jiang Bai Mian then realized that she was used to the ecological environment of Wild Grass City, Redstone Collection, Shuiwei Town, and other places in the Greylands. For a moment, she couldn't adapt well to Tarnan, forgetting that not only was there a wireless base station here, but almost every inhabited place had wired telephones.

In this regard, Tarnan was even more technologically advanced than "Pangu Biology."

"Can you call Temple Master Zhou of Nan Ke Temple?" Jiang Bai Mian quickly regained her senses and asked.

Cai Yi nodded:

"I have a phone book."

"Then thank you." Jiang Bai Mian replied politely, then turned her head to look at Shang Jian Yao.

After the two exchanged glances, they each shook their heads.

Jiang Bai Mian wasn't sure if what Shang Jian Yao wanted to express was the same as her own, but anyway, she wanted to say:

This was the most populous street in Tarnan, with people everywhere. She couldn't find the "high-level Heartless" based on the electrical signals.

From this point of view, human consciousness sensing should also have similar problems.

"Are there still people on the street now?" Jiang Bai Mian asked in confirmation.

Shang Jian Yao answered truthfully:

"Several."

"Mm." Jiang Bai Mian indicated that this was also her answer.

Cai Yi, who didn't understand their conversation, imperceptibly shook his head:

"I'll go make a call."

As soon as he finished speaking, a howling cold wind blew in from above the two wooden planks, bringing an eerie feeling.

In the next second, the chandeliers and wall lamps in the bar became dim at the same time, as if there was a problem with the voltage.

Long Yue Hong's heart tightened, and he looked up, his pupils suddenly dilated.

The bodies of the bar patrons, including the three he had once beaten, were slightly hunched over, and their eyes became abnormally cloudy, filled with bloodshot.

"Heartless"!

They had all turned into "Heartless"!

Long Yue Hong suddenly raised his hands holding the gun.

At the same time, he heard the team leader remind bar owner Cai Yi:

"Be careful."

Cai Yi slowly turned his body.

His eyes bulged out, equally cloudy.

Long Yue Hong almost couldn't control his conditioned reflex, and almost pulled the trigger directly.

Just then, Shang Jian Yao's voice rang out cheerfully:

"If we turn off the lights and can't see, will everything be alright?"

"Ah?" Long Yue Hong glanced out of the corner of his eye and found that Shang Jian Yao had already stood by the power switch at some point.

...

Nan Ke Temple.

Zhou Yue relied solely on the strength of her feet and abdomen to leave the futon and stand up.

She patted the white robe on her body and said to a "Dream Weaver" next to her:

"Fierphos, I'm going out for a bit. Bring me my Eight Trigrams Mirror."

That "Dream Weaver" had black hair and blue eyes, a clear mixed-race.

He first answered:

"Yes, Temple Master."

Then, he added, a little aggrieved:

"Temple Master, I am Zhen Lian."

"...Zhen Lian, yes, Zhen Lian." Zhou Yue squeezed out a smile, "Besides the Eight Trigrams Mirror, there's also talisman water, burlap sacks, oh, and a flashlight."

This strange combination made Zhen Lian and the others very surprised, but they didn't dare to ask too much, after all, the Temple Master seemed to be in a hurry.

ps: Asking for monthly tickets on the last day ~