Inside the "Wild Pigeon" bar, just as Jiang Baimian was thinking about how to rationally utilize the existing resources to break the illusionary trap and inform the robotic guard and the "Mirage Dragon Cult" about the "enemy attack," Shang Jianyao, who had failed to communicate with the surveillance camera, took out a megaphone from his tactical backpack.
Accompanied by the music, he held the megaphone and shouted at one of the human consciousnesses outside:
"It's already dark!
"And the wind is so strong!
"Don't you know to go home!"
This seemed like a reprimand to those who were playing outside without regard for the time or weather, but it was actually a way of implementing the "Reasoning Clown."
However, with the aid of the megaphone, the effect would be greatly reduced, requiring some guidance from Shang Jianyao and only targeting individual entities.
As the sound echoed, the target consciousness paused for two seconds, then jogged towards a certain place on the street.
Jiang Baimian noticed this and roughly understood Shang Jianyao's idea:
When that "Higher Mindless" used the illusion to affect everyone in the bar, it meant that he had interacted with Shang Jianyao and could no longer hide his own consciousness.
In other words, among the human consciousnesses that Shang Jianyao sensed, one was very likely the enemy.
And the enemy might not understand human speech and know that the prerequisite condition "the wind is strong" came from an illusion, and was false, so he would not be affected by the "Reasoning Clown."
This seemed like a good thing, but when his reaction was different from other human consciousnesses, he exposed himself.
It was like a firefly in the night, so distinct, so outstanding.
A tall tree in the forest will surely be felled by the wind!
However, in a hurry, Shang Jianyao's response was not so perfect, and Jiang Baimian quickly thought of several loopholes:
First, the range of that "Higher Mindless" exceeded Shang Jianyao's by a lot, and the current hiding place was outside Shang Jianyao's sensing area. None of those human consciousnesses were the real target.
Second, that "Higher Mindless" could make those outside have auditory hallucinations, thereby maintaining consistency with his own reaction.
Third, there were certain illusions among those human consciousnesses, hallucinations that were created.
It's really troublesome, we can only eliminate them step by step... Jiang Baimian cooperated with Shang Jianyao, sensing the changes in electrical signals to determine whether the affected were dummies or real people.
After urging one human to go home, Shang Jianyao changed targets and repeated the trick.
At this moment, he was like the town mayor in a settlement, broadcasting notifications to everyone through a loudspeaker.
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Zhou Yue, the abbot of the Nanke Temple, walked step by step towards the most powerful place in the illusion in a "shamanic" manner.
This was an Awakened with similar abilities in the same field grasping the corresponding signals.
"So tired..." Zhou Yue couldn't help but complain after walking a distance.
While walking, she had to twist her waist, sway her body, and move her hands, which was simply too physically exhausting!
It was really difficult for her, a clergyman who had not undergone any professional training.
This exhausted her to the point of having some blasphemous thoughts:
Should she disguise herself and infiltrate the "Furnace Sect" to learn some dancing?
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Inside the "Dream" hotel, the landlady Ai Nuo stared at the computer screen while repeatedly chanting warnings with trepidation.
However, the "person" lingering behind her, occasionally breathing on her neck, still existed.
After a few dozen more seconds, Ai Nuo felt something cool resting on her shoulder.
She could no longer control herself and let out a scream:
"Ah!"
At the same time, her dark brown eyes became extremely dim.
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"Binhe Avenue", inside a house.
A certain man suddenly uncontrollably took off his clothes, rushed to the balcony, and urinated in the face of the howling wind.
After urinating, he regained consciousness, both bewildered and delighted:
He was bewildered as to how he could have done such a thing as if possessed, and delighted that he had won against the wind, proving himself.
In a certain room in another building next door.
A woman was holding a book found in the ruins of the city and saying to her child:
"If you can't read, you'll receive fewer tasks as a relic hunter!"
"I can ask someone to read the tasks for me," her child retorted, craning his neck.
The woman suddenly felt a surge of blood rush into her mind, and without thinking, she raised her arm and slammed it onto the surface of the table.
Amidst the bang, she shouted loudly:
"That costs money!
"Are you still learning or not?"
After shouting, she regretted it and felt that she shouldn't have done that.
Her child, who was originally quite strong, started crying directly at this moment:
"I'll learn, I'll learn..."
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Inside the "Wild Pigeon" bar, listening to Shang Jianyao's "broadcast," Long Yuehong suddenly felt a surge of heat in his brain for some reason, and he stood up abruptly, firing shots at the place where many humans were unconscious.
This was something he had wanted to do for a long time and was now a little impulsive, after all, in his eyes, those were all "Mindless."
Fortunately, he was dealing with them as if the "Mindless" were all hunched over, preparing to pounce on him, and every shot hit the air instead of the ground, so no one died because of it.
Under another window, Bai Chen shrank even tighter, as if she felt that if she didn't move, didn't look, didn't listen, and didn't react, she wouldn't be affected too much by the illusion, creating an irreparable result.
Jiang Baimian, on the other hand, pounced, leaped, and rolled, directly arriving at the door.
Just as she opened the door and wanted to take out a grenade from her tactical backpack, throw it outside, create a commotion, and attract reinforcements, she suddenly froze.
What am I doing? Why am I being so impulsive? Wasn't I thinking of waiting for Shang Jianyao to "screen" those consciousnesses outside, "persuade" the real humans to leave, and then use the grenade to "notify" the robotic guard and Nanke Temple? As her thoughts raced, Jiang Baimian's gaze turned to Shang Jianyao.
Shang Jianyao had already dropped the megaphone and was trying to get past her, rushing towards the door.
The small speaker not far from him was still singing:
"Dare to ask, where is the road..."
The next second, outside the "Wild Pigeon" bar, dozens of meters away from the crowd, a hoarse, high-pitched, beastly roar rang out:
"Awoo!"
The sound was so loud that it not only penetrated the illusion but also allowed Jiang Baimian to hear it clearly.
Accompanied by this roar, the howling wind stopped abruptly, the "Mindless" in Long Yuehong's eyes all turned back into humans, and the dim lighting in the bar returned to normal.
Shang Jianyao did not stop his footsteps, rushing out and approaching the place where the roar came from at the fastest speed.
He wanted to shorten the distance and enter his range of ability.
Seeing this, Jiang Baimian did not hesitate, gripping her pistol and following closely behind.
She wanted to shoot continuously, not giving the target a chance to reorganize the illusion.
In the blink of an eye, in just a few seconds, Shang Jianyao rolled, supported himself on the ground with both hands, and looked towards the dark corner of another street.
His eyes were filled with darkness.
"A Sentimental Person!"
The next second, a figure jumped down from somewhere and entered the place that could be illuminated by the street lamp, appearing in the eyes of Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian in a dignified and open manner.
He had gray and messy long hair and looked like an old man in his sixties. The clothes on his body were ragged and varied, as if they had been stripped from multiple dead people and constantly put on his body.
His face was twisted, his eyes were turbid, filled with countless blood streaks, and there were still traces of red at the corners of his mouth, indicating that he was a "Mindless."
Jiang Baimian did not hesitate and raised her pistol.
However, what should have been a conditioned reflex for her—"find the target—aim at the target"—went wrong.
She was no longer aiming at the target, but at the sky!
Bang!
Jiang Baimian's bullet flew into the night sky.
Almost at the same time, she saw that "Higher Mindless" raise his right hand.
He was holding a "United 202."
Faced with this situation, Jiang Baimian's instinctive reaction was to dive, roll, and dodge, but as her thoughts turned, she involuntarily stopped in place, even making a gesture of meeting him.
It was like in a "knee-jerk reflex," after hitting the correct part, it was not the calf that was raised, but the arm.
On the other side, Shang Jianyao's subconscious handling of this situation this change should have been "Double Hand Action Missing," making it impossible for the target to pull the trigger at all, but at this moment, he actually chose "Reasoning Clown":
"You see..."
Before he could finish speaking, the "Higher Mindless" had already aimed at Jiang Baimian.
Just then, Zhou Yue, the abbot of the Nanke Temple, who was "shamanic" like, followed the roar and arrived nearby.
As soon as she saw that "Higher Mindless" standing under the light of the street lamp, she threw the flashlight in her hand without even thinking about it.
Then, she released her thumb from pressing the bottle mouth and threw the plastic bottle containing the talisman water directly at the target.
As the bottle rolled, the talisman water spilled out, and a drizzle fell along the way.
Taking advantage of the fact that she had not yet become the target and had not been affected, Zhou Yue used the hand freed up after abandoning the flashlight to take down the Bagua mirror hanging on the hemp rope around her waist and shone it on the enemy.
In these actions that seemed to have no effect, that "Higher Mindless" did not pull the trigger.
He hurriedly raised his hands, blocking them on the side of his face.
Then, he roared in a low voice, turned his body, and fled in embarrassment.
With a crack, the plastic bottle with only a little talisman water left smashed on the ground, and the figure of that "Higher Mindless" was sometimes high and sometimes low, disappearing into the darkness where the street lamp could not reach like a running horse.
Jiang Baimian recovered and fired several shots at his back, but it was already too late.
What remained in her eyes was that messy and gray long hair.
"Fortunately, it worked..." Zhou Yue, the abbot of the Nanke Temple, breathed a long sigh of relief after watching the "Higher Mindless" escape.
Before she could finish speaking, a surveillance camera on the nearby street lamp post made an electronically synthesized sound:
"Line fault eliminated, restart."
This... Jiang Baimian was surprised by the effectiveness of Zhou Yue's shamanic performance, and frowned slightly.
More and more facts show that the "Higher Mindless" can affect electromagnetic signals and interfere with circuits.
This may be the reason why those robotic guard members lost contact before... Fortunately, he seems to not know that the human body also has bioelectrical signals, and did not deal with this aspect. Alas, knowledge can indeed equal power... As Jiang Baimian's thoughts fluctuated, she turned her head and looked at Shang Jianyao.
ps: Asking for guaranteed monthly tickets at the beginning of the month ~