Chapter 115 Night Raid by Mental-Type Zombies
After Ruan Ning and her two companions washed up, they arranged the night watch order. Sun Hong followed Ruan Ning's example and arranged the night watch order as well, with four people on each watch, while the rest went to find rooms to rest.
Ruan Ning remained on watch for the first half of the night. She and Da Huo chose to stay on the top floor, where the view was best, and they could see everything that happened. Sun Hong and the other watchmen stayed in the lobby on the first floor.
Midnight was approaching, and all was quiet.
Ruan Ning sat cross-legged on the edge of the sixth-floor rooftop of the hotel, the fire lying quietly two meters away from her. Her mental energy, like the most sophisticated radar network, continuously covered a radius of several hundred meters around the rooftop. It was Lin Yan's turn to relieve her in the second half of the night, and she was preparing to get up.
In that very instant—
It was as if someone had suddenly pressed the mute button.
The faint chirping of insects and the sound of wind in the distant wilderness, the hushed conversation of the women keeping watch downstairs, even the even breathing of the fire... all sounds vanished instantly.
It wasn't a gradual quieting down, but rather a sudden and complete deprivation.
The world fell into an absolute, pure silence, so quiet that you could hear the hum of your own blood flowing, so quiet that it made your heart pound.
Ruan Ning's pupils suddenly contracted, and almost instinctively, she abruptly turned her head to look at the spot where the fire had been—
Empty!
Only the cold concrete floor remained. The massive, warm, and fiery figure of the fire vanished into thin air, as if it had never existed. There was no sound of it leaving, no lingering trace, as if it had been completely erased from reality by an invisible eraser.
No, that's not right!
Ruan Ning's heart pounded violently in the deathly silence. It wasn't that the fire had disappeared; it was that her hearing, and her perception of its existence, had been forcibly severed by some force!
She immediately tried to mobilize her mental energy to "see," to "hear," and to perceive her surroundings—however, her usually effortless, vast, and keen mental energy now seemed to be trapped in a thick, cold, and stagnant swamp of nothingness.
She could sense her own spiritual power, but she couldn't effectively extend it outwards, couldn't capture any external information, and even the energy fluctuations within a one-meter radius around her became blurry! It was as if someone had suddenly been blindfolded, had their ears plugged, and had their tactile nerves interrupted!
This wasn't a physical attack, nor an illusion; it was the purest and most domineering suppression and interference at the mental level! And it worked so silently and instantly that even she, a third-tier mental ability user, was caught completely off guard…
There is only one possibility—
A mental mutant of rank four or higher! And most likely a zombie! Only a zombie would possess such chaotic, cold, and purely malicious mental power, and have an instinctive desire to erode and suppress the spirits of living beings!
It's nearby! It's very likely that it has already enveloped this area with its mental field, silently stripping away the prey's senses, dismantling its will to resist, and may even have already invaded the consciousness of other watchmen, including Lin Yan, Zhou Min, and the women downstairs!
Cold sweat instantly soaked Ruan Ning's back, not from fear, but from realizing the extreme danger of her situation. The threat of a fourth-tier mental zombie far exceeded that of the two-headed snake from before!
It doesn't need to get close to people to turn them into blind, deaf, and helpless puppets on a spiritual level!
We must break through this mental suppression immediately! We must awaken the others!
Ruan Ning forced herself to calm down, abandoning the futile effort of projecting her senses outward, and frantically gathered all her mental energy back into the core of her consciousness, as if building the hardest ice core to resist the omnipresent, cold, and sticky mental erosion.
At the same time, she tried to sense the location and state of the fire through the spiritual contract link between her body and the fire—the link was still there, but the signal was extremely weak and disordered, as if it were covered by strong interference.
She must find the core of that source of mental pollution! She must do so before it completely imprisons the minds of all its prey!
Ruan Ning's face was deathly pale, veins bulged on her forehead, and she felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her temples. Every second of the battle against that invisible spiritual force was frantically draining her will and energy.
Just as she felt her consciousness was about to be completely swallowed by the cold, viscous darkness, and her mental core was about to collapse—
Enter the space!
With a thought, she vanished from her spot and reappeared beside the spiritual spring in the space. The terrifying mental suppression from the outside world suddenly disappeared, but the lingering coldness and excruciating pain in her consciousness made her almost unable to stand.
She staggered to the edge of the spiritual spring, grabbed the water bottle she usually kept nearby, and tilted her head back to gulp down most of the spring water. The cool, sweet liquid flowed into her throat, and the powerful, gentle energy quickly nourished her almost dried-up meridians and her spiritual core on the verge of collapse.
The excruciating pain quickly subsided, and a trace of color returned to his pale face.
Just as she was catching her breath, her gaze inadvertently swept over the area in the corner where miscellaneous items were piled up—there was an inconspicuous black wooden whistle. It was the "reward" given to her by the mysterious hooded woman in the air-raid shelter, and she had never known what it was for.
A sudden inspiration!
Mental attack...sound waves...interference...can this thing damage a mental body? I can't worry about that now!
She instantly vanished from the spatial dimension, reappearing on the deathly silent rooftop, where all senses had been stripped away. She clutched the cold, black wooden whistle tightly in her hand.
He brought the whistle to his lips, took a deep breath, and with all the mental strength he had regained, mixed with a resolute will, blew it out loud!
"Waaaaah——————"
There was no loud noise. An invisible, high-frequency sound wave with a strange vibration emanated from Ruan Ning, ignoring physical obstacles, and suddenly spread out in all directions!
Just as the whistle blew—
"Roar—!!!"
From the direction of the county town center, a shrill, painful, and furious roar suddenly resounded! The roar did not travel entirely through the air; it seemed to echo directly in everyone's minds!
With that roar, the thick, cold mental suppression field surrounding Ruan Ning shattered instantly, like broken glass!
The sounds returned—the sound of the wind, faint movements in the distance. Her senses returned—she could clearly "see" the fire lying not far away, shaking its head blankly as it stood up, seemingly just awakened from some kind of daze.
From downstairs came the exclamations of Lin Yan and Zhou Min, as well as the panicked sounds of other women.
The psychic zombie was severely injured by the sonic wave! Its most powerful mental control was forcibly interrupted, and it might even backfire on itself!
Don't miss this opportunity!
"Da Huo! Follow me!" Ruan Ning shouted sharply, grabbed Tang Hengdao, and leaped directly off the edge of the sixth-floor rooftop. He used the wall twice to cushion his fall, landing lightly. Da Huo reacted quickly, transforming into a golden lightning bolt and following closely behind.
The man and the dog shot off like arrows, hurtling toward the town center from which the roar had come!
The scattered ordinary zombies along the way posed no obstacle whatsoever. Ruan Ning cleared the path with flashing blades and water-like water, and the flames burned away the fire, yet his speed did not decrease in the slightest.
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