“I just said…”

Stone was a little confused for a while, not sure whether the chaotic and disordered wasteland under the night sky with a glass-like glow in the mud was real, or whether the Stormy Villa with storms, lightning and thunder was real.

"You almost shot yourself, luckily Lu Ban arrived in time."

At the side, Xia, who was standing at the door of the room, said, her expression was a little ugly, and the armor on her body seemed to have been through a fight and was a little tattered.

"By the way, I almost blew my own head off with magic just now, it's no big deal."

"I had a nightmare and heard some words. I'm not quite sure. I might have been affected to some extent..."

Stone quickly came to his senses and realized that he had obviously been mentally polluted and attacked. In some foreign lands, some monsters would affect the emotions and thoughts of others. There were also some more unique monsters that existed in the consciousness of other creatures in the form of thinking, relying on language and communication to move, reaching a deeper level of parasitism.

I must have encountered a similar thing.

Is this the influence of Taoist Heming's legacy?

"You also experienced hallucinations?"

Stone looked at Shia.

"Yes, I dreamed of the demonic tide in the Black Forest. Those monsters... in short, they were all terrifying things. They pounced on me, and I subconsciously prepared to use magic, but in fact, I was aiming at my own head. This place will not only amplify certain emotions in our hearts, but also create illusions to mislead us and confuse our cognition."

Shia answered.

"You were not affected?"

Stone looked at Lu Ban again. The wound on his hand was almost healed. The spreading grass covered the bullet hole, and the emerald green filled the flesh and blood.

Lu Ban shook his head.

"I did have a dream, but he lost the game of rock-paper-scissors in the dream, so I wasn't affected at all."

"?"

Stone was stunned when he heard Lu Ban's words.

Is there any connection between losing in rock-paper-scissors and being affected?

"What did you hear?"

Xia said again, and before Stone could speak, she continued.

"That voice is the same as my own, just like my own soliloquy. It said that you might betray me, told me not to trust you, and tried to trick me into killing you."

"…I'm almost there too. It wants me to kill you."

Stone said, he thought about it again, those voices were indeed very alluring, and in that state of blurred consciousness, it was hard to distinguish the true from the false, he didn't know whether it was an external temptation or his own voice.

The most important thing is that those are the same thoughts he has thought about.

Stone himself was also worried about whether Lu Ban and Xia would doubt him and whether they could trust him. At the same time, he had really thought about the possibility that if these people did not trust him, they might kill them.

Not to mention some deeper thinking.

Sages have said that a gentleman is judged by deeds rather than by heart, and no one is perfect in the world if you judge by the heart.

Everyone may have some unknown thoughts deep in their hearts. These thoughts may be crazy or despicable. Perhaps the most upright people have some contradictory things in their hearts, but as long as they behave normally, no one will care.

These thoughts in Stone's ears seemed to truly reveal his inner desires, making it difficult for him to distinguish between nightmares and reality.

"It seems that this place really disturbs people's minds, causing hallucinations and whispers in their ears."

Stone pondered.

"If we can hear these whispers, then surely others can hear them too."

Shia immediately added.

"We who have experienced the pollution of foreign lands may not be able to recover from these hallucinations. Ordinary people may be bewitched and led by the nose, and then do something irreversible."

As soon as Xia finished speaking, she heard a gunshot coming from a room not far away.

The sound of the gunshot was unclear under the cover of thunder and rain, but Xia had already released the detection spell.

The next moment, followed by a slight hesitation, another gunshot was heard.

The third and fourth gunshots were obviously shorter in interval, just like a person finally opening his heart after struggling and hesitating.

Xia had just arrived at the place where the gunshots broke out.

She saw a maid lying on the ground in a pool of blood. She had been shot in the abdomen and chest and had fallen into a coma.

On the other side, Emma turned her head slightly dully, holding her little revolver.

"You are going to die, too! You are going to die, too!"

Emma raised the gun, but before she could pull the trigger, she saw Xia raise her hand. Her hand holding the gun was hit by a huge force, twisted and dislocated, and Emma hit the wall of the corridor and fainted.

Xia took Emma's revolver, checked the maid's injuries, and cast a healing spell.

Lu Ban and Stone arrived at this time. Looking at the mess, Stone felt that things might be far more serious than he had imagined.

"The impact on ordinary people is even stronger. I'm afraid that before the night of summoning the dead, these people will kill each other until there is no one left."

"Anyway, knock them all out first."

Lu Ban picked up an ashtray and was eager to try.

"?"

Stone looked at the ashtray in Lu Ban's hand and always felt that something was wrong.

By the time they found the old butler and made sure that the other servants were not caught up in the chaos, it was already early morning of the next day.

The rain was pouring down without any sign of abating. The rising sun could not penetrate the clouds and could only bring some dim light, giving people a sense of insecurity and loss.

The road down the mountain was still blocked, not to mention any police coming up the mountain to rescue. The lush green trees looked even darker under the rain, making people feel depressed as well.

There were not many servants in Stormy Mountain Villa, only twelve. Including the old butler and the cook, there were only seventeen people. Most of them were confused when they were found, and after questioning, no similar mumbling was heard.

Lu Ban guessed that there might be two reasons. One was that even if they really heard the whispers, if they did not act according to their instigation, they might treat them as their own random thoughts, or after seeing the condition of the maid, they might deliberately hide the fact that they had heard the whispers.

Another possibility is that not everyone can hear the mumbling, only some people whose emotions are greatly affected or who have been polluted can hear it.

No matter which one it was, Lu Ban knew very well that this must be the influence of the relics left here by Taoist Heming. It was like a real Horcrux, bewitching people and manipulating their wills, making them fight each other to complete his own summoning ritual.

That thing must be found as soon as possible.