Chapter 194 Epidemic Doctor
The scene inside the door is quite bizarre.
The laboratory was vast. The former sewage treatment tank had been transformed into a massive culture tank, where countless twisted, half-formed crampon creatures were immersed. Like insects trapped in amber, they sank and floated in the icy green culture fluid. The walls were covered with slices of various biological tissues and incomprehensible data charts.
In the center of the lab, several cylindrical transparent incubators stood out. Inside were not crampons, but living people!
Their skin was an unnatural bluish-black color, with marble-like lines clearly visible. Their bodies were connected to countless tubes, and their vital signs were weak. Some substance was being forcibly extracted and injected into a complex instrument in the center that was constantly rotating and emitting extreme coldness.
The core of the instrument was a ball of mysterious black liquid that was constantly wriggling and trying to condense into shape, as if it were alive.
That is probably the source of the "Black Plague".
"It's really... a disgusting work of art, isn't it?" A cold and fanatical voice suddenly sounded.
I turned my head sharply and saw a figure in a white coat and a beak-shaped mask coming out from behind a huge instrument. In his hand was a huge metal syringe filled with a pitch-black liquid.
"Epidemic Doctor!" I gripped my Miao Dao tightly, my mind on high alert. How could he not be distracted by the Night Crow?
"Oh? It seems that my small laboratory has welcomed an extraordinary guest." The plague doctor's bird-beak mask turned to me, and his eyes behind the lenses flashed with interest.
"To be able to arrive here silently... is it the authority of 'illusion'? What a rare and wonderful power. It just so happens that my new formula needs a more flexible carrier to break through the limitations of its dissemination."
He didn't seem to regard me as a threat at all, but rather as valuable experimental material delivered to his doorstep.
"That's it." I said coldly, pointing my Miao Dao directly at the central instrument.
"Madness? No, this is evolution! Salvation!" The plague doctor brandished the syringe, his voice suddenly rising. "Only extreme cold and stagnation can resist the destruction of reincarnation! I am granting them eternity! And you..."
He thrust the syringe into a nearby incubator port, and the dark liquid quickly poured in. "...It will become the newest cornerstone of this great undertaking!"
Woohoo! The central instrument suddenly erupted with a powerful black light, and a terrifying cold poison mixed with spiritual pollution swept towards me like a tsunami!
At the same time, the ice claws in the surrounding cultivation pools broke through the ice, making sharp hisses and pounced over.
My eyes flashed, and instead of retreating, I advanced!
The illusory authority began to take effect, and the attacks that were coming one after another instantly turned into illusions.
The physical attack was neutralized, but the mental pollution remained. Without hesitation, I summoned the "Illusion Crystal" and forcibly defined the reality here: "All mental pollution can exist here."
But at the same time, I felt a slight dizziness, and it seemed that a vague memory about a teammate in my mind was forcibly distorted and replaced with something else, but I didn't know which memory was replaced specifically.
Five minutes, I only have five minutes.
The Miao Dao transformed into silver lightning, and the cloud and thunder patterns shone brightly. Every slash was so sharp that it almost tore through the illusion. The ice claws that pounced on it were like butter cut by a hot knife, and were instantly chopped into frozen pieces.
However, the "epidemic doctor" seemed to have been prepared for this. He quickly pressed the only two buttons on the remote control.
Snap! Snap!
The walls on both sides of the laboratory suddenly opened, revealing more imprisoned infected people with empty eyes behind them.
Cold black chains that looked like blood and frost instantly extended from their bodies, interweaving like a spider web.
The chains that were trying to entangle and bind me were not physical entities, but had a strong mental confinement effect.
"Your illusion may be able to deceive intelligent things, but what if it is not of this kind?" The plague doctor laughed wildly.
The pressure increased slightly. Although the illusory authority could distort perception, its effectiveness began to diminish in the face of this confining force that had no perception and was formed only by the connection of a large number of living beings.
Fortunately, I am fast enough to avoid these things.
At this moment, something strange happened!
Several vents on the top of the laboratory suddenly exploded without warning!
Thick black smoke with a pungent smell suddenly gushed out and quickly filled the entire laboratory!
This smoke not only greatly obstructed the line of sight, making even real vision somewhat impenetrable, but also seriously interfered with energy perception and spiritual connection!
The chains emitted by the infected people suddenly became unstable and flickered.
Is it a night crow?
He hadn't bothered with the west side at all, or rather, that was just a cover, his real target was here! This smoke was his handiwork!
"Night Crow!" The plague doctor was shocked and angry, obviously not expecting there would be a second invader.
Chance!
Taking advantage of the moment when the confinement force field was in chaos, I suddenly broke free from the restraints, and my figure appeared in front of the central instrument as if teleporting!
"No!" screamed the plague doctor, trying to stop him.
But it was too late.
The Miao Dao carried all my strength and the ultimate understanding of "illusion". It did not chop at the outer shell of the instrument, but directly pierced into the squirming and struggling black energy core!
"The farce ends here."
The light of the cloud-thunder pattern surged! The illusory power rushed in frantically, not destroying it in the physical sense, but "negating" it, denying the basis of its existence and the rules of its cohesion!
Swish——!
Swish——!
Like a red-hot iron block falling into icy water, the dark power let out a shrill scream, carrying the spiritual wails of countless infected people who died as a result. It suddenly exploded, turning into countless black ice crystals that flew everywhere, and then quickly melted and evaporated.
The core was destroyed, the instruments stopped functioning instantly, the light dimmed, and the lines connecting the infected people also broke.
Almost immediately, the five-minute limit on the Illusion Crystal expired. The barrier vanished, and mental pollution once again filled the entire laboratory.
Phew!
There was a slight sound of a sharp blade entering flesh.
I turned around suddenly and saw that the plague doctor's body was frozen in place, and a pitch-black blade, as if made of shadows, protruded from his chest.
The figure of Night Crow appeared behind him at some point, like a ghost demanding his life.
"Why...why..." The plague doctor turned his head with difficulty and looked at the assassin behind him.
"Your research is excellent, but your greed and stupidity have attracted too much unnecessary attention." Night Crow's voice was cold and ruthless. "The Association doesn't need troublemakers like you."
He yanked out the Shadow Blade. The Plague Doctor's body fell limply to the ground, dark red blood seeping from beneath his beaked mask, quickly frozen by the cold ground.
Night Crow didn't even look at the corpse on the ground. His shadowy eyes turned to me and the Miao Dao in my hand, whose light had not yet completely dissipated.
"It's a pleasure to work with you, Mr. Xingqiong." He said lightly, without any trace of "happiness" in his tone.
The laboratory was in a mess, with only the unconscious twitching of Ice Claw in the culture medium and the humming of the remaining machines.
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