Chapter 78: The Real Oasis of the End of the World
Everything will be fine if you leave the village. Does that mean your memory will only be affected within the village?
Yan Chu frowned.
In that case, the villagers in the village may not be completely unaware of zombies, but their memories have been tampered with?
At present, it seems that this old lady's supernatural power can only work on ordinary people, and has no effect on people with supernatural powers.
No wonder the black-haired boy said he knew the truth, because he was not affected by super powers.
"Why do you do this?" Yan Chu was puzzled. "The situation outside is so bad, but everyone is asked to forget the existence of zombies and live their lives as before. What if a zombie breaks into the village?"
A Guang's face turned cold: "You are not from this village, why do you care so much!"
"Okay, A Guang, why are you so angry?"
The old lady interrupted A Guang and looked up at Yan Chu: "If you are interested, little girl, it's okay to tell you. My special ability can create a hypnotic illusion and hypnotize everyone within the range of the illusion. Not only that, this illusion will also disrupt the perception of zombies, so zombies will not break in."
Yan Chu frowned: "If the zombies really won't break in, then why would your grandson go out and secretly kill zombies in the middle of the night?"
The old lady was startled and looked at A Guang beside her.
Ah Guang's face froze slightly, and then he retorted in a tough tone: "Who secretly killed zombies in the middle of the night? Don't talk nonsense here!"
"She wasn't talking nonsense. I saw it too."
Suddenly a voice interrupted, Yan Chu turned around and saw that it was the black-haired boy.
The black-haired boy put his hands in his pockets and walked casually to A Guang, then tilted his head, and a cold light flashed under his hair.
"The illusion created by your grandmother will weaken at night, and zombies will accidentally break in at night, so you have to go to the edge of the illusion to clean up the zombies every night."
The corners of his mouth raised gently, and his gray eyes were full of joy.
"Oh no, your grandma doesn't know yet?"
The old lady frowned and looked at her grandson: "A Guang, is what they said true?"
Ah Guang pursed his lips tightly and said, "Grandma, don't worry. I will be responsible for killing all those zombies."
The old lady raised the palm-leaf fan in her hand and knocked hard on the rocking chair: "So you didn't sleep at night, did you go out to kill zombies?"
A Guang's fingers trembled and he nodded hesitantly.
"You——!" The old lady was furious.
No wonder this guy refused to get up every morning no matter how much we called him, it turned out he didn’t sleep at all at night!
A Guang hesitated and said, "It's not so bad actually..."
The old lady's face suddenly darkened, and she said sternly, "Who asked you to do this? If there's a problem with my illusion, I'll naturally find a solution myself! There's no need for you to take any risks!"
Ah Guang couldn't help but argue excitedly, "But I'm also doing this to fulfill Grandma's wish! So that everyone in the village can live a normal life! Everyone is living in fear all day long, no one dares to go out... This is not a life for human beings!"
As he spoke, his tone lowered again: "Besides, grandma, I am also a fire-type mutant. I can protect myself, you don't have to worry."
The old lady was speechless for a moment.
Yes, that's right, she really hopes that the people in the village can live a stable and peaceful life like before.
So when she awakened her illusionary powers, she had already thought it through.
Whether it's the painful memories of relatives and friends turning into zombies, or the desperate memories of being bitten to death by zombies, none of them are needed.
She wants to create an illusion without zombies and mutants.
She wants to make this place a true oasis in the apocalypse.
As long as they stay in the village, everyone will forget their fear of zombies and return to their previous peaceful and leisurely life.
Yan Chu listened for a while and basically understood what was going on.
In other words, the old lady's illusion ability can not only protect and hypnotize people in the illusion, but also isolate the zombies outside the illusion.
However, the isolation effect will be weakened at night, so A Guang, as a fire-type mutant, needs to deal with the zombies that break into the illusion.
It sounds like it is indeed possible to create a perfect paradise village in the apocalypse.
But……
"This illusion power has no effect on people with special abilities, so it won't have any effect on evolved zombies either. If the evolved zombies break in, won't that be the end of us?" Yan Chu asked seriously.
The old lady was puzzled: "Evolved zombies?"
The black-haired boy beside him laughed again: "What? It turns out you don't even know about evolved zombies. I thought you were confident that you could deal with them. How disappointing."
A Guang subconsciously clenched his fists.
Does this guy have to be so annoying when he talks?
Seeing that the grandfather and grandson really didn't know what this was, Yan Chu simply introduced them: "Evolved zombies are zombies with superpowers."
"Zombies... have superpowers?"
These words caused a storm of shock in A Guang's heart.
You know, ordinary zombies are difficult to kill, and their heads must be completely destroyed to make them unable to move.
If it were an evolved zombie with special abilities, wouldn't it be even harder to kill?
Can he handle it alone?
The old woman was slightly stunned. After a while, she closed her eyes and sighed helplessly: "It's fate, it's all fate. Humans have done too much evil, so this is what they deserve."
After saying that, the old lady looked at Yan Chu: "Little girl, thank you for telling me these things, this illusion..."
She sighed, "I'll remove the hypnotic effect."
As for the illusion, it can still continue to exist, so just treat it as a protection.
When Yan Chu left the old lady's house, he found that the villagers who were living normal lives on the road before were suddenly gone.
The doors and windows of every household were closed and no one was around.
Like other places she passed by, a feeling of desolation and desolation came over her, and there was no longer the warmth and tranquility she had seen yesterday.
She suddenly felt uncertain and looked up at Gu Qinyuan beside her, "Should I... not tell them about the evolved zombies?"
After all, even if the villagers knew about the existence of evolved zombies, they might not be able to survive at the hands of evolved zombies.
Maybe it would be better to let these villagers forget about the zombies and live a happy life without knowing anything?
Gu Qinyuan touched her head and said, "If it were you, would you be willing to be kept in the dark, live happily for a while, and then die in obscurity?"
Yan Chu shook her head. Of course she didn't want to do that.
What's the difference between this and hiding the truth from a terminally ill patient?
She doesn't want to die in vain.
Yan Chu lowered his eyes: "Maybe other people don't think so."
"It doesn't matter," Gu Qinyuan held her hand, "This was the grandmother's own decision. You just chose to tell her the truth."
Yan Chu suddenly felt relieved.
That’s right.
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