Despite this, Zhang Mu did not stop there. Instead, he fiercely used the obsidian dagger to drill a big hole in the nightmare worm's forehead before withdrawing.

The nightmare worm began to twitch instantly. If its defense and life were equally fragile, and if a mutant creature of the first level had both physical and mental abilities reach such a high level, it would really destroy the balance. Zhang Mu could only say that he was unlucky to encounter it.

At this time, Yuan Rui and the mutant wolfdog also woke up slowly. The wolfdog seemed to be still savoring the feast just now, and seemed to be reluctant to leave. However, its whole body collapsed on the ground without any strength, as if it was the easiest to be eaten and now it had lost its vitality. The obsidian worm was still lying on the ground without any movement.

Yuan Rui, who was standing by, stopped trembling, but the expression on her face was still as frightened as ever. It seemed that the dream just now was too much of a blow to her.

Only when she saw Zhang Mu coming back to her did her expression calm down, but she still couldn't stand up.

For some unknown reason, this group of nightmare bugs neither approached nor left the room. They remained in the same position as when they woke up, with all their compound eyes staring straight at Zhang Mu's body.

Since they didn't attack, Zhang Mu just put them aside. Since they were said to be very fragile, Zhang Mu didn't take them seriously even if a fight broke out, so he turned towards Yuan Rui.

"Yuan Rui, how are you?"

Zhang Mu helped Yuan Rui up and asked with some concern. It can be seen that Yuan Rui is in a very bad condition.

Yuan Rui didn't say anything. After a while, she replied to Zhang Mu with lingering fear, "Uncle, I just dreamed of some very bad things that happened to me in the past. They seemed to be more terrifying than I remembered. I was very scared."

Zhang Mu didn't say anything, but just patted Yuan Rui's back gently, comforting her silently.

After Jing Yuanrui reminded him, Zhang Mu also remembered the clear things that happened in his dream just now. The mental abilities of these nightmare insects were indeed good, and they chose the most difficult part of Zhang Mu's memory.

The third year of the apocalypse was indeed the time when Zhang Mu was closest to death. It was true that his entire inventory in Shanxi City was cleared out, and he was indeed

Missing half a gold leaf, everything up to here is real. The characters and events there are all real. Of course, this does not include the part about the silver mink and the piranha. This part of the memory should be taken from what Zhang Mu heard from others.

Therefore, everything seems very natural, and when you experience it yourself, you will generally feel that it is extremely real.

But his deadline was changed, quietly, without leaving any trace.

His deadline was thirty days away, so he rushed to another city, traveled all night, and finally returned to Luoyang City on the last day, completing this Epoch Merchant Mission.

If he had delayed on the road for another day, Zhang Mu might have been sucked dry and died three years after the apocalypse. So Zhang Mu was deeply impressed by this incident, which was why the nightmare bugs concentrated their strength to mobilize this memory. Their current strength was not yet enough to completely tamper with a person's dream to the most favorable appearance for them. But even so, because of Zhang Mu's own reasons, most of the nightmare bugs needed to work together to do it. After all, they were still in the first stage and needed to work together to affect emotions.

After thinking it through, he came up with words to comfort Yuan Rui. His steady tone calmed Yuan Rui's emotions. "Think about this bad thing again. Is it deliberately exaggerated in many places? Is the place that has been overcome darkened again? But the actual situation is not like this. You should remember the difference between what really happened and what you just dreamed about.

Then, will you realize that this is a huge scam? Wouldn’t it be better to think this way? "

Yuan Rui lowered her head and seemed to be thinking carefully about what Zhang Mu said to her. Following Zhang Mu's reminder, she slowly sorted out her thoughts, and after a while her mood became more normal.

Zhang Mu then pointed behind him, pointing to the nightmare bugs behind him, "Look, these bugs are the ones that harmed you just now. There's nothing to be afraid of. They're just a very special first-level creature."

But unexpectedly, when Zhang Mu pointed, Yuan Rui screamed. Zhang Mu realized that he might have overlooked a fact. He had seen many of them, so he did not feel uncomfortable at all about the appearance of these nightmare insects.

But Yuan

Rui was different. The compound eyes of this nightmare insect were staring at them densely, and combined with its ugly face, its lethality made the fear just now even more terrifying.

Zhang Mu suddenly felt that these nightmare bugs were going too far. If they wanted to deal with Yuan Rui, they only needed to gather in front of her. There was no need to construct a dream to slowly devour her.

Just as Zhang Mu was thinking this with evil humor, the nightmare worms started to flutter because of Yuan Rui's scream. Zhang Mu thought that these fat worms were just bluffing, so he didn't take it seriously.

Others may not know, but I, Zhang Mu, don't know? You are just a bunch of paper tigers now, why are you pretending to be so arrogant? It's as if you have room to resist.

Zhang Mu thought so and was about to take a step to deal with these nightmare bugs when his smile completely froze.

Now he can't move!

Mind control again!

All the mental control power of these twenty-odd nightmare bugs is now directed at Zhang Mu alone. Although they are not under direct control because they are in the outside world, when all the nightmare bugs put all their mental power on Zhang Mu, he actually found that he had lost control of his body again, just like when he met Ling.

He subconsciously lowered his eyes and looked at his chest, but only now he remembered that his spiritual amulet had been shattered in the previous confrontation to help him escape control, and had completely lost its luster.

Zhang Mu was speechless. It was like this again. He bought it to defend against mental attacks, but how could it be scrapped so quickly? However, this second-level mental amulet had actually done its best.

Saving a life is already very difficult, but Zhang Mu is a little greedy.

Seeing the group of insects crawling towards him, Zhang Mu was unable to move and he began to get anxious.

Although these bugs have weak close combat capabilities, no matter how weak they are, Zhang Mu is still a flesh and blood body and cannot withstand a round of gnawing by them.

Now the mutant wolfhound has become a useless dog and Yuan Rui has no ability to fight. What should she do?

Suddenly, he realized that he seemed to have missed one, and he shouted in his heart.

"Get up and work, you dead bug!"

(End of this chapter)