Chapter 34 Illusion Barrier
The spiritual entity cannot stray too far from the physical body.
After patrolling the area, the peregrine falcon quickly flew back and landed on Duan Xi's arm.
Tao Haohao dared not unleash his senses, so he asked, "How is it?"
The two stood on the rooftop of a building fifty or sixty stories high, looking down at the city below.
Everything was laid out before my eyes.
The city stretches endlessly, seemingly without end.
No matter which road it was, the level of prosperity exceeded their expectations, with the streets bustling with traffic and crowds of people.
The people on the street don't seem to be all mutants; many are illusions, falsehoods.
Team Zero has so far executed six four-star contaminated zones and more than ten three-star contaminated zones, and the timeline of each zone has never remained in the old era.
They had seen pictures in books and videos of old-time cities, but none of them were as awe-inspiring as seeing them with their own eyes.
The old days were truly something to yearn for.
Duan Xi shrugged. "I didn't detect any sentries or guides. Everything below is normal, just like a bustling city."
Not to mention his teammates, not even one member of Jiang Mu's team sensed it.
Their purpose in coming in was to provide rescue.
Now everyone is scattered, the rules of the contaminated area are unclear, and rescue has turned into self-rescue.
Duan Xi turned on the communicator on his wrist; time had already stopped ticking.
He pressed and held the button in the lower right corner, the screen lit up, and the numbers began to change and climb.
Duan Xi stared at the numbers above with a strange expression. "The concentration of dark matter pollution in the vicinity is very low, only 21%. That's very strange."
In the past, the concentration of dark matter in the four-star contaminated areas was almost always above 70%.
This was the first time Team Zero had encountered such a situation.
The peaceful world left him feeling helpless.
Tao Haohao, clutching his grenade launcher, plopped down on the ground. "What's going on with Minister Duan and...my mother appearing there?"
Duan Xi rolled his eyes at him nonchalantly, "How would I know? If I were that smart, would I have lost five hundred points?"
"The most urgent thing is to find a guide. She is small and fragile, and it is her first time entering a contaminated area. What will we do if she encounters danger and we are not by her side?"
Before we came in, the team leader repeatedly reminded us to pay attention to the guide's safety at all times.
As soon as they entered, they disappeared.
Tao Haohao thought for a moment and said, "We've all met people we care about. Could it be the same for the captain and the others?"
The captain's mental state has always been somewhat unstable.
However, he is very strong. In a one-on-one battle, even the combined forces of all of them cannot defeat him. Once he goes into a mental frenzy, they will immediately sense the appearance of the Fire Phoenix.
There's a guide here; if we get there in time, we should make it in time.
Upon hearing this, Duan Xi looked up and exchanged a glance with Tao Haohao.
Oh no!
Rabbit in danger!
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"What are you doing! Help! Someone's being robbed in the street!"
Xie Tu snatched the car keys from the man's hand and got into the private car that had just stopped by the roadside.
He closed the car door and inserted the key.
Before the vehicle could start.
The man who kept banging on the car window had transformed into a father figure.
A middle-aged man in a black combat uniform pointed to the sky, his face full of satisfaction. "Son, look, the dark ages are over..."
"I will die with my eyes open, unable to see the sun..."
The man standing outside the vehicle began to emit black smoke, and his combat uniform became tattered.
Without a word, Xie Tu raised his gun and shot him dead again.
—If life stagnates because of fear, one will be trapped in darkness forever.
These words were once his father's motto.
He cannot be influenced.
The whispers of the onlookers all transformed into his father's voice, flooding his mind.
"Son, stay here. The sun shines here, and our family can live happily together."
"Look at this world, it is the old era we yearn for."
"Open your eyes and look..."
"Open your eyes and look..."
"Open your eyes and look..."
Countless voices, like whispers in a dream, overlapped and echoed repeatedly in his mind.
Xie Tu leaned his head back in the seat, closed his eyes slightly, his expression tense, and the veins on his hands gripping the steering wheel bulged.
moment.
He suddenly opened his eyes, started the car, and sped off.
The communicator on the wrist showed a pollution concentration that rose to 50%.
According to data, the polluted area is 3,000 square kilometers and is spreading.
He had already climbed to the top of the building and looked down at the city, which stretched out endlessly below. It seemed as if there were barriers separating the two, and the illusions overlapped, making it appear to have no end.
Xie Tu activated his senses to the fullest extent, desperately trying to control his mind and ignore the sounds that disturbed his concentration.
In the realm of the spirit, the violent fire phoenix felt extremely uncomfortable.
They started shouting incessantly again.
Xie Tu took out the guide essence, tore it open, and swallowed it down, trying his best to suppress the power that was about to erupt.
They searched for several hours.
None of the teammates, including the six members of Jiang Mu's team, have been found yet.
Obviously.
Everyone is trapped in a false illusion, separated by the city's overlapping barriers.
What he needs to do now, while he is still conscious, is to find the edge of the barrier.
Break it!
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Holding a milk tea and carrying a bag of freshly fried chicken strips, Yun Zhao went to the roadside and got into a taxi.
She can't drive and walks too slowly.
An area of ​​3,000 square kilometers would be exhausting to walk around in.
Yun Zhao restrained the taxi driver and led her along the streets to search for the person.
Green fluorescent wisps of energy swirled around her, seeping into nearby shops and spreading continuously.
The number of people on the street has not decreased at all.
Yun Zhao raised his wrist, and the time on the communicator stopped.
Currently, aside from making phone calls and online payments, she is not very good at using communication devices.
It was daytime inside the contaminated zone, and apart from the black tentacles that occasionally attacked her, everything seemed normal.
What about the night?
What will the night be like in a city that has come back to life?
The little bluebird hopped onto her shoulder, stretched its head out of the car window, and kept looking around.
The rented car followed the flow of traffic, driving aimlessly forward.
I don't know how long we drove forward.
The vehicle passed the familiar street and once again passed the cake shop.
The glass display case was filled with all sorts of beautiful cakes, but one section in the middle was empty; the strawberry cake she had taken had not yet been restocked.
But she kept walking in one direction, how could she possibly get back to the cake shop?
Yun Zhao's expression froze slightly, but after figuring out the key point, his brows relaxed abruptly.
I see.
No wonder I couldn't find my teammates.
Are there countless smaller contaminated areas within the contaminated zone?
A thought suddenly occurred to her.
Greenish-blue fluorescent threads drifted out from every corner, flying straight up into the sky and spreading in all directions, searching for the edge of the barrier.
Mental barrier, that's one of the guide's greatest strengths.
"Stop looking, it's time to get to work." Yun Zhao poked the little bluebird.
If it hadn't been slacking off and busy looking around, the man and the bird would have noticed something was wrong much earlier.
The little bluebird lazily raised its head, staring at the milk tea and fried chicken strips in her hand.
The meaning conveyed in his eyes was quite clear.
[You ate and ate the whole way, your mouth never stopped, how dare you say that to me?]
"All right."
The old days were wonderful; there was an endless supply of delicious food, and people lived in peace and contentment.
If she stays here any longer, she'll probably succumb to temptation sooner or later.
Yun Zhao zipped up his bulging backpack and gestured for the driver to pull over.
Once a flaw is detected, the barrier is quickly touched by the mental threads.
Annoying dark matter emerged again from the edge of the flowerbed, and the tangled black threads launched another surprise attack.
The little bluebird started hopping around when it saw it.
[Trash! Stinky trash!]
I kept bothering it.
This park is located next to the city center. People and cars come and go on the street, and people pass by on the sidewalk from time to time, but the park is empty and quiet, so quiet that there is not even the sound of birds chirping.
Yun Zhao walked into the park, bent down to pick up a small stone from the ground, and threw it into the air.
The stone seemed to hit an invisible membrane, bounced back with a "bang," and rolled a few times on the ground.
This is the place, no doubt about it.
Yun Zhao slowly approached, raised her eyes to observe her surroundings. The cyan spiritual threads devoured the dark matter and slowly swirled around her, spreading towards the barrier.
She reached out to touch the invisible barrier.
The unseen other side.
She was just a few steps away.
Xie Tu had already arrived, and the closer he got to the transparent barrier, the stronger the strange feeling became.
This is the sentinel's keen intuition.
The person he was looking for was right in front of him, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.
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