bookrandom Chapter 28: Illusion
Chapter 28: Illusion
As the zombies outside the hospital were cleared away, the team members began to gather outside the hospital gate.
Luo Mei and Ji Yanye returned not long after.
Seeing that their lips were chapped and their faces were pale, Yu Yao gave each of them a bottle of water.
Ye Ziang and Ji Yan were clearly surprised that Yu Yao would give them water, and their expressions showed a hint of delight.
"Thank you, Yu Yao."
Ye Ziang knew the value of this bottle of water today.
But he was so thirsty and hot that he couldn't bear to return it, so he had to shamelessly accept it, planning to return it later.
Yu Yao waved her hand to indicate that they shouldn't be so polite, and then focused her attention on the hospital.
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Before entering the hospital, Sang Yi had the psychic ability users in his team scout out the situation inside. The conclusion was: there were zombies, especially on the first floor.
The psychic ability user's ability level is not high, and the range of their mental power is relatively small. So far, no survivors have been found on the top floor.
After understanding the general situation inside, Sang Yi nodded in acknowledgment and quickly assigned formations.
When it was time to go to the hospital, Sang Yi led a team of soldiers to push open the blood-stained and flesh-scratched gate of Lincheng No. 2 Hospital.
Yu Yao was still looking at the map inside the hospital when she noticed the door being pushed open.
There was a brief commotion at the red dot on the first floor, but it quickly subsided.
But when they stepped through the gate, they were surprised to find that there wasn't a single zombie in the hospital.
The hospital was so clean and tidy that it felt like being in the aftermath of the apocalypse.
Yu Yao frowned. For a moment, she even doubted whether the map in her mind was accurate.
The others also showed strange expressions, and some even cast odd glances at the psychic ability user from before.
However, Yu Yao's doubts lasted only a moment before she dismissed them.
Putting aside the accuracy of the map, the fact that the hospital is so clean and tidy is unreasonable in itself.
Looking at the map again, their group was surrounded by a dense array of small red dots.
Some small red dots have even infiltrated their ranks!
Yu Yao looked at Luo Mei and found that she also had her brows furrowed, and her upturned fox-like eyes were full of vigilance and suspicion.
She was a psychic, and she also noticed something was wrong here.
Their eyes met, and Yu Yao remembered that the communication function of game friends was somewhat similar to mind communication, so she tried to call out to Luo Mei in her mind.
"Ah Mei, can you hear me?"
Luo Mei froze, looking at Yu Yao with surprise in her eyes.
Yu Yao knew that she had heard her mental message, so she explained, "This is a mental message. You can try replying to me too."
"what?"
Luo Mei, who had responded instinctively, gasped.
Yu Yao quickly said, "Calm down."
Luo Mei: "Mmm-hmm! You're amazing, sister!"
Yu Yao: "Don't get excited yet, we've fallen into an illusion, and there are zombies all around us."
Luo Mei: "I knew it! I thought there was something wrong with my mental abilities!"
As Luo Mei responded, she had already quietly tightened her grip on the broadsword in her hands.
However, stupidity clearly doesn't occupy everyone's mind.
Many other people also felt that something was wrong and unreasonable.
For example, Sang Yi, Ye Ziang and Ji Yan, and some other people with quick minds.
They all sensed the unusual situation here, so they dared not make any rash moves.
However, a few young people couldn't help but exclaim in amazement when they saw the scene before them, and even wanted to leave the group to take a look around!
"do not move!"
"Don't wander off!"
Sang Yi and Company Commander Fang's warnings rang out simultaneously, and Yu Yao and Luo Mei's expressions changed, and they also made their moves at the same moment.
The afterimages of the horizontal sword and the broadsword landed in front of Company Commander Fang and Sang Yi respectively.
To everyone's surprise, two loud thuds of heavy objects falling were heard in succession.
But there was clearly nothing in front of them!
Now, even a fool could see that something was wrong.
But it was too late, because the psychopathic zombies in the hospital had already realized that they had been exposed!
Just before the zombies rioted, Yu Yao didn't have time to think and quickly took out a disposable weapon she had just obtained, the [Demon Exorcism Umbrella], from her spatial storage and threw it to Luo Mei.
"Ah Mei, hold up the umbrella!"
The exorcising umbrella has the function of exorcising demons and warding off evil spirits. When opened, it can form a protective shield, the range and duration of which are determined by the ability of the person holding the umbrella.
With Luo Mei's current abilities, she can only create a shield with a range of ten meters for about five minutes at most.
The moment Luo Mei received the demon-repelling umbrella, she opened it without any hesitation.
As the scriptures for exorcising evil spirits unfolded on the umbrella, a golden shield rapidly opened, protecting the group within.
At the same time, a series of people were thrown back and fell, the sound of their crashes mingling with the angry roars of the zombies.
It's obvious what was bounced off by the shield!
The shield's range is limited; some people are standing far away and the shield cannot protect them.
Those who reacted quickly ran into the shield's range, while those who reacted slowly were inexplicably injured without even realizing it.
Some people even had inexplicable bite marks on their cheeks and necks, which were shocking and extremely terrifying!
Screams rose and fell, but Yu Yao steadied herself and used the Sky-Covering Stone to quickly find the source of the illusions they were experiencing.
She only has five minutes.
Five minutes later, Luo Mei couldn't hold on any longer. Everyone was facing unseen zombies and was doomed to die!
Although Yu Yao wasn't a saint, she understood the principle that if one suffers, all suffer; if everyone else died, she wouldn't fare any better!
Fortunately, the Heaven-Covering Stone lived up to its reputation as a divine-level talisman and the ancestor of illusions. In just two breaths, Yu Yao identified the source of the illusion.
A giant butterfly, entirely pale purple, shimmering with iridescent colors!
It's a very beautiful butterfly, so beautiful it looks like a stunning work of art.
It landed on the relief mural in the hospital's triage hall, and each flap of its wings emitted wisps of colorful blue smoke, creating a dreamlike scene.
Upon seeing this, Yu Yao quickly took out a gas mask and put it on.
Noticing the red dots gathering towards him, he used the Cloud Step to dodge while taking out a small crossbow and aiming it at the mutated butterfly, firing three arrows in quick succession without hesitation.
Sensing danger, the mutated butterfly fluttered its wings and quickly moved away.
However, it was still shot through half of its wing by a crossbow bolt, revealing its form to everyone.
Yu Yao's actions thoroughly enraged the zombies in the hospital's triage hall, and various attacks and supernatural attacks followed one after another.
Yu Yao had to observe the location of the red dots around her while instinctively dodging.
Ji Yan noticed that Yu Yao was being held up by an unseen zombie, and the mutated butterfly was about to escape, so he immediately conjured an ice blade and attacked the mutated butterfly.
Sang Yi's fireball arrived at the same time, but it was still dodged by the mutated butterfly.
However, the two men's actions did, to some extent, block the mutated butterfly's movement and slow down its escape.
Their actions also reminded the others protected by the exorcism umbrella that they could no longer stand by and watch, so they all used their supernatural abilities to surround it.
Soon, it began to fall unsteadily amidst the onslaught of these supernatural attacks.
Yu Yao aimed her crossbow at it, ready to end its life.
A gust of wind swept in at lightning speed, cutting a deep wound on her arm, from which blood gushed out instantly.
"Ayao!"
Luo Mei's expression changed, and five minutes passed quietly. Luo Mei's supernatural power could no longer withstand the drain on the Demon-Exorcising Umbrella.
Her face was pale as she swayed for a moment, and the exorcising umbrella in her hand, like a weathered stone, turned into a pile of sand that she couldn't hold onto and fell down in a rustling sound.
Many people who witnessed this scene were heartbroken!
Yu Yao didn't bother to look at any of this.
With his injured arm motionless, he swiftly and accurately fired a crossbow bolt, pinning the exhausted mutated butterfly firmly to the massive statue behind the triage desk.
After firing an arrow, Yu Yao leaped backward, sheathed her crossbow, switched to a sword, and slashed off the zombie claws that had suddenly appeared in front of her face.
The other knife followed seamlessly, severing the zombie's head.
Once the mutated butterfly died, the hallucinations disappeared, and everything around it revealed its original appearance.
A dilapidated hospital, mangled skeletons, blood and flesh everywhere, and countless zombies!
Finally, everyone saw the zombies. Even facing so many zombies, they felt a sense of relief and joy, as if they had survived a disaster.
Indeed, everything is subject to comparison.
Zombies are terrifying, but compared to the invisible zombies, they are a minor problem!
Now everyone can join the battle without restraint, with superpowers, firearms, and melee weapons all coming into play.
Of all these people, Yu Yao was the calmest.
Because she knew that there was another psychic zombie in the hospital who was working with a mutated butterfly.
Otherwise, when everyone is misled by the mutated butterflies and unaware of the zombies around them, the other zombies will be unable to suppress their instinct to attack humans.
Perhaps feeling that Yu Yao had ruined things, this mutated zombie was now treating Yu Yao with... well, you know.
Hate to the bone.