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Chapter 572 Illusion
After listening to Luo Jun's explanation of what happened, Zhuge Huang frowned.

"Something went beyond my expectations..."

Lao Miaomiao said, "Didn't you expect that it would involve the captain?"

Before Zhuge Huang could speak, Luo Jun shook his head: "He didn't expect that when he got to the captain, he hadn't even reached the source."

After hearing this, Zhuge Huang looked at Luo Jun with a little surprise: "You even thought of this?"

Luo Jun laughed and said, "From what he said on the phone, it's clear that he was coerced by the other party. In other words, even if the crazy laughter incident is really related to him, the real source should be in the hands of the person who talked to him. Dealing with Han Guoli alone may not solve the problem."

"Since you've thought of this, why do you still risk tying him up?" Zhuge Huang frowned and said, "This might alert the enemy and make the people hiding behind us more alert!"

"If we don't alert them, will they behave themselves?" Luo Jun asked, "Their goal is not just to infect the current 10,000 people. They want to infect more than a million people, and they obviously can't wait for the virus to spread slowly. If we don't act immediately, the next accident is likely to happen soon. It's better for us to fight quickly and not give them time to react."

Zhuge Huang frowned. He had to admit that Luo Jun's approach made sense. However, Han Guoli was not an ordinary person after all. Kidnapped him alive to solve the incident, but the relationship with the official supernatural agency was the real problem!

Thinking of this, he looked at the unconscious Han Guoli with a worried look on his face.

"Don't worry." Seeing Zhuge Huang's worry, Luo Jun smiled slightly: "We are all students who come to [Supernatural] for the first time. There is no information about us locally. Moreover, when we returned to Puhua University, we also took anti-detection measures. I can guarantee that the Supernatural Response Department will not suspect us in the short term."

Luo Jun dared to say this not only because he was confident in his anti-reconnaissance means, but also because he had rolled the dice three times on the way back, thus eliminating the possibility of being tracked down.

Of course, the only organization in Huangquan City that has the ability to kidnap Han Guoli is Puhua University. Although based on the good image that Puhua University has always created, official agencies will give priority to external or hidden evil organizations, but Puhua University will sooner or later be listed as a suspect.

Whether this incident can be resolved before it is investigated depends on Zhuge Huang's methods.

At least from Luo Jun's perspective, as a student participating in the exchange meeting, he has done enough.

"There is no other choice now." Zhuge Huang sighed: "Leave Han Guoli to me. I promise to get the information about the mastermind as soon as possible. Then..."

Zhuge Huang was halfway through his words when the unconscious Han Guoli suddenly twitched, and then his body shook continuously, and then he opened his mouth and let out a weird laugh...

"Oh no!" Zhuge Huang was horrified when he saw this: "It's crazy laughter!"

"What?" The other people in the conference room were also shocked when they heard it, and then subconsciously stepped back, turning their heads away and no longer looking at Han Guoli who was laughing!

"It's too late not to look at him now. One single laugh will activate the infection!" Zhuge Huang reminded while taking out a handful of tiny candles, lighting them with his vital energy, and quickly distributing them to everyone present.

"This is a calming candle. Hold it in your hand to steady your mind and weaken the effects of illusions and mental spells!" Zhuge Huang shouted, "When ordinary people trigger wild laughter, they will just twist their limbs and kill themselves. But when a cultivator triggers wild laughter, their vital energy will also go into a frenzy, draining all the meridians in an instant, using abilities that exceed the original limit, and indiscriminately attacking everyone around them!"

"Han Guoli is a powerful illusionist. When he laughs wildly, he will naturally perform powerful illusions. Everyone must calm their minds and keep the candles in their hands from going out. Wait until his laughter is over, then..."

Before Zhuge Huang could finish his words, the surrounding environment suddenly changed!

The originally bright and spacious conference room instantly turned into a narrow and dark cell!

"Hit?" Zhuge Huang frowned. He felt a sharp pain deep in his brain, which was obviously a symptom of being affected by a mental spell. But looking at his hand, the candle was still burning.

As the chief captain of Huangquan City's Supernatural Response Division, Zhuge Huang had dealt with Han Guoli more than once. Although limited by his knowledge, his Guben Peiyuan realm was only at the fifth level, and his foundation was not as solid as Zhuge Huang's. But if we only look at his attainments in the Ningxin realm, Han Guoli has already touched the threshold of a high level, and this person is extremely spiritual and has a very thorough understanding of the soul. Zhuge Huang asked himself, if they really had to compete in illusion, even if he could win, the gap would only be a fraction of a second.

But now it’s different. Han Guoli’s potential has been fully stimulated by his wild laughter. At the cost of burning his own life, he performed the most powerful illusion in his life!
"The power is beyond my imagination..." Zhuge Huang raised his hand and tried to use illusion to influence the surrounding environment, but his ability seemed to be greatly restricted and he could hardly use it, let alone break the illusion.

"It's quite restrictive..." Zhuge Huang shook his head. "This last attack was really powerful. If it weren't for the protection of the Heart-Setting Candle, I would have been drowned in it and would have difficulty distinguishing between illusion and reality..."

At this point, Zhuge Huang observed the surrounding environment and said, "My spirit has been pulled into the illusion. If I want to leave, I can only find a way out from the environment... And I'm not the only one who was pulled in. In such a short time, Han Guoli was controlled by the crazy laughter. He should not have the energy and mind to create an illusion for everyone, so the others should also be in this illusion."

As Zhuge Huang spoke, he touched the door of the cell. The reason why he talked to himself was not because he had mental problems, but through language, he constantly gave himself psychological hints to strengthen his awareness of being in an illusion in order to prevent himself from sinking into it.

"The rusty iron door is locked from the outside..." Zhuge Huang tried to push it, and the door hinge made a clanging sound. There was a slight gap, but it was very sturdy.

"It's difficult to destroy it with physical strength alone, but as for the internal energy..." Zhuge Huang tried to stimulate the internal energy, but only a faint light flashed on his body surface.

"Not only my abilities, but even my Qi has been greatly restricted, and my treasure box is gone..." Zhuge Huang frowned, "It seems that we can only follow the logic of the illusion for now."

Thinking of this, Zhuge Huang looked inside the cell in the candlelight. There was a bed, a dirty toilet, and a washbasin next to it.

It is not quite the same as real prisons. People imprisoned here should not be allowed to leave at all. They have to eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the cell. Is it a solitary confinement cell?
As I was analyzing, a harsh metal friction sound was heard outside the door, as if something heavy and hard was dragging on the ground.

Zhuge Huang immediately leaned over the door and listened attentively. In addition to the friction sound, he could also hear heavy footsteps approaching from afar, accompanied by the squeaking of wheels due to lack of oil. Every few steps, he could also hear the sound of dishes colliding.

Something is coming! Zhuge Huang frowned and looked around the door. He found a two or three finger-wide food delivery opening under the iron door, covered with a movable iron plate. A movable bed could be seen above the old door. When it was opened, there was a small rectangular window, slightly larger than a mobile phone. Not to mention adults, even children's heads couldn't stick out.

Zhuge Huang tried hard to put his face close to the door and closed one eye. Finally, he could barely see the scene outside the door.

Outside was a dark corridor with no end in sight, with rusty iron doors like his on both sides. The noise just now came from deep in the corridor, getting closer and closer, becoming clearer and clearer.

Finally, the source of the noise came into his sight. It was a giant about 2.5 meters tall, with a very burly figure, wearing a white coat covered in blood, a pair of large leather shoes with rusty iron sheets embedded on the uppers, and a dirty mask on his head, with messy hair behind his head like a lion's mane.

This terrifying giant was pushing a square food cart with one hand and holding a huge axe in the other hand, dragging it on the ground behind him. That was the reason for the huge friction sound.

"A white coat, is he a doctor? But why do I feel like he looks more like a butcher..."

Zhuge Huang frowned slightly, and saw the giant walk to a door, put the food cart against the door, and then raised his leg to kick the cart. A flat food box popped out and shot in from the food-taking port below. Then, he could vaguely hear the sound of someone opening a food box and wolfing down food from inside the door.

Next, the giant walked to the next door across the street and followed the same procedure. But this time, the prisoner inside didn't seem to cooperate. Just as the lunch box was thrown in from below, the giant turned around and took a few steps. The window above opened and the lunch box was thrown out, hitting the giant's back, and the sticky soup added some stains on his white coat.

The giant stopped after being hit, paused for a second, then suddenly turned around, swung the giant axe that had been dragging on the ground with one hand, split the iron door open with one axe, lowered his head and walked in, then he heard screams and the sound of a sharp blade cutting flesh and bones coming from the cell.

A moment later, the giant came out again, with a lot of fresh bloodstains on his white coat, and a small piece of intestine hanging on the axe in his hand.

"He is indeed a butcher..." Zhuge Huang rolled his eyes, looked at the surrounding environment, and came up with a plan.

Soon, the butcher came to his door. With a bang, the food cart was pushed against the door, and then a flat lunch box popped out from the food delivery port below.

Zhuge Huang opened the box and saw that half of it was filled with rice, which was a sticky dark red paste that smelled of corruption. There were a few solid pieces in it, and he didn't know whether they were meat or potatoes...

"No wonder that guy was dissatisfied with the food just now..." Zhuge Huang shook his head, opened the observation window above, and threw the lunch box out, hitting the giant butcher on the back!
The butcher was indeed enraged. He turned around, swung his axe, split open Zhuge Huang's cell door, lowered his head and got in, then seemed stunned for a moment.

Because no one was seen in the cell.

At this moment, the butcher suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a light above his head. As soon as he looked up, he saw a man holding a candle jumping down, landing behind him, and escaping from the broken prison door!

"Ouch!"

The butcher yelled in anger, picked up his axe and chased after him, but Zhuge Huang was at the sixth level of his inherent state, and his innate bones were not weak. Even his physical ability was nearly twenty times that of an ordinary person. While the butcher was trying to get out of the door, he had already run twenty or thirty meters.

The butcher swung his axe and chased after him. In terms of strength, he was much bigger than Zhuge Huang, but his body was too big, his joints were stiff, and the weapon in his hand was too heavy. Although he ran faster than an ordinary person, he was far slower than Zhuge Huang. As he chased after him, he was getting further and further away.

In anger, the butcher roared, swung the heavy axe, turned around a few times on the spot, and threw it out with all his might!
The giant axe, which was more than two meters long and weighed hundreds of kilograms, flew towards them, spinning like a propeller, making a whirring sound as it broke through the air!
Zhuge Huang sensed the danger behind him and instinctively bent down. The next moment, a gust of wind brushed past his scalp and hit the iron door at the end of the corridor!

With a loud bang, the iron gate was smashed open by the huge axe. Zhuge Huang said to himself, "That's just right." He protected the candle flame with one hand, lowered his head and crawled out through the iron gate!

The moment he stepped through the door, a strong fishy smell entered Zhuge Huang's nose.

"This is..." Zhuge Huang found himself in a huge...kitchen.

The wide space was paved with white tiles, and blood and oil splatters could be seen everywhere. There was an exaggeratedly large stove on the wall of the kitchen, and opposite it was an equally large slaughter table, on which lay a half-dismembered human body, and next to it was a garbage dump, with human bones and internal organs scattered around.

Not only that, on the wall next to the slaughter table, there was a row of human sacrifices hanging with iron chains waiting to be slaughtered!

Hearing the footsteps getting closer behind him, Zhuge Huang had no time to stay here. He noticed a door next to the slaughtering table and hurried over.

"Professor Zhuge!"

When passing by the row of slaughterhouses, a female voice called him. Zhuge Huang looked in the direction of the voice and found that among the hung human sacrifices, there was a girl with disheveled hair who was still alive!

"You are the girl from Team Ningdong in the meeting room before..."

"My name is Zhai Xixi... I was caught by that butcher..."

"Stop talking! There's no time!"

Zhuge Huang held the candle in his mouth, picked up a machete from the butcher table, swung it with both hands, and with a clang, he cut off the chain that was hanging Zhai Xixi!

Zhai Xixi fell to the ground with a thud, not caring about the stains all over her body and her tied hands, and got up in a panic.

At this time, the butcher outside the door had picked up the axe and rushed into the kitchen!
"Run!" Zhuge Huang pulled Zhai Xixi and was about to run towards the iron gate, but as soon as he moved, the bloody giant axe flew again and chopped right in front of the two of them, blocking their way!
At the same time, the butcher strode over and it was too late for the two men to open the door!
At this time, Zhuge Huang had an idea and shouted, "Follow me!" He pulled Zhai Xixi back a step and pushed her into the garbage dump on the wall!
Behind the dump was a downward garbage pipe, and Zhai Xixi slid down it. At this time, the butcher also arrived and reached out to grab Zhuge Huang. At this critical moment, he also dived in!
The butcher's fingertips only brushed Zhuge Huang's trouser legs, but his body was too huge to fit into the drain, so he could only let out an unwilling roar!

(End of this chapter)