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Chapter 573 Catch up!

Zhuge Huang and Zhai Xixi slid down the garbage pipe and soon fell into an empty and dark space.

With the help of the light from the candle, the two men could barely see clearly that there were bloody human bones and hair all around them. The pungent stench of decay prickled their nerves.

"Professor Zhuge..." Zhai Xixi asked, "Is this an illusion created by Han Guoli?"

Zhuge Huang nodded: "It seems that this magic mirror is quite large... By the way, where is your centering candle?"

"I had it with me originally, but when I was exploring, I suddenly encountered that butcher. During the fight, the candle went out, and I lost consciousness. It wasn't until you passed by and I was illuminated by the candlelight again that I regained consciousness."

"If I remember correctly, you are also an illusionist, right?" Zhuge Huang looked at him and said, "If an illusionist loses the centering candle, can't he maintain his spiritual power?"

Zhai Xixi nodded somewhat ashamedly: "My practice is not enough."

"It's not your fault." Zhuge Huang shook his head. "Han Guoli is also a master of illusion, so his desperate attack is naturally extraordinary. I'm just worried about the other students who were involved, and my assistant Xiao He. Now it seems that they should also be in this illusion."

"Then let's go find them quickly!" Zhai Xixi was also a little worried about her classmates.

Zhuge Huang nodded: "Okay, be careful not to leave the range of my candlelight."

The two searched the garbage dump and soon found a huge rolling door that was unusually thick and heavy. Zhuge Huang tried to chop it with a machete twice, but only two scratches were left.

"Since it's a rolling door, it should have a switch or something." The two searched the area nearby and finally found the controller covered by a row of ribs in the corner. They pressed the green switch and the rolling door made a loud noise and slowly opened.

A cold but fresh wind blew in. The two took a deep breath and walked out. They found that this was a spacious underground cave. They could hear the whistling sound of the wind and there was a bottomless pool in the center.

"This is..." Zhai Xixi frowned.

"According to common sense, this place is connected to the garbage storage room, so it should be the place where garbage is processed," Zhuge Huang analyzed.

Zhai Xixi said with some concern: "But Han Guoli, who created the illusion, is already in a state of laughter and is unconscious. Can this illusion still be inferred by common sense?"

"It is precisely because of the lack of consciousness that the illusion created is more logical." Zhuge Huang said: "The illusion is not completely unreal, it is built based on the knowledge and experience of the creator."

"Although you are an illusionist, your realm is not high enough to construct an illusion, and you haven't touched the key to it." Professor Zhuge gave Zhai Xixi a theoretical lesson: "Many people associate illusions with dreams, but I think that constructing an illusion is more like making a game. You can have strange settings, but in order to maintain the stability of the illusion, the logical relationship of the core must be reasonable and clear."

"Of course, in order to make the illusion more difficult to break, many people will deliberately set up some unreasonable places to confuse people who enter the illusion. But that's like a bug in a game. If you want to keep it running, you have to spend more energy to patch it."

Zhai Xixi nodded: "So, an illusion that conforms to the logic of reality is the easiest to construct, and those illusions that seem chaotic, absurd and illogical are the most carefully designed?"

Zhuge Huang nodded. "Therefore, Han Guoli, who has been controlled by the crazy laughter and is on the verge of death, definitely does not have the energy to design an overly absurd illusion. Everything in this environment must be based on Han Guoli's common sense and logic."

Zhai Xixi looked around and said, "But I don't see any equipment here that can handle garbage."

Zhuge Huang frowned and looked at the pool in the middle: "It's probably in the water... But we can hear the sound of wind here, which means it leads to the outside world. We'd better not disturb the things in the water. Follow the sound of the wind, and maybe we can find a way out."

Zhai Xixi nodded, and the two of them walked lightly, following the sound of the wind towards the depths of the cave. They soon came to a fork in the road. After feeling the wind, they found that there was no movement on the left side of the road, but there was a breeze on the right side, and they could even hear intermittent humming sounds.

The two looked at each other and walked to the right.

After walking a few dozen meters, I finally reached the end.

"Is this a dead end?" Zhai Xixi was a little desperate.

"No, the wind hasn't stopped yet!" Zhuge Huang shook his head and went to the rock wall at the end and began to grope. After a while, he suddenly turned a stone, and there was a creaking sound of a mechanism. A piece of the rock wall opened, revealing a silver metal door.

"It's the elevator!" Zhai Xixi exclaimed in surprise. Zhuge Huang pressed the button, and soon the elevator door opened and the two of them got in.

It showed that they were currently on the second underground floor, and there were five floors above ground. Zhuge Huang pressed the button for one floor, and the elevator went up. It stopped after about ten seconds, and the door slowly opened to both sides, but there was no sign of the two people in the elevator.

About two seconds later, a machete stretched out from the side. After a pause, Zhuge Huang holding a candle appeared.

The first floor outside the elevator was a dilapidated lobby that connected the first and second floors. Judging from the furnishings and the peeling paint signs, it seemed to have been a hospital, but now it seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. There were broken glass everywhere, crooked and deformed metal benches, collapsed beds, black and red bloodstains, and dust and cobwebs that had been covering it for who knows how long.

In addition, you can see many corpses in hospital gowns lying here and there, most of them are mutilated and died in a very miserable way.

"How cruel..." Zhai Xixi frowned and asked, "Were they also killed by monsters?"

"It's very likely..." Zhuge Huang came to a relatively intact glass curtain wall, wiped off the dust with his hand, revealing the words underneath...

"Ning'an Psychological Rehabilitation Center?" Zhai Xixi asked in surprise, "Is this the headquarters of the Supernatural Response Department in reality?"

"Looking at the layout, it is indeed the lobby on the first floor of Ning'an Hospital." Zhuge Huang glanced around and pointed in a direction: "But the place where the door should be is blocked, it's just a wall!"

"Then we can't get out, right?" Zhai Qianqian said, "Normally, the way to escape from this kind of illusion is to find the exit of the scene."

"There is no illusion that cannot be left, it's just that the difficulty is different." Zhuge Huang said, "The underground cell that I escaped from before is also a place that does not exist in the real Ning'an Hospital, so the illusion and reality are not completely consistent, there are always other exits!" As he was speaking, there was a clicking sound suddenly coming from not far away. The two turned their heads and saw that a lot of strange people in hospital gowns and dark skin suddenly crawled up from the pile of debris, making strange clicking sounds from their mouths, and rushed towards them in weird postures.

These patients are actually monsters? !
The two men immediately became alert. Zhuge Huang held the candle steady with one hand and swung the machete with the other, chopping down at the nearest monster!

Swish! With a wrist strength far superior to that of an ordinary person, the monster was neatly split in half!
"Their physical strength is very ordinary, probably just the level of an ordinary person who has gone mad!" Zhuge Huang immediately made a judgment: "We can easily deal with them, but be careful not to get scratched or bitten by them. Although their physical strength is ordinary, I don't know what abilities the illusion has given them, so we must avoid getting hurt by them!"

"Got it!" Zhai Xixi agreed, and removed a bottle holder from an abandoned bed nearby, swung it like a long pole, and with a snap, she knocked down one weirdo, and the second one pounced on him!
Zhai Xixi's spirituality is very high, but her physique is average. Although she has reached the fifth level of the Solid Foundation Realm, her strength is only seven or eight times that of an ordinary person, far inferior to Zhuge Huang.

Although these weirdos have the physique of ordinary people, they are in a state of madness, with no idea of ​​restraint and fear. They are obviously stronger than ordinary people. As they come one after another, Zhai Xixi finds it difficult to deal with them even with weapons in hand.

Seeing this, Zhuge Huang swung his machete and knocked down a few people. He took advantage of the opportunity to hand the centering candle to Zhai Xixi and said, "You keep an eye on the candle. I'll hold them off!"

Just as he finished speaking, another strange man with disheveled hair rushed over. Zhuge Huang swung his machete and slashed at him, but unexpectedly, the strange man suddenly stopped at the last moment, took a step back and dodged the blade!
Actually escaped?
Zhuge Huang was startled and swung his sword to attack again, but that guy was completely different from the other monsters. His reaction and speed were extremely fast. While dodging, he was even able to fight back and reach out to grab Zhuge Huang's throat!

It was too late for Zhuge Huang to dodge, so he could only stretch out one hand to resist and grab the strange man's hand, interlocking their fingers!

"This guy... has great strength!"

Zhuge Huang was shocked by this slam. The strange man's strength easily overwhelmed him. He felt a brute force pressing down on him, as if it was going to break his wrist!

"It's Xiao Tian!"

At this moment, Zhai Xixi's exclamation came from behind Zhuge Huang. Although he had no impression of the name Xiao Tian, ​​Zhuge Huang immediately reacted that this was also a student who was involved!

Zhuge Huang gritted his teeth, endured the pain and moved forward instead of retreating, rotating his body and twisting his arms at an incredible angle, which not only relieved Xiao Tian's brute force but also brought him to the ground. Then he turned the tables and pinned Xiao Tian under him!
Xiao Tian was not willing to obey and struggled to get up. Zhuge Huang could only use his joint skills to hold him down, and then shouted to Zhai Xixi who was fighting against ordinary weirdos with an iron stick in one hand: "Come here and shine a candle on him!"

Zhai Xixi kicked a strange man away, then ran over and almost put the candle against Xiao Tian's face. Under the candlelight, Xiao Tian's struggling strength gradually weakened, the madness in his eyes slowly faded, and he regained clarity.

"Xiao Zhai? Hmm? Who's putting pressure on me? Professor Zhuge?"

"It's good that you're awake!" Zhuge Huang let him go: "Quick, fight the enemy first!"

Seeing so many weirdos rushing towards him, Xiao Tian was also startled, but then he showed an excited expression, licked his lips, and rushed out like a hungry wolf!
With his help, the besieging monsters were no longer a threat and were wiped out soon.

Zhuge Huang exchanged information with Xiao Tian and talked about the current situation. It turned out that Xiao Tian was besieged by these weirdos when he first came in. He was so excited about killing that he dropped the candle unconsciously. When he reacted, his consciousness had begun to blur. He didn't know when he also merged into the illusion and became one with these monsters.

"So, those corpses we saw when we came here were actually killed by you?" Zhai Xixi said unhappily, "You are so careless that you can actually throw away the candles."

Xiao Tian scratched his head embarrassedly, then suddenly shouted: "That's right!"

Zhuge Huang and Zhai Xixi were startled: "What happened again?"

"When I first came in, I saw Lu Fei!" Xiao Tian slapped his forehead, "At that time, we discussed that one of us would search the first floor and the other would search the second floor... I wonder how this guy is doing now!"

"Lu Fei is on the second floor?" Zhai Xixi said excitedly: "Then let's go up and find him!"

"Don't be too happy too soon!" Zhuge Huang advised: "It is possible that this student named Lu Fei also lost the candle and was assimilated by the illusion. We should be more careful. If we meet him again, he may be an enemy."

The two nodded, and Zhai Xixi said: "Lu Fei is also a fighter. Under the restrictions of the illusion, he is the most troublesome enemy!"

The three of them took a brief rest and then headed to the second floor.

There were also many corpses on the second floor, but they were not wearing hospital gowns, but nurse uniforms. And judging from their appearance, their limbs were twisted, and most of them seemed to have died from broken joints and twisted necks, but at least their bodies were intact.

"This is Lu Fei's style!" Xiao Tian saw it at a glance: "Besides the swordsmanship, the thing that boy is best at is joint skills!"

It seems that Lu Fei is indeed on this floor... The three of them held candles and walked around this floor, but apart from the bodies of the nurses, they did not see anything else that looked like a human.

"It seems that he is not on this floor..." Zhuge Huang said: "Let's go to the upper floor to take a look!"

Just as he finished speaking, the elevator on the first floor suddenly lit up, and with a ding sound, the elevator door opened, and a huge figure holding a huge axe came out!
"It's the butcher!" The moment they saw him, Zhuge Huang and Zhai Xixi widened their eyes, while Xiao Tian still looked innocent: "What is that?"

"It's a powerful monster!" Zhai Xixi grabbed him and said, "Run!"

"Why are you running!" Xiao Tian got excited when he heard it was a monster: "Fuck him!"

"No!" Zhuge Huang also pulled him over: "This guy is not something we can deal with right now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the butcher had already noticed them. He bent down slightly, jumped with his legs, and rushed up to the second floor with his heavy body, landing directly in front of them!

Xiao Tian was about to rush forward when the butcher swung his axe and knocked a metal bench over. When Xiao Tian caught it with both hands, he felt a horrible force that made his arms numb. He spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards.

"What a great strength!" Before Xiao Tian could even get up, he was pulled up by Zhuge Huang and Zhai Xixi and fled to the third floor along the stairwell!

(End of this chapter)