Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 311 Green
A girl wearing glasses walked through a dark town. Compared to the bloodshed on the other side, the places she passed through were silent. Occasionally, a lone, white-faced monster would bump into her. Before it could launch a proper attack, it would freeze in place. Then, its eyes would light up with a bluish-green light, and a dark aura would immediately emanate from its body.

She reached out and gently stroked the heads of the white-faced monsters, causing them to convulse and collapse. Within moments, they were still. A dark aura surrounded her, then vanished abruptly, as if it had all been an illusion.

This emerald green light was different from ordinary extraordinary energy; its emanation from within her body seemed to be merely a facade... its true source was her mind.

“I’m approaching the warehouse from the back door,” Zhan Lan said to the others.

Although they had previously faced an attack from monsters throughout the town, including many human-demon hybrids capable of sharing evolution... the Central Continent Team had managed to deal with them. While the human-demon hybrids still showed signs of evolution, with Zhang Jie holding the line, they couldn't overcome this formidable obstacle.

The two people who had been hiding in the warehouse, Li Shuaixi and Liu Rui, suddenly started to flee some time ago. Zhang Jie could only sense their tension and fear, but he couldn't scan out what was threatening them.

By then, the number of white-faced monsters was gradually decreasing. According to Liu Xi's speculation, Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha had successfully held off the Polar Day Society's offensive... These disorganized and undisciplined white-faced monsters were just a last resort. If the Polar Day Society had the resources, they should have already encountered the regular army that Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha had mentioned.

Because of this, the pressure on the Central Continent team has been reduced... They can now spare some manpower to rescue the two who escaped.

Zhang Jie had done his best. In order to attract those monsters and demons that could not be detected by mental power alone, he boldly released a specially processed mental fluctuation when he noticed that the frequency of their appearance was decreasing... The purpose of this mental fluctuation was to attract.

According to the mental energy detection results, Li Shuaixi and Liu Rui ran around the warehouse several times, seemingly avoiding something. As time passed, their words could no longer be accurately detected... This indicates that other entities were interfering with the detection.

Whether they were being chased by white-faced monsters or human demons, it couldn't possibly be that they got interested in looking at the warehouse and decided to run around for some exercise.

Just as the girl was about to enter the warehouse, the two of them ran off in another direction.

Zhan Lan sighed inwardly and started running as well.

Zhang Jie crushed two demons. With the decrease in monsters, these demons were finding it increasingly difficult to blend into the monster horde. Anyone who dared to approach was destined to be crushed by telekinesis upon discovery.

He lit a cigarette and chuckled helplessly, "These two guys, we had them sneak over along a relatively safe route... Back then, Michael hadn't evolved to the third tier yet, so if we had coordinated well, it wouldn't have been difficult for us to rendezvous. But they were both incredibly stubborn, insisting that I was using them as bait."

Zhang Heng sat unkempt on the floating cannon, almost collapsing. His trembling body suggested he could fall at any moment. If it weren't for Long Taobing keeping him alive, Zhang Heng would likely have been completely drained. He still appeared as a baby-faced youth, not much older, but in reality, he had already expended a considerable amount of his life force.

If he continues to overdraw his energy like this… according to Long Taobing's estimate, he might not even live past the ten years limited by these horror movies. Although dying of old age in a horror movie sounds ridiculous… according to Zhang Jie, there are indeed such deaths recorded in the records of the Supreme God.

At this moment, Zhang Heng was leaning half against the floating cannon and half against Long Taobing's calf, saying weakly, "Didn't we already explain our situation to them? We said we can handle it, and we don't need to protect these two much..."

Long Taobing sighed: "Can you change your position? You're leaning on my legs like this, even though I'm a grown man. I don't even want to imagine what it would be like if someone else were behind you."

"Damn it, if I wasn't really about to collapse, do you think I'd enjoy sticking close to grown men? If you say another word, I'll throw your floating cannon down!" Zhang Heng roared.

Liu Xi said calmly, "That's not how it is."

"Oh? I knew there were still people who understood me. How could I be the kind of person this kid is talking about?" Zhang Heng got excited upon hearing this and tried to stand up, but was pressed down by Long Taobing with a dark face.

Liu Xi glanced in the direction of the floating cannons: "I'm talking about those two... You can't tell normally, but in a crisis, trust is trust, and distrust is distrust. We haven't established trust between us, neither of us. It's just that we're powerful enough not to worry about their underhanded tactics."

"But for them... our strength and our advantages are actually irrelevant to them. In fact, it has nothing to do with strength itself. If there is trust, even if both are weak, they will believe each other... Isn't that how you were when you were weak? But if there is no trust, no matter how strong the other party is, there will be no sense of security."

Ba Wang paused for a moment: "Why don't you trust your teammates? Even mercenaries who have just formed a team have basic trust... This kind of trust should at least have gotten them to come over, right? Zhang Jie clearly explained the pros and cons... uh, the advantages and disadvantages."

“Those are your mercenaries, but their mentality is still that of ordinary people,” Liu Xi said calmly. “For them, there is no immediate danger, so why would they listen to us and take the risk? You can call them short-sighted, but you can’t deny that without trust, based on their intelligence, it’s impossible for them to believe what we say and take a risky path.”

Zhang Jie took a deep drag of his cigarette: "Heh... So, Zhan Lan's advice, 'We've already drawn your fire,' actually made them decide to stay put."

“That’s right.” Liu Xi rubbed her temples. Without Mu Xiang’s computing power, she was already a little tired from using True Sense Vision continuously. “If I were that Li Shuaixi… I would definitely have said, ‘They just want us to be bait,’ so that the other person wouldn’t listen to our plan either.”

Zhan Lan paused for a moment: "Why is this happening? In the last horror movie, Mu Xiang and the others definitely didn't use them as bait..."

“If they were just new acquaintances… it would be impossible to guess what they would think under such a unified arrangement. And once that seed is planted, it’s very difficult to change that perception. Given his current behavior, I can only deduce that he was traumatized in the previous horror movie and developed similar thoughts,” Liu Xi said calmly.

(End of this chapter)