Chapter 416 - The Trapped Soul (1/2)

Before his voice could fade away, the folds started squirming madly.

Rows of tentacles covered in spikes shot out of the folds and went straight for their vitals.

It was as if the “walls” of the “intestines” were shrinking rapidly and wanted to envelope both of them inside.

A large amount of sticky liquid that seemed like digestive juices gushed out from up ahead and behind them. It was as if they wanted to dissolve them until there was nothing left.

The nightmarish scene was enough to destroy most people’s mental defenses. Their mental strength index would drop to zero, and they might even die of fear.

But Meng Chao was an oddball, so it was clear that he would not be among those people.

He had a soul that had been refined by the apocalypse, and he had harvested more than ten thousand monsters of all shapes and sizes. He could eat brains dipped in chili sauce and stir-fried bull testicles without batting an eyelid in a dissection room, so this sort of minor thing would not be able to scare him.

Of course, illusion attacks would usually be accompanied by physical attacks.

When real attacks blended together with fake attacks, the target would be unable to tell what was real and would be caught by surprise.

But this was Lu Siya’s forte.

With Meng Chao’s reminder, she immediately realized that she was in an illusion, and as a Spirit Sensor, she could tell just which attack was an illusion formed by an interference of the nervous system and which attack was real.

“It’s here!”

Lu Siya pointed at a spot in the darkness. It seemed like there was nothing there, but she opened fire anyway.

Meng Chao did not hesitate. He joined her and fired at full force. He even threw all eight napalm bombs.

As flames rose, the illusions shattered with a distorted scream.

The acid, fine hairs, tentacles, and meat walls all disappeared.

Sturdy ground appeared under their feet again.

Gao Ye and the Demonic Abyss Eye were tumbling around not far away to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

‘What should we do?’ Lu Siya asked Meng Chao with her eyes.

They were in a hurry to run, so they might not be in a mood to waste time on killing them.

But it would be quite difficult for Meng Chao and her to kill the two Supernatural Entities with just their own strength.

“We’ll hold them back! We must hold them here like superglue!” Meng Chao thought of something and added, “Since the illusion it created was of such low quality, it means that it’s already so drained that it’s at the verge of breaking down. It’s definitely not as powerful as it seems. We’ll definitely be able to hold it back!”

When it came to creating illusions, they had to be done subtly and slowly in favorable conditions.

Yet they had clearly been underground, but in the blink of an eye, they entered a squirming tunnel. This made no sense at all, and those with the slightest bit of intelligence would be able to tell that it was fake.

Once a person was able to tell that an illusion was fake, the illusion had already failed.

Meng Chao did not believe that the Demonic Abyss Eye would not be able to understand such a basic thing. After all, it was a boss-level psychological attack-type monster.

However, it was no longer able to create the seemingly real illusions that could naturally blend with reality.

‘It had to perform micro-controls on at least ten thousand monsters for an entire night, and it was heavily injured by my tutoress and Master Luo. It was also badly burned. This is just a future Supernatural Entity that has not reached full maturity yet. It’s already on its dying bed and is just holding onto its last breath, right?’ Meng Chao thought.

‘From the start until now, it has only eaten Zhou Tianshui to replenish its spirit energy. If I consider the great plan it cooked up tonight, Zhou Tianshui alone is definitely not enough for its use.

‘So, winning or losing isn’t important. What is important is to make it use more spirit energy and drain the last drop of its blood!’

Both parties realized this.

Hence, the Demonic Abyss Eye stopped using useless illusions. It also stopped trying to invade Meng Chao’s bizarre soul.

Instead, it placed all of its attention on sending orders to Gao Ye.

The Ultimate Sandworm was badly burned and covered in wounds, but it swelled up again. Like a king cobra who saw its prey, it raised its neck up high at Meng Chao and Lu Siya.

Both of them could sense a pressure that was ten times greater than the one they felt from the clone in the underwater tunnel.

They watched as its oral cavity started spinning at such a high speed that it could crush an armored vehicle. Both Meng Chao and Lu Siya gulped with great difficulty.

Next, Meng Chao did something that left Lu Siya dumbfounded.

He tossed the shoulder-mounted M61 Vulcan and the sharp mandibles behind him.

He then spread his arms and stepped in front of Gao Ye’s gaping mouth.