Chapter 787 - There Was No Way Forward! (1/2)

When Meng Chao and Lu Siya both realized that they were still trapped in the illusion.

Their brainwaves shone like searchlights, seeing through the roughness and falsehood of the world around them.

It was different from the overly bright colors of the first illusion.

The second illusion used rolling fog and black silhouettes to obscure too many details.

When one was in a state of panic, it was easy to overlook the clumsiness of the illusion. Instead, due to its resemblance to a horror movie, it made one’s hair stand on end, and one would be unable to think.

At that moment, under the influence of each other’s brainwaves, both of them calmed down. Naturally, they could now see that there were flaws everywhere.

However, it was useless for them to remain calm.

Most of the exploration team members were still trapped in the illusion. They thought that they were fighting an endless stream of undead creatures as if they had fallen into an endless cycle of nightmares.

Meng Chao and Lu Siya called out to them a few more times, but they still could not wake them up.

The two of them did not dare to take any more drastic measures to forcefully wake up the exploration team members.

The reason was, their brains had been invaded and stimulated by the enemy, hence they were in an extremely dangerous state of overload.

It was the same as not being able to easily awaken someone who was sleepwalking, especially someone who was sleepwalking while having a nightmare. Otherwise, it would be very easy to scare them silly.

Forcefully awakening the exploration team members who had fallen into the depths of the nightmare would also easily cause irreversible damage to their brains. It would make them go crazy and become a muddle-headed cripple, or even a lost person with a distorted soul.

The only way to break the illusion was to attack the real body of the creator of the illusion.

“But we’ve tried it just now, and it’s useless!”

“We can’t kill it!” Lu Siya shouted. “Its real body can be resurrected indefinitely!”

“No, there’s no carbon-based intelligent creature that can be resurrected indefinitely. The only reason we can’t kill it is because we’re not attacking its real body!”

Meng Chao’s eyes were as sharp as lightning as he stared at the Tree of Wisdom, “It has already invaded and interfered with our visual nerves through the illusion. The Tree of Wisdom that we are seeing is just an illusion created by it. Perhaps the us in the real world is simply attacking the air with gorgeous operations. Of course, it won’t be able to do any damage at all.

“If we want everyone to escape from this damn illusion, we have to lock onto its real body and find out where it is hiding!”

Lu Siya’s eyes suddenly lit up. She blurted out, “That’s right. That’s right!”

However, she realized that the demonic plant made of countless monster carcasses and rotten vines was not the Tree of Wisdom’s real body. There was still a long distance between them and its real body.

Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked around. Everything they could see was a dark forest.

Countless ancient trees that seemed to be thousands of years old were waving their branches and vines crazily.

It was impossible to tell which was the real Tree of Wisdom.

Realizing that the two of them had seen through the flaws, the Tree of Wisdom in front of them let out shrill shrieks and urged the undead creatures to speed up their attack.

The exploration team had run out of ammunition and food. They had no choice but to draw their bayonets, sabers, and heavy swords to fight against the undead creatures.

The light from the sabers and the shadows of the swords interweaved into a steel storm. Although it temporarily blocked the attacks of the undead creatures, it was enough to stop them.

However, more and more people could not help but get injured. Their bodies were torn open, and a large amount of the mucus of the undead creatures splattered into them, causing a stinky and thick smoke to rise from the depths of the wounds.

The Other World was an extremely unstable place.

It was also a world where energy was greater than matter, and consciousness could strongly reflect reality.

Even though this was only an illusion.

However, after suffering serious damage in the illusion, human brain tissue could still ‘hypnotize themselves and believe it to be true’, and identical wounds would appear on their bodies in the real world.

Plus, when a human was infected with the blood-striped spores and the super zombie virus in the illusion, all of his self-will was wiped out, leaving only an infinitely magnified killing intent and appetite.

In the real world, it was very likely that he would also become a bloodthirsty madman!

There was not much time left for Meng Chao and Lu Siya.

If this continued, many of the exploration team members’ minds would be slowly eroded, becoming the monster mastermind’s puppet minions!

The two of them were burning with anxiety.

However, the more anxious they were, the more they could not find the Tree of Wisdom’s main body.

The hundreds of towering trees around them seemed to be engulfed by the Green Tide, blooming rotten corpse flowers one after another, letting out half mocking and half sorrowful laughter.

“Damn it, how can we find it like this? Maybe its real body isn’t here at all!” Lu Siya smashed her fist hard.

A thick rock snake smashed fiercely into the Tree of Wisdom, shaking it again.

However, it was just a futile venting.

Meng Chao’s pupils contracted into two needle tips in an instant.

From the needle tips, an incomparably dazzling light blossomed.