Chapter 378 - Choices (2/2)

Shang Jianyao had returned.

This… Father had the urge to vomit blood.

Shang Jianyao didn’t wear sunglasses this time. He turned around, held the Destiny Pearl in one hand, and waved his other hand.

At the same time, he scoffed. “Are you stupid? Gunshots keep sounding here. Can’t I guess that the real you wants to escape in the opposite direction? With your physique, it’s too difficult for you to climb the high walls. Therefore, there’s only one answer…”

Father Alex naturally wouldn’t tell him that he wouldn’t have heard the gunshots outside the illusion if he wasn’t affected by the sniper and couldn’t focus on maintaining Dream Journey.

In the face of Shang Jianyao’s punch, Father Alex subconsciously wanted to dodge and parry the blow. However, he had only raised his hands halfway when he stopped.

It was as if he had forgotten what to do.

At this moment, Father Alex also sensed that he might encounter fatal danger if he dodged to the right. This was clearly thanks to the distant sniper.

Why can she still aim? What did I do wrong? As Father Alex roared inwardly, he could only force himself to lower his body and dodge to the left.

Unfortunately, he was too slow. As if he had lunged forward, he used his face to meet Shang Jianyao’s punch.

Thud!

Alex felt his head spin as he involuntarily spat out several bloodstained teeth.

After the gunshot, he staggered to his right as if he were flying.

Father Alex wasn’t in the mood to care about the swelling on his face. He rolled the moment he landed, attempting to circle around Shang Jianyao and enter the apartment.

From the development at Wolf’s Den, he could tell that his current enemies were too benevolent and kind. He believed that this was something he could exploit.

After entering the apartment, he planned on using hostage tactics if he couldn’t escape.

Shang Jianyao didn’t give the real Father a chance. He nimbly turned around and blocked Alex outside the door.

This also resulted in their eyes meeting.

The real Father instinctively used Hypnosis, causing deep and illusory vortices to appear in his eyes.

Shang Jianyao was immediately stunned, but he raised his hands as if he had another personality commanding him.

Unlike before, he had already stuffed the Destiny Pearl back into his pocket at some point in time. He held Ice Moss in one hand and United 202 in the other.

The two black muzzles were respectively aimed at Father’s body and Father’s left profile.

The right side was reserved for Jiang Baimian. This was something they had paid special attention to during training.

Upon seeing this, Father Alex couldn’t help but feel vexed. I’m really stupid, really…

He clearly knew that the man opposite him was immune to Hypnosis to a certain extent. It would take five to ten-fold the normal time to affect him, but he couldn’t help using Hypnosis just now.

This reminded him of Zhang Qubing’s words—’are you stupid?’—after intercepting him. He suspected that he had been affected by the other party’s abilities since then.

At this moment, he could sense that the right side was the most dangerous. If he stayed in place or turned left, he might be injured, but it might not be fatal.

He only had three choices.

As this thought flashed through his mind, Father Alex smiled contemptuously.

He chose the right. At the same time, he completely activated the bodhi bead hanging in front of his chest.

To Father, he would either fail to fend off the attacks and die on the spot or forge a path of survival. He definitely wouldn’t accept the outcome of being captured.

His pride didn’t allow him to do so, nor did he allow himself to land in the hands of a mortal.

Bang!

Jiang Baimian sensed the change in the target’s bioelectric signal and squeezed the trigger.

The Orange rifle’s bullet instantly hit the real Father, but there seemed to be an invisible barrier around him, blocking the bullet.

The barrier only lasted for a second before silently shattering. The bullet ultimately drilled into Father Alex’s body.

Blood splattered amidst two other gunshots.

I’m ultimately not at the real Mind Corridor level… Alex collapsed as such a thought flashed across his mind.

After he fell to the ground, he saw Shang Jianyao quickly approach him and heard him anxiously shout, “You must hang in there.”

While Father Alex was confused, Shang Jianyao took out the Destiny Pearl. “I haven’t searched through your memories!”

Upon hearing this, Father felt greatly insulted. The next second, he saw himself in Shang Jianyao’s eyes—an ordinary, heavily injured, and dying person at the mercy of others.