F-class thief? Sorry, I can steal anything.

Chapter 194 Breaking through the south wall is the way to survival! Trust her, charge!

"We've been infected!"

Chen Yifan's voice wasn't loud, but it made Wang Fugui and Lin Xiaoyu's hearts stop for a moment.

Have you been infected?

What trick did you fall for?

"I guess we've been trapped in an illusion ever since we stepped into this place."

Chen Yifan manipulated the dagger, silently slicing across the neck of an attacker; the scalding blood turned into a white light before it even had a chance to splatter.

His voice was completely flat.

"Either, it's that singing that's distorting our perception."

"distortion?"

Wang Fugui smashed the helmet of an oncoming warrior with the edge of his shield; the sound of shattering metal mingled with his roar.

"This is way too skewed! It's practically veered off the road!"

"No."

Chen Yifan's gaze pierced through Wang Fugui's broad back and was fixed on that cold rock wall.

"The road has always been there."

"But we went the wrong way."

A wide-area cognitive impairment force field based on mental pollution.

It doesn't create falsehoods; it only distorts the truth.

It's like a giant lens, covering reality and causing everything you see and hear to be distorted.

This leads them to believe that the correct path is not actually the path they took when they came in.

"Brother Fan!"

Lin Xiaoyu's voice suddenly rang out, tinged with a tremor and a hint of understanding.

She abruptly pulled her hand back from the rock face, her expression somewhat dazed.

"In the moss's 'memory,' they've never seen us before, which means... we've gone the wrong way!"

correct.

The two people's deductions formed a perfect closed loop.

From the moment they stepped into this pit, or even earlier, from the moment they heard the singing, their senses were hijacked.

The clear path I remember is nothing more than a "safety illusion" projected by a mirage.

A false coordinate to lure them into crashing into the south wall.

The real path to survival is always disguised as a dead end, right under their noses!

boom--!

A fireball the size of a millstone exploded on Wang Fugui's shield, the violent impact crushing the rocky ground beneath his feet into dust.

He slid backward half a meter.

The muscles in his shield-wielding arm were bulging, veins were standing out, and his bones groaned under the strain.

"Fanzi! Think of something quick! I'm about to turn into a roasted pig!"

He gritted his teeth until they broke, his mouth filled with the taste of blood.

Behind them, the frenzied "believers" launched an increasingly fierce attack.

They seemed to sense the abnormality here, and their attacks were no longer chaotic, but rather subtly coordinated.

Ranged attackers focused their fire on Wang Fugui's shield, while melee fighters, like sharks smelling blood, frantically searched for an opening from the flanks.

Chen Yifan's mental energy was also greatly depleted.

The two daggers transformed into phantoms of death, each movement requiring precise calculation of angle and timing, killing enemies while simultaneously dodging indiscriminate area attacks.

He felt as if two steel needles were repeatedly churning in his temples.

We can't delay any longer.

"Xiaoyu!"

Chen Yifan's voice suddenly rose, becoming resolute.

"Never mind us! Keep communicating with the moss! Ignore everything you see, and use their 'vision' to tell us where the real exit is!"

"I……"

Looking at Wang Fugui's swaying back and Chen Yifan's pale profile, Lin Xiaoyu's usually cold eyes showed a fierce struggle for the first time.

Why did you ask her to close her eyes and completely entrust her back to her teammates at such a critical moment?

Trust me.

Chen Yifan didn't turn around. He only said two words, calm, yet carrying an undeniable power.

There is nothing else here.

The amount of moss was unbelievably large.

Lin Xiaoyu's talent allows these plants to be completely unprepared and even cooperate perfectly.

Given time, she will surely find a way out.

Lin Xiaoyu's body trembled slightly.

She bit her lower lip, no longer hesitating, pressed her hand back onto the cold rock wall, and closed her eyes.

This time, her mind was more focused than ever before.

His spiritual energy, like mercury spilling onto the ground, instantly sank into the moss in front of him.

Countless tiny, humble, yet incredibly real perspectives simultaneously lit up in her mind.

It was a bizarre experience that defies description.

She is herself, and she is the moss.

She saw the three of them trapped in a small corner, like a lone boat in a storm.

She saw the group of fanatical believers, their faces distorted and blurred by the moss's perspective, only their fanaticism, emanating from their very souls, was clear enough to be nauseating.

She also saw... the road.

Real pathways, shrouded in rock walls, shadows, and illusions!

This huge circular crater is not a dead end.

It is well-connected to other areas of the mining district, like a complex transportation hub.

And where they are now is right in front of one of the widest main roads!

"Brother Fan!"

Lin Xiaoyu suddenly opened her eyes, her voice rising with excitement. She pointed a trembling finger to a spot to her right that was empty except for an ordinary rock wall.

"There! Fifteen meters away from us! There's a tunnel!"

Wang Fugui was taken aback upon hearing this and subconsciously glanced in that direction.

There was just a wall there, plain and unremarkable, without even a crack.

"Xiaoyu, are you...?"

"Fatty! Trust her!"

Chen Yifan's low growl interrupted Wang Fugui's questioning.

He manipulated the Nightmare Fang, slicing it in an eerie arc to sever the throats of three assassins attempting to flank him, all the while issuing a stern command.

"Fatty, Xiaoyu, I'll count to three, then we'll rush out together!!"

The instructions were clear and decisive.

Wang Fugui no longer had any doubts; this brother who had shared life and death with him had never let him down.

"Damn it, let's just go crazy this once!"

His eyes were bloodshot as he poured the last of his spiritual energy into the shield in his hand.

"roar--!"

The tiger totem on the shield seemed to come alive, letting out a deafening roar!

[The Barrier - A Tiger Descends the Mountain!]

A massive, monstrous tiger phantom made of earth-yellow energy roared out of the shield, engulfing the three of them along with the wall behind them!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless attacks, like a storm, pounded on the tiger phantom. The energy shield fluctuated violently, rippling outwards in visible waves, yet it held firm.

"3..."

"2..."

"1..."

"Rush!"

The voice just fell.

The three of them rushed toward the place Lin Xiaoyu had indicated.

Wang Fugui was the most outrageous.

Place the shield on your head.

I was afraid I would bump my head against the wall.

However, just as the three of them crashed hard into the rock wall that Wang Fugui considered to be "empty"!

There was no earth-shattering roar as I had imagined.

There was a crisp "crack" sound, like a mirror shattering.

The hard rock face suddenly rippled like water the moment they touched it.

Immediately afterwards, the entire wall, along with the distorted light and shadow around it, shattered with a deafening roar!

They're out!

"Holy shit!"

Wang Fugui stared in disbelief, his mouth agape wide enough to fit a fist.

"Walk!"

Chen Yifan grabbed Lin Xiaoyu, who was still in a daze, and patted Wang Fugui on the back with his other hand.

Without hesitation, the three of them ran forward without looking back.

Behind them, the phantom of the tiger shattered with a crash.

The group of "believers" who had lost their target let out angry and bewildered roars, but could no longer find any trace of the three people.

In the center of the pit.

The enormous black heart began to beat more rapidly.

A piercing scream, unlike anything any living being could utter, filled with fury and malice, echoed throughout the depths of the entire mining area!

not good!

It's a psychological shock!