"Major!"
Li Yao said in a hurry. "I've detected very weird, high-frequency waves that seem to be able to stimulate the central nerves of human beings directly, making them agitated and uneasy, filled with fury and the desire to attack!"
"Exactly. I've sensed it, too!"
Guan Qixing agreed. "Has the Puppet King developed not only the Disillusionment Virus, Glory Virus, and Love Virus but also a fifth brain virus?"
"It's not as simple as a brain virus. You don't have a sense of smell and cannot smell the air."
Chu Zhixiao retreated her eyes from the line that was obviously written for her and said coldly, "The air is filled with … the smell of burning blood. I can sense the surging adrenaline without testing. The Puppet King was not lying. He had indeed injected tremendous exhilarants into the food and drinking water of the citizens of Light a long time ago. However, the 'incubation period' of the exhilarants was very long. It was not until this moment that the exhilarants were fully activated after they touched the 'triggers' that he released again. The people's brain, morphine, and adrenaline were all secreted crazily, making them burn their souls and overdraft their life to trigger extraordinary attack ability and mobility.
"If this is truly a fifth virus, it is essentially a mixture of a brain virus and a common virus. Perhaps, we can call it 'fury'!"
"Well —"
Guan Qixing was surprised. "Is it possible? How could the Puppet King have gotten so many excitants?"
"It is possible. The Puppet King's formidability and sordidness are far beyond our imagination," Chu Zhixiao said.
Chu Zhixiao said, "Perhaps, he has hijacked the mainframe crystal processor of Eternal Brilliance a long time ago and can allocate the assets on board freely. You know that this is an enormous laboratory. Naturally, there are all kinds of materials for drugs. As long as he can get the materials without alarming anyone, he will have a chance to synthesize his formulas on a large scale and deliver them to the city through the automatic assembly line!
At this moment, the roars outside were louder and louder.
Now and then, a series of explosions were echoing. The glass walls of the skyscrapers were collapsing all of a sudden.
Deafening noises were even echoing from far away, probably the sound of the bridge, the arsenal, or the warehouse of crystals being sabotaged by the Puppet King.
The world was shaking, and everybody was panicking.
The roars of 'Titan' Yuan Kou temporarily suppressed the cries of thousands of citizens of Light that sounded like rabies, but they could not be suppressed for long.
"What should we do?"
The crystal cameras on Guan Qixing's iron mask were flashing crazily. "We still can't reach out to the other capture teams and the Blessed Army outside. Should we retreat?"
No matter how "furious" the citizens of Light City were, they were still normal people. With the strength of the Yakshas, if they really wanted to retreat, no one could stop them.
"No, we can't retreat. The ghost hunt is not over yet!"
Chu Zhixiao could not help but raise his head again. Staring at the line in midair that read 'Waking up from the dream', he gnashed his teeth. "The King of Puppets is trying to take advantage of the chaos to escape. Although the entire Well Sector has been blocked by us, who knows what new accidents will happen if he escapes from Eternal Light?
"Since we have already confronted him head-on, there is no reason for us to run away. We have to keep him occupied until the troops outside come up with a solution!"
"But …"
Guan Qixing anxiously said, "The environment outside is so chaotic. We don't even know where the Puppet Monarch is hiding, so how can we hold him back?"
"Don't worry."
Chu Zhixiao snorted. "There's no need for us to look for the Puppet King. He'll come to us himself!"
BOOM!
A deafening sound rang out. It was the sound of the Sail Academy's main gate being destroyed.
"Let's go. We can't stay here any longer. Let's evacuate now!"
Chu Zhixiao said, "The citizens of Light City outside are very troublesome. Their combat ability is not a problem, but they have all turned into terrifying sources of infection. There's no telling whether or not there are more dreadful viruses in their heads, or if they are directly controlled by the Puppet King as a springboard to invade our brains! Red Pig, search the map of Light City and find the most suitable hiding place. The rest of you, stay alert and watch out for the Puppet King's illusions!
When they left the crystal processor center, they saw thousands of citizens of Light City surging at them like an overwhelming flood.
At this moment, the entire Light City had turned from an ocean of celebration half an hour ago into a turbulent swirl of blood.
Stimulated by the 'Fury Virus', the previously fair and fat citizens even had physiological mutations. They turned into rampaging rhinos, hippopotamuses, and wild boars.
Under the bewilderment and guidance of the Puppet King, they swarmed up and searched for the traces of the capture teams. Once they found them, thousands of people would surround them and punch, kick, and even bite them fearlessly. However strong the Purgers and Cleaners were, there was only death for them when they were faced with such crazy torrents.
Besides, there were also illusions and viruses.
Even if a special agent of the Blessed Army had a combat ability comparable to that of the Core Formation Stage Cultivators and could easily fight his way out of the crazy civilians, when the King of Puppets took the opportunity to invade his brain and make him see unbelievable illusions or even strangle his soul directly, he could only wait to be captured and be killed.
Very soon, quite a few capture teams were annihilated and became victims of the fury of the citizens of Light City.
Some of the Purgers and Cleaners were even turned into the puppets of the 'Fury Virus' after their brain defense line was breached by the Puppet King. Their eyes were bloodshot at first, but then the bloodshot veins all collapsed. They lost their rationality and loyalty and turned into the most dangerous animals that bit their companions mercilessly, turning more of their companions into their own kind.
The yakshas fought and retreated. The four members and Li Yao's spider tank were soon dispersed by the overwhelming crowd.
"It seems that the 'Fury Virus' is the Puppet King's most precious treasure!"
The mental devil shouted. "To be able to improve the combat ability of ordinary people to such a high level with intense fury and desire for slaughter in such a short time is truly incredible and marvelous! However, why do I feel that such a way of stimulation is very familiar? "
"Isn't this exactly what you did?"
Li Yao shrieked. "It's exactly what the Blood Stripe Virus used to infect people and spread them. It's exactly what Yan Xibei did on Iron Plateau years ago!"
"Yes. That's obviously my best skill. Why is the Puppet King capable of it, too? He even seems to have improved it a lot. Is it possible to stimulate with brainwaves without blood as the medium?"
The mental devil was slightly dazed. Then, it cursed, "I know it now. He must've learned it secretly when we had a fierce battle with Lu Qingchen in the mental space on 'Black Swirl' when our souls collided brutally and communicated with each other deeply in a head-on … head-on battle!
"Do you still remember that we absorbed tremendous negative emotions of darkness, blood, and cruelty from Lu Qingchen's soul in the battle? Those things were of great benefit to my training in the future. I didn't know that when we absorbed his essence, he also absorbed a lot of our essence in secret and even refined it into crystals that were even more powerful. The guy is truly a f * cking genius!"
"Why do you feel that the battle was weird when you put it that way?"
Li Yao shouted. "Forget it. Since his' Fury Virus' is based on the infection pattern of the Blood Stripe Virus, can we track down the guy's hiding place?"
"It will be very difficult. The guy has modified the secret arts of the Blood Stripe Virus beyond recognition, and he hides them very well. Besides, we cannot expose our identity now. We must not be discovered by him or the people of the Holy League. Time. I need time!"
The mental devil paused for a moment. Then, its voice suddenly grew louder. "Wait. Where is Chu Zhixiao?"
Hasty ripples spread out of Li Yao's soul.
It was not until this moment that he realized that he had been separated from the rest of the team.
Or rather, the 'four plus one' members of the yaksha squad had all been dispersed by the surging and burning crowd.
Thankfully, Li Yao seemed to be just a common spider tank. He had also painted two big, watery eyes on the back of the tank, which couldn't have been more adorable.
Even the Puppet King did not consider him a big deal. He was not on the 'hunting list'.
Therefore, most of the citizens of Light did not even bother to look at him. As long as he crawled down with his head in his hands, the crowd would simply pass by him and move on to more valuable targets.
However, Chu Zhixiao's roar, Yuan Kou's roar, and Guan Qixing's crazily spreading information streams suggested that they were not in a good situation.
Stealthily and stealthily, Li Yao crawled to where Chu Zhixiao was shrieking. Very soon, he found the wrist crystal processor that Chu Zhixiao had dropped on the ground and been stomped into pieces.
Under the suppression of the Puppet King, the wrist crystal processor was already useless and could be hacked at any moment. It would only be a burden.
Li Yao quickly scanned the map of the city nearby, from the skyscrapers to the underground tubes. He found three places where Chu Zhixiao was most likely to be hiding. Then, he observed the traces of Chu Zhixiao's brainwaves in the air and crawled toward one of them.
After throwing away the portable crystal processor, it was theoretically impossible for the Puppet King to lock onto Chu Zhixiao's location. The citizens of Light who had been infuriated did not have the best searching abilities. They gradually became fewer and fewer, mainly because they were all attracted by the roaring 'Titan' Yuan Kou.
Very soon, Li Yao found Chu Zhixiao deep inside a short building that was not yet completed.
But at this moment, Chu Zhixiao seemed to have been mired in a mysterious nightmare. He bulged his eyes in a daze, mumbled spells, and waved his dagger nonstop, attacking the invisible enemy in midair.
"Not good. Chu Zhixiao has been caught in an illusion!"
The mental devil's soul ripples suddenly accelerated. "The air nearby is filled with mysterious waves. They are the mental attacks of Lu Qingchen, the Puppet King. Chu Zhixiao has been stalled!"
It seemed to have discovered the existence of Li Yao, the spider tank.
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