Chapter 192: Falsehood.

Seeing the bronze Buddha slowly rising from the ground in front of him, Xiao Fen’s heart moved slightly. He pulled the rope at his waist again, but there was still no movement. In the blink of an eye, he made a judgment in his heart. Everything in front of him was likely an illusion.

However, Xiao Fen could not break free from this illusion for the time being. He clearly knew that everything in front of him was fake, but he did not know where to start to leave this illusion. Compared to scenarios like sleep paralysis, the illusion in front of him was more sophisticated.

However, compared to ordinary people, what Xiao Fen lacked the least was calmness and courage in the face of danger.

Watching the bronze Buddha about to rise completely from the ground, Xiao Fen did not retreat but advanced. He suddenly rushed forward and delivered a straight kick to the body of the bronze Buddha.

If you do not know where to go, then seek where you came from.

The illusion in front of him started from seeing this Buddha statue. Xiao Fen could not find a way to break free from the illusion, nor did he continue to think hard. Instead, he directly launched an attack at the source of the illusion. Even if he could not hit the target, he could at least find the reason for the appearance of this illusion. With a reason, deducing the method to break free from the illusion would naturally not be difficult.

Amidst the curling Black Mist, Xiao Fen’s kick had no effect. It seemed to have hit the target, but the distance between the bronze Buddha and Xiao Fen remained the same. The process of rising from the ground was also undisturbed.

Seeing this situation, Xiao Fen’s thoughts turned quickly, and he had a clue. The real effect of this illusion was not great. It just made him “feel that he had acted,” but he had not actually moved. In other words, as long as he moved his position, even a little, this illusion could be broken.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen suddenly struck the ground with a Qigong Skill. Although his hand was not under his control and would produce hallucinations, as long as his thinking was normal, the Qigong Skill would not be affected. Xiao Fen clearly remembered just now that the Staff in his right hand was facing the ground in front. If his body had not moved, the direction of this Staff would not have changed much.

With a bang, the Qigong hit the ground in front of Xiao Fen. The violent shock caused the ground to vibrate, and at the same time, made Xiao Fen’s body sway slightly.

With the shaking of his body, the scene in front of Xiao Fen suddenly changed. The Black Mist poison around him faded a lot. There was no bronze statue slowly rising in front either. At the same time, his whole body felt like it was pricked by thousands of needles. The severe pain made him unable to hold back a low hiss.

However, the text that reappeared before his eyes told him that the illusion just now did not last too long. A total of 5 seconds and 25 points of poison damage was still bearable for the current Xiao Fen. Apart from that, he did not suffer more effects.

He pulled the rope at his waist again. A huge pulling force suddenly came. Xiao Fen relaxed his body and let himself fly high like a kite. In an instant, he had fallen back into the pavilion.

“How was it?”

“Not too many problems. That bronze Buddha can cause hallucinations. The poison mist is quite afraid of flames. I just don’t know if it fears skill flames, or if ordinary flames also have an effect on the poison.”

“What do you think?”

“I must stay there for a long enough time, otherwise the mission cannot be triggered. The poison mist can be dispelled by my flame skills. It’s just that Buddha statue that can create illusions is very annoying. With such interference, I can’t concentrate on exploring the surrounding environment at all, let alone find the mission trigger point.”

“Then let’s go in together, the three of us. You know, the lady beside you belongs to the Hell Creature category. At a time like this, leaving her alone behind us would actually make me more worried.”

Xiao Fen nodded, turned his head, and asked the girl, “We are going to explore inside again. However, these miasmas have some effect on us. I wonder if you are willing to walk with us for a while. We don’t need you to fight against your kind. We just need you to help us reduce the poison a little.”

The girl smiled slightly and said, “ They are not my kind. They don’t acknowledge me, so why should I acknowledge them? Let’s go. I’ve sat in this pavilion long enough. I might as well go there and see what’s going on.”

Xiao Fen looked at the girl, and after a while asked, “If you wanted to go see, why didn’t you go earlier or later? Why do you want to go now?”

“If you don’t come, I won’t go. If you come, I will go.”

Xiao Fen gave a bitter smile. He didn’t know what the girl was thinking. He stopped talking, turned back, and said to Lycaon in Chinese, “I’ll be in front, she’ll be in the middle, and you’ll be at the back, to prevent any problems from arising.”

Lycaon nodded, and his body suddenly shook. Soon, a layer of scales emerged on the surface of his body.

Different from last time, Lycaon did not use the triple armor combination, a skill combo with defense that could be called abnormal. Instead, he only strengthened the epidermal cells. Looking at Xiao Fen, Lycaon shrugged and said in English, “Using three skills to improve defense in turn, although the defense drops a lot, it can be maintained for a long time. For now, it basically guarantees a seamless transition.”

Xiao Fen looked at this guy whose face was covered with scales like a python shell, and then looked at his body without Bone Spur, and the clothes on the surface of his body basically intact. He smiled slightly and asked, “No clothes left?”

Lycaon paused and answered, “Compared to clothes, seamlessly enhanced defense is more important.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “Okay, okay, the pride of a poor man. I haven’t forgotten that for a long time. This time I will give you many, many keys, so you won’t have to scrimp and save just because you have no money to buy clothes.”

“Hey, Palin, what is ‘scrimp and save’? I’m not Grandet.”

“Of course, you aren’t Grandet. Grandet is much richer than you.”

While saying this, Xiao Fen walked down from the pavilion again. He had already created two Constitution Potions in his hand. He threw one tube to Lycaon and slapped the other tube hard on his body. The syringe constructed by the World Tree Energy completed the entire injection process within 1 second.

After that, Xiao Fen created another Strength Potion and injected it on himself. Looking at Lycaon’s somewhat eager eyes, Xiao Fen pointed to his own head and said, “Sorry, I only have so much Energy. I need to keep enough Energy to deal with possible events.”

“Oh, damn, this is the greatest unfairness. When we need to struggle hard for our clothes and Gene Potions, you Gene Ability Controllers enjoy them exclusively like children of noble families.”

Xiao Fen smiled and was about to speak when the corner of his eye suddenly twitched. He reached out and made a shushing sound in front of his mouth. After signaling Lycaon to keep quiet, he looked at the Black Mist poison in front of him, which had become somewhat transparent under the girl’s interference. He said in a low voice, “Not right.”

The girl reacted before Lycaon. She tugged the corner of Xiao Fen’s clothes hard and said, “It’s those bones. The bones were not like this before. This appearance looks like someone took them apart.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “I know. Not only are the bones abnormal, but these surrounding mounds of earth are also very different from before.”

“Could it be the Bagua Array?”

Hearing the girl ask this, Xiao Fen smiled reluctantly and asked, “How do you know about the Bagua Array?”

“In these two days, everyone in the courtyard was in a daze. I also took the time to look around in various study rooms. I vaguely saw something about the Bagua Array. It is very good for trapping. Looking at these mounds today, the stacking doesn’t seem messy. It looks like there is a specific purpose.”

Xiao Fen frowned. He had also read about the Bagua Array. Although he was half-believing before, combining it with the hallucination caused by the Buddha statue he saw earlier, he believed the Bagua Array theory a bit more.

The bad thing was that although he was in the Bagua Array just now, his body was tightly connected to the outside by a rope. Being pulled by Lycaon, he flew away through the air, so naturally, he did not see the abnormalities on the ground. Now that the three of them entered together and discovered the strange behavior of these mounds, it was already too late.

No one could pull them out from the outside anymore. Now, apart from relying on themselves, there was no other way.

Fortunately, having walked here, his body did not feel the miasma reducing his life. Obviously, the girl following them in was a good choice, although her motivation might not be so.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Fen vaguely had a feeling. If these mounds trapped them here, the target was most likely not just them, but also the Hell Creature under that Buddha statue. In other words, those Gravediggers who made these mounds didn’t seem to want to let the Hell Creature out so easily.

The Gravediggers wanted to move the bronze Buddha, not to let the Hell Creature rush out immediately. Instead, they wanted to use these mounds to make a weaker seal, which would erupt more easily at a designated time.

Therefore, not all the plugs would be blown open on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Xiao Fen and his group did not need to open all the plugs either. What they needed to do was to pull out the plugs at several important points to release the energy that had been accumulated for a long time, kill more Hell Creatures, and reduce the losses caused by the Tianjin Explosion as much as possible.

Conversely understanding this, the trigger point of the mission here was mostly related to the surrounding mounds and the two skeletons. If they could know why these two skeletons were buried above the bronze Buddha in this manner, they would likely find the mission trigger point.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen thought of another sentence.

Yggdrasil knows everything, but the truth needs to be dug out by oneself.

Digging?

That’s right, digging!

Xiao Fen found inspiration. These two corpses, the surrounding mounds, and even this bronze Buddha, as long as they continued to dig and destroy the surrounding environment, perhaps the real focus would slowly emerge.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen turned his head and said to Lycaon, “Don’t count on being able to leave here for now. We need to dig under our feet. This will help us find the target better.”

“Dig? With what? Our hands?”

Xiao Fen looked at Lycaon and asked, “Can’t you shape some digging tools?”

“Hey, listen. Precipitation Control is mainly used for armor shaping and weapon shaping. I haven’t activated the tool shaping Skill at all.”

Xiao Fen suddenly threw out a key and said, “Alright, now unlock the Skill Points, activate it immediately.”