Chapter 388 Breaking the Situation

This sudden change caused the expressions of everyone present to shift slightly.

Especially the girls from Bai Yan, who seemed completely unprepared for this situation. After all, they hadn’t sensed that so many monsters were lurking around when they arrived.

Moreover, the unexpected appearance of people from Eden was also beyond their expectations.

“It’s an illusion array,” Xia Xinyan suddenly spoke up. “They must have intentionally lured us here; this is a trap.”

The entire street had been set up as an illusion array. Once they entered this area, it would be difficult to get out—unless they knocked out the controller of the illusion array.

The monsters that suddenly appeared around them should be the henchmen placed here in advance by the parties behind this.

“Humph,” the flashy guy sneered. “Not bad with the eyes, but too bad, you’re all going to die!”

As his words fell, all the surrounding monsters suddenly charged forward. Bai Yan and the others took the lead and began to engage with those monsters. Xiaobai also started summoning her beast-eared army to help under Monica’s instructions. However, other than that, Xia Xinyan and the others didn’t move.

Although there were quite a few monsters, their strength was not high, and they posed even less of a threat than the flying black infectors they encountered earlier. Thus, as long as Bai Yan and Xiaobai took action, they could hold them off for a while.

Ling Mo exchanged glances with the flashy guy for a moment and then suddenly asked, “I’m a bit curious. What’s your purpose in attacking this city? Wipe out the major powers here? Aren’t you afraid they’ll come back for revenge?”

“Heh,” the flashy guy sneered again. “Trying to fish for information, huh?”

Ling Mo remained silent.

Tch, quite smart.

“Fine, since you all are going to die anyway, I’ll let you die knowing the truth.” The flashy guy seemed to have confirmed his complete control over the situation. Watching Bai Yan and the others being firmly suppressed by the infectors, he couldn’t help but enjoy it. “No one can stop the evolution of humanity! Those who refuse will die. Only when the old humans are completely wiped out can humanity fully evolve, and this city is our first step. You should consider yourselves lucky; your deaths will be the greatest contribution to the evolution of humanity!”

“Damn, so this invasion really was you guys stirring up trouble!” the fatty couldn’t hold back his anger and shouted, “Aren’t you afraid of dying?! The Ability Bureau is hunting you down everywhere, and you guys still dare to come out? Don’t you fear not making it back alive?!”

“The Ability Bureau? Just a bunch of useless trash!” the flashy guy shouted loudly. “What do they represent?! A foolish and decaying existence! They should be destroyed! The future belongs to the new humans! To our leader!”

“Well, that’s not a certainty, is it?” Xia Xinyan casually remarked, glancing at the battle around them. “Didn’t you just imply that someone has chosen to ally with you? I assume this incident was orchestrated by them? Just your group alone couldn’t create such a commotion—what if your allies stab you in the back?”

One could easily deduce that Eden had been chased like a dog after the last village incident, and that leader probably wasn’t all that strong. From what this flashy guy said, that person was most likely the boss of Eden, indicating that Eden was just a ragtag group of lunatics who came together, not to mention they had been heavily pursued by the Ability Bureau recently—they couldn’t possibly stir up such a big event under these circumstances.

In other words, if they could truly pull off something this grand, they wouldn’t have been so easily routed during the previous village incident.

However, her words infuriated the flashy guy, who immediately roared, “They dare?! Just a bunch of ignorant fools! How dare they stab Eden in the back?! Heh… Let me tell you, they’re just tools for Eden! What major powers or influences do they represent? They’re just like dogs, doing whatever we say!”

Xia Xinyan raised an eyebrow slightly.

Which major power could it be, really?

It seemed the flashy guy realized he had talked too much and his expression darkened. “You’ve chatted enough; now it’s time for you to die!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sky suddenly turned a deep blood-red, spreading across the entire celestial dome within seconds, casting the city below in its crimson glow.

At the same time, a massive number of red “blood people” appeared from the blood-red clouds, plummeting down like zombies, smashing into the surrounding streets, and then slowly rising to encircle the crowd in the center.

Seeing this, the flashy guy became even more excited: “Quick! Kill them! Kill them!”

“Don’t panic; this is an illusion,” Xia Xinyan murmured. “The illusion array is a mental attack method; if you don’t believe it, it doesn’t exist.”

It was a powerful mental-type ability, and as fellow mental ability users, they often could see through the illusion’s authenticity at a glance.

However, understanding it is one thing; getting everyone to believe it is another. With monsters crawling toward them from all directions, it’s likely that very few could convince themselves that it was all fake.

It’s like watching a horror movie—you know it’s fake, yet you still get scared.

And if one believes these things are real… then they would indeed manifest and could genuinely attack people.

If things continued like this, the girls probably wouldn’t last long either.

It was a pity; she wanted to ask more.

At this moment, Bai Yan had also retreated to Xia Xinyan’s side, confidently stating, “You have a way to break this situation, right?”

Ling Mo glanced at Xia Xinyan.

Xia Xinyan nodded slightly. “Yes.”

Breaking the situation clearly focused on that flashy guy on the roof. With their normal strength, getting to the roof would be quite easy. However, there were other presences intertwined with the illusion array that formed a blockade against the street, effectively sealing them inside the jar, with the flashy guy standing outside of it.

Earlier during the skirmish, Bai Yan had attempted to rush up but was blocked in mid-air by an invisible barrier, all upward attacks were also thwarted. Though perhaps more violent breakthrough tactics could break the barrier, they could just as easily harm their allies, which was why she had held off until now.

Based on what she knew, Xia Xinyan and her group weren’t the kind of people who would sit idle; they definitely had a way out.

And she was correct.

After Xia Xinyan gave her answer, on the rooftop, the flashy guy who had been eagerly anticipating their deaths to relish in his revenge suddenly found someone gripping his neck from behind and then slammed him to the ground.

As the world spun around him, he finally saw the figures behind him—

The Chicks, who should have been below, without exception, had all gathered on the rooftop.