Chapter 103: 101 Inspiration Control (Make-up Chapter)

101 Inspiration Control (Make-up Chapter)

Yu Lianyun and the others chose a farmhouse halfway up the mountain to stay in. The ancestors of this family must have been wealthy on the island, as it was one of the few houses with a surrounding wall and several buildings. One was a woodshed, next to which was a kitchen. The front door faced the main hall of the main house. On both sides of the main house were two bedrooms, and there was another bedroom directly opposite the kitchen door. Behind the main house was a small room, which seemed to be a storage room.

This farmhouse was relatively well-preserved and large enough, and its geographical location was convenient for escape. Of course, the most critical thing was the surrounding wall, which could provide some psychological comfort, even though everyone knew that those walls, which could barely stop a carriage, could not stop the attacks of those fish-man monsters.

Night had fallen, yet the sky seemed not to have changed at all. The eerie fog did not dissipate with time but instead grew thicker, and visibility in the island's environment became even lower. Operating in such extreme weather was extremely dangerous, not to mention that the group was already unfamiliar with the roads on the island. They could only stay in the farmhouse and quietly wait for the hope that would come after dawn.

The group discussed sleeping in the main house for the night, huddling together in one room and taking turns keeping watch. If anyone needed to use the restroom, two people had to accompany them, and another person had to be called to temporarily fill in.

As the team leader, Yu Lianyun set an example by taking the first half of the night. The first half of the night was not exactly peaceful, but at least it was quiet; nothing happened.

But when it reached the second half of the night and it was her turn to sleep, she found it hard to rest.

Yu Lianyun had a hazy nightmare, dreaming that one after another, glowing-eyed walking corpses were chasing her. They were cruel and bloodthirsty, moving at extreme speeds, crazily and greedily coveting her tender flesh, wanting to tear her flesh and blood apart and devour her soul.

She ran desperately in the darkness, only to see a huge shadow looming over her, and the shadow and the aura coming from behind were getting closer and closer to her.

Just as Yu Lianyun was about to collapse, a black hand reached out from the darkness and pulled her back to reality.

Yu Lianyun woke up from the dream with a start, drenched in cold sweat. She gasped for air with a pale face and looked down at the clock on her watch, discovering that she had only slept for an hour.

She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead but suddenly noticed that the space in front of her was empty; the Mysterious Investigator who was supposed to take over the watch for the second half of the night had vanished without a trace.

"How could this be..." Yu Lianyun frowned. Just as she was about to get up to see what was going on, she caught a glimpse of a few bright yellow lights faintly lit outside the frosted colored glass window.

Those glowing yellow dots made Yu Lianyun think of her nightmare just now, as if she were seeing the nightmare come true, with eerie creatures following her into reality.

"Everyone wake up." Yu Lianyun woke her sleeping companions, claiming that an emergency had occurred and telling them to get up as soon as possible to check it out with her.

The awakened Mysterious Investigators also saw the mysterious lights appearing outside the window, and everyone's heart instantly tightened.

They stood up together, tiptoed off the bed, and huddled to the window, trying to find a gap to peek through to see the situation outside.

Could it be the fish-men? Were those their abnormal eyes?

Such dense "yellow lights" meant that there was likely more than one fish-man outside. Those eerie creatures living in the cold, deep sea had clearly surrounded them in groups.

Yu Lianyun quietly pushed open a crack in the window and finally managed to catch a glimpse of the situation outside.

At this moment, it was already a sea of thick fog outside, but within the mist, countless yellow flashes were revealed. Strange, low growls rose and fell within the fog, connecting into a line and encircling them.

Without a doubt, those yellow flashes were the eyes of the fish-men hiding under the fog and in the darkness. They had surrounded this place, eyeing them like fat meat about to be eaten.

Facing these shadows hidden in the thick fog, the Mysterious Investigators only felt a chill and fear erupting from the tops of their heads, their reason wanting to flee their fragile bodies that could no longer bear the pain.

The missing teammate on watch might have already been unable to bear this desperate situation before them; he had lost a shoe at the door and embraced this fog, which hid endless dangers, with madness.

But judging from the direction of the toe of the black shoe dropped at the door, it was more likely that he had been dragged out of the room without being able to make a sound.

But regardless of which it was, everyone knew that the poor Mysterious Investigator was already in grave danger.

"What should we do?" The Mysterious Investigators felt at a loss, only able to look to Yu Lianyun, their backbone, to provide a path to survival.

Yu Lianyun's heart was not exactly calm either, but she still tried her best to keep a cool head. She adjusted her breathing and settled her mind.

In the two years since the Collapse Night in Cuizhu City, as her former teammates left her one by one, Yu Lianyun had been forced to grow through mission after mission. The promise He Jia'an made to her when she joined the Xuanmi Group—that he "would teach her to control her overly sensitive inspiration"—had been fulfilled. Today, she could indeed freely control her developed Inspiration Antenna and had learned to utilize it, which was also the condition and capital for her promotion to Twelve Branches team leader and S-Class Agent.

So-called inspiration does not merely contain the sixth sense, but all "super-perception" beyond the basic five human senses. The sixth sense, or Heart Sense, is equivalent to the introductory foundation of inspiration.

Everyone possesses inspiration, but for most people, it only becomes sensitive during intense, nervous emotions. Those with the talent for inspiration are "abnormal" individuals who possess more sensitive perception than ordinary people in a normal state, without training and relying only on innate intuition.

Take a masterpiece painting and share it with three types of people to appreciate: an ordinary person would say, "Holy crap, that's damn good"; someone trained in painting skills would slowly see the painter's fine brushwork and where the errors are from the picture, slowly inferring and pondering the painter's intent from the details; while someone with extremely high inspiration can directly perceive the painter's state of mind and emotions at the time from the composition, such as the colors and lines of the painting. They might not be able to describe it accurately, but they will certainly be able to empathize.

People with high inspiration seem to possess a certain trait that attracts Abnormal creatures. In the eyes of some Abnormal creatures, they are incomparably delicious; to humans, they are harbingers of disaster and outcasts.

Yu Lianyun had also once felt that the disintegration of the Tiger Team was inseparable from her own abilities; it was her special constitution that brought disaster to others. Therefore, she studied the control of her special abilities quite diligently, and her efforts were worthy of her talent.

Inspiration control, which might take others ten years to barely master, took her less than two years.

"I didn't expect that even if I restrained my inspiration, I still couldn't escape my miserable fate?" Yu Lianyun sighed in her heart. Through the Idea Control Method, she imagined her inspiration as a triangular magic cube, twisting the cube to unlock the seal and slowly releasing her inspiration ability.