Chapter 1235

The soft touch on his hand gradually calmed Ning Chen's slightly restless heart.

"Let's go up and take a look." In the blink of an eye, Ning Chen had already made his decision.

Ning Chen led the way up the stairs, holding Gu Yanqi's hand, while the two behind them followed like little shrimp, trailing after them.

The higher they went, the stronger that intense oppressive pressure became; Ning Chen unleashed his ability to explore the situation above.

It was silent up there, but in one great hall, a crowd of 'people' had gathered, and within it, there were also a few auras different from those 'people'.

Ning Chen intensified his exploration; from those distinct auras, he sensed Mu Xinruan.

Retracting his ability, Ning Chen briefly explained the situation above.

"If there is danger in a moment, Lin Yi, you must take everyone into your space."

At this moment, Ning Chen felt somewhat relieved; at least Lin Yi was here, and his space could guarantee everyone would not be threatened.

The few of them climbed slowly upward; Ning Chen formed hand seals with both hands, striking arrays one by one into their bodies. This was not the power of this world, but his original ability.

This array could isolate their human auras, allowing them to blend better with those unknown creatures; this was something Ning Chen had just thought of.

After being struck by this array, the few of them felt completely refreshed, and that oppressive pressure from before had vanished.

"What is this situation? Is that his ability?" Lin Xiaoling tugged on Lin Yi's arm, asking softly about the thing that had just entered their bodies.

Lin Yi naturally knew what was going on; he thought for a moment, then spoke: "Mm, yes."

Since the other party believed this was a superpower, that was even better; after all, he couldn't exactly tell her that this thing did not belong to this world.

Reaching the very top floor, Ning Chen, following the route he had just explored, led the few of them quickly to that hall.

The door was not closed; from here, it could be seen that the inside was teeming with a crowd, the number astonishing.

Lin Yi couldn't help swallowing hard; oh my, so many monsters! If they were discovered, wouldn't they be torn to pieces?!

Ning Chen led the few of them, slipping in through a side door; these creatures that were neither human nor ghost did not detect their arrival, presumably because Ning Chen's arrays had taken effect.

Once inside here, abilities could not be used lightly, or they would likely be detected by these things.

At this moment, these 'people' were all looking in one direction, the main stage of the entire auditorium; clearly, they were waiting for something.

Ning Chen led the few of them, moving slowly around the perimeter.

Since Mu Xinruan had been the last to run and catch up, she was currently at the very back on the other side.

The few of them moved quickly and stealthily; in no time, they reached Mu Xinruan's side. She still had a vacant expression, but fortunately, she had not turned into one of those monsters; she still had her own heartbeat. Her current state was likely due to some illusion clouding her mind.

Ning Chen reached out, formed hand seals, and struck them into Mu Xinruan's body. When he tried to reach out to move Mu Xinruan, his wrist was grabbed by someone.

Ning Chen instinctively wanted to counterattack, but the heavy smell of blood on the other person stopped his movement.

Following the direction of the hand, he saw a man whose clothes were mostly torn, with many wounds on his body and blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Behind him were four or five other injured men.

Since this place was a corner, Ning Chen had not detected it just now; perhaps, there was someone inside capable of blocking superpowers.

"What are you doing?"

"Who are you?"

The man's and Ning Chen's voices rang out simultaneously; the two looked at each other, neither yielding.

Hearing this voice, Lin Xiaoling, who was behind Lin Yi, immediately stepped out from behind Lin Yi and walked to the man's side: "Brother Mu? It's Xiaoling."

Seeing Lin Xiaoling, and then looking at Ning Chen, the man finally released his grip on Ning Chen's wrist.

Lin Xiaoling naturally saw the man's action; she hurriedly explained: "Brother Mu, these few people are from a new squad; they came this time to rescue you."

Ning Chen now understood; the man before him must be Mu Xinruan's brother.

The man nodded to Ning Chen: "Hello, my name is Mu Mu."

"Ning Chen."

After speaking those two words, Ning Chen looked at Mu Xinruan again and gave Lin Yi a signal with his eyes.

Lin Yi understood immediately, stepped forward, and struck Mu Xinruan with a hand chop, knocking her unconscious; he then put his arm around her shoulders and placed her in a corner.

Lin Xiaoling, standing nearby, also briefly recounted the process that had just happened below.

Ning Chen looked at Mu Mu and asked: "How did you end up here?"

Mu Mu gave a bitter smile and explained the situation: "After we entered this West District base, we always felt something was wrong with the people here, yet we couldn't sense any specific problem. Before leaving, I was not entirely at ease, so I brought some people to stay behind. Who knew this would be the beginning of a nightmare."

According to Mu Mu's description, they had been attacked by these 'people'; they were ferocious by nature and began attacking as soon as they sensed a human aura.

Fortunately, there was a superpower user in their squad capable of isolating auras, but it was only after they had suffered heavily that they discovered isolating auras was useful.

Afterwards, they fled to this place, originally planning to rest well and then charge out in one go; instead, they were trapped here and could not get out. With their current abilities, encountering even one strange 'person' would likely result in their total annihilation.

Ning Chen looked at the person lying unconscious nearby, who was still continuously releasing the aura-isolating ability; he then walked forward.

A faint white-gold light flickered on.

Ning Chen struggled to adjust the brightness of the light; finally, the light became extremely dim, at least appearing not so conspicuous in this darkness.

Light-element ability flowed into his body; the wounds gradually healed, and the unconscious person gradually regained consciousness.

The person who woke up looked at Ning Chen's unfamiliar face before him and was completely stunned.

Seeing his originally severely injured and unconscious teammate wake up, Mu Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ning Chen formed hand seals in his hands and struck them into the few of them, so that the superpower user would no longer need to continuously release his ability.

Afterwards, Ning Chen performed simple treatment on the other unconscious people and Mu Mu.

Basically, the external and internal injuries could be healed, but as for their broken bones, Ning Chen was still powerless.

He glanced at the time; only ten minutes remained until the scheduled gathering; they had to get out quickly and rendezvous with the others.