Chapter 24: Building Confidence

Just after walking out of the cold, damp, and dark, stifling corridor and reaching an open tomb chamber, Zhuge Zhan's group hadn't finished venting the stifling feeling in their hearts when they heard the mummy's roar, which startled them quite a bit. Because of psychological shadows, Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei both felt a little afraid, and faintly felt that the place where they were bitten by the mummy and had already healed started to ache faintly again. In fact, these were all psychological effects, because the fear left in their hearts by the previous events was too deep. Although after a period of relief they were no longer as afraid as before, earlier Zhuge Zhan, in order to let them get rid of the psychological fear as soon as possible, gave them a method, which was to hypnotize themselves. By hypnotizing themselves, and in the process of hypnotizing themselves, through the method of psychological suggestion, they constantly told themselves "I am not afraid." This could make their psychology produce a psychological illusion of not being afraid. At the same time, because they also wanted to forget or wanted to change their understanding or memory of this matter psychologically, through self-suggestion and self-deception, they could quickly change their original understanding or memory of this matter psychologically, so they could quickly get rid of a certain matter or memory. Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei both used this method to let themselves walk out of the fear of the mummy. But this method had a fatal flaw, which was that this method only created an illusion for themselves to believe in this illusion, and it was not what really happened. So only with a certain external factor stimulation, the hypnotized person would recall his true thoughts or memories in his heart. Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei were like this now. After hearing the mummy's roar, the illusion created in their hearts began to be shattered, and after seeing the mummy's ferocious face again, they all couldn't help but recall the incident of being bitten by the mummy earlier.

So, Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei felt the bitten place ache faintly after seeing the mummy appear, but in fact, their injuries had already been cured by Zhuge Yu with herbs during the previous rest.

"Everyone be careful, the mummy is here, don't be caught by it. Everyone knows the consequences of being caught by it. Everyone cheer up. Also, Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei, don't be afraid. We suffered losses before because we weren't prepared and didn't understand this mummy's ability. But now we basically understand its ability, and we have already unloaded one of its arms. At the same time, I can already exert the full power of that gauntlet. Our strength is increasing, while the mummy's strength is decreasing. We will definitely be able to kill it, so everyone don't be afraid." After seeing the mummy, Zhuge Zhan discovered that the people around him were a bit nervous because of the psychological shadows left by fighting this mummy before, especially Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei, who could already be described as fearful, so he reminded Zhuge Xun and the others.

*Boom*, "Everyone attack together." In order to let others attack the mummy together, Zhuge Zhan wanted to let others follow him to attack the mummy through the method of leading by example. At the same time, there was a faint feeling of coercion, because Zhuge Zhan had already gone up. If others didn't go up, the mummy wouldn't let them go, so they could only follow Zhuge Zhan to attack the mummy together.

"Right, everyone attack together." In the previous battle, Zhuge Hua, who hadn't suffered any injuries, was the first to follow Zhuge Zhan and rush toward the mummy, and at the same time, he shouted loudly to the remaining people, wanting everyone to attack the mummy together.

*Boom, boom, boom... * After Zhuge Hua followed Zhuge Zhan to attack the mummy, others followed one after another to attack the mummy, even Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei, who were still in fear earlier.

"You are all good." Zhuge Zhan looked back when running toward the mummy and saw that everyone had followed, and his heart was instantly settled. At the same time, he didn't treat the mummy vaguely, directly raising the mace he made with stones with both hands, and directly swung it toward the mummy's right shoulder, wanting to aggravate the mummy's injury on the previous injury. But how could the mummy let him succeed easily? Only seeing the mummy's remaining left fist immediately turned into the size of a football, and then directly toward the mace blasted by Zhuge Zhan, directly blasting Zhuge Zhan's mace away, falling about ten meters away. But Zhuge Zhan didn't show much panic; instead, the corners of his mouth curled up, as if mocking the mummy's attack this time.

After a *boom* sound, the one-armed mummy was blasted backward. But it still hadn't reacted to how it was blasted away, because after it blasted away Zhuge Zhan's mace, it saw the gauntlet that Zhuge Zhan had snatched from its hand covering Zhuge Zhan's left hand, so it thought Zhuge Zhan wanted to use the gauntlet's bonus to confront its left hand. And the mummy also knew that the gauntlet had a power boost, so it immediately activated the thing on its left hand, forming a shield to protect its front, and then it was blasted away.

*Boom*, but it hadn't had time to think carefully when it was suddenly heavily smashed on the head by someone with a stick. Yes, it was directly smashed to the ground while flying in the air, smashing a large pit on the ground. Because this was Zhuge Hua, who was following Zhuge Zhan, who had already chased up. He saw the mummy blasted toward his side by Zhuge Zhan, immediately stopped running, then stepped out with his left leg and left his right leg in place, forming the best attack posture for smashing, and saw the timing to heavily smash his mace onto the mummy's head, heavily smashing the mummy to the ground. This Zhuge Hua used a wooden stick before, but because he saw that the mace caused greater damage to the mummy during the previous battle, he also found a large stone and tied it to the front end of his wooden stick, forming the appearance of a mace. But this time he also changed the right weapon, now directly giving the mummy a heavy smash, and the damage to the mummy was definitely higher than the damage of the wooden stick.

"Good, I'm coming too." Seeing Zhuge Zhan and Zhuge Hua cooperate to smash the mummy to the ground, Zhuge Xiong also accelerated his speed and ran up, and when the mummy was struggling to stand up, he immediately raised his mace, and then drew a semi-circle from behind downward, like playing golf, heavily hitting the mummy that was about to stand up and blasting it away.

The mummy was blasted away rolling this time, and finally fell to the ground face down, and slid forward for a distance while rolling.

"See, the mummy now is no longer as powerful as before, we can completely defeat it."

"Mm, we can defeat it." "Right, we can defeat it." "Right, believe that Brother Zhuge Zhan will definitely be able to lead us to defeat it." Seeing the mummy being attacked continuously by Zhuge Zhan, Zhuge Hua, and Zhuge Xiong without any power to fight back, Zhuge Lang and the others, who were a bit afraid earlier, began to rebuild their confidence, and even Zhuge Xun and Zhuge Mei, who were in fear earlier, also built up their confidence. ===== CHAPTER 25 =====