Chapter 919: Disease Bomb

The flesh and blood oozing yellow-green pus, accompanied by the sudden explosion, sprinkled like a sudden rain toward everyone in the surveillance room.

Franca didn't have time to use the "Ice Amulet," nor did she have time to grab Jenna and the others and hide into the makeup mirror in her hand. She could only face the explosion, which didn't have much power, and the flesh and viscous liquid that were obviously very dangerous.

Crack, crack, crack.

Under such circumstances, the three of them could only actively activate "Mirror Substitute," first being cracked by the shock wave, and then stained with sticky flesh and blood and yellow-green pus that was still wriggling.

Ludwig, who had also been manufactured a "Mirror Substitute" by the three "Witches," didn't use it himself but squatted down, hugged his body tightly, and reduced his "hit area" to the greatest extent.

In this process, he opened his mouth.

His mouth corners weren't restricted by anything, splitting all the way to the back of his head. His upper lip pushed his eyes, nose, forehead, and other parts to face the ceiling, while his lower lip was about to touch his chest.

Slap, slap, slap. The yellow-green flesh and blood mixed in the explosion windstorm rushed into Ludwig's huge mouth one after another, heading straight for his stomach.

Unfortunately, Ludwig, who was enjoying the buffet, only held on for two seconds before being forced to trigger "Mirror Substitute," cracking all over the ground.

This extremely eerie giant mouth shape of his seemed to have only an appearance and lacked sufficient strength, only having the Sequence 7 level.

The explosion windstorm subsided instantly, and the figures of Franca, Jenna, and the others were re-outlined in the surveillance room, which was stained with sticky flesh and blood and yellow-green pus everywhere.

As "Despair Witches," Franca and Jenna both intuitively believed that this place was already full of dangerous diseases and was rapidly infecting them.

Without hesitation, Franca raised her right hand, revealing the "Ice Amulet" held tightly in her palm.

This crystalline charm had already been remade by Lu Mian once and could currently use "Mirror Travel" four times.

Seeing Franca display the "Ice Amulet," Jenna and Anthony immediately approached her, grabbing her arms and sleeves. Ludwig hesitated for a moment before defecting to the vicious "Witch."

The next second, the figures of the four people virtualized and entered the makeup mirror held in Franca's other hand.

Franca didn't stop at all, taking her companions to travel to a metal decoration with mirror effects in the surveillance room.

Slap!

That makeup mirror fell to the ground because no one was holding it, shattering into fragments, and the corresponding area behind the mirror disintegrated.

And these fragments needed to wait for different times to become mirrors in a mystical sense again—without considering other factors, the larger the fragment and the better the mirror effect, the shorter the time to evolve the area behind it again. Conversely, the smaller the fragment, the more time it takes, and after a certain degree of smallness, there is even a risk of being unable to become a mirror with a complete mystical concept again.

After transferring to the inside of the mirror decoration, Franca guarded against a sudden attack by the resurrected female corpse while saying at a very fast speed:

"The 'Despair Witch' doesn't have the ability to make people half-dead and turn them into plague bombs...

"Could it be the 'Ageless Witch'?"

"It could also be that she received help from the 'Rose School of Thought' or possesses similar items." Jenna proposed another possibility based on her own feelings.

"Mushu Hospital doesn't just have the 'Mother Tree of Desire'?" Franca suddenly had an inspiration. "As a whole, the hospital should simultaneously possess the healing abilities related to the 'Great Mother,' the influence of the 'Mother Tree of Desire' on spirits, desires, corpses, and hospital urban legends, as well as the faith of the 'Rose School of Thought' or the 'Witch' pathway's control over diseases and pathogens!"

Franca said this without any modification while observing the situation in the surveillance room and trying to use the information transmission ability of the "Ice Amulet" in the mirror world to send simple information to a mirror on Lu Mian's body.

As long as Lu Mian hadn't left the Huafeng District where they were currently, he would definitely be able to receive it!

Jenna guarded against the direction of the illusory tunnel like a spiderweb, and Anthony deliberated and said:

"That resurrected female corpse was almost unaffected by 'Intimidation,' which makes me feel she is more like a dead person than a living person."

Franca's thoughts turned rapidly, and she instantly had two guesses:

"Is she a living corpse that was awakened, with the 'Mother Tree of Desire' believer manipulating her hiding nearby?

"Or, didn't we guess before that she might have an accomplice, suspected to be 'Loki'? Could it be that she is actually a marionette, and the 'Marionettist' manipulating her is hiding somewhere nearby?"

Franca had fought with "Loki" and had been in contact with secret agents of the Intis Bureau, so she wasn't unfamiliar with the style of "Marionettists."

"However, according to the information provided by the Major Arcana card holders, even for a normal 'Marionettist,' the distance to manipulate a marionette is only a little over a hundred meters. And now, their level is also suppressed to the Sequence 7 level. I think the limit distance between them and the marionette won't exceed forty meters. Before we came to the surveillance room, we confirmed the situation around us and there was no one..." Jenna raised an objection.

Speaking of this, she suddenly paused.

It wasn't that there was no one, there were actually two people!

Franca and Anthony also thought of where the problem lay and cast their gazes toward the front of the surveillance screen.

There was indeed someone within a fifty-meter range, and that was the two security guards!

One of the security guards had been made into a plague bomb and had already disintegrated into flesh and blood spreading diseases, but there was still one security guard sitting in his position, staring at the large screen with gray-white hidden in the depths of his pupils without moving!

Franca and Anthony's gazes fell on that security guard.

That security guard seemed to have sensed it and turned his body abruptly.

His clothes were already tattered, and his body was pitted and bumpy. Different areas of his face were either missing skin, had suffered abrasions, or his flesh was torn and festering with pus.

This was the "sequela" of being directly hit by the explosion of his other colleague.

The security guard, whose half face was almost unrecognizable, hooked the corners of his mouth under the flickering light of the surveillance screen, revealing an exaggerated, terrifying, and gloomy smile.

As his smile bloomed, his body expanded rapidly, turning into a human balloon just like his colleague.

Boom!

The balloon exploded, and countless sticky flesh and blood and yellow-green pus splashed onto the surface of the metal decoration where Franca and the others were hiding, smearing it into a mess, making it impossible for Franca and Anthony to see the situation outside clearly anymore.

"Let's change our position." Franca grasped the remaining time of the "Mirror Travel" effect and turned to say to Jenna and Ludwig.

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Inside the Mingyue Plaza formed by surveillance footage.

Lu Mian bent his waist and back, drew the "Sword of Courage," and rushed from outside the men's and women's restrooms toward the resurrected female corpse at the aisle entrance.

Behind him, on the washbasin mirror between the two restrooms, a female figure wearing a white dress and a loose bun suddenly emerged.

This was a projection manufactured by the "Despair Witch" with the help of a mirror!

Although it only possessed a bit of the main body's power, if it was just an assassination, it was still competent. It wanted to give Lu Mian a fatal blow from behind!

Almost at the same time, behind this female figure, another figure emerged.

That figure had black hair, a bright appearance, and a cold expression. It was none other than Lu Mian's feminized image.

This projection completed with the help of "Precision" instantly turned into a ball of black flames brewing extreme destruction in the quiet, completely wrapping the mirror projection of the resurrected female corpse, letting her be completely ignited amidst painful wails.

Stomp, stomp, stomp. Lu Mian, holding the "Sword of Courage," didn't stop at all and rushed toward the resurrected female corpse without looking back.

Just at this moment, in front of the resurrected female corpse, ice crystal long spears that were crystalline but sharp condensed one after another, just like a beautiful and clean hedgehog showing its sharp spikes.

Such a forest of ice spears couldn't be completed by a "Witch" at the Sequence 7 level. Only a Beyonder who had reached the "Despair Witch" level and had further control over frost, but was currently restricted to the Sequence 7 level, could do it. It was equivalent to the "Condense Ice Spear" in the frost control ability evolving into "Ice Spear Forest" at the Sequence 4 stage, and now the "Ice Spear Forest" could only exert the level of Sequence 7.

If Lu Mian didn't stop in time, he would crash into this forest of ice spears, be pierced through, and have multiple bloody holes poked in him.

At this time, Lu Mian's figure suddenly became blurry and distorted, just like a picture displayed with the help of electromagnetic signals suffering from strong interference.

From blurry and distorted to completely disappearing was only a matter of the blink of an eye. Lu Mian's body was quickly outlined behind the resurrected female corpse.

He swung the "Sword of Courage" diagonally, hacking toward the target's shoulder.

With a "thump," the "Sword of Courage" surface burned with crimson flames.

Boom, Lu Mian slashed the resurrected female corpse into two pieces with one sword, exploding into broken mirrors.

The resurrected female corpse, who used a substitute, didn't appear immediately, as if she had disappeared in the dark and unmanned fourth floor of the mall.

Lu Mian didn't have any change in expression and pressed the "Sword of Courage" downward.

Boom, boom, boom, fireballs of crimson flew out from the sword, covering this area indiscriminately, blowing down walls and igniting goods.

The crimson flame hell quickly pulled half a floor into the continuously rising high temperature.

Under such range-based indiscriminate attacks, the resurrected female corpse's figure was affected and forced out of the "stealth" state, appearing behind Lu Mian's side.

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In the surveillance room.

The resurrected female corpse who had fought with Franca and the others left the mirror object where she was hiding and appeared in the room stained with sticky flesh and blood and yellow-green pus everywhere.

She took advantage of the fact that this place was filled with various pathogens and decaying power, and Franca and the others would be infected quickly once they entered, and condensed an ice crystal long spear covered with white frost in her hand, stabbing it toward the surveillance screen that already had multiple dents and many flesh and blood and pus stains on the surface.

The power of those two "disease bombs" before wasn't strong, mainly focusing on spreading pathogens and decaying power, so they failed to directly destroy the large screen that had a certain distance from them.

Now, the resurrected female corpse wanted to destroy the surveillance screen herself, letting the corresponding otherworldly space disintegrate, letting the enemies fighting there and another "herself" fall into the turbulence together, and be torn into fragments!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 920 =====