Enforcer Manual
Chapter 275: Your Deepest Fear_1

Chapter 275: Chapter 275: Your Deepest Fear_1

For Xinyue, what was supposed to take ten days or even a month to accomplish, her metamorphosis was completed in the blink of an eye in an irreversible manner.

She saw a crack, her vision piercing through the dark, chaotic world of flesh for the first time towards the outside, allowing her to see more clearly the two envoys who claimed to come from the Bug Swarm.

Their bodies were covered in metal, and they appeared more human than her kin.

What appeared before Song Lan and Lu Xiang were a pair of fiery red pupils.

After the cracks spread open, the eggshell flaked away bit by bit, and the outline of the Devourer slowly came into view before them.

Unlike the Devourer’s signature flesh and blood composition, what stood before them was cloaked in snow-white feathers, resembling a large bird akin to a Gryphon.

Song Lan, having witnessed the metamorphosis, was greatly shocked.

Could it be...

Devourers could also evolve into this kind of normal form?

The two Devourers he had encountered before, although different in form, both assimilated their surrounding environment into a state of flesh and blood tissue, giving off the impression from afar as if a biohazard virus was about to break out.

Whoa, little Devourer, take a look at her.

The Devourer parasitic on Lu Xiang’s exoskeleton seemed to sense Song Lan’s thoughts and peeked out with its eyes, observing Xinyue for quite some time, making a sharp critique like a judge, "Why do you look so strange, did something go wrong in your evolution process?"

It seems that Devourers have their unique aesthetic system.

Now, what would normally scare people enough to give them nightmares for days was an eyeball sharply criticizing Xinyue’s appearance for being problematic.

"You... what have you done?"

Xinyue opened her beak, yet what came out was an ethereal female voice, "With this change, it will surely sense the alteration here!"

"That’s exactly what I want—it previously requested us to find it, didn’t it?"

Song Lan said, "Let’s have you witness firsthand the strength of the Mechanical Insect Swarm’s latest technology—’Destroyer Warrior Type I’."

............

"It’s done, finally done!"

The members of the medical team awoke groggily from their sleep and the moment they opened their eyes, they were greeted with a sight they would never forget—the night sky was smiling at them.

It was a creepy smile.

They knew they had to immediately inform Doctor Oleg. This thought only lingered for a split second before the remnants of their sanity were devoured by terror and madness.

Eyes, mouths, ears, human organs...

These were the things they were most familiar with, and now they were presented before them in a chaotic manner. The gym had changed; it felt as though they were inside the belly of a gigantic creature, with blood paving their way forward.

The medical team members picked up their firearms and began following the trail of blood outward.

Soon, one of them was pleasantly surprised to discover a comrade in the darkness. He tried to call out, and the man walking ahead seemed to sense his cries. Then his neck turned in a grotesque 180-degree twist, revealing a face devoid of features except for a bloody hole.

"Monster... monster!"

The two individuals in the darkness shouted almost simultaneously, as if completely unable to hear each other, drawing their weapons to eliminate the beast nearby.

But before they could fire their weapons, a karate chop struck the back of their necks.

"You’re right, the medical team has gone mad, and Doctor Oleg is no exception."

After knocking out the last team member, Lu Xiang communicated the situation inside the gym to Song Lan via the walkie-talkie. She didn’t know what the medical team members had seen, but they indeed seemed intent on killing others in their panic a moment ago.

When she arrived, Doctor Oleg, as if possessed, was mumbling to himself as he approached his "Commander Type IV" exoskeleton armor, seemingly ready to blow up the gymnasium entirely.

However, this time, Song Lan’s voice did not come through the other end of the walkie-talkie.

According to their original plan, she was to stop the frenzied medical team, while Song Lan was to face the source of all this madness.

"Song Lan?"

She tentatively called out again, yet still received no response from the other side.

Soon, Lu Xiang discovered the reason for the communication breakdown.

The exoskeleton armor... was gone.

Without her noticing, she had somehow taken off the exoskeleton armor at some point, and the medical team members who had collapsed beside her had disappeared, replaced by a grinning mouth that was smiling at her.

The place she was in was not the gymnasium, but a world interwoven with black and white.

This world seemed to be made up of simple sketches, with the floor, walls, and ceiling all fashioned from purely dark matter.

Then, footsteps started approaching from a distance.

At the end of this corridor, whose destination was unknown, a black sketched head peeked out; it was as rudimentary as a child’s first drawing efforts, with features chaotically placed on the face.

The twisted black figure, as if having spotted its prey, revealed a spine-chilling smile similar to the one on the floor.

When the black figure charged towards her, fear ingrained in human instinct was stirred up, leaving only one thought in her mind.

Run.

But Lu Xiang didn’t take a step; she suppressed the thought and forced herself to stand still.

This was the ability that Song Lan had mentioned before.

He had suspected that what transformed Andrew into a zombie was caused by some sort of mental "virus."

Perhaps before Andrew "fell ill," he had seen a scene completely different from what Doctor Oleg and the others had, leading to the conclusion that was utterly contrary to those six lab results.

In the process of fleeing, the virus spread throughout his body, ultimately transforming him into one among the despairing zombies.

It was a rule about "belief."

No matter what they encountered within the hallucination, once their bodies and consciousness received the information of death in the hallucination, the same would happen to their real bodies.

So if she was killed by the twisted monster before her in the hallucination, she would also die in reality.

The twisted figure didn’t intend to give her time to think; it ran with great speed, covering most of the long corridor in mere seconds.

The first reaction of anyone who encountered such a monster would be to turn and run, while the few brave ones might think about how to annihilate the creature.

However, either option would only drag them deeper into the illusion.

In this world built of fear and hallucinations, even the "weapons" provided in the scene were "game props" furnished by the Ability User.

The shadowy figure was getting closer, almost upon her.

With the figure’s approach, the inexplicable fear in Lu Xiang’s heart became more and more prominent; this fear not only attributed an "undefeatable" setting to the twisted figure but also foreshadowed her end if caught.

The next moment, her hand suddenly reached towards a spot above her chest, grabbed at some nonexistent object, and after some sort of manipulation, she plunged the nonexistent object fiercely into her arm.

She watched the black shadow lunge at her, only to pass through her body.

As the inhibitor was injected, the crudely drawn world began to peel away at a visible rate.

The wall beside her was the corridor of the gymnasium; she was still standing in the same place, wearing the exoskeleton armor, and the medical team members were lying motionless at the spot where the mouth had appeared.

After removing the inhibitor, the metal armor of the exoskeleton re-covered her right arm.

Having done all this, Lu Xiang finally let out a long sigh and sat down against the wall.

She reconnected the communication, "Song Lan... the inhibitor is effective, your guess was right, the Psychic is not human, but a devourer."

However, on the other end of the communication, there was still no sound at all.

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