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Chapter 341 - 313 Deprivation

Chapter 341: Chapter 313 Deprivation

Humans are creatures that rely heavily on sensory correction.

In "Ghost Lantern," there’s a classic case of a person losing their sense of direction in the dark, thinking they’re walking in a straight line but actually going in circles.

Similarly, if you take a piece of A4 paper and write an essay on it while blindfolded, you might think the writing is neat, but in reality, it will be crooked and jumbled.

After losing all senses, including the sense of pain, Li Cheng used his consciousness to issue movement commands to his limbs with minimal motion.

He slowly and steadily moved his arm, reaching for the Victory Flag Spear tied to his waist, while constantly releasing his thoughts in his mind, trying to activate the second special effect of the spear.

[Special Effect 2: Flag Planting Moment. Insert the spear into the ground to summon a flag, creating a five-meter diameter area that quickly clears all negative effects within it for 5 minutes.]

Buzz!

All senses surged back like a tide; hearing and vision suddenly returned. Li Cheng’s vision cleared, and he saw himself still leaning against the wall, grasping the spear planted in the ground, with a five-meter diameter golden-red halo underfoot.

As for the other players, they were all like him a moment ago, with vacant expressions, not reacting to the external world, and flailing their limbs aimlessly.

Especially Zhao Zijing, whose telekinesis was raging wildly, tearing up the floor, and destroying the walls, sending metal debris flying everywhere.

Bai Jixiong was also slashed several times by the flying metal shards.

Just as Li Cheng was about to pull Zhao Zijing into the halo, his vision abruptly darkened again.

The vision he’d just regained vanished once more, as if a curtain of darkness had fallen over his eyes.

?

Something’s not right. Steel and Victory Flag Spear is a perfect quality weapon, its mystery and priority should easily break common illusions, hallucinations, and spiritual controls.

Why is this happening?

Li Cheng activated the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method and quickly thought. Before his vision completely disappeared, he did two last things—

From the three-dimensional warehouse, he took out four muscle relaxants and threw them at the necks of Bai Jixiong, Zhao Zijing, Talisman Nail, and Hyena, causing their muscles to become paralyzed and preventing them from harming themselves or others.

Then he took out five oxygen masks that could force unconscious patients to breathe and put them on everyone, including himself.

All of this happened within a few seconds. By the time Li Cheng put on his own oxygen mask, his eyes had completely plunged into darkness, and all senses were deprived again.

"Tsk, here we go again."

Having experienced it once, the second time was much easier. Li Cheng slowly sat down against the wall, thinking rapidly in the absolute darkness.

"Let’s sort out the clues first. This sensory deprivation, whether it’s a power, spell, or barrier, shouldn’t be the handiwork of the Three Heads and Six Arms mutated monster. Otherwise, it would’ve used it from the start.

Also, when we first entered the embryo cold storage room, Bai Jixiong didn’t mention the perfume scent getting stronger, indirectly proving ’Nezha’ wasn’t hiding here, only passed by.

Just like in the hydroponic room, ’Nezha’ led us to the territory of other mutated monsters."

Generally speaking, if a normal person knew they were in the same room as a mutated monster, had all their senses deprived, and were utterly defenseless, they would be in a panic.

But Li Cheng was the oddball who could bathe with the Death Curse Torrent whenever he had nothing better to do. With constant exposure to eerie, terrifying hallucinations, he had become desensitized.

"The corpses lying on the ground are still relatively intact, with no obvious signs of predation. There are two possibilities.

One, the mutated monster lurking near the room doesn’t want to eat humans and is naturally endowed with a sensory deprivation halo talent.

Two, the monster does want to eat humans but is physically weak and very afraid of death, so as long as one player can move, it won’t easily make a move. The second possibility seems more likely."

Li Cheng thought to himself that even mutated monsters must follow evolutionary laws.

In nature, predators with strong bodies don’t need to evolve venom glands, silk sacs, or other unusual skills. Those with poison are usually the physically weak ones.

Similarly, a mutated monster with such exaggerated sensory deprivation abilities probably doesn’t have a strong body.

"The removal of negative effects by Steel and Victory Flag Spear working temporarily and then failing is also strange. The fact it worked means the system recognized sensory deprivation as a negative effect, so why did it fail so quickly? Could it be..."

He thought of something and quickly opened the player panel to study the data closely.

Spiritual Power Value, Physical Value, and Sanity Value were all recovering slightly faster than usual.

Sure enough.

A little version of Li Cheng in his mind sat in the endless darkness, pounding his hand.

The loss of one sense makes other senses sharper. In the absence of all five senses, the player could recover more quickly, bypassing the Victory Flag Spear’s rules restriction—

The spear, lacking self-awareness, probably thought Li Cheng was meditating or something.

If the spear could talk, it might even say, "Master, your meditation is awesome."

"Alright, that makes sense. The problem is, how to break the current situation."

The little Li Cheng in his mind scratched his head like Ikkyu-san. With the information "the mutated monster’s body is weak," the optimal solution was clearly to control his body and randomly attack around to scare off the mutated monster.

But with senses deprived, controlling his limbs became particularly difficult. Staying still was manageable, but using a weapon could harm his teammates or himself.

As time passed, the oxygen tanks had limited capacity,

and the unknown and unseen mutated monster, hanging like the Sword of Damocles, could strike at any moment.

"...Guess I have to use that method."

The little Li Cheng in his mind took a deep breath, ordered his body by thought, summoned the automated three-dimensional warehouse, and took out a variety of painkillers.

Dizoxin, Aspirin, Rotundine, Dolantin, Codeine...

Unable to see and lacking touch, Li Cheng didn’t bother opening the medicine containers, directly activating the Assembly Puppet Effect, connecting all the drug containers to his abdominal cavity.

The pills merged into his body, quickly taking effect. Li Cheng opened the backpack, drew out the Liangyi Blade, and slashed heavily towards what he estimated was his own position.

[Special Effect 2: Yin Yang Transformation. After use, temporarily let one power within the body take over, maintaining the body without collapsing for a short time.]

In the past, when using the Liangyi Blade, he would let the Insect Lord Demon’s power sweep through his body, gaining extraordinary strength. This time, he would do the opposite.

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