Lord of Illusions City
Chapter 67 The Mastermind Behind the Anomaly?
Hearing Grey Bear's words, Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei exchanged a subconscious glance.
The direction Grey Bear was pointing wasn't towards the city. The city was straight ahead outside the window, which was the direction behind them.
"A summoning?"
Duan Lei looked at Li Chenzhou and asked.
Li Chenzhou didn't answer. He took out his phone, pulled up the map, and opened their current location. Duan Lei leaned over, looking at the map.
"This Wu Village should be where we are now. This direction is where Grey Bear wants to go!"
Li Chenzhou moved his finger on the map, then tapped on a spot and looked at Duan Lei.
"Hengyan Mountains?"
Duan Lei looked at where Li Chenzhou's finger was pointing and spoke.
After getting the map, they discovered that they were currently in Wu Village, on the southern edge of Qing City. This Wu Village was located at the foot of the Hengyan Mountains, only about a kilometer away from the mountains!
And the direction Grey Bear was pointing was precisely the Hengyan Mountains to the southeast. Therefore, Li Chenzhou determined that the mysterious summoning likely came from the Hengyan Mountains.
After all, it wasn't far from Wu Village, only about a kilometer. That corpse king could summon zombies within a radius of more than three kilometers around it, so this creature, which was probably even more powerful than the corpse king, had no reason to have a shorter summoning range.
Moreover, Li Chenzhou now roughly understood why he and Duan Lei hadn't felt this summoning. It wasn't that the summoning had stopped, but because their mental strength had both reached 40 points, which was the upper limit of mental strength that a Level 2 life form could achieve.
This kind of summoning definitely fell within the realm of mental strength. Because their mental strength was strong enough, they resisted this summoning.
But Grey Bear was still an ordinary person, not even an Enhancer. His mental strength wouldn't exceed ten points at most, so after waking up, he felt like he wanted to go in that direction.
This could also explain why no living things could be seen in Wu Village. Grey Bear was, after all, a policeman. Even he was affected by the summoning, let alone other villagers or zombies!
Seeing the solemn expressions on Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei's faces, Grey Bear also leaned in to look at the map on the phone, then looked at Li Chenzhou and frowned, asking:
"What exactly is going on? Why are we here? And what... what is that place?"
Only now did Grey Bear regain some of his "ten thousand whys" character.
"This is Wu Village. We've left the city!"
Li Chenzhou said, then pointed behind Grey Bear:
"Further south is the picking garden I mentioned, and the direction you just pointed is the Hengyan Mountains!"
"Why... why do I want to go there?"
Hearing Li Chenzhou's words, Grey Bear's eyes widened, and he felt a chill run down his spine.
He wasn't from Qing City, but from Qi City. He had never been to these Hengyan Mountains before. So what was this feeling of wanting to go there?
Moreover, Grey Bear knew that he had only seen Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei after waking up, which was why he hadn't followed the feeling in his heart. If he had been alone, he was sure that he would have gone to that damn mountain range at the first opportunity.
"We suspect that there's something there summoning all living things!"
Li Chenzhou looked at Grey Bear and explained, then patted Grey Bear, turned around, opened the window, climbed onto the roof, turned back, pulled Grey Bear up, and pointed at the surrounding buildings, saying:
"See? This village has nothing alive except for us. We can't even see a fly or mosquito! Xiao Lei and I suspect that all the living things here have the same feeling as you, so they've all left!"
"Then... then what is that thing?"
Li Chenzhou's words made Grey Bear gasp. He immediately turned his head to the southeast, towards the Hengyan Mountains, which looked quite majestic because they were so close.
"I don't know! If we want to be sure... we can only go and see!"
Li Chenzhou also looked at the mountains, muttering to himself.
"Sis! You're awake?"
Hearing Li Chenzhou's words, Grey Bear was about to speak when he suddenly heard Duan Lei's joyful shout from downstairs. Duan Xue had also woken up?
The two exchanged a glance, then turned and went downstairs together. When climbing up, Grey Bear needed Li Chenzhou's help, but when going down, he could easily do it himself.
Duan Xue had indeed woken up, and she wasn't in a state of alert like Grey Bear had been. She seemed a bit confused.
Duan Lei didn't care about anything else and grabbed Duan Xue's shoulders, asking her a few questions, then looked at Li Chenzhou—sure enough! Duan Xue also felt the summoning, and her feeling was quite strong!
However, Duan Xue and Grey Bear had different feelings. Grey Bear felt that the direction was where his captain and team were, so he wanted to go and join them as soon as possible.
But Duan Xue told Duan Lei that she felt that their parents were there, and they would be able to see them as soon as they went over.
Duan Lei and Duan Xue's parents had died long ago, so of course they couldn't be there. Even so, Duan Xue still told Duan Lei very seriously that they would be able to see their parents if they went over.
This made Duan Lei feel that the situation was serious. He grabbed Duan Xue's hand and turned to look at Li Chenzhou:
"Boss! What do we do?"
Hearing Duan Lei's question, Li Chenzhou suddenly smiled:
"The fact that you're asking me this means... you think we need to find out what this summoning is, right?"
"Yeah!"
Duan Lei nodded:
"But it might be dangerous over there because we don't know anything! We're not affected now, maybe because of the distance. What if we get too close..."
"Then we still have to go and see!"
Li Chenzhou said:
"If the other party is a powerful mutated beast or zombie, then we'll have to run into it sooner or later. But if it's really like you said, that thing is related to the changes in our world... then we should find out what the hell it is even more!"
"Then let's go and see! I'll go with you!"
Grey Bear said immediately.
"No! Only I can go!"
Li Chenzhou shook his head:
"You're already being affected here. If this feeling really gets stronger as the distance gets shorter, like Xiao Lei said, then you definitely won't be able to resist it!"
"Boss! How about..."
Duan Lei looked at Li Chenzhou.
"You can't go either!"
Before Duan Lei could finish speaking, Li Chenzhou interrupted him:
"They're both being affected. If you leave too, what if they can't resist it? Don't worry, I'll be careful, and... if it really gets stronger and stronger, then I'll retreat. I won't force myself!"
With that, Li Chenzhou jumped out the window, then jumped out of the courtyard wall and ran towards the Hengyan Mountains...