No Road Ahead!

When Meng Chao and Lü Siya simultaneously realized they were still trapped within the illusion.

Their brainwaves shone like searchlights, exposing the crude and false nature of the world around them.

Unlike the excessively vivid, heavily painted first layer of illusion.

The second layer used rolling fog and black silhouettes to conceal far too many blurry details.

When people were in a state of panic, they could easily overlook the illusion's clumsiness. Instead, that very clumsiness, like something out of a horror film, made it even more hair-raising and robbed them of the ability to think.

At that moment, affected by each other's brainwaves, both of them calmed down, and naturally saw at a glance that flaws lay everywhere.

But it was useless for only the two of them to stay calm.

The vast majority of the exploration team members were still deeply trapped in the illusion, unable to pull themselves free. They still believed they were fighting an endless stream of undead creatures, as though they had fallen into an endlessly looping nightmare.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya called out several more times, but still could not wake them.

Neither did they dare use more extreme measures to forcibly awaken the exploration team members.

Their brains had been invaded and stimulated by the enemy, and were currently operating under an overload, in an extremely dangerous state.

Just as one could not casually wake a sleepwalker, especially someone sleepwalking through a nightmare, lest they be frightened into idiocy.

Forcibly awakening exploration team members who had fallen deep into the nightmare could also easily cause irreversible brain damage, making them suffer Cultivation Deviation and become muddleheaded cripples, or even Lost Ones with twisted minds.

The only way to break the illusion was still to attack the illusion-maker's true body.

"But we