Walking Amid the Weird, She Was Happier Than the Weird Things (Two More Chapters)

Everyone drew in a sharp breath.

It was impossible to describe the feeling of being densely watched by smiling faces, each one hanging above their heads.

Their scalps tingled faintly, and a chill ran straight from the tops of their heads to the soles of their feet...

Looking at those things hanging in midair under the dim light, each resembling a bizarre human head, their vision even grew slightly muddled. Their ears filled with illusory, eerie laughter—giggles and cackles that stabbed into their minds like steel needles.

And it grew louder and louder, as if it were about to drown out their hearts.

Even Lu Xin grew slightly tense at that moment and slowly clenched his fists.

On the other side, the girl called Sisi stopped in her tracks, rolled her eyes upward, and looked above her.

Inside her down jacket, the clanging of metal objects colliding grew denser.

"Don't be nervous."

Just then, Dr. An suddenly spoke in a deep voice. The weight in her voice abruptly roused everyone.

"Whatever you just heard or saw was merely an illusion."

She explained in a low voice, "Places with especially dense mental radiation can easily cause sensory confusion."

"So whenever some suggestive cue appears, it becomes easier to trigger a corresponding illusion."

"For example, seeing patterns resembling smiling faces on these strange fruits makes it easy to hear all kinds of odd laughter..."

"But you only need to remember that all of this is an illusion..."

"..."

After hearing her reminder, everyone immediately felt a wave of clarity wash over them.

When they looked up again, they indeed found that those fruits, which resembled the upper halves of human corpses, were merely fruits.

They hung quietly in midair, occasionally swaying in the breeze.

There was no laughter, nor any