Swallowed Star: The Lone Bamboo Does Not Stand
Chapter 172

Illusion

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Just when many people are turning their attention to Peak Powerhouse Tournament, He Meng is still struggling among Labyrinth.

That dark and quiet little room was an extremely orthodox little black room.

For He Meng, this kind of completely airtight little dark room is exactly what makes him a little crazy.

I originally thought that I should have found the right direction, but I didn't expect that the final result would be like this. This made He Meng have to start to doubt whether I had guessed correctly.

However, since Labyrinth has changed, it definitely means that Labyrinth has entered the second stage.

In the process of He Meng's constant knocking, the small black room became smaller and smaller. When He Meng noticed, the size of the entire small black room had become less than ten square meters.

Therefore, He Meng gave up this random search, sat cross-legged, looked at the whole room again, and began to sort out everything he had experienced since entering Labyrinth.

At first, I had the idea of coming here to watch this Labyrinth, and to feel what my fears were.

Then, after entering Labyrinth, I didn't think too much about anything. I just entered Labyrinth and looked around, guarding against the things I feared coming out.

After that, I just kept walking forward in a hazy manner without any goals. At this time, I actually started to fall into fear.

In the end, I was shrouded in fear, and with the advance understanding of the nature of Labyrinth, I was ready to face my fear, and then I came here.

Fear, according to my own reasoning, I must resolve the fear in my heart before I can pass Labyrinth, but how can I resolve the fear?

He Meng didn't understand. He initially thought that when he was ready to face his fear and did so, he had solved his fear.

However, how can people's fears and things they want to escape be truly faced so easily?

He Meng thinks that facing it head-on is just because he wants to get rid of this fear quickly.

True confrontation should be acceptance.

Jiang Zhicheng One thing that has not been mentioned before is that when he encountered something he was afraid of, he first ran away, but later when he knew that he could not escape, he slowly gave up, became numb, and let it go.

It was in this state that Jiang Zhicheng reached the finish line.

But He Meng obviously didn't realize this yet, and the despair in his heart began to spread at this moment.

He began to deny himself, and began to feel that his previous decision to turn back was wrong, and that the intelligence he had always relied on and thought he was all false.

He Meng began to cry after a long absence, and tears continued to fall from the corners of He Meng's eyes.

He kept wiping, but the cuffs became wetter as he wiped them, and the tears showed no sign of stopping.

From this moment on, he didn't want to do anything or think about anything, and the aura of despair began to fill the entire dark room.

The locator on He Meng's hand also began to issue warnings at this time. At this moment, He Meng's condition had reached the level of notifying the staff to come for rescue.

Inside the entrance of Labyrinth, everything was in full swing.

"There is something unusual about Explorer No. 17, please be prepared for first aid."

"There is something unusual about Explorer No. 17, please be prepared for first aid."

"There is something unusual about Explorer No. 17, please be prepared for first aid."

But despite the sirens, no staff members came nearby to observe the situation.

After three minutes passed, a staff member wearing a white coat made a routine inspection and came to the large equipment that sounded the alarm.

Above the equipment, there is a huge glass jar, and a figure is sitting cross-legged in it. The whole person is trembling slightly, but the frequency of the trembling is constantly slowing down.

On the instrument below the glass jar, a red light flashed, indicating that the person in the glass jar was abnormal and had signs of collapse.

The staff member looked at the flashing red light and was a little worried, which meant that everyone heard the alarm when it went off.

But fortunately, the fluctuations in the device displaying the explorer's heart rate were moving in the normal direction.

In fact, usually they would not miss this alarm, but this happens to be at the beginning of Peak Powerhouse Tournament. Many people in this Labyrinth are Psychic Master of Planetary Level. They have all logged in to Virtual Universe to watch Peak Powerhouse Tournament. Only those staff who are not Planetary Level are left to do routine inspections.

When these people conduct routine inspections, they do not pay attention to every piece of equipment all the time. Instead, they check it every once in a while. During this period, they are also discussing some information about Peak Powerhouse Tournament that the Planetary Level people have revealed before.

As a result, flaws in the work appeared.

The staff member immediately contacted other people staying in the room and asked them to be prepared to rescue Explorer No. 17 at any time.

However, not long after, the red light stopped flashing and jumped back to the green light. Then, the green light showing that the test had been passed came on.

This made all the staff surrounding the equipment breathe a sigh of relief.

"Okay, okay, stop hanging around, quickly connect this device back to the entrance, and let him go out."

However, before the device was connected to the entrance, the figure in the glass jar opened his eyes and looked around suspiciously.

This scene made the staff very upset. This situation only occurs once every five or six years. Although there are emergency plans to deal with it, it is still a trouble.

The staff member who was operating the equipment pressed a button, and one side of the glass jar opened directly, allowing the person inside to come out.

This is exactly He Meng.

He had indeed fallen into deep despair, but deep down in his heart, he didn't understand why this place was changing so quickly.

This was just built when Fifth Speaker East was Planetary Level. There should be nothing unnatural about it.

Moreover, how did their method of targeting mental vulnerabilities come about?

All these doubts were still hidden in He Meng's heart. When he gave up everything due to despair and began to accept this quiet and claustrophobic place, he noticed something.

East, the first Psychic Master in the early Blue Star, is also proficient in the Controller lineage, but this does not mean that he does not know this direction of illusion.

Everyone encounters different things, and they are all things they are afraid of. Before, he thought that through analysis, in the end Labyrinth showed those projections or performances, actual projection of monsters, etc. to operate. Although he considered illusion, because Jiang Zhicheng said it could touch and cause real damage, he finally rejected it.

Now it seems that illusion is very possible.

Therefore, He Meng began to work hard to control himself to wake up, wanting to see where he was.

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