Deception
Sloth Exhaustion released a large amount of Plankton, seemingly preparing to escape, but unexpectedly, Bing Bing walked up directly, grabbed forward, and froze all the Plankton, thus wiping out the entire trio from the Countermeasure Bureau.
"Xiao Mi, is there still an energy signal from the Dark River?" Old Hu asked painfully. The side effects of the God's Blood were extremely powerful. In addition to the obvious mental torture that reduced his sanity, there were also various other less noticeable side effects. Even with Old Hu's willpower, it was still very difficult to bear.
"No similar signals were detected, so it seems to be frozen." Xiao Mi visibly breathed a sigh of relief, but then his eyes began to flicker, as if there was some danger around him. His bloodshot eyes blinked and scanned his surroundings.
"Transmit the information to the designated location," Old Hu instructed. Through contact, he had gleaned a considerable amount of information from the Shadow Assassin, including their identities as followers of the Evil God and the truth Mask Battle Royale.
People like Old Hu are too clever; they are skeptical of any information given to them by others. So no matter what Lu Li and the others say, Old Hu remains doubtful, constantly thinking about the loopholes and the plausibility of the information. Even if the script that Lu Li and the others fabricate is plausible enough, Old Hu will still have some doubts.
Such people only consider answers that they arrive at through their own thinking and effort to be correct, even if those answers may have flaws, they will automatically ignore them or use their imagination to fill in the gaps.
Previously, when Old Hu read the memories of the Plankton, although he learned that the true host of the mask was not Fu Bin, he also revealed that the Plankton and the mask were connected, and Lu Li discovered Old Hu's act of reading the memories.
So Lu Li set up this trap, constantly applying pressure to force the Countermeasure Bureau to reveal its trump card. The three people he sent out at the same time— the Shadow Assassin's memories had already been altered by Lu Li, the Sloth Plankton that Lu Li condensed also carried modified memories, and even the part of the black mist body that he condensed carried false memories from the beginning.
To deceive others, you must first deceive yourself. So, after several tests, Old Hu finally kept the information he believed to be correct and became completely convinced of it.
On one hand, Old Hu was already resentful about the descent of the Evil God, and subconsciously he hoped to truly prevent the descent of the Evil God. Therefore, he instinctively wanted to plan this as the descent of the Evil God. On the other hand, while he was confident in the information he had worked so hard to obtain, he also lost his rationality due to consuming the God's Blood and stopped thinking about the rationality of certain things.
On the distant riverbank, Lu Li held an umbrella as a light rain began to fall. A fist-sized wisp of Black Mist floated beside Lu Li, emitting a soft, gentle voice. "Are you sure everything's alright? I practically gave away all the black mist there this time. It needs to absorb the legendary elements, so it'll probably take quite a while to recover."
There are still many fun things to do in this world. If I get entangled with a national organization, I'll really have no choice but to live on the run. Currently, I'm the only player in the entire Leping City. If they investigate, my special identity will definitely be exposed. I used to think it was because there were few players, but after entering the upper-level forum, I realized that there were seven or eight lower-level forums alone. The number of players far exceeded my original imagination.
"That's almost it, just one last thing to finish." Lu Li said with a smile, then, with a thought, he walked towards the bridge. Ever since he learned that the Countermeasure Bureau was going to send people into Leping City, he had been thinking about how to resolve these matters without revealing his identity.
Since those people are so wary, even fearful, of the Evil God descending upon Leping City, then all we need to do is pin the blame on the Evil God. Of course, the matter must ultimately be resolved so that they believe the Evil God's descent has failed once again. Then, probably due to their fear and other factors, they won't continue to send people in to their deaths.
The wrong information has been transmitted, but at the same time, it is impossible to let all three Countermeasure Bureau personnel leave alive. Otherwise, the Countermeasure Bureau will develop the idea that Leping City is nothing special, which will increase the possibility of being exposed.
"Captain, what do we do now? Can we leave Leping City?" Xiao Mi asked anxiously. He was the weakest of the three in terms of direct combat ability, and now that he had used up all four Negation Rings, he was even more eager to leave.
Xiao Mi's ability is that of a tool user, making him exceptionally proficient in operating various instruments. But that's not all; what's truly valuable is that he can lower the requirements for using many tools and reduce their side effects. Otherwise, the Negation Ring wouldn't be so easy to use, and the side effects would be terrifyingly severe.
The side effect of Xiao Mi using this ability is that the more conditions are reduced and the more side effects of eliminating props, the lower the individual's luck value will be. At the same time, intuition and perception will also be enhanced to a certain extent. Of course, sometimes this enhancement is not a good thing.
For example, right now, Xiao Mi vaguely sensed the breath of death. The feeling that he would die at any moment kept appearing in his mind. He could vaguely perceive that thing that shrouded Leping City in madness, despair, and fear. It was so great that it was too great for a tiny mortal like Xiao Mi to bear.
Unfortunately, Old Hu wasn't in the right state of mind right now. Otherwise, he would have immediately knocked Xiao Mi unconscious after sensing it. Having too high a level of spiritual awareness in a place where Evil God almost descended is not a good thing. However, Old Hu had just read a lot of information, shook his head and said, "According to my memory, the information I obtained indicates that there are two more Evil God followers hiding in Leping City, namely the Hatred and Destruction' they mentioned. Also, we need to retrieve the mask related to the Evil God that kid Li Yuanfeng has."
"However, let's retreat first and rest for a while." Old Hu also felt something was wrong at this time and wanted to go back to calm down and sort out his thoughts first, when he heard Xiao Mi's screaming voice.
"Captain, there's a violent life reaction at the bottom of the river." Then Old Hu turned around and saw a huge Purple-Red Giant Snake burst out of the river and lay directly on the bank. Its huge body and a pair of scarlet snake eyes looked at the three of them, and there was a mask embedded in the middle of the Giant Serpent's forehead.
"This is Hatred." Old Hu shook his head in confusion. According to the information he had read from the Shadow Assassin, Hatred was a Giant Serpent. But at this moment, something felt off. Before Old Hu could think any further, Bing Bing rushed toward the Giant Serpent.
"Come back!" A thought flashed through Old Hu's mind, and he shouted hurriedly, but it seemed to be a little too late, as a shrill scream came from behind him.