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Chapter 405 - Chapter 405 Chapter 401 The Bizarre Illusion Technique

Chapter 405: Chapter 401: The Bizarre Illusion Technique Chapter 405: Chapter 401: The Bizarre Illusion Technique Seeing Taotie’s stance as he drew his blade, Fang Xiaocao knew this fool didn’t hold back.

This was hardly a starting position for taking her down–it was clearly one for Transcendence.

Fang Xiaocao hurriedly shouted, “Idiot, I told you to capture her, not transcend her!”

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s shout, Taotie smiled at her amidst the chaos and, while swinging his blade, forcefully changed moves, slamming the back of his blade hard onto Helan Xiaoyue’s shoulder.

Crack–

A crisp sound reached her ears.

Fang Xiaocao felt her head throb.

Without looking, Fang Xiaocao knew Helan Xiaoyue’s shoulder had dislocated.

Now she had a skilled fighter who had just become upper body paralyzed.

Both arms had dislocated.

Even more absurd was that the dislocations were in the exact same location.

“Control her!”

Fang Xiaocao yelled.

At the same time, she grabbed her gun and ran quickly.

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s command, without needing Taotie to make a move, Brainless and Unhappy rushed forward, pinning Helan Xiaoyue to the ground.

Fang Xiaocao ran up, grabbed Helan Xiaoyue’s long hair, yanked it hard, forcing Helan Xiaoyue to look up and meet her eyes.

At this eye-to-eye, Fang Xiaocao jumped in fright.

The pain in Helan Xiaoyue’s eyes wasn’t human–it resembled the vertical pupils of a feline…

“Hiss…”

Seeing these eyes, Fang Xiaocao gasped in shock.

She had thought Liu Yishou’s sheep eyes were terrifying enough. But seeing a human with cat eyes, she realized what true horror was, and it was not only horrifying but also eerily unsettling.

Fang Xiaocao felt she might not be able to look at cats directly for a long time.

The sight of a cat would remind her of this eerie moment when Helan Xiaoyue looked up and met her gaze.

“It’s that guy’s doing again.”

Fang Xiaocao cursed under her breath, letting go of Helan Xiaoyue’s hair, stood up, and brought her AK47 down in a familiar formula and strength.

The force was just right, dazing without harming the brain.

Helan Xiaoyue rolled her eyes and fainted.

“Princess Your Highness, her eyes…”

Taotie asked in surprise.

He hadn’t seen Liu Yishou’s sheep eyes.

So he didn’t know.

But now seeing Helan Xiaoyue’s cat eyes, Taotie was genuinely shocked.

Fang Xiaocao shook her head, “I don’t know the specific reason, but it must be due to some kind of mental control attack that transformed her eyes like this. It’s not hypnosis but it surpasses it. I suspect it’s the sinister methods of ancient Taoist priests.”

At this point, Fang Xiaocao’s mind inadvertently recalled the records of Zuo Ci’s sinister techniques.

Illusion Technique!

Zuo Ci’s Illusion Technique was unfathomably ghostly.

According to unofficial historical records, Zuo Ci was once pursued by Cao Cao and turned into a sheep in public, then turned a flock of sheep into himself.

Although it sounded mystical, Fang Xiaocao believed it.

Hypnotism had similar techniques too.

It was a mass hallucination that simultaneously hypnotized a group of people, making them hallucinate.

Like turning something in their hands or on their bodies into snakes or other terrifying animals or items.

But the techniques of this mysterious person were even more sinister than hypnotism.

So sinister that it could deceive the brain through certain suggestions, causing the eyes to mutate.

Or perhaps…

The opponent was so strong that whoever approached the person he had tampered with would hallucinate and believe that Helan Xiaoyue had a pair of cat’s eyes.

Xiaocao couldn’t fathom the mystery, but from Liu Yishou she had learned, hypnotism was useless, but physical hypnotism worked.

Knocking them out would solve everything.

“Taotie, go find some sturdy rope, tie up Helan Xiaoyue first, if you can bring her out of the desert alive, take her to the Helan family for ransom.”

Xiaocao instructed Taotie.

“Yes!”

Taotie nodded and responded.

He turned around and took a bundle of steel-wire-wrapped brake rope from the pickup truck, binding Helan Xiaoyue like a sticky rice dumpling.

“Princess Your Highness, will this do?”

Taotie asked with a grin.

“Very good, very professional.”

Xiaocao praised.

“Find a cloth and cover her eyes; I’m afraid her eyes might be peculiar and capable of hypnotizing people.”

Thinking of Wen Shi’s abnormality, Xiaocao said.

Considering Wen Shi’s abnormal behavior, Xiaocao had thought long and hard; she felt Wen Shi must have been controlled by Liu Yishou’s eyes when alone with him,

which led him to suddenly want to kill her.

And Liu Yishou must have been controlled that morning when he went out to check the direction.

That’s why Xiaocao had not noticed his abnormality when she met Liu Yishou the previous night.

If this guess was correct, then Wen Shi’s control would only have occurred later than Liu Yishou’s.

At that time, she was already alert to Liu Yishou and aware of Chen Xiao and the person behind her, always vigilant to prevent anyone from sneaking into the camp.

Under such circumstances, it was unlikely for someone to tamper with Wen Shi unnoticed.

So Xiaocao suspected that Liu Yishou’s eyes had affected Wen Shi.

“Yes!”

Hearing Xiaocao’s instruction, Taotie immediately tore a strip of cloth from Helan Xiaoyue’s trousers and tied it around her eyes.

Seeing this, Xiaocao tugged at the corner of her mouth, not knowing how to comment.

Although Helan Xiaoyue was a prisoner, she was still a girl; Taotie, that simpleton, shouldn’t be tearing at a girl’s trousers like that.

“Stay alert on night watch.”

“Tom will be arriving soon too. Once he’s here, I’ll immediately leave this place.”

Xiaocao reminded Taotie, then picked up the sticky rice dumpling-like bound Helan Xiaoyue and walked towards Thousand Faces’ tent.

Awakened earlier and slacking off peeking through the tent seams, Thousand Faces quickly opened the tent flaps when he saw Xiaocao coming and greeted her, “Princess Your Highness, please come inside.”

“Princess Your Highness, let me help you carry her.”

Xiaocao glanced at Thousand Faces and, seeing no abnormality, nodded and handed Helan Xiaoyue over to him.

Entering Thousand Faces’ tent, Xiaocao checked on Wen Shi and Liu Yishou’s condition, and only after confirming everyone was okay did she relax.

“Seeing them, remember about the blindfold, never take it off.”

Xiaocao instructed.

“Princess Your Highness, rest assured, I will absolutely not lift the cloth from their faces.”

Thousand Faces obsequiously smiled and responded.

“Mhm, rest early.”

Xiaocao nodded and walked out of Thousand Faces’ tent, but she failed to notice the gradual change in Thousand Faces’ pupils from human to serpentine and at the same time, Thousand Faces was unconsciously flicking his tongue.

If Xiaocao had left a bit slower, perhaps she could have sensed Thousand Faces’ abnormality.

Unfortunately, her steps were too hurried, and by the time she left the tent, Thousand Faces’ pupils had completed their transformation, and his gaze shifted from servile to chilling.

“Sssss…”

Thousand Faces flicked his tongue, zipped up the tent, crouched in front of Liu Yishou, and reached out to pull off the blindfold covering his eyes…