Chapter 835 - 535: The Method to Open the Door

"The power to control minds?"

Fei Yue thought he misheard something. He looked at Xing Lingfeng in front of him, whose eyes were bound with a bandage and whose body was tightly tied up, and repeated the words the old man had just said.

Control minds... What kind of bizarre power is this?

"Haha, you guys really don’t know, do you? There are so many mysteries in this Otherworld. Having superpowers isn’t all that strange, right?" Xing Lingfeng chuckled dryly. "You know Liu Kai can talk to those smelly lizardmen, so you should guess it too—monstrous strength, farsight, super hearing—only things you wouldn’t think of. That woman, Lily Kalahao, she can control people’s minds. As long as she sees you, she can make you feel only admiration for her, allegiance to her, completely losing your self."

Fei Yue looked at Lin Yue in disbelief, noticing that Lin Yue was also breaking into a cold sweat.

"I was caught in the same trap then. After I met Lily Kalahao, I felt like I could die for her, that I’d risk everything to complete any order she gave. But during an exploration of a Secret Realm, I discovered I suddenly didn’t feel this way anymore. Later, I was deeply terrified by this previous mindset and just wanted to escape to somewhere she couldn’t see."

"You..." Fei Yue didn’t know what to say. Seeing Lin Yue remain silent, he also closed his mouth.

"But that woman, Lily Kalahao, she won’t just let us go. She needs only a single glance, and we’d be brainwashed all over again. To not forget my escape, every time I went to a Secret Realm, I’d carve words onto a stone and secretly slip it into my pocket. Before she noticed, I’d input all those words into a dialogue box I left for Sun Shuyi, who is dead. Through accumulating pieces one by one, I finally, last time—that was a few days ago—used my old ties with Liu Kai to have those lizardmen hide me in the Underground Ruins. But then, suddenly out of nowhere came a group of people, and they blew the heads off every lizardman in the room. I was knocked over by a club at the time. Later, I was discovered by you."

After Xing Lingfeng finished saying a long series of words, he suddenly started coughing violently.

Fei Yue took out a bottle of water, unscrewed it, and offered him a few sips, which finally stopped his coughing.

"You didn’t want your brain to be controlled by Lily Kalahao, so you ran off... and made a deal with Liu Kai, and as a result, the lizardmen died, but you lived?" Lin Yue pointed out the irrationality in the story in the end.

"Haha, you think it’s unbelievable too? I find it even stranger—why would I alone remain unscathed? This is truly incomprehensible." Xing Lingfeng laughed as he spoke, as if it wasn’t him whom the incident had happened to, but someone else.

"Well, do you know each of those lizardmen had a bullet hole in their heads?" Fei Yue recalled this detail and suddenly said.

"What!" Xing Lingfeng struggled to sit up but was utterly unable to do so.

"I mean, those lizardmen were all shot in the head and killed instantly. Xing Lingfeng, do you not know what this means?" Fei Yue repeated, noticing that Xing Lingfeng was becoming far more agitated.

Apparently, he knew something.

"Cabella Berustak!" Xing Lingfeng suddenly shouted. "That person, it’s that person!"

Lin Yue and Fei Yue exchanged glances—who’s this?

However, Lin Yue promptly searched up this person’s name on the world channel.

It’s the leader of a Refugee Village, currently... part of Lily Kalahao’s alliance.

"Cabella Berustak has the power to make weapons hit their target 100% of the time. He’s Lily Kalahao’s minion, her right-hand man; only he can hit a target with 100% accuracy!" Xing Lingfeng shouted. "He couldn’t possibly betray Lily Kalahao. There’s some scheme here, some conspiracy!"

After shouting, Xing Lingfeng started violently coughing again.

Lin Yue thought for a moment, suddenly realized something.

"Fei Yue, maybe Xing Lingfeng has become the fuse."

"What fuse?" Fei Yue wondered. "This old thing... Wait, wait, are you saying Lily Kalahao figured out this old man’s plan early, then turned it around on him? Had Liu Kai prepare to trap him and... then have that C-something directly find Xing Lingfeng’s hiding place, kill all the other lizardmen, leaving only Xing Lingfeng, and when I happened to arrive there, find him. Afterward, Lily Kalahao’s people would surround us, but when you came to rescue us and brought Xing Lingfeng back, Lily Kalahao would declare war on us using Xing Lingfeng?"

Fei Yue slapped his thigh, suddenly feeling that this was all meticulously planned.

But he suddenly had another question: "Wait, why did Lily Kalahao’s people know I’d definitely be in this Underground Ruins?"

"Traitor."

Almost simultaneously, Lin Yue and Xing Lingfeng spoke out this word.

Fei Yue paused for half a second.

"Traitor... if that’s the case..."

Fei Yue considered, if there were allies of Lily Kalahao around who knew precisely which region this Underground Ruins underneath the Shelter was, then, they just needed Liu Kai to hide Xing Lingfeng here. Then, Cabella would appear, kill the lizardmen, and afterward, when they were suddenly surrounded by Lily Kalahao’s people underground, it seemed it could all be explained.