Chapter 1248 The Tide Has Yet to Turn

The moment the mental barrier shattered, a deluge of colored light rained down like a torrential downpour, lashing out wildly below.

The walls, the streets, everything was covered in these beautiful bacteria.

Since most of the civilians were inside the resettlement area buildings, they didn't come into contact with these things immediately, which gave the hundred Zhi Nao (Intelligent Brain) Evolvers some preparation time. They entered the buildings as quickly as possible and activated their evolutionary abilities immediately.

Strands of mental energy stretched out from their brains like ropes, reaching towards the civilians in front of them.

"Damn, I'm finally not useless this time!"

"I didn't expect that even in a war of this magnitude, there would still be a role for us to play..."

"You want mental energy? Take it all for the sake of victory!"

The civilians in the resettlement buildings excitedly expressed their opinions. For them, being alive was a surprise, and being able to contribute to the war effort was a form of recognition!

This proved that they were no longer useless garbage.

It meant that they too could fight for their own fate, and use their power to try and control their own lives and deaths!

Following Li Tianran's instructions, they completely relaxed their minds and left their thoughts completely unguarded.

In the eyes of the Zhi Nao-type Evolvers, these civilians, who had opened their minds, had become small pieces of firewood, and their own mental energy was like a flame. Every time they passed a place, they would throw another piece of firewood into the fire.

Although these pieces of firewood were small, there were many of them.

If they could collect them all, their weak flame would grow into a prairie fire, capable of burning the heavens!

After landing, the dense mental bacteria began to spread rapidly throughout the city, seeping into buildings through cracks in doors and walls, searching for signs of life.

Meanwhile, the nine hundred Zhi Nao ability users who had been left outside the buildings to support the mental barrier, including the commander, had been infected by the mental bacteria. Their nearly depleted mental energy was no match for the massive swarm, and they were almost instantly plunged into endless illusions.

Inside the buildings, the Zhi Nao Evolvers, who were linking their minds, saw a large number of colored lights pouring into the room from the windows out of the corner of their eyes. A hint of anxiety appeared in his emotions, and in an instant, the originally stable mental link showed a sign of collapsing.

During a mental link, the ability user responsible for the link is the helmsman. Once the helmsman's thoughts, emotions, and spirit change, major problems will occur in the link...

These were the original words that Nilasong had told Li Tianran, and Li Tianran had passed them on to the world.

The Zhi Nao Evolver bit his teeth and forced himself to calm down. The number of mental bacteria pouring into the room wasn't too large, and it couldn't be compared to the previous onslaught on the barrier.

After landing in the city, the bacterial tidal wave immediately dispersed, and what he was seeing now was at most one millionth of the massive wave.

At this point, he had linked the minds of more than three thousand civilians. Just like Han Han had said, it wasn't a difficult process, and the speed of thought was very fast. Plus, the density of civilians in the resettlement area was very high, so in a short period of time, his mental energy fire had grown into a raging inferno!

The dense mental bacteria seemed to have sensed the presence of life. After crawling in through the cracks in the building, they quickly pounced on the people in the room, as eager as maggots craving rotten flesh.

Just as the first mental bacteria was about to touch the civilian in front, the mental fire linked by the Zhi Nao Evolver suddenly burned wildly, instantly rushing in all directions.

This mental energy didn't harm any of the civilians, because it was their power to begin with.

The mental fire passed over the human bodies and directly engulfed the colored light. In an instant, a crackling sound of burning echoed in the air, and the oncoming mental bacteria were burned to ashes!

"It really works!" The Zhi Nao Evolver couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw this.

At his mental energy level, he probably wouldn't be able to cope with these mental bacteria on his own, but now, after linking with the mental strength of more than three thousand civilians, his power had increased at least several dozen times!

"Continue to expand! Continue to link!"

Seeing this scene, the Zhi Nao Evolver seemed to be encouraged. He felt that the physical strength he had lost in the battle was slowly recovering. With a surge of energy, he expanded his mental energy to the entire building and began to link everyone in the building.

Looking down at the building from the sky, its outer walls were covered with dense colored mental bacteria, like a green ivy climbing a mountain. The windows, doors, and rooftops were all blocked, making it look like a three-dimensional colored pillar, and the original shape of the building was no longer visible.

But the next moment, a terrifying mental shockwave erupted from inside the building, like the roar of Thor. Visible mental ripples spread out from the building and expanded wildly in all directions.

Boom boom boom!

A terrifying explosion sounded, and powerful mental energy rushed out from inside the building, ignoring everything, and forcibly shattering the dense mental bacteria on the outside of the building!

In fact, it might not be accurate to describe it as shattering, because after that powerful mental energy spread out, the mental bacteria clinging to the outside of the building were instantly vaporized, and then completely disappeared into the air.

This power was more like annihilation than shattering!

Complete and utter annihilation!

Similar situations were constantly occurring in the city. Those invincible mental bacteria were encountering obstacles for the first time in this city. They besieged several buildings, but failed to spread the contamination. Instead, they were constantly being purified and eliminated!

Patches of purified vacuum zones gradually appeared in the city covered by colored light.

Then, these vacuum zones grew larger and larger, and linked together.

Two Zhi Nao-type Evolvers linked the mental fire of tens of thousands of people. They didn't clash, but merged together as naturally as water flowing into a canal, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and transformed into the same force.

Buzz!

This powerful and ever-increasing mental energy from the humans of the entire city spread at a rapid speed. Every place it passed, the mental bacteria there were completely annihilated.

"The war is over, and I can finally enjoy my old age..." The commander fell on a building, his body covered with mental bacteria. Images of peace and warmth flashed in his eyes, and his face was full of a dull, happy expression. He was clearly deeply immersed in an illusion.

But as the tidal wave of powerful mental energy swept over his body, the mental bacteria covering his body were instantly annihilated, and even those hidden deep within his body were completely eradicated.

The happy expression on the commander's face froze. He sat up straight, looking at his palms, and it took him a long time to realize that what he had seen before was an illusion.

The war was still going on, and he couldn't continue to enjoy his old age!

"This feeling really makes you want to vomit blood. It's like you've been flirting with a girl for a long time and you're about to get to the main topic, but your boss suddenly calls you in for overtime..." The commander mocked himself in vulgar language. He finally realized the horror of these mental bacteria. Even an old soldier like him, who had been in the army for many years and had a firm will, felt a strong anger and a desire to continue indulging in the illusion after being forcibly pulled out of it. Then those other people who hadn't received professional training and didn't have a firm will could basically say gg after falling into the illusion.

Because even if they were awakened, they could no longer return to normal.

He stood up and looked at the city beneath his feet. He was somewhat grateful that his city had a way to deal with this terrible plague, and that his soldiers and civilians would not be harmed by this terrible plague.

Seeing the colored light in the city gradually disappearing, a smile of relief appeared on the commander's face. He picked up his satellite phone and reported his battle situation to Kuangxi Island.

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"Shelter 72 reports that the mental linking is proceeding very smoothly, and one-third of the mental bacteria in the city have been eliminated!"

"We are still expanding the scope of the mental link and will soon be able to cover the entire city. I believe that before long, all threats will be eliminated!"

"The situation is very good!"

Li Tianran heard the reports from the chief officers of the various cities that had been attacked, and the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. Based on the current situation, after the mental linking was carried out, the mental plague could no longer have a major impact. As long as everything went smoothly, he believed that all the plagues in the human world would be eliminated soon.

Things didn't seem as difficult as Nilasong had said before.

"So far, everything seems to be going pretty smoothly?" Nilasong stood beside Li Tianran and asked, tilting his head.

Li Tianran took a deep breath and smiled slightly: "It's going very smoothly!"

"The human race is still pretty good, right?"

Li Tianran looked at Nilasong and asked softly, his voice faintly mixed with a hint of pride.

This was the first time he had felt proud of his race. He used to think that the thing the human race was best at was infighting, a race that wasn't worth regretting even if it was destroyed. But now, he felt that his past views were a bit too extreme.

This race could also accomplish some miraculous things at certain times!

"Hehehe..." Nilasong didn't answer Li Tianran's question, but smiled strangely and said very seriously: "If it could be created so easily, it wouldn't be worthy of being called a miracle."

"Things are far from over!"