After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret-Chapter 189: Spiritual Hypnosis

"Leo? Sherry?"

Nina Jacobs immediately shut the cabin door, stopping them from going any further.

But then she realized Leo Hale and Sherry Renner were among them.

She hurried over to them.

Their eyes were blank, as if they’d lost their souls.

It was as if they had been hypnotized.

Just like everyone else in the cabin.

"Wayne, block them!"

Nina Jacobs frowned.

Some of the team members were already trying to open the cabin door.

If they all jumped into the black water like that last team member, she probably wouldn’t be able to stop them either.

"Right."

Inside the cabin, it seemed only Wayne Warner was still fully conscious.

Wayne Warner stood at the exit, completely blocking the path of those trying to leave.

Nina Jacobs, meanwhile, took a spray bottle filled with Healing Potion from her backpack.

She wasn’t sure if it would work.

After she sprayed it on Leo and Sherry several times, their eyes slowly began to focus.

’It’s working!’

A look of joy spread across Nina’s face.

"Nina? What... what’s going on?"

Sherry Renner found herself standing inside the cabin.

"Was I sleepwalking?"

Leo Hale had no idea what had just happened either.

"It’s similar to sleepwalking. They’re all just like you were."

Nina Jacobs explained what had happened.

Their eyes went wide in disbelief.

"Never mind the cause for now. We need to snap everyone else out of it."

Nina Jacobs took out several more spray bottles.

She had Leo Hale and Sherry Renner follow her lead, spraying it on the others’ faces.

"What’s wrong with everyone?"

Levi Stone rubbed his head after coming to his senses.

He still felt groggy, as if he’d been dreaming.

"Captain Stone, I think someone or something has discovered us and is trying to attack. You should remind everyone to stay alert and, most importantly, not to look outside."

Nina Jacobs said, pointing at the vast expanse of black water outside.

"You’re okay?"

Levi Stone was puzzled, but it clearly wasn’t the time for questions.

"I don’t know what came over me just now. It just felt like something was driving me away, and then I started walking outside."

Outside the cabin, Jude Vance was terrified when he learned he had been about to jump into the river.

Jumping into that foul, black water would have surely meant a gruesome death.

"Thank you both for saving my life just now!"

Jude Vance gave Nina Jacobs and Ian Chandler a military salute.

"Don’t mention it. It’s what we should do," Ian Chandler said. "Besides, Nina was the one who first noticed something was wrong."

"But why did it happen?"

Inside the cabin, Levi Stone had already scanned the surroundings.

The black water was as quiet as before, with no sign of anything suspicious. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Right, was it that dog barking?"

Sherry Renner asked. She was certain she had heard it right before she lost consciousness.

"Yes, I heard a dog barking too."

"I’m not sure if it was a bark. It sounded more like a low growl from some animal. A warning, maybe?"

"I think I heard it too. I thought I was just tired and hearing things..."

The others in the cabin chimed in one after another.

"But how could there be a dog barking in the water? Even a zombie animal shouldn’t sound like that."

"The helicopter is gone, too."

Ian Chandler pointed out.

He had noticed it while he was outside the cabin.

The helicopter that had been following them had vanished.

"Also, it’s been over twenty minutes, and we still haven’t seen the shore. Is that normal?"

a team member asked.

This realization sent a cold sweat down everyone’s spines.

"Right, Captain Caldwell and his crew!"

Levi Stone slapped his forehead.

’How could I have forgotten about the ship’s captain!’

But when they rushed into the control room, they found the captain, Byron Caldwell, staring blankly out the window.

The directional controller had been tossed on the floor.

"Based on the direction, we’re way off course!"

Team member Franklin Abbott pointed at the navigation route on the panel.

And it looked like they were severely off course.

After Nina Jacobs used the spray on the captain, his eyelids finally twitched.

"I don’t know what came over me."

Once Byron Caldwell was clear-headed and understood what had happened, he immediately took control of the ship again.

He had been steering the ship in a completely different direction!

And what was even stranger was that the other boat was heading in the same wrong direction.

"It’s as if something is trying to drive us away."

Ian Chandler said after both boats were back on track.

"Could it be the people on Beldane Island?"

Leo Hale was growing more and more curious about Beldane Island.

"Unlikely. We contacted them and planned this evacuation together. Their supplies on the island are exhausted; there’s no way they wouldn’t want to leave."

Levi Stone immediately dismissed the idea.

Recalling his earlier behavior, an embarrassed look appeared on his face.

"Miss Jacobs, I apologize for my previous rudeness. We owe our thanks to you and Ian Chandler just now."

If Nina Jacobs and the others hadn’t remained conscious, they would have died before their mission even truly began...

However, he was still curious about what Nina Jacobs had sprayed.

"This? It’s just a hemostatic spray I bought from a roadside stall. I just grabbed it in a panic."

’A hemostatic spray from a roadside stall?’

Levi Stone was very interested, but he had other matters to attend to at the moment.

He decided that once they returned to the shelter, he would be sure to ask Nina Jacobs where she had bought it.

After Captain Byron Caldwell corrected their course, the group finally saw Beldane Island.

"I’m so sorry. It was my negligence just now. We’re over an hour later than scheduled."

Before the apocalypse, Byron Caldwell was just a crewman on the ferry that ran between Beldane Island and the City D pier.

He had only taken on the role of captain temporarily for this mission from the shelter.

He never expected to nearly cause such a catastrophe.

"It’s not your fault. Nearly all of us fell for it."

Levi Stone patted Byron Caldwell on the shoulder.

"If we really can’t find the cause, should I draw some warding talismans on both boats for the trip back?"

Sherry Renner said to Nina Jacobs.

She was even starting to suspect that this was the work of an evil spirit.

"I don’t think so. This might be a Spiritual Attack."

Nina Jacobs finally said.

Everyone’s behavior just now had reminded her of the Spiritual Attacks used by those with Spiritual Element Superpowers.

Spiritual Hypnosis was one type of Spiritual Attack.

However, Spiritual Hypnosis didn’t require a high level of Superpower proficiency.

Furthermore, the black water itself had a certain hypnotic effect, so it was easy to fall into a daze if one wasn’t careful.

"Spiritual Attack?"

It was the first time Ian Chandler and the others had heard of such a thing.

"I just heard someone mention it before."

Nina Jacobs explained in a low voice.

’At this point in time, the concept of a ’Spiritual Attack’ didn’t really exist yet, so it was normal that they didn’t know about it.’

The two boats finally reached the shore.

But Levi Stone discovered a new problem—

There was no one on the shore.

"We set a specific time. How can there be no one here?"

"Maybe they went back because we were late?" Franklin Abbott suggested.

"It’s possible. Let’s go ashore and take a look first."

Levi Stone had been to Beldane Island by plane before, so he still knew the way.

But when he led the group to the encampment halfway up the mountain, he found that there wasn’t a single person here either!

"How many survivors were on the island?" Nina Jacobs asked.

"Including the original inhabitants and surviving tourists, there were 472 people."

Levi Stone felt that things were getting even stranger.

There were no signs of a struggle or any bodies at the encampment.

’How could over four hundred people just vanish into thin air?’