There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 379 - 333: Micro-end

"How is it, any reaction?"

Cheng Can leaned against the bathroom door, watching the mechanical sphere twinkling with multicolored lights in the air, and asked the person beside him.

Xu Shuo shook his head, but then seemed to remember something and nodded: "My consciousness is still very clear, but if I look for too long, it feels a bit blurry in front of my eyes."

"Oh, that should be a normal reaction, anyone would get blurry eyes if they look too long," Cheng Can said, "But just to be safe, better not to look anymore."

Whether it was because the mission participants were all exceptionally gifted was unclear, but neither Cheng Can nor Xu Shuo were hypnotized, and the shamelessly persistent Bai Mufei who followed them wasn’t affected either.

Currently unable to contact their companions, they were trapped in the building, isolated and without assistance; Cheng Can thus took it upon himself to assume the responsibilities of a senior.

After thinking for a while, he continued: "It’s unknown what the consequences for those hypnotized might be, and that sphere is even more peculiar, I plan to go investigate it close up."

With the plunge into darkness, the electronic machinery inside the building also stopped working; even if it hadn’t, taking the elevator might pose dangers.

These days, when people construct tall buildings, they basically no longer include staircases.

After all, the likelihood of a building experiencing a power outage is virtually zero, and everyone has their personal convenient flying vehicles, so staircases exist only in the slums at the very bottom level.

The position of that sphere was at least around the three-hundredth floor.

Looking up from the lobby, they could see it clearly primarily because the mechanical sphere was truly very, very large.

The interior of the technology building was ring-shaped and hollow, with nothing but the mechanical sphere in the clean air above – everything in plain view.

The diameter of the sphere seemed to exceed a hundred meters.

Cheng Can’s micro-end was unusable, and the electronic hoverboards they carried couldn’t be deployed for use, leaving them to rely on other tools to make their ascent.

"Senior, I’ll go with you!" Xu Shuo earnestly looked at him.

"That thing is suspicious, it’s not good for both of us to get close, do you have anything on you that might be able to blow open that big door?" Cheng Can said while taking out a grappling hook, nodding toward the large door.

He had already tried when he had blended into the crowd earlier.

In fact, the explosions heard earlier were from people attempting to blast open that mechanical door, but whether it was the ordinary people’s bombs or the New Humans quietly deploying their powers, none were effective.

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At that time, trapped inside the technology building, including the original staff and the invited audience to the launch event, there were probably tens of thousands of people.

Yet now, that crowd all had a blank look, their eyes hollow, staring up emptily at the mechanical sphere above.

Cheng Can slowly moved upwards with the grappling hook, looking down at those zombie-like people, and felt an inexplicable sense of eeriness.

The dazzling light from the sphere cast upon him, the colors red, purple, yellow, neon-like brilliance wrapped him in an entrancing glow.

While everyone else stood deathly still, frozen, only his figure continued to move slowly.

How strange, why exactly were these people being controlled?

...

After Cheng Can’s figure vanished into the darkness above, the gentle, obedient smile on Xu Shuo’s face disappeared; sometimes, keeping muscles tensed up like that was quite tiring.

That’s why he had never complained about Xu Xi’s expressionless face.

As for someone like Luo Kun who had a smiling face all the time, his muscles must just be like that.

"Dr. Chu, you’re still acting even in front of your own team members? It seems you don’t trust each other at all; it’s quite interesting. I’m almost tempted to expose you~"

Expose?

You’d have to see if Cheng Can would believe a lunatic like you!

Xu Shuo, as usual, ignored his babbling and, pretending there was no one beside him, walked straight toward the launch event hall.

When the sphere emitted its light, Xu Shuo’s psychic ability was also suppressed, as if a special magnetic field not of this world had taken control over the area.

The powers of other New Humans weren’t working for the same reason.

And as to why the people here were hypnotized...

Xu Shuo actually had a theory.

He walked through the dense and chaotic crowd to stand beside a man dressed in a white suit, looking impeccably dapper.

Though this man was motionless, he hadn’t looked up nor was he fixated on the sphere without blinking.

He was closing his eyes as if a statue.

Xu Shuo raised his hand and tapped the man’s forehead, and the next moment, the man’s eyes suddenly flipped open.

The two locked eyes, and the latter blinked, dazed for a few seconds before responding, "Are you... Jieta?"

Although he had never seen Jieta’s face, black hair and black eyes were rare in the Empire, and he remembered those eyes.

Xu Shuo nodded and pointed to the sphere of light in the air, saying, "It’s me, can you ’foresee’ now what it takes to destroy that thing?"

At that moment, a dissatisfied voice came from behind him, "I already put a bomb in there, don’t you trust me?"

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Xu Shuo had already learned to ignore, but Epsilon had not, so he glanced at the source of the sound and then excitedly pulled out his Energy Gun!

It was Bai Mufei from Paradise Bird!

Luo Kun grinned fiercely, pulling out several Energy Bombs with a backhand.

He didn’t mind letting them feel the power of the bombs right there and then!

"Don’t mind him, serious matters are at hand; we’re all trapped in the Technology Building now," Xu Shuo said seriously.

"..."

The two faced off for a few seconds.

Epsilon had an odd look on his face, he didn’t put away his gun, but while keeping an eye on Luo Kun, he quickly pulled Xu Shuo away from the crowd and retreated to a corner.

He was aware of the New An Bureau’s operation and had infiltrated the Technology Building early on, but his ’precognition’ hadn’t been of much use.

Later, when the building was locked down, he found Sigma, but before he could do anything, he was hypnotized by the sphere of light above him.

Now, he wasn’t quite sure how he got hypnotized.

But he did know the reason he woke up: the Soul Imprint in his mind had stirred, instantly bringing him to his senses.

"Do you know something? Also, did the Chief come?" Epsilon asked with a frown.

"The new Micro-end that hypnotized you, you’ve probably already let it link to your neural system, and the emitter is that thing, so I asked you to see if there’s any way to destroy it," Xu Shuo said concisely, pointing to the Micro-end in his hand and then at the light sphere above.

"Damn it!"

Epsilon was so scared that he quickly tore off the Micro-end, but then he remembered it was useless since he had already granted it neural access.

After thinking about the cost of the Micro-end, he ultimately didn’t smash it.

But Long Group really had some nerve, using the neural access of the new Micro-ends to control all of humanity!

It was madness!

After the incident, the whole world would surely go mad, and Long Group would definitely face unified punishment from the Empire and the other six major conglomerates!

Thankfully, they had the Chief’s Soul Imprint!

He felt an overwhelming mix of emotions, but remembering the task at hand, he could only muster his spirits, "I’ll try to see if ’precognition’ can reveal anything."

With those words, Epsilon closed his eyes.

Xu Shuo immediately watched him closely, but he didn’t feel any energy fluctuations, nor did he detect anything in the other’s brain with the Soul Imprint; indeed, neither ’Precognition’ nor even the lower-level ’Foreshadowing’ could mimic such powers of Extensive Knowledge of the Past and Future.

Epsilon had incredible intuition, but after a while, he opened his eyes in frustration.

"No use, I feel restless in this place, unable to concentrate."

"Don’t rush, calm down and try again," Xu Shuo said, enveloping him in his spread Psychic Ability.

"Okay."

Epsilon closed his eyes once more.

This time he calmed down quite a bit, and the furrow in his brow eased slightly. After a long while, he opened his eyes again, excitement shining within.

He looked intently at Xu Shuo, "The Chief will handle it personally!"

Xu Shuo paused, "…How will he handle it?"

Epsilon paused as well, then scratched his head, "I’m not sure about that. My intuition just tells me that the Chief will personally intervene, so there’s no need to worry."

Xu Shuo: "..."

Thanks for the trust, although he was now invincible against everyone, but he really didn’t know how to solve this thing!

Luo Kun’s bomb definitely couldn’t destroy it!

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