Chapter Twelve: Suffering an Unjust Fate

  As a superpowered being who mastered spiritual force control, Zhang Fan instantly understood his situation.

  I was suddenly invaded by someone in my brain, and then under his guidance, I was brought into a fantasy world, where so many impossible things happened to me, and so many monsters that could not appear in the real world appeared.

  These things are just being instilled into one's consciousness, making oneself think they're real. In fact, one is just fighting with oneself in the brain, and the body should still be standing in that room, stupidly and motionlessly.

  But all of this is even more perilous than actual combat. In actual combat, one can still think of ways to harm the opponent, but in this purely mental world of control, one is completely at a disadvantage. As long as one doesn't see through the opponent's scheme, it's basically like being a fish on a chopping board, with the opponent able to do whatever they want to you.

  As a guide, it would naturally try every means to prevent itself from realizing that this is an illusory world, so it only felt strange and even suspected some other world, but never doubted the reality of everything it saw.

  If one never realizes that everything is false and illusory, the inevitable result will be to be crushed by those four walls. Of course, only in consciousness would one think oneself dead, while the body remains unharmed. But if a person's consciousness dies, what use is it for the body to still be alive?

  Becoming a vegetative person with no consciousness is hardly better than death.

  So Zhang Fan's situation was extremely precarious. If he hadn't regained consciousness at the last moment, he would probably be a walking corpse by now.

  However, at this time, he was still not optimistic despite being out of danger. As a superpower user in the spiritual realm, Zhang Fan naturally knew how powerful an enemy who could invade his consciousness and guide him was. His spiritual world was much stronger than that of ordinary people, and if he was fully on guard, others would be unable to invade it. Although he had just been caught off guard due to the strange behavior of the female countess, no one with a stronger spiritual power than his could have taken advantage of the situation.

  He didn't even know who the other person was!

  It's worth noting that although the world of superpowers is mysterious to ordinary people, it's not particularly secretive among themselves. As long as one has a slightly stronger ability, they can all sense each other. However, Zhang Fan searched through all the information in his mind and couldn't find any record of such a powerful mental control superpower user!

  But judging from the other's performance, it is clear that they are well-prepared. —— He had already thought it through, this was obviously a trap, a trap to lure himself in!

  First, let the countess verbally refuse her own inquiry, and then when she comes over at night, use the countess's unusual behavior to attract her spirit, and then take advantage of the emptiness to enter - according to her personality, after being refused during the day, she will definitely not be willing to give up, and will definitely come over at night.

  It's still unknown whether the previous deaths of Muhammad and Xiada are related to this situation, if they are, it would be too terrifying! Because in order to deal with themselves, they actually arranged for such heavyweight characters to die!

  "It shouldn't be a big deal, right?" Zhang Fan quickly dismissed the idea. He was just a private detective, at most a somewhat famous psychic, and absolutely not important enough to warrant using the lives of two such high-ranking individuals to plot against him. The deaths of the two should have been planned long ago, it's just that his meddling had given the other party the urge to kill, so they set up this trap along the way.

  The other party must have a certain understanding of themselves in order to set up a trap for him. However, he himself knows nothing about the other party.

  The enemy is in the dark, while I am in the light; things are indeed getting a bit fishy.

  However, since the other party did not dare to confront him openly and instead wanted to rely on strategy to defeat him, it was clear that they also did not have the confidence to win against him. Thinking of this, Zhang Fan's heart found a bit of balance.

  If you're careful enough, it's not so easy to deal with!

  These thoughts flashed through his mind in a flash of lightning, seeming to think a lot, but actually only for an instant.

  Moreover, it was obvious that he had just experienced so many things in the illusion, and not much time had passed in reality ※ when he opened his eyes, everything in the room was still almost the same as before. He raised his hand to look at his watch, and only five minutes had passed.

  Suddenly, he felt he had gained some understanding of the two deaths!

  If he wasn't mistaken, Muhammad and Siyad's deaths were probably related to this mysterious master who could control minds. But if that was the case, couldn't they have done it more cleanly and thoroughly severed ties with the countess?

  Is this also a well-designed link, intentionally leading suspicion to the countess?

  But what's the benefit of this?

  One mystery after another emerged, and although it seemed to have gotten a little clearer, it was discovered that it was only the tip of the iceberg, with even bigger secrets lurking beneath.

  But it was clearly not the right time to think about these things. Although the room seemed normal, Zhang Fan could still feel a hidden murderous intent lurking in the darkness.

  If you have freed yourself from mental control, the other party must be able to feel it. Unless the other party is too confident in their own abilities and has left no room for retreat, otherwise, there will definitely be even more sinister moves waiting for you. —— From the above, although the opponent's ability is extremely strong, but they are absolutely not arrogant to this extent, with careful thoughts.

  The top priority is to leave this room as soon as possible and if possible, leave the castle immediately!

  Zhang Fan had already felt that a dense big net had quietly opened up, although he didn't know which fish the net was going to catch, but as long as he wasn't careful, he might get caught. ——Although he couldn't be considered a big fish, but he thought that the other side wouldn't refuse some extra gains either.

  At this point, Zhang Fan suddenly took a deep breath, highly concentrated his mind, then turned around and quickly retreated towards the door.

  Just as his hand was about to touch the door handle, a sudden change occurred!

  In an instant, all the lights in the room lit up!

  The countess was a person of unparalleled luxury, and in the room, there were at least a dozen large and small crystal lamps. Suddenly turning them on made the entire room bright as day.

  At the same time, the ear-piercing alarm also entered his ears!

  Zhang Fan was a superpowered individual, but at the end of the day, he was still just an ordinary person - so when the lights suddenly turned on, his reaction was the same as anyone else's, covering his eyes with his hand.

  Moreover, his eyes had adjusted to the dark room and were extremely sensitive to light. Suddenly switching from extreme darkness to extreme brightness made everything in front of him a blurry white, and he couldn't see anything.

  Zhang Fan reacted extremely quickly, sensing something was off, and immediately rolled away from his original position to avoid a sudden attack. Of course, he couldn't care about so many things at this point, and crashed into many objects with a loud bang.

  But when he quickly adjusted and adapted, he found that his behavior was completely unnecessary!

  Because there is no one coming to attack!

  Just as he let out a sigh of relief, he found that his situation was even worse than before!

  Because a noise had already come from outside the door, someone was already shouting loudly: "Countess Yekaterina, what's wrong?"

  Zhang Fan's heart sank. At this sensitive moment, as a mysterious guest, he appeared in the Countess's bedroom in the middle of the night - if it were usual times, there would be nothing wrong with that, the Countess was originally a romantic person. But now, how could he explain this situation?

  Moreover, even with all the commotion outside, the countess still lay motionless in bed, showing no signs of waking up, it was clear that something was amiss!

  At this time, if the female count had any suspicions, she would be suspected even if she jumped into the Yellow River to clear herself - it's possible that even the previous deaths of Muhammad and Xi Yada would be blamed on her own head.

  It turned out that the other party's backhand was not an attack on himself at all, but rather a way of imposing suspicion on himself. This move is even more vicious than the spiritual attack just now.

  It can be imagined that if one is really labeled with such a big hat, nine out of ten will be ruined and may even lead to rumors like "rape failed, anger turned into shame".

  "Boom!" A loud noise, and the people outside obviously knew that something was wrong, directly bursting open the door. — At this time, they would not notice like Zhang Fan did, that it was an ancient door worth a city.

  First to rush in were four tall men wearing black clothes, followed by a somewhat panicked Poggi and about ten male guests.

  These people came in and obviously found that the female countess lying on the bed was not right, and rushed to the bed directly. ——However, those four men in black were different from others, they also walked towards the bedside, but their eyes were fixed on Zhang Fan standing aside at the first time.

  Suddenly, Zhang Fan felt a chill run down his spine, and his hairs stood on end.

  Those four men in black are actually absolute masters!

  Although their attire and the security guards in the castle were similar, Zhang Fan knew that they absolutely could not be security guards! He had almost seen all of the security guards in the castle, and there was absolutely no such high-ranking expert who made him feel threatened.

  But before he could think much about it, a man's words made him greatly surprised: "Mr. Zhang, why did you want to kill the countess?"

  "What?" Zhang Fan's heart tightened, and he turned his gaze to see that the female count on the bed had a deathly pale face, her chest had stopped moving, and there was no blood color on her face.

  The countess is actually dead!