Chapter 520 Areas of specialization

Chapter 520 – Area of Specialization
Accompanied by a thumping gunshot, the figure in the blue uniform flopped to the ground, blood slowly spreading out from underneath his body, and his heart-broken torso convulsed violently for a few seconds before gradually ceasing to move.

This scene was like a complete murder, even the twitching of the body after it fell seemed to be reinforcing the element of “murder”, reinforcing Heidi’s impression that she herself had just “killed an ordinary person”.

Heidi, however, just watched the whole thing with an expressionless face, listening to all the movements around her as the body fell to the ground and convulsed.

If it were normal circumstances, the sound of the gunshot blast was enough to spread throughout the entire floor of the building, the security personnel stationed in the facility and the church guards should have been alarmed by this time, but the fact is that after the gunshot rang out there was only a silence in the corridor, there was no one appeared at all, as if …… the facility had long been empty.

The amethyst pendant hanging from her chest was still emitting a slight heat, some kind of blessing that didn’t belong to the Four Gods, but was nonetheless effective in keeping Heidi’s mind clear.

This pendant was not the original one – the one that her father had first brought back from the “antique store” had already been depleted and broken in the previous Black Sun incident, and the one she was wearing now was the second “gift” that the owner of the antique store had given to her father. “Gift”.

As it turns out, it still has the same incredible power as the first pendant.

After a few moments of silence, Heidi exhaled softly, holding the revolver she had just removed from the hidden compartment of the carrying case in one hand, while with the other she placed the case on the floor and removed a long gold awl from it (one of her medical tools), all the while her eyes were still fixed on the fallen body on the floor: “Nice acting, but can we stop? ”

The “corpse” had stopped twitching a long time ago, and after Heidi’s words, he finally moved for a moment, then got up as if nothing had happened, and turned around to look at the psychiatrist who had just “killed” him with a horrific gunshot wound to his chest: “I’m curious, when did you realize?”

Heidi, gun in one hand, gold cone in the other, looked at the Dream Intruder in front of her with a mixture of caution and composure: “There’s only one bed in this hospital room – so when I was lying in the ’empty bed’ next to the one I was in, I realized that I was in an ’empty bed’. ’empty bed’, this confrontation began.”

“It’s funny …… how few people can detect such a deviation even after they’ve already fallen into a dream, at least not so quickly,” said the intruder good-naturedly, while in the air beside him some sort of dark, hazy shadow or smoke seemed to be gradually emerging out and congeal into a tangible presence, “including those professionally trained so-called ‘psychiatrists’.”

Heidi frowned at the smoky shadow emerging beside the other, finally distinguishing the outline of the thing, her eyes instantly changing, “Smoky Jellyfish …… Annihilationists?”

The moment she recognized the shadow, the originally hazy outline of that thing immediately became clear, a “jellyfish” that seemed to be condensed from soot floated in mid-air, and was connected to the intruder’s skull through a pitch-black chain – this dangerous demonic creature was shrinking and squirming. This dangerous demonic creature was shrinking and writhing, with countless tentacle-like structures spreading out on its surface, and at some point it had already spread very close to Heidi’s surroundings!

A great sense of crisis instantly exploded in the bottom of her heart, Heidi sensed the erosion and destruction that was taking place in her spiritual world – the enemy’s attack was stealthy and insidious and had already taken place, if it wasn’t for her own inspiration that suddenly warned her, allowing her to recognize the outline of the sooty jellyfish in the dream world, I’m afraid that by the time she reacted, she would have already been killed! the sooty jellyfish’s mental parasitism!

In the next instant, without any hesitation at all, she directly raised the sharp golden cone in her hand, and without any hesitation, she ruthlessly stabbed it towards her temple!

In the next second, a loud sound like muffled thunder exploded in her mind, everything in her vision began to tremble and shake violently, the ward that originally seemed to be without any abnormality instantly began to be misshapen and twisted, the walls melted down like wax, revealing the disgusting truth inside as if they were withered and bloodied, and the floor was like a dried and scorched earth, covered with horrible grooves and unclean writhing things, and the soot jellyfish that extended out countless tentacles seemed to have suffered a heavy blow to its head. The soot jellyfish seemed to have suffered a heavy blow, and it violently let out an ear-piercing whistling sound, and all of its tentacles violently contracted.

Immediately afterward, the annihilationist disguised as a government office personnel and the symbiotic soot jellyfish disappeared in Heidi’s eyes like fog.

However, Heidi did not relax in the slightest, she still gripped her pistol and golden cone tightly, and checked her mental state quickly while being alert to any violations in the environment, for she knew that the dream invader had not been defeated, or even left at all.

This dream world did not show the slightest sign of breaking up and dissipating.

The knowledge that she had learned while furthering her studies in the Truth Academy surfaced in her mind little by little.

Smoke Jellyfish …… is a branch of the Profound Demon, with a body as indeterminate as smoke and all sorts of dangerous and bizarre transcendent power, especially good at attacking the victim’s spirit and perception, the summoner who lives with this kind of Demon is able to use spirit damage magic spells or directly extract the energy of the Profound Demon and then send it out in the form of corrosive missiles. ……

Compared to most Spectral Demons, Soot Jellyfish are not physically tough, but their strange and extraordinary power makes them one of the most dangerous Spectral Demons – in many cases, you will miss the chance to fight back due to mental trauma before you can even attack their fragile bodies, and those who are symbiotic with Soot Jellyfish will have the ability to use psychic damage spells. Cunning cultists who share the Smoke Jellyfish will consciously amplify the “traits” of the Deep Demon, making it even more difficult to fight.

The heat from the amethyst pendant on her chest became more pronounced, and Heidi could feel that some of the malevolent “components” of the dream were still trying to erode and destroy her spirit, but the power released by the pendant was protecting her and disintegrating the intrusions, while maintaining her lucidity.

In this stalemate between erosion and protection, a new sense of crisis suddenly rose in the bottom of her heart.

Heidi instantly followed this feeling and raised her pistol, yet the moment she took aim, the figure that emerged from the air stopped her in her tracks. Maurice appeared there and was looking over with a dismayed expression.

“Heidi?” That familiar figure spoke with confusion and concern, “What’s going on …… you’re trapped in a nightmare?!”

“Yeah,” Heidi nodded and pulled the trigger without hesitation, firing as she did so, “I don’t know what’s going on, an Annihilationist interfered with my hypnotherapy, but I don’t recall even sooty jellyfish having the ability to manipulate the dream realm. ”

The gun flame lit up and exploded with a loud bang as his father’s figure was hit by the shot, he wore an incredulous expression on his face before he staggered twice and collapsed on his back.

But the next second, another figure appeared where the father had fallen – an old woman with a gentle and concerned expression towards this side, it was the mother.

“Heidi, what are you doing? Why are you ……”

“I’m treating a patient.” Heidi said casually as she pulled the trigger.

The figure of her mother fell, but immediately afterward, an extraordinarily tall figure came back into view-this time, the figure only had time to coalesce into a slight silhouette of Vanna, and Heidi was already a step ahead of the shot.

Another phantom fell.

“You’re out of your depth, Mr. Intruder,” Heidi shook her head, “How could such a simple trick possibly work – not to mention Vanna, who, if it were really her, would just casually take the bullet as I shot past her and squeeze it and roll it into a ball and throw it back ……”

Those ever-present figures finally came to an end.

An annoyed, low voice, however, suddenly came from an unknown direction, “Why are you unaffected?”

“I already know that this is a twisted dream world, and I certainly don’t believe these phantoms you’re creating,” Heidi said calmly, “Of course, I guess that’s not what you’re surprised about – you’re surprised at why my mind is untouched by shaken. After all, even if one knows ahead of time that it’s all an illusion, an ordinary person who continually sees familiar faces die before their eyes, and by their own hand, the process builds up a tremendous amount of mental stress and eventually hits the defenses of sanity, independent of whether or not they’re ‘awake’… …but sadly, I’ve had some training.”

As she spoke, the psychiatrist lady slowly raised the muzzle of her gun and pressed it against her temple.

“Do you know the gold content of the Truth Academy’s Master’s Degree plus a full scholarship, Mr. Intruder-“

“Bang!”

Trigger pulled, gunshot burst, Heidi didn’t hesitate to put a bullet through her own head – and along with her figure shaking, another Heidi instantly stepped out from beside her!
Bang, bang, bang, bang, continuous gunshots rang out, the original revolver could only hold six rounds of bullets, but continuous roar, as if the bullets were endless, Heidi repeatedly pulled the trigger on her own temple, and one after another “personality doppelgänger” began to continuously come out from beside her, and holding a gold cone, walked towards the corners, to the door, to the outside of the hospital room, which had already been twisted into a nightmare! The corners of the twisted nightmare of a hospital room, towards the door, towards the corridor outside.

“You shouldn’t be messing with me in my area of expertise, Mr. Intruder,” Heidi slowly raised her head and pulled the trigger one last time on her own head, “and you shouldn’t be messing with me while I’m treating my patients – I really, really, really don’t like overtime! very, very much dislike working overtime!”

Dozens of personalities quickly spread out, scattering all over the alienated “medical facility”, searching for any suspicious clues in the invaded dream, looking for possible “invasion paths” and “hiding places” at the edges of the dream. Cognitive holes” at the edge of the dream world that could be “invasion paths” and “hiding places”.

However, as the personality doppelgänger moved, Heidi suddenly frowned.

“…… is gone?”

(End of chapter)