Su Yuan looked at Yelan nervously and noticed that she didn't seem the least bit unusual—there were no signs of her being corrupted or controlled by the Eerie.
But Su Yuan still wasn't completely at ease.
After all, the Eerie were capable of disguising themselves!
What's more, Yelan was someone with a very deep and calculating mind.
Even if she wasn't under the control of the Eerie, she often took on various identities and moved seamlessly among people…
If the current Yelan had already been corrupted and was trying her best to fake it, then it would be incredibly difficult for any of them to detect it from her outward appearance.
"Yelan, how are you feeling right now?" Su Yuan asked cautiously, testing her.
"Su Yuan, I don't think this is the trigger for my Eerie transformation,"
Yelan replied.
"I can still control my body just fine. My thoughts and consciousness don't feel the least bit abnormal…"
"Really?" Su Yuan asked, frowning slightly.
"Really." Yelan nodded with firm certainty.
However, in the very next moment, Su Yuan suddenly pulled out the small knife he always carried with him—and without hesitation, drove it hard toward Yelan's neck!
Su Yuan thought to himself, Ever since I lost the ability to rewind by dying, I haven't had a reason to use this knife…
Who would've thought it'd come in handy here…
Faced with the sudden stabbing attempt, Yelan showed no sign of panic.
She calmly spoke:
"Su Yuan, the way you reached into your pocket for the knife was way too obvious…"
"To someone with solid professional training, it was clumsy—it made the unusual movement easy to detect."
Looking at the knife stopped at her neck, Yelan continued:
"Su Yuan, give it up. I haven't been corrupted or controlled by the Eerie. No matter how you test me, it's pointless…"
"Let's just move on to the next experiment already."
Just as Su Yuan was hesitating about what to do next, a young boy's voice suddenly echoed in his mind:
"Big Brother Su Yuan, are you really stupid, or just pretending to be?"
"Even if you're trying to use an attack to verify whether Yelan's been corrupted by the Eerie, this is not the way to do it…"
"Anyone can tell that your so-called attack was just a bluff to scare her a little. There was no real intent to kill."
"The Eerie knows this full well—that's why it doesn't react to your attacks at all."
"Besides, someone as cunning and calculating as Yelan can easily hide her true emotions. Pretending to be fine is no challenge for her…"
"What do you mean by that? Are you saying that the current Yelan has already been corrupted by the Eerie?" Su Yuan asked in his mind.
"No, I'm just guessing," the little boy replied.
"The actual situation can be easily verified by you, Big Brother Su Yuan…"
"Easily verified?" Su Yuan asked, a bit puzzled.
"That's right, Big Brother Su Yuan. Can't you control Geo elemental power now?"
The little boy chuckled and continued,
"All you need to do is gather Geo elemental energy and attack Yelan with it."
Hearing this, Su Yuan was stunned for a moment—then it was as if a sudden realization hit him like a bolt of lightning.
That's right.
Something so simple… how had he never thought of it until now?
There's a very distinctive trait in people who've been corrupted by the Eerie—
They're immune to elemental power.
As long as he used elemental power to attack, and it had no effect at all,
Wouldn't that clearly indicate that the person had been corrupted by the Eerie?
Moreover, this method of verification didn't require any major cost—
as long as he controlled the strength of the elemental attack properly,
even if the person wasn't under Eerie corruption, they would at most suffer a minor injury…
So, Su Yuan turned to Yelan and said,
"Alright, Yelan, then let's move on to the next testing phase."
Although that was what he said, in the very next moment, he suddenly turned around—
A small cluster of Geo elemental power had already formed in his hand,
and he struck directly at Yelan's left shoulder!
The sudden attack left Yelan and everyone present visibly shocked…
"Su Yuan, what are you doing? Why are you hurting Miss Yelan?" Baizhu immediately spoke up.
"We put all these precautions in place precisely to prevent harm between each other, didn't we?"
However, Su Yuan paid no mind to Baizhu's questioning.
Instead, he kept his gaze locked on Yelan's left shoulder.
He blinked a few times, then rubbed his eyes—
Once again confirming that… he hadn't seen wrong.
That's right, there was no mistake—Yelan's left shoulder was completely unscathed, not even the slightest sign of injury…
"Hahaha, Su Yuan… I didn't expect you to actually figure it out after all…"
"Yelan's" face began to twist and distort, and a faint aura of Eerie power started to emanate from her body…
And Su Yuan, without any hesitation, immediately tried to strike "Yelan's" jaw— intending to force her to swallow the sleeping pill.
But to Su Yuan's despair, "Yelan" merely turned her head to the side, easily dodging his blow, and then directly spat out the sleeping pill she had been holding in her mouth!
"Doctor Baizhu's numbing salve… it actually worked quite well."
"Yelan" spoke with a smile— but that smile sent a chill down everyone's spine.
"Now my limbs are completely powerless…I can't move at all."
"If I had really swallowed that sleeping pill, I probably would've just blacked out completely, left at your mercy..."
"So—before I purge all the effects of the numbing salve using the power of the Eerie—
I'd suggest you all just stand there quietly and watch. Don't interrupt me."
The very next moment, a surge of Eerie power erupted forth, engulfing the entire room!
Everyone present felt as if their bodies had been filled with lead—completely immobilized…
Su Yuan thought to himself, Damn it, was I still too careless?
Even though they had preemptively used numbing salve to paralyze "Yelan's" movements and tied her securely to a chair…
Even so, "she" could still unleash Eerie power strong enough to suppress everyone in the room…
Are we really just going to sit here and watch "Yelan" slowly force the medicine out of her system, regain her mobility… and then start slaughtering us all over again?
Su Yuan suddenly looked at the sleeping pill that had fallen to the ground, then remembered the message from his left palm.
He immediately spoke to the little boy in his mind:
"Little guy, quickly control my body and find a way to feed that sleeping pill into Yelan's mouth!"
"Right now, we're all immobilized by the Eerie power, only you can do this!"
"Big brother Su Yuan, I really can't..." the little boy said coquettishly, "It's not easy to move freely under the suppression of Eerie power, it's practically a fantasy..."
"Stop pretending here, I know you can do it!" Su Yuan said seriously.
"You're the only one who can stop this! While Yelan hasn't regained freedom of movement, feed her the sleeping pill!!!"
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