Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 178 Bookmarks
"So that's how it is. It seems this is the source of the strange feeling. Sister, are you hallucinating? But I heard that hallucinations can't come here."

"No, maybe it was just a little accident." Lin Yilin replied.

The little girl nodded, took the fruit knife and went back to the bedroom, her own room.

At this moment, the bookshelves in the room were filled with books. These books made Lin Yilin remember them very well. It was not because she remembered them earlier, but because her adoptive father moved these books to the office for her. Her memory was fuzzy, so she picked them up again and read them again.

The girl picked up a book called "Black Stain", turned to the page where she had a bookmark and continued reading. At the same time, she asked, "Sister doesn't look like a bad person. So why did she come to our house? Is it me?"

"It could be you, or it could be the world itself."

"don't know."

"You don't need to understand. I just want to ask, are you curious about the outside world now?" Lin Yilin asked.

The girl lowered her head, paused after hearing the words, and then slowly shook her head: "I'm not curious, I don't like to go out. If it weren't for my parents, I wouldn't even want to go to school."

"Why?" Lin Yilin asked.

"Because I'm very smart, but maybe the world doesn't need me to be too smart," said the girl.

"Smart people can easily find a place to stay. Although there is no shortage of smart people in the world, not many people will look down on smart people," said Lin Yilin.

"I see, but what do those people I don't know have to do with me?"

"..."

"I just state what I see in a normal way, but they are afraid of me. Even my parents sometimes become reserved in front of me. I have never let them down. But that's not right. Talking to yourself may not be a good habit. The teachers at school don't like me whispering either."

"Perhaps this does not deny your wisdom." Lin Yilin came to the girl and sat down on the bed.

The girl sat on a chair that was too big for her, her body huddled up with the book placed on her bent legs, and the fruit knife still held between her calves.

"But they are resisting what wisdom has extended. Maybe one day I will change my mind and run away, but I don't want to do that now. According to the story I read in the book, I may be waiting for a suitable opportunity, a guide. However, I still find it difficult to cheer up."

Lin Yilin sat nearby. She had never thought that she would be such a depressed child in the past.

She calmly explained possible future events and looked at current problems rationally, but she no longer intended to "go along with the outside world."

Just be a normal child at home, put away your curiosity and read books, that's enough, at least that's what she thinks now.

I can't muster any energy.

What he said about future opportunities was just an uncertain speculation, and he did not hold any expectations in itself.

That earthquake might not be a bad thing for her...

The moment this thought came to mind, Lin Yilin immediately cut it off.

That would be a bad thing. Even though she couldn't remember her parents, they were important people who gave birth to and raised her. An earthquake that took them away couldn't be a good thing.

Perhaps something in the earthquake changed her, but the earthquake itself must not have been a good thing.

Suffering is not worth singing about.

Lin Yilin thought about it and took out a small book from her bag. It was not big enough to carry. She opened the book and took out the "fat cartoon black earthworm" bookmark. She took out a ballpoint pen and wrote three words on it before handing it to the little girl who was buried in the book.

"This is?"

"You can understand this gift of a brief meeting as a blessing. I'm glad to meet you." Lin Yilin said calmly.

The girl looked at her face, then at the bookmark she handed over, and still reached out to take it, her tone still flat and without any ups and downs: "I don't know what's worth being happy about, but I accept it... Okay?"

She looked at the words on the bookmark.

"curiosity".

After a moment of silence, she raised her head and said, "I originally wondered if you, sister, might be me who traveled through time in the future. Even though I can't see your face, some details prove it... But it seems I was overthinking. I don't like this kind of weird bookmark, nor would I use such a lame way to mark it."

"You said that people will change. In the future, you may even fall in love with an illusion who was originally intended to use each other. He will bring you a strange yet familiar throbbing. It's a pity that although he likes to tell vulgar jokes, he actually doesn't have that kind of idea at all." Lin Yilin's tone remained flat, and what she said made the little girl silent again.

"...I have to admit, sister, you've made me interested in the future."

Hearing this, Lin Yilin smiled slightly: "That's good."

She stood up and left: "Then that's enough, goodbye."

Lin Yilin walked out of her home and returned to the community.

Although there was no exact basis, her intuition told her that Mr. Illusion should be here soon.

With nothing to do, she wandered around the nostalgic neighborhood.

Suddenly, she vaguely saw a man with disheveled hair standing across the street outside the community in the distance, with his back to her and his whole body standing stiffly.

A car passed by and temporarily blocked her view, and after the car passed, the figure with his back to her came onto the road. The truck passed by and directly wiped the figure, as if it had hit it, but it seemed that it had not. There was no blood, and no horrible corpse.

Only a figure with his back to her had arrived at the gate of the community.

After getting closer and looking more clearly, Lin Yilin felt that it was not one person, but two people pressed together? But it was still strange, was this really the back? The other person's hands seemed to be facing each other.

What about those legs and feet? It’s hard to tell which is front and which is back.

From outside, another car drove into the community, and after passing the figure, the figure disappeared again.

Lin Yilin's hand had already reached into her small bag.

The car that just drove in passed by Lin Yilin.

Then, Lin Yilin heard a heavy breathing coming from behind her...

Meow!
He drew his gun, but the gun tip had already turned its direction, passed through his armpit and aimed at the rear, and fired the bullet with a sound.

The sound of the bullet hitting the flesh was clearly audible at this distance. Then Lin Yilin ran forward without hesitation, and only turned back after running a distance away.

……No!?

The breathing sound is still behind me!

Black earthworms jumped out from the loose coat and bit randomly behind him, but then there was a sound of being quickly cut and torn into pieces. Lin Yilin turned around again, but only saw black earthworm fragments flying all over the sky.

A pair of hands suddenly grabbed her neck from behind.

A feeling of suffocation came over me.

A vague and unpleasant voice, as if filled with phlegm, said grimly in her ear: "A promise. I will kill you."

"You are..." Lin Yilin squeezed out two words.

As she finished her words, her neck made a sound as if she could not bear the weight.

In the unclear sunlight, from the faint shadow on the ground, one could see her neck being bent down little by little by the figure behind her until there was a "click".

Bend the neck ninety degrees.

……

The strange figure looked at Lin Yilin in front of him and felt so relaxed, abnormally relaxed. It absorbed everything in this body and had the impression that he was tormented by this woman.

Is this the result?

It felt a little off, but…

Suddenly, Lin Yilin's head moved.

The neck was bent 90 degrees and the head was rotated sideways. Because the neck was still pinched, only part of the neck was rotated. The cervical vertebrae could be said to be completely shattered and the skin and flesh were twisted into a ball.

Then, "Lin Yilin" turned her face to face it behind her.

Gray eyes full of mockery, and an arrogant smile that was completely different from his calm expression until his death, full of sarcasm.

The person whose neck was broken by it was even more cruel than it and turned his head to look at it, which made it, despite being relatively mature, feel a little scared for a moment.

"Bang! Surprise! Don't panic, it's just a magic trick, don't be too surprised. Now please introduce yourself. Do you have a code name? Or have you ever given yourself a name? What are your abilities? Why do you look like two people stitched together from front to back? Do you have any hobbies..."

The illusion immediately loosened his hands and stepped back to create some distance.

Crazy, meaningless...

However, when it blinked, it found that the other party disappeared before its eyes.

Isn't that the way it's played?

But it does not achieve this by pure speed, while the other side does it simply and crudely!
It turned back quickly and used its own power directly.

But... it's no use!

The back, the back, the back of this person in front of me is... what?
"Lin Yilin" straightened her neck, but her head was still turned 180 degrees to look behind her, and one of her hands and one of her feet were also twisted by her forcefully.

Half facing forward, half facing backward.

This is simply not the way a normal person could crack its capabilities!

At this moment, an awkward punch hit its twisted face, making it even more twisted. This punch was a hook thrown from the twisted right hand "backwards".

So is this a left hook or a right hook?

(End of this chapter)