Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 268 Natural Disaster
At this moment, Lin Yilin's cell phone suddenly rang.

When he picked it up, he found it was Luo Ye who had been missing for some time.

"Hello? Sister Ye, are you back from your vacation?"

"Yeah, I had a lot of fun. I felt good after letting off some steam. Is Yilin thinking about me?"

"I think about the news you brought back. Oh, Mr. Hallucination misses you a little. He hasn't had a comfortable fight with someone for a while." Lin Yilin glanced at Zheng Fan who was rubbing his hands together.

"Huh? Then I should still have time to turn around now."

After the opening jokes and greetings, Luo Ye said, "I have returned to Dadu and sent you the confirmed news. That seismologist is really something. He refused to come to Dadu no matter what. In the end, I had to help him with the task of "unclogging the toilet" like a hero in an RPG game before he could collect all the earthquake information in Dadu and draw a conclusion."

An email popped up on Lin Yilin's computer at the same time, and she opened it and checked it immediately: "Thank you, you've worked hard."

"It's nothing. Is there anything happy recently? Oh, I heard that Hong Yiyi got married? Yijia sent me an invitation. What kind of master can conquer that woman?" Luo Ye's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Just by listening to it, you can imagine this crazy woman wearing sunglasses and driving a sports car, speeding on the road with her red hair flying.

I want to take the wheels off her.

But when I thought she might have more than one, I decided to forget it.

"A writer." Lin Yilin began.

“Super inspired writer?”

"You really haven't investigated?"

"Why should I check the marriage partner of my friend's sister and defeated opponent? If you tell me that a random unknown writer can make a neighborhood chief with an extraordinary background fall madly in love with him with his clumsy writing, I won't deny that such a bloody plot exists, but I am sure it won't happen with her." Luo Ye said confidently.

"It's what I always say, but it's true. The story between them is a little complicated, and there were some minor problems at the wedding, but it was fine in the end. I'll tell you more about it later if I have the chance."

"It looks like it will be very interesting. Did this writer lose control of his inspiration at the wedding?"

How come she knows everything?

Noticing Lin Yilin's pause, Luo Ye laughed heartily and said, "It's just empiricism. This is the most common mess that I can think of that a super-intuitive person can make. Besides, there's nothing to lose by making a guess."

"It's just uncomfortable to talk on the phone, but luckily I'm here in the end."

Without her saying anything, Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin both heard the roar of the engine coming closer and closer outside.

They both looked towards the door, and in their minds they imagined her kicking the door open and walking in. But in the end, they only heard a gentle knock on the door.

"……Enter."

The door was opened, and she walked in with elegant steps in high heels. Her tall figure and the tasteless red coat still matched each other so well.

"Aren't you hot?" Zheng asked.

"Tsk tsk, don't ask such a disappointing question. By the way, isn't that piece of toast there?" Luo Ye looked around the office carefully.

Although all her hallucinations were on her body now and she was no longer afraid of the toast, after she considered herself invincible, she never thought that the closest she had ever been to death was because of a piece of toast.

It turns out that psychological trauma is not so easy to overcome.

"Playing in the nursery."

"What nursery would have room for that?"

"Banmu Office."

"That's okay."

Luo Ye turned to look at Lin Yilin: "Are you reading it?" "Yes, so the meaning of this document is..." Lin Yilin raised her head from the screen and looked at Luo Ye. Luo Ye put away his smile, and Lin Yilin's voice couldn't help but lowered. It was unclear whether she was disappointed or relieved. "The earthquake ten years ago was a 'natural phenomenon'."

The office fell into silence, leaving only the sound of the hot summer wind blowing through the doors and windows outside the window, and the faint voices of people isolated outside the door.

Zheng Fan looked at Luo Ye, then at Lin Yilin.

If the earthquake was really just a natural phenomenon, then what Lin Yilin had been insisting on for all these years was not...

"Is it really that simple?" Zheng asked back.

"There are no natural earthquakes in the standard sense in Dadu. According to the basic logic of Dadu, natural earthquakes are earthquakes caused by the overlap of the world." Luo Ye explained.

Lin Yilin clasped her hands together, intertwined her fingers, and lowered her head. "With several overlapping locations as nodes, the world related to the earthquake has spread out a large area of overlap. Among them, the overlapping area at Xixi Keke is the largest, and it has become the epicenter."

"That's not right." Zheng Fan blinked, feeling that the air pressure was strangely low: "Didn't the earthquake also affect the White City area? It can't overlap there."

"In this regard, there are indeed traces of someone behind the scenes manipulating this. And it is hard to explain the actions of Yagui and the gray people." Luo Ye agreed with Zheng Fan's words, but his eyes turned back to Lin Yilin, who was sitting there in a daze as if she had lost her life for a moment, and said slowly: "But what does the White World have to do with Yilin?"

Zheng Fan opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Zheng Fan, who was aware of the logic behind this, could not refute it casually.

As Luo Ye said, whether the white world was affected by someone's arrangement or not, what does it have to do with Lin Yilin? The earthquake on Xixikeke Street was a disaster caused naturally by the overlap of the worlds, which was an abstract concept of natural disaster.

Lin Yilin has always used the idea that earthquakes are caused by supernatural forces to drive her curiosity and seek the truth about earthquakes.

There are thoughts of revenge, as well as obsessions caused by dramatic changes in one's life.

“Because everything happened for a reason, I want to know.” Lin Yilin has always practiced this.

Only now, the truth is known.

At least what she encountered was not man-made, but a natural disaster caused by force majeure. If she still wants revenge or hatred, the only object left for her is the illusory world itself.

In the end, will you be open-minded and relieved, or will you be empty and entangled for the rest of your life?

In many revenge dramas, after the protagonist achieves revenge, his life often becomes empty because of the achievement of the great goal. Lin Yilin's current state is similar to this.

In fact, she hadn't even put any effort into this matter yet. With the news brought back by Luo Ye, she found that her specific goal suddenly no longer existed.

There was no so-called target of revenge at all, and the truth she was curious about was just that.

At this moment, the gears in Lin Yilin's body that had been running at a high frequency for the past ten years finally stopped.

She stood up, put on her coat and didn't even take her waist bag with her: "Sorry, I may have to leave work early today." After that, she quickly left the office.

"Aren't you going to chase her?" Luo Ye asked, looking at Lin Yilin's back.

"Why don't you go?"

"I will go find her later, but it's not the right time now. She doesn't need me. After all, I have overdrawn her trust, and I'm still in the process of accumulating it again." Luo Ye said self-deprecatingly.

Zheng Fan said, "It's impossible that she didn't think of this possibility. After all, when she asked you to investigate the cause of the earthquake, this obvious possibility was laid out. She would not ignore such an obvious thing because of her own emotions and preferences."

"Yes. In just a few months, you have gotten to know her quite well." Luo Ye agreed, but added, "But for many things, no matter how well you prepare, it is still difficult to immediately bear and adapt to them when they really come. She really trusts you, so don't let her down as you promised me."

"I always feel like what I promised you isn't this kind of thing, but never mind." Zheng Fan sighed, "I'll go take a look, you can help yourself. There are popsicles in the refrigerator in the laboratory, but they are placed together with some frozen specimens. You can eat whatever you want if you don't mind."

"Thank you. Go ahead." Luo Ye waved his hand.

(End of this chapter)