Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 344 Meeting in Childhood
Dad was driving, Mom was in the passenger seat, and Lin Yilin was in the back seat.

The school at her destination was nothing like her school; it consisted of only a small building used as a teaching building and an empty lot enclosed. This was the school in the gray neighborhood.

With her parents at work, Lin Yilin sat alone in the open space outside, clutching her books, unsure of what to do. Even when she wanted to look at the book, her attention kept getting drawn to the bookmark. She couldn't understand it and couldn't settle down at all.

Just then, she saw a figure moving on the other side of the school wall.

Snap!

A girl about her age climbed over the high wall into the school.

"Skipping class?" Just as the girl was feeling smug about how she had climbed such a "mountain" despite her small stature, Lin Yilin's flat voice behind her startled her like a ghost.

"Ahh! Who are you?!" The girl turned around and covered her mouth to stop herself from screaming, but she still couldn't suppress the sound.

"Just kidding, don't be so surprised. You're from the White District, the material of your clothes is very different from the Gray District. Although you're mischievous, you have very good manners and habits. Unlike me, you come from a much more prestigious family. When you climbed over the wall, there were three pairs of eyes watching this way from outside the school gate, but I suspect there were more, though I can't pinpoint their locations right now. Are they your bodyguards?"

Hearing Lin Yilin's habitual words, the girl's eyes widened: "How did you know! Are you the kidnapper who's going to grab me and demand ransom from my parents?"

Are you valuable?

"I am Hong Yijia, super valuable, even more valuable than my sister!" Because I have the Pure White Factor.

"Oh." Lin Yilin turned her head away, bored. Even a child from a wealthy family with multiple bodyguards was just as uninteresting.

"What? You know her?" Hong Yijia suddenly spoke.

Lin Yilin turned around abruptly: "Who are you talking to?"

Hong Yijia looked at the empty space beside her, then turned to Lin Yilin again upon hearing this: "Your name is Lin Yilin?"

"You investigated me?" Lin Yilin's conspiracy theories had caught up with the methods of those wealthy families. It seemed this boring young lady from a prominent family was indeed valuable, with a powerful background, having thoroughly investigated her in one go...

"No, no! It was [name] who told me that he knows you!"

"Who?"

“■■ Ah.”

Lin Yilin stared blankly at Hong Yijia: "Are you making fun of me? Where is the silencer? In your ears? In your mouth? Or is it an ability of the fantasy factor? If so, this ability is a bit too boring."

"What are you talking about? I said... uh... can't you hear me say his name?" Hong Yijia, who also had a temper, almost lost it, but suddenly seemed to be calmed down and then asked.

“…No.” Lin Yilin replied, then followed Hong Yijia’s gaze as she looked at the air beside her.

Nothing at all.

"What was that, a hallucination?"

“He said that’s a valid point, but I don’t think it’s a normal hallucination. It’s a super hallucination that’s even more powerful than a normal hallucination! A normal hallucination couldn’t possibly come to the white world, let alone make contact with me.” Hong Yijia shook her finger and then inexplicably praised this hallucination.

What's going on? This boring little brat, is being targeted by illusions something to be proud of? He's even starting to brag about the power of illusions, which makes no sense.

However, is it possible to enter a white world through hallucination?
When Lin Yilin's thoughts reached this part, she seemed to involuntarily sink into a quagmire. As she struggled and tried to move through it, her speed gradually slowed down and eventually came to a standstill.

She came to her senses: "Then you should have told your bodyguards. They didn't even realize you were hallucinating. Judging by their attitude, it seems your wealth is nothing special."

"Wow, your words have been so sharp since the beginning, even sharper than my sister's." Hong Yijia was a little angry.

Then she was calmed down.

“■■, she can’t even see you, so why do you know her?” Hong Yijia started talking to something she couldn’t see beside her. The thing seemed to say something, and then Hong Yijia looked at Lin Yilin with a pitying gaze.

Lin Yilin frowned, her patience waning rapidly: "What is it now?"

"Xiaolin, have you forgotten something?"

"..." Lin Yilin remained stunned for a long time before saying, "Hmm. It seems so."

Hong Yijia looked at it more and more and more like it: "Xiaolin, are you... already mentally disabled at such a young age?"

Lin Yilin almost smashed the book she was holding onto Hong Yijia's head; her aversion to stupidity was about to kick in.

Hong Yijia laughed out loud: "I was just kidding. Let's play together. I originally thought that ■■ was my elf alone, but Xiaolin, you might be the same kind as me."

“We are absolutely not the same kind of people, I would rather die than be friends with you,” Lin Yilin said without hesitation.

"Who do you think you're talking to? If you keep talking like that, I won't give you the [illegible]!"

Just as Lin Yilin was about to say "Who cares?", she saw Hong Yijia's head suddenly being pressed down by something unseen for a while, until Hong Yijia chuckled and joked, saying things like "■■ isn't hers" before it was released.

It's real, that thing.

However, she still turned her head away: "I'm not playing with you."

He then walked directly out of the school.

Hong Yijia looked at Lin Yilin with an awkward expression: "If it weren't for ■■, I wouldn't bother with her at all. How can she have such a bad temper? Who would want to be friends with her! She's awful!"

However, her anger subsided quickly, and she added, "Isn't she a student at this school? She's the one skipping class! This is a gray area, it's too unsafe for a little kid to run around outside. I've heard there have been quite a few child abduction cases in some neighborhoods lately..."

Hong Yijia, who said this, naturally ruled out herself sneaking out alone. After all, she was the extremely valuable Hong Yijia, and it was obvious that she would have a bunch of bodyguards watching over her if she sneaked out.

The second young lady and her bodyguards were just having a tacit game.

Lin Yilin didn't go far; she just wanted to stroll around the school area. Based on her observations before arriving, even in the gray-area neighborhood, the area where the school was located seemed relatively safe. It was close to Xiding Road, where there were many reputable law firms.

The image of Hong Yijia talking to that unseen being flashed through her mind, and she felt an uncontrollable irritation in her heart.

She was laughing so happily. That thing seemed really good to her; it turned out that hallucinations didn't only represent danger. That young lady, initially very wary of herself, with sharp reactions, but deliberately acting like a child to lower others' guard, her many emotional changes were quite theatrical and exaggerated, and there were even signs of rudimentary training on her part.

She may seem like the naive and innocent type from novels, but she's actually quite cunning.

The fact that such a young lady could be so intimate with that illusion speaks volumes about their relationship.

The feeling of emptiness in my heart became stronger.

Watching others find an unseen friend who can always be by their side, while I can only wander alone with this emptiness of having forgotten so much.

She gripped the book in her hand tightly.

rustling...

Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of a black earthworm wriggling in the ground at the corner of the street. It was so fat that it looked more like a snake than an earthworm. It burrowed into the soil and disappeared in a flash.

What was that just now?
In a moment of stunned silence, the ground began to shake slightly.

(End of this chapter)