Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 348 Arrival
"The world of the earthquake has been confirmed to have collapsed." The people at the Leonardo School District's meeting place quickly received the feedback.

Although it was something they had anticipated, given all the preparations they had made, it would be impolite if they failed.

For most people, the earthquake world is a transient world that may not repeat itself even once every few years, and the filtering of large-scale disaster-type worlds has always been maintained.

After the impact of an earthquake is diluted, it is not difficult for lamplighters and lighthouse makers to directly shatter a world.

"Confirm the situation in the Illusionary Realm," the scholar from the Pure White Society instructed without letting his guard down.

"It has been confirmed that we have escaped the chaotic spacetime and are approaching Dadu! This overlapping speed... is too fast! Three times faster than expected!"

Many scholars present frowned.

However, they did not panic. Although the general leadership still wanted to send people away as much as possible, the triple impact they had just suffered had rekindled their long-dormant sense of crisis, making them more cautious in their response.

"What do the lamplighters say? Is it possible to obstruct and push them away?"

The response was received quickly: It's impossible.

That illusionary realm is several times larger than when it first appeared. Given that they just destroyed the earthquake world, it's not impossible for them to stop the illusionary realm from entering the dump truck charge state, but the success rate is not high.

If they fail, the lantern bearers may suffer further losses in the process, and then the battlefield will have to be turned back to Dadu, which would be a complete loss.

After hearing the analysis from the Lamplighters, the scholars of the Pure White Society pondered for a moment and then made a decision: "Execute Plan B, do not obstruct, and guide them, focusing on Jiangwen Street. The Lamplighters should quickly adjust and prepare for the next battle."

Since we can't stop it, we can only try to reduce and limit the scope of the disaster.

Anyway, Jiangwen Street has become like that now, so it doesn't matter anymore.

……

The old ancestor was pierced into his flesh by a poisoned bullet.

Distracted by the irritating music, it was so easily struck by a missile that traveled at a moderate speed, bypassing all obstacles.

The next moment, highly concentrated heavy metal toxins were injected into the flesh-and-blood behemoth's body.

It emitted a sharp hiss, and its flesh throbbed violently. As its flesh was dissolved by heavy metal toxins, it harvested the surrounding life force to replenish and fight back.

However, the poison blast had a significant effect on it before it could neutralize and consume these toxins.

The ancestor discovered this familiar toxin when he first created the flesh and blood behemoth; many of his baits inexplicably contained these toxins that countered its life force.

traitor!

Its bait contains many traitors! They inject themselves with toxins to resist its great vitality, and now they want to inject this poison into its body!
Damn it!

Moreover, from the very beginning, within minutes of the aurora's appearance, its decoys suffered a massive blow. The main enemy force was the group of lifeless corpses.

Others also suffered from numerous overlapping disturbances, and in this hunting ground it set up, the harvested life force rapidly decreased over time.

Time is running out...

The situation is taking a turn for the worse.

But until then...

The fleshy behemoth's main body suddenly condensed into a giant flower of flesh and blood. In the instant it bloomed, a scarlet beam of energy was emitted, heading towards the figure playing shrill music on the distant Tower of Insight.

Smash that noisy stereo!
The reduction in the amount of life force that can be harvested is more than half due to this existence. Putting aside the toxins she just launched from those traitors, the most bizarre thing is that this music has begun to cause many of its decoys to go out of control.

An out-of-control decoy may suddenly regain its self-awareness, or it may erupt into a frenzy, attacking indiscriminately without distinguishing friend from foe.

Even more so, the music guided a deathly vision that disintegrated its hunting grounds.

Whichever factor is blocking its vital supply, that is the first thing it must address.

Boom!

The Tower of Insight was ripped halfway off by the luminous cannon. But the violin music did not stop; the staff and notes supported Doris's body as she played with complete absorption, the music keeping all external distractions at bay.

The flesh and blood behemoth was about to continue its actions when suddenly a large amount of flesh and blood condensed in front of it, piecing together a flesh and blood giant that swung its fist and smashed it into its body.

boom!
A muffled thud erupted, and the shockwave spread from the point of impact, causing the flesh-and-blood behemoth to be knocked back unexpectedly.

It was alright, but it was even more puzzled: these were all its bait! Unlike the flesh and blood that had gone out of control due to the music, most of this flesh and blood was still under its control, so why did they suddenly gather together and punch it!?

The ancestor quickly noticed the red threads running through the flesh and blood.

These flesh and blood have had their physical control forcibly taken away!
Jiang Si tensed up, this was the first time she had ever done something on such a large scale.

Upon hearing the violin music, she recognized it immediately—it was Doris playing the violin. The violin had a significant impact on these chunks of flesh, especially for her, as a zombie; she clearly felt the music stripping away the burgeoning life force from their bodies.

Although she doesn't seem to have actively joined the battle, the combined damage output of everyone else on the field is currently less than that of Doris alone.

The music is really amazing. So she can only protect our main DPS character.

The ancestor quickly launched a counterattack. The flesh and blood behemoth and the flesh and blood giant engaged in the most primitive and direct struggle. Jiang Si barely managed to hold on, but when the ancestor began to use the earthquake power of this body, he finally could not bear the burden.

A violent shockwave cascaded down on the flesh giant, shattering large sections of its flesh and blood. The shockwave then rapidly spread along the red line towards Jiang Si.

Upon noticing this, Jiang Si immediately severed the red thread to avoid being affected, but the Ancestor had already located Jiang Si's position, and the Flower of Flesh and Blood bloomed once more.

boom!
tick...

But halfway through the beam cannon's trajectory, a tall, bald-faced robot suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Si. Time seemed to be traversed by it, and its arc-shaped wings behind it emitted light as it slashed down with its lance, cleaving the blood-red beam cannon in two.

Then, its chest changed, and a heavy chest cannon was raised.

Radish had already mastered the high-energy reaction module of the second type.

sizzle-

Boom!

A purplish-black light cannon erupted from the chest of a radish that was much smaller than the flesh and blood behemoth, but after it bloomed, it expanded and radiated to be even larger than the previous light cannon of the flesh and blood behemoth.

The flesh-and-blood behemoth gathered its life force to form a shield to block, but the shield was easily cut through, and the light cannon pierced through its body, eliminating most of its main body.

That's not all; the radish was also continuously firing cannon fire and beams of light.

The ancestor was so overwhelmed that it couldn't even muster its life force. With each additional chip added, it was pulled to the brink of collapse!
Unfortunately, toxins were still accumulating in its body. No, its priority now is to replenish its reserves!
However, Jiang Si had already used the red thread to entangle the flesh-and-blood behemoth, and then pulled herself up to the many cratered wounds on its body caused by the radish bombardment, especially the large hole that was first pierced by the super light cannon. "Hey, heavy metal poison, it doesn't match the biological poison of the zombie." Jiang Si realized that the flesh-and-blood behemoth was poisoned, but after climbing up, she found that the type of poison was different.

There was definitely no way to replace Jiang Si before he studied with the Undying King, but things are different now.

"The essence of all worlds is the same. If you want to make progress, the first thing you need to do is get used to finding differences. After finding the differences, then explore the similarities." This is what Mr. Immortal King said in one of his classes.

The other party's vision far surpasses that of an ordinary world ruler; he knows much more than Jiang Si's semi-literate father in her memory. It is indeed impressive that he can write about a library by hand.

Although the lectures were boring and always made Jiang Si drowsy, she did learn something.

With his hands outstretched, his fingernails grew slightly and became sharp. Corpse poison flowed out, emitting a fresh plant fragrance that temporarily masked the surrounding putrid and bloody smell.

Then insert the needle and inject the poison.

As she injected poison into her fingertips, which pierced the flesh, numerous threads extended out, seemingly replacing the blood vessels and veins within the flesh, except that these vessels carried a terrifyingly potent poison.

At the same time, after these corpse toxins came into contact with the heavy metal toxins remaining in the flesh and blood behemoth's body, two unrelated toxins from different worlds suddenly had a strange reaction.

Wow!

Instantly, large areas of festering sores appeared on the flesh and blood behemoth's body, and the little life force that had just been painstakingly harvested from the radish's attack was once again completely consumed.

By the time the old ancestor realized what had happened, he had already reached his limit of tolerance.

An aged face appeared amidst the blood and flesh before Jiang Si's eyes, its expression grim as it said, "Stop! You foolish scoundrel!"

"..."

"Look at me! Answer me! Do you know what you're doing? You're destroying the world's hope for immortality. The future of flesh and blood ascending to immortality is just around the corner. As long as I gather enough strength to face 'her' who is coming! Once I cross that threshold, I will bring salvation to the world! You are still young, unaware of the powerlessness of old age, unaware of the terror of death. I can give you endless life!"

“…I am already dead.” Jiang Si continued injecting the poison, then replied calmly.

"Ah!" the patriarch roared, "A bunch of ungrateful bastards! When you need me, you venerate me as a god or immortal, but after seeing the essence of life, you are limited by your lowly and superficial human morality and want to destroy me! I have grown to this point entirely because of your own fault! And now you want to judge me with these smug and respectable faces!"

"Oh? You think this is the essence of life?" Jiang Si was somewhat surprised by this.

"This is the essence!"

"Then I can only say that your understanding isn't that profound either, just like the rotten meat you produce."

"What did you say?!" How dare this tiny human question it? The ancestor was furious.

"As a zombie, I can still tell the difference between premium ingredients and inferior food," Jiang Si said casually, without offering any profound insights.

The ancestor couldn't take it anymore.

He mobilized all the surrounding flesh and blood, and his whole body emitted a violent shockwave that sent Jiang Si flying.

But just as Jiang Si landed, a figure flashed out from behind her.

Completely bewildered, Zhang Xue, the neighborhood chief, suddenly felt nauseous halfway through her journey. The toxins in her body mysteriously erupted at this moment, but they did not cause her much damage. Instead, they directly controlled her body to move.

Seizing this opportunity, she realized what she needed to do.

Without a second thought, she swung her little hammer straight out.

The simplest and most direct powerful physical attack.

As the white light burst forth, the flesh-and-blood behemoth crumbled.

Standing amidst the ruins strewn with blood and flesh, Zhang Xue took a breath, feeling the nausea subside slightly, and quickly turned around.

Jiang Si stood behind her, and the two looked at each other.

"You are……"

Jiang Si didn't intend to talk to her. She used poison as a remote control point to release threads to control the human body. It was her first time using this method, but she got the hang of it very easily.

She looked up.

Two beams of white light descended upon the place.

A man and a woman, the two lamplighters, looked at the scene before them. After receiving orders, they rushed from their posts to Jiangwen Street, saying that they would keep an eye on things and, if necessary, try to stop the illusion from growing.

When they arrived, it seemed like things were all over.
"You... did a good job." To cover her embarrassment, the female lamplighter smoothed her hair and said.

The ground began to shake.

The two lantern bearers' expressions changed, and they suddenly looked towards the horizon.

The matter is not over yet; rather, the greatest disaster has just begun.

A thick blackness covered the dark clouds in the sky, and a figure pierced through the clouds, breaking through the blood mist, and fell towards Jiangwen Street at great speed.

The blockade around Jiangwen Street immediately attempted to intercept them, but in the blink of an eye, all their attacks were shattered. At the same time, the black "long rope" waved casually in the air like a ribbon, and black waves landed on the lines around the street.

boom!
The series of explosions led to the easy disintegration of most of the armed forces.

The other party had a clear objective; after entering Jiangwen Street, they headed straight for the two most conspicuous lamplighters.

Zhang Xue and Jiang Si sensed something was wrong and quickly moved aside, while the two lantern bearers also mobilized their own power to prepare for a counterattack—

Boom!

A deafening explosion erupted, and a mushroom cloud, accompanied by a violent shockwave, swept across the entire Jiangwen Street. Doris was forced to stop her performance, and all the fighting was temporarily halted.

The smoke and dust dissipated...

Zhang Xue and Jiang Si were both seriously injured and lay to the side, looking at the figure in front of them.

It has a tall and slender figure with beautiful curves, but its surface is dry and dark gray. Its face is made up of swirls of countless earthworms, and upon closer inspection, the black ribbons hanging from its lower body are all made of slippery earthworms.

The two thick, wriggling earthworms on its back are particularly eye-catching.

Judging from the features of her upper body, she should be female, floating lightly in mid-air, yet causing the surrounding air to tremble.

From the moment it struck, a violent earthquake began to erupt, centered on Jiangwen Street.

(End of this chapter)