Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 351 Ring
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"What's going on? Why is the gray index of Jiangwen Street expanding? The surrounding white urban areas are turning into gray streets!" At this moment, the scholars of the Leonardo School District were extremely nervous about the development of the situation.

The illusionary realm was too fast, and the massive earthquake it triggered upon landing further impacted the entire capital, causing additional damage. In particular, their surveillance of Jiangwen Street was completely severed shortly after the illusionary realm enveloped it.

However, although the real-time surveillance was compromised, the instruments that could observe the grayscale index of the entire area continued to operate.

However, this instrument did not provide them with any optimistic information.

"Was it caused by that illusionary realm? Why can't the lantern bearers get here yet?!"

"Why did we set up such tight external barriers in the first place? We even had to guard against our own lamplighters!?"

"These are all arrangements made from above; there's no use telling me this now!"

"No problem, our basic mission has been completed, the triple impact has been resolved, and what follows is beyond our scope of handling. We can't be held accountable either. Let the lamplighters worry about it."

"Damn it, is the first thing they do when something goes wrong to shirk responsibility?"

For a moment, these usually unfathomable scholars turned the scene into a bustling marketplace.

The representative of the Pure White Society sat silently in a corner, undisturbed by the surrounding situation.

His fingers tapped lightly on the table, his eyes darting about, when suddenly, a crisp communication ringtone broke the noise.

The representative of the Pure White Society looked up and, unsurprisingly, saw an old-fashioned white rotary dial telephone in front of him.
Everyone fell silent without realizing it, as if they had suddenly been muted.

This telephone symbolizes communication from the central core area.

Apart from major events, people there rarely contact the outside world directly anymore. Most people think that given the current situation, the key figures should at least show some attitude.

It's finally here.

Scholars from the Pure White Society answered the phone and made contact.

A moment later, he put down the receiver: "Our mission is over. Some black branches have taken advantage of the chaos to take root in Jiangwen Street. The Central District will soon carry out eradication measures. Everything will be fine."

Upon hearing this, everyone remained silent for a long time.

Only the scholar from the End of the Society, dressed in black and having been watching the spectacle and joining the crowd for a long time, finally spoke up and asked, "Does the fact that they're taking action from over there mean that Jiangwen Street will be abandoned?"

“They never shy away from our questions, and we all understand what you mean.” The scholar from the Pure White Society exhaled and turned to look at the other party.

Other scholars from various societies couldn't help but lower their heads.

After a pause, a scholar from the Pure White Society spoke up: "Destruction is necessary before the roots spread. They never intend to abandon any particular area, but they also don't care what happens to that area when they take action."

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"Losher" trembled as she raised her head, earthworms on her face and even her body falling off uncontrollably.

The branches that pierced through her were absorbing and devouring everything she possessed, and her power was being irrevocably diminished.

The trees behind them continued to grow, and the illusionary realm covering the sky was also transformed along with them.

In a corner of Jiangwen Street, a writhing mass of flesh was struggling with all its might.

The moment the flesh-and-blood behemoth was crushed to death, all the flesh-and-blood people on Jiangwen Street lost their vitality. Their false life force vanished without a certain support, like a fleeting, beautiful bubble.

Those who witness this scene would likely believe that the "ancestor" of the bait illusion has been eliminated because of the source of these lure flesh and blood.

Actually it is not.

Our ancestor is still alive.

It certainly couldn't die. With such a diligent and obsessed illusion, it had such a large pool of decoy hosts that it could easily move on. The only price it would pay was to give up a rare physical body.

As long as it can react in time.

Previously, it was hampered by toxins and a series of external factors, and it seemed as if it had died because of its obsession with the bodies of earthquake victims.

But this is just an illusion it presents to the outside world.

Its anger towards Jiang Si was genuine, but what it realized more was not that it had been humiliated, but that the tide had turned and it should lie low again to look for an opportunity.

At that time, the total amount of life force harvested was severely insufficient, and something seemed to have happened on Agui's side. Originally, it was waiting for "Losevier" to return to reality with the illusionary realm that had not yet been absorbed and resolved, so that it could then attempt to seize it.

As a result, the illusionary realm was absorbed by "Losevier" without any struggle, causing "Losevier" to descend directly in her complete form, leaving it with absolutely no chance.

Feigning death to escape. After quickly weighing the pros and cons, the ancestor made a decisive move, abandoning its grand plan in Jiangwen Street, including the life force that it felt heartbroken just thinking about it. It extinguished all its bait in Jiangwen Street and then hid in a corner.

Wait for things to pass.

"Lossevier" may be able to turn Dadu upside down, but she cannot truly destroy Dadu. So as long as it can survive, the one that will live to the end is still its ancestor!

Next, it only needs to sculpt this body slightly, and then take advantage of the fact that the blockade of Jiangwen Street has been broken by "Losevier" to escape from here and seek a chance to make a comeback elsewhere.

Of course, it also has bait hosts outside of Jiangwen Street, but the reason it didn't transfer them directly on the spot was because it was a little reluctant to do so. It still wanted to take away as many resources as possible to fund its restart, which would make its future much better... even if only a little.

Speaking of which, what was that aura that started a little while ago? Besides "Losevier," there seemed to be another terrifying aura that it dared not feel any longer.

Those must be of the same kind...

similar?

The ancestor was somewhat incredulous; all sorts of strange and unsavory characters had come out in this chaotic situation. But none of that mattered to it anymore; let that guy and "Losevier" deal with it.

It needs to hurry...

On the distant, black giant tree, "Lin Yilin" suddenly turned around. Across the vast distance, her gaze pierced through all obstacles and landed on the writhing flesh.

The writhing motion of the flesh suddenly froze, and it trembled in place.

impossible……

How was it discovered?
run!
A cold, merciless gray-white gaze loomed over its head, and the old ancestor felt a chill in his heart and immediately shifted his focus.

Startup capital doesn't matter anymore; it just needs to leave immediately...

Click...

Its consciousness froze abruptly; its essence as an illusion was pierced and exposed by a twig, leaving it nowhere to escape. The mass of flesh withered and rotted away, turning into useless dust.

The yearning for vitality ultimately leaves behind nothing more than a rotting stench that dissipates with the wind.

Lin Yilin withdrew her gaze and looked down at Losevie.

From the very beginning, she seemed to be whispering something.

By now, they have completely given up resisting, and what remains is a sense of fragility.

"What do you think she's thinking?" Zheng asked Lin Yilin.

"She's probably thinking about Yagui," Lin Yilin replied without much thought.

“Indeed,” Zheng responded. “Remember the illusion of the fledgling I mentioned?”

"Ah."

"Although she can exist in reality without a host thanks to the power of the illusion world, it was Ya Gui who gave her initial understanding of the world and even her goals. Ya Gui can undoubtedly be considered her first host."

Lin Yilin continued, "She has all the memories of the person who created her, but from the time she awoke until her imminent death, she never saw that person. Assuming her personality was already formed during this process, she must be very sad now."

"Yes." Zheng Fan nodded slightly.

Lin Yilin looked at "Losher" without any sympathy in her eyes: "Although, Yagui has never loved her either."

She is just a copy of a copy.

Now that things have turned out this way, it's just the end result of being used as a tool for revenge.

During their conversation, "Lossaway's" body had almost completely disintegrated.

Zheng Fan used Lin Yilin's body to reach out and absorb her, leaving behind the ugly recast ring in his palm.

“This ring…” Lin Yilin suddenly felt a little puzzled.

“Yagui didn’t seem very wealthy before,” Zheng teased.

“A badge,” Lin Yilin said.

When she first met Agui briefly, Agui was carrying out an operation in Xixi Keke, even deploying a powerful illusion of panic to delay Luo Ye's actions, all in order to obtain that badge that seemed to have nothing to do with him.

This ring was made from the recasting of that badge.

Or rather... that badge was originally made from the ring that Aguirre gave to Lothaway?
For some unknown reason, it ended up in the hands of the Kannetton family and was even recast as a family crest.

No wonder he went to such lengths, even risking initial exposure to take the badge.

"Perhaps, Yagui isn't entirely unloving of her," Lin Yilin said after thinking it over.

Zheng Fan shrugged nonchalantly: "Who knows?"

It doesn't matter what kind of interpretation it is.

Anyway, both he and she are already dead.

As a keepsake, Lin Yilin allowed Zheng Fan to keep the ring.

Suddenly, Zheng felt his face go numb.

“…What is that?” He stood on the treetop and looked back into the distance.

It's as if some force has locked him in.

(End of this chapter)