Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 371 Tranquil Rain and Fiery Red

"Um, Mr. Zheng, is something wrong?" After Xi Cai left, Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin were thinking about how to get this news out of the area. For the two of them, this was probably the biggest gain from their trip to Subway Zero.

However, Mo Mang looked at the horizon and suddenly spoke cautiously, his uncertain words revealing a certain certainty in his tone.

"Ok?"

"You and Miss Number One said before that after that fleshy behemoth fell, those strange aurora lights should disappear, right?" Mo Mang asked.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin looked up and focused their attention on the sky, understanding what Mo Mang meant.

In this fictional history, the endless overlapping has not ended.

Although the dazzling aurora in the sky has faded considerably, and many inhabitants of this other world have indeed departed, it still exists.

“In official history, the infinite overlap did indeed end when we arrived, so we wouldn’t feel that we’re mistaken, and your teacher Niu’s calculations wouldn’t be wrong either,” Zheng Xiangfan said to Lin Yilin.

Lin Yilin asked, "So this is a change unique to this world? Why?"

"Maybe it's because they found out that one of the passengers was too supermodel-like," Zheng Fan shrugged.

As she spoke, Lin Yilin suddenly turned around and kicked out, shoving away a mist dweller who was trying to approach using the gradually thinning blood mist.

Zheng Fan turned around and punched the Mist Dweller squarely in the chest, unleashing his full power. Zheng Fan's past skills were now displayed with even greater destructive force thanks to his current physical condition. The Mist Dweller was sent flying and crashed into the ruins, falling silent with a muffled thud.

Drizzling...

Sparse raindrops suddenly fell, and Mo Mang was somewhat surprised to feel the coldness.

For a moment, the vast Jiangwen Street fell into an eerie silence, and nothing could be felt except for the sound of rain.

Everything in the rain seems to be frozen in time with this vast, desolate rain scene.

A figure wearing a blue semi-transparent raincoat strolls along the rainy street, the sound of footsteps splashing in the water bringing a unique sense of new life to the scene.

Or perhaps it is the only active participant in this rain.

Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin watched the sound of the other slowly approaching. Suddenly, Lin Yilin raised her hand, and a small black earthworm crawled out from her fingertip and bit her hand hard.

Despite the pain, Lin Yilin was able to open her mouth to breathe again. Then, she raised her hand and slapped Mo Mang, who was in a similar condition, which eased the other's already unpleasant expression.

They almost forgot to breathe.

Fortunately, Lin Yilin was at least conscious enough to react, but that was still not enough. She needed more direct stimulation to make her body react from the inexplicable stillness.

What is this?
In the stillness of the rain, a figure appears and disappears amidst the normal mist and lingering blood mist, the face beneath the raincoat shrouded in shadow.

It stood alone amidst the ruins in the rain, solitary and ethereal, surrounded only by these raindrops.

Wow!

A transparent spray of water suddenly burst open in mid-air, splashing onto the ground like water that had been spilled, without causing much of a ripple.

Those are inhabitants of the water world, special life forms in the water.

Lin Yilin originally thought that the people in the rain were also a special kind of inhabitants of the water world, but this behavior made her suspicious.

Even the inhabitants of the water world, in this tranquil rain, might silently forget the flow of life and die.

People walked silently through the rain, and wherever the drizzle passed, the blood mist was washed away, and on the dead corpses, fresh water sprouted new buds at an astonishing speed.

Beneath the seemingly cruel scene lies positive development.

The figure in the rain ignored everyone around it, strolling slowly yet seemingly moving very fast, disappearing from the three people's sight.

"What is that?" Zheng Fan asked. Apart from the strange atmosphere, he didn't have any particular feelings. The reason he didn't speak just now was because he felt it wasn't appropriate to speak casually.

And this light rain is really comfortable.

Lin Yilin swallowed hard: "I don't know."

It was something even the binary girl didn't know. Lin Yilin looked at her finger, which she had just deliberately bitten with an earthworm. She hadn't taken any treatment measures, but the wound had already healed completely in the rain.

Mo Mang touched the cheek that Lin Yilin had abruptly slapped: "It only hurt for a moment and then I didn't feel anything anymore."

"You don't need to mention this." The handprint wasn't obvious, and it looked a bit pitiful to deliberately cover your face and say it.

"Has that thing ever existed in reality?" Mo Mang didn't care about these questions. Ever since he was able to ask questions while following Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin, his thoughts had become more active.

He doesn't understand many things, but if he sorts them out on his own, they're not actually that obscure. He can probably piece together the outline and figure out some of the mechanisms.

"No, I don't think so." Lin Yilin shook her head.

"It's hard to say. If it were this quiet in reality, it might have been kicked away when 'Lossevier' fell," Zheng Fan said.

“Perhaps it didn’t actually appear in the normal, brief, infinite overlap, but in the history of this site, the extended overlap brought this thing to the surface… It should be related to the water world,” Lin Yilin said, the characteristic being quite obvious.

“I’ll go and strike up a conversation,” Zheng volunteered.

Getting too close to that thing would undoubtedly be dangerous, so Zheng Fan decided to go himself.

"But the timing should be about the same..."

Before Lin Yilin could finish speaking, a series of explosions and muffled thuds came from afar. A black dot rapidly expanded on the horizon before crashing directly into the central area not far away.

As the violent earthquake struck, terrifying shockwaves spread in all directions.

Mo Mang felt for a moment that he was about to be shattered to pieces in the violent tremor, but fortunately Zheng Fan pulled him up in time and dispelled all the effects on him.

Lin Yilin immediately felt all her earthworms become active and restless.

It feels very familiar, without a doubt.

An illusion of earthquakes then enveloped the sky, turning the already gloomy sky black.

It's almost time.

Just as Zheng was about to speak, a familiar voice suddenly said, "Oh my, this is quite an interesting discovery. Was it due to the impact of the earthquake or some strange change caused by the chaotic spacetime? Why are you two here?"

The familiar red-haired man, still wearing a bright red coat, walked on the trembling ruins with ease, his black knee-high boots making it seem like flat ground.

Golden eyes stood high above, looking down at Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin.

"Sister Ye," Lin Yilin called out.

When it descended from the illusionary realm, it also brought down Luo Ye, Zheng Fan, and Lin Yilin, who were in the realm at the time.

It's not surprising to run into Luo Ye here, but according to the location of the event in the official history, Luo Ye should be watching the Battle of the Century from the nearest seat in the Central District.

They shouldn't have come to the edge of the central district. Although they are both in the central district, the central district of Jiangwen Street is quite large.

Furthermore, what she just said seemed to have a very clear meaning.
Luo Ye realized something was wrong.

She hopped down from the ruins and stood before Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin, scrutinizing them carefully. Her eyes held amusement. "They look genuine. Unless some kind of illusion has convincingly fooled even me, but that's impossible. Since you're real, then what about those over there…?"

She glanced at the central district in the distance, where a brief calm was followed by another violent upheaval, marking the start of a major battle.

“…I see. It’s true in relation to this world, at least in my naive understanding.” Luo Ye made a shooting gesture to his temple.

Lin Yilin was slightly surprised: "Sister Ye, do you know?"

“I didn’t know at first, but I knew when I saw you all after falling down. Oh, I see. The one standing in front of you is fake? To be precise, it should be a projection of history.” As he spoke, Luo Ye glanced at the illusion of the pocket watch in his hand. “That should be it. There are no traces of time and space anomalies. This is a projection of a fragment of history dug out by some powerful illusion, a power of the illusionary realm. I am fake, and you are real.”

Before Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin could say anything, Luo Ye had already figured out the situation on his own.

Although he made a grand entrance and was quickly and easily captured by Zheng Fan, as time went on, Zheng Fan increasingly realized that the reason this guy was so arrogant back then seemed to have considerable confidence and resources.

As expected of Lao Luo.

(End of this chapter)