Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 41 The Dead Body

Lin Yilin walked through the morning mist to the door of her office.

She just took out the key to open the door but suddenly stopped.

His eyes quickly scanned around the door before he continued to open it and entered the house.

"Mr. Hallucination?"

Toast was sleeping in the corner, and Zheng Fan disappeared for a while.

Lin Yilin squatted beside the sofa, stared at the floor for a while, then turned her eyes to the side, muttering numbers softly.

Finally, he looked all the way to the coffee machine, sniffed it, picked up the can of coffee beans on the coffee machine and put it down again, his eyes cast on the mug on the coffee table.

There was the sound of flapping wings, and a gray-eyed bat flew out of the house and turned back into human form. Zheng Fan landed next to Lin Yilin: "Good morning, you're a little early today."

"Mr. Hallucination, what happened last night?"

"Is it true that I can't hide it from you?" Zheng Fan sighed, then said: "But don't worry, although there was a small accident last night, Toast and I helped you handle it perfectly."

"Oh?" Lin Yilin tilted her head.

"First, it's still our good neighbor, Banmu Office. They sent people to your office last night to smash and harass you in an attempt to drive you away."

Lin Yilin nodded.

"Then Toast and I scared them away." Zheng Fan opened his hands, as if to show off his achievements.

Lin Yilin nodded.

Waited for a while.

"and then?"

"There's nothing else to do. What else can I do if everyone runs away?" Zheng Fan put his hands away and pretended to be stupid.

Lin Yilin blinked. "There are traces of people coming in and out of the door, bloodstains on the sofa that were not completely cleaned up, marks on the floor from heavy objects, gun smoke next to the coffee machine, and the expensive coffee beans have been reduced by the equivalent of ten cups. But Mr. Hallucination, you should not be able to drink so much in one night."

Zheng Fan kept smiling.

Lin Yilin continued: "So, did Mr. Hallucination omit too many things in his story? How did they scare them away? And there were about four people who died here. How were the bodies dealt with? And why did one person seem to be still alive and hiding in the office?"

"If you get married, the man will never dare to cheat."

"I allowed the man to cheat and then arranged a perfect crime together to make the woman disappear."

"Hiss, there is great love, Miss Lin Yilin."

Having said that, Zheng Fan stopped pretending and led Lin Yilin into the house.

There are indeed several vacant rooms in the office, some for temporary accommodation, some for storing Lin Yilin's secret props, and even a relatively simple laboratory.

Walking into the laboratory, Lin Yilin saw Cheng Fei lying on the table in the middle.

At this time, Cheng Fei still had his eyes open and was breathing shallowly and slowly, but there was no other reaction.

Lin Yilin walked in to observe him, and even took out a flashlight to test his pupils' light reflex. After a brief observation, she asked, "Vegetative? What did Mr. Hallucination do?"

"Possession, complete takeover. But then it became like this." Zheng Fan shrugged.

Lin Yilin nodded and walked towards the freezer in the laboratory: "So the other bodies are in..."

Open the door of the freezer. This freezer is generally only used to temporarily store some samples and objects that need to be frozen. The volume inside is not large, and the person who stuffed them in was quite rough.

Fortunately, if four people squeezed together, there was still some space left. "Mr. Illusion..."

"I'm sorry, but if there's any other use for your freezer..."

"You can't dismember a body?"

"……what?"

Lin Yilin dragged the frozen bodies out of the freezer. The four bodies squeezed together and frozen and stuck together looked quite horrible, but Lin Yilin was unmoved. She walked to a table in the laboratory and opened the large drawer of the table.

"There are tools here. Any normal adult can use them easily. The tools for removing blood stains and odors more cleanly are over here. The soundproofing of the office is specially strengthened, especially in this laboratory. It will take an hour... a little longer if you are not skilled, but as long as you are willing to work, it is not difficult to cut a few bodies into small pieces, put them in the freezer, and clean up the scene before dawn."

Zheng Fan was stunned for a moment and said, "So the perfect crime is real?"

Lin Yilin tapped her chin with her finger as if thinking: "Will the man find four people to have sex? That would be a bit difficult."

"Alas, Cheng Fei's body is too weak. He doesn't have any energy to use. I'm exhausted just by cleaning up outside. Even when I stayed at home for months without exercising and ate takeout all day, I was never this weak." Zheng returned to the topic and pointed at Cheng Fei on the stage.

Lin Yilin returned to Cheng Fei's body and looked at it: "Is the left arm of this body new?"

"I worked so hard to give him another life, otherwise this body would have died."

"No, this body should have been dead. The 'mark of death' is obvious."

"Huh?" Zheng Fan was stunned. "But I can't possess a dead body."

"It's a bit complicated to explain... Mr. Illusion is not an ordinary illusion. The threshold to see Mr. Illusion is very high. I made a lot of preparations to see you."

"Jiang Si?"

“That’s why I say she’s special.”

"So that's it."

Lin Yilin continued: "Cheng Fei couldn't see you, Mr. Illusion, but he was successfully contacted by you. According to the scene, it was probably because of the life-and-death situation and the strong mental shock that he broke through the barrier. But even so, it was only temporary. He couldn't see you in essence and his qualifications were insufficient. I'm afraid that even if he saw Mr. Illusion, his appearance would be different from Mr. Illusion's real appearance."

Zheng Fan was stunned: "So what does it have to do with the fact that I possessed him?"

"Yes. Although it is temporary, the conditions for contact and mental breakdown have been met, so you can invade, Mr. Hallucination. But when you invade, Cheng Fei is already dead."

Lin Yilin looked down at Cheng Fei: "Then in the process of entering the world of death, this body was restored and completely seized by Mr. Illusion's powerful force. This body has been engraved with 'death', and it should not move again in this world. Mr. Illusion forced it to move, which is to defy the rules of death, so it is so reluctant."

"The rules of death?" Zheng repeated.

It doesn't sound like physical death, spiritual death or anything like that.

Zheng Fan had already made up for the physiological problems, and if there was spiritual death, Zheng Fan could replace that part.

But even so, it cannot change the rule that "Cheng Fei is dead" in Dadu.

The world of the dead? It seems to be another problem of the so-called "multiple worlds" in this place called Dadu.

"Moreover, if it is completely seized, Cheng Fei will completely become the nutrients of Mr. Illusion, but the result is that Mr. Illusion, you did not actually absorb this body. You did not completely invade reality, but you can still escape from it. The body after separation is in this subtle vegetative state, between life and death." Lin Yilin added.

After roughly understanding the situation, Zheng Fan said in annoyance: "Tsk, I should have known not to pretend to drink coffee. I'm a step too late!"

"It's hard to say." Lin Yilin comforted, "After all, Mr. Illusion is different from ordinary illusions. It's hard to say whether this temporary witness at the moment of life and death can be recognized as a body by Mr. Illusion's power."

Although it might be possible if it was a normal hallucination, it was hard to say for Zheng Fan's case.

After all, she had never heard of a dead body being forcibly brought back to life right after death.

(End of this chapter)