Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 493 Chain Plan

A bright red sports car is obviously a rare sight in the violent world, and although the red world is filtered, the street buildings are still monotonous. The bright red color and the loud engine sound inevitably attract a lot of attention.

However, because Luo Ye deliberately accelerated, most people could see the car, but after a few seconds they could only see the taillights.

If a few more people manage to catch up and try to get closer, the ingenious tools Zheng Fan picked up on the road will come in handy.

It's unclear how Luo Ye managed to find his way around this place, but as they drove away from the densely built-up area, the view opened up as the number of fortified villages decreased.

However, there wasn't much scenery to look forward to. We bumped along this dilapidated road, built by who knows who, and the desert on both sides showed no sign of greenery.

After walking for a long time, Zheng Fan finally saw a rough, half-hanging road sign with two characters that were difficult to decipher: "Geshan".

Zheng Fan withdrew his gaze: "What's the deal with the distinction in your family's surname?"

The clan emblem of the Luo family bears the character "烙" (lào), but normally, the surname would only be "洛" (luò). Zheng Fan doesn't know if there are any abnormalities in the differentiation process of Chinese surnames in this world, but judging from Luo Ye's letter, the "烙" (lào) of fire and the "洛" (luò) of water seem to represent some kind of differentiation within the family.

"The original surname was 'Luo'. It seems that this surname does not exist in other worlds. It is the surname of the 'Luo' family in the violent world. Later, a considerable number of clansmen fled to Dadu. In order to integrate into Dadu and hope to be accepted, they changed 'Luo' to 'Luo'. The division began from this place."

Luo Ye replied, "I was born in Dadu and I'm not interested in this, so my understanding is only about this much."

Just then, she suddenly slammed on the brakes. With a screeching sound, Zheng Fan, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was nearly thrown out. Zheng Fan didn't react at all; Luo Ye had to reach out and pull him back.

"I already told you to wear your seatbelt."

"You, who drive at 300 km/h and still dare to let go of the steering wheel, have the nerve to talk to me?" Zheng retorted before looking ahead.

Luo Ye also looked ahead without replying. After a moment of silence, the two of them unanimously chose to get off the bus together.

"Why did you stop?" Zheng Fan asked, standing by the roadside.

"Don't just ask me, don't you feel anything?"

“I can sense it. It’s very strange.” Zheng Fan read the information around him. “It’s an aura of illusion, yet it’s unclear and very mixed, a characteristic unique to the illusionary realm. However, the nature of this illusionary realm itself is also very strange…”

Luo Ye directly dug out an illusion from the root of his tongue, put it on his hand, and it turned into a red and black gauntlet: "Illusionary world, huh? Then I'll go for it."

After saying that, she suddenly punched forward, and the space in front of her immediately appeared with large folds. The image twisted and folded layer by layer, and finally exploded after being compressed to a certain extent.

Wow!

Instantly, screams echoed all around.

Then countless ghost-like things rushed towards Luo Ye.

Luo Ye neither dodged nor avoided the ferocious ghosts passing through his body. After a moment, he suddenly reached out and waved his hand, knocking one of the ghosts away. Instantly, the other ghosts vanished into thin air.

The monster that had been extracted had eaten a punch from Luo Ye, and its body was already beginning to collapse.

“That’s not it,” Zheng Fan suddenly said, grabbing a sniper rifle from the car and firing a shot at the “sun” in the sky. The sky rippled, and the “sun” suddenly appeared, its eyelids blinking.

The world around us began to become blurry and strange.

The ground seemed to come alive, beginning to undulate. Zheng Fan and Luo Ye could both feel the rhythm emanating from beneath the earth—breathing, heartbeats, blood flow…

puff!

A pair of enormous hands, each blotting out the sky, rose from the vast earth on either side, reaching a height of a hundred meters. After a brief pause, they descended upon Luo Ye and Zheng Fan. Luo Ye was poised to throw a punch, but Zheng Fan frowned and said, "Don't move."

With a light step, all sounds vanished without a trace, including the large hand that was about to cover them, which disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“Illusion…a very sophisticated illusion.” Luo Ye said with a light laugh, “A completely specialized illusion ability, focusing on pure illusions that distort events and condensing a large number of other illusions into an illusionary world, quite interesting.”

The next moment, her face twitched, her veins bulged, as if something was flowing from under her skin into her left eye, and a crosshair appeared in her pupil.

"At this!"

With a shout, Luo Ye took a step forward and vanished in an instant. Zheng Fan glanced sideways and found himself punched through by Luo Ye...

This is indeed how it appears to a normal person's senses. However, the basic information that Zheng Fan directly gleaned did not convey this view.

This world has been unknowingly covered with layer after layer of canvases, each layer revealing a completely different world.

What's most terrifying is that each layer of canvas has a subtle connection with reality. If you don't realize this, any rash action could potentially touch reality through the canvas.

Like Inception, once you're trapped in it, it's hard to escape. How can you verify your own existence?
This illusory realm suddenly appears and attacks like a roadside monster...

However, it was clear that it could not fool Luo Ye and Zheng Fan.

Luo Ye's punch hit Zheng Fan in one of the canvases, but in reality, the punch had forcefully broken through all the gaps in the canvas and hit another person directly.

"There's another one inside." But besides this person, Zheng Fan noticed that there was another thing inside the other person's body!
Wow!

The surrounding phenomena distorted and collapsed, revealing a woman who stared wide-eyed as her chest was pierced through without her being able to react.

"Cough...it only lasted...thirteen seconds..." Blood gushed from the woman's mouth with her last words, her speech broken and intermittent.

Luo Ye suddenly paused, wondering if she had touched something.
tick tock...tick tock...

A strange sound was heard.

"But... these thirteen seconds... are also your... beginning..."

Luo Ye's body trembled, and the blood-red light instantly turned the woman in front of him into ashes. At the same time, under the protection of the woman's last illusion—that is, the woman herself—another man with squinting eyes appeared in the woman's original position, covered in sweat.

But he still couldn't make any move. Luo Ye disappeared in front of him and appeared behind the man, smashing the man's head with a punch.

Looking at the headless corpse of the man lying on the ground, Luo Ye asked in confusion, "What's this strange feeling? What do they mean?"

The ticking sound didn't stop. Luo Ye's eyes no longer saw any illusions. Just now, the woman and her illusionary world were completely torn apart by Luo Ye's punch. What was this man trying to do, hiding in the illusion that the woman was desperately trying to conceal?
"Zheng Fan, take a look at me... Hey?" Luo Ye turned to call Zheng Fan, then suddenly realized that his mature and sexy voice had become... delicate and crisp.

And was Zheng Fan originally this tall? Wasn't she taller than Zheng Fan?

As her thoughts gradually stagnated, the rapid ticking of the clock in her ears also disappeared.

She saw the surprise in Zheng Fan's eyes, and a smile that was gradually rising: "I warned you, how could you still fall for it?"

As Zheng Fan approached, Luo Ye saw his own reflection in Zheng Fan's eyes and realized the truth.

She has become a child.

(End of this chapter)