Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 57: Take another look?
"Jiang Si" turned around and raised his hand to absorb all the residue of "Filch" into his hand, transforming it into a singularity the size of a ping-pong ball.

"That's all. Although it does feel a little weaker than the chaebols." Zheng Fan was somewhat disdainful of such a small output.

But he suddenly felt as if there was something else. When he turned his palm over, he found a crystal drop of solidified blood.

"Blood drops? Not red elixirs but blood drops? Is this a specialty of the murderer?"

Zheng Fan took a quick look and couldn't figure out what it was, so he packed up his things, put his hands in his pockets and prepared to leave the scene.

The sound of sirens came from far away, and there were loud engine sounds, and several motorcycles arrived first.

Zheng Fan saw a gray-haired man in uniform being carried away almost while standing on a motorcycle. He was truly a man of great skill and courage.

"You are... the Red Line Killer." Bai Shi was slightly puzzled when he saw "Jiang Si", then turned around to look at the scene, "Did you kill the Machete Killer and his illusion?"

"From the Processing Bureau?" "Jiang Si" did not answer.

The man holding the white ruler in front of him had multiple fantasy factors in him! However, most of them were dormant and not activated.

Apart from the fantasy factor, there are even real hallucinations.

And that white ruler is some kind of powerful fantasy.

With such a combination, he is undoubtedly an elite in the processing bureau. Looking at the other people around him, although they are still a level higher than those of the agency staff on average, and each of them has a fantasy factor, even so, none of them are as exaggerated as this leader.

He can be said to be the strongest person Zheng Fan has ever seen in Dadu.

Fighting level, that's definitely more than that. Cluster? Or could it be higher, reaching gang level?

Zheng Fan felt a little itchy and wondered whether he should give it a try.

Suddenly, several smoke bombs emitting thick red smoke were thrown from somewhere, blinding everyone's vision.

"what happened?"

"Who is it?! Ahem!"

"Jiang Si" fanned away the approaching fog and caught a glimpse of a fleeting figure in the smoke.

Someone is helping him? Or to be more precise, is someone helping Jiang Si?
It seems that today is not the right day.

She manipulated Jiang Si's body to turn around and disappear in the street in a few flashes. She jumped onto a building and looked back. Bai Shi rushed out of the smoke and happened to look up and meet her eyes from a distance.

With a smile and a wave as a farewell before leaving, "Jiang Si" left without staying.

When the smoke cleared, everyone in the handling department was confused.

The people from Shenlai Agency arrived late and were puzzled when they saw the scene: "What happened? Where is the machete killer?"

"The killer has been killed... but not by us. The Red Line Killer appeared and killed the Machete Killer, including the illusion on his body. The performance of the Red Line Killer was different from the previous records. The leap in power was too great. It is speculated that he was also possessed by an illusion... This is how the post-event report will be written." Shiraishi closed his eyes and sighed, then turned around and said to the Shinkai Agency and his subordinates.

"Red Line Killer?" Silla from Shenlai Agency blurted out, "Jiang Si, why did she appear again?"

Teacher He said, "After all, she is temporarily staying in Dadu. As long as she didn't run far, it's normal for her to appear here. Although Xixi Keke is a large block, it is only an area in Dadu after all."

Silla was a little unwilling.

But then he changed his mind and thought about the improvement in Jiang Si's strength, and even the fact that he single-handedly eliminated the machete killer that had given them all a headache just now, and he suddenly felt mixed emotions.

"Don't belittle yourself. After all, he is a murderer. Your firm's achievements will soon reach the next stage. By then, your fantasy factor will deepen and your strength will still have room for improvement." Teacher He comforted.

Of course, there is something else that has not been said. That is, the heights that can be reached by relying solely on fantasy factors are limited.

Even if most pure humans rely on absorbing blood-red factors, the highest limit they can reach is just a fight with weapons.

Add the fantasy factor and it can rise to the level of a cluster.

To go further, you either have to rely on fantasy or actually come into contact with those black beings.

……

"It feels weird." Standing on the roof and feeling the breeze, even though the weather was getting warmer, the wind was still quite strong at that high place late at night, and it was still a bit cold, causing Jiang Si, who was wearing very thin clothes, to shrink.

"Huh? What's so strange?" Zheng Fan sat on the edge of the building, swinging his legs up and down like a child.

"How come you killed the person I wanted to kill?" Jiang Si half-opened his eyes, feeling quite helpless.

"Of course I killed him with your body. Besides, with your mediocre skills, you may not be able to defeat him in a one-on-one fight. You will not be able to solve the illusion if the opponent creates one. So it is reasonable for you to create an illusion as well. Numbered monsters can only be defeated by numbered monsters, that's right."

Zheng's argument was well-founded, although it became unclear in the end.

Jiang Si touched his head: "I still feel something is wrong. I don't have any passion in my heart." "Are you so hypocritical?"

"How can you be a murderer without being pretentious? Filch insisted on sending text messages to his target even when he was face to face with him before killing him."

"Let's not talk about how he knew the target's phone number or email address when he first met him. What if the target doesn't have a phone or other means of receiving messages?"

Jiang Si pulled out a crumpled letter from somewhere: "Send a physical letter."

"Send it in person?"

"Deliver it in person. That's what happened to me at that time. He suddenly came up to me on Cameron Street and handed me a letter with a smile. I took it with a confused look on my face, and he asked me to open it quickly. When I opened it, I saw that it was a murder notice. When I raised my head, he slashed at me with a knife." Jiang Si said, tearing the letter in his hand into pieces and then raising his hand, letting the pieces fly away with the wind.

Zheng Fan imagined the scene and found it really strange.

The murderer's strange train of thought.

"I had intended to return the letter after I defeated him. What a pity." Jiang Si looked regretful. Perhaps the certain murder ritual in her mind had not been fulfilled.

"I'm trying to help you, but you're still sighing like that." Zheng rolled his eyes at her.

"It's obviously just you, Mr. Devil, who is resentful of the illusion on Filch. Did it offend you and Ms. Witch?"

"Exposed?"

"Mr. Devil doesn't hide his thoughts at all, he's like a little kid, so easy to understand, even though he's obviously much older than me."

"You act like you're very mature, but apart from your figure and underwear, you have nothing to do with maturity."

"That's more mature than you!"

As they talked, they started arguing.

After a while of arguing, Jiang Si also came to sit next to Zheng Fan and said, "It's all foggy and I can't see anything clearly. What's so good about it?"

Zheng Fan stared at the night view intently and couldn't help laughing when he heard it: "There's nothing to see, but I'm happy to think that there are many fun things here."

"Mr. Devil's happiness is probably not good for the world."

"How dare a murderer say that?"

"Hahaha~."

"What about you? Did you gain anything by wandering around?" Zheng Fan suddenly asked.

Jiang Si was stunned for a moment: "I'm just wandering around..."

"When you chose to accept me, you told me about your friend with a sad face." Zheng Fan conjured up several bullet holes on his chest, with blood all over his body and a weak and helpless look, imitating Jiang Si's appearance at the time.

"This is not funny at all." Jiang Si was speechless.

Then he sighed helplessly and looked up at the full moon in the sky: "My friend's family was involved with a business alliance in Dadu, which led to the follow-up. The situation in Dadu at that time was somewhat different from now, but now that business alliance has been disbanded for some reason because of an accident in Dadu many years ago."

"The Mellen Group was a member of that business alliance in the past?"

Jiang Si nodded gently: "And it was the Mellen Group that was responsible for contacting her family, so it was a breakthrough. But it's too presumptuous for one person to fight these big guys. Before, he was tricked by the enemy group of the Mellen Group to demolish the Mellen family's factory, and he took the blame for them, but he didn't get any useful information."

“Is this the legendary high-end business war between big companies?”

"Probably so."

"Then who do you think might be the person who intentionally covered our escape just now?" After hearing this, Zheng Fan asked again.

Jiang Si thought for a moment and said, "There are so many possibilities. It's hard to say. Don't look at me as someone who has a wide network of contacts, hehe." He became proud as he spoke.

"Okay, that's about it for tonight. If Miss Witch is free in the future, I can help you ask a little."

"Thank you, Mr. Devil." Jiang Si said in a playful tone, but the heavy expression on his face when he talked about the Mellen Group just now was not false.

Zheng Fan agreed without thinking.

Jiang Si remembered something again, and turned towards Zheng Fan and unzipped his sports jacket: "Want to take another look~?"

"Change my underwear."

"Tsk, you don't know how to appreciate it."

(End of this chapter)