Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 592 Dead Hide
Before officially setting off, they went to the processing bureau again, obtained the permit from Whitestone, and then drove directly to Rue Lumière.

Lin Yilin drove the red supercar that Zheng Fan had previously taken from Luoye, accelerating as she went.

[“Pure White Society Must Die” Discussion Group]

Lu Chongming: [? Where is this place? Who added me? And what's the title of this group? Won't it get banned?]

Luo Ye: [It's obvious that Zheng Fan did it.]

Fan Zhonghong: [It generally won't be blocked.]

Luo Ye: [Isn't this Zhonghong? Are you confident you can snag the wedding prize?]

Fan Zhonghong: [Sister Ye, please stop joking.]

Doris: [Little lamb peeking out.jpg] [Hello everyone.]

Lu Chongming: [Holy crap! Luo Ye!]

Lu Chongming: [Holy crap! Doris!]

Gao Song: [I'm here to avenge my first-generation bunny and to stand up for the second-generation bunny. Lania greets everyone.] [Photo of the little brown bunny]

Rabbi: [So cute!]

Radish: [Beep beep...]

Mysterious Hallucination Man: [Radish, why are you making a "beep" sound when you type?]

Radish: [I'm used to it.] [A blushing hard-boiled egg.jpg]

Tao Zhi: [Who is the mysterious hallucinating man?]

Gao Song: [I don't know, it's so hard to guess.]

Luo Ye: [Group owner, change my name to "Famous Invincible Woman"!]

"Luoye" has been renamed "Laoluo".

Lao Luo: [?]

Lin Yilin: [Hello everyone. ][Black earthworm drinking coffee.jpg]

Zheng turned around and said, "Don't use your phone while driving a supercar on the highway."

Lin Yilin casually put down her phone.

Lu Chongming: [Why do you all seem to have matching emoji packs?]

Mysterious hallucinatory man: [What I gave you, I can have if you want.]

Lu Chongming: [“Lu Lu” hallucination, baring his teeth and brandishing claws.jpg][Why is this guy my meme? I'd take any toast I could get!]

Rabbi: [Potato in thought.jpg]

Gao Song: [Brown rabbit being cute.jpg] [Thanks to the great mysterious illusionist.]

Lao Luo: [So, are you all here planning to go and take down the Pure White Society together?]

Lu Chongming: [No, I'm just here to deliver a package. To be honest, I really wanted to beat them up, but I have other things to do.]

Mysterious Hallucination Man: [Delivering packages is already a great achievement; you deserve it. Besides, the Pure White Society is withholding your mother's Pure White Factor; they deserve to die!]

Gao Song: [What? This is too evil! He deserves to die!]

Lao Luo: [Factor deficiency syndrome? This society is truly despicable.]

Doris: [Angry lamb.jpg]

Rabbi: [Were your loved ones also hurt?! This school can be so cruel to its own people!]

Radish: [Kill.]

Lu Chongming: [Thank you everyone!] [“Lu Lu” hallucination and feeling touched.jpg]

Mora: [...So, is there a plan? To deal with the Academy, a meticulous plan is definitely necessary.]

Mysterious hallucinatory man: [What plan?]

Tao Zhi: [Brown rabbit in shock.jpg]

Lao Luo: [No need for a plan. In my judgment, the data on paper shows we have a significant advantage.] Mora: [So confident? Miss Luo Ye… we have indeed heard of you, but we don’t seem to know much about each other.]

Lao Luo: [Zheng Fan and I are enough, aren't we? You guys are the monastery band, right? Just play some good music live, and the rest of you can cheer.]

Tao Zhi: [By the way, who is Zheng Fan?]

Mysterious Illusionist Man: [I don't know, it's so hard to guess.]

Mora: [...This is the first time I've heard Mr. Music's name.]

Rabbi: [I'd almost forgotten that Mr. Puppet's name was.]

Doris: [I'll always remember!] [Proud little lamb.jpg]

Lu Chongming: [Weren't we talking about the plan?]

Lao Luo: [The plan has already been explained.]

Lu Chongming: [...]

Gao Song: [That's good, since everyone's arrival time will probably be different anyway. The more meticulous the plan, the more likely it is to go wrong due to unforeseen circumstances; acting spontaneously can actually lead to unexpected results.]

Lao Luo: [I love listening to what you little buddies have to say. I'll probably be a little late, giving you guys a chance to shine. I don't think Zhong Hong wants to see Miao Sheng carried back in a princess carry, right?]

Fan Zhonghong: [...]

The group chat was quite lively. Zheng Fan peeked at the screen, grinning and feeling that creating this group on a whim was the right thing to do.

Fan Zhonghong sat in the back seat of the car, surrounded by three excited little ones who kept jostling around him. However, he kept his eyes on his phone screen and focused intently on doing his own thing. He turned off the group chat and concentrated on doing his own thing.

After a long pause, he finally said, "Lin Yilin, this."

Lin Yilin, driving with one hand, picked up her phone and started reading an article sent by Fan Zhonghong.

Zheng turned his head and asked, "What have you been looking for since the very beginning?"

Fan Zhonghong said, "Regarding the matter of your increased strength after death, which you are curious about, Mr. Illusion, the Pure White Society has actually conducted research on it. And the researcher happened to be... my teacher. It was a relatively early study, and I had never noticed it before."

"Huh?" Zheng Fan was taken aback. His first reaction was, "Studying this must be really boring."

It can only be said that this top academic institution is still quite prestigious. As long as you have the authority to browse their database, you can find answers to most of your questions, or at the very least, you can find relevant research topics to supplement your thinking.

There are advantages to geniuses having a lot of free time.

Zheng was too confused by the dense text to read it carefully, so he waited for Lin Yilin to explain it to him. As for the fact that the binary girl was driving at high speed without paying attention to the road, he was too lazy to pretend to remind her.

After a moment, Lin Yilin put down her phone and looked ahead again: "According to Xu Wenli's research, although the 'world of death' has long been proven to exist, it has never been observed. It is very difficult for life captured by the 'world of death' to return normally. However, that door is not impossible to open, just extremely difficult. In unreliable ancient records, there have been very few cases of people successfully breaking through the door and returning from the world of death."

"These cases have all seen a significant increase in strength?" Zheng asked rhetorically.

“Yes. According to the name given by Xu Wenli, it’s called ‘Dead Hide’.” Lin Yilin nodded.

"It often happens that a person suddenly gains an insight and then has a burst of power when they are near death. Essentially, it's like digging out some scraps when they are close to the 'dead treasure.' If they actually die and can return from the world of the dead, they can directly and completely open the dead treasure and use it as a backup, resulting in a significant increase in power."

Fan Zhonghong added: "It's not about being close to death or 'near death,' but about truly returning from the 'world of the dead' after death. It's a comprehensive sublimation, from the inside out. The body undergoes a certain degree of evolution, and everything you have in the past is re-aggregated. Even the skills you've learned will be improved. You could even call it an epiphany."

"That sounds really convenient," Zheng said, glancing sideways.

“Yes, it’s very convenient. All you need to do is bring the dead back to life. It’s very simple.” Fan Zhonghong smiled and then said, “I suspect that the ‘Dead Prince’ might be a successful individual in this research project, successfully opening the Dead Treasure under relatively controlled conditions. However, considering the special status of the ‘Dead Prince,’ it is probably a unique specimen that cannot be replicated.”

It seems that the system wholesaler is quite powerful, able to retrieve people from the dead and still open the dead's lair.

According to the worldview theory of the hallucination side, the world of the dead is only a part of the darkness, so rescuing people from one's own backyard should be a trivial matter, right?

"Then why can't Cheng Fei be one of them?" Zheng asked in return. "I'm the one who pulled Cheng Fei back from the brink of death."

“His consciousness was incomplete,” Lin Yilin explained. “Although Mr. Illusion did manage to find a loophole and even accidentally crossed the gate of death, it is clear that the residual activity in his body cannot be considered as truly crossing the gate of death.”

“That makes sense. After all, these multiple worlds are still more focused on the level of consciousness and concepts. The world of the dead is probably no exception. It seems that Cheng Fei’s kind of smuggling is not recognized.” Zheng Fan began to think again after hearing this.

I need to think about it; this might come in handy sometime.

While Zheng Fan was pondering, Fan Zhonghong also became somewhat absent-minded.

Lin Yilin glanced back at him but didn't say anything more.

(End of this chapter)