Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 674 A Tragic Incident from the Not-So-Distant Past

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Suddenly, a voice came, seemingly calling out to Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin.

The two turned around together and saw a familiar face.

"Isn't this the fat guy from the Prism unit?" Zheng Fan raised his hand, ready to take this guy down first, too lazy to play the puzzle game, intending to use brute force.

The other person's appearance and even physique were exactly the same as Jian Banxian, whom Zheng Fan remembered seeing.

"This place is dangerous. The residents should have been evacuated by now. What are the logistics staff doing?" "Master Jian" arrived in front of them, frowning. While reminding them, he also complained about the poor handling by the people in the rear: they said that everyone had been evacuated, so why are there still people left in the danger zone?

"Are you from the processing bureau?" Lin Yilin had just read Jian Banxian's information and was also very curious about this mysterious Prism Force captain.

The fact that the other party would appear in this illusionary world at this moment, if he wasn't just pretending to be stupid and engaging in abstraction, then his background and what he actually wanted to do were obviously much more profound.

"Of course I'm from the processing department."

"Show me your credentials, otherwise I can't trust you." Lin Yilin, as someone who often accompanied Zheng Fan's team, quickly got into character and readily showed her cooperation credentials with the Bureau.

"Master Jian" initially wondered why these two were asking him for his ID, acting all high and mighty. But after seeing Lin Yilin's ID, his expression changed slightly, and he stopped talking and showed his own.

"Jian Quanshen? Do you know Jian Banxian?" Zheng Fan couldn't help but ask directly when he saw the name on the ID.

“Jian Banxian? I don’t know him.” Jian Quanshen frowned and shook his head.

"In that case, it must just be a coincidence that the names are similar," Zheng Fan casually brushed aside the topic, leaving Jian Quan completely baffled.

"What's the situation here?" Lin Yilin asked while continuing to observe her surroundings.

Jian Quanshen added this time, "The conflict between the illusionist and the murderer is escalating. The strength of both sides is not to be underestimated. Our small handling bureau is simply unable to control the situation, but no one from above has come to provide support."

Lin Yilin had confirmed that this place was not in her memory. The street scene looked simple and not bustling. It was probably some small or medium-sized neighborhood that she had never been to before and did not know about.

Although the intensity of the investigation in small and medium-sized neighborhoods with fewer people is not as high as in larger districts, violent residents who come from both hallucination and violent worlds prefer crowded places, so there is indeed no need to go through so much trouble.

However, such unexpected situations do occasionally occur.

Whenever such an incident occurs, the local authorities can only pray that their superiors will react quickly. And then, worse still, like in the current situation, the entire local authorities rush in, only to become props for the two clashing hallucinators and murderers.

This kind of pressure can only be borne by oneself.

"What about the hallucinations and the murderer now?"

"It seems to have calmed down for now. Both sides are fighting fiercely and probably need to resupply. This should be a good opportunity, but we have suffered heavy casualties and cannot mobilize many personnel to seize this opportunity." Jian Quanshen clenched his fist tightly.

“You look pretty alright. Although you’re covered in dust and dirt, you’re not missing any limbs, which is much better than your colleagues who are lying dead on the ground,” Zheng Fan suddenly said.

"This..." Jian Quanshen was speechless for a moment, his small eyes darting around, unable to lie: "I was just lucky... I was on the outside, and my colleagues also helped me block more attacks..."

"Hmm." Zheng Fan revealed a subtle smile. Apart from his appearance, this guy really didn't look like Jian Banxian. The captain of that Prism unit was like a fox, with his small eyes narrowed, giving the impression that he was harboring a bellyful of wicked schemes and plotting some evil plan.

But Jian Quanshen, when he lies, looks even more foolish than Lu Chongming.

It's impossible for these two guys to have no connection. There's no such thing as a random similarity in this world, and we don't know the specifics.

Even Zheng Fan couldn't see through the situation in this illusory world.

Although it is indeed a fantasy world in form, what it contains and what is brewing within it are extraordinary.

Lin Yilin said, "I don't care about what happened to you before. If you have any clues, take me to find those two things."

Jian Quanshen breathed a sigh of relief at Lin Yilin's non-questioning attitude and quickly agreed, obediently leading Lin Yilin towards the target's location.

"The killer is the 'Piercing Killer.' Using piercing as her primary method of killing, she not only creates weapons—a skill common to all killers—but she also manipulates her surroundings to create piercing effects... She was at a disadvantage in her battle with illusions and didn't have time to hide her tracks while fleeing, which led to her being recorded by the drone." On the way, Jian Quanshen reported the clues about the killer that he had so far.

Lin Yilin took out her phone, operated it for a bit, and then put it down.

There's no internet connection to the outside world in this fantasy realm, so we can't look up information.

Then Zheng Fan handed over his phone.

After trying to use cheats to obtain information and finding that the server had banned it, I remembered that there was an even more powerful cheat nearby.

Zheng Fan's phone contains everything that Lin Yilin's phone has. Most importantly, as long as Zheng Fan's phone remains in this multi-world system, it is almost impossible for it to lose internet access.

Lin Yilin quickly pulled up the information related to the stabbing killer.

About ten years ago, in a remote neighborhood, an incident that didn't circulate much. A conflict erupted between a panic-inducing hallucination codenamed "Painless" and a stabbing killer, escalating rapidly and causing the higher authorities to be slow to respond and unable to provide immediate support.

The local authorities attempted to control the situation, but the entire task force was wiped out.

Finally, the illusion and the murderer were dealt with by belated reinforcements.

However, the report later stated that both sides were already exhausted at that time. The small processing bureau did not fail to accomplish anything. They successfully interfered with both sides, depleting their energy and causing the illusionist and the killer to be unable to determine a winner and both to fall into weakness.

The belatedly arriving processing bureau did nothing more than a simple tracking operation, then located the two and took them down without bloodshed.

The members of the task force who sacrificed their lives in the small processing bureau received no compensation, no condolences, and not even any commendation. Although the higher-level processing bureau may have applied to higher authorities multiple times out of guilt or other reasons, all applications were rejected.

The reason is simple: heavy casualties mean the work was not done well. It's fine if there's no punishment, but why ask for anything more?
This little thing was eventually suppressed.

Lin Yilin returned the phone to Zheng Fan, and the two of them tacitly followed Jian Quanshen without saying anything more.

(End of this chapter)