Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 723 Doll Doris

“Mora, Gao Song…” Doris’s lips moved slightly as she uttered their names. Her voice was soft and muffled by the surrounding noise, but they heard it clearly.

“Doris…” Mora was moved.

But then, Doris said, "You're not dead."

Mora's face turned deathly pale.

The indifference there was more than just a simple sense of unfamiliarity; a chill ran through her. Doris gently raised her hand, and a black lantern connected to a chain was tied to her arm and swayed gently.

"Run!" Tao Zhi shouted, his face filled with despair.

He knew it was too late. With Doris making her move, how could most of the ordinary people around them possibly escape? Gathered so densely, everyone present was likely to die!
Tao Zhineng could clearly "hear" the malicious intent of equality that Doris was conveying to the outside world.

It is precisely because of this indiscriminate malice that there is this indifference that seems to disregard everything.

Gao Song didn't have time to think. He shoved the little rabbit Rania into Tao Zhi's arms and rushed towards Doris, with Mora following closely behind.

The two men crashed into Doris one after the other, trying to shake her, but even as the ground collapsed and cracked, Doris's legs remained motionless and made no move to resist, simply enduring their attacks.

Gao Song reached out and pressed down on Doris's lantern, at least to prevent her from unleashing a wide-range destructive attack!
But can he stop Doris?
Black light gathered in the lantern, and a terrifying power was accumulating.

No! We can't stop it, we're doomed!

Gao Song felt a deep sense of despair. Things had happened too fast; they simply didn't have time to react. Their helplessness against Doris highlighted the absolute disparity in their strength.

Just as the black light was about to explode, countless tall afterimages enveloped the entire area. Each afterimage carried several people and directly led all the clueless passersby away to a distance, including Tao Zhi, who had no fighting ability.

Then, all the afterimages subsided, and Radish's figure became clear and solid in front of Doris, kicking her in the chest.

boom!
The explosive impact knocked Doris back, but her feet remained firmly planted on the ground, leaving deep furrows in the earth as she continued to brake backward.

Her seemingly frail figure swayed slightly as she patted the front of her shirt.

Gao Song and Mora breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Radish gratefully: "Thank you so much! Mr. Radish!"

"Beep beep..." Radish gently shook his head.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that time stopped just a moment ago. Before anyone could react, they were brought to a safe location and their spell was interrupted. The judgment of the situation was truly brilliant.

"The Lord of the World... Is this capital city very inclusive?" Doris said casually, looking at the radish.

“She is Doris from a parallel world,” Gao Song said at the opportune moment, his expression also complicated as he recalled what he had just seen: “Doris who walked down another path.”

If Doris hadn't met Mr. Music, would she have ended up like this?

Looking at Doris, who looked very similar but had a completely different temperament, Gao Song felt a sense of relief on one hand, and on the other hand, the bitterness and sorrow of the past were also awakened.

Radish waved his hand gently, signaling them to leave.

This Doris is an opponent it needs to deal with seriously. Gao Song and Mora can only stay here and do their best to ensure that they are not killed by the aftershocks.

By the way, send them to find Doris in this world.

It has read the intelligence sent by Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin. Perhaps only the counterpart of this world can better restrain the existence from the parallel world.

Gao Song and Mora did not hesitate and immediately nodded and retreated.

Radish and Doris faced off briefly before Radish took the initiative to push off the ground and burst forward.

Logic erupted without reservation, but Doris simply tossed the lantern in her hand and caught it again, her tone nonchalant: "Mental imagery overlay."

The lantern emitted a pitch-black light that engulfed the radish.

Radish saw a huge and magnificent Gothic castle, mainly black with white accents. The moment it saw the castle, it was already inside it.

From the surrounding darkness emerged a swarm of twisted, dark creatures, each bearing the word "hate" in various fonts and languages.

Carrot's arm transformed into a lance, and he charged into the dark creatures. The hatred within tried to erode him, but Carrot easily pushed it aside. Finally, Carrot saw Doris in the heart of the black mud.

At this moment, Doris raised her hands high, and countless black puppet strings emerged from her fingertips, continuously outlining the surrounding black mud.

“Beep…”

A puppeteer who manipulates hatred?

This matchup is indeed quite interesting.

As Radish lowered his finger, Doris suddenly noticed that her marionette was becoming sluggish, and the wriggling of the black mud also slowed down.

In the blink of an eye, the lance had already charged forward.

boom!
With a violent collision, Doris turned her body and used a rusty machete in one hand to block the lance's attack.

The lances and machetes clashed fiercely, neither giving an inch.

The opponent's body was also remarkably refined, without any flaws. Even Carrot couldn't overpower Doris in armed combat within this mental castle. The perfect lamplighter had grown into this form through countless killings.

Absolutely no beauty; flamboyant, grotesque, and wild. If he hadn't known she was Doris's counterpart, Radish would never have connected the woman before him with the cute girl who played the violin.

Ping Pong Pong!

Under intense combat, the radish instantly exploded, creating numerous afterimages that attacked Doris from all directions. Doris, however, bent her back, and the black mud pierced her smooth back, revealing two pairs of arms that she picked up and faced with a woodcutter's knife.

But Radish still managed to seize the opportunity, grazing Doris's abdomen with his gun and tearing off a piece of flesh.

Ding!
The machete swung and forced the radish back. Before the radish could even regain its footing after landing, its body suddenly shuddered, and numerous cracks appeared on its metal shell, almost covering its entire body.

Doris glanced at the wound on her abdomen. Although the decay was affecting its recovery, she didn't care much. "Although you are the Lord of the World, you are not in your complete form. You should have summoned your other half immediately. Now that you are covered by my mental image, you have lost contact with the outside world."

This is why she chose to overwrite the image of the radish as soon as she saw it.

Knowing that Radish is the master of the world but his other half is not around, he immediately severed the connection between the two.

In the previous exchange, her combat instincts and experience were impeccable, even for a veteran like Radish. How long had she been killing, and how many had she killed, to reach this level at such a young age, and to have accumulated such a heavy hatred?

“Beep…”

but……

Doris's expression changed slightly.

When did you get the impression that I didn't seek help?
A dark golden beam of light emanated from the black world, piercing directly through Doris's mind, penetrating the castle, and engulfing her.

Boom!

The entire mental castle was teetering on the brink of collapse.

The attack originated from the mechanical doll factory base located outside the white world. Using himself as a coordinate point, Carrot accumulated enough power for a successful surprise attack.

Crack... Crack...

From the ruins left by the shelling, sounds rang out again, and Doris's somewhat distorted figure stepped out. Her joints had transformed into those of a puppet, and her skin looked even more exquisite and flawless, but she had completely transformed into a perfect doll.

This is her true appearance. She is no longer a normal human being. In the process of becoming the Lamplighter, this Doris has lost everything.

Her icy gaze fell on the radish, and she was about to make a move.

The stained glass shattered from the music.

Upon hearing the violin melody, the doll Doris's eyes showed a significant emotional fluctuation for the first time.

She looked up and found herself staring at another version of herself who had fallen from the sky.

(End of this chapter)