Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 737 Shattered Cocoon
The blood cocoon was still bleeding. The hole that Luo Ye had punched through looked horribly gruesome, with blood gushing out. At the same time, half of the cocoon was twitching, which looked very strange.

Luo Ye leaped from the mechanical city to this place, but stepping on it didn't have much of an impact. The impact she brought was dispersed and dissolved by these strong red lines, and she felt as if she had stepped onto a soft bed.

“There’s an unexpected sense of familiarity. Is it because these are all made up of a violent world?” Luo Ye reached out and lightly touched a red thread beside him.

The red lines that make up the main body of the blood cocoon are not obviously aggressive. Luo Ye was prepared to be surrounded by red lines and become the target of everyone as soon as he entered, but the inside of the blood cocoon was much safer than the outer layer.

Suddenly, a figure flashed past Luo Ye from behind.

Luo Ye suddenly turned around and kicked out, but missed. The figure cut into Luo Ye's side. As Luo Ye retracted his leg, he raised his arm to parry the opponent's attack, and then grabbed the opponent's arm and twisted it.

Click!

Although a slight sound was made, the feeling was wrong. The other person's arm was very hard and could not be twisted at all. It even twisted against Luo Ye, causing Luo Ye's wrist to ache slightly.

However, Luo Ye didn't make any more moves. He looked at Jiang Si and said, "Are you very free? Instead of hurrying to deal with the counterpart inside, you're still ambushing me here. Or have you resonated with another version of yourself and are planning to betray me?"

"I just wanted to test the strength of the strongest in the capital right now." Jiang Si looked at his arm, which was being held tightly and was still subtly wrestling with him.

Luo Ye gave a sarcastic smile: "Did you find anything out?"

“That’s impressive, so can you let go now?” Jiang Si asked.

Luo Ye then released Jiang Si's arm. Jiang Si casually shook her hand to relax, then turned to look at the deep red cocoon in the distance: "I wanted to go there, but I got lost not long after I came in. There was nothing that violently blocked me, but instead, it was all roundabout and circuitous. It doesn't seem like the work of a violent world."

Luo Ye said knowingly, "So that's how it is. No wonder I felt something was off when I came in."

"But I was confused myself. I only realized after you came in that although violence might not be in the question, the answer to solving the problem can be violent," Jiang Si said.

Luo Ye laughed and said, "You don't seem as inappropriate as Yi Lin said."

"I just definitely don't get along with Miss Detective. As for some of our thought processes, unexpected turns of events actually create a kind of disgusting tacit understanding," Jiang Si said calmly without denying it.

"Hahaha!" Luo Ye laughed heartily.

Jiang Si glanced at her, said nothing, and leaped towards the deep red cocoon in the center. Luo Ye laughed and followed closely behind.

As soon as you get close, a sense of fragmentation of space suddenly arises.

While similar to Jiang Si's method of cutting space with red threads, the underlying principles are quite different. Jiang Si mastered the technique through expansion and understanding, but the entire space beneath the blood cocoon became a puppet of the red threads, which could be manipulated at will by the blood cocoon's red threads.

Jiang Si had been trying to use her red thread to fight against it, hoping to find a flaw or gap. She never expected that the resistance would be so meticulous, and she couldn't find a way to break through it by searching normally.

Seeing Luo Ye's violent intrusion, she realized that it had been a long time since she had used simple violence to solve problems.

Sometimes, overthinking doesn't always bring good results.

She's a serial killer.

Whoa!

A red thread pierced out from Jiang Si's body, its crimson flames striking the shattered space with deadly precision, beginning its violent dismantling.

Perhaps it was a stress response to the violence, but the seemingly harmless red lines around them suddenly started moving like tendrils and attacked Jiang Si.

Luo Ye followed closely behind, uttering a vision as she gripped a hammer that had transformed into a massive weapon half the size of a person. Her arm muscles tensed, and she raised it high, unleashing a tremendous, powerful force as she slammed it down on the crimson line surging towards her like a sea of ​​blood.

Bang!
Choosing to strike with a blunt weapon here is not the best strategy, as the resilience and deflection capabilities of these red threads have already been demonstrated. However, it is precisely because Luo Ye has witnessed the characteristics of the red threads that he is willing to do something he knows is impossible.

The devastating blow, capable of blasting a hole in the capital, struck the silk thread, causing large sections of the red thread to explode into a bloody mist. There was no time to disperse the impact; its original resilience was rendered meaningless by the heavy strike.

dong dong!

In an instant, everything became clear. The same was true here; Luo Ye easily smashed a hole in the blood cocoon.

The surrounding red lines trembled violently. Fear?

No, a strange and complex emotion arose from it, but it was definitely not fear.

Violence has nothing to fear.

Boom!

Suddenly, a red line emitted a bright red light, shooting out a beam of light towards Luo Ye. Luo Ye swung his heavy hammer to meet it, and for a moment it felt as if he were hammering another version of himself. The violent impact almost caused the hammer to slip from his hand.

Luo Ye clenched his fists tightly, his arms flexing forcefully, his waist and abdomen twisting as he deftly adjusted his stance. What Luo Ye possessed was far more than simply brute force.

She effortlessly neutralized the force that was nearly equal to the impact she had just unleashed, and then used the remaining force to her advantage!

He delivered another blow to the blood cocoon.

boom!
They actually dared to fight back; that's incredibly disrespectful.

The blood cocoon trembled, as if it had been stunned for a moment. All the movements of the silk threads came to a standstill, and the blood that had exploded under the impact also solidified.

Unstoppable.

If it were this Luoye, neither Blood Cocoon nor Mechanical City would have been possible at all.

Luo Ye had a clear understanding of herself, and even of her counterparts in parallel worlds. She knew that no counterpart in any parallel world could be stronger than herself in this world.

This reflects confidence in oneself, a product of Zheng Fan's upbringing.

Jiang Si and Luo Ye's efforts successfully rendered the blood cocoon's resistance ineffective. Jiang Si seized the opportunity to cross the distance in between and finally arrived in front of the crimson cocoon.

Sensing the stench of blood emanating from it, along with an unpleasant odor resembling rotting flesh, Jiang Si stepped forward, intending to tear open the cocoon, when the red thread binding it loosened on its own.

This also revealed the hidden figure deep within the cocoon.

Naturally, it was Jiang Si.

Her whole body was stained red, her fair face was pierced by red threads, and her skin and blood seemed to be merging together. The red threads became the stitches in this process, mending Jiang Si like a rag doll, but the more they were mended, the more tattered the stitches became.

"...Ah, you've finally seen what I look like now..." Jiang Si, inside the cocoon, gave a bitter smile and said weakly.

"Does it hurt?" Jiang Si asked.

Jiang Si lowered her eyes and said, "It hurts...it hurts so much..."

"My father, mother, older brother, older sister, younger brother, and younger sister are all gone... I only realized how naive I was when my father did something for me before he died. The power of 'love' was passed on to me, but I am now empty and have nothing left."

"You took your revenge, you killed the entire capital, you did a good job." Jiang Si didn't believe that revenge was meaningless; revenge itself was meaningful. Regardless of whether one forgave or not, regardless of emptiness or what kind of reasoning one had, as long as one couldn't let go of the desire for revenge, then one could naturally seek revenge.

"Yes... I did it. I wiped out the violent world, wiped out countless wandering worlds, and finally killed off the capital as well. When I realized this, I felt I was transforming, transforming into something else..."

They spin cocoons and emerge as pupae, using the capital as nourishment.

"But... even if I have nothing left... I don't want to lose my human form..."

This is why the ascension stopped. After completing the "ritual" of total slaughter, Jiang Si in this world nearly transcended herself and became detached from the world.

Her body was already tainted with the aura of the void. Without the source of order, she might become a void creature, even if not a god, she would still be considered a transcendent being.

But she didn't want it to be like that.

(End of this chapter)