Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 744 The Untrustworthy Self
"..." Lin Yilin silently watched her other self wandering around the firm, touching and fiddling with things.

If it weren't for their identical faces and the same scars, the two Lin Yilins below the neck would look completely different. What's going on? They're both Lin Yilin, so why did you secretly have a second growth spurt in terms of height and figure?

"Although I didn't actively want to have my current figure, my secondary development was probably due to my body being forced to adapt to Ye Jie's bloodline and evolving as a result." As if she could see through the thoughts of her other self, the maid Lin Yilin turned to her with her hands behind her back and said.

"...Where is Sister Ye?" Lin Yilin remained noncommittal, not dwelling on the topic.

"She gave me a good beating, but my current power level is pretty much at the top of this world. If someone is stronger than me, they could easily be kicked out of the world during a fight. If they're a little weaker, I'm prepared to give them a push. As expected, she should be getting used to the void right now," the maid Lin Yilin said casually.

Lin Yilin stared at her: "Can she come back?"

“Normally speaking, she can’t come back, and it also depends on her own wishes. That’s beyond our imagination. Although she’s not as great as those great beings, she’s still a real void creature.” The maid Lin Yilin replied leisurely.

“We can no longer sense each other from Mr. Illusion; it was you who did it.”

“Yes, you are his important anchors in this world, and also the difficult variables to handle in this plan. It would be really troublesome if we didn’t eliminate you. For example, I originally thought that with each of their counterparts being stronger than the last, there should be some casualties, but in the end, the counterparts didn’t achieve anything significant in this world before they died.” The maid Lin Yilin said, squatting down to touch the three little ones. Toast shielded his two underlings behind him and directly bit them.

This is the perfect opportunity to bite Lin Yilin in the truest sense!

The great, perfect toast already said it! The inherently wicked binary girl!

Snap!

It was slapped to the ground by the maid Lin Yilin and rubbed for a while, leaving it with no room to resist.

"Ouch..."

Lu Lu Shoes and the Blanket Spirit were not afraid. They tried to pull the maid Lin Yilin away from Toast, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not budge the maid Lin Yilin in the slightest.

It will only make her laugh.

"Let them go," Lin Yilin said coldly.

Maid Lin Yilin let go of her hands, throwing off the Lulu shoes and the blanket spirit hanging on her body: "I was playing with them. Your life is indeed very fulfilling, and you even have such cute little creatures."

"What exactly is it for?" Lin Yilin had just blurted out when she heard herself, dressed in a maid outfit, repeat the question in a voice that perfectly matched hers.

“Although I’ve been through a lot, it’s hard to change a person’s fundamental nature. I don’t even need to put myself in their shoes; I just need to use my mind a little to figure out what I want.” The maid, Lin Yilin, returned to the desk, placed her hands on the table, and leaned forward to look at herself up close.

"Curiosity..." Lin Yilin murmured those three words.

Maid Lin Yilin stood up: "I've traveled through parallel worlds for many years, exploring everything I could see. Even though I was aware of some differences, I still felt like I was living in a dream. Until those insects opened the lid of Pandora's box, I felt as if I had been reborn. But behind this rebirth, I felt even more like my own falsehood. I thought I had seen everything, but everything I saw seemed to be a new world beyond my comprehension. That sense of disconnect made me feel extremely uneasy."

She looked at Lin Yilin and chuckled meaningfully: "Lin Yilin, do you think that for us, peace of mind and this harmless veil are more important, or are our deeper desires more important?"

“Mr. Illusion is more important,” Lin Yilin replied without hesitation.

"A cunning and evasive answer, but it is indeed an answer," the maid Lin Yilin commented after tilting her head and thinking for a moment.

"If it's for exploration, you can take a portion from the source of order in this world's capital to allow you to travel to the chaotic void while maintaining your own identity," Lin Yilin tentatively negotiated, though she didn't hold out much hope. The Undying King had already traveled far using this method, also for the purpose of self-exploration.

“Exploring the chaotic void is certainly an excellent choice, but I can’t easily let go of the multiple worlds. You should be able to understand the lingering unease.” Sure enough, the maid Lin Yilin knew this, but her choice was different.

"Besides, even in the chaotic void, it wouldn't be easy to encounter a scenario where a great being awakens from its slumber and destroys its associated world."

"If that's the case, then what brings you here?" There was nothing left to talk about; Lin Yilin felt that the conversation was pointless.

The maid Lin Yilin stopped in front of Lin Yilin and said, "This is a negotiation, or rather, a small act of concern for that Mr. Illusion. After all, you are my only weakness now, and what I am here is just a projection; my real body is still locked in a stalemate with Mr. Illusion."

Lin Yilin continued to stare at him with a terrifying gaze.

“How about becoming one with me? We can do it right away if you want. After that, let us replace the tree, so that Mr. Illusion can stay forever. Haven’t you been struggling with this problem? Not wanting to let him, whom you love so much, leave? I can do what you can’t, and fulfill your wish.”

Maid Lin Yilin raised her hand to her chest: "You should have understood this game in a parallel world by now. He was never meant to be in our lives. Both he and Sister Ye will eventually leave for various reasons. Neither you nor anyone else can hold onto anything."

"Great beings are completely unreliable, and it is absurd to expect mercy from above to make one feel at ease. One can only rely on oneself."

Lin Yilin slowly stood up.

After the maid Lin Yilin finished speaking, she shut her mouth, waiting for Lin Yilin to make a choice. "Awoo!" Toast let out an impatient cry, and those who could understand it knew how filthy it was, but the maid Lin Yilin ignored it.

“Wrong,” Lin Yilin sighed deeply.

"Hmm?" The maid, Lin Yilin, was somewhat puzzled.

“If it were someone else facing a proposal from another version of themselves, perhaps there would be room for discussion, but we are different.” Before the maid Lin Yilin could speak, Lin Yilin said decisively, “I, Lin Yilin, do not believe in myself.”

Feeling that wasn't enough, he added, "Right now, I only believe in Mr. Illusion, nothing more."

The maid, Lin Yilin, chuckled and said with a smile, "It's true, we really are completely untrustworthy hypocrites."

Then, her expression changed drastically, returning to its cold, expressionless state: "Then let's leave it at that. We can only continue as planned."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Yilin felt a sharp pain in her chest, swayed, and knelt down beside the desk.

The three little ones immediately attacked the maid Lin Yilin, but passed right through her.

Lin Yilin coughed up blood.

poison……

When... coffee?
By the way... another version of herself said that she was just a projection, so why did the coffee disappear without her realizing it?

When did I drink coffee?
From what angle did the other self previously observe themselves and their surroundings...?

That's right, she's always been with herself.

This was the simplest, even most uncreative, method of murder, and yet I fell for it.

Dressed in a maid outfit, she manipulated herself with her words, saying that she was just a projection and emphasizing the weaknesses of her counterpart, leading her to believe that the other person was harmless and simply there to talk.

In reality, they had already prepared to eliminate weaknesses if negotiations failed.

Yes, this is another version of myself, someone who has experienced far more and is far more mature than the current me.

Completely abandoning all moral boundaries, even treating oneself the same way, resorting to any means necessary.

"You're still being taken too good to be by him. I'm so envious." With that, the maid Lin Yilin disappeared from the office.

Originally, the reason for leaving a projection on himself was to prevent those black insects from seeing the situation was bad and coming to kill the anchor point of the same body, so that he would collapse back into the parallel world before his career was accomplished.

Now that she has consumed the infinite ring formed from the parallel world, the anchoring function of her other self is no longer needed; it's simply a weakness that needs to be eliminated. If she doesn't want to merge into one, then this is indeed the optimal choice.

The three little ones surrounded Lin Yilin. Toast quickly checked Lin Yilin's symptoms all over her body, then told Lu Lu and the Blanket Spirit to take care of Lin Yilin, and rushed into the firm's laboratory.

Help!

It's not some poison that's completely impossible to treat. Although the evil Lin Yilin did make arrangements in advance from afar, she is now focusing all her efforts on opposing the boss.

If someone dares to divert their forces to cause trouble in the face of someone who opposes the leader, they are simply courting death. Toast has the confidence and understanding to do so.

The evil Lin Yilin uses real-world poison, which is indeed very effective. Under normal circumstances, unless a lamplighter falls from the sky, there is really no hope for her.

But there's toast here.

The perfect toast can do everything! To avoid being eaten every day, it has self-studied pharmacology and toxicology! It just hasn't had a chance to put them into practice yet. Meanwhile, Lin Yilin has stored a large number of strange materials in the laboratory for the ritual preparation.

Toast will immediately hand-make the antidote for the foolish binary girl!

The perfect toast, with its teary eyes and twitching little tail, moved with lightning speed as it prepared the medicine.

Lin Yilin watched Toast's hurried figure with blurred vision until darkness swallowed her consciousness.

Mr. Illusion... I miss you so much.

(End of this chapter)