Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 746 Offering Gifts to the Gods
Zheng Fan's form changed, but he was immediately suppressed by the endless rings in front of him and returned to his human form. The maid Lin Yilin quickly approached, stretched out her hands and pressed down on Zheng Fan's shoulders, and rammed into him, causing their foreheads to collide.

Zheng Fan did not feel any pain or dizziness, only a momentary swaying in his vision. As for information reading, its effect on the maid Lin Yilin was rather limited.

The symbol of the black representative, the maid Lin Yilin, may not be of the same quality as Zheng Fan, but it covers a wider range than Zheng Fan. It is a collection of many symbols that Zheng Fan has never seen, and the power it creates is beyond the reach of Zheng Fan's limited strength.

The maid Lin Yilin has absorbed more than he has over the years.

With the endless rings of parallel worlds empowering her, the maid Lin Yilin fought with increasing ferocity, constantly putting pressure on Zheng Fan. Even if she couldn't hurt Zheng Fan, she could still mold him into clay.

"Why are you still enduring this humiliation of being toyed with like this, and yet you still can't abandon your fragile personality?"

“Without dignity, where does humiliation come from?” Zheng Fan replied simply.

Actually, he didn't seem to feel particularly humiliated at the moment.

In other words, his counterattacks were ineffective, and he was simply being beaten down by the maid Lin Yilin. Even in his illusionary state, he had to rely on attrition to defeat Luo Ye, let alone now against Lin Yilin.

"Are you waiting for my power to diminish?" Maid Lin Yilin saw through Zheng Fan's thoughts as she made her move.

Zheng Fan dodged and parried, then seized an opportunity to counterattack immediately. However, due to the obvious gap in skill, his attacks were quickly absorbed without any damage, and he was counterattacked again and again, until he was smashed into a black slime.

Then it bounced back into human form with a "pop".

“Your strength can’t last long, otherwise you wouldn’t have had to conserve it when dealing with Luo Ye.” Zheng Fan stretched his neck, still not on the side that was hit.

In response, the maid Lin Yilin said, "That's true, but you can't say for sure how much longer I can hold out. If we're talking about stalling for time, you're the one who can't afford to delay."

As she said, Zheng Fan's consciousness had become somewhat blurred.

Memories of the past, long buried deep in his heart and never touched again, kept flashing through his mind, and the attraction and call from the giant tree beneath his feet grew stronger and stronger.

His time is running out.

Whether you give up and choose to return to the tree directly, or drag things out until you can no longer be recalled by the tree, the final result is the same.

The maid, Lin Yilin, took care of every detail, the most important of which was that she did not intend to give Zheng Fan any time.

Delaying or escaping is pointless. Just as she herself was forced to face the cruelty of Dadu alone and end up on the path she is on today, she wants Zheng Fan to face his own nature, which is also the nature of the world, alone.

"This dreamlike journey is coming to an end, Mr. Illusion—Zheng Fan," the maid Lin Yilin said gently.

"You gave everyone a wonderful dream, even the nightmares in parallel worlds had a peaceful ending. It was also a beautiful dream you gave yourself. I so envy your omnipotence and what you did, I envy that another version of myself could have such a dream, and I also wish that my own experiences were just a nightmare that I could forget as soon as I woke up..."

Maid Lin Yilin stretched out her hand: "Now, it's time to wake up from the dream. Let's return to reality together."

"No." Zheng Fan remained unmoved, his cold refusal even startling the maid, Lin Yilin.

Her words just now were not false; she no longer believed that the current situation could be changed in any way. Even if Zheng Fan suddenly came up with some new technique to kill her, it would not change the course of the world.

Unfortunately, even his final emotional outpouring failed to move anyone.

“Do you know?” Zheng asked in return, “The ending of a dream is a very annoying thing.”

"But aren't dreams themselves something we can't control?"

"Get lost," Zheng retorted. "I only ever have lucid dreams."

The maid, Lin Yilin, exhaled a heavy breath, seemingly having lost her temper with Zheng Fan.

Suddenly, she frowned.

Suddenly, a pair of hands wrapped around Zheng Fan's neck from behind, their warmth pressing against his body.

"This sensation... it can't be a dream, right, Mr. Devil?" Jiang Si's cheerful voice came from beside my ear.

Unit 2, the murderer Jiang Si was the first to arrive.

Serial killers never let their prey go; that's how it's portrayed in B-movies.

In an instant, Zheng Fan disappeared, while rose thorn patterns spread across Jiang Si's body, her eyes turned gray and white, and she immediately entered a possessed state.

"How can they squeeze in like this?" the maid Lin Yilin whispered, and then her vision was filled with a large area of ​​magenta.

She unleashed endless rings, slowing the expansion of the red line to almost a standstill. But the next moment, the tyrannical figure broke through all the restrictions and charged right in front of her.

"Blood Killing Strike." Looking at "Jiang Si's" eyes and slightly parted lips, and seeing that blood-red ultimate killing fist directly slam into her body, the maid Lin Yilin felt a sense of absurdity.

The rings shattered layer by layer, and the red thread quickly spread across her body, only to be torn off by her just as quickly.

As the gray branches spread, the maid Lin Yilin threw two punches with a flick of her head, actually going head-to-head with "Jiang Si" and holding her own.

After several clashes, the gray branches shattered in large quantities, while Jiang Si's slightly injured arm could be easily healed with a flick of the wrist.

In the midst of the fierce battle, dark golden cubes suddenly seeped out of the air, forming the bodies of Rabi and Carrot out of thin air. Zheng Fan took the opportunity to detach from Jiang Si's body and possess Rabi. His eyes immediately triggered an information vortex, shattering all the power that the maid Lin Yilin was about to unleash.

Radish seized the opportunity to attack, but the maid Lin Yilin only glanced at him, and Radish's mechanical body cracked as if it had been hit hard.

The maid, Lin Yilin, was about to smash the overconfident robot into dust with a palm strike when the red light on the robot's face suddenly switched to white light, and its smooth, bald face cracked into a ferocious smile.

He thrust out his lance, slicing through the maid Lin Yilin's fist, and then, after parrying her arm, went straight for the heart of the enemy.

Pfft!

The lance pierced through her body, and the maid Lin Yilin kicked "Radish" away with all her might, leaping up somewhat disheveled.

The music reached her ears, but the maid, Lin Yilin, was already numb and silently blocked out the sound. But what the music brought was something else entirely.

After Doris appeared, she transformed in a few dance steps, and the violin brought a wild performance. The black and gold music palace rose from the treetops. Even though the ears could not hear it, the maid Lin Yilin could not ignore it.

Just as she used the mental imagery of Dadu to overwhelm Luo Ye with a mental attack, this concert directly caused serious damage to the maid Lin Yilin.

The adorable mechs gathered around Zheng Fan one by one.

……

Lin Yilin covered her forehead.

Can't get in.

Why... she just can't get in?

Everyone else, starting with Jiang Si, found some kind of trick to enter the blocked area without any hindrance, but for her, neither the ritual nor any other means worked.

Doesn't that mean she's the only one who has to wait until Teacher Niu completely breaks down the barrier before she can go to Mr. Illusion's side?
What happened to me?
Lin Yilin reluctantly raised her head, the frustration and heaviness in her heart beginning to surface.

"Xiao Lin!" Suddenly, a familiar voice came. Lin Yilin turned around and saw that the angelic Hong Yijia had flown over.

“Jiajia…shouldn’t you be in Dadu right now…”

"What time is it? There's nothing going on in Dadu, but we're practically blowing Dadu up here?" Hong Yijia was still as carefree as ever, showing none of the demeanor of the current head of the lantern bearers.

"So you're going to support Mr. Illusion too?"

“I’m here to help you!” Hong Yijia said with a smile.

Lin Yilin was stunned.

“Supporting you is supporting Zheng Fan. I already know the situation, but unfortunately my contact with him is still a bit weak, and I can't get close to Shu in my current state, so I came to support you! Ke Meng said you weren't doing well and asked me to comfort you!”

"Ke Meng?"

"I'm here." Footsteps approached, and on the deck of the New Gold Iron Pot, Lin Yilin finally saw her long-lost friend.

Wearing a beret, Ke Meng smiled slightly: "Long time no see, it's a pity now is not the time to catch up. Miao Sheng and Zhong Hong are really busy in Dadu, but they are the ones who are presiding over the ceremony that the school is setting up, so they can be considered as providing support."

"Everyone..."

"Don't look so gloomy. Now is the time to wrap up our past experiment," Ke Meng said.

Lin Yilin looked at her.

"Giving God human form, offering a new life as a human to a great being, this gift that has been prepared for so long cannot be wasted." Ke Meng stuffed the small origami crane into Lin Yilin's hand. "You are the one who will present this gift, Yilin."

Lin Yilin was lost in thought for a moment, then immediately came to her senses, her previously somewhat dejected and frustrated expression vanishing: "I understand."

"Come with me." A small, colorful eye suddenly opened beside her.

"You are..." Everyone looked at the little thing with some surprise.

"I apologize for my faux pas. After all I've been through, I can finally make my own choices without any constraints or hindrances. You may interpret my actions as a cowardly surrender, but in any case, it's up to you now. Humans, I've descended from the treetops to offer you the final path through the chaos."

Ye's voice was still mechanical, but it also added a solemn atmosphere.

Once Lin Yilin was ready, her colorful eyes shot straight up to the sky, illuminating a colorful dot in the distance.

Lin Yilin habitually slung her backpack over her shoulder. After Hong Yijia hugged her, a warm white light enveloped her.

With Ke Meng's pen, a rainbow-like road was paved.

Lin Yilin set off on the road and rushed towards Zheng Fan's location.

(End of this chapter)