Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 94: Raising "Dinosaurs"

He is Lu Chongming, a hard-working young man who struggles in the gray area because his mother is seriously ill.

Although he was possessed by evil spirits at one point and almost had a hallucination, and went through days of terror and mental torment, he still managed to persevere.

In order to support his mother's treatment in a large hospital in the White City area, his family worked hard and they have not been reunited at home for a long time.

He was the same, he had no time or leisure to go home.

No matter how much money the job pays, as long as he can afford it, he will do it.

Some time ago, he got a good security job at the Hackman Supermarket in Zoom Plaza on Xixiko Street. Then for unknown reasons, the supermarket seemed to have experienced an earthquake and suffered considerable damage.

He was fired during the cost-cutting process.

It really makes no sense. What kind of earthquake could accurately hit the supermarket while leaving other places unscathed? Or did the powerful beings from another dimension destroy everything without him knowing when a war broke out, but then let other places refresh and forgot about the supermarket?

In short, he thought it was just a trick of a shady company. He had to be thankful that they were willing to at least make up an excuse to deal with him.

After being fired, he moved around a few places and finally found another job.

To be honest, when he first saw the salary, he felt that it might be a scam, or human or organ trafficking, or even that he was hallucinating again.

But the other party's tone was very formal, so he still decided to go and take a look. At worst, he could just run away.

So we came to Tornatore Street next to Xixiko Street.

Although it was a shabby place, the company seemed real, even though he could hardly see many employees in the company. Of course, all his worries disappeared after the other party agreed to advance a high salary and the money was actually transferred to his account.

His job is simple, take care of one person.

A person in the basement of a company building.

I would bring him meals on time every day and chat with him. Although I had never seen him, from his voice I felt that he was a relatively young child.

He felt very strange, as if the people here were doing some evil human experiments.

However, at least within the scope of his work, he did not notice anything particularly wrong. When he asked the person he was caring for, he only got a reply that it was nothing.

The person who had introduced him to the job had just been carried away by a Velociraptor. He still remembered what the other person had said when he first started working.

"You need to accompany him for nine hours every day. Remember to bring him meals on time. Use this cart."

"Yes, fresh meat, lots of it. Like a large carnivore, but normal for him."

"You may occasionally hear some strange noises, like the calls of certain animals, the sounds of claws rubbing or tapping... Don't pay attention to them, they are all hallucinations."

"However, if the person inside the door seems to be very irritable when the sound occurs, go and comfort him."

"How to comfort him? Just say anything, do anything, as long as he calms down. If that doesn't work, press the button on the wall and a tranquilizer will be released in the room. But he will get used to it after a while, so you have to re-dispense it every once in a while. It's very troublesome, so try to use it as little as possible. If you use it too much, your salary will be deducted."

"That's your job. As a final word of caution, don't overthink, and you might be able to live a little longer than your predecessors."

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"That's it, that's all I have here." Lu Chongming told Jiang Si everything he knew and experienced, enduring the severe pain and looking at Jiang Si in fear.

"So what is happening here now?" Jiang Si asked.

"I don't know. I've been taking care of that thing I've never seen in the past week. Even when he got angry a few times, I calmed him down without using any tranquilizers. I heard from them that this batch of tranquilizers is also newly equipped."

"But just a little while ago tonight, I suddenly heard a lot of screaming, as if the whole building had become a world of those animals, and then he began to attack the door ferociously, and he didn't listen to me no matter what I said. So I pressed the tranquilizer but... it didn't work at all."

Lu Chongming recalled, still a little frightened: "I ran out of the basement immediately, and then I found that the entire company was filled with these dinosaurs."

"This kid is really lucky." Zheng Fan said while lying on the floor on the second floor.

"What's in the basement? They can't be locking up an illusion, right? Can an illusion be locked up?" Jiang Si asked Zheng Fan. "It's hard to say. Since these people did it on purpose, there may be a story behind it. We'll know if we go to the basement and throw him out first."

Jiang Si followed Zheng Fan's advice, broke the window on the first floor, lifted Lu Chongming up with a red string and threw him out.

Lu Chongming rolled on the ground, got up covered in dust, looked back at the company, and walked away from there resolutely and tremblingly without a trace of nostalgia or curiosity.

After all, the advance salary has already been received.

Zheng Fan and Jiang Si found the stairs leading to the basement according to Lu Chongming's previous instructions. The narrow and steep stairs extended downward into darkness.

Jiang Si walked down and pushed open a heavy door that was half-open. What came into view was a cramped space. A bright incandescent lamp illuminated the limited area.

A strong stench of decay and fishiness hit her in the face, but it was nothing to her.

This basement has obvious signs of renovation and the walls are made of alloy.

There is only one room here.

The door to the room was already in tatters, hanging open on the door frame. It was obvious that there were traces of collision from the inside, as well as heavy claw marks and bite marks.

"Mr. Devil, do you think that thing is still here?"

"The stairs outside are very narrow. If that thing is very violent, it would be impossible for it to get out here without leaving any trace." Zheng Fan said.

This basement also has a passage leading to the outside, which should be the food delivery port in the corner. So far, no signs of living creatures have been confirmed.

Jiang Si was not afraid either. He swaggered through the dilapidated door and entered the room where some horrible creature was supposed to be imprisoned.

The light from the incandescent lamps outside filtered into the dark room, making it just barely visible.

Jiang Si was slightly shocked by the situation in the room.

The walls of the room were covered with various bite and impact marks, telling what kind of violent monster was imprisoned here.

Zheng Fan glanced around the room and noticed some human hand prints amidst the countless bite marks left by ferocious beasts.

Lu Chongming said that the thing didn't sound very old.

I stretched out my hand to compare it. Excluding some medical conditions, this handprint is indeed not that of a normal adult.

"Mr. Devil, there are more here." Jiang Si shouted.

Zheng turned around and took a look, and found that they were several popular science books.

It was a very common children's book, such as "Dinosaur Encyclopedia". It had been read so many times that the pages were already in tatters.

From the wrinkled picture, you can still vaguely see the image of a dinosaur.

Exactly the same as the dinosaurs, the product of the distortion of those things.

The image is relatively traditional and the restoration is not accurate. It is similar to the dinosaurs shown in the "Jurassic Park" series in Zheng Fan's impression.

"No matter how powerful the illusion is, it still needs a medium to exert its power in reality, right, Mr. Devil..." Jiang Si flipped through the book, and could still see some childish annotations on it.

The purer the desire, the more likely it is to attract dark power.

Zheng Fan vaguely remembered that Lin Yilin had said something similar to him.

Children are like blank paper, which can be easily dyed with various colors.

This room is indeed imprisoning the illusion, but at the same time, it is also nurturing that illusion.

Use children who are full of innocent fantasies and love for dinosaurs as nourishment.

(End of this chapter)