Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 176 The Real World
People almost never doubt who "I" am.

Was the royal pest deceiving them, misleading them? Or was it really true, and their perceptions had already been manipulated...

The answer became clear the moment the prologue changed.

At this moment, the bug with distorted cognition over there is the real Li Daosheng, Chu Ge and his group.

And at this moment, he and his group... are just a group of bugs with the same will as Li Daosheng and his group.

The sky above the Tanlong gathering place was shrouded in a thick layer of gray fog, as if even time had stopped at this moment.

Li Daosheng looked down at his hideous insect claw, with endless doubts and fears surging in his heart.

He tried to recall everything about his life as "Li Daosheng", but found that those memories were like sand blown away by the wind, vague and unclear, and some fragments even seemed particularly unfamiliar.

"I am a bug?" he murmured, his voice trembling slightly.

Not only Li Daosheng, the other five people - Chu Ge, Chen Qing, Wu Keyong, Hua Que, and Ren Ou, seemed to be caught in the same chaos.

Their bodies oscillate between reality and illusion, sometimes appearing in human form, sometimes transforming into the appearance of insects.

Everyone's eyes were filled with confusion and struggle, as if they were trying to grasp the last bit of their own truth.

The Royal Worm hung in mid-air, its voice still echoing in everyone's minds: "You think you are human, but are you really? Your memories, your cognition, even your bodies, were all given to you by me."

"Children, all living beings, bodies and minds are actually... all illusions."

Its voice was strangely gentle, as if it was comforting a group of lost lambs.

"No... Impossible!" Chen Qing shook his head violently, a trace of anger flashing in his pupils. "I am Chen Qing. I have my own mission and my own past! Don't try to deceive us with such lies!"

However, her voice seemed weak.

Because she clearly saw that the shadow under her feet had turned into a huge insect, and the shadow was twisting and shaking with her movements.

Chu Ge stood there silently, his eyes complex and deep.

As the temporary captain this time, he has always been cautious, but at this moment, his faith is collapsing.

He looked down at his hand, which was sometimes a human palm and sometimes a sharp insect claw.

He tried to recall his earliest memories, but found that they were blurred as if covered by a veil.

Is it really a bug?

He asked himself in his heart.

The laughter of the royal pest echoed again, filled with pity. "Don't leave. Stay. Stay with me. I can help you return to your original world. What you trust now is just another form of exploitation."

"They are not gods, they are rebels... thieves. If you continue to follow them, you will become sinners in your own world."

The voice of the royal plague penetrated into everyone's heart word by word.

At the same time, the six pests connected to the causal lines of everyone slowly moved forward. Their bodies gradually changed, and finally turned into human forms exactly the same as Li Daosheng and others.

Li Daosheng widened his eyes because he saw the "himself" opposite him looking at him with the same eyes.

That "Li Daosheng" held a long sword in his hand, and the sword was flashing with the same cold light.

The same goes for the other five people.

The voice of the royal pest sounded again: "Give up resistance and become one with them. Becoming them is the real you. Living in my world is the real life."

At this moment, everyone was in extreme chaos.

They can't tell whether they are human or insect, can't be sure whether their memories are true or false. Their consciousness swings between reality and illusion, as if it will collapse at any time.

However, at this most desperate moment, one person in the "human" and "insect" camps suddenly raised their heads at the same time.

He stood up, even though his body was still changing between human and insect, this man... was Ren Ou!
"Memory module update completed." A mechanical synthesized voice echoed in his mind.

Everything appeared in its truest form in his memory.

original……

From the first second they stepped into the Tanlong gathering place, everyone's consciousness had been stripped away!

This is a short-lived cage. It seems real here... but in fact it is just a world of consciousness constructed by this royal pest. Only conscious beings can exist in the cage gathering place.

Their bodies are right before my eyes...

This bug is lying!

The reason the bugs before them were causally connected to them was because they were their physical bodies! And they weren't just bugs whose cognition had been influenced, making them think they were "outsiders." They were consciousnesses themselves!

"Please look at me."

Ren Ou is not good at speaking, but his voice is concise and powerful.

All those who were in a trance and struggling looked at him.

Ren Ou looked at the other self in front of him, and then looked at his own palm.

It was the first time that he clearly realized that as a silicon-based life form, he actually had "consciousness".

"Gift: Death Fight."

The sound came out of his mouth, and a red circle suddenly spread from under his feet, encompassing him and his other self.

This is Ren Ou's death battle area. In this area, as long as his will is not scattered, he will not die.

But at this moment, Ren Ou used the Death Battle Field for another purpose.

He intentionally controlled the scope, and the death battle area only covered him and his other self.

However... the domain did not activate.

The person in front of me is not a living person at all! Just a shell!

The red circle suddenly shrank, and the two "Ren Ou" were imprisoned and collided with each other. A white light flashed... When everyone could see clearly, there was only one Ren Ou left in front of them.

"We are consciousness, they are bodies. Merge with them, but don't let any hesitation in believing you're a bug. Otherwise... you'll become a puppet of this bug."

Ren Ou's words were like a bolt of lightning, instantly striking the hearts of others.

Chu Ge, Chen Qing, Wu Keyong, Hua Que, and Li Daosheng, their eyes gradually became firm.

Ren Ou has already demonstrated it himself, so what is there to hesitate about?
The royal pest floated silently in the air, staring at Ren Ou who was dressed in black.

"A mechanical creation that's not even worthy of life is also trying to deceive people?"

"You are flesh and blood, he is just an unexpected program. Do you really want to believe him?"

However, Li Daosheng and others no longer paid attention to its voice.

They looked at each other, and then rushed towards the five evil insects that had transformed themselves into humans.

The light flickers, and the soul and body become one.

Until this moment, everyone was truly alive.

It was also at this moment that they truly saw... what the Tanlong gathering place in front of them was.

top of head...

The moon is high in the sky and the sky is filled with stars.

The cliffs around are steep and there is only one entrance and exit.

This is indeed a valley.

Under the moonlight, looking up, the valley is full of small white flowers, swaying in the night breeze.

Six people stood quietly in front of a small pit.

In this pit, there is a broken insect egg, not big, only the size of an egg.

Next to the insect eggs is a brick that looks like an ant nest.

Ren Ou, Chu Ge recognized this ant nest-like adobe at a glance. Isn't this the underground wormhole?

It’s only this big?
The group looked around in a daze, and saw small insect nests of various sizes scattered all around. They were not big, and the largest insect nest was only the size of a fist.

The six people's gazes gradually focused forward.

There, a green insect with a faint white glow was lying weakly on the ground, and its translucent body was constantly leaking a fragrant liquid. Anyone could see that it was about to die.

"Is this it?" Chen Qing was a little unbelievable.

Flowerbird, unusually, didn't argue with her. Instead, he glanced at the dying "royal pest" and said, "That's it."

“This piece of land, less than ten square meters, is also the fantasy land it has created.”

(End of this chapter)