Dan Heng stood behind him, with Ji Yun held horizontally in front of him, his clothes fluttering in the wind, his face expressionless.
His gaze swept over the few people on the ground, and his brows furrowed slightly.
The people on foot were stunned when they saw Dan Heng.
"Boss, they've seen us!"
"Idiots! Who told you to turn back as soon as you came down!"
The leader of the footmen gritted his teeth, pulled the gun tip from his shoulder, and the bleeding from the wound had stopped. The footmen's recovery ability was indeed not bad.
"What are you waiting for? Now that we've been seen, we can't leave any survivors!"
Several footmen lunged at Dan Heng at the same time.
The movement was swift, so swift that it stirred up a gust of bloody wind.
Dan Heng watched their figures rushing towards him, and twirled the Cloud-Splitting Spear in his hand.
He made a really cool sound.
"Humph."
Chapter 252 Fiction and Reality
The light is soft in the small, secluded cave.
The roots of the Jianmu tree extend from the cave walls, with thick root hairs coiling overhead like sleeping giant dragons.
Lin Si sat in a golden wheelchair with a stone table in front of her, on which sat a pot of cooled tea.
Xueyi sat cross-legged on the stone bench opposite, her hands resting on her knees, her posture upright, like a sculpture.
The two of them had been sitting here for a long time.
They've been staring at each other for ages.
"Lord Xueyi, are we just going to wait here?"
Lin Si finally couldn't hold back any longer and tapped her fingers lightly twice on the armrest of the wheelchair.
"The general didn't say much to me, he just told me to wait here with you."
Her voice was very calm, as calm as if she were reading an official document.
Lin Si frowned but didn't say anything more.
The general meant that Fu Xuan would not send a signal unless absolutely necessary.
He took out the jade tablet, clicked on Jing Yuan's profile picture, and typed a line of text.
"General, how are things on your end?"
The message was sent, and after a while, there was no reply.
He then opened Yanqing's chat window.
"Have you found Su Chang?"
I waited for a while, but there was no reply.
Lin Si's brows furrowed even more.
He glanced at Xueyi, who was resting with her eyes closed.
"Lord Snow Robe, where is that Holy Grail now?"
After they summoned their Servants together that day, the Holy Grail had been kept in the care of the Raven.
Xueyi thought for a moment.
"It must have been kept by the crow."
Lin Si nodded, her brows relaxed a little, and the corners of her mouth curved slightly.
He picked up the jade tablet again and opened the trending topics list.
"Mourning! General Jingyuan is seriously ill!" — This was the top trending topic, followed by the word "Explosive".
"General Jingyuan falls ill in full view of everyone, and the people of Luofu are heartbroken!" - This is the second most searched topic, followed by the word "boiling".
"Is the Azure Sparrow piloting a giant machine to fight a mysterious person in the Star Chariot Sea?" - This is the third most searched topic, followed by the word "new".
Lin Si stared blankly at Qing Que's post for a moment, her finger hovering over the screen, about to click on it.
The air inside the cave suddenly rippled, like a pebble being thrown into the water.
Xueyi closed her eyes, not in the way of "closing her eyes to rest," but in the way of "suddenly falling into a coma."
A figure holding a scepter emerged from the void, wearing a white hood and a white robe, the light at the top of the scepter flashing in the cave.
"Don't look."
As soon as Emperor Lin Si appeared, he snatched the jade tablet from Lin Si's hand.
The movements were so fast that Lin Si didn't even have time to react.
Lin Si looked at his face, which was exactly the same as her own, and then glanced at Xueyi, who had her eyes closed.
Xueyi's breathing was steady, as if she felt nothing.
"What are you doing here again?"
Emperor Lin Si waved the scepter in his hand, and the light at the top of the scepter drew an arc in the air.
"I can't tell you more directly, but in this space, you'd better not believe anything and pretend you didn't see anything."
Lin Si frowned slightly.
"What's the meaning?"
Emperor Lin Si waved his hand, his tone carrying a sense of helplessness that said, "Even if I explain, you might not understand."
"We are sometimes too confident in ourselves, which is a common problem. Sometimes, some information is not necessarily true."
Lin thought for a moment and looked at him.
"Then you might not be real either?"
Emperor Lin Si's lips twitched, and he pointed to the golden wheelchair under Lin Si's buttocks.
"With this thing here, as long as you're still sitting on it, as long as it's in front of you, no falsehood can hide from you."
He paused for a moment,
"But the message being spread can deceive you."
Lin Si glanced down at the gold wheelchair.
Aha said it was made from the material the Amber King used to build his wall. He only knew that this thing could suppress nothingness, but he didn't know what other uses it had.
But now that Emperor Lin Si has said this, does this wheelchair still allow him to be unaffected by the "illusion"?
What do you mean by "a person immune to all illusions"?
His lips curved slightly, then fell back down.
"You mean, someone is deliberately manipulating public opinion?"
Lin Si's voice lowered.
Emperor Lin Si nodded.
"That's right. Didn't you also have some suspicions before? As long as enough people believe it, even a lie can become the truth."
Lin Si was taken aback.
"A fictional historian?"
"That's right."
Emperor Lin Si's lips curled slightly.
"This method is indeed similar to that of fictional historians, but it is more sophisticated."
He looked at Lin Sisi's thoughtful expression.
"I can't stay here any longer, so I can only remind you one last time: only when you shoot that arrow in front of everyone will the power of the wish flow to you."
As he finished speaking, his figure began to fade, like a painting being erased.
The light at the top of the scepter dimmed, and the air in the cave returned to calm.
Xueyi opened her eyes and glanced at Lin Si.
"Has someone been here just now?"
Her voice was calm.
Lin Si remained silent for a moment.
"........no."
Xueyi nodded and continued to stare at him.
Lin Si pondered the Emperor's words as they came to mind.
'Shoot that arrow in front of everyone, and the power of the wish will flow to you.'
But what does he need the power of will for? He doesn't need the power of will to flow to him.
This arrow had only two purposes: first, to kill the Extinction King; and second, to make the people believe that victory was a foregone conclusion, thereby unleashing the power of everyone to become like a dragon.
Neither of these two points requires any willpower to flow to him.
Instead, it flows into the 'whole' of Luofu Immortal Boat.
"Fictional historian, fiction..."
Lin Si was a little confused; someone was deliberately manipulating public opinion to make the false seem true.
But how can you believe that a fake is real if you don't see it with your own eyes?
This operation was too difficult, which is why he did not choose to use that solution.
Lin Si looked at Xueyi and casually asked a question.
"Lord Xueyi, what are your thoughts on the idea that public opinion can come true?"
Xueyi thought for a moment,
"Public opinion will eventually reveal the truth."
Lin Si nodded.
Indeed, fictional things may become 'true' if many people believe them, but eventually the truth will be revealed.
But what if, at the moment the truth is revealed, it proves that everything fabricated was actually true?
At this point, the only aspect of the Luofu Immortal Ship that is considered 'fictional' is the fact that General Jingyuan is seriously ill.
If, at the moment this 'fiction' reveals the truth, General Jingyuan is indeed seriously ill and unable to stage a 'king's return' drama.
If this fake incident were to become real, the public's confidence in taxis would plummet even further.
At that time, the goal of exterminating the Great King will also be achieved.
After all, what could be more important than the entire immortal ship being united in their desire to avenge the general?
Could the alliance further classify the Extinction Lord from an "unjust enemy" to a "personal feud"?
This is exactly the situation the other side wanted.
After all, if justice only flows to the virtuous, it is more terrible than the extinction of virtuous people from the world.
Lin Siyi tapped the armrest,
"Something's wrong! General Jingyuan is in danger!"
Chapter 253 My strength depends entirely on your imagination
In the universe surrounding the Luofu Immortal Ship, the starlight was dim.
The ethereal, eerie green flames flickered in the darkness, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.
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