From the end of the world

Chapter 212 Possible World 2
If I make the wrong move, I will become a corrupted demon hunter.

When I thought of this, this illusion seemed to no longer be just a false dream, but had a strange reality. It was like transferring me to another parallel world, allowing me to experience the possibilities of this world.

However, perhaps this is also what Yin Yue wants me to misunderstand. This should just be a stage setting to make me believe it. And once I think this is real, I probably really can't escape it.

Did Yin Yue read my memory? Or did she just plant a seed of delusion in my consciousness, and this illusion was automatically woven by my memory?

The "background setting memory" that suddenly appeared in my mind was not particularly clear. At first glance, it seemed to be complete, but I couldn't recall the specific details. It was like a very long English word that I rarely used. When I wanted to use it, I found that I could only remember the first letter and the length of the word. I seemed to be able to vaguely remember one or two letters in the middle, but I couldn't write it out.

"Don't think you can escape this time, Zhuang Cheng. I have sealed your superpowers."

Zhu Shi walked towards me while talking.

"Do you have any final words?" she asked.

Sealing my superpowers - is this the setting of the illusion that I cannot use my superpowers? While thinking, I did not respond. Treating the people in the illusion as real living people and interacting with them may make me unconsciously tend to identify with the authenticity of the other party. This is undoubtedly a dangerous tendency.

“…I see. You don’t say anything…”

Zhu Shi was silent at first, then he swung the Yama Sword and charged and slashed at me at lightning speed.

I can't use my superpowers, so I naturally have no chance of dodging this attack. To me in the real world, Zhu Shi is just an impermanence of the Zhu level; but to ordinary people, the Zhu level is already a strong man at the level of a humanoid self-propelled chariot. Even the term "humanoid self-propelled chariot" is not enough.

Zhu Shi can move at a speed of 200 to 300 kilometers per hour. The slashing blows combined with the power of "Buzhou Mountain" can destroy any material in this world. The body strengthening of the Yama Sword plus the magic defense make her have an indestructible body that can even resist bullets. She has a sword blade for close combat and sword energy for long-range combat. She will find the slightest flaw, and will forcibly create a flaw if there is none.

Maybe she doesn’t show much expression around me, but in fact, she is also an “extraordinary strong person” who can overthrow the regime of a small country single-handedly.

This sword strike would tear apart my fragile body, even if I were covered in three layers of alloy armor, it would be torn into pieces like paper. In the blink of an eye, I felt an extremely intense pain. The sword light tore my body apart from the chest. My vision spun around, and my body fell to the ground, a pool of blood spread.

"I'm sorry, Zhuang Cheng..."

I could hear Zhu Shi mumbling to himself.

This attack did not just cut off my body. Since it was Zhu Shi who launched the attack, I am afraid it also tore my soul apart. And it probably hit some flaw or loophole in the soul, causing maximum damage.

Therefore the severe pain did not last long and my vision soon fell into darkness.

——I am dead.

I don't think this illusion is just a nightmare. It's true that Yin Yue couldn't create a real time and space to trap me in it, but as a monster that can "turn illusions into reality", even if the illusion she created is false objectively, it is likely to be real to me at least. I must be mentally prepared for this - what happens here will be reflected on me to a large extent with real results.

Since she couldn't kill me in the real world, she created a world in which she could kill me.

I can only resist this experience of death with my own will.

Having said that, being looked at by Zhu Shi with such a sad look, and being killed by her, really made me feel uncomfortable. Especially when I thought that this was "something that could really happen", I felt even colder all over.

I seemed to be sinking into the abyss of darkness, unable to distinguish the boundary between myself and darkness, as if my personality was about to dissolve in the darkness, and the negative thoughts that emerged from the bottom of my heart seemed to encourage this tendency. I immediately realized that I should not continue thinking in that direction. In order to prevent the dissolution of my self, I'd better focus all my attention on how to break through the illusion. The problem is that I really have no direction to break through.

No, wait…I have a direction.

That is the Silver Moon itself - she in the real world must be burning continuously right now. In other words, she is wrapped in my flame. With this flame as a beacon, I can return to the real world.

Perhaps this is why she had to block my superpowers. Once I can connect with the flames of the real world, this level of illusion will not be able to trap me at all.

I must reestablish the connection. Even if I am blinded by illusions, I should have a chance to do it. Because my spirit is my flame, the illusion covering my spirit is likely to be destroyed endlessly. Silver Moon wants to paint illusions over and over again, and there are some flaws that I can catch. Suddenly, I seemed to come to a vast space, and my vision became brighter. It seems that the death experience just now did not succeed in killing me, and I was taken to the next illusion.

I felt like I had lost half my life. My body was extremely cold, my consciousness was muddled, and my thinking became very stiff and numb. After two seconds, I realized that I should probably look around. When I looked up, the scene in front of me made me feel confused. What appeared before my eyes was an endless glacier.

It turns out that the reason my body was so cold was because I was transferred to an extremely cold place.

And Ma Zao stood in front of me.

Although it was icy and snowy, she was still wearing familiar clothes: a black printed hoodie and short culottes, as well as black cotton tights and short Martin boots.

She held a phantom kukri in her right hand, and the red GPS bracelet on her left wrist was missing.

"Zhuang Cheng, do you look forward to the end of the world?" she asked.

This sentence flashed through my mind like lightning, and made me "remember" many things -

After the battle of the old base of the Humane Division, Mazao and I went through a lot of things to prevent the doomsday, countless accidents, countless battles, countless adventures... We even defeated the Great Impermanence, the Great Demon, and even Naraku, the origin of Luoshan. We also collected a large number of fragments of the God Seal in the process.

Finally, in order to obtain the complete seal of God, we came to the "beginning place" - the North Pole.

It was here that the Lord of the Divine Seal made a wish in the past, but accidentally caused the world to be split into two.

However, during our past cooperation, Ma Zao already knew my true desires.

——I look forward to the end of the world.

"Zhuang Cheng, I want to save the world..." Ma Zao said in a trembling voice, "So, so... I have to fight you."

This scene was the worst imagination I didn't want to face. Moreover, even if it was an illusion, I didn't want to see Ma Zao's expression. I subconsciously took a step back. At this moment, the glacier under my feet cracked.

The mouth of the abyss opened up beneath me, swallowed me up, and I fell into the water.

Contrary to what many people imagine, even if you fall on the "soft" sea surface, if you fall from a high enough place in an inappropriate posture, you will still experience a huge impact force. Intuitively speaking, it is not much different from falling on concrete. This impact is enough to cause fractures or even death.

I felt like my whole body was broken, and I didn't even have the strength to struggle. The Arctic water was freezing cold, and I almost went into shock from the rapid hypothermia. I subconsciously opened my mouth to breathe, but the salty seawater poured into my mouth, nose, and throat. I reflexively tried to choke it out, but ended up suffocating even more painfully.

Compared to Yin Yue's "Death Order" and Zhu Shi's sword that cut off his soul, the shadow of death brought to me by this experience of suffocation in the sea is much stronger. Maybe I will really die this time. I can't see or hear anything. Negative experiences such as weakness, cold, pain, suffocation, etc. fill almost all of my consciousness. I must save myself as soon as possible, but I can't even tell up, down, left, right, front, and back.

But I haven't forgotten what I should do.

Yes, I am in great pain and cold now, but so what? Yin Yue must be in my burning now. The pain I am experiencing is a reflection of her impatience. I want to connect with the flame that is burning in her and get rid of this illusion.

The reason why I can't feel the flames now is that the illusion has blinded my mind, or it can be said that the connection between me and the flames is not strong enough. In this case, I will become stronger. Pain, injury, and even the crisis of death can stimulate me and release more power. So the shadow of death at the moment is actually my opportunity.

Being looked at like that by Zhu Shi and Ma Zao, and even being killed by them, really made me feel sad from the bottom of my heart, but so what. If these are also the bad consequences that may appear on the path I have chosen, then I will accept it calmly.

I won't look back, I won't regret, I won't despair.

It's just dying once or twice, and you want me to give up? No way.

In the endless darkness, a faint light of fire seemed to appear at the end of my vision, and I stretched out my hand in that direction.

(End of this chapter)