Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 6 Contract
Chen Wen suddenly turned his head and looked at Lin Yilin through the "non-existent" Zheng Fan.

Seeing this, Lin Yilin confirmed her guess: "Sure enough, the possession has already been completed. At a certain point in time, Chen Wen had been completely targeted by you, and his confession described his unconscious actions while being manipulated. For some reason, you couldn't take it away by force even at this point, and you could only continue to stabilize your relationship with him through this behavior..."

"Chen Wen" stared at Lin Yilin silently, then suddenly rushed towards her.

Zheng Fan subconsciously reached out to stop him, but of course it was of no use.

Lin Yilin fired without hesitation.

Boom!

There were two bloody holes on Chen Wen's body, but contrary to common sense, he just paused slightly, then stomped his foot on the ground for the second time and accelerated to get closer to Lin Yilin.

Lin Yilin tried to shoot again at close range, but Chen Wen deflected the shot, and the machete went straight to the girl's fair and fragile neck.

At the critical moment, a wriggling black line crawled out from between Lin Yilin's fingers to intercept the machete. Although it was torn off the next moment, it successfully delayed the attack, and Lin Yilin was able to retreat and dodge.

"Hmm?" Zheng Fan looked at the wriggling black lines falling to the ground.

These are not threads, but segmented bodies... earthworms?
Zheng Fan was not surprised that Lin Yilin had superpowers, but the form of these superpowers was a little strange. Summoning black earthworms?

Is this useful?
Chen Wen swung the machete continuously. After Lin Yilin dodged several times, he suddenly swung his hand and threw the machete directly over.

There were many notches on the blade, but it easily cut into Lin Yilin's chest.

thump!
Lin Yilin felt her vision blurry, and with the impact of the knife, her body fell backwards weakly.

The body temperature seemed to flow away with the blood. When she came to her senses and opened her eyes, what she saw was Zheng Fan's face.

"Are you ok?"

"Does this look like a good idea?" Lin Yilin seemed calm even in this situation.

"You're going to lose too much blood." Zheng Fan lifted her clothes and looked at the wound. It was a very deep knife wound, and it was definitely a fatal wound.

"It's okay, I can handle this problem myself. But the opportunity is rare, so it can be done more simply." Lin Yilin touched her chest and felt a warmth in her hand. When she raised her hand, she saw it was covered in blood.

"what do you mean?"

"From now on, my body belongs to you, Mr. Illusion." Lin Yilin stared at Zheng Fan, his figure reflected in her clear eyes.

Chen Wen walked over and reached out to take back his machete.

He had just stretched out his hand and had not yet bent down to pick it up when he first touched the blade of the machete.

He was stunned. Lin Yilin, who was lying on the ground in front of him, had stood up at some point and handed him the knife with a gentle smile.

"Your knife, you're welcome."

bump!
Before he could react, the girl's fist hit his face, causing his face to twist and his body to spin and fly backwards in the corridor.

Tear marks were left at the corners of Lin Yilin's eyes, and the gray-white in her pupils was covered with black and brown.

The wounds on her body healed quickly, and "Lin Yilin" stretched her waist lazily and moved her joints.

Whenever Zheng Fan returned to reality through possession from the state of being unable to touch anything, he could feel genuine joy.

I don't know if it's purely psychological or an instinctive mechanism of hallucination.

But Zheng Fan really enjoyed it.

This feeling of returning to reality.

Click! Click!
"Mr. Illusion, there is a talisman in my bag. Please stick it on him. Otherwise, if you attack directly, you will kill Mr. Chen Wen and Illusion together."

Under the flashing voice-controlled lights, there were two shadows, a man and a woman, under Lin Yilin's feet. The woman's shadow spoke.

Lin Yilin knew that she had definitely made the right bet.

She has now completely lost control of her body, but Zheng Fan did not directly eliminate her consciousness, so she can still feel everything in her body.

After the possession was completely completed, the strange power that continuously emerged from the body was the most terrifying thing Lin Yilin had ever seen in her life.

"Trouble." Zheng Fan reached into his bag and took out a dark purple talisman paper.

Chen Wen had already climbed up again and pounced towards Zheng with a ferocious face.

In response, Zheng Fan took out a black bead.

He got the bead from the corpse after he used it, and today he knows the function of this bead.

He can change himself, but he cannot change things outside of himself.

Just as hallucinations need the human body as a bridge to interfere with reality, Zheng Fan also needs a medium if he wants to change external objects, and this medium is in Zheng Fan's hands at this time.

He used his fingers to slightly crush the black beads.

The picture seemed to pause briefly at this moment, and then a black earthworm jumped out from the shadow under Zheng Fan's feet.

Compared with Lin Yilin's "wriggling thin lines", which were also summoning earthworms of unknown meaning, these earthworms at this time were like giant pythons crawling out of deep pits in monster movies.

Their heads were cracked open, revealing ferocious sharp teeth, which were completely different from their original harmless appearance. In Zheng Fan's hands, they became a group of ferocious monsters.

Chen Wen hurriedly stopped but it was too late. The earthworms rushed over and tied him up, making him unable to move.

Zheng Fan took this opportunity to step forward gracefully and casually and slapped the talisman paper on Chen Wen's forehead.

Stab it!

Lightning exploded, black gas came out of Chen Wen's body, and a black figure appeared and disappeared from Chen Wen's body, gradually separating under the action of thunder and lightning.

Snapped!
Seeing this, Zheng Fan snapped his fingers lightly.

Several earthworms rushed forward and tore the illusion of a human figure surrounded by lightning into pieces.

Only after Zheng Fan waved his hand to disperse the earthworms did he raise his hand and the fragments of the illusion gathered in Zheng Fan's hand and condensed into a new black bead.

It is even slightly bigger than the previous one made from the corpse.

After putting the beads away, Zheng Fan looked at Chen Wen who was lying on the ground in front of him and asked, "Should we call the police?"

"The police are downstairs." Lin Yilin replied. "?" Zheng turned his head and asked, "Then why don't you ask the police to come with you?"

"He is not a professional, so it's useless for him to come. But we can ask him now to help make a phone call." Lin Yilin said.

"I feel like it's not a good idea for you to come alone." Zheng Fan said as he took out his cell phone from his bag and made a call as Lin Yilin said.

A lazy voice soon came from the other side: "Hello? Lin Yilin, how are you doing up there?"

"Come here."

call ended.

Derek paused and looked down at his phone.

Hiss, this girl is becoming more and more rude.

……

What happened afterwards had nothing to do with Lin Yilin and Zheng Fan.

It was not until the police arrived that everyone in the apartment realized that a murder seemed to have occurred last night. There were two victims, one dead and one injured, and the murderer was shot dead on the spot.

The police searched the neighborhood again and found the bodies of several previously missing people, and confirmed more victims of past homicides.

No one noticed what happened that night, and Zheng was surprised that no one heard the gunshot even though Lin Yilin fired directly. Lin Yilin explained that it was the work of the illusion, which specially created a temporary small world where "only the knocking sound" appeared to outsiders.

Zheng's understanding of hallucinations increased. Some hallucinations can even do this kind of thing. He can learn more about it and will be able to use it next time.

The next day, Lin Yilin returned to the apartment again and re-surveyed the site.

Zheng Fan: "Why do you want to watch it again?"

Lin Yilin conducted an investigation at Chen Wen's home: "Because there are still some questions I want to clarify."

After a moment, Lin Yilin put away the tools in her hand and said, "We asked Mr. Chen Wen who woke up in the hospital before. He recalled that he answered the knock on the door one night and opened the door because of the cry for help. From that time on, the hallucination took advantage of the opportunity to sneak in."

Zheng Fan thought about it and realized that he was completely distracted when Lin Yilin went to the hospital for questioning.

“But even so, the hallucination cannot follow Mr. Chen Wen out of the apartment, and cannot immediately achieve a full-scale invasion. Instead, it borrows Mr. Chen Wen’s body to continue knocking on doors and killing people every night, using this method to continue to deepen the connection…” Lin Yilin touched his chin and thought.

"It is the apartment that traps it. It needs Chen Wen to take it out of the apartment. It needs a greater connection with Chen Wen than with the apartment." Zheng Fan said following his natural train of thought.

"Yes, so I want to know why an illusion is so closely related to this apartment." Lin Yilin searched carefully.

"Earthbound spirit?"

"Mr. Hallucination, I have said many times that hallucinations are not ghosts."

"I don't even know what hallucinations are and how they come about." Zheng Fan shrugged.

"As long as the black world overlaps, hallucinations can be born in various forms..." Lin Yilin had a flash of inspiration, "Yes, although hallucinations are not ghosts, if hallucinations are born based on someone's impression of ghosts..."

Zheng Fan:?
Girl, what are you talking about?

Lin Yilin came to the door and knocked on the wall next to it repeatedly.

Seeing this, Zheng Fan directly reached out his hand to the wall and touched it symbolically. Unexpectedly, he actually touched something.

Something that he could touch directly...

"There's something here." Zheng Fan said.

Lin Yilin came over quickly: "What is it?"

Zheng Fan used both hands to knead and outline the object repeatedly, and finally concluded: "A corpse, a human."

He exerted a little force, then pulled out his hands, and a black bead was lying quietly in his hands.

It can be turned into beads by Zheng Fan, which means that it is part of the illusion.

……

Simple questions got simple answers.

A murder case that happened an unknown time ago, with no supernatural factors, purely a grudge between people. The legacy of this phenomenon, in the gray streets of the metropolis, may suddenly "wake up" on a non-existent date, under the overlap of the black world.

It exists in the form of ghosts, strange stories, and weird things, an illusion that is detached from reality.

A vision of a dead body trying to leave the wall, leave the door, leave the apartment.

The first time unlucky Chen Wen heard knocking on the "door", he was knocking on the wall.

That cry for help was the cry for help from the corpse that had been sealed in the wall for many years.

The body of the murdered wanted to get out, and it chose to kill more people.

Lin Yilin walked on the sunlit road, tapping her fingers on the screen of her mobile phone, recording the incident.

"Ah, yes, Mr. Illusion."

"I have a name, just call me Zheng Fan."

"Okay Mr. Illusion, thank you for this time!"

"…It's okay, it's just a deal, we've 'signed the contract'."

Now, as long as Zheng Fan is willing, he can easily occupy Lin Yilin's body. With Lin Yilin's complete release, the connection between the two is completely locked. He can even now completely rely on Lin Yilin's body to return to reality forever, as long as Lin Yilin's consciousness is completely erased.

But doing so would be a huge loss.

Lin Yilin has a lot of knowledge, Zheng is against this world, and is also very unfamiliar with his current self.

The future will need her help.

This is the "contract" between the two.

(End of this chapter)