Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 743 Isolated and helpless
"Why don't you wait a while and wait for me to come over?"

Because of the interference from the gray branches, Zheng's reverse process was slowed down, but he was not surprised that Luoye could hold out for this short period of time.

As a result, things turned out this way. By the time they arrived, Luo Ye was already on his deathbed.

"Don't look so gloomy, I'm not dead. Just think of it as me going to scout things out for you. If you're in the mood later, come find me. This time it's your turn to come looking for me, just thinking about it makes me feel a lot better," Luo laughed, showing no concern whatsoever about what would happen after she left.

"What's going on? You said you'd let it go."

"Funny, you believed me when I said I've let it go? But honestly, I don't care much about you anymore. I won't take the initiative to contact you again. I'm going to enjoy myself. But if my ex-boyfriend wants to get back together, I won't refuse." Luo teased.

Zheng Fan didn't speak, and Luo continued, "You came to find me in such a hurry, are you worried about me?"

"No." Not out of arrogance, Zheng shook his head and said, "You are the strongest student I have ever taught. Apart from me, I don't think you would lose to any other strange or weird things."

"Hehe, you're clearly good at saying nice things, but you always pretend you don't care," Luo laughed. "You actually enjoy changing other people's lives, don't you?"

"Undeniably. After all, I couldn't change anything in the past, not even myself." Zheng Fan gently closed his eyes and then opened them again.

"Then don't let that evil Yilin manipulate you like that, bye-bye~." Luo waved cheerfully.

……

Zheng Fan opened his eyes and looked at Lin Yilin, who was dressed in a maid outfit.

The maid, Lin Yilin, looked at Zheng Fan with curiosity.

"Wow, so you actually wear this kind of clothes. I suggested you try it on in this world, but I was brushed off," Zheng Fan said sarcastically.

Maid Lin Yilin blinked: "It's probably because I'm shy. Please be considerate of a young girl's feelings. I don't care what I wear, but the color of this outfit is quite suitable. Also, it's been a long time since anyone has interacted with me, so I'm not shy anymore."

"Actually, I suggested a sexy maid outfit."

"It's normal to be rejected, right? Even if it's just a perfunctory response rather than a rejection, it means that I still want to wear it for you, I just need a little time."

Zheng Fan couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Although she seems to have done all sorts of bad things, she really is Binary Girl, so cute."

Maid Lin Yilin gently touched the scar on her face and said, "Do you often say things like that to me? Most of the time I get ridiculed, and then there are the times when I'm harassed by hooligans."

“It happens quite often. For me, a scar of this size is nothing. I like it,” Zheng Fan said directly.

Maid Lin Yilin said, "Their tastes are a bit abnormally perverse."

"I do not deny."

"Hmph~, I bet the other one is secretly gloating every day."

"You were even thinking of dragging me into the perfect crime."

"Then you're quite the womanizer too." Although it wasn't Lin Yilin, they could still pick up on every joke they knew without batting an eye.

After a long while, the two looked at each other again.

"What did you do?" Zheng Fan glanced at the mess around him. The trees were about to wake up, and so was he. What might have taken decades or even centuries on a macro level had been brought to the foreground.

"It's not that I did anything wrong. The process started to accelerate from the moment Ke Meng took it upon herself to pull you out of the situation. You can't blame me for this," the maid Lin Yilin said frankly.

The maid, Lin Yilin, pointed at Zheng Fan: "I want to witness the awakening of the tree, the destruction of the world, and the possible rebirth. Whether you like it or not, I will make you return to the tree now."

"How do you think you can survive after I awaken?"

“I don’t need to survive. I’m already one with the tree.” The maid, Lin Yilin, gently lifted her skirt, but there was no beautiful scenery beneath it, only moving branches.

“Absorbing all the representatives allows me to merge into the tree, and the unique characteristics of the gray branches can help me retain my self-awareness for a while, just a little while. I want to see as much as possible in my life.” The maid, Lin Yilin, lowered her skirt.

“Nothing else matters.” She stepped toward Zheng Fan: “You should have realized by now that your connection with all your hosts has been severed.”

Zheng Fan put his hands in his pockets and didn't say anything.

But what the maid Lin Yilin said was true. He had noticed it from the moment he appeared here. It was as if he was locked in here, and all his senses with other hosts had disappeared.

The breakdown in contact was foreshadowed; something had been sticking to him ever since he tried to read the resume information.

The purpose of bringing Luo Ye here in advance is twofold: first, to prevent Luo Ye from joining forces with Zheng Fan and to eliminate Luo Ye ahead of time; second, to create a time difference, using Luo Ye to lure Zheng Fan here again, and then trapping Zheng Fan here, leaving him completely isolated and helpless.

Moreover, it's not a one-way cutoff, it's a two-way cutoff.

Starting with his resume, Zheng Fan was affected, and all his hosts were also interfered with. The reason why all his counterparts were closely related to Zheng Fan was naturally to facilitate interference with Zheng Fan from the host's side by manipulating these counterparts.

Zheng Fan was also fooled.

The maid Lin Yilin's way of interfering with Zheng Fan was simple: she disrupted Zheng Fan's hallucinations.

Zheng Fan still maintains the belief that he is an illusion, regardless of whether it is or not, he insists on being one, and that is his "identity card" in this world.

If he loses this identity card, then his underlying identity will only be that of a "sapling".

Because the tree itself was getting closer and closer to awakening, and was mixed up with the interference of the maid Lin Yilin, he only realized this now. This was also Lin Yilin's way of going with the flow.

With the tree activated to this extent, it became increasingly difficult for Zheng Fan to maintain the illusionary form to communicate with the host. With her small action, Zheng Fan was directly confined to this place.

I really don't like forcing things; I just go with the flow.

“I’m glad I didn’t let Binary Sister turn into someone like you.” Zheng Fan slowly pulled his hand out of his pocket.

"Ah, I'm also very sorry that I've become like this." The maid Lin Yilin took out the Infinity Ring, which symbolized a parallel world, and gently bit it.

Click.

With a crisp sound, the parallel world was swallowed into her stomach and truly became her power.

Nothing particularly changed, but she was completely different from when she was beaten up by Luo Ye. Even when Luo Ye pushed her to the brink of danger, she never used it, precisely waiting for this moment.

……

Why can't we hear Mr. Music's voice anymore?

"What happened to Mr. Puppet? Miss Lin Yilin, do you know?"

“Beep…”

"Miss Detective, please say something. What happened?"

Lin Yilin looked at all the voice calls that everyone had started, held her breath, and remained silent.

The computer screen in front of her was off. She reached for the coffee cup next to her, intending to pick it up... but the weight was wrong! She hadn't drunk that much coffee at all!

She turned her head sharply and saw that her reflection in the black computer screen had transformed into another version of herself dressed in a maid outfit.

"You are……"

In a moment of distraction, the version of herself in the maid outfit appeared behind her, gently pressing down on her with both hands, rendering her completely immobile.

"Let's talk, my other self." Maid Lin Yilin's lips curled up slightly, revealing a somewhat stiff smile.

(End of this chapter)