Infinity: Our Zhongzhou team is really amazing!

Chapter 703 The Shura Field Between Ex-Boyfriend and Current Lover

Zhan Lan quickly turned around and saw a man in an inexpensive suit sitting on the sofa behind her.

However, that face looked as if it had been painted with oil paint, making it incredibly strange and impossible to tell who it was.

"I'm so glad to finally meet you," the man with the oil paint said slowly, his tone gentle.

"Zhan Lan".

"Who are you?" Zhan Lan asked in a trembling voice.

That feeling of intimacy yet distance, familiarity yet strangeness, fear yet longing made her tremble uncontrollably.

Her memories kept surging, but it was as if a lock was firmly locked, preventing her from recalling any of the past.

“You’ve forgotten me, yes, you should forget me,” the man in the oil paints sighed.

"That's good."

"Why should I forget you?" Zhan Lan stammered.

"Because I am your pain, I am your past, I am your—"

"Past inner demons."

"Although you've forgotten me, I'm somewhat unwilling to accept it."

“But this is the best ending.” The man with the oil paint sat back down on the stool.

"Kill me." The faceless man took out a bloodstained dagger and placed it on the ground.

Upon seeing the dagger, Zhan Lan's heart pounded wildly, and her hands trembled uncontrollably.

"What are you going to do?"

The faceless man said, "Kill me, and all of this will end."

“I remember you as a very brave girl; you shouldn’t hesitate like this.”

Zhan Lan didn't know how to describe the scene before her; it was completely beyond her comprehension.

She dared not pick up the dagger, nor did she dare turn around and run away. She stood frozen in place, at a loss.

Just then, boom!

The door was suddenly blown open.

A twisted plastic monster flew in and embedded itself in the wall.

A tall man, exuding a menacing aura, walked in.

Behind him were plastic mannequins completely crushed into pieces.

"Zhan Lan, come behind me."

This statement is decisive.

Upon hearing the voice, Zhan Lan felt it was very reliable. Without turning her head or hesitating, she hid behind the figure.

"Who are you?" Zhan Lan asked cautiously.

“I am Zheng Zha,” Zheng Zha said.

Wait a minute? Zheng Zha?
Isn't he the protagonist of the novel?
How did characters from a novel end up in real life?!

Zheng Zha looked at the man whose features were painted with face paint.

"You are the inner demon."

"Hmph, after all that talk, you've finally shown yourself." The man with the oil paint crossed his arms.

The atmosphere inside the room instantly turned cold.

"I didn't expect I couldn't stop you."

"Hehe." Zheng Zha said indifferently.

"Where's Lori?!"

"Guess?" the inner demon chuckled.

"Why not choose a simpler approach and directly break through this mental imagery space?"

"Are you still concerned about Zhan Lan?"

"Between Luo Li and Zhan Lan, who is more important?"

Zheng Zha took a step forward, his murderous aura almost breaking the world's limit, but he still forcibly suppressed it.

"But what can you do to me?" The man with the oil paint shrugged.

"This is Lanlan's mental world."

"You are not capable of killing me."

"The only one who can kill me is Lanlan."

"Lanlan, what are you yelling for?!" Zheng Zha was furious.

"Do you two know each other? Why are you calling each other so affectionately?!"

"Heh." The man with the oil paint sneered.

Zheng Zha took a deep breath: "You dragged Luo Li to the Deep World just to force me to meet you, right?"

"I'm here now!!"

"Give me back Lori!!"

“Foolish,” the man with the oil paint said.

"All you do is yell and shout!"

Are you a gorilla?

Veins bulged on Zheng Zha's forehead; he now wished he could punch this faceless, painted man into a pancake.

But he was right, this is Zhan Lan's mental world, this is Zhan Lan's inner demon.

He couldn't overstep his bounds; if he attacked the inner demon directly, he would be harming Zhan Lan herself.

"Zhan Lan!" Zheng Zha hugged Zhan Lan's shoulders: "You must believe in yourself!!"

You can beat him!

"Huh?!!" Zhan Lan pointed to herself in disbelief.

Zheng Zha walked up behind Zhan Lan: "Don't worry, I will definitely protect you!"

"If it wasn't you, why?" Zhan Lan was on the verge of tears, her little face contorted in pain.

This is so inexplicable.

You guys can just fight it out.

Why are you dragging me into this?

I'm just a small-time writer!

They can't even beat a goose!
This is so inexplicable.

It's inexplicable, it's like seeing a ghost.

For no apparent reason, all my classmates died.

For no apparent reason, the Taoist priests from Maoshan arrived.

For no apparent reason, characters from the novel also appeared.

Now, for no apparent reason, I'm supposed to be fighting some kind of inner demon?

Has anyone asked her for her opinion?

The man with oil paints spreads his arms wide.

"Lanlan, you need to defeat me to truly break free from the past and move towards the future."

Zhan Lan looked at herself, then at him.

He gave an awkward laugh: "Can't we at least use words instead of fists?"

"Look how much they've restricted you," the man with the oil paint sighed.

"In that case, I'll put even more pressure on you."

He snapped his fingers, and instantly the surrounding rooms began to collapse—no, the entire building began to collapse.

Zhan Lan's feet slipped, and she was about to fall uncontrollably.

Zheng Zha grabbed her, and huge wings spread out from his back, carrying Zhan Lan into the air.

Zhan Lan's heart pounded, and she quickly grabbed Zheng Zha's arm.

"Where...where am I?!"

The locust tree beneath my feet was making a cracking sound.

First, the asphalt road was like paper torn apart by an invisible giant hand, with spider web-like cracks spreading at a visible speed, and a damp, fishy smell gushing out from the depths of the cracks.

Next came the high-rise buildings along the street, their glass curtain walls collapsing in large sections with a "crash," tilting and crumbling, crashing to the ground with a piercing metallic twisting sound.

In the blink of an eye, the once bustling commercial district was reduced to collapsed ruins. Before the dust could settle, it was swept away by an even more turbulent force.

Everything man-made is being destroyed at an alarming rate.

The neon lights went out, the car horns stopped, and even the last flash of light from the billboard was swallowed up by the rapidly rising dark liquid.

When everything dissipated, what lay beneath my feet was no longer ruins, but a surging sea.

The seawater was as black as congealed blood, and its bottomless depths surged with dark purple waves. Where the waves crashed, there was no white foam, only tiny, scale-like spots of light that flashed by.

Even more eerie was its sound. There was no roar of the ebb and flow of the tide, only a low whimper, like countless wronged souls struggling at the bottom of the water, or like some enormous creature breathing slowly on the seabed.

This is no ordinary sea; it is a living abyss, its mouth agape, ready to swallow the whole world.

Zhan Lan only glanced at it briefly before her eyelids began to twitch uncontrollably, the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, and her heart felt like it was being gripped by an icy hand.

She quickly looked away, as if looking for even a second longer would drag her soul into that dark, sunless depths.

"Lanlan, hurry up and get started." The man in the oil paint floated in the sky, with patches of fantastic colors behind him.

"If you don't take action soon, your friends might abandon you."

Zhan Lan had absolutely no idea what to do.

Are we going to summon a bolt of lightning to kill him?

“If you don’t take action, then I’ll have to force you,” the man with the oil paint said.

The next moment, he flipped his hand, and the world turned upside down.

The sea hangs upside down.

The terrifying, pitch-black sea, like the sky, pressed down on Zhan Lan from above.

"what?"

Zhan Lan felt a sudden darkness before her eyes as she was instantly crushed beneath the raging ocean current.

After falling into the abyss, countless dark and terrifying thoughts rushed directly into Zhan Lan's mind.

These are the entities she had previously controlled or even influenced with her mental power.

The number is well over ten million.

These memories and fragments of the mind came alive at this moment.

For any spiritual practitioner, overcoming the fourth-order inner demon is extremely difficult.

Because those with spiritual power often delve into the sea of ​​the mind and even control and influence other individuals, their inner demons are far stronger than those of ordinary fourth-tier beings.

At that moment, Zhan Lan's memories were instantly washed away.

Who are you?

Where am I?

A series of bizarre personalities tried to invade her brain and replace her.

"who am I?"

"who I am"

Zhan Lan remained motionless, as if she had lost all her memories. Her mind was blank; she was trying to recall something, but she couldn't find her own. The other, chaotic memories were too vast, so vast that they could overwhelm anyone's consciousness. "Who am I? Who am I really?" Zhan Lan's voice echoed in the sea of ​​her mind, unable to find her true self.

“Zhan Lan…”

The voice grew closer, filled with anxiety and tension.

"I... am Zhan Lan?"

A sharp pain shot through her head, and her memories, like paper swollen from being soaked in water, became a blurry mess.

The Central Plains team, Resident Evil, the faces of teammates—those fragments that should have been clear are now swirling in the depths of my memory.

Like countless tangled threads.

"Zhan Lan!!"

Following the sound, she reached out her hand, and just as she was about to grab the thread, her fingertips touched the outline of the two characters "Zhan Lan".

Suddenly, countless hands shot out from the abyss!
Those hands were pale and swollen, wrapped around her ankles, wrists, and neck like seaweed.

The cold, sticky sensation seeped into her skin with astonishing force, pulling her forcefully towards the seabed.

Zhan Lan tried to struggle, but her limbs were like leaden puppets, and she couldn't even curl her fingers. Her face was being torn down.

She saw something deep in the ocean.

It was a huge, shapeless monster.

That is an abyss.

The abyss opened its gaping maw before her, and countless blurry faces floated within, all of them shadows she had forgotten, feared, and tried to escape.

"Come on..." they shouted in unison.

"Come on..."

My consciousness began to sink, like falling into a bottomless black hole.

She's about to completely fall for him.

Just then, a hand suddenly reached down from above and grabbed her arm!

"Zhan Lan!!"

A roar exploded in her ears; it was a voice she knew so well that it was etched into her very bones.

It was urgent, scalding hot, and filled with an unbridled passion.

"Don't give up!!"

The force suddenly tightened, as if to crush her arm, but it also carried a tyrannical and unquestionable determination, forcefully pulling her towards the surface of the water!

She remembered everything.

He embraced her and fled from Kayako during the Curse.

In Resident Evil 2, he grabbed her and they both ended up in the mental space.

again and again.

It's all him.

Zheng Zha!!
The sphere of light illuminating the darkness, the banquet of the Central Plains team, Chu Xuan's glasses, Zhao Yingkong's gleaming blade, Zhuang Boshi's three eyes...

And that silly face that's both infuriating and hilarious!

The fragments pieced together instantly!

"I am Zhan Lan from the Zhongzhou team!"

She suddenly opened her eyes wide, her pupils bursting with a blinding light.

The mental energy exploded suddenly in the sea of ​​the mind like ignited gunpowder, instantly shattering the hands that were wrapped around the body and turning them into inky water droplets.

"drink!"

Using the hand above her, she strained upwards with all her might.

The moment her body broke free from the sea, Zhan Lan finally opened her eyes completely.

The abyss before them receded, and the outline of the hand's owner gradually became clear.

Sunlight filtered through his damp hair and fell on his face, bringing a long-lost warmth.

"Zheng Zha, you've come to save me again."

Zheng Zha breathed a sigh of relief. He had almost unleashed the Primordial Chaos just now, shattering the world.

But he still decided to believe Zhan Lan.

Zhan Lan gave Zheng Zha a sweet smile and kissed him on the cheek.

This made Zheng Zha blush deeply.

Zhan Lan looked at the faceless, painted man.

“I remember who you are.”

“Avi”.

The man with the face paint stopped, and the paint on his face quickly faded, revealing a young and handsome face.

Zhan Lan said in a complicated tone, "I never expected to see you under these circumstances."

I shouldn't have forgotten you.

Avi sighed: "When a person is completely dead, it's when everyone forgets him."

"You still remember me, Lanlan."

"You are the last trace of me in this world."

“Yes,” Zhan Lan said softly.

“You were once my unforgettable Avi, how could I forget you?”

"Huh?" Zheng Zha's blush faded, and he asked somewhat warily.

"who is he?"

Zhan Lan turned her head: "He is my boyfriend, Zheng Wei."

"A good person who sacrificed himself to save others."

"A fool who not only lost his life but was also smeared with mud."

Zheng Wei smiled wryly and said, "I'm sorry."

“You haven’t done anything wrong to me.” Zhan Lan looked at him gently.

"You've let yourself down."

Zheng Wei lowered his head and sighed.

“You are just a demon from my past.” Zhan Lan looked down.

"So, what's next is my inner demon?"

"Yes," Zheng Wei said softly, opening his arms. "Lanlan."

"it's time."

Zhan Lan smiled slightly, and the blood-stained dagger appeared in her hand.

This dagger was the murder weapon used to kill Zheng Wei, and it was also her nightmare for a long time.

Zheng Wei is a memory she has sealed away.

It was also after she fell in love with Zheng Zha that she gradually stopped wanting to recall the past.

But under the influence of inner demons, all the past begins to come alive.

Zheng Wei's face began to blur, eventually turning into nothingness.

"It's so good to see you." Zheng Wei's voice echoed in the air.

“You did a great job, Zhan Lan.”

Zhan Lan closed her eyes and then gave a gentle push.

Zheng Wei, like a fallen leaf, drifted into the deep sea and gradually sank.

In the next scene, the deep sea came to life completely, and a huge black figure rose from the surface of the sea.

At the center of the shadows was that familiar face.

"Zhan Lan!!!" The dark figure let out a furious curse filled with resentment.

"That vixen who steals men!!"

"Luo Li, I see." Zhan Lan nodded slightly, resting her chin on her hand.

“My past inner demon was Avi.”

"My current inner demon is Lori."

"Chu Xuan, you even foresaw this?"

Zheng Zha was very nervous behind him. Just as he was about to rush forward, Zhan Lan stopped him with one hand.

“This is my war with her.” Zhan Lan turned to look at Zheng Zha.

"You are not allowed to interfere."

With a casual gesture, tens of thousands of angelic war beasts lined up behind him.

"Zhang Jie, it was actually you who helped me fight my inner demons."

"You must have gone through a lot."

"We can't let you down."

The next moment, the sky darkened and the earth cracked!
When Zhan Lan woke up again, she found herself still slumped over her computer desk.

She rubbed her sore shoulders.

The phone rang, urging me to finish the manuscript.

She didn't even look at it and just pressed the button.

She looked at the screen, where a pop-up window was still flashing.

Do you want to understand the meaning of life?

Do you really want to live?

"Yes or no."

Zhan Lan sighed and shook her head, then smiled and said.

"I'll stick with this choice."

She hovered her mouse over YES and pressed confirm without hesitation.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw the concerned looks in my teammates' eyes.

"You scared me to death." Zhang Jie's face was deathly pale.

Zheng Zha was holding Luo Li, talking to her, while Luo Li looked sickly and glanced at Zhan Lan out of the corner of her eye.

Chu Xuan's voice was very calm: "You're finally awake."

Zhan Lan smiled and said, "Chu Xuan, although I really want to punch you right now."

"But I must say, your judgment of people's hearts is becoming more and more accurate."

The inner demon manifests as Luo Li.

Zhang Jie first sealed her memories, forcing her inner demons to drag her deeper into the sea.

Zheng Zha just happened to go deep into the area as an anchor point.

This was an inevitable outcome.

The corners of Chu Xuan's mouth curled up slightly.

Haotian, who was beside him, seemed to have imagined some terrifying scene and was startled.

(End of this chapter)