TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 152

Chapter 152: The Affectionate Ones Die Early

Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye exchanged a look. In an instant, Shen Ye raised his hand and with a wave, two curved blades flew through the air, spinning and slicing towards Li Meng and the woman.

Calling it a sneak attack wouldn’t be entirely accurate. Both sides were aware of each other’s presence and were on guard.

Therefore, this strike wasn’t aimed at harming Li Meng, but at separating Li Meng’s body from the woman’s, with the curved blades aimed at the midline between their embracing forms, not at any vital points.

As hoped, the equally alert Li Meng pushed the woman away and dodged the instant the blade tips approached. With the screeching sound of the chair scraping against the ground, the two were forced to separate.

This attack, though not intended to injure Li Meng, was Shen Ye’s all-out effort. It was meant to force the level six zombie to evade, unable to block.

The attack, brimming with killing intent, actually possessed the force of a level five ability. Xie YunChuan, who was controlling the woman and moving with the flow of things, raised his eyebrows slightly. Indeed, it’s good to have a big tree to lean on. Even this method of condensing power to unleash a level five force from a mere level four body has been easily mastered. If you were to say no one researched and guided him, Xie YunChuan would find it hard to believe Shen Ye could be so capable.

Xie YunChuan put the ugly glasses on the woman, “Take a good look, you’ve been in the realm of beautiful dreams for so long, it’s time to return to the human world.”

Even if it’s a purgatorial human world, you must see these goblins and monsters clearly to avoid perishing in silence.

The instant the glasses were put on, the woman visibly became terrified and trembled, finally starting to dry heave uncomfortably. In a trembling voice filled with disbelief, she asked, “What… what’s going on? Why has this place suddenly become so dilapidated, and what is that monster fighting that man over there?”

Li Meng’s creation of this illusion was divided into two major steps. First, when a person stepped into the Shuoyang Base with one foot, their eyes would be covered by a layer of fog, seeing withered leaves as vibrant green, and faded flowers as beautiful and alluring… Second, at night, she would enter their dreams to create memories, completely transforming them from the inside out to “believe.”

A beautiful human world only needs two steps: deceive the eyes, deceive the heart, and ultimately, they will fall.

The glasses merely broke the illusion that Li Meng had placed on the woman’s eyes; they wouldn’t shatter Li Meng’s dream-making abilities and awaken her. Therefore, seeing Li Meng’s zombie image, in the woman’s eyes, was like the very beginning of the end of the world.

Shen Ye alone found it hard to keep it up. Xie YunChuan quickly told the woman a few words and also briefly explained how to use the weapon. Then, he signaled Shen Ye not to block. Shen Ye was already flagging and only putting up a desperate front. Seeing this, he no longer resisted stubbornly, easily allowing Li Meng to bypass him and attack Xie YunChuan.

Xie YunChuan didn’t clash head-on with Li Meng. He went with the flow, abandoning the woman and retreating backward. The woman, pulled behind Li Meng with the intention of being rescued, didn’t show the slightest relief after being saved. On the contrary, she became even more terrified, her eyes wide with fear, and she desperately screamed for Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye to save her, while Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye only focused on attacking Li Meng, with no intention of snatching the ‘corpse’ back.

The fierce offensive from Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye made it impossible for Li Meng to pay attention to the woman’s abnormal behavior. She pushed her aside and, with a wave of her hand, a circle of black mist rose up, surrounding and enveloping the woman, leaving not a single gap.

In Li Meng’s eyes, this was protection, but in the woman’s eyes, it was impenetrable darkness, immobility, and inescapable bondage and fear.

“She seems to have become stronger,” Xie YunChuan said to Shen Ye between attacks.

Shen Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and with a burst of strength, he sent all the surrounding metal objects flying towards Li Meng, pretending to be relaxed as he said, “Really? Isn’t it just that you’ve become weaker?”

Li Meng, in the end, couldn’t bear for this illusion to collapse. After attacking for a long time without being able to kill Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye, she intended to retreat. Once again, she knocked Shen Ye and Xie YunChuan to the ground, and Li Meng, using her dwindling strength, flashed to the woman’s side. The black mist that had surrounded the woman suddenly surged towards Li Meng, being absorbed into her body, and her strength was slightly replenished.

Li Meng grabbed the woman’s hand and ran towards the backyard, while the woman kept turning her head back in terror, her eyes pleading for Xie YunChuan and the others to save her, not to abandon her.

Breathing heavily, Xie YunChuan, supporting his upper body, met the woman’s pleading gaze in the last second, and slowly uttered three words, “Kill her.”

Catching a glimpse of the hidden weapon tightly gripped in the woman’s hand, the corner of Xie YunChuan’s eye twitched slightly, and a slight arc appeared on his lips.

People can’t kill the undead, but the human heart can!

Li Meng dragged a panicked and stumbling woman, unable to move quickly. By the time Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye had recovered and chased after them, they happened to see a scene of a black mist enveloping the woman, slowly landing a few steps in front of them.

As the explosion sounded, the black mist dissipated, and firelight splattered. Amidst the debris and smoke, Xie YunChuan and the others clearly saw Li Meng’s sorrowful gaze extinguished in the firelight.

Xie YunChuan chuckled, “Who says ghosts and monsters are heartless? How could they become monsters instead of gods, if they were heartless!” He mocked with his mouth, but his eyes held sorrow.

Whether human or monster, it is always the affectionate ones who are betrayed, but… how can there be betrayal without affection?

With the shattering of the dream, the beautiful sunset of the illusion was unveiled. The prologue was the desolate human world’s bleak setting sun. Looking at the western afterglow, Shen Ye exclaimed, “Rare, today is actually a sunny day.”

Xie YunChuan: “You’re only realizing it now?”

Anyone else might be excused, but Xie YunChuan and Shen Ye had long since put on the glasses that blocked illusions, so how could they not know that outside, it was a warm sunny day in the middle of winter?

“Was the explosion range of this thing originally this small, or is Li Meng’s skull too hard?”

Li Meng using her last strength to send the woman so far away, and even propping herself up until the woman landed safely before exploding, was simply unnecessary. With such small and scattered sparks, and so little debris, taking a few steps back would have prevented them from being injured.

“It’s a characteristic of the weapon, and also Li Meng’s bones are hard, probably.” Perhaps it wasn’t just her bones being hard; it might have been Li Meng mobilizing all her remaining strength to wrap around and prevent the blast from spreading.

Li Meng was protecting the woman with her life, not letting her be hurt in the slightest.

This was a weapon made by the research base using extracted crystal core power. Its destructive power was enormous, and to avoid affecting the user, they had deliberately thought of a way to control the blast range, but it was definitely more than just these sparks.

Li Meng died, the illusion vanished, and the crowd became agitated.

Luo Shuyou looked at the crowd filled with scolding, crying, and smashing, and sneered coldly.

“In this human world full of sin, choosing to refine a dream realm is utterly foolish!”

To delusionally beautify the world, how could one know that human nature is inherently evil?