Chapter 264 "Illusion" in the Red Mist
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin looked out of the window of the tree house.
The door of the red mist cabin was closed, and it seemed that Lou Fei'er hadn't come out of it yet.
Nothing will happen, right?
Xu Xin immediately swung down from the tree house, walked quickly to the wooden house, and looked in from the window of the wooden house.
Lou Feier was still leaning against the wooden wall of the wooden house and sitting on the ground.
The blood lines on her face were already bright red, and did not flicker like the Silver King. They were very stable, just like the two streaks of blood that had just been applied.
Her eyes were closed tightly, the corners of her eyes were trembling slightly, and her brows were tightly closed, as if she was experiencing some nightmare. With each breath, the red mist around her was inhaled again and again, and her body was trembling slightly.
It seemed that she was no longer as comfortable as when she first entered it, and now she seemed a little uncomfortable.
Moreover, had she stayed in there for too long?
This is much longer than the time the Silver King has spent. The Silver King is an intermediate mutated creature, and Lou Fei'er can be directly contracted by him, so she is considered a junior at best!
Xu Xin immediately knocked on the glass window and shouted inside: "Hey, wake up, don't fall asleep in there, come out quickly!"
Hearing the knock on the window and Xu Xin's reminder, Lou Feier reacted.
Her closed eyelids trembled at first, then she suddenly opened her eyes and looked straight at Xu Xin.
Those blood-red eyes that were so bright that they seemed to be glowing made Xu Xin feel a little nervous inexplicably.
This feeling is like... it's like looking into the eyes of a giant anaconda in the middle of the lake!
He put his hand on his backpack again, his whole body on guard, ready to draw out his halberd at any moment.
But Lou Fei'er didn't run into a rage, nor did she do anything strange. Instead, it was as if she had just woken up, and her expression immediately became a little uncertain, with a hint of panic.
"I...cough! I'm going out right now! Cough..."
She would not go against Xu Xin's words and was about to go out immediately, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was choked by the rich red mist, completely losing her calmness just now.
"Bang!" The door was pushed open directly, and Lou Fei'er rushed out. The rich red mist followed her instantly and poured out from the open door of the cabin.
Xu Xin covered her mouth and took a step back: "Close the door!"
"Oh...cough...ok!" Lou Feier's face turned red from being choked, and she slapped the wooden door of the tree house.
"Bang!" The door was slammed shut, blocking the red mist that wanted to pour out.
Lou Feier kept coughing for a while, and then gradually returned to normal.
"What's going on? Why are you choking on this red mist? Don't you like this red mist?" Xu Xin frowned and looked at her and asked.
Because she had been in the house for a long time, her body seemed to have been infected by the rich red mist. Even after she came out, there was a smell that lingered on her body.
However, this smell is not a bad smell, but a faint fragrance, the same as the smell when the red mist is thin.
But this taste shadowed Xu Xin, and he didn't like it.
"...I don't know. After I was awakened by you, I choked on the red mist as soon as I opened my mouth. I feel like I'm full now. No matter how delicious the food is, it can't arouse my appetite. ." Lou Fei'er's expression looked a little melancholy at this time, with a hint of... uncertainty, as if she had just experienced something that scared her.
"Awakened?" Xu Xin caught the key point of her words and asked, "Did you just fall asleep?"
"...Hmm." Lou Fei'er looked away slightly to the side.
Xu Xin looked at her scarlet eyes: "Tell the truth."
Lou Feier gritted her teeth.
She shouldn't have had such a low-level reaction because of lying, but the contract made her inner and opposed to lying to Xu Xin, but she didn't want to share the weird thing she just experienced with others, and she was entangled. Next, the telltale sign is revealed.
This thing was so weird that she didn't know how to explain it.
However, since Xu Xin had asked her to tell the truth, she had to tell the truth.
"...This red mist can induce hallucinations." Lou Fei'er took a deep breath and then told the truth, "I have been immersed in the hallucination just now. Although I know it is fake, I don't want to come out at all. .”
"Hallucination?" Xu Xin's heart skipped a beat. Can it really cause hallucinations?
He glanced at the cabin and continued to ask: "What hallucination did you see?"
Lou Fei'er looked troubled and asked in a low voice: "Can I not say it? This is my privacy, I don't want to say it."
"Then I'm even more interested." Xu Xin naturally wanted to know all the information about this Hongwu, and immediately refused without emotion.
"...You guy!" Lou Fei'er was furious.
But she really couldn't refuse, so she could only start to tell Xu Xin about the content of the hallucination.
It wasn't anything strange. Lou Fei'er just saw her family, their lives, and the room she was familiar with.
"What's so private about this?" Xu Xin was speechless.
Isn’t this just what you think about every day and dream about every night?
Lou Fei'er actually didn't want to talk about her family with others. The situation in her family was very complicated, but since she had already talked about it, it didn't matter.
"No, it's not the same." She also frowned slightly. Under Xu Xin's gaze, the two blood lines on her face were slowly fading away, "I feel that what I saw was an illusion. But it doesn’t look like an illusion.”
"What do you mean?"
"Because this hallucination is so real..." Lou Fei'er's eyes were a little hazy, just like when she first entered the cabin, "Everything at home, my parents, their habits, they said The words are so true, and, and..."
"And what?" Lou Fei'er's tone and hazy eyes made Xu Xin feel a little hairy.
"Furthermore, it seems that... I was never there in that hallucinatory home..." Lou Fei'er looked at Xu Xin, her eyes a little confused, "Anything related to me in the memory is not there at all in this hallucination." Ah.”
...What on earth was she talking about? She was so startled.
Xu Xin was a little speechless. He thought it was something big: "It's just a hallucination, a dream. Do you still take it seriously?"
"It's not a dream!" Lou Feier glared at him, "It's definitely not a dream, because I'm very awake. I know that I'm in a red mist wooden house, and I also know that I'm breathing in red mist, but I can see everything clearly, even I can also reverse the perspective of observation! Moreover, I still clearly remember everything just now, this is definitely not a dream!”
Lou Fei'er was a little excited.
"Okay, it's not a dream, so why are you so excited?" Xu Xin still didn't understand.
"Because...because I feel that everything I just saw was not an illusion, but like a...memory that has been dusty in my mind..."
"Memory?" Xu Xin was stunned. "Isn't memory more normal? This red mist arouses your longing for home. Is that what you mean?"
"Of course not!" Lou Feier stamped her feet, "This is not my memory at all!"
"Ah?" Xu Xin really wanted to spray water on her face to wake her up.
This is a memory but not a memory. What are you talking about, Riddler?
"Listen to me!" Lou Fei'er was also anxious by her ambiguous words. "I mean, this is not a memory I experienced on earth! How should I put it, it's like... another parallel The memory of time and space is the same!”
The more I talk about it, the more riddle I get.
However, Xu Xin was able to sum up the meaning of her words.
What she meant was that the things in her hallucinations were too familiar to her, like memories, but such a scene was not something she had ever experienced before.
Deja vu?
Xu Xin shook his head and asked: "So, why do you feel this way?"
"Because, because..." Lou Fei'er's expression became a little panicked, "Because, this hallucination is about the home where I grew up. But in that home, all traces of me have disappeared. My room, my The marks carved by the knife on the table, and, and..."
Her eyes were blank for a moment, then her body trembled, and then her voice became louder, as if she was trying to hide something: "Anyway, there are none! And, and! My parents...the two of them are actually discussing adoption. A child! They also said that it was a pity that they had never had a child, and they wanted to adopt one, raise him, and care for them until they die! This is impossible. Even without me, they would never say such a thing. ! Absolutely impossible! ”
Lou Fei'er lost control of her emotions, and there was a trace of fear in her eyes: "That world is so strange... I feel like... it has never existed before... Moreover, that picture is so real, so real that I feel like Just stand there and watch!”
"...You are not adopted, are you? Have you seen the scene before your parents adopted you?" Xu Xin said with a strange expression.
"No!" Lou Fei'er laughed angrily, "How can you ruin the atmosphere so much! I was definitely born by my mother, and my father is also my biological father. I am absolutely sure of this! Otherwise...otherwise ...And, can’t I still tell their age? They are over fifty, which is obviously their current age!”
Xu Xin did not speak, but fell into deep thought.
In fact, he had already understood what Lou Fei'er meant, and he kept interrupting to ease the atmosphere. After all, there was something slightly wrong with Lou Fei'er's state. I don't know what she has experienced before that can make her lose control of her emotions now.
But what she said is indeed worth pondering.
In the red mist, she saw a world without her.
In that world, she wasn't dead or missing, but... she didn't exist from the beginning.
Could it be that what she saw was the scene on earth?
On the earth today, perhaps as she saw, no one remembers the survivors who traveled to this world. Everyone has forgotten about them. Even their existence as a group of survivors has been erased. Together with their memories and traces, they have disappeared from the earth.
This guess is a bit creepy when you think about it.
However, it is just a conjecture.
"Are you really talking nonsense?" Xu Xin glanced at Lou Fei'er with some suspicion. He didn't believe what this woman said, "You didn't make it up to scare me, did you?"
"You guy!" The blood lines on Lou Fei'er's face had just faded, and Xu Xin's face turned red with anger. In addition, she was already a little out of control, and her eyes instantly turned red. "I have signed a contract with you. , I can’t lie to you at all!”
Who knows how truly binding this contract is. Xu Xin pouted.
"...Don't think too much, it's just an illusion." Xu Xin came to a conclusion.
Although he felt that this matter might not be that simple, if it really related to the earth and their original home, then it would need to be discussed in the long term. Discussion now would not make much sense, but would be a waste of time.
"You don't think you can see the earth after breathing so much red mist, do you?" Xu Xin spread her hands and said.
"Well...that's why I said, this is memory!" Lou Fei'er retorted.
She really felt so real, as real as being there.
"Whose memory is it, yours? Since you are not in your hallucinations, where does this memory come from? Did you see it while standing in the void?"
"Ah this..." Lou Feier blinked.
"So, hallucinations are just hallucinations, just your fantasies. This world is so strange, isn't it normal to see very real hallucinations when you inhale the red mist?"
Xu Xin didn't want Lou Fei'er to be affected by this incident. She had important tasks to do tomorrow, so she couldn't be in a trance because of this.
"Is this... normal?" Lou Fei'er was a little shaken.
The scene she just saw was so real that it really shocked her and even made her doubt whether she really existed. When Xu Xin said this, she felt relieved a lot.
"Okay, let's go back and rest. We still have things to do tomorrow."
"Oh, okay." Lou Fei'er glanced at the cabin again, then turned around and walked towards her tree house, muttering to herself, "Is it fake? Well, it should be... it's fake Right? If it’s true…that’s not bad…”
Who knows if it is true or false?
Anyway, let’s live in the present. (End of chapter)