The driver hesitated for a moment, then asked:
"Can you wait a moment?"
"Of course not, I'm a member of the Zion Progressives, a PhD student who returned from studying abroad at Lighthouse, and I really want to fart now.
If I fart in the car and shit pops out, my life will be over. It's too shameful to look at.
I, Xu Le, will bear the consequences for my life. This car... must stop."
Such a lively speech made the driver's mouth twitch, but the expressions of the other people nearby were still dull, which made Xu Le feel a little regretful. It was really disappointing that there was only one audience for his hard work.
With a whistle, the car slowly stopped.
But this action of stopping the car made Xu Le hesitate for a moment. He didn't expect the car to actually stop? It was different from what he had expected!
Xu Le didn't hesitate and just pushed the door and got out of the car.
But the moment he pushed the door and got out of the car, the air around him gradually became sticky.
The things in front of Xu Le's eyes were blurry for a moment, and his action of getting off the car turned into getting on the car at the same time, completely reversed.
He himself stopped because he was confused about his surroundings.
"Hurry up! The Kuroshio is going to hit in the evening, and I'm waiting to go home!"
At this moment, an old lady behind him pushed Xu Le with great strength. Xu Le took a look at the old lady's arms and her aggressive aura, and was a little dazed for a moment.
"This lady is so real, has she escaped from the illusion?"
Illusions are of course divided into different levels, from ordinary people's magic, to sleight of hand that incorporates basic supernatural powers, to the sorcerer's illusion, and each level of illusion will be different.
Previously on the 8th floor, the construction of that illusion was very crude and had many flaws. In fact, it could be confirmed with just a little careful analysis.
Moreover, it was very easy for Xu Le to crack it at that time. He just summoned 10 zombie illusions and the illusion was automatically cracked.
But now…
Xu Le was pushed into the car during the scuffle. He glanced at the pedestrians around him.
Many people were carrying heavy boxes, which looked like guns. Were they to deal with the weapons purchased by Kuroshio tonight
"If this is an illusion, this is a huge improvement!"
Xu Le lowered his head and glanced at the bus stop sign below through the window.
Area 2 Weapon Market Station
“It’s pretty realistic.”
Since there was no way to tell whether it was an illusion or not, Xu Le certainly couldn't say something like "I want to get off the car to poop" like he did just now. That would be too embarrassing.
At the moment, the middle-aged woman standing next to him looked like a real person, especially when he saw her secretly picking her nose, Xu Le was a little confused for a moment.
“It’s really realistic.”
Ancient Sound's multi-perspective and ethereal states were both activated, and Xu Le scanned every character that appeared in his field of vision.
But still nothing was found.
But it doesn't matter, he is a warlock.
Since conventional methods can no longer determine whether we are in an illusion, let's use the sorcerer's methods.
Then, he drew out an Ancient Sound Card.
Black Card-Forest
Endless forest, impossible place to go, mystery
Positive: A place that cannot be escaped, a fog, a dilemma.
The reverse side: resources.
"really."
When seeing the forest card, Xu Le's eyes grew slightly colder. Zhang Nuoan was making rapid progress. If he could construct the illusion to this level, it would also have an impact on him.
The question now is, how to crack it
Summon zombies like before
Xu Le took a look at the cramped environment of the bus and gave up the idea. The bus was no better than the previous one on the 8th floor.
The range here is much smaller, and it is actually very easy for a level 3 warlock to stabilize such a small space.
If Xu Le himself had mastered the art of illusion, he would probably be able to do it, so this method would definitely not work.
First we need to determine Zhang Nuoan’s location.
Xu Le thought for a while, then moved his gaze to the car door.
"After all, you still have to get off the bus in the end."
Walking to the car door again, Xu Le shouted:
"Driver, I want to get off."
"Young man, what are you doing getting off the car? Do you understand the traffic rules? These are the new rules in Zion. Are you from outside?"
Before the driver could say anything, the middle-aged woman next to him grabbed his arm.
Xu Le frowned slightly, and golden electricity appeared on his arm.
The old lady screamed and fell to her knees.
"Murder! Murder!"
Xu Le's actions obviously attracted the attention of others. These passers-by began to point fingers at him. Needless to say, Xu Le knew what they were talking about.
"Driver, open the door, I want to get off."
"Don't let him go. He just wants to run. Let the law enforcers catch him."
The old lady on the ground was still making noise, but Xu Le had already controlled his emotions.
After he absorbed his own mental energy, he noticed one thing: the people in these illusions had no fluctuations in mental energy.
These people have a certain amount of mental energy, but it’s like a fixed value that has been set and will never change.
Even this almost real old lady in front of him did not have the slightest mental fluctuation.
This is a huge flaw that cannot escape Xu Le's judgment.
Seeing these people stopping him, Xu Le directly turned the black stick in his hand into a black gun.
Bang bang bang!
He shot everyone in his fantasy one by one, including the driver of the car.
Without a driver, the bus will naturally stop.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, Xu Le did not look happy.
He walked towards the car door and pushed it open again.
When Xu Le grabbed the handrail and walked down, that dazed feeling appeared again. This time, he was getting on the bus again, and the same words appeared behind him again.
"Hurry up! The Kuroshio is going to hit in the evening, and I'm waiting to go home!"
"Because I was very satisfied with the design I just made, all the previous ones were used?"
Xu Le took a look at the aunt who looked exactly the same as before, without any change, and felt a little confused.
He sensed no danger, nor even the slightest hint of hostility.
Xu Le originally thought that this level of illusion would not cause any substantial harm, and if Zhang Nuoan wanted to attack him, he would definitely have to launch an attack.
Whether it's alchemical creatures, poisoning, or direct action by himself, there must always be a substantial way of attack.
But there is still nothing until now, even though he just killed everyone in the illusion, there is still nothing.
Zhang Nuoan didn't seem to have any intention of interacting with him...
"He's using me to practice his illusion abilities?"
Xu Le felt that this possibility was very high. After all, no practice could be more direct and effective than practicing directly on a warlock.
This time, Xu Le did not try to break it by brute force immediately. The previous two times, when he touched the door, he was directly dragged into a new illusion.
The door of a bus may be a medium for resetting the illusion.
This time, Xu Le remained silent and stood on the bus, waiting silently for about 10 minutes for the bus to go to the next stop.
But when the bus arrived at the stop, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Zion Progressive Station
We are back to square one again? Everything is reset at the moment of arrival, a silent reset.
Xu Le suppressed his surprise and followed the crowd towards the car door.
Then, in the same absent-minded state again, he was back in the posture of getting into the car.
The aunt's shouting behind him woke Xu Le up again.
Xu Le hesitated for a few seconds, then took out a black gun, turned around and shot the old lady behind him.
Bang bang bang!
Continuous gunshots rang out, and everyone in the car was killed by Xu Le.
After killing the person, he found that the people in the car did not scream, which was very unreasonable.
But he didn't have time to think about those things now. He had to get out of the car before thinking about these questions.
Xu Le slowly loosened his fingers that were holding onto the handrail of the ladder.
Take a step back.
But with this simple action, the sticky feeling in the space reappeared, and Xu Le, in a daze, once again changed from the posture of getting off the car to the posture of getting on the car.
Because it was a subconscious action, he walked directly into the car this time.
"Again!"
Xu Le looked out of the car window. Then he tried to coerce the driver, the passengers, and basically tried everything that could get him off the car.
But without exception, he would reappear at the same place where he went up and down the stairs every time.
There was no attack, no persecution, it was repeated again and again, like an endless cycle.
Xu Le felt the countdown to the Red Moon Calamity.
There are more than 4 hours left, which means that although everything in front of me is fake, time is passing in a real way.
"He's stalling?"
This reminded Xu Le of a sentence in a book.
Time is not passing, it is us who are passing.
Everything is false, only time is real. He is trapped in a false fantasy, and real time is passing.
What happens when the time is up
Black tide, disaster of red moon!
As long as Zhang Nuoan drags out time endlessly like this until the moment when the Red Moon Catastrophe comes, the illusion will be lifted at the moment when the city falls into chaos.
Then there is a high possibility that he will be dragged to death by the monster during the fight with it. Is that the idea
It is undeniable that if Zhang Nuoan really thinks so, this is indeed a good way to deal with it.
Although Xu Le was holding the scroll back to the city, he was not particularly panicked.
But since he was forced to use the City Return Scroll, it basically meant that Zhang Nuoan had successfully countered him once. After all, the City Return Scroll was already his trump card.
"Huh, no sorcerer should be underestimated. It's just an illusion ability, but it can cause a lot of trouble to people as long as the conditions are right!"
While speaking, Xu Le had already started to make seals with his hands.
"Ritual - Forbidden Summoning Array."
Bang!
White cicada wings, jade-like fingertips. When the white cicada appeared, Xu Le felt that the space shook noticeably.
The strange appearance of level 3 ancient sound has an impact that cannot be ignored on this illusion.
A large amount of powder gradually floated on the white cicada's body, and it quickly harvested the lives of the people in the car.
Level 3 Gu Yinduo is already irresistible to ordinary humans. Although the people in the car took out their weapons, the difference in speed left them no room for resistance.
It was instantly killed by the fluorescent powder released by the white cicada.
Xu Le's brows narrowed slightly, and he continued to make seals, while Bai Chan stood beside him like a guard.
"It's not over yet, the ritual - forbidden summoning array."
Following Xu Le's summons, a large number of zombies appeared. These zombies began to fill every corner of the carriage, replacing the original passengers' positions.
Xu Le did try to get the zombies out of the car, but he found that once the zombies touched the car door, their figures would disappear.
The spiritual connection brought by the forbidden summoning will also be severed.
This means that the boundary of this fantasy is defined by this car.
Zhang Nuoan put all his energy into this car, and he ran this small business like a bucket.
It has to be said that although this approach has many disadvantages, its advantage is also very obvious, that is, it is difficult to break.
Even though Xu Le has now discovered that this is an illusion, he has not found a way to break it.
But he was not without a solution. At this point, Xu Le no longer restrained himself.
He summoned more and more zombies, some of which crowded around where the car door was. As the number of zombies increased, the space became more and more unstable.
At the same time, Xu Le controlled Bai Chan to come to the driver's position.
Bai Chan reached out and pulled the driver's body down, then sat on it herself.
Bai Chan can't drive, and neither can Xu Le, but he has experience driving a tricycle.
Although driving Bai Chan to drive a truck is clumsy, Xu Le's mental control ability is very detailed, so it is not impossible to do it in practice.
As Xu Le's forbidden summoning creature, Bai Chan can only obey instinctively.
Although this scene was controlled by Xu Le, he still couldn't help but have some strange thoughts.
The story about me letting a level 3 White Cicada drive a big truck in the city of Zion.
My driver maid.
When I know my summon can drive.
"Hold on tight!" Xu Le said to himself.
The bus started again, and Xu Le asked Bai Chan to drive towards the city's border.
The car was speeding up, and the surrounding scenery was becoming a little strange at the speed.
Many buildings become like mosaics, or become blurry pictures, which makes people feel like the picture has not been loaded, and it is a bit like the legendary perspective bug.
In short, as the bus approaches the city's border, the collapse of this picture becomes more and more obvious.
Soon, the surrounding buildings began to collapse and the ground began to crumble. Bai Chan was driving a big car and felt like it was the end of the world.
But even so, Xu Le still had no intention of stopping. He drove Bai Chan forward.
Until... the bus left the ground, flew erratically in the air, and crashed into the border of this virtual world.
Bang!
There was no sound, but Xu Le felt something was broken.
The space became sticky again, and numerous fluctuating heart energies appeared around Xu Le. Xu Le knew that he had escaped.
Because these mental energies will fluctuate and rise and fall.
But what followed was many people screaming!
"Ah! Weird!"
The world of the bus is an illusion, but the zombies and white cicadas summoned by Xu Le are not illusions. When Zhang Nuoan's illusion is shattered, the zombies and white cicadas also appear in the sight of the people.
Bai Chan is okay, at most she is just a COS girl with pale skin.
Zombies are different. They are scary no matter from which angle you look at them!
Xu Le quickly cancelled the summons, causing the zombies to turn into wisps of white smoke and dissipate into the air.
At the same time, Xu Le had found Zhang Nuoan in his ancient music multi-vision world. He was in the restaurant on the second floor opposite.
Before, he didn’t know whether he used the mind energy masking device to cover up his emotions, but after Xu Le broke the illusion, Zhang Nuoan’s emotions completely collapsed.
His mental energy has exceeded the warning line. Will this state... really not affect his true self as a warlock
Xu Le flipped over the guardrail with one hand and then tripped over it.
"Hey young."
After failing to show off, he looked around and made sure no one was watching him before he stood up calmly and quickly ran towards the second floor opposite.
Rushing into the restaurant, ignoring the waiter's welcome, Xu Le quickly came to the location where the mental energy fluctuations were.
But as soon as he got here, Xu Le felt something was wrong!
boom!
Before Xu Le walked into the private room of the restaurant, the door of the room exploded.
If Xu Le was not some distance away from the private room, he would have suspected that the other party had set a trap deliberately to target him.
After all, Ai Li had reminded him before that as an alchemist, Zhang Nuoan's blasting ability was extremely strong, so strong that it could affect the outcome of the battle between him and Ai Li.
"The explosion just now was caused by Zhang Nuoan? Was he fighting with someone else?"
There was no one in the restaurant at this time. After all, normal people were rushing back home to prepare for the arrival of the Kuroshio.
So in addition to Zhang Nuoan, Xu Le clearly felt the existence of a third person.
A figure slowly walked out from the dust of the explosion ruins.
His exposed limbs emitted a gem-like light, and he tore off his tattered shirt.
The man stretched out his hand in the direction of Zhang Nuoan.
"Spell - Shadow Binding."
As if sensing Xu Le's arrival, the masked man turned his gaze towards Xu Le.
Under the mask, there is a pair of eyes emitting red light. This light is not just bright eyes, but real light.
The man's eyes were glowing red.
A strong murderous intent and a dark aura emanated from him. This murderous intent, which was almost materialized, made Xu Le feel a little horrified.
Even from a distance, Xu Le could feel the violent aura coming from the other person.
Ancient Sounds Many Offspring-Giant Stone
A message flashed across the man's body, but as his glowing arm gradually dimmed, the diamond mark disappeared.
Looking at this man, Xu Le was full of doubts.
Although he looked very similar to a figure in Xu Le's memory, Xu Le still couldn't confirm the other person's identity, so Xu Le subconsciously looked at his right leg.
Unfortunately, the legs were covered by pants, so there was no way to confirm whether it was a prosthesis.
Looking at the shadow in the masked man's hand, Xu Le hesitated for a moment before asking:
"Is that you?"