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 Lou Feier seemed not to have come out yet.
Nothing will happen, right
Xu Xin immediately swung down from the tree house, walked quickly to the wooden house, and looked inside from the window.
Lou Feier was still sitting on the ground, leaning against the wooden wall of the cabin.
The bloodstains on her face had turned bright red, and they did not flicker like the Silver King's did. They were very stable, just like the two streaks of blood that had just been smeared on her face.
Her eyes were tightly closed, the corners of her eyes trembled slightly, and her brows were furrowed, as if she was experiencing a nightmare. With each breath, the red mist around her was inhaled again and again, and her body was shaking slightly.
It looked like she was no longer as comfortable as when she first entered it, and now she even looked a little uncomfortable.
Besides, hadn't she stayed in there too long
This is much longer than the time that the Silver King has stayed. The Silver King is a mid-level mutant creature. The fact that Lou Feier was directly contracted by him means that she is at most a beginner!
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 knocking on the window and Xu Xin's reminder, Lou Feier responded.
Her tightly closed eyelids trembled 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 for some reason.
This feeling is like... it's like looking into the eyes of a giant anaconda in the center of the lake!
He placed his hand on the backpack again, his whole body on alert, ready to draw his halberd at any time.
But Lou Feier did not go berserk, nor did she do anything strange. Instead, her expression immediately became somewhat doubtful and a little panicked, as if she had just woken up.
"I... cough cough! I'll go 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 thick red mist, and she completely lost her previous indifference.
"Bang!" The door was pushed open and Lou Feier rushed out. The thick red mist instantly followed her and poured out from the wide-open door of the cabin.
Xu Xin covered his mouth and took a step back: "Close the door!"
"Oh 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 was trying to escape.
Lou Feier coughed for a while before gradually returning to normal.
"What's going on? Why are you choked by this red fog? Don't you like this red fog?" Xu Xin asked her with a frown.
Because she had stayed in the house for too long, her body seemed to have been infected by the thick red mist. Even after she came out, the smell still 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 the taste left Xu Xin with a trauma and he didn't like it.
"... I don't know either. After I was awakened by you, I was choked by the red mist as soon as I opened my mouth. Now I feel like I'm full. Even the most delicious food can't arouse my appetite." Lou Feier's expression at this moment seemed a little melancholy and a little... uncertain, as if she had just experienced something that scared her.
"Waking up?" Xu Xin grasped the key point of her words and asked, "Were you asleep just now?"
"... Yeah." Lou Feier's gaze shifted slightly to the side.
Xu Xin looked at her scarlet eyes and said, "Tell the truth."
Lou Feier gritted her teeth.
She shouldn't have had such a low-level reaction to lying, but the contract made her extremely opposed to lying to Xu Xin. However, she didn't want to share the strange thing she had just experienced with others, and in her struggle, she revealed her true colors.
This matter was so strange that she had no idea how to explain it.
However, since Xu Xin had asked her to tell the truth, she had to tell it.
"… This red mist can cause hallucinations." Lou Feier took a deep breath and then told the truth, "I was immersed in an illusion just now. Although I knew it was fake, I didn't want to come out of it at all."
"Hallucination?" Xu Xin's heart skipped a beat. Could it really cause hallucinations
He glanced at the cabin and continued, "What hallucination did you see?"
Lou Feier looked conflicted and asked in a low voice: "Can I not tell you? This is my privacy, I don't want to talk about it."
"Then I'm even more interested." Xu Xin naturally wanted to know all the information about this red fog, and immediately refused without any emotion.
"... You bastard!" Lou Feier was furious.
But she really had no way to refuse, so she could only start telling Xu Xin about the content of the hallucination.
It wasn't anything strange. Lou Feier just saw her family, their ordinary life, and the room she was familiar with.
"What's so private about this?" Xu Xin was speechless.
Isn’t this what you dream about at night when you think about it during the day
Lou Feier actually didn't want to talk about her family with other people, but since it had already been mentioned, 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. "I feel that what I saw was an illusion, but it didn't seem like an illusion."
"What's the meaning?"
"Because, this illusion is so real..." Lou Feier's eyes became a little hazy, just like when she first entered the cabin, "Everything at home, my parents, their habits, what they say, are so real, and, and..."
"And what?" Lou Feier's tone and hazy eyes made Xu Xin feel a little uneasy.
"Besides, in that hallucinatory home, it seems... I have never been there..." Lou Feier looked at Xu Xin with a confused look in her eyes, "Anything related to me in my memory, in this illusion, there is nothing at all."
… What on earth is she talking about? She is so shocked.
Xu Xin was speechless. He thought it was a big deal. "It's just an illusion, a dream. Do you take it seriously?"
"It's not a dream!" Lou Feier stared at him, "It's definitely not a dream, because I'm very awake. I know I'm in the red mist cabin, and I know I'm breathing in the red mist, but I can see everything clearly, and I can even change my perspective to observe! Moreover, I still remember everything that happened just now clearly, this is definitely not a dream!"
Lou Feier 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 a memory... sealed in my mind..."
"Memory?" Xu Xin was stunned. "Isn't memory more normal? This red mist evokes 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 both memory and not memory. What the hell is this? Riddler
"Listen to me!" Lou Fei'er was also anxious about her own ambiguous words. "What I mean is, this is not a memory I experienced on Earth! How should I put it? It's like... a memory from another parallel time and space!"
The more you talk, the more mysterious it becomes.
However, Xu Xin was able to summarize the meaning of her words.
What she meant was that the things in her hallucinations were too familiar to her, like memories, but such scenes were not something she had experienced before.
Deja vu
Xu Xin shook his head and asked, "So, why do you feel this way?"
"Because, because..." Lou Feier's expression became a little panicked, "Because, this illusion is about the home where I grew up. But in that familiar home, all traces of me have disappeared, the marks I carved on the door frame to measure my height, the countless patterns I carved on the table with a knife when I was naughty, and... Anyway, they are all gone! And, and! My parents are still discussing adopting a child. They also said that it is a pity that they have never had children, and they want to adopt one, raise him up, and take care of him in their old age!"
There was a hint of fear in Lou Feier's eyes: "It's like I've never existed... And, that scene was so real, so real that I felt like I was standing there watching it!"
"... You weren't adopted, were you? Did you see the scene before your parents adopted you?" Xu Xin said with a strange expression.
"No way!" Lou Feier was so angry that she laughed, "How can you ruin the atmosphere like this! I am definitely my mother's child. I look a lot like my parents! Besides, can't I tell my parents' age? In the hallucination just now, they were already in their fifties! That's how old they are now!"
Xu Xin didn't say anything, but fell into deep thought.
In fact, he had already understood what Lou Feier meant, and he kept interrupting to ease the atmosphere. After all, Lou Feier's condition was a little bit off.
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, nor was she missing, but... she had never existed from the beginning.
Could it be that what she saw was the scene on Earth
On Earth today, perhaps just as she saw, no one remembered them, the survivors who had traveled to this world. Everyone had forgotten them, and even their existence had been wiped out, along with their memories and traces, they had disappeared from the Earth.
This guess is a bit creepy to think about.
However, it's just a guess.
"Are you really not talking nonsense?" Xu Xin looked at Lou Fei'er suspiciously. He didn't quite believe what this woman said. "You didn't make it up just to scare me, did you?"
"You bastard!" The blood streaks on Lou Fei'er's face had just faded, but Xu Xin's anger turned her face red again. "I have signed a contract with you, there is no way I can lie to you!"
Who knows how strong the real binding force of this contract is? Xu Xin curled his lips.
"…Don't think too much, it's just an illusion." Xu Xin concluded.
Although he felt that this matter might not be that simple, if it really concerned the Earth and their original home, then it would require long-term consideration. There would be no point in discussing it now and it would be a waste of time.
"You don't think that after inhaling so much red fog, you can see the earth?" Xu Xin spread his hands.
"Hmm... So I said, this is memory!" Lou Feier retorted.
She really felt it was too real, so real that she felt like she was there.
"Whose memory? Yours? Since you are not even in your hallucination, where did 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 imagination. This world is so strange, and it is normal to be able to see very real hallucinations when you inhale the red mist?"
Xu Xin didn't want Lou Feier to be affected by this incident. She still had important tasks to do tomorrow and couldn't be distracted by it.
"Is this... normal?" Lou Fei'er was a little shaken.
The scene she just saw was too real, and it really gave her a great shock, and even made her doubt whether she really existed. After hearing what Xu Xin said, she felt a lot more relieved.
"Okay, go back and rest. We still have things to do tomorrow."
"Oh, okay." Lou Feier took another look at the cabin, then she turned and walked towards her tree house, muttering to herself, "Is it fake? Well, it should be... fake, right?"
Who knows whether it is true or not
In short, live in the present.