Chapter 110: Breaking the Illusion
"Sure enough, even if the body is burned, the obsession that has not dissipated is just waiting for this sentence......"
With the phrase "I love you", all the surrounding scenery fades away like flowing water.
It was no longer a snowy night, but a day, the sky was bright, and the location was still a dilapidated mountain temple, with old wooden doors, mottled statues of mountain gods, judges, and imps. In the temple, there is a brazier under the desk, and the fire has long been extinguished.
An old man leaned against the foot of the table, his snow-white and unkempt head tilted, motionless, apparently out of breath.
"It's dead, no wonder I couldn't absorb the strong emotions from you before."
In his mind, Yan Luo deduced that the old man came to this mountain temple on a snowy night, his body was cold, and he thought of the poverty of this life, and suddenly he exploded emotionally and threw the puppet into the brazier.
The puppet burns until dawn to bring warmth, but after the old man's momentary impulse passed, his heart was filled with remorse, and he lost the only thing that accompanied him in his life, and it can even be said that he was alive spiritual sustenance.
The puppet burned out, the old man died, and the remaining obsession turned into this illusion.
Now that I think about it, what was broken was not a fantasy but two, one was the old man's regret for burning the puppet, and Yan Luo saved the puppet - even if it was just an act in the illusion, it could be regarded as eliminating the obsession.
Then, the obsession of the puppet girl, those images that keep emerging are the bits and pieces of its companionship with its owner for decades.
A puppet with feelings, in the soul, it is not impossible to see it as a "ghost", and the ghost also has love, even if it is thrown into the brazier by the owner, there is no resentment, and he exchanges his body for a night of warmth, but the soul of the puppet girl also has an obsession.
It is nothing more than a "love" word.
After Yan Luo said "I love you" to the puppet as Xia Sheng, this obsession also disappeared.
"The main quest is complete, and you will return to the table world in an hour."
There should have been a main story hint when he entered before, but he couldn't hear it when he was stuck in an illusion, Yan Luo took a look and found that the main quest in this world is really simple, in line with the level of LV1, and even easier than the novice quest - just realize that everything you see is an illusion.
You don't have to think about cracking it at all, and realize that you are in the realm of illusion, even if you are addicted to it and can't extricate yourself, after a period of time, the program will teleport people back to the surface world.
Of course, Yan Luo not only recognized, but also cracked, and there must be benefits - the settlement of the task will take place when he leaves, and there is still an hour, and he plans to see if there is anything valuable in this mountain temple, which can be taken with him.
It's like playing an RPG, rummaging through boxes.
The mountain temple is very empty and shabby, and it can even be said that it is dilapidated, and the statues of the god of Jinjia Mountain, the judge and the imp have no value. As for the beautiful puppet girl in the illusion, she has obviously burned to ashes in the brazier.
Saving the puppet is only in a fantasy.
Yan Luo squatted down to check the old man's corpse, and suddenly found that the corpse was tilted on the side of the head, and the two eyes were not closed, but open! The exposed eyes were white and lacklustre.
He also noticed that the old man's right hand was clenched tightly.
"What's in your hand?"
Yan Luo probed and found that the thin claws were pressed together, and it took a little effort to break the fingers with his current physical fitness. The palm of the old man's hand was a handful of white dust and a small string of burnt beads.
It's the one on the puppet girl's bun.
"In this way, we can be considered dead together, right?"
The bead string is just a cheap thing, and it is half-burned, not to mention that it can be taken out if it can't be taken away, and it is not of much value, this handful of dust should be the ashes of the puppet.
Yan Luo looked at this dead old man, as if he was persuading and seemed to sigh something:
"If you can't have it anymore, the only thing you can do is not forget ......"
"Never forget."
He raised his hand and gently stroked the old man's eyelids, and at this time, a cloudy tear flowed from the corner of the corpse's eye and fell to the ground, but did not disperse, but condensed into a crystal like a bead, gray in color, the size of a soybean grain.
Yan Luo picked it up in his hand, and the instructions for the program detection are:
"Tears of lamentation: tears that contain strong emotions and obsessions – from the puppeteer, containing emotions: remorse, sadness, attachment."
Seeing such an explanation, Yan Luo immediately thought, is it possible to use the heartless puppet? However, after trying it, I found that my talent did not react at all, and I couldn't absorb emotions, and I didn't have any abnormal fluctuations in this bead.
"Perhaps...... It's now, my Heartless Doll level isn't high, is it......"
The ability of the heartless puppet, of course, cannot only be fused with the personality mask, combined with the heroic soul mask, LV2 unlocks the skill of extracting the mask, it is conceivable LV3, LV4...... There will be more and more peculiar abilities, and Yanluo's instinctive feeling of the Tears of Sorrow is the material that the Heartless Doll needs, but unfortunately it can't be used at least for now.
"Since I have received a benefit from you, let's do something for you."
An hour later, there was an extra low tomb on the dirt slope next to the mountain temple...... Yan Luo dismantled the table of the mountain temple into wooden planks and wrapped the body together, as for the ashes burned by the puppet, it was naturally buried with the old man.
There is no tombstone in front of the low tomb, only a wooden board as a tablet, on which there is the handwriting engraved by Yan Luo with a sword: "The Tomb of Xia Sheng and Yiyi", and next to it, there is a poem:
The smoke turns into ashes, and there is no regret when it burns out,
I am willing to exchange this life for perfection in the next life.
"The task is over, let's settle the bill."
"Main quest completed, 1000 bio energy, 1 gene point."
"Break the Obsession Illusion 2, 2 Gene Points."
Strictly speaking, this level 1 world has a far worse harvest than the ancient Greek world, only a thousand points of biological energy, 3 gene points - but Yan Luo is very satisfied, first of all, 3 gene points are very useful, and he didn't do anything, so he climbed a lot of mountain roads - it was too easy.
Secondly, he can be regarded as having seen the supernatural world without any danger.
"Just a fantasy made me sink into it...... If it's a high-level supernatural world, what if you encounter those powerful ghosts? My physical body is good now, energy, Olympic flame, lethality is definitely stronger than ordinary psionic energy, and there is also the power of words......"
"In order to prevent encountering supernatural beings in the level 2 world, do you want to click on certain genes in the perception domain? For example, primary psychic ...... But...... The first forced world after the novice quest, the possibility of encountering supernatural spirits won't be too great, right......"
Yan Luo was thinking secretly, and the light and shadow around him were also changing violently, and he returned to the surface world in a fluctuation of time and space, that is, Wang Dongwei's home, in the corridor.