Chapter Twenty-Six: Illusion
"It's a possibility."
Su Xing said with a solemn face: "Perhaps, everything we see and hear now is the strange illusion.... The real us may have been outside the village all this time, so we heard the villagers talking. ”
The reason why Su Xing was able to think of these things was not that he was so clever.
This world is full of weirdness, and there are naturally countless legends and stories related to weirdness.
I've heard a lot of these stories, and it's reasonable to think of them.
By the campfire.
Hearing what Su Xing said, the white-clothed monk said uneasily: "Or.... Let's try to respond to that voice? ”
"Yes."
Seeing that the other party volunteered to make a sound, Su Xingzi would not obstruct it.
He was ready to turn on the 'Transformation' state at any time to deal with any situation that might arise.
Meanwhile.
The white-robed monk also replied to the voice in the darkness: "That.... Brother, where are you now? ”
…
The entrance of Da Niu Village.
Hearing the white-clothed monk's inquiry, Liuhao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I'm in the village, can't you see me?" ”
There was another long silence.
After a long time, the four people outside the village spoke up again: "Brother Tai, look at a few of us.... Is there some monster in it? ”
"Yes."
After hearing this, Liuhao came to his senses.
It seems that the four people outside can't see the 'hundred eyes', which is why those people will rest at the entrance of the village.
Thinking of this, Liuhao reminded the four people outside the village: "That monster can fly, so it has been floating beside you, and it still has many eyes on its body...."
…
On the official road.
Upon hearing the villager's description, the monk who spoke the least of the four looked horrified.
He suddenly said: "It's 'Hundred Eyes'!" If I'm not mistaken, we should be targeted by Hundred Eyes! ”
"Hundred Eyes?" Su Xing was stunned when he heard this, and said puzzledly: "Is this monster difficult to deal with?" ”
The white-clad monk had apparently heard of the hundred-eyed, too.
He explained to Su Xing: "This monster is not difficult to deal with, the main reason is that the ability is a little weird...."
The Cyclops are non-corporeal, flesh-like spherical creatures covered in eyes.
Like most monsters.
Hundred-Eyes cannot be touched, killed, or communicated.
The monster itself is not aggressive, and it cannot directly kill humans.
But the eyeballs that grow on its body surface have the ability to charm people's hearts.
Anyone who is directly looked at by the eyes of the 'Hundred Eyes' will fall into an illusion and continue to do all kinds of unbelievable behaviors.
Until death.
After listening to the whitefriar's description, the nun looked a little uneasy: "So, how many of us have been confused by the 'Hundred Eyes'? ”
"Possibly."
The white-clothed monk smiled bitterly: "If we really fall into illusion, then in reality, we are probably doing something unbelievable..."
"For example?" The nun subconsciously asked.
"Like cannibalism." The white-clothed monk said, "We may not even know what we are doing until we die. ”
I don't even know how I died, which does sound a little scary.
Su Xing couldn't help but ask: "Then this 'Hundred Eyes', is there any way to deal with it?" ”
"Yes!"
The white-clothed monk said: "The illusion in this world is nothing more than conjuring up what you think is a real scene, and using it to confuse the real with the fake.... But when you do something or cast a spell that is beyond the caster's cognition, and the other party can't simulate the subsequent development, then the illusion will naturally be self-defeating. ”
Speaking of this, there was a hint of helplessness in the white-clothed monk's tone: "Like the magical powers that Jin Dan and Yuanying Monks cast casually, the 'Hundred Eyes' cannot be transformed, so these people can easily break the illusion.... But a few of us are just Qi cultivation period cultivators, how can we break this illusion? ”
As long as you do something that can't be simulated, can you break this illusion?
Hearing the hint given by the white-clothed monk, Su Xing had a flash of inspiration and said, "I have a way, but I don't know if it's feasible or not." ”
As he spoke, before everyone could ask questions, he tapped the storage bag on his waist and took out three balls of flesh from it.
"Is this a life-saving medicine?"
The white-clothed monk said with a smile: "Su Daoyou, this is taken for granted.... The effect of life pills to increase longevity is just to change a few numbers in the chest, and the 'hundred eyes' can be easily conjured, and cannot be used to break the illusion. ”
Su Xing didn't say much about what the white-clothed monk said.
He handed the meat ball in his hand to the three of them, and said with a meaningful smile: "You have taken these three life pills. ”
"This...."
The whitefriar wanted to say something more.
But seeing Su Xing urging: "Don't ask too much about the three Taoist friends, just take the pill." ”
The situation is critical.
The white-clothed monk and the others are suspected to have fallen into the illusion of the 'Hundred Eyes', and their lives may be in danger at any time.
That being the case, then you might as well be a dead horse as a live horse doctor and listen to Su Xing.
After thinking about it for a moment, the white-clothed monk and the other three took the life pill handed by Su Xing in turn.
Su Xing's idea was simple.
Normally, whenever a monk swallowed the life-saving medicine he refined, countless 'black silk threads' would emanate from his body.
Most of these 'black silk threads' will gather in Su Xing's body.
And the creatures that can absorb the 'black silk thread', apart from Su Xing himself, he has only seen two:
One is the 'longevity ghost' who controls the longevity of human beings.
The 'Shou Ghost' has a power that humans cannot comprehend.
They cannot be touched, they cannot be killed.
No matter how powerful a monk is, once his lifespan is exhausted, he will definitely be killed by the Shou Ghost, and there is absolutely no chance of survival.
The second is the indescribable creature 'longevity'.
Unspeakable creatures also possess powers beyond human comprehension.
Mortals can temporarily obtain it just by worshipping its statue, which is comparable to the combat power of Qi cultivation and even foundation building period monks.
And compared to these two existences.
Just the 'hundred eyes' of the Jin Dan and Yuan Infant Cultivators who can easily break their illusions are a bit insignificant.
Awakening concluded that it was impossible for the 'Hundred Eyes' to understand the existence of the 'Black Silk Thread'.
And the truth is just as Su Xing thought.
Around the campfire.
After the three white-clothed monks swallowed the life pill, they saw that the scene around them gradually became distorted and even unreal.
Between the spinnings of the heavens and the earth.
Su Xing opened his eyes and found that he had inexplicably returned to the entrance of Daniu Village.
Outside the village, translucent balls of flesh that had been covered with eyes were floating next to Su Xing and the others.
The countless eyes on the surface of the meat ball were staring at the four of Su Xing.
Presumably, this monster is what the whitefriar called 'Hundred Eyes'....
Just when Su Xing and the four of them were stunned.
I saw a villager in Daniu Village shouting: "Hey! Hurry up and hide in the village, you guys! ”
The villager's voice was extremely normal.
Merely.
This villager's whole body is also covered with countless eyeballs.