nucmednet Chapter 224 He Was Wrongly Accused
Chapter 224 He Was Wrongly Accused
Soon, the six people formed a circle as Gu Nanfeng had suggested, so they could see each other normally. However, although the light in front of them was normal, it was pitch black behind them, with only the box that seemed close but was actually impossible to approach.
"If we're in this illusion now, how can we get out?" Ji Lang knew perfectly well that he couldn't figure this out, so he could only ask and hope that Gu Nanfeng and Lin Yun could help.
"I still don't understand when we entered this illusion." Lin Yun himself was completely confused. Although he was good at thinking, he was at a loss for what to do now.
"Now we can at least be sure that all six of us are real, right?" Everyone was silent, but Yang Xiao suddenly asked out of the blue.
"This..." This question really stumped everyone present. Who could be sure that the person next to them was real and not an illusion?
"I still don't understand why Lu Yuan is doing this to us." Zhong Qiang clicked his tongue in annoyance. He used to call Lu Yuan "Father" all the time, but now he just called him Lu Yuan.
"So now we're playing a game where I have to prove who I am?" Pei Sihao joked awkwardly with a laugh.
“No need. There are so many of us, and we know each other quite well. If any one of us had a problem, we would have noticed it long ago,” Gu Nanfeng said, shaking his head.
“That’s right, just like Lu Yuan. We can tell at a glance that he’s not the Lu Xiaoyuan we know.” Yang Xiao nodded in agreement.
“By the way, Lu Yuan.” Gu Nanfeng suddenly looked at Yang Xiao, thought for a moment and asked, “I remember, when we found you in S City, Lu Yuan was already the Lu Yuan we know now.”
"Yes, he was unconscious before that. He woke up as soon as you arrived, but the person who woke up was not the Lu Xiaoyuan we knew." Yang Xiao recalled the situation seriously and continued, "Then he violently destroyed the warship to bring us out, and that's when we met you."
“Yes, yes, that’s it.” Zhong Qiang nodded in agreement.
"Do you suspect that we entered the illusion back then? We haven't left S City yet?" Pei Sihao looked at Gu Nanfeng with surprise. He guessed that Gu Nanfeng was thinking this way, but he really couldn't accept this idea.
“Yes, I remember Xiao Gu saying that there is a psychic ability user in S City who is even higher level than him.” Lin Yun suddenly realized, “Psychic ability users should also be able to create illusions, right?”
"Theoretically, it should be possible, but I haven't tried it." Gu Nanfeng wasn't sure about the possibility, because it was also possible that the strange Lu Yuan created this illusion. After all, he was from the interstellar era, and the equipment he possessed far exceeded Gu Nanfeng's expectations.
“I’d rather believe it was that advanced psychic from S City who did it. Lu Xiaoyuan has no reason to do it.” Yang Xiao looked at Gu Nanfeng’s serious expression and knew that he meant that all of this could also be Lu Yuan’s doing, but Yang Xiao just didn’t want to believe it. “Although I’ve never met this Lu Yuan, if they were the same person, would their personalities be so different?”
“What Yang Xiao said isn’t without merit,” Ji Lang interjected.
"To be honest, I also feel that everything in this illusion is strange." Lin Yun looked at the group of people gathered in a circle, and then started counting the strange things on his fingers. "We arrived in Beijing safely all the way, which is very strange. Then we went to the new building of the research institute, and even the office we entered was the same one. We also ate a similar feast. These feelings are not much different from the last dinner we had together in my memory."
"Then we encountered Zhao Qi, who had turned into a zombie, which was also very strange." Ji Lang continued Lin Yun's words and also pointed out what he found strange. "There are so many high-level ability users in Zhao Qi's base. There's no reason why no one else would be there when something happened to him. At least several level six or seven ability users who were with him should be there. Why was he the only one there?"
"Also, we don't know how Lu Yuan killed this zombie you called Zhao Qi." Pei Sihao recalled the situation at the time; Lu Yuan rushed over alone, and none of them followed.
"Next, we seemed to have killed a wave of mid-to-high-level zombies as usual, but none of them were from Zhao Qi's team, as Captain Ji mentioned." Gu Nanfeng continued his analysis, following Pei Sihao's train of thought.
"Then we entered the desert, but the desert was no longer quicksand." Zhong Qiang remembers this vividly.
“Lu Yuan took out a spaceship that had never been used before…” Pei Sihao thought of the spaceship that they all wanted to own, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him, “Don’t you guys think this spaceship looks a lot like the one in a movie that was just released last year?”
“Yes! I knew that design looked familiar.” Zhong Qiang also remembered the movie Pei Sihao mentioned. It was a popcorn movie released in the US last year. The plot wasn’t very interesting, but the spaceships and battleships in it still attracted a lot of fans.
Seeing that Ji Lang and Lin Yun didn't react, Zhong Qiang began to ramble on about how terrible the movie was, and how luxurious the interstellar war, warships and spaceships in the movie were. He even had the cheesy idea of wanting to recreate the spaceships from the movie with his friends.
“I remember,” Ji Lang suddenly spoke up amidst Zhong Qiang’s passionate narration, “Lu Yuan’s system said that the spaceship was bound to it. I understand what that means: the spaceship never appeared because it wasn’t stored separately in space, but was placed inside the starship, so the Lu Yuan we knew didn’t discover it.”
“Ah! Lu Xiaoyuan’s starship system mentioned before that you can’t board a starship without advanced authorization. We also brought up the advanced authorization issue before we entered this laboratory, but Lu Yuan refused, saying that his main system wasn’t there.” Yang Xiao suddenly widened his eyes. He seemed to understand something, but he couldn’t express it to others.
"Heh, interesting." Gu Nanfeng, who had been listening to the others speak, suddenly laughed. "We misunderstood him. His strange behavior was actually a way of reminding us."
"What? Who's been wrongly accused?" Yang Xiao had just started to understand when Gu Nanfeng said this, and he was suddenly confused again.
"Are you saying we misunderstood Lu Yuan?" Pei Sihao looked at Gu Nanfeng in confusion. "Lu Yuan isn't here now because he's already escaped from this illusion?"