Yellow Spring Handwritten Notes

My name is Duan Shenxing, a pawnshop owner. I thought I would live an ordinary, uneventful life, but the dragon-patterned jade pendant and handwritten notes left by my grandfather led me to uncover...

Chapter 634 Reality and Illusion

The question about the sparrow is also something that puzzles me.

At this moment, all ten of us were gathered in this cave, and we could all see each other.

However, our perspectives are completely different.

Lin Que and I were in a wormhole, while Qu Ruilin and the others remained in that eerie world.

We are like being in two overlapping spaces, and no one can tell which side is illusion and which side is reality.

As Song Laosan said that the female ghosts had returned, the group became extremely nervous and began to set up an array under their feet with red ropes, as Wei Shengnan had instructed.

But Lin Que and I couldn't see anything at all. We shone our flashlights in the direction where Jiang Man and the others were standing guard, but there was nothing there.

Song Laosan installed the peach wood nails on the ground and shouted at Lin Que and me, "What are you two standing there for? Are you waiting to die?!"

"Let's go, get in the circle!"

Unable to determine which of the two was experiencing the illusion, I pulled Lin Que to stand inside the red circle.

Seeing that Lin Que and I were in a daze, Qu Ruilin pulled us behind him and said, "No matter what strange things are here, let's deal with what we can see and keep an eye on each other, so that the one who is blinded by the ghost will not cause trouble."

I saw that they had all drawn their peach wood swords and pointed them in the direction where I had thrown the scarecrow. I could only hope that the Wei family members would cut the steel cable in front of us as soon as possible so that we could leave this godforsaken place.

Just as I turned around to help, Song Laosan spoke again: "Wei girl, what's going on? Why are all those female ghosts heading towards the corpses on both sides?"

Wei Shengnan said in a deep voice, "The red rope beneath our feet is a demon-suppressing array, which spirits cannot approach! These ghosts want to possess the corpses and break the array with their physical bodies! Change to the Two Realms Blade, and once those corpses move, we absolutely cannot let them destroy the red rope!"

Lin Que got goosebumps when he saw them yelling and shouting while shining flashlights on the pupa in front of them: "Brother, this situation where we're not in the same dimension is too damn scary! I'd rather we could actually see ghosts, at least then we could have a real fight!"

"Snap!"

Just as Song Laosan and the others were on high alert, I suddenly saw a crack appear in one of the pupae in front of me. Manjing also pointed in that direction and shouted, "That corpse moved!"

Holy crap!

Lin Que saw the direction Manjing was pointing and gripped the knife tightly: "There's clearly nothing over there! Why did the pupa break when they said the female ghost was over there? Brother, could there really be something we can't see here?"

"They're here!"

Jiang Man also shouted and slashed at the void to one side with the Two Realms Blade.

Just a second ago, I had the thought that they were hallucinating because the pupa broke open.

But right after Jiang Man slashed out, I saw a dent appear in the bone fragments on the ground in front of her, as if something had hit it.

"Flutter!"

Suddenly, the pupa in the distance burst open, and a swarm of moths rushed out and pounced on us.

Inside the red circle, the Wei family member with the injured arm was still wielding the Two Realms Blade and waving it in the void, as if he hadn't seen the flying insects at all.

"Whoosh!"

In just a few seconds, the moths had attached themselves to him. The Wei family member screamed and fell to the ground, writhing in agony.

Song Laosan brandished a knife in mid-air and roared, "Wei girl, didn't you say that spirits can't enter the coil? Why did he suddenly become possessed?"

"call--"

Upon hearing Song Laosan's shout, I grabbed the flamethrower and began spraying the Wei family members who were covered by flying insects.

"Duan Shenxing! What are you doing!"

When Wei Shengnan saw me using a flamethrower against the Wei family, she suddenly shoved me aside.

She was a step too slow. By this time, all the moths on the Wei family members had been wiped out by me, and he himself had become a corpse. Half of his rat-clothes had been torn to shreds, and in just a few seconds, his left arm and left side of his chest had turned into bare bones.

Seeing the tragic state of the Wei family members, I finally understood where the dense layer of white bones on the underground riverbed came from.

These moths are scavengers, and they must have some kind of venom in their bodies that can decompose animal muscle tissue in the shortest amount of time.

Looking at the corpses of the Wei family members on the ground, Song Laosan stared at me with the same terror: "Xiao Duan, are you fucking possessed? Why did you attack your own people?"

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

"...!"

Ahead of the crowd, several more pupae burst open. Watching the moths burst forth, I roared out my conjecture: "There are no illusions in this cave! Everything we see is real! Follow Qu Ruilin's method, everyone deal with whatever you can see!"

"call!"

As I shouted, I had already squeezed to the front of the crowd and pulled the trigger on the moth flying in the air.

I can imagine that they see my strange movements now as if I were watching them swing knives at the void.

Actually, I didn't need to shout, they all started moving. I don't know what our surroundings looked like from their perspective, but judging from everyone's screams, the situation they saw was also particularly bad.

As we struggled on, the Wei family members behind us shouted, "The steel cable has been cut!"

Looking at the pupa that was still cracking open in front of me, and the pressure gauge on the flamethrower that was about to hit its limit, I shouted, "I can't hold on any longer, retreat!"

"Walk!"

Hearing my shout, Jiang Man grabbed my arm and quickly retreated towards the exit behind us.

"Whoosh!"

As soon as we took a step, a pupa next to us suddenly split open. I saw a swarm of moths rush towards Jiang Man. I raised the flamethrower and pulled the trigger all the way down at the pupa.

"Bang!"

Just as I finished dealing with the moths, a tremendous force suddenly pushed me to the ground.

I initially thought I had been bumped by the retreating crowd, but after falling to the ground, I found that the area in that direction was empty.

"Buzz!"

Jiang Man stood in front of me, swung her sword at the void in front of her, and then grabbed my wrist and pulled me up.

I then realized that not only could the moths attack other people who couldn't see the wormhole, but the corpses that they could see could also attack me.

At that moment, all of our thoughts were in disarray, and everyone was fighting against what they could see.

The spot where we were stopped by the steel cable was only a dozen meters away from the entrance. In just a few seconds, everyone rushed to the front of the entrance. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something placed in the corners of the walls on both sides of the entrance and immediately stopped.