Chapter 17
As the battle over there intensified, Cassel just hugged his legs, squatted beside a big tree, and looked at his palms. He thought about the question Nie Wuhen had just asked.
No matter who it is, no one would ask these questions for no reason, unless he really discovered something, or really wanted to do something.
Found the so-called system? This is simply impossible, so it can only be the latter. What can you do? All you can do is abandon yourself. After all, no one will tolerate people from another world.
Tears fell drop by drop, soon soaking his sleeves. Cassel rubbed his eyes and suddenly felt so pitiful. Why did everyone have a family, but he couldn't have a home and friends?
The sounds of battle gradually died down and finally turned into silence. It was quiet outside. There was no sound of footsteps, and it seemed that no one was coming to look for him.
His eye circles started to turn red again and his nose became more and more sore. Cassel bit his lips and sobbed. He didn't dare to cry loudly. He didn't know if there were any remaining monsters around. What if he cried too loudly and attracted the monsters?
He has no magical powers and is now almost a useless person. In other words, even if he had magical powers, he didn't know martial arts or anything.
Suddenly, someone called him from behind.
As soon as Cassel stopped crying, his antennae straightened instantly. He turned his head sharply and looked over. He saw Nie Wuhen dusting off his clothes and standing not far from him. He looked at him helplessly, his voice sounding exhausted after a battle: "Why are you crying again?"
Cassel finally burst into tears. He stood up, rushed over, and hugged Nie Wuhen tightly, his voice intermittent: "I, I thought you didn't want me anymore... I was afraid that you would dislike me..."
Nie Wuhen was hugged tightly by him and took two steps back to maintain his balance. Hearing this, he sighed and said, "If you disliked it, you would have lost it at the beginning."
Cassel cried so hard that he wanted to hit him, but he didn't dare to. He could only wipe his tears and snot on Nie Wuhen's shoulders, crying as he wiped them. His wings behind him were still flapping rhythmically. After he stopped crying, he wiped his tears and asked again: "Nie Wuhen, can I follow you? I really, really won't cause you any trouble."
Nie Wuhen patted his back and said, "Go down."
Cassel tugged at his tentacles and slowly took two steps back. The moment he turned his head, he saw Bai Yi looking surprised. Cassel looked at him in a daze and whispered in a hoarse voice, "Hello."
Bai Yi didn't say anything. He suppressed his expression and symbolically fanned himself a few times. He looked at Nie Wuhen, moved his lips, and said, "Senior Brother."
"Give him the antidote." Nie Wuhen said concisely.
Cassel's shoulders trembled. It took him a while to react before he remembered that when he first met the bone monster, Bai Yi seemed to have fed him a pill. At that time, he asked Bai Yi what it was, but Bai Yi said nothing.
Seeing Bai Yi coming over again, Cassel was so scared that he hid behind Nie Wuhen.
Bai Yi didn't care. He threw the pill to Nie Wuhen, shrugged, and said, "I really don't understand, Senior Brother. If his magic is restored one day, you will really have nothing."
“Not really.”
Nie Wuhen took out the pill, put it to his nose and sniffed it. After making sure it was okay, he handed it to Cassel.
After Cassel took it, his hands were shaking a little. He looked at Nie Wuhen with trembling lips. After seeing him nod, he gritted his teeth and swallowed it in one gulp.
"I can understand that ordinary elixirs are useless to him, but it's too suspicious that they are useless to the Mermaid King," Bai Yi waved his fan nonchalantly. Although he was smiling, there was no smile in his eyes. "If you didn't do anything, it can only mean that the problem lies with this person. Senior brother, I can choose not to do anything, but I want him to give an explanation, an explanation that convinces me."
Nie Wuhen turned around and looked at Cassel. Cassel was a little scared, but he still pulled his clothes and defended himself: "Did the Mermaid King drink my blood?"
"What effect can your blood have?" Bai Yi didn't believe it at all. "Don't say that your blood has an inhibitory effect on my pills."
As an alchemist, the most humiliating thing is that the pills he developed have no effect on people. Ever since the first time he let Cassel smell the fragrance and knew that the elixir he developed was useless on Cassel, Bai Yi became cautious and observed everything in secret.
But this observation is a bit off. Because he found that when Nie Wuhen fed Cassel the elixir, the elixir worked, but when he fed it himself, it didn't work. He and Nie Wuhen are from the same master, and the source of their magic power is exactly the same, except that Nie Wuhen has a tendency to be possessed by demons, so his magic power has a hint of demonic energy.
In order to find out the reason, Bai Yi arbitrarily fed Cassel a tracking pill with magic energy added to it. Sure enough, tonight, when Cassel was cast into chaos by the skeleton monster and ran away, the tracking pill worked, allowing the two to quickly find his location.
Then the question arises again. Why does this elixir only work if it is contaminated with demonic energy? What is the relationship between this person who does not belong to this world and the demon cultivator?
Bai Yi was still waiting for a reply.
Cassel also looked at Nie Wuhen with worry. His hands that were holding his clothes were trembling slightly. He said in a trembling voice, "I really... don't know. My blood..."
Nie Wuhen turned his head to look at Bai Yi and said, "It's about blood. You should know everything about the battle just now."
Bai Yi was shocked.
"The mermaid pearl has been recovered, and the gluttonous beast king is dead," Nie Wuhen said, "Since all the things that are in the way have been removed, then the so-called misty forest is nothing but a trick. If nothing goes wrong, we will be able to get out at dawn."
Cassel still held Nie Wuhen's sleeve and did not let go.
Bai Yi stared at Cassel for a long time before he looked away. He sneered but didn't say anything. As to whether the doubts have been dispelled, no one knows.
Cassel didn't know either, and he didn't dare to say anything. Even if he was slow to react, he understood at this moment that although Bai Yi seemed to be laughing on the surface, he had actually never dispelled his doubts about himself. What about Nie Wuhen? How much of his doubts can be dispelled?
Cassel wasn't sure, and he didn't dare to ask.
The clouds in the sky dispersed, and the originally blood-red moon turned into ivory white. The bright moonlight enveloped the misty forest. When the mist dissipated, the outlines of trees and slopes in the distance became vaguely visible.
Nie Wuhen walked in front and Cassel followed behind. Bai Yi seemed too lazy to see the two of them and walked very quickly alone.
Cassel bit his lip and said nothing. He kept looking at the flowers and plants around him. Sometimes when he felt bored, he would pull some weeds and lower his head to weave a wreath. I learned the garland in the past in order to blend in and lure the little angel, and now it finally comes in handy.
He placed the woven wreath on a stone, then picked more flowers and began to weave. Finally finishing the second one, Cassel cheered in his heart. He lowered his head and was about to repeat the last operation, but suddenly he found that there was a wreath on the stone in front of him, which was exactly the same as the one in his hand.
Cassel: “…”
He walked quickly behind Nie Wuhen, grabbed Nie Wuhen's sleeve, and said in a hoarse voice: "Nie Wuhen, have we... fallen into some illusion again?"
Before Nie Wuhen could say anything, Bai Yi sneered and said, "The King of Gluttonous Beasts is dead, how could he fall into the illusion again?"
Cassel pulled Nie Wuhen and looked up at him. Nie Wuhen was very tall, and Cassel, standing in front of him, only reached his shoulders.
"I'm not lying," Castle pleaded. "I just made a wreath and put it on the stone. We were walking for a long time and I even finished making my second wreath, but I still saw it."
Afraid that they wouldn't believe him, Cassel bent down with a grunt, picked up the wreath on the ground, placed it together with the wreath in his hand, handed it to Nie Wuhen, and said, "Everything I said is true."
Nie Wuhen frowned slightly.
Bai Yi's expression also became solemn.
Seeing them like this, Cassel also became frightened unconsciously. He held the wreath tightly and said anxiously: "We can't... get out?"
"Either you can't get out," Bai Yi choked him, "at least my brother and I can get out."
Cassel hid behind Nie Wuhen and whispered back, "Nie Wuhen will never abandon me."
"I don't think so."
Cassel glared at him, then looked at Nie Wuhen anxiously. Nie Wuhen moved sideways, standing between the two of them, and said, "The illusion can't appear for no reason. If it suddenly appeared, it must have been set up by someone from the beginning, or we were careless when we fought the gluttonous beast king just now."
Bai Yi pondered: "If that's the case, then it should be related to the inner elixir of the gluttonous beast king. When we joined forces to kill it, we also cut the inner elixir in half. I didn't expect that it would create such a large illusion. I just don't know if it has multiple layers. But looking at this situation, it is likely to be."
"Illusions within illusions," Nie Wuhen stroked the Wuwang Sword, feeling the sword's intent. A reddish light flashed by, which was particularly clear at this moment. "It's like a large formation within a small formation. We need to find the center of the formation, or something real that exists in the illusion."
"Nie Wuhen," Cassel whispered, "If it is really a big illusion wrapped in a small illusion, then once this illusion is broken, the energy fluctuations will take us to a different illusion, and we will fall into the next illusion. Then can I still find you?"
The two looked over.
Bai Yi snorted and laughed, "I didn't expect you knew all this. I thought you knew nothing."
"The Dream Angel taught me," Cassel said, pursing his lips, "I can also break the formation."
"So powerful," Bai Yi said, "Since you can break the illusion, why don't you leave?"
"I'm just, just scared," Cassel tugged at Nie Wuhen's clothes and said sadly, "If we get to the next fantasy world and we get separated, will you look for me?"
Before Nie Wuhen could say anything, Bai Yi was there to instigate him. His voice was cold and could not be concealed: "We are from another world. There are many immortal cultivators in the world, and there are many people with higher magic power than my senior brother. You don't pester them, but you pester my senior brother. If you say you have no purpose, who would believe you?"
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