Chapter 2826 - 2827: Game Within a Game
Chapter 2826: Chapter 2827: Game Within a Game
The once-flower-like radiant and delicate face has now withered and shriveled.
Those eyes, bright like autumn waters, have been pecked out by vultures, leaving only two pitch-black eye sockets behind.
The wind-dried cheeks are further covered with scars deep enough to expose bone.
Clearly, these are marks left by some creature’s bites.
Moreover, it’s highly likely that it happened while the girl was still alive, indicating the immense suffering this girl must have endured.
Lu Hui gently reached out to touch the face that had become unbearably ghastly, his eyes shimmering with tears.
"Li Niang!"
With his words, tears dripped into the cavernous eye sockets, creating tiny splashes of water.
And just while Lu Hui knelt in sorrow, behind him, threads of mist silently coalesced, forming a razor-sharp long spike, which then viciously stabbed towards Lu Hui’s back.
The entire process created no disturbance, but at the critical moment, Lu Hui, as if already expecting it, suddenly extended his hand backward and caught the spike aimed at him.
In an instant, the wind halted, clouds paused, and everything froze, including the vultures and various carrion birds flying over the abandoned city without exception.
You could see them all suspended in the sky, without a trace of change even in the angle of the feathers stirred by the wind.
It felt as though a giant beast had pressed the pause button.
Only Lu Hui was unaffected by the stasis. He slowly turned his head toward the spontaneously formed spike and said flatly.
"Using the inner concerns of a person as bait to construct an extremely realistic illusion to entrap them, if I am not mistaken, this must be the Nightmare Wolf’s method!"
As he spoke, the spike in Lu Hui’s hand shattered into pieces, and along with it, the entire city fell apart.
Immediately after, wisps of mist coalesced into an imposing giant wolf.
It was precisely the species of Nightmare Wolf that Tang Xiao had previously encountered.
But this Nightmare Wolf was much larger than the one Tang Xiao had encountered.
The strength of such creatures often correlates with their size, meaning this Nightmare Wolf was far more formidable than the one Tang Xiao met.
Yet Lu Hui was indifferent, merely gazing coldly, and until the Nightmare Wolf fully formed, he said softly.
"I should have guessed that only you evil creatures that specialize in manipulating the heart’s illusions could trap so many elite disciples in an illusion!"
Upon hearing this, the Nightmare Wolf sneered sinisterly, "Lu Hui, I must admit you are ruthless. Even such an illusion could not pierce your mental defense! It seems the emotions buried deep within your heart don’t mean much!"
Lu Hui gave a cold chuckle, "Why should the mental defense be pierced?"
"Shouldn’t it be? You know your literary heart is perfect, yet I still see these emotions from a crack deep within your heart. Such intense emotions shouldn’t be fake, but why haven’t you collapsed?" the Nightmare Wolf questioned.
"I didn’t collapse, but that doesn’t mean my feelings for Li Niang and this city are fake. On the contrary, it’s precisely because my feelings are so true that you cannot deceive me!" Lu Hui whispered.
"Stop saying these clichéd words. I don’t believe you are truly flawless!" The Nightmare Wolf began to rage.
"I am certainly not flawless, you know, I even have to thank you!"
"Thank me for what?"
"Because you gave me the opportunity to confront Li Niang directly and express my regrets!"
"Just one sentence can make up for regrets? Don’t be ridiculous, you know the woman you long for and your hometown have already vanished! You can never return! Hahahaha!" The Nightmare Wolf began to laugh loudly.
For these evil creatures who grasp the human heart precisely, they naturally know how to provoke a person.
But this time it miscalculated, as Lu Hui’s face showed a trace of mockery, his tone cool.
"Regrets aren’t easy to make up for. I know Li Niang and my birthplace are gone, and the culprits are indeed you evil creatures, but what does it matter? After all, I’ve already avenged them with my own hands!"
"Revenge?" The Nightmare Wolf’s laughter abruptly stopped, and it looked at Lu Hui in astonishment.
"Exactly, the suffering they’ve endured, I’ve repaid a thousandfold!"
When he said this, Lu Hui’s tone was extremely calm, calm to the point of having no waves.
Yet it was precisely this extreme calm that made the Nightmare Wolf shudder.
A sense of ominous foreboding suddenly rose in its heart.
The reaction of this Nightmare Wolf was swift, it didn’t hesitate, immediately wanted to turn around and flee.
But it was too late.
Just at the moment it turned, the surrounding environment suddenly transformed, the milky mist suddenly retreated, replaced by a battlefield.
Actually describing it as a battlefield is not entirely accurate, it’s more of a slaughterhouse.
Because on this vast land, countless corpses of evil creatures lay scattered.
These corpses died in various ways, but each face was frozen in infinite terror and agony, showing that they suffered extremely cruel torture before dying.
And beneath these corpses, green, blue, pink... all colors of blood soaked the land to nearly saturation.
The stench of blood pervading the air reached a level that was nauseating.
The Nightmare Wolf started to tremble uncontrollably.
Because as an expert in manipulating illusions, it knew at this moment it had been forcibly dragged into an illusion by Lu Hui through some unknown means.
The key is this illusion is so realistic, that all the methods it instantly probed failed.
And at this moment, Lu Hui’s voice came from its rear.
"Welcome to my illusion, and now begins your special moment!"
Hearing Lu Hui’s words, the Nightmare Wolf was about to lose its mind from fear.
Just as it controlled life and death in its own illusion, in someone else’s illusion, no matter how powerful it was, it was just a lamb waiting for slaughter.
It knew this all too well, hence wanted to escape.
But all previous attempts failed, left with no choice, it turned ferociously to look at Lu Hui.
The only option was to kill Lu Hui, the master of this illusion, to escape unharmed.
Thinking this, its ugly eyes were filled with intense killing intent.
Lu Hui knew this well, but he just smiled faintly.
"Because you just allowed me to mend my regrets, I decided to give you a swift death, next... please enjoy!"
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