Chapter 93 - Red

Chapter 93 - Red

Li Huowang sat on his bed, recalling what had just happened.

He had never expected the Eighteenth Lunar to be even more bizarre than all the other supernatural beings that he had encountered in the past. To think that it could change its victim’s sense of self and identity itself, swapping it out with someone else’s identity completely.

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When he had been given the identity of the dying old man, he might’ve truly died.

At that time, even Dan Yangzi, who was possessing his body, wouldn’t have realized that he was dying.

But the Eighteenth Lunar could never have expected Li Huowang to be someone with a mental illness. Changing the identity of someone who was constantly battling with their own hallucinations was never going to be easy.

To think that the hallucinations that Li Huowang had been trying so desperately to cure had become the key to escaping the Eighteenth Lunar’s control.

The Eighteenth Lunar might be skillful, but the best it could do was change its victims’ sense of self. Unfortunately, Li Huowang was a Strayed One, someone who had two different cognitions.

Looking at the patients sunbathing outside, Li Huowang did not act immediately, instead thinking about his next plan of action.

I can’t just wait like this. The Eighteenth Lunar might try to change my sense of self once again after the hallucination disappears. I need to somehow affect the reality over there while still being in my hallucination.

Luckily, Li Huowang still had some cards up his sleeves. After his previous encounters with the hallucinations, he knew that whatever happened within the hallucination would happen in real life as well.

At the same time, he had also learned a bit more about the Eighteenth Lunar.

Li Huowang retraced the path he had walked just now. He needed to go back to the Wu Family’s courtyard and notify everyone about the fake Li Huowang!

The Eighteenth Lunar had resorted to trickery from the very beginning, never showing itself even once. That meant that it was probably quite weak in direct confrontations.

As long as Li Huowang could deal with its trickery, he would be able to summon the Wandering Gods and easily defeat it. In terms of actual combat ability, the Eighteenth Lunar might be even weaker than the ‘girl’ with tiny feet that he had encountered before.

He ran on the road in a specific pattern, taking very specific turns. Soon, he arrived at the location that he remembered as the Wu Family’s courtyard. However, in the hallucination, he was in the middle of the road.

Even though there were cars passing by him continuously, Li Huowang was not afraid. He knew that this was only a hallucination, and the cars would never hit him.

At that moment, Li Huowang faced the cars and shouted, “Bai Lingmiao! Quick! Take the bronze bell and ring it! Summon the Wandering Gods! The Li Huowang beside you is a fake! Have the Wandering Gods attack him!”

BEEP BEEP BEEP!

Thanks to Li Huowang, a traffic jam had started to occur on the road.

The cars were honking loudly, but Li Huowang smiled. Bai Lingmiao had followed his instructions. The honking of the cars in the hallucination must mean that someone was ringing the bronze bell back in reality.

Just then, one of the drivers in a red supercar stretched his head out from inside his car window and shouted angrily, “Crazy bastard! Get off the road! Scram, or else I will cripple you!”

Li Huowang whipped his head around and gazed at the red supercar. For some reason, he felt like the car was gazing at him.

He walked over and revealed his white teeth as he lowered his head toward the red supercar. “Hehe, so this is what your real body looks like within my hallucination? Eighteenth Lunar! I have finally found you!”

The Eighteenth Lunar that had never appeared in the village had now appeared in front of Li Huowang in this form. Needless to say, he was ecstatic.

Li Huowang continued shouting to his ‘invisible’ comrades. “Everyone look here! No matter what is in front of me, attack it! This thing is the Eighteenth Lunar!”

Just then, the driver saw the name of the mental hospital stitched to the left side of Li Huowang’s gown. He was terrified as he sat back down and hastily rolled up the window; all of his bravado was gone as he dialed the police with trembling hands.

“Hello? 110? Come quick! There’s an escaped mental patient on the roundabout! Yes, the roundabout beside Fulma. Come quick!” said the driver.

Li Huowang was just about to step onto the hood of the red supercar when he stopped.

Everyone in the hallucination saw Li Huowang turn his head as he stared at a red e-bike a distance away. The feeling of being watched that Li Huowang had felt from the red supercar was now gone, and he could feel it from the e-bike instead.

Oh no! The Eighteenth Lunar is trying to escape after being found out!

“Trying to run? Don’t think you can escape from me! Everyone follow me! That thing must be injured! It’s becoming smaller and smaller!” shouted Li Huowang as he ran toward the red e-bike.