Chapter 1432: Skin of False Fallacy

Not knowing what his mother's killer was planning to do with his mother's "legacy," the female cleaner, who was lying on the back of a giant snake, suddenly looked up after faintly smelling a familiar scent.

She first wrinkled her small nose hard, then seemed to have discovered something. She immediately reached out with joy and pulled the gray robe of Hearing Li Ang (Nightmare King version).

"It's Uncle Grandpa! I smell his scent! Uncle Grandpa is right in front!"

Scent?

Glancing at the female cleaner's fair and delicate nose, Hearing Li Ang subconsciously sniffed along with her, but even with his sense of smell in his current True God state, he could only smell an incomparably irritating sulfur smell, and nothing else.

"It's true!"

Seeing the suspicion in Hearing Li Ang's eyes, the female cleaner couldn't help but be anxious:

"My nose is also an anomalous object; it will definitely not smell wrong. As long as we go in this direction, we will definitely find Uncle Grandpa!"

Go find the Aquarius Director first?

Resisting the urge to touch the female cleaner's nose to see if that anomalous object was called 【Dog Nose】, Hearing Li Ang looked in the direction she pointed and frowned in thought.

After stuffing the souls of all living beings in Hot River City into the river of nightmares and stopping the God of Heart Lake's plot, Hearing Li Ang took the female cleaner who had finished relieving herself, her brother who was rolling his eyes from drinking, and a million nightmares into the underground Hot River.

And in the underground Hot River, although the location of the melting path leading to the Earth's core was extremely hidden, it didn't take long to be found in the face of a million nightmares' all-out search. However, the trouble was that the specific situation of the Earth Core Melting Path was not quite the same as what Hearing Li Ang and the others had guessed before.

After smashing open the obsidian that had just condensed at the entrance and entering the Earth Core Melting Path, what appeared before Hearing Li Ang's eyes was not an empty pipe leading straight to the Earth's core, but chaotic fissures that were as intricate as a spider web, with more and messier branches than capillaries.

That so-called melting path was less of a "path" and more of a mantle fissure drilled, squeezed, and eroded by a sea of magma rushing up from the Earth's core, without any regularity at all.

Looking around, besides the heavy magma flowing and the thick rock layers rubbing and squeezing, there were bright red iron rivers melted into juice. The bright red iron juice was so dazzling that people couldn't even open their eyes. Without obvious signs, it was impossible to find the real "main road."

Even knowing that going all the way down would lead to the Earth's core and find the Aquarius Director and the King-Slaying Society, if one walked into a dead end, to continue going down, one would either have to turn back through the metal melting river to find the way again, or drill through the planet with their flesh.

Fortunately, as the "pioneers" of the Earth Core Melting Path, the Aquarius Director and the members of the King-Slaying Society should have had a large number of battles. Following the path destroyed by the environment, one could barely find the correct path, but...

The direction Meli smelled this time seems to be quite different from the location with traces of battle?

After pacing for a while between the melting path pointed out by the female cleaner and another melting path with a large number of battle traces, Hearing Li Ang didn't make a decision immediately. Instead, amidst the female cleaner's anxious dissuasion, he stepped on the river of nightmares beneath his feet and rushed toward the melting path with battle traces.

"Don't go! This must be fake!"

Seeing that Hearing Li Ang didn't choose the path she pointed out, the female cleaner, who was clinging to the scales of the Swamp King Snake, couldn't help but be anxious:

"That god of the King-Slaying Society said before that he is the god in charge of 【Pseudo-Illusion】 and 【Heart Lake】! What we see is very likely fake!"

"Yes, but can you be sure that what you smell is definitely real?"

Controlling the invisible black river, Hearing Li Ang arrived at the melting path with battle traces. While reaching out to touch the rock walls shattered by the bombardment, he explained calmly:

"When I was on the airship, I felt that the God of Heart Lake knew a bit too much about you. Later, looking at his actions, he seemed to know the Aquarius Branch and Director Balto very well. So we must assume that he knows what kind of anomalous objects the Aquarius Branch has stored, and guess that you would bring this dog-nose anomalous object down, and specifically targeted it... *Hmm*... found it!"

After touching the rock wall carefully for a while, Hearing Li Ang successfully touched what he wanted in a piece of shattered rock wall.

【Name: Skin of False Fallacy (Disguise, Illusion)】

【Appearance: A strange piece of skin that looks like a rock wall, smells like a rock wall, knocks like a rock wall, and even feels like a rock wall, but is actually not a rock wall】

【Ability: False Object Disguise, False Illusion】

【Cost: Requires holding part of the "Pseudo-Illusion" authority, and one's own contamination value must exceed 60 points】

【File: When the God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake passed by this rock wall, he reached out and rubbed it gently, leaving behind part of his skin tissue, and eroded and forged the entire rock wall, trying to mislead latecomers】

【Evaluation: An almost impeccable disguise-type anomalous object, completely capable of passing the fake for the real. However, because the material is hand skin, if you lick it with your tongue, you can taste a bit of the saltiness of hand sweat】

【Contamination Value: 0.1】

【Through your own observation and induction, you have obtained a large amount of intelligence about the "Skin of False Fallacy," and the heterochromatic badge "Materialist Soul (Crimson)" is activated.】

【Due to understanding the activation rules of "Skin of False Fallacy," your resistance to this anomalous object has increased significantly, and you are already able to shield against general levels of influence】

"..."

*God damn the saltiness of hand sweat! *

After the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, Hearing Li Ang withdrew his palm from the rock wall, wiped it on the gray robe of the King of Nightmares with disgust, and nodded to the female cleaner:

"You are right, the traces here are indeed fake; they are all illusions created by that God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake."

"Yes, yes! There is indeed no scent here!"

Seeing that Hearing Li Ang was not deceived, the female cleaner breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Since this side is fake, then we..."

"We should go this way."

"?"

Looking at the other path pointed out by Hearing Li Ang, which also had no scent, the female cleaner was stunned. Hearing Li Ang didn't explain to her, directly driving the river of nightmares beneath his feet, and surged toward the Earth Core Melting Path covered in "snow spots."

When facing other anomalous objects, the resistance provided by 【Materialism】 could only shield against partial anomalous effects and could not be completely immune, only playing an auxiliary function. But when facing something like 【Skin of False Fallacy】, it was different.

After being weakened by 【Materialism】, the real thing was still 100% real in his eyes, while the fake thing created by 【Skin of False Fallacy】 was like a faded oil painting, with only 70% reality in his eyes.

But in the face of truth and falsehood, as long as something was not entirely true, it was 100% entirely fake. From now on, the God of Pseudo-Illusion and Heart Lake's disguise was ineffective against him!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1433 =====