Chapter 1640: Don't Send Me Off

Hmph, you're still too green to fight me!

Watching the paint-worker collapse on the street opposite, the Red-haired Woman let out a laugh. She put away the small bronze whistle and bent down to pick up the green compound eye that had fallen to the ground.

"Des... picable!"

Just as the Red-haired Woman raised the compound eye of the Myriad-Thing Cicada to her eyes to observe her surroundings, the Snake-Husband Director, who had nearly been drained dry, squeezed a curse of indignation through his teeth before collapsing from the chair with a thud.

Once freed from the Crimson Heart that was his natural nemesis, the Snake-Husband Director instantly recovered his vitality. He sprang up, turned around, and lunged toward the small mirror embedded in the back of the chair... only to grasp at empty air, as expected.

"Don't bother. Hearing Hearing Li Ang wouldn't make such a rookie mistake."

Glancing at him from the corner of her eye, the Red-haired Woman shook her head.

"He wouldn't leave such a critical item behind after discovering he'd been tricked... Besides, look across the street."

Across the street?

Startled, the Snake-Husband Director followed her instructions and looked toward the street thirty meters away, only to discover, to his utter bewilderment, that there was no paint-worker across the street at all...

In fact, there wasn't even a street there!

As the "Hearing Hearing Li Ang" who had been sleeping lost control, the original illusion began to disintegrate rapidly. Thirty meters away, there were no buildings or streets, only the deep canyon embedded with cannons that had sent him flying earlier!

This... this...

Looking at the cannons embedded in the cliffside and those pitch-black muzzles, the Snake-Husband Director's face twitched uncontrollably, his gaze toward the Red-haired Woman becoming increasingly difficult to bear.

Damn it... Compared to these two insidious dogs, I'm as pure as a child!

"In short, remember this: when facing someone who has mastered the 【Pseudo-Illusion】 authority, your eyes are the last thing you should trust... Hearing Hearing Li Ang doesn't lie most of the time, but at critical moments, he's never honest and will definitely pull some tricks."

Not knowing what her old friend was thinking, the Red-haired Woman shook her head as she glanced at the cannons on the cliff. She sighed with some emotion.

"This is truly... I don't know who he learned this from, being so insidious!

Aside from the small animals used to attract the 【Source-Tracing Mosquitoes】, everything you saw—the paint-worker, the hand reaching in to grab the Crimson Heart—were all false illusions.

If I had thought he was across the street and rushed over to snatch the Crimson Heart to save you, I definitely would have been heavily trapped by him... Fortunately, I kept an ace up my sleeve."

Using the compound eye to observe the "Hearing Hearing Li Ang City" that had already fallen asleep, and confirming that her plan had no issues, the Red-haired Woman secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After discovering she had snuck away, Hearing Hearing Li Ang would certainly have asked Mr. Jin Niu for her files, then gone to the archives of the Virgo Branch to check what anomalous items she had taken and made corresponding preparations.

To paralyze him, she had deliberately left items like 【Duplication】 in the archives and specifically brought the 【Sleep-Inducing Throat Whistle】 and this unreported 【Dream-Entering Tongue Whistle】.

After going upstairs with the files and finding 【Duplication】 still in the archives, Hearing Hearing Li Ang naturally wouldn't suspect she had two identical hypnotic whistles. Plus, being anxious to get the truth out of her, there was at least an eighty percent chance he would fall for it.

Although the 【Dream-Entering Tongue Whistle】 could only keep him asleep for a short while, she had made some small adjustments to it, sending the consciousness of this Nightmare Lord directly into the deepest part of the Dreamland. That should be enough to keep him tangled for a while... Hmm?

Seeing the Snake-Husband Director sit back in the chair for some reason, his face dark as he closed his eyes, the Red-haired Woman asked curiously:

"What are you doing?"

"I'm entering the dream!"

Loosening his spirit slightly and vaguely connecting to the Dream Realm, the Snake-Husband Director gritted his teeth and said, "Your whistle is just an ordinary item, not a numbered anomalous item. It can only keep him asleep for a short while and can't trap him for long. And I don't know what's going on in this place, but I have no way to run from him. So rather than waiting for the Food God to wake up and be tossed around like a toy, I might as well take the opportunity to break into the Dream Realm and have a good... Ouch! Why did you kick me?"

If I didn't kick you, would I just watch you chase after him to your death?

Watching her old friend prepare to actively enter the Dream Realm to fight the fiercest Nightmare Lord in history, the Red-haired Woman rubbed her temples in frustration, unable to help but laugh and cry.

"Can you please stop using your brain? Or at least investigate more before making a decision?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I mean, stop sending yourself to your death. It's very hard to save you!"

Briefly explaining Hearing Hearing Li Ang's "affinity" with the Dream Realm and his glorious record of eating his way through most of the Dream Realm, the Red-haired Woman waved her hand at the Snake-Husband Director, who was stunned in the chair, and instructed him speechlessly:

"In short, just run. Run blindly in the opposite direction and don't use your brain to pick a path. Just don't get caught by him.

Listen to me, I don't have the 【Slaughter Blood Hair】 on hand right now, so I can't use absolute power to suppress Hearing Hearing Li Ang. The trick I used to ambush him just now won't work a second time. So if you get caught by him again, I really won't be able to save you."

"..."

No... I'm very strong! I'm really very strong!

!

Watching the Red-haired Woman's headache-ridden expression, the Snake-Husband Director's mouth opened, wanting to argue and tell his old friend that if they fought head-on, even she with the 【Slaughter Blood Hair】 might not be able to beat him now.

If it weren't for being stuck by the 【Crimson Heart】, being tossed around by that strange ability, the opponent never showing their face, and him not wanting to implicate the innocent by smashing the entire Lily City...

Forget it... Losing is losing. It's his skill to catch him without even showing his face. Arguing about this is meaningless; it's better to run a few more steps.

Feeling that he had lost more face in these few days than in the first half of his life combined, the Snake-Husband Director, now somewhat numb, gave up arguing. Instead, he hung his head and asked gloomily:

"Olivia, what about that whistle of yours? How much longer do you estimate it can trap the Food God?"

"Hearing Hearing Li Ang is already coming back."

Sensing the loosening dream, the Red-haired Woman observed the "Hearing Hearing Li Ang concentration" throughout Lily City using the Myriad-Thing Cicada's compound eye while shaking her fist.

"Ten."

Ten minutes?

The Snake-Husband Director nodded in relief.

That's fine. The time is quite sufficient. Ten minutes is enough for him to run out of...

"Nine."

Huh?!!!

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