Chapter 1049

【What else could it be? Everything we saw was fake.】

【No, you can't jump to conclusions like that. You need to understand what Mr. Zhang already said before — the environment here doesn't involve any changes from imaginary space.】

【So?】

【Are you stupid? So what we saw was real, and whatever that jade armor and stuff was that the second archaeology team saw with their eyes — all of it was an illusion.】

【You're telling me that the instant Team Leader Yang disappeared, she overlapped directly with that black shadow?】

【It's not impossible.】

【Bullshit. We all saw that although Team Leader Yang hid beneath the corpse-flower petals and her figure vanished—】

【But this black shadow was formed by light points converging together.】

The moment these words were spoken, the barrage fell silent.

Because they didn't know what to guess anymore either — for now they could only ask Zhang Lin about the situation.

But right now Young Master Zhao was running in that direction, and seeing that Zhang Lin's expression held no surprise at all, the people inside the Crescent Moon Restaurant didn't rush to ask.

Presumably once the coffin was opened, all the answers would be laid out before their eyes; even if there were still things they didn't understand, it would definitely be easier to comprehend than now.

Add in Zhang Lin's explanation later, and they might be able to understand it completely.

With this kind of mindset, no one disturbed Zhang Lin.

He was also quietly watching the livestream, watching Hu Hu Bayi and Wang Wang Kaixuan stand there dumbfounded for a moment.

And at this moment Yang Lu Si seemed to no longer be the same person as before — she showed no sign of stopping. In the instant the two were stunned, she suddenly raised her hands, one on each, and gripped both of their necks.

And she squeezed hard!

Wang Wang Kaixuan squeezed out one last sentence from between his teeth with all the strength he had left.

"Team Leader Yang, it's me, I'm Wang Wang Kaixuan — what's wrong with you?!"

This was the first time Yang Lu Si had been controlled; what she felt again was her own strength. By now veins were bulging on the foreheads of Wang Wang Kaixuan and Hu Hu Bayi.

Any moment now they might not be able to hold on, and their necks would be twisted clean off.

And at this moment Young Master Zhao was still running with all his might, until he passed by the three of them.

The controlled Yang Lu Si still didn't move — she let Young Master Zhao run past her side, as if she had already anticipated this, not finding it strange in the slightest.

Under this premise, everyone's hearts leapt into their throats.

And at this moment, inside the Crescent Moon Restaurant, the corner of Zhang Lin's mouth curled into a smile, and he said calmly: "This person isn't Yang Lu Si — you don't need to guess wildly."

He simply gave this answer in advance, and after hearing it, no one showed any sign of relief.

Not Yang Lu Si?

Just as the barrage had said before — this black shadow was formed by light points converging together. And among those light points, if this person really were Yang Lu Si—

Then all of this would far exceed anything within their grasp of understanding; even within the changes of imaginary space, such a thing couldn't be accomplished.

Zhang Lin's answer let everyone relax somewhat, but it truly couldn't change what was in front of them — only the moment Young Master Zhao opened the coffin lid.

According to Zhang Lin, only then would everything end — yet no one knew why.

Actually, the reason it wasn't Yang Lu Si was very simple: she didn't have any corresponding weapon in her hands, and even if she were mentally controlled, it wouldn't change her form.

So from the very beginning, when they saw Yang Lu Si's face, that rash judgment they made was wrong to begin with.

And at this moment, someone inside the Crescent Moon Restaurant couldn't hold back any longer, and hurriedly raised his hand to ask: "Mr. Zhang, didn't you say we've already broken free from imaginary space's control, and there's only the corpse-flower here?"

"Then why can we still see an illusion like this?"

Zhang Lin smiled slightly and said: "It's true that this is an illusion, but it's also something that truly exists — it has nothing to do with imaginary space itself. You can consider that this shadow has taken on the state of Yang Lu Si herself, and it was transformed from the corpse-flower. It's that simple."

Hearing these words, quite a few people nearly fell off their chairs in shock.

Transformed from the corpse-flower?

What kind of terrifying concept was this?

One had to remember that it was still a plant — although the purple light points converged little by little into this shadow wearing a golden mask.

But the moment Wang Wang Kaixuan knocked off the golden mask, it really did fall to the ground, and everyone even heard that sound.

Which proved that everything about it came from something substantial.

In this situation, light points converging into something substantial — and it's still not an illusion?

Everyone truly couldn't accept it.

Even the officials, upon hearing this news, looked at each other wide-eyed, because Zhang Lin's claim could no longer be explained by science.

If this shadow figure had suddenly burst apart and turned into gas, into light points, they could still understand it to some degree.

But once this process was reversed, the entire concept changed completely.

Within this concept, not a single explanation was correspondingly reasonable enough to put everyone at ease — even if they tried to talk themselves into it, no one could think of the reason.

And Zhang Lin waved his hand, and before anyone could ask him, he shut everyone's mouth for them.

These things didn't need to be asked about, and he couldn't give a detailed explanation either — because, just as they thought, it had already involved an entirely different category; they didn't need to know, and knowing would be pointless.

To put it plainly, the reason the corpse-flower possessed this kind of energy was that it grew above the Ghost Cave, and it was precisely the conditions of the Ghost Cave that gave the corpse-flower its current transformation — the two complemented each other.

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