Chapter 1645
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Chapter 1645 Authentic Forgery
Lin Qiye stood frozen in place.
“What did you say?”
“Fake! They are all fake!” The soldier, with hands covered in blood, grabbed Lin Qiye’s wrist, trying to pull him behind himself, while his other hand swung his weapon fiercely, cutting off the head of a Yulin Guard.
The Yulin Guard, with rounded eyes wide open, had his head roll to Lin Qiye’s feet, blood staining the ground red.
“Why do you say they are fake?” Lin Qiye asked with furrowed brows.
“Can’t you see?” The soldier stretched out his hand, pointing at the corpse of the Yulin Guard on the ground.
“See what?”
“He’s transformed from a monster! The same kind we saw in the mountain ravine, those willow branch-like monsters!” As he finished speaking, the soldier stomped violently on the Yulin Guard’s corpse.
Even after the corpse was completely mutilated, Lin Qiye still couldn’t see any resemblance to the Cthulhu-type monster. Just as he was about to speak, several roars came from behind:
“Kill all these monsters! Chang’an cannot fall into the hands of monsters!!”
“Die protecting His Majesty!!!”
“The Marquis is still in the palace, rescue the Marquis!”
“Monsters… Chang’an city is full of monsters!!”
“…”
Dense shadows broke through the Yulin Guard’s defense line, rushing into Chang’an city amid blood and fire, like a pack of bloodthirsty wolves.
Several soldiers charged into the city, and terrified screams came from houses in the neighborhood. They suddenly turned their heads, “There are monster sounds there too!”
They rushed to the door, kicked it open, and the screams inside became more chaotic. Several civilians were huddled in the house, faces pale, with the cries of infants echoing through the street.
The soldiers, holding blood-stained weapons, widened their eyes and laughed:
“You think by wearing these skins, I won’t recognize you?!”
“Quick! There are several more here!”
Several soldiers rushed into the house, blood splattered, and the candles inside fell to the ground during the chaos, igniting a fierce fire!
The shrill screams and pleas gradually stopped. Blood-covered soldiers dragged several corpses out, with hideous bloody marks trailing on the ground, reflecting a heart-stopping crimson in the firelight.
“Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me!!”
Hearing the commotion next door, a middle-aged man ran out of his house in terror. Seeing these blood-covered figures, his face turned pale with fear, and he turned to run away!
The next moment, a figure on horseback swept past the street, a cold spear swept by, and the man’s head flew high…
“I killed another one!!” The soldier impaled the head on his spear, raised it high, and shouted with his head held high.
Screams rose and fell throughout Chang’an. As the 30,000 troops rushed into the city, the entire city was stained with a layer of blood, still spreading in all directions at an alarming rate!
“Have you gone mad?! Where are these replacement monsters?!”
Seeing this scene, Lin Qiye angrily gripped the soldier’s throat, then stomped his right foot on the ground. The ground within several li instantly shattered, and a wave of air knocked all the surrounding troops to the ground.
“Open your eyes wide! They are just ordinary people! There are no monsters at all!”
The soldier was lifted by Lin Qiye’s single hand, like a powerless chick, but his eyes stared fixedly at Lin Qiye. After a moment, he spoke in terror:
“Monster… you’re also a monster!! The real Master Lin was killed by you in the smoke of the ravine! You’re the monster that replaced him!!”
Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed deeper.
“Kill him!! Avenge the real Master Lin!!” With his angry roar, more than ten nearby soldiers who had been knocked down suddenly stood up and swung their blades without hesitation toward Lin Qiye’s neck!
Lin Qiye’s gaze focused, a wave of killing intent surged out, and a sword light flashed in an arc around him. The soldiers’ movements instantly froze in mid-air.
A fine red line appeared at their waists. Under their astonished gaze, their upper bodies neatly fell from the smooth cut, hitting the ground with a thud.
Blood flowed, and the next moment their corpses suddenly blurred, turning into strange willow branches, writhing on the ground for a moment before gradually becoming still.
Lin Qiye’s pupils contracted slightly.
These willow branches were almost identical to the monster bodies that appeared after he killed his own counterfeit in the smoke, except that the willow branch that had copied him then also had an eyeball on it.
So, these soldiers had all been replaced in that colorful smoke?
But Lin Qiye clearly remembered that on the way back, he had conversed with these soldiers, and their habits, expressions, and even memories were completely the same as before, not at all like they had been replaced!
“You actually killed them! You actually killed them! Damn… I’ll kill you!! I must kill you!!”
The soldier held in mid-air by Lin Qiye, having witnessed the others being killed, was furious beyond measure.
Lin Qiye turned to look at the soldier in his hand, pointed his head toward those willow branches that had reverted to their original form, and shouted:
“Open your eyes and see clearly!! These are the monsters!!”
“They are not monsters!! Those are the monsters! You are the monster!” The soldier struggled to stretch out his hand, pointing at the civilians being slaughtered in the street and at Lin Qiye in front of him, shouting hysterically, “I will kill you all!”
Poof—!
Lin Qiye’s hand suddenly exerted force, instantly crushing his throat. The latter’s head drooped limply, and moments later his form transformed into a thick willow branch, swaying silently in the wind.
Lin Qiye’s expression was extremely grim.
In his mind suddenly appeared the angry gaze of his counterfeit when he killed it in the ravine.
“Fake! You are the fake! You, this counterfeit created by Cthulhu! You can never replace…”
At that time, Lin Qiye found it strange—if it was truly disguised as himself, trying to replace him, why did its tone and expression seem so genuine until the very end?
It seemed… as if it really was himself lying on the ground, roaring in fury at the counterfeit about to replace his identity.
“People replaced in that smoke retain all the memories and thought patterns of the original, and even completely believe themselves to be that person?” Lin Qiye murmured. “If that’s the case…”
It’s not remarkable that a counterfeit can perfectly disguise itself as the genuine article, but if even the counterfeit itself believes it is real, then things become problematic… because this means it could never reveal the slightest flaw.
Unless one kills a person with their own hands and sees their corpse, it’s almost impossible to distinguish whether they are real or a counterfeit replaced by willow branches!
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