Chapter 1650
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Chapter 1650 Phantasmagoric City
“This is…” Gongyang Wan’s eyes grew increasingly bright.
“You, have you gained control of it?” Lin Qiye asked in surprise, seeing that Gongyang Wan’s body hadn’t lost control.
“I knew I could do it!” Gongyang Wan laughed loudly, but halfway through her laughter, her expression froze on her face. “No additional abilities? The [Heart-Returning Parasite] hasn’t disappeared either… Damn it! What use is this arm to me?!”
Gongyang Wan had risked swallowing the willow branch hoping to gain Ke-system powers to escape Huo Qubing’s control, but now she not only gained no abilities but had directly turned into this neither-human-nor-ghost monster. What was the point of her risk-taking?
Gongyang Wan’s expression changed repeatedly, but ultimately, she composed herself and examined the disgusting willow branch arm again.
“If I lost the gamble, so be it… At least it looks intimidating enough.” She snorted coldly.
Gongyang Wan’s powerful psychological resilience directly shocked Lin Qiye and Wu Quan. If an ordinary person had staked their life on a gamble and only received a nauseating arm in return, they would likely have a mental breakdown on the spot. Yet she could quickly calm down and accept reality…
Gongyang Wan was far stronger than Lin Qiye had imagined… both in ability and mentality.
“Are you really not feeling unwell?” Lin Qiye asked with furrowed brows. “Do you hear anyone speaking in your ear? Do you feel unusually irritable? Do you feel itchy, like something is trying to burrow out of you?”
“No,” Gongyang Wan impatiently waved her hand.
Now, Lin Qiye was truly puzzled… He had encountered Cthulhu mythology so many times and had such close contact with Ke-system creatures, yet he had never seen a case without mutation. From the characteristics of the Ke-system, this was simply impossible.
Moreover, the Gongyang Wan he had seen in modern society wasn’t this bizarre figure before him… Perhaps she later used some method to hide this arm?
“Who are you people?!” Just as the three were talking, a shout came from the distance.
Lin Qiye turned around to see several armored figures, holding bloodstained weapons, rapidly approaching.
Lin Qiye frowned, about to say something, when Gongyang Wan beside him let out a soft exclamation.
“Strange…”
“What is it?”
“Why do they all have willow branches coiled inside their bodies?” Gongyang Wan narrowed her eyes, pointing at the willow branch corpses below with her right hand. “Just like these.”
Lin Qiye was stunned momentarily, then as if realizing something, he suddenly looked at her eyeball-bearing willow branch arm!
“You… can see their true forms?”
Lin Qiye recognized those armors – they should belong to the expedition soldiers who entered the palace with the Marquis. If those outside were imitations, then these approaching figures were very likely imitations too… and Gongyang Wan could see their true forms at a glance?
Could this be the ability she gained after swallowing the willow branch?
“Wu Quan,” Lin Qiye spoke.
“Yes!”
Wu Quan raised his hand, and several fallen weapons immediately flew out, directly piercing the bodies of the charging soldiers.
Amid wails of agony, they fell to the ground one after another, and moments later, indeed transformed into willow branches!
Seeing this, Lin Qiye’s eyes immediately brightened. The biggest problem now was that they couldn’t distinguish between real people and substituted imitations. Now that those substituted ordinary people had been killed by Chloe, what about the others?
Zhan Yuwu, Yan Zhong, Wu Quan, even Huo Qubing… how could they determine who was real and who was fake?
But since Gongyang Wan had coincidentally gained this ability, all difficulties would be easily resolved! This would be their hope for breaking the deadlock!
At this moment, Gongyang Wan also seemed to realize her special ability. She turned to look at the ugly willow branch arm, her eyes slightly narrowed:
“Interesting…”
She turned to Lin Qiye, a hint of a smile on her lips. “It seems I’m now the only one who can distinguish between real and fake… So, can we discuss terms?”
“What terms do you want to discuss?”
“I’ll help you identify all the fake monsters, and Huo Qubing removes the [Heart-Returning Parasite] from me… How about that?”
“I can’t make that decision for the Marquis,” Lin Qiye paused. “However, I can try to persuade him, though I can’t guarantee the result… Of course, if you render great service to the Han Dynasty this time, I think with the Marquis’s fair character, he shouldn’t refuse.”
“Deal!”
Lin Qiye nodded, then added after a moment, “Don’t try to be clever during identification. Whether what you say is true or false, the corpses will prove it… If I discover you’re confusing truth and falsehood, I’ll be the first to kill you.”
“Rest assured, I wouldn’t stoop to doing such things,” Gongyang Wan calmly replied.
Lin Qiye was about to leave when his foot suddenly paused in mid-air. After hesitating for a moment, he pointed to Wu Quan behind him:
“He’s not an imitation… right?”
Gongyang Wan turned to look at Wu Quan, the eye at the end of the willow branch staring directly at him.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and after a moment, she nodded:
“No, he isn’t.”
…
Outside the Imperial Palace.
“Holy Maiden, you’ve finally returned!”
In the post station, seeing the familiar figure return, the missionaries rose to their feet, their faces showing delight!
“Holy Maiden, are you injured?”
“What are you saying? The Maiden is the Holy Lord’s messenger, how could she be injured?”
“Holy Maiden, have all those rebel soldiers outside been killed?”
Chloe walked into the room surrounded by missionaries, nodding slightly, “Yes, all dealt with.”
She sat down on a wooden chair by the window, letting out a long breath. Since leaving the Holy Lord’s side to spread teachings in the mortal world, this was the first time she had killed so many people… Although she knew they were all imitations transformed from monsters, she still felt somewhat uncomfortable.
A missionary brought a basin of hot water for Chloe, gently placing it beside her. As he rose to say something, his peripheral vision caught something outside the window, and he froze.
“Holy Maiden… what is that?”
Chloe raised an eyebrow and looked in the direction he was pointing. Under the dim sky, a large mass of hazy mist was slowly approaching from the wilderness outside Chang’an City…
The mist was vast in range, appearing like colorful auspicious clouds under the night sky, illuminating the pitch-black night with phantasmal colors. Countless commoners who had survived the disaster stopped to watch this sight, kneeling down in worship as if witnessing a divine miracle!
“That is…” Chloe’s pupils contracted slightly.
