Delusion Master

Qin Hengyun was dragged and ran all the way, until he rushed to the steps in front of the museum and entered the hall, he held on to the pillar and gasped desperately, only to feel a burning pain in his chest, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

"Your physical fitness isn't good enough. You've only run three to four thousand meters and it's like this." Wei Lin teased, "If I had known, I would have taken that zip line with claws and brought it back like flying a kite."

Qin Hengyun panted while waving his hands: "I, when I was in high school, I couldn't even run a thousand and five..."

With great difficulty, he calmed down his breath, wiped off his sweat and asked, "Who are you two?"

Wei Lin had already prepared a draft in his stomach, and said with a smile, "People like you."

Qin Hengyun took two steps back, looked at them vigilantly, and then at the security guards in the hall.After being attacked by Luo Tian, ​​Xun Er, and Teng Liu one after another, he is now wary and fearful of all the "successors of the ancient gods": "Are you with that couple?"

"If it's really a gang, I'll pack you up on the spot in the park and take you back to a museum full of people for what to do." Wei Lin said.

Qin Hengyun thought for a while, and felt that what he said made sense, and asked again: "Whose successors are you?"

"Thunder God Kui Ze." Wei Lin pointed to Bai Yuan again, "War God Xing Tian."

Qin Hengyun: "Uh, then I'll call you Kui Ze and Xing Tian?"

Wei Lin: "No, we still like to use our real names, Wei Lin, Bai Yuan."

Qin Hengyun sighed: "It would be great if the three of them were as easy-talking as the two of you. Let's go, find a place to chat."

Wei Lin and Bai Yuan followed Qin Hengyun to an empty duty room.Qin Hengyun boiled a pot of water and planned to make tea for them. As soon as he picked up the pot, the water flowed out of the spout automatically, drew a round arc in the air, and poured into the two teacups.

"Ah?" Qin Hengyun looked at his hands in surprise.

"Just get used to it." Wei Lin patted him on the shoulder and said in a tone of someone who has experienced it.

Qin Hengyun sat down and looked at the white smoke above the teacup. "Can you hear Kui Ze's voice? Here—" He tapped his temple.

Wei Lin looked at Bai Yuan, and the two quickly exchanged a look of "proceed carefully".Wei Lin nodded: "Yes."

"At the beginning, it was only once or twice. When I was in a trance or alone, I didn't know who the owner of the voice was. I just felt that someone was talking to me. Later, I saw his appearance and called 'Shuangzhi' on the side. In the bronze mirror of "Water Ripple Mirror", I began to dream about him, dreaming about the scene in the ancient times. He claimed to be the leader of the water god Gonggong, Di Jiang, who had the power to control water. He told me to learn to use water. But my brain has never been bright since I was a child, and I can’t learn it by old age. He was very angry and almost threw me into the river several times to feed the Hydra Xiangliu.”

Wei Lin asked tentatively, "Did he tell you what to do after you learn how to use water?"

Qin Hengyun replied: "I didn't say anything at first. In my dream, I watched him lead the clan to conquer the Quartet, fight against the Zhu Rong clan in Buzhou Mountain, and finally his soul was sealed in the bronze mirror. It was not until later that he revealed some of his innermost feelings. He said that he would use my body to reincarnate in modern times and revive the Dongyi tribe."

Wei Lin frowned: "Kui Ze didn't tell me so much, he only said that he would give me the power of thunder and lightning, but asked me to do what he asked. If these ancient gods reincarnate and occupy our bodies, then we What about your own consciousness?"

Qin Hengyun said: "It's not appropriation, but fusion. As the successors, we will gradually absorb their power, memory, and finally their soul. Do you know that neither Gonggong nor Zhu Rong is alone, but It is a clan, and only the leader of the clan has divine power and title. He hopes to use this method of inheritance to create a new leader in modern times after more than 5000 years, so that the Gonggong clan can rise again."

Wei Lin: "But these are all he told you, not necessarily the truth."

"I know." Qin Hengyun's expression was a little melancholy at the moment, with a taste of resignation, "but I can't doubt, let alone resist. He seems to be in a very far away place, and he seems to be in my body , I obey him with every nerve, and I can't refuse at all."

Wei Lin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: Qin Hengyun's delusional disorder has been affected to such a degree that it is hard to get back. We can only gain his trust first, and see what he plans to do after reincarnating all the ancient gods in his fantasy. How to play this world.

Bai Yuan, who had always been taciturn, suddenly opened his mouth and asked Qin Hengyun: "Since you were young, is there anything you particularly want to do, or something you particularly want to get?"

Qin Hengyun was a little dazed when asked so coldly: "It seems... not."

Bai Yuan asked again; "If one day you encounter difficulties or dangers and cannot report to the police, who do you think you can turn to for help, and the other party will spare no effort to help you?"

Qin Hengyun was even more at a loss: "My parents? But my twin brothers are only three years old. They are busy taking care of the children in their hometown, so they don't have time... My colleagues will probably help me. I don't know. Sometimes they You are willing to help me, but sometimes you refuse and get angry at me, I don’t know why... When you ask me like this, I really don’t know who to turn to."

Bai Yuan got up, and nodded politely to Qin Hengyun: "Thank you for the tea, Wei Lin and I should go."

Wei Lin pulled a duty register book on the desktop, and wrote a series of phone numbers on the blank space of the last page: "This is our mobile phone number, if you really encounter difficulties and dangers in the future, you can call us. "

Qin Hengyun wrote a notebook, a little unbelievable: "Looking for you?"

Wei Lin smiled and said: "Yes, at a young age, the two of us are truly good young people who stand up for justice, but at an older age, we are both members of the Dongyi Tribal Alliance. After all, we have to talk about love. If you don’t believe me, it’s up to you.”

After speaking, the two left the duty room one after the other.

Qin Hengyun held his notebook in a daze, then got up and chased out the door. When he came to the museum hall, he saw tourists coming and going, but the two handsome men had long since disappeared.

He looked down at the crooked phone numbers on the paper, hesitated for a moment, and entered the number into the phone's address book, naming it "Wei, Bai".

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Wei Lin and Bai Yuan walked side by side on the sunny street in early summer. They were so hot that they took off their coats and put them on their arms.

"Mr. Bai Yuan, the great magician, give me a cup of iced milk tea, or change it into a stack of cash, and I'll go to the milk tea shop next door to buy it." Wei Lin smiled, and put an arm around the back of Bai Yuan's neck, on his shoulders.

Bai Yuan put on the posture of a magician very cooperatively, swayed his slender fingers gracefully in front of Wei Lin, then reached into his coat, and took out a cup of milk tea with a straw inserted, the outside of the cup was covered with cold water drops.

Wei Lin took it with satisfaction, shook the ice cubes in the glass, and drank it slurply. "You've also found out what Qin Hengyun's problem is, right?" He said casually, sipping on the grass jelly honey at the bottom of the cup seriously.

Bai Yuan nodded: "He looks like he is naturally confused and has no personality. In fact, he can't distinguish the boundaries of himself. As normal people, we will draw a range to clarify what is 'I' and what is 'others', and protect ourselves His personal space is not violated. But he can't figure it out, just as he can't figure out what can be helped by others and what can't be helped, and it's hard for him to recognize and respond properly to his aggression."

"You mean, his self-awareness is very weak, like... like a transparent person in the crowd?" Wei Lin asked.

Bai Yuan: "It's a bit similar. Such a person will confuse his own viewpoint with that of others, and is easily influenced by others. So it is very easy to imagine that he is being manipulated by a powerful and irresistible force to do certain things, so that he does not have to clarify himself. attitude because he lacks the motivation and ability to deal with things."

Wei Lin: "If you ask him who to turn to for help at a critical moment, he can't answer. Because in the real world, whether it's parents, relatives, colleagues or friends, he subconsciously feels that the other party is unreliable. The truly reliable—or Ling The only thing he fears and relies on is the water god Gonggong imagined in his mind."

Wei Lin threw the empty cup of milk tea into the trash can by the side of the road, and stretched: "It seems that it is quite troublesome to get that 'Shui Shen Gong Gong' out of his mind."

Bai Yuan rubbed his hair: "Let's wait and see what happens."

Wei Lin smiled: "Change is certain, he is very insecure now, and he will definitely make trouble for himself in the inner world."

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Qin Hengyun was out of his mind all afternoon, and when he finally got off work, he left the museum with his satchel on his side, and walked towards the bus station.

In summer, the days are long and the nights are short. At this time, it was just after six o'clock, and the setting sun was still shining brightly in the gaps between the tall buildings.

Qin Hengyun walked a hundred meters, and suddenly felt the sky darken.

He stopped in his tracks and looked up—the black clouds rolled and swallowed up the entire sky, covering it heavily, with a dark and sinister aura like "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it".

What happened?Pedestrians on the road stopped and looked around one after another, whispering to each other.

The sky seemed to have turned into a pitch-black sea, the thick clouds were turbulent waves, and there were faint electric snakes flying between the crests of the waves.The natural light on the street was so dim that people's faces could not be seen clearly from five meters away. Someone yelled, "The rainstorm is about to fall!" So pedestrians in the open air rushed towards the nearest stores, stations, banks and parking lots. ran to the field.

Qin Hengyun stood still, maintaining a posture of looking up, as if all his mind was taken away by this supreme power from the sky.He saw a circle of golden light in the western sky.The golden light was late but still bright and sharp, piercing through the thick clouds and gradually expanding its range, revealing a round of orange celestial body inside.

Immediately afterwards, the eastern sky also released a clear glow, and a crescent moon leaped into the sky ahead of time through the gaps in the dispelled clouds.

The moon rose so early today?The sun and the moon shine together?Qin Hengyun had an illusion in a trance: with the help of the crescent moon, the setting sun was competing for the dominance of the sky with the dark clouds that were threatening to show their claws.

Don't tell me that the Sun God and the Moon God are fighting with the Cloud God!Qin Hengyun's mind suddenly crossed this bizarre and absurd but traceable idea - since water, fire, wind, snow and thunder have appeared, why can't there be sun, moon, cloud, and more ancient gods?

As if to answer his guess, the dark sky rolled over a long string of Yin Lei, and the torrential rain poured down.The pedestrians who were drowned in the blink of an eye screamed and looked for places to hide from the rain.

Qin Hengyun stood in the rain without dodging, letting the rain drenched him completely.He wiped his face, and tasted a salty and bitter taste in his mouth, like... seawater?Or heavily polluted acid rain?

Many things, big and small, mixed in the rainwater and fell to the ground crackling. People and animals who were too late to escape from the impact screamed.

"...It's not hail! It's fish! And conch!"

"Damn it, fish and shrimp in the world?"

"I seem to have seen it in the news before, saying that the tornado sucked seawater and fish and shrimp into the sky, and then fell down with the rain. I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today. It's amazing!"

People hiding under the eaves talked about it.

At this moment, the thought in Qin Hengyun's mind was——Has God of Sea and God of Cloud teamed up?

The salty rain wrapped in fish fell for a full hour, and when the rain stopped, the sky was almost completely dark.In the end, the setting sun followed the ancient rules, sank into the western horizon, and the crescent moon disappeared into the night sky alone.

The street lights in the city were turned on, and countless people rushed to the streets with buckets and plastic bags, scrambling to pick up seafood.

Qin Hengyun shook his head, gave up taking the overcrowded bus, and walked back slowly towards home.

As he walked, while thinking, the moisture on his body quickly evaporated inadvertently, and the clothes on his body were as dry as ever after a while.

After 40 minutes, he walked home, put down his satchel, and went to the kitchen to cook a pack of instant noodles with vegetables and poached eggs for himself who lived alone.

While eating the noodles, he was still pondering: what would this modern world look like if the successors of the ancient gods gradually awakened, factions were opposed, and they fought endlessly with each other?Can ordinary humans still stand at the top of the biological chain?

"What do you think about so much? You are not an ordinary human being!" Gonggong said in his mind.

Qin Hengyun smiled wryly: "Master, you've been making more and more frequent voices recently, even when I'm fully awake, I'm really worried..."

Di Jiang said: "This shows that my divine power is gradually recovering, which is beneficial and harmless to you, so why worry about it!"

"I'm worried that one day, Luo Tian... the god of fire Zhu Rong, or other gods will come to call. How should I deal with it?" Qin Hengyun asked.

Di Jiang was furious: "'Cope with'? My Gonggong clan has a great reputation since the establishment of the clan, Zhihongshui, Zhan Zhuanxu, and Zhe Tianzhu. As my successor, you only think of 'cope with', not the future. Kill all the enemies! It's really embarrassing! Tonight's dream, you go to Kunlun Ruoshui to practice hard!"

Qin Hengyun's scalp felt numb all of a sudden, and he wailed inwardly.After tearfully drinking the remaining noodle soup, he decided to go out and buy some cans of black coffee and Red Bull to refresh his mind and sleep less if he could.

The result of staying up late was that he overslept the next morning, his phone was left in the living room, and the alarm clock rang for three rounds without hearing it.It wasn't until the landline at home rang that he was awakened from his tormented dream and staggered to the living room to answer it.

The call was from his colleague, and the very first sentence woke him up from his sleepy eyes——

"Xiao Qin! I can't find you anywhere, so hurry up, the warehouse is on fire!"