Fake. It was all fake.
I closed my eyes and told myself that inwardly.
But when I opened my eyes, everything was still exactly as it had been.
"No, if they're all fake, why haven't they disappeared?" I couldn't understand it. I had encountered situations like this before. Once I noticed the problem, all I had to do was clear my mind, and things would change.
But this trick seemed useless now.
"It's no use. This is what your own heart desires. It's simply impossible for you to change it." The one speaking was actually Xu Qiuyan. She looked at me as though she had already guessed what I was doing.
"Jiang Xiaobai, don't you feel that you owe me? Can you really say you've lived up to my feelings for you?"
As she spoke, she suddenly attacked. She held a small knife in her hand, identical to the one the paper effigy man had given me. I instinctively dodged and felt around on my body. Sure enough, my knife was gone. It was now in Xu Qiuyan's hand.
I did not strike back. I only kept dodging.
I didn't want to hurt her.
Although Ying Gou said she was fake and did not exist at all, I still had my reservations.
Ying Gou emerged directly from my body and grabbed Xu Qiuyan's knife-wielding hand.
I clearly saw him grip her wrist tightly, yet it was as if that wrist could pass through anything. It slipped right through Ying Gou's hand.
The knife came stabbing at me again, aimed straight for a vital spot.
If Ying Gou's judgment was right, then it would not matter even if I stood there and let her stab me. If this was an illusion, how could I truly be killed by a single knife