16 Chapter 16: Don't try to take advantage of me

Think back carefully to what the spirit does: resistance to all kinds of illusions.

  Elon walks up and waves his hand in front of TONY's face.

  TONY doesn't react.

  It's like he's invisible.

  Sure enough, I was hit with a hallucination.

  Snap!

  Elon slaps TONY across the face with a crisp sound.

  "Ah!"

  TONY screamed instantly as the slap came out of nowhere and knocked him out of his hallucination.

  "Stop screaming."

  Elon said from the sidelines.

  At the sound of Elon's voice, TONY froze, then jerked his head toward the front of the room.

  TONY cried on the spot when she saw Elon.

  "Brother Elon!"

  He hugged Elon's thigh tightly and wiped his nose, "It's really good that you're not dead."

  "Of course I'm not dead."

  Elon kicked him out of the way and added, "Go cry while you're crying and don't get snot on my pants."

  He then walked over to the others and slapped each of them, waking them all up.

  They all broke away from the hallucination.

  "Brother Elon, you're not dead!"

  That's the first thing they all say after seeing Elon.

  Elon was rendered speechless by their entirety.

  "Of course I'm not dead."

  He explained, "You've just been hit with an illusion and what you're seeing is fake."

  Learn this explanation.

  They hastened to look around, the bright moonlight, the swirling ears of rice.

  It's beautiful, it's heaven on earth.

  Where is the look of hell just now.

  "Illusion, did it turn out to be so terrifying?" They recalled the situation just now, and their hearts were incomparably frightened.

  If only Elon hadn't saved them from their hallucinations.

  And they're dead.

  But another question surfaced.

  How come Elon isn't hallucinating?

  They were wondering when Elon picked up lvan, who had fainted, and gave her a choking session.

  A minute or so later, lvan was gradually waking up as well.

  The first act of opening his eyes, he sees Elon.

  Lvan cried instantly.

  "Brother Elon!"

  While crying, he also reached out and tried to hug Elon.

  But Elon was quick on his feet and pressed down on her head, saying, "Don't try to take advantage of the opportunity to eat my tofu."

  lvan: "..."

  Give me back my touch.

  The few big old men next to him were outright speechless.

  It's not.

  A beautiful girl wants to hug you and you still look disgusted, right?

  And most damning of all.

  Why is it that when you wake them up, it's a slap in the face for each of them?

  Face still hurts now.

  And waking up lvan, you're so gentle with the pinching?

  TONY asked from the sidelines, "Why do you have to wake us up by slapping us like that?"

  Elon let go of lvan while asking rhetorically, "Do you guys still feel pain now?"

  "Ouch."

  Several of the men nodded vigorously.

  "It hurts just fine."

  Elon babbled in a serious manner, "Just feel the pain and you won't hallucinate again."

  TONY was speechless.

  Almost believed it.

  The livestream, too, has regained some life from Elon's jokes.

  "I almost peed myself just now."

  "Why is Elon so calm right now, and why isn't he hallucinating?"

  "Can't figure it out, the more I look at him the less he looks like a munchkin, does anyone else remember that this is a newbie copy of the Inferno level?"

  The pop-ups rolled back up.

  Everyone was so spooked that they couldn't sleep at all.

  "What did you all just see?" Elon asked curiously.

  I'm so envious of these low spirits.

  Thinking about your own 999 spirit is basically impossible if you want to be in a hallucination.

  "And I saw the moon and the sky turn red."

  TONY tells Elon everything she just saw.

  Elon thought hard about it; there was nothing of value to be learned from this hallucination.

  "Keep digging."

  Elon threw the hoe at TONY and said, "Move it, slack off and you'll hit hallucinations."

  A few big old men immediately wielded the tools in their hands and struggled to dig.

  Another half hour or so passed.

  A large pit appeared in front of the crowd.

  TONY blanches at the sight of the pit and doesn't dare look at it much.

  lvan, on the other hand, hid in the back.

  For at the bottom of the large pit lay a body silently.

  That body is rotting.

  On one side of the body, straw even appeared.

  Elon jumped and watched up close as, instead of his body appearing as straw, his body became straw!

  "Turning dead people into scarecrows?"

  A speculation surfaced from the back of Elon's mind.

  Could it be that all those scarecrows he had met before had come from this?

  Elon jumped out of the pit and said, "Go to the other scarecrows

  All those missing people have most likely turned into scarecrows.

  TONY They shudder as they walk toward another scarecrow.

  This scarecrow.

  None of them dared to speak, they just dug this dirt hard.

  Another hour passed.

  A second body, lying quietly before their eyes.

  Elon took a closer look down the line, and this one was even more heavily inarticulated.

  Most of the body, it had been turned into straw.

  Elon stood up straight and said, "No need to keep digging."

  He had been able to determine that each of these scarecrows

  This time.

  The system's mission guidelines changed again.

  "Current mission: uncover the truth and defeat the demonic evil that escaped."

  "What do we do now?" Lvan asked weakly.

  "Go back to bed."

  Elon said, "It's been a busy night and I'm exhausted."

  "Huh?"

  TONY asked with some surprise, "That's sleep?"

  "We've found all these things we shouldn't be looking at, so really, won't something come out and sneak up on us while we're sleeping?"

  Elon nodded and said, "It's certainly possible."

  "So you guys go and get the villagers and the village chief out there and just tell them that those missing people have been found."

  Get everyone together and let the truth come out.

  This mission, too, is over.

  The people looked at each other, this second way, was the best way.

  Just let everyone know that these scarecrows

  These bodies will then definitely be disposed of.

  The man behind that curtain.

  It will definitely be forced out.

  "When the time comes, use the short sword again to kill the person behind the scenes, and the mission will be accomplished." TONY excitedly pulled out the short sword from his arms.

  As soon as the mission is completed, they get their reward and go home!

  No more worrying in this hellhole.

  Think about it.

  TONY immediately sprang into action, shouting loudly from the village gates.

  "Everybody get up!"

  "We found the missing man!"

  The others followed in a chorus of shouts, and a bunch of people went from door to door, banging on the doors to get people up.

  Eventually the village chief was dragged out as well.

  "You found those missing people?"

  The village chief looked shocked.

  They've been searching for almost a year with no luck, and Elon just got here two days ago and found it?

  "Found it." Elon said with a nod.

  "How are they?" The village chief asked in a hurry, "Are they dead or alive?"

  Elon thought for a moment.

  Then said, "Let's just say they are hardworking and have been quietly working for the paddy fields."