4 Chapter 4 Illusion Technique

Li Ang was sitting in his own living room.

"Hey, System? System? Are you there?"

There was silence, with no response whatsoever.

"Main God Space? System Elf? The old man in the ring? The mastermind behind the scenes?"

No matter how Li Ang called out, the narrator that had just been introducing things to him had disappeared.

At this moment, Li Ang was dressed in a yellow sanitation worker's uniform, with a hat and mask, two pairs of latex gloves on his hands, and black non-slip rain boots on his feet.

Next to the rain boots sat a beige plastic bucket, inside which were a mop, a rag, and half a bucket of bloody water—floating among the blood were the fur and bones of the weird cat.

After killing the human-faced cat, Li Ang immediately ran back home, took out this set of equipment specially designed to destroy corpses and erase evidence, and then ran downstairs pretending to be a sanitation worker to clean up the scene—fortunately, this residential complex was built early, with no surveillance in the hallways, and hardly anyone passing by.

Li Ang thought for a long time, then slapped a glass bead the size of a thumb and almond-colored on the table.

[Name: Strange Eye]

[Type: Wearable]

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: Detect illusions, create illusions. The effectiveness, range, and duration of the illusion are determined by the wearer's spiritual power.]

[Requirement: The wearer must have an anatomical eye socket structure.]

[Note: Everchanging and adaptable, those who can transform and deceive are called shape-shifters and illusionists.]

This hard glass bead, which was the weird cat's right eye, displayed lines of text in front of Li Ang when he looked at it, describing the bead.

"Hello everyone, I am Zha Zha Hui, this is the brand new version of the game you've never played before, the first charge is only one penny, you start with a knife that does 999 damage, god-tier equipment drops like crazy, and equipment is instantly credited upon recycling, casually spending tens of thousands as you wish."

Muttering about the advertisement for the game 'Greedy Blue Moon', Li Ang softly mumbled, "Has this world really become a game..."

If the world was a global server virtual online game, then Li Ang must be a non-pay-to-win, non-lucky player who starts on hell difficulty.

He had been orphaned from a young age, growing up in an orphanage since the age of seven, and at the age of sixteen, he left the orphanage to join society, now working part-time while continuing his studies.

Normally, children in the orphanage without physical disabilities or serious illnesses were the priority consideration for adoption, but there were two reasons why Li Ang remained "unsold" throughout these years:

First, he was a bit older when he arrived at the orphanage, precociously aware and remembering things, and second, Li Ang's thinking was broad and active, full of initiative, and cheerful to the point of being... somewhat odd.

From a young age, Li Ang had demonstrated logic and reasoning skills far beyond his peers.

The orphanage had a collection of books donated from all walks of society, and Li Ang, who loved to read, had accurately deduced after reading "Grimms' Fairy Tales" that Snow White's troubled fate was due to the presence of too many villains around her,

Upon reading the story of Sima Guang breaking the vat, the clever Li Ang thought that one could put firewood under the vat, burn it until the water evaporated, and as a result, the child trapped in the vat would naturally be safe, while the vat itself would remain intact, achieving two goals with one action.

The orphanage sometimes organized movie viewings, and after watching the classic film "The Last Emperor," the clever Li Ang deduced from a genetic standpoint that the sons of eunuchs must also be eunuchs.

When TV reporters came to the orphanage for interviews, they asked the children about their wishes,

Other children all hoped to be adopted soon or receive gifts like dolls or toy cars,

Yet Li Ang, during a live TV broadcast, expressed his wish for the orphanage to take in thirty or forty sets of twin orphans so that he could play a real-life version of matching game.

Regarding such behaviors as "yelling at a broken electric fan that 'if you don't spin, you are not Chinese'," "calling everyone to wear two pairs of underwear in winter for warmth," "not removing socks while washing feet to save time on washing socks," or "taking the teacher who came for a home visit in front of a trash pile and saying, 'It's too messy at home, please feel free to sit anywhere,'" these were all minor things.

Patients with split personalities think broadly, and children who are cognitively impaired have much joy. Li Ang, who was exceptionally intelligent, left a profound impression on the hearts of the prospective parents who came to adopt.

As the saying goes, geniuses to the left, lunatics to the right, Li Ang, who even opened his buttocks to reduce the sound of his farts, stood squarely on the dividing line between genius and madness. When he left the orphanage, the director predicted that Li Ang would either appear on television as a successful person or as a heinous criminal on a legal program.

However, when the abnormal began to invade reality, the director's predictions might have been shattered.

"According to the 'game voice-over' I just heard, the cat that killed Elderly Zhang is also a player. Combining this with the various urban legends that have been circulating recently, it seems that this real game has been underway for some time,"

"How exactly is this game played? How do players communicate with the System? Do they need to complete tasks to get rewards? And what are the contents of these tasks? Spawning monsters, treasure hunting?"

"And during this time, how many people or animals have become players? Do official or third-party organizations have any awareness of this?"

"If they do, then based on the information 'players are eligible to access and acquire extraordinary powers' and 'non-players killing players may obtain player status,' some organizations may have already begun premeditated searches among ordinary people for players...."

A sense of crisis loomed, yet the possible existence of the "System Elf" still had not appeared.

"Let's wait and see,"

With a dark and fluctuating expression, Li Ang contemplated for a long while, he picked up the glass bead and held it up to his face.

This glass bead could be said to be the only trophy he had obtained from the strange cat.

"...Wearers must have the anatomical structure of an eye socket..."

As soon as the almond-shaped eye from the strange cat touched Li Ang's eyelashes, an invisible suction force emerged. With a 'pop,' the glass eye inserted itself into Li Ang's eye socket at an eerie angle.

"Damn, that was sudden?"

Li Ang was startled; however, the intense discomfort he had feared did not occur.

He quickly snatched up a mirror. His reflection was the same as ever, save for the cat-like, almond-shaped vertical pupil in his left eye.

Eerily similar to the endangered emo subculture.

"Mammalian retinas contain rod cells and cone cells; the former are sensitive to brightness but lack color perception and are responsible for night vision, while the latter can detect both light intensity and color.

Humans have a proportion of rod to cone cells of 4:1, while cats have 25:1. This means that cats have stronger night vision but weaker color discrimination.

From the perspective of color vision, my left eye has not transformed to only differentiate between blue, green, yellow, and purple like a cat's, and in terms of light sensitivity, my left eye's vision in dim environments has greatly improved."

Calmly assessing his situation, Li Ang reflected, "More data about this eye need to be tested with specific instruments. According to the item's description, it should also have the ability to create illusions..."

Li Ang closed his eyes and concentrated, attempting to use the Illusion Technique to reconstruct the spatial structure of the living room, trying to achieve the Ghost-Hitting-Wall effect he had just witnessed.

Amid the obscurity, threads of spiritual power slowly drained away.

After a while, Li Ang, somewhat fatigued, opened his eyes. The living room was still the same, but the air had slight ripples.

"I can't construct the Ghost-Hitting-Wall structure yet. Is it because my spiritual power isn't strong enough?"

Li Ang felt a hint of disappointment and held his breath in concentration, once again visualizing simpler objects.

Forks, spoons, pots and pans, textbooks, chairs, alarm clocks, televisions, refrigerators, sewing machines...

In a few minutes, the living room was filled with a variety of miscellaneous items. A faint, hard-to-detect mist floated on the surface of these objects. If you looked closely, they seemed somewhat distorted, but from a distance, they could certainly fool someone.

"Empty basin produces a snake, empty cup yields wine, it looks like I can also be considered a Qigong master, a magic boy, right?"