Chapter 1090: Chapter 1060: The Real and Fake ‘Zhang Xinying’
"Who am I?"
"I’m your Aunt Liu, what’s this about?"
Lin Yi looked at the cook recommended by Guo Shaojie in front of him, a mysterious smile on his face, and said:
"Aunt Liu?"
Zhang Xinying and the others became worried and said:
"Lin Yi, are you okay?"
"Don’t do anything foolish!"
Guo Shaojie was even more concerned and said:
"What’s wrong, Boss Feng?"
"Weren’t you the one who loved Aunt Liu’s braised fish the most? Did you forget?"
Zhan Chen and Zhan Tianpeng suddenly came to Lin Yi’s side, trying to move the sword away from Lin Yi’s hand, but the next moment:
"Pfft~"
The Emperor’s Charm Sword easily pierced the heart of the kind woman in front of him:
"Crash~" a sudden sound
The dish of fragrant braised fish fell to the ground, the plate shattering into pieces.
The fish and sauce splattered all over Lin Yi’s pant legs.
Everyone stared in disbelief at the scene before them, clearly shocked and at a loss by Lin Yi’s insane action.
Suddenly, a bloody hand tightly grasped Lin Yi’s arm, the woman looking at Lin Yi with eyes full of disbelief:
"Mm mm mm..."
She seemed to want to say something.
But upon opening her mouth, blood continuously gushed out.
Yet at this moment, Lin Yi looked at all of this expressionlessly, as he pulled the sword from her body:
"Pfft~"
The immense pain twisted the woman’s facial features into a grimace.
As her life slipped away and she could no longer support herself, the hand grasping Lin Yi’s arm gradually loosened.
When the woman finally fell, Lin Yi still looked impassively at the bloodstain on his arm.
Soon, everyone snapped out of this huge change.
Ouyang Hao looked at Lin Yi in disbelief, shouting:
"Boss Feng, what are you doing!!"
Guo Shaojie quickly got up from his seat, rushed to the woman’s side, and shouted:
"Call an ambulance now!"
While everyone was thrown into panic from the incident, Lin Yi saw a shadow drift out from the woman’s corpse and disappear into the shadow under Zhang Xinying’s feet.
When Lin Yi turned to look at Zhang Xinying, she was staring at him in horror, unable to believe it:
"You—you’re not Lin Yi!"
And besides Zhang Xinying, everyone else seemed to be avoiding him like the Plague God.
"I’m not Lin Yi?"
Lin Yi couldn’t help but sneer:
"Are you really you?!"
Lin Yi suddenly lifted the Jade Qilin Ian onto his shoulder without warning.
The Jade Qilin cried out in pain:
"Master, what are you doing, be gentle!"
But Lin Yi muttered to himself:
"Though all this can seem real..."
"Maybe you didn’t know, Ian is a clean freak!"
"So it would never kiss my head, especially my dirty hair."
With that, the Emperor’s Charm Sword suddenly pierced through the Jade Qilin’s abdomen, and then out its back, chilling it to the bone.
Before dying, the Jade Qilin looked at Lin Yi incredulously, its eyes full of shock:
"Master, you—"
But Lin Yi, devoid of emotion, tossed the bloody Jade Qilin aside:
"You got the wrong person."
Turning to the trembling ’Zhang Xinying’ beside him, Lin Yi said:
"You must be its real master."
...
...
In reality, from the moment Lin Yi stepped in here, he noticed the abnormality.
Not mentioning the chance of returning to reality after passing through the Death Gate.
These people’s behavior in Lin Yi’s eyes was full of flaws.
Ouyang Hao seemed no different from an ordinary person, yet Lin Yi always sensed faint energy waves from him.
Lin Yi asked Ouyang Hao about this.
But Ouyang just kept it to himself, not explaining to Lin Yi.
This wasn’t something anyone could easily imitate.
The ’Ouyang Hao’ here had no energy waves, more ordinary than ordinary people.
Little Wang Zixin’s eye was indeed red, but after prolonged ’healing’ by Lin Yi, Wang Zixin’s eye had faded a lot and was not the deep red like here.
Also, Guo Shaojie would never casually place his computer aside before eating.
Even when Isabelle accidentally spilled water on the back cover, he remained unfazed and calm.
...
To Lin Yi, this seemingly harmonious scene felt perpetually out of place.
If Lin Yi had truly returned home.
It would be his most relaxed and enjoyable moment, not this uneasy feeling as if he couldn’t breathe.
The familiar faces seemed to care about Lin Yi.
But to Lin Yi, they seemed to be pressuring him, every word and action like they were trying to please him.
This was something that would never happen in reality.
Because Lin Yi himself hated flattery and sycophancy.
Seeing the flash of panic in ’Zhang Xinying’s’ eyes, Lin Yi exuded an endless coldness:
"You better reveal your true form now."
If this is all about ’Death Gate,’ then the key to breaking it may lie with this unknown being.
The person, perhaps realizing they couldn’t deceive Lin Yi anymore, said in Zhang Xinying’s voice:
"I am me, that’s what I am!"
"What... will you kill me?"
The person still looked like Zhang Xinying, but the voice was completely unfamiliar to Lin Yi.
"Do you think I won’t dare?"
Lin Yi sneered, the Emperor’s Charm Sword against ’Zhang Xinying’s’ white neck:
"How do you want to die?"
What surprised Lin Yi was, the person seemed indifferent to the threat of ’death’ from him:
"Want to kill me?"
"Then go ahead, kill me now."
Again the voice morphed back to Zhang Xinying’s, with a pitiful expression:
"But do you really have the heart to kill me?"
Though Lin Yi knew they were fake.
But facing the beloved image he would protect with his life, Lin Yi hesitated, unable to strike.
Ironically, Lin Yi’s hesitation gave them immense courage.
She fearlessly said:
"You don’t dare!"
She even stepped towards Lin Yi.
That movement caused the Emperor’s Charm Sword to cut a bright red mark on her pale skin.
Seeing this, Lin Yi glared in rage:
"You!"
’Zhang Xinying’ closed her eyes, stretching out her neck:
"Come!"
"Kill me and everyone here, then you can leave."
"Do it."
Lin Yi was instantly furious:
"You really think I won’t?!"
With that, Lin Yi raised the Emperor’s Charm Sword again, shouting angrily:
"Then I’ll show you."
...
...
At this moment, unknown to Lin Yi:
Zhang Xinying, reading on the balcony, suddenly felt a sharp pain in her neck.
Initially unconcerned, she instinctively touched her neck.
But when Zhang Xinying saw her hand, the blood-red palm made her eyes widen with shock:
"This..."
Meanwhile, Dongfang Jing cradled the previously playful, now unconscious Jade Qilin Ian, a deep unease enveloping him.
Ouyang Hao, hearing the news, arrived and asked worriedly:
"What’s happening?"
Dongfang Jing looked grave and said:
"Prepare to wake Lin Yi."
