Sun Hang suddenly felt a wave of anger.
He really wanted to grab that finger and snap it in half.
"Damn, I must be a complete psychopath subconsciously," Sun Hang muttered to himself, "and the kind with tendencies for extre violence and destruction."
"No, you're not," Anna said softly, as if she could see through Sun Hang's inner thoughts. "Mom is not a psychopath... Those are just negative emotions belonging to this inferior human race, they influenced mom... Those dregs in the emotions and mories you absorbed... But for so abominations, these things are the sweetest nourishnt."
Sun Hang said nothing, his gaze shifted past Anna and looked into the distance.
Ti that had been stagnant started to flow again at so point; the two young won pushing a stroller took the child out, the diaper-wrapped human infant was falteringly trying to walk with the help of its mother, while an older little girl was watching them with interest.
A delivery worker in a blue uniform sped past on an electric scooter in the non-motorized lane, an intersecting cyclist stopped, turned around and cursed sothing.
A tricycle selling fried food stopped at the sidewalk's edge, the vendor cautiously surveyed the surroundings and, confirming there were no city patrols nearby, quickly set up the stall, laying out plastic chairs so old they had a patina, instantly occupying nearly two-thirds of the sidewalk.
A helicopter with the Anomaly Investigation Bureau's insignia rapidly flew overhead, appearing to be on so urgent mission.
Just as Sun Hang looked at the sun in the sky again, sothing rolled over and stopped at his toe.
"Uncle... Uncle..." a timid voice startled Sun Hang; he looked in the direction of the voice to see a boy who seed to be around seven or eight years old standing outside the fence, pointing at Sun Hang's feet, "Can... Can you return my ball?"
Sun Hang looked down to see a sowhat dirty soccer ball quietly sitting by his feet.
He sized up the little boy, glanced at Anna who was smiling silently beside him, bent over to pick up the ball, and approached the little boy.
Sun Hang handed the soccer ball to the boy across the fence, then said, "Don't play soccer by the roadside next ti, it's dangerous... Also, don't call uncle, I'm not that old."
"Okay, thank you, un... thank you, brother!" The boy quickly thanked him and then dashed away.
"So, does this world feel very real?" Anna asked.
"But it's an illusion."
"This isn't an illusion, these all really happened. Every scene you see originates from human's real mories," Anna said, "I just pieced them together."
"Why did you bring here?" Sun Hang asked puzzledly, "What's your purpose?"
"To remind mom that you have a fatal weakness," Anna replied.
"Fatal?" Sun Hang frowned, "Weakness?"
"Mom, you nad your ability 'Wish Fulfillnt,' right?"
"You know the origin of this ability?" Sun Hang's heart stirred.
"I don't know, as long as mom calls it 'Wish Fulfillnt,' then it's 'Wish Fulfillnt,'" Anna continued, "This ability is powerful, but it has a fatal limitation."
"Requires consumption of 'casting resources' similar to spiritual power?" Sun Hang asked.
"No, it's not this limitation," Anna shook her head, "Its greatest limitation lies, here."
Anna stretched her beautiful body, extending her arms to their fullest extent.
"Illu...sion?"
"Mom, do you rember... Maoyun Town?"
"You an... the illusion affects my ability?"
"When you cannot confirm whether the world you're in is real or illusory, your ability will inevitably be affected," Anna said, "Wish Fulfillnt, as the na implies, is influenced by your subjective cognition and thoughts. Once you fall into the illusion, no matter how much upheaval you cause in the illusion, your ability will not have any impact on the real world... Because in your cognition, that illusory world is real."
"So my ability failed in Maoyun Town?"
"That's not the only reason." Anna suddenly revealed a mysterious smile, "Mom, have you ever considered the possibility that the outside world, full of destruction, is false, and the wonderful world before your eyes is real?"
"Evidence?"
"How could a power like Wish Fulfillnt exist in the real world? It's only because you believe the real world is illusory that you can achieve wish fulfillnt," Anna said with a smile, "And Maoyun Town is the real world, your wish fulfillnt ability is confined to your mind and cannot materialize."
Sun Hang: "I still feel like you're tricking ."
"I'm just making a little joke with mom," Anna stepped back two steps, "I just want to tell mom to be cautious in the future, not to easily believe everything you see, hear and touch... The boundary between real and virtual has always been very blurred."
"Should I thank you then?"
"If mom wants to thank , why not stay in this world with ?" Anna suggested, "Isn't it great here, no abominations, no wars, no death or hunger... Whatever you want this place to be, it'll beco... You can be the master of everything, you can also beco the... god of this world."
"Boring." Sun Hang shook his head, "This is like using cheat codes in a sandbox ga—feels interesting at first, but soon becos tireso."
"Seems mom doesn't want to," Anna pouted, looking disappointed.
"If I refuse, will you force to stay here?" Sun Hang asked.
He just tried his Wish Fulfillnt ability—as Anna said, in this virtual world, his ability seed to be sealed; no matter how he summoned it, there was no reaction.
"I won't," Anna's expression returned to normal, "If mom wants to return, I'll send you back now."
In a trance, Sun Hang found himself standing before the burning ruins again, the charred wood crackling inside, and a smoky, fiery scent rushed towards him.
Sun Hang blinked and saw the scorched corpses rise, aimlessly wandering among the ruins.
He blinked again and saw everything around him transforming into structures made of flesh and blood, the distant skyscrapers beca eerie towers of flesh, the exposed steel structures turned into pale bones, contorted limbs rged into the walls, familiar yet unfamiliar faces squeezed onto the exterior walls, seemingly crying, yet also laughing.
The sky was no longer pitch black, but didn't return to daylight either, rather it was in a chaos of dark red, as if dyed red by the flesh constructs on the ground.
Sun Hang blinked a third ti, and everything around him returned to normal.
A soldier he had t at the barricade ran over from afar: "Sir! Are you alright?"
"I... I'm fine." Sun Hang turned back and looked at him quizzically, "What's wrong?"
"The drone captured you standing here a long ti, motionless, we were worried sothing anomalous occurred..." The soldier breathed a sigh of relief, "Glad you're alright... So, is there anything wrong with this place?"
"This place... there's no problem."
Sun Hang blinked, the fully ard soldier instantly beca a terrifying flesh monster.
However, by the second ti Sun Hang blinked, the soldier returned to his original form.
"Have you ever thought about whether the world you're in is real or illusory?" Sun Hang suddenly asked the soldier.
The soldier froze for a mont, clearly not expecting Sun Hang to ask such a question; he scratched his head, then laughed awkwardly: "Sir... I've never thought about such a question. I am a soldier, soldiers just need to follow orders."
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