She felt her body swaying without rhythm... The sharp pain in her lower abdomen jolted Yueye's nerves...

“Where... am I?” Yueye groggily opened her eyes... Her view bobbed up and down. The dizziness made her feel a little sick...

“On the road...” The voice that answered was Liu Huiying's... It seemed their positions had switched just then.

Who knew how much time had passed... The fragments of memory in Yueye's mind had long since turned into a muddled mess. As her consciousness slowly cleared, they began to separate...

“Are you feeling better? How did they find you? Is everyone okay...?” Yueye asked weakly. As her memories gradually fell into place, the questions came pouring out one after another...

“Stop! ... One question at a time!” Liu Huiying's mouth twitched... She was delighted that Yueye had woken up, but the other girl's questions came like a flood and swept all that happiness away...

“Mmm...” Feeling the warmth between them as their bodies pressed together, Yueye answered in a soft, drowsy voice...

“I'll tell you everything I can... I only found out what happened after the fact, too...” Liu Huiying spoke as she walked... Yueye was very light, but carrying her for so long still left Liu Huiying panting...

“The day you got hurt... I woke up already on Wang Tong's back. When I asked him what had happened, his expression was as grim as a demon's. He said you'd been injured... I asked him why, but he wouldn't tell me...” Liu Huiying kept walking as she spoke, breathing a little heavily...

“Wang Tong told me they found me by a tree... While you were unconscious, you kept pointing at one. Everyone noticed how strange you were acting, so they went and found me.” Liu Huiying thought about Yueye's questions and picked one to answer.

“How long was I out? How did everyone carry me all this way...?” Yueye remembered the faces everyone had worn in the illusion, and her heart tightened...

“Mm... You were unconscious for almost a week. The whole time, Su Lin, Wang Tong, me, Zhu Yue, and Du Shengjie took turns carrying you... As for everyone else... Yueye, I think you should avoid spending too much time with them for now...” Liu Huiying answered, then suddenly realized something important. These past few days, everyone seemed to have been avoiding Yueye... It was probably because of the illusion. What Yueye had done in it had become a nightmare the others couldn't shake.

“I think I understand. Please tell Su Lin... I got 3,000 reward points for killing the [Phantom Poison Bug]. Ask him to accept them as the team's reward...” Yueye thought it over and made her decision.

“Okay... But that's 3,000 points. Are you sure?” Liu Huiying paused... She remembered the way the team had treated Yueye these past few days, and felt that Yueye was giving too much to the team for so little in return...

“It's not like I need them. Besides, I only got the final hit... If you guys hadn't kept it busy, I never would've found where that bug was.” Yueye smiled. She was lying here: her real reason was to use those 3,000 points to cover up the things she'd done that were far beyond an ordinary person's abilities, so everyone wouldn't be too wary of her...

“All right... Then tell him yourself. I really don't know what happened.” Liu Huiying was the most straightforward one on the team. The antidote had worked quickly, and by the third day she was feeling much better. But because she'd been sick that day, she felt like she'd missed something important. She didn't know whether missing it had been good or bad, but it still left her deeply frustrated.

Without asking Yueye what she thought, Liu Huiying went straight to call Su Lin over. “Su Lin... Yueye's awake...”

“You're awake?” Su Lin hurried over as soon as he heard. His happy expression was impossible to miss...

“I got 3,000 points for the kill... You can have them.” Yueye deliberately avoided Su Lin's gaze... The frenzied look on his face from her memories kept cutting into her. She was afraid the illusion might become reality...

“...That's a lot. The team reward was only 1,500 points... Did you make that ice pillar? How could it skewer that bug?... What was wrong with us? We saw you like that... Why did we get so worked up...?” Su Lin deliberately avoided the subject of hurting Yueye. He didn't want to face it... He couldn't understand why he'd seen Yueye like that in the illusion, or why he'd acted so crazily toward her. But he still had plenty of questions... In the illusion, he hadn't known what was happening at all.

“I don't know, either. I wounded that bug with my sword... As for the final kill... I can't explain that, either.” Yueye tried to brush it off and change the subject.

“Also, what did I look like to you? From where I was standing, you were all completely crazy. You were waving your guns around, shouting my name and firing everywhere... You did drive that monster out of hiding, but I got caught in the crossfire, too...” As she changed the subject, Yueye lied again... Dodging bullets at close range and seeing through its invisibility were both hard to explain away.

“...At least it sounds like we did one thing right...” Su Lin gave an awkward laugh and scratched the back of his head. He didn't even know what he'd done in the illusion. Yueye's actions there, and the crazy things he'd done to her, were memories he least wanted to face...

“You in the illusion... Uh, let me think how to put it. You looked really sexy! Really alluring!... Have you ever heard of monster girls on Earth?” Su Lin couldn't think of the right words. The ones he finally came up with made his face turn red, and he tentatively asked Yueye.

“I have...” A faint blush spread across Yueye's cute face. Of course she knew the works by all those amazing artists. A monster girl was basically a fantasy beast or creature turned into a cute girl—sometimes even a delicious-looking little girl.

Su Lin tried again to think of how to describe Yueye's appearance in that form, but he racked his brain and still couldn't find the right words...

“It was somewhere between human and lizard. She had more scales, and wings, too. It didn't feel like the usual kind of fanservice anymore... It felt bloody and full of hatred... The kind of thing that would make people tremble from hundreds of meters away.”

“Couldn't you just call her a dragon? Why insist on calling her a lizard?” Yueye grew inexplicably angry as she listened, as if the word itself were meant to provoke her.

“She wasn't a dragon girl!... Her wings were dragon wings made of black mist, not real dragon wings! They looked terrifying... That's why I called her a monster...” Su Lin began stumbling over his words. Just describing what Yueye had looked like in the illusion seemed to have burned through all his brain cells.

“A monster?” A trace of sadness flashed in Yueye's eyes at that sensitive word, but then it was interrupted by a question she needed to think about...

“How did that bug know I wasn't human?!” Yueye's expression darkened at once... She'd suddenly realized that the illusion seemed to have struck every one of her sore spots.