I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 899 - 899 898. Use you to test my knife

Chapter 899: 898. Use you to test my knife Chapter 899: 898. Use you to test my knife Lu Ban didn’t feel that everything he was experiencing was real.

He was very clear that the girl in front of him and this world were all fake.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how nostalgic, it was all a false dream.

“I’m fine.”

Lu Ban placed the knife on the cutting board and gently lifted his hand.

“How did you come over here?”

Though they lived across from each other, they were not from the same household. Why would she appear here in the middle of the night when she should have been asleep?

Could it be that in this Illusion Realm, he had done something beastly, and every night, she would sneak over to commit misdeeds unnoticed by adults?

“I always have this uneasy feeling, so I wanted to come over and see. I just saw Lu Ban earlier…”

She explained.

Oh, it seems I am indeed a beast, no worries then.

“I just wanted something to eat, so I was trying out the knife.”

Lu Ban reassured her.

“But there’s nothing in your fridge.”

She persisted.

“This is something I learned in the hospital, called visualization practice. Because many things are restricted in the hospital, you can only use your imagination to simulate things. Like just now, I was hungry, but there was nothing to eat at home, so I imagined I was cooking to alleviate my hunger.”

Lu Ban explained earnestly.

“Really?”

The girl looked at Lu Ban, her eyes still slightly reddened and moist, reflecting the moonlight.

“If you want to learn, I can teach you.”

“I definitely don’t want to!”

She was amused by Lu Ban, slightly annoyed yet amused, and lightly punched Lu Ban’s shoulder, then sniffed and said,

“If you’re hungry, I’ll make you some noodles.”

“It’s quite late for that, isn’t it?”

Lu Ban declined politely.

“It’s okay, I’m hungry too. You can eat with me.”

She said in an undeniable tone.

“Alright then.”

Lu Ban waited a while, and the girl scrounged up two packets of instant noodles from her house, quickly starting a fire in Lu Ban’s kitchen.

Two pots of instant noodles were soon served on the table.

Lu Ban took a bite.

He quietly put down his chopsticks.

“What’s wrong, not tasty?”

The girl asked somewhat anxiously.

“It’s not that.”

Lu Ban took another bite.

He finally understood why she had suggested going to the university cafeteria right when he got home.

This was the first time Lu Ban saw someone cook instant noodles that were difficult to swallow.

She could be described as a genius of reverse culinary skills.

“Then let’s eat it while it’s hot.”

The girl began slurping her noodles, making loud slurping sounds, lacking the grace and quietness typical of most girls.

Perhaps it was also because she knew Lu Ban too well.

Watching her struggle to slurp up the noodles, Lu Ban could only swallow them down with tears in his eyes.

Everyone has a future with slurping noodles.

He left his bowl soaking in water, planning to wash it tomorrow, then turned around to see the girl showing no signs of leaving.

“You should go back to sleep.”

Lu Ban said, then added,

“I promise you, I won’t do anything strange.”

“I don’t quite believe that.”

She said, seemingly determined to stay the night.

“I need to watch over you, otherwise I won’t sleep peacefully.”

“Uh… but there’s only one bed here.”

Lu Ban looked at her pink and blue cat pajamas and worried about his own safety.

“So, we’ll just share a bed; haven’t we always done that before?”

She said it as if it were the most natural thing.

Was he still a beast?

“Are you talking about elementary school?”

Lu Ban asked hesitantly.

“Kindergarten!”

She immediately countered.

“Turns out I’m even less than a beast.”

Lu Ban muttered.

“Less than what?”

She didn’t hear him clearly and asked.

“It’s nothing.”

Lu Ban thought for a moment. Although this place was the Illusion Realm and it seemed like he could do whatever he wanted, he was after all a decent person, so he pointed to the sofa.

“I’ll sleep on the sofa.”

“…That’s fine.”

She didn’t fuss about it, closed the doors on both sides, and lay down on Lu Ban’s bed.

She hadn’t closed the room’s door, so the girl lying on the bed could see Lu Ban on the sofa.

Lu Ban could also see her.

The curtains were drawn, the air conditioner’s chilly air twisted under the temperature indicator light, and the faint glow revealed her slender ankles and rounded toes. Noticing Lu Ban’s gaze, her toes curled slightly, shyly hiding under the covers.

“…Are you asleep yet?”

Suddenly, the girl asked.

“Not yet.”

Lu Ban responded.

“Do you still think that everything now is an illusion, a falsehood?”

She asked, her voice lighter than moonlight. Before Lu Ban could respond, she continued.

“For the past year, you’ve always denied that this world is real, in your mind, only that world filled with dangers and adventures, monsters, and superpowers is real.”

“I heard you say that, in that world, both I and Red Leaf died, died horribly. Others, too. You, forever alone in that world, facing everyone’s departure.”

“But I am really here.”

She sniffed, it was unclear whether due to the cold air from the air conditioner or something else.

“I grew up here right from childhood. I secretly watched TV when I was in elementary school and got scolded by my parents; in middle school, I was forced to cut my hair in a bowl cut and cried about it for a long time. I loved the fried skewers that the grandmother at the school gate made, especially with spicy sauce. I also need to study hard to try and get into Jiangcheng University to be your junior…”

“Are all these things false?”

Lu Ban did not respond.

“We are all real people…”

Her voice trembled slightly.

“I thought the doctors had cured you, but it turns out you’re still so far from us, treating us as figments of a dream, as hallucinations, not valuing your own life.”

“Please, wake up, okay?”

Lu Ban was silent for a long time.

“Okay.”

He responded, only hearing the sound of her sniffing.

They looked at each other in silence.

Lu Ban lay on the sofa, seriously considering the current situation.

The experiences he had gone through were definitely not fantasy.

And this world now seemed to have its own logic.

At least, if he tried to harm himself again, this girl would definitely stop him.

The most crucial thing was, what should he do now?

If Lu Ban completely gave up and indulged in this world, what would he lose?

No need to think about saving the world, no need to face the dangers of the Foreign Domain, no need to confront those Indescribable great beings. Although he’d lose the title of Director and those supernatural powers, in this world, the people Lu Ban once encountered were living happily.

Maybe this exchange wasn’t too bad?

What Lu Ban had always wanted was just this kind of life.

And the Illusion Realm had realized it perfectly, even reviving the dead.

What else did he need to fight against?

He took out his phone, opened WeChat, and saw the name of the girl pinned at the top.

Xia Hupo.

Lu Ban closed his eyes, with only the sound of the air conditioner humming in the room.