The Tyrannosaurus Rex collapsed, and most of the puppets that had overexerted themselves quickly became scrap on the spot.
Jiang Si pitifully put away what was left.
The Dragon Bird shivered, watching this scene.
"When I was a kid, I never dreamed that one day I'd get to fight a Tyrannosaurus Rex," Jiang Si said, gasping for breath, indicating that this operation took a considerable toll on her.
"I've always dreamed of fighting a Tyrannosaurus Rex, what a shame," Zheng Fan said as he walked over to the shattered remains of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, knelt down, and touched the flesh and blood.
The warm, moist touch felt very real, but Zheng Fan's expression subtly changed, and he immediately looked up, scanning his surroundings.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Si asked when she saw his reaction.
"I can touch these remains."
"So what... Hmm? Why didn't that Tyrannosaurus Rex come after you just now?" Jiang Si instinctively felt it was normal, as these things were clearly related to some kind of Illusion, so it was natural that Zheng Fan could touch them.
But then she thought about it again and realized something was off.
Since he could touch them, it meant the Tyrannosaurus Rex should also have been able to sense Zheng Fan's presence. There was no reason for the Tyrannosaurus Rex to ignore Zheng Fan, who was walking right next to it.
Jiang Si extended a red thread, pulled the Dragon Bird over, and then turned its face towards Zheng Fan: "Can you see him?"
The Dragon Bird chirped at Zheng Fan.
Zheng Fan looked around and casually replied, "When I was looking for it earlier, it showed signs of being scared by my light, which means it saw me. But just now, I wasn't sure if this Tyrannosaurus Rex was the same; I thought it might be a difference between dinosaurs."
"Then what exactly is this Tyrannosaurus Rex?" Jiang Si asked, puzzled.
"Where did you hear all the rumors about Dinosaur Hallucinations?" Zheng Fan asked.
Jiang Si thought for a moment: "It should have been around Jin Yun Road at first."
"That's a bit far then," Zheng Fan confirmed.
Even panic-inducing Illusions cannot create event distortions without any range limitations. If they could reach that level, there would be no need to be so stingy; they could just directly replicate a dinosaur crisis.
First, it was on Jin Yun Road, then on Dongding Road where a student was killed, and now tonight on Beixiao Road.
Zheng Fan pulled out his phone and directly called his subordinate, changing his voice slightly: "Hello, Xiao Zhao, help me confirm if there have been any more dinosaur sighting rumors around Jin Yun Road these past two days."
If Binary Little Sister were here, it would be much more convenient, but it was the middle of the night, so he wouldn't disturb her, as she was a strict anti-overtime advocate.
The Banmu Office's management model should not be bad when it comes to collecting grassroots intelligence.
After a while, Xiao Zhao replied.
Zheng Fan casually thanked him and hung up the phone: "The place where the rumors first started hasn't had any new sighting rumors in the past few days. If we rule out the possibility of the other party intentionally slacking off, then the guess is correct."
"The thing causing the event distortion is near us," Zheng Fan said. "Either it's the Illusion itself, or it's a separate 'transmitter.' There's no doubt that the Tyrannosaurus Rex appearing so silently and closely behind us was deliberately done by someone. Their target is you; they actually can't see me."
The dinosaurs could touch Zheng Fan, but the guy controlling the dinosaurs couldn't see him.
This was the reason for the Tyrannosaurus Rex's abnormal behavior.
Jiang Si frowned upon hearing this, instinctively wanting to turn her face, but she forcefully stopped herself, halting her observation to avoid alerting the enemy.
"Your thoughts are affecting your anti-reconnaissance ability," Zheng Fan said with a teasing smile.
"It's just that the rain tonight is too heavy," Jiang Si retorted stubbornly, then asked, "What should we do? Can we determine their location?"
"It's fine, just do something to scare them, and leave the tracking to me. But be careful to catch me later; I might not be able to take care of myself," Zheng Fan suggested after a moment of thought.
Jiang Si looked at Zheng Fan in confusion, didn't ask further, and directly looked up, shouting into the rain: "Get out here!"
"Only an idiot would be startled by that..."
Before he finished speaking, the Tyrannosaurus Rex's corpse began to disappear.
Not only the Tyrannosaurus Rex's corpse, but also the Dragon Bird in Jiang Si's arms began to become translucent.
"Wait, how can this happen?" Jiang Si quickly hugged the Dragon Bird tightly. She had just said she wanted to keep it, and the night hadn't even passed yet!
The Dragon Bird looked at Jiang Si blankly, letting out one last cry, and then disappeared along with the Tyrannosaurus Rex's corpse.
Aside from the mess on the ground, there was no trace of any dinosaurs at the scene.
It was as if everything they had just experienced—catching the Dragon Bird, fighting the Tyrannosaurus Rex—was just a fleeting dream.
Meanwhile, Zheng Fan had already turned around: "The event distortion has been revoked."
After saying that, countless red threads flashed around him, piercing and slicing through his body from all directions, cutting him into pieces. Only his lonely head fell from mid-air.
"Evil Mr., don't scare me!" Jiang Si hadn't yet recovered from the sorrow of her newly acquired pet disappearing when she saw Zheng Fan cut himself until only his head remained.
She quickly reached out and cupped his head, preventing it from falling to the ground.
Swish! Swish!
Then, she stared blankly at the scene before her: Zheng Fan's body shattered into countless fragments, some transforming into birds, others into cats and dogs. The commonality was that they were all pitch black, their eyes like torches, flickering with lifeless gray light.
After the fragments transformed, the birds flapped their wings and soared high, while the cats and dogs scurried close to the ground, like bursting fireworks, disappearing in an instant.
Zheng Fan entered a semi-dormant state.
He was not yet able to easily accept dividing his consciousness into so many parts, each sub-entity only able to maintain minimal operational rules. Because of this, these things would follow Zheng Fan's most fundamental instincts, which was quite dangerous.
At this time, the main body, with only its head remaining, would also become sluggish in reaction due to the scattered attention.
He truly couldn't understand what kind of person could endure such a fragmented consciousness.
Large numbers of black birds, black dogs, and black cats spread rapidly and systematically across the surrounding area, searching and exploring for any objects behaving unusually or attempting to escape from the location.
This road section was already a relatively secluded area, rarely visited by people, so it wouldn't be very difficult.
Before long, a black bird in the sky locked onto a suspicious target. On a fork in the road, a person turned, got on a motorcycle, and drove towards the direction of Xixikeke, a small, slender Compsognathus perched on his shoulder.
The black bird's lifeless gray eyes imprinted the figure of the person.
All the other pitch-black animals that were scattered around, searching for other suspicious targets, turned their heads, the same figure appearing in their eyes. Then they suddenly activated, moving at terrifying speeds through the streets, converging towards the target.
Jiang Si roughly understood what Evil Mr. was doing.
At this moment, holding Zheng Fan's head, she had nothing else to do, so she could only lower her gaze and quietly examine Zheng Fan's face, his eyes tightly closed.
A tremor filled her chest.
She belatedly realized that she was holding the "defenseless" Evil Mr.'s head.
In a flash of lightning, a strange tingling sensation rose from her spine directly into her brain, making her breathe rapidly, and a blush appeared on her cheeks.
The girl, wearing a tattered formal dress, covered in blood, held a man's head in her hands, looking down at it with a dazed expression.
The scene conveyed both eeriness and beauty.