Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 543 - 311: The Real and Fake Wei Long

After Lu Yu completed the Death Gladiator Car game, he followed the map to the designated meeting spot.

Midway, as Lu Yu turned a corner, he saw a figure entering an intersection not far ahead.

The figure disappeared too quickly for Lu Yu to see clearly who it was, and he instinctively walked toward the intersection. At the edge of the intersection, looking down the corridor that seemed to lead nowhere, Lu Yu was instantly puzzled.

"Did I see it wrong?" Lu Yu thought to himself, but he still walked inside, thinking there might be hidden mechanisms or a concealed entrance.

At the end of the corner, Lu Yu only saw a dead end, with no hidden entrance in sight; it seemed he really had seen it wrong earlier.

Just as he turned around, a figure came into view.

Lin Qingqing looked at Lu Yu as he emerged from the intersection, hurriedly stopped, and asked cautiously, "Are you Lu Yu?"

Lu Yu rolled his eyes and blurted, "Who else could I be?"

Since neither side knew each other very well, Lin Qingqing couldn't discern the truth of Lu Yu's identity.

Lu Yu took out the Lucky Card to prove himself, saying, "I participated in this game; I couldn't possibly be fake, right?"

Lin Qingqing looked at the Lucky Card in his hand and said nothing, retaining her doubts because having a Lucky Card didn't necessarily mean someone was "real."

"If you don't believe me, come with me. Others have my Soul-Imbued Jade, which should be enough to prove my identity, right?" Lu Yu suggested when he saw her disbelief.

Lin Qingqing's eyes brightened, and she hurriedly asked, "Are you together with them?"

Lu Yu nodded, and Lin Qingqing temporarily accepted this proposal, following Lu Yu to the rendezvous point.

As for whether Lin Qingqing was a fake? Lu Yu wasn't sure either, but for him, it didn't matter.

If the other party was stronger than him, he couldn't escape whether it was a fake or not. If the other party was weaker, even a fake couldn't threaten him—confidence born of his own strength.

While he understood that the extraterritorial battlefield had many beings that could impersonate, parasitize, or possess others, Lu Yu still found Lin Qingqing's attitude peculiar.

She seemed very sure there were creatures here that could impersonate and possess others.

Others asked tentatively without directly stating it, but she was very certain. This was evident from her constant distance behind Lu Yu.

Or perhaps, Lin Qingqing had experienced something similar and was paranoid.

Walking one in front of the other, Lin Qingqing was the first to ask, "Did you see anyone run into that corridor?"

Lu Yu hesitated for a moment, Lin Qingqing quickly became vigilant, her slender fingers touching the dagger at her waist.

"I saw, but strangely, after I chased in, the figure disappeared. I don't know if there's another exit there or if I just saw it wrong," Lu Yu said.

In truth, he was quite sure he hadn't seen it wrong or mistaken. He had indeed seen the figure consciously and wasn't influenced by any external factors, making it unlikely that he fell into an Illusion Technique.

Of course, it could also be that some other illusion-type technique affected him, and his eyes deceived him.

Lin Qingqing furrowed her brows and muttered, "Again, just like last time, he disappeared inexplicably."

"He?" Lu Yu keenly noticed the "he" Lin Qingqing mentioned. Did Lin Qingqing know that figure?

"Who is he?" Lu Yu tentatively asked.

Lin Qingqing glanced at Lu Yu, thought for a moment, then said, "Captain."

"Wei Long?" Lu Yu asked, puzzled.

"Yes, who else?" Lin Qingqing answered.

"Are you looking for the captain? But isn't the captain looking for you?" Lu Yu asked, puzzled.

Lin Qingqing was slightly taken aback by his words, frowning, "What do you mean?"

Lu Yu explained the circumstances of entering the extraterritorial battlefield and the Magic Spirit Castle, briefly recounting how they met.

Of course, he only gave a brief account and didn't mention how he "persuaded" Chen Qingyun with strength to believe he was the real Lu Yu.

Lin Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "I saw the captain appear on the Magic Spirit Castle after I entered the spatial rift, which is why I entered the castle. Moreover, the castle gate had already been broken before I entered."

"Not Lin Qingqing who broke the gate? Then who did?" Lu Yu wondered internally.

What Lin Qingqing said contradicted what Chen Qingyun had said.

Chen Qingyun said he saw Wei Long, who told him Lin Qingqing had entered the spatial rift, and then Wei Long entered alone to find Lin Qingqing.

According to the timeline, Wei Long should have entered the spatial rift after Lin Qingqing. How could Lin Qingqing have possibly seen Wei Long appear on the Magic Spirit Castle before Wei Long entered the rift?

Lu Yu boldly speculated, "Could it be that the Wei Long you saw was fake, a disguise by an extraterritorial creature in the Magic Spirit Castle meant to lure you inside?"

Lin Qingqing considered this possibility but, up to now, had only seen the figure and never conversed with it, making it impossible to discern true from false.

Moreover, she had not encountered Wei Long during all her time inside the Magic Spirit Castle.

"But why disguise as Wei Long? Couldn't it disguise as someone else?" Lu Yu posed another question.

That was also Lin Qingqing's question. Why would the monsters in the Magic Spirit Castle impersonate Wei Long to lure her? Couldn't they impersonate someone else?