Chapter 455 This shadow is not right
Zuo Bai widened his only eye, with blue light flickering in the white of his eye, as if his computer was about to have a blue screen.
He looked at the gradually shrinking circle of [masks], each [mask] took uncoordinated steps but moved towards him in an orderly manner.
In a trance, he seemed to hear the footsteps of countless death approaching from all directions.
"Wait, the footsteps of death?"
"There are footsteps?!!"
Although the sound was very faint, almost inaudible, and intermittent, appearing and disappearing at times, it seemed like an auditory hallucination and not real.
But Zuo Bai's ears did catch the sound of wet footsteps of leather shoes splashing in the dirty water.
Zuo Bai was suddenly shocked: "Shadow, why are there footsteps?!!"
You know, the shadow before was silent the whole time except for talking.
Not to mention the sound of footsteps, even when I stabbed him in the back and a hole was pierced in his chest, there was no sound at all.
"Something's wrong... This shadow is different from the previous one. This shadow is not right!"
Zuo Bai noticed something strange, but didn't realize it completely.
This is the same as doing an experiment - discovering the problem is only the first step. Next, you have to propose hypotheses, design experimental steps, find various evidences that appear during the experiment to verify the hypotheses, and finally summarize and infer the experimental conclusions.
Experiments take time, but death is different. It never leaves people with much preparation.
The sound of footsteps was not only the problem discovered by Zuo Bai, but also the countdown to the deadline of the experiment.
"Why is there a sound? What's wrong?"
Zuo Bai pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the source of the footsteps.
However, the sound came from the left, then from the right, then from the front, then from the back; sometimes it was continuous, sometimes it was intermittent, with no regular pattern to follow.
The blue light in Zuo Bai's pupils flickered more and more frequently, and the wisps of black smoke on his forehead gradually condensed into a black mist.
Suddenly, he swung the ten-meter-long bone snake violently, drawing a circle around himself that expanded outward.
Hiss--hiss--
The nearest circle of [Mask] was pierced in half, but it felt like I was piercing through a circle of illusory shadows, with no sense of reality.
Each [Mask] continued to move towards him slowly, and the radius of the [Mask] circle shrank again.
"Are they all illusions? Are they visual afterimages? But if they are fake, why can they move?"
Zuo Bai thought to himself, frowning.
"Not only can [Masquerade] transform into a shadow, but he can also copy his own phantom and control it?"
His mind was working at high speed, trying to sort out a clear idea from the confusing clues.
However, there was no experimental time or conditions for Zuo Bai to conduct repeated experiments or refine the ideas.
He could only put aside his doubts for the time being and, based on his scientist's intuition, assume a conclusion - all those moving things in front of him were phantoms, all illusions [masks].
“There is only one real [Mask], and it is hidden in these phantoms, and it can change its position in the phantoms at any time.
That's why your footsteps go left, right, forward, and backward without any pattern to follow!"
Zuo Bai's eyes lit up, and he continued to swing the bone snake with all his might. The bone snake was like a nimble dragon, penetrating circles of [Mask's] phantoms one after another, trying to find the [Mask's] true self from among the numerous phantoms.
At the same time, he sneered and said, "[Mask], I have completely seen through your little tricks.
The reason why you can change your position in the phantom is not because you really have the magical ability to teleport across space, but..."
Zuo Bai's gaze suddenly moved downward, no longer looking at the dense circle of [Masks], but staring at the dirty water surface.
There, beneath the feet of countless phantoms, there was a silent shadow that blended into the sewage.
The shadow twisted and turned underwater, like an Ouroboros with its head and tail connected, threading all the [Masks] on the water together like a needle.
"Wherever your underwater shadow extends, you can instantly appear there."
Zuo Bai's voice was low and cold, pointing directly to the core of the truth: "Plus, you are able to create illusions by some means, and the two combined together created this magic-like illusion!"
As expected of Zuo Bai, his guess is infinitely close to the truth.
The principle behind this magic is indeed a combination of [Shadow Symbiosis] + [Ghost].
[Ghost] is a limit-breaking skill of the Soul-Chasing Step. When using it, as the pace increases, there is a chance that a ghost shadow that is difficult to distinguish between real and fake will be summoned behind you, causing confusion and bewilderment to the enemy.
When using the Soul-Chasing Step, the faster the step frequency, the higher the chance of triggering ghosts, and each ghost can maintain inertial motion for 0.5 seconds before disintegrating.
[Shadow Symbiosis] allows the main body and the shadow to exchange positions at any time.
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The combination of the two can indeed create a strange effect like a magic scene.
However, even though Zuo Bai had speculated to this extent, he still missed the most fatal point.
He still couldn't figure out why the shadow had made footsteps this time. However, Zuo Bai really didn't have time to delve into it.
The radius of the [Mask] encirclement has suddenly shrunk to less than 3 meters without anyone noticing, which can be said to be just one step away.
“I found you!”
Zuo Bai shouted coldly, and the bone snake in his hand stabbed straight to the right like lightning.
He saw the shadow in the muddy water pause there for a moment, the dirty water under his feet rippled slightly, and the color of his suit suddenly became a little darker.
Although all these changes happened in a flash and were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye, Zuo Bai still accurately grasped the fleeting... reality! The footsteps suddenly stopped.
The bone snake's vertebrae broke apart segment by segment, and mercury-silver liquid nanoworms floated to the surface, violently vibrating into mist, floating around and enveloping the [Mask] that was looking up.
[Mask] tilted his head slightly, and a thin layer of mist instantly covered the gold-rimmed lenses, blurring the pair of dark and dull pupils.
His cheeks, the surface of his suit, and even the cloak behind him were all covered with a fine layer of water vapor, as if his entire body was wrapped in a soft raincoat.
On the surface of the raincoat, silver lines are faintly visible, like a pattern embroidered by a tailor, which is very beautiful.
At the same time, the [Mask] under the raincoat did not disintegrate like an illusion, but instead a layer of sticky ripples appeared on the surface.
Zuo Bai's pupils emitted a cold blue light, and countless data streams passed across the surface of his eyeballs.
The next moment, the entire bone snake exploded into pieces, turning into white bone fragments that attached to the surface of the raincoat, making the silver veins even deeper.
The air vibrated with a "humming" sound, and it seemed that some unknown force in the empty space was aroused.
Just like wireless charging, the silver veins on the raincoat were instantly filled with light. The silver glow was dazzling, illuminating the shadow under the feet, which was melting away inch by inch, as if it was also being swallowed up by the light bit by bit.
"Light creates shadows, and light can also consume shadows."
Zuo Bai stared wide-eyed without blinking, and spoke word by word:
"This time, [Masked], tell me how you are going to be resurrected again. Answer me, why don't you speak?!!"
(End of this chapter)
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