Chapter 456 When You See Me, It’s the End of the Curtain Call
Zuo Bai held his breath, a cold blue light flashing in his one eye as he stared at the results of the experiment.
He saw that in the blinding silver light, [Mask]'s charming smile began to collapse.
Under the shining silver light, the gold-rimmed glasses frame was the first to melt into golden droplets. As they slid down the bridge of the nose, the golden droplets faded into black, and the cold white skin of the entire face was also stained into ink.
The [Mask]'s cheeks gradually blurred, and its facial features twisted and deformed, like wax being burned by high temperature, and began to melt rapidly.
Finally, the whole face collapsed into a vortex, and asphalt-like black mucus gushed out of the vortex, flowing down the chin and neck.
In the blink of an eye, the entire suit, the playing cards on the chest, the cape on the back, and even the trouser legs and leather shoes, all visibly squirmed and turned into a sticky black liquid.
Then, with a "plop", the slime fell into the sewage.
Under the water, the winding "snake shadow" was also swallowed by the strong light.
The "snake shadow" that was originally circling around the [mask] seemed to be stuck, becoming dim and thin, and getting thinner and shorter bit by bit. Under the illumination of the silver light, it actually shimmered like dried ink.
The black slime that fell into the sewage seemed to want to repeat its old trick and drill back into the shadow to avoid the deadly light.
However, the silver shimmering light blocked the touch.
Suddenly, the black slime twisted wildly on the surface of the sewage like a fish out of water, but it couldn't get back in.
It kept shrinking and narrowing, trying to condense into shape again, but it could only struggle in vain.
Then, the color became lighter and lighter, the size became smaller and smaller, and wisps of black smoke rose from the surface, like a monster being burned in an incinerator.
Although he was still struggling, the [health bar] that symbolized his life was continuously losing blood. It was only a matter of time before he was completely annihilated… right? ! ! "That's right, this [mask] is the real one, and the others are just phantoms he copied."
This is what Zuo Bai observed and determined.
As the [Mask] itself melted away and the "snake shadow" under his feet was dispelled, the [Masks] around it also dissipated and disappeared one after another, like burst bubbles.
The only regret is that Zuo Bai never heard the wailing of [Mask] from beginning to end, which made him feel lost as if he was watching a pantomime.
"The end of the experiment is not perfect after all."
Zuo Bai couldn't help but feel a little regretful. In this experiment, he still had some doubts that he hadn't solved.
And on his retina, a circle of [Mask] was disintegrating from in front of his eyes to both sides, turning back into air one by one.
According to the order of disintegration, the last one to disintegrate should be the [Mask] on the vest behind him, which is facing the [Mask] body that is covered by light and is dissolving.
According to this order of collapse, the last one to disappear should be the [Masked] phantom behind him facing the light shield.
“Five left!”
Zuo Bai counted silently in his heart, and the blue light in his one eye flashed more and more rapidly.
“Three left!”
In the sewer shrouded in silver light, the phantom disappeared faster and faster.
"The last phantom of [Mask] will disappear from the air along with your real body!"
Just when the only remaining [Mask] phantom behind him was about to collapse, as if at a precisely calculated time, the [Mask] body in front of Zuo Bai was finally burned to ashes, reduced to ashes under the silver light.
However, the determined smile on Zuo Bai's face suddenly froze, and the blue light flickering on his retina seemed to be frozen.
He was horrified to see that the [Masked] phantom behind him not only did not disappear, but instead took another step forward.
With one step, he covered three meters and appeared behind him like a ghost.
The eerie and cold touch penetrated his back through the clothes, causing goose bumps to instantly cover his back.
The touch was so real—not an illusory projection, nor a fleeting shadow, but a "person" with flesh and blood? Step—
Then, Zuo Bai’s ears were half a beat late to catch the footsteps of the god of death that disappeared for a while and then sounded again!!!
Zuo Bai's heart palpitated with fear. The chip in his head smelled like burning. His heart was filled with shock. "So the footsteps were not from Shadow, but from him?"
"The essence of a shadow is not a shadow, so a [mask] can be a shadow, but a shadow is not entirely a [mask]?"
His left brain was spinning rapidly, weaving together some details that he had overlooked or had doubts about:
"No wonder the shadow can be resurrected after being eaten - because the shadow is not the real body at all! Since it is not the real body, it can naturally be resurrected ten thousand times after dying ten thousand times!"
"No wonder the first shadow had to use ventriloquism. Shadows are silent, and the speaker is always hiding in the dark. Is there a device like a walkie-talkie hidden in that shadow?"
"Also, no wonder there were footsteps after the shadow's 'resurrection'. No wonder the second shadow gave me a subtly different feeling."
"This is because the second one that appeared was not a shadow at all, but the real body of the [Mask]! It was the real body that was copying and manipulating the phantom!"
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"So, the real [Mask] is not just one, but one real and one shadow. There are two of them?!"
This conclusion made Zuo Bai feel like he was falling into an icy cave.
He suddenly realized that he had made a fatal mistake - from the beginning, the person who had been performing with him from beginning to end was the shadow mask, and the real mask had never appeared.
No, to be more precise, the real and the fake masks have always been on the stage, but they have become invisible in front of his eyes like a weird magician.
At this moment, he finally saw the magician's true face, but this was also the end of the magic show!
Zuo Bai's throat was dry, and he had thousands of words stuck in his throat, but he didn't know where to start.
And as if to confirm his last guess, he clearly saw - on the dirty water surface under [Mask]'s feet, a shadow was re-condensing on the ripples that were originally just water waves.
The shadow squirmed, and gradually a human figure emerged.
When the outline was fully formed, another identical [Mask] rose from the shadow.
The two [Masks] stood side by side, the only slight difference between them was their eyes.
One was as dark as the abyss, without a trace of luster, as if born to devour all light; in the pupils of the other, a strange scarlet magatama was looming, slowly rotating, exuding a captivating evil.
The two [Masks] raised their palms at the same time, their movements perfectly synchronized.
One palm suddenly cracked open, revealing a hideous white bone blade, which shone with a cold and hard metallic luster under the silver light; the other palm turned into pitch-black silk, which wrapped around it softly and silently, covering the surface of the bone blade with a circle of spiral dark patterns.
The two palms merged into one in a strange posture and penetrated into Zuo Bai's back together - accurately following the first tear.
"You said earlier that the same trick wouldn't work on scientists, I don't believe it"
At the same time, the two [Masks] grinned at the same time like mirror images, the arc of their lips moving was exactly the same, but only a faint sound came out.
The voice was very different from the one Zuo Bai had heard before. It was less eerie and dull, coming from another dimension, and more cold and ruthless, like steel, coming from the bones:
"Also, the way you swing the bone is too crude. Let me teach you the correct way to use the bone!!!"
(End of this chapter)
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