The moment the bronze door was closed, the ground began to shake.

Fortunately, it only lasted for a short while. The next moment, the darkness around quickly faded away, just like the effect of the lights in a large factory being turned on one by one.

I can see the surrounding situation clearly.

Lin Mo looked around. This place was not as huge and empty as he had imagined.

At most, it is an underground laboratory of more than 200 square meters.

There was a person lying on the ground not far away, motionless.

The bronze door was placed on a metal platform in the middle, emitting a strange light.

It can be seen that there is observation glass ten meters away. This is an isolated observation room, but the glass has long been broken to the ground. At this moment, only the emergency light in the laboratory is lit. . .

Lin Mo walked over and looked at the person lying on the ground.

It's an old man.

He seemed injured, with a bloodstain on his forehead, but he was not dead.

Lin Mo even felt the breath of a living person from the other person.

Lin Mo saw the old man's name on his work ID.

"It's Academician Li!"

Lin Mo was a little surprised. One of the purposes of coming to the lost 4th base this time was to meet Professor Xie's request and see if he could find Academician Li.

At the General Administration, Academician Li was declared dead.

Because not only is he missing, but his body in the real world has also been declared medically dead.

But Academician Li left a message, which read: I'll go inside the copper gate to take a look, please don't burn my body.

Seems to know that his body will die.

According to the message, Professor Xie did not think that Academician Li had really died in the line of duty, so he had kept Academician Li's body.

Now it seems that Academician Li is really alive.

But the next moment, Lin Mo sensed something and frowned.

He felt the spiritual fluctuations from Academician Li, which were only felt by fake people.

Is this Academician Li a replica? Lin Mo's attitude towards dummies has always been to kill the wrong person rather than let him go.

But when he pulled out the knife and was about to attack, Junhun came over and grabbed Lin Mo's wrist.

Lin Mo glanced at the military soul.

They said that Academician Li was a fake, a fake person, so you should let go of him immediately.

The military soul still didn't let go.

For a moment, the two men looked at each other, as if they were about to draw their swords against each other if they disagreed.

Maomao also felt the smell of gunpowder and sneaked behind Junhun. As long as Lin Mo took action, she would take action.

It doesn't matter who the other party is, even if he is a special expert.

At critical moments, our own people are our own people, and there is no need to say more about who to help and who not to help.

During the confrontation, Academician Li actually woke up.

He saw the situation clearly and seemed to understand something.

"Junhun, it's okay, I'll talk to him." Academician Li waved his hand. Unexpectedly, Junhun actually let go of Lin Mo's wrist.

Lin Mo looked at the wrist that was marked with a black handprint, and thought that the military spirit's hand strength was much stronger than those evil ghosts and floating corpses.

This time it was Lin Mo and Academician Li's turn to look at each other.

It's no wonder that this replica of the mannequin is so realistic, with no trace of a mannequin in its expression and temperament. If Lin Mo couldn't distinguish mental fluctuations, he wouldn't be able to tell that this is a replica.

"You are skilled in using mental power and are good at perceiving mental power. You have ingenious abilities. It seems that you have a very powerful teacher." Academician Li said, then stood up from the ground and looked around.

When he saw the closed bronze door, he was obviously relieved.

"Yes, I am a replica." Academician Li admitted it generously.

Lin Mo looked at Jun Hun, meaning, look, this impostor has admitted it himself.

"But I am indeed Academician Li." Academician Li said this again, and then waved at Lin Mo: "Come, let's talk alone."

Lin Mo walked over and Academician Li opened a door next to him. There was a small office inside. It seemed that Academician Li conducted research here on weekdays.

"Please sit anywhere. The opening of the bronze door caused vibrations that damaged the equipment here. I can't make tea for you." Academician Li said with a smile.

Lin Mo said, "Don't try this on me. If you have something to say, say it now. If you have that, let it go now."

A fake person is so pretentious.

Academician Li told young people not to be impatient, because what you know may not be comprehensive and may not be the truth.

Lin Mo also got angry.

"Then tell me what the complete truth is." Lin Mo put the knife on the table, as if he was going to chop you off if you said no.

Academician Li took a deep breath and said, "You are the first person to discover that I am a replica. What is your name?"

"Lin Mo!" Lin Mo also heard something wrong.

Judging from the appearance of this impostor, it seems that he was not born just now.

If it was a newly born replica, it would be impossible to say such a thing.

"I know you. It was you who solved the problem in Guimen Village. There was also the report on the Second-Hand Goods Lane, where there was a bronze door, which you also discovered and wrote." Academician Li took a document from the bookshelf next to him.

"This is my research report on the underground bronze door in the Second-Hand Alley. It is confidential at the moment and you can take it away and have a look. But now, I want to tell you that I am not what you think." Academician Li sat in a chair and wiped the blood off his forehead with a handkerchief.

"Five months!" At this time, Academician Li pointed out: "Strictly speaking, it is five months, four days, eight hours and forty-three minutes..."

Lin Mo didn't understand what the other party meant.

"What five months?"

"When I was born, I was indeed a replica, but I was not born just when the bronze door opened this time."

Academician Li told Lin Mo that the real Academician Li was not a perfect scientist.

"He has shortcomings, the most fatal of which are in his character and spirit. To put it in words you can understand, he is paranoid. He is extremely paranoid. When he found bronze door No. 7, he even took the initiative to open it for research." Academician Li's words surprised Lin Mo, while the fake Academician Li on the opposite side continued to speak.

"At that time, he was the one who found me and took the initiative to copy me. I have all his memories and abilities. The copy is perfect, and even his original flaws are perfectly restored. If we compare them, I am better than him. He is already a madman, and I am not."

"Later, he became so crazy that he wanted to continue exploring the secrets inside the bronze door and conduct dangerous experiments, and he did not report all of this to the General Administration and the management of the Academy of Sciences. If he were allowed to continue like this, it would definitely cause unpredictable disasters."

"So you killed him?" Lin Mo interrupted at this time.

The fake Academician Li waved his hands. "No, at that time, I was his shadow, helping him deal with many things and even assisting him in some research. I was just trying my best to persuade him. I wouldn't do that because he performed a mental surgery on me and removed the original dark side of the fake person, just like cutting off cancerous tissue. I think he did it on purpose. He wanted me to stop him. He wanted me to continue the research work he failed to complete."

"Then what?" Lin Mo's curiosity arose again.

"Four months ago, he entered the bronze gate alone and never came out again." The fake Academician Li said calmly.

Lin Mo has been paying attention to the other party's mental fluctuations.

It doesn't seem to be lying, but this thing is not particularly accurate. After all, the other party is not a human. Strictly speaking, it is the "weirdness" inside the bronze door.

Don’t believe all weird words.

"In other words, from that time on, you became Academician Li." Lin Mo finally understood it this time.

The fake Academician Li on the opposite side nodded: "I have been trying my best to prevent the bronze door from opening completely. Junhun is also aware of this. He has helped me several times."

"But this time, the bronze door was pushed open from the inside by a pair of strange hands. I was so frightened by those hands that I couldn't move at all. Countless dummies ran out of the open door, and then the hands that pushed the door retracted. I immediately left a message to Lao Xie, and then tried to go in and close the door, but unfortunately, I failed in the end."

When Lin Mo heard this, he felt that the other party must have lied.

The other party entered the bronze door not only to close the door, but also possibly to find the real Academician Li.

So far, Lin Mo has not completely believed what the other party said.

"I know you don't believe it, but I have Academician Li's own diagnosis report here. The date and diagnosis results on it cannot be faked. This can also be found in the General Administration's data, and no one can tamper with it."

What this fake guy means is that you should first check whether the real Academician Li is sick.

And then look at myself now, and the comparison becomes clear.

Lin Mo said nothing.

He is still thinking about it.

At this time, "Academician Li" on the opposite side seemed to have seen something, walked over, and stared at Lin Mo's arm.

Lin Mo looked down following the other person's gaze and was also stunned.

He didn't know when a mark appeared on his arm.

Like an eye.

At first they looked like they were painted on, but after looking at them for a long time, the eyes looked real and could even look you in the eye.

"What is this?" Lin Mo saw that Academician Li seemed to know something about this eye, so he asked.

The latter said: "This is the mark of the closer."

After saying that, he took out a research document and handed it to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo opened it and saw that it was written by Academician Li, about the research content of the Mark of the Closer, and it was written about four months ago.

"This was written by him and I. At first, the bronze door was only opened a crack, and he closed it by himself. After that, this thing appeared on his body."

"Is it a curse?" Lin Mo knew a lot about curses. He smelled it carefully and found that there was indeed a scent of curse on the eyes.

"It should be a curse, but this curse is very special and cannot be removed at all." Academician Li sighed, "Moreover, this curse will inevitably bring bad luck. He was tortured by this curse during that period of time."

The "Academician Li" he refers to is the real Academician Li.

Lin Mo looked at the research content.

The situation is the same as what the other party said.

The real Professor Li recorded in this research log the pain he suffered after closing the door, and all this pain was caused by the mark of the closer.

Lin Mo also noticed that the fake Academician Li was also mentioned in the research log, and it was just as the fake Academician Li said, the real and fake Academician Li cooperated with each other.

Moreover, the real Academician Li called the fake one the greatest "work" of his life.

Lin Mo looked at the report and believed 90% of what Academician Li had just said.

The reason is simple.

First of all, the time when the replica was born was definitely not this time. If it was this time, the replica would not have been able to prepare such a research log in advance.

This is not something that can be written on a whim.

In addition, Lin Mo also noticed some clues in this office. For example, there were two desks and two sets of office supplies, and they were exactly the same.

Even the drinking cups are exactly the same.

These are also not something that can be prepared in advance.

"In fact, the reason why he decided to enter the bronze door again was to find a way to resolve this horrible curse. However, he must have failed."

Academician Li sighed.

At this time, Lin Mo pulled out his own yellow paper from his chest and looked at it.

Sure enough, in addition to the original thirteen curses, there was one more.

However, the words of this curse are very strange, carrying a hint of hatred and resentment that is difficult to remove.

5-0 Ghost Devouring Lin Mo remembered that he had analyzed before that the curse of sequence 5 was of the pain system, and this curse ranked at position 0 of the pain sequence 5 must be extraordinary.

However, Lin Mo doesn’t know how unusual it is yet.

But from the research log in my hand, I can roughly see it.

"Every day, I am killed and eaten by that horrible ghost, without end..."

This is the original text in the diary, Lin Mo did not change a single word.

Obviously it was written by Academician Li before.

From this sentence, you can see how terrible this curse is.

Die once a day.

And he was eaten by a ghost.

Thinking about it... it's quite exciting! Lin Mo felt that by then it would not be the ghosts that would eat him, but he would eat the ghosts.

Probably seeing the disapproval on Lin Mo's face, the 'Academician Li' on the opposite side warned: "This thing is not a joke. The real Academician Li who was tortured by this curse is neither human nor ghost, so he would risk entering the bronze door. Moreover, I suspect..."

Halfway through the conversation, 'Academician Li' stopped talking.

Lin Mo didn't like people who only said half of what they wanted to say, so he took the initiative to ask.

"What on earth do you want to say?"

The 'Academician Li' on the opposite side took a deep breath and said, "I suspect that the person who pushed open the bronze door this time was Academician Li. I risked my life going in this time just to find him. Unfortunately, I didn't find him."

Academician Li had said before that the pair of hands that opened the bronze door this time was extremely strange.

But how weird it is is hard to describe in words alone.

Lin Mo asked you if you can draw.

Academician Li nodded.

"How about you draw one for me?" Lin Mo said, and Academician Li found a pen and paper and started drawing.

The painting is very serious.

Soon, a pair of very strange hands appeared on the drawing paper.

Not only is this hand huge, but the arm is also covered with densely packed eyes.

(End of this chapter)