Chapter 446

Very obviously, Zheng Hang wasn't the kind of pervert a scientist is; his aesthetics were perfectly normal.

He lowered his head, his expression still indifferent, lips pressed tight:

"Congratulations, your score in my eyes has gone up slightly again."

Feng Yuhuai's heart gave a violent leap; before she could even breathe a sigh of relief, Zheng Hang's next words sent her mood plummeting to the bottom of the valley once more:

"But true beauty isn't just a skin suit; it also requires formidable strength."

Feng Yuhuai's smile froze on her face, a wail rising in her heart:

"It's over, her boyfriend's standard for 'beauty' is even higher than a scientist's! He isn't asking for one or the other, he wants it all!"

Zheng Hang raised a hand and pointed at Zuo Bai, ordering in a faint voice:

"Go on, Yu Huai, go kill him, and in doing so show me once more the beauty that originally attracted me to you."

Feng Yuhuai's throat went dry, the sickly beauty's smile on her face freezing as well; the beauty was gone, leaving only the sickness.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just..."

The first half of the sentence still lingered in place, while the second half had already appeared behind Zuo Bai.

"... kidding, the one killing you is me!"

Zuo Bai's expression was grave, as if he had long anticipated Zheng Hang's abrupt flicker; cold light refracted behind his lenses, his wrist shook, and the ten-meter-long Bone Snake whipped out like lightning.

The Bone Snake hooked a ferocious arc in the air, its vertebra-tip tailbone like a scorpion's poison hook, its surface crawling with dense Nano Worms flashing cold silver light.

Zheng Hang's figure suddenly flashed into existence behind Zuo Bai, without any warning or sound.

However, the very instant he appeared, it was as if he had walked right into a gun muzzle — simultaneously bitten in the back by the Bone Snake.

Zuo Bai twisted his wrist, and the Bone Snake immediately rotated, rapidly coiling circle after circle around Zheng Hang.

At the same time he said coldly to the rear:

"I won't let the same person sneak attack me from behind twice."

Zheng Hang's suit back was shredded by the Bone Snake, his body tightly coiled, yet his face still showed not a trace of panic, not even acknowledging the Nano Worms biting into his back.

As if his entire face were a molded 【mask】, forever devoid of emotional ripples.

Suddenly, his body began to twist, as if having lost skeletal support, turning into a pool of pitch-black liquid that flowed silently through the gaps of the Bone Snake's coils, dropping into the sewage.

Falling along with it was silver mucus, but visible to the naked eye was that the mucus "glug-glug" sank into the sewage, while that pool of black liquid merely stirred a few ripples before vanishing abruptly, as if it had never existed at all.

"Likewise, a move displayed once before me will never hit me again."

A bizarre voice echoed in the well shaft, seeming to rise from beneath Zuo Bai's feet in the shadows, yet also seeming to come from distant darkness:

"So don't think you can use the patterns on the Black Core to lock me down either."

Zuo Bai's pupils contracted sharply, a cold laugh escaping him:

"I see, the threads have substance, but the Shadow has no substance, so the Nano Worms can't bite it?"

His voice was incomparably calm, as if he weren't facing a deadly crisis but analyzing the cause of a phenomenon observed in the Laboratory.

His wrist shook lightly, and the Bone Snake swiftly circled, guarding him at the center.

The Bone Snake's vertebrae flashed cold silver light, Nano Worms wriggling on its surface, waiting for prey to approach on its own.

"Although I firmly believe in science, sometimes I have to admit, some abilities granted by the Curse of the Evil Sacrifice... are truly shameless."

As he spoke, Zuo Bai raised a hand and took off the glasses on his nose bridge.

Immediately after, his fingers unhesitatingly dug into his own left eye, actually gouging his eyeball out alive.

The motion was clean and neat; anyone unaware would think he had plucked out not his own eye but some trivial trinket.

Fresh blood slowly trickled down through Zuo Bai's fingers, yet his face showed not a hint of pain, instead revealing a bizarre smile no less eerie than the Curse of the Evil Sacrifice.

He tossed that eyeball lightly above his head; the eyeball suddenly exploded in midair, turning into thirty-six thousand sand-grain-sized miniature eyeballs, floating evenly above Zuo Bai's head, hard to see with the naked eye.

Yet each one possessed extremely high computing power, able to divide Zuo Bai's surroundings 360 degrees without blind spots into countless surveillance Screens, observing every frame within every Screen like a microscope.

Zuo Bai put his glasses back on; his left eye was only a hole, inside which flesh and nerves wriggled.

Meanwhile his right eye surfaced a dim blue light, countless data streams rolling rapidly in the pupil.

Massive information poured into his Nao Hai, the Crystal Yuan in his skull spinning at high speed, beginning complex virtual deduction — the sewage's flow trajectories, the color changes of ripple waves, the distribution of dust in the air...

Every detail was captured, analyzed, reconstructed.

He truly could not see which shadow the 【mask】 was hiding in.

His own shadow, the Pipe Wall's shadow, the moss's shadow, the beautiful spider's shadow, even the sewage's shadow... some deep, some shallow, some moving, some still, truly far too many.

But he did not need to directly "see" the 【mask】.

He could compare through every other visible detail to find which frame had... distortion!

Isn't the origin of science precisely using what can be seen to "see" those truths that cannot be seen?

"The invisible does not necessarily not exist... there!"

Zuo Bai murmured, his tone full of obsession.

His right Eye suddenly focused, the Bone Snake in his hand arriving in an instant.

The Bone Snake slammed down like a whip, sewage splashing meters high, then pouring down like a heavy rain.

The shadows on the water surface shattered into mottled fragments along with the sewage's splash, like a smashed mirror surface.

However, those shattered shadows did not dissipate; instead they twisted and condensed in midair, gradually forming a humanoid outline.

Then, just as that humanoid shape condensed, it was coiled and shattered again by the Bone Snake whipping back, turning once more into a pool of black liquid falling back to the water surface, sending out rings of ripples.

"Futile effort, what are you doing, you don't think this can hurt me, do you? You can't hurt me, just like you can't hurt your own shadow."

A mocking voice entered Zuo Bai's ears.

Zuo Bai stared dead at a wandering shadow in the sewage, wrist rapidly flicking, the Bone Snake striking into the sewage again and again like a shadow following form.

Each strike threw up a spray of water, yet he seemed unaware he was doing useless work, instead growing ever more focused.

With each strike, the blue light in his right eye flickered even brighter, as if greedily absorbing every bit of data.

A look of excitement gradually appeared on his face, like a scientist discovering a new law in an experiment, excited to the point of near madness.

"One more time..."

He muttered softly, his wrist shaking violently as the Bone Snake lashed out at the sewage again.

Water splashed everywhere, and the mottled broken shadows reflected in the sewage were flung up high, only to fall again.

At that instant, Zuo Bai's mouth corner suddenly curled into a confident arc, and his right eye shot out a light as if it were substantial.

"You're wrong."

His mouth corner exaggeratedly split open, as if announcing the conquest of a project in the laboratory, coldly laughing with unusual excitement and certainty:

"If it were a true shadow, it would naturally not be injured, nor could it ever be injured, but you are not, at least not entirely, so I can harm you.

You have substance, that is..."

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