Chapter 447

The words had barely fallen.

Zuo Bai suddenly flung his arm, and at the bone snake's spinal joints, clumps of silver mucus spurted out.

The moment these mucus left the bone snake's body, they actually transformed and decomposed like liquid metal, turning into thousands of toothless mouths.

Each mouth gaped exaggeratedly, with diameters ranging from three centimeters to eighteen centimeters, all different in size and shape.

But the inner walls of every mouth were covered with spiral flesh folds, and the lips vibrated at a high frequency of two hundred times per second, making a "scratch scratch" sound similar to sandpaper rubbing metal.

"Your physical form is every drop of sewage you attach to, every piece of pipe wall, every patch of moss. You seem formless, but actually, your physical form is everywhere."

Zuo Bai's voice was calm and firm, and his right eye had already seen through everything.

"Wherever you fall, that place is your physical form!"

"Right now, you are right in the midst of this splashing sewage."

"And your greatest weakness is that when you shatter in midair along with the sewage, you cannot recombine immediately, and have nowhere to escape."

Zuo Bai slightly raised his chin, his lips opening and closing rhythmically, just like a science mentor in a laboratory lecture hall explaining the principles of an experiment to foolish students:

"Because, shadows can possess all things, but they alone cannot attach to air!"

Accompanying Zuo Bai's explanation, the thousands of silver mouths floating in the air suddenly opened wide and bit toward the splashing sewage.

These silver mouths, though without teeth, had a unique "predation" method.

The moment they touched the sewage, their lips instantly shattered every drop of sewage into smaller water drops.

The moment the water drops were shattered, the layers of folds inside the silver mouths quickly unfolded, like countless invisible nets, swallowing the water drops in.

Those folds came one after another, interlocking; if these folds were magnified tens of thousands of times and unfolded, the sight would be even more astonishing.

Perhaps, when Zheng Hang saw this scene, he would find that what was playing out before his eyes was very much like... a prison.

Every fold depression was like an independent and enclosed cell, and those countless shattered small water drops were like prisoners ruthlessly locked up in cells, losing their freedom.

The next second, the doors of those thousands of "cells" closed tightly at the same time, locking those water drop "prisoners" firmly into the lightless "small black rooms."

And locked up along with them were the shattered shadows possessing the water drops.

Thousands of silver mouths closed together in satisfaction, like gluttons who had shared a feast, finally turning into plump, watery silver balls emitting a cold luster.

The silver balls hovered in the air, flickering with cold light.

Zuo Bai waved his arm, the bone snake coiled in the air, and the silver balls touched one another, contracting back into the bone snake's spinal crevices like swallows returning to their nests.

He flicked the bone snake twice, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth:

"A formed shadow might still have some power; my lock patterns cannot lock you up.

But I don't need lock patterns to erode you; I only need to shatter you into scum, and the nano worms' own defensive power is enough to lock up hundreds of millions of you, so you cannot escape!"

"I might not be able to harm you directly, but I can..."

He paused, let out a low chuckle, then continued:

"Using a saying popular among your Curse of the Evil Sacrifice—I can 'eat' you!"

The sewage was deathly silent, with no change of light or dark, nor any gloomy echo.

A silence with no response.

Thinking about it, it made sense; a shadow that had been "eaten" should not be able to answer anymore.

The "aesthetic beauty" on Feng Yuhuai's face had long since vanished without a trace, replaced by a strong "sickly look."

Her gaze was hollow, her lips trembled slightly, and extreme fear rose in her heart:

"Where is my boyfriend? Where is my big boyfriend? Why did he disappear?"

Extreme fear spread wildly in her heart: "My boyfriend was eaten by that scientist?"

"So, the scientist is the most most most most most terrifying monster in this world!!!" she shrieked hysterically in her heart.

Her face was pale as paper, her eyes fixed on the turbid sewage.

Remnants of shadows remained in the sewage, but they all looked extremely normal, not like the shape of 【Mask】.

Just now, when 【Mask】 appeared, waves of chill rose in her heart, and she felt a bone-chilling sense of oppression.

But now, 【Mask】 had disappeared, and not only did her heart not relax, it felt even more like falling into an ice cellar.

It was only then, from this stark contrast before and after, that Feng Yuhuai realized—originally, she also loved 【Mask】 extremely deeply.

She truly, very, extremely, immensely... missed every moment of her boyfriend being by her side.

Zuo Bai coldly laughed twice, the pleasure on his face quickly receded, and he returned to calm.

As if just now eating 【Mask】 was nothing more than a trivial matter, he did not feel at all that the process seemed a bit too smooth.

This was because, in Zuo Bai's past memories and experiences, his life had always been smooth sailing.

This was not to say he had never encountered setbacks or storms, but every setback and storm would be quickly resolved by him.

Just like those difficult, seemingly unsolvable experimental projects in the laboratory; if it were someone else, they might spend their whole life unable to solve even one of them.

But every time they fell into his hands, he would always quickly find a solution/clue, then either quickly solve it or steadily advance.

In the eyes of those vulgar scientists and ignorant mortals, this was simply unbelievable, as if fate specially favored him.

But in Zuo Bai's own view, all of this was as natural as breathing, the most ordinary thing in the world.

If he truly encountered a problem he could not solve or unravel, that would be what would make him feel incredulous.

Actually, Zuo Bai had always secretly looked forward to the arrival of that day in his heart.

Just like a game; if the difficulty was always too low, even if you cleared the level, it would be hard to feel the fun.

Zuo Bai had always secretly hoped in his heart that life would give himself some difficulty; he even hoped that his smooth life would one day experience a different kind of turn.

"Obviously, speaking probabilistically... this kind of thing probably wouldn't happen in a sewer."

Zuo Bai sighed boredly, flicked the bone snake in his hand, and the bone snake's tip once again overflowed with silver mucus, the mucus flickering with patterns that made Feng Yuhuai greatly shocked and lose her color.

After solving 【Mask】, this slightly more difficult problem, Feng Yuhuai could just continue according to the previously interrupted solution/clue.

"Your boyfriend was eaten by me; in a short time, I'm afraid I can't let him out, so, can only have you tell me, where is the Black Core?"

Zuo Bai looked at Feng Yuhuai again, shook his wrist, and the ten-meter-long Bone Snake raised its head. He asked in a low voice:

"【Mask】 was willing to be eaten by me just to save you, so you surely must know where your boyfriend hid the thing, right?"

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