Chapter 454

Feng Yuhuai's heart pounded wildly, as if it would burst from her chest.

She was this close, just that tiny bit away, from having her heart gnawed through once more by that "man-eating" Bone Snake.

Yet, at that critical moment, the Bone Snake suddenly made a 180-degree sharp turn and turned away, leaving.

She, again, twice, thrice... was saved?!!

Feng Yuhuai was first stunned, then a surge of wild joy rose in her heart. A flash of inspiration suddenly crossed her mind, as if she had attained great enlightenment:

"Every time at death's door, I seem to turn misfortune into fortune; in the dark, some great power seems to be protecting me.

Could it be that I really am a genius beauty specially favored by Fate? Just like those undying protagonists in novels?"

One cannot blame Feng Yuhuai for having this thought.

If it were you, and you also experienced repeatedly dancing on the edge of death, surviving by the skin of your teeth each time as if timed perfectly.

You'd probably also firmly believe in your heart that you are that "Chosen One," eyes shining with light.

"So, if I am the Chosen heroine, then the male·monster who saved me those times is....."

Feng Yuhuai looked with shining eyes at 【Mianmian】·Zheng Hang, who emerged from the shadows once more, her heart pounding wildly non-stop.

"My guardian male lead?!!"

Feng Yuhuai simply doesn't wonder why 【Mianmian】 wasn't eaten by the scientist.

That's the scientist's problem to think about, not hers; she only knows her heart rate has spiked to 360 right now, and for the first time in her life she seems to have felt so clearly... the taste of romance.

Then,

She saw her boyfriend pierced through by the Bone Snake.

No liquid ripples waved out, no shattering into mottled fragments, no re-forming into a shadow falling back into the water — instead he stood unharmed in place.

Then, about 0.3 seconds later, the unharmed shadow suddenly collapsed into nothingness, vanishing into the air.

Without trace, without form, without substance!

As if a tangible shadow... had turned into a true intangible shadow.

"Impossible!"

Zuo Bai blurted out in disbelief:

"You merely possess some characteristics of a shadow; you are like a shadow, but not truly a shadow. You have tangible touch, and you — how can you dissipate into thin air?"

The collapsed shadow would not answer Zuo Bai's puzzlement.

Instead, in the blink of an eye, another shadow emerged in the same spot, a faint smile hanging on its face.

Zuo Bai's face darkened until it seemed water could drip from it.

Countless data streams flashed across his retina; suddenly, he caught a fleeting glimpse — the 【Mianmian】 before him actually cast a shadow in the sewage.

"A shadow has a shadow too?"

Zuo Bai couldn't figure it out for a moment; the 【Mianmian】 before him, or rather the shadow, felt not quite the same as before, as if a shadow had been secretly swapped.

"I don't care what tricks you're playing; anyway, I'll eat you again, and I want to see if you can appear again this time?!!"

Zuo Bai shouted coldly; he flicked his wrist, the Bone Snake emitting a sharp "Ssi-er—" sound, whipping viciously at the water surface.

In an instant, sewage splashed in all directions, like black pearls dancing in the air.

Simultaneously, from the gaps in the Bone Snake's spine, pools of silver liquid exploded like detonated bombs, instantly transforming into countless wriggling mouths, dense and packed, devouring every floating black pearl clean.

Yet strangely, although the splashed sewage was completely devoured by the Bone Snake, the human figure in the air still remained.

Not only did it not disappear, the shadow's surface seemed to seep thick ink, wriggling along the shadow's outline, and in a flash diffused into a faintly visible outline.

Countless data streams flashed across Zuo Bai's pupils; the Cranial Crystal Yuan in his skull ran high-speed analysis and comparison.

His pupils flickered with cold blue light; the usual rationality and calm on his face vanished, rarely revealing a trace of panic.

"A shadow... has given birth to another shadow?!!"

Only to see, that first shadow suddenly moved, from stillness to motion, darting left and right, extremely fast, and the ink clinging to it was flung into the air.

The ink fell through the air, as if someone tore a layer of skin from your body but couldn't fully rip it apart, still connected by threads, pulling out streaks of afterimages in between.

It looked just like the original 【Mianmian】, wearing a smile, each step forward copying another 【Mianmian】 behind him.

And these 【Mianmian】 now left, now right, overlapping each other, silently forming a circle, surrounding Zuo Bai in the center.

Their gaits differed, movements varied, but all wore identical smiles.

Can you imagine how eerie that scene was?

Anyway, the countless viewers guarding their TV screens, when they suddenly saw images re-emerge in the snow-static, the chill rising up their spines never stopped.

This is a horror distinct from those ferocious man-eating monsters on Campus before.

The former is a bloody cruelty that makes one fear physiologically; the latter seems to seep directly into the soul.

As if an invisible hand reached out from the screen, scratching people's backs again and again, making them involuntarily look behind themselves, hearts creeped out for no reason.

At the center of the encirclement, fine cold sweat beaded on Zuo Bai's forehead; his Cranial Crystal Yuan ran overclocked, wisps of black smoke like substance seeping from his scalp.

His neck turned stiffly, his single eye unblinking as it scanned the full circle of 【Mianmian】.

Dozens? Or hundreds?

For a moment, Zuo Bai simply couldn't count them.

The 【Mianmian】 stood too densely, front and back overlapping, like layers upon layers of black phantoms.

Moreover, 【Mianmian】 kept collapsing and vanishing like smoke, yet in a blink new 【Mianmian】 quietly generated from nothingness.

And as Zuo Bai turned his gaze to look, every single 【Mianmian】 also turned their heads in unison, using those gloomy eyes where dots of bloody red seeped from pitch black, all staring straight at him.

In an instant, Zuo Bai's scalp went numb, a malicious chill as if his soul had been pierced through.

In truth, had he not clashed with 【Mianmian】 in that first round, had his thinking not been led astray by that previous shadow, he might not have failed to think in the direction of afterimages.

However, the feeling created by that previous shadow was completely different from afterimages.

Like a layer of fog preemptively covering his eyes, tying a dead knot in his brain, leaving him momentarily dizzy and disoriented, unable to recover.

At this moment, he was like someone who had stepped into a trap meticulously woven by a magician.

The countless 【Masks】 before his eyes were nothing but a Zhang Ai to bewilder the mind; and that Shadow from before was a shill used by the magician to mislead him, misleading his mental judgment.

And the true magician had turned into an unseen "Shadow", shifting back and forth between the 【Masks】 and the Shadow, appearing and disappearing unpredictably.

He just stood there openly before Zuo Bai, wearing a Smile as he pressed closer step by step.

Yet Zuo Bai seemed to have turned into a blind man, yet he simply could Not see... his arrival!!!

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