Chapter 155: My Shadow, Why Should I Listen to You?

Lin Yifan looked at the messages in the chat channel, his face slightly grim.

He slightly raised his head, and indeed saw the impostor outside the door, giving him a smug smile.

Lin Yifan narrowed his eyes, and immediately formed a plan in his mind!

He quickly sent a message to several close friends:

"Help me out, you guys go to the chat channel and send messages questioning that guy—keep sending them nonstop!"

Father of God (True) reacted quickly, immediately sending him a message:

"Do you want us to distract his attention?"

Lin Yifan also didn't hide it, and cheerfully admitted:

"That's right, wanting to eliminate this thing isn't easy; you draw his attention, and then I can destroy him!"

The only ones who came to inquire were Father of God (True); Hong Shaoqiang and Ruan Qingdan had no questions at all, and immediately sent messages in the chat channel—as for that impostor.

【Jipin Baoba】: "Where did this impostor come from? Dare to question our captain—we've all seen the real 123, you don't think you can bribe everyone with a few fakes, do you?"

【Gongzhu Qingshuijiao】: "Exactly! An impostor is an impostor—our captain can't be imitated by someone like you. If you were smart, you'd admit you're an impostor; otherwise, I guarantee you'll come to no good!"

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As expected, a flood of questions came out, and the impostor's attention shifted to the chat channel, frantically outputting to prove himself.

Seeing his attention completely captured, Lin Yifan immediately sprang into action!

He took out the bucket of tung oil, quietly opened the lid, then swiftly lunged at the impostor.

While the impostor's attention was on the chat channel, although he timely noticed the tung oil lunging at him, he still couldn't dodge in time and got drenched all over!

Moreover, because the amount of tung oil was too much, not only did the impostor get covered in it, but there was also a large puddle on the ground.

And precisely because of that large puddle of tung oil, when the impostor went to get the box, he slipped and fell flat on his face!

"You schemed against me!" the impostor shouted as he fell to the ground, finally realizing he had been set up!

Instantly enraged, his face twisted—not only did the maggots in his ears start wriggling rapidly, but the maggots in his nose also began to move.

Obviously affected by his emotions, these worms also began to stir.

Moreover, Lin Yifan noticed that as these worms became more agitated, the impostor's emotions became hard to control, and he even started shouting insults:

"You damned ant, you actually dared to scheme against me—you're dead meat, I guarantee you're dead!"

Lin Yifan naturally wasn't afraid; he smirked, quickly drew the Wind-Chasing Cloud-Breaking Bow, then pulled out a strip of cloth and wrapped it around the arrowhead, coating it with tung oil, and said with a grin:

"Hey! Wake up—your life is in my hands right now, got it?"

"You! You want to kill me?" the impostor exclaimed upon seeing Lin Yifan holding the Wind-Chasing Cloud-Breaking Bow, his face suddenly changing dramatically.

"No, you can't kill me! If you dare to kill me, you'll also suffer severe backlash!"

"Because you are me, and I am you!"

Lin Yifan narrowed his eyes, because he suddenly discovered that the impostor's words were actually not a lie!

But he likewise couldn't understand what that sentence meant.

Since he didn't understand, he didn't want to keep it bottled up, and immediately asked:

"What do you mean by that? Who are you saying 'you are me, I am you'? You're just an impostor—stop trying to relate to me here!"

The impostor, however, grew frantic, excitedly pointing at the 123 beneath his feet and said:

"Don't doubt it! Take a good look at your foot—don't you have no shadow?"

Lin Yifan lowered his head to look, and his face instantly showed astonishment.

Because he truly discovered he had no shadow!

This was beside the fire—his shadow should have been long and stretched out, but now that spot was completely bare, with nothing at all!

Meanwhile, the impostor had been observing Lin Yifan's expression; seeing his demeanor, he smugly said:

"You see, right? You have no shadow!"

"Thanks for knowing why you have no shadow—because your shadow is now me!"

"And the reason you can't harm me is because I am your shadow; if you dare to hurt me, the pain I suffer will be equally returned to the owner of the shadow!"

"If you dare to kill me now, I can guarantee that even if we can't perish together, I'll still make you suffer!"

And at this moment, Lin Yifan finally figured out why the impostor had appeared!

It turned out that maggots had taken over a person's shadow, then transformed into a person identical to the shadow's owner!

However, the shadow is too fragile, fearing light and heat, so as soon as it encounters fire, it gets instantly burned to nothing.

Put simply, it's not the worms that fear fire—it's the shadow that fears fire!

Now this impostor obviously can't run away, because the oil on his body and the oil on the ground make him unable even to stand.

However, Lin Yifan also couldn't help but have concerns!

If what the impostor says is true, then whether the harm borne by the shadow will return to the main body is uncertain—no one can say for sure!

But now it's also clear that he must make a choice!

Otherwise, this impostor would definitely not let it go!

No, although the impostor is an impostor, after all he is his own shadow; since he is his own shadow, why can't he control it himself?

Moreover, Lin Yifan noticed a strange phenomenon: whenever the impostor spoke, the maggots in its ear holes would writhe violently, as if transmitting some information.

Even more strangely, when raindrops fell on it, they passed straight through, as if going through a holographic projection.

"No, you're not a physical entity......" Lin Yifan narrowed his eyes.

In that flash of lightning and stone, Lin Yifan suddenly grabbed a wooden stick from the ground and threw it with all his might toward the outside.

The wood passed through the impostor's body and slammed heavily into the tree behind—indeed, there was no feeling of hitting a solid entity.

Lin Yifan looked at that piece of wood, "Is Huangshan big or not?"

"I understand! I finally understand! You never had a physical form to begin with, those worms in your body have no corpses either—you're all just projections!"

No wonder you're afraid of fire and heat—it turns out that things like you can't even be considered truly alive.

And you are merely projections formed from my shadow; since you rely on my shadow, your body is a condensation of that projection—by what right do you even heed your own commands?

That's my shadow—it ought to obey me.