0041 Chapter 1: Confessions of the Dead (Section 35)
Just like that, he stepped into the forest with a gun in one hand and a mobile phone as a light. Until he reached the jester, Zhen Cheng didn't even think about what he was carrying that caused this strange avoidance.
But it was a good thing after all, as it gave her at least the basic conditions to try to save herself.
Zhen Cheng was very clear about the idea of escape. She didn't know how far the mutation in the mountain forest would spread, but it was too dangerous to go out on one leg without a vehicle.
Perhaps for unknown reasons, the spreading weirdness itself really won't have any impact on her, but she doesn't think that those mutated beasts and even plants will completely lose their instinct to attack living creatures. There are wolves in the forest at the foot of Olympus.
and wild boar.
The only way out lies at the source of the mutation.
Zhen Cheng didn't think that the shadow phenomenon would happen by chance without any reason, especially after witnessing all the abnormalities happening the moment the jester put on the mask.
If the mask can be taken off, it may be possible to prevent or even restore the mutation that has occurred in this land. Even if it cannot, judging from the previous reactions of the monsters, the place where the golden mask is located is at least a "safe" place where one can avoid the threat of mutated creatures around it.
Moving forward steadily like this, Zhen Cheng did not encounter any danger and approached the jester without any hindrance.
Upon closer inspection, his body seemed to be covered with an invisible layer of gray mist. The whole body became indistinct, and the original color of the human body could not be seen through. Waves of strange smells wafted out from the body in front of him, mixing them with each other.
The smell of death and decay that sprouts from the surrounding woods is disgusting.
Zhen Cheng suspected that the characteristics of this man's body had developed and changed, otherwise there would be no reason for Zhi Shi to easily twist off an arm.
She held the pistol and tried to push the mask away with the barrel. As a result, the moment the pistol came into contact with the mask, rust began to spread rapidly along the contact location.
Zhen Cheng hurriedly threw away the pistol, subconsciously trying to prevent the rust on the handle from spreading to the place he was holding. As a result, he moved his feet and accidentally stepped on a piece of soil that had been washed away by the rain and became slippery. His whole body turned forward.
Flip over.
Miss Thirteen didn't have any hidden skills. With this fall, she hit the human body in front of her that was so mutated that it made people get goosebumps. In the process of falling, she unknowingly used her bare hands.
Pressed on the mask.
It wasn't until Zhen Cheng, who was lying on the ground covered in mud, realized what had happened, that he had unknowingly pulled the golden mask off the jester's face.
Interestingly, I only felt a slight coldness on my fingertips, but nothing more strange. The Golden Mask, which had obviously been inspired by extraordinary power, did not affect Zhen Cheng like a contaminated jester as she feared.
If there is any influence, it seems to be just a vague feeling of an indescribable deviation, like a trace of ice flowing into the body along the palm, then flowing silently, and finally gathering in the entire brain, making people feel...
I have a slight headache.
Reluctantly lifting his body up from the mud, Zhen Cheng first saw the jester who had been thrown to the ground by him. As the mask was peeled off, the strange and hazy gray mist on his body had dissipated, leaving nothing behind.
Then there is that handsome face like a classic gentleman.
Under the mask, there is a face whose facial features are completely misplaced and distorted beyond words. Although this distortion does not seem to have affected the jester's life, it has reached the point where the basic human shape has been completely lost. At a glance, Zhen Cheng even
She began to feel grateful that such a fool could experiment with the consequences of wearing a mask for her.
According to the records of Zhen's Intelligence Agency, there are many ways for people to open up the path to the extraordinary in the world, but there is absolutely no record of being twisted into such a ghostly state just by taking the first step.
So it is obvious that wearing the mask on the face is not the correct use of this strange object.
I wonder if it was really as Zhen Cheng suspected. After she pounced on the unconscious and obviously mutated Jester and accidentally took away the golden mask, the weirdness around her seemed to have subsided.
The mutated trees and plants cannot find the tendency to restore, but the rotten vines that were snaking and squirming like worms and snakes just now are now lying on the ground like normal plants.
Zhen Cheng tried to get up in embarrassment, but her feet slipped and she fell to the ground. At that moment, an arm hugged her chest, preventing Miss Zhen from having close contact with the muddy water again.
"……It's you?!"
Being gently lifted up, Zhen Cheng saw the face that she had just met for the first time today, but anyone who takes just one look at it would definitely forget it for the rest of their lives.
In the heavy rain, in the muddy ground, under the strange twisted trees and thorns that exuded the smell of decay, the silver-haired girl stood alone. There were no water stains on her long hair and dress, and there was no trace of mud on her shoes and socks.
The face that was so close evoked an interesting and evil smile, and a strange fragrance that was not like that of this world wafted in, covering up the smell of withered vegetation all around.
Zhen Cheng was helped up, and she wanted to ask, "You happened to be trapped here by something strange?" Then she realized that since Zhi Shi used a rocket launcher to cut off the circuit and then the jester used a golden mask to trigger changes, tonight would never happen.
Maybe another vehicle passed by here, so he changed his words:
"Are you also eyeing this prize?"
It is obvious that Qu Yun appeared at the center of all the strange outbreaks at this time, so she must have had a plan and came here deliberately.
Zhen Cheng said, trying to show the other person the mask in her hand, but her hand was empty. Then she was surprised to find that the golden mask that was still in her hand had appeared in the other person's hand at some point.
Could it be that she took advantage of the opportunity to help him and touched it?
"You are an extraordinary person, I can't snatch you away," Zhen Cheng said frankly, spreading his hands and not showing any resentment at having someone take away the fat in his mouth:
"But I still want to remind you, don't put on the mask easily. The power of this thing is very strange, and even you may not be safe. If you don't plan to spend a lot of time and energy researching..."
"Yizi, you know this thing very well. Perhaps you know it better than anyone else in the world..." Qu Yun interrupted Zhen Cheng's warning with a smile: "She told me all this."
"Who?" Zhen Cheng was stunned when he heard this.
"Oh, she is an old friend who helped you a lot tonight. A girl you have never met, but they are so similar to each other that they are almost like the same person."
Qu Yun said with a smile, bending down to pick something up from the mud. Her fingers dipped into the rotten mud, but they seemed to be in a different dimension from the twists and mutations in the forest. When she lifted them up again, they were still not stained with dust, and even
The things in my hands seemed brand new and dirt-free as if they had just been washed with clean water.
It was a card. The two short gilded words on the dark background lingered with an ominous depression like the law of death: