Mu Ziyi's favorite Western novel is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by García Márquez. Apart from "The Complete Works of Shakespeare", this is the book she reads the most. Unfortunately, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" never had the chance to be made into a TV series
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The reason why I like this book is because it reflects... the impermanence and loneliness of life.
"Do you know García Márquez?"
When Mu Ziyi suddenly said these words to Dong Xie, the latter was stunned for several seconds. At that time, his first reaction was that he thought it was someone they met inside the black wall.
"I remember he was the author of "Love in the Time of Cholera"," Dong Xie finally remembered: "Mo Yuan used to like reading this book very much. Every time I went to see him, he would hold up that book and read it."
"'Love in the Time of Cholera' is also a good book." Mu Ziyi was eating compressed biscuits at this time and looked at the door next to her: "If you have a chance to return to the apartment alive, I recommend you to read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" written by him.
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"Why suddenly..."
"The absurd phenomenon inside this wall reminds me a bit of the world of magical realism in his works. Those who wear masks are separated from themselves, and the color of the mask replaces everything about them until they become supernatural beings.
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"If you say so..." Dong Xie suddenly thought of something: "If those people don't take off their masks after death, the masks will gradually merge with their real faces and turn into strange spirits. Just what I told you
Same, the mask becomes the real face."
This point will give people a somewhat scary feeling.
"Purple clothes..." Unknowingly, Dong Xie became more and more natural in calling this title. "Now that I think about it, the difference between the face-splitting person and the face-melting person seems not to be simple. The people in this wall, the color class of the mask
, replacing people’s true selves. No one cares whether there is a different face under the mask, they just care more about the privileges represented by the mask.”
Mu Ziyi raised a finger and pointed at the mask on Dong Xie's face: "Yes, the difference between the split-face person and the melt-face person is very important. It can even be said that the two are completely opposite."
"The Face Splitter is a resistance to the class represented by the mask. Whether you take off the mask or resist the orders of the high-level mask, after leaving this order, the mask will shatter and fall apart, and you no longer need to be affected by this mask.
However, the price is that the real face will be shattered and eventually turn into a strange spirit. The face-melder will succumb to this class order until death, so after death, the mask is completely fused and turned into another person.
A kind of strange spirit..."
Having said this, Dong Xie's eyes lit up.
"You said... could the difference between these two supernatural spirits be a clue to how to survive in the apartment?"
"Then, let's summarize the differences between the two kinds of supernatural beings." Mu Ziyi's hand tapped on the table in front of her. When she was analyzing, her fingers would always make some movements, which seemed to make her thinking smoother.
: "The strange spirit that appeared in the Delen Division is the Facemelder. This can be judged from the conversation between the two members of the Black Corpse Team. The characteristic of the Facemelder is that the neck will be particularly long. And in the white mask
It feels cold to the senses, but actually being close to the Face Melter will make people feel extremely cold. Because it was snowing before, when the Face Melter came behind you, you would think it was snowing even if the temperature dropped.
The reason. Also...the facemelder can directly perceive the existence of the mask and its color."
Dong Xie continued: "Wait a minute, Ziyi. You just counted the extremely long neck as a characteristic of the Face Melter, but maybe the same is true for the Face Splitter?"
"Maybe it's possible. But I speculate that only Face Melters can do this."
"This can be regarded as my intuition." After all, Mu Ziyi is not as rigorous in her speech as Xia Li, and she will still add some of her speculations in some places: "You don't have to accept my point of view."
"If you don't consider this...then the other thing is that the senses of the White Mask are hot, and they can only capture the mask through vision. Moreover, this can be regarded as my intuition, I always
I feel that the one with the melted face is scarier than the one with the split face."
After the two were silent for a while, Mu Ziyi continued: "You were thinking just now whether these two foreign spirits will constitute our way of survival. Do you speculate... that there is a possibility that these two foreign spirits have a hostile relationship?
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"Yes, the way the two transform into supernatural spirits is exactly the opposite, and the perception on the white mask is also opposite. But... if this is true, there is no way the Black Corpse Team could not have discovered this."
"The two of them have one important thing in common. That is, they both hunt masks, and by obtaining more and higher-level masks, both will gain 'growth', and 'growth'" will occur during the process.
'Mutation'. There is no doubt that the apartment will let mutated spirits appear in front of us when we go outside the black wall."
Dong Xie remembered clearly that when the mutated supernatural beings were mentioned, Reeve's hands would still tremble greatly for such an old corpse chaser. You know, he had been a corpse chaser for decades, which was equivalent to
Carrying out decades of bloody missions!
There are still many mysteries about these two supernatural spirits.
"Perhaps some kind of opportunity is needed." Dong Xie thought for a while and then said, "For example, the golden mask?"
"The King of the Golden Mask once went outside the wall. If the Golden Mask can make two kinds of supernatural beings kill each other, why didn't the King notice it?"
"Maybe you don't know how to use the golden mask to manipulate?"
Regarding the golden mask, the information Dong Xie and Mu Ziyi have now learned is that whoever wears this mask can become an absolute king and issue absolute orders to masks of any color. Although Reeve did not say it,
According to Mu Ziyi's speculation, the white mask is probably no exception. There is only one golden mask. Even the children born to the King of Golden Masks will not inherit the golden mask, so they can only pass it on after their death.
His descendants.
Ordinary masks are not high enough in level, and their orders are limited, so they do not require the other party to do anything. But the golden mask is different. Even if everyone is asked to commit suicide, everyone will do it. This is not like an ordinary mask.
That way, as long as you can bear the consequences of becoming a Splinterface, you can resist orders. Unless you take off the mask before giving the order, otherwise, you will obey absolutely. The body cannot be controlled by the brain at all, and the mask cannot be taken off before the order is completed.
Another point is that no matter what the circumstances, the person with the low-level mask will not cause any harm to the King of Golden Masks. Ordinary people can kill the high-level masker before he gives the order and take away the mask, but
It is impossible to defeat the King of Golden Masks. Because of this, the person who wears the Golden Mask is undoubtedly the absolute king in front of the person wearing the mask. If you want to deal with the King of Golden Masks, there is only one way.
, let people take off the mask to assassinate him. Therefore, fighting for the golden mask caused countless bloody storms.
"What is certain at present is that even for a Face Melter, once it turns into a foreign spirit, people with a higher level than the mask cannot give orders to it. However, the desire of the foreign spirit to attack it can be suppressed.
It's like a beast tamer taming a beast. The King of the Golden Mask must have tried to control the supernatural beings, but he must have failed."
The two were silent for a while.
"However, even if, as you said, some kind of opportunity is needed for the two foreign spirits to kill each other, it does not mean that this is our way to survive. The so-called mutated foreign spirits have greater variables."
Just when the two were about to continue discussing, suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Help...please, please, save me!"
From just now, the white masks of Dong Xie and Mu Ziyi sensed the approach of strange spirits, but they couldn't enter the outpost anyway, so they didn't pay attention.
People outside continued to shout: "Please, help me! I am here to participate in the survival competition. As long as I can survive, I will definitely repay you! Please... I, I don't want to die here."