Hearing Annan's words, Professor Gray was not angry, but laughed out loud: "Do you want to swing a knife at the shadow, or punch at the memories of the past?
"Or, I've said so much, but you still don't understand... my essence?"
"Of course I know."
Annan said calmly: "You are the old hatred that was put aside by the gray master, and a memory suspended in the upper reaches of the long river of time. Compared to the current world we live in, you are just a projection hanging on the wall."
"You don't know very well."
Professor Gray said with a smile: "So, you plan to destroy the projection on the wall?"
"What I want to destroy is, of course, the essence of your existence in the [past]."
Annan replied.
After hearing this statement, the smile on Professor Gray's face faded a lot.
"If you can do it," he raised his hand, "then you might as well... give it a try."
Professor Gray said this and lightly snapped his fingers.
The crisp sound of snapping fingers echoed in the air, and the whole world instantly became quiet.
With him as the center, a gray field suddenly spread to the surroundings. It was like a color photo or screen suddenly turning into black and white.
Except for Annan and Neuser, the others seemed to be frozen inside, motionless.
Their time has been suspended.
Although Annan and Neuser were still able to move, pure white light shone around Annan, wrapping him in it like a flexible shell.
And the bones in Neusel's body shine with a dark red light... The light even penetrates the skin, and can be directly observed with the naked eye without any equipment.
However, although Neusser was not directly frozen by this gray realm, his movements were very difficult. It was like moving in thick syrup, and his whole body seemed to be entangled.
Neusser raised his head with great force, and the blood vessels in his neck and forehead burst out.
Even so, he could just barely see a vague human figure floating behind Professor Gray.
This is probably something that no one has ever seen before...a noble avatar belonging to Professor Gray.
"That is……"
Neuser was stunned.
The posture of that noble false body is so distorted that it even makes people feel "painful".
It looks like a vaguely human male.
But it does not look blurry because the purity of the sublime fake is not enough. It looks like a photo that has been rubbed repeatedly until the face is blurred, or like a portrait that has been soaked in water and the ink gradually smudges.
If you look closely, you can only vaguely see a "young man" composed of many broken and reconstructed geometric bodies in this blur, just like Picasso's "Head of Fernandez".
Just based on intuition and structure, one can roughly deduce that it should be a young man.
He has gray hair similar to Professor Gray, but is not as old as Professor Gray.
The "young man"'s pupils were also gray, but they were not the deep and dull dark gray of Professor Gray... but gentle and soft pupils with gradient colors like gray agate.
The "boy" has thin shoulders and even thinner arms. He lowers his head as if he is a little shy. His left arm tensely grasps the shoulder of the gray professor in front of him, while the stretched out right arm, which is also broken and blurry, lifts the
A pocket watch hanging down.
All over its body, only the silver-gray pocket watch was extremely clear. Even in the gray field of silence, the machine was still making a loud clicking sound.
That is the only sound in this silent world.
The pocket watch held up by the "boy" initially showed the position of "00:00:15".
Annan, who was not aware of the danger, just stood aside and watched everything calmly; while Neusser struggled to walk towards Professor Gray... But in this sticky field like glue, fifteen seconds
The time was indeed too short.
Neusser just struggled to take two steps forward, and time completely ran out.
As time goes back, the second hand rotates counterclockwise one by one... and when all the hands return to zero.
The four players, completely saturated with gray, turned into ashes silently.
The stagnant time around him returned to normal in an instant, and the silent atmosphere was also broken.
Neusel couldn't hold back his strength for a moment, so he yelled and bumped into Professor Gray, but he just smiled and stretched out his right hand forward, signaling "Stop" as if directing traffic, and the endless gray formed a line in front of him.
Barrier.
Neusel's fierce shoulder collision caused his own body to be unable to withstand the pressure and almost broke.
His muscles deformed and disintegrated under the tremendous force, his bones made an acidic crunching sound, and purple-red traces like spider webs burst out under his skin, which were leached blood.
He immediately groaned and was instantly knocked back.
When flying over Annan, he was deprived of excess kinetic energy by Annan and finally stabilized his body. Otherwise, looking at the momentum, he might have been able to crash through the wall and fly back.
Annan could see clearly that it was not a simple defense...nor was it the ability to "offset the damage and repay it twice as much".
Neusser just ran forward with all his strength, and when the speed of time suddenly resumed and the car could not be stopped, it turned into a shoulder collision. He did not use much strength in the first place.
Being able to severely injure Neuser, who was holding the Holy Skeleton, in an instant was definitely not something he could do with twice the power of the counterattack.
If Annan guessed correctly...
This should be related to Neusel's previous actions in that gray area.
His every move became extremely sticky and difficult... These powers should have been stored by Professor Gray through some means, and turned into the power temporarily stored by Professor Gray himself.
Finally, when Neusel was about to attack Professor Gray, they all bounced back. It was Neusel's power that severely injured Neusel himself in an instant.
Although I don’t know what the principle is yet, the performance is roughly like this ability.
In other words, should we stop immediately when we are covered by gray areas?
It sounds a bit like a one-two-three wooden man...
The four players who had been turned into ashes silently before were just like going back in time, gathered together by countless firefly-like points of light, and resurrected in the same place.
"What the hell, what happened?"
"...It's strange, have I lost my memory?"
"Why did I suddenly die suddenly just by snapping my fingers? Are you Thanos?"
From the complaints from the players, Annan immediately realized that the players who were bound by that gray realm had no memory at all.
In other words, this should be the ability of the time system
Annan paused.
"...It's [memory], right."
He said softly: "You turned them into dust and returned Neusel's power that was 'taken away from history' to yourself. This is the power of the field of [memory].
"It sounds nice to say that you want to destroy the truth of memories, and you want to take revenge on the Gray Carver... But aren't you still using the Gray Carver's ability?"