When she turned, I saw immediately that in her right hand she was holding a square glass container, about the size of a baby's fist, containing a golden point of light that was rampaging across the inner wall of the container, like a restless firefly.

There was a small empty hole in the metal base, which seemed to be the place where the glass container had been held just now.

"This is the technical achievement of the 'mysterious organization', the finished product of the psionic awakening potion." She noticed my gaze and didn't seem to have any intention of fighting me, but explained to me intimately like a friend, "And I call it 'Spiritual Transformation Medicine'." ”

My eyes were firmly fixed on this elixir, and if I snatched this from her, I would be able to become a psyker—of course, it wasn't that simple. I also know that because my soul is very different from the soul of the inhabitants of this world, even if there is a certain drug that can awaken the latter's psionic energy, it will most likely not be of use to me.

Still, I couldn't take my eyes off it. It may seem that I am superstitious about forbidden knowledge, but since it is the product of forbidden knowledge, the effect of the spiritual transformation medicine may be enough to break some common sense.

The question is, how do I confirm this?

After grabbing it, take it directly regardless of asking? But where can the medicine be eaten indiscriminately, maybe after taking it, not only will it not work, but it will also poison itself; Looking for a professional to help me get my test? But what is contained in the spiritual transformation medicine is undoubtedly forbidden knowledge, who will willingly help me analyze the medicine; Catch someone to test me for poison? That's even more unreliable, and no matter if there is only one drug, I can't find anyone with a similar soul structure to myself......

Looking at it this way, what is really valuable to me is not this spiritual transformation medicine, but the forbidden knowledge contained in the spiritual transformation medicine. And even from this point of view, there is no reason for me to let go of this precious sample in front of me.

The fight against her is imperative.

At this point, I have fully accepted the fact of her betrayal, and I am not ready to do it immediately. Because I still have a lot of questions in my mind, I have to ask them all to get to the bottom of it. I looked at her face again, thought for a moment, and said, "You are the 'mystery person' who gave the forbidden knowledge to Inoue Renta?" ”

"How so?" She asked with a smile.

"Because you know that the spiritual transformation medicine is in this room, and you also know the specific location of this room, and you know how to enter this room that isolates spiritual energy." I said, "But you're obviously coming to this pharmaceutical factory for the first time." Unless, it's not the first time, but you've been here not so long ago. Like, this morning? ”

"As you can imagine, just this morning, after Officer Xu informed us of the information that 'Inoue Renta is located in this pharmaceutical factory', I didn't come directly to meet us, but sneaked in here first." She nodded.

"Inoue Renta said that it was the mysterious person who sneaked in in the morning. Therefore, you are the mystery man. I said, "The reason why you were hunted down by a mysterious organization is not because you 'investigated as a journalist in areas that you shouldn't be investigating,' but because Inoue wanted to kill you even further after betraying you, the 'initiator' who provided forbidden knowledge." ”

"I didn't expect this kind of development either." She seems to be talking about sex, and she doesn't mind talking to me on such an occasion, maybe she wants to find someone to talk to about her troubles, and this person may not necessarily be me, "In order to prevent him from breaking his promise, I also specially signed a high-level psionic contract with him with real effect, the 'Moon of Forgetting Oath', whoever breaks the contract first will die." Who knew that he actually managed to break this contract, which is really a strange thing. While there are quite a few people who are good at breaking psionic contracts, the 'Forgotten Moon Oath' is a different level of contract, and he should not have access to professionals who are good enough to break this contract. ”

With a look of remembrance on her face, she continued, "This is a big blow to me. Do you know? In order to find a 'collaborator' who is willing to study forbidden knowledge and has the ability to do in-depth research, but is not strong enough to fight against me, I started looking for a candidate a year ago. It's not an easy job for someone like me who is alone. But in the end, not only was I thrown aside, but I couldn't even find where his research site was. ”

"But you didn't give up there, but chose to cooperate with Naoto Inoue, and with the help of his power, find a place for Inoue Renta to study the spiritual transformation medicine, is that so?" I asked.

"Yes. In addition, Naoto Inoue doesn't have so many mysteries, he is just a 'big child' who has a righteous heart and wants to stop him after knowing that his father is conducting a brutal experiment. She smiled knowingly, "It was I who secretly provided clues for him to know the truth. DiCaprio's identity appears to him, promising to mobilize the power of the newspaper media to expose his father's crimes for him. As soon as he heard this, he immediately took the bait. ”

"But there's a contradiction here." I said, "Your time as a justice journalist and your time looking for collaborators started a year ago. But these two activities are opposites, and the former will bring you uncontrollable risks. ”

"What if I told you that I had predicted that today, in order to win the trust of Naoto Inoue and you, I would deliberately build the image of a righteous reporter?" She asked with a smile.

"That's too much work." I said, "It's better to just find another ready-made 'justice reporter', kill him first, then take his identity, or even peel off the deceased's face, make a human skin mask, and then ......"

At this point, my speech became slower and slower, because at this moment, I had realized something.

Immediately after, she confirmed my idea.

She peeled off her face with her left hand in front of me, took off her wig, tossed it aside, and then raised her head to reveal a new face.

This face is neither "Adam" nor "Chloe. DiCaprio", but another beautiful girly face that was quite foreign to me. Her hair was not brown either, nor did it have bear ears, but was a medium-length black hair that hung down her shoulders like a short waterfall.

Chloe, no, the one who didn't know who it was, smiled delicately and dangerously, like a black dreamy bubble, looked at me, and said, "You're right. ”

At this moment, I froze.

After a while, I finally came to my senses and asked, "When did you do it?" ”

"Ten days ago." She replied. I hadn't gotten to know her at the time.

"You killed Chloe. DiCaprio, then peeled off her face and wore it on her own face, disguised as herself. ”

"Yes."

"And on this mask of human skin, disguised as Adam."

"Is it extra to put makeup on your mask?"

"Nope." I looked at her and said, "Under the mask, there is still a mask." ”

She was disguised on the mask, and I was on the mask after the disguise, and we were all the same.

But I never imagined that one day I would be deceived by someone using this trick.

No, she even went further than me. Whether I'm doing Xu Fu or being a Faceling, it's all about being myself in the final analysis. But on this basis, she became a completely different person.

I was so outrageous at her evil deeds that I longed to choke her throat at once and let her die in agony and remorse; On the other hand, because she perfectly implements the mask concept that I once advocated for her, I can't help but have a little admiration for her—not just a little bit, but I can only have a little admiration for her at best.

This kind of untimely affection is very important for Chloe, who is already dead. DiCaprio, and his family and friends, are naturally unfair. But I think if you just think about it in your head, there should be no problem, and no one will hear it anyway. Besides, I'm going to kill this wicked woman here anyway—I've made up my mind.

But how do I do it? From the moment I entered this room, I was wondering, her evidence of differentiation was simply my nemesis, although it could not cause me effective damage, but the function of free exchange with the phantom in the distance was indeed a difficult problem for an ordinary person like me who relied on fists and feet.

"You're such a man who has puzzled me until the end." She said to me, "I didn't have you in my plan, and I shouldn't have given you any information about the Sheepskin Killer in the first place." But to me at the time, the Sheepskin Killer intel was just one of the countless pieces of finished intel that sat on Adam's bookshelf. If that had been the information I had personally investigated, I wouldn't have realized the relationship between the Sheepskin Killer and the 'mysterious organization'. ”

"No matter how good the plan is, it is common for it to fail to catch up with the changes." I say.

"But these changes are also too nerve-wracking for me. Thanks to you, the Naoto Inoue I managed to find was useless, and even I almost passed through the wall at the end of that alley, almost going to the inexplicable world. She said bitterly, "Fortunately, the changes you brought are not all bad, and it is precisely because of you that I was able to establish a cooperative relationship with Officer Xu, and I was able to know the location of Inoue Renta." ”

"This is called blessing and misfortune." I had a plan in mind about how to kill her, and then I looked at her, "Last question, what's your name?" ”

"You can continue to call me Chloe, or Adam."

"That's your mask, and the name of the mask of the mask." I shook my head, "Although your current face may not be real, there should always be a convenient name, right?" ”

"It doesn't seem to have anything to do with you." She said calmly.

"Since you don't want to tell me the name, I'll give you a name." I say.

"Oh? What are you going to name me? She asked with interest.

"Facelings." I said slowly.

She seemed taken aback and said, "But, isn't that your nickname?" ”

"It's just a title. Anyone can be a Faceling, I can, so can you, and so can others. I said.

"But that way, there's no confusion?" She asked rhetorically.

"Naturally, there will be no confusion." I said, "Because in the end, only a Faceling will be able to walk out of this room." ”

She heard my subtext and smiled dangerously again, "You're not going to have this chance. ”

After saying that, many apparitions suddenly appeared in this room, and at a cursory glance, there were more than twenty, each of which was exactly the same as hers, and surrounded it in the middle.

And as she drew her pistol, all the phantoms turned their guns on me.

It turns out that the phantoms that can be separated by the evidence of differentiation are not only one or two at all!

"Even you can't avoid so many muzzle sights at the same time." "Even though there's only one real bullet at a time, can you recognize which bullet is real?" she said. Even if you could recognize me, how would you attack me from so many phantoms? ”

"You taught me a lesson earlier." I said, putting my hand in my arms, "Now, it's my turn to teach you a lesson." ”

"What do you want to do?" She asked coldly.

"Maybe you're an expert at disguise." I said, "But you're still far from combat." ”

With that, we pulled out a frag grenade, pulled the fuse faster than she could react, and threw it into the center of the room.

At the same time, I sprinted in the direction of the metal base.

When Xu Shengxing threw this frag grenade to me, she said that it was just a dud, and she was not present at the time and did not know about it. Therefore, when she saw this scene, her face changed drastically, and she hurriedly hid behind the metal pedestal, while the other phantoms either lay down or rushed to the exit, but none of them escaped through the wall - this was the room where psionic energy could be isolated, and here, she could neither pass through the wall nor exchange with the phantoms outside the room.

She must have understood that when this fragmentation grenade exploded, the other phantoms' movements were either useless or too late, and they could only survive by hiding behind the metal pedestal, the only cover on the scene.

In other words, what is hidden behind the metal pedestal must be her body.

The moment my fist hit her, I did feel like her life was all gone.