As if the treacherous ghost of a horror movie crawled out of the dark abyss, the pale woman zigzagged forward with twisted and strange steps, leaving a ghostly and mysterious white figure on the ground.

Her footsteps are "scattered" around the world, occasionally taking two steps forward, occasionally going backwards a few meters, like water droplets falling into a pond without a track, rippling in layers of ripples.

In Brother Long's eyes, this woman sometimes even had a thin gauze on his body, and the light gauze was gently brushed past his cheeks, but after he beat a spirit, he found that the woman who thought he was leaning on his side was actually far away from him, and he still moved towards this side at an unhurried speed.

What's going on?!

Brother Long carried the camera, and a storm surged in his heart!

Did you hallucinate, or did the other person really have a similar technique?!

He didn't know what the reason was.

The only thing that Brother Long knows now is that the pressure that was originally exerted on him does not know when it will be reduced.

Before, he could barely move under the pressure, but now, as the woman began to move, the weight of the thousand pounds that had wrapped around him seemed to have been thrown down, and he barely regained his previous lightness.

Feeling the strength to return to the limbs, Brother Long gritted his teeth, didn't look at the white figure opposite, and immediately made a decision!

Run!

After regaining control of his body, he didn't hesitate to carry the camera and run away from the trail in a posture that was far faster than before, leaving the ghostly figure far behind him!

Brother Long even felt that he had never run so fast as he did now, even as a senior photographer, he often exercised, but when it comes to speed, he is definitely in the best state today!

The two legs alternated rapidly, and Brother Long quickly stepped over one corpse and landed on the ground with the other.

However, in the next second, his figure that had been soaring up suddenly froze.

This is......!

Brother Long glanced behind him in disbelief.

With a "plop", Brother Long's body, who was still running fast before, instantly lost his balance, and the whole person slid towards the ground for a distance of several meters!

The camera that had been mounted on his shoulder flew out with this movement, landing on the ground with a crisp "click" sound.

My camera!

Brother Long, who had fallen to the ground, struggled to his feet, limping and approaching the camera like a daze.

However, before he could arrive, the next moment, a withered-looking hand reached out from the illusion, put his fingers together, and gently grabbed Brother Long's precious camera.

The pale figure stepped through the void, fragments of space at his feet, and bent down to grab the heavy camera from the ground,

Her fingers were knuckled, even a little too prominent. It's not so much a "hand" as a joint arthropod of bones.

Looking at the camera in her hand, the woman under the veil chuckled and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a prop that you humans use to record." ”

She lowered her head and looked at Brother Long condescendingly.

At this time, Brother Long faintly glimpsed some of her appearance from behind the veil.

Just one glance made Brother Long feel dazed and dizzy.

This is...... What a strange look!

It was difficult for Brother Long to describe how he felt when he saw this face, and if he had to use any words to echo it, he could only think of it...... An abstract painting by Picasso and other masters.

Her face is full of contradictory illusions, very different from the conventional human face. If the human facial features are roughly arranged according to symmetry, this woman's face is contradictory, abstract, and illogical.

The nose may have a nostril and an eye, the lips may be a little hairy and ear, and the ears are half separated from each other. Contradictions permeate her face, making her face like a canvas that can be smeared at will.

"Uh...... Yes! ”

Brother Long took two steps back in horror, staggered and fell to the ground again.

In the distance, the woman grabbed the camera and came towards him.

A large hand with distinct knots caressed Brother Long's face, and the end of the bone carried a cold air, as if it could penetrate Brother Long's heart and freeze and coagulate his pulsating blood pump.

The voice that seemed to be far away echoed in Brother Long's ears again: "What do you see now?" ”

"This is an illusory world sandwiched between matter and spirit, a distorted void created by the interlocking of two mirrors," the woman said with a smile, "and what you see with your eyes is neither material nor spiritual. This is a 'contradiction', a parallel and intersection of two-way coexistence and conflict. ”

"What you fear right now is flooding the land, adding new anomalies to it."

Brother Long didn't know what this woman was talking about.

He could only feel the heat and cold of his ears, as if they were being held down by ice cubes for a while, and being scorched by a raging fire for the next!

Grabbing his ears, Brother Long felt as if his eyes were about to jump out of their sockets.

He looked up at the woman, only to find that his eyesight had changed somewhat.

One moment it is a lake, another moment is clear, as if someone has buttoned up a pair of glasses and taken them off, and then by wearing them, by taking them off, and so on.

The cold hand covered Brother Long's eyelids, and the woman began her lengthy and tedious explanation again: "The eye is the most intuitive receiver of information, but in the incompatible world, the eye is also the part that is most susceptible to 'pollution' - if there is no external interference, the eye that receives the information will often be the first to become alienated, just like you are now." ”

Every word of hers seemed to touch Brother Long's eyes, making the two eyeballs in his eye sockets start to stir restlessly. They pulsed in the sockets of Brother Long's eyes, and soon began to swell strangely.

It is a real sense of getting bigger, even if you don't need to be reminded by others, Brother Long himself can feel that his eyes are gradually starting to swell to the extent that their sockets are difficult to accommodate!

Looking at the scene in front of her, the woman whispered, "'Expansion' and 'contraction'? What a wonderful opposition, I haven't seen such a combination for a while, and it looks like a new seed will be added to the garden today. ”

She gently grabbed Brother Long's collar and lifted him up, her eyes under the veil staring at the man whose eyes were bulging.

"Now I can give you a chance," she said, smiling, "reveal what you know, and your alienation will freeze here." ”

"Tell me, who made you break into this place, and who did you have contact with?"

Listening to this woman's words, Brother Long subconsciously recalled the previous scenes in his mind.

What did the prophet say to him?

Brother Long really can't remember clearly.

All he could do was look at the camera that was grabbed by the woman, and a few inhuman words welled up in his throat: "I...... Photo ......"

What?

The woman frowned slightly, and let go of the hand that was suppressing Brother Long.

She floated in the air, and her feet were down-to-earth: "What do you want to say?" ”

Brother Long, who was released, fell to the ground suddenly, and his brain almost hit the ground.

However, instead of falling to the ground entirely, he touched something soft that wrapped his head entirely.

He barely opened his eyes, and with his already dilated eyes, he saw what was enveloping him.

At this time, he realized that it was the corpse that he had crossed before.

The corpse was no longer clear, for his entire face was completely black and frozen. However, from his blood-stained clothes, Brother Long still saw that this person was the "Lao Zhang" he asked when he wanted to knock on the door next door before.

It was one of his teammates, and the photographer who participated in this mission, an elderly uncle, usually good-tempered, but occasionally angry, and a good friend of Brother Long.

Now, however, the man's face was completely darkened, and only bloody clothes remained, revealing who he once was.

And what wrapped Brother Long's head was Lao Zhang's dissected belly.

Looking at Brother Long, the woman's voice said softly, "It looks like you know each other?" This man is not very lucky compared to you, and it is the shadow that is alienated, so he is covered and replaced. You're lucky, in contrast, at least your brain hasn't started to swell yet. ”

Grabbing Brother Long again, the woman's tone gradually turned cold: "Now give you one last chance, tell me who sent you in and why you have that familiar smell." ”

Brother Long, who was back in the air, smiled bitterly.

He struggled to open his eyes, and the eyeballs, which had already faintly exceeded the limits of their sockets, stared at the woman opposite, as if to reflect all the details of her into his brain.

It took him a moment before he spoke, "I don't know, I don't know." ”

As soon as these words were spoken, the woman's face finally sank.

"Well, well," she sighed, "humans are always like this, and can't expect anything from you monotonous creatures. ”

"But it doesn't matter, anyway, I was going to save some effort, but now it's just a little more troublesome."

As she spoke, a new change began to appear on her face.

In Brother Long's vision, her forehead seemed to crack, and a new pair of eyes peeked out of her cracked bright red slit.

Those eyes were evil and ghostly, and being stared at by such eyes reminded Brother Long of the sense of peeping he felt when he was in front of the statue before!

Soon, the eyes "fell off" from the slit.

It blinked and jumped onto Brother Long's body like a living thing, and then began to move along his body.

In the end, it seemed to have found some entrance, and it burst directly into one of Brother Long's cracks and entered his body!

"Ahhhh

！ ”

Feeling the entry of a foreign object in his body, Brother Long's expression became horrified.

He stared at the woman deadly, one hand pressed tightly against his arm, as if he wanted to rely on this technique to stop the advance of the pair of eyes from earlier.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for those eyes to burst into his brain.

The woman's voice was relaxed: "Okay, let's see, who the hell gave me such a familiar feeling......"

With her voice, her eyeballs also sank into Brother Long's brain little by little.

As if stirring in his head, Brother Long felt a sharp pain in his brain.

At the same time, memories began to flash rapidly.

My own experience of running wildly, my experience of seeing Xiao Xu before I came here, and my experience before going to bed......

Everything plays out in my brain like a slideshow.

Soon, the memory jumps to before he went to the cafeteria to eat.

That is...... When talking to that prophet!

"Oh?"

The woman's voice was a little curious, as if she had been aroused by something.

Soon, memories gradually flashed through Brother Long's brain.

The Prophet kept himself in professional ethics at all times...... Let yourself not forget everything about yourself...... Don't forget to promise......

Keep going.

When he was about to touch the root of the "promise", Brother Long suddenly felt that the memory that was still beating was instantly stuck.

"Huh?"

This time, the woman's voice was a little confused.

She continued to push forward with some unbelief.

However, in the next second, a bright light burst out from Brother Long's brain, hanging high in Brother Long's memory like a dazzling sun!

The irresistible dazzling light flickered directly in Brother Long's brain, and at the same time, there was the woman's illusory scream!

Brother Long felt that this was probably the scream of the woman's eyeballs in his mind.

Soon, a voice as cold as inorganic matter echoed in Brother Long's mind.

That's a word that couldn't be simpler.

"Get out."

As this voice fell, the eyeballs that were still in Brother Long's brain erupted into a terrible scream again!

It scrambled out of Brother Long's skin and flowed back onto the woman's forehead at breakneck speed.

Covering her forehead, the woman's face took on an expression that bordered on "anger" for the first time.

"Hehe," her face was gloomy, "really...... Be thoughtful. ”

She tugged at Brother Long's collar and said gloomily, "Well, it seems that he doesn't want me to see more." So be it – let's see how long you can keep it a secret. ”

"Ten minutes, I guess? Or a little longer, a quarter of an hour? ”

The voice fell.

The pale hand slowly walked towards Brother Long's face......

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Early the next morning.

The soldier who had been tasked with guarding the group of photographers got up from his bed and glanced at the time.

He noticed that it was six o'clock, and the guys probably hadn't gotten up yet.

Dressing up and putting on makeup, the soldier walked towards the rooms with strong and capable steps.

Just as he was about to knock on the doors of the guys one by one and call them all up.

A hand stopped his movements.

The soldier glanced back with some confusion.

Only then did he notice that at some point, a pale man in a black trench coat was standing behind him, his hand on his shoulder.

The soldier remembered the man.

Previously, Director Qi said that during this period of time in Xinhai City, all orders must be dispatched by this person before they can be executed.

In other words, although Minister Xun also came this time, the person in front of him is the nominal supreme commander!

The pale-faced man glanced at the soldier calmly, and then said in a surging voice, "Thank you for your hard work, you should go and eat first." ”

"I'll just take care of them."

Ah......h

The soldier hesitated.

However, remembering Director Qi's previous order, he finally chose to obey it.

So he saluted the man and left the matter to him.

Looking at the back of the young soldier leaving, the pale young man didn't say anything, just pushed open the door that the soldier was about to push open.

He should have pushed open this door now.

Glancing at Brother Long, who was lying on the bed with his head covered his face, the man took two steps forward and stood at the head of Brother Long's bed.

He didn't even glance at the camera next to Brother Long's bed, but said in a voice without frustration: "It seems that it is not bad as I expected, this is indeed the weakest node of the Pale Lady." ”

Bending down, the man lifted Brother Long's quilt with one hand.

After lifting the quilt, Brother Long's appearance was finally exposed to the light again.

His face at this moment can be called "terrifying".

The eyes swelled and exploded, sticky and covered the sockets; The facial features also swelled, and the limbs of the body shrunk, allowing the bones to pierce the skin, bringing out bright red blood and fibers.

This is a corpse that can make people lose their appetite after looking at it.

Glancing at Brother Long's inhumanoid remains, the man calmly looked away and refocused his gaze on his head.

"The Pale Lady's space, though it is said to be outside of matter and spirit, seems to be the spirit entering it, and the changes in it are also reflected in the body," the man said calmly, "The Tyrant's Ring also has traces of passivity, and it seems that she can indeed look through her memories." ”

In this way, my previous estimate was roughly correct. Ms. Pale's ability may indeed be related to "contradictions".

The man thought so in his heart.

Now relying on Brother Long's own corpse alone, there is nothing abnormal anymore.

And what really matters is not how his body is, but what is more crucial in the body.

With this in mind, the man whispered, "Then, the next step is the final "check" stage. ”

The voice fell.

A hand was gently pressed on Brother Long's head, and the white ring on the man's finger suddenly burst into a burst of bright light.

"The camera is just a beginning, from beginning to end, the real record is only your eyes, and strengthening your consciousness is only to strengthen your thinking inertia, and by the way, let her divert her attention, the real key lies in what you have seen, after all, as a world outside of the spirit and matter, the camera will definitely not be able to bring in. What you bring in is only what you think is a 'camera', and in the final analysis, it's just a spiritual 'vision'. ”

"Then let me see what your eyes see through it after they have undergone alienation."

The voice fell.

The white light pierced into Brother Long's brain.

There was a brief silence.

Soon, the man withdrew his hand.

"I see," he said, "is this what the Pale Lady looks like?" ”

"Her abilities are also interesting, 'contradictory' and 'opposite'...... Oh, no wonder she was able to achieve the second origin of achievement. ”

Putting down his hand, the man didn't say anything, just put the quilt on Brother Long again.

After exiting the room, he thought for a moment and made a call to his phone.

"Yes, it's me, dispose of the bodies in the room," he said, without any fluctuation, "just use these people to take time off to rest or feel unwell." ”

"Don't be afraid of being discovered, even if you are discovered, it doesn't matter, I have a way."

Putting down the phone, the man lowered his head and pulled a diary out of his pocket.

In the diary, he began to write down "swish".

Because of the lighting, I couldn't see what he wrote later. But the beginning of this page of the diary can be seen clearly.

It reads, "The second investigation, the plan is to uncover the Pale Lady's abilities and possible weaknesses".