Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 474 Mirror Image
If this thing is a shadow or a mirror image, then how do we explain the tentacles on its lower body?
Ke Lan reached out and touched his legs - his legs were fine, nothing unusual had happened to them. He could even feel the elastic socks on his toes. These were military supplies that Hound had specifically purchased from the special forces. It was said that the cost price of a pair was as high as more than 100 credit points.
That outline was obviously a completely different creature from the monster summoned by Park Sang-woo. Although they both had slimy and slippery tentacles, the thing in front of Ke Lan retained most of the human features.
At first glance, it does look a bit like a seed of erosion that has achieved a certain degree of fusion with the "container".
"It should be possible a few more times..." Ke Lan gritted his teeth, took off his helmet, put his fingers together, and pressed them tightly on both sides of his temples.
"Smash Varudo——"
He returned to the gray and white world once again, and the outline of the human-shaped shadow still remained in the same place.
Ke Lan took a half step back, and the other party followed half a step forward; and when Ke Lan took a step forward, it retreated the same distance.
This humanoid shadow always kept a distance of five meters from Ke Lan, never getting closer, nor getting farther away.
No, this thing is not my mirror image! If it is a mirror image, it should move away from me when I move away, and when I move closer , it will also move closer.
When Ke Lan raised his right hand before, the other party also raised his right hand, not the mirror-symmetrical "left hand".
It's not just imitating its own movements, it's more like ...
Ke Lan wanted to do a few more tests, but the sharp pain like a knife in the depths of his mind forced him to exit the "time stop" state.
Despite this, the duration of the "time stop" this time was unprecedentedly nearly four seconds, a result that Ke Lan had never dared to hope for during her previous self-practice.
What does a four-second time pause mean? Apart from other things, Ke Lan is almost invincible in a one-on-one duel. He can easily get behind the opponent in these four seconds, put the muzzle of the gun on the back of the opponent's head and pull the trigger... From the opponent's perspective, the bullet is like it has suddenly moved from Ke Lan's magazine to his head, and there is no way to avoid it.
Moreover, the headache feeling is much weaker than before, and the sequelae are not as severe as before.
What's going on?
Could it be that this ability is like some kind of martial arts in fantasy novels, where as long as one can break through one shackles, one's strength will increase by leaps and bounds before encountering the next obstacle?
Or is it because of the current environment?
Ke Lan is more inclined to the second guess.
I just don't know if the duration of the time stop will return to its original length after I leave this place.
Although "three-second man" is a label that male compatriots try to avoid, if the duration of "time stop" can be maintained for three seconds, it would be perverted enough.
Three seconds may be difficult to satisfy the girl you love, but it is more than enough to kill someone or complete some operations that are impossible to achieve under normal time flow.
Ke Lan activated the "time stop" again.
Then he raised his gun and pointed it at the "shadow" five meters away.
He pulled the trigger, and the bullet froze in mid-air as soon as it flew out of the muzzle. One could even see a circle of solidified gray-white air around the muzzle. Under the effect of the "gray-white filter", this circle of air looked like a large ball of dirty marshmallow.
In the "time stop" state, only things that Ke Lan directly touches can be "moved" by him. When the object is out of his contact, it will blend into the background and become part of the frozen picture.
He moved the muzzle of the gun sideways an inch, fired another shot, and then cancelled the "time stop".
According to the muzzle velocity, the bullet will hit the target within a few tenths of a second when Ke Lan releases the "time stop" state - of course, the premise is that the target is "hittable".
Just when Ke Lan was about to enter the "time stop" state again to observe the shooting effect, a huge amount of memory fragments rushed out from the depths of his mind like a flood. His brain even experienced a brief "crash" state because it was unable to process such a large amount of information for a while.
Many images flashed by at high speed like slides. Before he could even see the content clearly, these memory fragments had already become silent again. Ke Lan felt like he was holding a TV set playing at 64 times the speed. Even if he stared at the screen intently, he could not capture enough information.
If what was played on the screen was a continuous piece of content, even if the speed was a bit faster, one could still guess some of the plot by connecting the context together. However, what was broadcasted was a postmodern art clip full of absurdity and weirdness. Each frame was completely independent, and there was not even a single repeated scene among the hundreds or thousands of pictures that flashed by in a breath. Even a genius with extraordinary memory would probably be confused when watching it.
If these memory fragments are compared to raindrops falling from the sky at high speed, then Ke Lan's consciousness is like a person standing on the edge of a cliff and trying to catch water with both hands - the rain is pouring down, and his palms are so small that he can only catch the handful of rain in his palms.
Ke Lan only remembered three scenes.
The first scene was a square that seemed to be vast and boundless. The sky above the square was covered with thick lead-gray clouds. From time to time, a few flashes of lightning would flash through the clouds, lighting up a corner of the sky for a moment.
Except for the lack of sulfur smoke rising from the ground, the scenery of the sky is almost exactly the same as that of the Molten Mine District.
And on this square, there were thousands of people standing.
Of course, the word "人" needs to be enclosed in double quotation marks.
These people were almost identical to the "shadow" that Ke Lan had seen in the time-stop state: they had human upper bodies, and their legs were replaced by a large mass of tangled tentacles, just like the legendary mermaid.
However , the fish in this mermaid refers to an octopus.
These "people" are five meters apart from each other in front, behind, left and right. They stand in a very neat row, just like a parade ark being lined up for inspection.
What made Ke Lan regretful was that he couldn't see the faces of these creatures clearly - when he focused his attention on their faces, the focus of his vision became blurred, as if the AI of the child supervision plug-in had identified them as images not suitable for children and automatically mosaiced them.
Ke Lan had experienced this scene once before in the bottomless tiankeng, that dream full of bugs - he knew that the reason he couldn't see the faces of these things was not because his vision was blocked by mosaics, but because these faces did not exist in his memory at all.
