Chapter 1251 The real murderer remains unsolved
Ji Li hoped that the speculation would be a false alarm. Maybe the host should not appear on the stage of Orange Lake Plaza at this moment.
But unfortunately it backfired.
Only three seconds after this order was issued, Li Mochou informed everyone of the reality in a very shocked tone:
"The host really appeared. He stood on the stage and pointed at his mouth to Gao Hang, as if his tongue had been pulled out."
Ji Li's face darkened when he heard this, and he grabbed the handle of the crutch with both hands and squeezed it hard.
Pulling out the tongue is not important, the damage caused by the projection can be regarded as non-existent, but its projection appeared after 20:30, which is a subversive discovery.
Prior to this, both Fang Shenyan and others firmly believed that the host should have died before the fireworks show ended.
After 20:30, standing on the stage is the replaced eye monster.
But obviously, the penultimate projection appears outdoors, which will bring about an extremely reverse truth - the eye monster has not completed the replacement.
It doesn't appear in the real world from start to finish.
Ji Li didn't want to believe this, because if this guess was true, then this project would be almost unsolvable.
There is one last glimmer of hope - all the projections are gathered and the secret is revealed.
……
20:58, the last 2 minutes.
Hou Guisheng and Huang Banxian finally pushed open the door of the dressing room. With overflowing eagerness on their faces, they came quickly and the four of them gathered together.
Fang Shenyan's face had a complicated change. He silently turned his head and sat back on the chair where the host had sat.
His face, which looked stern but was actually slightly troubled, was reflected in front of the makeup mirror.
In front of this bright mirror, another figure slowly overlapped with him, and finally they were superimposed.
Bai Lang, Hou Guisheng and Huang Banxian were shocked when they saw this. They couldn't help but hold their breath and put their whole bodies on guard.
All the external projections are collected, and the last hidden projection, this one from the starting point, finally appears.
The host and Fang Shenyan were sitting on the same chair. The former seemed transparent, as if he no longer existed in this real world. They interacted with each other, as if they were one and did not affect each other.
A hand slowly lifted from Fang Shenyan's knees, took out a piece of cloth from the table, pointed it at the mirror and wiped it gently, muttering in his mouth:
"I don't know why we were arranged to come here this time. The warehouse was turned into a dressing room. The mirror was covered with dust..."
What the projection did in the end was ordinary, but the overlap between the projection and Fang Shenyan made the scene look particularly weird.
"Huh?"
The three white wolves watched everything intently. After a moment, they heard a confused tone coming from the projection.
They quickly stepped forward and stared at the mirror, trying to see what was going on, but what they saw in the mirror made the three of them suspicious.
In the mirror, there were only three of them with puzzled faces, but the host did not appear in it, and even Fang Shenyan did not exist.
Hou Guisheng's eyes narrowed, as if he noticed something was wrong, and quickly put his hand on Fang Shenyan's shoulder.
But the moment the two parties came into contact, his mind felt like it was pierced by a steel needle, causing uncontrollable pain that reached deep into his soul.
He groaned and fell back, and was supported by Huang Banxian.
"What's going on?" Huang Banxian and Bai Lang asked in surprise and uncertainty.
Hou Guisheng's face was livid, he stared at Fang Shenyan's figure as if he was possessed, and said word by word:
"The last projection is bound to him!"
As he spoke these words, Huang Banxian, who had excellent eyesight, noticed Fang Shenyan's right hand on his knee and patted it lightly.
Huang Banxian's expression was slightly startled, but he immediately understood and whispered:
"It doesn't matter, Fang Shenyan is not possessed, he has independent consciousness."
The white wolf also circled half a circle around Fang Shenyan, and after carefully distinguishing it, he said seriously:
"It may have something to do with the albinoness of his right eye. He is seeing things we cannot see."
Bai Lang's analysis is absolutely correct.
Fang Shenyan is the only one among all the store employees who has albino eyes. Perhaps these eyes cannot give him supernatural powers, but they have a miraculous effect on detecting incidents where he appears.
He seized the position of the host, hoping to use these eyes to have some connection with the projection, so as to obtain information that others could not obtain.
And it turns out, he was absolutely right.
The three white wolves have been excluded, and only Fang Shenyan, a person with albino eyes, can see the secret. In this mirror, Fang Shenyan saw a "person" who looked exactly like the host, and looked at him expressionlessly.
The action of projection is the past.
The host was still wiping the dust off the mirror, muttering about the script and complaining about the event.
"He" in the mirror stared at Fang Shenyan with a pair of lifeless eyes, motionless.
The weirdness of this scene cannot be explained to outsiders.
……
After 10 seconds, the last projection disappeared.
Fang Shenyan slowly stood up from the chair, and the scene in the mirror returned to normal, reflecting the four figures of Bai, Huang, Hou and Fang.
Bai Lang was extremely anxious and had no intention of waiting any longer, so he asked directly:
"What exactly did you see?"
Hou and Huang's hearts also thumped, because they saw Fang Shenyan's face was ugly, and his brows were furrowed as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
"I saw the eye monster in the mirror. It turned out that it had been hiding there all along."
Fang Shenyan's words made the three people present, including the rest of the people in the communicator, stunned on the spot.
This sentence contains a lot of information and will take some time to digest.
After a moment, Bai Lang's expression changed drastically, and he spoke in shock:
"You mean, we were wrong?"
Wrong indeed.
Fang Shenyan fell into the predicament of preconceptions. He applied the rules he got in the house of horror into this fireworks show.
But in fact, he made slight changes in the way he killed this time.
In this particular project, the eye monster he created did not replace the host.
The truth is, he himself has become an eye monster.
As for those projections, they should actually be a series of illusions created by the host after he died and became a ghost.
This also explains why store clerks encounter the same supernatural attack when they get close to the projection.
No one thought that the eye monster, victims, and ghosts in this project were actually the same person, the host himself.
The countdown has entered the last minute and a half, and the three conditions for the shop assistants' survival should have been partially understood by now.
First of all, it is clear that the host's body will be in the mirror, that is, the eye monster;
Secondly, his death process is the above outline, but the timeline is slightly messed up.
Because it remains to be discussed when he first looked at the host and when he killed him.
The store clerks only knew that at 20:27, the host officially died.
However, there is a rough restoration of death, which is basically enough.
Finally, catch the real culprit.
At this point, it will be completely stuck.
Because he was the cause of the host's death, it was impossible to capture him, not to mention that the information about him was completely hidden.
As for the eye monster that is the substitute for the real murderer, it is impossible to capture it in the mirror.
The truth of this project is revealed here, but it turns out to be an unsolvable situation.
Catching the real culprit will never be possible.
"Unless..."
At the last minute of the countdown, Ji Li's voice suddenly sounded in the communicator and reached everyone's ears, causing some ripples in the stagnant water.