Chapter 142 Outsider

Chapter 142 Outsider

[02—Puppet] Based on Shen Xing's current observation and recording abilities, there are roughly three types.

Portrait restoration is the ability to reconstruct a complete person from a blurry photograph or even just a corner of a photograph, and even to transform into the person and take their place.

Personality devouring, which means devouring the remaining flesh and blood of a human, allows one to acquire the original owner's way of thinking and some of their memories;

Another ability that seems to be common to all abnormal creatures is the ability to "corrode" humans... Li Ya had previously exhibited symptoms of being corrupted by [02—Puppet].

As for other abilities whose patterns have not yet been experimentally determined, he did not include them in his calculations for the time being—such as being able to see if the other party is teleporting or having their voice appear directly in his mind.

What Shen Xing wants to experiment with now is the first ability... Although he also really wants to experiment with the second one, it is indeed difficult to find someone to borrow flesh and blood in the desolate wilderness.

Shen Xing hasn't prepared any photos for the experiment yet, but that doesn't matter, because [02—Puppet]

He had a photo on him.

Shen Xing reached out and pushed away the [02—Doll] that was hugging his lap, and said, "Photograph."

Seemingly understanding Shen Xing's meaning, the doll's face was torn open, and like a DVD player, a photograph was "spit out" from the crack.

Shen Xing took out the photo and examined it for a while.

He was thinking.

Shen Xing is now certain that he has merged with the split body of [02-Puppet], and [02-Puppet]...

They did indeed act more affectionately towards me.

But... he didn't reach that level of resonance, where a "phase transition" occurs.

Whether it was due to [02 - Doll] or something else, Shen Xing did not directly "enlighten" the way to use his abilities, unlike when he fused with the derivative flesh and blood of [01 - Wall].

Shen Xingde decided to try it himself.

He recalled what it looked like when he first met [02—the doll].

【02—Doll】, previously, it was achieved by pasting photos on children's clothing mannequins, making them look like Li Xiaohua in other people's eyes.

Should I also put the photo on my face?

Try it.

Shen Xing climbed into the passenger seat and turned the rearview mirror slightly toward him to better observe his current situation.

At the same time, he placed the DV camera on the dashboard above the glove box in front of him, turned on the recording, and pointed it at himself.

Then, Shen Xing took a deep breath and slowly placed the cropped, blurry photo of the little girl directly on his forehead.

The cold photograph had no warmth, and no unusual phenomena occurred. Shen Xing calmed himself down and tried to separate the skin on his forehead, allowing the black mycelium to emerge and touch the photograph.

Instantly, a burning pain surged across Shen Xing's face.

The black mycelium beneath his skin was throbbing restlessly, causing Shen Xing's face in the rearview mirror to contort, the contortions growing larger and the pain intensifying...

"Click-clack..."

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He could even feel some immense pressure coursing through his muscles and squeezing his bones; he could even hear the cracking sounds of his bones breaking under the strain.

"Tear it open"

Shen Xing used force to tear the photo off his forehead, and the black mycelium retracted back into the wound on his forehead.

No... [02—The Doll] doesn't behave like that...

Shen Xing felt a lingering fear as he recalled how his limbs had started to twist and his muscles had started to contract and compress his body.

【02—Doll】When the photo was pasted on it, its original form did not change in Shen Xing's eyes. It was still the same broken doll. It was only in other people's eyes that it would transform into the appearance of the person in the photo.

Strictly speaking, the "shell" of [02—Doll], that is, the doll itself, will not change. Even if the person in the photo becomes bigger or smaller, the doll's size will not change.

But when Shen Xing put the photo on his forehead, he could clearly feel that not only the mycelium in his body, but also the abnormal flesh and blood of his body were "interacting".

They began to deform and squeeze the few normal tissues in Shen Xing's body, seemingly trying to compress them completely. Even Shen Xing's bones had been cracked.

It seems that if the photos aren't moved soon, they'll force themselves to crush and twist into the shape of the little girl in the picture...

If this continues, everything on your body except for muscles and piled-up internal organs will be crushed by abnormal flesh and blood, eventually turning you into a boneless mass of "meat paste" wrapped in skin.

The mimicry was indeed successful, but how do you change back? After your bones and brain are crushed, are you still considered alive?

Clearly, these anomalies were not considered from the outset, and there was no "human-centered" optimization.

The hyphae and muscles in his body have fused together, which causes Shen Xing to behave differently when using the [02-Puppet] ability compared to the [02-Puppet] ability.

Its own abnormal flesh and blood will also follow this mimicry ability to forcibly modify its own body... even at the cost of crushing normal organs.

That would impose significant limitations...

You can only "mimic" people of similar size to yourself. If you try to mimic a giant over two meters tall or a child less than one meter tall, there will be serious consequences.

This is bad news.

However, when Shen Xing checked the DV camera in his hand, he saw good news hidden within bad news.

As my body twisted and changed, no noise appeared on the screen.

This is another point where it differs fundamentally from [02—Doll].

Because when the [02-Doll] transforms into a human form, there will be extremely obvious and terrifying noise in the imaging device, making it immediately obvious that something is wrong.

However, even after "mimicking," it seems that it can still avoid being detected by imaging devices.

This means that as long as Shen Xing finds someone with a similar build to himself to mimic, the cameras won't be able to detect the difference between the real and fake...

Shen Xing could be like a cloned car, becoming a "cloned person" and truly surviving in place of someone else.

This new discovery plunged Shen Xing into a brief moment of contemplation.

He put down his DV camera, and a plan emerged in his mind.

Could I... use this ability to actually "die" once?

Wu Xiaoting dreamed that the copycat came to kill her. Judging from the "slogan" shouted by the copycat in the precognitive dream when he shot her, it was most likely instigated by Wen Yan.

During the phone call, Wen Yan repeatedly mentioned that Shen Xing had no way to escape his fate of death.

Shen Xing has been targeted by Wen Yan.

Why not just "die" naturally and smoothly?

Wen Yan was unable to dream of things he couldn't imagine.

If Wen Yan were to perceive himself as already "dead," then Shen Xing would no longer exist in his subsequent precognitive dreams.

He can do it this way.

To "escape" from a precognitive dream.

To become an unpredictable outsider...

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