Chapter 249 Illusion and Reality

Zheng Xun and Huo Ziyan entered the fitting room one after another.

The interior of the fitting room is relatively spacious, but rather shabby. The three walls painted white, if you look closely, you will find that the white on them is quite mottled. At a glance, it is obvious that this has been painted several times, with a long interval in between.

Even so, there are still a few brown marks on the corners of the wall. It is not clear whether it is paint that was accidentally rubbed on, or dried blood.

The remaining side is a gray curtain, which is convenient for customers to enter and exit. After a long time, there are many stains on the curtain, which should be grease and dust rubbed on by human hands.

There is a gap under the curtain. If a person stands in it, his ankles will probably be exposed.

There are a total of four identical fitting rooms in this row. Perhaps this building is inseparable from the number "four", and traces can be found everywhere.

Before the lady left and Zheng Xun and others entered, these four fitting rooms were empty.

Now Zheng Xun and Huo Ziyan are in one of them.

There is a half-length mirror on the wall in the fitting room. A white square stool for placing clothes. A pair of slippers for customers to use when putting on and taking off clothes.

All dressing rooms are equipped with these basic items.

But in the room where Zheng Xun was, the white square stool was occupied by something.

It was a piece of skin wearing clothes.

Zheng Xun could only use this sentence to describe the scene he saw. On the stool, there was a complete piece of skin, from the top of the head to the soles of the feet. And on this skin, there was an exquisite black dress for women.

It fits tightly with the skin, and it looks like the skin "wears" it well.

But Huo Ziyan reached out and turned up a small corner of the collar of the skirt. In fact, this dress was sewn on it.

The fabric of the skirt is very soft, and you can tell at a glance that it is worth a lot of money.

As for the skin...

It is very cold and slippery. It feels different from human skin. It feels more like jelly, as if it will be crushed with a little force.

Obviously, this should be the skin that the lady changed after entering the fitting room just now.

I just don't know why it came out as two when it was clearly one when it went in.

So far, Xiao Huo still handled it with care. Sometimes the items in the dungeon don't look as strong as imagined. If they are damaged and can't be restored, it will be very troublesome.

Xiao Huo thought so, Qinglan's team rules have always taught this, and the experience posts on the forum also said so...

Then he saw Zheng Xun holding the skin with both hands, pushing it apart from the gap in the middle, pinching both sides with his hands, like pulling a rubber band, pulling it hard.

"..."

Huo Ziyan wanted to say something but stopped, and finally decided not to say anything.

Fortunately, the skin didn't crack.

Zheng Xun didn't put it on completely. There was a crack in the middle of the skin, dividing it into symmetrical left and right sides, probably to facilitate the moths in the dungeon to put on and take off.

He stretched the beauty skin along the gap with his hands, then only put the head and face part on his head and looked at it in the mirror.

The comments began to complain that Zheng Xun didn't understand the situation and was still boasting at this time.

Then, Zheng Xun pulled Xiao Huo to show off together.

He raised his hand, and the skin was raised high.

"Xiao Huo, you try it too."

He was happy to share, and he was still thinking about his friends when something happened.

No matter how calm Huo Ziyan was, he still had to do some psychological preparation when facing the matter of putting on a layer of skin.

He didn't want to get covered in blood. But after Zheng Xun took the skin away, it was clean and there was no stain on it.

Huo Ziyan was a little surprised. After Zheng Xun handed the skin over, he opened his palm and touched it.

It was actually dry inside, with a furry touch, like touching a layer of velvety cocoon.

Xiao Huo followed suit, imitating Zheng Xun's previous action, and covered his head with this fake skin.

There were two symmetrical, inconspicuous holes at the eyes of this skin. Through these two small holes, you can see the outside world.

The first person Huo Ziyan saw was Zheng Xun.

…

It seemed that nothing had changed.

Zheng Xun pointed his right index finger to the right, asking Huo Ziyan to look in the direction of the mirror.

Xiao Huo followed his finger's prompt and did as he was told.

When he faced the wall where the mirror was, and then looked through the "eyes" on the fake skin, the scene outside had completely changed.

Because of surprise, Huo Ziyan opened his mouth slightly.

"This skin... can actually allow players to see the real and the unreal."

This sentence was confusing, and the audience in the live broadcast room couldn't get into the skin to see, so they could only worry.

: What what!

: Real and unreal? I'm a fool and I don't understand.

: It should be the special function of that skin? You can see different things through it.

: Didn't I say it before? The setting of this building is "unfinished", there are places occupied by the white tower, and there are places that the white tower has not swallowed, which require players to distinguish.

: So this skin... is the prop that helps them distinguish?

: It must be like this! Otherwise, wouldn't the rules given by the White Tower be a trap for the players? There will always be some fools running around, running to the wrong place and getting lost.

: It's not easy for Erchui to find this. This item is hidden too deeply!

: Does Chui have any prophetic ability? How can he locate this woman so accurately?

: Zheng Chuichui, the great prophet of the White Tower.

: Repetitive words, disgusting.

: I guess this should be a common setting. Not only this woman in a black skirt, but any customer in the mall who tries on clothes will definitely shed their skin. It depends on whether the player can find it.

: That makes sense. Erchui is just more perceptive and found it first.

: I wonder who still says that our hammer has no brains.

: Having no brains and using it sparingly are two different things, and using it sparingly and being lazy are two different things.

: Zheng Xun: Thank you. People say I'm lazy to use it outside, which is considered a compliment.

The barrage of discussions came to a conclusion that this skin is a key prop that can help players determine where the range of movement is and where it is prohibited to pass.

But they didn't see it with their own eyes like Huo Ziyan, so they couldn't empathize with him.

Huo Ziyan was extremely shocked at the moment.

Through these two small holes, only the size of a fingernail, he saw an extremely shocking picture.

The mirror, the wall, everything disappeared. What he saw was a series of interlaced square tubes. Those steel tubes, as thick as an adult man's thigh, were like white thorns, with the unique coldness and hardness of the White Tower, stacked one on top of another.

Through the polygonal holes between the "thorns", blood-colored cocoons and flying giant moths can be seen. They were separated from where Huo Ziyan stood by multiple steel tubes, as if they were divided into two areas. Those giant moths made terrifying screams and kept crashing into these white "thorns", but were blocked by invisible barriers.

But Huo Ziyan knew that although the White Tower used this method to separate this side and the other side, for uninformed players, this was the territory of the Four Moth Building, and they would cross that border with just a slight step.

Huo Ziyan knew this very well, because he saw with his own eyes that there were many cocoons parasitizing on the human body, using it as nutrients.

So-called illusion, so-called reality.

On one side is cruelty, on the other side is even more severe cruelty.