Chapter 55 – 045 Imaginary Ti (Part 1)
In the bathroom of the projection area, Ke Mingye leaned over, sitting on the closed toilet lid with his hands clasped in front of his chest, his heart pounding away.
“Could this get any more thrilling?”
He muttered to himself, while planning his escape route for after he was exposed and from the perspective of the Deception Puppet, he eyed the staff mber standing in the middle.
At this mont, the “staff mber” in the cinema hall looked nothing like Ke Yinzhi from his mory: it was as if he had put on a human skin mask, even the size and color of his pupils had changed, perhaps due to contact lenses, or maybe his elder brother had used so ability to alter his appearance.
Ke Mingye was not at all surprised; rather, it had beco quite normal for him.
Living in this house of monsters, disguising oneself had already beco an essential skill. Everyone wanted a second identity; if they couldn’t change their faces, at the very least, they had to wear a mask, otherwise, wouldn’t their identities be easily seen through by a family mber?
What played with people’s minds was that those who could change faces were almost always seen through by Bai Qiuwu with her Eyes of Golden Fla; otherwise, Ke Mingye wouldn’t have needed to specifically distract her to let the Deception Puppet enter the cinema hall.
From the experintal results on the bus, Ke Mingye thought it was possible that Bai Zini’s identity had already been discovered by Bai Qiuwu.
He had observed the process of Bai Zini transforming; in the end, it was by ans of a mirror that she changed the details of her face—such an illusionary, rather than physical, face change was easily seen through by Bai Qiuwu’s “Eyes of Golden Fla.”
So, it was very likely that Bai Qiuwu already knew that Bai Zini was “Magical Girl Ash,” she just kept it a secret, not ntioning it outright.
The vibration of the spare mobile phone in his pocket interrupted his thoughts.
Ke Mingye opened the spare mobile phone, on which, on the prank app, he had received a reply from Bai Qiuwu.
“I’m at the Western restaurant now, where are you?” she asked.
“Received, wait for there for a bit.”
Ke Mingye typed and sent the ssage, trying to keep Bai Qiuwu hanging at the Western restaurant a bit longer.
This mont, he had to pray that this damned helt experience would end soon; otherwise, if the Deception Puppet walked out of the cinema hall and just happened to run into his elder sister coming back from the Western restaurant, it would indeed be an utterly tragic drama.
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“This helt currently has two functions. The first is to replicate the images you see in your eyes. Its principle is to directly extract signals from the ’visual processing area’ in your brain and convert them into real images,”
Ke Yinzhi paused, then continued.
“The second function is that you can try to imagine so images. Similarly, the helt will try to read your brain signals and transfer them into images on the screen, but… due to technical limitations, the second function is not yet perfect and stable, and sotis the captured images may be incomplete and not so clear.”
After listening to his explanation, Yongzhu hugged the helt from the staff mber and said, “What’s the point of the first function? It’s just like a eyeball cara, let try the second function.”
Ke Mingye, looking down at his phone, thought to himself that the first function of this helt was not prepared for you guys, but for , right?
“So exciting, I want to try it too!” Bai Zini exclaid like a grade-schooler, hands clasped together, eager to give it a go.
Ke Mingye glanced at her sideways, thinking to himself, Ash my friend, can’t you act less exaggerated? You weren’t this naive and harmless when you pinned Cinderella on my forehead.
Maybe she could make it to Hollywood, and bring back an Oscar Little Yellow Man the next year. Being a Magic Girl really buries her talent.
“Of course, everyone can try,” Ke Yinzhi said with his hands behind his back, turning his head and smiling at her, “Although there are only two helts, everyone present has the opportunity to experience them, taking turns.”
I was wrong; big brother, you are the real acting talent. Ke Mingye disdainfully thought to himself.
In Ke Mingye’s mory, Ke Yinzhi had always been a very neurotic person, and every school he had ever attended had rumors circulating about him.
Like accidentally blowing up the lab during an experint, or targeting fellow dormitory mates who had inexplicably dropped out within a sester; or like skipping two grades in high school to attend the best key university, later humiliating the principal in a public speech upon returning to his Alma Mater, openly criticizing the school’s education system;
Even more extre, saying that two years ago, “Kafu,” the national idol-level panda that vanished from the Beijing Ring Zoo, was abducted by Ke Yinzhi, which was downright absurd.
Despite being the eldest son at ho, the only sibling Ke Yinzhi got along with was his second elder brother, Ke Xiaomo. The others didn’t really like hanging out with their big brother because you could never understand his thought processes.
Fortunately, ever since big brother returned from university three years ago, that unabashed neuroticism had subsided a lot, as if he had beco a different person.
It was as if… sothing had been released during his ti at university.
“You can imagine any scene freely. If you really don’t know what to think of, perhaps I can give you a keyword,” Ke Yinzhi spoke slowly, “For instance, when I say ’player,’ what do you think of?”
Bai Zini listened to him while wearing the helt, deep in thought with her eyes closed.
When she took off the helt and looked up at the image on the cinema’s giant screen, what appeared was a “My World” style mosaic world: under a dark sky, a mosaic version of the Bai Ke family stood atop a sky city built from mosaic blocks, pointing guns at each other’s heads.
Bai Zini was stunned, “It really did recreate it… How magical.”
Ke Mingye raised an eyebrow, thinking this was too absurd considering the current world’s progress in brain imaging technology, it was impossible to do sothing like this.
So, this thing must have been brought out by his elder brother from the Anomaly Control Bureau, only the Managent Bureau could produce technology far beyond the common knowledge.
But how could his second brother not realize this? He shouldn’t be that obtuse, right? Or could it be… indeed, his elder and second brothers were in cahoots from the start, each aware of the other’s identity?
“Quite an imagination.” Ke Yinzhi looked at the giant screen, smiling as he comnted, “It’s inevitable for the image to be a bit incomplete and blurry, after all, this technology is not yet able to precisely recreate the images you imagine.”
Next, it was Yongzhu’s turn to wear the helt, and the image he conjured appeared on the screen.
Displayed on the giant screen was a white-haired girl in a bikini, with a pair of black, bat-like wings on her back. She stood expressionless on the beach, with black tides behind her and a blood-red moon in the sky.
He took off the helt and looked at the cinema’s giant screen, opening his mouth only for his face to instantly turn red.
“Pervert!” exclaid Bai Zini, “You, a grade-schooler, are thinking of such inappropriate images!”
Bai Ziling looked up at the image and slightly stalled.
“Looks a bit… like ?”
She murmured softly, her red eyes wide open, pupils slightly constricted.
“What is this, a monster girl?” Bai Zini said, then suddenly realized an oversight, “Ah! White-haired too, you were imagining it based on your sister Xiao Ling, huh, perverted grade-schooler!”
“No, this is an angel, okay!” Ke Yongzhu retorted with flushed face and hot ears. “Angels have gold hair and black wings. I just accidentally imagined the gold hair as white!”
Bai Zini didn’t let him off, pressing him aggressively, “What kind of angel has such a gloomy backdrop? The angels you imagine are so bizarre. Anyway, you can’t escape being a pervert!”
“Boring! I’m never playing this again.”
Saying this, Ke Yongzhu frowned, placing the helt on the seat, even his ears reddening.
“Grade-schooler, the angel you imagined looks a bit like a vampire, huh?” Ke Mingye initially wanted to tease him with this remark, but he paused for half a second, belatedly staring at the screen for a while.
Wait a minute, did Yongzhu know that Bai Ziling was a vampire?
Thinking this, he glanced at Bai Ziling.
Her face was expressionless, but her eyes, under her pale blond hair, were wide open, as if she had seen sothing incredible.
Ke Xiaomo, however, didn’t take it seriously, thinking it was just child’s play.
Following this, it was Bai Ziling’s turn to wear the helt. Her experience ended quickly, and when she took off the helt, a new image appeared on the cinema’s giant screen.
The image Bai Ziling conjured was of a young dragon squatting like a cat, its head raised in the moonlight as it quietly stared into the night sky from the shadows.
“What a cute dragon baby.” Bai Zini clapped her hands, not forgetting to tease Ke Yongzhu, “Look at how imaginative your sister Ling is, much better than a certain grade-schooler who only thinks about bikinis and angels.”
“A dragon?”
Ke Mingye was again startled, subtly watched Ke Yongzhu from the corner of his eye.
Ke Yongzhu looked up at the image of the young dragon on the screen, frozen in place. He pursed his lips and scratched his nose, his face inexplicably growing redder, even unable to look at Bai Ziling again.
Ke Mingye, watching the reactions of his brother and sister, beca thoroughly convinced of one thing: Bai Ziling must have seen Yongzhu in his dragon form, and Yongzhu must know that Bai Ziling was a vampire—how else could this be such a coincidence?
Aside from Ke Yongzhu, everyone else’s reactions were quite calm.
Only Ke Xiaomo’s pupils contracted at this mont, he stared intently at the screen as if he had seen sothing sinister, muttering in a hoarse voice.
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“Isn’t this… the juvenile form of the Calamity Dragon?”
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