The two of us sat in silence as we did roughly the sa thing, with Xilia analyzing all the images I had planted in her Brain and working through whether or not they aligned with any of the millions of images I had seen before.
After around 20 minutes, movent from the other side of the bed drew my attention, and I opened my eyes to find Xilia staring at with a scrunched-up face.
"When you compared these, what did you find?" she asked, clearly fishing for an answer that would lead in the correct direction.
"They appear to be exact photocopies of one another, down to the finest micro fissure in the paint, indicating they were either stamped instead of sprayed on the surface of the boulder or that the person drawing them has such an eye for fine detail that they are able to replicate an image perfectly." Blinking twice, I answered robotically, suddenly feeling I was missing sothing important.
The sensation threw up alarms in my head because It was clear I was trying to rember sothing I had seen or witnessed before, but the information had been, well, for lack of a better word, deleted from my mory.
Yet, at the sa ti, I was given such a sense of Deja Vu that I knew without a shred of doubt that I had figured this very puzzle out once, maybe even more tis before.
Seeing the change in my deanor, Xilia instantly went on high alert, too, because she rarely saw so startled.
"What’s wrong? What did you find out?" Acting on impulse, I quickly went on overdrive, leaning forward and tapping Xilia’s forehead a second ti. Instead of planting, I removed all the images I had given her earlier because I understood that there was sothing tied to them.
"AHH, WHAT THE HELL MAN?" Flinching out of surprise and then falling backward off the bed, Xilia howled as she rolled around, clutching at her head in pain.
I admit I was a bit heavy-handed, but that’s what happens when I find sothing bad enough to spook truly.
And that sothing was sothing unknown, sothing powerful, tampering with my mories, my mind.
Ignoring the angry girl pouting on the floor not far away, I pulled out several sheets of paper and the pen I always used to sign contracts and went to work.
"Listen carefully to , Xilia; the situation has changed drastically; whatever is executing these killings is no re Returner," while I spoke, I sliced my palm open with the tip of the quill-like pen, drawing particle-infused blood and started scribbling out perfect replications of the smiley faces, starting with all the ones from the Origin Tiline.
Soon enough, scattered across the bed were 45 sheets with bloodied smiley faces lined up in order of their appearance, and by the ti the final one was placed on the bed, Xilia was standing up and watching work.
"Ok…so you drew them all out…what now."
Crossing my arms and standing up on the bed to get a better view of the drawings as a whole, I got as close to the wall as possible, activated my Psy-Kinesis, just in case you know, and soon realized there was a very specific motif on each individual smiley face that seed to appear in random intervals.
Running with that idea, I soon noticed that each of these motifs, which were in the shape of small chips or dents in the drawings, ca in pairs, aning.
"It’s a collage," dropping back onto the bed, I started matching all of the markings with their pair until, finally, all the images linked up, and the smiley face was no longer of importance; instead, it was the large mural they joined to create.
**(SO I added the Image multiple tis, and it didn’t work; it is now in the author’s note if you want to see it. I will also be posting it on Discord.)**
"So what am I looking at here…A football goalpost with a triangle hanging on it?" Upon finishing my arrangent, I fell still and was so focused that I hadn’t noticed Xilia sneaking up beside to examine the finished product, and when she spoke out her observation it caught off guard.
"I wish, no, this is sothing far worse…" I mumbled while shoving all the papers back into my inventory and starting work on the 80 new smiley faces I had been keeping track of.
Using the sa thod as before, my particle-enriched blood, mixed with Psy-Kinesis, I swiftly drew out all of the images. As expected, these 80 were able to link together as well. When I started connecting them all together to form a larger picture, the first 45 ford the sa symbol as the one from the Origin Tiline, but then, the remaining 35 created an incomplete image, this one if im being totally honest, it looked kind of like the Eye of Sauron from LOTR; however it was incomplete.
Still, given that there was more than 60% of the picture ford, I could roughly formulate the finalized image, and that was when I forced myself to shove everything back into my inventory just before a splitting headache assaulted my skull half a second later.
"GAHH," It was a pain unlike any other. I had felt as if sothing had cracked my skull open and was attempting to scoop my Brain out like ice cream. To say the least, it wasn’t very pleasant, but the signs were all there that sothing like this would happen, and I was as prepared as I could be.
"Not...ugghhh….this….ti…!" I Spat through clenched teeth as I tasted blood and felt fluid trickling down my nose, ears, and eyes.
With eyes radiating Icy-Blue light, I moved all of my PC toward my head, more importantly, my Brain, enveloping it in a netting of protection, and no sooner than I completed this ta-physical helt then did I hear a strange and whispy voice in my mind.
"Berniukas, neturėtum kišti nosies ten, kur ji nedera," the mysterious voice spoke slowly and with regality.
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