Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 254: Perform Yourself

[Master Sizhu, I have been waiting for your return. That must be your plan. I will wait patiently. I don't know if my actions will disrupt your plan, so I will stay put for now and wait for your instructions at any time.]

"Master..."

Xia Shou felt that this name was very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.

"Master..."

Xia Shou repeated these two words on the tip of his tongue, and his eyes slowly widened.

He remembered that on the day they first entered the heaven choir, the missionary who was responsible for welcoming them greeted him for the first time by addressing him as "Master", but the other party quickly admitted that he had made a mistake.

At that time, his mind was completely focused on the strange phenomenon of the choir. He didn't even think that the title of "Master" was a job title, because it could also be a homonymous name.

The series of abilities that the missionary demonstrated to Su Weiyu completely diverted his attention. He never thought about the inner meaning of the title "Master" again. After all, these two words had nothing to do with him.

But now it’s different, someone in the Sea of ​​Origin has delivered the letter to him!
No matter how dumb Xia Shou was, he would realize that the person being called was not him, but one of his predecessors, maybe the one with the same name as him, or maybe someone else. In any case, it couldn't be him.

Could it be that the person who came to the door as mentioned in the Death Notes is this person?

How did the Death Note know that someone would come to visit? How did it know that someone noticed it? Could it be that he could learn about the outside world through other means in the notes?
Or... was this a prediction based on experience, and he had deduced this conclusion in some way.

Xia Shou felt very uneasy, so he immediately left the Sea of ​​Origin and wanted to wake up.

But he did not wake up, because the Sea of ​​Origin itself was in a sleeping state, and a normal person could not wake up in a dream at will. When he opened his eyes again, he was awakened by the alarm clock on the bedside.

Xia Shou sat up, Alice combed his messy hair with her bare hands and said good morning gently.

Xia Shou sat on the bed in a daze for a moment, then immediately stepped onto the escalator to get out of bed, walked to the table and opened the record notebook.

"I saw a letter in the sea yesterday. The person who delivered the letter called me Master Si..."

Xia Shoujiang quickly repeated everything he saw in his dream last night and wrote down his notes.

But this time, no words appeared in the notes immediately.

"Can't you hear it?" Xia Shou picked up a pen and wanted to write on the paper.

Then the text appeared, but there were only two words: [Wait…]

and many more?

Why wait?
Originally, Xia Shou was not particularly anxious, but after seeing what the note said, he started to get anxious.

Xia Shou patiently stared at the blank paper, until his eyes became sore and swollen, and then the light black ink seeped out from the paper, forming a line of words: [Just pretend you didn't see it. ]

Xia Shouqi laughed.

"You've been holding it in for so long and that's all you're going to say? I want to ask you who the Sizhu is!"

【I】

"you?"

【Yes. 】

"Then why..."

Xia Shou almost said why someone in the Heaven Choir mistook him for him.

He subconsciously believed the answer from Note, thinking that since the people of the Heaven Choir knew Note, who was once the head of the department, it meant that Note also knew about the Heaven Choir. But at the moment when the question was about to be blurted out, another possibility in his heart began to clamor for Xia Shou not to ignore it.

So Xia Shou closed his mouth and asked, "Why did this person mistake me for you?"

[Only ordinary people use appearance, behavior, and speech habits to judge whether a person is that person. The more extraordinary a person is, the more special the way of judgment is. You inherited the shadow and Merlin's house, and Alice followed you. It's not surprising that she was mistaken for me. ]

Is the Shadow and the House of Merlin so easy to see through?
Alice certainly could not be used as an identifying feature, because he could not bring Alice with him when he entered the heavenly choir, so it could not be because of Alice that the missionaries mistook him for the priest.

But if the shadow and the House of Merlin were identifying signs, then the preacher was aware of his abilities?
Then why did the other party later say that he had made a mistake?

Strange, so strange, are the notes lying?
But there really seems to be no better explanation.

Xia Shou also didn't think that he would look very similar to his ex with the same name, because Shangguan Yan was very likely to know that ex with the same name. If he looked very similar to his ex with the same name, then when he met her at the entrance of the museum on the first day, she would not have shown the expression of looking at a stranger, but at least she would have been a little surprised.

"Are you kidding me?" Xia Shou narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the words on the notes questioningly.

[I can't make you believe me, but I have to tell you the solution. It is still unknown whether the person who is writing to you is an enemy or a friend. Although Li Tianhe is written in the letter, he is not necessarily Li Tianhe, or there is no such person as Li Tianhe.

But you have to act like me and not like me, understand? 】

"Like you and not like you? What do you mean?"

[Leave the impression on the other party that I did not enter the notebook, I am you, and now you are playing an ordinary person who knows nothing, is weak, has no power and memory in my identity. ]

Xia Shou read this passage several times, but the more he read, the more confused he became.

"What you mean is... I just need to be myself now, so that person will regard my current image as a fictional character you played, right?" Xia Shou tapped his chest, trying to understand the intention of the notes.

[Right!!! As long as you suppress your strong curiosity, your acting will be perfect enough, because you are not me, so there can be no flaws. But if you continue to maintain that kind of extremely strong curiosity about me and the previous puzzles, then your acting will be too perfect, which will backfire.

Acting that is too perfect is imperfect. An actor must never be himself. No matter how realistic the acting is, people must feel that it is acting. 】

Xia Shou weighed the options in his mind for a moment and nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Although Xia Shou felt that this might be an excuse made by the notes to stop him from investigating his predecessor with the same name, he also felt that the notes were seriously warning him.

Before this, except for the time when it warned him not to open the doors of Merlin's House, when it used such emotional language, the notes always had an attitude of "I say mine, you listen to yours, believe it or not".

But this time, the notes were very serious, which forced Xia Shou to be serious as well.

[Remember, don't show your curiosity. There is nothing to be curious about. You will know it sooner or later. ]

"..."

[If you really don't believe me, then I have a way that may make you believe me, but with your personality, it is actually futile. Doing so will bring you huge unknown risks, but you will only gain very suspicious credible evidence. ]

"Very dubious credible evidence?"

[That evidence will make you think I am credible, but the evidence itself is too suspicious to be trusted...]

The handwriting suddenly became blurred. This time, the reading reached its limit, and the rote notes had not even been able to come up with a solution in the end.

Xia Shou frowned and closed the notebook. The matte leather cover felt unsettling to the touch.

He hated feeling like a pawn on a chessboard.

(End of this chapter)