Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 199 Pinxixi Experience Requiem
Cyrus followed Colin to the base of the round tower.

"People who are deeply parasitized by Amon are essentially living corpses, as if they are out of control. So there is no need to feel any psychological burden." Cerus comforted Colin.

Colin smiled and said, "Mr. Ceres, you're joking. We're not that fragile yet. Even if we were, forty-two years would have left us with no feelings for him at all."

"That's right." Serris nodded.

As they walked, Cerus chatted with Colin.

"Colin, do you have any dreams?" Ceres asked casually.

"Dream... My dream is to make Silver City a better place. Of course, it would be even better if I could leave the God-forsaken Land and see the real sun." Colin replied with a smile.

"What about you, Mr. Cerus?" Colin threw the question back to Cerus.

"Ah, you may not believe this, but I, Ceris, once had a dream, which was to become a trash can star."

Colin didn't quite understand: "Sorry, I may not understand what you mean."

"No need to apologize," Ceris waved his hand. "It's normal that you can't understand."

Soon, after passing through a long corridor, the two arrived at the cell where Amon was imprisoned.

As Colin put his hand on the door, an old and erratic voice suddenly sounded behind them.

"Are you looking for me?"

Colin immediately became alert, turned around quickly, and the golden light in his right hand spread into a heavy sword.

What Colin saw was a black shadow, and under the swagger of the golden light, the black shadow soon revealed its true appearance.

It was a monster, its body leaning forward slightly, revealing its vertically split head.

In the center of the head, two grayish-white pieces of brain squirmed as if alive, trying to move closer but unable to do so. On the cross-section of the brain, sticky fluid dripped into thin threads, shrinking upwards like maggots.

The eyes on each side are far apart, the bridge of the nose is separated in the middle, and the blood is bright.

The left half of the mouth was open, but the right half was tightly closed.

This terrifying monster was naked, with dark red wounds all over it.

The countless wounds opened up, revealing rows of white teeth. They spoke the same words in no particular order:
"Are you looking for me?"

Colin didn't respond, but pointed his heavy sword at Amon, waiting for Serris to speak.

"Your method of scaring me is really low-level." Serris turned around slowly, still picking his nose with the little finger of his left hand.

Turning around completely, Serris flicked the "snack" he had just dug out towards Amon.

All of Amon's mouths twitched, and an invisible force knocked the "snack" in mid-air away.

"Indeed," the monster's skin instantly crumbled and disintegrated, revealing a figure with a broad forehead, a thin face, and a monocle in its right eye. "But at least it can scare the children."

The two spoke in a very kind tone without any tension, just like old friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

"So? You want to escape?" Serris kindly offered advice. "This prison is sealed with a Level Zero Seal. If you want to escape, you can only leave through the main gate."

As he spoke, he pointed to the end of the corridor on the left.

"No, I can definitely find a loophole in the seal and leave here. You know, I'm good at this." Amon was equally blunt.

Colin looked at Cerus, then at Amon, not understanding why the two had suddenly started chatting.

But he knew very well that the more he spoke, the more mistakes he made. He had heard from Cerus that Amon was the best fraudster and could cheat the rules through other people's reactions.

So he stood there motionless, not even blinking.

Ceres replied with a smile, "You're trying to wheedle [permission] to leave here out of my words. If I don't follow your words, won't you explode?"

Just now, whether he admitted Amon's words or not, he would have fallen into Amon's trap. If Serris admitted Amon's words, then Amon could use this permission to deceive the zero-level seal here.

After all, he is the strongest here.

But if Serris denied Amon's words, then he would be used by Amon along with the initial "leave through the main gate".

"You think I'm too cunning." Amon adjusted his monocle. "You're over-interpreting it."

"Really? What do you mean?" Serris didn't seem to have any intention of fighting with Amon, he just chatted.

"me……"

Amon suddenly transformed into an ancient, mottled stone wall clock. On the clock, the second hand constructed by the "Time Worm" suddenly paused.

when!
As the bells echoed, everything in the corridor fell into a strange state of stillness, including Ceres and Colin.

He had no intention of cheating the rules, but was simply delaying time to buy time to steal the extraordinary ability of the "Worm of Time" from the original body.

The only exception was Amon, who had transformed back into his medieval black robe and pointed hat. With a smile, he calmly raised his left hand toward Colin, clenching his five fingers.

He stole Colin's "freedom" and used his "freedom" to replace his own fate of being captured.

But even now when time was frozen, He still didn't dare to do anything to Serris.

Then, Amon made a grabbing motion towards the end of the corridor. The space was stolen and he instantly appeared in front of the gate at the end.

"Is this your escape route?" In the frozen time, Serris suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of Amon.

Even if Amon got the upper hand, what would it matter? After all, the one here wasn't the real one.

A heart-shaped pattern made up of several white triangles appears.

Amon's escape speed slowed down instantly, and the closer he got to the exit, the slower his movements became.

“Indeed, you have stolen the destiny of ‘freedom’, but you can never truly escape.”

Serris crossed his arms in front of his chest, palms facing upwards, and tilted his head slightly to look back at Amon behind him.

"Any event I set up as a 'slash' is a 'truth' that can never be reached."

"No matter what abilities you possess, they will never be realized in front of me."

“This is it: [Pinxixi Experience Requiem].”

The frozen time began to flow again, but Amon's speed became even slower.

Because no matter what action he took, it was all for the purpose of "escape", and this was the "end point of the chop" set by Serris.

Serris slowly came behind Amon and reached his hand in from behind.

His hand seemed to be immersed in water. Instead of being blocked by the skin, it caused ripples behind Amon.

Soon, Serris pulled his hand out, revealing a translucent worm with twelve segments.

"Look, we got the [Cryptocracy Scholar]'s wetware just like that." Serris turned around and looked at Colin behind him.

Seeing that the matter was completely resolved, Colin stretched his body.

He didn't think that Serris would be unable to control Amon, but he would not act on his own to disrupt Serris's plan.

"Let's go." Cerus walked around Colin and headed towards the end of the round tower corridor.

"Okay." Colin followed behind Cerus.

"Haha, I was just kidding." Serris suddenly turned around, reached into Colin's chest, and pulled out a Time Worm from it.

(End of this chapter)