hsntnovel Chapter 227 The Fake Name is the Real One
Chapter 227 The Fake Name is the Real One
Shan Yu was almost verbally abused by Jiang Xingni.
She silently pulled her mask down lower and lower, her keen eyes noticing the documents in Jiang Xingni's hand.
"What's that in your hand?" Yamasumi leaned closer.
Jiang Xing raised an eyebrow, not only not dodging, but even actively flipping to the first page to show Shan Yu that line of conspicuous handwriting.
Through the mask, he could accurately observe what Yamasumi's expression was like.
Jiang Xingni didn't say much, but he was very curious whether Shan Yu could figure out the sentence Jiang Qishi wrote on the cover.
Yamasumi stared at the man in black with suspicion for a moment.
She had just been arguing with him, so why was he being so kind as to show it to her now?
Shan Yu was prepared for Jiang Xingni to refuse to give it to her and forcibly take it from her—but Jiang Xingni just generously took it out and showed it to her.
Her gaze moved down from the shadow under the black-clad man's hood and the exposed corner of his mask, finally settling on the page the man had unfolded.
On the yellowed paper, Yamasumi could see nothing but some questions he had seen countless times before.
She glanced at the man in black, puzzled.
"...Is this Jiang Qishi's research data?" Yamasumi asked in disbelief.
She clearly remembered that Ji Hanzhang had said that Jiang Qishi's talent and intelligence were no less than hers—rather than saying that Shanyu believed in Jiang Qishi's talent, it would be more accurate to say that Shanyu believed that Ji Hanzhang's judgment would never be wrong.
Jiang Xingnian could see Shan Yu's expression through the mask.
To be honest, Shan Yu isn't that old—although compared to Jiang Xingni herself, she could indeed call Shan Yu "sister," but she doesn't feel any connection with Shan Yu, and Shan Yu is still considered one of the younger members of the group.
Shanqing was, after all, the captain of the entire team.
There were no dark circles under her eyes from years of insomnia caused by PTSD, and the nasolabial folds around her lips were just a few faint lines.
Her skin was in poor condition due to years of irregular sleep patterns, her lips were pale, and her dark eyes stared warily at Jiang Xing.
His expression shifted from surprise to contemplation, then to confusion, and finally settled on Jiang Xingni, becoming a familiar look of suspicion.
...Don't doubt me.
Jiang Xingni sometimes really wants to say that.
"Anyway, it was like this when I got it." Jiang Xingni shrugged, casually responding to Shan Yu's words.
In any case, Jiang Xingni was just looking for a suitable opportunity to test them.
The results of the trial are now in.
—They indeed couldn't see the words Jiang Qishi left for them.
If Jiang Qishi truly discovered, single-handedly, that the entire world was merely a comic book creation, and that the writers had been observing them all along, then this is the truth.
How is he going to convey this truth?
Of all those people back then, how many of those who were Jiang Qishi's colleagues are still alive today?
"I..." Yamasumi hesitated for a moment, then carefully considered his words. "May I take a look?"
Jiang Xingni handed the documents to Yamasumi without any objection.
However, the moment the documents were handed out, Jiang Xingni keenly noticed a dark shadow flash by.
—Another strange thing.
Jiang Xingni deeply felt how rare it was that he had grown up so smoothly despite being surrounded by so many strange creatures.
The screenwriter might even regret not killing Jiang Xingni off when she was young, thus sparing her from this suffering.
But in a sense, Jiang Xingni could also guess why she was able to grow up carefree—well, she thought about it for a moment and then corrected herself—she grew up largely carefree.
The groundwork laid over the previous seventeen years was merely for the sake of Jiang Xingni becoming one of the victims of the supernatural at the age of seventeen, at the beginning of this year.
Jiang Xingni didn't have any particular feelings about this. After all, she had already successfully escaped from her original fate and was still running away. She was just short of giving the screenwriter the middle finger to mock her.
Yamasumi was just about to take the documents from Jiang Xingni's hands.
wow——
Suddenly, everything spun around in front of me.
A force grabbed her waist and then forcefully dragged Shan Yu towards Jiang Xingni's direction.
Yamasumi's first reaction was to resist.
She casually pulled out the dagger tucked at her waist and, almost instinctively, stabbed it behind her back.
Yamasumi could feel that her strength was being resisted, but when she looked back using the reflection on Jiang Xingni's mask, there was nothing behind her.
Shan Yu couldn't trust Jiang Xingni as much as she trusted her teammates, but that didn't mean that in this kind of sudden event, her first reaction wasn't to doubt the strange creature she couldn't see, but to Jiang Xingni, who had just reached an agreement with her captain.
As an ordinary person, Shan Yu naturally couldn't see the strange creature so close at hand, but Jiang Xingni could see it clearly.
Not as big as the monster Jiang Xing had dealt with before, the new monster looked much smaller, about half the size of a human. The ball covered in black fur had no eyes, only a red line separating the upper and lower parts of the fur ball.
"Is it weird?" Yamasumi steadied himself and turned around, but still couldn't see anything.
Aside from being bizarre, Yamasumi couldn't imagine any other explanation. Moreover, she could genuinely feel the tip of her knife pierce something, rather than simply swinging it at nothing.
—It couldn't possibly be because the other person was bored and wanted to test how much trust they had in her, so they just took her dancing.
Yamazumi was deep in thought.
Then she really would stab the other person with the dagger in her hand.
Whether or not it will actually work is another matter entirely.
"It's a monster." Jiang Xingni nodded in acknowledgment, his gaze subtly searching over Shan Yu's body.
"Where are your goggles? They allow ordinary people to see strange things." She gestured.
"Yamasumi?" On the other side, Yamayoshi, who had been focused on copying the data in her hands, suddenly became alert. She glanced at Yamasumi, who had been pulled away, and at Jiang Xingni, who had kindly rescued Yamasumi. "What did you find?"
The instant I heard the name Yamasumi.
The red line suddenly split open, revealing something that looked like a mouth.
There was nothing inside the black sphere except for layers upon layers of teeth, arranged one after another, completely filling the interior of the black sphere.
"Yamasumi, Yamasumi, Yamasumi—" it repeated the name, then lunged toward Yamasumi.
Yamasumi couldn't see it, but her years of combat experience made her instinctively reach out and swing her sword.
With a loud "bang".
The black ball was hit squarely in its open mouth and swayed in mid-air.
"Fake name, fake name, fake name—" it cried out.
"Is it an idiot?" Shan Qing put on her goggles and heard what the monster was saying. Her gaze finally found its focus and landed on the monster.
She gave a cold laugh.
"Who would use their real name on a mission?"
Shanqing looked at Maoqiu with the same look she gave someone an idiot.