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Chapter 27 The Actor's Mask

About drinking the potion.

Truman knew that the safer way was to seize the opportunity to drink at 12 o'clock in the evening.

The root cause of potions out of control is that the user's 'share' is emptied.

Truman has the super 'share' recovery base of the earth, if he waits to drink at the moment before the 12 o'clock crossing, the possibility of the potion getting out of control is very small.

But it is also possible that the effect of the potion is suppressed by the 'order' power on the other side of the earth, unable to exert the best effect, or even interrupt the effect, then the gain outweighs the loss.

So bear with it.

I don't know how long the severe pain lasted on Truman.

The 'steel needle' sticking out of the skin stretched longer and longer, Truman seemed to have turned into a porcupine.

Truman couldn't even touch his own face, and despair spread in his heart. For a few moments, he even felt that he had become a monster like Anton.

but not!

As long as he can still think normally and measure whether his sanity exists normally, it means that Truman's 'share' has not been emptied.

Then he is enough to withstand this transformation!

Moreover, Truman was already mentally prepared. He had witnessed Anton turning into a monster, and he was afraid of it. It was overcoming these fears that Truman dared to drink this potion.

Slowly, the hopelessness brought on by the pain faded away.

Truman is used to the pain.

When you experience it, you can feel a sign that the life form is changing.

The 'steel needles' that turned him into a porcupine are softening, gradually turning into a 'membrane' that wraps him.

A joy rose up with it.

The pain popped out of Jin Xing's eyes, and very wonderful intentions emerged little by little.

There is the vastness of the universe, the magnificence of life, and the ultimate perfect picture brought about by the evolution to the top.

It was a huge equilateral triangle that contained everything.

Is this the last and only being in the Extraordinary World...

Truman glanced at the only existence.

In the next second, Truman's consciousness suddenly returned to his body.

He is no stranger to the severe pain in his head at this moment and the anxiety caused by the lack of reason. It is the feeling of the critical point where the "share" is almost emptied. He often experienced it before translating spiritual texts.

I also know how to recover, calm down, live a normal life, and just wait for the time travel to return.

Enduring a headache, I looked at the time, it was already 5:[-] in the morning.

His promotion took a full 4 hours.

Now, he was curled up on the ground, except for the sweat-soaked clothes that were still damp, the environment of the entire hotel room was as usual, without the slightest sign of damage.

Like those thorns protruding from the skin, and the pain all night, are all Truman's illusions.

But Truman knew it wasn't.

He felt that there was an invisible 'thorn' and 'membrane' covering him outside his body surface.

This layer of 'thorns' and 'membrane'... is Truman's extraordinary power.

And in these 'thorns' and 'membranes', there are some abnormal substances that exist like 'bubbles'.

The 'bubbles' are few in number but lively.

Once the 'bubble' is punctured, a diffuse 'gas' that can greatly enhance the 'sensitivity' of Truman's body and senses will seep out.

This is... the effect of the earth's biological injection, right?
Truman suddenly had a realization: This will be the 'trick' I got from the earth.

Therefore, Truman hid these 'bubbles' deep in the 'thorns' and 'membranes'.

Now, Truman opened his hand and gathered these 'thorns' and 'touches' into his palm, feeling as if he was holding a completely transparent mask.

It is the property of the 'actor' sequence.

Hasn't turned into a 'trick' yet.

Because Truman has not yet completed the ceremony.

The workshop owner's evaluation of the 'actor' sequence is that the potion is easy to absorb, but the ritual is difficult to complete.

……

The lobby on the first floor of the hotel.

The waiter at the Royal Oak Hotel noticed Truman.

This guest who stayed in the room all day and night without going out.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" the waiter asked.

Truman hesitated between 'can you check out the fee' and 'nothing'.

Finally, considering that the ceremony was not completed and there might be accidents, he smiled and shook his head.

Afterwards, Truman noticed a bouquet of roses in the lobby, the delicate and vivid red showing off the luxury of the Royal Oak Hotel.

In an era when commoners could only live on hard bread and drink cheap beer, roses were too ostentatious adornment.

"Do you know what I do?" Truman asked the waiter.

"I don't know." The waiter shook his head humbly, but he remembered Truman's muddy leather shoes when he arrived at the hotel yesterday, probably a businessman who had just obtained explosive wealth.

"Actually, I'm a magician." Truman picked up a rose, held it in his left hand, and blocked the waiter's sight with his right hand from top to bottom.

He made the unformed 'membrane' in his palm cover the rose.

With the movement of Truman's palm, the rose disappeared little by little before the waiter's eyes, and when Truman's hands crossed again, the rose had completely disappeared.

The waiter's eyes widened: "Amazing performance! Mr. Magician!"

This admiration flowed through Truman's consciousness like a glass of cold beer, which lifted his spirits, and he could feel the sincerity of the waiter.

But that wasn't enough, Truman needed 20 people to be amazed and awed by his performance at the same time.

……

This is the busiest street in the city of Lunedin.

A department store with huge glass windows is located here.

It is as high as seven floors, even higher than Habsburg, and there are all kinds of goods you can imagine in it. As long as you pay gold pounds, you can even bring royal items home.

It is proud, prosperous, and resplendent. This city is the capital of this country, and this department store is the symbol of this city.

Ladies surrounded it, gentlemen spent their money on it, and ordinary people could only look at it from a distance full of admiration.

There will always be some beggars and musicians on this bustling street, and today there is another magician. He is young, well-dressed, and has the mysterious aura that a magic performer should have.

When he conjured a beautiful rose out of thin air from his palm and gave it to a beautiful lady, the lady covered her mouth and let out a low cry of surprise.

Then from his omnipotent hat he pulled out an apple, a copy of today's paper, and the lunch some lady was planning to give to her typist husband.

The audience surrounding him on the street applauded enthusiastically.

"You can even go up to the Royal Opera House!" someone yelled.

Some people also express disdain for this statement. Any magician can pull anything out of a hat. This kind of street tricks is not uncommon.

The magician seemed to be inspired, he bent down and took off his hat to the audience, who didn't realize at this moment what kind of wonderful performance they were about to witness.

I saw the magician make a movement like taking off the mask from his face, and there was really a silver mask full of mystery in his palm.

When he put this mask on the air around him, another magician quietly appeared in the air as if growing out of the mask.

Now there are two magicians who look exactly the same in front of the audience.

All the audience let out sighs of admiration.

Then there was loud applause.

For the praise of 20 people, the last few vacancies were filled immediately.

The magician who had completed such a performance accepted the cheers of the crowd like an emperor. At this moment, he suddenly glanced at the crowd, then left in a hurry with a look of surprise on his face.

……

There are two Trumen, one true and the other false, but these ordinary people can't tell the difference.

This is one of two presentations of the 'mimicry' technique of the actor's sequence mask form.

When Truman puts this mask on his face, he will get the same concealment effect as the rose.

When Truman wears it on any object, including air, it can change into another self.

Have the same 'share' of yourself.

Two people translate the spiritual text together, and the work efficiency is doubled. This is one of the reasons why the 'actor' sequence is suitable for translating the spiritual text.

Of course, this mask has other wonderful uses, and that will test the imagination of the Extraordinary.

The most important professional characteristic of the 'actor' sequence is to imitate others, which has countless possibilities.

As for the reason why Truman left in a hurry just after a glimpse in the crowd.

"I seem to have seen Anton just now..." Truman said to himself.

(End of this chapter)