Overturned Tower

With the exquisite appearance of a broken little colored glass, but like a lifeless old man, the devil wanted to die, and said calmly and serenely: "Keep your promise, hero. Kill me, and then move on .”

"……it is good."

After a long silence, Russell still agreed.

He raised the saint to decapitate.

However, I feel that this psionic weapon is heavier than ever before.

That is not "the weight of life", but "the weight of life".

Russell was very aware of it.

I have to do something, or say something.

"I'll look for it for you."

"what?"

"The color of the sky."

Russell replied softly.

He repeated stubbornly: "Glass robin is the same color as the sky."

"……Maybe."

The "caged bird" demon just smiled and didn't argue.

"It would be great if there was such a world."

She looked up, whispering softly.

"I will declare to the outside world that what I killed was you as a human being, and you were taken as a hostage...I killed you to save other people."

Russell said softly, "Little Liuli has never been a demon."

"……thanks."

The demon, who was about to be beheaded by the saint, murmured thanks to the executioner.

When Russell cut off the blade, he didn't feel the slightest resistance.

The demon of the "bird in the cage" was instantly beheaded by him.

When her head flew up, she seemed to be still looking up at the sky...

But at the end of that field of vision, there was nothing but a crimson cage.

The surrounding world fluctuated violently.

Russell's left arm suddenly reappeared, and the white illusory limbs shattered in an instant.

But Xiao Liuli, who had returned to her original form, still maintained her broken posture, standing opposite Russell.

When she fell, her whole body was broken into pieces.Like a toppled tower of blocks.

But there was no blood flowing from her body, just like a broken doll.

As promised in "The Bird in a Cage," she did not fight back.

Above the shattered head hung a relieved and satisfied smile.

Some people live so hard...

Although he has lived in poverty for more than 20 years, perhaps because of his mother's love, or because of Russell's talent, he has never experienced real despair.His life is always hopeful and hopeful.

--until now.

Until he witnessed and confirmed the death of the "caged bird" with his own eyes.

That moment.

The world before Russell's eyes has once again become the "sacrifice hall" burning with countless high and low white candles.

Facing him in the framed photo was a smiling Alice...his mother.

On the side, there are two blank photo frames on the left and right.The other photo frames were wrapped in black air and blurred.

When Russell looked at one of the blank picture frames, his will was sucked in.When Russell opened his eyes again, his eyes became the silent black and white world with only outlines.

And inside Xiao Liuli's shattered corpse, at the neck... clusters of blue flames are gradually extinguishing.

Looking at that ray of light, a very strong "thirst" appeared in Russell's heart.

The moment Russell opened his hand, a stream of ultramarine blue leaped up—flying into Russell's hand.

One of the two picture frames suddenly burst into ultramarine brilliance.

It's like submerging paper in the deep sea and playing it in reverse.

A young man that Russell had never seen before...with a dark blue long ponytail, a tuft of glazed tail feathers behind each ear, and a cheerful smile from the heart, gradually emerged in the photo frame.

He raised his right hand, as if beckoning to Russell.

Those clear dark blue pupils were once full of joy and hope——

When Russell woke up from the hallucination again, a mask without facial features appeared on his face silently.

Immediately, an ultramarine flame gushed out from under the mask, sweeping across his body in the blink of an eye... It was as if he was submerged in water, and a burst of refreshing coolness cleared his mind.

When the flames dissipated, a blue-haired man about 1.7 meters tall and with glazed tail feathers on his temples appeared in the position where Russell had been before.

His pupils are sky blue.

That was the color of the sky in Russell's memory.

The color of the sky that allows birds to fly freely... the color of the sky.

Chapter 55 The Second Mask

Russell shook his head.

There was an extra long ponytail for no reason, and there was a sense of falling weight on the back of the head out of thin air, which made Russell a little uncomfortable for a while.

Fortunately, this is the bathroom.He looked up and saw himself in the mirror.

It was the man who had previously appeared in Russell's "picture frame".

He looks about 27 or [-] years old, and when he smiles, he gives people a very warm and friendly feeling, and when he deliberately puts on a straight face, he is not particularly intimidating.In terms of temperament, she doesn't look like a singer...more like a pastry chef.It is the kind of feeling that will not give people any sense of disobedience when bowing your head to decorate the cake.

"Is this... what the Blue Robin used to look like?"

Russell murmured.

When Russell spoke, he noticed that his voice became deep and magnetic—and he had a strong desire and confidence to "sing" at the moment.

And Russell is very sure that he should be tone-deaf, and he has no interest in singing at all.

When Russell was in school, he was also pulled out by his tutor to sing.But Russell just sang the first line, and he amused her directly.

Although the mentor kept apologizing to Russell, Russell was so depressed that he didn't want to sing any more.

...That is to say, after becoming a blue robin, not only can he use his psionic ability "caged bird", but he can even master the ability to sing without Russell having learned singing skills at all?

But from another point of view.

Russell also felt the slowness and difficulty of this body very clearly.

Not to mention jumping onto the ventilation duct easily.

He even felt that he couldn't even jump into the sink at this moment... As for dodging bullets, it was even more impossible.

When he became Alice before, Russell didn't have much sense of difference.Now he has become a blue robin, lost his cat's tail, and Russell even feels a little out of balance when he walks.

I need to find time to go shopping and get used to it, he thought.

"There is one more vacancy for the mask."

Russell sighed.

He realized that his psychic strength should have been improved.

This means that his redshift has increased by another level... As for the specific time, it was probably when he encountered danger on the first floor.

The "invisible instrument" that could only be turned into a scalpel or blade suddenly strengthened to the point where it can be turned into an "arm" and extended.And after Russell got the new mask, the previously increased psychic power finally stabilized.

This should be the so-called [task].

From this point of view, his "mission" is to get more masks?

But what are the rules for obtaining this mask?

The blue songbird and Russell had no relatives, not even spiritual relatives, and they did not know each other before this.And now, they are the enemy's position, not friends.

But if it is an enemy, Russell has killed many of them before.But no one was able to trigger Russell's psychic powers.

If there's anything in common...

Even their deaths tugged at Russell's heartstrings.

Or……

Is it because Russell "doesn't want them to die" in his heart?Or "hope they will continue to live", thus gaining the psychic power to keep their lives alive?

... It doesn't seem right either.

If that is the case, why must it be expressed in the form of a "mask"?

What's more, this is the psychic power of Russell's past life memory awakening - how could he have such a "natural desire"?

"It seems that only after the transfer is completed, can I know the truth about my psychic power..."

Russell murmured.

But there was one thing he remembered very clearly.

Whether it was absorbing Alice's chip or the "Little Liuli" chip, he always had a longing desire.

Thirst, hunger, euphoria, greed -- wanting.

But it doesn't want to "own", but more inclined to want to "reach".

…Using a rather strange metaphor, it is a bit similar to the feeling when "the promotion match has reached a life-and-death situation".

"...Let's try the newly obtained spiritual power first."

Russell's heart moved, and an ultramarine flame suddenly ignited at the bottom of his pupils.

A feeling of indifference, despair, and isolation from the world that he had never felt before surged into his heart, making Russell's eyes subconsciously indifferent.

The next moment, Russell's body turned into an ordinary blue robin in the ultramarine flames, soaring up——

——What's the situation, I can fly?

In Russell's heart, there was an uncontrollable shock and joy.

Flying with wings for the first time made him feel an unprecedented sense of strangeness.It even draws an elegant arc... almost crashing the plane directly.

But fortunately, Russell's learning ability is still quite good.

He managed to pull it up before crashing, and flew clumsily through the air with his wings.

However, it seems that the blue robin's flying ability cannot support him to stay in the air for a long time...

The bird wobbled and flew to the sink, landed for a while and then flew up again.

When Russell triggered the psychic power again, a metal cage emerged from the void around him, sealing Russell inside.

He lost the ability to fly in an instant.

The iron cage containing the bird fell down with a clang, shook for a while, and then stabilized.

Russell looked out through the iron cage.

The strange vision gave him a sense of déjà vu as if he was behind bars and crying.

He also quickly understood the nature of the birdcage.

The psionic power of the "bird in a cage" is actually triggered in a passive trap form.Turning into a bird is just a preparatory stage ability... It's like Russell peeping into the past memory of "Little Liuli", which seems to be another form of expression of his incarnation psychic power.

If someone closes all the doors and windows in the room when they are in the same room with the birdcage, then the person who closed the doors and windows last will be pulled into this one-to-one space.

Another way of triggering is that the other party opens the birdcage out of curiosity or simply because of cheapness... then Russell can pull the other party into that space.If triggered in this way, Russell himself can jump out of the cage.

In that space, Russell can actively choose whether to cull the double prosthesis.