After seeing the other person's appearance clearly through the cold moonlight, Sean felt his heartbeat stopped for half a beat.
Only ten meters away from the opponent, he stopped.
Just like before, the old clown stopped in his tracks.
"What on earth is he going to do?" Sean's ectoplasm has already grasped the Springfield carbine. The only reason for not attacking is that he still wants to wait and see what happens.
I tried to extend the hair-thin spiritual essence, but I didn't sense anything.
Like the lost Seeker playing cards, and the crimson ties stretching into the void...
This mysterious garden does not seem to follow the laws of the material world, and even blocks all rules including the "spiritual network".
The mystery here is beyond Sean's perception.
The New Testament reporter swallowed, his throat moving nervously up and down.
"We can't stop here..." Fear was freezing his body like cold.
"Can't retreat..." That means running away, which means the collapse of psychological defense.
"What we can do now is..."
Once again, Sean forced his heart and soul to stabilize.
He suppressed his increasingly messy breathing and took a step towards the weird clown.
The Joker also took a step forward.
Getting closer, step by step...
Until there was only one meter between them.
Confronting each other like mirror images, Sean looked at the mottled and old face, like a puppet in an abandoned amusement park, and suddenly felt a little dazed.
"This scene... feels a bit familiar?"
After searching through his memories for a while, Sean found the scene that caused the "sense of déjà vu"——
Standing in the deepest part of the "Place of Atonement", Sean faced the mask of "The Calumbiter" floating in the darkness.
"The same symbolic scene appeared twice in a short period of time..."
Confronting the old clown wordlessly, Sean allowed his thoughts to break through:
"What does this mean?"
Synchronic phenomena?
Symbolizing the barriers I have to break through?
The fear deep inside?
Some kind of fateful metaphor?
All kinds of mysterious knowledge and nonsense conjectures collided and intertwined in my mind.
Looking at the cracked traces of paint on the clown's face, countless conjectures that made one's hair stand on end floated and shattered like bubbles...
Sean tentatively raised his right hand, and like a mirror image, the Joker raised his left hand.
The New Testament reporter suddenly had some enlightenment: “Is this a symmetrical battle?
"If I launch an attack, will he attack at the same time?"
It seems like this is a trap.
Like a trap that will kill you.
Facing an opponent who can detect resentment or spiritual power, Sean can make a firm decision even if the opponent is very strong:
If you are strong, avoid it; if you are weak, fight.
However, the situation before me was different from any previous encounter...
Sean was unsure.
It is this fear of the unknown that traps explorers.
"Before your mind stops thinking further..." Sean still wanted to give it a try.
The spiritual essence entangled the scarlet pen, and he planned to activate the divine feathers and summon the headless horseman to attack.
"You can imitate my body movements, can you imitate Shen Yu?"
He planned to directly break this weird imitation with his unique talent.
Just as he was about to activate his spiritual power, Sean discovered that the other party's image had changed——
Just like the night wind blowing away the fallen leaves from a tree, a layer of shell on the surface of the clown's body shattered and floated away.
Then, standing in front of him was a Queen-level explorer wearing a black windbreaker and a blue "Last Dance" mask.
"He's copying my appearance?!"
The sense of crisis suddenly exceeded the limit——
He might pretend to be himself and sneak attack his teammates!
Must solve it!
His eyes widened, and his spiritual essence suddenly activated. The scarlet pen magnified the already burly blood-red knight, and a broad sword that covered the sky slashed at the person who looked exactly like himself...
The man just continued to move forward a few steps.
The broad sword cut through the air. The other party seemed to walk across Sean's body.
Sean turned around suddenly, thinking that the other party was behind him, but he saw——
Both in front of me and behind me, everything is empty...
Where are the figures?
The ectoplasm was probing around everywhere like a sea urchin, but Sean still couldn't find the clown's whereabouts.
"Damn... so weird."
Appearing without warning and disappearing without a clue...
Sean's body couldn't stop trembling slightly, and he began to rush forward quickly, wanting to leave this secret garden as soon as possible.
After rushing through this straight road, Sean saw a glimmer of light in front of him, and there were clearly several figures standing in front of him.
He ran quickly and could see clearly from a distance - the three people standing in front were Moonlight, Olivia and Taylor.
My heart felt a little more relaxed.
He frowned suspiciously: What does everything just mean?
Is that long lonely road a test of courage?
What would happen to him if he ran away in front of that clown?
"Sean! You came out!" Moonlight came over, "It was so strange just now. As I walked, you all disappeared!"
Wearing a false mask, Shimmer Sea did not let down his guard. He stopped a few meters away from the moonlight and asked the pianist to stop too.
Moonlight knowingly complied.
Sean held up a finger.
Then, they made a gesture at the same time, a face-to-face salute.
While doing this action, their ectoplasm slowly drew an S-shaped trajectory aside.
Both men made the same movements, exactly.
Sean held up a second finger.
He and Moonlight took two steps back at the same time, and the Explorer playing cards in their arms vibrated almost simultaneously, sending out a few meaningless words: "Air, butterfly and candle."
Sean held up three fingers.
Then, he demonstrated the power of the "City of Two Suns" Shenyu, and Moonlight played an "Unknown Nocturne".
Confirmed it's not a fake.
Sean and Yueguang both breathed a sigh of relief, finally got closer and shook each other's forearms: "Just come out."
Sean looked at Olivia and Father Tyro behind the moonlight.
The crimson bond undoubtedly connected the fine craftsman girl in front of him. Without any confirmation steps, Sean knew that the candle holder in front of him was real.
"Where's the priest? Have you confirmed it?" Sean asked in a low voice.
In order to avoid being impersonated by strange things, the steps for recognition were agreed upon with Taylor before the mission.
Moonlight nodded: "Confirmed, no problem."
Sean breathed a huge sigh of relief.
"It seems that the labyrinth garden just now was a test of the strength of the soul...
"Everyone in the team passed."
Fortunately, they all have Queen-level strength. Such a test is very dangerous for the Jack-level.
Sean walked over to Olivia and Father Taylor.
The candle bearer obviously felt relieved, and the priest nodded slightly.
In front of them was a crossroads.
You can see clearly by the moonlight that there is a building at the end of each road.
Although there are no road signs pointing to it and there is no introduction in the park guide, it is obvious that the four directions lead to four game projects.
"Where are we going?" Father Taylor walked to Sean and asked.
The wind brings the nightingale singing. Sean looked in all four directions.
Then, he pointed in the direction illuminated by the crescent moon: "Over there."
The moonlight did not penetrate the dark building, and its outline looked like a sleeping giant.
Sean didn't know why he chose that direction, but he had a feeling that they should go there.
