From the end of the world

Chapter 103 Shadow Changer 6
Zhu Shi and Ma had never seen the scene inside the nightclub with their own eyes. Although they knew from my words and Chang'an's narration that the guests all wore masks to hide their true identities, it was normal that they could not think of this suspicious point at the first time.

Changan, however, suddenly woke up from his dream and said, "Yes, everyone who enters that nightclub cares about whether their true appearance will be exposed. Most people will not take off their masks even when they enter the 'main show'. Even the employees have the right to refuse when customers ask them to take off their masks.

"Even if a customer takes off his or her hood, the store has rules that prohibit employees from disclosing the customer's real identity information. Disclosing it to other employees is also not allowed, otherwise the consequences will be very serious."

"You've been a guest in the store for more than two months, and you only noticed this problem now..." Goldfish said speechlessly.

Changan laughed awkwardly at first, then his face tensed and he asked me, "Ah Cheng, are you doubting that the goldfish is the shadow-changing weirdo you're looking for?"

Although Zhu Shi and I did not explain to him the purpose of our trip, after listening to our conversation, he had obviously guessed most of it.

"Don't get me wrong, I really don't doubt Jinyu, I just want to know how she is sure that her father is still a regular at that nightclub." I shook my head.

"So, you are suspecting Jinyu's father?" Chang'an didn't know that Ma Zao was an unlucky person, and he probably couldn't understand why I would suspect him in that direction.

Zhu Shi quickly understood my idea.

"Could it be the bathing facilities?" She speculated, "You said before that the nightclub has bathing, massage, and accommodation facilities. Even if those guests want to hide their true identities, they won't have to wear hoods while bathing, massaging, and staying overnight, right?"

I asked Jinyu directly: "Or can you recognize my father from the other guests just by his height, weight and body shape?"

"No, there's nothing special about that guy's height. As for his weight... He seldom goes home, so even if there are some slight changes in his weight during this period, it's normal. I can't identify him based on those details." Goldfish shook his head. "As for the bathing, massage, and accommodation areas... Those guests don't wear hoods in those areas, but ordinary employees like me are prohibited from entering those areas."

"Then how did you confirm it?" Chang'an asked puzzledly.

The goldfish took a breath and then gave his answer.

This answer is exactly what I imagined.

To be honest, I feel that this coincidence is so coincidental that it is almost terrifying.

"——It was a hand." She said with great hatred, "It was the hand that beat my mother and me with its heartless and heartless hands. I will never admit my mistake to those hands.

"Even if he dressed himself up properly when entering the nightclub, wearing clothes, pants, shoes, and a mask to conceal his true face, his hands would definitely be exposed. And I distinguished him from the other customers by observing his palms.

"So I'm pretty sure he still hangs out at that club to this day."

Hearing her say these words, Zhu Shi was stunned at first, then he opened his eyes wide: "Palm... Palm!?"

"Zhu Shi, the shadow-changing monster's severed hand should still be with Lu Youxun." I said preparedly, "Can you ask him to send it over? No, after a day, the severed hand might have decayed... I remember that he would read the information in his mind onto photos, so you can ask him to send a photo of the severed hand, and it should be as clear as possible."

Zhu Shi took out his cell phone and said, "It's okay. He embalmed the severed hand. I'll contact him right away..."

"No need to be so troublesome." Ma Zao stretched out his right hand with his palm facing up.

Then a bloody severed hand appeared out of thin air and fell into her hand. This was the severed hand that was cut off from the monster last night.

Looking closely, the severed hand that appeared out of thin air actually took on the form of a shadow of uncertain light and dark, which was exactly the same as the phantom kukri she summoned last night.

"I can use the power of blessing to summon the historical projection of things I have touched in the past." She briefly explained, then placed the severed hand on the table and spoke to the goldfish, "Look, is this your father's palm?"

The goldfish hesitated and walked forward, carefully observing the appearance of the severed hand.

Within two seconds, she said with absolute certainty: "Yes, that's it... This is the guy's palm!"

She knew that our target was the Shadow-Changer, and she might frame her father as our target in order to kill someone with a borrowed knife... I realized this possibility and looked at Zhu Shi.

Zhu Shi obviously had the same suspicion as me. She seemed to have activated "Buzhou Mountain" without knowing when, and then turned to me and said, "She didn't lie."

Seeing this, I continued to ask Jinyu: "What does your father look like?" Jinyu took out his mobile phone, clicked several times in a row, and then turned the phone towards me. On the screen was a photo ID of a middle-aged man with an unremarkable appearance.

I memorized this face firmly. Only then did I feel completely certain of the Shadow Changer's true identity.

The Shadow Changer is really the father of the goldfish!
At this moment, what emerged in my heart was neither pride in my correct reasoning nor relief that things were going well.

Rather, it was amazement, amazement at Ma Zao's physique.

What kind of coincidence and arrangement is this? Just when we were outside the nightclub worrying about not being able to accurately locate the true identity of the Shadow Changer, the Shadow Changer's daughter showed herself to the door.

Since the only clue we have is the shadow-changing monster's severed hand, Goldfish has the conditions to identify his true identity through the severed hand.

In fact, if I were a superstitious person who believed in Ma Zao's power, I wouldn't need these inferences and clues at all. I only needed to listen to Chang'an and the goldfish's experience, and then simply rely on the simple process of elimination to guess the truth that "Goldfish's father is the Shadow Changer"!
This kind of physique that becomes a vortex of events and gathers all related things around you is beyond the level of talent and luck, and can only be said to be a supernatural curse. People with this physique will never live an ordinary life without waves. They will only be like the protagonist of an adventure story, involuntarily involving themselves and the people around them in accidents again and again. They cannot stop until the moment of death.

Even though I see it as a blessing and a gift, I have to admit that this is definitely not the fate that a young girl like Ma Zao should endure. For most people who yearn for a peaceful and safe life, having this kind of physique is like being thrown into a blazing house, and only endless suffering awaits them.

I couldn't help but look at Mazao, and she didn't show any surprise at the true identity of the Shadow Changer. Maybe she knew this would be the answer from the beginning, and was just waiting for us to be convinced.

But I still have some questions in my mind.

Since Goldfish's father is the Shadow Changer, and the nightclub owner also knows the truth, why would the latter allow Goldfish to frame his father in the nightclub? Once Goldfish's conspiracy succeeds, it will not be a matter of saying sorry to the Shadow Changer, and the nightclub owner is likely to be brutally punished by the Shadow Changer.

But that problem is secondary. The most important thing right now is to catch the shadow-changing monster. I controlled several "fireflies" scattered in the nightclub to search around, and soon found the target.

In the lounge area of ​​the nightclub, a man in a silk bathrobe was lying on a massage chair and enjoying himself silently.

Behind him stood a short little girl wearing a white rabbit mask and a goldfish hairpin in her hair.

Although the man on the massage chair was wearing a brown sheep-shaped animal head mask, I was still able to "see through" his true appearance through the head mask by blending my spirit into the ambient heat.

He is Goldfish's father, and also the shadow-changing monster we are looking for.

At this point, I no longer felt any surprise that the shadow-changing monster "happened" to be in the nightclub in broad daylight. I just told Zhu Shi and Ma Zao beside me that I had found the target, and then briefly discussed the tactics for the future.

After deciding on the tactics, we left the hotel room and headed for our own battle positions. Ma Zao also reapplied the immobilization power to the unconscious man in the black suit to prevent him from escaping or doing bad things while we were fighting. As for Changan, we asked him to take the goldfish to pay the bill first and wait for the result here.

After everyone was in their positions, I stood on the street across from the nightclub and focused my attention again on the shadow-changing man inside the nightclub. He seemed to have had enough of the massage chair and was holding the chair handles with both hands, trying to stand up.

His posture was quite relaxed, and he didn't notice the "fireflies" at all, let alone me who was looking at him through the "fireflies".

The next moment, I ignited his body with my eyes.

This fire was not to kill the enemy, but to implant my own heat mark into his body. Having said that, I didn't mean to let him off easily. The moment the fire appeared, the silk bathrobe and hood he was wearing turned to ashes. He was naked and screamed in pain, fell to the ground and rolled around, probably trying to put out the fire out of reflex.

His skin quickly turned black and cracked, his muscles sizzled and cooked, and even his eyeballs were dehydrated and carbonized. His vocal organs were also destroyed by the flames, and he could no longer scream.

There were several guests wearing hoods and several female workers wearing masks around him. They all looked at the goldfish father, who looked like the victim of spontaneous human combustion in urban legends, in amazement, and became dumbfounded because they could not understand the current situation.

If an ordinary person suffered this level of injury, he would definitely die if he did not receive timely medical treatment.

But if it was a weirdo, it would only be considered a minor injury.

In full view of everyone, the goldfish father's body expanded and deformed violently, turning into a monster.

(End of this chapter)