Transform into a human

The life form of the Candlelight Clan is a ball of candlelight, but their true form is the shadow beneath the candlelight. This level-three relic, [Winter Showcase], was derived from a powerful member of the Candlelight Clan.

Hou Fan's right hand was spread out to its maximum extent—no, why were there ten fingers?

Yue Hao was horrified to see that Hou Fan's fingers were still growing and were starting to grow from various parts of his body. With each additional finger, there was one more source of light on his body.

"Oh no, our shadows!"

Downton quickly looked down at his feet. His shadow had split into dozens of parts, and the color was getting fainter and fainter, with his power also dissipating.

Yue Lai suddenly turned his head to look at the center of the spider web. They were just incidental; Hou Fan's real target was Helena!

Because of the existence of "Shadow Follower," half of the spies' skills were based on their own shadows, and this relic truly struck a nerve with Helena!

As the power waned, the silken nets that Mrs. Casti summoned began to snap one after another, allowing Hou Fan to rewrite his script.

Hundreds of fingers simultaneously transformed into ink brushes, writing in the air:

"That's how the wilderness is. You can never guess what will happen next. Even though both the hunter and the protector have good intentions towards the protagonist, they end up hurting each other because of a small misunderstanding."

After the sparrow was reduced to fragments, remnants of the previous world's influence remained. The hundreds of shadows that had multiplied beneath Helena's feet finally weakened to the point of being unable to resist the world's influence, and began to attack each other, perishing one after another.

And for each one that dissipates, a wisp of black mist is absorbed by the numerous fingertips of Hou Fan's display windows, transforming into a human figure—these are all prisons specifically set up for shadows!

Helena could no longer hold on, coughing up dark blood, and the remaining silk netting scattered on the ground.

"Things always happen so coincidentally. The guardians and hunters both lost their fighting ability, and just at this moment, the cruelty of the wilderness descended, and this land began to devour its inhabitants."

No, Hou Fan wasn't lacking in direct attack methods; he was simply laying the groundwork!

We keep talking about the dangers of the "wilderness," but where exactly do they manifest themselves?

The answer is now clear.

"A natural disaster struck; the scorching sun burned everything."

In an instant, the twilight was like a knife, scraping away at the flesh of Yue Lai and the others bit by bit, causing them unbearable pain. Even the barbarians, who had been temporarily deprived of the sense of pain, felt excruciating pain.

Hou Fan decided to put a period to this story:

"The protagonist finally understands why no pioneers have ever returned. The real danger of this land is not wild beasts, but the natural environment that threatens all outsiders."

"The hunter and the protector lied. This land allowed them to survive on the condition that they constantly sacrificed their lives, which led to wave after wave of pioneers coming from afar."

"Their infighting wasn't due to a misunderstanding, but rather a desire to eliminate each other so that they could become the sole masters of this land."

"Therefore, from the moment Yue Lai set foot on this land, his fate was sealed—"

"The only fate awaiting him is to become 'Yue Lai, the former pioneer'."

The deadly intent is revealed at your fingertips!

But several breaths passed, and the ending of Hou Fan's story was still nowhere to be seen.

"What a terrible story."

A man's soft laughter rang out, and looking towards the source of the sound, one was astonished to see... Yue Hao!

Yue Lai wiped the runes off his face and laughed, "Director Hou Fan, if the director of a story doesn't even understand the characters' identities, then the script can only be described as 'utter nonsense'."

The film producer's face turned deathly pale instantly.

"Yue Lai" also wiped the runes off his face, revealing Xia Du's dashing face. As for the real Yue Hao... Xin Hu stretched and looked closely. It was clearly a big cat!

"Forget about distinguishing the roles, you haven't even figured out how many roles there are."

Yes, having already obtained accurate information from Tang Xiao, how could Yue Lai fight an unprepared battle? Even Mrs. Casti, hiding in the shadows, was merely one of the baits to distract Hou Fan, her greatest role being to waste the opponent's opportunity to revise the script. Yue Lai's real trump card... was Cavendish's skill!

By impersonating Yue Lai and Wen Qing in public, Cavendish had gained enough resources, and his art of skin-painting had finally developed a second level of magic—[Painting the skin is also painting the bones].

In addition to replicating appearance and taking on some of the cause and effect, the new skin can even replicate a skill, which is why "Yue Lai" only used the skill of being two-faced from beginning to end.

To make the scam more believable, Yue Lai even calculated the barbarian who died in Langhua City. Through meticulous investigation of Qieting Tower, Hou Fan was very likely to discover that the barbarian had extracted an evil relic. The evil heart appeared on Xia Du's body to "verify" Hou Fan's guess.

As he expected, Hou Fan was initially very wary of Yue Lai's identity, after all, he was a swindler and might do something drastic to him at any time. But this wariness disappeared instantly after Yue Lai's evil intentions were revealed.

After all, no one has ever heard of an organ-type evil relic that can flexibly change hosts. It always involves the previous host dying and the next host appearing. Who would have guessed that Yue Lai could communicate with evil relic?

This was a perfect scam.

Cracks began to appear in the wilderness, the heavens and earth collapsed, yet silently, and the cabins of the "Hospitality" reappeared in everyone's sight.

The intense backlash caused Hou Fan, now a monster, to completely lose control of the relics and his skills. Fingers all over his body began to bend, tearing chunks of flesh from his host before hopping away. Hundreds of these fingers simultaneously tore flesh from his body—

This is tantamount to being slowly sliced ​​to death.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

This scene stunned Yue Lai and Helena. One of them had promised Li to inflict torture, and the other wanted to avenge a grudge that had accumulated over twenty years. But before they could even make a move, Hou Fan had already committed the slow slicing of himself.

The same applies to Downton Abbey.

Yue Hao transformed back into a kitten, jumped onto Yue Lai's shoulder, and began to make sarcastic remarks:

"What a ruthless cat..."

Xia Du was still shaken, mainly because his evil thoughts were too "fluttering":

"This relic is a bit eerie. Why would the police chief equip his superiors with such an eerie relic?"

"It's not some evil relic," Sparrow said, piecing the shattered pieces back into a human shape. "The Winter Window is a level three relic. The higher the level of the relic, the stronger the backlash. So its backlash is no less severe than your level two evil relic."

Xia Du looked at her heart again. Her evil heart had been starving for a long time. If Yue Lai hadn't negotiated the terms with it, she would probably be in a worse state than Hou Fan.

But now it's time for it to eat.

Xia Du came to Hou Fan's side. She never thought that one day she would have to use "pitted and bumpy" to describe someone. Hou Fan was like a beehive that had been poked and crushed by countless fingers.

His entire face—if it could still be called a face—was covered with bloody holes of varying depths, the edges of which were turned upside down, revealing dark red flesh. They opened and closed weakly with each breath, oozing a viscous liquid.

But those eyes, trapped in rotting flesh, shone with an eerie brightness, staring intently at her, burning with a thirst for life.

The elf cat got goosebumps all over: "If I were like that, I would have committed suicide long ago... It would be so painful."

Yue Lai: "It's not that he's unwilling to give up his life, it's that he's unwilling to give up his power!"

As he spoke, he approached Xia Du and tricked him into briefly detaching himself from his heart and surviving.

Evil Heart could no longer restrain itself and leaped out of Xia Du's chest.

Yue Lai turned around and listened quietly to the gnawing sounds and wails coming from behind him. Not far away, Mrs. Casti was staring at the scene, which looked like something out of a zombie movie, without blinking.

After all, she had been waiting for this moment for 20 years.