Crow's Paradise

Chapter 99: Snake-Faced Man

His sight turned to the two police cars that did not fit his worldview, and the police officers who were surrounding the police cars, but they did not catch anyone.

After looking around for a while, he found some traces.

Immediately, he walked towards the alley diagonally opposite the jewelry store.

In the narrow and dark alley, only a faint light fell from the height, making the alley visible.

Yao Yan followed the traces and squeezed into the alley.

As he walked, Yao Yan did not forget to wipe off the tiny traces that were like snakes with his feet.

After passing through the alley, a huge clock tower appeared in his field of vision.

Clock tower?

Yao Yan turned his head and looked at the location of the jewelry store.

So it's so close?

Without stopping for long, Yao Yan walked directly to the clock tower.

The gate of the clock tower, which was not guarded, was tightly locked.

Although Yao Yan had the lock knowledge of the original owner of this body, he did not bring wire to push the pins in the lock, nor did he bring a torque wrench.

Although it doesn't matter if there is no torque wrench, it will be difficult to deal with it without wire.

——According to the original owner's experience.

Yao Yan doesn't need this.

After turning his palm over and sticking it to the door lock, a black paper page appeared in his hand.

As his right hand swiped across the paper page, the door lock suddenly opened.

Pushing the door open, Yao Yan walked into the bell tower.

The palm flipped again, and the black paper disappeared in his hand.

After kicking back, with the sound of the door closing, his sight turned to the scenery inside the bell tower.

The architectural style does have a strong sense of dislocation, as if it was the style of his time hundreds of years ago.

To be precise, it should be Gothic Victoria mixed with Greek style?

No, it is Gothic Victoria mixed with Hellenized Egyptian style.

"A city has seven or eight architectural styles mixed together, can't it be a little more careful?"

However, it is obviously not possible.

Going up the spiral staircase all the way up, Yao Yan came to the top of the bell tower.

On the top of the bell tower, there is a huge bronze bell as tall as a person.

And

Beside the huge bell, there is a figure.

When he stepped onto the roof, the man turned around.

The man was wearing a gray coat that covered his entire body, with obvious widening marks on his shoulders and a cloak hanging behind him, making it difficult to tell whether he was a man or a woman.

And he was wearing a mask on his face.

There was a circle of lines around the eyes on the mask.

But if you look closely, you will find that the lines are actually a pattern of a snake, a snake wrapped around the eyes.

Masked thief?

"It's really exaggerated, are you performing an opera?"

Yao Yanhai yawned in the tone of the original owner.

His words made the man pause slightly, and then, a voice that could not be distinguished between a man and a woman came:

"The first person to discover it was not those idiots in the police station? It was... a colleague?"

When he said "a colleague", the man's voice suddenly had a little smile:

"Is it a hound? Or a strange bird?"

While speaking, the masked man in a gray coat and cloak continued to ask with laughter:

"Are you here for the Stairway to Heaven?"

Yao Yan did not respond directly, but said:

"Do you know? Every culture has evolved masks to some extent?"

"Hmm?" The man hummed, as if he didn't understand why he suddenly said this.

"I don't know whether the mask is because it plays the role of the sacrificial target during the sacrifice, or because it is a defective product when making clay dolls and wooden sculptures and is worn on the face."

"What are you talking about?" The man seemed impatient with his abrupt remarks.

Yao Yan was just laughing.

Because, this man's dress has a very obvious opera style.

As he said, each different culture has different mask styles and forms because of its different development directions.

Even in the country where he lived, the culture radiating from this area would combine with the local culture and develop different mask styles.

Unless this area is too weak and the style is too weak, it will be invaded and covered.

In addition to the basic commonalities of the mask itself, the closer the other features are, the more they will be covered.

In his lifetime, the direct source of the artistic image of "Phantom Thief" was generally opera.

However, the masks used in opera were influenced by many parties.

The masked balls, carnivals, and Dionysus of the medieval nobles.

Going back further, the mask art of the nobles also originated from religious sacrifices, and the carnival and Dionysus also originated from this.

And the performance form of drama itself originated from sacrificial activities.

It can be said that the Phantom Thief culture itself is a product that has been completely changed after many changes in religion.

However, no matter how completely different it is, some features will remain and cannot be completely removed.

For example.

Half-face mask.

Looking at the mask covering half of the man's face, Yao Yan smiled.

How to say it.

Fabrication, in his previous life, in his understanding.

Myths are the biggest finished products of rumors.

History, because some facts are difficult to confirm, will inevitably produce misinformation due to errors in various places.

History is also a source of the most hidden rumors.

However, the most terrifying thing is not that facts are processed into myths.

But myths are treated as history.

Too exaggerated, it will be considered a myth and regarded as fiction.

But if the processing is not so exaggerated, will it be regarded as a myth?

The reason why rumors are rumors is because they are believed to be true.

The less evidence is used to explore history, the more rumors will be generated.

However, people are lazy and often rarely go into detail whether every word they say is correct when they speak.

Yao Yan is the same.

How many people will check what he is thinking about now?

People who read these words can accurately distinguish the ratio of right and wrong in his words?

Where is wrong? Where is right?

Yao Yan's sudden laughter made the man take a step back:

"Hey! What are you laughing at? Hey! Answer me!"

Yao Yan heard the sense of control and confidence lost in the other person's words because he didn't understand why he was laughing.

Yao Yan stopped laughing:

"Do you know what the sun god is saying when his torso is swallowed by a snake?"

"What does it mean?" The snake-faced man seemed to be a little nervous because of his laughter.

"That's not a myth, but a fact." After laying the groundwork, Yao Yan began to spread his words.

"You know? People like to make "artistic" modifications to the facts that happened."

His voice rang on the top of the bell tower, like a giant's shout, shaking the huge bell.

"What?"

When the snake-faced man was about to speak, Yao Yan interrupted him without hesitation:

"Opening the window will be described as breaking the window."

"Or vice versa, breaking the window will be described as opening the window."

He took out an orange gem from his pocket and held it up:

"Do you think the Sunstone is the blood of the Sun God?"

This sentence made the snake-faced man laugh:

"Hahaha, I thought you were going to say that the Sunstone is the blood of the Sun God?"

"What? Then I am the fire-stealing snake who stole the body of the Sun God?"

The snake-faced man laughed out loud, and the sound that was originally deliberately concealed was also broken a little by this laughter.

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