"Life form?"
Han Su picked up the Mechanical Fragment from the top of the metal pillar. From its weight and texture the moment he took hold of it, he knew it was identical to the Mechanical Fragments he had collected before.
In other words, this was the object that had just been at work—the one capable of altering reality?
Going by the order in which he had found them, this was already the Fragment No. 05 he had been looking for.
He had only chanted the spell in Linyuan City to confirm that the Mechanical Fragment existed, without knowing where it was. He hadn't expected the two figures to leave behind such an important object so easily before vanishing.
Then what exactly were they?
He had thought Doctor Grotesque was dead, his consciousness extracted. So why were there two more of him here?
If they were merely projections or mental constructs, they couldn't have picked up the Mechanical Fragment and placed it in front of him at will. Nor could they have disappeared without leaving behind any trace of mental residue.
If they were living people, avatars, or clones, the logic was even stranger. The Annihilation Light Cannon had been active the whole time. It killed through causality and entanglement.
With two avatars or clones like these present, the Annihilation Light Cannon's second target wouldn't have been anyone else.
Most importantly, if three people had come and all three were Doctor Grotesque, why had one gone to his death after meeting him and Ms. Shen, provoking his wife and child before doing so, while the other two watched from afar?
Miss Ai's voice sounded in Han Su's ear. "This form of existence can't be explained by something as simple as an avatar or reconstruction. I'd never even considered that anyone