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Chapter 231

I, Mu Daxian, Have Always Been Known for My Thrift

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"You!" Mu Daxian raised his drawing board. Mao Feiyang instantly ducked, clutching his head, reacting so quickly that Mu Daxian had no idea what to do.

"..." Mu Daxian helped him up. "You really are a fucking shameless bastard."

Mao Feiyang forced out an extremely strained smile. "You're an excellent judge of character."

Mu Daxian: "..."

"Pick the stuff up." Mu Daxian tossed out those words, put the four light bulbs in the cloth bag, and began collecting the remaining "parts" of the two Impersonator Art Students scattered across the ground.

Mao Feiyang was puzzled, but did as he was told.

Once he had collected all the parts, he saw Mu Daxian starting another assembly project.

Before long, a humanoid assemblage of Impersonator parts lay before Mao Feiyang.

"What's this?" The sight unnerved Mao Feiyang. Mu Daxian... seemed to have reassembled the Impersonator Art Students' severed limbs into a headless Humanoid Sculpture?

"Don't get it, do you?" Mu Daxian said with a faint, ambiguous smile.

Mao Feiyang nodded.

Once again, he could not understand Mu Daxian's actions, but this time was different. Last time, Mu Daxian had led him to escape the Grinning Angel's pursuit. Although he had been confused throughout, he had felt completely safe.

But things were different now.

Now, Mu Daxian only struck him as eerie...

Without moving his head, Mao Feiyang instinctively swept his eyes from side to side. An ominous premonition rose in his heart. Could it be... that at some unknown point earlier, Mu Daxian had been swapped out?

Was the current Mu Daxian... not Mu Daxian at all?!

He tried to "perceive" Mu Daxian's aura. He would have been better off not trying; the moment he did, he nearly fainted from fright.

Mu Daxian now seemed shrouded in towering "malice." He had never

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