Chapter 591 - Human Skin Mask
At this time, the injured old man had just woken up. He was lying on the ground and just happened to see the scene of the white-clothed Su Ran descending from the sky. He was shocked, thinking that he had seen an immortal.
‘Oh my! They all say that there are immortals in the deep mountain. I actually met one!’ Xu Ziyi’s eyes were wide open, and his mouth formed an ‘O’ shape.
Su Ran landed lightly on the ground, and when he noticed his line of sight, he looked at him indifferently. With this glance, he not only frowned, but he also stepped forward and stared at the old man’s wrinkled face for a long time.
Xu Ziyi swallowed his saliva nervously. When he made eye contact with the questioning eyes of the ‘immortal in white’, he couldn’t help but sigh, ‘Immortals are indeed immortals. All of my disguises are useless in the other party’s keen eyes.’
Just as this thought crossed his mind, something flashed past his eyes and he felt a sudden pain on his face. The words ‘sure enough’ appeared within Xu Ziyi’s mind.
“Wow! It’s the legendary human skin mask!!” A voice that was as crisp as an oriole coming out of a valley sounded above his head, and then a face as delicate as a fairy’s appeared in front of him. Wow! It was indeed true that the immortals and fairies in the mountains lived together harmoniously ah!
Yu Xiaocao was both surprised and curious in her heart. She took the mask that was as thin as a cicada’s wings in Su Ran’s hands. The texture of the lines on the skin was very apparent, and even the long, white beard seemed to have grown out naturally from the mask. No wonder that she didn’t notice anything despite examining his injuries for so long.
“Sir Su, how did you know that his face was fake?” Yu Xiaocao examined the mask over and over again, but still didn’t see any flaws.
Before Su Ran could reply, Zhu Junyang had interjected, “Even for twins, everyone’s face shape, facial bones and facial muscles can’t be exactly the same. No matter how delicately-made the masks are, it’s still hard to perfectly fit the skin. However, this mask can be regarded as the product of a master craftsman. If I hadn’t noticed that the skin on his body was different from his face when I was applying medicine on him earlier, I would have really been fooled!”
“So you also noticed that there was something wrong with him ah!” Yu Xiaocao curiously tried to put the mask on her own face.
Zhu Junyang didn’t want the lass to have close contact with something that another man had worn, so he hastily scared her, “In order to be delicate and realistic, many human skin masks are peeled off directly from the faces of living people, and then processed…”
“Whoa—sh*t!” Yu Xiaocao was disgusted by his description. She immediately threw the mask in her hands away, as if it was a hot potato. Su Ran caught it with his empty hand.
“Skinning people alive! This guy is definitely a bad guy. Didn’t all the good medicine that I just gave him ended up being fed to a dog?” Yu Xiaocao wiped her hands, which just held the mask, on the back of Zhu Junyang’s black clothes. If there was water nearby, she would certainly rush over to wash her hands until a layer of skin fell off!
“Hey! Before the court convicts someone, he must be brought to trial first! You guys are just making up an unjust and fake case!” Xu Ziyi propped himself up with one hand and slowly sat up from the ground while he covered his injured ribs with his other hand.
He checked his own pulse and felt as if there was something repairing him. He found that his internal injury, which was quite serious, seemed to be 30% healed. Then he looked at the wound on his arm. The small scratches had already formed scabs and the bigger wounds had already stopped bleeding…
