Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other

It was a waning moon night.

Just like the beginning of all terrible things, if the sky fails to fulfill the wishes, if you are uneasy, something will happen.

And that piercing pain entangled in the nightmare, sweeping me into the endless dark abyss.

Dreams are helpless and desperate screams, cold strange touches, and ghostly laughter.

I knew I was falling into a nightmare, and I wanted to struggle to escape but I couldn't find the shore at all.

Boom.

The ringing of a bell quaked the black and white sky in the dream.

Boom.

There was another deep and long bell ringing in my ears.

I suddenly woke up and sat up, moving the bead curtains in front of the bed and jingling bells in my ears.

It was dawn, and the dawn reflected in the room from the window made me uncontrollably raise my hand to cover it, and at a glance I saw the deep scar on my wrist.

I was taken aback and looked back at the belt tied in front of the bedpost. In a flash, my thoughts were raging like a storm.

I lowered my head and watched the torn shirt collapse in front of the bed, fear and trembling almost climbed up again, but fortunately, the brocade coat was still close to my body, and I opened the bedding, and the pants were still on my body. I didn't notice any pain or discomfort between my legs, so I just breathed a sigh of relief.

Feeling a faint pain in my shoulder, I noticed deep tooth marks on my right shoulder. Suddenly, the scene of Nie Ran leaning over to bite my shoulder and neck came back in my mind. It freezes temporarily, but it can be seen from the fact that there are blood stains on the mattress, how harsh it is, it is just biting me to death.

I looked around the empty house, and for a while, I couldn't remember what happened after last night. I only remembered that I had a vague conversation with Nie Ran, and then...

There were two beepings and someone was knocking on the door. I hurriedly picked up the tattered shirt and put it on my body. The wooden door opened at the sound. A woman in a pink shirt walked in with a light gait. I closed the quilt and hid behind. I can see the face of the visitor clearly.

Picking honey? How could she appear here?

After thinking about it carefully, she was originally the person Feng Li sent to Song Langsheng's side to cause sabotage, and it is no longer necessary to keep it today, and it is not surprising to return to Feng Li's side.

Picking Mi, holding the steaming silver basin, looked at me with compassion in her eyes. I wondered if she looked at me like this, I must feel that I was particularly desolate. Sure enough, she put down the hot water, wrung out the towel and sat next to me trying to wipe my body. Seeing I turned to avoid her, she didn’t force it, just abrupt. He smiled and said: "The princess...seeing that you have fallen to where you are today... In Mind's heart... I am really happy..."

happy? I looked at her expressionlessly, and she said softly: "The cohort who came close to picking honey is for the son. In the end, she fell in love with the cohort..." she said, tears burst out of her eyes." But Mr. Ma, never put me in his eyes. He did not even think of me as a little sister for a moment. He had no choice but to betray him with a cruel heart. Now, I finally got my wish and returned to my son. I have done so many things for the son, and he only treats me as a dispensable pawn... I know... In this world, no one has ever cared about my life or death..."

She closed her eyes and let the tears flow, and then suddenly grinned, "But the son should treat you like this, hahaha, if you see the princess at the moment, even if he loves you again, you will not be innocent and clean in his heart. That’s right. Haha, hahaha, at least, it’s not just a miserable person in this world who picks honey, is it?"

I stroked my forehead with one hand. The girl's heart had been twisted so far. I thought I had nothing to say to her, and I simply overturned the pot of hot water next to the bed, unceremoniously letting her **** off.

It was probably that this action seemed to her to turn me into anger. She laughed happily. Seeing that she was about to say something terrifying again with her ugly face, Fengli appeared silently at the door, "You go back first. Let's go down."

Cai Mi turned around nervously, recovered her delicate and pleasant appearance, picked up the basin and hurried out of the house.

After the wind entered the house, he glanced at me faintly, and walked to the window, standing with his hands on his hands, for a long time, and said: "The beautiful scenery last night, can the princess still be useful?"

I couldn't speak out, I could only look at him silently. He was quiet for a while, and said: "Xia Yanghou hurriedly recalled the young master. He had been away for less than two hours. He wanted to take you away, but he told me to stop... I promised the young master, after everything settled, I will put you in his hands again."

He turned his head, curled his lips and smiled slightly, "Yes, I won't let you go right now. Since everyone is close to you, no matter who wins or loses in the end, as long as you are still in my hands, they can only be controlled. To me."

I lowered my eyes. It turned out that this was the real reason why he wanted Nie Ran to possess me. He believed that once the marrow knew the taste, Nie Ran would not let me go easily.

Seeing me curled up lifelessly at the corner of the bed, Feng Li was extremely satisfied with my reaction, "Are you still waiting for Song Langsheng to save you?"

I lifted my eyes slightly, as if reacting, still not looking at him.

"I'm afraid you are going to be disappointed... The person sent by the young master to spread the news in Beijing was killed by my people halfway through, so Song Langsheng didn't even know that you were trapped here by me, let alone you last night. What happened..."

My heart suffocated. Last night, Feng Li really guarded the door and watched us. It seems that Nie Ran didn’t really intend to lead Song Langsheng to rescue me. He just wanted Feng Li to stop him. As a result, Fengli would naturally not stay outside the house to investigate the reality. In a sense, after all, Nie Ran and Fengli are still on the same front, and he really has no reason to let Song Langsheng escape the danger.

Thinking that Song Langsheng probably really didn’t know that I was trapped here, an unspeakable sadness grabbed my heart. Feng Li still had no expression when he saw me, and said, “But even if he finds it, it’s not necessarily Can come in... Do you know where this is?"

Feng Li said, "This is the Royal Palace of King Rui."

I was slightly surprised.

Rui Wang, the most brave and fighting prince among the father's brothers, he is upright and upright. Although not handsome, he is a fierce general of Daqing. He guards the border all the year round, and is a very famous prince in Beijing.

Thinking about it this way, most of the people whom Fengli disposes are the stewards of King Rui’s mansion or his confidantes. No wonder he has no fear. King Rui and his wife and children are not in Beijing. Who can think of the missing princess’s hall and being impoverished? Tied in the palace?

The worst thing is that when the father of the emperor rewarded King Rui’s record, he also allowed the emperor to have soldiers in the mansion. If there is no order from the sage, no one is allowed to trespass.

"Does the princess know why I want to imprison you here?" Fengli slowly took out the wooden box from his sleeves, opened it, and played with the soldier charms in the box. It was at the beginning of the ceremony that the prince stepped into the altar, from welcoming the emperor to playing the chapter of Xianping, and then offering a ceremony and kneeling for blessing..." He closed his eyes and counted the rituals of offering sacrifices to the heavens. Finally, when I look at the chapter of Youping, the bell will ring again..."

He opened his eyes again and fixed his eyes to look at me, but his tone was cold and cold, "There is a boom, the ashes are gone, the world is plain, and it is today."

His robes were blown up by the wind, and his eyes were as sharp as a dangerous blade, which was especially shocking in this sluggish morning.

I lowered my eyes, knowing that when I reached this situation, I couldn't save anything, but as time passed, my heart was stretched like a bowstring that was about to be broken, until the bell rang again, resounding. In the distant sky, Feng Li raised his eyebrows, "Everything is about to begin."

I resisted closing my eyes, but stared at the sky outside the window.

The breeze gently blows away the thin clouds, and the birds gently fall on the trees, causing the dead branches to rustle. Apart from this, the sky is clear, the sky is clear and gentle, and there is no other movement.

Feng Li's expression gradually turned from excitement to disappointment. He slowly lowered his sleeves, and a soldier talisman in the box fell to the ground. The talisman shell was cracked and shattered into two halves on the ground.

How could the tiger talisman that commanded the army be broken when it fell? His eyes became more and more cold, and it instantly condensed on me.

All the painstaking efforts and loneliness will eventually fall short. How can he not be angry?

I took a long sigh of relief and opened my mouth: "Fengli, everything is over."

"You...you can talk..." Fengli's face changed suddenly, "This fake soldier talisman was deliberately taken out of the palace!"

I raised my eyes and stared at him, "What does Young Master Feng think?"

Fengli's confused look was clear for an instant, and he was a little hostile, but he was still able to hold himself. At this time, a fierce voice from the attendant suddenly came from outside the door. He is arresting the important offender and is about to break in!"

"Bastard!" Feng Li took a look at the case and turned over the tea cup, "This is the Royal Palace of King Rui. If it is not a holy edict, who would dare to trespass!"

The attendant trembled and said: "Come on, here comes the person who claims to be... from the Five Armies Capitol..."

"Five Army Governor's Mansion?" Fengli shook in vain, obviously panicking, "How is this possible?"

"Little, little people don't know..."

Fengli glanced back at me, maybe she was surprised when she saw me. The person who knew it was not me. Since I couldn't find out the truth from me, he immediately rose up with his wide sleeves and sword, and called Caimi into the house. Watch me closely, and then opened the door and shouted with all his strength: "You two are guarding the door, and the rest of you will go out with me!"

When the incident happened suddenly, Cai Mi was even more at a loss. She closed the door, drew her long sword and moved it under my neck, but she looked out the window from time to time.

I was too lazy to care about her, and I was hesitant in my heart. It was indeed a weird thing to wonder if the five-army capital would appear here.

The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is the highest place to command the Qing army.

Among the civil servants, the chief minister is the chief assistant of the cabinet. Among the military attaches, the chief governor is well-deserved. Later, in order to prevent the commander-in-chief's dictatorship, the father regained the power to deploy troops in the Dudu Mansion.

The reason Fengli was confident before this was because he not only assembled the former rebels, but also mastered the key points of the Three Thousand Battalion and the Shenji Battalion. In this way, the Habayashi Army and the Suweifu Army could hardly be his opponents. Even if the prince and I wanted to dispatch the army of the five-armed capital, we had to wait for the war to break out before the cabinet discussed and finally let the Ministry of War draw up a document and transfer it to the guard station in each city. After this series of delays, he could reverse too much of the situation.

But now that the plan to murder the prince at the sacrifice to the heavens has not been completed, and the soldiers are faked, the Five Army Capital Governor can actually come to him, so how can he not make him face chaos?

At this time, there was a sound of fighting and fighting from outside the window. It seemed that someone really led the troops to break through. If it was really from the fifth army camp, could it be that the news came to rescue me?

I paid a low price, but I didn’t feel like it. What the attendant just said was arresting the important offender, which means that the people who came here didn’t even know that I was trapped here, but it’s better for someone to come than no one. After I turned my eyes to pick honey, I was thinking about how to find an opportunity to warn people outside. Suddenly I heard the screaming arrow nailed to the door, accompanied by a scream, blood flying on the door leaf. , The two attendants who guarded the door fell to the ground.

I was shocked in vain, just about to explore, the sword in Cai Mi's hand put a sticker on the bottom of my neck again, indicating that I should not act rashly.

At exactly this time, a voice came from outside the door without warning: "The wind is leaving, the overall situation is determined, and you have no way to go back."

This familiar and long-lost voice, with just one sentence, was like drowning in a magical sea and encountering driftwood, which made my heart beat for a while.

But when I heard the wind stepped back to the door, he said, "Song Langsheng...you, how did you find this place?"

Song Langsheng sneered: "You are deliberately planning to use the ceremony to plot against the prince. With your usual deeds, you will definitely set up a plan in a dark place near the altar, waiting for the opportunity, although there are many hiding places around the altar, but A few days ago, when I let go of picking honey, I put nine hidden incense on her body, which can be sniffed by a dog in a radius of nine miles, so that I can find your hiding place in one night."

Picking honey and hearing words are like stone carvings and wood carvings, with stormy waves in his eyes. Duo Da Fengli had the same shock, he said: "You are a rebel captured by the court, how can you command the five barracks! Oh, don't think that the former rebels who follow you can pretend to be the army of the court. I'll be the one! At this moment, there are my soldiers and horses on all sides of the capital. Do you think you can really trap me with the broken armor of your few remnants?"

Even if Fengli didn’t mention it, I had the same question. I only heard Song Langsheng smile, “Yes, you are gathering forces in secret to snare world martial arts masters, and you use Nie Guang’s previous rebel intentions in Beijing to rise up, even if it is The Three Thousand Battalion, the Habayashi Army, and the Shenji Battalion also have the previous rebels arranged by you. If there are really only a few remnants to break the armor, how can you break your plan?" He paused, "But... you can What do you recognize this?"

He should have taken out something, I couldn't see it in the room, and I was a little curious in my heart, but he heard Fengli startled and said: "...The seal of the Chinese Army Capital Governor's Mansion...you...would you... "

Song Langsheng calmly said: "There is only one person who can grant me this seal in the world today..."

"The current emperor!" Feng Li trembled: "You are his person?! He, he actually gave you the seal of the Chinese Army Mansion! No, this is impossible. You are a civil official, how can you go beyond your authority? And rate a thousand troops!"

Song Lang said in his life: "Civil officials can't lead the army, but they were removed from the post of Dali Temple two months ago. This seal was granted by the emperor yesterday..."

"The emperor personally taught it?" Fengli's voice cooled down, and he asked word by word: "You mean, he...woke up?!"

There was a shock in my heart, and my father woke up?

"The emperor is awake or not, it makes no difference to you." Song Langsheng said solemnly: "The gunpowder you buried under the altar has been removed, and your cronies in the Three Thousand Camp have also been captured. Coming back to the case, half of the former rebels in Beijing have been recruited by me and returned to the court. As for the other people who are willing to follow you to the death... Oh, they don't need to use the strength of the fifth barracks, and the entire army has been destroyed. Nie Guang He is a wise man. He apparently asked Nie Ran to help you, but in fact he has already withdrawn his troops overnight to escape... Fengli, you have already seen your decline in your biggest battle. At this moment, you are already alone and helpless. You think you still have What wins?"

This remark reminded me inexplicably of the sentence Song Lang said steadily in his life the day before leaving: He has become our pawn.

After that, all the deployments were just to force him to reveal all his hole cards, so as to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Or for the father to the prince to Song Langsheng, defeating Fengli was to formally declare war on Nie Guang.

Feng Li...He is a terrifying counselor with endless conspiracies, but for the emperor, only absolute force and conspiracy are the real opponents to face squarely.

The overall situation is determined early.

""It's impossible..." Feng Li still said unwillingly: "How did you know that there was gunpowder under the altar? How do you know that the prince who sacrifices to heaven today is true? ! The princess clearly used the flying eagle to send a letter to the prince in your palace as an impersonator. Didn't you receive it? ! "

"I naturally received it." Song Langsheng smiled, "It's just that what the princess's letter mentioned is not that the prince had a fake, but..."

Rather, after stepping into the East Palace the night before, when I hid outside the prince’s bedroom and listened to their conversation, I guessed the truth that the prince was still in the palace.

It's a coincidence that everything is true.

It happened to make me realize that the prince was fake, and it happened that the guards of the East Palace were all moved outside the hall. I could peep without scruple, and it made me catch up with everything I wanted to hear—it was like a perfect plan.

So before I left the East Palace, I asked the guard guard at the gate: "Is someone carried out in the East Palace today while fainting? Or did someone bring out something like a cloth bag?"

The guard leader said with certainty: "No, the subordinates have been guarding here for a day, and have never seen such a situation happen."

If not, it can only mean that the prince has not left the East Palace. Even if Feng Li fainted the prince and changed his face, it would not be possible to send a big living person away without knowing it.

At that time, I had a judgment in my heart, and I could not guess that Fengli would follow after it after tempting me to take out the soldier talisman, so I immediately went to the library, took the fake soldier talisman prepared by the prince before, and wrote a letter to it. Song Langsheng.

I passed all these suspicions to Song Langsheng in a small letter, hoping that he could find out the truth, or tell all of them to Zhao Gengnian, and jointly plan countermeasures.

In the letter, the only thing I lied to Song Langsheng was one sentence: I have left the palace and hid in a safe place, don't worry.

I knew in my heart that if Song Langsheng was going to investigate the case unintentionally, he would not be worried.

Unexpectedly, Sun Xuan was pretended to be by Feng Li, and even more terrifying, there was also Nie Ran.

All of this is because I am too self-righteous. I only know how to make dangerous moves, but I don't anticipate that things will often be worse than I imagined.

At this time, Song Langsheng outside the door said: "Do you really think that the princess will be played by you again and again? She has already understood your plot and lured you into her trap. In this contest, You finally lost."

I was very ashamed to hear this. If I was told that I had dug a trap myself, I would have almost buried myself, and I don't know if he would be so angry that he wanted to strangle me.

Feng Li apparently felt that Song Langsheng's last remarks were ridiculous. He was worried about the future, and he was exhausted, and finally became a loser completely, so he suddenly laughed like crazy. The laughter made people laugh. I took a sigh of air, and only heard a chill in my chest—it’s true that I felt a chill in my chest, but I couldn’t hold it even when I was picking honey. I crooked my hand and the blade scratched my neck. I ate it. Pain couldn't help but let out "Ah"——

Song Langsheng seemed to have heard the movement and asked: "Who? Who else is inside?"

Feng Li finally eased his breathless laughter from the top. He said, "Song Langsheng, Song Langsheng, you have won, and I am convinced that I lose, but there is one thing you still don't know... "

"It was no one else who took the princess out of the palace, it was me and Nie Ran."

"Last night, Lord Nie Ran suddenly felt lonely, so... I asked the princess to accompany him and let them go to Wushan together... The clinker princess was reluctant, she could not die, and suffered even more..."

Before the words fell, the door was knocked open with a bang.

I lifted my eyes, and he rushed into the room without warning, standing in front of me.

I stayed completely.

It was only three steps away, as if separated by a thousand mountains, everything was hidden.

A strong wave surged in my heart, crashing against my internal organs. I couldn't help but burst into tears, and wanted to step forward to hug him, but remembered my appearance in unclothed clothes. The spotted hickeys on my neck and chest were still there. His eyes were swollen because of crying too hard last night. This fascinating scene fell into his eyes and he still didn't know what he would think of me.

I shivered and put the quilt together, trying to say something to him, but I couldn't say anything.

Instead, she was picking honey. Seeing Song Langsheng breaking in, she was suddenly nervous, shaking her hands and rubbing the sword on my neck: "You, don't act rashly...If you take a step forward...Don't blame me for the sword... …"

Before the word "Next" was finished, the voice of picking honey stopped abruptly, and the sword in his hand fell loose. I turned my head ignorantly, and couldn't see how Song Langsheng threw the knife in his hand at Cai Mi. I saw Cai Mi stared at the abdomen pierced by the blade, stiff body and fell into a pool of blood, as if to death. I don't understand how I died.

This is the first time I have seen Song Langsheng kill a man.

He was never such a cruel and decisive temper. He was rounded up by He Pingzhao at that time, but because of his weak power and worrying life, he was still unable to attack the enemy.

I looked at him tremblingly, his entire face was pale to bloodless, I don't know how angry he was, even his eyes were red. He looked at me like this, and he saw that I was getting more and more nervous, but there was a deep grievance in my heart, I bit my lip, choked up and said: "Shoma, I..."

As soon as he uttered these words, he felt that he shook his body and leaned in front of him, and that clearly was just a blink of an eye, and he had been tightly embraced by him. He was cold and his eyes filled with hesitation. I was frightened by his appearance, and tried to push him away to explain to him. Before he could say anything, he held his hand. He slowly lowered his eyes and used his fingers. The tip lightly stroked the bruise on my wrist, trembling more than mine, and the skirt slipped off. He saw the **** undried tooth mark on my shoulder, and his eyes overflowed with shock. I subconsciously raised my hand to cover his. Eyes, struggling to make my voice calmer: "Don't look..."

Warm Mizusawa overflowed between my fingers, and my heart trembled. He turned his head and turned around to pick up the sword that had just picked up the nectar. He stepped towards Feng Li in front of the door. Feng Li also had a sword in his hand, but he didn't lift it up. Only the corners of his lips curled up slightly and asked, "You want to kill me? But I am dead now. No one knows where Nie Ran flees. What is Nie Guang's true strength... Since the emperor sent you to arrest me, he Naturally, I don’t want you to take a corpse back..."

I think so. Feng Li is right. If Song Langsheng wants to kill him, he has just started to do it. How can he bother with him? I thought Song Langsheng was going to ask him something, but he didn't say anything, but he buzzed a long sword through the air, stabbing without hesitation--

Feng Li was shocked and fought with a sword, but Song Langsheng cast a rainbow like a rainbow, unstoppable, forcing Feng Li to retreat to the corner. He swept across his sword, but when he heard a "chi", Fengli's eyes widened, and one hand hurriedly covered his neck, but the blood gurgled out, waiting until his eyes gradually lost. Glorious, he fell to the ground.

In front of the window, Song Langsheng panted for a while, the sword in his hand was dyed bright red, and the soldiers gathered outside the door seemed to be frightened. They were either advancing or retreating. They looked at each other and didn't know why, Song Langsheng's voice floated. Fluttering sounded: "Everyone retreats to the outside of the house, and if there is any rhetoric or action, the military law will be used to deal with it."

His voice was low and flat, but everyone outside the room swept around and listened to orders, not daring to slack off. That natural majesty is totally different from the staid and boring cohort in the ordinary days.

Being immersed in his thoughts, his whole body warmed up, and once again he was slowly embraced by Song Langsheng, tighter and tighter, he was afraid of hurting me, so he restrained and stroked my back, his chin lightly pressed against me He hugged his shoulders for a long time, and a room was quiet and peaceful.

This warmth has been too long, and I’m not willing to be separated from him for a long time. I quietly lie on his chest, tears that have been suppressed for too long and too long pouring out, pattering and falling endlessly, and I don’t know the past. How long did he finally speak, and his voice was so low that it didn't look like him at all: "It's all my fault... From now on, I won't leave you again..."

Hearing this, my eyes are hot again, and my heart is sad and happy. What's sad is that we have gone through so much suffering. What is happy is that he can do it if he can say this, and everything will get better and better.

Song Langsheng let go of me a little bit, and found that I was crying, he wiped my tears for a while, he said: "I will kill Nie Ran, I will..."

I stayed for a while, understanding that he might have misunderstood something, tried to calm the sad emotions in my heart, raised my eyelashes to look at him, "He didn't actually touch me..."

Song Langsheng froze for a moment, as if he didn't understand what I meant for a while, "You mean..."

I lowered my head and motioned softly: "Look, my clothes and pants are still there... Although he was really too much, but he did nothing in the end... The reason why he did this was because I was struck by the wind. If there is no antidote within ten days, it will be difficult to get better, so..."

Therefore, at that time, Feng Li gave him a bottle of medicine, which was an antidote. What he said was a joy, but it was actually because Nie Ran was also poisoned by this poison—he cooperated with Feng Li, but Feng Li did not believe him. , Unless he is willing to assault me ​​face to face, he can believe that Nie Ran can still get on a boat with him.

Nie Ran played such a long scene, and used his coat belt while pouring me to drink the antidote. It was really that he didn't have much strength to restrain me.

Until the end he bit me with all his strength and forced me to cry heartbreakingly. When Fengli finally left, he let go of me and slumped beside me as if he had lost his strength. He closed his eyes and said softly: " I know that you hate me, even if you tell you that this is just a stopgap measure, you will still hate me, but I don’t regret it. What I have done this time is what I want to do, although I know I can’t get you more many……"

I looked at him in horror, and he tried to prop up his body and untie me: "I can't save you tonight, but you can rest assured, Feng Li will not have any thoughts of hurting you for the time being, until Song Langsheng will come tomorrow. Save you, Fengli cannot succeed, everything will calm down..."

After he finished arranging the bedding for me, I suddenly wanted to ask him, "There is no cure, how can you escape from the capital?"

But I didn't ask, I felt my consciousness gradually blurring, and I closed my eyes and saw him standing in front of the window, letting the snowflakes blow on my body, and didn't move for a long time.

Song Langsheng's brows opened up after hearing what I said. He stroked me and muttered, "As long as you are not hurt, don't be sad, that's fine..." He paused and frowned. Eyebrows said: "Since this is the case, why didn't you say it?"

My heart was very tangled, "So many people are present, I don't know how to elaborate, and, Nie Ran, he..."

He asked: "What happened to him?"

"After all..." I struggled, and whispered: "I also kissed me... and then touched me a little bit... Strictly speaking, I was considered frivolous by him... I think, maybe You will mind a little bit..."

Song Langsheng straightened his face, gritted his teeth and said: "I don't mind..."

I glanced at him, checked his expression, and tentatively asked, "Really?"

"Ok……"

I breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good...it made me scared all night..."

Song Langsheng pursed his lips, took a long breath, and asked, "Where did he touch you?"

I:"……"

"Face? Or hands?"

I gave a dry laugh, and changed the subject without leaving a trace behind the quilt: "Actually, what I am more curious about now is... the true face of Feng Li..."

Song Langsheng raised his eyes, looked back at Feng Li lying in a pool of blood, frowned slightly, got up and walked over, and slowly stretched out his hand to lift off his human skin mask.