Chapter 417: Chapter 248: Ghost Bell vs. Rainbow Wings, Black Cocoon’s Reinforcements
August 5th, ten hours earlier, Li Jing Starlight Amusement Park.
At five in the morning, the sky was still dark, and the black night continued to shroud the sleeping city. At this moment, the Restraint Incarnation of the Black Cocoon was hanging upside down motionlessly beneath the amusement ride "Pirate Ship."
With Restraint Sensing fully activated, it replaced his eyes, quietly observing the scene within the amusement park.
In the night sky, he saw a girl dressed in a tight black outfit. The girl, with white hair and blue eyes, had a frigid aura like an ice sculpture. A broad ice surface under her feet supported her body, and at this moment, the ice surface was continuously spreading upwards.
Clearly, she was Rainbow Wings’ "Extreme Ice Maiden"—You Ruirui.
You Ruirui was gliding gracefully on the ice surface like a delicate white deer, with her snow-white hair fluttering behind her.
Every time she ascended an inch, the air in front of her would instantly freeze, forming a new ice surface for her to speed across.
In this way, the night sky, usually out of reach for ordinary people, seemed to her to transform into a vast, boundless skating rink.
You Ruirui’s technique was skillful. Like an ice skater or a surfer, she moved across the superpower-created ice surface in a manner between the two, chasing after the dark figure leaping across the Ferris wheel.
"Is that Old Pa?"
The Restraint Incarnation raised an eyebrow as it watched the figure on the Ferris wheel.
Looking up, Ghost Bell could be seen stepping forward carriage by carriage on the Ferris wheel.
The Ferris wheel suddenly started, with a "thud," and the interiors of the dim carriages lit up brightly.
Subsequently, the brightly lit carriages began to revolve, spinning like large lanterns in the night sky.
Ghost Bell was running and stomping on top of a carriage, leaping to the top of the next with a ferocious poise like that of a leopard, constantly climbing toward the Ferris wheel’s peak.
From afar, he resembled a monk arduously climbing the Tower of Heaven.
You Ruirui stood still on the ice surface, looking down at the Ferris wheel.
The fish-scale clouds overhead suddenly parted, and moonlight spilled through the gaps, illuminating the girl’s pale face.
In the moonlight, she seemed entirely transparent.
If Black Cocoon wasn’t mistaken, the ice surface she created had extended all the way from the amusement park entrance to beneath the moon, like a towering, steep cliff, hanging stationary in mid-air.
Standing at the top of the Ice Cliff, the white-haired girl looked down, with her ice-blue pupils reflecting the image of Ghost Bell.
In an instant, the air above her head quietly condensed, and a vast, cold chill swept over the sky, forming more than a dozen ice spikes. The thickness of each spike could probably pierce through a high-altitude work platform.
It seemed the fish-scale clouds in the sky and the solitary moon high up had turned into a painting sealed beneath the ice.
The next moment, as You Ruirui nodded, the massive ice spikes descended from the sky like a rain of arrows.
At the same time, Ghost Bell reached the Ferris wheel’s highest point, standing against the wind atop a carriage.
He raised his head, gazing intently at the falling ice spikes, as a four-meter-tall Clock Tower emerged behind him, and his shadow suddenly rose from beneath him, transforming into a humanoid shape resembling him.
On the swaying carriage, the giant Clock Tower resonated with a deafening chime, with the clock face’s hand spinning rapidly before slowly stopping at the "6" position.
"Oh? Old Pa drew a ’6’?"
Black Cocoon raised his eyebrow, recalling Ghost Bell’s abilities.
The Old Pa could create a three-meter tall Clock Tower and "erect" his "shadow" from the ground.
The shadow inherited three attributes from the Superpower User’s original form, effectively creating a clone, but the shadow couldn’t stray too far from the original form.
The key is that every 30 seconds, the Clock Tower’s hand would randomly point to one of the "one to twelve hours." Hitting a different hour, the Clock Tower would grant different ability boosts to Ghost Bell or his shadow.
During this period, Black Cocoon had searched the dark web for many of Ghost Bell’s battle videos.
According to his summary, among the Clock Tower’s 12-point abilities, at least four abilities have been confirmed.
And these four abilities are:
[12 o’clock: Pause time for one second, and every ten seconds, the ability triggers again.]
[1 o’clock: When the hand halts, Ghost Bell, the Clock Tower, and the shadow together escape into a time gap, returning to the position Ghost Bell was 30 seconds ago.]
[2 o’clock: The shadow briefly splits into two, with halved strength. If both shadows hit the same target, the "time felt" by the opponent is paused for 2 seconds.]
[6 o’clock: Enlarge the "shadow" several times, transforming it into a giant shadow.]
Now, since the hand stayed at "6," the humanoid shadow beside Ghost Bell was bound to swell in a short time.
A deafening chime descended, and the slender shadow leapt from the top of the carriage, replacing Ghost Bell as it faced the oncoming chill.
At the same time, like an opening parachute, the shadow’s form suddenly expanded, turning into a massive dark giant in an instant.
The giant, ten meters tall, stood like a black tower in the night sky. It roared and extended its arms, embracing the thousands of ice spikes crashing towards the Ferris wheel.