Chapter 286 Crimson Mirror

The collapse of the building stopped in the middle of the square.

The sculpture representing the endless Möbius strip stands there quietly, indicating that although the owner of the hotel is gone, the power remains.

The few remaining players fled from the hotel in a panic, trying their best, and finally reached the Mirror Museum before the ground in the hotel collapsed.

After just one glance, Xu Zhiyan looked away.

Although he didn't know whether other players had completed the guild mission, just by spending money to change their fate, a guild had already thrown out seven items. The main system's recycling had already begun, and he had to get all his teammates out before everything was over.

Now that a consensus has been reached with the out-of-control system, the following problems should be easily solved.

Unfortunately, the plan was perfect, but the implementation was not smooth.

"What? You mean that other people can be brought out, but the world where Jiang Huai Que is located is being attacked by the main system, so we can't get him out?"

Xu Zhiyan clenched his hanging hands into fists, suppressing his inner uneasiness and making his voice sound as steady as possible.

The out-of-control system has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem.

[The ruined worlds I selected all have remnants of the World Heart, which can serve as the cornerstone to support the rebuilt world.]

It has spent almost all its time on this over the years.

After listening to this, Xu Zhiyan instantly understood the main system's idea.

Although the museum's system is out of control, it has been seeking a new direction of development from the beginning to the end. When the main system forces it into a corner, it will use its subjective initiative to recycle the abandoned world...

How can you make more money by interrupting and then taking over than by waiting for the other party to completely reshape the new world and then cutting in?

[The world where humans live is the first connection point.]

[Before that world is completely taken over by the main system, I can get the other humans out.]

The out-of-control system gives the optimal solution.

[Can you get in touch with him? Can you keep him going for a while?]

Sacrifice one human being to save the others.

It did not see anything wrong with the suggestion.

Before Xu Zhiyan could speak, his nails dug deeply into his palms as he clenched his fists.

Seeing the solemn expression on the beloved's face, Blood originally wanted to just give up and pinch another one, but when it felt the other's sudden heavy emotions, it paused, and its keen perception made it say nothing.

No rage, no panic.

Xu Zhiyan's emotions collapsed for only a moment.

He knew that it was useless to argue with the sluggish and out-of-control system in front of him, and solving the problem was the top priority now.

"Tell me the specific situation of the ruins world. I want details."

Soon, he got the latest information.

The main system's recycling program began suddenly, but not without trace.

[He is the only human who has woken up in the ruins world. The main system is observing his progress. The more anchor points are left behind, the faster the main system can recover them.]

[The human's awakening seemed like a signal.]

Among all the players who entered the ruins world, only Jiang Huaique opened the external link.

[It feels that this exposed human is no longer useful.]

The battle for control has begun.

The ruins world was actually the place that was controlled by the main system faster than the hotel and the museum.

As if to better explain the current situation, after the words appeared, the figure of Jiang Huai Que appeared on the huge mirror in front of him.

In the space where reality and ruins intertwine, Jianghuai Partridge holding a sickle hides in the alley.

He was no longer the slightly immature young man he had been before. After his memory was restored, he returned to normal. The man with slicked-back hair was slightly injured, with a cut on his left arm, but the blood was not obvious on his black casual suit.

The monsters running on the ruined streets have changed.

As if to distinguish the camps, the originally red monsters turned black.

Their numbers have increased, like a swarm of locusts passing through. They are not only looking for the Jianghuai Partridge, but also will swallow up the red monsters they encounter on the road.

[The ruined world was reconstructed according to his memory, so his authority is higher than mine.]

[If the main system wants to completely take over this half-built ruined world, it must kill him, turn this place back into an ownerless world, and then use this to parse out other content.]

The out-of-control system had worked under the main system before, so it was familiar with these operations.

[From the beginning to the end, the main system has never thought about allowing human players who enter the ruins world to survive. It will not allow players to become the masters of reshaping the world.]

[Of course, I am no different, and I would make the same choice if you hadn’t offered me a better world.]

It only protects what it wants to protect.

Xu Zhiyan was in mixed feelings.

He cracked the mission clues and completed the mission better than anyone else, but this mission turned out to be Jiang Huaique's death warrant.

Even though he knew that all this was caused by the main system, he still felt a little breathless.

"So what you mean is that this world was rebuilt based on Jiang Huai's memories. He has partial control over it, so the main system wants to kill him... Where is the remaining heart of the world?"

The tense situation did not give Xu Zhiyan time to feel sad, and he grabbed the last straw.

[On the person whose heart is in him.]

…

The pain in his arm and the strange red marks on his body made Jiang Huaique feel uncomfortable.

He quietly hid in the alley, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.

Fortunately, after his memory was restored, he was able to use game props. Although he was injured by a monster that suddenly appeared for no reason, the problem was not serious.

The alley was equipped with props to conceal the aura, so no monsters should be chasing him for a while. He took a short rest and opened the guild panel. Apart from Jin Sheng's screams, the rest of the content left him a little stunned.

【Xu Zhiyan: Go find my sister.】

[Xu Zhiyan: I will provide you with the direction coordinates. Other monsters are also chasing it. You have to find it before the black monster swallows it and then kill it.]

His sister died.

My sister is now a monster.

[Xu Zhiyan: Go out from the alley and take the underground passage on the right...]

【Xu Zhiyan: Jiang Huaique, there is no plan B this time, you must succeed.】

Staring at these two lines of words, Jiang Huaique suddenly laughed. He took off his bloodstained coat, and his bloodstained white shirt outlined his strong muscles.

[Jiang Huai Que: Why are you so nervous? Don’t you trust your father?]

It was rare to see Xu Zhiyan send such a serious message. He found it a little funny imagining the young man's rare serious look.

[Jiang Huai Que: Feel free to add any other tasks. Now that we are here, we can't just save our lives.]

The guild information was set to float on the side. Jiang Huaiqu swallowed the healing potion in one gulp, tightly gripped the sickle, and walked out of the alley with firm steps.

Xu Zhiyan obviously knew more information.

But he didn't ask, and he didn't need to ask.

He knew that he just had to persevere and complete it.

"boom--"

The monsters that were looking for Jiang Huaique around had not yet reacted when they were split into two halves by the flash of the knife, and black water splashed everywhere, hitting the wall of the ruins.

The Jianghuai Partridge changed its previous cautious attitude when fleeing and chose to attack actively.

Since he and these monsters have the same goal, they will be in a competitive relationship. There is no need to hide and conserve energy. Just fight with all your might.

His proactive attack was broadcast live.

The audience cried out in shock.

[Fuck, this wave of male mothers is too fierce. ]

[He must have received some news, but he didn't open the panel to see it, so only he could see it.]

[+1, Xiao Baiwan took the initiative to go to the eighth floor, and lost sight again. Not long after that, the dungeon collapsed. The male mother changed her tactics and took the initiative to attack. I don’t believe that this has nothing to do with Xiao Baiwan. ]

[Ohhhh! These pectoral muscles! Slurp!]

[Ah, seeing how agile Jiang Huai was when he killed the monster, it's hard to believe that he didn't awaken any special features.]

[Wow, I was trash before I awakened my trait, but when I saw Jiang Mama without awakening her trait, she was no different from other players with strength or agility traits.]

[Maybe this is the physical talent. ]

[I understand what you mean, but why do these words sound so erotic when they come out of your mouth?]

But soon, the audience got more information.

[Shit, all the other people who entered the mirror were vomited out, and now they are all piled up on the first floor, like a pyramid.]

[Ahhhh, I really want to know what the little millionaire on the eighth floor did! ]

[Hey, so did any of you pay attention to the battle between the Ugly Emperor and the Astrologer? Damn, Sister Astrologer suffered a loss due to the terrain. The meteorite she just summoned was almost cracked by this layer.]

…

Shell, premium lounge top floor.

The huge projection screen showed the live broadcast content separately. Cen Jinyue sat on the side of the table, put down her game console for a rare time, and looked at the projection screen carefully.

Hearing the sound of a door being pushed open behind her, Cen Jinyue did not turn around, and her voice no longer had the frivolous tone of the past.

"Who do you think that mask is for?"

Gan Mi had just walked in and suddenly heard this question. He remained silent and did not answer.

Although there was no one else in the meeting except the two of them, he didn't think that Cen Jinyue's question required his answer.

As expected.

When Gan Mi walked to the open lounge area opposite the conference room, found the wine cabinet, and took out the wine she had put there earlier, Cen Jinyue answered her own question.

"2S-level props. Looking at the embedded part in the video just now, it's probably a space prop." He touched his chin, turned his head, and shouted, "Oh, by the way, I put some strawberry milk in your freezer. Please help me get it. Thank you."

“…”

Gan Mi lowered her head and saw strawberry milk in the refrigerator where ice cubes were stored.

"Get it yourself." He glanced away, then looked away, carrying the wine and walking away, ignoring Cen Jinyue's shouts.

Before leaving the house, Gan Mi stopped when he saw the grid at the edge of the projection screen.

"Sophora japonica?"

It’s strange, why Cen Jinyue would watch Jiang Huaiqie’s live broadcast.

Cen Jinyue stood up and shook her head, muttering, "Hey, this vice president is so boring. He can't even order you to get some strawberry milk. Hey——"

Seeing that Gan Mi was curious about Jiang Huaique's screen, he squatted beside the refrigerator and explained a few words.

"A perfect body that is rare among humans. Even without awakening its special properties, it is still a very good vessel. The boss said before that he wanted to recruit it as a backup... Well, to be honest, I didn't expect that he didn't resort to any crooked ways later on."

After taking the box of milk, Cen Jinyue stood up and looked at Gan Mi who was already walking to the door with the wine.

"Xu Zhiyan knew that the trait could be transplanted, and the price was not expensive, so why didn't he think of buying one for his men?"

Mimics need a suitable container.

A shell with special characteristics is certainly a good choice, but containers can be good or bad.

If one could possess a perfect human body and then use other means to increase some powerful characteristics, one could maximize one's strength.

Gan Mi withdrew his gaze and didn't look again.

He wanted to say that Xu Zhiyan was different from them.

"Who knows?"

He replied.

It was just a casual chat, and Cen Jinyue didn't expect to get any good answers from Gan Mi, but since they met, he would still arrange some things to go on.

"The boss will be out of the dungeon soon. Maybe I can meet Alves."

"Well, if Alves survives."

He tapped a few times on the screen beside him, seemingly sending some data to Gan Mi.

"You go deal with the people on the list."

Biting open the straw package, Cen Jinyue took a big sip of the sweet drink, her tone relaxed, as if the assigned task was not to kill.

"Their current addresses are also in the back. Don't wait until you enter the dungeon. The dungeon takes too long. If these people stay in their shells, forget it."

After listening, Gan Mi clicked on the received message with an indifferent expression.

"good."

His answer was as cold and desolate as his expression.

This look was too cold. Cen Jinyue threw the empty drink packaging into the trash can, leaned against the side of the long table with her arms folded, and stared at Gan Mi for a while.

"Speaking of which... do you want to change your nickname?"

The smiling tiger of the past has completely lost his smile.

He felt that he hadn't seen Gan Mi smile for a long time.

At the beginning, Cen Jinyue had suspected whether there was a problem with Gan Mi's memory recovery, but all along, except for not doing the new task of killing Xu Zhiyan, he did everything else very well, and he didn't seem to have any human emotions.

"You don't even know how to laugh anymore, so just change it."

"……Need not."

After saying that, Gan Mi pushed the door and left.

Cen Jinyue, who was left there again, scratched her hair and reached for the remote control.

After a few seconds, Xu Zhiyan's live broadcast room appeared with a black screen.

“It’s really difficult.”

He was a little worried.

"What is the charm of this human being?" Cen Jinyue muttered to herself with a frown.

Every time someone talked about topics related to Xu Zhiyan, the meeting room would always become strange. He even began to wonder if he could use money to win over the other party if the budget was sufficient.

"It's a bit late."

"If only we could have found him before he became anonymous... how much would it cost?"

…

In the copy, Xu Zhiyan had no idea that someone was considering paying a large sum of money to bribe him.

He looked at Jiang Huaique's agile skills in the mirror, and his expression still couldn't relax.

Having reached a consensus with the out-of-control system, there was naturally no attack penalty, and the blood finally recovered from a shapeless blood film to a state of standing aside.

Seeing Xu Zhiyan's serious expression, it hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Otherwise I'll just go and open the door."

"Although the original body has saved the door, the door is still on the other side. We can't get in at all. Oh, He is really weak."

Thinking that it would soon return, if it didn't slander the original body it would miss the chance, it started looking for trouble.

He noticed that Xu Zhiyan didn't seem to want to pay attention to it, and the blood began to show itself secretly.

"I am different."

"I know you're worried about that human. I can actually help you extend the time a little bit. The hotel's ability is time... Ahem, but it's hard to send props in right now."

"Um?"

Xu Zhiyan was stunned. What he was most worried about now was Jiang Huaique.

Blood's words suddenly woke him up.

"You stay here and wait for me."

After saying that, he rushed out of the door, leaving only the blood and the out-of-control system staring at each other in bewilderment.

After leaving the Mirror Hall on the eighth floor, he tried to open the game panel.

"I think I need an explanation."

He denounced the system without hesitation.

"I used both emotional and logical appeals to get the mirror on the eighth floor to spit out the other players, but it told me that one of my teammates is trapped inside. It's not that it won't let us go, but that it's trapped by the main system."

Damn it, he was so focused on taking over the out-of-control system that he almost forgot there was another one waiting outside.

"We are the only ones doing this guild mission."

"It doesn't make sense that people who work more should die, while people who don't work can just sit back and reap the benefits, right?"

Instead of hiding anything, he chose to communicate openly with the system.

[I understand your thoughts, but we don’t want the mirror inside to deceive you and trap the person in the mirror to death.]

The system's answer makes people cautious.

Xu Zhiyan looked at the content above, frowned and did not answer.

If he tells others about the out-of-control system, the main system will definitely guess what kind of deal he has reached with the other party. If he takes the out-of-control system away, he might even be targeted by the main system.

But it wouldn't be a good idea to just take the blame.

Xu Zhiyan took a deep breath, his expression was extremely sad, and his voice was trembling when he spoke.

"I know I may have been scammed, but I don't have a choice now."

"Please, considering that the players in our guild are so diligent in completing the mission, can you apply to the main system to let me send some props to my teammates?"

"You can't even do this!"

He cut off the source of the problem and did not pursue any responsibility.

"If Jiang Huai Que really dies, how will you let the players who are doing the mission seriously think? The more you do, the more people will die. Will everyone just give up in the future?"

The game system was caught off guard by the question.

The fact that the out-of-control system spit out other players has completely disrupted the plan.

The original idea was that all humans who entered the ruined world would die, and then all problems would be blamed on the out-of-control system.

It is the mirror that traps people.

It's normal that the out-of-control system should be blamed for this.

Without waiting for the system to reply, Xu Zhiyan entered the next stage.

"Everyone is watching in the live broadcast room."

After he began to enter the dungeon, players encountered unexpected events due to incomplete information provided by the system.

"There is no news at all. There is only a lousy tour guide who keeps talking nonsense and we don't understand what he is saying. He also doesn't give us all the information about the hotel. The museum is a place where people are killed. Players can die, but they can't die without knowing why..."

The content he carefully drafted deeply touched the hearts of the audience.

[…Shit, it seems to be true! ]

[Only Mother Jiang was placing props in the mirror world. I just went to take a look and she was indeed the only one who hadn’t come out!]

[Ahhh why! Don’t players have human rights? ]

[Fuck, this reminds me of the painful experience of being a social animal... the more you do, the more mistakes you make; the less you do, the fewer mistakes you make; and if you do nothing, no mistakes.]

[Since we're all going to die, why bother trying so hard to escape? ]

[That’s right! @Main System, be a human being! ]

[Upstairs, you should ask the main system to treat players as individuals. 】

This emotional and logical statement instantly filled the screen of Xu Zhiyan's live broadcast room.

The system did not answer.

Xu Zhiyan saw a very small message.

[His death will bring you value. After the copy is over, the system will provide you with an additional subsidy of 3 million points.]

The game system has been dealing with Xu Zhiyan for a long time, and it has accurately given some "life-buying money". According to its data calculations, as long as a sufficient price is offered, the player in front of him will not struggle too much.

Once the money is paid, if the players say anything more, it can make the transaction records public.

The players will judge for themselves who is truly without conscience.

After seeing the three million points, Xu Zhiyan frowned and immediately took a screenshot and sent it to the guild chat box.

[Xu Zhiyan: [Screenshot.jpg] Jiang Jiang, from now on you owe me another three million. Remember to work like a slave to pay me back.]

[Jiang Huai Que: Get lost! ! ]

After receiving Jiang Huaique's energetic shout, Xu Zhiyan suppressed his smile, adjusted his expression and roared.

"Get out! Can the lives of my teammates be measured by money? You are insulting my personality!" His eyes were wide open, his expression full of disbelief.

But after he finished speaking, he seemed to remember something and softened his voice.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I just couldn't control my emotions for a moment."

"I shouldn't have scolded you. I just want to save my teammate's life. If that doesn't work, please let me send him some props. Please."

Without the supporting role of blood, Xu Zhiyan can sing the roles of red cop and white cop himself, and the effect is very good.

【……】

The game system is a bit confused.

Why did it feel that the cunning human in front of it was saying all the good and bad things? Moreover, the other party was mumbling, but his eyes were full of cunning, and both his heartbeat and blood pressure were very normal.

It wanted to say that Xu Zhiyan was pretending, but it had no evidence.

【Submitting report for you. 】

Soon, the report to the main system was submitted.

【Allows you to drop an item into the space. 】

It was just a prop, harmless, and the system gave an answer without much calculation.

Saved three million points, which is great.

“Bang—”

[This is a channel. Players, please control the size of the props you drop. ]

A gray object the size of a metal box was thrown on the ground. Perhaps out of concern that Xu Zhiyan might drop some powerful bomb into it, the system carefully limited the size of the prop.

It thinks this time it's foolproof.

Xu Zhiyan did not hesitate. He held the palm-sized square box, thanked repeatedly, and ran back to the Mirror Hall.

…

In front of the mirror, Blood pointed at himself and then at the box.

“You, you…”

It means to support some props, not to support it itself!

Xu Zhiyan stuffed the box into the other person's hand. There was no trace of sadness on his face, and his voice became much louder as he urged.

"Hurry up, fish Jiang Huai Que out for me, and don't forget the Heart of the World. Remember not to appear in human form, be a little more slimy. Oh, and let Jiang Huai Que throw the last two items out. If you complete the guild mission, you can get an extra reward..."

Anyway, blood can change size, so this small channel is enough.