Chapter 133: The Man in the Mirror (Comic Content)
The woman is dead.
It was unstoppable. While the security guards were still hesitating whether to step forward, she, who had no will to resist, died under the blood-stained fruit knife.
The fruit knife that she had wielded to kill her husband finally stopped at her heart, deeply inserted into it, with only the handle not covered by flesh and blood standing there.
Her eyes were clear for a few breaths before she died, but her weak breathing made it impossible for her to make a sound. She just kept looking at her other self in despair and silence, and died silently.
The bustling and noisy commercial street is extremely quiet at this moment. Everyone stared at the scene stiffly, watching the previous murderer being killed by another person. The red curly-haired woman who looked exactly like the previous murderer collapsed and fell to her knees, her tangled long hair hiding her expression. She cried and howled madly, tearing at her own sticky and smelly hair, still holding the fruit knife in her hand.
Alarm bells rang from a distance, whistling all around and waking up everyone's bodies. The security guards took a deep breath, kicked the woman to the ground while she was immersed in collapse, snatched the knife and threw it aside, then rushed forward and pinned the woman to the ground.
At first there was a fierce resistance, the woman bit and scratched everything she could touch, but with the efforts of several people, she finally lost the room for resistance and was pressed face down on the ground without any strength left.
She calmed down and looked up at the sky with her cloudy eye. The hospital gown was loosely draped over her body, and the blood plasma stained on it made her look like a murderer who had escaped from a mental hospital.
"It's horrible... from a mental hospital..."
Someone standing far away whispered, with a fearful tone.
"Right... She and that woman look so much alike, could they be twins? I feel like this whole family has mental problems, including that man..."
Some people covered their mouths and speculated, keeping out of the matter as it had nothing to do with them.
"This will definitely be the biggest headline of today... no, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow... I have first-hand information and videos here..."
Someone hid in the corner, holding the mobile phone as if it were a treasure.
…
"I remember now."
Suddenly, Ye Yunhe said softly.
"When I was in the first space, I saw this piece of news on my tablet—"
"A murder case broke out in the commercial street. A woman killed her husband with a fruit knife, and then another person took the knife and killed him. The scene was horrific. The relationship between the latter and the woman is still unknown. The murderer has been arrested by the police and is suspected of suffering from mental illness."
"And the picture in the news is the scene just now."
A man with broken limbs, a woman with a blurred face, and a woman kneeling on the ground, breaking down and crying. This bloody picture, which is not even censored, is embedded nakedly in the middle of the text, as if the copy is intentionally bad.
Tell her: What you have been looking for has actually appeared in front of you from the beginning.
But this is not the most important thing. More importantly, the memories from reality emerge along with this picture.
Ye Yunhe clenched the metal railing, his brows gloomy: "I vaguely remember that about half a year ago, a piece of news related to love murder also caused a commotion on the Internet, but at that time we were still in the training stage and did not pay attention to smart products and Internet hot spots at the time. Therefore, I only wrote down part of it when I casually browsed my phone before going to bed."
"Is that so?"
Lin Muyu had no memory of this news. That period was the most intense period of training. "Xiao Ye, how much can you remember?"
"It's about a woman with a mental illness. Because of her husband's deception and infidelity, she attacked with a knife in the street. In the end, her husband died and she was locked up in a mental hospital." The memory emerged very clearly. Ye Yunhe could even recall her movements before going to bed. "It was quite a long time later when I saw it. The woman committed suicide in the mental hospital. Because the way she died was very tragic and the man was really disgusting, I remember it very clearly."
"She died in the bathroom when she hit her head against the mirror."
“…”
The four fell silent.
The origins of the main storyline and NPCs in the dungeon were actually revealed a long time ago.
They all come from reality.
Therefore, they have a vividness that is completely different from ordinary NPCs, and have independent and clear lifelines because they have souls. The dead body in reality leaves the soul with nowhere to go, and it is finally bound in the black fog, confined to the copy and unable to escape.
In the circus copy, the trio of Hearts and the magician, the young Nina and the greedy leader had focused on searching for entries related to "circus", and finally learned the real name of "Nina Circus" from an old man. Those who had long disappeared in the torrent of time were re-extracted by the black fog, deprived of their names and transformed into roles of varying degrees of importance, to perform the dramas they had performed in their lifetime.
Why can’t we have extra feelings for NPCs?
The instructor who taught the three people once told them that there is only one way to save NPCs in this world - that is to clean up the copy and completely eliminate the black fog that trapped those souls. That is the real liberation. The one you have feelings for is nothing more than a controlled puppet. Under the manipulation of the copy, no matter how kind he is, he will eventually be corroded into a deformity, leaving no room for you.
This is true for the circus and for the "mountain god" who is filled with resentment.
The real enemy hides deep in the black fog, enjoying the tragedy of humans killing each other, manipulating the tormented souls to raise their blades against their own kind, and then floats away after the ending, heading to the next theater.
That is the most hateful thing.
"So, reality has been changed." Qi Heng paused, his eyes shifting slightly as he stared at the broken lenses below. "What Xiaoye said about the cracks on the mirror was actually the marks left by the woman bumping into it, but the copy changed the plot of her death and allowed her to travel to another timeline."
"Thus, the cycle was born. Her soul was trapped in this endless '8', killing herself and being killed by herself over and over again."
Until her still pure white soul was completely polluted by the cycle, degenerated into complete deformity, lost her only remaining self, and finally coexisted and perished with the copy, never to be freed.
This is also the reason why copies will continue to upgrade over time.
“How many times has this cycle happened?”
Si Yuan asked through gritted teeth.
"The sixth time, or the seventh time. Isn't this the most commonly used method in copies?" Qi Heng sneered.
"Maybe the initial cycle won't be two hours, but after a few days, the instance that's about to be upgraded to S-rank won't be so kind. Besides, that woman's soul is dying, and the alienated energy in her is very strong."
"So the eighth time is when she was successfully transformed." Ye Yunhe pinched the metal railing and sank it inwards, smiling. "It's really a number that runs through the whole process. You are so confident. Do you think we can't stop it?"
Lin Muyu chuckled, and his gentle look changed: "Of course we can stop it."
"Now that we have figured out the main plot, the way to end it is to break this damn cycle. We must seize this opportunity."
It is known that the key point of traveling through the mirror is the "soul". From the degree of alienation of the woman, we can know that at least the severity of the alienation will not prevent the travel. However, since the player has a debuff called a clone, he still needs to be more careful.
"Then this cycle should be over."
Qi Heng reminded him, and the young boy counted down the seconds, his calm face showing a ripple: "I don't know which space you will be teleported to. Anyway, we have to allocate our respective areas of responsibility as soon as possible to maximize the time."
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The End has been updated.
Suddenly hearing this sentence, I really miss it a little. Readers who had been waiting for a long time entered the page eagerly, clicked on the newly updated chapters, and saw their nicknames floating on the beautiful color pages.
This update was much later than the last one. After eating the sweet candies after the four-member team building, readers began to look forward to the next update, but after waiting for days longer than expected, they felt painful and empty like a poor person who was forced to withdraw, and screamed wildly on the forum.
Until finally I got to this update. The reader who was about to cry accidentally glanced at the page number of the new chapter and swallowed his tears in shock.
"What the hell? This chapter is so long???"
"I'm going to eat so much that I'm going to die (Sheng Mu is shocked.jpg)"
"Oh my god, I've never been hungry since I followed you, manga artist. How can I keep you from my real mother!! (tears)(tears)(tears)"
"I hereby swear: I will always follow the cartoonist, never refute the cartoonist, and always hold the cartoonist in high esteem. You guys who are blinded by the updates, stay away from my Lord! (Carrying the cannon)"
"This time the coloring page is for a new dungeon!! That cheating dungeon is definitely part of the protagonist group's upgrade!!!"
"So many mirrors... So many cats, so many Xiaoyes, so many captains, so many An'an... I want them all!! (dizzy) (slurp) (dizzy)"
"Give me one."
"Give me one."
"I'll be obedient if I'm assigned a deformed species."
…
The readers were delighted to see the update, and after seeing so many pages, although they were shocked by the cartoonist's octopus-like hand speed, they couldn't help but feel happy about it.
Except for Song Ling who took a deep breath while holding the pen and sighed that this would definitely be a protracted battle, everyone else was laughing.
The chapter opens with a scene of four people getting ready to go.
Even before entering the dungeon, looking at the black fog from a distance, one can feel the oppressive and dull atmosphere. Different from other black fogs, its highly aggressive spread makes it even more aggressive. The huge smiling face printed in the center became exaggerated and hideous after sensing someone coming.
The barrage was startled by the darkness of the screen, and after a moment of silence, it let out a series of shouts.
The foursome were drawn into the black fog amid a series of shouts and worries. As soon as they landed, they were killed by a door. In the picture similar to the color page, there were endless mirrors surrounding them. The reflections in them had the opposite malice of their own, and they were sticky and close to the original body.
Among their reflections from different perspectives, Qi Heng is the only one that doesn't fit in. This detail made Song Ling's ink and pen fly, and he started writing frantically again.
This may be the secret copy of Qi Heng’s physique! He thought so firmly.
But he soon forgot such a guess. Because what followed was the situation where the four-member group dispersed, which was also the reason why the number of pages in the cartoonist exploded. The demonstrations and accidents from three different perspectives are simply overwhelming, each with its own difficulties, and the fighting scenes are endless.
But what followed was a deep question from the barrage:
"Where's my cat?"
As one of the four members, Qi Heng was hidden away after the group was dispersed and had no more roles to play. He was trapped in the "attic" at the center like a Rapunzel and could only rely on his "long hair" to connect with his teammates. He is actually the one with the best and worst luck among the four.
The barrage asked again:
"So why are cats always shaped like princesses?"
"Maybe because it really fits the metaphor (thumbs up.jpg)"
There is no need to elaborate on the hardships on the way to the reunion. In short, the final outcome is worthy of the hardships endured along the way. Seeing the four people finally get together again, the readers shed tears of relief, and the stone hanging in their hearts suddenly fell.
It soon came back to life.
Therefore, the "surprise" mentioned by Qi Heng happened unexpectedly in front of the barrage of comments.
The two extremely tragic murders, sponsored by a fruit knife, brought readers an extraordinary visual enjoyment. The cartoonists and unscrupulous media are both hovering on the edge of passing the review due to their vivid animation techniques that disregard human life and death and their bloody and mangled works that are comparable to those banned in the 18+ category.
The readers' minds were chilled by the analysis after the protagonists' sudden enlightenment. They were confused and suddenly realized, and finally a heated debate began in the scene of the four people's discussion, which opened a new round of bets.
"The reason why the protagonists are the protagonists is because they can always break through the difficulties and escape successfully! The small cycle is just as easy as this!!"
"That must come at a price, right?! This is a shonen manga! It's not a healing manga!"
“Why are you comparing cartoonists to those bastards! He can post so much at once, what bad intentions can he have!!”
"Bah! This is definitely a case of first praise and then depression! I dare to believe that the knife is hidden in the clues!!"
…
The tone was intense, which could be read from the exclamation marks after every sentence.
At the same time, in a corner where no one cared, a barrage of comments floated by faintly.
"Uh, stop arguing... didn't you notice that woman was staring at the protagonists the whole time...?"
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