The King's Magic Mirror (2)
The old man replied, "On the entire planet, I am the only one qualified to be called a repairman. The others can only be called repair workers."
Zhou Hui eagerly asked, "Can you help us strengthen this magic mirror?"
The repairman didn't even look up, saying, "Does this magic mirror need strengthening? It's already strong enough. Besides, I don't deal with objects that possess evil energy."
Jian Tanxi asked, "Master, could you make an exception just this once?"
"cannot."
The long-haired girl, Liu Ao, pleaded, "Master, we come from another planet; it wasn't easy for us to make this trip..."
Repairman: "This has nothing to do with me."
Then, the repairman went about fixing things on his own.
He took out a bottle of something that looked like glue, intending to apply it to a watch. However, the glue had hardened and couldn't be squeezed out.
The repairman frowned and whispered, "Why isn't it working..."
Jian Tanxi stepped forward and said, "I can help you."
As she spoke, Jian Tanxi used her "softness to overcome hardness" superpower to soften the bottle of glue again.
This ability can soften hard objects and is also effective on liquids.
The mechanic squeezed out the glue and successfully repaired the watch.
He said to Jian Tanxi, "Since you helped me, I can make an exception and help you this once. However, you have to help me find three animals. Those three animals used to be my pets, but they went missing many years ago."
Jian Tanxi was overjoyed: "Which three animals?"
"One of them was a dog with horns on its head, called a Diptero, with black and white stripes on its body, just like a zebra."
It was a two-headed cow, with two heads, one red and one green, and it was about the size of a house cat.
One of them was a three-shelled turtle, a bronze-colored turtle, about the size of an adult's hand.
Jian Tanxi asked, "When were they lost? Where were they lost?"
The mechanic said, "If I knew, I wouldn't have made you look for it."
"So, are they on this planet, or on another planet?"
"have no idea."
The players looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
Is this a search for three animals across the entire universe?
Jian Tanxi then asked, "What are the characteristics of these three animals?"
Mechanic: "I've already described the characteristics. I don't remember the other details because they've been missing for a long time. Also, finding these three animals isn't enough; you also need to remove the evil aura from this magic mirror before I can enhance it."
How to get rid of evil spirits?
"At the very least, it should make it spit out the people it swallowed."
Jian Tanxi was in a dilemma.
The Magic Mirror would definitely not agree to this request.
The mechanic said he was very busy and asked Jian Tanxi and the others to leave first.
Liu Ao asked, "What do we do now? Should we stay on this planet, or go back to where we were?"
Han Mengqi said, "I think there's no point in rushing back. If those three animals aren't in that world, we'll just be wasting our time."
Qu Xingyuan said, "Why don't we settle here for now? Every time I use Cosmic Fold, I lose five abilities."
Jian Tanxi exclaimed in surprise, "So the price of using this ability is so high... I was just thinking that your ability is much more powerful than ours. It turns out that it cannot be used lightly."
Qu Xingyuan said, "It's alright. The most important thing is to get through this difficult time. We'll have a chance to get back the superpowers we lost this time."
Seeing that Qu Xingyuan didn't seem to care much, Jian Tanxi admired him.
Jian Tanxi's "three-dimensional folding" ability can only fold space within a certain range. She cannot fold space on a cosmic scale like this.
Moreover, if it meant sacrificing five superpowers to activate the Cosmic Folding technique, she would hesitate. Qu Xingyuan earned her sincere admiration.
Liu Ao asked, "So, we're going to stay on this planet for the time being? Where will we live?"
Jian Tanxi took out a prop—the Life-Saving Compass—and said, "Let the compass choose for us."
The survival compass would point in the safest direction. After its needle spun a few times, it pointed northwest.
The group headed northwest and soon came across an abandoned house, which they went inside.
The houses here are amazing. Once inside, you don't need to walk. To go in a certain direction, you just need to tilt your body in that direction.
After everyone put the magic mirror down, they took a short rest.
The magic mirror spoke: "Don't even think about making me vomit up the people I've eaten. They're already walking corpses; there's no point in them coming out. Besides, my abilities will decrease if they leave the mirror, which is the opposite of your goal."
That mechanic said he could enhance my abilities; I think he's just bragging. If you believe him, I'll sell you health supplements when you're old, and I'll sell them to you every time.
Everyone ignored the magic mirror's words, and the mirror was clearly panicked. It didn't want the human inside it to be rescued.
Everyone was thinking about how to rescue the person inside the magic mirror without being hindered by it.
Currently, the mechanics have no clue about the three animals they are looking for, and the only thing everyone can do is to cleanse the evil spirits from the magic mirror.
At this moment, Liu Ao walked to Jian Tanxi's side and whispered, "Jian, you talk to the magic mirror to distract it. I have something to do."
Jian Tanxi nodded, and Liu Ao walked away.
Jian Tanxi asked the magic mirror, "Magic mirror, how old are you?"
Magic Mirror: "Probably a few hundred years old."
Do you know where the mechanic's three lost pets are?
How would I know?
"Aren't you omniscient and omnipotent?"
"Who told you I'm omniscient and omnipotent? If I were really that powerful, why would I need to find ways to enhance myself? I..."
The magic mirror didn't continue.
Because Liu Ao secretly stuck a talisman on it.
The talisman had no words on it, only a red cross.
Jian Tanxi called the magic mirror a few more times, but the magic mirror did not answer.
Liu Ao said, "The magic mirror can't answer anymore; it's been turned into an ordinary mirror by this talisman. However, the talisman's effect only lasts for one hour."
Jian Tanxi asked, "What kind of talisman is this?"
"A spirit-sealing talisman seals the sentience of objects. It is ineffective against humans, but effective against objects that have become sentient."
Another girl, Han Mengqi, said, "Shall we go inside the mirror now to save them?"
Liu Ao: "I don't know how to get in, you know?"
Han Mengqi said, "I have a special ability—traveling through mirror worlds. However, I can only bring one person in at most."
Jian Tanxi said, "Then take me inside."
"good."
Han Mengqi activated her supernatural power and pulled Jian Tanxi into the magic mirror.
The world inside the magic mirror is made entirely of transparent glass, with many mirrors floating in the air, seemingly without end.
Han Mengqi placed a star-shaped hair clip where they came in and said, "This is where we came in, and we'll have to leave through here later. This hair clip can be used to locate ourselves and won't be moved by external forces."
Jian Tanxi nodded: "Okay. How about we split up and look for the people, then meet here later?"
“Sure. But if we encounter humans, how do we get them out? I can travel freely in the mirror world, but since I’ve brought you along, I can’t bring anyone else.”
Jian Tanxi took out a prop that looked like a piggy bank and handed it to Han Mengqi: "This prop can store humans. Just point the opening at the top at the human, and the human will shrink and be sucked in."
Jian Tanxi has two of these props; they were prizes she received from participating in a game a while ago.
Han Mengqi took the piggy bank and said, "We still need to agree on a time, how long we'll stay inside in total?"
Jian Tanxi said, "That talisman is only valid for one hour, so we have to get out within an hour. Do you have a Pomodoro timer? Let's set a countdown."
"I have a Pomodoro Technique, so it's settled then. Let's not waste any time."
Han Mengqi walked to the left, while Jian Tanxi walked to the right.
Jian Tanxi rode the magic carpet, moving forward quickly, while carefully looking around to see if there were any humans.
After flying for about ten minutes, she saw a red-haired man.
The red-haired man walked slowly, his eyes were completely black with no whites, and he looked like a walking corpse.
He must have had most of his intelligence absorbed by the mirror to become like this.
Jian Tanxi took out her piggy bank, about to suck the man in, but then stopped after a second thought.
Jian Tanxi activated her superpower: "Superpower activated—edit the script. Add three words to 'The superpowered individuals are wandering around.' Change it to 'The superpowered individuals are wandering around the red-haired man.'"
Jian Tanxi's ability to modify scripts can now change three words, and the changes take effect immediately.
A number of other superhumans, about a dozen in total, appeared around the red-haired man. They all had completely black eyes, moved slowly, and sometimes even swayed unsteadily, just like the red-haired man.
Jian Tanxi sucked them all in with her piggy bank.
While the ability to modify scripts is powerful, it has a limited range of effectiveness. Beyond a certain range, it stops working.
Therefore, this script revision only attracted a small number of people with superpowers, and there should be other people who slipped through the net.
Jian Tanxi continued flying forward on the magic carpet. When she encountered a superhuman, she used the same method to attract more superhumans.
Later, she used up all the chances she could use to revise the script, and recruited more than eighty people with superpowers.
Seeing that it was almost time, Jian Tanxi prepared to fly back.
Just then, she noticed a small black dot moving in the distance. Could it be a Black person with superpowers?
Jian Tanxi decided to fly over and take a look.
Unexpectedly, when she flew to the vicinity of that small black dot, she discovered that it was not a black person, but a dog.
This dog has two horns on its head and its body has black and white stripes, just like a zebra's stripes.
It's a Diplodocus, one of the Mechanic's pets!
Jian Tanxi was overjoyed and picked up the dog.
She discovered that, like other superhumans, the dog had completely black eyes with no whites, suggesting it was essentially a zombie.
Perhaps it was because this dog also possessed supernatural abilities that it was swallowed by the magic mirror.
But how could the magic mirror encounter a dog from another planet?
We can ask the Magic Mirror about this later.
I don't know if it's appropriate to hand this dog over to a mechanic, but at least we found it, which is a big step forward.
Jian Tanxi flew back with the dog in her arms.
On the other side, Han Mengqi walked forward while taking out a handful of medicinal powder and sprinkling it everywhere.
Most of the powder was scattered in the air without any apparent cause. A small portion of the powder landed on her, emitting a red glow.
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