Mirror corridor
After a while, Sir John said, "Everyone should have received their rewards by now, so next..."
Jian Tanxi said, "Wait a minute... I want to ask, what will happen to Ding Zhelan? I don't think she deserves to die."
Knight John said, "Don't worry, she won't die. Next, there are two more ecospheres, which can be used to determine the two people who contribute the most to this game. Each ecosphere contains 300,000 people. The top two in this game are Jian Tanxi and Fan Siqi. Do you want to take the ecospheres?"
Jian Tanxi and Fan Siqi replied without hesitation, "Yes."
So, Knight John handed the two ecospheres to the two men.
Fan Siqi asked Jian Tanxi, "Including this ecosphere today, how many people are there with you?"
Jian Tanxi said, "1.5 million."
Fan Siqi nodded and said, "I have a total of 1.2 million here. My goal is to save as many people as possible."
"Yes, that's what I think too."
Professor Pan said, "I also have 550,000 here. But I'm worried about what will happen if all the games end and the Earthlings haven't gathered them all?"
Fan Siqi shook his head and said, "I don't know... I'll save as many as I can."
They wanted to say something more, but Sir John didn't give them much time and opened the teleportation portal.
A few minutes later, Jian Tanxi opened her eyes and found herself teleported to a house in a residential area, with Professor Pan and Qu Chen beside her.
Everyone else was not there, including Meng Yuening.
Jian Tanxi and Meng Yuening had teamed up for several games and had developed feelings for each other, so the sudden separation was inevitably a bit disheartening. Although she knew that the companionship spray had an expiration date, it was indeed time to part ways.
Professor Pan had previously sprayed Jian Tanxi and Qu Chen with a companion spray, so the three of them could play together three times. The game that just ended counts as one, and they would be together for the next two games.
However, after two separations, they may have to part ways again.
Thinking of this, Jian Tanxi felt a little melancholy and worried about Qu Chen.
Both she and Professor Pan have some self-defense skills, but Qu Chen is just a mentally challenged child. If he encounters someone with malicious intent, he could very well have an accident.
Jian Tanxi asked Professor Pan, "Professor Pan, did you receive the companion spray this time?"
Professor Pan shook his head and said, "No. What about you?"
“I don’t have any either… So we can only play two more games with Qu Chen at most. What should we do after that? I think the chances of encountering Qin Man in the next two games are very low.”
Professor Pan said, "We can only leave it to fate... Hopefully, in the next two games, we'll get the companion spray so we can stay together longer."
"Hmm. It's a pity that the reward you receive is completely random; you can't choose it yourself."
"Well, what can we do? We might as well make the best of it. Let's take a few days to rest."
"Um."
The house has two bedrooms, which is perfect for Jian Tanxi to sleep in one room, and for Professor Pan and Qu Chen to sleep in the other.
Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan both felt a bit tired, so they went back to their rooms to rest.
But Qu Chen was clearly not tired. He found himself in a new place and was very excited, running around.
This family also has a trampoline, and Qu Chen jumped on it for half an hour.
After jumping around until he was exhausted, he ran to Jian Tanxi's room.
Jian Tanxi let him sleep next to her, but after sleeping for a minute, he ran to Professor Pan's room.
He ran back and forth between the two rooms and finally fell asleep in the hallway.
When Jian Tanxi found him, he was fast asleep. Jian Tanxi carried him to the sofa and covered him with a blanket.
After resting for a few hours, Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan felt refreshed and went to the living room to watch the sunset and chat.
They had different majors, so they couldn't talk about professional knowledge; they could only talk about life.
Professor Pan asked Jian Tanxi, "Jian Tanxi, if none of this had happened, what would your ideal be?"
Jian Tanxi said, "I think I might hope to get higher exam scores so I can find a good job after graduation... I haven't planned anything more specific about the future yet."
"This world ultimately belongs to you young people... Don't worry, the earth will return to normal one day, and you will definitely live a good life then. After all, you have already made a great contribution to the earth and should be treated well."
"We will all have better lives."
"I may not be able to see it... I'm almost 80 years old."
"Professor Pan, please don't say that... Your body has been enhanced, you should live a few more years."
Professor Pan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter how many more years I can live. What matters is that the Earth can return to its former state... Jian Tanxi, if I don't make it through, the future of the Earth will depend on you young people."
"Professor Pan, I..."
Jian Tanxi didn't know how to respond; she felt a little sad.
Professor Pan said, "At my age, it's inevitable that I think about death, please don't mind... But being able to team up with young people and children makes me feel like I'm not that old yet, haha..."
"That's right, you still have to watch Qu Chen grow up, and watch the other children grow up..."
Qu Chen took out building blocks from his bag and invited Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan to play with him.
The two then stopped talking about the sad topic and started playing with building blocks seriously.
Jian Tanxi tried to teach Qu Chen how to build a school, hospital, and restaurant, but Qu Chen couldn't learn at all and instead knocked down the blocks Jian Tanxi had built. Jian Tanxi was both amused and exasperated, so she gave up.
Starting the next day, they went out for a stroll, hoping to find any other survivors.
They usually go to places like schools, banks, libraries, and large supermarkets, where it's easiest to find people.
However, after searching for three or four days, they still couldn't find him.
It was a bit hot and there was no electricity, so they moved to the underground parking garage in the residential complex, where it was cooler.
Qu Chen was happy every day, and Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan made him happy too.
Jian Tanxi tried to ask Qu Chen several times if he had acquired any new superpowers, but Qu Chen couldn't answer and just smiled each time.
Jian Tanxi had no choice but to give up.
She took the contents of Qu Chen's bag out and found that he had 10 healing pills, 5 resurrection pills, a box of disguise rouge, a music box, and something that looked like a razor. In addition, there was a toy car.
These should all be rewards that Qu Chen obtained in the previous game, but there are several items that Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan do not know what they are used for.
Jian Tanxi said, "Is this music box only for playing music? And is this razor for shaving? This toy car looks like an ordinary toy..."
Professor Pan said, "These things should have special effects, but unfortunately only Qu Chen knows them, and we can't find out from him. Hopefully, he remembers how to use them. If he doesn't, we can't use them either."
"I think he probably didn't remember... I hope that when he meets someone else in the future, these things won't be taken away from him."
"That's unlikely; people are greedy. However, his props really do look useless. Maybe others won't want them and can keep them safe."
"I hope so."
Jian Tanxi showed these props to Qu Chen separately, asking him to demonstrate how to use them. However, Qu Chen never demonstrated; instead, he would hold the toys in his hands, weigh them in his hands, and then throw them on the ground. Jian Tanxi had to pick them up for him each time.
Later, Jian Tanxi put all these things away and wouldn't let him take them out to play with, which finally calmed him down.
Early that morning, Qu Chen woke up and shook Jian Tanxi until she was awake.
Jian Tanxi asked, "Do you want me to play with you?"
Qu Chen mimicked Jian Tanxi's lip movements and said, "Play..."
However, his pronunciation was not standard, and Jian Tanxi could only understand it intuitively.
She led Qu Chen outside, and Qu Chen found a grassy area where he started playing.
Jian Tanxi only needed to watch him from the side, so she wasn't tired at all.
After a while, Qu Chen wanted to eat a purplish-red fruit.
Jian Tanxi didn't recognize the fruit and was afraid it might be poisonous, so she took out her newly acquired herb identifier to check it.
The herbal medicine identifier has a screen that displays: "Phytolacca acinosa fruit, poisonous, inedible, will cause vomiting and diarrhea if eaten."
Jian Tanxi quickly stopped Qu Chen.
Qu Chen was about to put the fruit of the Phytolacca acinosa into his mouth when he was stopped, which made him very unhappy. But he still held the fruit tightly in his hand, unwilling to let go.
Jian Tanxi went to great lengths to get him to throw away the fruit and found him another edible one.
After a while, Jian Tanxi thought that she could bring some of the fruits of the Pokeweed plant, so that she might be able to use them when she encountered a difficult boss in the dungeon.
So she picked some pokeweed fruit, took Qu Chen back to the underground parking garage, and then shared half with Professor Pan.
They wrapped the fruit in cloth and hid it in their bags.
Jian Tanxi asked, "Professor Pan, when do you think the next game will start?"
Professor Pan said, "Perhaps soon..."
Before Professor Pan could finish speaking, the three of them were teleported to a new instance.
This is a very long corridor, seemingly endless.
Mirrors lined both sides of the corridor, reflecting the players' images.
The mirrors were as tall as the walls and stretched as far as the corridor.
Professor Pan and Qu Chen were right beside Jian Tanxi, and Jian Tanxi felt fortunate.
Although the environment is strange, at least I have familiar people around me.
Qu Chen loves looking in the mirror. He would run to the mirror on the left and then to the mirror on the right, and even kiss his reflection.
Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan watched with smiles on their faces.
Jian Tanxi asked, "Professor, what kind of copy is this? Why are we in a corridor? What's at the end of this corridor?"
Professor Pan said, "I can't say for sure... but we must never let the reflection in the mirror come out and fight us."
"Huh? Is that so? If so, there are mirrors on both sides here, so each of us will have two reflections. One against two, we definitely can't win."
"Don't worry, let's wait for the referee to announce the rules. It might be even more difficult than this."
"Pfft, Professor, is that how you talk?"
At this moment, the other players who were scattered around came over one after another.
This time, there were five strangers.
Two of them were blonde girls, and the other three were men, including middle-aged men and young men.
Everyone introduced themselves and got to know each other.
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