Chapter 76 Snowy Night
When his eyes were injured, Li Ziyue's first reaction was to feel relieved.
According to the [Blood Debt with Blood] mechanism, his eyes will be damaged sooner or later, and the injury now is just like being whipped repeatedly on a corpse.
The loss of profits has been minimized, which is a blessing in disguise.
He bit the corner of his mouth, licked the blood with the tip of his tongue, and smiled palely.
With pain in his eyes and obstructed vision, Li Ziyue could only identify the location of objects through hearing. However, the howling wind and snow all around him and the flapping of wings of flying beasts were cleverly hidden in this noise.
In my head there was a noisy buzzing sound, like the sound of a black and white TV showing a snowy screen.
Li Ziyue tried hard to squint his still bleeding eyes, and the scene in front of him was covered with a layer of blood red, but fortunately he could still see something and was not completely blind.
[Wow, even though I have reduced the empathy between the audience and the anchor, my eyes still hurt.]
[My eyesight has also been affected. It’s a bit magical. This is what the world looks like for myopic people.]
[Do you have any idea about the mirror? (scratching head)]
Mirror……
If Li Ziyue mentions a mirror in a snowy scene, his first reaction would be the frozen lake.
But he had just looked at the system map and found that the nearest lake was right next to the cabin. He still had to walk nearly a thousand meters to find the lake.
It was too far. He might have been caught by an invisible beast before he even got there.
"Well!"
A sharp pain came from the side of his waist. Li Ziyue's body tilted slightly uncontrollably. His lips became whiter from being bitten by him. He temporarily relaxed from the daze and suddenly felt as if there was a burning sensation on the wound.
The dagger slashed across, and the sound of ice breaking was heard.
Crackling, it sounded like firecrackers exploding during the New Year.
Even though Li Ziyue was very agile in dodging, he could only completely avoid the strange beasts that would leave footprints on the ground. He had basically no way to deal with the "things" flying around him.
Can't see.
Can't hear.
No one would hear his cry.
Blind, deaf and dumb is his current situation.
The blood dripped along with the ice.
Is the solution to the problem really the lake?
Not to mention whether other players who have the same experience as him know that there is a frozen lake one thousand meters away. If the answer is really a lake, the player has to endure a "blind man crossing the river" of nearly a thousand meters to get protection, which is unreasonable in itself.
This game segment does not test physical strength and endurance, but emphasizes "finding the real mirror", and the core is still decryption.
What is a mirror?
Which one is the real mirror and which one is the fake mirror?
Li Ziyue frowned, and suddenly recalled a short explanation in the rules of the game - "Don't forget the taste of the appetizer when eating the main meal~"
Appetizer?
He suddenly shuddered.
In an instant, all the known conditions like puzzle pieces were connected and pieced together in his mind, forming a test paper filled with answers.
So that's how it is.
The system pops up a reminder at this moment.
[Is the anchor willing to share his thoughts with the audience in the live broadcast room? This helps the audience understand the anchor's thoughts, improves interaction, and makes them more willing to reward points]
[It will also help you to have satisfactory audience teammates in the subsequent stages]
What’s next?
The system is paying more and more attention to the audience experience. I think there will be more and more "appetizer" segments in the future. It is not a bad thing to let the audience in the live broadcast room be mentally prepared in advance.
[Your thoughts are now shared with the top 20 screens of comprehensive evaluation by the live broadcast audience]
The audience on the list share the same vision with Li Ziyue, and can also see through VR glasses densely packed black handwriting on the white snow. Those are all Li Ziyue's ideas for solving the problem.
What mirror had he seen before - the snow.
He had previously "seen" the transparent beast through its footprints in the snow, but the snow was obviously a false mirror because the flying beast would not leave any marks on the snow.
This doesn't match the "all" in the game description.
So where is the real mirror?
The key to the appetizer session is "looking at each other".
[Holy shit?! I get it!]
[Facing the ground is…]
【Sky! 】
Li Ziyue raised his head with great difficulty, and saw that the sky, which was originally dark without any light, lit up with a gentle blue-purple light the moment it sensed his gaze.
The light was long and bright, gradually merging into a broad Milky Way with no end in sight. The indigo clouds were like water, flowing slowly along the river.
Right above his head, a person was standing upside down in the clouds, with his head slightly raised, looking at him.
Their eyes met and Li Ziyue was stunned.
The man had a face just like his.
He raised his arm, and the man in the cloud moved as well.
Only then did Li Ziyue realize that the person was himself.
The clouds in the sky are the mirror image of the snow on the ground.
The Sky Mirror made all the strange beasts on the ground visible.
They were all strange in shape and form: a hyena had given birth to two heads, a porcupine had grown a hundred claws, a two-meter-long centipede was entangled and mating with a python with only half of its trunk left.
These strange animals have human feet embedded underneath. Some of them have naked human upper bodies, while the lower bodies are transformed into horses and snakes. All of their limbs seem to be randomly spliced together, but the joints between their bones are extremely tight.
Centipedes can mate with snakes, so the reproductive isolation rule obviously doesn't apply here. So, could it be that these strange beasts are related to humans...
[It was detected that some viewers in the live broadcast room vomited. The mind sharing with the anchor has been forcibly disconnected and will be restarted after the anchor's emotions stabilize.]
Li Ziyue's face turned paler as he saw countless trembling human arms reaching out to him. After a quick count, he found that there were more than a dozen of them, and the nearest finger was about to poke his still bleeding eyeball.
Looking back, countless strange beasts landed on the long and narrow Milky Way. They seemed to be suddenly activated and walked slowly towards Li Ziyue, dragging dark green sticky liquid all over the ground.
Heavy feet hit the ground.
Human footprints.
Li Ziyue suddenly shrank his body downward, swung the broken blade, and chopped down the humanoid beast closest to him.
The baby's fragile head was instantly separated from the beast's body and turned into transparent broken ice cubes. Li Ziyue endured the churning in his stomach and ran forward without hesitation.
"He" in the sky also began to run wildly, and then, a very fast snow shadow slid past and approached the back of his head.
The object moved, but there were no footprints on the snow.
Li Ziyue twisted his wrist in a tiny arc and instantly cut the flying beast in half.
The broken ice hit his hands, and he gasped for breath, feeling the nerves in his arms twitching.
[Congratulations to the player for finding the first mirror - "Traces in the Snow"]
[Congratulations to the player for finding the second mirror - "Night Indus"]
[Reward: 70 gold coins]
The snow is still falling.
The strange beast already has the blessing of invisibility, so its movement speed is not too fast, and it is gradually pulled away by Li Ziyue for a distance.
He stopped and coughed in pain, blood flowing out of his mouth again.
That bit of warmth actually made him feel lucky to be alive.
At this time, it was less than 500 meters away from the cabin.
The light was dim at night, and the storm obscured his vision, making it difficult for Li Ziyue to see the road clearly.
It would be much better to look at the sky at this moment.
Li Ziyue raised his head and saw a small black-brown patch far away in the sky. He thought it should be the house that Zhang Xingzhi mentioned.
However, before he could catch his breath, his body suddenly tensed up, a strong chill suddenly arose from his heart, his whole body was covered with goosebumps and cold sweat broke out.
Something weird is going to happen...
Then he suddenly felt a momentary stinging pain on his cheek.
Li Ziyue realized it belatedly and put his cold hand on the side of his face.
His hands were numb from the cold, but his face suddenly felt stinging again. He stared blankly at the palm of his hand that was spread out in front of him.
It was covered in bright red blood.
The object fell silently into the snow, but it disturbed the snow-covered branches nearby. Only the rustling sound of wind blowing through the bamboo forest could be heard, and countless snowflakes fell, splashing a hazy white mist in the air.
Li Ziyue didn't dare to look up at the sky at this moment.
As long as he looks up.
The icicles falling from the sky would blind his eyes.
at the same time.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Snow Mirror (Part 2)" side game - the offensive and defensive situation is different]
[Game Difficulty: Two Stars (Ice and snow are the most convenient murder weapon. No need to deliberately handle it, it will melt by itself)]
[Game Description: The Sky Mirror you rely on has become the murderer that blinds your eyes? Who is the real mirror at this moment?]
[Game requirements: Those who save you will harm you. Those who seem to want you to die will actually let you live. Find the third mirror. (Hint: Don't forget the taste of appetizers when eating the main meal~)]
[Game Reward: 70 Gold Coins]
The “appetizer” prompt is still there, which means the “look at each other” principle still holds true.
Originally, he had been paying attention to the ground, but was accidentally injured in the eyes by a flying monster. This shows that the ground is a fake mirror, and the sky corresponding to it is a real mirror.
At this moment, icicles are falling from the sky, so the ground corresponding to them will become a real mirror again... right?
If that's true.
So where does the “third” mirror come from?
Although he had been paying attention to the snow before, the snow did not directly cause his death. To a certain extent, it also helped him avoid the attacks of the legged beasts, which was not consistent with the game's requirement of "it seems that you want to die, but in fact you are allowed to survive."
The third mirror...
The icicle suddenly pierced into the snow in front, and the sharp front end hit the snow below, making a loud "bang" sound.
Li Ziyue's breathing paused.
In order to avoid the icicles from the sky, he either had to dive underground or find something that could buffer the icicles.
What can offset the force of the ice cone hitting the ground and conform to the principle of "reflecting objects in the mirror"?
[Okay, okay, I understand again]
[??? Are we watching the same live broadcast? What do you understand?]
[Oh, there's nothing I can do. Just try your best to get into the top 20 and share the host's thinking and you'll know~]
【？ ？ ？】
He didn't suspect anything and ran towards the cabin, hiding under a tree where the snow was not too heavy.
The closer they got to the wooden house, the fewer strange beasts there were and the more zombies there were.
Fortunately, they were all low-level zombies and could only track targets by sight. Li Ziyue could not see them clearly, and they could not see Li Ziyue clearly either, which saved them trouble.
Under the cover of night, Li Ziyue sneaked into the wooden house quietly.
This wooden house should have been used as a woodshed in the past. The door was ajar, dust was everywhere inside, and the walls were filled with old dead branches.
Li Ziyue leaned against the wall and suppressed his cough, but before he could relax for long, he heard a crackling sound coming from the roof.
The fragile roof seemed to be broken by something. He looked up and saw a sharp crystal point emitting a chilling light in the night.
The icicles tracked him down and were smashing the house.
Li Ziyue supported himself on the wooden wall with one hand, gritted his teeth and stood up tremblingly.
It was a snowy night and the weather was cold. He had been injured in the eyes, abdomen and ankles by the strange beast. He had not eaten anything all day and was completely exhausted.
His face grew paler, and cold sweat wet the hair on his forehead, but his dark eyes grew brighter, with a deep cruelty in their depths, and his lips were a little redder from being bitten by him.
It doesn't look like a miserable traveler on the verge of despair, but more like a white butterfly covered with dew in the morning after the rain.
Red blush in white.
Li Ziyue was not in a hurry to leave the house. With the help of the purple-blue light from the sky, he barely felt a rough rope in the corner of the house. Just as he was about to get up, his fingertips touched something hard.
Li Ziyue was startled, then he stretched out his tongue a little and placed it on the fingertips that had touched the hard object.
A strong taste of rust wafts across the tongue.
Only then did he realize that the hard object was an axe, an axe that had been sharpened to an extremely sharp edge.
Li Ziyue felt his heartbeat stop for a moment. Without hesitation, he picked up the axe and walked out of the hut.
Why is there an axe here?
The axe is sharp, which means it has just been carefully sharpened by someone. Why does that person need an axe?
The low-level zombies surrounding here cannot be killed by chopping them down, so they can only be burned, which is obviously not a good way to defend against them.
This axe...
Li Ziyue stood under a big tree by the lake, using the thick branches above to temporarily avoid the icicles.
He took a deep breath, stopped, and saw the wide lake with a deep depression in front of him.
This lake is weird too.
He moved his eyes downward and estimated that the top of the ice on the lake was at least two meters away from the shore where he was standing.
This doesn't look like a normal lake, but more like a cup half filled with ice, with the mouth of the cup being the shore and the surface of the water frozen below.
There are obviously more weird things than that.
The surface of the lake was frozen, but colorful fish could be seen swimming below. There were many of them, and they were swimming in an orderly manner, leisurely and slowly.
At this time, there was an indigo Milky Way in the night sky, and its light was reflected on the ice, making the frozen lake look like the Milky Way in the sky on the other side.
Although everything before him had completely breached Li Ziyue's common sense, he still tried to explain it with reason.
The fish were easy to move, which meant that the water temperature under the ice might not be as cold as he imagined. Maybe...
Li Ziyue's movements suddenly stopped.
He focused his eyes slightly and saw a dark human figure under the transparent ice surface in the distance.
His damaged vision gradually became clear, but when he saw the shadow clearly, he felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave, and all the warmth in his body disappeared.
In the distance, there was a person frozen in the lake. His face was as white as paper, but there were several bloody cracks on his lips. His soft black short hair was scattered in the water, and tiny colorful fish were interspersed among them.
The body part was particularly horrific. The black hood was almost torn in half, revealing a bit of lean belly, and the abdomen seemed to be soaked in blood, with four or five bloody wounds hanging on it.
It was punctured by a sharp object.
The most critical part was the heart, where there was a fist-sized hole, and the fish was swimming up and down.
There was no sign of life, and it was obvious that he had been dead for a long time.
Li Ziyue coughed violently several times until blood spurted onto the ground again, forming plum blossoms on a snowy night. Only then did he become more sober.
He knew very well who that person was.
It's him.
wrong.
Not him.
It’s [Li Ziyue].
How could he die there? Was it really [Li Ziyue]? Was it the design of this instance? Or was it...
"Bang!" The icicle fell ten centimeters away from the tip of his nose. Li Ziyue didn't dare to look up.
There's no doubt that the branches above are probably full of icicles.
The icicle seemed to be able to penetrate everything, but it could not break the ice on the surface of the lake in front of Li Ziyue.
[The one who saves you will hurt you. The one who seems to want you to die will actually let you live]
Li Ziyue suppressed the urge to vomit and tied the rope he brought from the cabin around the big tree beside him.
He climbed down the rope, stood on the edge of the ice, and smashed the axe into the ice.
The ice surface that the icicles could not penetrate was shattered by the axe, and Li Ziyue felt a little relieved.
It seems that the axe is just a prop for breaking ice, and he was worrying too much.
When he put his hand into the lake water, he felt the heat as expected. Because his hands were too cold, Li Ziyue even felt that the water was boiling hot.
The fish swam over and kissed his fingers.
The axe hit the ice with a few bangs. Li Ziyue closed his eyes and dived into the lake.
He had just entered the water and had not had time to adapt to being underwater, so he could only hear the system prompts.
[Congratulations to the player for finding the third mirror - "Fish Swimming in the Lake"]
[Reward: 70 gold coins]
The judgment was correct.
Li Ziyue finally let go of the stone in his heart and felt the coolness on his body being dissipated little by little by the warm lake water.
Then I heard it again——
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Snow Mirror (Part 2)" side game——???]
[Game Difficulty: Two Stars (Ice and snow are the most convenient murder weapon. No need to deliberately handle it, it will melt by itself)]
[Game description: Warm water boils frogs, and ice water traps fish. You think you have gained warmth, but it is actually a trap that leads you into an ice cave.]
[Game requirements: The third mirror turns from real to fake, please find the fourth mirror. (Hint: Don’t forget the taste of the appetizer when eating the main meal~)]
[Game Rewards: …]
Before Li Ziyue could hear the last sentence of the system, his sixth sense suddenly alerted him to something approaching. He suddenly opened his eyes.
The dead [Li Ziyue] had moved in front of him at some point, facing him head on, with only half a meter between them.
At the same time, several arms that were so thin that their bones were visible stretched out from above his head. The nails at the front turned into sharp ice needles and stabbed straight towards Li Ziyue's head.
A group of No. 102 mutant zombies with humanoid shapes and animal bodies had gathered on the lake surface at some point. They all looked down at the lake with greed, and their sharp axes kept hitting the ice.
Li Ziyue had no time to pay attention to the above at the moment. He only felt that the previous warmth quickly dissipated again, and he felt as if he was completely deprived of breathing. His throat was blocked and his vision was blurred. He vaguely saw Li Ziyue holding a short blade in his hand, with the tip of the blade pointed at his heart, and was attacking him along the waves of the lake.
I have no strength left.
The temperature also dissipated, and Li Ziyue squinted weakly, numbly feeling his consciousness dissipating.
The fish stopped swimming, the light around them grew dimmer, and the man gradually sank into the abyss.
Then three loud gunshots were heard: "Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The bullets were like fireworks that ignited in an instant, exploding with brilliant light at the bottom of the dark lake. The whole world suddenly became bright, the lake water receded, and the coldness melted away.
The sound of shattering mirrors rang around my ears, glass fragments fell to the ground, and the fireworks ended.
Li Ziyue felt someone holding his waist and abdomen, and he suddenly moved back, and warmth instantly filled his whole body.
The fragrance from that person hit his nose, making Li Ziyue more conscious.
"Li Ziyue."
It’s Zhang Lian.
Li Ziyue relaxed his expression, but heard another unfamiliar female voice.
"I heard you need a sniper? I'm good with guns, how about leaving it to me?"
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