Because they felt that Bai Jing didn't seem like someone who would be afraid of ghosts and skeletons, Achen and Ameng focused most of their attention on Bai Jing, wondering what would happen next...
Back in the mirror maze, Bai Jing frowned as he fought off the endless stream of skeletons crawling over, while observing his surroundings, looking for an exit.
"Um?!!!"
Bai Jing noticed with his sharp eyes that there seemed to be a child sitting not far to his left, and the child looked like... Xiang Yan when he was a child?
Bai Jing's eyes widened slightly in surprise, then he pursed his lips, gritted his teeth and walked towards the child.
Whatever that child is, at this moment, he is an important clue to the exit.
The closer Bai Jing got to the child, the more surprised he was, because the child really looked exactly like Xiang Yan when he was a child, both in face and expression.
If they were all fakes, then this kid was much better than the boy I met before. At least the boy before couldn't show Xiang Yan's expression and personality, but this kid...
"Brother, who are you?" As Bai Jing approached, the child who looked like Xiang Yan's childhood asked.
Seeing the expression that was comparable to Xiang Yan himself, Bai Jing suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and raised a stiff smile, "My name is Bai Jing, what about you, little boy? Why are you here alone?"
“Um…” The child tilted his head, stretched out his soft hand to pull the corner of his clothes, and replied: “My name is Xiang Yan, waiting for mom here.”
After the child finished speaking, Bai Jing suddenly found that all the skeletons around him had disappeared, and the wasteland where they were originally in also disappeared, turning into the residential area where Xiang Yan lived when he was a child. Bai Jing and the child were standing downstairs of a building in the residential area.
The child who looked like Xiang Yan seemed not to notice the changes around him and stared blankly at the building in front of him.
"Uh...you..." Bai Jing was about to speak when he saw the child suddenly run away and disappeared into the building.
"..." Bai Jing was stunned for two seconds, then he looked around, then looked at the building in front of him which was obviously wrong, and finally he took the Demon-Subduing Sword in front of him and walked in vigilantly.
As soon as he entered, Bai Jing's eyes blurred, and he suddenly came from the first floor to the fourth floor, which was the door of where Xiang Yan lived when he was a child.
Pushing open the door, Bai Jing looked at the familiar scenes around him with a calm expression.
After a while, Bai Jing seemed to suddenly realize something and walked straight to the innermost room in the living room.
Pushing open the door, Bai Jing looked at the child who was leaning against the window and staring at the opposite side with wide eyes. He seemed to have thought of something, sighed, then walked over and covered his eyes.
"Children shouldn't watch this kind of scene." Bai Jing's tone was very special, sounding both sad and relieved.
Just as Bai Jing finished his words, the children under his command slowly disappeared, and the surrounding environment gradually became blurred. Finally, Bai Jing returned to the white space.
The blood-red screen appeared in front of Bai Jing again, but this time the screen seemed a little different. After looking carefully, Bai Jing discovered that there seemed to be some more strange patterns around the screen than before?
【Congratulations on clearing the level! 】
[Will you choose to return or continue to challenge? ]
"I remember that I can form a team after passing the level three times?" Although Bai Jing didn't understand how he passed the third level just now, he still remembered that he came here to take Gu Anping out.
【Yes. 】
[Do you want to form a team? After forming a team, unless two people clear the level together, both teammates will be trapped in the mirror maze. 】
[Yes or No]
"yes."
After saying that, Bai Jing’s eyes blurred and he was standing in a secret room.
As for why it is called a secret room...
Because this room has no door! Apart from the four bare walls, the only person in the room was Gu Anping, who was sitting in the center of the room.
"……Well……"
Seeing Bai Jing suddenly appear, Gu Anping was startled and quickly jumped up from the ground, "Bai Jing? What are you doing..."
"I came to find you." Bai Jing replied. Without waiting for Gu Anping to show any expression, he continued, "Xiang Yan and the others are very worried about you and have been waiting outside. We need to get out quickly. It's not very safe outside."
"..."Gu Anping felt his heart choked. The surprise and astonishment he felt when he saw Bai Jing instantly turned into gratitude towards Xiang Yan.
After all, from what Bai Jing said, if it wasn't Xiang Yan, Bai Jing would never have come in to find him. After all, they were just strangers meeting for the first time.
If Xiang Yan hadn't been waiting for him outside, Gu Anping believed that Bai Jing should have taken Xiang Yan and the others away long ago, right?
After all, Bai Jing is so powerful, it should be easy for him to take Xiang Yan and the others away from the Ghost Market safely, right?
Gu Anping's thoughts were a little scattered for a moment.
"Huh?" Bai Jing turned around and saw that Gu Anping seemed to be distracted?
Reaching out and patting Gu Anping, Bai Jing talked to him about business: "You've been here for so long, what have you found?"
"Ah? Oh oh." Gu Anping was patted by Bai Jing and quickly came back to his senses. He replied: "This should be a formation I have seen in a book before."
After a pause, Gu Anping continued, "Maybe I had a deep impression of it, so the mirror maze revealed the formation."
The reason why the mirror maze is called a mirror maze is because it can illuminate the deepest parts of a person's heart.
Generally speaking, they are all about the desire for money. The more special ones are the scenes of people with Xiang Yan's face that Bai Jing encountered before, or some deep memories.
What Gu Anping encountered was probably the mirror maze that brought out his deepest memories.
After listening to some of Gu Anping's findings, Bai Jing raised his leg and looked around in the secret room.
Then……
"Step back." Bai Jing looked at the blank wall and said lightly.
"Huh? What... happened?!" Gu Anping walked behind Bai Jing puzzledly, and before he could react, he watched Bai Jing raise the sword in his hand and shine it forward, and the blank wall broke!
Then, in the blink of an eye, Bai Jing and Gu Anping appeared in the white space again.
“…”
【……】
Gu Anping looked at the blood-red screen, as if he could see the look in the other's eyes... and remained silent.
It seemed like a few seconds, but also like a long time. The screen that had been frozen in place finally responded, "Congratulations on clearing the level. Do you want to continue or collect your rewards and leave?"
Bai Jing glanced at Gu Anping and asked, "Did you find what you were looking for?"
Gu Anping glanced at the prize displayed on the screen and nodded, "I already have it."
"Yeah." Bai Jing responded, then looked at the screen and replied: "We choose to go back."
【bite--】
The entire white space seemed to be filled with the sound of bells. When Gu Anping and Bai Jing came to their senses, they were already standing in the room, with the rusty iron door behind them.
Bai Jing and Gu Anping looked back at the closed door behind them, then turned and walked towards the door.
When they were halfway there, the decadent-looking man in the room came out lazily, glanced at Bai Jing and the others, and then lay down.
"Mr. Ling." When Gu Anping saw the man, he nodded respectfully and greeted him.
Bai Jing narrowed his eyes, looked at Mr. Ling sharply, then put on a bright and polite smile on his face, and nodded at Mr. Ling, as if he had noticed nothing.
"Hmm..." Mr. Ling turned over, as if he didn't hear Gu Anping and the others' greetings and ignored them. It also seemed like he wouldn't care even if he heard them.
…
Bai Jing followed Gu Anping back to the door.
As soon as he went out, Bai Jing saw the three siblings, Xiang Yan, Xiang Yin and Xiang Shi, sitting on the steps, leaning against each other. His originally polite smile instantly became sincere.
Bai Jing walked over quickly and gently patted Xiang Yan, who squinted his eyes slightly, with a gentleness in his tone that he himself didn't know was there, "Wake up, we should go back."
“Hmm…”
“…”
“…”
Xiang Yan had an intellectual exchange with Bai Jing the moment his hand clapped over, and felt Bai Jing's numerous emotions just now. He was a little dazed for a moment.
"You..." Xiang Yan looked up at Bai Jing in front of him.
The author has something to say: Ah... I'm so stupid!
Xiuzi, I wrote too late last night, and when I finished, I clicked publish. I didn’t expect… I clicked the wrong one, and clicked save QAQ. When I came back tonight and opened my computer, I realized that I hadn’t sent it out…
I'm really sorry.
Since I saw that the content I wrote yesterday was not sent out, I just wrote a little more tonight, which can be regarded as a longer update (although not much).
There is only this chapter today. There should be more tomorrow as we have fewer classes tomorrow.
As for making up for the previous updates... well... I'll make up for them on the weekends.
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