Chapter 271 Crimson Mirror
[Jiang Huai Que: It is very dangerous a few hours after the museum closes. There will be "cleaners" appearing, and they look very similar to the blood we saw outside the window before. Ugh, very disgusting, like red slugs.]
[Jiang Huai Que: Its route of movement is random, and it will wrap people up and kill them.]
[Jiang Huai Que: This damn thing has no weaknesses at the moment. The museum is quite narrow, and it triggered chaos when someone attacked it before... Never mind, it's just very hard to kill anyway.]
[Jiang Huai Que: But with your awesome mask, we can hide in the room at any time. Except for the death of a player at the beginning, everything else is fine.]
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【Jiang Huai Que: We finally made it to the opening of the Hall of Mirrors. 】
[Sophora japonica:...]
[Jiang Huai Partridge: Oh my god! ]
【26:12:01】
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Xu Zhiyan had just fooled the big cat in the warehouse. While the other party was circling around the cat bag and sniffing around, he sat aside and read the messages from his teammates on the panel.
Now it has been almost a day since he entered here.
At night, the news from teammates was still normal, and some content about the Mirror Museum was connected in time. But after midnight, the information changed slightly. After Jiang Huaique said that the Mirror Hall on the eighth floor was open, he cursed briefly and there was no more news.
Xu Zhiyan tried to send some simple inquiries, but without exception, they fell on deaf ears.
He didn't waste any more time on the news.
Everyone is in trouble now. It is useless for him to be anxious. He might as well find a way to get out of this little kitten's body first.
Looking around, Xu Zhiyan hesitated and looked at the cages stacked high on the side. After dealing with the big cat, he realized that there seemed to be something wrong with this warehouse?
The faceless man who bought the cat should be from a well-off family, especially since he peeked at the other party's message yesterday and knew that this faceless man was raising a cat for the first time.
In the warehouse in front of me, various cardboard boxes containing pet supplies are stacked together.
Cat and dog food, toys, leashes, pet clothes...
This is too inconsistent with the other facilities in the room and what the faceless man showed.
Thinking of something, Xu Zhiyan called Big Cat to the study.
At night, he was worried that the noise from the TV and computer would be too loud and expose him, so he did not poke into the large electronic equipment in the faceless man's house. Now that there was no one there, he had a good time to explore.
He ran to the computer case with his tail sticking up and scratched the power button a few times with his claws.
...Damn! Cat's claws are so hard to use!
Suddenly he felt a tightness at the back of his neck.
"Meow?"
The big white cat picked him up, put him aside, stretched out its paw and easily pressed the power button.
"drop--"
A short startup sound was heard.
An image lit up on the display, with a giant antivirus software logo on the side.
After struggling to jump onto the table, Xu Zhiyan stared at the scene that looked like a static picture, examined it carefully for a while, and then jumped down again with a sullen face.
Something is wrong.
There's something wrong with this electronic device.
He didn't hear any fan sound coming from the chassis, and there was no mouse pointer on the computer. It was just an empty shell computer.
Next, Xu Zhiyan went to look through other things in the house.
The TV can't be turned on at all; the light in the cat room is always on, and even if you find the button, you can't turn it off completely; the human bathroom is empty...
Some unreasonable incidents that are easy to be overlooked were brought to light one after another.
With the help of the big white cat, Xu Zhiyan quickly inspected the house in more detail.
The two cats returned to the warehouse.
Xu Zhiyan patted the cat bag and asked the big white cat solemnly: "Shall we set off now?"
Originally, he only had a vague guess when he saw the kitten in the mirror, but after looking at the entire room in detail, he thought of more.
The big white cat nodded.
It doesn't bark, but it moves very quickly.
Before Xu Zhiyan could start to say anything, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes, the back of his neck tightened, and he was picked up again.
This time the big cat did not hesitate. It picked up the kitten and ran back to the cat room quickly. There was still a gap in the open window. The white figure climbed up nimbly and jumped out of the window in a few steps.
Xu Zhiyan realized belatedly that being a cat is really difficult.
The whole cat was held in his mouth, swinging in the air. He felt weightless when going up, and accelerated when going down...
If he was really a kitten, he might find it funny, but as a kitten with a human soul, he just felt like his heart was about to be shaken out!
“Boom—”
The white cat carrying the kitten in its mouth fell to the ground.
Xu Zhiyan shuddered, and his hair stood up.
"Brother Cat, you are my brother, can you let me stay somewhere else?" If he was really carried all the way back to the cattery, he would definitely die!
The big cat paused, then flicked its lips.
"Meow!!"
The little kitten was thrown into the air and cried out subconsciously.
The terrifying feeling of weightlessness was transmitted from every part of his body, and Xu Zhiyan's mentality was a little unsustainable. Just when he thought he was about to land, he found himself falling on a soft place with a "bang"...
Yes, it’s on the big white cat’s back?
Xu Zhiyan's cat body stiffened, his claws stepped on the soft white fur, and he scratched it a few times subconsciously.
...It feels surprisingly good.
The instinct that only belongs to a little kitten surged up again, making him want to grab a few more handfuls of cat hair.
This action made the big white cat, which was originally planning to run away, stand still.
Its agile and nimble body seemed to be still at this moment, and it took a long time before it slowly took a step forward.
While Xu Zhiyan was stepping on the big white cat's back, he stretched his head to look around, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something wrong with the big white cat, and its steps were disordered.
"Meow~"
Brother, why are you so clumsy?
The big white cat paused, then quickly reacted.
In the live broadcast room, the audience was still divided into two groups. Those who liked to pet cats kept screaming, while those who were concerned about the task became even more noisy.
[Fuck! What is this place? ]
[It's very strange... maybe we can see it when Xiao Baiwan walks out of the green belt. ]
[Ahhh, I really want to know what clues Xiao Baiwan got that made him let Big Cat take him back. This Big Cat should really be a compensation NPC sent by the system, right? ]
【Compensation? How to say it?】
[Because Wei Guang, who entered this mirror space with him next door, got the compensation information as soon as he came in, which gave him a lot of clues.]
[Yes, the mirror on his side is much easier to find than Xiao Baiwan's, but he is really not very smart. The clues are so obvious that his character committed suicide, but he doesn't even know to find the suicide site based on the clues he left behind! ]
[Speaking of which, is Wei Guang going to die soon? The countdown time on his side is relatively short.]
[That space is quite normal, unlike Xiao Baiwan's, where everything is wrong.]
Soon, Xu Zhiyan, who was carried out of the green belt by the big cat, was stunned by the scene before him.
In his opinion, he should be in a small community.
But who the hell could tell him why after the big white cat took him out of the green belt, there was still a green belt outside? !
Looking ahead, there are six rows of green belts neatly arranged in front of you.
In addition to the green belt, further away is a building similar to the one behind. It looks very new and should be a newly opened property that seems to have not yet been put on sale.
He lay on the big cat's back, hiding himself in its long fur with only half of his head showing.
After making sure that the kitten behind it would not fall off easily, the big white cat began to run faster, crossing rows of green belts of varying heights and weaving between the buildings.
Xu Zhiyan kept observing his surroundings.
It's weird, an indescribable sense of disharmony fills this space.
He originally thought he was stuffed into a car and it took him seven hours to drive to his new home.
But the scene before him was despairing.
There are no roads around.
At a glance, there are green belts and residential buildings everywhere.
These lifeless residential buildings seem to have life in them, giving off an eerie feeling of being peeped at.
What's going on?
Whether it is the brand new buildings, the bright windows, or the empty clotheslines outside the windows, all of them indicate that there should be no residents in these buildings.
As if he had thought of something, Xu Zhiyan suddenly turned back and looked for the cat room on the first floor that he had left...
Gone.
The room he had left disappeared.
The residential building behind him was the same as the other buildings nearby. The glass windows showed a spotless bare house. If it weren't for the branches left near the green belt that were squeezed apart by the big white cat when it left, Xu Zhiyan would almost doubt whether he was hallucinating.
But once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back.
Now, no matter whether his guess was right or wrong, he could only go back to the cattery.
The big white cat didn't notice anything unusual about the kitten on its back.
As the two cats moved away from the residential building where the cats' room originally was, its speed became faster.
It can jump over a green belt with one leap. If there are heating pipes belonging to certain communities on the side of the road, it will jump directly over them to take a shortcut.
The outdoor world is unusually quiet.
Xu Zhiyan even began to doubt whether the Faceless Man really existed in this world.
The big white cat carried the little kitten on its back for an unknown amount of time.
Suddenly, it stopped, raised its nose high, sniffed the air, and ran towards a tree without saying a word.
Xu Zhiyan was a little dizzy from the sudden jolt. But he was a human being after all, and he knew that if the big white cat was fine, it would definitely not run around. If it was running like this, it was likely that something had happened.
The white cat's fur is a bit slippery.
When climbing the tree, the kitten almost lost his grip and fell down.
The view from the tree is wide.
Xu Zhiyan lost his balance and slid off the big white cat. Before he could coordinate his limbs, his attention was caught by the scene next to him.
What remains unchanged are the rows and rows of green belts densely planted between the buildings; what has changed is that after passing two buildings, the outer part of the buildings has changed from a brand new and bright appearance to a shabby, low, old building.
These old buildings are only about seven or eight stories high and are very close to each other. They are typical old-style buildings without elevators. It can be seen that the apartments inside are probably not spacious.
A cramped and oppressive feeling emanates faintly from these buildings.
Xu Zhiyan found that his body was shaking.
He was sure he wasn't afraid of the buildings.
Then it can only be the body of a little kitten, instinctively afraid of these buildings.
But soon, a slight tingling sensation fell on the back of his neck, and Xu Zhiyan felt that he was carried to the center of a thicker branch, where he had a spacious foothold.
Following closely behind was the barbed cat tongue that landed on the forehead.
The big white cat licked the kitten that was shivering for no apparent reason.
With its efforts, in a short while, Xu Zhiyan's back was licked all over, even the tail was not spared.
"……Meow."
The kitten's voice was quite weak.
Just as Xu Zhiyan tried to stand up and take a few steps to prove that he was fine, a few faceless men emerged from the green belt in the distance.
Different from the regular-sized Faceless Man.
These faceless men clearly look like humans, but they are much shorter and wear the same blue clothes. They look several times weirder than normal-sized faceless men.
In addition to the small faceless man, there were also several wild dogs.
Same as the small Faceless Man.
These wild dogs also look exactly the same.
It was the one that was hiding outside the window yesterday, wanting to eat meaty snacks. The only weird thing about it was that there were inexplicably more than a dozen copies of it.
The small faceless man and the wild dog are not together.
Soon, the faceless men dispersed and wandered among the old buildings, while a dozen wild dogs with bared teeth followed the smell and came under the tree.
"Woof!"
“Woof woof woof—”
The sound of barking dogs came, and the wild dogs' sharp canine teeth were exposed, with minced meat in the gaps between their teeth.
They wagged their tails excitedly, with crazy expressions on their faces as they kept jumping up the tree, as if they were about to eat the cats above.
Fortunately, the tree chosen by the big white cat was relatively thick.
A dozen wild dogs kept rushing at the tree trunk, but it only shook it slightly.
The little kitten was placed in the middle of a thick tree branch, with its head lowered and buried in its chest. Its furry body, which had just calmed down, was now rippling with fur and shaking continuously.
“…”
Xu Zhiyan was really shaking this time.
Damn it, even when he was in human form, he would be so scared that his legs would go weak when he saw so many wild dogs, not to mention that he is just a weak little kitten now!
Thinking of the live broadcast that had been going on, he couldn't help but feel fortunate.
Fortunately, he is now wearing a cat skin, so other people can’t see his pale face. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if someone uses a dog to target him in the future.
The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't help but feel some sympathy for Xu Zhiyan.
[Ah, Xiao Baiwan is shaking so much, is he afraid of dogs? ]
[It may be that the kitten is afraid of stray dogs by instinct. 】
[Indeed, the instincts of small animals should still be quite influential. Apart from anything else, I really never expected Xiao Baiwan to play with his tail! Hehe, it's quite cute. ]
[I remember that Xiao Baiwan didn't like dogs, but he probably wouldn't be so scared that he would tremble.]
[I vote for the analyst above. I also think Xiao Baiwan is usually quite calm and doesn't seem to be afraid of dogs.]
As he expected, the audience did not take his fear of dogs seriously.
However, compared to his current embarrassing situation, many viewers couldn't help but discuss the affairs of other players when they saw the stalemate between two cats and a group of dogs.
[By the way, have you visited other people’s live broadcast rooms? ]
[I did watch it, but this crappy dungeon is the most speechless dungeon of the year, no doubt about it! ]
[Except for Xiao Baiwan and Wei Guang, oh yes, and the Astrologer, all the remaining players who are still alive will lose their vision after entering the Mirror Hall on the eighth floor! ]
[What shocked me the most was that the clown never came out after he went to the eighth floor of the museum.]
[Damn it, the more this happens, the more I want to know.]
[What on earth is in the mirror room? Why is there a privacy code and signal disconnection when the picture is cut off? 】
[It’s a bit strange. After the astrologer entered the mirror hall, he just took a look and came out, but when the others [screenshot.jpg] entered the mirror hall and lost contact, everyone’s expression was shocked. ]
Someone posted the last frame of other players before they entered the Hall of Mirrors.
In the spacious and bright hall, except for the astrologer, the expressions of all the players were filled with incomprehensible shock.
Some people did magnify the screenshots infinitely, trying to find some clues from the reflections of the players' eyes, but when the picture was infinitely magnified and someone crowdfunded clear props, the audience only saw the players' own reflections in their eyes.
[[Enlarged image.jpg] is a reflection. ]
[Shit! Could it be that the mirror clone that some people speculated about earlier has appeared? ]
[I think the other side is a mirror, bet one point. 】
[…Hey, this is a mirror museum, it’s normal to have mirrors inside, right? Damn clones, do you think these veteran players who can enter a five-star dungeon won’t think of this?]
[Yes, if it was just a mirror replica, we could just kill the replica, they shouldn't be so shocked.]
[Fuck, let’s not talk about the mirror for now, look at Xiao Baiwan! ]
The topic shifted from speculation about the Mirror Museum to Xu Zhiyan.
The shivering little kitten is particularly adorable.
The big white cat seemed to want to go down and chase the dog away, but he was also worried about the lonely little kitten, so he was in a dilemma.
But it soon figured out a solution.
Xu Zhiyan felt like he was being picked up again. It was like being familiar to others, and after so many times he felt like he was getting used to it.
The scene of the barking dogs in front of him suddenly switched to the tree trunk - the big white cat held him and turned him around so that he was facing the tree trunk, thus avoiding the wild dogs under the tree.
After being released, Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but speak.
"Brother Cat, you are really the smartest cat I have ever seen."
Before he could finish praising, the big white cat stood up, and before going down to the ground, it found a large and thick leaf from the branch, bit it off and covered the kitten's head with it.
The strange feeling of being cared for by a cat made Xu Zhiyan silent.
After doing all this, the big white cat didn't wait any longer. It turned around and jumped off the tree and started fighting with a dozen wild dogs surrounding the ground.
It is very agile, its claws are sharp enough, and it has considerable strength.
Some wild dogs were scratched and let out low howls.
There are many wild dogs under the trees.
A wounded wild dog ran away screaming, followed by a second one, and then more wild dogs rushed forward one after another.
The battle continues.
The white cat never called out once from beginning to end.
On the tree, facing the trunk, Xu Zhiyan listened to the chaotic barking of dogs under the tree and felt a little helpless.
After becoming a kitten, he had nothing.
He had no points to squander, nor any props. He was even unable to take a few pieces of dried meat with him when he left because of his inconvenient cat body.
He accepted the big white cat's kindness.
But he had nothing to give back to the other party.
Xu Zhiyan pushed the leaves up and began to think about what he could do for the big white cat that had helped him.
Although he has little conscience, he always acts fairly.
His teammates trust him, so he has the obligation to lead them to victory and prepare suitable weapons for his teammates; the monsters in the safe house work for him, so he should provide them with a better environment and let them live a life they have never experienced before; the ghosts and gods open all their resources to him, so in exchange, he will make a comprehensive plan in the dungeon to recycle the ghosts and gods' body parts...
That's part of the deal.
It is also the logic that supports Xu Zhiyan's survival.
You know, in previous copies, even if the NPC was nice to him, he would give them a decent reward in return.
As for perfunctorily coaxing the ghosts and gods into slicing, and using inferior gifts to test the bottom line of slicing in different copies, although this made Xu Zhiyan feel a little complicated, overall, it was just a part of the transaction with Bai Jin.
He needs to use various means to find out the bottom line of slicing.
Using all available power to ensure smooth slicing recovery is the greatest respect for ghosts and gods.
But now, he found that he could not give anything to the white cat in front of him.
This cat has been in a state of having no desires or demands since its appearance.
It doesn't like snacks and has no interest in the cat toys in the room. After meeting him, its only hobby is to lick his fur when he turns into a kitten...
Xu Zhiyan wasn't even sure whether he could take the white cat with him when he left this copy.
About ten minutes passed.
The wild dogs' whining sounds became farther and farther away, and the battle was over.
The kitten’s sense of smell was impaired, and Xu Zhiyan couldn’t smell anything. When the leaves above his head were removed, he turned around tremblingly, and the whole cat froze in place.
There was a lot of blood on the big white cat.
Except for some dog hair with skin on its paws, its originally pure white and dense long hair was pulled out in the fight, and the white hair on its body no longer had its previous smoothness, but was extremely messy.
Especially the ears, which were already wounded, with a piece of flesh bitten off by an unknown wild dog, and bean-sized beads of blood dyed the white fur red.
Yet the big white cat sat gracefully on the branch.
It didn't seem to feel any pain, and although its eyes were not as clear as before, it conveyed a faint sense of peace in the confusion.
Seeing the kitten turn around, it came forward and licked the kitten's forehead as if to comfort it, as if to tell the kitten that there was nothing to be afraid of.
Xu Zhiyan's head was licked bit by bit.
It was difficult for him to explain how he felt right now.
The not-so-beautiful memories of the past made him think that if he wanted to get anything in this world, he had to pay something for it, including feelings.
But now, when he saw the big white cat fighting with the wild dogs for him, just to fulfill his wish and continue moving towards its destination, he found that he could not find any purpose from the cat's eyes or actions.
This big white cat, whose name he didn't know, just wanted to help him from beginning to end.
I saw that the big cat finally finished licking.
Xu Zhiyan raised his head, walked towards the injured big white cat, and gently rubbed its chest.
This time there was no purpose.
He just wanted to rub against the cat in front of him that was helping him without asking for anything in return.
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