Chapter 283 Crimson Mirror
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After Jiang Huaique hid a green guild item under the company's bathroom, he couldn't help but lean against the sink, made sure there was no one around, and took out his cell phone.
Above is his 'mission'.
[Your mission will soon be over.]
[Have you ever noticed that after you complete a mission, the people around you become strange?]
[Seeing is not necessarily believing.]
“Tsk.”
He made an ambiguous sound of disdain.
The messages from this 'killer' were getting stranger and stranger, so strange that he couldn't help but doubt the other party's identity.
Since last night, he placed circular devices at the bus stop and in the company in the morning. Now there are only two devices left in the strange space.
Jiang Huai Que had no idea about this.
He didn't know where to put the remaining two devices, but the other party's words were becoming more and more strange.
There are very few people around him, only his sister.
My sister is very normal...
Thinking of the strange behavior of people around the bus stop after he placed the device at the bus stop, Jiang Huaique became unsure again.
If the 'people around' extend the scope, some things are indeed strange.
Similar to last night.
When he was changing trains in the morning, there were few people at the station. He made sure to hide in an empty place on the booth to put his things, but right after he put them there, all the passengers waiting for the train gathered around him.
Being stared at by three or five strangers with emotionless eyes, even though Jiang Huaique was not afraid of these people, he still felt a chill on his back.
Fortunately, a bus happened to come by and he got on smoothly and got away from the weirdo.
"Damn it, should I call the police after all?"
Jiang Huaique mumbled a few incoherent curses and froze the moment he pushed open the toilet door.
More than a dozen pairs of eyes stared over.
It’s my colleagues.
Jiang Huaique was startled and stepped back half a meter, all the muscles in his body tensed.
That lifeless look again!
Glancing at his immediate team leader in the crowd, Jiang Huaique slowly came back to his senses, perhaps because the other person's face looked more familiar.
"Is it our company culture that we have to form teams even when going to the toilet?" Damn, there's no barrier in the toilet.
As he made way for the door, he gestured for invitation: "You guys, I still have things to do, so I'll leave first."
There was nothing unusual in his voice, but his colleagues still looked at him as before.
The situation was at a stalemate for more than a minute. Just when Jiang Huaiqie couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts and was about to call the police, his colleagues suddenly became normal as if they had received some signal.
Those who went to the toilet went to the toilet, and those who returned to their workstations returned to their workstations. When the team leader saw Jiang Huaique, he smiled and praised him.
"Xiao Jiang, why are you standing here? Go back."
Jiang Huaique looked at the crowd in front of him who had suddenly returned to normal, his expression relaxed, but a drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead.
"Well, I'll go back first."
Although he said this, the strange feeling in his heart was getting stronger and stronger.
Back at his workstation, he held the mouse, feeling upset.
Ever since he received the strange message, he felt that everything around him became abnormal, especially whenever he placed a green item, people around him would stare at him.
The current situation is exactly the same as the information in the mobile phone.
Jiang Huaique felt that there seemed to be something wrong with his cognition, but when he searched his memory, he couldn't tell what was wrong.
My fingers were out of control and I clicked on the search engine on the web page.
Staring at the jumping cursor, his heart was beating wildly, as if it was hinting at something. Should he check it online? The thought flashed through his mind.
Then he closed the webpage.
No, it can't.
Colleagues at work are all weird, and passers-by on the street are also abnormal. He has encountered strange things one after another recently, and even the lunatic on the other side of the phone is upsetting.
The only normal one is my sister.
Computers may not be reliable, so I should ask my sister indirectly after I get home from get off work today.
Suddenly, a hand patted Jiang Huaique on the shoulder. He was shocked and almost threw the mouse away.
"Are you being lazy?" The speaker was a woman with a bright smile.
Jiang Huaique turned around and found his long-missed sister standing behind him, with a teasing smile on her face.
"Fuck! Sister, why are you here!"
Jiang Huai'er's heart was beating fast, but after seeing his sister, he put everything else behind him and felt much better.
Sister Jiang pulled a stool over and sat down, threw the snacks in her hand onto the table, and said casually: "I happened to be out delivering documents today, and the company I'm handing over to is also in this office building, so I came to see you by the way."
She opened a bag of plums, put one in her mouth, and gave the rest to her brother opposite her.
"As a result, when I came in, I saw you touching - fish." She lowered her voice and drew out.
"Don't talk nonsense! I wasn't slacking off!" Jiang Huaique took the plum and wished he could sew his sister's mouth shut.
But after his sister's jokes, his whole state stabilized a lot. The brother and sister chatted for a while, and Sister Jiang looked at the time, got up and left.
Jiang Huaique waved his hands unhappily, urging the other party to leave quickly and not to disturb his work.
To him, it was just a minor incident during work.
But for the audience in the live broadcast room, these interludes were a bit too strong.
[I don’t know what to say, let’s light a candle for the male mother. ]
[If he manages to get out alive, my advice is not to watch the live broadcast replay. ]
[Ahhh, what the hell is in that bag of plums?! Jiang Huai Que's arm has even changed color!]
[It should be some kind of assimilation substance? Whoever eats it will change color. ]
[This is so disgusting. I can accept other monsters, but that sister is really——ugh—]
[Look at the blood tumors on my sister's body. Are they more than this morning? ]
[It seems that the more the color of the male mother's body changes, the more tumors will appear on her body. ]
But unfortunately, the Jianghuai Partridge cannot see it.
After adjusting his mood, he took the unwrapped plums and subconsciously stuffed them into his mouth.
The phone suddenly vibrated.
Jiang Huaique hurriedly put the things in his hand back and turned on his cell phone.
[Are plums delicious?]
He paused and caught a glimpse of the bag of snacks out of the corner of his eye. Before he could reply, more text messages came in one after another.
[Do you feel something is wrong?]
[Don’t ignore anything you think is wrong, even if it is related to the people closest to you. This can save your life...]
Without replying to the message, Jiang Huaique put down his phone and looked at the snacks again.
Any questions?
If we are to pay attention to problematic areas, then what he should pay most attention to is the psychopath who sent the text message.
Jiang Huai Que rolled his eyes.
Although it was strange that his sister suddenly appeared, there was nothing wrong with her reason or behavior, and he felt that there was nothing wrong with the person closest to him.
And he couldn't call the police just because his colleagues were blocking the toilet door.
Suppressing the discordant thoughts in his mind, Jiang Huaique turned his head to face the computer screen, intending to continue working.
As for snacks, put them aside for now.
Lunch would be here soon, so he had to finish the work at hand first.
The eighth floor of the hotel.
Xu Zhiyan looked at his teammates in the mirror and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Are you sure he's okay? Why do the people in the mirror change color a lot?" He pointed at the players in the mirror with red translucent spots on their bodies, then turned and spoke to the blood beside him.
The man who was yelled at to put on his pants kept tossing the clown mirror in his hand and glanced at the ruins world where other players were, with a distracted expression.
“It discovered something was not right, so it sped up the process.”
Hearing the normal tone of Bloodthirsty, Xu Zhiyan asked tentatively: "Will he die?"
"certainly."
The blood nodded, as if it didn't care about the life and death of other humans. It was only important that the people it cared about were fine.
"I don't want to get involved in the fight between it and the main system, and I said the Hall of Mirrors is not open to the public." Blood recalled what he said when he was a tour guide, and he felt justified.
"I have said what I need to say. If the player wants to go in, no one can stop him."
Seeing the other party's indifferent look, Xu Zhiyan remained silent.
Damn! We are all infinite game players. Under normal circumstances, when we encounter a place that is not allowed to go, we will definitely feel that there are clues to explore!
Who would have thought that the guy named Blood, who plays the role of a tour guide, was telling the truth!
Xu Zhiyan sighed, sent a few more messages to Jiang Huaique, pointed at the clown mask and said, "Let's go get him."
He was originally waiting for Xu Zhiyan to deal with his teammates' blood, but he suddenly became alert.
“I like this kind of cracked space.”
It licked its canine teeth and moved closer to Xu Zhiyan.
The next second, bright red blood gushed out from the cracks in the ground and gently wrapped around the young man's limbs.
Soon, the blood formed like a thin film and easily covered Xu Zhiyan.
He just felt a redness in front of his eyes.
After opening his eyes again, Xu Zhiyan found himself standing in a pile of ruins, his whole body wrapped in a layer of blood film.
The monsters passing by seemed to sense something and quickly surrounded them.
"OMG! Boss Xu, run! Run to the circus - ugh -"
The clown mask suddenly screamed, its mouth covered by the blood, and it passively entered silent mode.
"Shut up."
"This is that strange ruined world. Don't pay attention to the monsters around you. In their eyes, you look the same as them." The person who spoke was Blood.
Xu Zhiyan turned his head around to find the source of the sound, but after looking around, he couldn't find the blood.
Considering the blood that supports the space where he is, if nothing unexpected happens, the opponent is probably now in the form of this blood film sticking to him.
"What form do the clown see me in?"
"Of course it's also a monster... Yeah, but now he thinks the monster is in human form."
After asking the questions, Xu Zhiyan stopped talking nonsense. The blood was very confident in its disguise, and out of trust in ghosts and gods, he did not do any more tests.
Same as blood said.
Although there were many monsters surrounding them, they just watched and did not do anything out of line.
Xu Zhiyan walked straight towards the circus in the distance.
Walking through the colorful tent, he peeled away the blood threads tangled on the clown mask and asked, "Where is your master?"
"In the middle tent, woooo, woooo, but the master is in a very bad condition now." Its shrill voice could not hide its worry.
When Xu Zhiyan followed Weird Face's instructions and found the Clown, he discovered that he was indeed a bad guy.
In the center of the huge circus tent, a young man was locked in a black iron cage, surrounded by red monsters.
They kept cutting off flesh and tumors from their bodies, and then a monster carried them to the center of the venue and stuffed all these disgusting things into the cage.
"It's miserable enough."
Xu Zhiyan stood at the door and took a long time before speaking.
To be honest, even if the monsters were replaced by humans, the scene would still be scary enough.
With his other eye, he saw that the monsters around him had all turned into humans, constantly taking out food from their pockets, including melon seeds, snacks, and potato chips.
Before Guimian could explain with tears in his eyes, Xu Zhiyan heard Blood's sneer.
"He did react quickly enough."
Being able to accurately activate space-related items as a defensive element the moment an abnormality is discovered in the mirror world would not be possible without excellent reaction ability.
"It's a pity that the small mask only has 2S. It's still too useless." It didn't think highly of the strange mask.
"It can invade the other party's space, and accordingly, gaps will appear in the mutually embedded spaces, and the system can also manipulate it."
The more overbearing the power of the newly opened space is, the more damage it will cause to the Joker.
Guimian was choked and speechless.
"Hmm! I already have the most powerful space-related props on the market! I can even adjust time in space!" After several seconds, it weakly refuted.
Xu Zhiyan touched the green hair on the mask mirror.
"Indeed, I haven't seen any space props above 2S level on the market, especially ones like this one that can have intelligent conversations." Even the Pope's supreme scepter can only convey a little bit of emotion to the user at most.
If it was just simple sentences, such as a declaration before launching an attack, he would be able to understand it.
But this thing can save the day from a distance, so it's obviously not a low-level item.
After Xu Zhiyan spoke, the blood's attitude changed a little.
"Well, you're just a little weak, not a waste." It even took back its previous taunt in a good-tempered manner, but the tone of voice did not change.
The clown mask can't make you smile.
"Hmm... Actually, I'm not that weak..."
"Yeah, you're just a bit of a jerk."
“Wuwuwu…”
Xu Zhiyan's mouth twitched, and he didn't intend to continue paying attention to the conversation between Noisy Mask and Childish Slice.
He quietly left the tent, hesitating to change the subject.
"So what should I do now to prevent the monsters from noticing the abnormality and to prevent the clown from eating the food inside?"
The strange face was silent.
It was forced to come out for help because it had completely lost control of the space inside the prop.
"The slave cage is a spatial skill. The willpower of those inside will be shattered."
When it first discovered that it was out of control, Guimian thought that everything was over, but after observing later, it realized that although its master was locked by its own skills, his willpower was still not gone.
It began to rampage, looking for a way to break through.
Finally, it successfully found Xu Zhiyan.
"The master's willpower is amazing. He just needs a hint. Of course, an explicit hint is also fine. All we need is to wake him up!"
The circus's hours have been adjusted, but the clown's willpower remains stable.
"It's okay to state it explicitly? It's okay to say anything?"
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows.
"Of course!" Gui was very confident in front of his master: "The master just lacks an opportunity. He has realized that something is wrong and has begun to refuse."
But that’s not enough.
Just relying on subconscious rejection is not enough.
Xu Zhiyan touched his chin and began to understand how the small world worked.
Although the ruins world is huge and dangerous, it needs to rely on the players' consciousness to run smoothly. The players' cognition will modify the ruins world...
It makes sense that this mission must require a team.
Normally, players who form a team to enter a dungeon will act together, but now with the guild system, everyone can communicate within the dungeon, so the number of players who choose to act separately will greatly increase.
Players who are sucked into the mirror can obtain information in the guild dialog box through various channels.
A single sentence or two of anomaly may not be a problem, but what if these anomalous contents pop up from strange corners every day?
As soon as players begin to suspect that something is wrong with the world around them, the ruined world will begin to crumble.
Xu Zhiyan sighed.
The main system had made a good calculation this time, but it still overlooked the hostile relationship between the players.
The battle between the clown and the astrologer made the players in the entire instance feel uneasy, reducing the idea of splitting up their actions. The unexpected embedding of the circus space also prevented the people from the clown guild from sending him messages.
As luck would have it, he was the only one who had not been sucked into the mirror despite having teammates with him.
After thinking about it, Xu Zhiyan suddenly asked: "What will happen if it is exposed?"
Blood answered without hesitation.
"Then let's kill all the monsters here."
Xu Zhiyan almost bit his tongue.
"...Ahem, what I mean is, if we are exposed, can we just evacuate this space?"
The murderous intent that had just slightly boiled in its blood was instantly extinguished, and it groaned and replied, "It's not impossible, but that guy might go crazy."
Hey, hey! Why are you saying this so awkwardly? It's obviously easier to anger the out-of-control system if you kill all the monsters!
Listening to what Xueluo said, Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but complain a few words in his heart.
After careful consideration, he decided not to waste any more time here.
He couldn't see his teammates' mirrors in this space, so he had to leave as soon as possible to give Jiang Huaique more hints.
A few minutes later.
The main circus tent was still bustling.
The silent boy in the cage curled up into a ball, allowing the weirdos around him to keep stuffing food into the cage.
He couldn't remember how long he had been imprisoned here.
The dazzling lights confused his consciousness and the noisy sounds constantly washed over his nerves, but he knew he was still awake.
Something is wrong.
He shouldn't be here.
With this firm idea in mind, the boy sat in the cage, looking outside coldly.
He could clearly feel the difference in the speed of time flow.
When he felt hungry, time would start to slow down, and when he ate something to fill his stomach, time would start to speed up again.
These people wanted him to eat.
However, being awake didn't help much.
At first, the boy tried to open the cage and walk out, but as time went on, he was sure that he couldn't leave on his own.
I should be feeling desperate.
But the strange thing was that he was actually satisfied with the effect inflicted on himself.
That's it.
Only the power here is strong enough...only strong enough...
Then what?
He felt as if he had forgotten something.
Time continues to flow by in a daze.
The food piled in the cage was always fresh and tempting, tempting him to eat it.
The long period of confusion began to make him lost.
But once willpower is exhausted, it will be filled again with anger.
He felt that this shouldn't be the case.
He can't die yet.
"Bang--"
A huge vibration sounded throughout the tent.
The boy raised his head and looked at the figure that appeared in front of the iron cage. It was a strange young man with a crumpled piece of paper in his hand.
The moment the note was thrown in, he saw the mouth on the other side opening and closing, as if saying something.
But he had lost his hearing due to the long period of noise.
Then the strange young man left.
Then the number of spectators in the surrounding stands began to decrease.
The young man clutched the note, his heart pounding wildly. He somehow knew that as long as he opened the note, he could leave here.
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan had already run out of the circus, but there were many monsters following him, so he had no choice but to keep running.
The conversation in the blood film became a little confusing.
"Wow, thank you so much, Boss Xu! I swear, when my master gets out, I will make him transfer the money to you immediately!"
This is the strange face of gratitude.
"Ah, the location of this place is wrong. If I leave, I will be back at the museum. I will have to wait to get back to the hotel. I might as well go back and kill the monster. I have nothing else to do anyway."
This is blood full of disdain.
"No! Doesn't killing monsters consume energy? I only received money for delivering the message!"
This is Xu Zhiyan who is determined not to suffer any loss.
Since this slice is so smart, he assumes that the other party's power is his power. Without charging any money, he must eliminate all waste.
In the chaos, countless bloody monsters followed them and refused to leave.
Blood wants to say something more.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake, and a crack slowly appeared in the sky above the circus.
The originally gray sky looked like a broken eggshell, falling off piece by piece.
"Oh? Pretty fast."
There was a rare lack of sarcasm in Blood's voice.
Xu Zhiyan stopped and the red monsters behind him began to shake and struggle.
When he lowered his head, he realized that the clown mask-shaped mirror in his hand had turned into an ordinary round mirror.
In the distance, a man with a wasp waist and a monkey back stood on the top of the tallest tent of the circus, holding a throwing knife and looking over here from afar. It was unknown who he was looking at.
Then, a weightless feeling of falling came.
However, Xu Zhiyan was wrapped in a blood film and only felt it for a moment.
The ruined world collapsed in an instant, and the surrounding scenes spun rapidly. When he came to his senses, he was already standing in the corridor of the Mirror Museum.
The scene ahead was even more chaotic.
The walls are inlaid with circus tents.
With the protection of the blood membrane, Xu Zhiyan had not felt any pressure, but in places he could not see, many mirrors were directly shattered by the overlapping space.
"Alive?"
A cold female voice appeared, revealing a hint of doubt and nervousness.
Xu Zhiyan turned around and found that it was an astrologer.
The other person stood on the broken mirrors on the ground, his eyes passed through Xu Zhiyan and fell deeper into the corridor.
When the ashes cleared and everything became clear, a man with a clown mask on his wrist slowly walked out of the smoke.
When passing by Xu Zhiyan, the clown paused for a moment.
"I'll pay for it."
His voice was low, with the note he had just received in his pocket.
[Wake up, stop eating. Your props owe you 500,000 points outside. Remember to pay it back when you get out. - Xu Zhiyan.]
Although the content was a bit strange, it did wake him up immediately.
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