Chapter 12: Exit of the maze Hundreds of mirrors reflected hundreds of...
Although Mashilin agreed to help them find a mirror, this is too much...
Under the hundreds of mirrors in front of her, Cecilia's eyes were dazzled. In addition, these hundreds of mirrors reflected hundreds of different versions of herself.
Her head seemed to be starting to ache.
"Uh... why are there so many special mirrors?"
As Chen Ye spoke, he turned around and around in front of the mirror. Cecilia felt that she was about to suffer from dizziness.
"Is my guess wrong?"
Chen Ye muttered as he walked.
"Look, sister, in the story of Cinderella, we found the mirror in Cinderella's house; in the story of the Little Match Girl, we found the mirror in the little girl's house..."
"According to this rule, what do you think this story is called, sister... Biography of Maxillin? Then we should look for the mirror in Maxillin's house. What a clear idea!"
"Is this why you found hundreds of mirrors?"
She held her forehead, her temples throbbing.
"I just tried it out, and I can put my arm right through every mirror here."
"This also means that they correspond to hundreds of mirror worlds."
"Yeah, it's a mirror maze!"
Chen Ye raised her voice, as if this would reinforce the correctness of what she said.
"Of course it has to have lots of mirrors and lots of choices to be called a maze!"
She took a deep breath, resisting the urge to throw Chen Ye into hundreds of mirrors one by one, then sat down in front of the mirror and began to recall if there were any clues she had missed.
In the first two worlds, they only saw a mirror.
The situation was urgent, so he went straight through the mirror without considering the possibility of other mirrors.
Perhaps, there are hundreds of mirrors in those two worlds, corresponding to hundreds of different paths.
If this really was a maze, they had missed countless forks in the road and had no idea whether they were on the right path.
After all, how do we judge whether something is correct?
Her reflection in the mirror was all strange and bizarre, with no pattern at all.
"Look, sister! There are words on this mirror frame!"
Chen Ye shouted, as if he had discovered something extraordinary.
Are there any words?
Hearing this, she stood up and walked towards Chen Ye while thinking.
The original mirror also had a sentence written on the frame: "Please remember what you originally looked like."
What came before these two...
Cecia looked up and saw that on the mirror frame that Chen Ye was pointing at, there was written "To the great Mashilin" in the language of the demons.
Good, the two are unrelated.
Sitting back in her original seat, her mind was filled with the words written on the mirror frame.
"The original appearance... the original appearance..."
She murmured in a low voice, as if she wanted to chew the words up and swallow them raw.
In a trance, she looked up and around. The mirrors were as densely packed as trees in a forest.
Every reflection of her in the mirror has been artistically processed to some extent, making it weird and distorted.
Among these strange figures, the real her seems out of place...
"Chen Ye."
She spoke suddenly.
"In these mirrors, find yourself without any change in appearance."
"Sister, do you understand?"
Chen Ye perked up and came over immediately, "Tell me about it!"
“I’m not sure yet, but I’ll just have to give it a try.”
After saying that, she ignored the confused Chen Ye and began to search among the messy group of mirrors.
As the sun sets in the west, light and shadow flow on the mirror, and the two people search from early morning to dusk.
After countless comparisons, they finally found a mirror that both parties felt was 100% in line with their appearance.
"That's it."
They looked at each other and stepped into the mirror with ease.
…
"Woman, you are playing with fire!"
"You've managed to get my attention."
"Three minutes. I want all the information about this woman..."
The pure white room that I imagined did not appear, but instead, I kept hearing noisy sounds.
Cecilia's annoyance grew, and she created a blue balloon with her backhand.
"You will exchange souls with the last creature whose skin you came into contact with (F)."
The content of the note was very much to her liking, so she simply gave it directly to the chattering man.
Soon, the man's voice turned into a constant stream of "woof woof woof".
The girl on the ground who was being humiliated by the man had a bewildered look on her face, and the bodyguards next to her also became flustered - they had never seen the young master like this.
“Sister, this world should be about a domineering president falling in love with me, which is the romance novel I often read.”
Chen Ye whispered in her ear, "It's this male protagonist. He seems to be mentally unstable."
Yes, she did it.
"Whatever," she said casually, "We just need to keep looking for the mirror... but now we have no clues at all."
"It's okay."
Chen Ye had a very standard smile on his face, "Don't cry, sister. I will be with you no matter what."
Cry? Who is crying?
She felt a wet feeling on her face and reached out to wipe it. The entire back of her hand was soaked with tears, but the tears still continued to roll down her cheeks.
"Why are you crying even harder?"
There was worry in Chen Ye's voice, but he still maintained a very decent smile on his face.
...This familiar weird feeling, it turns out that there is something wrong with the mirror!
Since the mirror has nothing to do with the protagonist of the story, they have no intention of having anything to do with the domineering boss whose body is occupied by a dog.
So, Cecia and Chen Ye walked on the street crying and laughing. No one dared to approach them within a ten-meter radius, for fear that these two mentally ill people would hack people in the street.
Led by Chen Ye, the two went straight to the mirror store.
The light in the store is soft, and various mirrors are placed in an orderly manner, like pieces of art.
Unfortunately, they had no time to appreciate these things, as their attention was completely focused on their reflections in the mirror.
"Sister, what kind of mirror are you looking for this time?"
Chen Ye still had a smile on his face.
"Someone who looks just like you—remember, exactly the same."
She said weakly.
"There must have been a subtle difference last time, otherwise it wouldn't be like this now."
She has been crying since she came into this world, and now her eyes are sore from crying.
They were working hard in the store, but to passers-by, the two crazy people were crying and laughing, rummaging through the entire mirror store. The poor owner was so scared that he wanted to run away and go home.
Finally, the two locked onto a target again and checked it over and over again hundreds of times, but could not find any difference.
"Is this correct?"
"I think so."
"Then what are you waiting for?"
Her eyes were red and swollen, and she threw Chen Ye directly into the mirror.
…
Familiar room, familiar hundreds of mirrors.
They are back again.
"No, what's the problem with this?"
After finding the mirror that allowed the two of them to enter the world of the domineering president, Cecilia stared at it intently, scanning herself in the mirror inch by inch, almost sticking to the cold mirror surface.
Finally, she found a tiny teardrop mole under her right eye, so small that she could only barely see it when she put it close to the mirror.
"Haha, the corners of my mouth in the mirror seem to be slightly raised... one or two pixels?"
Chen Ye smiled bitterly, rubbed her sore cheeks, and complained, "After all, these mirrors are all funhouse mirrors. Is there really a funhouse mirror that looks exactly like the person?"
"If this is not what it originally meant..."
A whisper passed across Cecia's lips, and suddenly she seemed to have thought of something and began to search frantically among the mirrors.
"Got it, this is it!"
She suddenly stopped, pulled Chen Ye over, and asked in front of a mirror: "What do you see?"
"My body has turned into an iron barrel, just like the mirror in the little girl's house."
Chen Ye was listless.
"That's right!"
Cecia's eyes flashed with excitement, "I finally know where the exit of the maze is."
"That sentence was engraved on the first mirror, so the original appearance does not refer to our true appearance, but the appearance reflected in the first mirror."
"Since I can return to Mashilin's world through the same mirror, this means that the mirror is a two-way channel."
"Then, as long as we find the first mirror in Cinderella's world, we can use it to return to the Pure White Room—"
“The first mirror is both the entrance and the exit.”
After hearing her explanation, Chen Ye's eyes lit up, and his voice was filled with joy: "Great! Then we can get out right away!"
After staying in the mirror world for so long, Chen Ye finally saw hope of getting out. He didn't want to stay for a moment and immediately got into a mirror that was the same as the one in the girl's home.
It’s a harsh winter there…
Seeing that the other party had no intention of turning back, Cecia had no choice but to follow him, and did not forget to take the thick coats that the two of them had bought at a high price.
The cold weather, the house with leaks on all sides, and the middle-aged couple huddled in the corner...
Everything was the same as when they left, except for one cute little girl who was missing.
"Where is your daughter? Isn't she at home?"
Chen Ye rushed forward and asked.
Faced with the sudden visitor, the middle-aged man's face seemed a little stiff, especially when he saw Cecilia, the fear in his heart reached its peak again.
"she……"
The man's voice trembled slightly and his eyes flickered, as if he was trying hard to hide something.
"She went to buy some bread! The two ladies were so generous that we haven't spent all the gold they gave us yet!"
"It's just a small matter, as long as she is happy!"
Chen Ye was very satisfied with the man's answer. At least this time he did not let the young child sell matches to earn money.
"Are you going to wait for her to come back?"
The man's eyes rolled around as he spoke, observing Cecilia's reaction.
"She went to a famous bakery in the next town and probably won't be back for two days."
A cold look swept across the man's coat. He shrank his neck in fear and did not dare to continue speaking. He gave Cecilia a flattering smile.
A clumsy lie.
Cecia sneered but didn't expose him.
"We have urgent business, so we won't wait for her to come back. Please say hello to your daughter for me."
Chen Ye said this naively, pulling Cecilia away.
The other party's behavior was so obvious that only a fool like Chen Ye could not see it.
Cecia looked away and said nothing more. She didn't intend to argue with the characters in the story, nor did she want to ruin a girl's beautiful vision.
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