Chapter 43
On the other side, the common room.
Feng Jihan and his two companions were sitting on paint-chipped chairs discussing the mission.
Administrator 01 lowered his head and fiddled with his phone for a moment, his expression grim. "No, the port coordinates keep moving, and we can't locate it."
Feng Jihan lowered his eyelashes and took out a piece of paper from his pocket. While wiping the blood stains on the table, he asked, "Is there a pattern in the movement?"
"Maybe, maybe not," Administrator 01 frowned and said, "I've created monitoring software in the backend. If there's a pattern, the software will automatically calculate it."
The hooded boy braced himself on the ground, barely stabilizing the missing leg of his chair. He said sternly, "What about attacking the Domain Lord directly? While the Shield Master failed last time, if you, Captain, go, you should be completely immune to the Mirror City Business District Lord's hallucinogenic abilities."
The tablecloth was stained with blood, and it was unbearable to look at. Feng Jihan threw the tissue aside and sighed, "I can fight, but don't forget that the Domain Lord still controls the rift. The only thing to worry about is that if you push it too far, it will escape into the real world through the rift."
"The domain master of the Jingdu Business District is a yellow-clothed-level monster. If it passes through the rift and enters reality, it will definitely cause large-scale casualties."
The air conditioning in the ordinary lounge had poor cooling effect. As Lian Zhen listened, he began to sweat profusely and had to put the hood of his hoodie down.
One player complained: "Why is it suddenly so hot? Turn down the air conditioner."
The lounge staff appeared like a ghost and said with a smile, "Dear guest, you want to adjust the air conditioning temperature, right? The lower the temperature, the more electricity is consumed, so you need to pay 100 yuan. Are you sure you want to adjust the temperature?"
The player cursed, "Fuck it," and refused repeatedly, "No, no, no."
Administrator 01 sighed upon seeing this, "These wicked capitalists are even charging for air conditioning."
Lian Zhen lifted the front of his jacket and fanned himself. "So, we're going to have to stay in this strange place for a while? Do we have to make money? I don't have any money, do you guys have any?"
Administrator 01 shrugged. "I don't have any money either. I'm a reporter, and I only have 10,000 yuan left on my card. It seems I'll have to make money collecting news and selling it. Where's the captain?"
Feng Jihan's tone became a little hesitant: "I only have 10,000 yuan left in my card, and my identity is..."
"What is it?" Administrator 01 and Lian Zhen all looked at Feng Jihan curiously.
Feng Jihan calmly uttered two words: "Anti-fan."
Lian Zhen immediately gave a silent thumbs-up. "Not bad. Turning from love to hate, from fans to haters, then unfollowing and turning against them. It suits your current relationship status very well, Captain."
Feng Jihan's face darkened.
"What are you talking about!" Administrator 01 saw this and quickly kicked Lian Zhen under the table, almost destroying the balance Lian Zhen had been struggling to maintain. "You kid, there are some things you should just know yourself. Why do you have to say it out loud?"
Lian Zhen quickly steadied himself: "Sister Shi Yue, you taught me to be honest."
Feng Jihan's face darkened: "Let's talk about something serious, okay, teammates."
Administrator 01 coughed lightly and said, "Captain, did your phone say anything about how anti-fans can make money?"
"Yes," Feng Jihan said, "Since they are anti-fans, of course they will go and film the celebrity's negative news."
"What happens after the negative news is revealed?"
"Sell it to reporters for money." Feng Jihan tapped the screen of his phone with his fingers: "I have the contact information of two reporters on my phone."
Administrator 01 raised an eyebrow slightly. "One reporter is me. Who is the other reporter?"
Lian Zhen's focus remained peculiar: "So, Captain, are you going to make money by filming dirty laundry on another celebrity, or making money by filming dirty laundry on your ex-husband?"
Feng Jihan glanced at him dimly, "No one says haters have to make money from negative news, right?"
"Okay, let's put it this way. Anti-fans want to sell negative information about celebrities to reporters, and reporters want to sell the news to the production team. Ordinary people have the right to vote. Although we don't know what they're voting for yet, I have a bad feeling." Feng Jihan said, "Because Cen Xun just took away three players, if all three are ordinary people, it's like he directly controls three of the six votes."
Administrator 01 raised his hand at this point: "Actually, reporters don't necessarily have to sell their dirty laundry to the production team. They can just use it to blackmail the celebrities."
Feng Jihan: "Anti-fans can also blackmail celebrities."
Lian Zhen stroked his chin and said, "If an ordinary person has some dirty laundry on a celebrity, can't they also blackmail them?"
"Wait a minute, the premise for using negative material to blackmail a celebrity is that it will negatively impact them." Admin 01 immediately stopped them. "Following this chain of exploitation, the celebrity is controlled by journalists, trolls, and ordinary people. Journalists can bargain down the price and buy the negative material found by trolls at a low price. The trolls' income is directly linked to whether or not the celebrity produces negative material."
"The only identity that seems to be on the sidelines is the ordinary person. The ordinary person should also have a way to put pressure on the other three identities and get money."
After the administrator finished his analysis, Lian Zhen said, "It seems that the advantage of amateurs is related to the content of the votes."
Having said this, Lian Zhen suddenly felt dry mouth and his stomach was rumbling.
The continuous grunting sounds around him proved that it was not his problem, but the problem of this lounge.
But soon, the unbearable thirst and hunger disappeared.
Administrator 01 and Lian Zhen both looked at Feng Jihan, who calmly said, "Save when you should and spend when you should. Maintain a frugal lifestyle."
Lian Zhen spoke frankly: "Captain, wake up. You no longer have the pressure of supporting a family."
Feng Jihan: ""
Administrator 01 didn't interrupt this time. She seemed to remember something and said thoughtfully, "By the way, Captain, do you know the young man next to Cen Xun? He should be a monster too, right?"
"I know him. He's a man called Tong Ming." Feng Jihan paused and said, "He's also one of the nine candidates."
Administrator 01's gaze deepened as he pondered more and more: "Why is he walking with Cen Xun? Shouldn't they be competing with each other? And why, even though he's clearly a monster, is he still able to think normally? Is he also a semi-awakened form?"
Feng Jihan curled his lips: "I also want to know when my ex-husband recruited him to his side."
"Who could it be?" Administrator 01's frown deepened. "First, ruling out Fate and Natural Disaster, could it be the Walker? Oh, I hope it's not that unlucky creature called Doom."
Feng Jihan said in a deep voice: "If I remember correctly, he should be [Omniscient]."
"【Omniscient】?" Upon hearing this answer, Administrator 01 actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Lian Zhen was a newcomer who had joined later, so he knew very little about what had happened. He listened quietly for a while, then asked curiously, "What happened to [Omniscient]? Is it very difficult?"
"It's not that difficult. Omniscience's combat power isn't strong, but his omniscience is the problem. Once his omniscience is fully deployed, all personnel's skills, actions, levels, and even past events will be revealed." Administrator 01 smiled. "Of course, that's only possible when he's at his peak. His omniscience probably hasn't expanded to that level yet."
Lian Zhen lowered his voice and asked, "What about Cen Xun? He should be very strong in combat, right?"
Feng Jihan shook his head: "His individual combat power can only be ranked fourth. In terms of combat power, [Fate], [Time], and [Natural Disaster] are far superior to him."
Lian Zhen was puzzled. "But I remember that Cen Xun's danger level seemed to be the highest."
"Although his individual combat power cannot match that of the Big Three, he can control puppet threads." Feng Jihan raised his hand to stroke his hair, as if recalling something unpleasant in the past. He sighed and said, "In his prime, he could control hundreds of psychics at the same time. On his own, he certainly couldn't defeat the Big Three, but with the army of psychics under his control, it would be easy for him to defeat them."
Lian Zhen was completely stunned: "Is his ability so terrifying?"
Administrator 01 seemed lost in a memory, and smiled wryly, "If you're left alone and run into Cen Xun, don't fight him. Run away. Xiaozhen, aside from the captain's abilities, we currently have no other way to prevent the puppet thread from being implanted. You could be controlled by him without even realizing it."
Lian Zhen remained withdrawn for a moment, then glanced at Feng Jihan and whispered, "Captain, has your XP always been this weird?"
Feng Jihan smacked him on the back of the head, ignoring Lian Zhen, who was clutching his head and howling. He said calmly, "We're not afraid of monsters; we're afraid of monsters with culture. He was cunning before, but now that he's got brains, he's definitely more difficult to deal with. We must be extremely vigilant."
Administrator 01 sighed, "The most urgent task right now is to destroy the port."
"But if we want to survive here for a day or two, we need to get some money first." Lian Zhen turned around and asked, "Captain, do you have any idea?"
"Let me think about it." Feng Jihan pondered for a moment and suddenly asked, "What's the fastest way to make money?"
Lian Zhen thought for a moment and said, "It's all written in the criminal law."
"When I walked over here just now, I vaguely saw that there seemed to be a lot of gold shops and jewelry stores upstairs," Feng Jihan curled his lips, "It's over, my superstar ex-husband is probably going to become an outlaw."
Cen Xun put down the spoon and said calmly, "I feel like someone is saying bad things about me."
Tong Ming took a sip of Cassia Seed Flower Tea and looked up in confusion: "Hmm?"
"Forget it," Cen Xun stood up, perhaps with the vague intuition brought by the [Yin Yang Liu Yao] skill, and said, "I'm going to the bathroom first."
Tong Ming raised his eyebrows meaningfully: "Why are you going to the bathroom out of nowhere?"
Cen Xun seemed to be lost in thought: "I want to confirm some things and try my luck alone."
Tong Ming vaguely guessed what Cen Xun wanted to do, so he didn't follow him. He pointed to the clock on the wall and said, "Remember to come back in five minutes."
The VIP lounge and even the restrooms are decorated in an extraordinarily luxurious manner.
The black marble floor tiles were spotless, and the sound of Cen Xun's footsteps was particularly clear in the empty bathroom.
The sink was also very clean. Looking up, the place where the mirror should have been was empty.
Still no mirror.
Cen Xun originally thought that there should be a mirror in the restroom of a shopping mall, but he didn't expect that the domain owner of Jingdu Business District would be so strict in guarding it.
The reason why Cen Xun came to the bathroom alone was to deliberately create the illusion of being alone and experience the so-called "getting lost in the mirror". Unfortunately, there was no mirror in the bathroom, so Cen Xun's wish was dashed.
Boring.
Cen Xun stretched out his hand boredly, and water immediately came out of the automatic sensor faucet. The water flowed gently over his fair and beautiful fingers, and then flowed into the sink along his fingertips.
Cen Xun washed his hands slowly and was about to wash them a second time when he suddenly felt that the light around him seemed to have changed slightly.
It seems brighter?
Cen Xun raised his eyes and unexpectedly met his own gaze in the mirror.
The disappeared mirror reappeared silently at some point.
Cen Xun in the mirror stared at Cen Xun in reality, his rosy lips raised maliciously, looking very evil.
Cen Xun had a blank expression on his face, as if he didn't notice anything strange about the person in the mirror. He turned around and went to dry his hands first.
In addition to the extra mirrors on the wall, the black marble tiles on the ground had also turned into a mirror at some point. Cen Xun stepped on it, and the reflected figure was looking down at him and smiling at him strangely.
Cen Xun looked up while drying his hands and saw that the reflection on the ceiling above his head had also turned into a mirror and was still smiling at him strangely.
Looking to the side, he saw that he was surrounded by strange reflections on all sides, each of which was approaching him and stretching out its hands towards him.
Cen Xun finally showed some interest.
This should be the so-called space in the mirror. Let him see what secrets are hidden in the mirror.
So Cen Xun not only did not retreat, but instead took the initiative to reach out to the person in the mirror he had captured, and caught the other person faster!
The "Cen Xun" in the mirror was obviously stunned, tilted his head, and showed a look of some confusion.
Cen Xun shook his head at him: "Your smile is not scary enough. You should smile like I am now."
After saying that, he gave the person in the mirror a malicious smile. At the same time, a cold light flashed at his fingertips, and colorful puppet silk broke through the wind, quickly winding up along the wrist of the person in the mirror, and directly hit the person in the mirror in the face.
The person in the mirror's pupils suddenly shrank, as if he didn't expect things to develop like this. He hurriedly struggled to break free from Cen Xun's hand. However, it was not only Cen Xun's hand that was locking him, but also the puppet thread.
As the puppet thread suddenly retracted its force, "Cen Xun's" arm was instantly torn into pieces. It seemed to be in extreme pain and let out a shrill, inhuman howl. Its figure flashed and disappeared in the mirror in front of Cen Xun.
Run away?
Cen Xun glanced at the other mirrors, and his peripheral vision quickly caught a glimpse of the fleeting black shadow. Several puppet threads swept across fiercely, and wherever they passed, the mirrors shattered to the ground.
The entire space in the mirror was crumbling under the powerful destructive force of Cen Xun. The unknown existence in the mirror probably realized that Cen Xun was not easy to deal with, and finally chose to flee in embarrassment.
“Where are you running to!”
Cen Xun was now very curious about the creature in the mirror and was not willing to let it go. He estimated the time and found that there was only 1 minute and 56 seconds left, so he jumped decisively and chased into the mirror.
There was a mirror inside the mirror. As soon as Cen Xun entered, the mirrors on all sides reflected his every move synchronously. Cen Xun's eyebrows twitched, and his eyes swept around, and he saw the reflection of his own infinite nesting dolls.
This turned out to be a mirror maze.
The refraction principle of the mirror can easily make people fail to notice the existence of the intersection and thus lose their way. In addition, there is only 1 minute and 30 seconds left, and the remaining time is obviously not enough for Cen Xun to complete a full exploration.
A black shadow flashed through countless mirrors again. From the reflection, it looked like it was running past Cen Xun from behind.
Cen Xun didn't look back, staring at the mirror image.
All the mirrors suddenly began to move with a rumbling sound, rotating around Cen Xun. In the ever-changing light and shadow, the dazzling mirror images kept approaching Cen Xun in the center.
Cen Xun didn't dodge or evade, his eyes still calmly searching for something in the mirror.
Finally, he saw
A small black shadow is running wildly in the opposite direction.
A long-haired cow cat.
The corners of Cen Xun's lips curled up slightly. At the moment when the mirror was almost touching the tip of his nose, Cen Xun suddenly said, "Do you know Mr. Qin?"
The shadow, which was getting smaller and smaller and almost shrinking into a black dot, suddenly stopped.
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