Chapter 70 Endless Learning Journey (7) Jinjiang exclusive authorized first release...
At the same time as the prompt appeared, the bloodstains on the huge mirrors covering the four walls came back to life. The scarlet marks, the cold and solidified human tissue, and the bloody scratches covering the mirror surface all surged and condensed and flowed, as if returning to the first day they appeared.
A strong smell of blood rose up.
The flowing blood gathered towards the mirror, and the mirror surface became smooth, reflecting a hazy figure. Just as the figure appeared, countless eyes suddenly opened on the mirror.
Moka was closest to the mirror, his bat wings almost touching the mirror surface, and when his eyes opened he was startled and almost bit his tongue.
Those eyes began to move, scrutinizing, maliciously, critically... one after another opened in the mirror, and thousands of cold gazes fell on the three people, mixed with anger and hatred, as well as the unwillingness to let the situation slip out of control.
Ani stood up and looked back expressionlessly. More and more of those eyes were fixed on her, and the threat they brought was chilling and piercing, as if it were real.
"It's closed." Ling Xiao tried to open the door again immediately.
The door of the dance studio was tightly closed, and the original gap was blocked by an invisible object. He continued to try to break it down violently, but it didn't work, so he opened his mouth and retreated to the other two people.
Those eyeballs kept moving, and their gazes were full of strong judgment, as if they were trying to convict someone. As the line of sight turned, the hallucination of "unqualified" was heard all around.
One eye stared at her face: "You are not charming enough."
The other eye stared at her body: "You are not weak enough."
More eyes focused on various parts of her body, using their sight to write crude footnotes for a powerful hunter. The sounds overlapped one after another, and more and more sounds merged into:
"You're not compliant-Ah!!!"
Annie's arms were covered with biological armor, and the spider's hard and poisonous thorns extended from the knuckles. Her spurred hands penetrated into the mirror and pierced the dozen eyes in front of her.
The stinger was stained with blood.
The voice of this judgment sounded different to everyone, but she was a rare type who was completely unaffected. The more they seemed to be attacking her psychological defenses, the less lethal these statements were.
Even "not weak enough" has become a compliment.
There seemed to be something behind the mirror. Ani reached her hand in and felt like she had stabbed into a huge ice cave. Her hand rummaged around inside and suddenly grabbed something.
...like clothes? Or the soft limbs of human beings?
Before she had time to think, a crack spread on the mirror and a resisting force bounced her out. Annie took a half step back, withdrew her hand and shook off the blood.
At this moment, the other two people also broke free from the words ringing in their ears. Ling Xiao didn't look changed, but the little succubus's expression had obviously changed. He was angry and humiliated, biting his lips tightly, afraid that he would scream out destructively and vent his anger if he wasn't careful.
The torn eye recovered, and as the blood gathered, the first malicious NPC appeared in the room. One eye turned into a faceless humanoid creature and pounced towards Annie.
A countdown with a small hourglass icon appears in the upper right corner of the live broadcast room.
This is a hidden task with a time limit of eighty minutes, and the current time is 79 minutes.
Annie instinctively grabbed the humanoid's neck. She knew the fastest way to kill the other party. She twisted her fingers and the other party's neck made a crackling sound.
The humanoid figure should have fallen but it didn't stop. It stubbornly held its nearly severed head in front of her. Its offensive gaze was accompanied by a dizzying hallucination.
Ani frowned, crushed its larynx, threw it to the ground, and crushed it along with its eyes.
The action was done in one go, and the whole process took less than two seconds. But more human-shaped creatures crawled out of the mirrors all around.
Their faces were blurry and ugly. They crawled out one after another and approached the outsiders from all directions.
Ten...
Dozens of...
Hundreds!
Infinite humanoids were generated, some walking, some crawling, approaching with the same eyes. Ani glanced around and saw that the mirror was completely covered by the surging humanoid shapes.
"Isn't this too many?" said Moka, who had killed one of them. "And it's hard to kill them. You have to completely destroy their eyes."
The succubus's sharp nails were stained with blood, and his tail swung anxiously: "I don't want to charm this thing...even if it's a human limb..."
“Forget about it.” A drop of blood splashed on Annie’s cheek, but she didn’t wipe it off. “If you had succeeded in enchanting someone, you wouldn’t be so pure.”
Purity is a derogatory word to him.
Moka's eyes widened, and her thoughts of retorting were interrupted by the monster rushing over. Unable to bear it any longer, he spread his bat wings and flew into the air. However, as soon as he reached the top, he suddenly felt a creepy chill rising from his back.
He patrolled the surroundings cautiously but found nothing. While Annie was tearing the monsters around her apart, she glanced over and saw a giant eye opened next to the chandelier on the ceiling just above the spread bat wings.
This giant eye pressed against Moka's body, constantly bulging and protruding, and finally broke away from the ceiling and almost stuck to the back of the succubus's head.
"Moka." Her expression remained unchanged, but her tone became very commanding, "Come down."
He resisted being enslaved, but Ani's tone made Moka's tail shake in panic - in the moment of hesitation, the giant eye suddenly swallowed him up, closed its eyes, clamped the wings of the night bat, and immediately retreated to the ceiling.
Ani heard his out-of-control high-frequency sound waves.
The humanoid creatures around them were delayed for a moment, and then their brains exploded along with the eyes above them, accompanied by gradually increasing sound waves. Hundreds and thousands of eye monsters that were constantly generated were cleared out in an instant - Annie immediately turned around and pulled Ling Xiao next to her and covered his ears.
This is an indiscriminate attack.
Lingxiao's vines were not completely retracted, and the green vines were torn into several cracks by the endless monsters, and one of them was broken. The sound waves sounded, and his defenses collapsed completely within three seconds. There was a boiling white noise in his mind, and only a violent buzzing was left in his ears.
Everything in front of Ling Xiao's eyes suddenly turned white, as if an intense white light had swallowed up his consciousness. His consciousness began to fade as he covered his ears with his hands...Ani's figure was blurred in his vision.
Amid the buzzing sound, he felt like he was about to die.
He had anticipated this moment for a long time. While participating in this one-way killing game, Ling Xiao had imagined what would happen after death many times. He had made all the necessary preparations before he died, waiting for the arrival of death in his boring life.
But when this moment really came, my blank mind desperately wanted to retain any thoughts. But he was so weak that all he could think of was the murmur that echoed in his mind when so many eyes were fixed on him.
One eye stared at him and said, "You are too ordinary."
"Too weak." "Bland."
"Humble and poor." "Who would trust a mean person like you?"
"Did she say love? Or do you want to embellish this obscenity?"
"It's just more fun to trample on you. Why do you look so betrayed?"
The murmurs eventually became very similar to Annie's voice. His expression remained calm as he struggled to escape these "trials", but Ling Xiao could faintly hear the sound of his own bleeding.
Just not on the outside.
The contemptuous words were finally melted away by the boiling buzzing sound. Ling Xiao thought that he would be shattered by the sound waves like those humanoid creatures. At the last moment, the tinnitus disappeared.
There was a sticky substance that completely blocked the sound.
The humanoid monsters around him continued to be born and explode, like a horrible cycle. It took him two seconds to regain clarity and his vision slowly recovered.
He saw Ani in front of him.
She looked a little different... a light layer of pink slime oozed from the neck outside her combat uniform. Ling Xiao opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't hear his own voice. He paused and asked with his mouth: "...What's wrong with you?"
Annie's expression was frozen. She had no time to manage her facial expressions. She lowered her eyes to look at the part below her waist.
Ling Xiao also followed and watched.
The arms that were covering her ears melted... or you could say were melting. The sticky pink liquid completely blocked the sound waves. Her body was also clearly heating up and melting. Her body looked soft, and the flesh on her waist was dissolving, revealing a curled up tentacle.
His pupils suddenly trembled and he stared at her face.
There was not much emotion on Annie's face. The several mimicry she possessed, whether it was the Zerg or the Merman, were already ranked at the forefront of the vast races in the universe. However, this sonic attack was different from humans' thermal weapons. It was actually the sound of a succubus's courtship - evolved from it.
Her boiling was due to her reproductive nature.
Ani sighed very lightly, raised her eyes and said, "Will you be more moved if I become like this?"
Ling Xiao recognized the shape of her lips, but he was worried that he had made a mistake. His lips moved but he did not respond.
The sound waves that were enough to destroy everything lasted for a full five minutes. At 74:59 on the countdown, the calls of the nocturnal bats finally stopped.
The giant eye was destroyed, and Moka fell from the ceiling. He was exhausted, and the desperate high-frequency sound waves made him fall into uncontrollable panic. He curled up, his messy purple hair covering his face, and his bat wings pressed together, half covering his body.
After the sound waves disappeared, Ani's tentacles rolled him over.
Moka's voice was extremely hoarse and he couldn't make any sound. When he touched the tentacles, he was too exhausted to resist. He actually hugged it in a daze, hiding beside Ani's legs trembling, and buried his face in his knees.
Ani gradually loosened her hands that were covering Ling Xiao.
"There are several massacres in his records that were caused by this," she said, "but after this bloody sound wave swept through him, he completely lost his aggressiveness."
Ling Xiao glanced at the shivering little bat and raised his eyes: "No longer aggressive?"
"Yeah." Annie confirmed casually and was about to say something when she suddenly saw Ling Xiao stepping on the little succubus's heart-shaped tail that fell to the ground.
Moka's entire body was covered in hair. The arm holding the tentacle tightened infinitely, and he shrank into an even smaller ball as if frightened, sticking to Annie's legs. His muscles, cramped due to the severe pain, pressed against Annie's half-melted skin, and the blood vessels inside were beating wildly and fearfully.
Ani paused and looked at Ling Xiao. Ling Xiao wiped the blood from his earlobe and looked at her.
He became a little reserved, but he did not regret exposing his true nature to the other party: "I'm sorry, this is your new trophy."
Ani chewed on this description for a moment: "It's not damaged, so it can still be used."
Ling Xiao turned his head, his not-so-obvious Adam's apple rolling up and down: "To what extent is it considered unusable?"
"Your question is really abominable." Annie's tone became lighter. The fluid mucus on her body gradually cooled down and returned to its normal camouflage state, but the tentacles still did not retract.
It's already been exposed, there's no point in hiding it any longer. The arguments in her mind flashed through her mind, and a light screen appeared in front of her.
It is a gift of thanks for a huge reward, as well as a conditional gift of an attractive amount.
The gift request is the original sentence in the audience message: Show your tentacles to everyone and don't take them back in the next 80 minutes. Be a jelly monster who has mastered the latest aesthetics of the universe. ——A lover of cute girls.
It looks like revenge from a certain tycoon.
He was a guy who was both stingy and strangely generous, obsessed with cleanliness, and hated sticky liquids.
Annie paused on the three words "Jelly Monster", which is her popular nickname on the Internet. She raised her eyebrows and said to the ubiquitous live data stream: "Although I do want everyone to accept the fact that I am a tentacle monster, the sentence about making the whole universe like tentacles is just a joke. I don't have such a strong desire to control the audience's aesthetic taste... Also, give me a code."
There was no movement on the light screen.
She said again: "Angel?... Never mind, at least don't play it in close-up."
The angel was exceptionally quiet.
Ani didn't know why he didn't react at all. She quickly thanked him for the gift and stared at the newly generated monster.
All the eye monsters in the first wave died. More hostile NPCs spawned.
Four exquisite dolls crawled out of the mirror.
The puppets looked like the four vengeful spirits, and their shapes were extremely standard—after all, they were puppets of uniform specifications. Only one part of their bodies is alive, and that is the part that is dug out.
Ballet music played from the old loudspeaker in the room. The sound quality is not high and the tape may get stuck at any time. As the dance music plays, the first puppet makes a brilliant appearance.
Its face is very beautiful, but all of them look exactly the same. The perfect pair of legs were embedded in the doll. The original owner of these legs hated being judged. Her elegant legs became a tool for judging her morality under the gaze of the outside world.
The puppet was spinning in the classroom, and the prelude to the dance music bloomed like a flower in its perfect dance steps.
The rest of the puppets appeared one after another, but the first one was closest to Ani. She stepped back a few steps to give the puppet room to dance.
Ani concentrated her attention and watched with a little appreciation, wondering who had dug out these legs.
Who put the red cross on the edge of the missing part of the body? The extreme disgust shown by the red cross is because...
The dance entered a new variation.
If you ignore the red carpet of blood on the ground, it's actually a moving performance. But after entering the variation, a dark shadow appeared, with black hands and feet emerging from the void, stroking the puppet's legs up and down.
Its dance steps began to become impatient, the rhythm was disordered, and its footsteps also released some kind of suppressed pain. The puppet was getting closer and closer to Ani.
She did not retreat any further. Her dancing arms almost touched the tip of Ani's nose, but she still did not retreat. The pain that passed before her eyes became even stronger and turned into resentment.
The puppet's legs began to move out of control.
Blood oozed out of the crack connecting the two legs. The legs refused to be part of the puppet. The hatred that surged into the sky was icy and bone-chilling. The black hands and feet were forced back by the hatred, and the puppet fell to the ground.
The others fell as well, and the parts that belonged to the real dancers turned into dark resentment. The accumulated psionic energy oppressed the nerves, and the puppets were driven by this hateful energy to stand up, muttering: "I have been very obedient... Why is it not enough?"
Ani said: "As long as you don't pay a price for exploiting you, then exploitation in various names will continue to exist... Uh, sorry, should I bother you at this time?"
The puppet grabbed her arm.
Ani is ready to face the enemy head-on, but she is pulled into the dance by the first puppet.
Ling Xiao subconsciously wanted to follow, but was blocked by the fourth puppet. This doll has a human face. Her eyes are empty and numb. She looks ignorant and stupid, but occasionally a trace of painful contemplation flashes in her dark eyes.
The fourth puppet simply blocked him, folding its hands in front of itself, saying nothing.
Ling Xiao was forced to stay with the out-of-control succubus. He looked over the puppet's shoulder at the field, and the vines anxiously and worriedly reached in the direction of Ani.
But he knew that if he acted on his own, he might cause even greater trouble.
Ani was led into the venue by cold hands.
She was never sure how threatening the other person was, and she couldn't dance, so even when there was an elegant ballerina holding her hand, Ani just moved along.
The opponent's hand was brewing a strong chill, and extreme resentment filled its body. It seemed that the hatred of the vengeful spirit was the source of its power. Its lower part below the waist was wrapped in dark energy and it danced in the void.
Ani heard it mutter, "She hates this part of herself. She dug me out of her body."
Ani thought about it and said truthfully: "I think it's very beautiful, but she must have her own reasons for doing so."
The puppet seemed unable to communicate, and broken sentences kept coming out of its mouth: "Why do you hate me? Am I not a part of you?"
Ani chatted with it: "I think it's better to vent her hatred on others, but even if she vents her hatred on herself, it's not her fault."
"...Who can understand my pain..."
Ani was a little at a loss for words: "Of course no one can empathize with me. I can only ask who should I kill?"
The melody climbs to a small peak.
On the last beat of this section, the puppet took her hand and spun around gracefully. Annie's back was pressed against the mirror. At the end of this beat, the mirror behind her suddenly shattered, and countless broken mirrors scattered around. The puppet held her hand and jumped into another world.
The surroundings turned into a misty day with drizzling rain. The doll in front of me turned into a pretty girl in a ballet costume. She had not yet turned into a vengeful spirit. Her face was still rosy, with a pair of smiling eyes, and her face was full of vitality.
Ani was in a trance for a moment, and heard her ask softly: "Can you stay with me?"
The music didn’t stop, and the two continued to dance on the school rooftop in the drizzle. The scene had a hazy feeling of hallucination or memory. Ani pondered for a moment and asked cautiously, "How long?"
The other person laughed softly and happily. In the misty rain, Ani saw her legs again - these were natural legs that belonged to a girl. They had not become thin due to the judgment of the outside world, and their skin was smooth without the application of a lot of skin care products. Her healthy muscles were taut with her dance steps, and the outline under her dance costume was full of vitality.
Amid the sound of drizzling rain and dance music, it seemed as if there were only the two of them in the world. The girl said, "I don't want to let you out. I don't want to. Can you stay here forever?"
Ani sighed, "To be honest, I'm not a good person. Don't think I sound nice, I'm a terrible pansexual. I don't even let plants and fish go."
The girl took a small breath in surprise. After a few minutes, she applied what she had learned and said, "You must have your reasons."
...Am I being too considerate? Will this also turn me into a vengeful spirit?
“I got revenge on everyone,” she said, “including myself for giving in.”
She dug out the place where she was being stared at, covered in blood, but she never forgave herself for not resisting.
"You will see it soon. We can't do anything about it." She murmured close to Ani's ear, "Help me kill it, help me kill it..."
She whispered a few words in his ear.
Annie listened attentively. After the voice died down, the girl hugged her. At one point in the music, Annie gracefully turned sideways and returned to the classroom. There was still the puppet in front of her.
Countdown 62:32.
The second puppet approached her.
It seemed like pure performance, as if there was no threat. But only Annie, who was taken to a fantasy secret land by them, knew that each of them wanted to stay in the world behind the mirror forever.
Various prompts kept appearing in front of Annie.
[Ballet Club Collective Favorability +1]
The four of them might be in tune with each other, and even their favorability levels were rising together. With constant reminders of favorability, after Annie counted to the twenty-fifth reminder, the dance music ended.
Countdown 53:20
[Ballet Club collective favorability +1, current favorability 35]
The moment the dance ended, most of the psionic energy attached to the puppets was extracted, and the resentment hidden in them also disappeared. The puppets lost their driving force and collapsed to the ground.
Ani turned her head to look to the other side, and the person in front of Ling Xiao also knelt down quietly, and his head disappeared.
Ling Xiao confirmed for two seconds: "Did you handle them?"
Ani said, "I think that Wraith-san may just not have a friend like me. I'm a very reliable friend, haven't you noticed?"
Ling Xiao paused and said, "You are indeed a very reliable friend. You do what you want, are not affected by anything, and love yourself very much. You are confident enough to want to change the entire universe."
"…That's really just talk." Ani said, "But if you're honest, you're also obsessed with such cute tentacles like mine, so that's understandable."
"This has reached the level of narcissism." Ling Xiao said calmly and reservedly.
But it's really cute. He couldn't help thinking again. As soon as this thought bubble appeared, before it could be cleared, a new monster appeared in the room.
There will be no peace here until the countdown ends.
Ani retied her hair with extra care and said, "You're done. I want to fulfill my new friend's last wish - no, is that right?"
Her fluent words turned in another direction at the end. Annie opened her eyes wide and looked at the black shadow in front of her. The shadow twisted and expanded, and actually condensed into pure black tentacles. The dark side that was so thick that it could not be dissolved crawled over, accompanied by countless imitated gurgling sounds.
Annie remembered what the girl said in her ear.
"It can understand people's hearts and inspire the darkest side. I had already woken up and taken revenge on everyone, but under its instigation, I still hated myself..."
"I don't know how to get rid of it. It knows my thoughts too well. It is my other side, the side that is out of control... Help me kill it, help me kill it..."
This dark shadow has absorbed the dark side of many people's hearts.
It climbed over, imitating Annie's appearance, and pure black tentacles surged over.
Dark slime began to seep out of the cracks in the wall.
"Compared to this," Ling Xiao suddenly whispered, "yours is indeed better."
Ani felt helpless at his inappropriate and dry humor: "This is not the time to talk about this!"
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