Congratulations, you drew the "Magic Mirror Card"!
Magic Mirror Card 1: Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, tell me, who is the most beautiful person in the world
Magic Mirror Card 2: Is the person in the mirror me
Tang Ning listened attentively to the new cards he had acquired, then raised his eyes to look at the mirror placed in the room.
A face identical to Tang Ning's appeared in the mirror, except that the person in the mirror was wearing black hair and a black robe. "He" was sitting in a bumpy carriage, looking at the scenery outside the curtain that was suddenly opened with some discomfort.
The sunset light shines on the young man in black hair and robe. His thick and curled eyelashes seem to be inhabited by a black butterfly. His translucent skin is enveloped by the gentle sunset light. He is like a precious, beautiful and fragile object. People are a little worried that the carriage will damage him.
Tang Ning sat in front of the mirror, bent one leg, propped up his chin with one hand, and observed another self through the perspective of the mirror.
So beautiful.
Even though he has been looking at "him" through the mirror for so long, from when "he" was a newcomer until now, he still often marvels at "his" beauty.
So beautiful...
It was a beauty that could not be seen in himself.
Unguarded, confused, clean, painful and gentle beauty.
"He" always appears to be in a state of pain, rejecting everything around him that makes him feel uncomfortable. Rough fabrics, glaring sunlight, unfamiliar surroundings or prying eyes will make him frown slightly, and his body will naturally tense up.
For example, now, when sitting on the unicorn, the beautiful fingertips knew where to put them, the toes always refrained from curling up, the lowered eyes moved evasively, and occasionally licked the lips lightly.
Stiff, dull, clumsy, nervous, but still deadly beautiful, it is a particularly immature beauty, like a half-ripe fruit blooming in spring.
Tangning changed into a more comfortable posture and looked at "him" lazily.
He suddenly recalled someone once said to him, "I really want to see another side of you when you take off your powerful side."
Tangning stood in front of the mirror quietly and looked at this "him" for a long time. After a while, she raised the corner of her lips and smiled.
He got off the unicorn and stepped barefoot on the scarlet carpet. His body became stiffer. The lines of his slender neck were very beautiful, especially when he raised his head and looked around.
Tang Ning stretched out his hand, spread his thumb and index finger apart, half squinted his eyes through the mirror, and kept adjusting the distance between his fingers and the position of his hand to strangle "his" throat.
It's very easy to kill "him".
Just as he had killed his past self so easily before.
He had been forgetting his past for a long time. How should I put it? That incompetent past.
Everyone has their weak side; even powerful beasts are fragile when they are born.
The powerful card player Tang Ning was a very weak newcomer when he first entered the game.
At the very beginning, he was captured by an Undead monster and taken into a cave. It was a huge skeleton that was obsessed with his skin.
This kind of obsession means that you want to peel off his skin and put it on yourself.
Due to the benefit of novice protection, the boss can only attack him on the last day, which is the seventh day. He can be really hurt in the first six days. This is the "benefit" of the card game for newcomers.
As a newcomer, he had a full six days to think of ways to avoid the crisis.
Any old player who sees this will say that it is a rookie game and the benefits are really good.
But for him at that time, the first six days were like a real nightmare.
Every day he watched this skeleton lead living people into the abyss, peel off their skins in front of him, put on bloody new clothes, and then stare at him.
That kind of eyes is like a vain person who got a beautiful new dress, but he cherished it so much that he saved it for the last day to wear it. However, every day during the first six days, when he put on other clothes, he would linger on the new dress, even touching it with his hands and sticking his face against it.
When he first encountered this situation, he would just cry helplessly.
He was a person with poor psychological endurance. When he saw the bodies with mosaics in the car accident video, he would suppress his breath. When he saw the bloody and cruel scenes without any cover, even if he closed his eyes, the sizzling sound would still penetrate into his ears, bone marrow, and stomach. He wanted to dispel these things, so he retched desperately.
Repeat.
He lay in the cold den, surrounded by corpses. The horrible sounds and smells kept drilling into his soul, making him dream about the scene of "undressing", those fragile things being taken off, again and again.
On the third day, his fear seemed to have been shaved off, leaving only numbness.
The skeleton left for some reason that day, so he seized this precious time to escape. Unfortunately, since he hadn't eaten for three days, he didn't have the strength to run far and was caught by the returning skeleton.
It turned out that the skeleton found that its clothes had not eaten for three days and were very hungry, so it went out to find food for its clothes. When it came back, it found that its clothes were torn and covered with wounds in the process of escaping.
It was extremely angry, but was unwilling to inflict more wounds on its clothes, so it chose to punish Tang Ning's soul with a blue flame.
The soul was in extreme pain, but the body was unharmed.
The fire nearly brought Tang Ning to a nervous breakdown, almost burning away his courage, and making him realize the present situation completely. He realized the huge gap in power between himself and this boss, and that he could definitely escape on his own. He also realized how much this skeleton cherished its new clothes.
So on the seventh day of the dungeon, when the skeleton untied Tang Ning for the first time and was about to put on the beautiful clothes that it had been dreaming of for seven days, Tang Ning touched a sharp stone.
As he took hold of what could barely be called a weapon, the skeleton that had just untied him looked down at him.
The skeleton was just a skeleton, without eyeballs, and two clusters of faint ghost fire were burning in the eye sockets. Logically, Tang Ning would not be able to tell anything from the eyes of a skeleton, but from the skeleton's attitude, Tang Ning instantly read a kind of ridicule.
It seems to be saying, I'm just a piece of stone, I'm standing here and letting you hit me, what can you do to me
Such an arrogant attitude, as if he was not taken as a plaything at all.
Yes, does anyone care what a piece of clothing thinks, even if it is very beautiful
Then Tang Ning, who was lying on the ground, also smiled brightly. He laughed so hard that his whole body was shaking. He picked up the stone and scratched his entire face, destroying this beautiful skin and his favorite clothes.
I can't do you any harm.
But do you like this dress very much
You see, I completely destroyed him.
You should also be heartbroken, right
Although, the skeleton doesn't seem to have a heart.
…
But you look so sad, so pitiful, and so stupid now. Hahahahahaha.
Then, Tang Ning witnessed the entire process of the skeleton going crazy. A huge flame beyond his imagination surged up like a tide, and the fire kept burning him until he was desperate to live or die.
It was so intense that even after he had survived seven days and left the game, he still had dreams of himself being burned by Cang's fire.
After clearing the first dungeon, Tang Ning realized that something might have gone wrong.
It was as if his tears had been burned dry, and so were his fears and cowardices. Only one belief was burning in his soul like a raging fire.
He wanted to become powerful, he wanted to become extremely powerful, he wanted to inflict all the pain he had experienced on those who wanted to hurt him! Return it a hundredfold, a thousandfold, ten thousandfold.
Next, he started the second copy of his life.
In this copy, he met a teammate who liked his appearance very much and said he would protect him.
But when they were running away, when everyone was rushing to get in the car and the monster was about to catch up, that man pushed him and threw him to the ground. Everyone panicked and they had to leave immediately.
So they really set off immediately.
No one in the entire team stopped for even a second. They drove quickly and fled from here, leaving him alone in front of the monster.
This time, Tang Ning didn't even have a sharp stone at hand.
Facing the monster that was approaching step by step, Tang Ning laughed crazily again in extreme fear and anger. He laughed so hard that tears came out. The painful memories of the previous copy emerged in his mind. Such a long, long pain. Every minute and every second of being burned by the blue flames seemed like a century of pain.
Why, why should he be the only one to bear this pain
Why, why should he be the only one to endure the pain inflicted by both humans and monsters
So, come and share my pain.
As he thought this, a cluster of blue flames that gave him the power to live or die suddenly blossomed from his palms.
As the monster grabbed his throat, his hands were also wrapped in the flames, and they grabbed each other's necks at the same time.
For the first time, he saw fear in a monster's eyes.
The monster escaped.
That was his first time using Soul Fire, and it consumed so much energy that he fainted. When he woke up again, half dead, he discovered the monster hiding in the distance.
The monster wanted to kill him, but was afraid of the blue flames on his body.
He wanted to kill the monster, but he didn't have the strength to do so.
They maintained an extremely delicate balance, and when Tang Ning chose to stand up and stumble away, the monster followed him cautiously.
Therefore, in Tang Ning's later dreams, in addition to Cang's soul fire burning him, there was also a strange monster always following him, and once he showed weakness, the monster would swallow him.
The seven days in the second copy were also seven days of nightmare. In the end, he finally reached his destination with difficulty according to the map given by the system, and also saw his teammates.
His teammates seemed really happy because the dungeon was about to end and they could leave.
Tangning also laughed.
Because he attracted the monster here. When these people were most excited, he brought the monster here.
The monster killed almost everyone, except Tang Ning and a person who was bitten beyond recognition. The monster wanted to kill them because the game time was up. Once the seven days were up, the players left the copy.
He used monsters to kill the teammates who abandoned him, and likewise, he seemed to have completely killed his past self.
The cowardly, incompetent self who blindly trusts others.
In the following copies, Tang Ning would always suffer losses in various ways. He was smart enough and was born with a sharp mind, but fortunately he possessed that strange blue flame. He called this fire the soul fire, which was his trump card. Every time Tang Ning could turn the tide with the help of the soul fire.
So Tang Ning gained a lot of experience.
He worked so hard to absorb lessons and improve himself that he allowed himself to make more mistakes.
After countless near-death experiences, he finally did it. He finally became extremely powerful. He could live well enough in the dungeon world and provide himself with the most comfortable living environment, food conditions, etc. within his ability. He never wanted to go back to the original dungeons, where he was locked up in a simple, dirty and messy place where people lived and ate disgusting and inedible food.
He no longer wanted to be like the first copy, where he could only have a chance of survival by committing self-destruction. He made himself extremely glamorous and exquisite, and he was so picky that no one would associate him with his previous figure who was as miserable as a dog.
When he was at his most brilliant, a person appeared.
That person said he liked him.
He didn't care about liking someone, but the other person was very strong, so they became partners.
They joined forces and reached the S-level copy together. Only one person could get out of that copy.
He desperately tried to grab the only chance and never looked back. Only after he successfully passed the level, the system told him that the person really did not compete with him.
That person had been helping him to block the next monster, and until his death, he never waited for him to look back.
Tang Ning felt a little empty at heart. He didn't feel the ecstasy he had imagined after clearing a level, but he wasn't sad either. He had experienced a lot of sadness a long time ago, so this little thing seemed insignificant compared to the past.
The most important thing now is that he can finally get rid of this damn card game, return to the present, and live a good life with his mother.
Thinking of his mother, he was very excited, really very excited. He used this game to accumulate a lot of wealth, but he had not figured out how to tell his mother the true origin of the money, so he kept it a secret. He made two preparations. One was that he would die in the card game, and then someone would help him hand over the wealth to his mother.
Second, he really won the game. If everything went well, he would have just graduated from college, or even not graduated yet. Then he would use his connections to match his future career and arrange a series of film and television resources for himself, and then tell his mother that all of this was earned by his own money after graduation.
He wanted to let his mother know that he had entered the card game and wanted to tell her what had happened to him.
He had been trying hard to pretend to be the same person in front of his mother, but today when everything ended was really an important day, a day worth celebrating. He used the money in his card to buy a gold bracelet and flew home overnight. He wanted to give his mother a surprise.
Then he received the news of his mother's death.
My mother's death was actually an accident.
It was the revenge of a teammate who survived in the second copy, where half of his face was bitten off by a monster. That teammate used special abilities to create this carefully planned accident.
That person was the one who pushed him. The person who pushed him had died long ago. That person was a person that even he himself wanted to forget.
But now, he can never forget this person.
He burned the other person with soul fire for ten days, and then the other person entered the card game and died in the game. He couldn't burn the soul of a corpse anymore.
And even if the other person is still alive, there is no point in doing this.
He won the game, but lost two people who loved him in a very short period of time.
During those sleepless nights, the nightmares that permeated his soul seemed to be nothing more than fire and monsters, his dead mother and the partner who had said "I like you" to him.
One day after two years of living in a daze, he suddenly wanted to end this game of life.
The system appeared again and asked him to think about it and try again. This time, if he won the game, he could save the person who died for him, and he could also be his mother again.
He said yes.
The system said that in order to be fair, he would be deprived of all his memories of participating in the game, and the lost parts would be reasonably filled in for him. For example, his mother's death was not revenge by enemies, but just a simple accident. It would also deprive other living people of their memories of his participation in the game.
He said yes.
The system said that your deprived memories will remain in a copy. When your strength is almost enough to clear the S-level copy, you will come to this copy that retains your past memories, and you can choose whether to merge or not.
He said yes.
He is this deprived memory. Every day in this copy, he looks at the self that he once killed with his own hands.
“He” was stupid and useless, but because that card connected “him” and his partner together, “he” didn’t suffer so much this time.
He didn't have to eat so much, so much, so much that he had to try his best to climb up.
So "he" just kept staying where he was, always seeking the protection of the prince, and always foolishly treating his teammates with all his heart.
He hated "him".
Every moment when he first watched "him" complete the game, he hated it so much that he rushed into the mirror and killed "him", killed this weak, incompetent and indecisive "him".
Until he watched "him" enter the ghost house.
Watching "him" hug his mother.
Tang Ning suddenly remembered why this 22-year-old "him" who entered the dungeon behaved even worse than the 20-year-old him who entered the dungeon.
They are essentially the same people.
Although they experienced the same copy, the biggest difference was that every time the 20-year-old came out of the game alive, he would make a long phone call to his mother.
The day he came out of the first copy, he stood alone on the balcony of the dormitory, closed the balcony door, curled up in the corner, dialed the number, and heard the gentle voice "Ningning, what's wrong? What's the matter with calling mom so late?"
His mother is his anchor and the reason he can persevere after struggling for so long.
And this time, "he" only has a stupid cat.
So his mentality is even worse than when he was 20 years old, because he always believed that it was a phone call of his that killed his mother.
In fact, "he" did not kill my mother, it was he who killed my mother.
He is being responsible to his mother, and he is also being responsible to "him".
He looked at this "him", who was stupid, gullible, inferior and soft. He was the "him" of the past, the "him" whom he had killed easily in the past.
He looked at this "him" who had never been treated well.
He did not think that the prince who was his partner was treating him well. Although the other party had been trying very hard to take care of him, what he needed was to be loved.
He needs to become stronger.
"He" is well protected and has no chance to grow. He is very weak. But even though he is so weak, he will win soon.
"He" looks weak.
He was so weak that he had no intention of merging with "him". He was ready to kill "him" from the first day he came to this copy.
Also because he was weak, the system gave him a lot of preferential treatment, because there were only so many subsidies that could barely make up for the huge gap in power between them.
The system also gave "him" the initial control over the body.
Whoever can gain control of the body when leaving the copy will be able to return to the present with the real Tang Ning's identity.
He thought it was not difficult and even felt that the game was too simple.
On the first day, he pretended that the system had randomly tricked "him", and "he" foolishly took the bait.
He was really stupid and easy to deceive, so stupid that it made him angry. What made him most angry was that "he" was willing to sacrifice for a teammate.
That teammate didn't even have a very close relationship with "him".
But he knew why "he" did this.
Because this "he" always feels that he deserves and deserves many things, "he" is too soft, and no fire can completely burn away this softness.
"He" needs to love "him" himself.
"He" has never loved himself well, because he thinks he deserves to be loved, so no matter how much love the prince provides, "he" is always uneasy in his heart.
He knows.
Because he is also this.
He had never really loved himself during this period.
The hurts of the past will always remain in the past. No matter how strong a person is, it seems impossible to go back to the past and embrace himself. But unexpectedly, he has this opportunity.
He originally just wanted to be a little nicer to this "him".
But, as soon as it gets a little better, a little more awake, there is a deviation in perception.
He recalled the past and said: Let me tell you a story.
You have a very miserable past. At that time, you were very stupid and were easily fooled by scammers to defraud you of your money. During that time, you were deceived into working in a black factory. You finally met a friend, but he was also out to cheat you. You met all kinds of people, and in a very short period of time, you encountered malice that you had never encountered in the previous twenty years.
You keep falling and getting up again, and finally become a multi-millionaire. But when you are preparing to retire, your enemies destroy everything.
But you have a chance to go back to the past, and you can have the opportunity to make a comeback by killing your past self.
This time, you have become the liar you hated the most in the past.
On the first day you were going to kill him, you invited the homeless man to a hotel to sleep. He curled up on the bed, pinching his face, suspecting he was dreaming.
That night, he easily gained control of his body, and as long as he continued like this for six days, he would win the game.
He will merge with "him", he will completely expel "his" memory, because "he" is weak now, it will only affect his state.
But that night, as soon as he closed his eyes, blue flames swept over him, and the monster that followed him like a shadow chased into his dreams. The body of his mother, which had been repaired several times by the undertaker, lay in front of him, and that person's words "I like you" echoed in his ears.
He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
During those two years of confusion, he was also unable to sleep.
He could feel that something was missing in his heart, a large empty space. Every night, the torrent of time passed through his heart, making a long and huge roar like a train whistle. How could someone who lived next to a train fall asleep? The most likely possibility was that he would sleep on the tracks forever.
Amidst the deafening roar, there was another voice muttering: Why is he still sleeping? I’m so sleepy. I’m so sleepy. I want to sleep so badly. …
So he said to "him": Go to sleep.
“He” really fell asleep so foolishly and soundly. He stared at “him” for a long time and saw that “his” mouth was slightly open, as if saliva was about to flow out.
He said to "him", idiot.
The fool still slept happily.
The day after you were about to kill him, you taught him how to get along with the co-workers who were targeting him. In order to repay you, he took the initiative to cook for you, and the dish had the taste of home.
On the second day, "he" was so hot that sweat broke out on his head and he made a dish of braised pork.
He has become very picky about food over the years and always eats the best. His partner knows that he likes to eat, so he has honed his cooking skills and serves him food and drinks in every copy. He eats with peace of mind and without any psychological burden.
It has been a long time since he has been amazed by any food.
Until he ate the braised pork made by "him".
The food that idiot cooked tasted half like his partner's and half like his mother's.
He hadn't eaten his mother's cooking for a long, long time. When he watched "him" enter the ghost's house, most of the time he had to cover his eyes to watch it all, and he even dared to dream of tasting a bite of his mother's cooking.
Because he felt that he deserved it. The person he was most responsible to in this world was his mother.
That idiot can go hug his mom, he can.
It turns out that the idiot didn't learn anything, but "he" at least learned how to cook delicious meals.
He said to "him", it's delicious.
The idiot still suspected that he was deceiving "him". You see, he is really a idiot. When he tells a lie, the idiot thinks it is the truth. When he tells the truth, the idiot thinks it is a lie.
So stupid.
On the third day when you were about to kill him, he met the right person you met at the wrong time several years later, and now they met at the right time.
That partner was a very good card player. He was born into a family of metaphysics and was very successful in the card game. He was so smart that even NPCs were vying to take him as their apprentice. His greatest luck in getting along so smoothly was probably meeting him.
He also understood why this person fell in love with him. Maybe it was God's will that she would meet him to temper her state of mind.
I was used by him time and time again, and abandoned by him time and time again, but that man was very powerful and he managed to catch up with him almost every time. Why do I say "almost"
Because that person didn't catch up the last time and died.
He attended the grand funeral of that person in the real world, and watched that person's parents and elders cry and even faint.
Everyone said, what an outstanding person.
Everyone was asking, why did he die
Sometimes he would feel that the person was not dead, and would suddenly appear in a corner to scare him like before, and then when he saw that he was expressionless, he would pretend to condemn him. At this time, he would tell the other person, you died for me willingly, I never asked you to die.
Two years later, he agreed to the system to enter the game again, partly for him.
He thought that if this person came out again, at least many people in the world would be happy about it, including his relatives and friends.
The system uses cards to tie that person back together with him who has lost his memory.
But he became like him, but "him", and that person also became like that person, but "his" monster prince.
He remembered that the man who used to be his partner was very sunny and radiant, a light that came from the heart. He agreed to team up with him partly because that man was very powerful, but also partly because that man was truly like light.
Although some people say that the person is as bright as sunshine only when facing him, and as cold as ice when facing other people.
But now, the prince who has lost all his memories seems to have turned into a twisted and dark monster.
He looks really bad.
Tang Ning recognized this man as his former partner, but he could understand it because he was the one who used him as a stepping stone and left on his body.
Those who were abandoned like this eventually became monsters.
The system said that the person was a thing of the past and the system had no ability to bring him back to life. It could only retain a part of him, and of course, some of his emotions about him.
As he and this person looked at each other from afar, he felt the resentment of being abandoned from the other person's heart.
This person is the one he wants to save, and he has always been coveting the body of that stupid "him".
So Tang Ning decided to kill the opponent first this time.
However, when he was about to do it, something unexpected happened, and "he" didn't do it, but was almost scared to tears.
When “he” showed this, the resentment in that person’s heart melted away so easily.
It turns out that loving someone can make it so easy to forgive that person.
What a pity, he doesn't know how to love others, he only knows how to love himself.
On the fourth day when you were ready to kill him, you took him to the hospital and spent a few hundred dollars, which was a small amount of money, but he had never saved it. You used the money to remove the wisdom tooth that had been hurting him for a long time. Half of his face was swollen, his eyes were red from the pain, but he still smiled at you foolishly and said that he would cook and treat you to a meal the next day.
"He" does know how to love others, but he does not know how to love himself.
It can also be said that "he" is good to him, and they are essentially the same person, so "he" can barely be considered to love himself a little. However, he and "him" are real people, so it is still stupid for "him" to do this.
How could I be so stupid as to give my heart to him, to the person who wanted to kill him
How can there be such stupid people
How could he be so soft-hearted towards this idiot? Was he contaminated? That's why he became as soft-hearted as this idiot, even refusing to drink the fish soup. You know, if he refused, he would have no reason to occupy this body.
But "he" was still stupid enough to insist on making fish soup, like a fool walking himself on the edge of a knife.
He thought he must be really contaminated.
I would think that after drinking the fish soup tomorrow, I would still return my body to "him", to this stupid fool who was so good to him.
On the fifth day when you were ready to kill him, you no longer wanted to kill him because you found that he was living a happy life with friends, a lover, a job, and a cat at home. Although he was still smart, he could eat, sleep, and take care of himself. He was a happy fool. So you said to him -
I want to kill you, Tang Ning.