After listening to Fan Luming's brief account of what happened, Ji Thrush couldn't say a word.
He was very sad.
Since entering the "Peach Blossom Spring", he has seen the lives and deaths of many, many people.
Among these people are teammates who fight side by side, opponents who will never die, and many more are just passers-by who happened to be assigned to the same "world".
But getting used to seeing death doesn't mean he can become a hard-hearted person who ignores life and death.
He is still the captain of the youth team who was seriously injured in a suspension car derailment accident and tried his best to save his teammates when he knew he was going to die.
So Ji Thrush understood Mo Tiangen's choice.
He understood why Teacher Dagen didn't find a way to leave the maze after being injured and find a relief wall that could let him escape from the mission, but instead pretended to be by the side of the Fan family siblings as if nothing had happened, protecting them until the last moment of his life.
Because they are companions.
And there are people I love.
But it was clear in my heart that the pain that seemed to tear my heart would not be reduced by a single bit.
Mo Tiangen is his teammate, and he has been fighting side by side with him since he first entered the "world".
As the captain, Ji Thrush has always felt that it is his responsibility to take all his companions out, and he has indeed been working hard.
Only this time, their Dagen teacher died somewhere he couldn't see, but he was powerless at all, and even the news of the other party's death could only be confirmed from his companions...
… After all, what can he do
"… what."
Ji Xiaoniao took a deep breath, and forced back the faint cry in her tone.
"you two… "
After hesitating for a moment, he still expressed his thoughts, "If you find the relief wall, abstain immediately."
He has already lost Mo Tiangen, and he must not lose anyone else.
Fan Luming, who had been talking just now, stopped talking, and there was a brief silence on the other end of the microphone.
Ji Thrush guessed that the twins might be having a simple discussion.
Sure enough, half a minute later, Fan Hemian's voice was replaced in the headset.
"… Ok."
Fan Hemian replied:
"knew."
After a pause, she continued:
"Wait until we finish this section of the hallway... as long as we can get out."
…
After making an appointment to keep in touch with the Fan family siblings, after calling every ten minutes, Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo also started their own exploration in the maze.
The room they are in now is very similar to the exhibition room of a museum, except that all the exhibits are oddly shaped clocks.
The entire exhibition hall has neither windows nor doors, but with Mo Tiangen's experience, Ji Thrush decided to play it as an escape room game.
So the two began to check the wall clocks on the wall or the desk clocks placed in various places one by one, trying to find the mechanism hidden somewhere.
"..."
Ji Thrush took down the clocks hanging on the wall one by one, with a solemn expression, without saying a word.
He was so unnaturally silent that Ren Jianmo couldn't help but speak first:
"What are you thinking?"
Ji Xiaoniao turned to look at him, forced a smile, with bitterness in the corners of her brows and eyes, "I'm very sad."
He honestly confessed:
"When I think that Brother Da Gen is gone, I panic."
Ren Jianmo stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Ji Thrush's head.
"Everyone is going to die, and so are you and me. It's just to see if we can catch a glimmer of life before death."
He pursed his lips, his long eyelashes drooped slightly, and said in a low voice:
"What's more, death is not the end..."
Ji Thrush stopped what he was doing, and turned to stare at Ren Jianmo's face in surprise.
Ren Damei'er's words sounded like consolation at first glance, but after careful consideration, they seemed to have other meanings.
"What's the meaning?"
Ji Thrush frowned.
"Isn't death the end? ... So what is it?"
Ren Jianmo didn't answer, just tightened his lips and shook his head slightly.
"What exactly does that mean?"
Ji Thrush suddenly opened his eyes wide, threw a metal plate-shaped clock aside in his hand, and rushed over to grab Ren Jianmo's sleeve.
"Could it be that Brother Dagen can still be saved?"
He asked repeatedly:
"Is he still alive? Or is there some other way to bring him back? Is that so?"
Ren Jianmo still just shook his head, but refused to answer his lover's question.
Being pressed by Ji Thrush's urgent questioning, he simply pulled him into his arms, bowed his head and gagged.
After Ji Xiaoniao was kissed until he calmed down, Ren Jianmo slowly stroked his cheek with his fingertips, tracing his outline tenderly and cherishingly as if stroking a piece of delicate and fragile thin bone china .
"Don't be afraid..."
He stuck to the quarter-thrush's ear, and promised in a vague voice:
"I will protect you... definitely..."
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While Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo were looking for an exit in the exhibition hall, Binglang and Zero entered a building made entirely of glass.
If I have to describe it, this place is a bit like a mirror maze house in a children's amusement park, but neither the size nor the structure can be played by elementary school students. It is not so much a "house" as it is. A "city".
Not long after Binglang and Zero entered, they were soon inevitably dazzled by those irregular refractions and reflections, and lost their normal sense of space and direction.
"It's so easy to get lost."
The two summed it up and decided to leave traces not only at the entrances and exits, but everywhere they passed.
Zero pulled out a dagger from his belt, scratched directly on the mirrors along the road, and marked the direction of travel at the same time to ensure that he would not go wrong.
For about ten minutes ahead, everything was calm.
This huge and icy mirror city is like a post-modernist experimental building that can't be more ordinary. It seems to have no abnormalities except that it is dazzling.
But Ice and Zero didn't dare to relax.
Countless previous experiences have told them that in the "world", any carelessness is dangerous and fatal.
What's more, the "world" they are in now is more difficult, weirder, and more elusive than all the S-level difficulties they have encountered before. Along the way, people have the illusion that it will never end.
"Here, we have already passed once."
Zero finds the marks he has carved on the mirror.
Binglu stopped and stood in front of the mirror.
It was a half-arc concave lens with an extremely smooth mirror surface, which clearly showed the images of the two of them, but twisted them into disproportionate monsters with extremely long heads and legs and ridiculously short torsos. There is also a white scratch across the body on the front chest.
He reconstructed the route the two of them took now in his mind, "So, the right turn just now was actually the way back."
As Binglu said, he lifted his chin to the left, "Try that side."
As he spoke, he turned his feet and walked in the opposite direction.
Zero nodded silently, ready to follow.
However, the moment the silent young man in black turned his head, the reflection in the mirror suddenly moved without warning.
"Zero" in the mirror raised his left hand holding the dagger.
Then its hand holding the knife passed through the hard mirror like a pool of water, stretched out from the inside, aimed at the back of the Lord, and stabbed straight.
At the critical moment, the vigilance and sixth sense of the S-level participants who have been wandering on the edge of life and death for a long time played a vital role at this time.
The moment Zero felt something hard approaching, he suddenly turned around.
The sharp blade that shone coldly cut through his black clothes, leaving a finger-long bloodstain on his back.
Afterwards, Binglang and Zero saw a scene that looked like a horror movie.
Two humanoid monsters are using the classic posture of Sadako climbing out of the TV, and are scrambling to squeeze out from the mirror.
Although it can be seen that the prototypes are Icegrain and Zero, but because they are the portraits reflected in the concave lens, what stand in front of them now are two distorted monsters.
Their heads, hands and legs are extremely long. When they stand up straight, they are three meters tall. They look very much like the monster named "Skinny Uncle" in Western urban ghost stories.
The monster transformed by Zero's reflection was dressed in black, holding a gleaming dagger in his left hand, but the blade was also distorted by the mirror, making it look more like a half-meter-wide narrow-bladed scimitar. Already holding a sharp blade, he rushed towards Zero himself.
The monster that came out of the mirror was very fast. Even Zero, who had the ability to teleport, couldn't react immediately, and was slashed on the shoulder by it.
One person and one shadow quickly formed a group.
On the other hand, the target of Ice Grain's reflection is also Ice Grain himself.
He doesn't have a weapon, but like the master, he also has the ability of ice.
For a moment, swords, swords and sharp ice splashed everywhere in the mirror room. The shattered glass and flying frost and snow looked like prisms in a kaleidoscope under the dazzling light, which could dazzle people's eyes.
The same ability user, or using the same weapon, the combat effectiveness of the counterfeit is slightly inferior to the battle-tested Ice and Zero.
Soon, the reflection of the ice sleet was frozen by himself with solid ice, and the whole person was almost glued to a piece of mirror.
At the same time, Zero next to him saw the opportunity, and used teleportation to withdraw suddenly, and moved in front of the immobile figure. With a twist of his wrist, he immediately released a horn hammer, and smashed it on the monster's forehead.
Just listen to "bang".
The mirror behind the reflection was shattered by Zero, and at the same moment, the reflection of the ice graupel was also automatically shattered into a handful of powder.
At the same time that Zero was dealing with "Ice Grain", Ice Grain also turned to face another monster in black.
There was a piercing sound of friction mixed with the crisp sound of countless hard objects breaking.
The rows of solid ice shattered all the mirrors blocking the way with an invincible momentum, like a frozen wave, rushing towards the target.
But Zero's reflection reacted quickly.
At the moment when the ice was about to engulf it, its figure flashed, and it suddenly disappeared from the sight of the two of them.
The author has something to say:
"Slender Man" is Slender Man, a well-known urban legend in the United States. It probably means that this is a tall and slender monster with particularly long limbs, no face, and a monster in a black suit. In some versions, there are many hands and feet on the back of this thing.
It is said that Uncle Skinny often kidnaps and kills human beings, especially children. Once he targets the target, he will peek out the window every night until he finds a chance to use his mobile phone.
If you do a search, you will find a lot of supernatural photos claiming to have captured Uncle Shou!