Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Two, Inheritance of the Underground World (2)

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A spire in the desert.

After Sherlock helped convey "thank you", the dry vines and flowers that originally clung to the tower disappeared almost instantly. There was no "intermediate state" in the whole process, as if this gesture was the last echo of them remaining here. If some force had not maintained this "last moment", they might have returned to dust like their other compatriots.

"But I didn't succeed in saving Bao's world, why do they want to say thank you?" Melina thought for a moment and then asked.

She... doesn't understand? Sherlock raised an eyebrow.

Well-intentioned efforts should be thanked even if they are fruitless—unless good intentions end up causing bad things.

Thinking about it carefully, her reaction was unusual from the moment they first met.

After the two exchanged names, they chatted along a certain topic very smoothly.

Sherlock himself knew too much information, and the facts that could be analyzed were obvious, so there was almost no need to actively ask. If necessary, he could even use some words to make Melina put down her guard - if at all.

But Melina's trust in him and lack of defense were a bit outrageous. She had to at least ask where this "Supreme Mage" who suddenly appeared came from, how he came there, what his purpose was, and so on.

Whether it is to blame this matter on "I know her in other forms and have a good relationship with her" or "I am amazingly charming", it seems too outrageous.

There are two credible inferences: "She is extremely powerful and does not need to care about or be wary of any visitors", or "She has no experience in communicating with others except her 'self in the mirror'".

Thinking about it carefully, when I first met "Witch Melina" in the border area, she seemed to have a lot of knowledge but not very smart.

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"Then under what circumstances do you think they should say thank you to you?" Sherlock tried to ask.

"After I truly saved their world from destruction." Melina replied without any hesitation.

"Then why do you want to save their world?"

"Because it destroys."

Okay, it's back again.

Obviously, for Melina, only if she successfully saves the other person's world, the other person should say thank you, but the act of trying to save a destroyed world is completely unrequited - including this thank you.

Upon further reflection, she is imitating her "self in the mirror" in this behavior, and the plan of "herself in the mirror" to save the world is obviously successful, and has been successful more than once.

In other words...compared to the "destroyed worlds" as numerous as the sands of the Ganges here, the same number of "saved worlds" on the other side of the "mirror" are even more astonishing.

Compared with that kind of feat, maybe the "Ministry of Magic" controlled by the "Lokis" can scratch the surface, and it takes a lot of effort to save just seven worlds, and in the end, I have to let the vice-principal lady reveal the truth, which is completely unsatisfactory. .

In this case, there is one last question.

"You always say 'me in the mirror', so where is that mirror?" Sherlock asked.

"I don't know," Melina shook her head: "When she started to unite the saved worlds and command them to take the initiative to save other worlds, I just dozed off, and then she and the mirror disappeared."

There is no doubt that Melina is the real "person in the mirror".

This kind of scene with different scenes inside and outside the mirror, excluding someone doing magic, in my impression, only the "Mirror of Erised" can achieve it.

He was just worried that Melina's so-called "self in the mirror" was just a "picture of wish fulfillment" projected on a mirror object of similar nature when she faced the world that kept appearing but could not be saved. Of course a mirror image approach would not succeed in that situation.

But the later situation of "the saved civilization forming an alliance" was unimaginable for Melina, who only had those "grains of sand" - after all, how could they unite if they were not even rescued? ?

In other words, there once was a girl with a somewhat similar appearance to Melina. She traveled through the universe or dimensions on... a bed, actively looking for planets that were destroyed for various reasons, and through some kind of "single... Save them from the abyss of destruction by imitating irreproducible means, and then rush to the next planet without asking for anything in return.

In the process, the full-length mirror or other type of mirror she left in the living room, because she could not reproduce the method, caused the scene inside and outside the mirror to become increasingly different.

Logically speaking, it was just an error in the reflection of a mere mirror. No matter whether she took the time to look in the mirror, or corrected or sealed it after the mirror really showed some special characteristics, Melina had no chance of being born.

But she chose to leave before these two situations occurred.

Combined with the statement of "forming an alliance", she has established a self-repair mechanism for the entire universe, and does not have to rush around to save every world. Therefore, she decides to retire after her work is done, go home to sleep or go to the next universe non-stop.

Just like the poem that the vice-principal once read: She waved her sleeves and did not take away a single cloud.

And Melina, who is the wrong mirror, is the "cloud".

She was trapped in countless "grains of sand" that destroyed the world. The imitator "Her in the Mirror" tried to save them in various ways, but was unable to do so. If Sherlock had not been "Black Lantern Clea", Even if "Future Melina" were to strike with a knife, she would never be able to turn this world into the "junction" she had seen before.

Tsk...So the "Supreme Mage" I planned to become at that time was the "Supreme Mage" that I just talked about "having the responsibility and obligation to save every world that is destroyed or about to be destroyed"?

With such a troublesome identity, no wonder "Witch Lani", who is always looking for fun and saving people, is not willing to get involved.

No, wait.

"Witch Lani" always has her right eye closed, while Melina always has her left eye closed. In addition to being symmetrical, their appearance is more or less similar.

Although "Witch Lani" did not participate in the main plot of becoming the "Supreme Mage" at all, she gave herself a "Soul Summoning Bell" that played a huge role.

At that time, Melina was ready to light her own golden tree to make Sherlock the "Supreme Mage", but "Witch Lani" had already proposed earlier that if the position of "Supreme Mage" was given to Melina, she would You can take yourself away from the "junction".

Is Witch Lani the same person Melina saw through the mirror?

After leaving for a long time, she finally noticed something unusual and decided to come back to help the "mirror image" that was born because of her even though it had nothing to do with her?

No, no, wait a moment.

If the above conjecture is true, then at that time, I abandoned the "mirror image" of Melina and chose to follow the "original body"...

"Don't worry!" Sherlock stood up straight and stared at Melina seriously: "I will help you save all the worlds here!!"

"...?"

Melina tilted her head in confusion:

"good."