Chapter 404

“…”

The girl who looked exactly like Yotsuya Miko raised her head slightly as Miko stood up, and continued to look at Miko, but there was no other reaction.

I always felt that no matter what I did, this thing would not react. How should I put it? Rather than a weird thing, it seems more like a doll? What is this thing that imitates my appearance like?

While thinking, Miko's footsteps slowly approached and walked in front of the girl.

Still no reaction.

This person seemed to be glued to the seat with his whole body. It was so strange. What was going on?

“Hello?”

Miko, who was already standing in front of the girl, tried to communicate with her for the last time.

“…”

Still no response.

The girl just sat there stupidly from beginning to end, just maintaining this posture.

So Miko decided not to hesitate any more. She took a deep breath, and finally reached out her hand and slowly touched the girl in front of her.

She had already prepared in her heart that the other party would turn into a monster and pounce on her, or suddenly grab her in return. But until Jianzi actually touched the other party, from beginning to end, the girl just sat there, just staying there motionless.

Touched.

Jianzi's fingers gently touched the girl's body.

"Ah..."

At that moment, the consciousness seemed to be a little trance, and something penetrated into her senses.

Thoughts quickly became confused.

The fragments of consciousness planted in the spiritual realm by Gao Hai began to collapse one after another.

At this moment, no matter whether Yotsuya Jianzi regretted it or not, no matter what she had in mind, she could not help but remember everything again.

The moon.

Saw the red moon.

The red moon that illuminated the entire earth and the entire planet.

People looked up and looked at this red moon.

Everyone's eyes were completely submerged by the red moon.

Red like blood.

Then, the flames burned.

The first thing to break was the original moon.

Then the earth's crust broke apart bit by bit, the mantle and the core collapsed, and the entire planet was shattered by the irresistible terrifying force.

The red light was spreading.

The sun went out.

Every planet lost its original form and disappeared into the invisible in the red light.

In the sky, the twinkling stars began to disappear one by one, and the blood-red light gradually filled the dark universe, gradually proliferating bit by bit, eroding and replacing the original appearance of this world.

Until the end, there was no more starry sky, no more living things. There was only the only blood-red light covering the empty universe.

Nothingness.

Pure nothingness.

Whether she was willing to accept it or not, she saw the real nothingness at this moment.

"Uh... Uh!"

Jianzi fell to the ground suddenly.

There was no mental pollution in those pictures.

Obviously, it had a strong memory blocking effect, but strangely, this information did not bring any mental pollution to Jianzi. The whole process was like watching a movie, just seeing a continuous picture like that.

However, the unspeakable fear still gripped the girl's heart.

After seeing that scene and that thing, Miko's mind almost collapsed, and she almost lost the strength to stand.

"What is that...?"

She couldn't help but ask.

[Mom, what is that? ]

There was a girl's voice asking, and she didn't know who she was asking.

Miko suddenly woke up.

There was no girl sitting on the chair in front of her who looked exactly like her.

On this chair was just a broken small mirror.

I don't know who it once belonged to, but now there is only a broken small mirror.

This mirror reflects the appearance of Yotsuya Miko, so she saw a person who looked exactly like her sitting here. If someone else sat here, they would probably see another self, but other people might not have such a strong perception ability as Miko, so they couldn't feel the existence of this mirror and see the true appearance of this thing by touching their own phantom like Miko did.

It can be confirmed.

[The Abyss Item That Has Not Been Returned] is this mirror.

In the blood pool of Bydos, hidden in the deepest part of the blood pool, is this mirror fragment.

This small mirror fragment, which looks unremarkable and cannot be associated with any extraordinary and powerful existence, is the so-called lost thing that needs to be returned to the [Abyss] in the task of the [Sacrifice Game].

But why?

Why is it a fragment of a small mirror?

Jianzi stared at the thing and was stunned for a while.

Although this small mirror is now broken, there are still some residual patterns on it. Judging by these patterns, Jianzi thinks that this should be the fragment of a small dressing mirror carried by a girl.

How can such a small thing be related to the [Abyss]? How much can this thing sell for in a supermarket? Is it so precious?

And why did she lose the memory related to such an inconspicuous little thing just by seeing it?

While thinking, the girl has reached out her hand again.

Even if there may be some danger, Jianzi can no longer care about it at the moment. The girl must solve the confusion accumulated in her heart and figure out what is going on. She has a vague premonition that if she misses the opportunity to solve the mystery here, it may be difficult to have such an opportunity in the future, such a perfect timing.

Gently, Jianzi's hand touched the mirror.

The hand reflected in the mirror also touched the mirror at the same time, as if there was another person inside who reached out his hand together, reaching out to Jianzi.

Click——

The fingers on both sides touched the mirror together, making a light sound.

The next moment, Jianzi, who felt something, opened his eyes wide.

Saw it.

I saw the blood-red light again.

The scarlet light that crushed everything shone in the bustling and prosperous city.

A girl who looked like a high school student was walking and laughing with her mother in the square in the center of the city. Then she noticed the coming of the red light, raised her head with some doubts, and looked at the sky.

The next moment, the girl's handbag fell to the ground, accompanied by a slightly heavy "bang" sound, the zipper of the handbag broke, and a small mirror fell out and fell to the ground, and shattered with a "crack".

No one picked up the handbag again.

Because under the blood light, the whole city was empty, and there was no life anymore.

And from this moment on, everything in this city belonged to the blood-red light, belonging to the [Abyss].

Crack——

Next to the broken small mirror, a larger mirror fragment rolled up and fell into the gap on a sewer manhole cover in the square, disappearing into the darkness.

Jianzi, who had once again left the state of perception, looked at the mirror fragments in her hand, but her mind was still recalling what she had just seen.

It couldn't be wrong.

The girl's breathing became a little rapid and unstable.

That place, the place she had just seen, she would never make a mistake.

That city shrouded in blood light, as if it had also merged into the blood light, was the blood city that her predecessor Gao Hai would enter and exit every time he went back!

Chapter 119: The untouchable true abyss and resolute will

Jianzi could be sure that she had never made a mistake.

Even though she could not stay awake in that blood city, she only left a vague, almost dreamlike impression. But as Gao Hai went back again and again, she had repeatedly experienced the feeling of being in the blood city. The unique gloomy and empty atmosphere was too familiar to her, so familiar that she could not make a mistake anyway.

Why did she see the existence of that blood city?

That place should only be accessible through the predecessor's black watch, right? Why did I see that in this copy.

No, that's not right.

This broken mirror, this thing is the [Lost Thing in the Abyss]. According to the information we have learned. If you want to pass the Bydos area of ​​[School Tales], you must get this broken mirror and [return it to the Abyss].

Why is it such a broken mirror? In the picture just now, the source of this mirror I saw was just an ordinary person.

That's right.

In a very ordinary city, there is nothing special about it.

It belongs to a mother and daughter who look ordinary no matter how you look at it. The daughter looks like a high school student. She seems to... Well, yes, she carries a guitar, and she carries a small dressing mirror like this in her small bag. She is a girl with a strong personality and pursuit. She has a family that is not rich, but not poor, enough for her to pursue her dreams. So she loves to dress herself up, loves music, and lives the life she wants in the ordinary world.

Then, the blood-red moon appeared.

No... can that thing really be considered a moon? Something so ominous that makes people shudder just by looking at it, something that makes people feel as if their body and mind are about to be crushed.

It seems to be similar to the blood moon that always appears in the Red Moon-level dungeon. If you only judge by the appearance, it can be basically considered to be exactly the same. However, the blood moon in the Red Moon-level dungeon has no deterrent power at all. It is just a background board with no effect. Sometimes it will be covered when encountering a dungeon with a weather change effect. And this thing, in the picture seen by Yotsuya Miko, it is like a virus, which can spread from a planet to a small galaxy, to a large galaxy, to the entire universe, destroying countless stars, nebulae and even black holes.

The places illuminated by the blood-red moon will disappear without a trace, leaving only dark red glowing dust.

However, in the later perspective, in that city, Miko saw that after the red light flashed, all the people in the city disappeared, but the city itself did not change, and it still remained in the same place, but was covered by blood light.

And it was also after that that the broken mirror became [Things from the Abyss].

Wait…

Jianzi frowned, and she thought of a possibility.

Those planets, those countless stars that seemed to be destroyed, might just be some kind of illusion in the eyes of the onlookers.

The blood-red moon, in fact, did not destroy the entire universe, but [plundered] the entire universe.

After the red light covered it, the onlookers would see that the entire planet and the city on it were destroyed, but for the city itself, it was actually transformed into another state, and was turned into [Things belonging to the Abyss], and was turned into some kind of property.

The universe that was left with only dark red light at the end was a universe that was plundered by the [Abyss].

But in fact, whether it was planets or stars, or the various traces left by the civilizations that existed in them, they were not completely destroyed, but were taken away, and taken to other places by the blood moon.

And from the moment those things were taken away, from the moment those things became things belonging to the [Abyss], their nature changed permanently. The traces of the [Abyss] completely changed these things from the inside, so even an ordinary broken mirror can have the possibility of supporting a red moon-level copy. This is why this thing is so critical and important.

I have completely understood it.

As the real thing that is the foundation of the establishment of the Bydos Institute, I understand the source of this thing.

Although I still don’t understand what the connection is between the bloody city to which this thing belongs and the bloody city that the predecessor must go to when he goes back, since the two are so similar, there must be a certain degree of similarity in the root.

However, Jianzi does not think that the position of the black watch is the same as that of the blood-red moon.

She vaguely felt that the predecessor who was given this mysterious black watch and had the ability to constantly go back to challenge and make wishes should have a responsibility that is completely opposite to that blood moon. She even couldn't help but guess that maybe the bloody city in the black watch was snatched from the blood moon by the owner behind the watch? The so-called task of returning the abyss item here might be to return this mirror fragment to the black watch in the hands of the senior.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the so-called [Abyss] is of extremely high status, and it is not something that this Red Moon-level copy is qualified to summon. Therefore, if you really want to stick to the words to connect the real [Abyss] in the clearance task of returning the abyss item, Jianzi thinks that it is useless to stack all the players together and multiply them a hundred times.

In any case, since you already know so many things, you must take this fragment away.

Reach out your hand.

Jianzi grabbed the small broken mirror and tried to take it down.