Although the red and white candy cane is 1.2 meters long, it is not heavy. Mu Anqi can easily lift it and also use it as a long stick. The candy is cool to the touch and does not melt even after holding it for a long time; it is not sticky.
It's not much different from... holding a wooden stick or an iron rod. Focusing his gaze on the candy cane, he saw two lines of prompts next to it: "Shrink" and "Second Form." Mu Anqi first used his mind to select shrink, and the 1.2-meter-long candy cane became a small candy cane the size of a palm, so small that no one would suspect anything if he put it in his pocket.
As for the second form... a black hole appears at the longer end of the candy cane. Mu Anqi holds the curved side of the candy cane with both hands and can control it to "fire" or change the "candy type" with his mind.
The candies that were shot out were all about the size of a baby's fist, including round pink and bright red apple-shaped gummies and hard candies shaped like golden bells. These candy canes could also be charged up; if the golden bell hard candies were used as ammunition and charged to the maximum before being fired, the destructive power was quite considerable.
Is it alright?
Mu Anqi chewed on an apple gummy and walked lightly out of the weapons shop. Next... she needed to learn some professional stick fighting techniques. As for firearms, there was no rush. After all, this candy cane had no recoil, no scope, and no complicated mechanisms; it was all controlled by thought. Mu Anqi didn't need to learn how to use firearms for the time being.
With limited rest time, study time must be used wisely.
Still a beginner instructor, six hours of stick fighting training, two hours of physical strength training, and another two hours of parkour agility training. Ten hours, 80 points. This wiped out Mu Anqi's points in one fell swoop.
Player Mu Anqi
He died at the age of 20
Female
Superpowered Old Lady Has Money
Points 263
Transaction serial number 64805368
After finishing her training, Mu Anqi felt utterly exhausted, her mind filled with the techniques taught by the beginner instructor. She first went to a grocery store to enjoy a meal, spending 4 points. Only then did she drag her weary body back to her room, take a shower, lie down on the bed, and open her bedtime reading—the Broken Mirror Handbook.
The manual is small and not very thick.
The Shattered Mirror Continent is roughly divided in two. With Mount Elysium as the dividing line, the left side belongs to "the Moon" and the right side belongs to " Nether Capital ".
The moon is full of ghosts, and Nether Capital is teeming with demons.
The short text was accompanied by a simple map that roughly depicted the terrain of the Shattered Mirror Continent.
Mu Anqi turned a page, which simply introduced Guansi. Guansi... is a crystal refined from the essence of emotional energy. Ghosts can absorb it directly, but the benefits are minimal. It's generally used as currency. Below the introduction, as usual, a simple line drawing of Guansi was included, noting its "semi-transparent" and "round crystal" characteristics, exactly the same as the Guansi in Mu Anqi's backpack.
On the next page, Mu Anqi finally saw the tiered plan for the Shattered Mirror Continent.
Here, all kinds of demons and ghosts are divided into three levels: Path to Entry, Barrier Breaker, and Opening Origin.
These levels aren't finely divided, but you can roughly guess the corresponding bottlenecks just by looking at the names. As for Opening Origin, it is divided into levels, from Level 4 (entry-level) to Level 1 (top-level).
The booklet doesn't specify what stages are above the first level of Opening Origin, so Mu Anqi has no idea.
Tsk, so it seems that Ghost General is... quite powerful? Well, if she weren't powerful, why would any Ghost be willing to follow her and regard her as a general?
The demons and ghosts of Shattered Mirror Continent mostly originate from " Black Mirror Vortex ".
The Black Mirror Vortex, on the other hand, is born from extreme "resentment," extreme "emotions," and ultimate "desire." The Black Mirror Vortex can be nothingness or reality. It is omnipresent and can randomly appear anywhere on the Shattered Mirror Continent.
In Black Mirror Vortex, some of the demons, Ghosts, possess intelligence, while others have become pure "malice." Although these malices in Black Mirror Vortex also have human forms, they have lost their individual consciousness.
Mu Anqi thought about it and decided that he could use the "zombie" concept to represent the evil Ghost.
The Black Mirror Vortex was born and needed to be dealt with. Pure malice could be devoured by the demons and ghosts of the Shattered Mirror Continent to strengthen themselves. But those with consciousness would be absorbed into the continent, taught common sense and rules, and made into a part of the Shattered Mirror Continent.
Well, if this Ghost doesn't want to be recruited, either it's incredibly strong and declares itself king, or it's temperamental but incompetent and will still be devoured.
If the Black Mirror Vortex is not dealt with, the evil will radiate outward from the vortex, and the low-level demons will gradually lose their "self-awareness" and become "pure evil" or "obsession".
Black Mirror Vortex is essentially a source of pollution.
Mu Anqi recalled the words he overheard at the hotel. So that's what Ghost General was doing back then? Wait, Ghost cooperating with players... Could the purpose of this recruitment be for Black Mirror Vortex?
The next page of the manual explains that players can submit to or cooperate with powerful Mirror Shattered Creatures.
The Nirvana Space manual actually lists how Nirvana Space collects unique human souls after death in various real-world locations. Players are repeatedly thrown into the Shattered Mirror Continent to begin an escape game. In the game, both players and shattered mirror creatures possess various "emotional values," and Nirvana Space needs this emotional energy.
The creatures of Shattered Mirror Continent require the player's soul power and negative emotional energy. Each time a player dies, half of their soul power is consumed by the Ghost. (The player who fails their first game loses their entire soul to the Ghost.)
The more games a player plays, the stronger their soul becomes. Through repeated gameplay, players continuously improve their strength and strengthen their souls. At this time, the emotions they experience are also extremely pure.
Nirvana Space is like a mechanical factory. It extracts players from the real world, places them in the escape world to generate emotional energy, trains them to become powerful, and then makes it easier to exploit them.
The demonic Ghost of Shattered Mirror Continent is clearly in a cooperative relationship with Nirvana Space.
Only the players are the working class.
Mu Anqi was somewhat frustrated by her own interpretation. She didn't know if being caught here after the car accident was bad luck or just incredibly bad luck. What was wrong with this book? Couldn't they just write about something like this? Couldn't they at least give the players a beautiful dream?!
Mu Anqi angrily turned to the next page, then froze upon seeing the line of text on it.
Players who complete the game eight or more times will unlock a special shop where they can purchase rebirth tickets and various parallel dimension travel tickets?!
Mu Anqi shamefully got tempted. Fine, that's brilliant. After making players face reality, they're immediately given new hope, making them even more motivated to challenge the dungeon.
This Nirvana Space is something else. It's clearly a high-dimensional product...
Mu Anqi couldn't help but wonder, are it really that difficult for higher-dimensional beings to experience various emotions? So much so that they created such a paradise to draw on all kinds of emotions from various sources.
Forget it, there's no way to deduce that. She quickly skimmed through the manual; it didn't mention anything about the trial dungeons the boss used to recruit players. Mu Anqi carefully copied down the more important points. After finishing, she put the manual in her backpack and went to sleep peacefully.
I have to return the books tomorrow.
Return the books, then engage in ten hours of 1v1 intensive training in the training ground. Purchase three more crudely made smoke grenades—after all, Wu Sansheng reported that these things are quite useful.
Seeing that her break time was almost over, Mu Anqi bought another set of sportswear and sneakers, spending 12 points after activating the 20% discount. Looking at the remaining hour, she went to the grocery store, spent 4 points on her last meal of the day, took a deep breath, drank her soda, and trudged heavily into her room, waiting to be teleported.
Player Mu Anqi
He died at the age of 20
Female
Superpowered Old Lady Has Money
Points 129
Transaction serial number 64805368
After slinging the backpack full of belongings and the guan (a symbol of the official's identity), Mu Anqi's vision went black as the system's voice echoed in his mind—
[Drawing game items...]
[Ding! Testing your trial token! Entering Black Mirror Vortex —]
[Beep! Activated the Seven Day Reincarnation City instance!]
[Entering... Please wait...]
What's the meaning?
What's the meaning!
The trial mission is actually the Black Mirror Vortex?!
—Would a mind devoid of self-awareness and pure malice truly accept her bribe?! And she brought so many officials with her! Damn it!
Unable to vent her emotions, Mu Anqi regained consciousness to find herself in an empty room. And this room… was filled with people.
[Beep! Passive skill - Heaven's Chosen Daughter - activated!]
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining 856 guansi.]
[Find the pass to pass the level~]
A pass? Black Mirror Vortex, Seven Day Reincarnation City? But, this Black Mirror Vortex doesn't seem quite what she imagined. Mu Anqi didn't count the extra passes in her backpack, but instead reached into her pocket and grabbed a palm-sized candy cane.
Seven Day Reincarnation City … It seems I need to find the pass within seven days? Mu Anqi looked around. There were about thirty people in the room, but he didn't know their identities or if they were players. Uh… Surely not all of these people were going to undergo trials?
Just as she was thinking, the sound of neat and powerful footsteps rang out, and Mu Anqi saw a group of soldiers dressed as "tin soldiers" from fairy tales walking towards them. These "tin soldiers" had no facial features; their faces were covered by white paper, concealing everything. And on that white paper, there wasn't even a hand-drawn facial feature.
"Welcome to Seven Day Reincarnation City!" Click-clack, the lead tin soldier stepped forward and bowed to the people in the house. " May the beauty god bless you all."
Mu Anqi observed the group of NPCs that had suddenly appeared... uh, maybe Ghosts? She noticed that this group really did resemble tin soldier dolls because... all of them were exactly the same size and height. No matter how carefully you looked, you couldn't tell the difference between these tin soldiers; even their skin color was the same.
The tin soldier leader opened the door, reverently unfolded a piece of white paper, and pasted it on the wall. Then he turned and left with the group of tin soldiers.
"Those who do not believe in the city lord shall die."
"Not in accordance with the city lord's preferences, die."