Infinite Throne

   Chapter 255 Pale Fingers (2 in 1)

   Queen Yanluo suddenly, very abruptly, without warning... Kneeling down.

  Oda Mai just picked up the knife and was about to cut her wrist. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but froze, and her hard face was slightly stunned.

   Queen Yanluo wrapped her body heat within half a meter around her, and did not leak half a minute away.

   Queen Yanluo's attitude at the moment, as if she wanted to shrink herself in a thick turtle shell, and did not dare to move.

  All the students in Class 3 and 2, in an instant, the green light in their eyes suddenly dimmed, and when they were very excited, they suddenly slumped after being said "normal".

   All the students were huddled in every corner of the third and second class, as if they were infected by Queen Yanluo, and they were also trembling.

  The situation in the second class of the third year turned strangely. The queen knelt on the ground for some reason, and the other students were shivering.

   Ah this?

   How fat is this?

  Is it a loss of morality or a distortion of human nature?

   Liu Ruyan and Gao Tiantian didn't know what to do about this sudden upheaval.

  Oda Mai smiled coldly against the wall.

   Her fighting spirit is high.

   She saw blood with a knife.

   She will be invincible.

   She sheathed the knife and was about to—

   "Go!"

  Cao Tiantian and Liu Ruyan finally reacted and made their own choices.

After the heat of Queen Yanluo was gathered, the heat in the air finally became less terrifying. The two of them were sweating profusely. Taking advantage of this inexplicable situation, they rushed out of their respective positions, one holding Oda Mai's arm. Without saying a word, Oda Mai, who was ready to use a knife to enjoy double happiness, rushed out of the classroom through the back door and ran away.

  Oda Mai was expressionless, and slowly typed a question mark: "?"

  Cao Tiantian hated the iron and explained: "You are stupid! Did you forget that this is an escape mission, our purpose is not to kill monsters, but to escape from this shabby school!"

The three of them ran, Liu Ruyan panting slightly: "Yes, now is not a good time to kill monsters, and there is no obvious benefit to killing monsters... Besides, do you really think that with Queen Yanluo's strength, we really Can you kill her when she knelt down?"

   Cao Tiantian didn't know what to think, her face changed and she shook her head frantically, expressing disbelief.

actually.

  According to the usual style of the apostles, Cao Tiantian and Liu Ruyan completely ignored Oda Mai.

   After all, you are willing to stay and fight monsters to attract hatred and become a tank. You love me and I do. We didn’t force you. While you were holding the boss hatred, we slipped away. Isn’t this a normal operation?

   But just when Oda Mai was about to cut down Queen Yanluo with a knife, Cao Tiantian and Liu Ruyan saw a screen-swiping narration at the same time.

   Those three options have a hint of hints.

  Oda Mai...can't die!

   The force value she shows will be very useful next time!

  Cao Tiantian nodded secretly.

   Sure enough!

   There is no way out of the sky, this trial turned out to be like this.

   As long as a certain time point is reached, the narrator will give out escape tips little by little, allowing the surviving apostles to discover the real way of life from the various narrations and option prompts.

I see!

I see!

  Cao Tiantian suddenly understood.

   It turns out that this is the reason for the "time limit".

   As time goes on, the students and teachers in the school will become demonized, more and more bizarre, and "hints" will follow.

   As the saying goes, there is no absolute dead end in a trial, that’s how it is!

  Otherwise, according to normal circumstances, if they did not give any hints at all, they would not be able to find a real way of life from Styx Junior High School in just three days.

   Difficulty...too high.

  Escape Trial, as the name suggests, this inner world is for escaping, not for hard anus.

   "Run!"

  Oda Mai silently put away the sword.

  The three of them did not hesitate, took two steps in parallel, quickly walked down the stairs, and came to the vast playground.

   When Cao Tiantian, Oda Mai, and Liu Ruyan arrived at the playground, varying degrees of surprise appeared on their faces.

   "This... is it snowing? When?"

   Liu Ruyan's eyes narrowed slightly. After a moment of silence, she carefully stretched out her hand. Pieces of "snow" as delicate as goose feathers slowly drifted in the air, and finally part of it was taken over by Liu Ruyan in her fair palm.

   There is no trace of coolness in the tentacles of the "snowflake", and there is no sign of being melted by body temperature.

   "This is...not snow."

   Liu Ruyan said suddenly.

   Cao Tiantian was stunned: "What is not snow?"

  Liu Ruyan: "This is ash. That's right, like the ashes produced after burning, this sky is under 'ash'!"

   in front of you.

   Styx Junior High School.

Whether it is the playground, ground, vegetation, everything that can be seen is covered by a blank and pale ashes. A campus shrouded in ice and snow.

   The three of them walked on the campus, and when they stepped on it, a fine dust was raised behind them, but soon, they were gradually covered by the ashes falling from the sky, covering up their footprints.

   Pale sky, pale ashes, vast earth, heaven and earth, a barren land.

   What a desolate and poignant sight this is!

   Even Oda Mai, who had always had only swords in her mind, was indifferent at the moment, staring at the sky, making people wonder what she was thinking.

   The land of ashes in front of him, and even the ashes that fell on his body and shoulders, did not make Liu Ruyan feel a "dirty" feeling. Different from the ordinary dust in the real world, the "ash" floating in front of the eyes is paler, purer, and more flawless, making it impossible to even touch or trample on it.

   It seems that it is a sin to even make loud noises to destroy this deadly desolate and strangely poignant atmosphere.

  Cao Tiantian raised her head, wiped her eyes, couldn't believe it, and muttered to herself, "Why does the sky fall... ash?"

  Liu Ruyan shook her head: "I don't know either. But I guess... Queen Yanluo's reaction is most likely related to the ash in the sky."

  Cao Tiantian felt cold all over: "Even Queen Yanluo was so scared that she knelt down on the spot. Isn't this a sign of the destruction of the world as described in the novels and movies?"

   "Hehe, what does the destruction of this world have to do with us? It's better to escape."

   "That's true."

   The two of them said a word to each other, and they quickly calmed down.

   Suddenly.

   right now.

  Boom—

   A loud bang.

   Upstairs in the teaching building, there was a sudden loud explosion.

   An astonishing air wave erupted from all the passages of the entire teaching building.

   When the air wave reached the playground, all the ashes on the ground were lifted up by the rustling, smearing the faces of the three of them.

   But at this time, Liu Ruyan and the three of them couldn't take care of their embarrassed ashes. There was a terrifying temperature in that air wave. Even after a few rounds in the passage of the teaching building, when the heat wave was blowing on their faces, they could still clearly distinguish the terrifying high temperature mixed in the air wave, like the anger of Queen Yanluo, so surging, so turbulent.

  Cao Tiantian and Liu Ruyan together made up the rolling hills of Queen Yanluo, like huge and furious.

  Cao Tiantian: "It's her!!"

   Liu Ruyan: "It's her..."

  When Queen Yanluo went crazy again.

   In front of the two of them, [Multiple Choice] and [Voiceover] reappeared.

   Liu Ruyan and Cao Tiantian's expressions changed slightly, but after they were a little surprised, they carefully observed the options, without verbal communication, they quickly made their own "choices".

  After making a choice, the two entered the pathfinding mode and walked in two directions respectively.

  On the spot, only Oda Mai was left, with a knife hanging from his waist, standing proudly on the dusty ground.

  After Liu Ruyan and Cao Tiantian left, the ash flying in the sky... stopped.

   If it weren't for the ashes left everywhere, it might be hard to believe that under this sky, there was once pure snow-like ashes fluttering in the sky.

  …

  …

   And about ten minutes ago.

   Styx Junior High School Office Building.

   Office of the Vice Principal.

   or the secretary's office.

  —It’s all the same anyway.

  Irin easily and happily solved the "mystery of the secret room of the vice-principal cheating" and arrived at the secret room.

   He turned the vice-principal's office upside down, and found no special props or mechanisms.

   So we can only give up.

   Back in the secret room, Yi Rin's eyes fell on a covered mirror.

  Although Irin didn't see the mirror, but this shape... There shouldn't be any other possibility other than a mirror.

   "Oh, shouldn't it be a portal? Or some kind of magic mirror or something?"

   "Once you are caught in the mirror, you will ascend to heaven?"

   "Or is it something like being sucked into the world in the mirror?"

  Irin smiled, and many possibilities flashed through his mind quickly.

   After all, this is Styx Junior High School.

   In a weird school where even "magic" exists, there is a mirror with weird powers, isn't it very reasonable?

  Irin laughed outright on the surface, but she put her vigilance to the utmost in her heart.

  Why haven't the entire Styx Junior High School ever seen a mirror?

   Hiding a piece in the back room of the vice-principal and secretary?

  If Yi Rin guessed correctly, this mirror covered with black cloth is most likely the only "mirror" in this world.

  Irin carefully lifted a corner of the black cloth, but did not lift it completely, and put his hand into it and touched it quietly.

  Feel... nothing special.

   But the attribute of "mirror" suddenly appeared in front of us,

  …

  【Ordinary full-length mirror】

  【Grade】Rough

  【Durability】2/2

  【Effect】Extremely fragile.

  【Explanation】This is a treasured full-length mirror obtained by "Superior Fraud Demon Mondi" through a special channel. He likes it very much. After using it with the secretary, he will wipe it carefully so as not to get any dirt.

  …

  Rough grade?

   That is... is it really just an ordinary full-length mirror?

  Irin lowered her head and thought.

On the   mirror attribute, that one-word explanation made Irin feel more and more wrong.

   High-ranking fraudster?

  Irin's eyes flickered slightly.

   And the effect column is also extremely weird.

Can   【Extremely Fragile】 also count as an effect?

   Ordinary mirrors, but there are unusual descriptions, no matter who will find it weird.

   But at this point, it seems a bit unreasonable to ignore the only mirror in Styx Junior High School and turn away.

  After thinking about it, Yi Rin suddenly smiled, and then silently took out the knife.

After    took out the knife, Yi Rin suddenly lifted the black cloth covering the mirror completely.

  The mirror surface is as smooth as new.

   In the mirror, a "devil" with green face and fangs and wings on his back is "looking" at Yi Rin with a dazed expression!

  Irin: "…"

  Irin's face was expressionless and without hesitation, he immediately picked up the knife and stabbed the "devil" in the mirror.

   But at the same time, the "demon" with green face and fangs and wings on its back in the mirror stabbed Irin with the same movement and speed with the dark red short knife in his hand.

  Across an ordinary mirror, Irin and a "devil" stabbed each other with real swords and real guns, like fencing in the air, very exciting.

but.

When    Blood Jasmine's blade was less than an inch away from the mirror surface, Yi Rin suddenly woke up with a chill on her back.

   The action of the "devil" in the mirror stabbed Yi Rin with a knife also froze on the other side of the mirror.

  Irin reacted, and her pupils shrank suddenly.

  It turned out to be the case!

   The "devil" in the mirror is not someone else, nor a monster with a blood bar that can be cut, but...he.

   is Irin in the mirror.

   The ordinary mirror in front of him is like a mirror reflecting the demon, reflecting Irin's truest posture.

   "This is... true?"

  Irin quickly put away the sword.

   He twisted his waist, stretched his arms, and was about to perform a complete set of radio gymnastics-style ancient martial arts.

  Irin still did it.

   is not bad either.

  The strange "he" in the mirror also made a round with the same action.

   "Sure enough...Is it actually coming in this way?"

  Irin was finally convinced of what kind of existence they were in this trial world.

   Originally at the beginning of the trial, Yi Rin had deduced that they came to this world in a state of being "reversed by time" through the prototype of the five senses and the [resentment] clinging to their foreheads.

   But it is not.

   In fact, if you think about it carefully, this approach does not make much sense.

   The ages of Cao Tiantian, Han Han, and Liu Ruyan in reality are not known to Yi Rin, so I won't mention it for now.

   But Irin and Oda Mai are only in their early 18s, and they are still pink. Although it is difficult to make a cameo as a junior high school student, at most it looks a bit precocious, and it is not exaggerated to the point of disobedience to a bearded uncle who pretends to be a middle school student.

   That's why Yi Rin felt that this "cute change" didn't make much sense.

   And now, when Irin saw "him" in the mirror, he was completely certain about it.

   It turned out that they didn’t come in their own form at all.

  If Irin guessed correctly, their current body is similar to Saya's birth method, created by a certain existence, and then entered this Styx Junior High School through the method of "transferring students".

   That's why Irin and the others would have a weird sarcoma on their back without knowing it.

   And that's why, the moment they appeared, they were already standing on the podium of the second class of the third year, completely omitting the steps to enter the inner world with the main body.

   "It is very likely that this body is an existence similar to a 'replica of the body'."

   "'It' quietly replaced all our 'data' in some way."

   "For 'It', this kind of thing is not difficult to do at all. After all, every time we return, we can restore to the 'original' state by consuming death points."

"It's like, before we enter the trial, we will go through a 'data backup' process, so when we return, no matter if you are missing an arm or a leg, any injury, even if only half of your body is left, you can easily restore it with points. ."

   "So actually 'we' can also use the magic of this world? Similar to Queen Yanluo's power? Just haven't found a way?"

   "So, can this kind of reinforcement be brought back to the real world through learning and exercise, and become an ability that can be mastered autonomously?"

  Irin thought of many possibilities, and her thoughts became clearer.

But.

  Irin frowned again.

   This still cannot fully explain why there are no other mirrors in Styx Junior High School except here.

   Just to keep the students from discovering their ugliness?

   Not so much, right?

   Maybe there are other more meaningful reasons?

  Irin always felt that something was wrong.

   But I couldn't figure it out for a while.

   So he thought about it more seriously.

   But Yi Rin didn't notice that when he was thinking about the incongruity of the "mirror", in the center of the mirror, a black spot appeared out of thin air.

  A black spot that is pure to the extreme, like a black hole in a mirror, absorbing all the red fun lights in the secret room.

  The black spot, from one point, gradually expanded, and became a lump...a ​​piece...a small piece.

When Yi Rin came back to his senses, he found that the "self" in the mirror seemed to be smeared by a large thick ink stain, and the image in the mirror, from the neck down to the navel, was completely covered with black ink. , can not see the original appearance.

   This strange scene seems to herald... something is coming.

  The bizarre changes are sudden and unexpected. At this juncture, Yi Rin could only take out his knife again and moisten his throat. No matter what monster was about to run out of the mirror, he could be prepared to send out [Castle Haunted] and talk about it with a smeared face.

  Irin didn't know, just when the mirror surface changed strangely.

   In this world, the sky is full of ash, pale as snow, and delicate as sand, quietly covering the entire academy, leaving no corners.

   What Yilin didn't even know was that at the moment when the sky was flying ashes, all the creatures in the academy, except for their apostles, all looked at the sky at the same time, knelt down on the ground, shivering.

  Irin is unaware of what is happening outside.

   But even if he knew about it, he had no time to think about it at the moment.

  Because of the mirror in front of him, the darkness spreads completely, the mirror surface is completely submerged, and it is completely dyed in a weird black.

  All light, all reality, cannot leave images and traces on the black mirror.

  Irin suddenly felt that the dark color was a little familiar.

   It's a bit like the shady curtain shrouded in Styx Junior High School at night.

   but something different.

  Irin's body was tense, clenching the knife in his hand, staring at the abyss in the mirror, not daring to let out the air.

   As if just exhaling forcefully, some kind of terrifying existence will be disturbed.

  Irin knew in his heart that the situation in front of him was beyond his expectations, out of his control, beyond ordinary, very bad.

   He should flee.

   Or stop it.

   No matter how bad it is, you can't stare at the abyss in the mirror.

  Because...it's not auspicious.

   looks like some kind of flag before death.

   But for some reason, Yi Rin felt that in front of the darkness, even breathing and thinking became extremely difficult for Yi Rin, and his mind was blank, leaving only a dazed chaos.

and many more?

Why is    blank?

  Blank and darkness are obviously hard to associate with.

   The ordinary mirror in front of him seems to have become an abyss, or a passage connecting the abyss. It seems that as long as you cross this mirror, you can reach another world.

Suddenly.

   A hand emerges from the abyss.

   It was a pale palm.

   From the jet-black mirror, a pale palm suddenly appeared.

   Black and white, like a painting.

  Irin's thoughts that seemed to have been frozen in darkness, were revived the moment the palm appeared.

   Pale, withered, desolate, dead, marginal, earth, sky, dominated…

  When Yi Rin saw that palm from the other side of the mirror, slowly extending towards "this side", Yi Rin couldn't help but involuntarily came up with words that could not be broken.

  Those words didn't make any sense, and Irin couldn't figure out why, but when he saw the palm, meaningless words flashed in his mind one after another.

   When Irin wanted to think about it, he quickly forgot what the last word that flashed was, leaving only a blank thought.

   That palm, cannot be remembered, cannot be recalled, cannot be explored, cannot be named, cannot be speculated.

   That dark mirror seems to connect two worlds.

   The world where Irin lives.

   and the world where that palm is.

   The palm is getting bigger and bigger.

getting bigger.

  Irin suddenly changed his face.

   A finger, silently, penetrated the barrier of time and space, penetrated the mirror surface, and penetrated from the "other side".

  That finger...the size is huge.

   On the pale fingers, those slightly sharp, but like well-manicured black nails, were a little bigger than Irin's face.

   Those are not human hands!

   Oh, of course it can't be a human... Exactly, that's not a palm that should exist on a normal human size!

   At the moment when the huge fingers squeezed out the mirror surface a little.

   The jet-black mirror surface, with the fingers as the center, ripples in circles.

The    ripples swayed to the edge of the mirror, and turned into terrifying twists. The wall behind the mirror suddenly twisted into various strange shapes, like a vortex in the deep sea.

   Accompanied by the terrifying distortion and vibration, the whole mirror made a rattling sound, seemingly overwhelmed, as if it would be crushed by that terrifying finger at any time.

Do not!

  Irin suddenly woke up.

   Never let that finger stick out completely!

It is absolutely impossible for this mirror to hold that palm completely out of the strange world behind the mirror, but just the first exposure of a pitch-black nail made Yi Rin feel the oppression of death. Out ... the consequences will be unimaginable!

When Yi Rin came back to his senses, her back was cold, and a drop of sweat dripped down her hair. Yi Rin did not hesitate, and frantically urged Blood Jasmine, blessed by Nie Hongxiu's "morphological change", with Yi Rin as the center, countless like strands of hair. Bloodshot-like surging, strangling towards the "mirror".

   He did this not to repel that finger, nor to manicure that finger, nor would he naively think that with this meager force, he could cut off that half of the finger.

  Irin's purpose...it's simple!

  Wash la la—

   Countless bloodshots shrouded away, and in a blink of an eye, that ordinary and ordinary mirror was wrapped by the bloodshots of blood jasmine, like a blood cocoon.

  Irin motivated countless bloodshots regardless of consumption, strangling in the blood cocoon, strangling, strangling again.

finally.

   The bloodshot receded like a tide, and in Irin's hand it took the shape of a dagger again.

After the    bloodshot strangulation, only a large piece of thin glass **** was left on the ground, and there was no longer a strange dark shadow on it.

   That finger... retreated!

   Taking advantage of the fact that no one was there, Yi Rin sat down on the ground, gasping for breath, her expression solemn, and she was speechless for a long time.

   (end of this chapter)