Chapter 47: Classic Movie Appreciation
"What are you going to do? Let me go!"
The closer the body was to the mirror, the shriller Xiaohong's voice became, and the whole ghost became visibly panicked.
However, her reaction further confirmed Tang Xinjue's guess. Just when the rubber head was about to pull out of the mirror, the force poured into the toilet handle suddenly increased to the extreme, and a wet female ghost's head was forcibly pulled out of the mirror.
Xiao Hong was still screaming: "You will regret it! I will make your life worse than death and suffer all kinds of torture... Gululu..."
The howl was drowned out by water spurting from the rubber head.
Tang Xinjue curled up the corner of her mouth without any hint of smile: "It's boring to hide in the mirror and shout. Let's talk face to face and settle old and new grudges together -"
"Gululu! Gululu!..."
Her neck and arms, including her head, were also pulled out of the mirror. Xiao Hong finally felt a sense of crisis. She gave up the insult and tried to retract her hands. However, a force immediately clamped her arms and pressed her to the sink.
Tang Xinjue: "If you continue to struggle, your hair may be pulled by the toilet plunger next time."
Xiaohong: "..."
Disfigurement or baldness, that was the question.
But she soon had no time to think about this problem. Tang Xinzhe had ruthlessly pulled out half of her body, and then the toilet plunger turned with force and pressed her head down into the sink.
The toilet plunger tried to swallow the ghost, but the opponent's strength level exceeded the upper limit of its feeding menu. After the failure, it spat out a few strands of rotten seaweed-like hair.
Xiao Hong: F*ck your mom, I’m disfigured and bald.
Tang Xinjue pressed her hands on the plastic pole and whispered: "If I am right, one of your abilities should be to be able to imitate the examinee. When you succeed in [imitation], in addition to having the same physical appearance as the examinee, you will also share each other's lives. If you are hurt in the mirror, the person you are imitating will be hurt in the same way."
This was also why after transforming into Tang Xinjue, Xiao Hong would suddenly make a move to harm herself - ghosts can exist even if they are broken into one hundred and eighty pieces. On the other hand, once a person was judged to have their body and head separated, they will not survive.
At this point, Tang Xinjue's eyes fell on the two arms of the female ghost: "Since you can imitate us, can we dismantle your imitated body and give it to us?"
Xiaohong: "???"
She regained her strength and tried to raise her head, wanting to take a look at this heinous pervert.
Tang Xinjue was already measuring the length of her arm: "With the current sharpness of the toilet plunger, it may not be impossible to cut it off..."
Zheng Wanqing, who had just broken a hand and was about to be caught off guard and arranged to have the limb repaired: "...wait, wait!"
She shook her arm. After the bleeding was stopped by the spray, a layer of scab formed on the cross-section of the wound. Although it was still frightening, it was much better than when the blood spurted out at first.
Perhaps due to too much blood loss, Zheng Wanqing's lips were gray-white, and her bloody body was no less miserable than Xiao Hong's. However, this did not prevent her from widening her natural European-style double eyelids* and piercing her sharp eyes on Xiao Hong: "I don't want to use her hands."
*欧式双眼皮, literal meaning. This is actually fascinating. I found an actual academic paper on this that states: “European-style double eyelid” is a proper noun in China describing the upper eyelid with a higher and deeper fold than natural which looks Caucasian.
Oh, humans are hypocritical. Xiaohong rolled her eyes with disdain and flipped her hair.
Immediately, the beautiful girl's voice continued rich and powerfully: "Cut the ghost into pieces and freeze her into ice cubes like the remaining limbs of the phantom. Then can I put it on my body and use it as enchanted armor?"
She couldn't find the armor she wanted in the student mall. It was too expensive.
Feeling the burning gaze coming from the side, Xiaohong: "..."
Is there a normal person in your dormitory 606?
Zhang You tried to dissuade her: "We have just entered the dungeon. If we attack the NPC in the dungeon now, it might affect the plot? Otherwise, why don't we ask her for more information about the dungeon first, and wait until the end before taking action?"
After the words fell, a faint female voice floated from the sink where the hair was piled up: "I'm not deaf."
…
In the quiet air, Xiao Hong slowly raised her arm and patted it twice on the sink.
Slapping the ground during a battle means surrendering due to lack of strength.
This time, Tang Xinjue didn't need to continue to pull her. She crawled out of the mirror on her own, with her wet red dress hugging her legs, and she curled up on the sink with a very resentful look.
"What do you want to ask?"
After coming out of the mirror, Xiaohong's entire ghost became much less eerie, and its sense of oppression was also reduced.
Tang Xinjue stared at the sink and looked at it: "The space inside the mirror will enhance your strength. Once you leave the mirror, your strength will decline."
Looking at the female ghost's angry gaze, Tang Xinjue nodded again: "It should be more than just that. After all, according to the rules, the entire dungeon should be your home field advantage. So what really scares you is not leaving the mirror, but leave the mirror before completing my death conditions."
Xiao Hong appears in her mirror at the beginning, proving that she was chosen as the first target to kill. According to the plot of the movie, killing her was the task of the ghost in the mirror.
"According to the normal plot, I should be dragged into the mirror, your power will be enhanced, and then you will kill the next person..."
It's just a coincidence that Tang Xinjue's superpower happened to suppress Xiao Hong, and because they were old acquaintances, they could guess the opponent's abilities in advance when they met, so now the situation was completely reversed.
Ghosts that they now have intel on were like horror games that have been spoiled in advance; the danger was greatly reduced.
Xiaohong rolled her eyes and said, "You've already said everything, what else can I say."
Tang Xinjue's eyes narrowed: "No, classmate Shang Yinghong, there is a lot more you can say, such as how to restore my roommate's arm to normal, and how to end the instance without triggering the death condition."
Xiaohong rolled her eyes again, "Don't call me this name! Huh, if I'm still in the mirror now, this is also a death condition... Oh, provided that the person outside is not you." The female ghost suddenly felt that life was boring: "As for your roommate's arm, what does it have to do with me? I didn't remove it, so of course I can't give it back to her. Even if you really cut off my arm, there's nothing you can do about it. Install it on her, unless you can perform the operation on the spot...wait, you are not a medical student, are you?"
She nervously observed the environment, and saw that the four of them didn't look like they could take out surgical equipment from their pockets in the next second, then lazily settled back in: "That's all I can say, even without me, do you think you're all safe? Ho-ho-ho, what’s really difficult to solve in this dungeon is the plot.
"If you don't die, will the plot end?"
Seeing the silence of the four people, the female ghost's green and white face showed a malicious smile. Tang Xinjue looked at her expressionlessly for a while, and suddenly said: "The so-called plot, shown in the movie, is that the characters come one after another to get killed by the Mirror Ghost.
"But logically, it is not tenable to transfer this plot to a dungeon. Especially in a C-level dungeon, if all the candidates must be killed according to the process before it can end, then I can reasonably doubt that it has been fooling us.
“So looking at it from another direction, if the death of each character is a [link], statistically comparing the death process of each person in the movie can be broken down into two actions: one thing coming out of the mirror, and one thing getting inside the mirror.”
The female ghost reaches out from the mirror and drags the prey into the mirror, which represents the end of a link.
Following Tang Xinjue's train of thought, Zhang You's eyes lit up: "...but the movie doesn't stipulate who can enter and exit this link!"
In other words, if all the people coming in and out was the female ghost herself, can it be judged that the plot was completed and the level could be cleared reasonably?
The author has something to say:
Xiaohong: Thank you for the invitation*, the world is not worth it**
* 谢邀 translated to "thank you for the invitation" comes from a site called Zhihu in Chinese internet where people ask and answer questions. This term, xie yao, is used as a polite response when someone invite you to answer a question that they thought you can answer well.
**人间不值得 translated to "the world is not worth it" is a meme in China that has the meaning of living a loveless life, so just give up.
***Xiaohong just gave up against the protagonist group there lol. Anyway, this author's notes always have something to do with Chinese memes, so, sorry for the lengthy context but I think it's necessary to get the humor!
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