Chapter 984

Lu Mianna looked at Jenna with that eye of hers that had completely returned to normal, and asked in confusion:

"What do you mean, turn into a male?"

The eye she had previously blinded was still suppressed at Sequence 7 due to the limitations of the healing potion's effects, and it was recovering quite slowly, leaving her vision still blurry.

As expected, she can't, she doesn't know... Jenna's thoughts raced, and she forcibly found an excuse:

"Have you forgotten that you like to wear men's clothing and dress up as a man?"

Lu Mianna looked down at the clothes on her body and accepted Jenna's explanation:

"Yes, I still like it now."

She believed it... She accepted this character setting? Jenna vaguely grasped the current loophole and probed:

"You seem to have suffered a bit of a blow and are feeling muddled. You haven't forgotten that we are a couple and are raising the child, Li Lu, together, have you?"

"Uh..." Lu Mianna was stunned for a moment. "No wonder he calls me Mother and you Mama. I remember now, that's right!"

She "remembered" just like that? The corners of Jenna's mouth twitched slightly.

And Lu Mianna's reaction and changes also proved her hypothesis:

Influenced by the conflict between Lu Mianna's true gender and her background identity, a loophole had appeared in the dream. Before the loophole was patched, whatever character background story was instilled into Lu Mianna, she would become that kind of person!

Of course, this could not involve the supernatural, nor could it conflict with actual personal relationships—Lu Mianna clearly remembered the people around her.

Thinking that she had brought Lu Mianna and Ludwig back through the Mirror World, Jenna felt a headache coming on, not knowing what kind of changes such details would bring.

She thought for a few seconds and decided not to mention the Mirror World or why Lu Mianna was injured for now, waiting for Lu Mianna to bring it up herself before thinking of an excuse.

She pointed to the bedroom and said:

"You look very exhausted, and your illness hasn't fully recovered. Let me help you inside to rest."

Lu Mianna nodded gently.

Jenna then helped her up and said to Ludwig:

"You did well today. You can rest for a while before reading and studying. The food is in the bag."

"Okay." Ludwig had been waiting for these words.

He reached out with a swoosh and took Jenna's "Traveler's Bag."

After arranging Ludwig, letting Lu Mianna lie on the bed, and covering her with the air-conditioning quilt, Jenna walked into the bathroom to wet a towel to wipe Lu Mianna's face, as there were still bloodstains remaining on it.

Just as she wet the towel, she saw Anthony's figure appear on the vanity mirror.

Jenna immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned off the faucet, and said:

"I was just planning to settle Lu Mianna and the others down before going to find you.

"Are you alright?"

She used the name Lu Mianna to tell Anthony what had happened afterward as quickly as possible.

Anthony asked a follow-up question for confirmation:

"What about Zarathustra?"

"The third part of the plan was executed successfully," Jenna answered concisely.

Only then did Anthony speak about his own encounter:

"I was transferred to a prison where there was clear defense against 'Mirror Traversing.' I 'hypnotized' my 'cellmate,' made him feel uncomfortable, and after he shouted for help, I relied on 'Psychological Invisibility' to sneak out of the cell. I reached the prison guard office area before I successfully used the mirror I was carrying and the 'Ice Mirror Charm' to escape from there.

"After I returned to the Mirror World corresponding to the hotpot restaurant, I found that you had already left, so I came to find you to confirm the situation. There are already police there, and the area behind the mirror might not be safe."

"You can clean off the cosmetics on your face and return to your original appearance," Jenna said while throwing the "Lie" earring into the mirror. "I have already used mirror magic to perform anti-divination, and the 'Mystic Queen' will also help with the aftermath. You don't need to worry, go back and rest. I'll keep Ludwig here for now."

"Okay." Anthony took advantage of the fact that the power of the "Ice Mirror Charm" was still active, carried the "Lie" earring, and traversed back to that rented apartment in Xinhong Residential Area.

His "Ice Mirror Charm" could only be used one more time.

Jenna breathed a sigh of relief, wrung out the towel, walked out of the bathroom, entered the bedroom, and began to wipe Lu Mianna's face.

Along the way, she also checked how much Ludwig had eaten.

…………

Inside the hotpot restaurant, the police had put up a cordon, isolating the corpse from the surrounding area.

Franca looked terrified as she accepted questioning from a police officer named Li En, along with Luo Shan and Zhou Mingrui.

She said fearfully:

"We weren't eating very fast, we were waiting for the performance later, and then I went to the restroom. When I came back, I found someone was dead!"

"You weren't in the lobby when the incident occurred?" Li En asked.

"Yes, I was in the restroom," Franca explained.

Li En noted this down and decided to check with his colleagues watching the surveillance later to confirm whether this woman named Luo Fu had entered the women's restroom and how long she had stayed inside.

He then looked at Zhou Mingrui:

"You saw the deceased and a woman walk out of the screen?"

"Yes." Zhou Mingrui glanced at Luo Fu.

He had listened in for a while and observed for a long time, and he increasingly felt that Luo Fu did not look like the murderer.

Or, is her acting so excellent that I can't see any clues at all? Zhou Mingrui muttered to himself, adding:

"I thought it was a magic performance at the time. Thinking back now, there was something wrong. That woman had blood on her face..."

Li En asked a few more questions, walked to the side of Officer Deng En, and recounted the key points of the questioning he had just conducted.

Deng En was holding a pipe. He didn't smoke it in public, just sniffed it to stimulate his nerves and make them active.

"Captain, we have a discovery." At this moment, another police officer walked over and said to Deng En.

He was responsible for finding the beautiful woman who had come out of the screen.

Deng En nodded and followed this officer to the back of the hotpot restaurant, entering the room where the face-changing actors rested.

Those actors were all a bit scared, huddled in the corner, watching the police coming and going.

"The target person's last appearance was here." The police officer who led Deng En in pulled back the curtain and pointed to the changing area.

Deng En scanned the area, his gaze falling on the broken mirror on the ground.

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Trier, inside that luxurious villa.

Lu Mian opened his eyes and found that one eye could no longer sense light, while the other was stained with a faint blood-red color.

Every joint in his body was aching, his thinking would stutter from time to time, and his emotions were clearly wrong—he had clearly achieved his goal, yet he still felt a sense of depression that he couldn't extricate himself from, as if he were falling into darkness, along with an impulse to self-destruct and tear everything apart.

This was the corruption brought about by Zarathustra's mythical creature form. This would affect reality, and the resulting damage was the same.

Lu Mian slowly stood up, confirmed the existence of the "Traveler's Bag" and his Beyonder items, stumbled out of the room, and walked down the stairs.

He didn't drink the healing potion directly because he was mainly suffering from corruption, not injury.

When Lu Mian arrived at the first-floor living room, the "Magician" lady, dressed in a yellow and white dress, was already waiting there.

Starlight flashed in the "Magician" lady's eyes, condensing into an illusory book that instantly flipped to a certain page.

Accompanied by an ethereal and illusory voice, a few drops of sweet dew fell, landing on Lu Mian, washing away his bloodstains without wetting his clothes.

Lu Mian's blinded eye gradually regained its vision, and the discomfort in his body was also rapidly dissipating.

"The best way to deal with your current situation is actually to find Mr. 'Sun' to come and purify you, but there are too many things on you that need purification, and their level is high, so that might be even more disadvantageous for you," the "Magician" lady said with a smile. "As for now, you definitely still have residual corruption in your spirit and mind. Later, Lady 'Justice' will come to give you targeted treatment. Fortunately, the corruption in the dream has also been suppressed to Sequence 7. As long as you don't run into the Celestial Worthy's, it won't be a big problem."

Lu Mian tucked his falling black hair behind his ears and briefly recounted the actions he and the others had taken against Zarathustra, as well as the help provided by the "Mystic Queen."

During the process, the "Magician" lady had him sit on a single-seat sofa.

"I don't know if Franca killed Zarathustra's dream image in the end, but it shouldn't be a big problem. At that time, Zarathustra's bodyguards were all in the second-floor private room, and that other 'Seer' pathway demigod remained in the hotel. Even if Mr. 'Fool' subconsciously believes that Zarathustra is also a person with Beyonder abilities, he is only an ordinary Sequence 7. He won't have special abilities, nor will he have the level of an angel," Lu Mian said at the end.

The "Magician" lady said:

"Divination regarding the situation in Mr. 'Fool's' dream is greatly restricted and very dangerous. I also don't know for now if 'Cup of Two' succeeded. Hmm, let's ask Miss 'Justice' when she comes. She can rely on the abilities of a 'Dreamweaver' to peek into some details of the dream.

"What needs to be noted now is that what you did was a strong stimulus to Zhou Mingrui. From now on, no one knows what kind of changes the dream will have."

Lu Mian nodded and said thoughtfully:

"This time, our biggest gain isn't kicking Zarathustra out of the dream—we likely managed to kill his corresponding dream image—but verifying one thing."

Waiting for the "Magician" lady to cast her gaze over, Lu Mian said slowly:

"As long as we do something in front of Zhou Mingrui that deeply involves the supernatural and makes him feel danger, whether it's the Celestial Worthy's subordinates or us, we will all be kicked out of the dream and rapidly turned into marionettes.

"On this point, no matter what stance people are in, the treatment received is the same."

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Affected by the shooting case, Zhou Mingrui, Franca, and Luo Shan couldn't continue eating hotpot.

Because many of the dishes hadn't been touched, Luo Shan hesitated about how to settle the bill and how much money to give.

At this moment, the hotpot restaurant manager walked over and took the initiative to say to them:

"No need to pay, no need to pay. Mr. Huang from the Intis Group said he would cover everything. He said that because of his client's business, everyone didn't have a good meal, so he would pay."

"Mr. Huang is as generous as ever," Zhou Mingrui remarked.

Luo Shan expressed her deep agreement.

Seeing that Luo Fu was not in a good state, Zhou Mingrui didn't suggest changing to another place to eat and politely sent the two ladies into a ride-hailing car.

Franca had been holding on. After returning to Dechuang Garden and entering the elevator, she suddenly went limp and leaned against Luo Shan.

"What's wrong?" Luo Shan asked in surprise.

"I think I'm a bit sick... Why is it so sudden..." Franca felt puzzled herself.

Luo Shan didn't get off the elevator on the 15th floor and helped Franca to the 23rd floor.

Seeing the door to Room 2303, Franca suddenly "woke up":

The illness was because she had used the "Inevitable Death" effect of the "Gun of Inevitability"!

It really was me who killed Zarathustra...

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