Chapter 255

"Even after reading the information, I still feel afraid of this thing."

Only Miss Annette knew in advance that the so-called "gargoyle" was so big, and Miss Beiya also sighed like Xia De.

"I thought... it was only human-sized, I didn't expect it to be so big."

Xia De said his thoughts, and Miss Annette looked around and explained further:

"The Keeper-level Relic 【Thousand-Eyed Gargoyle No. 3765】 actually has an easier-to-remember unofficial name, which was given by ancient alchemists."

"What is the elegant name?"

"Titan."

Looking up at the terrifyingly huge thousand-eyed stone statue, Xia De twitched the corner of his mouth, fully understanding what was in front of him:

"Hmm... actually, if you had said this name earlier, I probably would have easily understood what this is."

Such a large empty space seemed to be built to allow the gargoyle to fight fully. To be honest, if they didn't know in advance how to let this thing rest temporarily, I'm afraid that even if the Silver-Eyed One intended to join them temporarily, the four people added together might not be able to beat this Relic.

The huge space looked empty, but later the three saw some corpses with varying degrees of decay by the wall. The freshest corpse among them was probably only from this morning. The eyes of these corpses were all dug out, which should be the innocent people killed by 【Mercury Blood】 to pass through here.

Carefully counting the corpses, there were 36 in total, which meant that besides the people from 【Blood Spirit School】 this morning, 【Mercury Blood】 had used this method to enter the ruins at least 17 times.

Miss Beiya prayed for the corpses in a low voice, Miss Annette continued to check the remaining empty space, and Xia De looked at the three freshest corpses and suddenly asked Miss Beiya:

"Do you mind if your companion uses necromancy oddities?"

This point must be asked clearly.

"What? Necromancy? Is it a plague?"

The Church's female Shushi asked curiously.

"Of course not."

"Then it doesn't matter."

She shrugged indifferently, so Xia De took out bone powder and sprinkled some on the corpses. But after chanting the incantation, there was no reaction at all.

"Strange..."

He tried again, but the oddity still had no effect. After briefly explaining the basic effect of 【Soul Echo】 to the two companions, Miss Annette believed that the Silver-Eyed One had processed the corpses, making it impossible to obtain information from the corpses by means like mediumship.

"Or there is a problem with the ruins themselves."

Miss Beiya also guessed, and Xia De asked in a low voice:

"Do you think it's possible that 【Mercury Blood】 discovered the so-called 'evil' Relic suppressed here by this disappeared sect?"

No one could give an answer, but everyone understood that perhaps the danger in the ruins was not just the three Relics and Ringed Shushi blocking the way.

Continuing to prepare to move forward, but the trouble they encountered was not that they couldn't find the way, but that there were too many roads leaving this space where the gargoyle was located. There were four walls here, and each wall had at least six stone doors. Finally, it was Xia De who listened to the footsteps and cooperated with Miss Annette's divination to lock the correct direction forward.

The danger that might be encountered next was the Keeper-level Relic 【Mirror Behind】. This Relic directly damages the "other me" of the Ringed Shushi. In the Sunday banquet, it had already been decided that this Relic would be dealt with by Xia De. The two ladies didn't ask him what method he would use to deal with it again, and Xia De didn't ask the woman's voice in his heart what method to use to deal with it again.

【Trusting me so much? I feel honored.】

She said teasingly.

This time it was Xia De who pushed open the stone door, but behind the door was not the space containing the mirror. He stretched out his finger to illuminate the front, and it was a lightless corridor wrapped in bricks and stones, and the corner could be seen twenty or thirty steps away.

"The mirror might be at the corner of the corridor, so I'll walk at the very front."

He said, but didn't get an answer from behind. Turning around, there was actually a wall behind him, and there was no figure of the two ladies at all, let alone the huge thousand-eyed gargoyle.

Xia De blinked, and asked softly in his heart:

"Hmm... are you still there?"

It took a full two seconds to get a reply:

【Punch forward.】

He punched forward immediately. After the fist hit the air, the sound of glass shattering almost made Xia De think his hand would be injured. The space in front of him appeared with dense radial cracks centered on the point where the fist hit, but soon it recovered again.

"Isn't the mirror used to hurt the 'other you'? How could it trap me? I thought my task was just to see the mirror, and then you would reach out a hand from my back and smash the mirror with one punch."

While thinking, he simultaneously swung both fists to hit the air in front of him continuously, but the speed of the cracks recovering was much faster than the speed of Xia De's swinging fists. Although he became very strong because he became a Ringed Shushi, he didn't have the ability to swing sonic punches or even light-speed punches.

【I cannot interfere with reality.】

She repeated the words she had said in his ear.

"Wait, I seem to have trouble."

It seemed that because Xia De's fist attacked this space, bursts of black smoke flew from the depths of the passage. While making a tearing sound in the air, they all pounced on Xia De's chest. But it didn't even need him to counterattack, golden cracks flashed across the surface of his body, and those black smoke disappeared.

"Oh, no trouble."

He said dryly.

The just now was an attack on the soul, but divinity protected his soul.

"How to get out?"

【Found a solution, it shouldn't attack you, it exposed itself.】

Her murmuring voice carried some joyful emotions, probably in a good mood:

【You are in the mirror space, the mirror can't do anything to you, it can only trap you temporarily.】

"What should I do now?"

【Punch yourself.】

If it weren't for the fact that "she" was still using that strange language that Xia De had never heard a second time anywhere, he would even think that this mirror was playing with him.

"Are you sure?"

She was chuckling, and the laughter proved it was indeed her.

Xia De took a breath, clenched his right fist, closed his eyes, and hit his chin hard.

Unexpectedly, he didn't feel pain, just like hitting a dough wrapped around his face.

The sound of glass shattering appeared clearly in his ears. Opening his eyes, there was no passage in front of him. He had just pushed open the stone door, and the door was facing the mirror.

Xia De was standing in front of the mirror at this time, his right fist raised high, and the big hole on the shattered mirror surface was undoubtedly what he had hit out. The senses transmitted the pain of the bleeding fist very slowly, and every shattered piece of glass hanging in the mirror frame reflected his appearance at this moment.

"Xia De?"

A tentative shout came from behind, it was Miss Annette's voice.

"I'm fine... the mirror is temporarily disabled."

The Keeper-level Relic 【Mirror Behind】 also has the "hard to destroy" characteristic that most Relics have. Now smashing the mirror surface only makes it temporarily disabled. It will return to normal in a very short time, but as long as there is a crack on the mirror surface, the characteristic of attacking the "other me" cannot be exerted.

The mirror itself will automatically move its direction in the absence of people's gaze, facing the direction where people might appear. That is to say, even if Xia De moves the mirror to the wall and faces the wall at this time, when they leave, the mirror will automatically face another direction.

"No problem, the mirror is disabled."

Xia De repeated it again, and while breathing a sigh of relief, he turned around and shook his bleeding hand:

"Whoever is convenient, give me some water, I'm not convenient to reach into the right pocket now."

"Oh, how did you get hurt so badly?"

Miss Beiya immediately walked over across the stone door and directed the light ball to illuminate this place. And Miss Annette went to check the mirror to see if there was anything other than the mirror behind the stone door.

The clean water treated by 【Gluttonous Food】 healed the scratched palm, and Xia De also curiously asked the two ladies what he had just done.

"You pushed open the door, walked in, and then smashed the mirror with one punch."

Miss Beiya described it simply, and then was asked by Xia De to say more details:

"Did I have any abnormalities, for example..."

He hesitated for a moment and said softly:

"A phantom appeared behind me, and the phantom punched the mirror."

"What do you mean?"

Miss Beiya asked suspiciously, as if suspecting that Xia De was still affected by the mirror, so his head was a bit confused.

She shook her head:

"There were no abnormalities, Detective, we didn't even react, and you smashed the mirror with one punch. What happened just now? Why didn't you kick it?"

"Because I couldn't kick my own face... let's explain after we walk out."

He shook his head, signaling that there was no time to chat here now.

Looking at the ground, the silver light at his fingertips illuminated the glass fragments on the ground, and the glass fragments reflected the three of them. Xia De and Miss Beiya were both very normal, and behind Miss Annette, Xia De actually saw that transparent woman who looked very much like her, just a little more mature.

Blinking, the transparent woman in the mirror fragments disappeared. Xia De looked at the female diviner who was standing in the silver moon radiance and observing the surroundings in surprise, she had no abnormalities.

"She... forget it, the current situation is not suitable for asking about this."

The space behind the stone door where this mirror was stored was the third ruins space they entered, similar in size to the space in front of the first stone door. The silver light at Xia De's fingertips and the light ball summoned by Miss Beiya were enough to illuminate this place.

Still didn't see any living people, this time there were no dead people either. Except for the mirror standing there, there was a door on each of the four walls, but this time there were no more carvings on the walls.

However, there was a line of ancient text on the metal mirror frame of that mirror. After translating it into Delarion, the general meaning was:

【Beware of the "other me".】

The three Ringed Shushi did not express any opinion on this line of text.