[HEQrC]

9

Chapter 9: Entering the City

Even if it was Xing Ye, he also wouldn't have thought the mirror would react like that. Normally, if somebody was exposed, they wouldn't run into the bosom of the person who exposed them, right?

He reached in and dragged the mirror out, secretly thinking that the mirror was actually pretty strong.

Earlier, the mirror wrote words but he couldn't see. When he looked now, it glowed with a pink light with the words "Ah! Bugs!"

Pink light... was that a blush? He rushed into his chest because he was scared of bugs?

Compared to getting his identity exposed, bugs were more frightening?

Xing Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This was the first time that he felt like he had completely lost. He actually still had a lot of answers he wanted to get from the mirror but seeing how confused the mirror was, he couldn't bring himself to continue investigating.

If he asks any more questions, the mirror might explode on the spot...　　

Now that Xing Ye's got a general idea of the plot, he helped the mirror hide in his bosom before covering himself with the cloak, ensuring the bugs couldn't get to him.

In fact, he was more anxious than anybody else. For Xing Ye, winning this game was just a step along the way. Investigating the cause of his little brother's death was the most important thing. Whether it be the senior maid's words or the mirror's identity, it all proved that this game wouldn't kill people. But if that's the case, then what was behind Xing Shuo's bizarre death?

Xing Ye urgently needed to know the mirror's real identity. If they were from the same world, he wanted to know what the state of the mirror's actual body currently was. That way, he could know if his little brother really died or not.

But right now...

He can't be impatient, he had to be calm. Xing Ye inwardly told himself.

He only entered a novice level world yet there was a bug-level prop. This was clearly abnormal. The black and white rubix cube could see through a person's hearts and feelings so perhaps his meeting with the mirror was the rubix cube's doing. If he becomes impatient and loses his calm, he may get overtaken by fury.

Like countless times before, despite being in desperate straits, Xing Ye just clenched his teeth and continued to endure.

He wasn't actually strong but he always had to pretend to be strong in order to intimidate his opponents.

It was hard for Xing Ye to sleep but he needed to. He stuck the mirror against his stomach and closed his eyes, counting to the rhythm of his heart. If he couldn't sleep after a hundred or two hundred, then he would continue to a thousand or two thousand. Before he fell asleep, he wouldn't move or stop counting.

By forcing himself like this, his breathing smoothened out at around 3000 pulses as he fell into a state of sleep.

Early the next day, Xing Ye saw a notice recruiting guards to transport items to the imperial palace.

"To prevent bandit robberies, we will temporarily hire adventurers as imperial bodyguards..."

Xing Ye couldn't read the words in this world and could only understand the application by listening to others talk about it.

Narrator: "Claire decided to help the mirror and needs to go to the imperial palace. The group recruiting adventurers are delivering the queen's birthday presents, joining them would make it easy for Claire to infiltrate the palace."