Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 14 The Strange Man in the Dream
At this moment, there was still one square left in the territory that had not been dug, but the shovel was used up and the remaining points were not enough to exchange for a new shovel. Yang Xu had nothing to do for a while.

Turning back to the center of the base, in the garbage station in front, the body of the former administrator was still lying in the sewage. Yang Xu couldn't help but frowned.

It's not a good idea to just leave the body here. It will stink soon. We need to deal with it as soon as possible.

After all, he was the previous administrator, and if you really want to say it, he was his colleague. Moreover, if this man had not dug out the hatchet in advance, he might have suffered a serious blow when facing Tu Bi yesterday.

For this reason, Yang Xu should also give him a proper burial. Of course, burying him in the real world is impossible. If the body is discovered, there is no way to explain it. He can only be buried on the spot in the mirror world.

Yang Xu returned to his real home and found a few discarded bed boards in the storage room. He also found some nails, ropes, and sacks, and moved them all to the mirror world through the mirror in his home.

Over the past two days, after passing through the inside and outside of the mirror many times, Yang Xu has gradually figured out the rules of the mirror's travel between the two worlds.

In theory, any mirror within the territory can be used for him to enter and exit, but there are two prerequisites:
First, the mirror must be big enough, otherwise people cannot get through it and can only reach their hands through.

Secondly, the mirror must not be moved after 6 pm. Once it is moved, and the position of the mirror in the mirror world is misaligned, the mirror will become inaccessible, and no entry or exit will be possible unless the mirror is put back to its original position.

Therefore, the only things he could really use to enter and exit were the large mirrors fixed on various walls.

Yang Xu took some effort to carry the wooden boards downstairs one by one and started banging them.

Two hours later, an extremely simple 'coffin' took shape in his territory.

Yang Xu wiped the sweat off his forehead and threw the coffin into the pit he had just dug. Then he put the body into a sack and threw it into the coffin.

Cover the coffin and fill it with soil.

I clapped my hands and looked at my watch. After all the busy work, it was already past twelve o'clock.

Holding a hatchet, Yang Xu walked around the territory a few times unwillingly, hoping that another mirror ghost would come to practice with him.

Unfortunately, there was nothing. Yang Xu had no choice but to go home and sleep.

……

The next day was the same as usual, and the entire morning class time was used to practice time stopping.

Since there were no classes in the afternoon, Yang Xu simply stayed at home and continued to practice. This time, he specially changed into the Taoist boy skin, wanting to try whether he could trigger the "diligent study" attribute by stopping the practice time.

After practicing with the Daotong skin for more than four hours, finally, the system prompt popped up.

[You wear the Dao Tong skin and diligently practice combat skills, triggering the (Diligent) attribute. Your skin compatibility increases by 0.1%.]

"Well, four hours..." Yang Xu frowned.

It only increased by 4 in 0.1 hours. This efficiency is really worrying, but it also depends on who you compare it with.

His skin has two remaining attributes, 'Cooking' and 'Caution'. Among them, 'Caution' requires him to encounter the corresponding event before he has the opportunity to show it, which is the type that can only be encountered by chance.

As for 'cooking skills', his own level was not up to standard. Anyway, Yang Xu had already tried to cook at noon, but there was no response at all. It was not clear at the moment what level of cooking skills were required to trigger this.

In short, compared to these two illusory attributes, "diligent study" is at least a stable way to improve compatibility.

At six o'clock in the afternoon of that day, Yang Xu, full of anticipation, passed through the mirror and entered the mirror world again.

However, to his disappointment, no mirror ghost appeared!

"No, isn't the probability of a mirror ghost appearing so low?"

Yang Xu was a little anxious.

Today is his third day as an administrator, and of the two mirror ghosts he encountered so far, one was attracted by the Stopper Card, and the other was dug out of the ground by him. If they were placed in other territories, he might not have encountered a single mirror ghost until now.

I haven't encountered a mirror ghost for several days. Is this the norm for ordinary administrators?
Yang Xu couldn't tell if he was just unlucky, or if the Mirror Ghosts were simply that rare. At this rate, he was starting to worry if he could spawn ten Mirror Ghosts before the curse countdown ended.

After practicing time-stopping for another four hours in the territory and improving his compatibility once again, Yang Xu looked at the empty territory, sighed, and went home to sleep.

Having had a rare good night's sleep last night, Yang Xu went to bed earlier today than yesterday. He thought he could still have a good night's sleep today.

However, he didn't expect that when he fell asleep, he fell into that strange dream again.

The familiar pure white space was so large that the edge of the space could not be seen. The strange man in black appeared in front of Yang Xu.

The weirdo laughed crazily, his hands full of knives and bombs. He attacked him without a word. "Why is this a broken dream again?"

Yang Xu was in great pain. This time he was more awake than the day before. He dreamed that he had changed into a Taoist boy's skin, dodging the monsters' pursuit while counterattacking with fireballs.

Unfortunately, it was useless. The strange man ignored his attack and became even more excited after being hit by the fireball. Like a perverted murderer, he kept throwing knives at him. Yang Xu could only run away.

This escape lasted several days and nights, hundreds of hours of sleepless pursuit. Even an iron man could not have endured it. From the initial efforts to dodge, to exhaustion in running, and then to gradual numbness.

After an undetermined amount of time on the run, Yang Xu dreamt that his body was stabbed with knives, yet he could no longer feel the pain. He was so sleepy that his eyelids drooped violently, and his consciousness became increasingly hazy...

Just as Yang Xu was about to fall into a deep sleep, the strange figure in the distance suddenly sped up, rushed over like teleporting, and grabbed him by the collar: "Sleeping? With such a huge curse hanging over you, you can still sleep?"

The strange man roared at Yang Xu, staring at him with a pair of bloodshot eyes.

Yang Xu was startled and his sleepiness disappeared instantly.

"Curse... Will I really die after the countdown ends?" Yang Xu asked subconsciously in his dream.

"What do you think?" The weirdo answered with a sneer.

"So what if it is like that? If the Mirror Ghost doesn't come, there's nothing I can do..." Yang Xu defended himself.

"Is this the reason for your slacking off? Haha..."

The weirdo laughed crazily again, his face twisted with laughter, which made Yang Xu feel uneasy.

"If there's no Mirror Ghost, then go find it!"

The last sentence exploded in Yang Xu's ears like thunder.

Yang Xu suddenly woke up and sat up in bed, his back covered in cold sweat.

I quickly reached for my phone to check the time: 0:01 am.

"how is this possible?"

Yang Xu remembered very clearly that he lay down at around 23:50, which means he only slept for a few minutes?

But in that dream, he was clearly being hunted for at least a hundred hours.

Even if time speeds up in dreams, it shouldn't be that much of a difference, right?
"Was it really a dream?"

Yang Xu rubbed his head and felt a splitting headache.

Subconsciously, I opened the panel and took a look.

He thought there would be no new news at this time, but when he saw it, he was stunned.

At this moment, a whole page of unread messages is neatly arranged in the log of the panel.

[You wear the Dao Tong skin and diligently practice combat skills, triggering the (Diligent) attribute. Your skin compatibility increases by 0.1%.]

[You wear the Dao Tong skin and diligently practice combat skills, triggering the (Diligent) attribute. Your skin compatibility increases by 0.1%.]

[You wear the Dao Tong skin and diligently practice combat skills, triggering the (Diligent) attribute. Your skin compatibility increases by 0.1%.]

……

42 identical prompts appeared in a row.

Each item increased by 0.1%, 42 items, a total of 4.2%.

At this time, the compatibility of his Qingyun Mountain Taoist Child skin has indeed become 36.4%. The data matches, which means that these prompts are not display errors.

What surprised Yang Xu even more was the time when these messages were sent.

42 messages, all sent at 0:0:01 AM...

(End of this chapter)