You're my wife, don't doubt it!

"You mean...it's because in the mirror world, people's repressed desires are amplified?"

"Come on, give me a hand, this chair is so heavy." Xiao Yao stopped in front of yet another mirror that didn't reflect his image.

"So afterwards, when you went to the restroom, you ran into Zhou Qi in the hallway? If that's the case, could it be that someone deliberately led you here?" Shen Jie stepped forward and held up a chair: "Should I do it?"

Xiao Yao handed the chair to the girl, took two steps back, and the girl swung it around and threw it at the mirror.

As usual, there was a loud bang and shards of glass scattered all over the floor. However, instead of a passageway appearing behind the mirror, the entire classroom became brightly lit.

“Your reasoning is not without merit, but there are still many things that don’t make sense, for example…” Shen Jie was still immersed in her thoughts and did not notice the changes in her surroundings.

"Ah, the music is gone, the bed is gone, it's back to school." Xiao Yao carefully checked his surroundings.

"We...we actually walked all night? It's already dawn?" Shen Jie looked out the classroom window at the playground below, somewhat bewildered.

“No,” Xiao Yao explained, “When Yu Luying, Xiaoxiong, and I came here during the day, it was nighttime inside this mirror, so it should be daytime inside now, which is nighttime…”

"Have we traveled to the Earth's core?" Shen Jie put down the wooden chair, smiling as she put her hands in her pockets.

"So what do we do now?" Xiao Yao asked this profound philosophical question.

"You're asking me?" Shen Jie countered.

“We need to find Yu… Xiongji and Yu Luying,” Xiao Yao said, “but we don’t know where to start. Also, we need to avoid that dangerous Sekel—uh, the robot.”

"Robots... TV stations should broadcast fewer Terminator movies," Shen Jie commented. "This is your classroom? Where you have classes every day?"

“It looks the same, but I’m sure it’s not,” Xiao Yao said.

"Yes, it's too clean. You can't tell at all that students have classes here. It's more like a stage set."

Staying here any longer wasn't a solution, so Xiao Yao and Shen Jie cautiously left the classroom and began exploring the school.

"Is your school's infirmary so big and fully equipped?" Even Shen Jie, a well-traveled young lady, was just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden for the first time.

"No, this should be Class 1's classroom, why does it look like a general hospital?" Xiao Yao scratched the back of his head.

They searched through classrooms one by one, encountering some "people" wearing student IDs along the way. The two were initially nervous, but the "students" did not seem aggressive, so they got along peacefully.

But these "classrooms" are somewhat hard to understand: when you open the door, there are not only hospitals, but also dormitories, clothing stores, offices, swimming pools, and cinemas—places that even top universities rarely have. There are also transportation facilities such as train carriages, airplane cabins, and subways, and even places like police stations and courts.

"This theme park is well-built!" Xiao Yao said with a forced smile, but Shen Jie pinched her forearm with a serious expression, checking if she was dreaming.

Looking at Shen Jie's flawless skin, Xiao Yao thought that if this really was a dream, it should be a pretty good one.

Of course, this is all predicated on Yu Luying and the others being able to escape danger.

Chapter 59 The Water Prison (Bonus Chapter Today)

2022-12-30

*This extra update is partly to make up for the Christmas break I took, and partly because I felt the update schedule for the dungeon shouldn't be dragged out too long. I might slightly increase the update speed in the next few days, if possible.*

After leaving the deserted Golden Palace with puzzled expressions, Xiao Yao and Shen Jie finally heard some noises outside another classroom.

Xiao Yao pressed his ear to the classroom door and could only faintly hear the sounds of whipping and wailing. He tried turning the handle, but this time the door was locked.

Were they imprisoned here and subjected to severe torture?

Xiao Yao turned around and exchanged a glance with Shen Jie, but did not voice his thoughts.

“You lift me up, and I’ll check what’s going on inside through the high window,” Shen Jie said decisively.

"Should I carry you?"

Before Xiao Yao could react, Shen Jie stood on tiptoe and grabbed Xiao Yao's shoulders with both hands.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Yao felt that Shen Jie's posture made it seem like she was about to hug him at any moment, and he swallowed hard.

"Squat down!" Shen Jie pressed Xiao Yao down with both hands.

Xiao Yao wanted to say "It's not appropriate," but he opened his mouth and said nothing. He obediently squatted down facing the classroom door.

Shen Jie placed her thick dad shoes on Xiao Yao's left shoulder, and then his right shoulder.

The pressure of a hundred pounds instantly pressed down on the shoulders beneath the shoes. The immense pressure made Xiao Yao, who was usually unable to bear such weight, feel a sense of foreboding. He reached out to grab the girl's ankles, but Shen Jie stumbled, and the two of them fell backward together.

"What are you doing?" The two fell to the ground, each rubbing their heads and bodies, and asked in unison.

"You're so young, your back can't be worse than my cousin's, can it?" Shen Jie said irritably, "I'm not that heavy!"

How could you ride like that?

"How do you ride it?"

Xiao Yao squatted down again and directed Shen Jie to put her left leg over his shoulder, and then her right leg.

"Sit tight, get up!"

Xiao Yao held Shen Jie's legs with both hands, trying to maintain his balance and straighten up. Fortunately, she was not heavy.

Shen Jie gripped Xiao Yao's hair tightly with both hands—at this moment, she had already begun to regret it.

"Be gentle, it hurts." Xiao Yao said this, but his attention was completely drawn to the heat on the back of his neck.

To be fair, he didn't intentionally want to take advantage of Shen Jie; he just realized now that the situation was a bit delicate.

For some reason, the old man from "One Thousand and One Nights" who rode on the protagonist's neck and refused to get off would pop into his mind, and then he would think of the maid mentioned by Wang Xiaobo in "My Yin and Yang World".

As the saying goes, "Kings, nobles, generals, and ministers all come from this lineage"...

"A prison?" Shen Jie looked out the window and muttered to herself.

"What prison? It can't be that bad. Do you think I'll go to jail just by thinking about it?" Xiao Yao retorted nervously.

"Who sent you to prison?" Shen Jie slapped Xiao Yao's head, making a "thud" sound. "This is a prison, the kind of dungeon lit by torches, with iron cages in every room, and handcuffs and wooden crosses hanging on the walls. It looks disgusting."

"Have you seen anyone? Where is the sound coming from?"

"These rooms are all empty, but there's one room at the very back where someone is sitting. There's a naked person handcuffed to a thin pillar and being beaten. But you can't see who's beating him."

"No clothes on? What does she look like?"

"Can't see clearly."

"Male and female?"

"I can't see clearly."

"No, what kind of look is that?" Xiao Yao said, both amused and exasperated.

"It's so dark with just a few torches. I'm lucky if I can even see a person," Shen Jie said angrily.

"Tell me what you can see."

"The guy who got beaten up... has pretty well-defined abs..."

"Abs? Never mind then, he's not the one we're looking for."

"What are you two doing?"

"!!" A sudden voice startled Xiao Yao.

He turned his head and was stunned.

"Zhou Qi? I've finally found you!" Xiao Yao shouted.

"Is she Zhou Qi?" Shen Jie asked as she helped herself down from the wall.

Zhou Qi wore light makeup, her hair was tied up, and she was dressed in a neat suit, black stockings, and high heels. She looked a size bigger than before. Despite being only of average build, she exuded a superior aura in front of Xiao Yao.

"Let me see your student ID." Zhou Qi held out his hand, his tone showing no indication that he recognized Xiao Yao.

"No one? Is he new?"

Looking at Zhou Qi's eyebrows, clothes, and demeanor, Xiao Yao suddenly realized that the person in front of him was not Zhou Qi, but the same kind of robot called Sekel that he had met yesterday.

I didn't recognize the guy whose head had been chopped off with an axe yesterday, but now that I think about it, isn't that Zhou Qi's face?

What is Zhou Qi's connection to this place?

By the way, was Zhou Qi, whom I met at Qian Gui KTV, actually a Saiker?

"What should we do?" Shen Jie hooked Xiao Yao's little finger and asked softly.

"If you haven't registered yet, please come with me to complete the formalities." Sekel's request seemed to make no attempt to consider the possibility of being refused.

"Anyway, we can't follow her train of thought. We fell for it last time," Xiao Yao replied to Shen Jie as he followed her.

Shen Jie nodded.

Before Xiao Yao could finish the sentence, "But we can't be violent, this guy can take an axe to the head and he's fine," Shen Jie suddenly unleashed a high kick, striking Zhou Qi squarely on the back of the head.

"I'm doomed!" Xiao Yao thought to himself, inwardly groaning.

Normally, a normal person would definitely fall down after being hit like that.

Unfortunately, Sackler is not a normal person.

"Run!" Xiao Yao grabbed Shen Jie's hand, but Shen Jie had already fallen to the ground.

Then, everything went black before Xiao Yao's eyes.

Sigh, it's the same old story.

……