Neverland

In the painting in Xu Muzhou's hands, all the scenes are completely opposite to the actual situation.

Xu Muzhou stared at the painting for a while, then sat down on the edge of the bed, and slowly and carefully looked at the room one by one.

Yan Cen's painting is very detailed, so Xu Muzhou can clearly compare not only the arrangement of coffee table and table and the opening of the window, but even a small dent on the foot of the bed in the upper right corner is clearly visible. Changed location.

It's like... this whole room has entered into a mirror.

If it is said that coffee tables and desks can still be moved artificially, but this is not the case with the bed—not to mention that he and Yan Cen's vigilance will not be so bad. The bed, with Toya's body, is simply a fantasy.

Xu Muzhou suddenly felt a very subtle sense of trance, he blinked, and thought about it carefully along the memory, only to suddenly realize that the room in his earliest memory actually looked like the one in this painting of.

After confirming this, the scene in front of him was very wrong, Xu Muzhou subconsciously sat up straight, as if piercing a layer of film covering his eyes in an instant.

A little subtlety came to Xu Muzhou's heart, and he felt that this feeling was like someone had tampered with his "cognition".

This is like a clumsy magic technique, using a certain method to produce a short-term cognitive illusion, so that the flaws in it cannot be discovered.

Although the influence of this buff seems to be greater than that of magic, it is indeed very fragile.

Because Xu Muzhou is very sure that there is no problem with his memory. When he deliberately sorts out his memories, he will find that he clearly remembers that every two days, the decoration of this house will be silent It's just that he didn't know why and didn't realize it before.

——So why did he feel that this room hadn't changed?

Xu Muzhou squeezed the paper tightly in his hand, feeling a chill running down his back.

Every two days, it happened to be the day when Toya disappeared... So where did he disappear, and does it have anything to do with this "mirrored" castle?

And what is the reason for these two diametrically opposite castle furnishings... Is he still in the original room, or has he come to another world.

The doubts in Xu Muzhou's heart were layer upon layer, almost filling his mind, but no matter which one it was, it seemed that he couldn't answer it in a few words.

When Xu Muzhou's mind was in a mess, Yan Cen just pushed the door in from the outside. Xu Muzhou was startled by the sound of the door being pushed, and hurriedly came to his senses, and waved the paper in his hand at Yan Cen.

"Brother Yan." Xu Muzhou said, "Look at this."

Seeing that his face was not very good-looking, Yan Cen raised his hand to take the paper, and asked casually, "What's wrong?"

Yan Cen remembered this piece of paper, it was just a product of his random doodling the day before, it had no real meaning, and he didn't know what Xu Muzhou was doing with it again.

Xu Muzhou didn't speak, he sat by the bed and looked up at Yan Cen.

Yan Cen first casually glanced at the content on the paper, but soon, he also noticed something was wrong, he slowly frowned, then raised his head and scanned the scene in the room.

Yan Cen didn't compare the scenes in the painting with the actual situation one by one like Xu Muzhou, he just took a rough look, then put the paper back into Xu Muzhou's hand, frowned and rubbed it. bridge of the nose.

When Xu Muzhou saw this, he knew that he had also reacted.

"...The worst way to cover up one's eyes." Yan Cen said displeased.

Xu Muzhou felt that Yan Cen could see through this kind of little trick. After all, Toya could only use metaphysics, and Yan Cen himself was a "metaphysics".

Xu Muzhou asked: "What's the reason?"

"It's similar to the principle of Neverland." Yan Cen didn't explain directly to Xu Muzhou, but chose a more understandable analogy. He dragged the stool next to him with his toes, sat in front of Xu Muzhou, and patiently explained Dao: "For example, you use the false identity created by Neverland in the mission world. For people in the mission world, you are a 'non-existent person', but Neverland will treat them fine-tune your perception so that they get to know you naturally."

"Low-configuration version?" Xu Muzhou said, "I remember that the buff strength of Neverland is much higher than this level. Let's not say that we almost never overturned. I will still be affected by Neverland. If it weren't for her being special, and she believed in her own judgment without any doubts, I guess I wouldn't lose my horse."

"Yes, it's the low-end version." Yan Cen said: "As for how Toya did it... probably it's the 'bridge' problem."

As Yan Cen said, he turned his head and looked outside the door.Seeing his serious expression, Xu Muzhou couldn't help tugging at his sleeves, and said, "Anyway, it's a low-profile version, so there's nothing to worry about."

"Although in front of Neverland, this thing is just a toy, not worth mentioning. But in the ordinary world line, this 'bridge' is strong enough." Yan Cen explained: "It is because of this, this bridge "Bridge" can do many things that ordinary people can't do."

Xu Muzhou understood immediately, and continued, "Like seeing through the future?"

Yan Cen nodded.

Xu Muzhou bit the corner of his lips and sat on the edge of the bed thinking for a while—their previous task progress had been silent, and now it seems that [-]% of the problems appeared on this "mirror image".

Xu Muzhou habitually began to recall from the first day he drove to the mission world. After a while, he suddenly remembered something and reached out to Yan Cen.

"Brother Yan." Xu Muzhou said, "Let me see the progress bar."

Yan Cen unfastened the leather strap from his hand and handed it to Xu Muzhou.

This leather rope was pulled off once before, although Yan Cen tied a knot after the break, but the obvious break marks of the burrs on it can still be seen clearly.

This leather rope was broken on the day he had a dispute with Yan Cen. He had just finished watching Toya's so-called "future", he was in a bad state, and he refused to tell Yan Cen the truth. Yan Cen was so angry that he wanted to move End this mission.

Xu Muzhou remembered that his emotional state was extremely unstable at the time, so he didn't even have the energy to think about tasks or not.

But now, Xu Muzhou's fingers wiped the traces of the oil lamp on the leather rope, and he remembered one thing - the effective progress on the hydrangea seems to have appeared at that time.

If Xu Muzhou remembered correctly, that day happened to be the day when Toya "disappeared", and it was also the first "third day" when he and Yan Cen arrived in this mission world.

Xu Muzhou rubbed the black slime on the hydrangea, stared at it for a while, and suddenly said: "I think the target of the mission is more than one 'witch'."

Yan Cen hummed, and there was no surprise on his face.

He took the hydrangea from Xu Muzhou's hand, wrapped it around his wrist again, and said, "I agree."

"If the room can be mirrored, then did Toya disappear, or did she just remain in the previous world, or..." Xu Muzhou paused, lowered his voice, and said, "In this 'world', There will be a mirror version of Toya."

"I prefer the latter." Yan Cen said.

"Me too." Xu Muzhou said.

Xu Muzhou and Yan Cen looked at each other while talking, and looked out at the same time.

——If Toya’s “disappearance” was also part of this deception, then if you get rid of this illusion now, can you find the disappeared “Tuoya” in the castle?

Xu Muzhou always felt that the progress of this mission seemed to be finally beginning to take shape—or in other words, they finally found a key anchor point to promote the mission.

At the same time, the moment Xu Muzhou finished speaking, he clearly saw the hydrangea in Yan Cen's hand drop a little more.

Although the progress was very subtle, it was indeed the first real action in these days.

Xu Muzhou immediately gained confidence and sat up straight from the bed.

He wasn't worried that the world in the "mirror surface" would be in any great danger, because after all, he and Yan Cen had lived here for a long time, and had gone out on the "third day" many times. Encountered any special circumstances.

Of course, Xu Muzhou is not sure what the outside world will look like after breaking through this layer of misunderstanding.But no matter what, thinking about it, it couldn't be more scary than Sun Qian's mission.

It can be seen that if the opening is good at the beginning, it will really help to cultivate a good working attitude, Xu Muzhou comforted himself silently.

In fact, according to Xu Muzhou's expectation, he always felt that even if there was a mirror image version of Toya in this castle, it would be difficult to find someone, so he discussed with Yan Cen, thinking that he should find the troublemaker first. The "bridge" is more useful.

But who knows that he and Yan Cen were only halfway through the conversation, and when he reached out to push the door, he felt what it means that the plan has not changed quickly.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

He pushed the door halfway, and for a moment he didn't know whether to go forward or back.

There is no other reason - because he was still discussing with Yan Cen just now to dig three feet to find the person, and he appeared in front of them blatantly.

And...the appearance was really beyond Xu Muzhou's expectation.

On the raised platform directly opposite to the second floor, a thin man was standing by the handrail, silently staring at the direction where Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou appeared.

The visitor looked very thin, wearing a long skirt that didn't fit well, the skirt was dusty, and there was an obvious piece of pudding on the right sleeve.

Dressing up was the second thing, but what surprised Xu Muzhou the most was that it was a girl.

She looks almost completely different from Toya. She is a head shorter than Toya, with long brown hair that drags on the ground and spreads messily on the floor.

Her eyes were about the same color as her hair, an extremely dark brown.She stood there, staring straight at them, her eyes looked a little gloomy because of too much concentration.

When Xu Muzhou looked up, he happened to meet her eyes, and was startled for a moment by the undisguised malice in her eyes.

At that moment, a sudden idea popped up in Xu Muzhou's mind.

——This seems to be the exiled witch.