[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

Ruby enters the mirror maze.

The mirror maze is all made up of mirrors one after another. In it, you can only see countless yourself turning around foolishly, sometimes even dizzy to the point where you can't figure out the direction, and then bump your head against the mirror.

As soon as Ruby entered, she began to feel a little dizzy.

Ruby: "... Isn't this too gimmicky?"

System: "Just now who was particularly confident that he would definitely be able to walk out?"

Ruby: "Can you help me scan the structure of this maze?"

System: "Do you think I'm a navigation app?"

As a result, Ruby had to rely on herself. She was about to step into the layers of mirrors, but the door behind her was suddenly closed.

Ruby looked back, and there was also a mirror behind that door, which reflected each other with other mirrors, reflecting countless figures of herself.

Ruby pushed the door smoothly, only to find that it couldn't be opened.

Ruby: ... As for?Make it like a haunted house.

However, at this moment, she suddenly saw a small screen appear on the mirror.

The screen seemed to be embedded in a mirror, only the size of a palm, but the distance between Ruby and the mirror was close enough that it was not difficult to see clearly.

On the screen is a man lying on the ground.

Judging from the environment he was in, it seemed like a basement or something, extremely dark, only the moss bred in the humid environment was growing in the dark corners.

Ruby: "...Jason?"

She froze for a moment, then hurriedly leaned in front of the screen, trying to see it more clearly.

At this moment, the person who fell on the ground woke up and stood up from the ground somewhat staggeringly.

At the same time, the clown's voice with a crazy and distorted smile came out of nowhere: "Oh, good morning, little bird and little gem, welcome to the remote mutual assistance game prepared by Uncle Clown for you!"

Ruby: "...clown?"

Wait a minute, what's going on here?

Ruby frowned, she realized that the situation seemed a little bit beyond her imagination.

She saw Jason on the screen frowning, and his voice came: "Ruby? Where are you?"

Ruby said, "I'm in a mirror maze, Jason, how about you? Are you okay?"

The clown interrupted her: "Okay, don't worry about these boring questions, since it's a game, it's more reliable to introduce the rules of the game first."

Ruby thought it was a little funny: "Who will play games with you, madman, believe it or not, I just smashed your maze?"

The clown calmly said, "I suggest you don't do this... because I have filled the cracks of every mirror with laughing gas."

"Laughing gas?" Before Ruby understood what it was, Jason roared angrily, "You dare to touch her!!"

"Oh..." The clown's voice seemed a little helpless, and he seemed to be holding back a laugh: "What should I do, the little monster is invulnerable, so I can only use some unconventional means to punish for not following the rules of the game. Ah, By the way, let me introduce my laughing gas to our little Ruby, it’s actually nothing to be afraid of, it just makes you, like me, a wise man with a unique philosophy of life.”

After he finished speaking, he laughed wildly, as if he had told a particularly funny joke.

Ruby was slightly taken aback, and suddenly had an extremely ominous premonition in her heart.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"It's a poisonous gas that can affect people's mental state." Jason said, he took a deep breath, "Clown, I warn you..."

"Oh, are you sure you want to waste your time on such nonsense?" said the clown.

At the same time, Ruby saw a number appear on the screen:

180.

Soon, that number became 179.

"I remember that the rule of the mirror maze is that you can only get rewards if you walk out within 10 minutes?" The clown said, "10 minutes is too long, it's not exciting at all, 3 minutes is more fun."

"...What exactly do you want to do?" Ruby was also a little angry.

"It's very simple." The clown said, "Presumably the little bird has already discovered the bomb strapped to his body?"

Ruby was taken aback for a moment, then said in astonishment, "Bomb?"

Jason showed an expression of hatred and disgust, gritted his teeth and said nothing.

"The timer bomb, the kind that will detonate immediately once it is disassembled. The countdown setting is also 3 minutes, which is synchronized with the little monster." The clown said, "The rules of the game are very simple. There is a timer at the exit of the mirror maze that can control the timing." Bomb|Bomb's remote control, but Ruby only has 3 minutes to get it~ If you don't get it, it doesn't matter, you can use this screen to enjoy the appearance of flesh and blood fireworks explosion. In addition, in order to make the game more exciting, After 3 minutes, whether you walk out of the maze or not, the laughing gas will be completely released."

Ruby: "...you crazy."

The clown continued: "As for the little bird, you also have 3 minutes to find the remote control hidden in the house. The remote control can control the laughing gas on Ruby's side. So the rules are fair, right? You all have a chance Help each other, as long as you move fast enough."

After speaking, he started laughing wildly again.

"If you move fast enough, you can help each other... because the most important rule is that if any one of the remote controls in your hands is pressed, the other will completely fail."

Ruby frowned, and sorted out the clown's so-called game rules in her mind.

That is to say-

Of the two of them, at most one can escape unscathed.

The one who moves faster can buy the other a chance to live, and the one who presses the button first is guaranteed to die.

So, if the fast man wants to live, he can only hide the remote control and wait for the other person to press the button.

The worst ending is that both of them want to live, but they both refuse to press the button first, and eventually time runs out and both of them die.

Ruby took a deep breath and asked the system: "Will that laughing gas work for me?"

System: "You are not immune to chemicals, just like you are not immune to alcohol."

"So can you kill me after I lose control?" Ruby asked.

"...I'm just a system." The system said honestly, "I can't kill you."

"Gah..." Ruby couldn't hold back her curse.

To become a lunatic—it was worse than death!

But if she didn't want to become a lunatic, it meant that Jason was in a doomsday situation.

Only one of them can live.

"No, we can't follow the rules of the clown." Ruby said, "We must find another way...Jason, do you have a way to contact the outside?"

Jason looked around his surroundings.

He roughly deduced from the surrounding situation that this place should be an underground warehouse.

He should have had enough time and energy to judge the situation, and then find a way to escape from here, but he couldn't do it now.

Because the clown seemed to have broken a lot of his bones, he couldn't even tell which bones were broken, he just felt so painful that he couldn't even stand up.

Not to mention that this dark place has been locked from the outside.

Such a scene reminded him of the scene a few years ago.

so similar.

So hopeless.

Still, at least this time, there's something else he can do before he dies, at least not make his death feel like a joke.

So he took a deep breath, walked to a dark corner, and took out a remote control from it.

There is a red button on the remote control, above the button is a picture of a completely split, laughing bright red lips, and a line of words written beside it: Press me, press here!

Seeing Jason find the remote control directly, Ruby was almost dumbfounded: "You...how did you find it so quickly?"

The clown said unhappily: "Oh, this is disappointing, I thought the little bird would be limited in its movements if it was injured, so to be fair, I deliberately didn't hide the remote control in a hard-to-find place. Oh, am I being too considerate?"

Holding the remote control in his hand, Jason sat down slowly against the wall.

He seemed a little tired, and looked up at the red camera hanging from the ceiling.

Ruby went crazy: "Jason, wait a minute! Don't rush to get that remote control, let me think about how to deal with it..."

"Oh, by the way, guess what?" The clown suddenly popped up again, and said happily, "I understand your need for others to help, so I contacted you, and I may be the only one who will come to help you Man—you all know who it is."

"Batman?" Ruby said subconsciously.

"Wow, our little gem is really smart." The clown exaggerated, "Yes, it's that annoying big bat."

Ruby frowned: "Really, are you so kind?"

Jason sneered, "Of course he won't."

"That's too hurtful to say, dear little bird," said the clown. "I did notify him, but since we don't have much time left, I can only tell him about one of you. Position, guess who he chose?"

Ruby froze.

Jason was also visibly stunned.

Ruby said, "You asked Batman to pick one of us?"

The clown said: "Yes, but the answer is wrong. I hate people who answer questions with questions... Oh, sorry, you are not human, so the sentence just now is invalid, hahahahahaha!"

Ruby: ...do you think you are funny! ?

The clown laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe, and said: "However, don't hold out too much hope, he may not be able to reach you within 3 minutes, after all, if everything is too easy, Wouldn't that make the game boring?"

Jason leaned against the wall and smiled weakly.

pretty good.

Bruce definitely picked Ruby.

Jason didn't even need to think about it carefully to know.

Because Ruby has "superpowers", once she loses control, the consequences will be much more serious.

However, there is nothing wrong with that.

He thanked Bruce from the bottom of his heart for making this choice.

Then he heard Ruby saying anxiously: "Wait, Jason, Batman must have chosen you! Don't touch that remote control, and I'll defuse your bomb when I find the one on my side." !"