Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

“Where is the Queen's magic mirror?”

Poro and Leake looked at… Snow White, who was using the Queen's body, and asked cautiously.

There was no way around it; the Queen's death also took away a large number of people controlled by her, including servants, guards, and knights in the palace.

Now, these palace complexes are basically completely empty!

Standing, there may only be the three of us.

Poro looked at the Queen's face, and for some reason, after Snow White's soul took over, the eerie feeling of the Queen's appearance disappeared.

It even carried a kind of… inexplicably weak and gloomy feeling.

“Well, I don't really know. My… stepmother basically never revealed her secrets. Everything about her is very mysterious.”

Snow White said in a low voice, looking at the palace where she had lived since she was a child, the corpses of the white-armored guards made her heart tremble.

This familiar scene brought her an extreme sense of strangeness!

“But sometimes her actions are a bit strange, let me think about it…”

Snow White followed Leake and Poro, wandering around the palace.

She suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she raised her hand to point to a relatively remote direction.

There, a tall tower stood silently.

“I remember now, the Queen liked to stay alone in that tower! And it is heavily guarded there, I have never been inside!”

“Tower?”

Poro looked at the tower and nodded, “Go take a look there?”

One after another soldiers fell to the ground, their necks also tied with the Queen's magic ribbons.

The number of soldiers who fell in front of this tower was almost… the same as the number of guards at the gate of the palace when the Queen performed the soul swap magic!

All of this…

Shows that there is something extremely important to the Queen inside the tower!

Leake used "Spell Breaker Cone" to break the magic lock on the tower door, and climbed up the stairs inside the tower room along the long spiral staircase.

Pale purple crystals flickered with magical light on the walls.

The room was surrounded by bookshelves, on which many books were neatly arranged.

Leake curiously took out a book and opened it—

Then her pupils shrank.

Inside, there was a lot of magic-related knowledge, about a witch whose name she had never heard of!

Could it be…

“These books seem to record a lot of secrets… are they handwritten records by the Queen?”

Poro also put a few books back on the bookshelf.

He and Leake looked at each other, and they both saw extreme horror in each other's eyes!

This means… the value and knowledge contained in the books in this entire room are absolutely beyond imagination!

Fortunately, the Queen may not have mastered all the knowledge recorded in these books.

And the soul swap also had far more interference with her spellcasting ability than expected!

Thinking of this, both of them couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Otherwise, how strong would a person with so much magical knowledge be if they were to digest it all!?

“There can only be one source of this knowledge…”

At the end of the room, on the wall, a piece of gold and purple cloth covered something on the wall.

Poro and Leake took a deep breath, walked up, reached out and grabbed a corner of the purple cloth—and gently pulled it!

A smooth and simple mirror appeared in front of the three!

But it looked neither magical nor had any special features, it was like… an ordinary mirror.

Poro was silent for a while, and said tentatively:

“Excuse me, are you… the Magic Mirror?”

Silence continued in the room, just as Poro frowned, and had some other guesses, an anomaly occurred!

The surface of the mirror rippled with flowing light and shadows.

Two vague spots of light lit up on the mirror, like a… simple human face.

A voice that was hard to tell whether it was male or female sounded from within.

“You actually know me too? Why? Did the Queen tell you?”

The two spots of light in the mirror moved and placed them on Snow White, who appeared as the Queen, “Well, the Queen should be dead, right?

Should I call you… Queen Snow White, Your Highness?”

Snow White's eyes widened when she heard this, and she seemed a little incredulous:

“You really are a talking mirror? You can even recognize… that I'm not the Queen?!”

Compared to her, Leake and Poro had already made such preparations and were not surprised by this.

Poro looked up and looked at the mirror, and continued to ask:

“I know you should be able to see it, but you should also be able to get the answers to the first two questions, right? Aren't you… omniscient?”

“Omniscient? Yes, of course I can know everything.”

The voice in the mirror replied, “But I am just a mirror. Although I can be omniscient, I can't do anything. All I can do… is answer other people's questions.

I can indeed know more, but I myself - don't like to explore that much.”

“Can you answer our questions?”

Leake asked.

“Yes, as long as you know the password.”

The magic mirror laughed strangely twice.

Leake listened, her expression straightened, she took a deep breath, and said the question that she had prepared for a long time:

“Magic mirror, magic mirror, please tell me - how can I save my grandmother and restore her to her healthy self?”

“Hmm… that's really interesting, besides the Queen, there are other people who know such passwords…”

The voice of the magic mirror revealed a trace of surprise, its surface began to surge and change like a vortex, showing a ground view from a high altitude.

Just like… the satellite map Poro saw in his previous life!

It's just that the clouds are very thick and you can't see clearly.

“First of all, you need a spiritual plant that is naturally imbued with special magic.”

On the mirror's map, some of the obscured clouds gradually became transparent, extending a… road leading to the distance.

At the starting position, several flashing characters appeared - Sino Kingdom.

Along the way, one area after another also lit up with marked place names, until the end of the journey.

The voice of the magic mirror was read out at the same time as each place name appeared.

At the end, the vision began to zoom in, a vine that soared into the clouds, among the countless green leaves of the vine that were larger than humans, the only string of bean pods cracked a small seam.

Through the small seam, you can see several seeds that are no different in size from ordinary beans.

“The seeds of the Cloud Top Green Vine are a good choice for you.”

The magic mirror's picture continued to change, the perspective was raised again, and the route under the clouds began to twist and extend until the distance…

In the end, it stopped at another location and swooped down.

A garden, but… all the plants here have withered and withered.

Black and yellow grass leaves and roots were scattered all over the ground, without a trace of life.

In the center of the cemetery formed by these flowers and plants, a girl with a face full of gray soil was kneeling on the ground.

She used a shovel to dig a small pit in the ground, and held a withered flower in her hand, as if this flower was some kind of treasure to her…

She lowered her head and gently kissed the surface of the flower, then stuffed the withered flower into the square pit and slowly filled it with soil.

After filling it, her slightly sad eyes flickered and moved to the side, to another withered flower.

Her white hands held the shovel and turned the soil.

The second pit gradually took shape…

“Secondly… you need a spellcaster who is equally, or even… more proficient in forest magic.”

Leake stared closely at the flowing picture on the surface of the magic mirror. As soon as she saw the magic mirror, Leake had already taken out the notebook she had prepared.

She also completely recorded the map that was just displayed on it.

Even… if the magic mirror's speech speed was not too fast, Leake would have drawn the two scenes on the picture in her notebook!

“Magic mirror, is this the only way? Can you… be more detailed?”

Leake asked with some doubts, looking at the gradually disappearing picture on the magic mirror and the face that was re-mimicked.

“Of course there is more than one way. In this world, there are always far more methods than problems!

And more detail… means more time cost. I never like to explain too much. The answer you need is too long.”

The voice in the mirror said, chuckling lazily a few times,

“But it's enough for me to answer your question. Of course, the answer I give will not have those messy misdirections.

It's just… more one-sided.

There may be many answers, but I will only give you one, as for why… I'm lazy, I don't want to do extra work.”

“Then can I ask you another question? About… other possible methods?”

Leake asked.

“Of course, I can answer all questions.”

The voice of the magic mirror, however, carried some cunning, “It's just… you may have to wait until tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow?”

“This is easy to understand - I only answer one question every day.”

Hearing this sentence, Leake and Poro were both stunned for a moment, but they felt it was somewhat natural. If all questions could be answered in detail without any restrictions, there would be no difference between owning a magic mirror and gaining omniscience.

If it reaches that level, the boundary between omniscience and omnipotence is no longer so clear.

“Then… if you change someone, can you ask a second question today?”

Poro still thought about it and tried.

“Do you think I would let you take advantage of this? If you could, and the Queen controlled thousands of people to ask in turns, what's the difference between that and her asking herself?”

The magic mirror said.

I see…

Poro wasn't in a hurry, after all, the magic mirror was in his hands now, even if he could only ask one question a day, he could ask three hundred and sixty-five questions a year.

This is not a problem.

However, Poro had never seen such a strong, personalized magic item that was like a living person.

Perhaps this human-like guy would have more flexible bottom lines?

Poro inexplicably thought of some NPCs in his previous life's games who could increase revenue by swiping enough favorability, and favorability-related… charm?

Poro blinked and suddenly looked at the magic mirror and said:

“What if I'm good-looking?”

“Huh?”

As soon as Poro said this, the magic mirror and the two women next to him all looked at Poro with incomprehensible surprise.

“Poro, are you saying…”

Leake reacted in the next second, but Snow White and the magic mirror obviously didn't know about the golden book page.

“Good-looking? Let alone you are a wolf, even if you grow up to be my dad - I can't answer two questions a day.”

The magic mirror chuckled, and said in a deliberately mocking voice, “Although… I don't have a dad.”

But after saying this, he suddenly discovered that the feeling that this wolf in front of him gave to others had suddenly changed!

Although the appearance seemed to have not changed at all, the feeling produced when seeing him…

Gradually changed from "a wolf" to "how can he be so handsome" and then to… how can there be such a beautiful existence in the world?

A kind of chaotic mental distortion, a sense of beauty that transcends species!

“Wait a minute, how did you—”

The voice of the magic mirror suddenly became stunned, without the previous sense of composure!

And next to Poro, Snow White, who had transformed into the Queen, couldn't control her emotions in just an instant. She couldn't restrain herself from raising her hand and pounced on Poro with a lost-reason-like tiger pounce!

But in mid-air, Leake used a standard grappling technique to press this weak girl under her body, unable to move!

“Poro is mine, dare to touch him and see?”

Leake looked back at Poro, her face visibly flushed red, and the look in her eyes was straight, with some… unprecedented… lust??

“Poro, I can't stand it anymore, don't use that…”

Leake said with a trembling voice.

“Uh, this is indeed a bit…”

Poro hurriedly moved his mind and turned off [Ring Return: Snow White·Peerless Appearance] that was added to him.

Afterwards, Snow White gradually calmed down, and the dangerous meaning in Leake's eyes also dissipated.

She let go of Snow White and touched her white face, which was a little hot.

“Poro, tell me in advance next time you want to use it.”

Leake's tone was a little resentful.

“Sorry, it really has this effect, I thought it would be weakened a bit.”

Poro said a little embarrassedly, the expression on Leake's face just now was almost about to say lines like "Poro, you smell so good"!

He turned his head again and looked at the mirror by the wall and said:

“Then we'll come back and ask you tomorrow…”

Poro said, in this room, there were also many precious knowledge in the Queen's collection of books, most of which were answers the Queen got from the magic mirror one question a day.

In the remaining time, it's not bad to look at these secret knowledge.

After all… now that the Queen is dead, there are no threats in this palace for the time being.

But at this time, the magic mirror opened its mouth:

“Ask away.”

“Huh?” Poro was stunned, “What did you say?”

“You can ask the second question now.”

The magic mirror repeated again, “I haven't been this curious in centuries. The information I see… changes against common sense on your body - you are very special.”

"Therefore, I agree to make an exception and answer one question for you."

The two points of light within the Magic Mirror glanced at Lake, "The answer I just gave this girl... consider it a greeting gift for our first meeting.

I really want to know what kind of question you will ask."

"Thank you."

Poro nodded, organized his thoughts slightly, and then spoke out a question that he had pondered for a long time, "Why has this world become what it is now?

This should have been a fairy tale world, but why, as I delve deeper into it, do I feel... such a dark sense of chaos?"

Upon hearing this question, the Magic Mirror was silent for a moment, and then said:

"I'm a little... unable to understand your meaning. Do you want to discuss the formation of the world with me like those philosophers and sages? Or are you bitterly criticizing the injustices of the world with me?

If you want to ask me about the long history of this world, I will answer extremely briefly."

Poro thought for a while and explained:

"A long time ago, I heard such a fairy tale, which also included you—"

Poro pointed at the Magic Mirror and then turned to Snow White, "And her, but the development of the story is very different from what it is now!"

Poro began to slowly repeat the story of Snow White to the Magic Mirror and Snow White, who had not heard it before.

Finally, he looked at the Magic Mirror, his eyes becoming somewhat deep.

"Why this strange similarity? What is the connection between this world and the stories I tell?"

As Poro's voice fell, there was a long silence.

Within the Magic Mirror, two points of light flashed rapidly, as if thinking about something. For dozens of seconds, the image on it did not change at all, as if it contained a thick cloud of gloom.

"This is the first time I've heard of such a thing."

The Magic Mirror's voice sounded, without its usual frivolous tone, appearing somewhat serious.

"It shouldn't be, I should be able to know... the answers to everything in the world. As long as there is a result, I can find the cause, but where did this story come from? A prediction without a trace?"

The Magic Mirror's voice became somewhat urgent, its self-talk filled with extremely strong doubt.

Doubt, as the Magic Mirror—he doesn't always experience such emotions!

"Crack—"

But at this moment, Poro and Lake's pupils shrank. They looked towards the faint sound and saw that—a tiny crack had suddenly appeared in the corner of the Magic Mirror!

And the Magic Mirror's hurried muttering still did not stop.

"Someone... is obscuring certain truths."

The Magic Mirror suddenly said, its calm words inexplicably carrying a hint of anger, "But I am the Mirror of Truth, I should give everyone who asks a question a correct answer!

If the truth before my eyes is obscured... then many of the answers I have given before will be wrong?

Is it... a lie?

I want to see—who dares to do this! ?"

The image within the Magic Mirror finally moved, with mixed light and shadows spinning rapidly, no... these light and shadows were more like every corner of the world flashing past at high speed!

Mountains were flowing backwards into the sky, castles grew limbs and galloped across the wilderness, birds danced between rainbow bridges, and countless wonders and strange beasts flashed within mirage-like fantastical chaotic scenes—

But then, these scenes were falling, and the perspective displayed by the Magic Mirror was rising.

Stars were shining, the sun and moon were dancing in rotation, and seven-colored mysterious light was leaping up within the boundless sea of clouds, bringing up dazzling stardust—in the center of colorful flowers and plants, angels waved golden wings, and songs rippled...

At the top of the golden and white palace, amidst endless holy light and praise, a figure appeared!

That was an old man wearing a pure white robe. He had white hair and a kind and solemn face, making people feel无比宁静与安慰 (unparalleled peace and comfort)...

"God, what exactly are you—hiding?!"

The Magic Mirror's emotionless voice caused the harmonious scene in the entire picture to freeze instantly, as if there was insufficient signal, and then begin to tremble and distort like a broken illusion!

This time, what began to tremble along with the picture was the entire world.

In the capital of the Sino Kingdom, starting from the location of the tower, the earth's crust began to tremble violently!

"God, I need a truth, a real answer. This time, you will not be able to—distort me again!"

The Magic Mirror's voice became somewhat... distorted.

Like it was隔着一层遮罩 (separated by a layer of cover).

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