Monster Hunting High School

honeycomb.

This is the only concept that comes to Zheng Qing's mind.

Originally there was only a mirror in front of him. But after this mirror was broken, each fragment became a new mirror, surrounding him in front, behind, diagonally in front and diagonally behind, forming a hexagonal closed environment.

Like a bee's nest.

There is a black-gray floor under your feet and a gray-white ceiling above your head. Apart from that, there are mirrors everywhere.

Zheng Qing tried to walk around the mirror in front of him, but found that he had just walked from one 'hive' to another. This made him realize that these 'hives' had built a huge maze of mirrors.

He cautiously retreated the same way, but always felt that the 'hive' he returned to was not the 'hive' he originally left.

This intense distortion is maddening.

But what’s even more maddening are those reflections in the mirror.

In every mirror, there is a ‘Zheng Qing’, and there are other mirrors and ‘Zheng Qing’ in those mirrors. Every 'Zheng Qing' seems to be real - some 'Zheng Qing' is in despair, curling up at the foot of the mirror and pretending to sleep; some 'Zheng Qing' is furious, waving his talisman spear and shouting; Qing' spread out pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the ground and drew talismans on the spot; there was also Zheng Qing who was holding Dharma books and reciting words, as if he wanted to use magic to save himself from this chaos.

More ‘Zheng Qing’ was quarreling.

Because each of them wants to prove that it is true and the others are false:

"I am real!"

"I am the real one, you are the fake one!"

"I'm serious! Do you see this stupid hair? Just this one, do you have it?!"

"Everyone has stupid hair! This pimple just sprouted this morning... It's because of the patrol and staying up late last night!"

"You are all fake...I am the real one! My rune gun has the secret mark of the Zhongshan Jiang family!"

"There's elf drool on my robes!"

"I have a piece of cat hair on my belt...is there any more realistic detail than that?!"

Zheng Qing felt dizzy as he listened to the messy noise in the mirrors around him, and had the urge to smash everything: "Everyone...fuck...give...labor...shut up!"

He grabbed a handful of explosive talismans, walked around in a circle, walked to each mirror and threatened: "Ha... you guys try to make another noise for me!!"

The cinnabar-outlined runes on the explosive talisman flickered under the wizard's violent mood, emitting waves of unstable magic power. It seemed like it would explode at any moment.

The 'Zheng Qing' people in the mirror all looked at him - whether they were drawing talisman, arguing, or even those who were pretending to sleep - with a unified expression of disdain on their faces:

"Try blowing one up."

"If I don't blow it up, you'll be my grandson!"

"Do you want me to buy you some oranges?"

"Blow up! Blow up those fakes! I am the real thing!!"

"You don't have any brains at all, how dare you say that you are truthful?"

"No wonder the doctor said that your captain is the mascot of the hunting team..."

Zheng Qing's arm holding the explosive talisman froze - only then did he realize that those guys in the mirror were probably the ones least afraid of the mirror breaking. Because if he blows these mirrors into eighteen hundred pieces again, the huge maze in front of him will expand hundreds of times, and he will be the real headache.

"Shut up!" The young public servant shouted feebly: "I am the real one, you are all fake!"

"Who has ever seen a wizard with a gun barrel embedded in his forehead?" Behind Zheng Qing, in a mirror, a rather mature "Zheng Qing" curled his lips: "Of all the people, you are the most fake."

This sounds like a joke.

But unexpectedly, he got the support of most of the ‘Zheng Qing’ people in the mirror.

"Yeah, yeah, who would put a gun barrel in their forehead?"

"I heard that the Institute of Applied Magic has 'Wizard Human Body Transformation' alchemy..."

"I'm only a first-year student, and I'm a student at the First University. How can I participate in such a dangerous experiment?"

"Dangerous? Haha... When Su Shijun cut my shadow, she also said that the experiment was not dangerous... until she blew up the laboratory."

They continued to quarrel without end.

Zheng Qing took a deep breath.

He couldn't expect his teacher to reach out and fish him out. This was not his teaching style. To get out of this predicament, he needed to find a way on his own.

"Is this the 'gorgeous' mirror world I expected?" The young public-funded student looked around and thought about what he had complained to his husband before, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Then he thought of the 'elves in the mirror world' mentioned by his husband. Instinctively, he felt that the elf might help him get out of here.

But where to find the spirit from the mirror world?

Staying where you are is definitely not going to work. There are shadows of himself on the left and right, and they are all quarreling. If you find the elves in the mirror here, it will be a real joke.

Zheng Qing suspected that the 'Zheng Qing' in those mirrors were elves from the mirror world. But hundreds of shadows give people the feeling of a tiger eating the sky and having no way to eat. This made him instinctively avoid this option.

At this moment, he vaguely heard a clear laughter, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

It was as if someone couldn't help laughing and immediately covered their mouth.

The wizard looked around in surprise - that crisp voice was definitely not his own.

"Did you hear that?" he tried to ask himself in the mirror - he felt that he was going crazy. What sane person would ask ‘themselves’ in the mirror for their opinion?

The ‘Zheng Qing’ people in most mirrors are still quarreling with each other, competing for the real and fake titles. However, a few 'Zheng Qing' responded to Zheng Qing's inquiries, and without exception, they all said that he was hearing hallucinations.

Based on the principle that what the 'enemy' denies is what we should adhere to, Zheng Qing became more and more sure of what he had just heard.

This hive must be left.

Even now it looks like this hive is safe.

The wizard made up his mind, held the barrel of the gun protruding from his forehead, and put his hand into the gray cloth bag - before leaving the hive, he needed to make a mark to ensure that he would not get lost during the subsequent search.

So he took out a writing brush, dipped it in cinnabar, and left a complex rune on the mirror in front of him. The runes contain concepts such as warding off evil spirits, meditating, and breaking illusions.

The noisy "Zheng Qings" in the mirror all calmed down, turned their heads, and looked at the rune.

A long while.

Zheng Qing put away his brush and nodded with satisfaction—sometimes small cleverness can solve big problems. He thought about this in his heart, happily walked around the mirror and walked to the next hive.

Then I saw that in the next hive, all the 'Zheng Qing's in the mirrors were holding brushes in their hands, and they drew the talisman on the mirrors around them.

The position and handwriting are exactly the same.

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