The years have passed, and time has passed.The competition of Miskatonic University became the most praised and embarrassing competition in the history of their school.It was the last intramural ranking tournament for Miskatonic University.Originally, the purpose of this competition was to enable students to distinguish between their own strength and others, so that they could judge how much room for improvement they had by ranking high or low.In the same way, one of the aims of the competition is to motivate students.It's customary to show your strength by competing for a higher ranking.Students will try their best to show themselves in the competition, and the higher the ranking, the higher the boy, the right to pursue the girl of their choice, and vice versa.Arthur, the president of the student council who has won the first place in several competitions before and after, naturally there has never been a shortage of suitors with starry eyes.Sao Bao's dazzling blonde hair, dignified and elegant temperament, coupled with prohibitive comprehensive strength, all the instructors looked at him sideways.However, at that big game, a dark horse appeared.Jobuterrand appeared out of thin air like a shooting star that pierced the sky.Breaking Arthur's record of achievement in major faculties one after another in a high-profile manner, that is, a silent declaration of war.Although the ending is embarrassing, it is also remarkable.———— on the campus of Miskatonik University, the officers and staff of the student union are working intensively to decorate the venue according to the specifications of previous competitions.As people know, this game is sure to be good to watch.They set their eyes on Arthur, the student council president, but they couldn't see any nervousness on his face.The calmness and indifference in him were as if he had won the battle.Still in public, he sat quietly on a bench under a tree in the corner of the playground, elegantly sipping Darjeeling tea in a gold-encrusted porcelain cup.Several beautiful girls gathered in a group, and one of them, blushing shy and at the instigation of everyone, slowly approached the bench where Arthur was.The girl lowered her head, trembled her hands as softly as she could, and handed out the pink envelope that she held tightly in her hands.Every word in it was written down by gritting her teeth after thinking about it day and night and pondering back and forth.On the thin letter paper is the girl's feelings for Huaichun, and it is also her love for the president Arthur."
Lord, please take it."
The girl whispered, and when she had finished speaking, she longed to find a hole in the ground and bury herself.Seeing this, the corners of Arthur's mouth lifted slightly.He put down the teacup in his hand and took the envelope from the girl with both hands."
Okay, classmate, you go get busy."
With that, the girls left laughing.Unbeknownst to him, Arthur didn't even open the envelope, and turned his head to the vice president Hull beside him, who was Fok's brother."
See if there's any useful information, and if it's useless, I'll leave it to you."
Arthur didn't look back, and continued to pick up the teacup.When the girl looked back, Arthur responded to the girl's gaze with his own smile.Vice President Hull opened it, looked at it twice, and tore it apart."
A piece of waste paper."
Hull said softly."
Expected.Is there any news from that man?
”Arthur asked, with his white hands, gently brushing the hair next to his sideburns."
After he managed to break all the records you left behind, he hasn't done anything else in the past few days.Except for the daily morning exercise, I basically spent all the time in the dormitory.Even the friends who are more familiar with each other and arrive at Miskatonik University together have never been contacted, like... ”Hull paused, pondering, "It's like being cut off from the world." ”"There isn't any information exchange on the ID card?"
Arthur frowned, feeling a hint of weirdness."
He only divided the credits in his ID card into five equal parts, one for himself, one for Professor Rob in Microbiology, one for Havard in the Department of General Literature, one for his roommate Colombia in the Department of Archaeology, and...Hull reported, but he felt a little embarrassed when he got there."
It's okay, I see."
Arthur, who is as intelligent as a demon, naturally understands the difficulty of Hull's pause in this sentence, and he takes the initiative to say it, which means that he doesn't care about this trivial matter.Vice President Hull's position is actually very awkward.He sows allegiance to President Arthur, but that stupid brother Falk is favored by Jobbuterrand and gets a coveted chunk of credits.This kind of thing happened to him, and it simply made Hull feel that the family had been humiliated.Although the president didn't seem to care, it was like a thorn in Hull's heart.He thought for a moment and gritted his teeth, "President, Hull wants to deal with that unscrupulous traitor with his own hands. ”When Arthur heard this, he looked sideways, and then he blew lightly, blowing away the hot air rising from the cup, "If you don't drink tea, it will be cold if you put it away." ”Hearing this, Hull had a trace of embarrassment on his face, he stretched out his finger and held the frame of his glasses on the bridge of his nose, "The president is asking me not to meddle in things?"
”Arthur didn't answer, but looked silently ahead.There is the building of the Department of Archaeology."
The tea is cold."
Arthur said to himself.Hull behind him didn't quite understand.The tea in the president's hand was still steaming.Jot Brown, who was ———— in his bedroom, was standing in front of the bathroom mirror.When he finished breaking Arthur's record, he began to examine his own strength and details.He had already missed it once, and he couldn't afford to let the people around him suffer any degree of harm again because of his mistakes.He looked in the mirror, at himself in the mirror, but felt a sense of disobedience.This sense of disobedience is not caused by the opposite side of the mirror reflection, but the fact that I look a little different in the mirror.What the specific difference is, Jobbutran couldn't say for a while.This sense of disobedience, like an alarm bell, kept beating in his mind, so that Jobron had to calm down and find out what step he had taken wrong.He carefully looked at himself in the mirror, whether it was his facial features or expression, there was no difference.Whether it's a slight small movement, or an exaggerated and comical scratching of the cheeks, there is no flaw.But when he looked at it, widened his vision, and focused on himself, he saw the poster on the wall behind him.The poster was supposed to be a poster of Serena's support group printed by Columbia itself, but in the mirror, what I saw was that Columbia was surrounded by a long list of thorns, and his face was full of pain, even on the verge of dying.At the same time, Columbia, who was listening to a lecture in the archaeology department and wore a funny "Serena is the most beautiful" all-red turban around his head, showed an eerie smile."
Finally noticed?"
A smiling Colombia muttered to herself, "It's a little late, though." ”Professor Bolt on the stage noticed the strangeness of Colombia's expression, but he didn't immediately pierce it, but remembered it.On stage, he continued to teach how to properly excavate specimens on the mysterious side buried deep under the rock formations, but his eyes drifted in the direction of Colombia from time to time.The teaching did not erase his years of exploration in the wilderness, and he instinctively felt something strange in Columbia.The reason why I didn't wear it on the spot was because there were still many students sitting around Colombia at this time who were thirsty for knowledge and listened attentively to the lectures.When ———— Jobron noticed this abnormality, he immediately shouted in his heart, "Not good!
”He previously broke the record set by Arthur, which can be said to be a declaration of war, but Arthur did not make any counterattack because of this, which is something that Jot Brown has never figured out.Jobuterron thought that Arthur would fight against him in the tournament, but he didn't expect Arthur to have already played a game of chess against the people around him.Columbia's previous anomaly, where Chobuterrand only thought that Colombia had become so obsessed with Serena because of the influence of Serena's succubus bloodline, but now in retrospect, according to his understanding of Columbia, he was not a person with such weak willpower."
It's just that I'm taking it for granted."
No matter how attractive Serena is, how could Columbia's more introverted personality do such an outrageous thing?
The dormitory was plastered with posters of Serena, and even a Serena support club was formed, a kind of fanaticism that should not have been seen in Colombia.Presumably, this is the foreshadowing that Arthur has long laid down.Jobbuterrand stood in front of the mirror, immediately recalling the knowledge in his head.Mirror ghost, two words, come to mind."
The Mirror Ghost, an evil spirit, has no physical substance, but changes people's minds through psychological cues that accumulate over time.The initial phenomenon only subtly brainwashes the victim, most often exaggerating what is in their minds.In the middle stage, the victim's soul will be slowly assimilated, and in the later stage, the victim's will be completely replaced by the mirror ghost, becoming the puppet of the mirror ghost. ”The Mirror Ghost is an extremely rare spirit creature, and only a few traces of its terrifying deeds have appeared in some documents.Most of the records are exaggerated by the ancients, such as the mirror ghost forcibly running into reality to tear people to pieces.In fact, the mirror ghost cannot do this, but the mirror ghost can make the victim cause harm to his or her body through psychological suggestion.In the library of the Mystery Studies, one of the victims had a jaw dislocation, and the intense pain became a medium used by the mirror ghost to suggest it psychologically.The victim, however, was prompted by the ghost to use his own hands to forcibly remove his jaw from the face and bleed to death.The family members found in the deceased's notebook the psychological hint written by the deceased after being affected by the mirror ghost, "If the jaw is gone, there will be no more dislocation, how painful the dislocation is." ”Presumably, the Mirror Ghost began to slowly affect Colombia after his encounter with Selena in Colombia.The Mirror Magnifies Colombia's influence on Serena's charm in the health room, thus making Columbia a superficial Serena fanatic.The logic of this sequence is now clear, but what makes Jobbuterrand a headache is that there is no mention of how to get rid of the mirror ghost in the record of the mirror ghost.There is a precedent that once thought of breaking the mirror, but the victim's soul was pulled into the world of the mirror, and reality became a useless shell.There are also precedents of using traditional exorcism rituals to no avail.Whether or not these precedents are true, there isn't much that Joe Brown can theoretically do at the moment.Jot Brown wasn't the kind of person who didn't move and stayed where he was to complain, and when he thought that the mirror ghost was the key, he galloped towards where Merlin was.The people on the side of the road only noticed a faint figure like a gust of wind.Jobuterron came to the building where Merlin was, and without knocking on the door, he stretched out his foot and kicked it hard."
Click!"
Merlin's door flew out upside down, and Merlin behind the door happened to sit on a chair, reaching out with one hand to catch the flying door, and with the other hand, he stretched out his little tail finger to pick his nose."
What's so urgent?"
Merlin's little tail finger was pulled out of his nostrils, and a small patch of turquoise boogers on his nails seemed to mock Jot Brown's monkey urgency."
Mirror ghost!
How to solve it?!
”Regardless of Merlin's gaffe, Jobuterron went straight up and grabbed Merlin's hand holding the door panel and dragged him out of the door.Jot Brown's hands were all white because of the force he exerted, and the joints of his fingers were all white because he was exerting too much force.Merlin's hands and body didn't move."
Let it go."
Merlin let out a soft snort, and Jobbutran unconsciously let go of his hand, and Merlin casually threw the door panel he was holding in his hand, and it happened to be thrown right on the door frame.Merlin calmly took out a tissue, wiped his hands, and then threw the tissue in the trash before asking, "The mirror ghost has long been extinct, where did the mirror ghost come from?"
”"In my room."
Jobuterrand looked at Merlin with a solemn face, and Merlin changed his original hippie smile and his expression became serious."
Are you sure?""
I'm pretty sure."
Merlin took a deep breath, "The turmoil has begun. ”The next second, he grabbed Jobteran's wrist, and with his other hand pulled out the staff from his chest pocket.The staff went from the size of a toothpick to a human-sized stick, and then the ground flashed with light.The light faded, and Jot Brown found himself teleported back to his bedroom by Merlin through his extremely advanced spatial spell skills.Merlin looked strangely at the Serena posters plastered around the dormitory, and muttered, "This support meeting is interesting." ”That being said, Merlin's hand had loosened its grip on Jot Brown.He didn't need Jobtron's instructions, and went straight to the only mirror in the bathroom.He narrowed his eyes and saw Columbia wailing in the poster.Jobbutrean's heart tightened, and Colombia's face in the poster was paler than when he had discovered it before, and even a little dead gray had appeared.If he had found out a little later, Colombia's soul would have been wiped out by the ghost.Merlin, on the other hand, had a straight face and scolded softly, "Brute!
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