Under the warm light, the crackling sound of smokeless charcoal can be clearly heard in the living room where the fire is quietly lit, allowing No. 15 Minsk Street, which has experienced an unexpected turmoil, to return to the peaceful atmosphere that should be expected on an ordinary rainy night.

Alone in the mirrored starry sky, the girl with her eyes closed silently finally raised her upper eyelids that covered her vision and withdrew her attention from reality.

"Emotional replenishment is also going very well. There is no need to worry about this problem for the time being..." She chuckled and shook her head, no longer thinking about anything else, but turned to the boundless universe she faced and listened to what she was looking for.

Mysterious whispers.

The exploration is still going on, but tonight when the clues and conditions are complete, for her, it is like walking through the labyrinth of the Minotaur with Ariadne's thread in hand. As long as she persists in walking through all the legendary places

, you can get the final answer by getting the mysterious fragment that only appears on the night before the full moon.

As for the answer waiting for her -

Just before dawn, Alice arrived at her final destination and landed on the surface of a small celestial body with dark red rocks and barren desert. She saw the deep night sky without the protection of the atmosphere, and countless twinkling stars in the curtain-like curtain.

It looks particularly bright against a dark background.

"I hope I didn't guess wrong..."

She whispered to herself, suppressing her unspoken assumptions, and took out the nine fragments she had collected. She no longer suppressed their strange attraction to each other, and silently watched them in a quasi-vacuum environment with weak gravity.

They gathered together in one place and pieced together the appearance of a complete object as if it had life.

A key shaped like a star that lights up and fades within it.

Alice controlled the mage's hand to grab the key composed of fragments, and let the ghost body fly off the ground, starting to search and patrol around the surface of this small celestial body.

This small celestial body is the central point where nine legendary places meet. From a mystical perspective, it is the key point of legends with special meaning; and the legends circulating in this mirrored starry sky and the obscure mysteries mentioned in the legends

, more or less convey the same image.

"Those who collect stars will eventually hold the key to the truth..."

Alice silently repeated this description that concerned her in her mind, and stopped her forward-flying search. She slowly descended from the sky, and her sight dropped from the top of the tall and sharp building to the broad, thick and majestic sky.

The stone base gives a full view of this ancient pyramid standing on the crimson rock ground.

She thought that she might have found the so-called door of truth.

Walking through the first layer, which is the world in the mirror that is most connected to reality, but with completely different inversions, passing through the second layer that reflects the appearance of thousands of things, and walking out of the third layer that is quiet and peaceful, leading to meditation, and walking through the spider web.

The intricate, dangerous and deadly fourth level, the fifth level that defeats the mirror self and transcends the limit, and finally finds the entrance to the deepest level in the sixth level mirror world in the boundless starry sky.

How many people can actually make it this far?

Even if you can perceive the structure of the world in the mirror, discover that this mysterious and strange world is more than what you know, realize the true purpose of the "mirror", and defeat yourself...how many people can fight against themselves?

Win the game and come to the starry sky in the mirror world to roam and explore?

...Well, although she used some tricks and cheated a little bit during the mirror battle on the fifth floor, at least the other parts were taken by her step by step and for real.

Is the meaning of this sentence just to illustrate the meaning that "truth can only be grasped by a few people"?

No, that's obviously not the case.

Alice descended to the surface and came to the majestic and majestic pyramid building that could only allow people to look up. Together with the key she held in the hand of the mage, she flew into the only entrance to the beveled outer wall of the pyramid, and in the darkness

Walking slowly through the lightless narrow passage.

After a few minutes of winding flight, she was blocked by a heavy door.

On the dark door engraved with countless mysterious patterns, there is an extremely conspicuous groove hole.

There was no excitement or joy, Alice just calmly controlled the mage's hand, opened the first door in the pyramid building with the key that could block the mysterious call, and stepped into the deeper and deeper darkness deposited behind the door.

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The moment you stepped through the door, everything was reversed.

The pitch black turned to pure white and turned into a ghost. The invisible and translucent body suddenly returned to the state of a flesh-and-blood girl. Together with the tattered and broken black robe, which was as ethereal as the ghost, it also condensed into a solid body, sticking to it faithfully.

Fitting the body curve of the wearer, the fluttering hem of the clothes no longer flies around, but falls quietly to her feet, covering her bare white feet as she steps forward.

Alice closed her eyes for a moment, allowing herself to adapt to the sudden change in bright light in the surrounding space. Then she opened her eyes, looked at the Mystical Eye beside her that could no longer maintain its hidden state, and then looked behind her.

As expected, the dark door she entered through had disappeared, and behind her there was only a spiral staircase that seemed to extend upwards infinitely.

"There is air, and the temperature and pressure are within the normal range..."

After quietly feeling the detection information transmitted from the Mystical Eye, Alice roughly guessed the answer.

The moment she entered the door, she had reached the deepest level of the mirror world, in a completely different dimension than before. And due to the connection of consciousness on one side of the clone, she could even feel the distinct difference in the flow of time on both sides.

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Turning her body around again, she focused her eyes on the pure white stairs leading down in front of her. Alice breathed out gently, holding the summoned staff with her right hand, and began to bless herself while walking down the stairs.

Protective spells.

Like a pilgrim, she quietly walked through the stairs and walls that emitted soft white light, went deep into the bottom of the spiral staircase that resembled the interior of a tower, and silently walked through the slowly flowing time.

The time flow rate ratio between the mirror world on the seventh floor and the outside world is ten to one, which means that there are only 5 minutes of night time left in reality at this time, and it is as long as 50 minutes at the deepest level, allowing her to move slowly and slowly.

Explore the secrets of this white field at your own pace.

The sound of her bare feet walking on the stairs was almost inaudible, and only the soft sound of the friction of the black robe material in the air accompanied her as she moved forward.

After about ten minutes of walking, Alice arrived at the end of the spiral staircase.

At the end of the stairs, there is another tightly closed door.

A pure white door with a conspicuous keyhole.

There is no reason to hesitate.

She inserted the key that matched the shape of the keyhole into the keyhole, and naturally opened the closed double door in front of her without encountering any obstacles.

Without any mysterious patterns, the door, as clean as white paper, opened back, revealing the scene on the other side.

Alice put away the slightly strange expression on her face, held the key that shone like a star in her hand, walked along the narrow straight passage in front of her, and stopped outside a transparent cabin that seemed to be made of glass.

There was nothing in the house, except for the strange creatures that looked like insects all over the ground, but emitted little bits of starlight.

Staring at the scene in front of her that would kill someone with trypophobia, Alice carefully observed the countless trembling and squirming starlight insects for a while, and then tentatively said:
Chapter completed!