Bob slammed into the wall, his head plummeting to the ground, his neck twisted into an unnatural angle as he fell.

Fortunately, players were tough. After a few breaths, Bob's fingers twitched, and he raised his dust-covered face.

'Good, he's not dead.'

John Joyce and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't rush forward to help. They hadn't figured out Bob's current condition.

"Buddy, how are you feeling?"

John Joyce asked from a distance.

"What...what happened to me?"

Bob, who had stood up, reached out and rubbed his dust-covered head, a confused expression on his face. "My head... it hurts a little."

Wouldn't it hurt? Brother, you fell headfirst, your neck almost snapped, okay?

"I used to have a friend who was just like you, always had headaches. Later, the doctor said he had a long adolescence, whale worms had invaded his brain, and he had parasitic disease and head cancer."

Li Ang sighed and said to Bob with a serious face, "Do you remember what happened just now?"

Bob, dazed and confused, didn't bother to retort to Li Ang. He stood there blankly, "I just remember kneeling in front of the statue, and then I felt a kind of inner peace.

My past mistakes kept flashing before my eyes, and I felt sincere regret and guilt.

At that time, I thought that if I could live my life again, I would become a better, more positive, kinder, more honest, and more friendly person.

I don't remember anything after that."

After speaking, Bob lowered his head, frowned, and pondered, "But now, this sense of guilt seems to be gradually fading away."

Seeing the old black man like this, the players looked at each other.

"The problem should be with that mirror shard. It feels a bit like a cognitive bias curse?" Julia said softly.

"Could it be some kind of personality correction ritual?" Smoky muttered.

"Let's test it first."

Li Ang nodded and shouted to Bob in the distance, "Say a few more discriminatory words and let us hear them."

"Okay."

Bob took a deep breath and began to rattle off English words as if reciting a menu, without any difficulty, guilt, or repentance.

"It seems that after leaving the kneeling state, the mirror shard's influence on people will gradually weaken."

Li Ang narrowed his eyes. "When the town's mayor agreed to let us into the church, he didn't mention this problem.

If he's not deliberately trying to trick us,

it's likely that after being spiritually influenced by the statue, humans will automatically modify this extremely unnatural memory to make it seem normal,

and therefore not notice the abnormality."

This speculation leads to two possibilities: one is that the spiritual influence of the mirror shard is temporary, and if you don't come to the church to pray for a long time, you will lose control.

The second is that the spiritual influence of the mirror shard, once completed, will change you for life.

Both possibilities are terrible, especially the latter.

"If the mirror shard is the magic mirror from the original story of the script, it's likely to have some kind of anomaly. Maybe we should take it and take a closer look at its item description or something."

Li Ang said, smiling at his teammates, "How about we take a vote to see who can go over and see if the mirror shard has an item description?"

Facing Li Ang's gaze, the teammates cursed inwardly.

No one in their right mind would vote for themselves in this so-called vote. Even if they united and voted for this Knife Guy,

who could guarantee that he wouldn't become angry and violently beat them up along with that humanoid armor floating in the air, which seemed to be a doppelganger?

Even if they swarmed him, they weren't confident they could win, and no one wanted to eat a suspiciously shaped giant worm like Bob.

"I'll go."

In the oppressive atmosphere, John Joyce let out a long sigh and stood up. Julia and Smoky immediately gave him grateful looks.

"Very good, if you don't go to hell, who will? I admire your 'no pain, no gain' spirit, young man."

Li Ang shamelessly praised, "Go, Pikachu."

John Joyce's eyes twitched. He resisted the urge to complain and silently took a few steps forward, leaving his teammates behind, standing in a relatively safe position.

Then, he suddenly raised his arm toward the statue, veins popping out on his face, and let out a constipated, shrill cry,

"Iyaaaaaaah!"

This beast-like howl really shocked the other players.

Even Li Ang was shocked and couldn't help but applaud and exclaim, "What a talent! It's a pity this voice isn't used to film horror movies."

And that unlucky lumberjack Frederick, who had been knocked unconscious earlier and was lying at everyone's feet, was also awakened by the noise.

Then, Julia cleanly and neatly chopped him on the back of the neck, and he passed out again.

John Joyce howled in place for a few seconds. Then, his right arm suddenly extended about eight meters, directly reaching the glass shard in the Snow Queen statue's hand and yanking it off.

"Snap!"

The arm, which had stretched out a long distance, suddenly retracted. John Joyce stood there, holding the mirror shard, his forehead already covered in sweat.

This arm-extension trick was a common quality skill he obtained in the early stages of becoming a player.

It was called, probably as a parody of the famous manga *One Piece*, the 【Gomu Gomu no Gatling Gun】 skill possessed by the protagonist Luffy.

Its specific effect was that after a period of buffering, he could rubberize his body, and extend or expand any part of his body at will.

However, during the skill's release, the bones and muscles of that part would be damaged, causing unbearable, intense pain.

This skill had helped John Joyce a lot in the early stages.

But as his item, equipment, and skill slots gradually became richer,

the 【Rubber Pistol】 skill, with its huge side effects (requiring a long pre-spell, short duration of full-body rubberization, and causing full-body pain after using the skill), was rarely used.

In the current situation, where close contact was needed to sense whether an item could be identified by the system as an anomalous item, the 【Rubber Pistol】 had a use, and could return to the stage.

John Joyce retracted his rubber arm, carefully adjusted the position of the bones inside his soft right arm, and slowly canceled the skill before looking down at the mirror shard in his hand.

【Name: Magic Mirror Shard 6】

【Type: Magic Item】

【Quality: Perfect】

【Effect: Distant Perception. Magic mirror shards can sense and attract each other.】

【Consumption: None】

【Note: Magic mirror shards cannot be stored in the inventory】

【Note: Collecting a total of six magic mirror shards scattered throughout the Kingdom of Lorn can unlock more effects】

【Note: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" "You're the fairest in my heart."】