Chapter 142 The Mirror Devil's Trap

"Feng Bujue!"

At that moment, the five members of Order Squad One shouted almost in unison.

Although they didn't know how Jue-ge had "come back to life," they had a faint feeling in their hearts... that they had probably fallen into a trap.

While they were distracted by the strange changes happening to the Mirror Devil, Feng Bujue had quietly revived elsewhere and was playing his harmonica as quickly as possible.

Now, it was too late to stop him.

The Order members' brief moment of distraction proved to be a crucial turning point.

About five seconds later, the harmonica music stopped, and Feng Bujue's figure turned into light and disappeared… Thus, his plan in this "Mirror Realm" could be considered a complete success.

Gui Xiao and the others didn't know where Jue-ge had teleported to, and they didn't need to think about it anymore.

What's done is done. All the five of them could do... was accept reality and adapt to the situation.

"Forget it, don't worry about Feng Bujue..." Wu Si Can Xuan certainly lived up to his role as captain. He calmed down immediately and gave instructions, "Fish Slice, Gui Xiao, quickly listen and look... let's figure out what this monster is all about."

"I've already been listening," Sheng Yu Pian replied with a dark face.

"I've already been looking," Gui Xiao replied, his expression just as unpleasant.

They had these expressions on their faces, partly because Feng Bujue's escape made them feel frustrated, and partly because...

"But..." Sheng Yu Pian quickly continued, "after Feng Bujue's blood touched that monster, I can't 'hear' its voice anymore." He paused, then added, "Now, all I can hear from that monster... is the sound of my own body."

"Me too," Gui Xiao added a second later, "when I 'look' at the Mirror Devil, it's like looking in a mirror. All I see is my own data." His tone revealed a rare sense of nervousness, "This has never happened before..."

"Heh..." The only one who could still laugh at this point was Meng Jing Chan, "In other words, this 'Liuhe Mirror Devil' has blocked both of your detection abilities."

"Hey hey~ What's so funny about that?" Sheng Yu Pian replied, squinting, "This is seriously bad news..."

"Tch..." Gui Xiao spat, "In any case, we've undoubtedly been tricked by that Feng guy; from the start, he planned to use his blood and life to complete the 'Liuhe Mirror Devil's' evolution, which is why he acted so suicidally."

"Hmm..." Zui Wo Chang Ran thought to himself after hearing this, "So, when he rushed towards me just now... it wasn't because he thought my side was weaker and he could break through, but because he had decided from the start to move towards the Mirror Devil's location."

"Eh? That's strange." On the other hand, when Gui Xiao finished speaking, Wu Si Can Xuan suddenly thought of something. He immediately said to his teammates, "If Feng Bujue's plan was to use the Mirror Devil to eliminate us, then why didn't he try to inflict some losses on us during his 'suicide'?" He paused for half a second, "In a completely selfless situation, just doing something, anything, would have at least caused some damage to the person directly in front of him, right?"

"Ha!" Meng Jing Chan laughed loudly when he heard this, "Can Xuan, you've obviously misunderstood Feng-xiong's intentions..."

"Oh?" Wu Si Can Xuan looked suspicious and replied, "What intentions?"

"Heh... Do you still remember his first sentence?" Meng Jing Chan reminded them.

As soon as he said this, the expressions of his four teammates changed.

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"I think... with your power, you should be able to nip this 'new god' in the bud."

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Almost simultaneously, this sentence flashed through their minds.

"He..." Wu Si Can Xuan muttered thoughtfully, "He doesn't want the Mirror Devil to kill us, but wants us to kill the Mirror Devil?"

"That's right," Meng Jing Chan nodded in response.

"That's not right..." Sheng Yu Pian said, "If his purpose is to eliminate the Mirror Devil, then why go to so much trouble to make it evolve?"

"You'll have to ask him himself, I'm not a worm in his stomach." Meng Jing Chan spread his hands and made several guesses in a very casual tone, "Maybe he's planning to have us and the monster fight to the death, but he thinks the monster itself isn't strong enough, so he did this; maybe... he intentionally wanted that monster to be killed in a 'fully evolved' state, in order to achieve some purpose." He shrugged and shook his head, "But in any case, I personally feel... Feng Bujue isn't very concerned about the outcome of this battle; he can accept whichever side wins. Because... when he successfully orchestrated the current situation and escaped this space, we were no longer able to have any impact on the real 'big picture' in his mind."

"Ah~ The more I listen, the more annoyed I get!" Gui Xiao raised his hands and scratched his head back and forth, "No! I have to hit something to vent!" As he spoke, his gaze had already shifted to the Mirror Devil dozens of meters away.

But... half a second later, Gui Xiao's expression suddenly changed, and he took a step back in mid-air, moving away from the Mirror Devil slightly.

"What's wrong?" His teammates didn't notice anything, but seeing Gui Xiao's reaction, they couldn't help but become vigilant.

"What was that just now..." Gui Xiao stared wide-eyed at the Mirror Devil, muttering to himself.

"That's your own killing intent," the Liuhe Mirror Devil finally spoke.

Its voice was both male and female, its tone was eerie and desolate, and the words were coming from the mirror, sounding sometimes near and sometimes far... Just hearing it speak made people shiver.

"Heh..." It even laughed, "Being scared off by your own killing intent, is that interesting?"

"Bastard..." Gui Xiao was already angry, and being taunted by the Mirror Devil only added fuel to the fire, "Watch me smash you into glass shards..."

"Wait!" Just as Yi Mi Liu was about to step forward again, Chan-ge blocked his path, stopping his rash advance.

"Hehe..." After stopping Gui Xiao, Meng Jing Chan looked at the Mirror Devil with a smiling face, "This... Mirror-xiong. We have no past grievances or present grudges with you, there's no reason for us to fight to the death."

His teammates understood his intentions halfway through his sentence. Obviously... Chan-ge was going to try to resolve the problem through diplomatic means before taking action.

"How about we make a deal..." Meng Jing Chan continued, "You send us out of this space, or give us a way out, and then we'll go our separate ways and leave each other alone."

"Hmm..." Surprisingly, this Mirror Devil didn't seem to be the unreasonable type of demon. After hearing this, it actually started to consider Chan-ge's proposal.

However, just as the people of Order Squad thought that this battle might be avoidable, the intrusion of an uninvited guest... destroyed their last shred of hope.

"Ha—"

At that moment, a furious shout tore through space and time.

A strong figure burst out of the void.

"Hahahaha..." Asura, who had flown out of the data fracture, laughed wildly, "I thought I'd never get out! I finally broke through!"

Coincidentally... the location where he appeared was right in front of the Mirror Devil. As he spoke, he swooped down towards the Mirror Devil at an angle.

"Holy crap! What is that thing?"

You can imagine that Asura had actively entered the data layer in a war against derivatives and rampaged through it for a long time... and when he finally regained his physical form, a thing that looked zero parts human and ten parts ghost, with a terrifying appearance and an overwhelming demonic aura, suddenly appeared before his eyes.

So, what would his first reaction be?

"Ah—"

Half a second later, Asura let out a panicked cry.

In that split second, he felt a rapidly rising hostility from the monster in front of him, and that hostility instantly turned into killing intent.

It wasn't until later that Asura understood... the hostility he felt at the time actually came from himself; this "intention" reflected by the "mirror" in turn stimulated him... Under this interaction effect, the killing intent was rapidly born.

Of course, Asura didn't know any of this at the moment, so his reaction was very simple...

"You ugly freak! Ambushing me, are you? Who's afraid of who!" He threw a punch, and in his panic, he directly used an S-level skill, "Eat my Asura Overlord Phoenix Fist!"