Chapter Ninety-Eight: ME Structural Adjustment and the End of the Ancient City

Miyahara Shizune didn't want the Yamaura Book Club to completely hit the street, she just wanted to kick the other party out of Tokyo, out of sight and out of mind. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, in fact, he doesn't have such a big ability, and he goes his own way to the sky, so people are willing to stay in Tokyo and survive?

So he had to let Yakushiji Izumiko understand his thoughts first, if he wanted to kick Miura Shosho out of Tokyo, and Tosan also wanted to kick Miura Shosho out of Tokyo, then the other party had to leave Tokyo.

Leaving Tokyo, Hibiscus will no longer chase them down, and their declining sales may slowly recover.

I don't know if they will be worse off if they stay in Tokyo, but it's hard to get back to their original sales because ME will always compete with them.

Yakushiji Izumiko left with Miyahara Jing's request, believing that she would pass on this request to the other party, as for whether the latter could accept this condition? Miyahara feels that between the two, Tokyo is different from other cities, and this is the capital of a country.

Later, the news came that the other party agreed to this, and the heavy pressure of the Hibiscus Society made them abandon the old nest in Tokyo.

This made Miyahara Shizuna breathe a sigh of relief, after all, the early conclusion of this matter was due to the needs of the weekly boy ME and the hibiscus society itself.

Because in order to create a sniping effect on Miura Shosha's monthly suspense reasoning manga magazine, it is necessary to compete with each other in homogeneity, so the proportion of such works on the weekly shonen ME is too high, and it is best not to have more than two reasoning works in a shonen manga magazine, in fact, one can take care of readers who like this kind of work.

If there are too many, it will have a bad impact on other readers, and the current composition of this comic classification of Weekly Shonen ME is not only unreasonable, but also will affect the final sales of the magazine.

After all, reasoning is more niche, and it's strange to put so many niche works on a juvenile comic without affecting sales.

Because it's still not "juvenile" enough.

For the purpose of anger and revenge, Miyahara felt that this time should also end here, and the proportions of various works on ME should be adjusted accordingly.

Now this opportunity is just right.

Because the original ancient city of Thorn King, which began to be serialized, is about to end, this is also an opportunity for ME to start reducing such manga works and restore the proportion of a normal weekly shonen manga.

That is, the new version vacated after the end of the ancient city of Thorn King is impossible to use similar works of reasoning and suspense.

In the rhythm of a monthly or semi-monthly magazine, the ancient city of Thorns is not over yet, but after the beginning of the year to a weekly serialization, the plot progress of the ancient city has been greatly accelerated, if you look at the number of single books, the current serial progress has reached the sixth volume, and the finale will be ushered in soon.

With the death of one plot character after another, the true face of the incurable disease "Medusa" in the work is gradually revealed: it turns out that it is not a disease, but a spiritual substance from outer space, and it feeds on the illusions of intelligent creatures, and can have the ability to materialize the fantasy.

In order to achieve this materialization, three conditions are required: first, a strong and real illusion, second, a part of the cells of the host's body, and third, an adequate external source of energy......

In particular, the first point requires a high degree of mental concentration in order to achieve it, which is difficult for ordinary people to do, and the negative result of failure is indeed unbearable for the host - the petrification of the cells of the body to varying degrees.

This is the origin of the "petrification disease" in the perception of the outside world.

The host unconsciously activates the ability to materialize, and when it fails, it will be petrified, and Medusa's true face is nothing more than that.

Throughout the story, the plot revolves around the protagonist Xiaoxia, but in fact, the real protagonist in this story is the twin sister Shizuku, who doesn't show up much.

The King of Thorns, hidden in the ancient city, is his true identity as Shizuku.

Because everything in the place where this story takes place is the materialization of Shizuku's fantasy...... Including the entire thorny ancient city itself.

In fact, the moment of the main event is not long after Xiaoxia enters the frozen capsule, and the time for so many thorns to grow is not hundreds of years, not decades, not years, just a short 24 hours.

At the end of the story, Xiaoxia finally reaches the heart of the ancient city, where she sees the corpse on a thorn-shrouded platform.

After seeing the corpse's face clearly, she thought it was her older sister, Shizuku.

However, just as she wanted to get closer to her sister, another person appeared among the thorns, and it was another "sister...... According to previous information, Xiaoxia believes that it is a copy of her sister Shizuku.

After all, the body of the real sister was lying there.

During Xiaoxia's struggle with the "clones", the key equipment in the room is destroyed, causing the clones' king of thorns to lose their powers.

So Xiaoxia took the opportunity to get close to her sister's body, but when she saw the real sister's right leg on the platform, she realized that something was wrong!

Shizuku's right leg had been badly injured, and that kind of scar would last a lifetime, but she didn't see it on this corpse.

This isn't Shizuku.

She then grabbed the corpse's left wrist and found the scar on it...... It was the mark she had left when she had committed suicide by slitting her wrists.

As if aware of something, she flipped her wrist again, and the scar that should have been there was no longer there......

The corpse ...... It's actually Xiaoxia herself?

The truth of the story is revealed at this point: before the freeze, the original Xiaoxia had already fallen off a cliff and died, and the sister Shizuku, who witnessed all this, of course, did not want to accept this fact, and immediately went into a mental outburst, and then Medusa, who lived on her, created everything according to her fantasy.

So the protagonist in the story, the living Xiaoxia in front of her, is actually a replica created by her sister's fantasy, and instills in her Kasumi's memory and self-awareness, as well as false memories such as physical examinations, potion injections, and entering the dormant warehouse.

This also explains why Xiaoxia was a pessimistic and gloomy person before entering the freeze, but she woke up from the freeze and was active and action-oriented.

The reason why the personality change is so big is because they are not alone at all.

This also explains why Kasumi doesn't petrify, as she is a replicant born out of fantasy.

There is a "Sleeping Beauty" in the ancient city, which does not mean that she has been asleep all the time, but that she cannot find herself and cannot recognize her true identity, so it is as false as a dream, and now the sleeping person wakes up.

"Xiaoxia" is not Xiaoxia, just a copy of Xiaoxia, the physical body is real, and the memories in her mind are all false.

At the end of the story, Shizuku, who has lost the protection of the system, is only going to perish because of Medusa.

The power began to run wild, the thorns began to petrify, and the castle began to crumble.

But Shizuku still used his last strength to send the Xiaoxia in front of him out of the ancient city.

Although the clone Xiaoxia was only born from her sister's fantasy, she is a real and living person, and in the end she will live in place of the original two sisters.

This kind of story composition and bridge intertwined with reality and dreams, and the way to reveal the true identity of the protagonist in the end, if you put it more than ten years later, it is probably a work that follows the trend or exaggerates a little bit is a bad street, but what about now? This story that combines suspense and science fiction is called imagination.

It's hard to sell a comic of this type, but word of mouth can still be swiped.