Chapter Twenty-Six: Magical Illusion
Bonnie led Jerry closer to the old-looking building.
This eagle-looking building stands tall on the Hoglais campus, and it looks a bit out of place with the other buildings around it.
Bonnie tells Jerry that this is the treatment of first-year students, and that everyone is the same, and all students who are admitted to [Hoglas] have to accept the school's arrangement unconditionally.
Parental protection doesn't work here at all, even if the family has the money and the ability to live in a luxury villa, everything will start from scratch when they come here.
"The murals and the portraits in the corridors here are moving, and they often like to frolic or swap places." Bonnie said as she walked.
"No wonder I see those portraits sticking out their tongues or grimacing at me." Jerry recalled.
"That's what they do to tease you, but some of the portraits aren't friendly to freshmen, and they often like to play tricks on students who go to the toilet in the middle of the night." Bonnie reminded.
"By the way, after 11 p.m., students are not allowed to go outside the school, and if they are found or caught, they may face the risk of being expelled from school."
"But generally speaking, for the first mistake, Hoglas will choose to have a demerit, or a lighter punishment but also deduct points, but it will bring reputational damage to the magic department."
"Bonnie, you're so knowledgeable!" Jerry exclaimed.
"That's what my dad told me, Jerry, you have to remember that!" Bonnie turned her face and smiled at Jerry.
"Also, the imps who like to hide in the cafeteria and steal food are also a terrible headache, and when you are about to open a door, they may suddenly come out of behind you and scare you half to death. They can't float outside for long, though. ”
"When the time comes, they go back to where they rest, but some naughty people don't take this seriously, and often sneak out [during the blackout] and float to the hallways or near the toilets and playgrounds to scare the students. For this, the teachers of Hoglas also felt a lot of headaches. Bonnie gushed.
The more Jerry listened, the more terrible he felt, and he hesitated at the thought of going to the black woods east of the school at twelve o'clock tomorrow night.
"Still, these naughty ghosts are much cuter than the Hoglas teachers. Professor Donald of [Magical Emotions Study] is a well-known weird temper, and it's best not to mess with him during his lessons, otherwise—" Bonnie paused.
"What would have happened otherwise?" Jerry was surprised.
"Everyone says that Professor Donald fell out of love at the age of twenty and hasn't come out of the shadows yet, and if you accidentally provoke him, he will definitely punish you strictly, or let you stand in the sun and expose you, let you stand in the wind and rain and drench your whole body, in short, Jerry, we better not mess with him." Bonnie's face changed as she spoke.
"I try not to mess with him." Jerry said in a low voice.
"But—if you don't mess with him, you won't necessarily avoid his punishment, and if he happens to be in a bad mood, and you're unlucky, he'll probably call you for tea."
"Tea? Uh, what's that? ”
"That's not as simple as drinking tea, Jerry, he's going to let you drink tea and frantically assign magic homework for you to complete." Bonnie said no more, and she reminded Jerry that the freshman dormitory building had arrived.
At that moment, a cool breeze blew behind Jerry's ears, and he instinctively shrank back, and turned back without seeing any figure.
"What's wrong?" Bonnie looked at him in surprise.
Jerry looked around and wondered, "I always feel like someone is following me. ”
"Nobody, Jerry, are you too tired and hallucinating?"
"Could it be those naughty people you said—" Jerry stopped talking.
"Hoglais imps usually haunt at night, and it is impossible to haunt during the day. Unless—"
"Unless what?" Jerry asked, horrified.
"Unless someone lifts the 'Light Forbidden Spell' on them."
"Oh!" Jerry let out a cry of surprise, "You mean it's impossible for them to be out in the daytime?" ”
"yes, if they're out during the day, it means something big is going to happen to Hoglas soon."
Jerry's pimples rose all over his body. Compared to the embarrassment of coming here for the first time, listening to Bonnie talk about these strange things at this time made him feel even more terrifying now.
Bonnie led him in through the door on the first floor of the dormitory, the first time he entered through the odd door, he trembled and tried not to make a sound.
Still, he and Bonnie went the wrong way.
Now the two of them are trying to choose one of the six aisles that leads to the 5th floor.
If they can't make the right choice, they go to the third floor like the first time, and then go back to the first floor from the third floor and walk again.
As amazing as Bonnie said it was, Jerry didn't believe they would get lost all the time.
He insisted that the first few mistakes were just a coincidence, so he kept taking the wrong path to the 5th floor.
But—
He soon realizes that he was wrong.
"Bonnie, this is too hard," Jerry crouched down and gasped, "we're sure we won't be able to walk until it's dark." ”
"I've got a way!" Bonnie said, pulling open the suitcase and pulling something out of it, covered with a cloth that exposed only one hole.
"What's in the cage?" Jerry leaned over curiously, "It's a mouse!" ”
"It's a white mouse, my pet, this fatter one is called 'Mao Mao', and this thinner one is called 'Lost'."
After Bonnie finished speaking, she leaned close to the ears of the two white mice and muttered, "Go! ”
I saw that I wandered in front of the six aisles for a while, and finally I found the aisle at the end of the left side, got in, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Lost chose the aisle at the end of the right, quickly got in, and disappeared in front of them instantly.
"Jerry, they're going to different aisles, let's go our separate ways!" Bonnie said, "You go to the aisle on the left, I'll go to the aisle on the right." See you in the public corridor on the 5th floor! Bonnie said confidently.
Jerry didn't know where she got her confidence that they would make it to the 5th floor this time.
When he wanted to say something, he saw that she had already moved, and walked towards the aisle at the end of the right.
Jerry lifted his suitcase and walked along, turning left and right, right and left, and he followed it from staircase to staircase.
After walking for about a moment, Jerry was too tired to die, and as he came out of a staircase, he saw a hallway appear in front of him.
In the middle of the hallway stood a familiar figure.
- Bonnie is waving and smiling at him.
He thought he had succeeded, but when he approached, he found that Bonnie's figure had suddenly disappeared.
"What the hell!" He turned around and looked around, bewildered.
Suddenly, eight mirrors appeared, and eight Bonnies appeared in the mirrors.
"I'm going crazy!" Jerry looked around, trying to jump up and touch the mechanism hidden in the air.
After a while, Zhang Wuwei yawned, and the voice came into his ears: "Do you need my help?" ”
Jerry didn't answer it, and Zhang Wuwei seemed to have an emotion: "If you can't find a way to find the mechanism to the 5th floor, well, I'm really afraid that you won't be able to make it to the opening ceremony dinner." ”
"Opening Ceremony Dinner? How did I not know about this! Jerry fumbled his way through the eight mirrors.
"Didn't you say there was a trap in the air? I can't see anything! He knocked on this and touched that, hoping to hit the machine.
"The night of the [Candy Festival] must be very lively, I think everyone is changing their clothes now, and they are about to start entering, right?" Zhang Wuwei said lazily.
"If you still have a little conscience, help me figure it out now, I don't want Bonnie to wait too long!"
"Little brother Jerry, are you still dreaming? Do you know how long you've been wandering in front of these mirrors? ”
"It's been less than ten minutes since I've been in," Jerry said uncertainly, "No, it should be fifteen." ”
"You've been here for at least an hour, and if you don't hurry, I'm afraid you won't be able to make it to dinner."
Zhang Wuwei deliberately stimulated him, he wanted to exercise Jerry's courage and courage, it is impossible for a person who is cowering to become an excellent magician, only when Jerry's magic ability is improved, Zhang Wuwei can absorb more aura in Jerry's body. Zhang Wuwei is well aware of this.
At this moment, Bonnie's smiling face disappeared from the eight mirrors, and another face appeared in the mirrors.
- It was Amy Daer's noble and beautiful face.
"Amy......" Jerry froze.
Amy was smiling at him, a smile of favor.
"Jerry, come to me—" Amy beckoned to him, and she called him over.
Jerry was overjoyed, and his body walked forward uncontrollably, and he heard his own breath: "Amy! ”
"Stupid! Don't go over! That's an illusion! ”
When Jerry came to his senses, he noticed that Amy's face had disappeared immediately, and a palm stained with green liquid had protruded from the mirror in front of him.
The palm of his hand grabbed him directly by the neck, and a heavy gasp reached his ears, and the sound sounded like that of the devil in hell.
Jerry Little...... Come on, Emo needs you ......" A vague shadow flickered in the mirror.
Jerry's eyes dizzy, and in his panic he pulled away the hand that was on his collar.
As soon as the hand was removed from his body, the shadow in the mirror changed to Bonnie's face again, and she was calling him, "Jerry, I'm waiting for you!" Where are you? ”
"Bonnie!" Jerry rushes over and Bonnie disappears into the mirror. He spun around and saw eight hands reaching out to him in the eight mirrors around him.
"Don't! No! No! Jerry stepped back, with nowhere to run, and fell to the ground.
A sharp pain came from his spine, and then a familiar fear welled up in his heart.
"Jerry, grab your weapon and take him down, he's just a fantasy!" Zhang Wuwei shouted urgently.
"I can't control myself, as soon as I get close to these mirrors, my head starts to hurt, ah!" Jerry curled up on the ground.
Seeing the hands reaching out of the mirror accelerate towards him, he gritted his teeth and reached for his wand in his inner pocket.
He didn't have time to think about it, he raised his Overlord Wand 8000 and rushed to the mirrors, knocking one of them.
"Bang!" The mirror is shattered.
The shadow in the mirror is gone!
Those hands are gone, too!
The green liquid disappeared at the same time!
In the end, even the mirror disappeared!
Jerry's body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground.
After a while, there was a sound of the door moving?
A door appears in front of you!
A staircase appeared inside the door,
Next to it is written: Access to the 5th floor.
Jerry got up from the ground and put away his wand?
He breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Wuwei also breathed a sigh of relief.