When I opened my eyes again, the first thing that caught my eye was a blue-white light.

That glow feels very similar to the "True Magic" platform.

Could it be that we have successfully cleared the level?

That's not right!

In my memory, I don't seem to hear the "real demon" tone.

So, where the hell is this?

"Hiss......" I propped myself up and shook my head, which was still buzzing.

It took two seconds for me to fully regain consciousness.

Looking around in confusion: "Here, what is ......?"

"Don't guess, judging by the current situation, this should be the research institute of a certain organization."

Zhao Qiqi's voice suddenly came from behind me.

"Institute?" I feel like my head is a little underwhelming.

stood up and turned his head to look, but just saw Zhao Qiqi raising his right hand.

Then, in my somewhat surprised gaze, she slapped Zhang Qiang in the face.

After a crackling sound, it was followed by a wail.

Then, Zhang Qiang sat up from the ground like a corpse.

"Qiqi, what are you doing? Why did you hit me? Zhang Qiang pursed his lips, looking pitiful as if he was about to cry, and looked at Zhao Qiqi who was smiling brightly on the side with tears in his eyes.

"I don't beat you, you're still sleeping soundly on the ground! The snoring sounded like thunder. Zhao Qiqi crossed his waist, and he didn't seem to have any guilt.

"Hey, you're bullying me." Zhang Qiang muttered quietly, then stood up and looked around: "Huh? W, where is this? ”

"According to Qiqi, it seems to be a research institute of some organization." I glanced at Zhang Qiang, and it was a little funny.

In between the two of them, I had a rough look at my surroundings.

Here, there is a large and exaggerated circular research room, which is full of all kinds of high-tech instruments that cannot be understood, except for a space of about five or six square meters in the middle.

I don't know what the designer's intentions were.

While seeing the environment clearly, the doubts in my mind are getting bigger and bigger.

"We ...... Why is it here? I remember, just now I handed Mina what you drew and then she suddenly broke down without warning, and then ......"

"Then, we appeared here for some reason, so is there any connection between all this?" Zhang Qiang added for me.

Zhao Qiqi opened his mouth, just about to say something.

However, a laugh that was too familiar to the three of us to be familiar anymore rang out.

"Don't guess, I brought you here."

The voice is Mina's.

When the three of us heard this, we were all stunned at the same time.

"Mina!!" Zhang Qiang was startled and hurriedly walked towards my location.

"Mina?! Where are you? Cold sweat broke out again, and I didn't have time to pay attention to Zhang Qiang, I kept looking around.

"Isn't I, right in front of you?"

As Mina's unique child's voice sounded, a red figure slowly appeared in the vacant space in the middle of the research room.

After a few seconds, the figure became clear.

She's the girl in red, Mina!

However, we soon discovered that something was wrong.

Mina, in front of us, is not a real person, but a hologram.

"Y-Didn't you say you wouldn't take the initiative to attack? What do you want? I took a step back and looked at her defensively.

"Don't be nervous." Mina took a deep breath, shrugged her shoulders and said in a compromised tone, "Even if you are powerful, you have succeeded in breaking the multiple illusion world I have created, and I have lost." ”

As she spoke, her gaze wandered over the various sophisticated research instruments behind the three of us.

"The environment here is relatively independent and not affected by external factors. I brought you here just to have a chat with you, because it's been a long time since I've really spoken to humans. Mina's eyes seemed to have lost their former anger, and she smiled softly, with a hint of emotion in her eyes that I couldn't read.

Seeing that she had no intention of attacking us, I was secretly relieved in my heart.

Smiling with relief, I looked at Mina, "What do you want to talk about?" ”

didn't wait for Mina to speak, but Zhao Qiqi's voice suddenly came.

"I guess she's trying to get us for help!"

"Help? She's so powerful, we're not her opponents combined, how could she ask us for help, you can't think too much, right? Zhang Qiang looked at Zhao Qiqi with a strange expression, with an expression of disbelief.

Mina glanced at Zhao Qiqi lightly, but said, "She's right, I really want to ask you for help." ”

"Huh?" Now, even I was a little surprised.

Mina smiled, but there was a bit of helplessness in her smile, and she looked at me: "Aren't you curious about what I have to do with the 'true demon' you say?" Aren't you also curious why I'm a human being, but I don't participate in the game like you, and I don't exist to complete the game like those fake characters? As long as you listen to everything I have to say, you will understand why. ”

As soon as the three of us heard this, we immediately became interested.

"Well, you say, we're all listening!" I quickly nodded in response.

Listening to my words, Mina visibly relaxed.

She looked up at the ceiling, where there was nothing, and said in a somewhat muffled voice, "Next, I will tell you a story, and after listening to this story, you will understand everything." ”

We looked at each other and didn't interrupt her.

There was silence for about ten seconds before Mina spoke again: "Once upon a time, there was a girl with a moon-shaped birthmark on her arm, and she was fostered in an orphanage since she was a child. Oh, to put it mildly, it's a welfare home. The orphanage does not have the warmth and harmony that it imagined, and the children in it are always fighting or intriguing in order to grab an extra cookie or candy. They often eat rancid food, are often bullied by employees behind their backs, and their arms are covered with scars from cigarette butts and belts. But the girl did not complain, for she had been in such an environment for as long as she could remember, so she took it all for granted. Until one day, a ray of sunlight shone into her dark and lifeless life. It was a sunny day, a gentle middle-aged woman and an elegant middle-aged man appeared in the welfare home, from their conversation with the staff, the girl learned that because the woman had been injured and could not have children, they wanted to adopt a child from the welfare home, and it happened that the girl was lucky to be picked by them. Originally, the girl thought that this was the starting point for her to enter happiness. However, she never imagined that that day would become the beginning of her tragic life. ”