Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 10 Ways to Increase Lifespan

"The Blue Planet has existed for over 86 billion years, and the earliest known fossils of life, single-celled cyanobacteria, appeared in the ocean 6 million years ago. However, geologists have deduced that the basic environment of the Blue Planet was already established 50 billion years ago. In other words, the environment on the Blue Planet 50 billion years ago was not much different from today, and it had all the conditions for the birth of life."

"Therefore, some biologists have speculated that during the long period of blank time on the Blue Planet between 50 billion and 6 million years ago, one or more prehistoric intelligent civilizations may have emerged. However, these civilizations were completely wiped out by some natural disaster or catastrophic event 6 million years ago, completely wiped out from the entire Blue Planet. Therefore, we can no longer find any evidence of their existence. This is the famous 'prehistoric civilization' hypothesis..."

On the podium, the bald old professor was like a medieval court magician, chanting the contents of the PPT in a rhythmic tone, and the students below were all drowsy listening to him.

In the last row, Yang Xu listened incoherently, but his mind was full of what he saw and heard in the mirror world last night.

Absent-mindedly, Yang Xu simply called out the panel to study it.

On the familiar panel, the first thing that catches the eye is the eye-catching red countdown.

[Countdown: 30 days, 11 hours, 35 minutes, 27 seconds (Note: Perhaps only a visible countdown can make you understand the preciousness of time)]

This is the curse I got after fusing the Stopper Card yesterday.

The countdown at this time is about twelve hours less than when I first saw it last night. The time is completely consistent, and it can be basically confirmed that the flow rate is one to one with real time.

Yang Xu rubbed his eyebrows.

He admitted that the note made sense. If he was just told that he had only one month left to live, he would at most be a little nervous, but would not feel it too strongly. However, once his life span was turned into such a real and visible number, and he watched the number decrease by every second, the sense of urgency brought about by it was simply unparalleled!
In short, the most important thing right now is to find a way to increase life expectancy and bring the countdown to a safe range as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Yang Xu opened the character panel and looked at the "Star Rating" column.

[Star rating: The basic level division to measure the combat strength of an administrator or mirror ghost. The lowest is 1 star, and 10 star is added for every 1 levels passed. The highest is 10 stars (level 90).

Low-star creatures will be suppressed by high-star creatures. For every star lower, the damage caused is halved and the damage received is doubled (administrators who have not obtained skins and have not unlocked the star system are equivalent to 1 star when fighting).

When the administrator unlocks the star system and gets promoted for the first time at each star level, the administrator's health, physique, lifespan, territory expansion limit, and the limit of mirror ghosts that can be used will be increased.

To put it simply, this "star rating" is a realm. Raising the star will increase various data. In short, there are many benefits. What Yang Xu is most concerned about is that this description clearly mentions that raising the star can increase lifespan!
This is the only way Yang Xu can find to increase his lifespan.

The condition for unlocking the star system is to kill 10 mirror ghosts. Tu Bi killed yesterday counts as one, and there are still nine to go. We can only wait until the mirror world opens in the evening.

At this time, Yang Xu had nothing to do, so he simply practiced his time-stopping ability in class.

The time stop was explained as being triggered automatically when one was emotionally agitated. Yang Xu tried to imagine something happy or sad in his mind.

Unfortunately, after trying for a long time, there was no movement.

"It really doesn't work..."

Yang Xu actually realized last night that the so-called "emotional excitement" has very harsh triggering conditions. Last night, he almost triggered the time stop several times when he was on the verge of death.

But now that we don't have the thrill of life-and-death crisis like in last night's battle, it's hard to imagine how difficult it would be to simulate a similar state of mind by imagination alone.

No matter how difficult it is, it has to be done. Anyway, I have nothing to do in class now, so I might as well take this as a way to kill time.

Yang Xu began to try again and again, constantly adjusting his mindset and trying to recall every detail of last night's battle...

Time passed minute by minute, and more than an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Until the end of get out of class.

At a certain moment, Yang Xu suddenly felt quiet around him. He opened his eyes and looked around. Everything around him had quietly stopped. The sound of the teacher's lecture, the chirping of birds outside the window, and the sound of the wind had disappeared without a trace.

Inside the classroom, all the students were frozen in place like statues.

"Success?" Yang Xu looked around, confirming that time had really been paused. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and the fear in his eyes gradually dissipated.

After a whole class of thinking, he finally perfectly recreated last night's life-and-death crisis scene in his mind.

This was a good start, and after this success, Yang Xu also realized the key point: the key to stopping time is not to restore the scene by imagination, but to deceive his own subconscious mind.

For example, at that moment, Yang Xu subconsciously believed that there was a Tubi rushing towards him with its mouth wide open, which was why he successfully activated the time stop. If you can't deceive your subconscious, no matter how detailed the scene is in your mind, it will be useless.

Once you grasp the key points, the direction of practice will be clear.

Yang Xu also used the next few classes to practice slacking off.

Until the last class ended at five o'clock in the afternoon, there were nine hours in that day. Except for the half-hour lunch break at noon, Yang Xu practiced time stopping secretly the whole time. In the end, he succeeded five times in total. The shortest one took him only three minutes to successfully start time stopping, which was a significant improvement.

But this is far from enough. The situation in a real battle changes rapidly. What Yang Xu needs is to be able to stop time at any time and anywhere as he wishes.

This is bound to require a lot of practice in daily life and cannot be rushed.

However, during a certain time stop, Yang Xu accidentally discovered a feature: when he turned on the time stop, the curse countdown would not stop, but would continue counting!
In other words, during the period of time stop, his lifespan is still being consumed.

In this way, the originally estimated countdown time to zero will definitely be earlier than expected.

Of course, this has little impact. Stopping time consumes energy. He can only use it dozens of times a day, and at most it only takes two or three minutes, which is almost negligible.

That afternoon, after finishing a day's classes, Yang Xu rode his bike home, hurriedly had dinner at the restaurant downstairs, and returned home before six o'clock.

The first thing to do when you get home is to draw the curtains and close the doors and windows.

Then he couldn't wait to go to the full-length mirror.

At this moment, the number on the mirror has just turned green, showing 11:58:45
Yang Xu stretched out his hand towards the mirror, and sure enough, the mirror surface had returned to the water surface, and his hand passed directly through the mirror.

With yesterday's experience, Yang Xu was familiar with the route and walked directly through the mirror and stepped into the mirror world.

Darkness and coldness came at the same time. Yang Xu stood still in his home in the mirror world. He first opened the panel and looked at the territory map.

The spirit-detecting radar was still operating in circles, but no new mirror ghosts appeared within the scanning range.

"Is there no Mirror Ghost today?"

Yang Xu couldn't tell whether he should be disappointed or happy. Having no enemies was a good thing, but he needed to kill monsters and upgrade their stars as soon as possible to increase his lifespan and avoid the curse.

No matter what, the mirror ghost does not exist and it is impossible to create one out of thin air.

Yang Xu simply put his mind at ease and began to patrol the territory.

There was basically no change in the room. Yang Xu went downstairs to take a look. The wall that he had destroyed when fighting Tu Bi on the first floor yesterday had now been restored to its original state. It seemed that there was a refresh mechanism in the mirror world. The damage and changes caused by the administrator in the mirror world every day would be restored to their original state the next day to maintain synchronization with the real world.

However, not everything will be refreshed.

Yang Xu walked around the community and soon discovered that the holes he had dug with a shovel yesterday had not disappeared, and the radar was still running in the same place.

"Things that have been proactively placed or modified by the administrator will not be restored?" Yang Xu speculated on the possibility.

This is not difficult to verify. Yang Xu plans to do a few small experiments at the end of today, and then come back tomorrow to check the results to find out the pattern.

(End of this chapter)