Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 118: Decorate with lanterns and celebrate New Year's Eve

At 21:55 pm, Yang Xu appeared at the iron fence at the gate of Qingyang University, adjusting the buttons on the cuffs of his security uniform.

The uniform was borrowed from the security room. It was one size too big and was too loose when worn.

Qingyang University is his daily routine. In fact, he could just come here in person without arousing any suspicion, but he still felt it was safer to come with a skin. After all, the school tonight might be very lively.

According to Leng Sha's intelligence, the Nian Beast would appear at any time between 10 and 11 a.m. Seeing that it was past 10 a.m., Yang Xu straightened his collar, held a flashlight, and walked into the campus.

The last evening get out of class at school ends at nine o'clock sharp. At this time, most students have returned to the dormitory, and only a few students preparing for postgraduate entrance exams and civil service exams are left in the major teaching buildings.

Yang Xu pretended to be a patrolling security guard and wandered around the campus from 10pm to 10:30pm, but there was no movement on the panel.

"Isn't it this side?" Yang Xu wondered. He opened the interface and asked the other two people in the friend interface: "Are you guys okay?"

"No." Xiao An replied.

"There's no movement here either." Ah Fei replied.

"Could it really be that there are only two locations left? This is too unlucky..." Yang Xu muttered.

It seems unlikely that Leng Sha gave him false information and was just making fun of him. What was the point of doing that?

"There's no news on the forum..."

Xiao An was guarding the post while refreshing the forum. He pressed the refresh button so hard that it started smoking, but he didn't see any posts about the Nian beast on the forum.

Of course, it is normal that there are no posts on the forum, because the blessings of the Nian Beast are not distributed indefinitely. Each Nian Beast can only provide a maximum of ten blessings. Even if a hundred people meet the output conditions, in the end it will only be distributed to the ten people who cause the most damage to the Nian Beast.

Even if you were the first to discover the Nian Beast, you might not be as strong as those who came after you, and your output would eventually be surpassed by others, resulting in you not receiving the blessing. Therefore, as long as the person who discovered the Nian Beast is not stupid, they will definitely not make a big fuss. They will usually keep their hands off for a while until they are sure that they can definitely rank in the top ten, and then they will announce the news.

Generally speaking, when a large number of posts about the Nian Beast begin to appear on the forum, it means that the fight against the Nian Beast is probably coming to an end.

Looking at the task interface that had not shown any movement, Xiao An was a little conflicted about whether he should go to the remaining two locations quickly to check. However, it would take quite a while to go back and forth, and if he went through so much trouble, he might end up with nothing.

"Oh wait!"

At this time, Yang Xu suddenly called out to the two of them.

"Has the Nian beast appeared?" Xiao An asked hurriedly.

"It's out! At Qingyang University." Yang Xu said.

At this moment, a prompt popped up on his panel.

[Demon Spirit Subjugation Dungeon - Nian Beast (7 Stars)]

The Nian Beast has spawned once again within Qingyang City. If it is not killed within 24 hours, it will spread into the real world, attacking buildings, devouring livestock, and killing people, causing great harm. As an administrator, it is your duty to immediately dispatch it.

[The Nian Beast instance has been automatically released. Administrators within a 10-mile radius can enter the mirror world at any time to defeat the Nian Beast.]

[Tip for defeating the Nian Beast: The three things it fears are loud noises, the color red, and fire. You can scare the Nian Beast by making sounds similar to firecrackers or lighting lights, significantly reducing its aggressiveness.]

"The information is true!" Ah Fei was surprised.

"It's true, come here quickly!" Yang Xu has observed over the past few days that there should be no administrator's territory in Qingyang University's generation, so he may be the first person to trigger the Nian Beast!
"I'll be there soon!" After leaving the message, Ah Fei disappeared.

"You go in first, remember to fight the 3-star evening beast, don't fight the Nian beast!" Xiao An left a reminder and set off immediately.

Among the three, he was the only one who had personally experienced the Nian Beast subjugation and knew some hidden rules: each Nian Beast subjugation would produce 1 Nian Beast and 3-8 Xi Beasts, of which the Nian Beast was a fixed seven-star, while the Xi Beasts were randomly 2-5 stars.

Theoretically, the higher the star level of the Nian Beast, the more experience and points you will be given for the same output, and the output statistics of the Nian Beast will be corrected by star level. 4 point of damage caused to a 1-star Nian Beast will be equal to 3 points of damage caused to a 2-star Nian Beast, and 2 points of damage caused to a 4-star Nian Beast. There is no need to worry about the impact of star level suppression.

But it doesn't mean that it is best to catch the highest-level Nian Beast and kill it, because the higher the star level of the Nian Beast, the higher its attack and defense will be exponentially. If an administrator with less than three stars goes to attack the Nian Beast directly, it is very likely that he will not be able to break the defense, but will be slapped to death by the Nian Beast.

After so many years of research, the forum has long come up with the best plan for ordinary people to fight the Nian Beast: if you have the ability, fight a Nian Beast that is one star higher than your own, and the experience and points yield rate can be maximized.

Yang Xu was right next to the teaching building. He ran quickly into the building and entered the mirror world through the mirror in the toilet.

As soon as he entered the mirror world, Yang Xu immediately heard a deafening roar.

This was followed by the loud noise of a building collapsing and a series of explosions, all coming from the square in the middle of the campus.

"Is someone already fighting the Nian beast?" Yang Xu was surprised and hurried out of the building to take a look. Only then did he realize that the campus in the mirror world was in a mess, with cracked bricks and stones, rolled cement, and the wreckage of collapsed buildings scattered all over the ground.

In the distant campus square, a huge beast was twisting its body in anger. It had a dragon head and a lion body, and its entire body was covered with dark golden scales. Its mane was made up of dancing blue ghost fires. Wherever its four claws landed, the ground automatically cracked and carbonized, leaving behind charred footprints along the way.

Opposite this monster, a figure in a black robe stood on a broken statue at the edge of the square, holding a peculiarly shaped sniper rifle with golden light patterns wrapped around the gun body. Even though he was hundreds of meters away, Yang Xu could feel the huge energy contained in the light patterns.

"boom!"

The gunshot rang out, and golden light cut through the air, accurately hitting the Nian Beast's left eye. The Nian Beast howled in pain, and a cloud of smoke erupted from the shot eye, quickly returning to its original state.

The Nian beast was enraged by the attack. It swung its long tail and slammed the ground with its front paws. With it as the center, the ground within a radius of fifty meters undulated and shattered like waves.

The man in black robe jumped up lightly, moving nimbly among the collapsed statues, dodging the air waves, and at the same time pulled the bolt of the gun smoothly. While in mid-air, the second and third shots were fired in succession, and each shot accurately hit the vital point of the Nian beast.

Yang Xu had never seen this person before, and at such a long distance, he couldn't detect the other party's playing cards. But the moment he saw the figure clearly, a name automatically emerged in his mind: King of Clubs!

"Is it really the King of Clubs?"

Yang Xu was surprised. He had obtained the information about the Nian Beast by pretending to be the King of Clubs. Unexpectedly, he would meet the real Nian Beast in the copy.

Moreover, he had been waiting on campus the entire time, and upon receiving the system message, he had immediately entered the dungeon. Yet, Plum Blossom K arrived even faster than him? Could it be that Plum Blossom K had also learned about the Nian Beast in advance?
When Yang Xu was looking at the battle over there, the King of Clubs in the distance also noticed something and glanced towards his position with a sense of understanding, but he just glanced at it and quickly turned his attention back to the monster in front of him. The flames from the muzzle of the gun kept erupting, suppressing the Nian Beast and making it scream continuously.

"Eh? It's you!"

At this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly sounded in his ears, and the voice sounded very familiar.

Yang Xu was startled, turned his head to look at the air beside him, pointed his finger at his forehead, and opened his third eye.

From the perspective of the Sky Eye, the ghost girl from the square was indeed floating beside him.

"Why are you here?" Yang Xu was surprised. He had seen this ghost several times before in the square and thought that this ghost woman could not leave the square.

"I brought Xiao Shisan here to fight the Nian beast!" said the ghost girl.

"Little Thirteen?"

Yang Xu was stunned for a moment, glanced at the King of Clubs in the distance, then looked at the ghost girl in front of him with a strange expression: "Did you know that the Nian Beast would spawn here?"

"Yes, I sensed it during the day today. It's Qingyang University, at 10:32:12 tonight," said the girl.

"How did you sense it?" Yang Xu was even more surprised. The information Leng Sha provided was only a vague time period, but her prediction was accurate to the second!

"Hehe, this is a secret!" The girl smiled mysteriously.

"..."

Yang Xu didn't have time to chat with her, and hurriedly used his super senses to sense the situation in the copy.

At this moment, in addition to the seven-star Nian beast in front, there are five weaker mirror ghost auras scattered throughout the campus. They should be the Xi beasts, but the distance is relatively far, and he can't sense their strength for a while.

"Which side is the three-star Xi Beast?" Yang Xu asked the ghost girl directly.

"follow me."

The girl immediately floated in one direction, turned around and waved at him, indicating that he should follow.

Yang Xu followed the girl for a distance and arrived in front of the school's central cafeteria.

Through the restaurant window, Yang Xu had already seen a strange beast hiding inside.

This unusual creature resembled a miniature Nian beast, only the size of a normal lion or tiger. Its body was a deep blue, with a single, curved horn atop its head and a faint blue will-o'-the-wisp at the end of its tail. Standing on two legs, waving its front paws, it leaped up and down among the tables and chairs, its movements reminiscent of a lion dance.

Xi Beast (3 stars): A clone of the Nian Beast. During battle, a ritual beast dance can be performed to remotely enhance the Nian Beast's strength and heal its injuries. Xi Beast and Nian Beast share a life. Until Nian Beast dies, Xi Beast remains alive. When Nian Beast dies, all Xi Beasts die immediately.

"That's it. Go and get it. You are the second one now, and there is a good chance of getting a blessing!" The girl encouraged Yang Xu.

Without the girl's reminder, Yang Xu had already prepared his attack. With his peach wood sword in hand, he slashed at the Xi Beast. The Xi Beast growled in pain, its lion dance performance forced to stop. A fierce gleam in its eyes, it twisted around and raised its claws to strike back.

Yang Xu dodged easily by turning sideways, and then swung his sword again, hitting the Xi beast in the lower abdomen.

This Xi beast was faster than expected, but fortunately it could only claw and pounce, so it was easy to hide. Yang Xu dodged and fought back, one sword after another, each sword stabbing at the Xi beast's vital parts.

During the process, Yang Xu paid attention to the panel and found that the experience points and points were indeed increasing slowly!

In just a dozen or so sword moves, experience points increased by 15 points and points increased by 7 points.

“It’s rising so fast!”

Yang Xu was surprised. He had heard Xiao An mention before that attacking the Nian Beast could gain a lot of points and experience, but he didn't expect it to be so efficient.

After completing a battle like this, it is not a problem to gain thousands of experience points!

Yang Xu patted the corner of his clothes, and the sickle-weasel crawled out of his pocket and landed on his shoulder. He stared at the Xi Beast in front of him with a fierce look, and raised his claws to shoot out two wind blades.

As a servant of the mirror ghost, the attacks of the Kamaitachi will also be counted on Yang Xu.

Yang Xu directly cast a spirit gathering talisman on the sickle-weasel, allowing it to go to a distance and act as a turret to attack freely.

Then Yang Xu took out ten lantern ghost fragments from the storage bag, stacked them together, and threw them to the ground.

All the cards shattered and disappeared together, transforming into surging demonic energy.

The demonic energy continued to gather, and finally condensed into a familiar cylindrical creature in front of him.

[You have contracted a new servant, the Mirror Ghost—Light Moth (LV1). Skills: Lighting, Summoning Fire Moths.]

[You have inherited the skill 'Lighting' through your Servant Mirror Ghost: you can automatically light up nearby lamps.]

After Yang Xu reached the second star level, he gained another position to serve as a Mirror Ghost, a position that had never been contracted before. He immediately gave this position to Lantern Moth without hesitation.

Although Lantern Moth is at the bottom of the administrator's contempt chain and is a strong competitor to the weakest Mirror Ghost, in this Nian Beast copy, Lantern Moth has ushered in the highlight moment of his ghost life!
The previous challenge prompt when entering the game said: The Nian Beast is afraid of three things: loud noises, the color red, and fire.

The two skills of the moth perfectly interpret the colors red and fire.

The new school term has just begun, and the Lantern Festival lanterns in the supermarket have not been removed yet. All kinds of strange-looking lanterns are hung all over the hall.

As the lantern moth appeared, flames continuously burst out of its body and floated towards the other lanterns around it.

In just a few seconds, all the lanterns in the restaurant were lit, illuminating the entire hall.

The dusk beast was enveloped in a large area of ​​light, like a vampire exposed to the sun. It screamed and ran and jumped like crazy in the hall, but could not find a place to avoid the light.

This was not the end yet. Yang Xu immediately took out another piece of thunder beast fragment and crushed it to use.

This is a two-star fragment with the skill "Thunder". It has no other function. Every time the attack hits the enemy, a thunderous explosion will be heard.

The status of this Mirror Ghost is similar to that of the Light Moth, one of the most useless two-star fragments.

However, although these two skills are useless in normal battles, they can be very effective when facing the Nian Beast today.

As Yang Xu swung his sword one after another, the scene was suddenly filled with thunder and lightning, as if firecrackers were being set off, with continuous crackling and exploding sounds, which were extraordinary.

The loud noise, the red color, and the flames, the three weaknesses were all targeted at the same time. The Xi Beast was completely panicked and had no time to care about Yang Xu. It tucked its tail between its legs and just ran around the field with its head in its hands. Only when it was blocked in a corner and had no way to escape would it occasionally fight back, but the counterattack was weak and more like begging for mercy.

"Oh, there's another one coming!"

Yang Xu was happily gaining experience and points when he suddenly heard a reminder from the ghost girl.

At the same time, his super senses had also sensed that two new auras appeared in the teaching building next door. They must have been administrators who happened to pass by nearby, discovered the presence of the Nian beast, and joined the crusade.

"How many stars?" Yang Xu asked.

"I'll go take a look." The ghost girl said and floated away.

After a moment, Youyou floated back: "Both are 3 stars, one diamond and one heart. You need to work harder!"

Yang Xu nodded. If it was a 3-star beast, he should normally go to fight the 4-star Xi Beast, so he wouldn't have to worry about them coming to snatch food from him.

However, 3 stars means that his real-time output must be twice that of the opponent to ensure that the final damage statistics are not exceeded by the opponent.

This is also one of the reasons why the Nian Beast copy is unfriendly to newcomers. The lower the star rating, the higher the output required to get the blessing. If newcomers want to compete with those high-star administrators, they can basically only rely on longer output time to pile up data.

Soon, the two newcomers entered the campus and looked around.

The direction of the cafeteria was very lively, with lantern shows and thunder, it was hard not to notice.

Fortunately, the two had no intention of coming here. They found another Xi beast nearby and couldn't wait to join the battle.

"Oh, someone's here again! Why are people coming so quickly this year?"

Noticing that two more people had entered the dungeon, the ghost girl muttered and began to worry about Yang Xu.

Yang Xu came in early, but his star rating was too low. If more high-star competitors came in, his output would soon be left behind.

"Huh? They're coming towards you, be careful..." the ghost girl warned.

"Don't worry, these two are our own people." Yang Xu assured her that the two newcomers were A Fei and Xiao An.

"Hmm..." The ghost girl suddenly covered her nose, realized something, frowned and quickly flew away.

"Boss, we are here!"

Before Ah Fei arrived, the sound arrived first. A brick flew in from a distance and exploded above Xi Shou's head. Xi Shou was instantly frozen in place, and fell into a second of dizziness.

Xiao An followed closely and landed next to Xi Beast, swinging his sword quickly to attack.

At the same time, he turned around and asked Yang Xu in surprise, "Is that person outside the King of Clubs?"

"It should be." Yang Xu nodded and quickly operated on the panel.

As soon as Xiao An arrived, 'Partner' was automatically triggered. With ten free attributes, Yang Xu directly put all of them into strength to increase the output as much as possible.

"How many people are there?"

"Including us, six."

"That's okay." Xiao An nodded.

The three of them had no time to chat. After a brief discussion about the situation, they all rushed to output. There was no other way. Their star level was low, so they could only rely on time to make up for it.

The dungeon was quiet for a while, with no new people entering for four or five minutes.

It wasn't until five minutes later that administrators finally began to enter the dungeon one after another.

In just three minutes, eight people came in one after another.

Fortunately, most of the star ratings are not high, with 1 one-star, 1 two-stars, and 4 three-stars.

Only the last person who came in had a higher star rating, which was a six-star rating. He was also the one with the highest star rating at the scene except for the King of Clubs.

This immediately caught Yang Xu's attention. Six stars, could it be Leng Sha?

Leng Sha knew the information about the Nian Beast, so it was not surprising that he came here.

Yang Xu hurriedly asked the ghost girl to help keep an eye on this person's movements.

Six stars, in theory, you can directly attack the seven-star Nian beast in the field.

As a result, after this person entered the field and saw the situation clearly, he did not step forward. Instead, he quietly ran to the edge of the field, picked up a five-star evening beast and started fighting.

(End of this chapter)