The Space Collapses
Previously, when he was in the school building, Yu Xing thought that there would be no missions at school because there was no system. However, a white-haired girl still appeared in his class.
That girl had a very low profile and was fundamentally different from the other students.
The outsider received a mission from the white-haired girl and gained a direction. Now, Yu Xing discovered that Miss Mino in the hotel and the white-haired girl seemed to have similar roles. Miss Mino was not afraid of anyone in the hotel, and could communicate with anyone even in the dark.
This was something that Little Rosie revealed to Yu Xing.
When it comes to Little Rosie, the Little Rosie and nighttime versions of Little Rosie seem to switch places, just like in a story in this fairy tale book where the doll and its owner have switched identities.
This inevitably raises the question: what role did this fairy tale play in the hotel?
"You wouldn't know." Kneeling on the ground, Xixi stared at Yu Xing's face, her gaze piercing through the darkness, as if she could see what Yu Xing was thinking from his expression.
So she suddenly laughed again, as if watching a joke, "Mortals."
"Mortals will never understand. Your perspective is limited. What is beyond your comprehension is the unknown and a source of fear for you."
"So what if you've seen through me... You don't know what I really am, and you never will."
Yu Xing closed the book in her hand and rubbed her thumb on the cover for a while.
"At least it will relieve the people in the hotel of their suffering." He said nonchalantly, "I'm not a great philosopher, I don't need to know too much. I only know that no matter who you are or where you come from, as long as you disappear, the hotel's curse will break on its own."
"The real Xixi wasn't cursed at all. He's the freest person in the hotel, and he only stayed because of Daisy. Once you're gone, Daisy will naturally realize that you've been deceiving her all this time. Her only daughter doesn't need her worry at all; she's doing just fine."
The last sentence floated lightly into the ears of the fake Xixi, sentencing her to death.
She possessed a superiority complex that transcended even the most discerning individuals, believing that no one could possibly know her true identity. However, this did not change the fact that she would be killed by these very things she despised.
Darkness surged, gradually being swallowed by a thick black fog.
The cursed power in the air grew stronger, and Yu Xing felt very comfortable in this environment, as if he had created a domain that suited him, while the fake Xixi was nearly suffocating.
"I just want a mother..." Fake Xixi's voice trailed off, "I just want Daisy... why...?"
"Because you want someone else's mother, right?" Yu Xing shrugged, then stopped talking to the fake Xixi and sat silently on the sofa, watching the monster gradually be corroded in his black mist.
Fake Xixi asked at least one correct question: what exactly is she?
Yu Xing believes that the fake Xixi is herself, or the author who wrote it, but for some reason, the book or the author became a ghost, using the book that the real Xixi liked to read during the day as a medium to enter the hotel space and cause everything.
In other words, the order of the reasons why the hotel was cursed should be... Daisy bought a book, and the book gradually became strange. During its existence, the book wanted Daisy to become a mother. So after Daisy gave birth to Xixi, it cursed the hotel, making Daisy know that everyone in the hotel has two states, day and night, and at the same time, it disguised itself as Xixi at night, using Daisy's love for Xixi to bind Daisy.
Perhaps it is because it is replacing Xixi that the real Xixi is resistant to the curse, or perhaps some condition is met; in any case, it does not produce the other state of the night.
The curse continued for many years, and within this curse, Daisy and her lodgers were gradually corrupted, giving rise to all sorts of unique abilities.
For example, Calodi's teleportation ability.
But... Yu Xing tilted her head.
This guess is plausible, but it's very strange. Why would the source be a book? Why would this book mutate? And why was only this book mutated...? And what about that market? There were so many people in the market, and if each lit lamp represented a trapped curse, could it be that there was more than one book, scattered among many people, creating many imprisoned spaces?
Or perhaps, the items that become ghosts are diverse, and the origin of each confined space is different.
As Fake Xixi said, such speculation might not be understood because it is beyond people's comprehension. These items have no human hatred as nourishment, no resentment, and have nothing to do with the human soul. It's unclear what the purpose is.
Even the Ghost Tree is after nutrients; ultimately, it's all about making itself stronger. As for the fake Xixi, she just wants a mother.
Yu Xing could only treat this as a guess, a guess that this was the independent rule of this system, and there was nothing else he could do for the time being.
"Ah!!!!" Before he fell silent in thought, the fake Xixi let out a final cry, its voice, identical to Xixi's, mixed with a strange rumbling resonance, like some kind of explosion.
Yu Xing sensed that the surrounding air trembled slightly, and a subtle power rippled outwards, with the strongest power emanating from above.
Ceiling?
Yu Xing looked up and realized it had nothing to do with the ceiling.
That is... the sky outside the hotel, which he can't see for the time being?
Space suddenly began to distort.
Yu Xing withdrew his gaze, feeling a shattering sensation like being cut by a knife. He quickly gathered the drifting black mist back into his body. The room was collapsing; it was a kind of dimensional collapse, something even he might not be able to withstand.
He immediately stood up and walked towards the glowing teleportation array. The spatial dislocation around the teleportation array was particularly noticeable, and an indescribable pressure squeezed towards it. He raised his hand and pressed it against the very center of the teleportation array. Amidst the squeezing, dislocation, and attraction, he was directly teleported back to the empty room with the large table and many hidden teleportation arrays.
Calodi was still anxiously waiting in the room.
Upon seeing the large number of people in front of him, Calodi shouted, "What have you done?! The entire space is about to be destroyed, you wouldn't...!"
His gaze fell on Yu Xing's hand, where he saw a suspicious trace of blood. His expression changed drastically. "You wouldn't have... you know Xixi!"
"Xixi is fine." Yu Xing interrupted him, smiling. "This space is the vessel of night. The night is about to disappear, which is why the space is collapsing. Let's go back to our room. As long as we're in the normal space during the day, we won't be affected by the collapsing space."
Calodi seemed to know the horror of spatial collapse, and with some skepticism, he led Yu Xing to the light gray teleportation array. "This leads to Daisy's room..."
While Yu Xing went to find Xixi, Calodi had just gone to Daisy's room, untied Daisy was still tied up, and explained what had happened that night.
After learning everything, Daisy went crazy trying to see her daughter, but Calodi stopped her.
To be honest, he didn't think "Yuri" could really do anything to Xixi. Xixi's Combat Power was much, much higher than the Mask Face at night.
"Once you get there, don't hurt Daisy. That's my bottom line. Otherwise, I'd rather destroy the formation right now and stay here to die together," Calodi solemnly warned.
"Okay, let's go." Yu Xing laughed, "Isn't just tying her up enough proof that I have no ill intentions towards her?"
Calodi reluctantly accepted the situation. After activating the light gray magic circle, Yu Xing could only feel the power seeping out from Calodi's fingertips, becoming incredibly violent and destroying all the other magic circles.
"This is to prevent the power of spatial collapse from following the magic array," Calodi explained, before pushing Yu Xing into the teleportation array. He then stepped in himself, leaving behind a slightly delayed burst of violent power that completely destroyed the light gray teleportation array.
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