The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 109 Rebirth After Losing an Arm Isn't Impossible

He had his own considerations; rather than dragging it out and missing the opportunity, he might as well act now.

The old city lord committed suicide, so what he left behind, no matter how dangerous, wouldn't be too much of a threat. Otherwise, his final words before death wouldn't have been to say "thank you" to himself.

Although others couldn't hear such a faint breath, he understood it perfectly.

Moreover, he was originally a "people from the lower city" in public. Yang Mo's original purpose in cooperating with his side of awakened people was to use a feint to overthrow the city lord's mansion.

Now that the great undertaking is accomplished and everything has settled, the next step is to eliminate those who followed the dragon.

He didn't believe that the people in Yang Mo's faction could continue to cooperate harmoniously and help each other as they had in the early stages.

Their identity as "lower-class citizens" forever sealed their fate, making them "not of our kind" and "their hearts are surely different."

The city lord is dead, and next to him and his sister will die, along with everyone who participated in the initial siege of the city.

He could either take Li Lan and run away immediately, even though he had obtained the city lord's teleportation coordinates and could travel back and forth between the upper and lower cities, ultimately leading the dungeon players to survive and continue trying to break through this last city.

Either take this opportunity to quickly gather more clues, since there's obviously a big problem with the bronze mirror on the ground, and Li Can doesn't want to miss a single detail in order to clear the dungeon as soon as possible.

Leaving is out of the question; we're being hunted down. It's better to take control of the situation first.

If all else fails, he can use an empty capsule to instantly take the brass mirror, then take his sister back to the study to activate the portal and run back through the coordinates.

Everything is negotiable.

With this in mind, Li Can decisively picked up the mirror from the ground and examined it carefully.

Through the scratched mirror, Li Can saw a face that was both strange and familiar.

"This is..." He was somewhat dazed. So many years had passed, and his childhood appearance now seemed so childish to him.

It turns out that this mirror reflects one's past.

He stroked the characters hidden among the raised patterns on the back, sensing something in his heart.

The three characters "【前尘镜】" are very clear when touched by the fingertips. You can't see anything with the naked eye, but it is very noticeable by feeling.

He kept this a secret and continued to look at his blurry childhood self in the mirror, his posture changing with his every move.

It's like a real-time projection of a holographic game.

"No wonder the old city lord was so lost in thought when he held the mirror before he died; he was remembering his past," he thought to himself.

Yang Mo was initially somewhat fearful, but seeing that Li Can showed no unusual behavior after a few seconds, he approached and walked behind him.

The mirror shimmered, evoking a strange, dreamlike feeling reminiscent of the last century.

Next to the child who looked like Li Can when he was a child, another little boy suddenly appeared.

The two stared blankly at each other in the mirror.

In reality, Li Can and Yang Mo also exchanged surprised glances.

"This... is exactly the same as I used to be." Yang Mo was somewhat moved, but ultimately didn't say anything.

Curious, Shen Yuan quickly grabbed Li Lan's hand and hid behind Li Can and Yang Mo.

At this moment, the water in the mirror rippled again, eventually turning into two little boys and two little girls standing together head to head.

Shen Yuan exclaimed, "Oh my god, could this be some kind of beauty filter app with special effects, deliberately made to look like a mirror? It looks just like those child effects I usually get when I take selfies."

Li Can silently held up the mirror, like a human selfie stick, as if leading three children to explore the world with faces full of curiosity.

Yang Mo refuted her, saying, "That's impossible. I've seen the kind of special effects you're talking about. It's just a technological method that makes people's faces look younger and shortens the midface and facial features."

"Actually, it's just that it looks like us when we were kids."

"But if you look closely at yourself in this picture, if none of us have amnesia, you can confirm that this is exactly what we looked like when we were about 6 years old."

"That's right, but what's the point?" Li Lan asked quietly, voicing the key question.

She looked at herself in the mirror, wearing thick glasses, with a schoolbag on her back and several books in her arms. She was so innocent and naive, so young and clumsy.

She hadn't worn glasses for many years. Later, advanced technology on Earth led to the production of colored contact lenses, which made things much more convenient.

Then came the apocalypse, and she awakened her superpowers. She used her powers to kill zombies, seize and absorb crystal cores, and her eyesight gradually returned, turning her into a normal person, even with eyesight far exceeding that of ordinary people.

"I don't know, but you look kind of cute like this. I didn't know you loved reading so much when you were little." Shen Yuan put one hand on Li Lan's shoulder and patted it gently.

In the mirror, a little girl with pigtails and wearing a white dress smiled and patted the little girl wearing glasses.

As she moved, they could even see in the footage the backpack on Li Lan'er's shoulder flying around due to the shaking.

"This is so realistic!"

Shen Yuan sighed over there, while Li Can looked down at the old city lord's corpse on the ground, trying to point the mirror at his face to see if there were any clues.

The result was that the arm holding the mirror couldn't move with the steps.

Instantly, he broke out in a cold sweat.

It's so weird, I feel like I'm stuck in place.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Lan noticed his unusual behavior immediately.

"I can't move the arm that's holding the mirror." Li Can tried to pry it open with her other mobile hand, but it wouldn't budge.

The remaining three were taken aback upon hearing this.

Li Lan hurriedly tried to step forward to help him, but found that her feet were stuck to the ground at some point.

"I can only move my upper body, I can't move my legs."

"Huh? No way." Shen Yuan said, her heart pounding. After all that commotion, her face was filled with doubt and fear. "We're doomed, me too."

"Yang Mo, what about you?"

It was clear that Yang Mo had exerted an immense amount of effort behind the scenes. Although he didn't show it on his face in reality, the little boy in the mirror had a flushed face, and sweat dripped from his forehead onto his blue shirt.

Adults are good at pretending, but young children can't. Their state and emotions are written all over their faces.

"Stop, stop, stop, Yang Mo, give yourself a break. Take a rest. If you can't move, just relax for a bit. There's strength in numbers, so let's think of a solution together." Shen Yuan looked at Yang Mo in the mirror, who seemed to be working himself to death, and quickly stopped him.

She shouldn't have said anything, because as soon as she did, Yang Mo looked up at the image on the screen, and his face instantly turned even redder, gradually turning into a purplish-red.

Li Can fell into deep thought.

"That shouldn't be the case. Did he do that last thing just to pique our curiosity so we'd be unable to move and die here? That's such a ridiculous way to die."

He dared not move rashly now. Although he was the only one among them who could move his feet, if he went too far, his arm, which was pinned in mid-air, would be torn off...

Li Can suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"It's not impossible to regenerate an arm..." He looked down at the feet of the remaining three people, "but if a leg is lost, they'll have to use a wheelchair."

"No, absolutely not!" This was the first time Yang Mo had experienced such a strong emotional fluctuation.