"Give my ankles a massage too."
"My calves are a bit sore... Your technique is really something."
"Mm, a bit higher."
"Up a little more... Ah, that's it, just like that."
While enjoying Tao Qingqing's vampiric massage, Wen Wen was in high spirits, his eyes comfortably slitted.
Tao Qingqing rolled her eyes. It was just a normal massage, but Wen Wen's exclamations made it sound like they were doing something illicit.
Just as Wen Wen was about to do something truly illicit, he received a message from Jidro.
"You dare to disturb me at a time like this? Aren't you afraid of being stuffed with a firecracker..."
"Wait, this is good news."
Wen Wen withdrew his legs and said to Tao Qingqing, "Go back and watch your brain-dead court dramas. I have some things to take care of."
Tao Qingqing made a face at Wen Wen and stomped back to her room, squeezing a bunch of hand sanitizer as if to scrub her skin off.
As she washed, she suddenly froze. The hotel's soundproofing was excellent. How did Wen Wen know she was watching a court drama?
"Could he have been spying on me the whole time?"
Thinking of this, Tao Qingqing shuddered.
After ushering Tao Qingqing away, Wen Wen walked to a full-length mirror. His left eye turned silver-white, and the mirror surface then seemed to transform into flowing silver.
Wen Wen stepped into the mirror, as if entering water, and then he vanished into it. The mirror surface then returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
The air was slightly humid; this was still the women's bathhouse that Wen Wen was familiar with.
However, Wen Wen now had no lingering thoughts about the women's bathhouse. The memory of what he had seen previously sent a chill down his spine.
Jidro pushed open the bathhouse door and scurried over to Wen Wen, bowing 180 degrees, his head nearly touching the ground.
"My great master, you have finally arrived!"
"Look, the task you assigned me, I have completed it!"
Jidro led Wen Wen out of the bathhouse and pointed in a direction. All the floating small spaces in a straight line automatically parted, allowing Wen Wen to directly see the massive silver cube – the brand new Mirror Maze. Sudan Novel Network
At this moment, the Mirror Maze did not resemble Jing Yan's dilapidated state. It exuded an aura of high-class sophistication, earning a nod of satisfaction from Wen Wen, especially the black cross patterns on the outer walls of the cube, which suited his taste.
Then, led by Jidro, Wen Wen toured the entire Mirror Maze, much like a school leader inspecting hygiene in a dormitory.
Wen Wen's requirements for Jidro back then were not just to restore the Mirror Maze, but also two other requests.
Wen Wen himself felt those requests were a bit unreasonable, but Jidro had completed them flawlessly.
This made Wen Wen look at Jidro with newfound respect; the fellow was a capable mirror demon.
Many people believe that sycophants get promoted solely because they cater to their superiors' comforts.
However, in reality, some sycophants are not only skilled at flattery but also incredibly capable. Jidro belonged to the latter category.
Wen Wen's first request was to connect the Mirror Maze with the Containment Facility.
Jidro himself could not do much about this; the core operations required Wen Wen's intervention.
But Jidro had already fully connected the Mirror Maze into a cohesive whole and prepared everything necessary. Wen Wen only needed to perform the final decisive work.
The second request was for Jidro to develop a simple way to enter the Mirror Maze.
Even ordinary people scattered across the real world could use this method to enter the Mirror Maze.
Distances in the real world held little meaning for the mirror world, and every mirror was a natural gateway to this realm, but achieving all of this was still not easy.
Fortunately, Jidro's abilities were more than sufficient. After diligent research that saw him forgo sleep and meals, he finally developed a simple ritual.
Anyone in the real world, as long as they had a mirror large enough to pass their body through, could perform this simple ritual to send an entry request to Jidro. Once the application was approved, they could enter this Mirror Maze.
Of course, how arduous the process was, was Jidro's own claim, and Wen Wen found the veracity of it questionable.
There were two ways to enter the maze: one was physical entry, and the other was to create a mirror image phantom, allowing consciousness to control the phantom within the Mirror Maze.
Mirror image phantoms possessed a physical body in this world and identical abilities to their original selves, only with the left and right sides reversed.
However, controlling a mirror image phantom would induce a subtle sense of detachment, preventing complete immersion. Yet, the death of a phantom had no impact on the individual.
For physical entry, this place was a real world, and the mirror image phantoms encountered possessed the ability to kill. If one was killed, they would die.
The reason Wen Wen made these two requests of Jidro was to turn the Mirror Maze into a training ground for Wen Wen, to hone the abilities of the containment personnel.
Apart from the core area of the Mirror Maze, a portion of the outer areas would be designated for a "slaughter mode."
Wen Wen would have the containment personnel and the monsters from the Containment Facility enter this space using mirror image phantoms for unregulated combat, thereby training the combat capabilities of the containment personnel.
Many containment personnel possessed strong abilities but were not adept at combat. They usually had few opportunities to fight, so Wen Wen was creating such an opportunity for them.
Once this area was open, containment personnel would be required to enter and "die" here once every period. If they requested leave, they would have to enter twice in the subsequent period.
This rule was mainly to rein in the lazy ones. Most containment personnel would likely be quite fond of such a place.
And for the monsters, the Mirror Maze was an even more perfect playground.
Having the opportunity to engage in combat here was far better than being cooped up in their cells, especially since Wen Wen rarely let them out anymore.
To train the containment personnel's abilities, the mirror image phantom entry was sufficient. However, Wen Wen also opened up the physical entry option because he wanted to use this place to screen for talented individuals!
Therefore, the Mirror Maze also had a second mode: the "scenario mode."
Some monsters would be permanently stationed in the scenario mode, playing various roles.
Candidates for containment personnel would enter the Mirror Maze in their true forms, experiencing extreme fear brought about by various monsters. The choices they made in their fear would determine whether they could become members of the Containment Facility!
Some might intentionally harm their companions, while others might lose their minds and harm ordinary people. In any case, one could not truly gauge a person solely through the recruitment bubbles.
Only those who passed the scenario mode test were good employees of the Containment Facility and good tools for Wen Wen.