Through the Mirror

Just as Xia Yi threw the earrings out, the crackling sound was heard again behind him.

Xia Yi grabbed Zhuo Zhuo and quickly squeezed out from the gap in the door.

"You...Ahhhhh! Monsters!" A security guard pinched his earring and fell to the ground suddenly. He looked at the monster through the gap in the door. The sharp scream filled the whole garden with fear, and he kept backing away.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Before his companion could help him, a massive hand reached out from the cracks in his dream. Its massive claws snapped, catching the security guard's clothes. Without even a scream, he was dragged halfway into the castle. "Crack." A crunching sound echoed as the security guard's body, trapped in the gap between the doors, suddenly went limp. Blood gushed out, staining the pristine white marble floor a bright red.

The garden in front of the castle's side hall suddenly fell silent, and the sound of someone swallowing in fear was heard.

Xia Yi looked up and observed the expressions of the security guards at the door. Apart from fear and helplessness, the security captain and two other people were relatively calm. The fear in their eyes had not diminished at all, and it seemed as if it had been deeply buried because they had seen it so often.

But one thing is clear: no one knows how to handle the current situation.

Xia Yi looked at the monster again. It seemed that the monster could not leave the side hall of the castle, so it just hooked its sharp claws out from the crack of the door.

The man trapped in the crack of the door was torn into pieces by hooks.

After a long time, the smell of blood dissipated a lot, and the monster's claws retreated.

When they realized there was no movement, the people guarding the door breathed a sigh of relief, but no one dared to push the door open and enter the castle.

"Where did the monster come from?" The security captain, with a stubbled beard, was tall and had a slightly hoarse voice. He looked at Xia Yi and said, "Just now, the order came from the main building that there are animals roaming inside the castle. They said that a bear ran down from the mountain. When we opened the door just now, we did hear the grunting of a bear inside. Even your shadow looked like a bear. We made a mistake, so we opened fire."

"That's right, we don't dare to kill anyone!"

"It's really weird. I clearly saw two bears running out, and there was that monster just now. I have never seen anything like it. What is that thing? Anyway, I will never dare to enter the castle again."

"I've never heard of anything strange happening to the Xia family before. Instead, everyone praised the Xia family. It's too unlucky to encounter such a thing on my first day at work tonight. I'm sure I'll lose my job. I wonder if there will be any compensation." The chattering voices also sounded quietly behind him.

Xia Yi couldn't help but take a step back. Just now, she could lie freely through the door, but now she was being stared at by so many strangers, she felt uncomfortable. Zhuo Zhuo also hurriedly followed Xia Yi and retreated.

The two little girls' dodging behavior was frightening in the eyes of a group of grown men. They were chased by monsters and shot by bullets that night. Not to mention the two little girls, even they were all scared.

"Now you have to decide what to say." Zhuo Zhuo hid beside Xia Yi, unable to hold back her tears. "Maybe you just wanted us to die in there. If Xia Yi hadn't pulled me back just now, I would have died. Sister Xiaoyi died in the Mirror House. And what about those sisters who left earlier? Butler Zhang said they resigned, but when I think about it, I haven't seen them once since. Could they have died in that room like Sister Xiaoyi?"

"How dare they do that? I'm quitting. I definitely can't work here anymore. Yes, I have to call the police." Zhuozhuo said as she took out her phone and dialed the police number. After a long moment, she collapsed and said, "Impossible! How come there's no signal at all? I was able to make a video call just now when I was in the mirror room."

Xia Yi raised his hand and patted Zhuo Zhuo's back gently, soothing Zhuo Zhuo's emotions subtly.

After being greatly frightened, people were either silent or talking non-stop. The security team's chattering became louder. Xia Yi glanced at the three who looked like special security members. The security team leader seemed to be thinking about something, while the other two were huddled together and whispering.

The three of them should be the players this time.

"How about this? We're new here too, so we'll go with you to find the housekeeper. We have so many people on the security team, we're not afraid of them playing any tricks. If they don't give us an explanation this time, we'll go to the police station and even to court." The security captain looked at Xia Yi and said, "What do you think? After all, we haven't figured out whether this was an accident or intentional homicide."

"Okay." Xia Yi nodded.

"I saw our courtyard during the day. It's so winding to get to the main hall, which is inconvenient. I heard it's a building from the Republican era. Was this kind of complicated architecture popular back then?" The security captain kept bringing up the topic as we returned to the castle's main hall. "There are so many mirrors here. Mirrors must have been quite expensive back then, right? They're peep shows!"

Xia Yi pulled Zhuo Zhuo, and Zhuo Zhuo quickly said, "The mirror was decorated after the Xia family moved in."

"That's what I was saying!" the security captain asked. "How long have you been working here? Has something like this happened before?"

"I've been working here for half a year. The Xia family has a frequent turnover of staff. A new batch of employees comes in every two months, so we often have to replace a new batch of servants before we even know the faces of the previous batch." Zhuo Zhuo said.

"so."

Xia Yi squinted his eyes and looked towards the main hall. The closer he got to the main hall, the more noisy he could hear. Not only were the host's family members standing outside, but even the police were standing there. All the servants on duty were standing in the courtyard, making a mess.

"The mayor is here too? The police are here too?" Zhuozhuo's voice suddenly calmed down.

If Xia Yi hadn't known that this was a horror copy, he would probably have felt relieved after the great shock.

"Where have you been? I couldn't reach you even when I called." The hook-nosed butler rushed over when he saw Xia Yi and the other two approaching. "Butler Li said a few bears had gotten into our castle. I was terrified. Where's Xiaoyi?"

"Butler Zhang, Xiaoyi is dead." Zhuozhuo couldn't hold back her tears and burst into tears. "And it wasn't a bear, it was a monster?"

Xia Yi stared at the hook-nosed butler. The butler didn't even blink when he heard that Xiaoyi was dead. He looked as if he was hoping for more people to die, as if it would be abnormal if he didn't die.

Zhuozhuo was crying when the police came over and said, "Tell me what's going on inside."

Zhuozhuo and several security guards were called away to investigate the situation. Xia Yi didn't want to go with them, and no police came to call her.

The master and mistress of the Xia family were coordinating the situation with the mayor and several policemen with a smile. No one was worried about the dead, and they didn't take the dead maid and security guard seriously.

Amidst the chaos, a teenage girl in a yellow long-sleeved dress came over with a few maids carrying a small mattress and a dinner plate. The girl smiled and handed the small mattress to Xia Yi: "Sister, you must be frightened. Cover yourself with the mattress. I asked someone to make some ginger sugar water. You should drink it too. Don't catch a cold. Your health is the most important thing."

"Thank you." Xia Yi said.

"Miss, I'll go and take it. You go lie down in the tent and have some rest. Although tomorrow is the weekend, you still have extracurricular tutoring. Piano is at 9 a.m., art is at 1 p.m., and math is at 3:30 p.m. every Saturday and weekend. You will be very busy tomorrow. How can you not take some rest?" Xia Yi listened to the maid's muttering and saw that Xia Lijuan did not listen to the advice. He delivered blankets to others one by one before going to rest.

Xia Yi lowered her eyes and drank a sip of ginger sugar water. If she remembered correctly, Xiang Jiu's math class was also around 3:30 this afternoon, right?

Are the girls on both sides' class times also the same?

There are also the titles of Miss, Master and Madam, which are also used by the Jingfang family. It’s not that it’s not allowed, but Xia Yi always feels that it’s weird for these titles to appear in a family that has lived in Europe and the United States.

"Hello, when did you come to work at the Xia family? I noticed you seem to be skilled in martial arts." The security captain and the two players who looked like players came over and said, "Very impressive!"

"I just got here today too." Xia Yi naturally spoke in a player's tone, "Did you find anything wrong today?"

"It's our first day here, and we don't know what's wrong!" the taller boy asked. "Didn't you notice anything wrong when you were watching the mirror today? Like the strange noises and the sudden nervousness?"

"The monster came out of one of those ripple mirrors. It can pass through one mirror and out the other, achieving the effect of teleportation." Xia Yi realized this time that this group of people had treated her as an NPC again. She stumbled a little as she explained in detail, "The monster seems to locate itself by smell. The earring I threw out when I left just now was the one that found it."

Now anyone can tell that she is a player, right?

Sure enough, the security captain looked at her thoughtfully.

"Oh, why didn't you tell the police about this just now?" the tall boy asked again.

"I'm a player." Xia Yi said expressionlessly.