Chapter 120 The Man in the Mirror
After getting out of the car, the four of them slowly approached the raging black fog under the watchful eyes of a group of employees. Two heads popped out of a tent far away, their eyes filled with tears burning their bodies. The look in their eyes, as if they regarded the four people as saviors, made people feel heavy.
It can be seen how much psychological trauma the copy of progress at this moment has brought to these two people.
Lin Muyu smiled gently at the worried people behind him, and took the lead in reaching out to touch the black fog. The other three followed closely behind.
The next moment, the still calm mist climbed up the arm, and the sudden burst of thick black enveloped the people who came, greedily squeezing their bodies and swallowing them, devouring all four of them in the blink of an eye.
The energy wave shock caused by the opening of the copy spread, causing the others to stumble back while covering their faces.
The replica was started successfully.
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Qi Heng felt that he was falling.
The feeling of weightlessness swept over his heart, and the subconscious panic of the human body spread, making his limbs stiff and weak. For a moment, he could only allow himself to fall endlessly, listening to the whistling wind in his ears.
In a trance, there was a crisp sound of glass breaking, which pierced his eardrums directly and caused tinnitus.
The young man frowned, and after a moment of weightlessness, he touched the ground. Before he even opened his eyes, his heart skipped a beat at the sudden feeling of his soul returning to its place.
The next moment, Si Yuan beside him spoke loudly about the quintessence of Chinese culture, which made him open his eyes.
Mirror.
Countless mirrors.
Surrounding them were piles of things, layer upon layer. There was no passageway in sight. There were only endless mirrors standing upright, reflecting the four people's appearances and their current expressions on their smooth and cold surfaces.
The ground I was standing on was a huge lens, and the ceiling above my head was inlaid with lenses. Looking around, I saw versions of myself, big and small, all of them, contrary to common sense, staring at the person in the center in the same way.
Qi Heng's pupils shrank slightly as he met his expressionless self's gaze in the mirror. He subconsciously looked away, but he couldn't avoid that cold gaze no matter what.
It's all mirrors.
It's all me.
"What the hell is that?" He heard Ye Yunhe beside him curse in a low voice. Obviously, this kind of weird start was definitely beyond their expectations. It is indeed a unique copy, even the opening is particularly thrilling.
Not to mention the reflections in the mirrors, which had gradually become distorted as they could no longer avoid staring at each other, and seemed to have moved in a trance, getting closer and closer to them. The reflection that looked like them had malice and hatred in its eyes, and a hideous smile on its face that looked like theirs, as if it wanted to tear the mirror into pieces and sink its knuckles into the four people's flesh.
A chill surged into my heart, giving me goosebumps.
Lin Muyu said with a gloomy face: "Close your eyes and don't look at those things."
"We can't use common sense to analyze this instance, but it's definitely not a dead end from the start. We should stick together and search for clues."
Si and An immediately grabbed their teammates' hands on the left and right. The force was so strong that Qi Heng staggered, and under the pull of Ye Yunhe, his back was pressed against Lin Muyu behind him. The sense of security suddenly doubled, and the righteousness of teammates instantly dispelled the ominous and cold air.
The four of them closed their eyes, hesitated for a short while, and then quietly opened their eyes a little to check the situation.
"It worked." Ye Yunhe breathed a sigh of relief. "They didn't get any closer, but as soon as I opened my eyes, I was met with countless pairs of my own eyes. It was really hell."
"My eyes are so beautiful, they have been ruined by these ghosts." She was very disgusted.
Lin Muyu laughed and said, "Okay, relax. These mirrors must be clues to the passage. Let's take a closer look. Remember to grab a blasting talisman in your hand."
"The broken pieces of the mirror will scratch us all over." Si Yu'an said in fear, "My handsome face..."
"Who told you to throw it so close?"
Ye Yunhe closed his eyes to hide his speechlessness: "If only this broken mirror was that easy to break...Xiao Heng, please help me get a talisman, I'm too lazy to grope around."
"Okay." Qi Heng responded, and despite the love from his teammates, he reached out his hand and groped down. His fingertips nimbly hooked out two talismans from his pocket. After a quick glance to make sure he had taken the right ones, he stuffed them into his and Ye Yunhe's palms.
Out of the corner of his eye he noticed his reflection in the mirror.
After so much time, it seems to be the same as at the beginning. There was no distance getting closer and closer as in the mouths of his teammates, nor were there any pale, ghost-like, ferocious facial features. He just stared at him from beginning to end, staring at him with that expressionless face that had no vitality.
The boy was silent for a moment and closed his eyes again.
"Well, I'll use my shadow to throw the talisman over first and see what the reaction will be." Lin Muyu's shadow was as nimble as a hand. It picked up a blasting talisman from his pocket and swam out. Then, under the control of the psychic, it stood upright and spit the talisman onto the mirror with a "pooh".
The four of them waited quietly for the result.
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Nothing happened. The expected explosion did not occur, nor did the mirror shatter. Everything was as quiet as if a fire had been extinguished, which made people open their eyes in surprise to check.
The blasting talisman disappeared completely.
A question mark popped up in Ye Yunhe's head: "Damn, this mirror can swallow things? It's worthy of being a thing born from the black fog, the abilities are so similar."
Lin Muyu said in a deep voice: "Try it again and you will know."
Qi Heng raised his hand and unfolded the talisman in the folds of his palm. Lightning condensed into shape instantly, carrying the talisman and striking the mirror straightly. The buzzing light instantly attracted the attention of the teammates, and the four of them stared closely waiting for developments.
The next second, the lightning and blasting talismans slid smoothly into the mirror and disappeared like the previous talisman. The mirror surface rippled like water waves, and ripples appeared due to the touch of external objects, and returned to calm after a few breaths. Only the reflection inside was left staring at the four people, with an expression that looked even angrier than before, like a hindsight.
Because the ripples were very strange, it seemed to turn the mirror into a funhouse mirror, magnifying the face reflected in it to a ridiculous level. Even if it quickly returned to its original state, it could not resist the reduced threat caused by the previous scene. At least the group of four had lost their original fear of it, and Si and An couldn't help but burst out laughing. There was no way. After all, the figure was against his face, so it wasn't illegal for him to smile at him, right?
However, this action may have angered the reflections in the mirror. Even if I closed my eyes and didn't look at them, they all ignored the rules and continued to approach.
"It seems that the mirror is the passage."
Lin Muyu coughed and said, "There are so many that we obviously can't try them one by one. Let's observe first to see if there is any difference."
There is no difference.
Ye Yunhe and Si Yu'an threw the blasting talismans into different mirrors, and each one made no difference except making the already angry reflections even angrier.
There were "pop" and "pop" sounds coming from the lens on the ground. The reflection, which had completely lost its human appearance, tore its facial features and slapped the mirror surface hard, constantly hitting it with its forehead, and crackling lines spread.
The four of them no longer hesitated. They chose the nearest mirror and rushed towards it. They jumped over together and had a surprising face-to-face encounter with their reflections in the mirror. Finally, they crossed the mirror surface that was rippling like water under each other's furious eyes.
Their hands were still tightly clasped together.
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The touch of the mirror was icy cold. The moment I touched it, the chill spread along my spine, and then my whole body felt sticky as if it had been greedily licked. Ye Yunhe shuddered, gasped, and staggered a few steps before he steadied himself.
The body temperature of her teammates on both her left and right hands made her feel at ease. She raised her head and looked around.
A very familiar scene.
What was in front of her was not an exclusive illusion built for a normal copy, but the place that Ye Yunhe was most familiar with - her dormitory.
She subconsciously widened her eyes, and the pattern on the amulet hidden in her chest dimmed, flickering listlessly. She covered her chest and lowered her head for a moment, hiding the involuntary shrinkage of her pupils.
"Players are detected to be in place - welcome to the dungeon, dear players."
The electronic music that I haven't heard for a few days and I don't miss it at all is online, accompanied by the usual crackling current.
"This is a special copy of an unknown evolution, randomly spread all over the place, but the destination will not change. Please take good care of your life and try to meet me again."
"The current level of the copy is - A-level "Man in the Mirror""
"We will prepare generous rewards for players here. There is no countdown time. We are determined to create the most comfortable puzzle-solving session for you. If you are dissatisfied, please submit a request after settlement."
"Well then, the dungeon is about to begin. Players, please start playing."
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What's going on? Why does it feel like this thing is particularly cheap today?
Ye Yunhe frowned in disdain, feeling that the electronic voice was full of undisguised sarcasm, and even the crackling electric current was full of malice.
"What the hell is this system?" Si Yu'an raised his fist and waved it in the air. "If this thing didn't have a physical body, I would have already..."
"Okay, Yu'an." Lin Muyu sighed helplessly, "The most urgent thing is to search the surroundings first... This copy is very special. It seems that someone has invaded our memories to construct the current environment."
The young man looked at Ye Yunhe gently: "Xiao Ye, this is your dormitory. We don't go there often. Can you take a look and see if there is anything strange?"
"...Okay." Ye Yunhe stiffened her body and responded. She raised her hand and touched the desk, which was exactly the same as in her memory. The touch was as cold as a mirror, making her curl her fingertips. There is no temperature here.
It also made her realize that there was something wrong that she had inexplicably felt at the beginning.
"No!" She turned around suddenly and scanned the room, but still couldn't find the figure. "Where is Xiao Heng? If you are here, he should be here too!"
The young boy who was holding her arm on the right had disappeared as soon as he came in. The amulet also lost its luster due to the lack of the most important part, and now it was emitting heat in protest.
Yes, the patterns engraved on the amulet can be pieced together. The one that Qi Heng owns is the one with the deepest patterns and is also the most important one. The three of them consciously took the other three and left the real important one to the young man.
The wooden sign will flow happily when the holder is close to it, but will naturally wilt when the holder is far away. Now the most important part is missing, and the sadness level rises sharply.
Ye Yunhe covered the amulet and carefully sensed the boy's position.
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So far!
Her face was wooden.
How come it’s so far! ! I can hardly sense that weak connection! ! It turns out that this broken mirror was waiting for her here! !
Ye Yunhe cursed in his heart.
She looked back at the two teammates beside her, only to see that they were also frowning and sensing the direction just like her. Si Yu'an's expression changed instantly after hearing her shout, and at this moment he was trying his best to feel the boy's location.
She was silent for a few breaths, then asked, "Have you sensed the exact direction? I identified the northwest direction. After we search here, let's go over there and see, there may be a new passage."
"I'm almost in that direction too." Lin Muyu nodded at her with a serious look in his eyes. "Then Xiaoye, you take charge of this area. Yu'an and I will go outside to take a look."
The beginning of a copy is usually a time to search for clues, and the second door opening and killing will not come so soon, otherwise it will violate the rules of the game.
Ye Yunhe was not too panicked about his teammates' dispersion. Thanks to the amulet, it is now confirmed that the mirror will take people to different illusions.
Then let's see what they want to do. She calmly searched for items, hiding the dagger in her sleeve after her teammates left, and the energy flowing through her body was ready to be unleashed.
She found a mirror under the bed.
The mirror looked very familiar. It was a small foreign mirror she had picked up in junior high school. It looked delicate and old. It was thrown alone next to a trash can at that time. Then she took it home, wiped it with alcohol for a simple disinfection, and used it for a long time. One day, it was knocked to the ground and broke into several pieces, and then returned to the trash can again.
Ye Yunhe frowned and stared at his reflection in the mirror warily. After a few breaths, there was still no change, and no ripples were caused when touched.
She felt her way to the back of the mirror and saw a rough piece of paper stuck there, as if it had been dried for years.
She pulled it out.
"I want to go out"
"I want to go out?" Ye Yunhe murmured, "Sure enough, the mirror is the most important clue... Let's keep looking."
She picked up the calendar that had fallen into the corner between the desk and the wardrobe.
In fact, she had no habit of looking at the calendar. Even this calendar was just a gift given to her by the boss when she bought something. He just put it on the table and never paid any attention to it again. It's very unfamiliar. If I hadn't searched carefully, I would have skipped it.
The dates on the calendar were crossed out one by one, and it seemed that someone was always paying attention to them. The numbers crossed out in red gradually occupied most of the page. Ye Yunhe flipped through the pages one by one and found that the date finally stopped at the 8th.
Ye Yunhe touched the handwriting and judging from the degree of dryness, the red cross on number seven should have been made in the past few days.
"So the current date of this illusion is the 8th?"
She noted the number and put the calendar back in place.
She dug out a flat plate from under the quilt that was as cold as iron.
He used the real-life password to open the tablet, and saw that only 10% of the battery was left. Ye Yunhe, who always believed in "charging at 70%", frowned and subconsciously looked for the charger.
I couldn't find it. I don't know where it fell.
She quickly opened the backstage to check, trying to collect useful clues before the battery ran out.
The densely packed apps stored in the background made her scalp tingle. She resisted the urge to clear them out with one click and squinted her eyes to search through them.
A peculiar page caught her attention.
"What is this? News?" Ye Yunhe clicked on it.
It was indeed news, telling the story of a woman who stabbed someone in the street with a knife. The accompanying picture was a high-definition, uncensored scene photo, which had a bloody feel and disregard for the physical and mental health of others.
A man was stabbed to pieces, lying on the ground with his limbs broken, already dead. Beside him was kneeling a wailing woman, covered in blood, holding a knife with a devastated expression. Half a meter away from them, there was a broken corpse lying there, half of its face was smashed and broken bones and scarlet flesh were exposed.
Ye Yunhe had no reaction to this level of bloodiness, but this news made her feel slightly familiar, as if she had seen it before at some point.
I can’t remember it at the moment. She pressed her temple, noted the news and looked through other pages. When she found nothing else worth noting, she turned off the tablet and threw it back on the bed.
There is nothing else to search for.
Go out and find those two people.
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