Chapter 121 The Man in the Mirror
The world outside the dormitory is also very familiar.
After Ye Yunhe came out, he didn't see any trace of those two people. She looked at the tightly closed dormitory door opposite, walked forward, grasped the door handle and turned it.
Can't open, locked.
So she turned the door handle of the dormitory next door.
Can't open it either, it's locked.
"...It seems like there's no model at all." Ye Yunhe was speechless. But that's true. After all, in real life, I have never been to a dormitory other than that of my teammates.
It seems that this illusion is made up of her memories.
From this point of view, it is easy to find where those two people are now. She walked towards Lin Muyu's dormitory.
He opened the captain's door with ease, and sure enough, he heard two voices talking inside, accompanied by the sound of rummaging through things.
She raised her voice and asked, "Did you two find any clues?"
"There are so many mirrors, Xiaoye." Si Yuan knocked on the pile of mirrors they had found on the table. These mirrors, large and small, were stacked and arranged, making crisp sounds. "These things feel like cockroaches. So disgusting."
Lin Muyu frowned and picked up a small mirror. "Although I know that the mirror is one of the key clues, it feels wrong to be so obvious."
That's right. Ye Yunhe recalled how cautious he was when he entered the bathroom, but felt strange when he discovered that the round mirror inside had disappeared.
"Are you having trouble with the mirror in your bathroom?" she asked.
Si Yu'an scratched his head and said, "No, it's still there, and I can't take it off. I tried to look at it for a while, but I didn't find that my inner self would change."
"I tried everything, but the mirror remained rigid."
"Maybe mirrors can also be real or fake?" Lin Muyu speculated, resting his chin on his hand. "From countless passages to only one, if we want to leave this illusion, we probably have to find the real mirror."
No, perhaps the reflection in the mirror has the right to control itself. When the original body and the reflection look at each other, the change may have already occurred quietly, but it seems nothing has happened because of the deliberate imitation of the reflection. Ye Yunhe raised his eyebrows and thought.
But if you ask her to suddenly perform difficult moves like a psychopath to test her speculation... Sorry, she really can't do it. That's how thin-skinned people are.
If possible, she would like to let Si Yu'an give it a try. After all, this person has never cared about his reputation. But the situation is different now, so let's put this idea aside for now.
Ye Yunhe glanced at his teammate who was still frowning and thinking hard, with an unclear expression.
She walked forward and began to look through the large assorted mirrors on the table. She already had an idea about the passage.
"Don't think about science in a fantasy world. Is it possible that the passage doesn't have to be as long as ours, but is just a small portable mirror?" She saw the same calendar on Lin Muyu's desk, but there was no sign of it being used. "Do you have any speculation?"
The other two stood on either side of her at some point, and they all lowered their eyes and stared at the table quietly.
Lin Muyu smiled gently, with the most familiar arc on the corner of his lips: "Maybe we can wait and see, there may be other clues hidden in the corner."
"After all, everything is still unknown. If we act rashly, we may end up falling into a trap."
"I agree with this suggestion too—" Si Yu'an raised his hand and drew out the words, "Xiao Ye, my dormitory hasn't been searched yet, how about you go there first? I'll go there to find you later."
“…”
Ye Yunhe silently threw down the mirror in his hand, ignoring the cracks on the mirror caused by the violent throwing, and picked up another one to check.
Si Yu'an was stunned, looking at her blankly, at a loss, and swallowed back the words he was about to say. He and Lin Muyu looked at each other.
The room suddenly became quiet.
After a moment, Ye Yunhe smacked his lips and said, "What? You don't know anything at all."
"What a waste of my time."
The woman's usually lazy tone was tainted with a hint of anger. She turned around with a cold face, hooked her calves on the load-bearing legs of the table and swung it hard. With the violent friction sound between the floor and the table legs, she swung it hard at the two people blocking behind her, physically isolating them from each other.
The hard sharp corner hit his calf, followed by a crisp cracking sound like breaking glass. "Si Yu'an" staggered back two steps and stood firm. He raised his head and stared expressionlessly at the woman who suddenly attacked him, without any reaction as expected under the severe pain.
Like an inhuman reflection in a mirror.
No matter how much they resemble humans, they cannot change their inhuman nature.
"Ha." Ye Yunhe sneered. She raised her head and looked down at you from a high position. "What? You don't want to pretend anymore? I wanted to say this the first time I saw you guys--"
"Don't use your poor and disgusting acting skills to imitate my teammates!"
The dagger was thrown out from the sleeve and was quickly grasped in the palm of the hand. As the knife holder intended, it stabbed fiercely towards "Lin Muyu's" throat. The sharp tip of the knife made a violent sound of breaking through the air and was within reach in an instant.
"Lin Muyu" fell back in embarrassment, the dagger left a white scratch on his neck, and a sharp and piercing friction sound suddenly arose, as if someone was deliberately cutting the glass with a sharp object. Immediately afterwards, the silver-blue energy rushed forward and hit the shallow mark with all its might, intending to expand the mark.
Fake imitations are not as strong as the original.
Therefore, an irresistible short "click" sound pierced Ye Yunhe's eardrum faster than the sudden and expanding scar on Lin Muyu's neck.
The dagger changed direction and was thrown towards "Si Yu'an" quickly. She jumped onto the table and leaped down, using her legs as a blade to attack "Lin Muyu" who lowered his head and covered his neck, and pressed him to the ground forcefully, making close contact with the floor.
It was not the dull thud of something falling heavily to the ground, but the crisp, buzzing sound that represented the rapid shattering of a complete object, which once again reached her ears clearly and violently.
Ye Yunhe stared from beginning to end.
There was no splattering of blood, no blurry flesh and blood, only the neck that was as clear as glass, shattered into sharp dots scattered around the body, cold, reflective, exposed to Ye Yunhe's sight -
Glass products.
——
Twisting his numb wrist, Ye Yunhe stepped out of the door.
Inside the house, replicas that had turned into their originals were scattered on the ground in pieces, and the soft fabric returned to its hard texture, reflecting colorful spots of light that were printed on the snow-white walls. The head was no longer intact due to the strong blow, and the familiar face had lost its flesh color. It lay coldly like a discarded mannequin, trapped in this space forever.
The dagger was inserted back into the straps, its sharp edge hidden. Ye Yunhe walked through the corridor with an expressionless face and stopped in front of a door.
This is Qi Heng’s dormitory.
She reached out, took the handle again and twisted it. As expected, the door was locked tightly.
This makes sense. According to the calendar time, the boy has not met them yet. This dormitory, which will belong to them in the future, is naturally still idle.
But that's not the point.
"Why is there no copy of Xiaoheng?" This is the question Ye Yunhe has been thinking about.
The amulet given by Bai Ri is a high-level item, and the item cannot be copied and used by a replica. Therefore, in the first second after opening his eyes, Ye Yunhe discovered the authenticity of his teammate and had been patient until now before suddenly launching an attack.
Like Qi Heng, the amulets of the other two were also sensitive to different locations. Although not as far away as the young man's, they were not close either. The replica obviously didn't know this information yet, nor did it know that it had revealed the secret in the first second.
It seems that they only have a partial understanding of the real body. If it were the real Si and An, they would have jumped up and screamed "Where's my child?!" the moment they saw Qi Heng. The worried Captain Lin would have started analyzing the situation the second after hearing the electronic voice, and would have found a passage to retrieve the missing teammates as efficiently as possible.
But why isn’t Qi Heng’s copy here?
Is that so?
"Is it because of his special physique that cannot be copied, or is it because the appearance of the copy comes from memory and the copy cannot invade Xiao Heng's mental network?"
Or, in the worst case scenario, was it intentional during the dungeon stage?
It seems that none of them are reasonable.
Ye Yunhe put the puzzle into a corner, intending to re-speculate after obtaining new clues. The most urgent task was to find a passage to leave the illusion. Most likely he is hiding in Si and An's dormitory.
She continued to think.
If the growth of the replicas is indeed based on the depth of memory, then they are undoubtedly the weakest as we only know a tiny bit of them now. And judging from Lin Muyu's deliberate retention, the way they absorb memories is most likely through close contact with real people, or eye contact in the mirror.
...Judging from the mirror meeting at the beginning, Ye Yunhe was very worried about the number and growth of these clones.
Her wrists were a little cold, so she covered them and rubbed them vigorously to keep warm. Si Yu'an's dormitory was just a few steps away. She turned the handle smoothly, pushed open the door and walked in.
The heavy curtains were drawn to block out the light, and the room was dim. The bathroom door was wide open, just a few steps to the right.
Ye Yunhe stepped in without hesitation, turned on the light and met his eyes in the mirror.
"Are you also a clone?" She asked softly with a smile, "It must be very uncomfortable to be an imitator all the time. Do you want to come out and compete?"
The person in the mirror looked at her and smiled, making the same lip movements as hers.
It was clear that only my own reflection was distorted at the beginning, but after entering the mirror world, I could only meet other people's copies? Or is it that there can only be one Ye Yunhe in a space?
She raised her hand and touched the mirror.
The coldness stained the fingertips, and ripples like water spread from under the fingers. An irresistible strong suction came from the center, forcing the person who stood firmly to stagger forward, and the upper body was swallowed whole. The calm mirror surface turned into a bottomless whirlpool, and soon after, the lower body was also swallowed up.
The bathroom returned to silence.
The lights are turned off.
——
Si and An were screaming and jumping.
As an intuitive player who could tell the authenticity of his teammates right after landing, he rose up after a brief undercover stint, beat up the clones with their faces covered, and then pinned them to the ground while threatening and questioning them.
As if its vocal cords had also been vitrified, the replica had a frozen expression and remained silent, with only one eye staring at him, grimly from bottom to top. The chill that spread to the back of his neck made Si Yuan sneeze, and he punched the replica in discomfort, completely shattering it.
But unfortunately, the memory fantasy he was in was a commercial street. Even though the people coming and going were not humans, it still looked very lively. Si and An could even see some faces they had seen in reality! He was so angry that he wanted to curse the copy for infringing on personal portrait rights.
Those glass men who had ignored him when he started beating people up, tilted their heads and looked over here at the moment when the replica was completely shattered, and their normal skin color instantly turned pale and transparent.
Si Yuan, who was being stared at by countless cold gazes, was sweating profusely.
There was a few seconds of dead silence. The glass man raised his legs and moved closer to him, dropping equipment and skin fragments along the way, but he still tried to reduce the encirclement with an expressionless face. The unfavorable terrain made Si and An look around, then they stood up decisively and jumped onto the open parasol, then staggered across the air and ran towards the commercial building.
He parkoured and dodged all the way like this, and finally came to the place with the most mirrors. He kept bumping into walls in the bathroom and the clothing store. Whenever he saw a mirror, he would jump up. When he was hit back by the hard mirror, he would switch to another one and continue jumping, kicking the transparent heads of a few glass men into pieces. Although the clothes were torn in several places, there were no injuries.
Finally, he successfully rushed into the real mirror channel and completely got rid of the glass men by changing the illusion, but he also paid a heavy price because of the enemy's group fighting method.
He touched the cut on his chest in disbelief, and covered his face with his hands, turning into the famous painting "The Scream".
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