Home (VI)
The roar of the mountains and the sea was like a huge bell crashing and exploding in my mind, and an inexplicable fear swept through my body.
This is a huge fear that cannot even be uttered by screaming or trembling. It is an innate horror of advanced creatures that comes from deep in the genes. It is like a mountain pressing down on one's head. The fishing boat capsizes in the raging tide and the earth roars and cracks.
In the face of the roar of creation, all self-defense mechanisms of weak species seem extremely ridiculous.
At this moment, the despicable human beings were completely stripped away from the barrier and faced the indescribable things for the first time.
The abyss is staring at you.
"Bang!"
The woman rolled onto the white floor with several tentacles on her waist and abdomen. Her body was dirty and had countless corrosive wounds.
Her eyes rolled back, her consciousness shattered, her body convulsed, and she could only utter broken, meaningless syllables.
The residual power of the whispers in her mind had not yet dissipated, and soon, bright red blood flowed from all her orifices, and her bones made teeth-grinding cracking sounds. The pain made her regain consciousness in a moment, and her unfocused pupils had not yet had time to gather, and they quickly collapsed in an instant, and her pupils trembled wildly in their eye sockets.
“Uh…”
This is an incredibly clean room. The walls and floor are made of dazzling white square bricks. Apart from that, there are no other decorations. The only thing in sight is the glaring white.
The room was very quiet, she was the only one there, the blood beneath her body quickly stained the floor, painting that part a striking red.
As the whispers gradually faded, the confusion in her mind was soon replaced by intense pain. Her head was splitting with pain, so severe that she could not feel her broken bones at all. She turned her limbs and banged them on the floor unconsciously, trying to distract herself from the pain.
In vain.
After an unknown amount of time, a noisy and comfortable noise came into the air. It was a bit like the white noise of human society, mixed with the familiar sound of rain and the friction of paper, full of soothing meaning.
The noise also continued for a very long time, until the person on the floor fainted, and then he lay there for several days and nights before slowly waking up, but it still didn't end.
Finally, it stopped.
Xu Wei's face was covered with blood scabs and dirt, and he could barely keep his eyelids open.
She squinted her eyes for a moment because of the dazzling white light, and then opened them wide because of the pain all over her body.
It hurts so much.
The bones and flesh seemed to be broken and recast inch by inch. There was no part of the body that didn't hurt, and the skin felt numb and itchy.
She raised her hand with great effort and looked at her palm, where she saw an eyeball wriggling in the flesh. She was disgusted and put it down quickly.
One can already foresee the terrible conditions in various parts of the body.
So tired.
She looked around weakly, feeling exhausted.
Screw the judgment game, screw the dark clouds, screw saving the earth, it’s better to die like this, it’s better than staying in some godforsaken space with a lot of eyeballs on your head, feeling terrible pain all over your body, feeling dizzy and wanting to vomit.
fed up.
She stared at the ceiling in a daze, feeling more tired than ever before. Under the influence of the white noise, her eyelids began to droop again and she gradually became sleepy.
She closed her eyes.
Before his consciousness fell into darkness again, a strange noise suddenly came from above his head, which seemed abrupt and eerie in the quiet and empty room.
Xu Wei's tightly closed eyes suddenly widened. His body reacted before his brain did. He jumped up in one step and looked around warily.
“Ah ...
The already painful limbs were immediately reacted with overwhelming pain by this torment. She could hardly bear it and knelt down again.
When the pain eased a little, Xu Wei knelt on the ground and pounded the floor angrily, then danced with pain, making the pain worse.
Now I am truly sober.
Damn this conditioned reflex. I can’t even die peacefully.
Just don't let him die.
After a few quick breaths, Xu Wei resigned himself to tearing off the tentacles that were stuck to his waist. The clothes around his waist were also torn, revealing the bright red flesh underneath. Blood flowed from the wound, stinging the new wound and causing severe pain.
I didn’t expect the dark clouds to appear at the last moment. I should have thought of it when I saw that suggestive starry sky cake.
Fortunately, she took a gamble, otherwise she wouldn't know what would happen if she faced the dark cloud of awakening.
Just hearing a sound caused such a terrifying reaction.
She received an interview call during the day and was asked to arrive the next day. She didn't pay attention to the time at first until she noticed the messed up clock face.
She wasn't quite sure whether the inverted clock face was consistent with the correct time or far from it, but judging from the fact that Wuyun pulled her into the dungeon and didn't kill her, but instead went to great lengths to control the situation - the other party was likely still subject to some restrictions and could not kill her directly.
Procrastinating again.
And she wasted too much time after being controlled.
The words on the calendar, and even the words in the book that she had spent half a day to decipher, were all mirror images. The female ghost in the bathroom who looked like her even appeared in the mirror, which made her suspect that the third element was related to the mirror.
Thanks to having watched horror movies of this type - the settings of system copies are mostly taken from the local culture of the earth, and the dark clouds simulate a system copy.
In horror movies, mirror elements usually mean that there is another upside-down world hidden in the mirror.
She realized that she had to verify this hypothesis, so she searched all the rooms except the bedroom and found that many items in the house had hidden elements of symmetry.
What finally made her determine her guess was the walk down the stairs.
There are five floors in the building, and at the doorsteps of every household, whether it is couplets, flower beds, carpets or small advertisements posted on the doors, they are all mirror-symmetrical.
This means that not only the inside of the house, but the entire world outside the house is very likely to be a mirror space. If you run away rashly, you may not be able to get out and will also anger the BOSS.
The safe way was to let Zhou Ze go to sleep while she continued to explore until she was completely sure before taking any action.
But time is running out.
The closer it got to the interview time, the more she was uncontrollably affected by the environment, and she subconsciously wanted to clean up her messy living room and put all the untidy items back in symmetrical places.
It’s too late to understand all the story lines and elements.
Fortunately, there were not many mirrors in the house in the past, only one in the bathroom and a small mirror on the desk in the bedroom.
Before risking opening the door to attract Zhou Ze, Xu Wei had carefully observed the broken mirror in the bathroom while collecting clues. When the female ghost was inside before, she felt nothing special when touching the mirror. Instead, she felt a strong suction when she touched it again after the other party was killed.
The fingers could easily pass through the mirror and reach the space behind it, but due to the shattering, Xu Wei was unable to pass through it as a whole.
She thought of the small table mirror, and how Zhou Ze returned to the bedroom to sleep without fear after the bathroom mirror was broken.
He was guarding the bedroom.
Xu Wei was even able to vaguely piece together a confusing plot that connected the third copy element and three story lines.
In the mirror world, Zhou Ze and his "wife" fell in love, but the unhealthy marriage caused his "wife" to suffer from postpartum depression. She killed her child and set herself on fire in the baby's room. Zhou Ze couldn't accept the fact, so he traveled through the mirror into the real world, brought in a new victim, and brainwashed him into becoming his "wife".
The good times didn't last long. His "wife" eventually discovered something strange and woke up. He could only kill her painfully and then continue searching for prey in the real world, falling into a cycle of killing and searching.
Xu Wei was pulled into the plot as a new victim. The piles of corpses in the room with different deaths represented countless identical stories that had happened in the past. After all, Wuyun was a copy designed for her, so the corpses all looked like her.
The female ghost in the mirror is also the failed "Xu Wei" in the copy simulation. She died here and could not stay in the two worlds. She could only survive in the cracks of the mirror, which foreshadowed her failure and was also a clue.
This is the most complete story Xu Wei has been able to piece together from the known clues. There may be confusion in it, but this is a story where many elements are mixed together, so it is not surprising that there are conflicts, or perhaps there are smaller details behind the contradictions that she no longer has time to examine.
Most importantly, if Zhou Ze was allowed to sleep, she would have difficulty finding a reason to approach the small mirror, and time was the ultimate murderous intent hidden behind all the story lines.
If going to Herun Building is a condition for passing the level, then the content of the note before the handwriting changes is very thought-provoking - enjoy your real day.
What happens when this day is over?
Xu Wei could only gamble on his past dungeon experience.
Fortunately, the bet won.
I just don’t know where this world inside the mirror is.
She looked up and around, still feeling a little dizzy. This place was too empty. There was nothing but white light pollution. Even the noise just now seemed like an illusion.
It doesn't look like any company interview location, but rather has a sense of déjà vu of a gaming system space in an old novel.
"Number XW1018, I am talking to you."
There was a sudden voice in his ear, which made Xu Wei subconsciously take a defensive posture.
She was stunned.
"If you are still conscious, please reply to me."
A familiar childish voice.
"Singer's partner?" she asked doubtfully.
Although the tone had become cold, she would never forget the sound she had heard - it was the intelligent little companion that came out of the novice copy and had built-in skills. Because it could read her inner thoughts, Xu Wei was afraid that her marker pen mission would be discovered, so she forcibly turned off its intimate function and never summoned it again.
Why is this related again?
How many forces have been targeting her since she entered the game?
Xu Wei was horrified.
The other party was silent for a moment, and then replied: "This is just a medium for me to exist beside you. There is no need to explore it too much."
Xu Wei: "Are you from the same group as the male voice in the radio gymnastics song? He hasn't appeared in a long time."
It actually answered patiently: "I am not his species, but I am also a creature that is higher than humans."
Inexplicably sensing a bit of goodwill from the other party, Xu Wei strangely did not sense the arrogance of a higher-dimensional creature from it - in his previous conversation with the male voice, although he had concealed it well, it still inevitably revealed itself.
She asked directly: "Are you here to help me?"
"The copy you just experienced was formed under the combined influence of me and the dark cloud."
Xu Wei understood: "So that house looks like my old home, but also like a transit station. Did you create this difference to warn me?"
“That’s not all.”
That is, even some copy elements are affected by it, making her judgment smoother.
It's not that Xu Wei didn't have doubts about it, but given his current situation, it seemed that he had no choice but to trust the other party.
After that trance, she still wanted to survive.
I haven’t eaten Zhang Yuan’s hotpot yet.
"Why does it have to be me?" she sighed.
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