From the audience's perspective, Gu Xinghe was simply repeating the action of observing the mirror, and seemed to be thinking about something with his head down.
[Gu Ge is too brave! He actually dared to look in the mirror, and observe so carefully!]
"Surely everything's alright?"
[Yes, didn't that diary also say that the employees looked in the mirror as usual and everything was fine?]
[Yes, I saw it in other players' livestreams; the tavern's veteran employees were all looking in the mirror.]
That's exactly as it says in the diary.
Although the sign said no mirrors allowed, the restrooms in this pub had mirrors installed all the time, just like everyone else.
Yes, it seems like all the prohibitions written in the employee handbook are useless.
[Or maybe it's just meant to scare players?]
The discussions heard from viewers in the live stream further confirm that it is generally harmless to look in a mirror in a bar.
However, Gu Xinghe's actions just now proved that this harmlessness was clearly only superficial.
He had never been so grateful that his cheat ability was an active and controllable skill.
Instead of needing him to passively receive everyone's thoughts all the time.
If that's the case, he might have already died when he first entered the beginner dungeon.
As his rapid breathing gradually subsided, Gu Xinghe finally had a chance to recall what he had just done.
Rather than listening to one's innermost thoughts.
He just seemed to have directly entered the inner world of some being.
It's like accidentally tuning into a certain frequency while changing a radio channel.
So I heard a series of things on this "channel".
In other words, he had previously experienced a certain degree of "empathy" with the mirror.
However, despite this, his second side quest still showed as incomplete on the system panel.
This shortcut of trying to directly listen to the mirror's "inner voice" proved to be a dead end.
He glanced helplessly at the mirror, then went back to his bed in his dormitory room and lay down.
The two prohibitions written in the employee handbook seem very strange at present—
Prohibiting customers from seeing the entire bartending process seems redundant.
No looking in the mirror... and violating that rule doesn't seem to have any consequences?
Ever since receiving a flood of information from the mirror, Gu Xinghe's drowsy mind made it difficult for him to continue thinking.
He decided to relax his body first and get some rest in bed.
His sleep quality tonight was clearly not very good.
Bizarre and fantastical dreams kept disturbing his sleep.
Gu Xinghe woke up groggily in a blinding light that obscured everything.
【Mirror】
Perhaps it was because I was exposed to too many things related to mirrors in a short period of time.
At that moment, this word suddenly came to mind.
Thus, amidst this blinding light, Gu Xinghe vaguely discerned that it seemed to be caused by the reflection of multiple mirrors.
Only then did he gradually come to realize that he might be dreaming.
Unlike ordinary gamers who are infected by something strange and have nightmares.
Gu Xinghe did not feel that the dream was harmful to him or would pose a danger to him.
Whether this can even be called a nightmare is debatable.
A bright and spacious hall with dazzling light.
At this point, the scenes appearing in the dream seem to have no connection whatsoever with the nightmares that most people imagine.
At that moment, from the depths of the light, Gu Xinghe seemed to see a little boy whose face he couldn't make out walking towards him.
His mouth was slightly open, as if he wanted to say something to him.
But at that moment, the sensation of pollution set off alarm bells in Gu Xinghe's mind.
Black mist tentacles surged from his body, and cracks appeared on the surrounding mirrors.
With a soft "click," the dream instantly shattered.
Even after he destroyed the entire dream, the boy whose face he couldn't see didn't attack him.
“Huh—huh—huh—”
Just then, Gu Xinghe woke up from his sleep.
He suddenly opened his eyes, and a little boy with empty eyes was standing in front of his bed.
What should have been the boy's eyeballs now appears as empty darkness.
And his appearance was exactly the same as Gu Xinghe's when he was a child!
Gu Xinghe's heart was beating faster and faster, but the boy's image quickly disappeared from his sight.
It seemed that what he had just seen was merely a visual remnant from his dream.
The surging tentacles reappeared from Gu Xinghe's shadow.
His face was pale, and fine beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
The tentacles, which should have seemed incredibly eerie, only brought Gu Xinghe a sense of reassurance.
Segments of misty black tentacles supported Gu Xinghe's back, which was covered in cold sweat, gently soothing his rapid breathing.
It seems that when people are panicked, their consciousness will involuntarily go astray.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe inexplicably made the connection—
Whether it was when I came into contact with the bathroom mirror earlier, or in the dream I just had.
The tentacles, which were part of his body, appeared extremely promptly.
That's so true to me!
I'm so awesome!
Having just sung his praises, Gu Xinghe was temporarily unable to fall back asleep after waking up from a dream.
He could only try to recall the details of his earlier contact with the mirror and the bizarre dream he had just experienced—
Taverns are the easiest places for people to gather in movies and TV shows, and the most suitable places to gather information.
The information Gu Xinghe received from the mirror when he was in the bathroom.
This undoubtedly reminded him of the function of taverns in most movie and TV dramas, where they are used to gather and inquire about information.
He undoubtedly formed some kind of connection with the mirror at that moment.
Therefore, they also obtained various information from what the people in the tavern said.
Perhaps, it was the gaze that the seemingly insane diarist had been constantly sensing.
It's as if some mysterious entity in the tavern is observing the entire tavern through mirrors, collecting the information it needs.
Could that mysterious figure be the tavern owner who has never appeared before?
Meanwhile, Gu Xinghe, now in the quiet atmosphere reflecting on what had happened, finally came to his senses.
At that time, it was the tentacles that protected him from contact with the mirror itself.
But just as he couldn't take it anymore, the mirror also broke off contact with him.
It's about cutting off contact, not expelling them.
The feeling was like a mirror possessing a certain self-awareness and not resisting Gu Xinghe himself.
It cut off contact because Gu Xinghe could no longer handle any more information.
It's somewhat similar to the dream I just had.
Because of Gu Xinghe's perception of pollution, the tentacles appeared on their own and shattered the dream.
The being that seemed to be the true form of the strange entity allowed Gu Xinghe to disrupt the dream until the very end, without any further entanglement.
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