Bai Liu's tongue moved in his mouth, and the cold coin moved slowly under his thin tongue mucosa. With inexplicable emotions in his eyes, he looked calmly out of the small window at the policeman who was guarding him with fear in his eyes.

A truck with a huge, heavy metal trunk sped past on the deserted road at night, followed by several other cars, heading towards a huge, dome-shaped, white building the size of a stadium located in the middle of the wasteland.

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The interior of the dome is smooth and silvery, made of a kind of bright metal that can reflect light. Each side is like a mirror, and a huge lamp hangs in the center like the sun. The cold white light reflects off the walls and then shines from all directions. The people coming and going inside all wear dark goggles.

Those who suddenly arrested Bai Liu in the name of police put on goggles skillfully before entering this huge building, but Bai Liu, who was tied up with metal chains, had no goggles to wear.

If you open your eyes without wearing goggles in such high-brightness light, it will only take one or two seconds for your eyes to lose their normal visual function and you will only be able to see some spots of light. Staring at it for a long time may even cause snow blindness, which will burn your eyes and cause blindness.

Bai Liu originally wanted to take a look at the internal structure of this strange building so that he could escape later, but this high-intensity light and building structure were obviously designed to prevent people like him who wanted to escape from memorizing the route map.

In this kind of light, the human eye cannot see anything at all, let alone remember the route.

Bai Liu gave up this idea instantly. He closed his eyes and was pulled forward by others.

These people finally put Bai Liu in a small gray metal room that was roughly square in structure and not too high. There was a table and two benches in the room. A very bright desk lamp was placed on the table. There was only a small window on the wall that was the same size as the one Bai Liu saw in the car. Bai Liu could hear the sounds coming from outside through the small window:

"Report to the deputy captain of the third detachment! The team has successfully captured the highly dangerous humanoid heretic with the pseudo-code 006!"

"No one went crazy during this mission! No one committed suicide after being deceived by the heretic! No one was physically disabled by the heretic's physical attacks! Because Team Tang assumed that the heretic was a red high-risk heretic monster, 5 modified armored vehicles, 17 tube guns, a straight barrel, and 33 members of the third team were dispatched to capture the heretic. So far, no personnel or weapons have been lost, and the mission has been successfully completed!"

A gentle male voice said, "Excuse me, team members. I will personally interrogate the remaining information about this captured humanoid heretic."

The reporting voice was a little anxious: "Captain Su, why are you in such a hurry? Go with Captain Tang! He has a higher resistance, and it was Captain Tang who insisted on forcibly arresting this heretic tonight. It's too dangerous for you to face such an unknown heretic alone."

"Where are Team Tang?"

The gentle voice became slightly colder, and the man called Su Dui sighed in disappointment: "After he went crazy tonight and told us to catch heretics, he went out drinking again. Now I don't know where he is drunk. I can't get through to him on the phone, so I sent someone to look for him."

"...Captain Tang went out drinking again?!" The team member's voice was filled with disbelief, "How could he do this?! He used his captain's special authority to force us to arrest these heretics before we thoroughly investigated them! Didn't Captain Tang say he would do it himself? Why did he go out to get drunk again?!"

"This isn't the first time he's been in high spirits and suddenly had the idea of ​​sending the detachment to some very strange place to catch monsters." Captain Su smiled bitterly. "When he's drunk, everyone looks like a monster to him, but this is the first time he's used his captain's privileges. Tonight, he gave very specific and accurate information about this humanoid heretic named Bai Liu. I thought he really wanted to do something about it after checking it out, but looking at the situation now, maybe he's just an innocent civilian..."

"Let me go in and see what's going on."

As he spoke, the metal door in Bai Liu's small room was pushed open.

The person who came was a man in his thirties wearing a neat police uniform, a protective mask and brown leather gloves. He looked gentle and modest. He was estimated to be over 1.80 meters tall, with a pair of soft eyes that were grayish yellow, or light amber. His hair seemed to have not been taken care of for some time, and it hung half-long on both sides of his face. His eyes seemed to be a little dark due to staying up late, but overall he was clean and tidy, and seemed to be a man who was good at maintaining his living conditions while working at a high intensity. At first glance, he looked very friendly and was the type that would easily let people down.

Bai Liu's eyes fell on the ID card tucked into the right chest pocket of his clothes: [Deputy Captain of the Third Brigade of the Dangerous Heresy Handling Department - Su Yang]

Su Yang gestured to Bai Liu to sit down. After Bai Liu sat down, Su Yang noticed that Bai Liu's eyes were fixed on his ID card. He nodded at his ID card, raised his head and explained to Bai Liu helplessly: "Perhaps you will not believe this comrade who was violently arrested, but we are indeed a formal state department."

Bai Liu glanced at Su Yang indifferently without answering.

Su Yang's expression became even more helpless. "It's like this. Although it sounds ridiculous, when many ordinary people were unaware, many things appeared in this world that were completely inexplicable to human scientific common sense. They were like monsters. We call these unknown monsters that came from nowhere heretics."

"Some of these heretics can deceive people and drive them crazy, and some can even suck their flesh and blood. In order to deal with these dangerous heretics that can harm ordinary people, a special department called the Heresy Handling Department was established, and the people who arrested you tonight are members of this department."

Bai Liu opened his eyelids and said, "What does that have to do with me? Do I look like a heretic?"

Su Yang did not answer Bai Liu directly. Instead, he took out a remote control from the table in front of Bai Liu, pointed it at the wall and pressed it lightly. A white screen slowly descended from the wall, and a projector appeared on the opposite side, starting to project a PPT on the screen:

[Dangerous Heresy Handling Department Science Popularization]

Su Yang looked at Bai Liu: "Let me explain to you what I just said, and then I will talk to you in detail about your situation. Just now we talked about how we are responsible for dealing with these heretics who suddenly appeared in this world. Our department has existed for a long, long time, but until now, none of us knows where these heretics come from, but they just appear, in all kinds of weird and scary postures, including people, animals, and objects."

Su Yang pressed the remote control, and the screen of the PPT projected on the white cloth switched.

He continued, "These heretics possess terrible power that is enough to destroy us. Remember the Mirror City bombing?"

The picture on the PPT was a photo of the antique mirror that Bai Liu had seen in "The Last Train". There were several people around wearing uniforms of similar style and color to Su Yang, frowning and seriously inspecting and measuring the mirror.

Su Yang said: "This is the mirror in the Mirror City bombing. After the bombing, many members of the public questioned why someone could brazenly bring a bomb onto the subway. Wasn't the security check effective? At the time, our public announcement was that a thief had hidden the bomb in the shareholder mirror. We were scolded for nearly a month, saying that we could say anything stupid just to shirk responsibility. A mirror of that size and thickness could not possibly hide a bomb that could blow up a workshop."

He pressed the remote control again, and the photo on the screen changed to another one. It was still the same group of people in uniform. They were taking out an extremely huge black bomb from the mirror with shocked expressions. It was a completely anti-space and anti-normal picture.

"But this is the fact." Su Yang turned to look at Bai Liu, "This mirror was shattered in the explosion. We spent a lot of effort to piece together the mirror from the subway station where the accident occurred. After recovering it, we did a lot of testing and experiments on the mirror. We found that it is like a folding point in space. Things that are far larger than its own size can be taken out from it, and the things put in cannot be detected by all our known radiation or devices."

"After long-term experiments and tests, we found that this mirror not only stores items, but also has a certain spiritual embodiment function. If our experimenters stare at this mirror for a long time, the things in the mirror will change from bombs to the things they least want to see at that time."

"We found out in our subsequent investigation that the object in the mirror was a bomb because the thieves didn't want the mirror they had worked so hard to get to break. They were afraid of anything that could break the expensive mirror, and they stared at the mirror day and night. Eventually, their fear was stored in the mirror and exploded on the train."

The screen on the PPT continued to switch, this time turning into a screen of an instruction manual:

[Name of the heretic containment item]: Murphy's Theorem Mirror

【No】：CEDT-0714

[Report]: Found in a huge explosion, during the process of recovering debris, it was found that the train was in an unstoppable loop of the subway line one hour before the train exploded (the line is not a loop). It was later confirmed that the fear of the people who died in the explosion was projected into the shattered mirror fragments. The passengers on this train were afraid that they would not be able to leave the train that was about to explode, so the mirror reflected the unstoppable cycle of explosions...

…After all the lenses are recovered, no repair is needed. The fragments piece together to form a normal mirror surface, and after the pieces are pieced together, no trace of the fragments can be found…

…After testing, it was found that staring at something for more than seventeen minutes can cause the object in the mirror to transform into something the person staring at it fears…

[Containment Method]: Placed 17 meters underground, wrapped in dark polyethylene cloth and kept away from light. Only with the consent of three deputy captains or one captain can you enter the CEDT-0714 containment room for inspection.

[Danger Level]: Light red

"Of course, after our experiment, the contents of this mirror are no longer bombs." Su Yang smiled and joked, "We asked an experimenter who hates spicy food to stare at this mirror while eating a spicy hot pot. An hour later, the contents of this mirror were all the devilish spicy hot pot base."

Su Yang continued to play the PPT screen: "Have you seen the mushroom poisoning case in the welfare home that happened some time ago on TV?"

Bai Liu looked up at the wall - on the screen was a picture of blood ganoderma, not a photo, but a hand-drawn one.

"We took over this case in the middle period. We found out that the investors back then were very likely related to this thing. It is said that it can cure all diseases, but unfortunately there are no specific clues." Su Yang smiled lightly and glanced at Bai Liu with a meaningful look. "But you said it was a coincidence that someone suddenly exposed a clue gift package to us this morning. The members of the second team have already gone to arrest the person."

The screen on the PPT continued to move down and turned into a short surveillance video of a hospital ward.

In the video, Bai Liu was visiting a child on the hospital bed. The child recovered quickly after Bai Liu left, then turned around, looked at the door of the ward where Bai Liu was leaving, and whispered "thank you".

When Bai Liu saw this scene, he sighed softly in his heart.

I thought he was going to flip over.

"After you left, we used cotton swabs to examine the vomit and feces of this young comrade's throat, and found that there was indeed a very strange kind of hyphae residue." Su Yang took out a thumb-sized glass bottle from his right chest pocket, in which a blood-red hyphae was placed with a fixative.

He raised his head and looked straight at Bai Liu, "Comrade Bai Liu, no one else came to visit these children except you that day, and these children got better after you came. Can you explain where these mycelium came from?"