Chapter 263 Across the Mirror
The window glass only reflected the normal street scene. After the emergency blockade, the avenue was empty and there seemed to be nothing unusual.
Yu Sheng took out his cell phone and tried to call back the number he had received earlier - as expected, the number was out of service area.
The communication isolation brought by the foreign land will not be weakened by getting close to its "entrance and exit". So far, there is no exception except for the special foreign land such as No. 66 Wutong Road and its affiliated space.
"What's the matter? Can you figure out what's going on?" Yu Sheng turned his head and looked at Little Red Riding Hood next to him.
Little Red Riding Hood shook her head solemnly.
"The entrance has been closed. The biggest problem now is that we can't determine which foreign land it is, and we can't determine the conditions for entering," she said slowly. "It's really strange... How can there be no trace left? Theoretically, there should be some trace left, and my wolf should be able to detect it..."
"Under normal circumstances, how do we deal with incidents where someone is swallowed by an unknown alien? Is there a rescue process?" Yu Sheng asked.
"The first thing is, of course, to determine which alien world the victim has fallen into, and then determine the entry and exit conditions and the location of the current entrance and exit based on this," Little Red Riding Hood answered casually, "If it is a fixed entrance and exit, like the museum we went to before, you can go in directly if you meet the conditions. If it is an entrance that keeps changing, you have to use some tracking methods - I have a wolf pack, but most spiritual detectives and investigators are not so convenient, so they really need to use some 'detection' and 'investigation' methods. As for the Secret Service..."
She hesitated when she said this, and Liu Bing beside her took over the conversation: "The Secret Service's method is actually similar. When encountering a constantly changing alien domain, we also need to track its entrance first. However, we can use the monitoring equipment throughout the border area to find those unstable cracks more quickly, and the deep-diving team can use special technology to forcibly enter those alien domains that do not meet the conditions for opening temporarily."
At this point, he frowned.
"But we ran into trouble this time too. Just like Little Red Riding Hood said just now, 'there was no trace left.' We have requested a full-area scan from our superiors, but within the entire border area, all monitoring equipment failed to find the entrance... It really only existed for a second, and then evaporated from this world."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but just looked at the window again with a serious expression.
The next second, his eyes suddenly froze.
On the street reflected in the window, he saw a fleeting figure - a young man, who ran across the deserted road with a look of panic and nervousness, and disappeared in the corner of the street that was not reflected in the window in the blink of an eye.
The puppet on his shoulder shouted almost instantly: "Hey hey hey Yu Sheng, Yu Sheng just ran past here..."
"I saw it," Yu Sheng said in a deep voice, "It's him."
Little Red Riding Hood subconsciously glanced back at the street behind her, but she quickly reacted and frowned at the glass reflecting the street scene: "...He is trapped in the mirror?"
Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he heard the cell phone in his pocket ring rapidly!
Yu Sheng answered the call immediately and turned on the hands-free mode. First, there was a creaking noise from the speaker, and then the voice of a young man with nervous breathing came out from it, intermittently: "Brother Yu... escaped from the mall... It's very foggy outside! Why is there no one on the street... I can't get through on the phone..."
"Come back! Come back to the main entrance of the mall! Here is the big display window!" Yu Sheng interrupted the other party directly, and said quickly while the signal was still there, "Don't run around over there!"
"Reply...? Okay, I got it. I'll just...￥@#@zizi..."
The cell phone signal was cut off again.
"He seems to be hovering near the L-1 depth?" Little Red Riding Hood frowned, "Is the alien world in the mirror 'fluctuating'?"
After seeing this scene, Liu Bing quickly walked aside, took out a walkie-talkie and communicated quickly with a support staff somewhere, seemingly adjusting the scanning mode of the monitoring equipment according to the situation just now.
Yu Sheng's gaze fell on the large window glass again.
A few minutes later, he saw the figure again.
The young man, looking a little tired, was panting due to running in a panic, and his clothes were a little messy. He ran out from the other side of the street, trotting all the way to the window, while constantly looking around nervously, as if there was something dangerous "over there" that might emerge from the air at any time.
Hu Li took a step forward and knocked on the window hard.
The young man in the mirror did not respond, as if he had not heard it.
Hu Li knocked hard again.
"Silly fox, take it easy, don't break it!" Irene couldn't help but remind him.
Just as Irene finished her words, Yu Sheng saw the young man reflected in the window suddenly turn his head. He seemed to hear a faint knocking sound on the glass. With a nervous expression on his face, he slowly walked over, and stopped half a meter away from the window. He raised his hand and carefully touched the glass in front of him.
Hu Li reached out and knocked again.
The vibrations were transmitted through the mirror to the world on the other side.
The young man was startled and drew his hand back in fear.
But then, he seemed to understand that this was a signal coming from the "reality" side. With a bit of caution and expectation, he also reached out and knocked on the window a few times.
Yu Sheng heard a faint knocking sound, which was muffled, as if it was covered with something thick, but the vibration was really transmitted to this side.
However, just when he was thinking about how to use this weak connection to rescue the other person from the "mirror", the young man in the mirror suddenly turned his head in horror, then ran away!
Irene got anxious on the spot: "Hey! Hey, I told you not to run around!!"
Hu Li immediately retorted seriously: "He is not running around aimlessly, there is something chasing him over there."
"Nonsense, of course I saw it!" Irene said as she scratched Yu Sheng's hair, "Yu Sheng, think of a solution! The client is about to die!"
"Don't rush me. I'm thinking." Yu Sheng said casually, and at the same time took a step forward, walked to the window, and felt something on the glass with his hand.
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned when she saw this: "...Ah? This thing can be opened?!"
"He can still drive even though he has nothing." Irene was no longer panicking at this time, and said proudly in an instant, although no one knew what she was so proud of.
Yu Sheng ignored the little doll's show-off on him. He was trying to find the door leading to the other side of the mirror.
He needed a "coordinate", a guide, or at least... a hint of information that could point to the "other side".
The only thing that could provide him with this kind of "direction" was the action of the young man trapped in the mirror world knocking on the window.
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He placed his hand where the other party had knocked on the window just now, closed his eyes slightly, and imagined the vibration of the thick glass just now. He imagined that on the other side, in the world reflected in the mirror, there had been a vibration, a dull vibration, as if covered by something thick - he imagined that the vibration was transmitted to his hand and turned into an invisible handle.
There is a door there, and when the handle is turned, the door opens.
The handle turned.
Liu Bing stared at the scene in amazement, watching Yu Sheng open a door on the glass window out of thin air, which seemed to be made of a mirror. The door opened, and the other side showed the street behind everyone.
But the street was filled with thick fog and no one was around.
"Okay, the door is open," Yu Sheng kept his hand on the door handle and smiled back at Little Red Riding Hood and Liu Bing, "I'll go over and take a look."
Hu Li immediately stepped forward: "My benefactor! I'm coming too!"
"I'll go with you, too," Little Red Riding Hood said, adding, "The wolf pack's ability to detect is very useful in unfamiliar environments."
"Okay," Yu Sheng nodded, "Be careful when you get there. Although the 'depth' over there doesn't seem to be very deep, the situation is a bit strange."
Just when Yu Sheng and his group were about to step through the door, Liu Bing suddenly came over.
The tall Secret Service agent stuffed something into Yu Sheng's hand.
"Take this."
Yu Sheng took a curious look and found that what the other party stuffed into his hand was just a small "box" the size of a palm. It was a metal device with a black shell. There were no switch buttons on the surface, and there were a few flashing indicator lights on the side, and that was all.
"What the hell is this?"
"Locate," Liu Bing said, "The team I lead needs to guard this side of the block, so we can't go in with you directly. But time is tight, so you take the locator and go 'over there' first. Once you get there, the Secret Service's support team will follow the signal to find you."
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, a little confused: "Didn't they say that there would be no signal in the foreign land after going deep into L-1?"
"There is no communication signal, or in other words, the 'information' that human intelligence can understand cannot be transmitted," Liu Bing showed a smile, "but the locator does not transmit a 'signal', but a subspace vibration called 'deep sea echo' - it is not for humans to hear, but for certain machine spirits in the Secret Service to 'hear'."
"...Although I didn't understand it, I took it with me." Yu Shengte said seriously, and then casually stuffed the palm-sized "locator" into his clothes pocket.
Then he took a deep breath and nodded to Little Red Riding Hood and Hu Li: "Go in."
Little Red Riding Hood and Hu Li walked through the door that opened on the mirror, and then Yu Sheng also walked in with Irene.
The door closed silently, and the window was intact again, as if it had never been opened.
But in front of Yu Sheng's eyes, endless thick fog was blowing towards him - in the fog, there was the street scene of Jiecheng in the mirror.
(End of this chapter)
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