Chapter 264 In the Mirror
The shadowy wolves appeared around Little Red Riding Hood, and then, as their master's mind moved, they silently scattered into the lingering fog.
The pile of tails behind Hu Li slowly spread out, six of which flew out of the body and acted as fox cannons, circling the group, slowly patrolling in the air to guard the surroundings. The other two were held in the arms of the fox girl, one on each side, with fox fire flickering at the tips of the tails, ready to go - and one tail was for storage, continuing to droop on the ground as a line.
Irene gently lowered her hand from Yu Sheng's side, and the black spider silk on her fingertips moved and spread in the mist like some kind of substance with independent life, looking for any mental reaction that might appear in the mist, while being alert to something with bad intentions - although theoretically the depth here may be only L-2 or even L-1, the alien world is always unreasonable, and its depth and danger are not always proportional. There are also cases where extremely dangerous entities appear in the shallow alien world.
Yu Sheng glanced at the people around him and sighed in his heart again - why are they all so cool!
"Honestly, I also want to use a skill with special effects like you guys," he couldn't help but mutter, "Swish, don't worry about whether it works or not, just scare people first..."
Irene on my shoulder turned her head and said, "You have special effects. Wasn't it special enough when you opened the door?"
Yu Sheng sighed again after hearing this, then opened a door casually, took out his "truth" stick that "if you touch it, you will lose too much blood, and if you hit it, you will suffer serious injuries" from the door, and put it on his shoulder.
Irene then skillfully flipped over and leaned back, then hugged her neck and swung around, then sat on the other shoulder...
Little Red Riding Hood looked at the war club that Yu Sheng took out from the door in astonishment: "...You turned your door into a storage space?"
"I opened the door to the basement of No. 66 Wutong Road," Yu Sheng said happily, "Look, does it work the same as a storage space?"
Little Red Riding Hood was amazed, while Hu Li looked at Yu Sheng's operation thoughtfully, and it was unknown what kind of "immortal posture" he associated with it - Yu Sheng himself focused on the thick fog around him and the street scene in the fog.
What you see here is the open space and the avenue in front of the shopping mall, which corresponds to the real world outside in every way.
Except for the strange thick fog everywhere, there was no one in the fog.
Yu Sheng walked forward a few steps cautiously and saw the black vehicles of the Secret Service - several cars were parked at the edge of the small square, at the location he remembered.
Of course, there was no one in the car.
"Is this... the world in the mirror?" Little Red Riding Hood frowned slightly as she looked at the scene in front of her, but soon shook her head, "No, it should be just a foreign land with 'mirror characteristics'. It can reflect objects in the real world, but not humans."
"Have you heard of this foreign land?" Yu Sheng asked.
Little Red Riding Hood thought about it carefully and shook her head slowly: "I haven't heard of it... There are many foreign lands related to mirrors, but I haven't heard of any that fit the situation here."
"My benefactor, this fog gives me a weird feeling," Hu Li muttered at this time, "I always feel like there is something approaching in the fog, but when I scan it with my spiritual sense, there is actually nothing."
Yu Sheng looked back at the puppet on his shoulder: "Erin, is there anything nearby?"
The puppet shook its head, and Little Red Riding Hood also spoke: "My wolf pack didn't find it either - there was no entity generated around, and no trace of human presence was found. It stands to reason that people can't run that far."
"Hmm," Yu Sheng nodded slightly, his eyes falling on the gate of the mall, "My nephew said he escaped from the mall. Is it possible that he saw that the situation outside was not good, so he hid back in the mall?"
Irene thought for a moment and said, "... maybe, let's go and take a look?"
"Let's go take a look," Yu Sheng nodded, and walked towards the mall. At the same time, he reminded the others, "Don't get separated. Hu Li just said that he felt something strange in the fog. If we get separated in the fog, who knows what will happen."
The team stood close together and carefully crossed the foggy square and entered the mall through the open glass door.
The mall was also empty, with only the lights that had not been turned off in time illuminating the deserted shops and open spaces. The thin fog was pervasive, seeping into the mall from every crack, and slowly floating in front of everyone like a veil.
And then, Hu Li exclaimed in a low voice: "There are mirrors everywhere here!"
Mirrors are everywhere in the mall - the glass doors of the shops have become mirrors, the display screens used to play advertisements have become mirrors, and even the goods on many counters have become mirrors of various sizes. The few remaining goods that have not been replaced by mirrors have been distorted into all kinds of strange shapes, piled up on counters and shelves like geometric models with incorrect scale or failed rendering, presenting a disgusting appearance that seems real but is not.
Yu Sheng walked past one of the mirrors, his eyes swept across the mirror, looking at his own reflection in it.
However, before he could see any details, the mirror shattered with a "snap". Then, as if it had experienced countless years of weathering and corrosion in an instant, the mirror surface that seemed to be made of glass began to shrink and wrinkle rapidly, turning into a curled up and charred mass, and silently turned into black ash.
Yu Sheng only remembered that he saw a dark human silhouette, shrouded in black fog, standing in the mirror.
Irene was shocked by this: "…What the hell is this? It broke so quickly!"
Yu Sheng didn't know what was going on. Seeing the mirror turning into black ash and scattering all over the floor, he subconsciously bent down, picked up a little with his fingers, and rubbed it around - he didn't know what this would produce, but he had seen the great detectives in detective movies rub any powdery substance they saw at the scene in this way.
As a result, after rubbing it twice, he saw that everything in front of him lost its color, and the black, white and gray afterlife suddenly descended. A vague voice broke into his mind -
“…What the hell is this? I’m dead!”
In just a second, the black, white and gray world in front of his eyes faded away, and normal colors and sounds returned to his senses.
Yu Sheng stood up in bewilderment, and a sentence popped up in his mind: Rubbing really works? Hu Li next to him seemed to have noticed the change in Yu Sheng's aura and immediately turned his head: "Benefactor, what happened?"
"It seems that I discovered two things," Yu Sheng said with a subtle expression, patting the black ash in his hand, "First, the mirror here is alive, and second, I listened to its last words."
Hu Li, Irene and Little Red Riding Hood were all confused.
Irene: "What were your last words?"
Yu Sheng: "The last words said it was dead."
Irene: “…What the hell!?”
"Don't ask me, I'm confused too." Yu Sheng frowned helplessly, and then looked cautiously at other mirrors around him.
However, the expected scene where all the mirrors at the scene would crackle and shatter to the ground with a sound like "Ah, I'm dead" did not occur when he glanced over - his figure was simply no longer reflected in those mirrors.
In the largest mirror on the front, only Whisperer and Little Red Riding Hood were standing there, while Irene was sitting in the air as if floating - his figure was directly "cut out" from the image.
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I don't even want to act.
Yu Sheng frowned: "Can you see me in the mirror?"
"Of course," Little Red Riding Hood nodded, "You're standing right next to us, that's normal... Wait, you can't see?!"
Yu Sheng nodded gently: "...Yes, I can't see it."
So, the key is not "who is reflected", but "who is looking"? Or are these two conditions effective at the same time, which led to the sudden death of the mirror just now? But why is this? What is the principle behind it?
Yu Sheng had a lot of question marks on his forehead, but others had even more question marks than him.
"I don't know whether this place is weird or you are weirder than this place," Little Red Riding Hood looked at Yu Sheng with strange eyes, "... Have you eaten too much messy food?"
Yu Sheng: “…”
This little episode did not affect the group's search efficiency in the mall.
With Hu Li's spiritual sense, Irene's spider silk spreading, and Little Red Riding Hood constantly releasing the phantom wolves into the mist, the entire mall was quickly searched, but no signs of anyone hiding were found.
In desperation, Yu Sheng and his group went back to the outside of the mall and continued to face the endless thick fog.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the fog seems even thicker than before. At this moment, even the black luxury cars on the edge of the square are not clear.
"Do you feel like this fog is chasing us?" Irene suddenly muttered, "Wherever we go, it gathers, and more and more of them are coming from all directions."
Yu Sheng frowned. He didn't feel the "feeling of pursuit" that Irene mentioned, or the "something approaching in the fog" that Hu Li mentioned. After all, he didn't have the cool spider silk sensing and spiritual scanning abilities like the puppet and the fox demon. But he did notice that the atmosphere around him was starting to feel wrong, as if... his spiritual intuition was about to jump out and was now doing warm-up exercises.
The fog is transforming.
There seemed to be some sound coming from the depths of the fog.
Little Red Riding Hood's expression suddenly changed: "My wolf was attacked!"
The next moment, a shadow wolf suddenly appeared beside her. The wolf's body seemed to have been bitten off by something out of thin air, almost cutting it in half. It let out a chaotic and angry roar, but then the roar turned into a whimper of defeat. After rubbing against its master's feet twice, it retreated dejectedly into the depths of the shadows.
The defeated wolf sent back valuable information.
Little Red Riding Hood suddenly looked up: "There is a huge monster in the fog, with a lot of hands and feet and sharp teeth. I can't see its specific shape clearly - it is powerful enough to defeat a lone wolf in an instant!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Irene raised her hand and pointed at the huge glass curtain wall of the mall: "...Is that the thing that is crawling down from the wall?"
(End of this chapter)
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