"May 11th, weather: heavy rain. My mother's gaze had long since changed from gentle to hateful and fearful, but now, her gaze has become gentle again because my younger brother is sick and needs a healthy kidney, and my kidney happens to be a match for his. Finding a suitable kidney is not easy, and my father once again said that I am their lucky star. I laughed, no, I am just a jinx."
"July 18th, Weather: Sunny. The surgery was a success, Xia Xuan's health is getting better and better, but my health is getting weaker and weaker."
"October 3rd, weather: sunny. The house caught fire, and my parents and younger brother were burned to death. I escaped because I was staying at a classmate's house. The police said the fire was caused by a gas leak."
The diary ends here. Xia Linyin closes the diary and sits down on the edge of the bed. Her current identity should be "I" in this diary, the owner of this diary.
After reading the contents, Xia Linyin felt that the fire was most likely related to the girl, and that the girl was the one who did it.
The family of three in the mirror is her father, mother, and brother. After their deaths, they became ghosts and are trapped in the mirror.
She absolutely must not let those two big ghosts find her. The little ghosts are fine; they might not know that she set the fire. But the two big ghosts definitely know that she did it, especially the female ghost.
“My mother’s gaze toward me had long since changed from gentle to hateful and fearful.”
The use of the word "fear" in this sentence proves that the girl must have done something before, and after her mother found out, her mother's gaze towards her turned one of hatred and fear.
If a ghost discovers her, it will definitely try every means to come and kill her, wishing it could tear her to pieces.
What puzzled Xia Linyin was the room she was in. This room should have been the girl's room, but the house had been burned down, so how could this room still be intact?
Could it be... that a ghost actually did it? Trapped her in this room.
Or is this part of the game's design, creating such an environment? What is the meaning behind the game's arrangement of this setting?
She was trapped in her room, which was supposed to be an illusion; the real room had been burned down, so she was in a dream world.
Then there was a mirror in the room, and the mirror reflected ghosts. She could see them, but they couldn't see her unless she put her hand on the mirror.
And what does the game's helpful tip mean? "Is everything you see really true?"
With these questions in mind, Xia Linyin flipped through the diary again.
What exactly is the method used to crack the grid this time?
How can she leave the room?
Three days later—
Xia Linyin put down the diary she had been reading so many times that it was almost falling apart, and got up to walk towards the bathroom.
Standing in front of the mirror, Xia Linyin could hardly believe that the person in the mirror was herself; she looked exactly like she did when she was fifteen or sixteen.
However, the girl in the mirror had dark circles under her eyes, her eyes were lifeless, and her face was pale; she looked extremely haggard and weak.
After three days without food, Xia Linyin was so hungry that her vision was turning black, and she felt that she could not hold on for much longer.
Slowly turning on the tap and drinking her fill of water, Xia Linyin returned to the bedside with unsteady steps.
She considered using force to break down the door, but it was no use; she was completely trapped in the room unless she found the right way to leave.
She looked in the mirror, which showed the living room scene. The three ghosts only stayed in the living room during mealtimes.
Xia Linyin couldn't hear them talking, but she discovered that when she put her hand on the mirror, she could hear the voices on the other side of the mirror, but her reflection would also be displayed.
Several times, she almost got discovered by ghosts.
With no progress, Xia Linyin wearily rubbed her temples. Besides having to endure hunger, she also dared not fall asleep because of the ghost mirror in the room. Every time she tried to sleep, her heart was in her throat and her nerves were constantly on edge.
Perhaps due to the intense tension, Xia Linyin, who hadn't had a proper rest for three days, suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness wash over her. She lay down in bed, closed her eyes, and prepared to take a short nap.
But as soon as her head hit the pillow, she immediately fell into a deep sleep, perhaps because she was really too tired.
The room was completely quiet, with only Xia Linyin's even and long breathing sounds.
In the stillness, a piece of black cloth suddenly bulged up in the corner.
A deathly pale little ghost emerged from under the black cloth and floated expressionlessly toward the bed.
The blanket covering Xia Linyin began to rise from the foot of the bed, and then the raised part moved upward little by little.
The little devil, who had crawled under the covers, grabbed Xia Linyin's legs and slowly climbed up, toward Xia Linyin's face.
Xia Linyin felt incredibly heavy on her body, and a chill that penetrated to the bone spread from her feet upwards. Her whole body felt heavy and cold, as if a large block of ancient ice was pressing down on her.
Her eyeballs were twitching violently beneath her eyelids, but she just couldn't open them.
A pair of icy little hands gripped her neck, and Xia Linyin heard a childish yet sinister voice say in her ear, "Sister, it's so cold on the road to the underworld."
"Sister, come down and stay with me, okay? Sister, let me take you with me. That way, my sister, Mom and Dad, and our whole family can be reunited down there."
"Sister, come to hell with me!!"
The pressure on her neck suddenly increased, and Xia Linyin struggled violently, opening her mouth like a fish out of water, making painful, broken sounds from her throat.
Just before Xia Linyin suffocated, she suddenly opened her eyes. There was no ghost face, no ghost hand, nothing at all.
Xia Linyin sat up, covered in sweat, and touched her neck. She looked at the corner of the wall, where a black cloth was neatly covering the mirror.
Xia Linyin sat on the bed for a while to calm her racing heart from the nightmare, then threw off the covers and got out of bed.
She walked to the corner of the wall and tore the black cloth off the mirror, revealing a completely dark reflection.
She stood in front of the mirror for an unknown amount of time when suddenly, a ray of light shone in the darkness.
The light gradually approached the mirror, and Xia Linyin could see clearly that it was a little ghost carrying a lantern, slowly floating towards the mirror.
Thinking of the nightmare she had just experienced, Xia Linyin couldn't help but take a step back.
The little devil stood in front of the mirror, his eyes darting around, seemingly still searching for Xia Linyin's figure, to confirm that what he had seen before was not an illusion.
After looking at him for a while, Xia Linyin suddenly stretched out her arm and placed her hand on the mirror.
The little ghost immediately focused its gaze on Xia Linyin's face, and the eyes of the human and the ghost met.
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