There are three levels of missions before 12 o'clock - a children's playground, a mirror maze, and a ghost house.

After the encounter in the children's playground just now, Li Mengnan could already vaguely guess the content of the "ghost house" level, but only the "mirror maze" of the second level still made him puzzled.

Although it is speculated literally, this "mirror labyrinth" is supposed to be a labyrinth of countless mirrors, with the intention of "trapping" rather than "killing".

But this is just an assumption, and someone has to test it for themselves to be completely sure.

This task is life-threatening, that is, if you want to get through the "mirror maze" of guò, at least one person must be abandoned as cannon fodder.

Li Mengnan didn't want his own members to play the role of cannon fodder, which was almost certain to die, so he could only let Wen Jiahao's group fight this front.

The only way to do this is to wait.

At this moment, it was already 7:30 at night, and there were still four and a half hours before the time limit of the first stage of the mission, and Li Mengnan wanted to compete with Wen Jiahao's group to see who was more calm.

"Sister Lian, can you tell me your story?" Anyway, being idle is idle, Li Mengnan asked Ke Cailian about the reason for her imprisonment.

Of all the people in his group, only Ke Cailian was the only one he didn't understand.

"Me?" But Cailian was stunned, she didn't expect Li Mengnan to suddenly ask her this question, pinched her fingers and said, "I actually don't have anything to say, I went to prison because of the crime of causing a traffic accident." ”

"Traffic accidents?"

Not only Li Mengnan, but the other three were also quite surprised, this was probably the lightest crime among all twenty volunteers.

"To be precise, it's driving without a license plus hit-and-run."

The night breeze was slightly cool, Ke Cailian tightened the blanket on her body, hugged her knees, and a trace of remorse appeared on her face, and said: "That day I quarreled with my husband, and I drove on the road by myself in a rage, and I wanted to go shopping in the commercial area to relax, but in order to avoid a cat that suddenly jumped out on the road, I mistakenly used the accelerator as a brake and drove into the food stall on the side of the road.

I was terrified and didn't know what to do, so I subconsciously ran away, until I later learned that I had killed five people that day, one of whom was a baby under the age of two.

Murder pays for life, debts are repaid, I have nothing to say about the sentence, the only thing I can't worry about is my child, he is only three years old, he can't live without his mother......"

Li Mengnan patted Ke Cailian's shoulder comfortingly, and said, "Sister Lian, don't worry, we will definitely leave here alive, and you will definitely be reunited with your child." ”

"Thank you."

Although Ke Cailian knew that this was just a word of comfort, she was sincerely grateful to Li Mengnan, if it wasn't for Li Mengnan, she would have been cut into pieces like those prisoners before when she was in the children's amusement park just now.

Time slips away imperceptibly in the small talk of your words and my words.

Soon, Wen Jiahao's group finally couldn't hold their breath, and under Wen Jiahao's instructions, Yue Laosan and Lard showed their knives and began to force two volunteers, a man and a woman, who had escaped by luck before, to enter the "Mirror Labyrinth" to explore the way.

"Nope! I don't go in! You can't do this to me! ”

The coerced man's facial features were extremely distorted due to fright, and he clung to the door frame of the door of the "Mirror Labyrinth", and did not let go no matter how Yue Laosan beat him.

The other woman was so frightened that she was lying on the ground like a pile of mud, and her crotch was wet.

Just when Yue Laosan and Lard had nothing to do with these two people, Wen Jiahao suddenly stepped forward, pulled out the machete behind his back and chopped off the fingers of the coerced man grasping the door frame, shook off the blood stains on the blade, and said viciously: "Don't toast and don't eat and drink!" You waste, who only want to hide behind others and be protected, is only that little bit of use...... Now I will give you two paths to choose from: first, go in and explore my way at once; Two, I'll stab you to death right now! ”

"You...... Do you dare to kill? Aren't you afraid that you will be arrested and sentenced when you go back? The coerced man said in horror.

"! Are you threatening me? Wen Jiahao slashed a knife on the man's face with a cut of nearly ten centimeters, and the tip of the knife poked at the wound where the flesh rolled from time to time, and sneered: "The sky and the earth are big, and the life is the greatest!" It's hard to say if I can go back alive, what bullshit laws do you think I still care? If you don't believe me, why don't you try it? ”

"Don't! Other! I'll go! I'll go! ”

The coerced man finally recognized the form, and he might not die if he went in to explore the way, but if he didn't leave here, he would definitely die.

Yue Laosan and Lard were still a little dissatisfied with this polite leader, but seeing Wen Jiahao's ruthlessness at the moment, these two outlaws were also quite frightened, and hurriedly concocted the same method, forcing the woman lying on the ground into the gate of the "Mirror Labyrinth".

Lighting a cigarette, Wen Jiahao walked up to Li Mengnan and said in an indifferent tone: "I know that you have been waiting for me to do this just now, in fact, even if you don't force me like this, I plan to abandon those two useless wastes...... But you'd better not use the same method a second time, otherwise even if you fight together, I'll definitely drag all of you to hell together. ”

After speaking, Wen Jiahao turned around and returned to his team directly, obviously he just came to inform, not to ask Li Mengnan for an answer.

Li Mengnan smiled noncommittally, it seems that this Wen Jiahao is not breathless, but he just doesn't want to have unnecessary internal friction.

At the moment, the last three remaining members of the other party are the most core members, and next time they want to use their hands to explore the way, it is obviously impossible.

At this moment, a woman's terrible scream suddenly came from inside the gate of the mirror maze.

"Ahh Who are you! Let me go! Help me! Save ......"

The woman's cry for help was still echoing, and the man's frightened shouting and scolding also rang out.

"It's all fake! You can't fool me! Give me all the death! Die! Ahh ”

After a few sounds of glass shattering, the deathly silence of the gate was restored again.

The cigarette in Wen Jiahao's hand fell to the ground, his face was extremely ugly, and Yue Laosan and Lard beside him also subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife in their hands, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept rolling down from both sides of their heads.

The pathfinder was a complete failure, and the two lives were exchanged for two sentences that were almost meaningless.

However, at least one thing is certain, and there is also an extremely deadly danger in this "mirror labyrinth".

"There's no point in waiting like this, let's go in together."

Li Mengnan led the team to Wen Jiahao and the others, and signaled in the direction of the "Mirror Labyrinth".

Wen Jiahao could only nod stubbornly, he had no better way to face this unreasonable unknown situation, he could only hope to share the danger with the number of people.

As for giving up the mission and escaping, Wen Jiahao had thought about it, but he told him rationally that this was a more dangerous choice than continuing the mission.

What's more, he didn't even know how he got into this world, and even if he wanted to escape, how could he escape?

……

"Director Wei, two more volunteers' brainwave activity has disappeared."

"Got it, deal with it as usual."

Euonymus pinched the bridge of his nose, slightly soothed his eyes, which were a little dry from staring at the screen for a long time, and seemed to sigh lightly with some emotion.

Before the second level began, the number of staff had already been reduced by six, and it seems that if this test is not done well, it will be nothing.

"Brother Wei, what kind of place is the mirror maze in the second level? Are there ghosts in there too? The rookie researcher leaned over again and asked.

"No, there's nothing in the mirror maze."

"Then why are there still dead people?" The rookie researcher was a little confused.

"Do you have mirrors in your house?"

"Yes."

"Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror for a long time?"

"I did this once when I was bored."

"Do you feel anything?"

"At first, it was nothing, but then for some reason, I suddenly felt that I was so strange in the mirror, as if I was another person, and then I felt as if I was smiling strangely in the mirror, as if I would rush out of it at any time......"

Although it has been a long time, the rookie researcher still feels a little chill in his back when he thinks back to the scene.

"The mirror maze in the second level can materialize the fear of one's own image in the human heart...... The more fearful you are, the faster you will die. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Mao suddenly remembered the smooth brainwave monitoring record of Li Mengnan that he had seen before, this kid was so bold that he didn't know what fear was, presumably this level should be easy for him.

……

Unlike the bright lights in the outside world, there are no lights in the mirror maze.

A flashlight pillar struck, and the huge space lit up, and countless figures were faintly reflected behind the chaotic refracted light, forming an extremely bizarre scene.

"The roads here are narrow, and it's not easy to walk together...... You go to the right, and we go to the left, each according to the destiny of heaven. ”

Wen Jiahao had no objection to Li Mengnan's arrangement, and quickly disappeared into the maze on the right side with Yue Laosan and lard.

Li Mengnan handed the spear to Guo Debiao behind him, pulled out a short knife that was more conducive to use in a narrow space, and knocked the mirrors around him, which was very strong, and although it was not impossible to smash it, it was estimated that it would take considerable effort.

"Okay, I'll open the way in front, Old Man Tian will break in the back, and the others will follow in the middle...... Except for me and Mr. Tian, everyone else's flashlights were turned off. ”

The mirror maze itself is not big, but the placement of the mirrors inside is quite complicated, often walking and walking to find that there is a dead end in front of you, and you have to turn around and return again, Li Mengnan and his party have been in it for more than ten minutes, and they have only advanced a short way.

"Guo Debiao, get me a bottle of water."

Li Mengnan turned around and asked Guo Debiao for water, and the place where his hand touched it was indeed hard.

It's a mirror.

"Guo Debiao! Sister Lian! Hao Yiming! Old man Tian! ”

Li Mengnan suddenly had an ominous premonition, although he could see the existence of these people in the reflection of the surrounding mirror wall, he could not figure out their exact location at all, and he didn't even know which image was themselves.

"Boss, I'm with Hao Yiming!"

"I'm myself, and I don't know where I am now......"

The responses of Guo Debiao and others sounded one after another, and after many reflections from the mirror, the sound was extremely chaotic, and it was still impossible to determine the source of the sound.

"This labyrinth is more complicated than I imagined, I don't know when I can get out, I can't go to you one by one, now I can only rely on yourself......"

Before Guo Debiao and the others could respond, the screams of Wen Jiahao and others suddenly echoed in the sky above the mirror maze, and then Hao Yiming seemed to have encountered something, and suddenly sat on the ground with a panicked scream.

"Hao Yiming? What's going on? Li Mengnan's heart sank and asked.

"I ...... I don't know, it looks like someone touched me on the shoulder just now! Brother Guo, is that you? ”

"! Lao Tzu is in front of you, when did he touch you? ”

At the same time, Ke Cailian suddenly let out a frightened scream, pointed in the direction of the mirror, and stammered: "Hao Yiming, you ...... You're behind! No, not in the back, it's everywhere around you! ”

Although they don't know where each other is, they can still vaguely see each other's environment through the refraction of the mirror.

In Hao Yiming's image reflected in the mirror, suddenly a part of the shadow made a completely different movement from the body, as if it had been injected with life, reaching out to grab Hao Yiming who was sitting on the ground.

"Hao Yiming, run!"

Guo Debiao is the closest to Hao Yiming, and he can see it most clearly, those shadows are like Sadako in the movie "Midnight Bell", crawling out of the surrounding mirrors one by one, with an evil smile on his face, rushing to Hao Yiming.

Guo Debiao dropped his spear and drew his machete, cutting down three or four shadows in a row, but in the end he couldn't save Hao Yiming's life, watching him be dragged into the mirror by those shadows of himself and gradually disappear.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a qiē returned to silence, and there was no longer an image of Hao Yiming in the surrounding mirror walls, as if this person had never existed in this world.

But Cailian covered her mouth and forcibly prevented herself from screaming, but her frightened eyes betrayed her heart deeply.

Hao Yiming's disappearance was obviously just the beginning, and then the shadows of Guo Debiao, Ke Cailian, and Tian Laogen in the mirror wall also began to move strangely.

The three of them fought back with their weapons in a rage or panic, and kept running, and soon disappeared from Li Mengnan's sight, and only a faint echoing murmur could be heard.

Li Mengnan stretched out his five fingers and pressed them on the mirror in front of him, and all the shadows in his line of sight made the same movement at the same time, and none of them showed similar changes.

"Sure enough, are those shadows just the embodiment of the fear of the heart...... Because I don't have fear of such feelings, they will only be normal shadows. ”

Combined with the special circumstances that happened to him, Li Mengnan seemed to realize the essence of this "mirror maze", but unfortunately he realized it a little late.

Li Mengnan shook his head regretfully, turned around and was about to continue looking for an exit from here, but the moment his gaze swept over the mirror, the pupils of his eyes suddenly constricted.

Because there is a person in the mirror who should not be here.

Xue Yue Lingxin.

However, this Xue Yue Ling's heart seemed to be a little different, without the countless images he constantly reflected in the mirror, it just appeared in the mirror wall opposite him, as if he was standing behind him.

But Li Mengnan knew very well that there was no one behind him.

"Who the hell are you?"

Xue Yueling in the mirror chuckled, her face was as beautiful as ever.

"Xiao Nan, you asked this question so strangely...... Who else do you think I am? Of course I'm still me. ”

"Why are you here?"

"You asked another strange question...... I remember telling you before, in fact, I have always been by your side, and I have never left. ”

Xue Yueling Xin in the mirror took a step forward, put her chin on Li Mengnan's shoulder, and gently wrapped her waist around him from behind, acting extremely intimately.

But from the perspective of a bystander, Li Mengnan's back is always empty, and the scene is extremely strange.

"What the hell are you trying to do with me like this?"

"Because I really can't live without you."

"Ridiculous!"

"Remember the story you once told? -- There was a woman who bought a bed in a furniture store and moved home and found a problem that every time she crossed the train outside, the bed would vibrate violently with the frequency of the train, making it difficult for her to sleep.

So she called the maintenance staff of the furniture store to explain the situation, but the maintenance staff didn't believe it, so the woman asked him to lie on it and feel it.

And at this moment, the woman's husband came back, and when he saw a strange man lying on the bed, he immediately became angry, rushed up and grabbed the furniture repairman by the collar and yelled, why are you bastard sleeping in my wife's bed?

The furniture repairman was frightened and cautiously explained, "If I said I was waiting for the train in bed, would you believe me?" ”

Li Mengnan fell into a long silence.

Of course he remembered this story, and he told it to the two sisters Xue Yue Lingxin and Xue Yue Lingsha after reading it in a book.

But Xue Yueling's heart telling this story at this moment is obviously not as simple as recalling the past, Li Mengnan knows very well the information behind this story - what you think is true may not be true, and what you think is fake is probably the real truth.

"I need an explanation."

Li Mengnan sensed a hint of unusual meaning from Xue Yuelingxin's subtext, and he began to try to calm down, temporarily let go of his complicated feelings for Xue Yuelingxin, and took the initiative to communicate with her.

Xue Yueling's coquettish face showed a hint of regret, and she shook her head and said, "I can't explain it to you, you need to find it yourself." ”

"Since you don't plan to sue me, why do you still show up in front of me again and again to remind me of these things?" Li Mengnan said coldly.

"Because you're already trying to understand these things."

Li Mengnan seemed to realize something, and said in disbelief: "You mean the memories and feelings sealed in my brain? ”

Xue Yueling was noncommittal, but that kind of silence had already been explained, and after a while, she sighed lightly and said, "Trust me, those things won't be what you want to know, so, don't try to unblock it, never." ”