Mr. X smiled and nodded, "Yes, I'm not leaving." ”

"Uncle, don't go there at night...... Qiuqiu pointed to the wooden door that led to the basement.

"Why?" Mr. X asked.

"Because there's a ...... there" Qiuqiu's words were not finished, but she was suddenly dragged by her mother.

"Children talk nonsense, don't take it to heart." The woman's eyes flickered, and then she changed the topic and asked, "Do you need a pillow or futon or something?" ”

Mr. X replied, "No, the room is warm. Blue eyes looked at the woman, "Is your husband on a business trip?" ”

The woman nodded a few times: "Yes, he will be back in a few days." Soon, will be back soon. ”

Mr. X's gaze fell on the woman's exposed half-arm, and a distinct purple-red bruise was printed on her fair skin, "What's going on?" ”

The woman hurriedly rolled down her sleeves, hiding the embarrassment in her expression, and replied, "It's nothing, I accidentally bumped into it." ”

"Mom, can we sleep in the hall at night?" Qiuqiu shook her mother's arm and said coquettishly.

The woman shook her head and said with a serious expression, "You go to sleep in the bedroom with me." ”

Qiuqiu's tone immediately brought a crying tone: "I don't want to go in......"

"If you don't behave, Uncle Doctor will leave immediately." The woman looked at her daughter with a fierce look in her eyes.

Qiuqiu closed her voice, but threw a look of help at Mr. X.

"Don't worry, come to me if there's anything." Mr. X comforted.

Qiuqiu seemed to get a reassurance, winked playfully at Mr. X, and followed her mother into the bedroom.

At this point, Star Swirl is released from her possession state, and the spirit appears next to Mr. X, its white tail wagging in it.

"Are you really old and young?" Star Swirl teased softly.

Mr. X frowned, his fingers rubbing the blue gemstone pendant, as if he was lost in thought.

Seeing that he didn't mean to joke with herself, Star Swirl asked in a deep voice, "Did you feel something?" ”

Mr. X took the four dolls out of his backpack and placed them neatly on the coffee table. In the darkness, eyeballs made of glass beads seemed to be staring at them.

"Look at this," Mr. X said, pointing to one of the dolls, "it doesn't look like a mole." ”

Star Swirl leaned in and could discern through the bleak moonlight that there was a visible stain on the bridge of the doll's nose, like a mole on the boy's face on the missing person notice, which seemed to match perfectly.

"Can you tell the gender of the doll?" Mr. X asked.

"Three boys and a girl?" Star Swirl snapped, "Exactly the same gender as the child who disappeared here?" ”

"It's definitely not a coincidence." Mr. X said.

"Actually, I still have doubts about what happened last night." Star Swirl said, "When Autumn went into the basement, it looked like someone had deliberately closed the door. Moreover, she didn't find her mother and sister until she went in. ”

"So, where did they go during that time?" Star Swirl is puzzled.

"Maybe the answer is in the basement," Mr. X said, closing his eyes, "wait a little longer, and we'll go down and have a look." ”

Half an hour passed, and Mr. X made sure that the occupants in the room were asleep, so he walked lightly towards the wooden door in the hallway.

The door was unlocked, and with a "squeak" it opened, and Mr. X walked in with a flashlight.

The flashlight beams are covered in jumping dust, and Star Swirl is perched on Mr. X's shoulder, which she is familiar with the basement setting.

"It seems to have been passed down there." Star Swirl remembers that the place was supposed to be a mirror covered in black cloth, but now it was a dilapidated piano.

Mr. X's fingers tapped the keys lightly, making a hoarse and mocking sound, and Star Swirl frowned, "That's ugly." ”

Mr. X put the four dolls on the ground and said in a sloppy manner, "Alright, now let's start playing hide and seek." ”

After saying that, he turned his back and counted down: "Ten, nine, eight, seven......"

When he finished counting "one", he turned around sharply, and the position of the doll on the ground really changed, three of them moved half a meter in the same direction, and the remaining one fell on the starting line in an awkward position.

Star Swirl suddenly thinks the dolls are a little cute, "They're really playing with you." ”

Mr. X nodded and walked in the direction the doll was moving.

After walking a few steps, I came to the end and did not find the suspicious mirror. Mr. X knocked on the wall and made a "bang" sound: "It seems that there is a compartment inside." ”

His two fingers reached for the bottom of the wall, felt a depression, pressed it inside, and the outline of a door appeared on the wall in front of him.

"This is it." Mr. X pushes hard, and a crack opens in the wall, and the door that cannot be easily detected is opened.

He was greeted by a smell of blood, which Star Swirl could smell even as a spirit. The energy lock vibrated violently, and Star Swirl suddenly felt a little uneasy.

"Found it." Mr. X said to the mirror, which was not covered with a black cloth, and the scene reflected in it was not a basement, nor did Mr. X look like it.

"In this mirror...... What the hell is it? Star Swirl asked.

"You saw a door in there last night, didn't you?" Mr. X asked.

"yes, is it a door to somewhere else?" Star Swirl was surprised.

"You hold on to me, there may be danger next." The blue eyes lit with golden flames, and the blue pendant on his chest shone faintly with a metallic sheen.

Mr. X casts the light of the flashlight on the mirror, and the backs of four dolls appear inside, holding hands and walking towards the depths of the mirror. And at this moment, the strange door appeared on the opposite side of the doll, which was slowly opening.

"They're not ......" Star Swirl looked back, but the doll was nowhere to be found.

The dolls vanished in the world of mirrors, but the door did not close, remaining ajar, as if calling to them.

The energy lock vibrated more and more violently, and Star Swirl felt like an earthquake, and the surrounding clutter began to shake violently, and with a "thud" something slipped off the shelf and fell to the ground.

Mr. X emitted a faint golden glow around him, which was dazzling in the darkness.

"What's going on?" With a loud tremor, Star Swirl hugs Mr. X's neck tightly.

Before she could hear Mr. X's answer, she saw the floor under her feet collapse suddenly, and instantly felt her body fall, falling into darkness.

“X——！！” Star Swirl yells, but there is no response, and the lights around her gradually light up.