Chapter 211: The Author's Tale of Strange Stories
Yuna felt a pair of invisible hands choke her neck, and just as she was about to suffocate and lose consciousness, fortunately, thanks to the Heavenly Dream Stone body, a white light flashed and bounced her hands away. She lay on the ground coughing and gasping, and caught a glimpse of the terrifying change in the dark-haired Yuna in the mirror: the skin on her face burned out, revealing a red dermis, like countless bent and dilated veins, flowing down her heels, gradually spreading in the world in the mirror.
She suddenly realized that this woman was pretending to be a mirror spirit, and hurriedly summoned a spirit guide to defend against the enemy, but before she could shoot, the mirror spirit was actually invisible, causing her to quickly get up and raise her vigilance, she noticed that the "blood net" in the territory was still spreading, that is, the mirror spirit was still hidden in the mirror.
The door of the dance studio was sealed by an unknown force, and she couldn't leave without destroying the Mirror Spirit, not to mention that the mirror was much stronger than she imagined, and the Tenkasa bullet couldn't penetrate it, so she had to find its purple resentment entity first, and it would be difficult to do it if it didn't show up, so she could only quickly dodge and fight back when it attacked.
But the movement of the mirror mane is difficult to predict, and all the attacks are fed back to Yuna by hurting herself, just with the help of long nails, and soon she has a few more painful scratches on her hands, but fortunately it did not hurt the vital point, only slightly slowed down her movements, and after mastering the rules, the next four shots all hit, and the mirror mane entered the second form.
Its limbs and torso were burned out by a dense web of blood, and the scene inside the mirror was also different from that of a dance studio under the influence of blood: it looked like a room with many hospital beds, and some tools for transporting corpses were placed on the refrigerator, and the rest was covered in blood.
As Yuna was unable to move in fear, the screaming head of the Mirror Spirits suddenly popped out and slammed into the inside of the mirror, knocking her to the ground, as countless broom-dragging purple resentful faces burst out of the hospital bed and refrigerator and struck her right in front of her.
As the Flame Faces were about to hit the Mirror, Yuna fired several shots to disperse them all, causing the agonized Mirror to remanifest and stun for several seconds, enough for her to switch to the more powerful Amakasa.
This shot hit the center of the mirror's eyebrows, and it hurt so much that it became invisible again, and a large number of resentful faces appeared one after another, but Yuna already knew how to deal with them, so it had no effect, just repeatedly summoned a faster spirit guide to shoot.
Finally, after the third shot, the crack on the mirror surface grew bigger and bigger, and Yuna took the opportunity to turn on the reload mechanism, and the loaded solid bullet was fatal in one blow, completely shattering the entire mirror, and the mirror spirit was killed in a wail.
After the glass was completely shattered and fell, what appeared in front of Yuna was not a bare white wall, but a room where the blood was slowly receding, and the number of hospital beds and refrigerators containing corpses was exactly eighty-four, what was the meaning?
Everything shown in the mirror image was unbelievable, but this was the morgue in the basement of Hao'an Hospital, and she was too scared to enter it, and the reason for refusing to try it was plausible for now, because the door had been welded with iron plates, and there was no way to get out of here, so she had to go back the way she came.
At this time, the force blocking the door of the dance studio disappeared, and she noticed that the record player was pressed against a folded page of paper, on which were written the Seven Strange Tales of the Campus (3):
A phantom in the mirror
Although the Academy has not trained a group of outstanding performers like a famous dance academy, there are still many talents who have not given up their dreams gathered in the dance department, among which there is a pair of twin sisters with the most outstanding strength.
They won the praise of the judges with their outstanding performance, the affirmation of the coach, and the praise of the members, and the evaluation is always the sister who is slightly better, although the physical condition and dance skills of the two are among the best, but in terms of expressiveness, it is the sister who has the advantage of touching people's hearts, which is the evaluation that most people have been repeating.
At first, my sister didn't pay much attention to it, but after being snatched away by her sister several times, she became nervous and anxious. At this time, the study exchange meeting jointly organized by the two schools came, and even the public opinion paid attention to the works of a certain dance academy, and in order to outperform the academy, the school decided to select a suitable leading actor.
On the day of the audition, there was an accident, my sister fainted during the performance, and after examination, her foot was pierced by a silver needle, bleeding profusely, staining a pair of dancing shoes she was wearing, and as a result, the glory of the starring role shone on her sister.
The frustrated sister lost her vitality, and several exercises to endure the pain caused the injury to worsen, and eventually, she lost her life due to severe infection of the wound.
Half a month later, my sister's body was also found in the dance studio, and it was said that there were no external injuries except for the nail marks left on her neck.
After Yuna finished reading the strange tale and returned to the hallway to open the map, thinking about whether to go upstairs to find the clue to the "Key to the Abyss", it was obvious that she had no choice at all.
The first room on the second floor is the choir classroom, she looked directly into the window through the flickering candlelight, and saw those abandoned children in the world, holding the "Covenant" in both hands, and singing the praises of the bright stars and gods who gave birth to the world with a young holy voice.
These visions vanished before she entered the choir classroom, and on the episcopal table was a white diary with the title page reading: "This is a self-narrative dedicated to those who wish to find the truth—Parady, author of "Seven Strange Tales."
I don't talk about my background as complicated as some people who want to be famous, and I was relieved to learn that these were all personal experiences.
In the year 710, a baby's cry can be heard in the bathroom of an apartment in Fallen Dragon Town, the parents of the newborn are missing, and the abandoned baby is picked up by a neighbor and named him Parady. His origins are unknown, but judging by the color of his skin and the color of his eyes, it is believed that he should be a descendant of the Green Man, nothing more.
The neighbor could not afford to raise little Parady, so he had to send him to the Orphin Orphanage, a non-governmental charity, which was taken in by the director, Lan Yaofan, and lived in the orphanage.
After a period of observation, Lan Yaofan discovered that little Parady was a malleable talent, and decided to train him to be his future successor, instilling him with various cult teachings every day, and forcing him to obey the rules in his words and deeds.
Just because all the rules are set by Lan Yaofan, he has another identity: the principal of Orno Academy.
When little Paradis was eleven years old, the dean made an astonishing move to entrust the important affairs of the orphanage to his sister Lan Yifan, and personally selected eighty-four orphans to study at Orno College.
The curriculum in the academy is very intense, and the dean of students often physically punishes children who make mistakes, and little Parady is not immune, but the headmaster treats him very differently than others, and Lan Yaofan tells Parady that his mother is long dead and must work harder to change his fate.
In return for Lan Yaofan, little Parady "studied" harder, and the teachings in the cult just catered to his various dissatisfaction with his biological parents, and he almost became a hypocritical demon like the school, until he met his crush, a girl with a fighting spirit, Mei Yue, who cut off the seeds of evil and hatred in his heart, and learned that there is still "benevolence" in the world from the books that Mei Yue lent him The students were regarded as heretics by their classmates, and they vented their dissatisfaction with campus life on little Paradis, sarcastic, sarcastic, and even severely beaten.
However, this did not convince Parady, and at Meiyue's suggestion, he recounted various supernatural events in order to expose the atrocities of the school, which is the origin of "Seven Strange Tales".
By the time you finish reading the last paragraph, I'm no longer alive, and I've hidden seven weird manuscripts all over campus, and if I can find them all, I'll know a big secret.
As soon as Yuna left the choir classroom, the cry of a baby came from the art room next door, which made her suspect that the story of the author of "Seven Strange Tales" had been transferred to reality, and she put away the map and rubbed her ears, convinced that she was not hallucinating.
There are seven hexagonal tables in the art room, each with room for six people, framed by the students' excellent works on the walls, and rectangular checkered shelves filled with handicrafts such as clay sculptures and carvings, all concentrated at the back of the classroom, some crooked, some damaged, and some with only an empty shelf. There are all kinds of paintings all over the place, mostly watercolors, sketches, etc.
However, among the many brushes and paints that have been created together, there is an unfinished work that hangs on an easel by the window, which is very different from the surrounding style, and is clearly not the work of the same person.
The face of the figure on the painting is puzzling, there are no eyes, mouth, only the line drawing can do so expressive, really she admired, the painter is not only very skilled, the grasp of the details is also in place, from the upper right to the lower left line from deep to shallow, giving people a strong sense of three-dimensional and visual impact.
Yuna couldn't help but think of what it looked like as a model for the painting: a handsome, well-behaved, young man in his twenties, with regular short hair and a neat bow tie around his charming neck.
After all, the most difficult parts of a portrait to draw are the eyes and mouth, and there is a saying that from the deep eyes, a person's soul can be reflected, and from the flaming red lips, a person's mind can be read, if both are indispensable, what is the reason?
As Yuna's thoughts stopped, the baby's cry rang out from behind her, causing her to turn her head sharply, and after a violent tremor, a clay sculpture fell from the checkered frame and shattered in half, revealing a petite vague silhouette from the small upwards, pointing to the unfinished portrait with its right hand and its chin with its left, a face similar to the portrait, the same pale and without eyes and mouth, and it was not clear where it came from.
By the time she had recovered from her shock and was about to catch up, the baby spirit had already run out of the door.