Chapter 15: A Strange Reunion
I sat up from the ground with support, gasping weakly, as if someone had just been dragged back from the brink of death, and my consciousness was still quite sluggish.
After calming down a little, he immediately fell into fear and hurriedly looked around.
Everything in front of him was calm, and the mirrors that had just been encircling and annexing had disappeared, and not only that, but even the mirror array that had filled the entire lobby was gone.
"What the hell is going on? Could it be that they have completed the ritual of death to me! ”
Thinking of this, I involuntarily touched my face and arm, and even repeatedly confirmed the only memory fragment in my mind.
"Everything is complete!"
When such a conclusion flashed, I suddenly felt a strong sense of suffocation, and I knew very well that the reason for this feeling was because reality and memory had formed a huge frustration.
"In my memory, I just ... As the mirror devoured me, I clearly felt the dismembered body, and the consciousness that had been cut off from it... But now..."
I checked myself again, "But now - everything is fine." ”
"Did none of this happen in reality, or did my memory go wrong?"
I sat down on the cold floor, stunned for a long time, and had to recall the whole story, and my thoughts began to step into this strange restaurant, like a movie replay, passing through my mind frame by frame.
First, the merging mirror that foreshadowed life and death appeared, and when I saw the thirteenth face of death, the merged mirror disappeared... And then death unfolded, a labyrinthine array of mirrors, and a ring array that seemed to be tailor-made for me, and finally devouring and awakening.
Looking at everything in chronological order, I suddenly had two thoughts, one definite and the other uncertain, and the boundary that divides their "certainty" is before and after I am swallowed up by the ring mirror.
That is to say, before I was devoured, the reality and the memory I experienced were completely compatible, that is certain; And when devouring happens, there is no guarantee that what I have experienced is real, that is, there is no certainty.
So, if I want to figure out why the mirror array disappeared for no reason, or even sort out the whole of this strange building, I have to find what happened in that uncertain void when I devoured it.
I couldn't help but smile wryly, it was so hard to do this, it was like seeing a mirage in the barren desert, and it was almost impossible to find its source by relying on this illusion alone.
"What should I do?" I raised my eyes and looked around.
Suddenly, as far as the eye could see, the door to the outside world appeared again.
As if my heart had been redeemed, I immediately turned to my feet and ran towards the gate.
The empty lobby is filled with the sound of my footsteps.
Slowly, it was not far from the mouth of escape, and at this moment, the inner thoughts clamped down on walking.
I paused, and I couldn't help but look back at the empty hall. Remembering that the "Spiritual Power of the Moon" had guided me to regain my lost memories, I was faintly sure that it would lead me here, and there must be an inevitable reason for it.
It's just that... I don't understand it yet, or maybe I just know what it is, but I don't know why. ”
At this moment, I gave up the idea of escaping.
Standing a stone's throw away from the door, you can almost see the lobby in all directions...
I closed my eyes suddenly, letting the blank space that seemed like a shadow of afterlight appear as much as possible:
Like a floating black fluid, starting from the head, neck and feet... The feeling of being dismembered and isolated wanders again, reminiscing... Recall...
This feeling of peeling back the cocoon spread in my memory, until an extreme, I once again felt the state of "unconscious".
Fearful and resistant, I had to stop the memory of "swallowing the mirror", and suddenly, I opened my eyes.
I don't know if it was reality or the illusion brought by the remnants of memory, but this time, I saw the vanished merged mirror again.
Like a ghost... The ground floated overhead.
Along with its reappearance and disappearance, there is also that familiar light.
I blinked like a bubble of disillusionment... But nothing was gone.
Empty halls.
A hall without any danger.
This can't help but make me have a sympathetic thought: "The sudden disappearance of the mirror array, the sudden appearance of the merging mirror, and that familiar feeling..."
"The object of death has changed! It's Lin Shufan... She must have been the one who helped me out..."
But if everything is as I think, then the appearance of the merger mirror and the revelation of the death ritual may be determined by the spiritual power of each psychic, that is, this mysterious building is located by "spiritual power" to locate the existence of psychic!
"Lin Shufan! Where are you?! I shouted into the lobby with all my might.
Aftermath Echo... but he did not hear the answer.
At this moment, I can no longer stand a woman... A strange woman in my current memory, but repeatedly risked her own life for me.
From the moment the crisis strikes... We either feel each other spiritually, or we see each other in the memory of my return... Not more than three times.
I counted:
the third floor of another otherworldly Xinghua Village;
This otherworld, in the corpse in the coffin and in the image of my memory reset;
Also, the flash of spiritual power just now.
My thoughts suddenly made a ball of threads, cutting constantly, but I had a clue.
Suddenly I understood something in my heart, and reached for the note in my pocket...
This is the place where Lin Shufan asked the boy to deliver it to me...
Again, I thought, "A mirror, two worlds, mirror each other, born in parallel."
The coffin is the bed, the bed is the coffin, the soul is stripped away, and the beast is trapped in all directions. ”
I didn't dare to delay for a moment, I went deep into the lobby and headed for the side staircase...
"Lin Shufan... Hold on a little longer. "I took three steps and made two steps, and ran to the third floor with all my heart.
Yes, all the information, whether it is the place where Lin Shufan's spiritual power was felt for the first time, or the memory of returning to the coffin, or now... They all clearly pointed out to me that Lin Shufan was trapped in the "Xinghua Village Restaurant", and he was trapped on the third floor!
I blame myself for my cowardice, for my dull insight... Suddenly pushed open the side door of the corridor on the third floor, and a wave of yin qi poured in.
I took a step back tightly, and the corridor and the long and narrow space in front of me made me wonder:
Gray light diffuses from the double walls, ceilings and floors in the corridor, as far as the eye can see, like an endless road... As I expected, the mirror array that should have been all over the corridor on the third floor was missing.
"My reasoning... Wrong? ”
"Lin Shufan!" I yelled at the promenade.
There was no echo, as if it had fallen into an endless space, only a gray and blackened light as far as the eye could see...
I don't know if it's the attraction of the devil or the desperation of the gods, but I actually probed into it one foot deeper and one foot shallow... All the way to the end of the gray and mysterious place.
Passing through the private rooms, it is recognizable that it is a door number made of cold metal, and the room number is still clearly engraved on it, from 0301 to 0315... All the doors were open, and I couldn't help but look inside.
However... Aside from the furnishings that were laid out parallel to the previous world, there was still no answer in the rooms that I was looking for.
In the blink of an eye, we are nearing the end of the corridor... The gray-black breath is even stronger, faintly looking, as if it is a huge black shadow with a breathing rhythm, between gray and black, there seems to be a strange light, just one after another, unhurriedly shrinking.
From 0301 to 0315, the frustration of seeking answers is fruitless;
The black shadow in front of him that seems to have life and exudes the breath of death, bringing a sense of oppression;
I had to make a desperate gamble and put my last hope in the last room.
The more uneasy I felt in my heart, the more I knew that this last room must be 0316.
It's just that the otherworld, 0316, is located in the space at the end of the corridor on the third floor.
"One mirror, two worlds, mirror each other, born in parallel."
Carefully, as I was about to step into this shrouded gray and black area, the voice in my consciousness came out again.
Imperceptibly clenched his fists... Adjust your breathing that is disturbed by tension.
Hazy, and only for a moment, when I got used to the shrouded gray and black, I realized in hindsight: it turned out... This end is no different from anywhere else!
It's just that, looking at it from a distance, the "life", the sense of depression, and even the so-called brightness attached to it are actually the visual errors brought out by a faint blue light stirring in it.
A strong sense of foreboding swells throughout the body... Familiar can't be overstated.
"It's a candle flame! It's the kind of chilling chill that only existed before devouring! ”
I realized the danger, "Lin Shufan! ”
I roared and ran towards the brightest place of the blue.
0316…
Like a light falling down in the mist... As I passed by, the cold blue light flashed on the door, and out of the corner of my eye, I did see the house number indicating 0316.
A large number of thoughts also swelled like a spring, expanding in an instant:
Here, the place where I saw that boy for the first time is the place where the crisis came, Chen Yue's life and death were uncertain, and Lin Shufan's spiritual power was here!
"Is it worth it?" When I think about it, all three of them risked their lives to save me... I felt more and more guilty and doubtful in my heart.
Find Lin Shufan, such self-blame has a place to place, and all the confusion may be able to get a reasonable explanation!
"Lin Shufan!" I shouted at 0316, which wasn't spacious, with all my might.
Over and over again, with certainty and all the bet...
Because, at this time, I am standing in front of a bright mirror:
In the mirror, it's not me... Instead, a spirit platform, two white ash, and a deep pen engraved with the word "fan" on the spirit card.
This is exactly what I just experienced.
Death image, but the person who paid tribute to this time was Lin Shufan.
The dense array of mirrors separates the already small room as if it were an unconnected space.
I took a step back, out of the way of the mirror in front of me, until I refocused my vision, and then I realized through the top of the array of mirrors that there was one area that was brightest at the top of the ceiling where all the scattered blue light shone in unison.
Condensed... Turned into a small circle of phantoms.
It's a ring array.
Suddenly, above the mirror array, the blue light on the ceiling flickered, "Oh no! When the candle flame is extinguished, the coffin is erected, and that's when the devouring ritual begins. ”
I must rescue Lin Shufan when the candle flame goes out.
But in the face of the mountains and mountains, I couldn't get into the array that trapped her.
The blue light is getting weaker and weaker...
In a panic... I suddenly realized the possible mechanism of this strange building, and I didn't think much about it, and raised my right hand and pointed directly at the mirror array:
"-Broken!"
Concentrate on the fingers, turn the spirit into shape... I only felt that the previous suppression on the first floor was no longer there, and in an instant, the light like the moon quickly burst out, turning into thousands of threads and rushing towards the mirror array.
A moment when gray, blue, and white are superimposed...
The mirror array shrank suddenly, and countless mirrors flew towards the center of the ring, one after another, shrinking and condensing...
In the end, it became a merged mirror, suspended in the air.
Inside the room, return to peace....
On the ground, there was a woman lying ....
A thin body, a weak breathing rhythm, is on his back under the merging mirror.
For a while, my heart was like a knife, and I stepped forward to hold her up.
Looking at the woman lying in my arms, she looked exactly like what I saw in my reset memory.
Clean face, delicate countenance...
It's just that the sunken eye sockets due to emaciation, as well as the bony feeling all over my body, made my eyes blur with tears.
I shook it gently, "Lin ~ Shu ~ Fan." ”
When I really called her name to this woman, I couldn't help but shudder.
I saw Lin Shufan staring at his eyes, just raising his eyes, looking at me weakly, and then closed weakly...
A smile of relief, two tears that fell quietly...
Suddenly, I instinctively felt the existence of danger, and when I looked up at the ceiling, the merged mirror was gone...
Restlessly, I looked around room 0316....
It's behind you! It's like a pair of eyes watching me!
In the afterglow, I didn't turn directly to the eerie mirror.
picked up Lin Shufan, held it on his arms, and rushed out of the door and headed towards the corridor.