Chapter 7: The World in the Mirror

I suddenly felt a real pain creeping through my fingertips, so I quickly retracted my hand, and sure enough, there was a visible scratch on the tip of my index finger, and a trace of blood was slowly seeping through. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

I looked up again, and it was my own figure in the mirror, perhaps because of the mirror, I felt a little thin. Just as I was staring, the face inside suddenly laughed weirdly, and then an extremely sharp voice instantly appeared in my ears, no! Sounds coming from the ears to be exact!

"Young man, why are you here? This is not the place for you! A slightly vicissitudes of life sounded, and I suddenly felt that the original piercing roar was gone, so I turned to look over.

In front of me is a face that is unforgettable at first glance. The left half of the face is covered with a grid of dense scars, causing the left eye to be completely raised, and the red bloodshot is particularly striking against the white background; The right half of the face has some layers of irregular wavy folds, as if it has been doused with hot oil, and the right eyeball is dead in the middle, and there is no trace of brilliance.

The bridge of his nose is visibly fractured, and there are three pits on the top near the center of his eyebrows, which look like three fingerprints. The base of his left ear was crippled as if he had been bitten, and there was a small hole in his chin that occasionally flowed with pus.

When he saw that I didn't speak, he came over and patted me on the shoulder and shouted again, and then I quickly asked, "Why can't I come here, is there any taboo?" ”

He then looked at the mirror behind me and replied, "This is the legendary Soul Mirror, it is said that everything you see in the mirror is not a real illusion, and you seem to have been scratched by the person in the mirror just now, and it will follow the smell of your blood, and slowly torture you until you die!" ”

I jumped a little frightened and asked, "Isn't there a way to crack it?" ”

"I've only heard that either the host dies or you can enter the mirror world, but I know how to enter the mirror world, and I don't know how to get out." The man turned his back and walked out.

I then went out and thought about it, and decided to ask for a way to enter the world in the mirror. Seeing that I was insisting, the man closed the door and pulled me to the mirror in the back room and asked solemnly.

I nodded resolutely, and he sighed lightly and said, "Since you are so insistent, I will tell you." At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, on either side of the mirror you are going to enter, place a pair of white candles three feet long, a six-foot white silk, a piece of uncut red apple peel, a bowl of white rice, and then a stick of incense. ”

"First light the pillar of incense, wait for the incense ash to be sprinkled with white rice and swallow it all, then wrap the white silk around the neck three times and then tie it around the waist three times, and then wrap the rest around the left hand, then hold the red apple peel in the right hand, and then silently recite the mantra: Heaven and earth are all in the world, illusion is vain, the heart is open, the mind locks the mortal dust, the white lotus is dustless, the karmic fire is ruthless, the human heart is unintentional, and the red dust has no heart."

As I turned to leave, the man said behind me, "Remember, no matter what, you must find your way back before the pair of white candles burns out, or you will be lucky!" "I just wanted to look back, but I was the only one in the mirrors.

I turned around sharply, and there was no one else in the mirror, except in the mirror that reflected me alone. I stared blankly for a moment, then finally walked out of the shop with a self-deprecating smile.

Then I walked the whole street and finally got what I needed, and when I came to the shop again, the strange-faced man appeared at the door again, and when he saw me coming, he closed the door and asked, "Are you ready?" I nodded, and then he smiled at me, "I'll light the candle for you when you do enter, if you can trust me." ”

I nodded, said something troublesome, and then started slowly following his previous instructions. As the minutes ticked by, I couldn't remember how many times I had recited the mantra, and just as I was about to give up, a strange sensation gradually spread through my body.

It was as if someone was slowly caressing every cell inside my skin, and I couldn't help but close my eyes, and then I seemed to feel like I was getting closer to the mirror uncontrollably, and I opened my eyes.

I saw that I was sitting completely upside down above the mirror at this moment, no, to be exact, everything in the mirror was upside down, and my image in the mirror became more and more solemn, and at the same time, my consciousness was slightly blurred.

When I came back to consciousness, I realized that I was in front of a completely upside-down world, the same shop full of mirrors that I was in, except that the mirrors on the left were on my right and on the right were all on the left.

The strange-faced shopkeeper was supposed to be waving his left hand, because it was the one with the grid-like scars on the left side of the face, but now it was waving to my right, then he pointed at me and then at my wrist, then he took out his lighter, lit a white candle and waved at me.

I quickly turned around and looked at this slightly new world. At the moment, I am in a completely opposite world, and the place where I am should be an antique shop, where there are many antique calligraphy and paintings that seem to be very historical, but these calligraphy and paintings seem to be completely from another angle to be read.

I looked at the calligraphy and paintings, and then at the mirror not far behind me, and suddenly realized that because I was in the mirror, it was originally on the left outside the mirror and the right side in the mirror.

I was a little overwhelmed, and suddenly I found that the world I was in was completely turned upside down, and the original habits were like a ball flying with a strong inertia that slammed into the world against me.

I walked out into the street and almost didn't get hit by a speeding car, and after finally getting used to looking first to the right and then to the left, I began to follow the fluctuations of my mind slowly towards a very strange building.

The building looked a bit like a tomb, with a slightly strange window on one of its floors, which seemed to rise slightly to reflect the sunlight. The occasional crowd of people walking down the street was also slightly to the left, and they looked at me in a strange way, and after a long time I suddenly realized that the buttons of their clothes were the opposite of mine!

"Do you think it's strange, young man, why do you appear in such a completely opposite world?" A voice rang out behind me.

I looked back and saw a middle-aged man in his early forties, his eyes turned upside down to reveal a large white of his eyes, and an unfathomable smile on his face. He reached out and patted me on the shoulder and said, "We have a rumor here that when someone is completely opposite to us, change will make a whole new difference. ”

I asked a little confused what would change, and he smiled and pointed to the strange building and said, "You see that building that looks a bit like a tomb." It used to be a large shopping mall, and when it first opened, it was said to have gathered the best merchants in the world. Then he looked up at the building and went on for a moment:

However, the morning after the mall opened, a foul smell came from an elevator parked on the thirteenth floor, and it was later discovered that the elevator was covered in blood, and in the corner of the elevator there was a large pile of completely unrecognizable corpses.

Then, on the third day of the mall's opening, a large pile of corpses and blood was found in the elevator parked on the thirteenth floor. The discovery of strange corpses for two days in a row made everyone feel depressed, and then someone came up with an idea to redesign the glass on the thirteenth floor, and sure enough, there were no corpses for a long time after that time.

Just when everyone thought that this was the end of the matter, a strange incident occurred in that building again. First of all, the night security guard often heard the singing of a mysterious woman in the middle of the night, although it was not real, but there was always a tragic feeling.

Later, there are people who occasionally work overtime on the upper floors of the mall and go back late will feel followed closely from time to time and even sometimes feel unusually heavy on their backs, until later many people see a woman with no facial features, red hair and white dress will float around, and even later at dusk, many salespeople who have worked in the mall for half a year will often fall or be injured inexplicably, until a woman commits suicide from the roof after breaking up with her boyfriend.

Not long after, the man also came to the roof of the building in a trance and jumped down. However, the chain reaction ensued, and the man's new girlfriend soon committed suicide by jumping from the roof, and then the suicide spread like a flu through the crowd, and every three to five days someone committed suicide.

"So what does all this have to do with me? Do you think I can help you slay demons? Come on, I'm just a normal person! I replied with some tears and laughter.

"No, maybe you are indeed an ordinary person, but when you enter this world, you naturally carry the energy of another world, and this energy is completely opposite to here, and because of this, you will gain the power that can be cursed in this world, which is the true meaning of this legend." The man explained unhurriedly.

"Strange, how do you know this? Could it be that you have also been a visitor from another world! "I boldly voiced my guess.

"I really don't see that you're still quite smart, so I don't have to worry, it's a pity that I've been assimilated by this world, and I can't go back to the original world, but I want to remind you that you should know that your time is limited, so you must hurry up to solve it, and then find the key thing to go back, but I don't know what the key thing is now." The man said with a distressed expression.

I suspiciously followed the man to his house not far away, and then he suggested that it was still early anyway, so it was better to have a meal together, so he took me to a small restaurant nearby, and after ordering a few random dishes, we slowly ate and chatted. After a while, a young man in a security uniform came, and as soon as he entered the door, he came straight to us, and the middle-aged man greeted me very warmly, and then pointed at me and said: "Hey, maybe your curse can be broken today, at this time, I accidentally met a Taoist master, who happened to enter the world to practice, so I asked him to come and show you, and strive to solve all the troubles." ”

"Really! That's a great one! The young security guard gave me a glass of excitement, I quickly pushed it off with something important to do at night, and then I quietly listened to them tell those terrifying rumors, in fact, it is nothing more than the elevator horror, the dark shadow of the corridor and the like, there is only one I care about: it is said that the floor where the elevator stays sometimes has a strange light, but I don't know why I am always disoriented there, it seems that the road back is here.

Finally in the evening, the young security guard sneaked us into the building. Then the middle-aged man told me to take a break first, and when the young security guard came to call us in the middle of the night, I closed my clothes and squinted on the cot in the security room.

In a daze, I felt someone shaking me desperately, and I opened my eyes to see the young security guard with a bloody face and screaming in horror: "Oh no, something bizarre came out tonight." (To be continued.) )