"Why? Where are the mirrors? Lin Xuan asked twice in a row.

There was no response, and the shadow seemed to have lost its vitality.

Lin Xuan took two steps across and cautiously walked forward, looking at the shadow from the side. He mustered up his courage three times in a row, but he never dared to look forward at the face of the shadow.

"This is the end of my life, child, don't be afraid. At the end of life, there is no difference between withering and glory, withering and glorifying, and not withering and not glorious. The shadow said.

"Where's the mirror? What is 'through the mirror'? Lin Xuan asked.

"You'll know then, mirrors are the scariest thing in the world, aren't they?" The shadow asked, "Remember, Mount Kailash is there, and whether you go or not, it stands in silence and will never fall." ”

Lin Xuan wanted to ask again, but the shadow turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared.

"How to walk through the mirror? How can a person be able to walk through a mirror? The confusion in Lin Xuan's heart became even heavier.

After the shadow disappeared, the fog around him became heavier, turning from grayish white to inky until it covered a qiē, making him unable to distinguish things. However, compared to the confusion of the mind, visual chaos is nothing at all. He closed his eyes and forced himself to clear his mind of a clutter of thoughts, and to think wholeheartedly about what the shadow had said—"I want you to remember, not through the mirror."

As soon as modern people are born, they can touch the glass mirror everywhere in their lives, and they can see themselves in the mirror, beautify and apply makeup, and arrange their clothes to ensure that their appearance will not have any flaws. In one day, in my life, I don't know tens of thousands of times, hundreds of millions of times in front of the mirror, especially young boys and girls in love, I can't wait to carry the mirror with me, take it out every few seconds, and keep my image in the eyes of my lover perfect every second.

The only function of the mirror is to image the whole picture, without distortion or distortion, and every high-quality mirror will do this with due diligence.

"Through the mirror" is supposed to be something that children or small animals without social knowledge are willing to do, but they and they will all run into a wall in front of the mirror without exception, and adults deliberately do not say anything, in order to enjoy the ignorance of children and small animals, and laugh happily.

For a long time, human beings have formed a fixed common sense that there are phantoms in the mirror, and it is impossible for humans to pass through the mirror, just as no clever predator can catch a shadow.

For example, a writer in Hong Kong who specializes in writing alien novels has written a story about an astronaut piloting an airplane through the largest mirror in the universe. The story was eventually made into a movie, which swept Asia and the United States and sparked widespread discussion among scientists.

Lin Xuan clearly remembered that in that novel, the astronaut passed through the mirror and entered a world that was completely consistent with the real world but opposite to the left and right, with the planets, mountains, seas, rivers, countries, and cities in it being exactly the same, but he couldn't find any clues related to him. So, he became a stranger in the familiar world, and died depressed, nowhere to be found.

Lin Xuan didn't know what his father's shadow was going to tell him.

In a matter of minutes, he even immersed himself in recalling the history of the gradual invention of mirrors.

In ancient times, humans used obsidian, gold, silver, crystal, copper, bronze, and more to grind and polish to make mirrors. Egypt in 3000 BC had already developed bronze mirrors for makeup; In the first century A.D., large mirrors began to show the whole body of a person; At the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century, glass mirrors with silver or iron plates as the backs appeared; In the 16th century, human beings invented the cylindrical method to make plate glass, and at the same time invented the tin amalgamation method of attaching tin foil to glass with mercury; At the end of the 17th century, France invented the pouring method of flat glass, and produced high-quality large glass mirrors; At the end of the 18th century, large dressing mirrors were developed and used on furniture; In 1835, the German chemist Lebiger invented the chemical silver plating method, which made the application of glass mirrors more popular.

In China, the mirror is dominated by bronze mirrors, which appeared in 2000 BC, replacing the earlier bronze ware of "Jian", which was illuminated by water. During the Han and Wei dynasties, bronze mirrors became popular and had the unique style of Chinese mirrors, that is, they were circular with flanges, ornaments or inscriptions on the back, and semicircular buttons in the center of the back to place the mirrors. In the Ming Dynasty, glass mirrors were introduced from the West, and glass mirrors gradually became popular during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.

In all of the above mirror cultures, "through the mirror" is just a scene in legendary novels, and has nothing to do with real life.

So, what exactly is the shadow talking about?

In great confusion, Lin Xuan turned around and saw the tent in the camp and the light shining from the tent. He walked towards the light and quickly got out of the fog.

When he reached the door of the tent, he suddenly saw Samantha lying in her sleeping bag, sleeping on her side. On the other side of the tent, another man was lying.

"That...... Isn't it...... Myself? He felt that his back was sore and his feet were weak, he fell and woke up from a dream in Nanke.

Lin Xuan woke up from his dream and found that the shadows of the people who had just spread over the mountains and fields and his father were just dreams.

"Where are the mirrors? Can the words of the dreamer be taken seriously? Lin Xuan thought confusedly.

"Are you awake?" Samantha, who was on the other side, turned over and asked softly.

Wrapped in an eiderdown sleeping bag, only half of her face was exposed, and her eyes were deep and shining in the dim light.

"Yes, wake up." Lin Xuan was sure that he was in reality this time.

"I hear you keep saying the word 'mirror', what's going on in your dream?" Samantha asked.

Lin Xuan shook his head: "I forgot about it, it might just be a strange dream." ”

Suddenly, Tian Meng's voice came from outside, and he was still reciting the "Heart Sutra": "Relic, the color is not different from the emptiness, the emptiness is not different from the color, the color is the emptiness, the emptiness is the color, and the same is true when you want to do it." The relics are the empty phase of all the laws, which are neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, nor increased nor decreased. Therefore, there is no color in the air, no thoughts, no thoughts, no thoughts, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, no color, sound, fragrance, touch, no vision, and even no consciousness. There is no ignorance, there is no end to ignorance, there is no old age and death, and there is no old age and death. There is no suffering to gather and destroy the Tao, and there is no wisdom and no ......"

"I hear Yume Arida's voice." Lin Xuan said.

The voice was like Tian Meng, and it scattered around.

It was strange that the voice was very close at first, and then slowly faded away, and then to the left, and then to the right.

"Really?" Samantha sat up and listened.

The voice resounded repeatedly: "Therefore, there is no color in the air, no thoughts, no thoughts, no thoughts, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, no color, no sound, fragrance, touch, no vision, and even no consciousness." There is no ignorance, there is no end to ignorance, there is no old age and death, and there is no old age and death. There is no suffering to gather and destroy the Tao, and there is no wisdom and no ......"

In the eyes of practitioners, the scriptures need to be recited repeatedly, and they work harder than the ancient educators said, "read the book a hundred times and its meaning will be revealed", and in the tens of thousands of recitations and transcriptions, the essence of the scriptures can be understood.

"Is it Tian Meng?" Lin Xuan stood up suddenly.

"Don't move, the sound seems to freeze." Samantha said lightly.