"Back off!"
All the practitioners started to retreat as soon as they saw the picture in the mirror, and Su Zimo, who didn't know what was going on, rushed back to the mirror again, and the tablecloth in his hand flew to Li Gui at the fastest speed. Cluster of mirrors.
"Wait a minute! Don't cover the mirror!" The madman on the other side shouted suddenly, stopping Su Zimo's movements.
The surprising scene happened at that moment. When everyone thought that Specter was going to rush out of the mirror, when the blood claws belonging to Specter really broke through the mirror, the lunatic and Liu Xu really blocked everything. In front of the practitioners, but those Specters did not rush out!
Those terrifying ghost claws, just like what Xiaohuo encountered before, kept attacking outwards, but because the distance between the mirror and the table lens was a bit far, those ghost claws just looked ferocious and terrifying, but in fact they were constantly stretching out. Out of the mirror, grabbing the air, the group of demons danced wildly and looked a little funny at the same time.
"They can't come out." Looking at the hideous faces and the ghost claws scratching around, the madman sighed in relief, "Their bodies seem to be inseparable from the mirror at all. The so-called attack is just bluff."
"Is it us in the mirror?" Little Miss Wanling held the oversized garden shears and looked up at the others in confusion.
"Us?" The madman was stunned for a moment, and then said as if thinking of something, "Those ghosts in the mirror seemed to be sitting there like us at first, and they seemed to have similar movements, but I didn't think much about it at that time, so I don't remember either."
"Does the mirror remember what the old man can't remember?" Su Zimo muttered to himself, and then said, "Actually, when the candle was extinguished for the first time, Du Xin, who was sitting beside Mr. Fang Qin, was It is said that the old man's figure has become a big fat man. I saw it when the candle went out just now. In addition, the chef's uniform is very fat. I think if we look carefully in the mirror, maybe we will find that the old man and Fang Qin Sitting in the same position is the chef of the villa."
"In other words, the mirror will tell us what role we should play? Is this what 'pay attention to the mirror' really means?! Oh my God!" Dr. Jin frowned at the mirror that was dancing with demons in front of him, "It still looks like this now. How can you tell who is who?"
"Wow—"
When everyone was thinking about what to do, Su Zimo suddenly shook off the tablecloth in his hand and covered the entire decorative mirror with all his strength, and the ghost howls that were originally caused by the dancing of the demons disappeared immediately.
"Prepare your phone's camera." After Su Zimo felt that the whole mirror was quiet again, he immediately told the other practitioners standing on the other side of the dining table, "If the ghost in the mirror returns to its original position, try it immediately. They were filming with their mobile phones. In order to prevent the images of Specter from being captured by the mobile phone camera, everyone also returned to their respective seats, and then remembered the identities corresponding to their seats.”
"What about you?" Everyone looked at Su Zimo, who was holding on to the tablecloth and seemed to be about to lift the tablecloth at any time. "If you stand there, the mirror won't be able to see you."
"Isn't there one more person in this game from the beginning? There are ten identities but eleven experiencers. Maybe it's my turn to maneuver. After all, there may be personnel damage in the middle of the mission, or I can simply play the role. The identity of the birthday star." Su Zimo kept his words intact, completely hiding his unknown identity as an "outsider".
"Prepare!"
"start!"
Su Zimo took a deep breath and forcefully pulled the covered tablecloth away again. The ghost claws that were dancing around the group of demons had indeed disappeared, and while the practitioners sitting at the dining table were concentrating on their judgments, those with mobile phones All of them also pressed the shutter a few times as quickly as agreed.
In less than five seconds, those Specter Ghosts began to struggle outward again, and Su Zimo simply covered the mirror with the tablecloth when those Ghost Claws appeared.
"see it?"
Hearing Su Zimo's question, all the practitioners nodded.
"I'm still a family doctor." Dr. Jin raised his hand, "I don't know if it's a coincidence or an arrangement from the beginning. Maybe the reason why I entered this nightmare world is because I'm a doctor?"
"Me, Qi Xiaomin, and Wan Ling are maids." Bai Man was also relieved, "This time, the gender is no longer wrong."
"It seems that I am indeed a chef." Mr. Fang Qin also nodded, "for such a big man, a chair can barely fit."
"Like Mr. Su said, the phone doesn't seem to capture the image of Specter, but I should be the housekeeper." The madman smiled helplessly, "Thinking about it this way, this nightmare game does know the details of some experienced players. "
"Mr. Madman is also a housekeeper in the real world?" Dr. Jin looked at the madman's clothes and style like a tramp with a strange expression, and was very doubtful that this senior could find a job in the real world.
"Not everyone can afford me." The lunatic took a bottle of water from the table and drank it, "At least in terms of finances, I will be more impeccable than this bastard housekeeper. Feeling uncomfortable."
"Indeed, for a family, being a good housekeeper is far from being as simple as checking the hygiene of the house and stalking the work of the servants." Mr. Fang Qin also agreed, and seemed to have a little appreciation for the lunatic.
"I'm a bodyguard." Liu Xu also said aloud, "Although the bodyguard has no uniform, I saw the ghost in the mirror holding a tactical pen in his hand."
Bai Man also put the tactical pen in Liu Xu's hand, which can be regarded as a transition of identity.
"There's a ghost wearing a driver's hat in the seat of the viper." Bai Man looked back at the viper who had not yet woken up on the chair next to them. "He should be the driver."
"Then the remaining two gardeners are me and Du Xin." Xiaohuo's face seemed a little unhappy, "It doesn't sound like a handsome character."
"It's really hard to think that 'pay attention to the mirror' actually means this." Dr. Jin sighed, "As long as someone tries to walk in front of the mirror, they will see the ghost in the mirror, or they will be scared away immediately. , or you will be attacked by the ghost claw sticking out from the mirror, and you will soon misunderstand the mirror as an existence that practitioners can't avoid."
"Only if we are desperate like us, will we want to find clues in a mirror stuffed with ghosts." Bai Man breathed a sigh of relief again now, "In this way, everything should be ready."
Under the arrangement of the "housekeeper" madman, all the trainees changed into their correct uniforms, and even the poisonous snake, who was a driver, was dressed like a doll at the mercy of others with the help of Du Xin. in a suit with a famous car key in his pocket.
The three practitioners who are "maids" are responsible for cleaning and dressing up the hall. The driver, bodyguards and two gardeners are responsible for moving all kinds of abandoned and broken objects in the hall to the next corridor.
Master Fang, Doctor Jin, and Su Zimo, who are idle, are responsible for placing the various plates and cutlery cleaned by the maids on the table, and by the way, the drinking water and various chocolate candies brought by the experiencers. materials are arranged.
All the practitioners gathered all the still intact vase racks in the villa into the hall where the waste was cleaned up, and placed the broken vase and other intact decorations that Su Zimo picked up, which can be regarded as offsetting some Insufficient plants and decorations.
The decorative mirror on the side was moved and directly faced the blank wall with nothing, so the tablecloth that had successfully retired was returned to the table, and the tableware for four was placed on the table in the correct way by the madman who is the housekeeper. Along the edge, various plates and three candlesticks were repositioned on the table.
A tower of various snacks and chocolates was placed on the dinner plate. There were also a few cans in the materials contributed by the poisonous snake before, and they were all placed on the dinner plate. Because they were reluctant to use drinking water to wash the dishes, so After the food has entered those simply wiped plates, it is considered impossible to eat again.
Because the three candlesticks on the table were all empty, Su Zimo took some candles from the candlesticks on the wall and carefully placed them on the tabletop candlesticks, so that the table full of cheap food and instant food was suddenly raised. half a grade.
"This should be barely enough for business, right?" The madman looked around the "new" hall, his expression was still somewhat disgusting, "Since I chose this profession, this is the first time I have seen such a shabby banquet."
"It's not bad." Su Zimo is also someone who has seen big scenes, but after seeing the shabby result in the eyes of the lunatic, he still refills the glass with drinking water and nodded with satisfaction.
"Then how do we get started?" The madman spread his hands, "We've already done everything we can, so we can't just stand here and sing the birthday song, right?"
After the madman finished speaking, all the practitioners nodded with understanding, and said invariably, "Good idea."
"If you sing a birthday song? There will be a birthday party atmosphere, right? After all, we don't even have a cake!" Su Zimo also nodded in agreement with the lunatic's proposal. .
With that said, Su Zimo put the two gifts found in the cabinet before on the chair in the main seat. The somewhat broken gray teddy bear sat there and shook his head.
“Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you…”
Under the leadership of Dr. Jin, the practitioners could only sing along in an awkward atmosphere, and even those who could not remember the lyrics could hum a few words along, but because everyone was standing at the dining table, the seats were different from each other. The main seats are empty and no one is sitting, so the picture looks very strange.
Amidst the untuned singing, the figure of the wheelchair being pushed came from the direction of the stairs.
All the candlelights in the hall began to flicker, but it did not darken the hall as before, but just like some kind of omen, telling the practitioners that something was going to happen.
Su Zimo turned his head to look, and found that the ghost on the second floor appeared in the light for the first time in a wheelchair, driving the practitioners to find a chance for life. He stared at them like a black hole, his mouth was slightly open, and he kept making the sound of "Aah...".
Only this time, Mr. Li Gui did not slap the wheelchair anxiously, but walked to the dining table with the wheelchair little by little.
The madman quickly pulled away the chair on the side of the main seat, allowing the wheelchair to come in, and then stood in a row behind the main seat like the most cautious servants with the other practitioners, waiting quietly.
But the old man Li Gui just sat there, staring at the main seat of the gray teddy bear with his black hole eyes, making the hearts of the trainees quicken, wondering if they really found the so-called chance of life.
[Ah ah… ]
After waiting for a long time, the old man who had been quiet suddenly stretched out his thin arms in the direction of the teddy bear. The practitioners looked at each other, not knowing what he meant by doing so.
Want a teddy bear
Or remove the teddy bear
Shouldn't he want to sit in the main seat
Just when all the practitioners were puzzled, Su Zimo seemed to see the shadow of his grandfather in front of his eyes. The grandfather who was lying on the bed and insisted on seeing his grandson seemed to overlap with the old man who was in front of him.
When Su Zimo saw the old man's open hands, he seemed to think of something...
But before Su Zimo could speak, a small figure threw the gardening scissors in his hand directly on the ground, and then saw Wan Ling, a little girl in a white dress, suddenly walking in front of Mr. Into the old man's arms, he said -
"thanks."
The old man's stiffly open hands slowly folded, and he patted Wan Ling's back lightly.
"Mission completed." Suddenly they felt a tingling sensation in their arms. Dr. Jin and the others were still a little dazed. They had tossed the task for so long and had so many accidents, and it was just completed
"Is it expected?" The madman stretched out his hands and found that his hands were gradually becoming translucent. "It's obviously the eighteenth nightmare world, I don't know why I am a little calm now."
"Zimo." Du Xin finally turned to look at Su Zimo on the other side, "I'm sorry."
The little girl Wanling, who was still in the arms of the old man, glanced at the gardening scissors on the ground with regret, and murmured a little sadly: "I'm sorry, if I have nightmares, I must..."
This may be the first time Su Zimo has seen with his own eyes what the trainees look like after completing their tasks. All he can do is stand in the shadow of the hall and hide his body that has not become transparent at all.
In less than a minute, all the practitioners disappeared from the hall illuminated by candlelight, leaving only Su Zimo and the old man in the wheelchair looking at each other.
"It seems that we are the only ones left." Su Zimo spread his hands helplessly, and by the way returned the two-star ghost weapon called "Duangui" to his backpack, except for this two-star ghost weapon. In addition, he still has two remaining two-star "Nightmare Sleeping Pills", three-star "Lonely Mountain Notes: Postscript", and a mysterious ghost cane that was broken in two. Su Zimo is ready to return to the corner of Anyu. Then try to "fix" it with scotch tape.
In general, although this trip was a bit of a toss up, the amount of harvest is actually not too much, not as good as the unstarred goods harvested in Peng Peng's training institution before.
But a two-star ghost weapon is comparable to fifty unstarred goods, and its value can be imagined.
Thinking of this, Su Zimo even felt a little sorry for the old man who was sitting in a wheelchair in front of him. He seemed to have swept up his villa by accident.
"Actually, old man, I still don't understand something." Su Zimo looked at the motionless old man, squatted down carefully in front of him, and asked gently, "Why didn't this birthday party end in the end?"
"Why are the doors and windows in the villa blocked?"
"What happened to the servants and family doctors who did bad things in the end?"
"Did they have an accident during the preparation of the birthday party? If your old man is really looking forward to the birthday party, it shouldn't stop the party from starting anyway, right?"
"What exactly happened?"
The most things Su Zimo and the others do these days is speculation, but the things they speculate are only approximate. Now he can know that these things are almost the limit, but there are too many things they don't know. .
It's a pity that even if Su Zimo asked here, he never thought of asking the old man to answer. After all, the old man's illness seemed to affect Li Gui's state, and it was impossible to tell him what happened at the beginning.
But just when Su Zimo thought so, there was a sudden soft singing voice belonging to a girl in the hall—
“Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me…”
This voice is...
Su Zimo immediately got up and looked around, and found that the sound came from the mirror facing the wall.
"What the old man can't remember, the mirror remembers." Su Zimo repeated what he said before, then walked over and turned the mirror over.
When it was just turned over, the mirror was facing the corridor leading to the servant's room. Although there was still singing, the person who was singing could not be seen. But even so, Su Zimo found that the hall reflected in the mirror was gorgeous and tidy, and it was not at all abandoned and broken outside the mirror.
After thinking about it, Su Zimo moved the mirror again so that the mirror could face the long dining table.
This time, Su Zimo saw four people sitting at the long dining table. On the left was a pair of luxuriously dressed men and women. It is a cute little girl wearing a birthday hat and a white lace tutu skirt, like a noble little princess under the candlelight.
On the wall behind the dining table is a banner that reads: Happy eighth birthday to the little princess!
The picture reflected by the mirror is limited, but Su Zimo can see many people in uniform walking around the picture, they should be the servants of the villa.
[Pingting, do you like the little dress your grandpa gave you? ] The pretty lady sitting on the side asked with a smile.
[like! ] The little girl shouted, and then threw herself into the arms of the old man, [I like Grandpa the most! ]
In the next second, the picture in the mirror seemed to be swept by hundreds of thousands of times fast-forward. When it stopped again, the decorations in the hall did not seem to have changed much, but the banner behind it changed to: Zhu Xiao Happy tenth birthday princess!
[Pingting, do you like the little bunny toy grandpa gave you? ] Sitting on the side, the still beautiful lady asked carefully.
But at this time, the girl who was originally lively and lovely with a bright smile looked timidly at the old man in the wheelchair, and did not speak.
[What's the matter, haven't seen Grandpa for more than a year? Yes, grandpa seems to have lost a lot of weight, but he is still grandpa. ] The young father sitting on the side tapped his daughter on the shoulder.
Then, the ten-year-old girl hugged the little bunny doll in her arms, walked in front of the old man step by step, carefully hugged the old man in the wheelchair, and then quickly shrank back.
The picture in the mirror fast-forwards again.
Because the mirror is aimed at the long dining table, Su Zimo seems to be watching the changing times of this dining table, the replacement of the tablecloth, the transformation of the plates like magic, and the many figures coming and going on the screen. The wall clock on the back wall spins like a top.
When the picture stopped again, the banner on the wall changed to: Happy twelfth birthday to the little princess.
It was still the same dining table, with the same four people sitting, but the old man became thinner and smaller, while the girl in the main seat had grown into a big girl, and had changed into a lace princess dress and was wearing a school suit and short skirt. Even put on some light makeup beyond her age.
Before, Su Zimo even thought that Wan Ling, who suddenly rushed out to hug the old man, was unusual, but now she found that the grown-up Bai Pingting and Wan Ling did not have the slightest resemblance. The little girl Wan Ling had blue purple and thin body. She looks much younger than her real age, not at all like Bai Pingting with the extravagance she has been favored since she was a child.
[Pingting, grandpa has prepared two gifts for you, one is a skirt and the other is a teddy bear, do you like it? ] The mother who was sitting on the side also looked a little colder.
[Mom, you know I don't like that kind of stuff anymore, so let's put it upstairs first. ] The twelve-year-old girl sighed, [When can we go home? ]
[Pingting, grandpa is here, it's too rude. ] Father also blamed indifferently.
[I tried hard, no matter how I talked to him, he didn't respond, and he couldn't even speak completely, maybe he couldn't hear it. ] The girl pouted, [the classmate said that he wanted to help me celebrate my birthday, and the little princess was so embarrassing. ]
[Then let's end it like this. ] The girl's mother shook her head helplessly, completely ignoring the untouched dishes and big cakes on the table.
The family of three left the table one after another, and only the old man in a wheelchair stayed where he was, looking in the direction of the main seat, and slowly extended his hand.
The picture started to fast-forward again, this time it stopped after a while, Su Zimo subconsciously looked at the banner on the wall, and found that it read: Happy thirteenth birthday to the little princess!
Compared to before, it seems only a year has passed.
But this time, it wasn't the family of three and the old man sitting at the dining table, but the carefree butler and the servants.
[The old man had already said that he would not go back to the villa this year. The three of them were going to travel abroad for their birthday, but the old man didn't believe in evil, and he dragged me to babble and hesitate like a baby for a long time. He must have a birthday party. ] The butler's suit was open, without the slightest seriousness.
[It's okay, anyone can eat anyway, not all the money is in the budget. ] As soon as the chef brought up a large pot of braised pork, he ate it in big gulps.
[I think this old man is really not seen, we can be bolder next time when we do the accounting. ] The family doctor in a white coat put his feet on the dining table.
[Wait a second... Be cautious. ]
[That old man is a living cash cow! ] The driver who was playing with the car keys said with a smile, [After they moved out, my life has gotten better and better. ]
[It's really noisy to babble every day. Next time, just lock him up and fall down the stairs on the second floor like last time. We won't have a living cash cow. ] The family doctor frowned.