Lu Yanli was unaware of what happened in the dormitory. He leaned against the wall with his eyes closed, waiting for midnight to arrive.
Minutes and seconds passed, and when the expected time was up, Lu Yanli opened his eyes.
The same thing happened to Chu Xiu, who was lying on the bed opposite him. They stared at each other in the dark. As soon as they stood up, a few rays of light leaked in from the window on top of the iron door of the dormitory.
"Hurry up and go to bed. We're here to check your dormitories. You will be deducted points and given punishment." The dormitory head reminded them in a low voice.
Soon, footsteps were heard approaching outside the window, accompanied by the banging sounds of other dormitory doors being roughly pushed open.
Is this really a dormitory inspection
Lu Yanli lay down quickly, covering his head with the blanket, without saying a word.
The footsteps came closer and closer, and I could vaguely hear rough scolding, dragging, and the pleading voices of a few boys. I didn't know where they were taking them.
In this way, the "punishment" mentioned by the dormitory head is obviously not that simple.
With a "bang", the dormitory door was pushed open heavily.
The people in the dormitory didn't move at all.
Lu Yanli was lying on the bed pretending to be asleep. He could sense a pair of eyes moving around in the small room, cold and full of malice, as if he was about to attack someone.
The footsteps slowly approached his bed, and then stopped in front of the bed, motionless.
Lu Yanli calmed his breathing and heartbeat. No matter who came to see him at this moment, no one would doubt the fact that he was already asleep.
The dormitory was silent inside and outside. The male voice that was still begging on the other side had disappeared, and the sound of footsteps had disappeared. Only the wind that rushed in through the wide-open door was still howling.
Lu Yanli was sleeping soundly on his back.
He could sense that the thing had not left; it was getting closer, hovering above him, looking down at him, and a cold, rancid smell was blowing in his face.
What does it do
Lu Yanli began to suspect that this illusion was similar to some of the illusions he had experienced in the past. They all described something that had happened in a certain scene in the past. However, what happened today confused him.
Is this a replay of the past by No. 4 Middle School or the students' personal experience? It is not impossible that the image of school leaders such as the principal and the dean of studies is demonized in their minds out of fear.
He waited quietly.
After a long, long time, the cold breath finally faded away. He realized that the other party's target had shifted to the bunk above him.
The student who had borrowed his quilt before was sleeping on the bunk above him. At this moment, he was also quiet.
But then, he heard the sound of the quilt being pulled away from the bed.
Why
What rules did he break
Lu Yanli was puzzled, but he couldn't open his eyes, so he had to close them and listen to the rustling sounds coming from the upper bunk.
The quilt was pulled away, but the person on the upper bunk remained motionless.
After a long time, when his physiological reaction slowly relaxed, a cold and hoarse voice sounded in his ears.
"I know you didn't sleep."
Although the sound was very light, it was still obvious in the quiet dormitory. At that moment, Lu Yanli heard a student's breathing quicken for a moment, on the upper bunk opposite.
Then, the thing happily shifted its target.
The boy was pulled down from the upper bunk by force and thrown to the ground. A loud "bang" could be heard from the back of his head hitting the ground. He began to wail, beg, and cry bitterly.
Then, the voice changed, as if it had seen the most horrifying creature in the world. It couldn't even make a sound to beg for mercy, and only a "ho ho" sound came out of its throat when it was extremely scared.
The heavy object was dragged out and the dormitory door was slammed shut.
Everything returned to calm.
Lu Yanli didn't open his eyes yet. He calculated the time and found that it was already past midnight. It was estimated to be eight o'clock now.
How many times will you check on the beds tonight
Is this a true replay of the past in an illusion, or a student's fantasy
But no matter what, it can be seen that this school is not simple.
He had already decided not to get up tonight and would wait until the next day at school to hear it clearly.
Chu Xiu probably thought the same thing, so the two of them closed their eyes and slept until dawn. The next day, they got up very early without anyone calling them.
Lu Yanli just opened his eyes, his gaze was slightly focused.
On the wooden upper bunk bed, water stains revealed a human figure.
Lu Yanli stood up and measured in the room.
There were traces of dragging on the two beds, and strangely, both people were missing.
Did the student who complained about being cold disappear so quietly
He stepped onto the ladder and went up. The bunk above him was also occupied by the classmate who had borrowed his quilt last night. His quilt was missing, and the mattress was wet, with a human shape visible on the water stains.
Lu Yanli vaguely guessed something and jumped down without further investigation.
This school... This school was originally haunted!
The images of the dean and others may have been demonized by the students, but this alone cannot explain the strange things that happened in the dormitory. Could this also be something they imagined
At this time, the other students in the dormitory had already woken up and washed up. The dormitory head went to the bathroom to get a basin of water to wash his face, and Lu Yanli stood beside him and reached out to get the water.
He suddenly asked: "Is the school haunted?"
The dormitory head was shocked: "What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want to die?"
Seeing his intense reaction, Lu Yanli came to his senses. He shook his head and said seriously, "I don't want to die."
His attitude calmed the excited dormitory head. He looked at him suspiciously for a few times, buried his face in the wet towel again and rubbed it for a few times, and said vaguely: "If you really don't want to, then... just believe in God with us."
"God?" Lu Yanli unbuttoned his collar, revealing a mark under his collarbone. "Is this God?"
The dormitory head looked at the mark in doubt for a while, then nodded, his throat dry.
Lu Yanli closed his collar, stared straight into his eyes, and spoke with an inexplicable meaning: "You said, as long as you become its believer, you will die, right?"
Meeting those deep eyes, the dormitory head nodded blankly.
It is true, both teachers and students in the school are inseparable from this so-called god.
Lu Yanli asked a few more questions, but when he saw what experiments were being done at school, the dormitory head's face began to twist in pain, and his eyes gradually turned white.
Lu Yanli immediately became alert.
The answer to this question must be very important.
"The school... the school is... performing a sacrifice. They want to... summon this thing... "
His voice was very low, and if Lu Yanli didn't concentrate on listening, he wouldn't be able to hear it at all. After finishing this sentence with difficulty, the dormitory head immediately fainted. His limbs were still twitching and his face was distorted, as if he was experiencing some kind of great pain.
This sentence seemed to have triggered something. When he fainted, the temperature in the entire dormitory dropped sharply. He held onto the dormitory head and watched the scene outside the window change.
Cracks appeared on the walls, doors, windows, trees... as if a mirror had been shattered. Lu Yanli stuck his head out and found that even the sky had faint cracks.
Chu Xiu rushed in from outside the door: "What did you do?"
His eyes widened when he entered the room, because the person lying on the ground also had cracks on his face, with mottled spots all over the exposed skin, and the whole face looked like a broken plaster statue, and strangely, there was no blood oozing from the cracks.
Lu Yanli laid the man flat on the ground without answering, and then he grabbed the other person and ran out.
We can't stay here any longer.
Seeing that he was facing a formidable enemy, Chu Xiu followed him obediently even though he didn't quite understand why. But soon, he found out the reason.
One after another, students came out of the dormitory and stood in the corridor, staring at them. Their faces began to crack like the surrounding walls, with cracks appearing one after another.
"What should we do? This world is about to break apart. How can we escape?" Chu Xiu followed behind Lu Yanli, and saw that the hem of his clothes also had some cracks, and he couldn't help but panic, "It's starting to appear on your body too."
Lu Yanli took off his coat and threw it on the ground: "Never mind, let's find a mirror now and finish the game quickly."
"But the rules of the game say we have to wait until after midnight."
"After midnight on the seventh day, isn't it okay now?" Lu Yanli retorted.
His answer immediately reminded Chu Xiu, yes! It was also after midnight now, but the games he played a few days ago made him habitually think that he had to count just after midnight.
After realizing this, they immediately rushed into other dormitories to look for mirrors. There were few mirrors in the boys' dormitory, and they finally found one of the right size. The two immediately rushed to the second floor, and Chu Xiu began to climb up the stairs while looking at himself in the mirror.
At this moment, not only Lu Yanli was visible, but also cracks appeared on his face. His appearance was clearly reflected in the mirror, and this image was even more terrifying than when he looked in the mirror outside. His face was cracked with large and small lines, and bright red soft limbs stretched out from them, twisting in the wind.
Chu Xiu didn't want to, but he had to. He kept repeating his own name, and when he reached the second floor, the Chu Xiu in the mirror had already been chopped into pieces.
Without blinking, he began to walk quickly up to the second floor.
Lu Yanli walked in front of him, ready to respond in case of any unexpected situation.
"Chu Xiu."
"Chu Xiu."
…
His sister's figure appeared in the mirror again, and that was the task they had done before. Although Chu Xiu felt heartbroken, he endured it and continued to move forward without making any other sounds.
"Xiuzi, I'm in so much pain, it hurts so much..." In the mirror, Chu Xian covered the wound on his body and cried, "Where did that bastard go? Why didn't you help me?"
Chu Xiu hardened his heart and ignored her, continuing to walk up. With every step he took, more and more bloody wounds appeared on Chu Xian's body. When he reached the top of the second floor and came to the third floor staircase, Chu Xiu himself didn't realize that his face was already covered with tears.
The downward staircase began to break, and the building gradually collapsed, with debris falling from the top of the building.
The mirror world wants to keep them here!
Chu Xiu dodged all the broken stones that were about to fall on the mirror. He didn't care if he was accidentally hit in a few places. He just walked up along the mirror. Lu Yanli beside him tried hard to clear the stones that rolled down from the stairs and blocked his way so that he could continue.
"Get down here, you two! You're pretending to be students!"
The balcony had collapsed long ago, and the scene on the stairs could be clearly seen from outside. Lu Yanli went outside and saw that probably all the teachers and leaders of the school had come and gathered downstairs, trying to go up.
The reason why I say "trying" is because large groups of students were blocking their way.
However, the students were not very durable and were gently pushed away by the teachers. Now they have not been able to come up yet, but it is because there are too many students.
"Don't worry about them, hurry up!" Lu Yanli urged, seeing that the students couldn't hold on for long.
But he finally confirmed a guess in his heart.
The illusion is the students' memories. The reason why they entered the mirror world is probably because they can get relevant information in the illusion, and those students are pulled in by them.
When Chu Xiu finally stepped onto the fourth floor, the leader of the group also rushed up.
It is hard to say that their current appearance belongs to human beings. The skin on their heads and faces is cracked and mottled, and their skin is pale, just like paper figures that have been melted by the sun.
Wait, paper figurines
Why did this idea come up
Lu Yanli quickly came behind Chu Xiu, who tacitly moved the mirror away, not shining it on him, and continued to walk upwards. Lu Yanli began to push down the falling rocks again, using them to block his way.
His hands began to crack, and flesh pieces fell down. As for the group of people who climbed up, some of them had already fallen off by half, with only half of their bodies left walking up, trying to stop them.
Lu Yanli only had a few people. No matter how busy he was, he could not stop the attack of dozens of people. Soon, he was forced to a close distance by the group of people.
He panted softly.
Chu Xiu was still moving up.
He was hit by a stone just now. Although he avoided the vital parts, his leg was still hit hard and he almost broke the mirror.
It will take some time before he leaves.
Lu Yanli was standing in front of the broken balcony. Facing the crowd rushing in, he raised his hand, drew out his gun, and shot at the familiar figure on the street.
The man's head exploded, shook, and fell down from the balcony that had lost its edge.
"director!!"
The moment the other person fell, Lu Yanli rushed over and jumped down.
He actually jumped down!
Chu Xiu, who was walking to the corner of the last floor, saw this scene clearly and his heart stopped. However, he could not intervene. Now the only way was to continue going up.
His left hand had turned into pieces and fell off, and only three fingers were left on his right hand. Chu Xiu could only try to hold the mirror and move forward. One of his legs was completely broken, but he didn't feel any pain. At this moment, he could only be thankful that his throat could still make sounds and he could still complete the game.
I just hope Lu Yanli can hold on and not die.
On the other side, Lu Yanli stood up and fell heavily to the ground. His already shattered body was shattered even more. He wanted to stand up, but found that his body below the knees had been shattered, and his shoulder was also partially shattered. Fortunately, he found the right direction when he jumped down, and the dean who was knocked down by him before was not far in front of him.
He used his only relatively intact hand to push his body forward, came to the other person, reached out and took something out of his body.
He raised his head and shouted to the group of people: "I'm here, and our dean is here too!"
The group of people hesitated, and after they rushed around like headless flies, several gunshots were heard, and several of them had their heads shot out.
Lu Yanli put down his gun, and stared at them coldly with his one remaining eye.
He had lied to Chu Xiu before, but now, he had really run out of bullets.
The group of people were in a commotion for a while, and quickly made a decision. Most of them ran down and rushed towards him, while a small number continued to clear the road to catch Chu Xiu back.
Chu Xiu had reached the last level. He bit his few remaining fingers and barely wrote his name on the mirror.
Next, go downstairs immediately and don't look back no matter what you hear or see.
Chu Xiu immediately put down the mirror and limped downstairs. In front of him, there were seven or eight people blocking the stairs. He hardened his heart, rushed past them, and ran downstairs desperately.
Can't stop! Can't turn back!
Several people with broken limbs were tangled together. Chu Xiu was silently reciting the rules of the game in his mind. Suddenly, he remembered the words in the rules. His eyes lit up, and after finding a gap, he also rushed out from the balcony.
He landed heavily on the ground.
The next moment, everything in front of my eyes went dark.
The two opened their eyes at the same time and found themselves back in the night when they played the game, except that all the students had disappeared. All they saw was the pitch-black silence in the teaching building and a vague black shadow downstairs.
"Hurry up and keep playing." Lu Yanli pushed Chu Xiu's hand. He held the mirror, immediately came back to his senses, and walked up while reciting his own name.
Lu Yanli's heart was beating very fast.
He took out his cell phone from his pocket, switched to the upper volume, and lowered his eyes to keep his gaze within a visibility range of about ten meters.
He saw that the dark shadow was walking up step by step.
The feet stopped in front of him.
Until his death, An Ru was still tracking down the news of the Yinming Road, not only because of his profession, but also because of his son.
Lu Yanli raised his cell phone.
On the phone screen, there was a missing person report about An Xingyu. Lu Yanli processed it and reversed the text in the mirror.
This was Lu Yanli's habit. He always liked to make multiple preparations. Before leaving, he also thought that the group of students did not seem to make things difficult for them, but the black shadow, also known as An Ru, might still cause trouble for him because he had seen him.
The only thing that could make An Ru give up tracking him down is probably something related to his investigation results or something related to his son, so he needs An Xingyu's missing person report.
The paper version is still in the principal's office in the mirror world. His cell phone has been taken away by the dean of studies. He can only take a gamble, hoping that the dean of studies will not carry it with him.
The black shadow was already standing in front of him, with bright red marks on his neck, some of which were not smooth due to being cut by an electric saw.
It stood there for a long, long time, and finally, Lu Yanli took the phone.
At the same time, Chu Xiu walked up to the last floor, bit his finger, blood oozing out, and he wrote his name on the mirror.
game over.
The black shadow and Chu Xiu disappeared, and the mirror fell to the ground and shattered.
Lu Yanli stood there for a long time, took a few deep breaths, and slowly walked downstairs.
Below the collarbone, the mark was faintly cold.
The further he went down, the more strange the school atmosphere seemed. Then, the lights in the corridor suddenly lit up, and a student in school uniform stood in the corner with his back to him, trembling.
Not long after, another girl in a school uniform skirt ran past him playfully, but the area on her pretty face where her mouth should be was smooth and patchy, making it difficult to imagine where the sound came from.
Lu Yanli pretended not to see anything, walked out of the building and left the school directly.
He was still thinking about the mission he had just completed.
Judging from the circumstances of Chu Xiu's departure, this mission shouldn't have seen so many strange phenomena.
Is it because of that “God”
What exactly is it? What role does it play in the mission? What is the principle of its "resurrection"? Is it really possible to parallel space-time or reverse time
Unconsciously, Lu Yanli had arrived at the street side. In the distance, neon lights flickered, vaguely forming a human face.
Lu Yanli immediately lowered his head and stopped looking at him.
His cell phone was taken away, but luckily he had some spare money at home. On the way home, Lu Yanli looked at the scenery outside the window and fell into deep thought again.
Why... Even though this world has become so strange, the state of technological development is almost the same as in another world? What is keeping everything running
And An Xingyu... An Ru...
Lu Yanli felt that he could learn a lot of information from them.
Several reports emerged in his mind. Recalling and comparing the frequency of the times he had met "acquaintances" twice, Lu Yanli flipped through the reports and took note of a few of them.
He was looking forward to his next meeting with An Xingyu and Chu Xiu.
Chu Xiu woke up suddenly.
The four of them were sitting in an abandoned factory. At this moment, the other three also woke up one after another, and then, he watched them die.
There was a hint of sadness in Chu Xiu's eyes, but he knew this was not the right time to be sad. He moved his lips, said goodbye, and then immediately turned and left.
On the ground, three corpses with their eyes open were staring in the direction he left.
"Someone has died recently, Xiao An, be careful and try not to go out." An Ru seldom ate at home. Looking at his son who was losing weight quickly due to studying, he said, "It's not peaceful recently. Don't mess with others and try not to go out unless necessary."
An Xingyu nodded. After finishing his meal, he got up to wash the dishes and then went back to his room to do his homework.
As he was writing, his pen suddenly slipped and left a long mark on the exercise book.
The mission comes again.
An Xingyu changed a piece of draft paper and carefully recorded the task.
"Strange, another village."
He made a note of the mission, turned on his computer, logged into a special website, blurred out the key information about the mission and posted it, saying only that he was looking for a companion.
Soon, several unfamiliar accounts contacted him. After exchanging secret codes, they agreed to meet at a cafe in the city where An Xingyu was.
Chu Xiu was also browsing this website. While browsing, he carefully recorded the process of this mission in preparation for reviewing it.
Omniscient God, what exactly is it