Chapter 30: the world in the mirror

Chapter 30: the world in the mirror

    In Su Qingxing's impression, the hospital windows are bright and full of sunshine. When walking in the hospital corridor, they are like walking in a soft light filter, and there is a feeling of warm wind blowing around them.

    But...

    When he stepped into the world in the mirror, what Su Qingxing saw was red.

    Although a little illegible, they were still in the lobby of the hospital after they walked out of the mirror. It's just that this hall is completely different from the hospital hall in their memory except for the layout.

    It's like one light and one dark.

    On the other side of the mirror, it may not only be Su Qingxing and the others who have completely reversed their personalities, but also the world they are in now. Looking around, Su Qingxing's eyes seemed to be covered with a red filter at this moment, and no matter what he looked at, it was red.

    Walls, registration windows, consultation desks, upward stairs... Su Qingxing can still find things that were originally in the hall, but without the sunlight and the clear windows, the whole world It's pale blood, and it's a very uncomfortable feeling to look at it with such eyes open.

      Makes you feel cold behind your back.

    Most of the registration window and guidance desk have been turned into ruins, not only collapsed due to the fire, but also covered with spider webs.

    The wind blew from outside the hall, raising a puff of dust, which made Su Qingxing cover his mouth and nose, frowning at the feeling of being broken and abandoned. If the previous hospital was the cleanest and most beautiful that Su Qingxing had ever seen, then this hospital has obviously become a filthy ruin.

    The curved staircase in the hall leading directly to the second floor has collapsed, leaving only the rusted steel bars exposed. And all the rust, burn marks and even the water stains from the water pipes in this world look like blood traces in this **** world, so red that it makes people feel suffocated.

    This is the world in the mirror, a world completely opposite to the world outside the mirror.

    Su Qingxing turned to look at the mirror behind him, and then was extremely surprised to find that the mirror was completely broken, Su Qingxing could see countless numbers of himself from the broken mirrors, surprised and dazed expression.

    Little Bear once said before that people outside the mirror can't get out after they come in, maybe the reason is because the mirror wall is broken, because it's broken, so I want to get out of here again It was also difficult to get out of the mirror.

    As for the reason why the little bear was able to go out...Su Qingxing stared at the broken glass for a long time and felt that the little bear should have met two conditions by chance, one was because Duoduo touched the mirror on the other side, Another is that some of the pieces are just enough for a child-sized bear to crawl out.

    Of course, this is just Su Qingxing's personal guess.

    The mirror lit up with ripples, and the long legs in jeans stepped in first, and then the T-shirt with the pink cartoon pig and the beautiful and somewhat unreal face.

    It seems that the broken side of the mirror will not affect the people outside to enter the mirror world.

    "Is this red?" The moment he walked in, he narrowed his eyes. After all, the light in the two worlds inside and outside is really very different. It's like walking from a bright living room. Into the darkroom for printing photos.

    "It seems to have been burned by fire." Su Qingxing was wearing slippers, so when he walked towards meditation, he carefully avoided all the damp and water-stained places on the ground. In fact, because of the light in this world, Su Qingxing couldn't even judge whether those liquids were ordinary water.

    Thanks to the anti-slip treatment of the sole, Su Qingxing did not slip and fall many times in this short section of the road. It was also thanks to Shen Si who could help Su Qingxing find a suitable pair of shoes, otherwise he couldn't imagine how he would have walked on this hall floor covered with water stains, scorch marks and even dust.

    When approaching the meditation, Su Qingxing slightly accelerated his pace, but stepped on something in the next second, slipped his foot, and rushed forward directly.

    So, I just came out of the mirror and meditated, and before I had time to look around, I got a boy who was throwing my arms in my arms. Even under the red filter, the little blue love pajamas seemed Enough to make you feel good.

    "Be careful." Shen Si immediately supported Su Qingxing with his hands, but thinking that Su Qingxing might fall again, he simply hugged both sides of the boy's body, directly causing Su Qingxing to rise into the air, and then compare the other Landing on the dry ground, avoiding the wet side just now.

    "Brother Qingxing!"

    Before Su Qingxing recovered from the second hug, the little bear who entered the mirror ahead of time ran out from the corner holding the white doll. The little bear doesn't seem to be uncomfortable. This may be because the girl has been in the mirror world for a long time and has long been accustomed to the feeling of the red filter.

    However, this also reminded Su Qingxing of a scene. When they left the hospital lobby to explore the exit of the hospital, the little bear jumped around like a little butterfly, full of every scene around. Curiosity and love, even a small wild flower on the ground seems to be able to make the little bear smile extremely brightly.

    The bright smile on her face should be because the bear has always stayed in this bloody, abandoned world, and has never seen the sunshine, shade and flowers?

    "Little Bear, are you all here?" Thinking of this, the smile on Su Qingxing's face became warmer, "Did you find Duoduo?"

    "Well, everyone is in the inner room, with my brother and the others!" Little Bear nodded heavily.

    "It seems that Little Bear really has an older brother." Shen Si supported Su Qingxing's waist with one hand to prevent him from slipping again, "But it should be neither you nor me."

    "But it may also be someone we know." Feeling that his waist was being held, Su Qingxing only felt that the place where his waist was touched suddenly felt a touch of warmth, and the steps under his feet seemed to change. After stabilizing a little, he walked step by step to the place where the bear was.

    Su Qingxing and the others have such a guess is not unreasonable, when they met the bear on the sixth floor of the hospital, although the child rushed into his arms like a gallop, the bear did not Knowing their names, they listened curiously when introducing themselves.

    No matter what, the little bear is just a child, and many things can't be faked.

    When Xiaoxiong and Su Qingxing were chatting in the back garden of the hospital, Xiaoxiong once said that he pretended to cry when he first saw Su Qingxing, because Xiaoxiong was not a little crying bag like Duoduo.

    But thinking about it now, Su Qingxing felt that the tears and crying of Xiaoxiong were real.

    After all, when Su Qingxing hugged the little bear for the first time, it was the first time that the little bear left the mirror to be free, and for the first time, under the completely unfamiliar and very beautiful sunlight, for the first time with other human beings Meet.

    How could the tears that burst out at that time be fake?

    It's just the unqualified bear child, Xiao Xiong, who overestimates himself.

    The corner is a corridor that extends inward, slightly dry and neat compared to the hall, but equally eccentric. The strangest thing is that the hall has been burnt to ruins, and the entire hospital building looks abandoned, but there are still lights in this corridor.

    Although like most horror episodes, these dim lights can only make people see the general outline of the corridor, and the common picture of the lights flickering from time to time seems to appear in this **** world more terrifying.

    "Squeak."

    After catching a sound in his ear, Su Qingxing saw a hospital emergency bed in the corridor moving slightly. Maybe the sound just now was made because the wheels below were not locked.

      Another "squeak" sound came.

      It won't attack us, but it's very scary when I see it occasionally."

      ", and suddenly I can understand why Bai Chu in the mirror said "The world in the mirror is hell".

    "Since everyone is here, let's go in." A somewhat familiar voice suddenly came from the side, making Su Qingxing, who was affected by the atmosphere, unavoidably slightly frightened. This kind of feeling is as if people who are not afraid of ghosts are also scared by the lights and sound effects when watching horror movies.

     And Shen Si still firmly supported Su Qingxing's waist, while the teenager hadn't noticed this, she was conscientiously doing the job of a flower protector.

    Especially after seeing the "contemplation" in the mirror before, our great death, His Highness, felt that he must completely obliterate some things in the cradle, and he must not let that" Meditate" makes some mess.

      one. If the other party didn't look exactly the same as Bai Chu, maybe Su Qingxing would think that he was a lurking ghost without a sound.

    Although he is the same as Bai Chu, the person in front of him is not Bai Chu.

    The sleeves of Bai Chu's shirt in front of him were rolled up, revealing the marks of knife cuts on his arms, which were not found on Bai Chu's body. So Su Qingxing can be sure that the man standing in front of them now is Bai Chu in the mirror.

    The other party is the person in the mirror whose personality should be the opposite of Bai Chu.

    "Brother Chubai!" When he saw that person, Xiaoxiong rushed over happily, "Brother Chubai, I brought Brother Qingxing and Uncle Shen!"

    Uncle Shen: "…"

    "Cough cough." Meditation turned his head to the side and coughed twice, and said in a calm voice, "Just call my brother."

    "No!" Little Bear said reasonably, "Brother Chubai has always told Little Bear to respect elders."

    “…”

    Hearing Xiao Xiong's words, Su Qingxing couldn't help but chuckle when he saw the way he was thinking at the moment. In the next second, Su Qingxing felt the arms around his waist tighten.

    To be honest, if he hadn't been contemplating his actions at this moment, Su Qingxing might have forgotten that the kind Mr. Shen was holding his waist, so he immediately took a step to the side and let the contemplative next step The action was blank.

    Sometimes, it is better to pretend to be a little snow wolf than to pretend to be a person.

    Of course, there is something more important than discussing the name with the bear, and that is the man in front of him who is called "the first white" by the bear.

    Bai Chu, Chu Bai, one positive and one negative, the inside and outside of the mirror, this seems to be an obvious thing.

    "Scared everyone." Chubai's breath is very weak, giving people a feeling of no sadness and no joy, no expectation and no hope, just as dilapidated as the whole hospital and has a sense of desolation, and He himself seemed to know this very well, knowing that standing here would scare Su Qingxing and the others.

    "This corridor is not safe, and the bear insists on picking you up alone, so I'll wait here." Chu Bai's voice was not as spirited as Bai Chu's, but what he said was not Apparently it was good intentions, so I waited here to ensure the safety of the little bear, "Everyone, come in together, this is the last refuge of this hospital, and the other two gentlemen have also arrived."

    "This is it." Little Bear and Chubai walked outside the second positive door, clenched their fists and knocked on the door.

    Three fast, three slow, two fast, two slow.

    The frequency with which the bear knocks on the door seems to be a code that may help people in the room to identify whether it is a person...or something else outside the door.

    The door seemed to be safe. The outside was an iron gate, although a little rusted, it looked solid. The size of the kick door seemed a little inappropriate, as if it had been removed from somewhere, and it was installed here again. Because the width was not suitable, many iron chains were used to fasten the edges.

   

    After the bear finished knocking on the door, there were several sounds of unlocking the door. Working hard to make this place a little safer.

    After the door was locked for a long time, the door inside was opened a crack. After a figure looked at the door, he slowly opened the door.

    Su Qingxing showed a slightly surprised expression when he saw the door opener, because this was the first time he met other people in this trial world - the one on the emergency bed just now does not count.

      Heavy.

    It also took a lot of effort to open the chain of the iron gate. In Su Qingxing's opinion, it may take a while to get in and out every time, and this heavily guarded "secret base" is probably also It was the first time to welcome so many guests like today.

    "Mr. Chubai." The nurse spoke softly, but nodded respectfully when she saw Chubai, "Everyone, please come in.".

    Perhaps it was too dangerous outside, so even when pushing the iron door, the nurse tried her best to be as careful as possible. Although the iron door will inevitably make noise due to rust, it is only a slit that a thin person can barely squeeze in.

    Su Qingxing and the others just walked into the room when they felt that the surroundings were pitch black and there was no light at all. When the people behind them closed all the iron gates and gates and started to re-lock the locks one by one, someone pressed the light switch with a "snap".

    The whole room lit up instantly, and the sudden light made people who just entered the room couldn't help covering their eyes with their hands. In fact, the brightness of the light is not strong, but it is a bit sudden for those who have been in the dark for a while.

    Su Qingxing and Shen Si, who had adapted to the light, removed their hands that blocked the light. Although the room was lit up, it was still covered in blood red, but at least it allowed them to see the surrounding scene clearly.

    This room… is relatively complete compared to the hall outside, all the windows are covered with thick cloth, which looks like a quilt moved from a hospital bed. The whole room was empty, not even a table, and this small room didn't look like a shelter, let alone Bai Chu and Niu Yong.

    Chubai did not rush to explain, but said to Su Qingxing and the others in a weak tone: "Xiao Xiong said that the world inside and outside the mirror is very different, I don't know if the two will be scared. ?"

    "It's just that the whole environment looks a little scary, but I haven't encountered too many frightening things." Su Qingxing thought about the "scenery" outside, "I really didn't think of what was in the mirror. The world would be like this."

     Before that, I didn't know what it looked like outside the mirror."

    After watching Chu Bai walk all the way to the door, Su Qingxing realized that the man in the mirror was holding what looked like a small medicine bottle, which was filled with red liquid.

    Well...Su Qingxing is not sure if it is red or not, after all, under this kind of blood-colored filter, any darker color looks like all kinds of red.

    Then, Chubai dipped his finger on the thing and began to paint some mysterious pattern on the door. There seems to be such a pattern on the door, but it has faded a lot due to the relationship of time, leaving only a vague outline. So what Chubai is doing now is to use that liquid to deepen the pattern on the door again.

    "What is that?" Su Qingxing felt that Chubai's behavior was a little unusual.

    "It's my blood." Chubai raised his other arm, in addition to the wounds, it was also tied with a bandage, "In the beginning, it was still in the hospital. Find some tools for drawing blood, and it will be faster as time goes by."

    "My blood has the ability to stop the invasion of ghosts. Although it needs to be repainted every half an hour or so, it can at least let us live longer in this world." There is no intention to hide these things.

    This is the first time that Su Qingxing has encountered a "person" with special power in the underworld trial, even if the other party is a mirror image. Su Qingxing and Zhu Sha have also discussed this issue - if there are people with special powers in the human world, what will happen to these people when they enter the underworld after death?

    Of course, Chubai is just a mirror image, not in line with what Su Qingxing and the others discussed.

    "Maybe it's because my blood is relatively clean." Chubai smiled bitterly, "After all, my situation should be completely opposite to me outside the mirror."

    "Where are the others?" The contemplative eyes were taken back from Chubai's body, and he looked around, and finally found a door on a certain wall, "Is it inside?"

    "Yeah, even if it's just one more door, everyone can have more safety." Chubai put away the rest of the blood, and also tapped a few times with three long and three short passwords. Behind the door, the inconspicuous wooden door in front of him opened from the inside, revealing another room in the secret base.

    "Thank you." When entering the room, Chu Bai suddenly thanked Su Qing.

    Su Qingxing was a little puzzled, after all, he didn't remember what he did to Chubai. But soon Chubai explained: "It's about Duoduo, no, it's about Little Bear."

    Chubai rubbed the top of the bear's head, the child has been following Chubai's side since just now, and seems to trust him very much.

    "After coming back from the world over there, Little Bear was much happier and figured out a lot of things. This is actually something that my brother has always wanted to do, but was unable to do. , thank you." Chubai said the reason for thanking Su Qingxing.

    Following one big and one small into the wooden door, Su Qingxing found that the room inside was much larger than the outside, a large ward with many beds. The windows and doors of this ward have been blocked, and there are blue curtains around each of the beds, but they are now open to reveal the people sitting on the beds.

    The female nurse walking at the back carefully closed the wooden door, and also let Su Qingxing walking next to see the wooden door also have

      His eyes were tired and sad, and he seemed to have no hope of leaving at all.

    "Duoduo is tired from crying, now she is sleeping on the innermost bed." Seeing Su Qingxing looking around, Little Bear went to him and said softly.

    Niu Yong and Bai Chu, who arrived early, were standing by and talking about something. The nurses and patients around were all huddled far away from the two of them. Fear.

    "The survivors here all know about the mirror, and they are familiar with me and Niu Yong on weekdays, so they treat them as bad people." Chubai whispered, and then turned to the room The people inside nodded, placed Su Qingxing and Shen Si on an empty hospital bed, and said with a louder voice, "Everyone take a rest first, I'll explain some things about this world to you by the way."

    "The outside of the hospital is foggy, so our scope of activities is only this hospital." The hospital situation introduced by Chubai is similar to the other side of the mirror, but this is also within Su Qingxing's expectations.

    As a guide to the underworld, Su Qingxing has been observing the world and every guide around him from the moment he wakes up.

    Then, Su Qingxing discovered that the style of this world was somewhat different from other worlds created by cinnabar. The most obvious difference is that Su Qingxing and the others have been in this world for so long, but they have never encountered a single terrorist incident, and they cannot even probe the tester's reaction and response through the terrorist incident.

    Using a mirror wall as a medium, cinnabar has created two completely different worlds here, and according to the personality of each tester, the mirror world has arranged mirror people with opposite personalities in the mirror world .

    This is definitely a big deal for cinnabar!

    Unfortunately, cinnabar is only a builder, not a god, nor a fairy. After designing such a complex process, it is not easy for him to build such a large hospital.

    Whether the world inside or outside the mirror is shrouded in mist, this is a bit suspicious for the testers, but in Su Qingxing's opinion... It’s just that Zhu Sha doesn’t want the testers to find out There is only such a building in this world, and this may also be the limit of cinnabar's ability to construct the world.

    After nodding, Su Qingxing continued to look at Chubai who was explaining.

      You should have seen the emergency bed in the corridor, and the one lying on it is one of them, but it is the weakest of all the ghosts and will never attack us."

    "Actually I want to know another thing." Bai Chu, who had been standing next to him, asked with a smile, "For the sake of us all being Bai Chu, can you tell us how to get out of here? ?"

    "There are six floors in this hospital, but we can only move on the first floor." Chubai seemed to have not heard what Bai Chu said, and said to himself, "Because there are the fewest ghosts on the first floor, even we can deal with it."

    "The higher the floor, the more ghosts, and the terrifying degree of those ghosts will increase gradually, so we guess that the exit of this world should be at the height of the hospital, but we have no way to reach it now. "Chubai's tone was a little helpless, "We once tried to go to the second floor, but were killed by the ghosts on the second floor almost in an instant."

    The higher the floor, the scarier the ghost?

    Su Qingxing suddenly remembered something. The Su Qingxing in the mirror seemed to have said that he was waiting in Ward 606 on the top floor. Could it be the exit of this world?

    It seems very likely, Su Qingxing nodded secretly.

    "Anyway, let me tell you about the ghosts on the first floor first." Chubai paused, as if sorting out his thoughts, "The first one is the one on the emergency bed, as long as the emergency bed is not Kick over, it shouldn't attack anyone."

    "The second ghost is in the bathroom not far from us. That bathroom is shared by men and women. If you can't hold it back, you can go with a few people." Chubai's sentence is mainly true Su Qingxing and the newcomers said, "But no matter what you hear or see, don't go near the last bar of the bathroom, there is a female ghost who can make a baby cry."

    "The third is the consultation room next door, there is a normal-looking male doctor, who likes to help others. But he is also a ghost, so if he wants to help you check your body, It will definitely tear you apart."

    Chu Bai sighed and said helplessly: "Although there are only these three ghosts resident on the first floor, they still killed a lot of us here. The original survivors of this shelter , much more than now.”

    "In addition, there is a safety staircase leading to the second floor at the end of the corridor, where sometimes ghosts from the second floor come down to stroll, and even like to stroll to the door of our shelter, In short, it's better for everyone not to go near there." After Chubai finished talking about some basic situations, he began to arrange some life-related problems.

    There are some materials in the shelter that Chubai collected from around If you export, you are likely to face the end of thirst or starvation.

    "So, no matter what your status is, please do your best to unite and cooperate to find a way to get out of here as soon as possible, please!" Chubai bowed deeply, "Here Before, even if I had exhausted the last drop of blood in my body, I would have tried my best to keep everyone safe."

    The entire Vault went silent.

    After being silent for a while, Su Qingxing was about to say something when he suddenly heard a sound from the corridor outside.

    “Boom thump thump…”

    Although the entire shelter is sealed, the sound insulation effect will not be enhanced, so when the sound approaches, the people in the shelter gradually distinguish... It seems that someone is playing music outside?

    And a weird rock? !

    The sound of the dance music became louder and louder, and when the rhythm reached its climax, Su Qingxing even heard someone singing loudly in the corridor—

    "Oh oh oh I'm from the cold **** heights, surrounded by rotting corpses! oh oh I can still choose dance music when I step on the stinger on the ground, because I have to dance with Darling , oh oh oh this is the happiest thing!"

    "Mr. Chubai, is this also a ghost on the first floor?" After hearing the music, Su Qingxing asked curiously.

     

    Since frowned at the moment the voice sounded, and after hearing the messy thing the other party sang, he helped his forehead helplessly.

    The identity of the visitor is already very obvious, that is the "man in the mirror" that I saw in the mirror before meditation.

    It is the "contemplation" in the mirror. When the other party was in the mirror, he said that he was coming to find Su Qingxing, but Shen Si didn't expect the other party to come so quickly.

    "I have never seen such a strange thing in my mind, but there is everything in this hospital, and it is normal for a strange ghost to appear." Chubai's face was also somewhat puzzled. , "But as long as you stay here, you'll be fine. I used blood to draw talismans at all exits, and those ghosts can't get in."

    "Squeak-"

    "Thumbs—"

    At this time, the sound of the music weakened, but another sound rang out.

    "If I heard correctly...that seems to be the sound of a chainsaw?" In fact, without Su Qingxing's reminder, everyone's eyes have already turned to the place where the sound came from, which is the large ward The front end, at the doorway nailed with various planks!

    "Ah, ah, ah!" Some timid survivors quickly left the door, rushed to the end of the room where Su Qingxing and the others were, hid behind the hospital bed tremblingly, spending a long time in the mirror world life may have wiped out their courage to face danger.

    "Bang! Squeak..." The huge chainsaw had already split the gate and the wood it was nailing down, and started moving fast, trying to cut the whole opening in the gate!

    The sound of the chainsaw is getting louder and louder, the rock music seems to be getting louder, and occasionally someone can be heard humming outside.

    In such a situation, everyone does not know whether they are about to face a human or a ghost. But even Su Qingxing, who just came to this world, knows that the one outside is definitely not good, and it is definitely not a friendly reinforcement.

    "Boom!" A whole sawed-off door panel fell to the ground, and a tall figure came in leisurely from the outside.

    The figure moved very slowly. While turning off the chainsaw in his hand and leaving it behind him, he also brought in a rechargeable stereo from outside the door. The volume was turned down a little so that everyone could hear the messy tune in his mouth again.

    When the man entered the ward with the sound and raised his head in the dim light, Su Qingxing saw the pink cartoon pig on his T-shirt at first sight pattern.

    Adding the same face as Shen Si, the identity of the other party is obvious.

    "GoodMorning!" The reflection in the mirror showed an incredible smile, and after a flamboyant turn around, said that he had "made his debut".

    Although the two meditations look the same and dress the same, but because of the exaggerated smile on the other's face, those present can see the difference at a glance. In addition, the meditation in the mirror is also wearing a doctor's white coat, and there is a rose in the chest pocket of the white coat—a rose folded out of discarded newspapers.

    The meditation in the mirror looked around, and finally set his eyes on Shen Si and Su Qingxing.

    He made another roundabout and wanted to approach Su Qingxing with a "gorgeous" attitude again, but he was directly stopped by Chubai halfway through. Although Chubai's aura was very weak and his sense of presence was very weak, after stopping the guy, he did not give in an inch, and he did not intend to let this guy continue to approach.

    "Aiya, is this the very famous Mr. Chubai from the ghost's mouth?" The meditation in the mirror glanced at the various wounds on Chubai's arm, and the character of chattering began to show again , "As handsome as I have always been on the fourth floor of the hospital, I never knew that there were so many living guys hidden in the barren garbage dump on the first floor. But recently ghosts often talk about a guy named Chubai. , I heard that your blood can drive out ghosts, right? If I kill you and fill my plant-caring shower with blood, can we spray blood all the way to the sixth floor?"

      If you die, why don't you just sacrifice now and let me take these lovely survivors to the sixth floor?"

      All the team needs to overcome are the ghosts on the fifth and sixth floors."

    "But...if you keep staring at me with this nasty look, I will let the ghosts on the second, third and fourth floors entertain you. Ho **** ho for these baby survivors!"

      Those bad guys here seem to have been interested in Mr. Chubai, who is tender and tender and has very delicious blood a long time ago!"

    Until the meditation in the mirror pushed Chubai aside, Chubai didn't say anything to refute, but instead showed a thoughtful expression.

    Chubai really seems to be considering the possibility of joining forces with the meditation in the mirror, even if it costs his life.

      He took out the paper rose that was actually crumpled in his pocket, knelt down on one knee to Su Qingxing with an admiring expression on his face, offered the rose, and said in a very gentle tone—

    "Please throw away the burden next to me and start a family with me in this pink hospital, my dear..."

    When everyone's attention was focused on that meditation, no one noticed that our Lord Reaper pressed his right index finger on his lips, his thin lips were lightly opened, and he seemed to say something what.

    This is obviously our Lord Reaper doing something in secret.

    And the obvious effect of this little trick is that half of the meditation in the mirror turns into—

    "Please throw away the burden next to me and start a family with me in this pink hospital, my dear...Mother!"

    Everyone present was stunned.