he came from the mirror

Saying goodbye to his elder brother and the senior who was suspected of plotting against him, Fang Ziming still had some unspeakable worries in his heart, but he still embarked on the return journey.

First of all, he found a place where there were no people and no surveillance—a public men's toilet somewhere on the side of the road.

Then, he stood in front of the mirror of the bathroom sink, and raised his hand to slap it. The mirror shook slightly, and the young man turned back and was thrown into the mirror space.

At this time, Fang Ziming was no longer what he used to be. He took out the cosmetic mirror hanging on his chest in a void, and softly recited a spell, and the mirror took him through the chaotic space barrier, and returned to 101 in a blink of an eye. safe house.

The second round of "tide" in the Mirror Realm ended yesterday, and all the shadow ghosts left here returned to the different space. Fang Ziming opened the door happily and entered Room 102 opposite.

At the final stage of the journey, Fang Ziming stood in the bedroom of Room 102, took a step forward, and walked calmly into the full-length mirror at the side door of the closet.

In the real world, in Shenshui City, in the bedroom of Tang Yu's short-term rental house.

From Shenshui City, Province G to Yangping City, Province H, it took a day and transferred at least three means of transportation.

It only took him 5 minutes to return to Shenshui from Yangping.

This is probably the most miraculous benefit that Fang Ziming got after falling into the mirror world.Of course, there are many limitations.

Back at Tang Yu's lair, the other party was obviously not at home. Fang Ziming took out his phone and looked at the text message Tang Yu sent an hour ago.

[The situation is more complicated than expected, the shadow ghost may be parasitic, return quickly. ] He simply called Tang Yu, and after the bell rang three times, the call was connected.

Fang Ziming: "I'm back, where are you?"

Tang Yu didn't say a word of nonsense, and didn't even ask him why he came back so quickly, he just gave his address on the phone.

Room 7, Building 1004, Qingye Community, Jinxiu Street, Ninefold Alley.

The address turned out to be in an apartment.Fang Ziming felt a little surprised, but he didn't move too slowly. He immediately went downstairs and took a taxi to Jinxiu Street.

In the car, Fang Ziming also took the time to send a short message to Fang Fang that he has arrived safely.

The other party replied in seconds: [ so fast? ? ? ! 】

Equation: [Don't tell me how you did it!I... I'm not ready to smash my three views again. _(:з)∠]_] Fang Ziming: 【...Okay, I'll satisfy you. 】

Jinxiu Street outside the third ring road was quite far from the short-term rental house they lived in. It was lunch time, and several main roads in the city were full of traffic. By the time they arrived near their destination, it was already an hour later.

Qingye Community is a semi-new and not old residential community. There are a total of eight small high-rise buildings in it, and the occupancy rate is about 65%. It is not very conspicuous among the surrounding high-rise buildings.Fang Ziming took a shortcut on the way and went around in the winding alley. When passing by certain places, he would reach out from time to time to straighten the small mirror placed in a hidden place.

The community is semi-open. At this time, many children with schoolbags and school uniforms are running out of several small high-rise buildings, obviously rushing to go to school.The children passed by Fang Ziming chattering, and some little girls who had already run past deliberately turned back to watch Fang Ziming secretly, pretending to be casual, thinking that this little brother is really good-looking.

Fang Ziming didn't care. He spent some time looking for building No. 7, while taking out his mobile phone to call Tang Yu. When he arrived at the 10th floor in the elevator, the other party was already standing outside the elevator with his hands in his pockets waiting for him.

Tang Yu greeted lazily: "I'm back."

Fang Ziming rolled his eyes and replied, "Yes."

The man was still wearing the same black T-shirt and camouflage pants as before. His hair was a little messy, and he had a cigarette in his mouth that hadn't changed for thousands of years. When he saw Fang Ziming coming out of the elevator, he pointed his finger at him and said, " follow me."

Fang Ziming didn't ask any questions, and followed Tang Yu out of the elevator room. When he turned into the innermost door on the right side of the corridor, he looked up at the room number, 1004.

The anti-theft door was half-hidden, but Tang Yu kicked it open. Fang Ziming looked back at the other doors in the corridor, and then followed the men into the room one after the other.

This is a small apartment with two bedrooms and one living room.

All the furniture is mainly light-colored. It can be seen that the owner of the house is following a warm route when decorating, but now only the wreckage of furniture remains in the house, and footprints and scratches are everywhere on the white walls. It is expected that the apartment should be There was a bad fight.

Tang Yu stopped in the living room of the apartment. He raised his chin and motioned Fang Ziming to look at the third person in the middle of the living room.

It was a mature woman in her 30s with loose long hair and a knee-length dress who was tied to an armchair and unable to move.

A sharp seedling knife with a simple shape was inserted straight on the floor behind her - there was no doubt that Tang Yu should have tied the person, and the knife could only have been inserted by Tang Yu.

Fang Ziming took a few steps closer, and found that although the woman's eyes were half-opened, her pupils were lifeless, and she looked dazed, even if a stranger approached, she would not respond at all.

In contrast, the shadow projected on the floor tiles under the woman's feet seemed to be much more energetic than the real master.

At this time, the light in the living room has been turned on to the maximum, and the curtains have been pulled tightly. There is only one light source from the ceiling in the room, and the strange black shadow on the floor is firmly stuck in place by the Miao knife, unable to move. With nothing to hide, he could only let the two men present watch it wantonly.

At first glance, this dark mass seems to be the shadow of the woman on the chair, but if you look closely, you can find that it is "curling up" in a strange posture.Fang Ziming looked at the black shadow on the ground, and for a moment, he even felt that the thin shadow in front of him was secretly peeping at him.

"Hey, no way." Thinking of some possibility, Fang Ziming blurted out, "Is it the kind of shadow ghost with a mouth we've seen before?"

Tang Yu walked up to him, stretched out his hand and flicked the handle of the knife, and even the black shadow who was fixed on the floor and couldn't escape shook slightly.

The man snorted, "That's the guy."

"After you sent me a text message yesterday, I checked the area back and forth, but unfortunately, I didn't find the shadow ghosts you mentioned at that time." He briefly told his companion After looking at yesterday's situation, he said, "At three or four o'clock in the morning, I was about to leave, but I happened to meet a man and a woman in Jiuzhe Hutong."

"They happened to pass by a street light at the time, and I saw the woman's shadow slowly elongate, and when I realized something was wrong, the black shadow had completely turned into a shadow ghost." Tang Yu said indifferently: "It I didn’t notice that I was hiding in the corner, and after peeling off the entity from the ground, I followed these two people for a while, until I turned into a shadow again at the gate of the community, shrunk under the woman’s feet, and swaggered into Building No. 7.”

Fang Ziming frowned, not understanding: "Wait, what do you mean? You want to tell me that this shadow ghost suddenly appeared in front of two humans, and then turned into one of them in front of them." Human shadow?"

Tang Yu spread his hands together: "Aha, that's it."

Fang Ziming instinctively wanted to deny it: "Impossible. Ordinary people will scream a few times even if they don't call the police when they see such monsters and ghosts, right? Unless they are brain-dead, are they?"

"Obviously, no." Tang Yu did not refute, but continued: "So, I guess there are three reasons why these two people are indifferent. First, they know what shadow ghosts represent and have accepted it. Second, they Can't see it."

As he spoke, he flicked the handle of the Miao Dao again, and said in a deep voice, "Third, they were 'parasitized' by it, or they were 'assimilated' by it."

The black shadow nailed to the floor by the tip of the knife trembled and let out a silent groan.

Fang Ziming's expression was solemn, he raised his hand to pinch the woman's chin, observed the other's dull eyes, and said, "You said you saw a man and a woman, what about the man?"

Tang Yu pouted: "It's locked in the inner room. That one is different from this one. Go and observe?"

Fang Ziming noticed that he actually used "only" to describe the man in the room, and couldn't help but feel some bad premonition. He let go of his hand, took a few steps back, and said, "Let's go."

××××××××

Shenshui City XX Police Station.

Li Jianming was standing under a big tree in front of the police station, talking on the phone with a friend.

The sun in early June was getting more and more poisonous. He didn't want to disturb the work of his colleagues in the office, so he could only find a shady place outside to make do with the ultraviolet rays.

Not long after I said a few words, two colleagues who were out on a mission just drove back. The three of them greeted each other. Seeing that their expressions were different, Li Jianming couldn't help holding down the phone and asked, "What's the matter? What case did you encounter?" gone?"

The older colleague in the lead had an indescribable expression on his face: "Don't mention it. The one who called the police, insisted that he saw a monster, and said that there were monsters eating people, and he was incoherent when he talked. I listened to it for 10 minutes. , I didn’t realize what the man-eating monster he was talking about looked like.”

Another colleague said: "The unlucky ghost who was 'eaten' is the brother of the guy who called the police. He said that his brother was stimulated two days ago, and there seems to be something wrong with his brain."

It is not uncommon for them to encounter this kind of situation when they went to the police. Li Jianming nodded: "Hurry up and blow on the air conditioner and drink some water. I look at Xiao Zhang as if he is going to suffer from heat stroke. Old Jin, please watch him."

Lao Jin looked back and found that the other person's complexion was really a little bad, so he hurriedly grabbed his arm and walked to the office, sighing as he walked: "Young young man, his health is really bad. I think I was back then..."

【Hello?Jianming? 】

Li Jianming came back to his senses, held up his mobile phone and said, "Ah, sorry, I was distracted. Well, it's strange..."

【What's wrong? 】

"Just now I seemed to see... Xiao Zhang's shadow moved by itself several times... It's strange..." Li Jianming looked up at the scorching sun that was scorching the earth, and muttered to himself: "If this day continues to be hot, I will Maybe hallucinations too."

"Speaking of which, the two of us haven't sat down and drank together for more than a year, busy people, when will you come to my place for a gathering?"

[I'm still in province Y, how about going to eat poor immediately after this trip is over? ] Li Jianming laughed loudly: "That's a good idea! Hey, what's so interesting about Province Y? You've been wandering there for more than a month, and you haven't had enough!"

The other side of the phone paused for a moment, then laughed too.

[This time the harvest has been quite fruitful, and it should be over soon. 】