Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 279 Human Cage
The elevator creaked and moved upwards, and the two standing in the middle of the elevator were silent.

Although Qiao Qiao put aside her doubts about Adele for the time being, it was obviously impossible for her to completely believe in Adele.In fact, in a world where being different equals being dangerous, she was lucky she didn't open fire right away.

Adele still needs Qiao Qiao's knowledge and experience, otherwise it would not be easy for her to sum up the survival rules for the next three floors by herself.

"Should we continue to confirm?" Adele asked suddenly when the elevator stopped on the second floor.

Compared with the first floor, the situation on the second floor looks very tragic. The walls are full of black liquid like splashed ink, like a huge creature squeezed through the corridor, leaving sticky residue on the damaged corridor. Thick blood.

The wallpaper that was originally pasted on the wall to cover the mirror has been scratched off, revealing pieces of translucent brown glass, forming countless mirrors that can be eroded.

Before entering the corridor, Adele and Qiao Qiao felt the familiar dizziness, the feeling of being watched by strange things.

"Judging from the situation on the first floor, the aborigines in this hotel are already in dire straits. If we continue to confirm, we may even get in."

Qiao Qiao was silent, she knew that Adele was telling the truth.Although this strange lady showed special abilities that ordinary people did not have, she was still at a disadvantage in the brief contact just now, let alone herself.

As a selected officer on duty, although she does not lack the sense of self-sacrifice and responsibility for others, she cannot ask others to take risks like her, not to mention that the main force in the team is not herself.

After thinking about it again and again, Qiaoqiao sighed.

"Okay, let's go straight to the roof..."

As she spoke, she pressed the button on the elevator.The numbers on the buttons have been changed to Roman numerals, undermining their significance as a symbol of spiritual numbers.

There was another suffocating silence as the elevator continued to ascend.Three to five seconds later, the elevator stopped and the glass door slowly opened.

"Did I press pause on the third floor?"

Qiao Qiao looked out suspiciously, but this look startled her:
What appeared in the eyes of the two of them was the same corridor they had seen once, filled with sticky black liquid, mirrors all around, and damaged wallpaper, like exfoliated dead skin.

At the top of the stairs at the end of the corridor lay a shriveled corpse, leaning against the iron door at the top of the stairs.Beside him was a mass of dark red marks that had been trampled on, and spread out on the carpet, forming a shocking mass.

"This, or the second floor?"

Adele quickly glanced at the elevator buttons. The four buttons there were originally "I", "II", "III" and "IV".However now it has become "II" "II" "II" and "II".

"Leave the elevator and we'll go through the stairs at the other end of the corridor."

Adele thought for a while, and discussed with Qiao Qiao, and Qiao Qiao readily agreed.

To be on the safe side, Qiao Qiao followed the regulations and threw a bomb into the corridor that made people feel dizzy and nauseated. The two of them walked out of the elevator after the sound of the explosion dissipated.

Holding the red and blue police lights, the two walked carefully through the corridor, and at the same time reminded each other not to touch the black slime, and not to look at things that could reflect reflections around them.

"Let me ask first, what would happen if you kept looking straight into the mirror and couldn't be rescued?"

In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Adele had to find a way to ask.

"You can see things you shouldn't and become like your reflection in the mirror."

Qiao Qiao replied, "When we covered the mirror before, a curious young man once pasted a poster of Alain Delon on the mirror, and it happened that the glue was not so strong. Once he stared at the mirror while brushing his teeth. After looking at that photo for about 5 minutes, I realized that the poster was stepped on by him, and there was nothing posted on the mirror."

"It's unlucky, how is he now?"

Adele shrugged, then asked curiously.

"Before I set off, he and that poster were pasted on the wall of our base lounge...Of course, if he wasn't blown up by the explosion just now, he should still be there now."

Qiao Qiao replied, "However, he is lucky. The things he changed are not so post-modern, so we can put them in the lounge for appreciation. Some people simply become sources of pollution, and some people look at the broken mirror , and then that kind of incompleteness also appeared on them."

"Okay, then we have to be careful."

Adele moved her eyes quickly, not letting her eyes stay on one point for too long.

Unlike the first floor, this time Adele and the two did not knock on the door next to them, but walked carefully through the corridor and went straight to the stairs at the other end of the room, so there were no other accidents on the way, and the two arrived smoothly. To the stairs.

The corpse lay quietly beside the two of them. From the strips spreading from his mouth, it can be seen that he seemed to have been stared at by that strange gaze for too long, and under the influence of the strange nausea He vomited out his entire set of viscera.

Adele wrapped her hands with a layer of silk thread, grabbed the thick doorknob, and pulled the security door open.

Fortunately, none of the traps she was worried about appeared, the stairwell was just a stairwell, and the green light boards flickered in the dark, making the stairwell look a bit gloomy.

The two looked at each other. Qiaoqiao entered the stairwell first, followed by Adele. The two quickly climbed two flights of stairs to the landing on the fourth floor.

However, after the two opened the door, they found that they had returned to the corridor on the second floor again, and the scenery in the narrow passage did not seem to have changed in any way.

"How is this going?"

Qiao Qiao panicked, "Are we trapped here?"

"Not only that." Adele's tone was a little heavy, she pointed to the damaged wallpaper on the corridor in the distance, "There are more mirrors again."

Indeed, every time the two of Adele passed through the hallway, the damage increased, creating new mirrors on the walls.

"If this continues, after a while, even if the two of us want to deliberately avoid looking directly at the mirror, we won't be able to do it, and there is no way to correct the symptoms mentioned in the manual..."

Qiao Qiao thought quickly. The manual requires teammates to stand in the opponent's mirror image and execute the content on the last page. However, the aftermath is handled by professionals among the on-duty personnel, whether it is Adele or Qiao Qiao. I don't know.

"Wait, there seems to be a new figure in the mirror..."

Adele suddenly murmured, her eyesight is better than Qiao Qiao's, so she can see things clearly in the mirror at the end of the corridor.Staring at the mirror for a short time will not lead to loss of control, so she was able to notice the movement of those things before Qiao Qiao.

"Is it a flat surface like a photo?"

Qiao Qiao asked nervously, "Also, don't stare at the mirror for more than ten seconds!"

Adele quickly looked away, and at the same time replied according to her memory: "No, it looks no different from normal people, but what I can be sure of is that it is definitely not our mirror image!"

"Where did they come from, did they appear suddenly?"

Qiao Qiao also looked at the mirror in the distance for a few seconds, then closed his eyes, lowered his head, and opened his eyes after making sure that he would never see the mirror again.

Ten seconds is a life-and-death line that has been verified by the life of the officers on duty.After staring at the mirror for more than ten seconds—note that it is more than ten seconds of continuous attention to the mirror, not the same mirror for more than ten seconds—the observer will experience obvious abnormalities.Although this anomaly may take a long time to cause an accident, in isolation, no one wants to risk himself or his companions.

"Probably not, they seem to be walking from the distance of the mirror world."

Adele silently counted for ten seconds, then looked up again at the mirror in the distance.

"They moved!"

This time, before Qiao Qiao asked, Adele had already exclaimed, "It's a lot closer than the position just now. Although I can't see the face clearly, I can already confirm that the other party is moving towards us!"

Qiao Qiao also looked up and found that those things did indeed appear in the surrounding mirrors as Adele said.Moreover, not only one mirror, but also those black shadows appeared in all the mirrors.

At first, those figures joined together to form a black line, and as the distance between them and the mirror continued to get closer, it began to gradually gain width, rushing towards the two of them like a wave.

However, no matter how fast they move, when Adele and the two cast their eyes on any of the mirrors, the shadows in all the mirrors will stop moving.

If this continues, those shadows will gradually get closer and eventually enter the real world directly through the mirror, and no one knows what will happen at that time; however, if you don’t want them to enter the real world, you must always look at the mirror , is a great danger to those who look into the mirror.

"Take turns looking in the mirror first."

Adele responded immediately, "According to the current situation, those things should reach the surface of the mirror in about 10 minutes. Of course, it may take a while to break through the mirror, but we have to plan for the worst."

"During this time, we have to think of ways to leave here or stop them." Adele spoke quickly, "Think about it first, before we arrived, those things were not watched or moved, what is the reason? What changes did we bring to activate them?"

"There are two possibilities, one is based on ourselves, that is to say, as long as we are still on the second floor, then this change will be activated all the time, and the second is that some kind of behavior of us caused the mirror Biological changes."

"Let me observe." Qiaoqiao raised his head and pressed Adele's head down, "Even if the first hypothesis is true, we can't solve it for the time being, so let's verify the second hypothesis now."

"What did we do that could cause change..."

Adele and Qiao Qiao just thought for a while, and exclaimed almost at the same time.

"It's the bomb!"

"Combined with the feeling of being observed and peeped at us before, there should be some kind of creature recorded in the previous manual in the corridor on the second floor, and their ability to observe all creatures suppresses the appearance of monsters in the mirror."

"And the blast bomb scares that creature. Although we can't see it, it will indeed be startled by the sound of the blast bomb or the sound of the door opening, and flee to the other end of the corridor, scratching against the wall on the way, thus creating Added more mirrors..."

Qiao Qiao concluded with a heavy face, "The repeating second floor is probably some kind of environment created by the creature in the mirror, which inadvertently trapped the peeping person on the second floor, thus achieving a certain balance , let them seal each other."

As for how this seal was formed, the two tacitly did not say anything.The body of the police officer on duty lying on the stairs and wearing the same uniform as Qiao Qiao has already explained everything.The escape route on this floor was pulled inwards rather than pushed outwards, and it now appears that it was not a so-called architectural error.

The corridor itself is a cage built by humans for weirdness, but every time a new prisoner is introduced, the price is terrible.

"May... may he rest in peace."

Adele sighed and lowered her hands slumpedly.She was about to say, "May the Goddess bless him," but it occurred to her that these people did not believe in gods, and that such a prayer would be an insult to them.

Now that she knows how to deal with it, Adele also knows how to deal with it.Now that the creatures inside the mirror started to move, those peeping eyes must have hid in the place where there is no mirror, that is, still staying in the elevator on the second floor.

Adele stretched out her hands and raised them upwards slightly, the black flame jumped up from the elevator at the end of the corridor with a "sudden" sound, and at the same time formed a black wall of fire in front of her.

Then, a sharp, non-human cry sounded from the end of the corridor, and a transparent creature burning with black flames rushed out of the elevator, stopped in front of the wall of fire in front of Adele, and let out a cry between anger and pain. scream.

Adele immediately extinguished the flame on it, and the same wall of fire rose behind it again, trapping it in the middle of the corridor.

"The monster in the mirror doesn't move either!"

Qiao Qiao exclaimed in surprise, "We can leave now!"

"Wait a moment."

Adele stopped Qiao Qiao, and then she squatted down, covered her hands with silk thread, and took out his duty manual from the pocket of the shriveled corpse.

Opening the manual, there is a picture of a handsome male soldier on the title page, with his name written in the lower left corner.

"Thank you for your sacrifice for humanity... Mr. John Joyce."

Adele bowed slightly to salute, and then walked into the escape passage leading directly to the roof with Qiao Qiao.

Behind them, the weirdness still persists in the corridor, and it may not end until thousands of years later.

(End of this chapter)