Mirror of Permanence

Chapter 8 Defects
"I'm sorry to bother you. I'm an investigator of the imperial court. The purpose of coming here is to solve the abnormality." After hearing the voice, Lu Ye knocked on the door again and said, "Everyone wants to live a normal and healthy life. Whether it's for yourself or for your children..."

The atmosphere inside and outside the door was a little stiff, but the door was finally opened.

A woman with sunken eyes, black and red stood at the door to welcome Lu Ye.

Seeing the other party's haggard look, Lu also put away his unsteady appearance, and stood up straight. Although his face was a little young, he still looked a bit like a shunter.

After entering the house, Lu also took a look. It can be seen that the house has not been cleaned for a long time, and the vegetable bowl on the table is full of mush, whether it is vegetable roots or something.

Thinking about it, this mountain village has been blocked for a while, because of the disappearance case, everyone is afraid to go out, and the supplies here have been scarce to a certain extent.

Sitting at the table was a skinny man who seemed a little dull. He just glanced at Lu Ye's arrival and didn't do anything more. He just hugged a little girl who seemed a little ignorant.

"Hello, Uncle!" The little girl said tenderly, but her voice seemed weak, and she coughed a few times after she finished speaking.

"Hello!" Lu Ye squinted and smiled at the little girl.

"If you want to ask anything, just ask, Investigator." The woman's eyes were full of numbness caused by despair, only when she looked at her daughter, those eyes seemed to be touched a little.

"You have the custom of pressing the feet of the bed, don't you?" Lu Ye asked, and after seeing the woman nodded, he continued to ask: "Then is there any child in the village named Liu Yu, or is there a name with Yu character?"

"Liu Yu?" The woman said after looking at her husband, "There are not many people with surnames outside the village, and the only one surnamed Liu is Liu Miaozhu."

"As for the one with Yu in the name, there is only the youngest son of Li Gouzi's family, named Li Yu." The woman thought for a while and said, "It was when the policy was relaxed a few years ago, Li Gouzi's wife ran around to give birth to Li Gouzi. Yes, but premature babies are also fat in vain."

"How much do you know about Liu Miaozhu?" Lu Ye nodded and continued to ask. Although he learned about it once from the old village chief, he might as well learn it again.

The description of the woman is similar to that of the old village head. Liu Miaozhu did not know when she appeared in the village. She was idle and had no job. She was beaten several times by the villagers at the beginning, and then she gradually integrated into the village and helped with odd jobs. survived in the village.

In the end, when choosing temple blessings, this somewhat delicate job was given to him.

Lu Ye also learned some information from the woman. Liu Miaozhu is a cultural person, and part of the money is used to buy books, especially those books about gods and ghosts. He even asked the old people in the village about Niquan.

I have also searched for the cave murals on the west side of the back mountain, and sometimes I can see him digging around, saying that he was digging for antiques, but I have never heard of him digging anything.

"So how much do you know about Li Si, the village chief?" Lu Ye thought for a while before continuing to ask.

"I heard from the old people in the village that Li Si was from Niquan Village back then, but he got into trouble with officials before and ran away. He returned to the village only after the policy changed more than ten years ago, and then became a member of the village. village head."

"Anyway, everyone in the village admires him, including those old people."

"Then do you know which one has a big cellar or basement in the village?" Lu also recalled the dark room he was in before, and the environment was somewhat similar to a basement or cellar: "Or where are there a large number of large water tanks?"

"I'm not sure about this, but most of the water tanks in the village are made by Li Gouzi. You can go to him to have a look."

"Have they all gathered at Li Gouzi's house?" After Lu Ye asked the location of Li Gouzi's family, he stood up and said to the family, "You'd better leave here during the day, and be careful where there is water on the road. , there is no way for you to stay here."

"You can't escape, no one can escape..." The woman coughed a few times, shook her head sadly and said, "It's not like we haven't tried it, and we even ran to the foot of the mountain, but unfortunately we all came back again. As long as we leave the village, we will feel pain, we can't escape..."

After that, the woman seemed to be possessed by a repeater, and kept repeating the sentence that she couldn't escape.

Lu also called her a few times, but she didn't respond either.

Waving to the little girl who kept coughing, Lu Ye walked out of the house with a sullen face.

"Is this so-called abnormality accompanied by a large-scale flu?" Lu Ye touched his neck again, suddenly felt his throat itchy, and couldn't help coughing twice.

"It seems that the potion has already started to take effect." Lu didn't care too much, anyway, it's just a mirror image body, and if it dies, it will die. Anyway, it has died once before, and maybe it will get used to it.

Lu Ye was walking, and suddenly felt that something was not right. Looking at his left hand, he saw that his left hand was a little blurred, and it looked a little transparent.

"Is it the effect of the potion?" Lu also thought for a while and shook his head. The effect of the potion should not be as simple as killing himself. Otherwise, when he was controlled by the muddy water before, the other party would have many opportunities to kill him. , there is no need to do it after injecting the medicine.

In a trance, Lu also raised his head to look at the sun in the sky. It's past one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun is at its strongest.

Suffering from the discomfort, Lu also walked into the shadow of a nearby house, and felt better.

"Excluding the effect of the potion, then only the defect of the mirror image remains?" Lu was not surprised.

The time he acted before was either at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, or at night, just after twelve o'clock, and he was also walking in a small forest. This was the first time he was exposed to strong eyes.

The mirrored body is the spiritual body inside the mirror, which is reflected to the real body in a mysterious way. It is reasonable for strong sunlight to interfere with this reflection.

"In this case, I need to avoid acting around noon." Lu Ye looked at the sun outside, and simply didn't rush to go to Li Gouzi's house. He found a chair in the house and sat down, and began to study himself.

He still has a lot of ignorance about his current situation.

Consciousness sinks into the core of the soul, and Lu can also feel that he is in the mirror fragments. If Zhai Di masters the method of putting consciousness into the mirror fragments, they can still exchange information. Zhai Di is still a rookie when it comes to occultism.

"Huh?" Suddenly Lu also found that when his consciousness sank into the mirror fragments, although he could not control the mirrored body, he could observe the projected physical condition.

He could observe that some pitch-black liquid was constantly eroding inside the mirrored body.

(End of this chapter)