Chapter 105 [Mirror World] (6800)
Chen Yan stood in the room, in front of the mirror!
But the obvious difference was that everything was reversed.
He clearly remembered his room, with the mirror on the left wall, but now he was standing in front of the mirror, and it was embedded in the right wall.
Not only the position of the mirror, but also all the arrangements in the room, furniture, tables and chairs, bed, cabinet...
Even the layout and orientation of the room were all reversed.
So... the rune he completed triggered some kind of spell, sending him into a mirror world? Chen Yan reached out to touch the mirror, feeling a hard and cold surface.
However, as a thought crossed his mind and a trace of primordial qi poured out, the mirror suddenly softened, as if ripples were spreading over the surface.
Chen Yan pushed hard!
He tilted forward abruptly and suddenly stepped through the mirror in one step!
He was back in his room—the real world room.
Chen Yan widened his eyes, looking around to make sure he had returned from the mirror world.
It seems it is possible to return!
Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
But very quickly, he rushed to the table, picked up the Fox Tail Brush he had just dropped, and then grabbed the last piece of talisman paper, quickly rewriting the rune he had just drawn!
After re-igniting the talisman paper with primordial qi...
He disappeared again!
Standing in the room of the mirror world once more, Chen Yan looked around and a satisfied smile appeared on his lips!
This mirror world, he could enter and exit freely!
Chen Yan’s heart filled with intense curiosity. Opening the door, he slowly walked out of his room.
The hotel’s corridor was silent, but clearly everything was reversed. Occasionally, there were reflective surfaces on the walls, though not mirrors, but some glass vessels or walls with special coatings that had similar mirroring effects.
A few minutes later, standing by the roadside, Chen Yan widened his eyes at the street outside the hotel!
The sidewalks were empty, with no one in sight. But on the roadway, cars could still be seen passing by.
However, upon closer inspection, the cars were completely empty!
Driver’s seat, passenger seat, back seats... In short, the car interiors were entirely vacant. It was as if self-driving vehicles were moving on the roads.
The sky had darkened, and under the streetlights, the shop signs on the roadside were illuminated, making the street appear vibrant and colorful like most city streets in the world.
The seemingly bustling yet empty streets gave off an eerie feeling.
Chen Yan walked up to a bakery, and through the floor-to-ceiling window, he could see the shop was brightly lit, but inside it was vacantly silent, like a scene from a horror movie.
Standing in front of the window, Chen Yan could faintly see the real world on the other side of the glass: At the shop counter, a stern-faced clerk impatiently serving a customer.
A mother and child picking out cakes, a young girl whispering complaints to her boyfriend. Several other customers waiting in line to pay...
That was the real world outside the mirror.
But right beside Chen Yan, the shop through the floor-to-ceiling window was utterly empty!
Chen Yan turned and walked away. In a nearby tea restaurant, the lights were bright, the window displays hung with preserved meats and roast geese. The tables were set with dishes, and chopsticks hovered in the air, with the food on the plates slowly diminishing...
Pondering for a moment, Chen Yan made some deductions:
This mirror world could only project objects from the real world outside.
But it could not project living beings!
On the streets and in the shops, people were absent, even in the moving cars, no one could be seen.
Even to verify his theory, Chen Yan ran down several streets and found a pet grooming shop.
The pet cages in the shop were also empty.
He carefully used a mirror to observe the real world, and the shop in the real world clearly had cats and dogs in the cages.
Especially the nearest cage, where a Yorkshire Terrier was pacing in circles in the real world.
But in the mirror world, that cage was empty!
(So, in this mirror world, not only are there no people, there are no living creatures at all?)
After understanding this, Chen Yan’s interest grew even stronger!
Many people have had peculiar yet similar fantasies in their childhood.
According to some online topics, popular childhood fantasies include:
For example, if everyone in the world gave me a dollar...
If everyone in the world disappeared, leaving only me.
Wouldn’t I be able to do whatever I wanted? Take anything from the stores, eat anything, wear any clothes from the boutiques...
At this moment, Chen Yan felt as if he was in such a fantasy world.
Plus, this world seemed to be soundless.
The cars speeding on the street appeared to be muted; the sounds of engines and exhaust pipes could not be heard at all.