Even with its slow response, the Supernatural Investigation Bureau received intelligence a few days later about the outbreak of the Mirror Ghost Yunsun City.
This gave Mu Xingrui, the director of the Investigation Bureau, a huge headache.
The ghosts emerging from the mirror are becoming increasingly adept at imitating humans in reality, to the point that they are now almost indistinguishable.
However, the biggest flaw in the Mirror Ghosts is that all their actions are the opposite of those of real humans.
One or two might go unnoticed, but as more and more living people are replaced by the Mirror Ghost, naturally some people will notice.
What's worse for Mu Xingrui now is that several members of the Investigation Bureau have been confirmed to have been replaced by the Mirror Ghost.
The Mirror Ghost incident first occurred in an old apartment building in Yunsun City.
Police who went to investigate later confirmed that it was indeed a supernatural event, and only one police captain survived.
The Investigation Bureau's plan was to seal off the haunted old apartment building, and then send people to conduct a second investigation of the surviving police captain Wu Jiangu, to avoid missing any details.
The person in charge of this matter was Feng Qian.
After Feng Qian returned to the Investigation Bureau, although his abnormal behavior was not obvious, it was quickly noticed by the Investigation Bureau's staff.
The Ghost Mirror incident in Yunsun City was delayed until it finally erupted throughout the entire city.
The reasons are multifaceted.
The most important point is that the Mirror Ghost was the first to replace the administrative and judicial departments of Yunsun City!
Their interference severely delayed the Investigation Bureau's progress.
Secondly, unlike the Black Smoke City Lockdown Incident Shanque City, the Ghost Mirror incident was not sensational or shocking. It came silently, without any bloodshed or visible corpses, and its spread was difficult to detect. By the time the abnormality was clearly noticed, it was already too late.
With things having reached this point, the Investigation Bureau is no longer concerned with maintaining secrecy and has mobilized all available armed forces in an effort to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.
"Seal off Yunsun City, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. Clear a safe passage as soon as possible, and conduct a thorough screening of all residents. Once confirmed to be normal human beings, evacuate them all!"
The Mirror Ghost can mimic the appearance of a normal human, but fortunately, it has obvious flaws, and its behavior pattern is the opposite of that of a real human.
The lockdown of Yunsun City was a last resort, but it was the only way to continue. Moreover, those who left Yunsun City in the past few days were also subject to investigation.
Such a large-scale commotion by the authorities immediately alerted the residents of Yunsun City to something unusual, but they soon received a very strange text message notification from the government—
1. Please cover all mirrors and any objects in your home with a cloth, and never look in a mirror.
2. Stay home as much as possible, avoid going out, keep doors and windows closed at all times, and do not open the door to people behaving strangely.
3. Be wary of people around you who behave strangely, especially those whose behavior is contradictory. If you discover such a person, pretend to interact with them normally, don't let them know that you have discovered them, and try to stay away from them. Try not to be in the same space as them.
4. It might tempt you to look in a mirror; you can hide in a completely dark place where you can't be reflected in a mirror.
After receiving this strange text message, the residents of Yunsun City discovered that their internet and cell phone signals had disappeared.
Although most people felt a little strange and panicked, they still chose to trust the country and abide by the rules.
Meanwhile, the emergency response team responsible for blocking the main access routes to Yunsun City encountered trouble.
They discovered that there were "people" in the group whose behavior was reversed from left to right!
"Damn it, when did these freaks sneak in!"
The unit commander was dumbfounded when he saw his familiar comrade suddenly make strange, reversed left and right movements.
But the ghosts had no empathy for humans and simply pulled out a small mirror.
The small mirror strangely extended many Ghost Hands, attempting to drag living people into the Mirror World.
"Quickly, attack them!"
The officer gave the order, and nearby soldiers raised their guns and fired at the monster.
However, this didn't have much effect; its only result was shattering the mirror the ghost was holding.
The moment the mirror shattered, the monster's eyes gleamed with a silvery light, and then a gigantic mirror—without any thickness but with a surface area that could reflect light from both sides—appeared directly above the street.
Then, everyone in the unit felt a blur before their eyes, as if a flash of silver light had passed by.
Nothing happened...
The troop commander was taken aback. He thought that with the ghost's attack, they were definitely doomed. But to his surprise, nothing seemed to have happened. Everyone remained where they were, except for the ghost, which had vanished.
The unit commander, his face grave, picked up his communicator, intending to report the situation. However, he only heard a buzzing sound; there was no signal at all.
What's going on?
The officer frowned. How could the military's communication devices have no signal and be out of contact?!
Suddenly, a sinister laugh rang out. Everyone looked around, but found nothing; everything remained the same.
The rear command witnessed firsthand the disappearance of the troops blocking Yunsun City, as if erased from the world by an eraser, leaving only a mirror, silently floating above the highway.
From a distance, the mirror appeared as a huge, perfect rectangle, about two meters above the ground, with no support at its edges, as if it were nailed to the air by invisible nails.
The strangest thing is that, viewed from the side, this mirror has no thickness, as thin as a sheet of paper, and both the front and back are mirror surfaces.
"Anyone who touches that thing disappears. We've tried using drones and long poles to touch it, but the result is the same: a suction force comes from the point of contact, dragging the object inside."
Upon hearing this report from his subordinate, the officer in charge personally picked up the binoculars and stared intently at the mirror.
The mirror's surface was eerily perfect, reflecting his own pale face and the chaotic scene behind him. But as he adjusted the focus, he seemed to see something moving deep within the mirror...
"Everyone back off." He lowered his binoculars, his voice low. "We're going to try and destroy it."
A subordinate advised, "Ordinary attacks will only cause the object to get stuck in the mirror, and according to intelligence from the Supernatural Investigation Bureau, that kind of thing is not afraid of physical attacks..."
"Shut up!" the officer snapped coldly, a sharp glint in his eyes.