The Red Mirror

Mirrors stood in the four corners of the room, each covered with a white cloth that left only the very bottom visible.

"Why are there mirrors in the Repair Room? And why are there four of them?" Whether the room was for repairing living people or furniture, it didn't seem like mirrors would be of any use.

"Could it be that after they finish repairing something, they put it in front of a mirror to admire it?"

Before Bai Ling and Wang Xiaoming could say anything, Chen Ge reached out and pulled the white cloth off a mirror.

"Don't touch it!"

Bai Ling's warning came a little too late. The cloth fell to the floor, and the three of them saw the mirror it had been covering.

"Is this paint?" Chen Ge stood in front of the mirror and ran his hand over its surface. A layer of something resembling red paint had been smeared across the smooth glass.

The mirror was completely covered, so it couldn't reflect anyone.

Chen Ge scratched at the surface with his fingernail. The red substance seemed to have grown into the mirror, fused with it completely. He couldn't scrape any of it off.

"Mirrors..."

Chen Ge suddenly remembered something. Since waking up in the classroom, this was the first time he had seen a mirror in the World Behind the Door.

Mirrors, so common in everyday life, seemed to have become some kind of taboo in this school.

"There aren't any mirrors in Room 413. There wasn't one in Xiao Lin's Backpack, or in the Dorm Manager's room. There weren't any in the staff dormitory where Bai Ling and Teacher Bai live, either!"

He quickly pulled the white cloths off all four mirrors. They were different shapes and sizes, and seemed to have been