Bang, bang, bang...
Inside the bathroom, a man and a woman were pounding on the mirror.
At the sight, Li Feng immediately realized what had happened.
Had he been dragged into Mirror Space?
He looked down at the tiles, polished smooth as mirrors.
Right. Why wouldn't these count as mirrors?
They might even reflect things far more clearly than ancient bronze mirrors.
Except...
When he looked into the bathroom, everything was the right way around.
But when he looked at the Living Room, the hanging calligraphy and paintings were reversed.
He surveyed his surroundings again.
Li Feng discovered that apart from the bathroom, everything was reversed.
In other words, only he, the two people in the bathroom, and the objects inside it had been pulled into Mirror Space. Everything else was merely a reflection of reality.
As Li Feng examined his surroundings, he could clearly feel strands of Paranormal Entity power beneath his feet and all around him, constantly seeping into his body.
However, the moment that power entered his skin, his skin absorbed and converted it.
Not only did it fail to corrode his body, it even advanced his Skin Tempering cultivation a little.
Sensing this, Li Feng finally felt a little more at ease.
And...
As he sensed the Paranormal Entity power around him, an idea stirred in Li Feng's mind.
The next instant, wisps of fog began spreading throughout the room.
Within moments, thick fog filled all of Room 403.
Then the fog unleashed its devouring, corrosive power, rapidly drawing in and consuming the Paranormal Entity energy around it.
Through its contact with Li Feng, it continuously converted that energy and fed it into his Mind Space.
The Bedroom, the Bed, and, most importantly, his soul and the other things within his Mind Space all began to grow stronger little by little.
At the same time, a faint outline of the Living Room began appearing beyond the Bedroom.
Likewise, as the power flowed into his body through his skin, it tempered his skin as well, improving it bit by bit with a tingling sensation.
It was slower than deliberate cultivation, but it required no effort and caused no pain.
Meanwhile, the power of the mind fog was also gradually seeping into the surrounding objects.
Heh!
Sensing these changes, Li Feng couldn't help chuckling inwardly.
If this Paranormal Entity phenomenon could only invert and interchange illusion and reality, then corrode things with Paranormal Entity power, it certainly had his attention now.
But as he sensed the mirror space's eerie power and his mind fog corroding each other, the corner of Li Feng's mouth twitched.
Why did his mind fog feel more and more like an eerie entity?
Just then, Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian, who had been frantically pounding on the bathroom mirror without getting any response, rose dejectedly and exchanged crestfallen looks.
Then...
Wang Qianqian, who stood farther inside, suddenly widened her eyes and stared behind Zhao Le in disbelief.
"What's wrong?"
Noticing Wang Qianqian's reaction, Zhao Le stiffened and asked uneasily.
"Out... outside. There's thick fog out there now, too..."
"Hmm?"
Hearing Wang Qianqian's answer, Zhao Le breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the thick fog beyond the doorway.
From Wang Qianqian's reaction, he had thought something Paranormal Entity had appeared behind him.
Besides, since thick fog had appeared everywhere, perhaps the final change was about to happen?
Watching the two people in the bathroom, Li Feng considered briefly, then willed a change.
The surrounding fog instantly thinned, leaving dense fog only around their lower bodies and overhead.
As the fog thinned, Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian immediately spotted Li Feng. They watched him warily, took a small half-step back, and asked apprehensively.
"Wh-who are you?"
"Are you human or a ghost?"
"I'm an Investigator from the Investigation Department. Who are you?"
Li Feng looked at the two people in the bathroom as he asked.
"You're an Investigator?"
"You're really an Investigator?"
"Waaah, you're finally here! Hurry and get us out! We've been trapped here for ages..."
"Calm down first. Tell me who you are and how you got trapped here..."
Li Feng frowned at Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian.
"Phew... My name is Zhao Le. This is my girlfriend, Wang Qianqian..."
Zhao Le took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, introduced himself to Li Feng, and explained how they had become trapped.
They were a young couple who lived together in Zhao Le's apartment.
At some point, whenever they washed up and looked in the mirror, they had begun feeling as though their reflections were staring fixedly at them.
Although it unnerved them, they hadn't taken it seriously at first, assuming it was merely their imagination.
Until one day, when Wang Qianqian was looking in the mirror, the Wang Qianqian inside it suddenly gave a Paranormal Entity smile.
Then, before the terrified Wang Qianqian could scream, her reflection suddenly reached a hand out of the mirror.
No matter how she screamed in terror or struggled, Wang Qianqian couldn't escape being dragged into the mirror.
By the time Zhao Le heard the commotion and rushed to the bathroom, no one was there. Only the washstand remained, in complete disarray.
When Zhao Le hurried to the mirror in a panic to see what had happened, the same thing happened to him.
The Zhao Le inside the mirror dragged the real Zhao Le into it.
However, after they were dragged inside, they never found the Zhao Le from the mirror.
For a long time afterward, they had remained trapped here.
The front door, the windows, and everything else refused to open.
Once they calmed down and discussed the situation, Zhao Le and the other person concluded that the mirror on the wall was probably their only way back to reality.
However, no matter how they pounded on it or tried to break it, they couldn't open a passage back to reality.
"You couldn't open it..."
Li Feng regarded them with an unreadable expression.
"How long have you been trapped here?"
"Probably... a little over a month!"
"A little over a month..."
Their answer made Li Feng even more certain of his suspicions.
But his expression remained unchanged as he asked another question.
"What have you been eating all this time?"
"Oh, although we can't leave, everything in the apartment still works fine. The food in the fridge replenishes itself every day.
"So we aren't short of food or water..."
"Oh!"
Li Feng nodded, looked at the bathroom faucet, then glanced at the north-facing kitchen, sheltered from the sun.
Through the Sheriff's vision, everything in the apartment except the bathroom was an illusory reflection, filled with dense eerie power.
Although the bathroom faucet and the other objects there were real, they were likewise filled with dense Paranormal Entity power.
Finally, Li Feng looked back at Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian. Their bodies were indeed human.
But their bodies were also filled with dense Paranormal Entity power.
Ah...
Li Feng couldn't help sighing inwardly.
Had the Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian inside the mirror really disappeared?
Over the following period, Li Feng kept asking Zhao Le and the other person questions while considering ways to escape together.
However, as time passed, Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian grew increasingly agitated and kept urging Li Feng to act.
After inspecting practically every inch of Room 403, the three returned to the bathroom doorway.
Zhao Le looked at the bathroom mirror and said thoughtfully to Li Feng:
"Investigator, I think the bathroom mirror must be the passage back to reality.
"Perhaps if you enveloped your whole body in supernatural power, you could pass through it and return to reality.
"Why don't you try it, Investigator?"
"Yes, exactly! We were pulled in through the mirror. It has to be the passage.
"Please hurry and give it a try, Investigator..."
Wang Qianqian urged him as well, her face full of anxiety and anticipation.
"Well... my power is too weak right now. There's no way I could envelop all three of us."
Li Feng spoke hesitantly.
At that, Zhao Le's eyes flickered, but he gritted his teeth and said:
"Oh, what does that matter?
"Only once the Investigator leaves can he call someone to rescue us, right?"
"Exactly. We've already been trapped here for so long. A little longer won't hurt."
Wang Qianqian nodded in agreement beside Zhao Le.
"No. As an Investigator in the Federation's Investigation Department, how could I abandon Federation citizens and escape alone?"
"Well..."
Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian exchanged a glance.
Since when had these supernatural cultivators been so considerate of ordinary people? Didn't they always put their own survival first?
"Sir, there's no danger here. Only by leaving can you find someone to rescue us sooner..."
"That's right, sir. You should leave first and find someone to rescue us."
"Ah, even if there's no danger, I'd still rather stay with you.
"Once the Investigation Department discovers I'm missing, they'll certainly come to rescue us right away."
"Sir, we're just two ordinary people. How could we let a distinguished Investigator like you stay here and risk yourself for us?"
"There's danger? Then I have even more reason to stay.
"If I leave, who's going to protect you?"
No matter what they said, Li Feng refused to budge, insisting that he had to stay and ensure their safety.
Gradually, Zhao Le and Wang Qianqian's expressions became increasingly gloomy and wooden. An eerie gleam flickered in their eyes as they stared fixedly at Li Feng.
"Investigator, leave this place and find someone to rescue us..."
"Investigator, leave this place and find someone to rescue us..."
"Investigator, leave this place and find someone to rescue us..."
"No, no. I have to stay with you. I have to ensure your safety..."
Li Feng seemed utterly oblivious to their abnormal behavior. He kept shaking his head, his expression resolute.
It was as though protecting them was the mission he had been born to fulfill.
Just then, everything outside the bathroom suddenly trembled slightly.
Through the mind fog enveloping the entire apartment, Li Feng sensed the mirror space abruptly shrink a little.
A hint of amusement surfaced in Li Feng's eyes. All that time spent talking in circles with them hadn't been wasted.
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