"In the campus forum's thread about the Seven Mysteries of the Campus, the second entry is the girls' washroom on the first floor of the classroom building. More precisely, it's the big mirror above the sinks." Ai Xiaojia knew the forum's accounts inside out. Her excitement made it clear that concern for her friend was definitely not the only reason she had sneaked into the school with Zhang Pan.
"Rumor has it that if you stand in front of that big mirror in the middle of the night..." Ai Xiaojia paused, putting on an air of mystery.
"Your soul gets sucked into the mirror?" Mr. Axe frowned, apparently recalling some ancient horror movie.
"No." Ai Xiaojia shook her head. "Nothing happens."
Before Mr. Axe and the others could question whether the girl was telling a deadpan joke, Ai Xiaojia continued, "Nothing really happens at the time. But the next day, the person who looked in the mirror undergoes a complete personality change. They don't just say things their original self would never say-they also do all kinds of bizarre, terrifying things, like picking up the chalk on the teacher's desk, biting it to pieces, and swallowing it!"
"Wow. How terrifying." Mr. Axe played along in a completely flat voice.
"It really is terrifying!" Zhang Pan and Zhou Qingshou looked genuinely shaken. Just imagining the scene made them so uncomfortable that their teeth chattered.
"In the rumor, the person who looked in the mirror was a teacher who stayed overnight at school for some reason. That makes sense, since normal students wouldn't be at school in the middle of the night..." As she spoke, Ai Xiaojia exchanged a guilty glance with Zhang Pan and the others, then changed the subject. "Ahem. Anyway, they say the teacher kept switching between normal and