Rules of the Uncanny: 4016
Chapter 555

The exit of that pathway...

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As Lin Yi remembered it, he had only seen the Mirror World in two places-no, strictly speaking, under two sets of circumstances. The first was when he first reached the Second Layer of the Clock Tower. "Night Watchman-02" presided over the Quantum Giant Bell, "Sanctuary," surrounded by fragments of the Clock Tower's walls, torn apart by an unknown, transcendent power. Some of those fragments were mirrorlike Mirror Worlds.

The other occasion was... deep within the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor!

When he entered the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor, he had seen many Obsession Sculptures of different forms in the Mirror World... Wait, what were those...?!

Lin Yi's pupils contracted slightly.

Just now, in a certain mirror world, he seemed to have seen the shadows of Obsession Sculptures!

No, not "seemed"-he was "certain"!

Once he saw the Obsession Sculptures, they solidified within the Mirror World, rather like someone in a game of hide-and-seek who stopped hiding once they had been spotted...

Those Obsession Sculptures were covered in cracks, as if they had suffered some tremendous agony and their bodies had been burst apart by an unknown force, shattering into the forms he now saw.

Besides the cracks, strange patterns also seemed to have been carved into their surfaces, like ancient runes used in some evil ritual.

On the motionless Obsession Sculptures, those evil runes looked like wriggling little insects or tadpoles, making anyone who saw them feel uncomfortable all over and break out in goosebumps.

Could this place be... part of the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor? Could the endpoint of the Layer Leap... be in the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor?

Such a conjecture arose in Lin Yi's mind.

At the same time, a cold, sinister wind rose in the passage. As it swept across the mirror worlds, all the Mirror Worlds let

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