Su Chen looked at the street. It felt no different from the one he had just been on.
Was this a Haunted Zone?
Su Chen plucked out a hair and released it in midair.
The hair began falling straight down.
Finally, it landed on the ground.
No wind!
Su Chen immediately realized that he had entered an enclosed space.
Had a Weird Entity made a move against him?
Or was it...
An Anomalous Object?
Su Chen began recalling how he had come in.
Had he just passed through a glass door?
"Who are you?"
Suddenly, an unfamiliar female voice came from behind him.
It was like a firearm aimed at him, loaded and with its safety engaged.
Su Chen felt a sharp threat.
He slowly turned his head.
That feeling had been right.
It was very sharp.
A willow-leaf-shaped gardening trowel pointed straight at him.
A green-haired girl wore a white short-sleeved shirt and denim.
Not a Weird Entity.
A person!
Su Chen let out a sigh of relief.
By then, he had a rough guess about the green-haired girl's identity.
The florist mentioned in the information.
"Are you of the Florist Sequence?"
Su Chen named her Sequence, intending to make a breakthrough in their relationship.
"What's a Sequence?"
Xiao Zixia was completely unfamiliar with the word "Sequence."
But she quickly caught on.
"My special ability to control plants is a Sequence?"
Xiao Zixia asked.
Su Chen nodded. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Su Chen."
"Prophet Sequence."
Su Chen had offered all this information to gain her trust.
"Prophet Sequence?"
Hearing the name of another Sequence, Xiao Zixia slowly drew her trowel back a little.
Of course, she did not lower her guard.
The trowel still guarded her.
"Why are you here?"
Xiao Zixia continued questioning him.
She had originally been an employee at a plant shop.
She had been responsible for watching the shop and tending the plants.
Then, suddenly...
She had entered this place.
This world was almost no different from the town.
But there had not been a single person, nor anything to eat or drink.
At one point, Xiao Zixia had thought she would die.
But...
More people had soon come in.
Those people had brought plenty of food with them.
At first, Xiao Zixia had thought of asking someone for something to eat.
That person had actually tried to get handsy with him.
Was there no law anymore?
Xiao Zixia had fought back. After years of moving plants around...
She was not weak.
Later...
She had also awakened the ability to control plants.
Xiao Zixia gradually discovered that quite a few people had entered this world, as though they had found paradise.
After learning more...
Only then had she found out that the outside world had already become an apocalypse.
There were also all kinds of Weird Entities.
Su Chen had said so much that he clearly was not from the town.
"I escaped from Changcheng with my younger sister. I ventured into Xintang Town to gather supplies."
Su Chen explained where he had come from.
Of course, he had deliberately mentioned his younger sister, Su Xi.
Xiao Zixia was a woman. Mentioning his younger sister could lower her guard a little.
"Do you know how to get out?"
"My sister must be really worried, with me suddenly disappearing."
Su Chen deliberately showed weakness and even asked for her help.
People instinctively lowered their guard somewhat around those younger than themselves.
"No."
"I've tried a lot of methods, but I can't get out."
"Did you bring any supplies?"
Xiao Zixia looked Su Chen over.
There were no Weird Entities here. The whole world was very clean.
There was simply nothing to eat or drink to be found.
"I haven't gathered any supplies yet."
Su Chen spread his empty hands, looking helpless.
"Never mind."
"I'll take you to the others!"
Seeing that Su Chen had brought no supplies, disappointment flashed through Xiao Zixia's eyes.
This Sequence called Prophet was rather weak. He had not made any preparations at all.
Xiao Zixia had also withheld one piece of information.
She was the leader.
Some of the survivors who had entered this place were under her control.
To live longer, they had pooled all their resources.
After spreading his hands, however, Su Chen realized something.
Where was the Pig-Killing Knife?
The Pig-Killing Knife was gone!
He had clearly been holding the Pig-Killing Knife the whole time.
After he entered the Haunted Zone, the damn thing had vanished.
Su Chen remembered a detail from when he had used the Pig-Killing Knife against enemies.
No matter what, the Pig-Killing Knife would return to his side.
He had been in this space for a while, yet he still had not seen the Pig-Killing Knife return.
Was everything before him fake?
Doubt arose in Su Chen's mind.
By then, Xiao Zixia was already leading the way, walking ahead.
Su Chen followed.
He used the system to inspect her again.
However, the system did not respond at all. He could not see any information about Xiao Zixia.
Had the system malfunctioned?
That was possible.
But not very likely.
Either he was dreaming, or Xiao Zixia was fake?
Su Chen decided to observe the situation a little longer.
After walking for a while, he noticed more anomalies.
There seemed to be street after street.
In reality, the houses were arranged in an Eight Trigrams formation, each building forming part of a maze.
Some houses had been pieced together.
Finally, Xiao Zixia led Su Chen to a supermarket building.
It was probably the most spacious building in town.
Inside the shopping center were more than twenty people: men and women, young and old.
Could these be...
All the survivors?
Su Chen speculated.
He felt that he had misjudged some things.
Those pieces of information were not isolated.
A mirror.
The Florist Sequence.
Survivors.
What if there was a mirror, and a Haunted Zone inside it?
The Florist Sequence and the survivors.
Both were inside the mirror.
Good grief!
Su Chen had a feeling that the mirror would be a very powerful Anomalous Object.
The mirror was a very powerful Anomalous Object, so naturally, it would not let Weird Beasts in.
A world reflected by many mirrors, pieced together.
At that thought, Su Chen looked at Xiao Zixia and asked, "Are there no mirrors in this world?"
Thinking back over everything he had seen and heard along the way, Su Chen recalled that this world did not seem to have any mirrors.
"Mirrors?"
Hearing the word, Xiao Zixia stopped too.
Mirrors!
How could a town lack mirrors?
The mirrors in barbershops, the mirrors in shopping centers, reflective glass doors...
Everywhere there should have been mirrors, they were gone.
Xiao Zixia realized that she really had overlooked the existence of mirrors.
"No!"
Xiao Zixia shook her head and bit her lip.
The two fell silent again.
"What are you trying to say?"
Xiao Zixia knew Su Chen had brought this up without overstepping.
"What I'm trying to say is..."
"Could this place possibly not be real?"
Su Chen voiced his guess.
"It probably isn't a dream."
"When we eat here, we don't feel hungry. When we're hurt, we bleed. When people are killed, they die..."
Xiao Zixia offered an explanation.
But!
The more Xiao Zixia spoke, the quieter her voice became.
There were some things here that made no sense and simply could not be explained.
For example.
There were no mirrors in this world.
"Who's this dumbass?"
As Su Chen and Xiao Zixia chatted, a blond-haired man stepped out of the crowd.
A dragon tattoo on his arm stood out.
"Huang Qi."
"Shut up!"
Xiao Zixia snapped at him.
Su Chen's arrival had offered some different ways of thinking.
"Who is he?"
"What gives him the right to spout nonsense the moment he gets here?"
"Wouldn't we know whether this is a dream?"
Hearing Xiao Zixia snap at him, Huang Qi unconsciously developed a hostile look in his eyes.
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