Ring of Fate

Chapter 1008: Troubleshooting (Ask for double monthly tickets at the end of the month)
Lumian had made some guesses based on the style of tonight's events and was prepared to see one or more dream figures, but the person who appeared at the emergency center was completely beyond his expectations:
It turned out to be Pengden’s roommate Grisha!

The fact that he shared a room with Peng Deng did indicate that he was somewhat special. We had also observed him, but we couldn't find out who he corresponded to in reality... Was he the mastermind behind tonight's events? What was his real purpose? Lumian's thoughts were flooding, and he became more and more confused.

He had originally identified the person behind tonight's events as a believer in the "Aurora Society" and was trying to take the opportunity to confirm some things, but Grisha did not have the "I saw, I heard, I know" style at all. He was eccentric, paranoid, and rude.

"Him?" Franca's reaction was slower than normal, and she leaned over to look at the picture that Lumian had frozen on the phone screen.

The sudden surprise made her a little more angry.

"Discovering unexpected people is also a reward." Lumian has calmed down.

"Yeah." Franka didn't say much.

Lumian was not in a hurry to leave. He took out a cracked makeup mirror and carefully sensed it.

His performance caught Franka's attention. Franka turned her head to look at him and asked with a little confusion:

"What are you doing?"

"See if the mirror world has recovered and if the corresponding broken mirror has evolved into a new area behind the mirror." Lumian explained simply, "Roshan didn't bring her phone, and I don't have any other extraordinary abilities. I need to send her a message through the mirror world, saying that you are safe, so that she can take Zhou Mingrui out of the underground area.

"There's nothing urgent right now. What if Zhou Mingrui really discovered something?"

Franca was stunned for two seconds:
"Zhou Mingrui went to the underground area?

"Won't that be a problem?"

The underground of Mushu Hospital is the product of the combination of subconscious psychological shadows in dreams and the abyss symbol of the "Mother Tree of Desire". Even if it cannot really endanger Zhou Mingrui's safety, it will make him encounter his previous psychological shadows again and awaken the strong stimulation that once existed, thus bringing about obvious changes. This change is unpredictable and may be extremely good or extremely bad. Therefore, Team Lumian did not want Zhou Mingrui to enter the underground of Mushu Hospital at this stage.

Lumian looked at Franca and said with a smile:

"Plans can't change quickly. The most important thing just now was to rescue you. Everything else can be considered and made up for later. At worst, the mission will fail completely and we can change a group of people to come again. At worst, we can all face the end of the world together. We can't let you die here now."

Franca stared at Lumian for a few seconds, unable to say anything.

After a while, she retracted her gaze and sighed:

"Some things may never be made up for..."

Hearing this sigh and these words, Lumian finally felt that Franka had come back to life from her previous dead state.

He didn't ask what it was, waiting for Franca to adjust herself before speaking. He looked at the mirror in his hand that had broken into three pieces and said:

"The mirror world has been restored, and the larger mirror fragments have once again become mirrors in the mystical sense."

After saying this, Lumian added a sentence, which was tinged with the shimmering darkness and penetrated into the largest fragment of the makeup mirror.

…………

Mushu Hospital, basement 2.

Luo Shan walked in front, taking Zhou Mingrui with her, and moved forward stealthily in the corridor, looking left and right from time to time, looking for the missing Luo Fu.

Just as she cast her gaze towards one of the rooms and Zhou Mingrui looked towards the other side, she saw a passage of words flash across a piece of broken glass on the ground:
"Rove has gone home."

Huh... Luo Shan turned around quickly and said to Zhou Mingrui:
"I received the news that Luo Fu escaped."

Zhou Mingrui looked at Luo Shan twice but didn't ask her how she received the news.

He had just observed that Luo Shan seemed to be in a hurry when she went out and didn't even bring her cell phone.

After leaving the underground area of ​​Mushu Hospital and being sent back to Dechuang Garden by Zhou Mingrui, Luo Shan met Lumianna and Luo Fu in the entrance hall.

"You just came back too?" Luo Shan asked.

Lumian looked around while holding the two pieces of mirror fragments and said:

"I went to deal with the hospital's surveillance."

Although what happened tonight did not involve a criminal case and was considered a "natural disaster" and there would be no police investigating the truth, Lumian still felt that it needed to be treated with caution.

Luo Shan was stunned for two seconds:

He has a lot of criminal experience...

Lumian then said to Roxanne:
"Thank you for your help. If you hadn't invited Zhou Mingrui to the negative second floor in time, Luo Fu and I would not have been able to escape and would have been completely swallowed up by the illusory abyss."

Luo Shan couldn't help but smile. She said modestly:

"It's mainly because Zhou Mingrui is willing to take risks to save people. He has always been very good."

"It's amazing that you were able to convince him in such a short time." Lumian did not hesitate to praise him.

"It's okay, it's okay." Luo Shan looked away uncomfortably.

She walked briskly into the elevator that had just reached the first floor.

After following him inside, Lumian said to Roxanne:
"We want to check your room and find out the hidden danger."

"Okay, okay!" Luo Shan remembered that she had inexplicably appeared in the underground area of ​​Mushu Hospital.

She can't sleep well until she finds out the bad guy lurking in her room or nearby!
Arriving at Room 1502, Lumian naturally checked every corner, and Franka also perked up and silently touched different things.

After a few seconds, Lumian walked to the glass window of the living room and said to Roxanne who was standing near the coffee table:

"I'll do some 'magic mirror divination' to see if I can get any answers or revelations."

Luo Shan nodded repeatedly.

Lumian extended his hand towards the transparent glass that had become a mirror due to the night, and chanted the corresponding spell.

Now he can only do the "magic mirror divination" to ask about his own spirituality.

When Lumian asked the question, the surface of the glass suddenly began to ripple with dark light.

The waves settled, reflecting a scene, which corresponded to an oil painting of a colorful parrot.

"It?" Luo Shan suddenly turned her head and looked at the wall behind her.

The helper I drew myself betrayed me?
Almost at the same time, the colorful parrot flew out of the painting, trying to break out of room 1502 and escape.

However, the doors and windows had already been locked, and it kept running into obstacles.

"Why?" Luo Shan shouted.

The colorful parrot responded with clear human words:

"I am not your puppet, I serve..."

Before it could finish its words, its body suddenly disintegrated. First, its feathers fluttered off one by one, and then its flesh and blood dropped like melted paint.

In just two or three seconds, the colorful parrot turned into countless small dots of oil paint, which were splashed onto the off-white floor tiles.

"It's controlled by someone else." Lumian concluded.

"How could this be?" Luo Shan was shocked and stunned.

This is something I drew stroke by stroke, why would it be controlled by others?
If it was another me who was quietly resurrected inside me and secretly influenced my paintings, I could still accept it, but how could it be possible for an outsider?
Lumian glanced at Roxanne:
“You can’t absolutely trust anything. This is true for other people, for paintings, and for yourself.”

"I understand..." Luo Shan thought of the past and the other self.

Lumian thought about it and suggested:

"You should stay at our place tonight to avoid any other accidents."

He planned to take a photo of every item and every corner in Roxanne's room tonight, and then send it to Anderson to see if there were any remaining problems.

"Okay." Luo Shan agreed quickly.

Regardless of whether she found the colorful parrot or not, her original plan was to pack up her things, find a cost-effective hotel, book a room, and stay for two or three nights.

After settling Roxanne down and letting her and Janna sleep in room 2303, Lumian took Franca and took her with him to take pictures everywhere in room 1502, not missing anything.

After the photo shoot, he immediately sent the relevant photos to "a name that impressed you", and said at the end:
“Can you identify possible problems with these photos?”

After a while, Anderson Hood responded:
"Are you inviting me to play the game of 'Spot the Differences'?"

“I guess so.” Lumian responded nonchalantly.

He waited patiently until four or five minutes had passed before he received a message from Anderson Hood:
"If it were me, I would show someone a picture that has absolutely no problems and ask them to find the problem."

Does that mean everything is fine? Lumian muttered to himself.

Anderson Hood then sent another message:

"That blank spot on the painting is an eyesore. Let's add some paint to it."

Lumian nodded thoughtfully and asked:
“Can you control what other people draw?”

"There are many ways to control the objects in the painting. One is to become a symbol of the world in the painting. Two is to give them a more complete life. Three is to give them humanity. Four is to use the fact that they are essentially information and reorganize the corresponding information. Five is to grasp the fact that they have spirituality and turn them into your own puppets..." Anderson answered a bunch of questions, which was rare. Finally, he said, "After reading this, do you feel that every possibility you imagined cannot be ruled out?"

"You've gone into so much detail, aren't you just trying to see my yes answer?" Lumian showed no emotion.

In his opinion, finding out the remaining hidden dangers in the room is not that meaningful, because it has been confirmed that Luo Shan has been targeted by a certain force or an enemy. If the enemy is not dug out and killed, even if the hidden danger is eliminated today, there will be new hidden dangers tomorrow.

Unfortunately, the colorful parrot was under control and couldn't finish its words.

Seeing that Anderson Hood did not respond to him, Lumian stood up and looked at Franka.

Franca was standing by the window of Roxanne's house, looking out silently.

Lumian walked up to her and looked at the same place as her.

He saw the night snack stalls on the street in the distance, saw people still eating and drinking late at night, and saw that many rooms in the tall buildings inside the community still had lights on, embellishing the night.

Lumian stared quietly for a while, then turned his head to look at Franca.

Franka looked at it very intently, and seemed reluctant to look away for even a second.

After a while, she sighed in a low voice:
"This night is so beautiful..."

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