Ring of Fate

Chapter 918: Mysticism Must Keep Pace with the Times
Mingyue Shopping Mall, inside the surveillance room.

Lumian brought Franka, Janna, Anthony and Ludwig to the mirror-like thing again, and looked at the two security guards and the large screen through the mirror.

Nothing had changed since they left, everything seemed normal.

Franka thought for two seconds and said:
"Has it not come yet, or has it already come before us?"

If the female corpse had checked the surveillance footage before, she would have most likely discovered Lumian and the others. After all, the characteristics of a "witch" are still very distinct, and a beautiful woman plus a handsome man are even more eye-catching. As long as the resurrected female corpse is willing to spend enough time checking it section by section, watching it frame by frame, and relying on the reminder of spiritual intuition, she should not miss the corresponding scenes.

As a result, Lumian and others would have to consider changing their identities, modifying their appearance, and changing their residence.

For already poor families, this is like adding insult to injury.

Franka could only pray to Mr. Fool, hoping that the female corpse would not come until midnight. After all, the other party was not like her and others. They had a certain time and corresponding place, and could check the surveillance purposefully. It only took a few minutes or even tens of seconds to lock on to the person they were looking for. She had to check all the surveillance videos of the entire mall for more than ten minutes before and after. If she was unlucky, it might take hours.

——The spiritual intuition of the "witches" was also suppressed to the level of Sequence 7. It was obviously impossible for the female corpse to use this to make a very accurate screening.

“It’s possible.” Lumian stared out of the mirror.

Being in a different space separated by a layer of mirror, he could not directly see whether there was a "mirror maze" in the monitoring room at this moment.

The resurrected female corpse currently looks very much like a demigod of the "witch" path, and it is very likely that she possesses the ability to counter divination.

Janna was also observing the situation in the monitoring room and asked in confusion:
"The resurrected female corpse also knows about surveillance and how to operate the surveillance system?"

She felt that the resurrected female corpse was a projection of some external force, and should be similar to herself and others, except for the way of entry. She and Lumian and others had to be reminded and explained by Franka before they knew what surveillance was, what its functions were, and how to avoid it. And except for Franka, none of them knew how to operate the surveillance system!

We can't do it, so why should you, a female corpse who has just been resurrected, do it?
Franka thought for a moment and replied:
"It's possible that the resurrected female corpse is also part of the dream. She is the 'witch' that one of Mr. Fool's incarnations once encountered. With the help of Mushu Hospital, Tianzun made this 'witch' go through the process of death and resurrection, turning her into a subordinate who completely obeys his orders, or a puppet."

As part of the dream, everyone, except those whose identities are set as children, fools, lunatics, and illiterates, is "born" aware of the concept and existence of surveillance.

"Even if it was part of a dream, she wouldn't naturally be able to master how to manipulate the surveillance system, unless she had worked in this industry before or had studied it in advance like you." Janna objected.

"That's right." Franca suddenly had an idea and took out her cell phone, intending to search on certain apps such as Weibo, Huhu, and Circles to see if there were similar questions recently. Maybe the resurrected female corpse was looking at her phone and urging netizens to answer how to operate a certain company's surveillance system with the tactic of "waiting online", while trying to retrieve the part of the video she wanted according to the netizens' prompts.

To Franka's disappointment, there was no signal in the mirror world and she couldn't access the Internet!

Lumian said:

"There is another possibility. The female corpse also has a guide, a guide like Franka."

"Uh..." Franka put the phone back into her trouser pocket.

She understood what Lumian was saying:
A member of the "April Fools' Day", "Loki" who is not dead yet!
Isn't it said that "Loki" might be reborn by an angel from the "Fortune Teller" path?

Well, whether it is "Loki" or the angel on the "Fortune Teller" path, they are all subordinates of Tianzun!
"When we checked the surveillance footage before, we didn't find anyone like 'Loki' around the resurrected female corpse." Franka recalled.

"Sequence 7 level 'Faceless Man' ability." Lumian had thought about this problem before, "And this is in a shopping mall, he can change his clothes from time to time."

Franka nodded slowly and continued to observe the monitoring room outside the camera, hoping to wait for the resurrection of the female corpse and the possible existence of "Loki".

After watching for a few seconds, she suddenly asked:
“Can a screen like this and a surveillance scene like this be considered a world in a mirror?”

“From the perspective of mysticism, I don’t think it counts. It’s not a reflection or reflection of the current scene,” Lumian answered subconsciously.

Janna and Anthony were a little confused by Franca's question.

"Mystical concepts must also keep pace with the times in order to keep up with the social scene of the new era." Franka muttered, "Although surveillance is not a reflection or reflection of the current scene, it is a reflection of scenes elsewhere. It has some functions and characteristics similar to a mirror, but the reflection and display are separated in different places."

Lumian didn't know how to refute it for a moment, so he could only express his opinion directly:
“I think it is closer to the world in the painting, and perhaps it should also be combined with the high-level information characteristics of the ‘secret reader’ approach.”

"That is the product of the hybridization of the mirror world, the painting world, and the information world!" Franka focused her main energy on observing the situation in the monitoring room. She was unwilling to think deeply about the problem that could not be answered accurately at the moment, so she made a quick guess.

Lumian half-closed his eyes, sensed it and said:

"Indeed, there is a little quality of the mirror world that allows one to travel back in time."

As soon as he finished speaking, Anthony, who had been silent, spoke in a deep voice:

"Do you think those two security guards outside are a little strange?
"Two or three minutes have passed, and they haven't moved at all, as if they had turned into statues..."

Statue? Franca's mind moved, she took out a mirror and carefully stretched out the current mirror surface.

She quickly adjusted the angle and, with the help of the reflection of light and the most basic function of the mirror, saw the profile of one of the security guards.

In the slightly dim makeup mirror that only reflects the light from the screen, that half of the face has no expression. Part of it is hidden in the dim environment, and part of it is slightly illuminated. The two are intertwined and change from time to time.

His eyes were always fixed on the surveillance screen, and there seemed to be a hint of cold gray in the depths of his pupils.

He seemed to be alive and spiritual, but that was just alive and spiritual.

"Petrification of some organs?" Franka whispered with a frown.

Lumian did not answer, but looked around:
“The resurrected female corpse has indeed been here, after Franca and I watched the surveillance footage and left.

"I'll go out and search to see if there are any clues left. You guys be prepared for any accidents."

Janena and others nodded without objection.

Lumian placed his hand on the mirror and walked out as if passing through a curtain of water.

He walked around to the front of the two security guards in a male form and found that they had all turned into warm statues, staring ahead expressionlessly, motionless. This seemed extremely eerie in the monitoring room where only the light from the screen was flickering.

Lumian shifted his gaze from the two security guards' gray eyes to the large screen where dozens or even hundreds of images were displayed simultaneously.

There was nothing unusual, but the human-computer interaction interface below was frozen on a certain operation.

And Lumian remembered that Franka had restored it to its original state before she left.

“Escape in a hurry?

"The female corpse noticed the unusual movement in the mirror world and urgently used the big screen to shuttle away?
"Will she circle back to see who sneaked into the monitoring room?"

As thoughts flashed through his mind, Lumian suddenly turned sideways and looked at the mirrored object from which he had emerged.

Almost at the same time, a pale but attractive hand stretched out from a dark place on the surveillance screen and extended out of the screen.

In the area behind the mirror, when Lumian was investigating the surveillance system, Franka suddenly heard Ludwig making a clicking sound.

What are you eating again? Franca instinctively turned back to look at the little boy.

She saw Ludwig opening his mouth, sucking in air, chewing and swallowing.

Uh...Franca actually felt a little guilty for a moment.

"How to eat air?" she asked.

Ludwig answered with satisfaction:

“It’s delicious, and there are a lot of spiritual things.”

There are a lot of spiritual things in the air? Franca was startled at first, and then she had a strong premonition of danger.

The occult pathogen of the "witch"?

"Mirror stand-in!" She shouted directly and actively activated her "mirror stand-in".

After hearing Ludwig's answer, Jana's spiritual intuition also received a danger signal.

Without Franca's reminder, she activated the "mirror double".

Anthony was a second slower than both of them.

At this moment, a figure quickly emerged at the edge of the spider-web-like illusory tunnel. She was wearing a white dress and had a loose bun. She had a bright face and a clean temperament, and she looked exactly like the resurrected female corpse.

The female corpse was holding a mirror in her hand, which reflected Franka's figure. The other hand was burning with quiet black flames, which quickly covered the mirror surface.

Silently, Franka's figure, which had just degenerated into a mirror, burst into evil black flames from the inside out, quickly lost its spirituality, fell to the ground, and broke into pieces.

Seeing that the assassination attempt had failed and there were four enemies, the resurrected female corpse took a step back and disappeared at the edge of the illusory and dark tunnel.

This made the seven "witch" black flames created by Janna and the "frenzy" used by Anthony all ineffective.

In the monitoring room, Lumian suddenly turned around, with a straight sword condensed out of ice in his hand.

He used the crystal straight sword to chop at the hand that stretched out from the surveillance screen.

The hand suddenly retracted, and Lumian's frost sword fell to the surface of the screen.

It became oddly blurred, and along with Lumian, it merged into the big screen and went inside.

(End of this chapter)