Soul Trigger

Chapter 5 Folding
"Ascension Protocol, have you noticed any spatial fluctuations?"

"No link to the space sensor was detected, the function is in a failed state..."

After trying to return to the previous sacrifice hall but failing because the door could not be opened, Ji Li fell silent.

He returned to the hall behind the wooden door, closed the door behind him, and looked at the extremely familiar sacrificial hall in front of him, and found some clues.

Although most of the scenes were exactly the same as in the previous hall, even the large shock wave-shaped flesh and blood mixture that he used to smash the bearded old man was the same, all the corpses had disappeared.

The biggest difference was that there was an extra wooden door below the inverted cross, which was exactly the same as the wooden door he pushed open.

Feeling that things were becoming a little weird, Ji Li took the initiative to trigger the "trigger sensor" to confirm that he could equip the faceless bone at any time.

After confirming that there was no valuable information in the entire hall, he came to the yellow wooden door under the inverted cross and pushed it open.

A somewhat familiar gallery-style room appeared before my eyes. At first glance, it looked almost the same as before, but the layout was slightly different.

There was a small table on the side of the room, with a flashlight on it that was flashing a dazzling light. There was also a black telephone, which could be considered an antique in Ji Li's eyes, and a stack of yellowed papers was pressed under the machine.

He walked forward and pulled out a paper notebook. The current situation did not allow him to notice that the world was still using paper, an ancient way of recording information:

[No. 1 Kim Hwan-jin, 24, office worker, unnatural depression]

[No. 2 Lee Joong-yoon, 29, writer, unnatural suicidal tendencies]

[No. 3 Zhang Jinghua, 40, owner of Yixin Pet Shop, unnatural emotional split]

……

[No. 16 Nitta Shinichi, 20, international student, unnatural gynophobia]

[No. 17 Henry Smith, 38, tourist, unnatural stress trauma]

……

[No. 44 Ji Li, 16 years old, student, unnatural extreme violent behavior - sacrifice (marked in red pen)]

"My name..." Ji Li pondered.

This seems to be a list. Judging from what happened to his previous life in this place, this should be a kidnapping list. They are looking for a "sacrifice".

This 16-year-old kid with the same name as himself was most likely the original owner of this body that he occupied. However, apart from proving that he was not a black man in this world, he did not bring any effective information or improvement to the current situation.

He looked at the window in the corridor that was sealed with wooden boards. Instead of using the power of the Faceless Bone to break the window, he searched among the cabinets in the corridor and actually found a crowbar in the gap. He poked it into the window and took a lot of effort to pry open the wooden board.

As he expected, there was nothing outside the window, which was tightly sealed by a red brick wall.

Now Ji Li was almost certain that there was something very wrong with the space he was in. Even if he used the Faceless Bone to break the brick wall, there would be no possibility of escaping from here. Now he could only pick up the crowbar and move on.

But at this moment he saw blood oozing out from the cracks in the red wall in front of him, accompanied by a faint breathing sound.

His heart sank and he decisively turned around and ran to the next room.

Just as he opened the door, a shrill phone ring came from behind him, but this only accelerated Ji Li's escape from the room.

Just as he entered the next room and closed the door, the phone suddenly stopped ringing. After a few seconds of deathly silence, something slammed against the door behind him, accompanied by a piercing scream.

Bang!
The thing screamed and slammed the yellow wooden door frantically. The bolt was twisted under the great force and bounced up and down with the door. Ji Li pressed his body tightly against the wooden door.

I don’t know how long it was before the noise gradually stopped, the screams turned into a dull breathing sound, and then disappeared completely.

He exhaled, sat down on the ground to recover his strength, and at the same time raised his eyes to look around the room in front of him.

It is not quite appropriate to use the word "room" to describe the space in front of me, because what comes into view is a spacious and bright multi-person bathroom, with white tiles reflecting brightly.

A row of shower heads dripped with water, neatly arranged, blocking his view of the entire room. "...Obviously, this is some kind of spatial displacement. There must be a spatial device on that door, but it's not the kind of 'device' I understand..."

Ji Li sniffed and smelled a faint smell of blood and abundant water vapor. At the same time, he heard the sound of the air being squeezed and something spurting out sharply.

He instantly stood up and ran to the side of a terraced cubicle and hid inside. He waited until the voice had ended and he was sure it had completely disappeared before he poked his head out:

All he saw was scarlet blood printed on a wall covered with white tiles, forming two abstract symbols. It took him several seconds to recognize that they were two Chinese characters:
【Mirror】

Ji Li walked forward to confirm the bloody words on the wall. What surprised him was that it was not blood, but some kind of red solid paint that looked like it was splashed.

Not knowing what the red words meant, and the trigger sensor had not yet produced any significant fluctuations, Ji Li decided to take it as some kind of clue.

Then he found a doorless compartment in the corner, and a familiar wooden door inside the compartment. But what made him even more unable to look away were the washbasins sealed with wooden boards inside the compartment.

On several washbasins, the places where mirrors should have been were all blocked with dark red wooden boards, and a strong smell of blood seeped out from inside.

Ji Li's intuition told him that he should not get close to these mirrors.

But just as this thought popped into his mind, a strong light radiated from a gap in the wooden board. It was a washbasin in the center. The bright light flickered quickly, as if it would go out in the next moment.

Mirror...mirror?
The two abstract red words on the wall jumped into Ji Li's mind.

The trigger sensor suddenly felt a strong throbbing. After realizing that this was not a foreknowledge of danger, Ji Li picked up the crowbar and pried open all the wooden boards that blocked the dim light in two or three moves.

A mirror that was quite dirty but sparkling appeared in front of Ji Li.

The moment the mirror saw the light, a clear palm print suddenly appeared on the mirror surface, causing him to take a step back and was about to transform.

But soon the slap mark disappeared, and then some marks appeared on the mirror surface at a short and rapid frequency, as if they were very urgent, and then froze on the mirror surface with the last appearance, and clear palm lines emerged.

Looking at the pair of strange marks on the mirror, Ji Li seemed to have thought of something. He walked forward with his fists clenched, and pressed the bottom of his fists on the two marks, immediately confirming his guess in his mind -

There's someone in the mirror!
The frequency of the sudden mark that broke out just now was like a person repeatedly hammering the mirror with his fist. The shape of the mark roughly matched the bottom of his fist, but was slightly smaller.

Are there any survivors trapped in the mirror?

No, wait.

Ji Li glanced at the wooden door not far away that could send him into the strange room, and then looked at the pair of "hands in the mirror" in front of him that began to get excited and kept drawing various marks on the mirror. A new guess emerged in his mind -

Is it possible that he himself was trapped in the "mirror"?

The room that keeps changing through the wooden door, the space here is obviously abnormal. Considering the mysterious power of this world, this guess is very likely close to the correct answer.

At this moment, he noticed that a mist was floating on the mirror, and then a few large characters appeared one by one:

【Take away the mirror is required】

There was a slight throbbing in the trigger sensor, but no sense of danger.

The experience since waking up has made Ji Li more and more sure of the role of trigger sensing, especially the prediction of danger. So he picked up the crowbar, found the angle, and poked it into the gap behind the mirror, and then carefully removed the mirror.

At this moment, a line of mist appeared on the mirror surface that was close at hand, and new words were written by the person on the other side of the mirror -

[Run, run, run, run, run]

Bang!
With a loud bang, the wooden board of a wash basin to the side of Ji Li collapsed and flew out, spurting out thick black-red blood, followed by the second wash basin, the third...

The wooden boards on the washstands collapsed one after another in a very short period of time. Thick blood formed a dark red pool on the ground, and a dark woman's head slowly emerged from it.

(End of this chapter)