I buried the gods in the restricted area.

"What's wrong? You look so down."

Seeing Jiang Rou walk back looking dejected, Jiang Mian couldn't help but ask.

"It's nothing, it's just that they all refuse to believe me..."

When Jiang Rou first ran over, she was indeed angry, but after walking away alone, she started to struggle with the decision. After all, this was a matter of life and death. Should she go back and explain things to everyone properly?

Jiang Mian paused for a moment, then chuckled and said, "If you don't believe me, you don't believe me. In the end, it's just a game. Everyone has their own choices, so what's there to care about?"

Jiang Rou hesitated for a moment, carefully observing his expression: "But if... I mean if, if this isn't just a game, and the loser pays a heavy price... how could I not care?"

Jiang Mian looked her over in surprise for a few seconds: "I didn't realize you were so confident in yourself."

"Huh?" Jiang Rou looked bewildered, not understanding what this had to do with confidence.

"If you weren't confident, you wouldn't speak with such an air of certainty."

Jiang Mian shook her head and chuckled, giving her a meaningful look. "How can you be so sure that you won't be the one who pays a heavy price in the end?"

Jiang Rou's face stiffened; these words struck a nerve—she truly didn't know the consequences of continuing to get involved with Mr. Jiang Mian. After a long pause, she said hesitantly, "I don't have much confidence in myself, but I believe in Mr. Jiang Mian..."

Jiang Mian chuckled: "You don't even believe that yourself, do you?"

"But Mr. Jiang Mian said that you've never lost a game in your life, so as long as I follow your choices, I'll definitely be able to pass the game smoothly... right?" Jiang Rou said cautiously.

"That's true."

Jiang Mian didn't mince words and readily admitted it. After thinking for a moment, she added, "But if you lose by following my lead, don't blame me."

As they were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps behind them. They turned around and saw the short-haired woman, Zhang Yang, and the photographer walking towards them.

Seeing that the three of them were all looking at the shattered mirror, Jiang Mian immediately said, "This mirror broke on its own, it has nothing to do with us."

This high-tech mirror must be expensive, and he didn't want to lose money for no reason.

Jiang Rou couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing here?"

"Now that both the black and green mirrors are shattered, it means we've lost all our intelligence sources. The only things we can rely on are the three rules you and that disgusting guy each proposed."

The short-haired woman said expressionlessly, "We choose to believe you—or rather, believe the Black Mirror."

"Who is this disgusting guy?" Jiang Mian turned her head and asked Jiang Rou in a low voice.

"It's that big bald guy," Jiang Rou replied in a low voice.

"Is that guy disgusting?"

"...A little."

"Although it may be a bit presumptuous, I still have to say that judging people by their appearance is wrong."

"But I didn't say he looked disgusting..."

"Oh……"

Seeing the two whispering to each other as if no one else was around, the short-haired woman frowned slightly: "Don't you two have anything to explain?"

Explanation?

Jiang Mian snapped out of her daze, her face earnest, and solemnly emphasized again, "We really didn't break the mirror."

Short-haired woman: "..."

She was about to say something more, but Zhang Yang spoke up first: "Wang Ge and I also choose to believe you, but I'd like to ask, what did you do before the mirror shattered?"

"This...?"

Jiang Mian didn't notice Jiang Rou giving him a meaningful look, and even if she had, she wouldn't have hidden it, casually replying, "I asked the black mirror three questions."

"What's the problem?" Zhang Yang immediately asked.

The short-haired woman gave Jiang Rou a deep look, wondering why the other woman hadn't mentioned this before.

However, she quickly understood.

Jiang Mian remained calm and said, "Didn't the mirror say 'I have all the information you want'? I was bored, so I wanted to test if it was really that powerful."

Bored?

The short-haired woman's eyes twitched slightly. She had noticed it long ago; this guy seemed to have some mental issues. He didn't seem to be here to survive in the restricted area; he was here to enjoy the scenery.

Jiang Mian, unaware of her thoughts, continued, "The first question, and also the simplest one, was whether it knew who I was. After all, it claims to have all the information; surely it couldn't be unable to answer such a question? But it remained silent."

"It's not its fault."

The three remained silent for a while before the photographer said in a muffled voice, "We also fell silent after hearing that."

"Right?" Jiang Mian sighed. "If you can't even answer a question like this, how dare you say you have all the information?"

In his view, this kind of thing is not technically difficult at all; all you need to do is have each guest register their name before entering the haunted house.

Jiang Rou, who was standing next to her, hesitated but ultimately didn't dare to say anything. The reason everyone was silent wasn't because of this.

"And the second question?" Zhang Yang continued.

"To be precise, it's not a problem, it's just a personal feeling of mine."

Jiang Mian sighed again and replied, "I asked the mirror what kind of depraved person would go to someone else's shop to steal a tombstone, and asked it to help analyze the psychology of such a person, but it still didn't answer."

After hesitating for a moment, he did not mention that the mirror had started to tremble slightly after hearing the question, lest these people insist that he had broken it.

...What kind of bullshit questions are these? What do they have to do with our current situation?

Could this guy have really come to the restricted area for sightseeing? Or perhaps he'd already prepared his tombstone and was waiting to die?

The short-haired woman's chest rose and fell slightly: "And the third question?"

"This is also a personal matter."

Jiang Mian replied, "I asked the mirror to analyze who was most likely to have stolen my tombstone, but it still didn't answer. Not long after that, the mirror shattered on its own."

After a long silence, Zhang Yang couldn't help but ask, "What's the point of asking these questions?"

"Didn't I already say that?"

Jiang Mian gave him a strange look and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "I'm just bored."

Seeing the increasingly strange expressions on the three people's faces, Jiang Rou quickly changed the subject: "You just said that you chose to believe the black mirror, so does that mean the others are more willing to believe the green mirror?"

"Not only that."

The short-haired woman finally came to her senses and said expressionlessly, "They also suspect that one of you has been replaced by the mirror image, so they don't plan to contact us again before leaving Mirror Lake."

Since the previous group of participants may have faced the situation where non-human beings infiltrated their team, leading to the annihilation of the entire group, no one can guarantee that this group will not face the same situation.

Therefore, although they didn't say it, everyone was always wary of each other.

And this, perhaps, is precisely the treacherous nature of Mirror Lake.

Thinking of this, she glanced at the muscular photographer without making a sound. If there was anyone among the people present who was most likely to be replaced by the mirror image, it could only be this photographer who had never appeared in the video.

After all, she had personally compared the other two repeatedly, and as for this clueless young man in front of her... to be honest, she didn't think that a mirror image could be so abstract.

Of course, no one can guarantee that the so-called non-human being is necessarily a mirror image of someone, but for now, this is the only judgment she can make.

Jiang Mian didn't pay attention to the short-haired woman's mention of being "replaced," assuming everyone suspected he and Jiang Rou were NPCs pre-arranged for the haunted house. Curious, he asked, "I was just about to ask, you guys kept talking about the green mirror, did the green mirror give any hints?"

"right!"

Jiang Rou then realized that she hadn't told the other party yet, so she quickly repeated the rules the bald man had mentioned. Then she said indignantly, "The three rules it mentioned are all completely opposite to what we got from the black mirror. It's obviously intentional."

"That's not necessarily true."

Jiang Mian pondered for a moment.

"After all, we only got a portion of the rules from the black mirror. What if what the green mirror says is also part of the rules?"

Jiang Rou was taken aback: "But those are three completely contradictory rules, they shouldn't be able to coexist..."

"No, it's possible."