Having devoted myself to guiding souls, I was surrounded by them after my death.

That's your destiny, your destiny.

"Wearing this bracelet, stride forward."

"One day, you will find them all."

Chen Shi pursed his lips, though he was dissatisfied, he still put the bracelet back on and gently pulled it...

"Crench!"

A strong feeling of constriction came from my wrists, and in an instant all my consciousness rushed back into my mind.

"!"

Chen Shi suddenly came to his senses and realized that there was no bracelet on his wrist; instead, he had a hanging cord.

In front of him was an upside-down mirror.

Just as I expected...

He was still in the spirit cage, still surrounded by that malevolent spirit. What he had just experienced was still mental intrusion, just like when he was in the hospital. Something was driving his body to take self-protective action.

"Oh right, that teacher... the senior student and Luo Xiaoyu!"

Chen Shi looked up and caught a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror. He saw that his body had tilted to one side, and his nose was almost touching the mirror!

But in the mirror, his reflection still had his eyes closed.

But he clearly has his eyes open right now!

next second...

"Giggle..."

The shrill laughter was like a knife cutting through iron; the reflection in the mirror began to tilt again, and the head slammed directly into the mirror surface.

"Boom!"

The mirror visibly trembled.

Immediately afterwards, the "Chen Shi" in the mirror opened his eyes.

His eyes were bulging, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot.

Immediately, "he" laughed, his mouth stretching upwards to almost earlobes, a strange and terrifying laugh.

Chen Shi raised his hand, and his hands actually went straight through the lens!

However, the moment the fingertips touched the mirror and extended outwards, the flesh-colored skin began to disappear, replaced by a pair of pale, withered hands, with ten fingers spread out and reaching towards the head.

"It's an evil spirit!"

Chen Shi immediately recovered from the mental disturbance, kicked off the wall with one foot, and used the momentum to push off backward.

As he retreated, Chen Shi swiftly grabbed with both hands, but grasped only empty air, his fingertips brushing against his collar...

The school uniform instantly dissolved wherever it touched, the fabric fibers turning into shards of glass and scattering, leaving several scratch marks on the uniform.

"Thank goodness, if I had been a few seconds later to escape the mental attack, I probably would have died here."

Chen Shi took a breath and looked closely. The "self" in the mirror began to twist, its neck rotating, its limbs stretching, and it bared its teeth, trying to crawl out of the mirror.

He did not act rashly, remaining calm and remembering Jiang Liu's words:

"To eradicate the evil spirit, one must understand where it came from and where it should go... To enter the spirit cage, one must first find the rules..."

Where are the rules?

Seeing that "himself" was already pressed against the mirror and trying to squeeze out, Chen Shi looked around and his eyes lit up...

After the room was turned upside down, the incandescent light shone from below, casting light onto the top of the mirror and reflecting several lines of text.

[Jingzhong School Rules]

[School Rule 1: Everything in the college is the same as in reality]

[School Rule 2: If you see something unusual about yourself in the mirror, please ignore it until it leaves.]

[School Rule 3: Please do not damage the mirrors; keep the mirror surfaces intact]

[School Rule Four: Please boldly trust your classmates and those around you]

Four rules, just like the cage of the sorrowful spirits...

But his intuition told him that this evil spirit was even more dangerous.

"Ignore it? But I already stared at it, isn't that annoying?"

Helpless, Chen Shi looked back and saw that "himself" in the mirror had begun to emerge from the mirror.

The outline of "Chen Shi" kept blurring, like ink stains spreading after being wetted by water, with gray-black mist swirling around the edges.

But the most terrifying thing was that face.

After emerging from the mirror, "Chen Shi's" features seemed to lose their shape. His skin and flesh slowly slid down his bones, and his eye sockets, nose, and lip lines melted into a murky mass of color. His eyebrows and eyes were indistinguishable, leaving only a distorted and blurry pale white.

"Giggle..."

It was still laughing, a sharp and chilling laugh, its withered white hands outstretched, its arms stretching out like snakes, reaching towards this side...

"No, we can't wait any longer."

Chen Shi took out the rope and quickly threw it forward. He used the bandage on his right forearm to enhance the rope, activated both magical artifacts, and accurately looped the rope around the neck of the person in the mirror.

Since that's the case, let's force it back!

He tugged hard on the rope, but instead of pulling it outwards, he tightened the loop to suppress it.

"Eeeeeee—"

The person in the mirror let out a wail, and the already blurry figure began to flicker. The pale face looked like it had been pixelated, and the snake-like arms scratched rapidly around the room.

Chen Shi was inspired and quickly dodged around the room while tightening the ropes to continue suppressing him.

"This evil spirit is indeed extraordinary, and it is more difficult to suppress than before."

He slid in to dodge the grab, and at the same time, he used his elbow to tighten the rope little by little...

"babble--"

The piercing screams sounded like knives cutting into eardrums, but Chen Shi stubbornly refused to let go, instead pulling with all his might!

"Crench!"

The rope tightened, black smoke billowed from the neck of the person in the mirror, and with a shudder, the person slipped back into the mirror.

"gone?"

Chen Shi stepped forward and watched as the "self" in the mirror abandoned him and ran away.

Chapter 65 Luo Xiaoyu?

"They run fast, though."

Seeing that his reflection in the mirror had run away, he then put away the rope.

The situation just now was extremely close.

Chen Shi looked around and found himself in the restroom of the main building. However, like the classroom, the restroom was upside down, with the ceiling becoming the floor and the floor becoming the ceiling.

Turn on the tap, and the water flows upwards as well.

"Is the influence range of this evil spirit's cage really that large?"

As Chen Shi left the bathroom, he began to sort out the current situation.

Currently, the spirit cage of the evil spirit has been generated.

Those who were pulled into the spirit cage were, unsurprisingly, him, Su Yining, Luo Xiaoyu, the students, and Hu Lizhang with the watermelon-head haircut and glasses.

Judging from the events of the last few seconds before he lost consciousness, Hu Lizhang has been confirmed as the mastermind behind the scenes and is definitely a member of the Prosperous Flower Society.

The reason he was here as soon as he woke up was clearly because he was disturbed by the piano music and unconsciously left the classroom and came to the mirror.

"But if that's the case, where did Senior Sister and Luo Xiaoyu go? Are they still in the classroom?"

Chen Shi walked down the corridor and tentatively opened the emergency exit door—because everything was flipped upside down, he had to stand on tiptoe and reach out to touch the doorknob.

"Click".

The emergency exit door opened.

"Is there a way to other floors?"

This malevolent spirit's cage covers a much larger area than the previous mournful spirit.

"It's a tricky situation. No wonder Luo Xiaoyu was so eager for me to leave back then."

It's definitely not something an ordinary level-one ferryman can handle.

Fortunately, he was born in the Year of the Cat, which means he has more life.

Chen Shi did not rush to other floors, but instead prepared to go to the choir classroom first.

Now, he has three things to do.

First, find Su Yining and Luo Xiaoyu.

Second, analyze the spirit cage and eliminate the evil spirit.

Third, deal with that damn watermelon-headed teacher.

After that, Su Yining was tasked with finding more of her memories.

"However, there are many doubts now..."

As Chen Shi walked towards the classroom, he pondered:

Currently, four [rules] have appeared in this Ling Cage, and these [rules] need to be considered.

First of all... there is no mention of piano, music, or that dance piece.

But so far, that piano has caused him mental intrusion several times, and even this time he fell into his memories because he heard the sound of the piano.

Could it be that the piano has nothing to do with spirits, but is merely Hu Lizhang's spiritual instrument?

Very suspicious.

Secondly, [School Rule 1: Everything in the college is the same as in reality.]

This "rule" doesn't seem right at all! Ling Cage is like an open battle, and the "rule" is a survival guide, but now the environment has reversed, and the mirror image has appeared... It can't be called "the same" in either a physical or magical sense.

What does it mean?

I feel like this Ling Cage is really strange.

Chen Shi took a deep breath. The corridor was dark, and although it was summer, the air was cold and biting. With each step, the sound of his footsteps echoed in the corridor, as if he were stepping into an abyss.

Besides these, there was one more thing he cared about.

That's what I just remembered.

He had no recollection of that period; in fact, he had completely forgotten any memory related to the bracelet.

But this time the memory was clearer than the last. Just as Jiang Liu said, the bracelet was indeed obtained from Lingyi Temple.

but……

What exactly did Mom mean by those words?

Chen Shi was completely bewildered, and as if afraid of forgetting again, he repeated Shen Nian'an's words from back then:

"I will definitely find XX... That's your destiny, your destiny... One day, you will find them all."

"What are you looking for? Who are you looking for?"

Chen Shi had the expression of an old man looking at his phone:

"I don't remember my mom being a riddle teller."

As he was thinking, he unconsciously passed by a window.

Out of the corner of his eye, Chen Shi stopped abruptly and yanked out the rope.