Chapter 189: Extra - : The Marriage-Pressuring United Front (4)

Chapter 189: Extra Chapter: The Marriage-Pressuring United Front (4)

"Never trust the people in the Mirror World... Never trust them..."

There was also a mirror at the door of Ward 204, and the room number it reflected was still inverted. The patient inside was neurotically muttering the same warning, refusing to say anything else.

This repeated, reinforced psychological suggestion was like a curse, weighing down on their hearts layer by layer.

’Never trust the people in the Mirror World... What on earth does that mean?’ Yu Xian muttered to himself.

The hallway wasn’t long, and Ward 204 was at the very end.

Ahead was an L-shaped corner. Logically, around that corner would be Ward 205, the one mentioned in the scenario’s title.

Mirror’s 205 Ward.

’My cousin and Dr. Wen’s side of the "Mirror World" is probably the main event of this horror trip,’ Yu Xian thought.

’It’s already so terrifying on our end. I can’t imagine how scared the other two must be.’

The two of them rounded the corner. There, they found another huge, full-length dressing mirror.

The mirror was directly facing Ward 205 at the end of the hall.

Yu Xian instinctively glanced at the reflection of the door and the room number on it.

The next second, his pupils contracted violently. He stopped dead in his tracks as a chill shot up his spine and straight to the crown of his head.

In the mirror, everything was a symmetrical reflection—the door, the decorative paintings, the signs. Everything except...

...the room number hanging on the door.

At this moment, it was displayed with stark clarity—

"205".

Not "502," and not some jumbled mess.

It was a perfect, crystal-clear "205."

In a world where everything was symmetrical, mirrored, and flipped, it seemed so abrupt, so out of place.

Yu Xian’s mind went blank for a moment. He couldn’t process what was happening. How could the room number in the mirror and the room number in reality be...

...exactly the same?

He forced himself to calm down and think it through.

’In this particular font,’ he thought, ’a mirrored "2" becomes a "5," and a mirrored "5" becomes...’

’"2."’

’So, the three digits "205," when seen in a mirror...’

’...still look like "205."’

It wasn’t like 202 flipping to 505, nor did it become a garbled mess like 204.

was like a perfect, indistinguishable...

..."doppelganger."

It’s 205 in the real world, and it’s also 205 in the Mirror World.

The number itself formed a bizarre "palindrome" or "reproduction" between the mirror and reality.

"205... is still 205..." Wen Xiao had also noticed this detail. His grip on Yu Xian’s hand tightened, his voice trembling.

"Yu Xian... does this mean..."

He stared intently at the room number. ’If the other rooms all "deform" in the mirror, then this Ward 205, which is identical in the mirror and in reality...’

’...does it mean that inside, the boundary between the real world and the Mirror World has blurred?’

’Or even... connected?’

A chill ran down Yu Xian’s back as the NPCs’ words echoed in his ears again:

"Never trust the people in the Mirror World." "The people in the mirror are definitely, definitely fake."

’If Ward 205 is the passageway connecting the two worlds, then... does anyone who comes out of this door become a person from the Mirror World?’

’Are the ones locked behind this door those "impostors" from the Mirror World?’

Just then, a faint noise came from inside Ward 205, like a chair scraping against the floor.

Someone was inside!

Terrified, Wen Xiao took a step back, clutching Yu Xian’s arm and shaking his head frantically, signaling for him not to go in.

Yu Xian hesitated, but he knew this was the only way forward. The clues had to be inside.

He took a deep breath, squeezed Wen Xiao’s hand in return, and slowly reached for the doorknob with his other hand.

CREAK—

The door opened. It wasn’t pitch black as they had imagined; instead, it was lit by a soft glow.

Yu Xian and Wen Xiao stood at the entrance, frozen in place, their minds completely blank.

Inside Ward 205, there were no terrifying, perverted doctors, no nurses or patients ready to pounce.

Two people were standing there.

One was tall and upright, wearing a black jacket; the other had a slender figure and was dressed in a brown trench coat. ℴℴ𝗺

It was Yu Zhengze and Wen Yu!

They were standing in the middle of the room, looking at the two who had just pushed the door open, a hint of surprise on their faces.

’How... how are they here?’

’Didn’t they go to the "Mirror World" over there?’

’Why would they appear at the end of the hallway in the "real world" over here?’

The little girl’s desperate cries flashed through Yu Xian’s mind again:

"The people who come out of the Mirror World, no matter how much they look like the real person, no matter if their voice is the same, even if their memories are identical, don’t trust them! They are definitely, definitely fake! They’re definitely not the people you once knew!"

"Even your closest family and best friends—they’re all fake!"

He instinctively took half a step back, his muscles tensing as he stared fixedly at the two familiar yet strange people before him.

’Are the Yu Zhengze and Wen Yu in front of me really them? Or are they the "them" that walked out of the mirror?’

Before Yu Xian could think any further, he felt a sudden, hard shove from behind.

Wen Xiao also let out a scream. The two of them stumbled into the room, their tightly clasped hands forced apart, and the door behind them slammed shut with a loud BANG.

Yu Xian regained his footing and looked around.

This... wasn’t a hospital ward at all.

There were no hospital beds, no medical equipment, and none of the gloomy, terrifying atmosphere.