Chapter 365: Chapter 365 Lincheng Horror Story (Part 3)_1
Of course, that was a scream only Fu Qian could hear.
“This? Really?”
Fu Qian, who was shooting the breeze with the bald-headed boss, was also somewhat surprised.
He hadn’t expected this girl to be the first one to lose her nerve.
And yet she was trying to outsmart him?
However, the terror in that scream was unmistakable, and this girl was supposed to be one of the tougher ones in the group. What could have scared her like this?
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With this question in mind, Fu Qian quickly located Tan Ying’s orb of light.
After attempting a response, an image swiftly emerged.
In the dim light, it was apparent he was in some kind of sealed room.
And what was eerie was that, although he was inhabiting Tan Ying’s perspective, there was another Tan Ying in front of him, staring straight at him.
Uh!
In the next instant, Fu Qian realised she was looking at a mirror.
This was an ancient-style standing mirror with a dark red frame, nearly as tall as a person.
Under the weak light, the reflected scene inside was even more obscure, with shadows everywhere.
Mirrors are a common prop in horror scenes. Thankfully, the haunted house owner hadn’t stooped to smearing red paint all over the place.
From the reflected scene in the mirror, one could make out that it was a small classroom, old and dilapidated, clearly abandoned for many years.
It was rather well-designed, but at first glance, there didn’t seem to be anything particularly out of the ordinary.
So what exactly had scared Miss Tan to this extent?
Fu Qian quietly wondered to himself.
There was no doubt that Tan Ying was scared.
Though she hadn’t actually cried out, her heart rate was clearly elevated at the moment, her limbs stiff, and she was even biting her lips hard.
Fu Qian followed her gaze and noticed she seemed to be looking at a photograph through the mirror—it was obviously an old photo, even black and white in color, taped to the wall behind.
The contents seemed to be a graduation photo of a class, not very many people, about a dozen or so, all elementary school children with youthful faces.
More than half of the girls had the same short, ear-length haircuts.
Nothing seemed particularly unusual.
After a quick scan, Fu Qian still couldn’t pinpoint anything wrong.
“What’s wrong?”
At that moment, someone noticed Tan Ying’s odd behavior.
Although still unnerved herself, Pei Yanqing tugged at Tan Ying’s hand, asking with concern.
“…it’s nothing.”
Tan Ying shifted her gaze away from the mirror with some difficulty, forcing a strained smile.
“It’s just this photograph…”
“The one on the wall? There’s nothing special about it, right? Since when did you become so faint-hearted?” Qin Mingze asked, puzzled.
However, the usually vivacious Tan Ying didn’t immediately retort, but instead stared intently at the photograph on the wall.
“There’s no problem… how could there be?”
She shook her head unconsciously, as if her worldview had been shaken.
“What’s the situation? Don’t scare yourself.”
Tan Ying’s demeanor even had Young Master Qin feeling tense.
“Just now, in the reflection of the mirror…”
Tan Ying swallowed hard.
“I saw my own face among them.”
…
As these words came out, everyone collectively gasped.
“You must be seeing things, right? I didn’t notice anything.”
Regaining his composure, Qin Mingze instinctively countered.
“You stand here.”
Tan Ying stepped aside to let him stand in the position she had occupied.
“Alright.”
Qin Mingze shrugged, and under the dim light, he looked at the old photograph on the wall through the mirror.
The next moment, his body suddenly shuddered.
On that yellowed photograph, the student at the end of the back row had suddenly changed to his own face.
What’s more, those blood garnet-like eyes and the eerily pale face were nothing like that of a human.
“See?”
In the next moment, Tan Ying patted his shoulder.
…
The shocked Young Master Qin was at a loss for words for a moment.
“I saw it…”
But before he could speak, Pei Yanqing said blankly from the side,
“And it seems it’s not just me…”
“Yes, I think I saw a few people there,” added He Xian, her voice trembling.
Everyone here?
Tan Ying subconsciously looked again.
Indeed, in the dim light, she quickly found more than one familiar face.
This bizarre feeling was as if the six of them had once been classmates in this dilapidated school and had returned to the classroom years later.
“Maybe we should get out of here first.”
Young Master Qin said instinctively, even patting Jiang Yuanliang next to him.
“Don’t scare Xiao Qian’s guests.”
Ah!
Unexpectedly, with his pat, the latter jolted violently and cried out.
“Is it that exaggerated?”
Young Master Qin said with forced calm.
“No… not at all.”
Being stared at by several beauties, Jiang Yuanliang looked somewhat embarrassed.
“I was just thinking, the fact that all of us gathered here today and showed up in this place, isn’t it a bit too coincidental?”
…
As the saying goes, some things aren’t meant to be overthought, and with Jiang Yuanliang’s words, the other five felt a chilling fear.
Indeed, the observer sees clearly!
Although there were reasons, the coming together of several people here today was indeed somewhat… And then there’s this photograph.
It’s just an amusement park-like place, how can there be such strange occurrences?
“It’s just a coincidence, it doesn’t prove anything.”
Now even Young Master Qin’s face had turned pale.
“As for the issue with the photograph, there must be some kind of explanation.”
“Like what?”
“Like… there’s a hidden camera, which secretly took photos of us, and then the images were photoshopped.”
“It’s not impossible.”
No sooner had he finished speaking than Jiang Yuanliang couldn’t help but agree, as at that moment, he really needed an explanation.
“Provided that the mirror is actually a screen.”
Pei Yanqing was comparatively calm at this moment, directly placing her hand on the wall behind her.
Hm?
Looking at the photograph covered by her, Tan Ying immediately understood her implication.
Turning to look at the mirror, the reflection showed that the photograph was also covered.
“It is indeed a reflection, not some special screen.”
Pei Yanqing’s voice was now slightly trembling.
“Let’s just go.”
Young Master Qin instinctively reached for the back door.
From the observation, it should be the exit.
But at this moment, when he pulled hard, the door didn’t budge.
“It seems we’re trapped—”
For a moment, Young Master Qin felt his tongue stiffen.
“Trapped what?”
Just then, the door was pulled open from the outside.
This movement made the six people in the room’s hearts skip a beat.
But Tan Ying quickly realized whose voice it was and inexplicably let out a sigh of relief.
“Why have you come?”
“It seemed like I heard someone scream.”
Fu Qian said, approaching the six people and looking up into the mirror.
Everything looked normal.
He had overheard their conversation just a moment ago, but now, the photo reflected in the mirror appeared completely normal to him.
Could it be because his rank was too high?
Fu Qian shook his head.
The reason why this happened was actually quite simple—the standing mirror and Tan Ying’s bracelet were of the same kind, akin to Transcendent items.
And just now, all six people in the room were affected psychologically.
As for why he had no reaction, the reason might be simple too—being a Demigod, he was beyond the item’s range of capability, directly immune.
“Let’s go.”
It wasn’t just Tan Ying; after Fu Qian entered, the group almost unanimously breathed a sigh of relief and started calling out, ready to leave.
“Wait a minute!”
Unfortunately, in the next moment, Tan Ying’s face lost all color as she turned to Fu Qian, her hand pointing at the mirror trembling.
“You… you… why isn’t your face in there?”
Hehe!
Fu Qian gave a sinister laugh, looking at her meaningfully.
“What do you think?”