Chapter 56
Chapter 56
“The divination said I’d meet a benefactor today, and sure enough, the two of you showed up.”
As streamer No. 03 spoke, she looked toward Qiao Yu.
Her intuition told her the benefactor was the one in the back. A fortune-teller’s intuition was never wrong.
The moment she finished speaking, she sensed the heavy pressure coming from across from her and hurriedly explained, “Don’t misunderstand. I’m not with the Blind School. You know my master, Guan Xiangyang-Master Guan, right? He’s solved plenty of supernatural cases and is officially registered with the people upstairs.”
When Shang Yan heard the name Guan Xiangyang, his expression eased slightly.
He had heard that Master Guan had recently taken on a female disciple, and apparently it had taken considerable effort to accept her. The reason was that the girl seemed to be a top student whose dream was to enter a research institute, and she had no interest in cultivation at all.
But after she was pulled into the Live Stream Room, she had apprenticed herself to Master Guan for the sake of self-preservation.
Shang Yan thought through quite a lot on his end, but Qiao Yu only heard the words “divination.” He immediately stepped out from the side and stared at streamer No. 03 with shining eyes. “You know how to divine fortunes? Is it accurate?”
Streamer No. 03 froze for a second. “It’s… decent?”
“Then can you tell me when I’ll get rich?” As Qiao Yu spoke, he walked straight over and even held out his hand. “Do you read faces or palms? Or is character divination more accurate? But I don’t have a pen right now. You should have one, right? After all, in your line of work, you need to carry the tools of your trade with you…”
When it came to his financial future, Qiao Yu was extremely long-winded.
No. 03 blinked. “Actually, I’m better at predicting fortune, misfortune, and romantic fate.”
“I think my luck is pretty strong. As for romantic fate…” Qiao Yu’s expression changed faster than turning a page. “No need.”
No. 03 was eager to get on good terms with him, so she quickly said, “…How about I take a look at your romantic fate anyway? Judging by your features, there’s an eighty to ninety percent chance you’ll marry into a wealthy family.”
Hearing that, Qiao Yu glanced at the “wealthy family” beside him, hesitation appearing on his face. “Is this the only road left in my life that leads to sudden riches?”
Shang Yan: “…”
He really did love money with deep and abiding passion.
No. 03 was speechless for a long while before deciding that getting closer to them could wait.
She took a clipboard from behind her and said, “Let’s talk about the Instance clues first. As for getting rich, we can discuss that later. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Luo Yunmeng.”
As she spoke, she held out her hand to the two of them. Qiao Yu had just been about to say he was I’m Your Dad when Shang Yan clapped a hand over his mouth. “No need to make it so complicated. Just tell us what clues you’ve found.”
Luo Yunmeng didn’t mind. She handed the clipboard to them.
[Observation Record for Detention Room No. 03.
Name: No. 03.
Gender: Female.
Reason for enrollment: Severe tardiness and truancy.
Reason for detention: Severe tardiness and truancy.
Detention duration: 24 hours.
Initial stage: Pounded on the door and screamed wildly-After 3 hours: Emotions stabilized-After 6 hours: Complained of thirst and hunger-After 9 hours: Pounded on the door and screamed again-After 12 hours: Asleep (sedative administered)-After 15 hours: Asleep-After 18 hours: Awake, no longer has the strength to cry or make a fuss-After 21 hours: Silent-24 hours: ]
Why was there nothing after the twenty-four-hour mark?
Qiao Yu frowned and glanced at Shang Yan beside him, wanting to ask if he had any ideas. But in the next second, his expression paused slightly.
From the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught sight of Luo Yunmeng in the mirror behind him. Something seemed off about her. Leaving the two of them behind, he walked step by step toward the mirror, his fingers slowly sliding across the cold surface. Then he touched his chin and abruptly said, “You learned it wrong. She has her left hand on her hip. You copied it with your right hand.”
“What? Who are you talking to?” Luo Yunmeng turned her head.
The person in the mirror turned her head too, then quickly switched hands.
Qiao Yu ignored Luo Yunmeng and burst out laughing. “Are you stupid? You actually believed that?
“A mirror image is a kind of diffuse reflection of light and has the characteristic of reversing left and right. She’s standing with her back to you, so according to the principles of mirror imaging, it’s correct for your right hand to be on your hip in the mirror.”
The ghost in the mirror: “…”
“Then how did you figure it out?” The ghost in the mirror simply stopped pretending. Wearing Luo Yunmeng’s face, it turned around and tilted its head in confusion.
“I saw you stretching in the mirror just now.”
The ghost in the mirror said, “Do you have eyes in the back of your head??”
This ghost didn’t seem especially bright…
Speechless, Qiao Yu pointed behind him. “Don’t forget, there’s a mirror opposite you too. The second I looked up, I saw you.”
The ghost in the mirror: “…”
Luo Yunmeng frowned at the face in the mirror that looked exactly like hers, then hurled the Five Emperor Coins in her hand at it.
Unexpectedly, the copper coins struck the mirror with a crisp clang and fell to the floor. The ghost inside was completely unharmed. The mercury-backed mirror was like a barrier protecting her.
The “Luo Yunmeng” in the mirror glanced at the Five Emperor Coins on the floor, then suddenly lowered her head and burst into laughter, her smile dripping with malice.
The next second, she lunged toward the mirror and reached out toward Luo Yunmeng. “It’s no use, no use… Once the time comes, you’ll let me replace you like a good little girl…”
Then, with Luo Yunmeng at the center, the figures in each mirror began changing their movements one after another. The ghost was completely at home inside the mirrors, gradually piling pressure onto Luo Yunmeng.
“I’ll become more and more like you, until I replace you completely…”
Inside the sealed room, a gust of wind blew from nowhere, draining the color from Luo Yunmeng’s face.
Furious, she untied the red cord from her wrist. Then a bizarre scene unfolded-the red cord extended without end in an instant, transforming into a whip.
She lashed it hard at the mirror.
Crack-
Irregular fractures spread across the mirror.
The result was that every tiny shard reflected a “Luo Yunmeng.”
One blurry figure after another tirelessly followed Luo Yunmeng’s movements, eerie and unfathomable.
The ghost in the mirror was delighted now. “Guess where I am?”
With so many reflections, the Mirror Ghost practically hopped to a different shard with every word. The more irritable Luo Yunmeng became, the more she wanted to destroy things; and the more she destroyed, the stronger the Mirror Ghost’s power grew.
As time slipped away bit by bit, the “Luo Yunmeng” in the mirror gradually began to synchronize with Luo Yunmeng herself, from her gaze to the subtle expressions on her face.
This kind of slow, grinding torment was something Luo Yunmeng had never experienced before.
She had taken on a master late to begin with and had learned only so much. Now, because of her anger, her mind had gone completely blank, and she couldn’t think of any way to deal with this Ghost.
She remembered that the reason she had been late that morning was because she had done a divination for herself. In the past, due to her lack of experience, her divination results had varied.
Only this morning, she had divined three times. The first result was ill fortune, the second was still ill fortune, and the third remained ill fortune.
Getting the same hexagram three times in a row had thrown her into a panic and cost her quite a bit of time.
By the time she reached the teaching building, the hexagram had started to come true.
For example… because there was a chance she might be late, she had inevitably been a little frantic. She never expected to accidentally run straight into the door, allowing the classmate one step behind her to get ahead of her. After that, Head Teacher Liu caught her right at the classroom entrance, leaving her no room to deny anything.
Then she was locked in detention.
She also knew the Detention Room wasn’t safe. Something in there was definitely waiting for her, so the moment she arrived, she sat on the floor and began divining.
Fortunately, hard work paid off. Just now, her hexagram had suddenly changed-good fortune hidden within ill fortune, indicating that a benefactor would appear.
Very soon, the Detention Room welcomed the two streamers, No. 18 and No. 54.
That was why she had looked at Qiao Yu so eagerly.
“Guess. Where. I. Am?”
The female ghost in the mirror was still trying to create a terrifying atmosphere, attempting to provoke Luo Yunmeng into anger once more.
Luo Yunmeng took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, then instinctively looked toward Qiao Yu.
But for some reason, Qiao Yu seemed to have a screw loose. He suddenly walked toward the door and raised his hand to turn off the light in the Detention Room.
Then he deliberately drew out his voice and asked in a sinister tone, “Guess. Where. Luo. Yunmeng. Is?”
The Mirror Ghost’s vision went black. “…”
That was too much!