Pat held the mirror in his hand, "Look, the black side is particularly evil."
His figure was clearly reflected in the black mirror - it was a perspective close to a high-altitude bird's-eye view. In the mirror, he was standing with the mirror in his hand, but everyone around him disappeared without a trace. No matter how he adjusted the posture of holding the lens, the image on the mirror remained motionless.
Pat handed the mirror to Jiang Xiao, and the figure in the mirror changed to Jiang Xiao.
"Whoever holds it will have his or her shadow completely captured by the black mirror. But if no one holds it -" Jiang Xiao placed the broken lens on the ground, and the dark figure immediately filled the entire mirror.
Among them, An Yu identified a boy with skin like tree bark, and another human boy he met in the cafeteria.
Qin Zhilu thought: "If no one is holding it, the black mirror will capture the shadows of everyone in the outermost circle of the orphanage."
Kazama stared at those big cat-like eyes, "This doesn't look like an auspicious thing. It's just like writing a curse on the mirror."
"It's already written." An Yu pointed to the words on the mirror, "Noisy."
He paused, and suddenly realized that everyone else could only hear the slight sound of the mirror cracking, and only he knew how violent the noise and pain was.
Jiang Xiao bent down and picked up the mirror again, "I have awakened the healing ability. If you can give me breasts, please put it on me."
An Yu stretched out his hand, "Give it to me."
Jiang Xiao was stunned, "Huh? This thing is very dangerous."
An Yu explained: "Extreme noise may reduce your mental strength. Your mental stability is too poor."
If Jiang Xiao suddenly collapses, he will not only lose a wet nurse in the orphanage, but also lose the bakery's publicity resources after returning to the main city, which will be a huge loss.
An Yu reached for the mirror and looked up, only to see a pair of sparkling red eyes.
"..." He said horribly, "Well, I have my own considerations, please don't go too far..."
Jiang Xiao half-bowed to him and said firmly: "Thank you for your compassion. But please don't pity me at this critical moment. I am willing to dedicate my spirit and life to you."
"...Then it's settled." An Yu looked away stiffly.
Comparing the two sides of the broken lens, white mirror seems to be much safer than black mirror. But when An Yu looked into the white mirror, the feeling of being watched came again.
Unlike in front of the mirror in the bathroom, this time the feeling was stronger, so strong that he even suspected that he saw the outline of the face behind the mirror.
He had seen this outline in Chen Nian's memory - Bai Jing.
An Yu and Bai Jing watched, and they didn't know how long time had passed. A sense of familiar dislocation kept tugging on his nerves.
The noise of the cracked mirror sounded again in the depths of consciousness, this time it seemed a little gentler. An Yu closed his eyes, and countless clocks suddenly flashed before his eyes. The hands moved in disorder, and the ticking sounds were intertwined. The beating of his heart became clearer and clearer, so clear that it was terrifying. It seemed like the next second, those bright red muscles would explode after violent contraction——
The moment the clock stopped ringing, An Yu opened his eyes suddenly.
The sunshine is warm and gentle, shining on the concrete platform in front of the reading room.
"Brother Jing, I have to leave first. Sisi is waiting for me."
He turned his head looking for the voice and saw Chen Nian.
Chen Nian was wearing a thin cotton coat issued by the orphanage, holding a newspaper in his hand, trotting backwards and waving to him, "Assistant teacher, happy 100 days in office!"
The co-teacher is a bridge between the cold rules of the orphanage and the lively children. She is responsible for coordinating resources upwards, helping children solve trivial matters, and must also be aware of everyone's physical changes at any time and report abnormalities in a timely manner.
An Yu lowered his head and looked at the uniform of the assistant teacher on his body.
The clock hanging on the wall reflected his face - his appearance remained the same, but he took on Bai Jing's identity.
It is now December 25, 2138, the 100th day since Bai Jing's observation period expired and he took the initiative to stay as a co-teacher. It was also the day before the accident in the orphanage.
He was holding a compressed biscuit in his hand, with the word "Brother Jing" and a crooked smile embedded on the biscuit using steamed peas. It was the gift given to him by Chen Nian just now for his 100th day in office.
Bai Jing and Chen Nian actually don't have a deep connection. They just had a few meals together. But Chen Nian is a guy with an old-school sense of ritual - although he usually doesn't talk much, after Bai Jing was transferred to District D, he often received notes from others for him. Sometimes he wrote a few sentences casually, and sometimes he copied them. A few words from the newspaper, and sometimes just a crooked smile.
As time went by, Bai Jing came to regard the boy in Area A, who was several years younger than himself, as his biological brother and his first relative in the orphanage.
Chen Nian ran into the reading room. An Yu pinched the biscuit in his hand and suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of happiness - this feeling he had never experienced before, and it did not belong to him, but to Bai Jing.
It is the satisfaction of watching the person you want to protect live happily.
The thought that came to his mind at this moment was that even if he had to miss this year's military selection exam, as long as he could see Chen Nian and Sisi discharged from the hospital smoothly, he would be satisfied.
That night, bad luck struck.
A large number of children in the courtyard suddenly turned on their distortions. Bai Jing put on protective clothing and rushed into the sleeping nest in area A without finding anyone. Then he ran all the way to the reading room. He was relieved when he saw Chen Nian and Sisi lying on the table together and fast asleep. Take a breath.
But then, he felt something bad - Sisi's face was as pale as a ghost, while Chen Nian showed an almost eerie smile in his sleep. He was holding a candle, and the wind blowing in from the window blew the candle. The flames jumped wildly, but they could not be extinguished. There was not a drop of candle tears on the candle that burned for half the night, and it seemed that it had never shortened by half a minute.
"Chen Nian!" He yelled Chen Nian's name and tried to take the candle out of his hand, but before his hand wearing protective gloves touched the candle, the terminal began to alarm frantically.
"Warning! The abnormal gene entropy ahead is 8429, 1016, and continues to rise!"
Suddenly there was a group of footsteps outside, and another management teacher shouted: "Bai Jing! Are there any aberrations found here?"
In a flash of lightning, Bai Jing turned off the terminal's sound.
When the door was pushed open, he was holding the candle in Chen Nian's hand. From the angle of the door, it looked like he was observing the people on the table with the candle.
He turned his head and whispered: "These two are fine, they just fell asleep."
A colleague asked, "The terminal didn't call the police, right?"
"No." Bai Jing raised the terminal, "But the machine may not be accurate. I just observed it with my naked eyes for a long time and found no distortion."
"That's good, follow me to the activity room."
"Walk."
…
The distant noise returned to his ears bit by bit, and with his heart twitching, An Yu suddenly opened his eyes.
When his consciousness was withdrawn from the white mirror, a strange but familiar voice said sadly in his ear: "The moment the lie was spoken, my faith in humanity was doomed. But how can I easily abandon the person I am determined to protect?"
"An Yu!"
"An Yu!"
An Yu opened his eyes suddenly, Fengjian Tianyu and Jiang Xiao were shouting his name.
There was a crushing pain in my head, and my heart felt like it was being clenched tightly by a big hand. He subconsciously looked at the terminal - his health was 54%.
He suddenly woke up and asked, "How long have I been distracted?"
Qin Zhilu stood in front of him and stared at him, "Only a few seconds."
Fengjian Tianyu was surrounded by round circles of light spots. Those light spots were fluffy, like dandelion seeds flying in the wind, and they were pouring into An Yu's body in a steady stream.
On the terminal, the health value slowly rose from 54% to 56%.
"Just now, your health instantly jumped to the 50% warning line. Fortunately, Kazama reacted quickly." Jiang Xiao looked at him worriedly, "What's wrong with you? Have a headache?"
An Yu put his hand on his ear and said, "Noisy."
After waking up, the noise quickly weakened but did not disappear completely. It was like a very small decibel background sound that stayed in his mind forever.
The terminal showed that his mental power had not fluctuated, but he was very irritated by the noise at the moment. After seeing the health number, the irritability was mixed with uneasiness.
An Yu stared at the slowly rising health points, and suddenly felt a trace of impatience in his heart.
At that moment, the sound of the pointer moving erratically suddenly sounded in my mind. Under the gaze of everyone, the health value jumped directly from 56% to 80%. After a moment of pause, it resumed its previous speed.
Jiang Xiao was stunned and looked at Fengjian in disbelief, "How can your pure healing system control your abilities to this extent?"
Kazama was also stunned, "It's not me..."
Qin Zhilu suddenly said, "Time has accelerated."
His voice was calm and determined, and he stared at An Yu and said: "In an instant, my time is accelerated, and the life that was originally recovering is also accelerated. When you heard the sound of the mirror cracking in the activity room, the wound on the back of your hand also It healed for a while immediately, it seems that the noise can indeed stimulate you to awaken new abilities."
An Yu nodded tiredly.
Although the verification worked, he was getting annoyed to death.
He couldn't figure it out at all. He had obviously emerged from the memory sealed by the white mirror, but it was as if he accidentally left some auditory nerves in the mirror, leaving a faint sound in his head forever.
In order to divert his attention, he had to stare at the slowly rising health points on the screen.
82%, 84%, 86%, 88%——89%, 90%——
90%——
90%.
Fengjian Tianyu suddenly frowned, and An Yu finally realized something was wrong.
A few minutes later, Kazama stopped and said blankly to 90% on the terminal: "Why do I feel that... I have reached the top...?"
He hesitated and closed his eyes to feel it, and said incredulously: "Since this number reached 90%, my ability has not been consumed anymore."
The terminal only displayed 90% of the health, but there was no prompt as before about the reason for the remaining loss.
An Yu looked at Qin Zhilu blankly, "What does this mean? Has my life limit been forcibly lowered?"
"Everyone." Slade, who was not far away, suddenly said, "The air wall is broken."
He stretched out his hand towards the boundary of the original air wall, and without any hindrance, that hand crossed the previous boundary.
He looked at An Yu and said, "Just when Corner woke up from his trance, the wall of air between the first and second floors disappeared."
There was silence for a long time before Qin Zhilu came over and shook An Yu's shoulder through his gloves.
"It seems that this is one of the things that Chen Nian doesn't know." He said solemnly: "The condition for entering the next level is not only the death of the children cared for on the previous level, but also listening to the memory in the white guardian mirror. The price is that the listener has to leave a part of himself behind and seal it together in the mirror.”
The author has something to say:
【Snow Flake】White Wattle (1/4) First Step
Lie to humans in order to protect Chen Nian and Sisi.
That was my first step into the abyss.
That step would lead to more innocent deaths in the future.
But I didn't hesitate at that moment.
If you wake up and know it, you won't regret it.
In times of disaster, people do what they can.
Who can truly keep his hands free of sin?
