Chapter 58: The Seventh Floor (1/2)

Mirrors formed the objects from reality in the same size as the actual object in reverse. If the 4 on the mirror was real, then the 4 in the real world should be reversed.

Bai Yan concentrated as he stared attentively at the number painted on the wall. However, the number on the actual wall was also not reversed, it was just an ordinary 4.

Could he have seen wrong?

Bai Yan turned his head again, trying to get a better look. Passing through the layers of ghosts surrounding him, the 4 in the mirror was also a regular one.

At this time, Bai Yan completely didn’t have any plans of getting off the elevator now.

Stepping off the elevator right now seemed to lead to entering the mirror’s realm.

The him in the mirror was surrounded by ghosts, eyeing him like prey. They were restricted from leaving by the mirror and could only intimidate him. If he were to go out now, all the ghosts would have been served a free meal.

Bai Yan stopped in his tracks as the elevator quickly closed its doors.

Bai Yan’s back was leaning on the elevator wall while his eyes stared fixedly on the mirror.

In a blink of an eye, a ghost inside the elevator suddenly disappeared.

Bai Yan’s heart grew cold as he stood by the elevator wall motionlessly.

A cold gust of wind blew on his body, grazing on his hair. Bai Yan’s body remained rigid, sensing that there was something that passed through his body.

He glanced at the mirror, and there was one less ghost there, suddenly not showing up anymore

Could it be that the ghost from the mirror came out? Or, the mirror won’t show them anymore?

Knowing that he couldn’t count on the mirror, Bai Yan looked somewhere else, focusing all of his energy on the elevator’s entrance.

The moment he calmed down, he heard a series of extremely light footsteps, walking from far away, as if there was really a ‘person’ who left the elevator and had gone to the dorm.

“Crack——”

The sound of a door opening came through as if that ‘person’ opened the door of the waiting area and went towards the building.

Bai Yan heaved a sigh of relief from knowing that the ghost that left the mirror didn’t kill him. He observed the empty waiting area, once again thinking over if he should leave here.

The male dormitory had a total of thirteen floors. Even though it looked a lot, he was almost through half of it.

Furthermore, the numbers of floors eight and eleven couldn’t be distinguished from their reversed forms. One small slip up, and he’d enter the world inside the mirror. In any case, he still wouldn’t have departed on these two floors.

On the thirteenth floor, the floor number wasn’t good. In addition to the elevator being on the top floor, in case something happened and he needed to escape, he could only do so downwards. The risks were too great. If he had the choice, he didn’t want to leave on that floor.

There was still time before the elevator doors closed, so Bai Yan decided to look in the mirror.

With one look, he truly found something wrong.

The elevator ‘people’ seemed to have moved closer to him!

Their images in the mirror were bigger. They looked like they were enlarged people inside a photo, each person magnifying a bit.

But looking more carefully, the people inside the mirror’s general appearance also somewhat changed.

Compared to before, their expressions changed to more ominous and more terrifying ones. Their mouths were slightly opened, showing densely packed sets of white teeth!

Their originally eerie expressions became weird. Bai Yan studied their faces closely for a while. The more he looked at them, the more it seemed that they were smiling.

At this moment, his heart had gotten a dangerous premonition.

As the elevator goes up the levels, these dreadful ghosts would come closer and closer.

In the end, they’ll indeed walk out of the mirror, and when the time comes for him wanting to leave the elevator, he regrettably wouldn’t be able to get away!

Bai Yan had once again walked towards the elevator’s entrance, standing in front of the door and thinking over whether he should depart on this floor.

The ‘person’ that got off seemed to have gone far away. If he left the elevator now, maybe he could run to the stairs and escape there.

There were two flights of stairs in the boy’s dorms. If he were unlucky and came across a ghost, he could go to the stairs and shake it off. There, he had a chance to flee.

However, he was afraid that the ‘person’ who had just left didn’t go far away. From his viewpoint in the elevator, he couldn’t see the waiting room’s door. If the ghost was blocking the door and was idly waiting for an opportunity, him leaving right now would just result in delivering goods.

“There’s still five more… Including the thirteenth floor, there’s still six chances. It’s better to not take the risk.”

Bai Yan thought it over once more, and ultimately, he decided to not get off on the fifth.

The ghost that left the elevator could still be hovering over the fifth floor. Walking out right now was still too high of a risk. Right now, he didn’t have any resurrection coins, so it wasn’t worth it to take risks.

Bai Yan made a decision and stood there by the elevator’s entrance, not moving an inch.

Around a minute later, the elevator doors began to close.

Towards this illogical scene, Bai Yan had already given up thinking rationally.

Why did this elevator in this strange world take five minutes to ascend to only a floor? Why did it start closing its doors after a minute? Since it was impossible to delve in deeper, even with his intelligence, he really couldn’t decipher how it worked.

The elevator door’s closing speed was also slower than the normal ones by a lot. But, as the doors closed to the width of a person, a horrifying thing happened——

A pitch-black shadow had suddenly appeared in the small space between the doors. He was completely black, only having a long dark vertical shadow.

Bai Yan couldn’t make out his facial features, but compared to the missing ghost in the mirror, this shadow’s silhouette was extremely similar to his.

With a ‘person’ at the door, it was reasonable to say that the doors should have opened on their own.

However, the modified elevator doors didn’t pay attention to this, nor did it consider the shadow to be a person. To put it briefly, the elevator doors maintained their closing speed, not slowing down or speeding up, still following their tempo.

“Brother, is it worth the trouble?”

Bai Yan looked at the deformed shadow that tried to squeeze in the elevator, his heart bubbling with joy from the mysterious entity’s misery.

Whether it was a person or a ghost, seeing other people suffer would always make him delighted.

His eyes followed the figure being squished just like an eraser, squeezing into a thumb-sized slit.

Seeing that the elevator doors were closed, the shadow finally withdrew from the small opening slowly as if it were scared of being sandwiched by the doors.

Despite not seeing the brother’s expression, Bai Yan could imagine that it was extremely unsightly.

But, no matter how unsightly it was, it didn’t have a chance anymore.