What do you mean I'm a ghost story?

Chapter 50 Mirror Demon Advancement
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Hearing Xia Qing's words, Ling Shuang looked puzzled.

It was just a brief bump; Viper was still wearing Nightmare-grade tactical armor with ceramic bulletproof plates.

Could this person really be dead?

"Dead."

Xia Qing sighed again and spoke.

He stopped and spared the viper's life, not because he believed Ling Shuang's earlier shout.

It was Ling Shuang's shout that suddenly made him realize.

With the viper dead, the mirror demon will most likely undergo some kind of evolution.

Otherwise, why would Viper and his gang have chosen today, tricked him into coming, and even kept Zhang Hai here?
There's only one possibility: today is even more special.

According to Mr. Zhang, the mirror demon only caused people to sleepwalk in the early morning.

It only started devouring people in the last two days, and today's rampage is the first time it's ever happened.

Viper and his group knew perfectly well that the Mirror Demon would come out at eleven o'clock.

Therefore, they most likely timed their arrival precisely to be today.

Moreover, after being 'fed' today, the mirror spirits will undergo some kind of change that they need.

By combining cause and effect, it is easy to deduce.

What changes can the Mirror Demon undergo after it has eaten its fill of people?
Of course, it will become even more terrifying.

The death of Viper's four teammates might be due to a lack of some key element, or it might be because they were not as effective as him or Zhang Hai, the villa owner and the little girl's father.

But if Viper, the leader of this expedition, dies, then things might change.

"Are you kidding? If he dies now, we're really doomed."

Sure enough, Ling Shuang's quick reaction indirectly confirmed Xia Qing's guess.

"There's no hope for them."

Xia Qing sighed.

Although Tai Chi Chuan is not known for its strength and power like Bajiquan, its soft power is better at penetrating the body.

He delivered a solid elbow strike to my heart.

Unless a viper already possesses a superhuman level of physical ability.

Otherwise, even if I were to go to the hospital and start surgery right now, I wouldn't survive.

That final strike was just a precaution.

For the first time, he was actually annoyed because the enemy was too weak.

After all, they hadn't yet been able to test out the supernatural methods they truly possessed.

He certainly went all out.

They didn't even have any hope of killing him with techniques like the Money Dart, they just used it to restrain him at the start and then pursued him with the Fangtian Halberd.

Who could have imagined that one move would have such an outcome?

"Heh heh heh, now, now you're only just realizing it, it's too late."

The viper, already in its final moments of lucidity, saw the expressions on the two men's faces and burst into a blood-curdling laugh: "Wait for me, I will kill you with my own hands."

The last word fell.

He died instantly.

"Really dead?"

Ling Shuang was dumbfounded.

No.

You were just bumped into.

Is this dead?

Play me?
at the same time.

The mirror demon clone, which had been relentlessly attacking the door, suddenly stopped.

The entire villa suddenly fell into an inexplicable silence.

It was as if the movement of air had stopped.

Everything came to a standstill.

"Oh no, the Mirror Demon has advanced!"

Ling Shuang's expression changed drastically.

The moment the words left his mouth, the world spun around, and the entire space seemed to twist and turn. But it only lasted for a moment before everything returned to calm.

The silence remained.

The expected attack did not occur.

Only a deathly silence, as if everything had frozen in time.

The sounds of wind, insects, and all the sounds that we might usually overlook but which are actually always there, all vanished at this moment.

All that remains are my own breathing and heartbeat, which become increasingly distinct in this deathly silence, and the spontaneous tinnitus in the stillness.

"Aren't you an official investigator? What do we do now?"

Xia Qing, while keeping a watchful eye on his surroundings with his halberd, glanced at Ling Shuang.

He knew absolutely nothing about mirror spirits, and was completely clueless about so-called ghost stories and nightmares.

Intelligence is more important now than rash actions.

"I...I'm not really an investigator yet."

Ling Shuang hesitated for a moment, then said, "The situation was urgent just now, and I had to quickly gain your trust, which is why I said that. Actually, I've only just started my training."

"What about the other investigators? How long will it take for backup?"

Xia Qing frowned.

He had been wondering why the officials hadn't shown up for so long.

It's understandable that their reaction was slower than the Viper's, since this Mirror Demon, including the previous Bewitching Nightmare, was likely deliberately raised by them.

But it's unusual that his previous attempts to get the neighbors to call the police failed to attract anyone's attention.

"No support."

Upon hearing this, Ling Shuang's expression instantly turned dejected. After a moment of silence, her eyes drooped: "Everyone... they've all been filled in."

What does "filled in everything" mean?

Xia Qing was taken aback.

“In Linxiang District, a super-large Nightmare Domain suddenly broke out more than ten days ago, covering nearly half of the district. Everyone, including those transferred from other places, was filled into it.”

Ling Shuang originally didn't intend to tell anyone, but considering her current situation, she decided not to hide it anymore.

"Linxiang District? Half a district? Such a large area, so many people, how come I didn't know about it?"

Xia Qing frowned even more deeply.

Linxiang District is located nearby.

Such a huge commotion has already caused an uproar across the entire internet, and even around the world.

After all, it was a supernatural event.

"According to Academician Mo's latest theory, ghost stories should actually be called nightmares, which are fears born from the collective unconscious dreams of humankind."

Ling Shuang explained in a somewhat hoarse voice: "The Nightmare Domain is an overlapping area between dreams and reality. It has a certain degree of cognitive interference. Those who are not supernatural travelers or dream travelers are basically unable to detect it or enter it. Even their related knowledge will be blocked."

Perhaps worried that Xia Qing wouldn't understand, he added, "Can you understand dreams? It's like you have a dream. You won't be aware of many absurd and illogical things in the dream, and you won't remember the dream when you wake up."

Xia Qing could actually understand.

After all, having experienced the bizarre methods of bewitching nightmares, where words and even texts could be altered and implanted into memories, completely distorting cognition.

This is far more terrifying than the cognitive interference that Ling Shuang mentioned.

Even the Viper clan refers to artifacts made from Nightmare Origin as Nightmare Artifacts. It's not surprising that the official authorities know about 'Nightmare' since this name has been passed down.

"The Nightmare Realm you're talking about, is it like what we are like now?"

Xia Qing looked around.

The anticipated attack never came.

But he could clearly sense that during the dizzying moment, the entire space had undergone some kind of change.

"No, it's far more terrifying than that. This should just be a mirror space created by the Mirror Demon's power, and it's far from being called the Nightmare Domain."

Ling Shuang shook her head and sighed, "But it shouldn't make much difference to us."

"Then, what should we do?"

Zhang Hai, who hadn't dared to interrupt their discussion, couldn't help but speak up in a panic when he heard that even Ling Shuang, an official, was so pessimistic.

"Tell me everything you know about this mirror spirit."

Xia Qing actually had many questions in her mind, but now was clearly not the time to answer them one by one.

Once he understood what was most important, he focused on the present moment.

The Nightmare Realm may be terrifying in the future, but that's something for later. What's more important now is to get through this immediate crisis.

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