Horror Movie Set: This extra is too good at playing the tricks.

In front of him was Su Ke, who was scratching and squeezing his face across dimensions, his features distorted; behind him was Su Ke's skin, which was pressed tightly against his back and laughing hysterically.

Lu Dan felt as if his heart was being gripped by an icy hand.

Are you panicking? Of course I am.

A normal person would probably have wet their pants by now and be kneeling on the ground praying to the gods.

Lu Dan didn't move. As a horror designer who had worked his way up in bad movies, he was well aware of his current situation.

Fear is the best seasoning for ghosts; the more panicked you are, the more delicious their food will be.

"Calm down, Lu Dan!"

He mentally slapped himself, forcibly pulling his collapsing rationality back on track.

The situation is now clear: you're carrying a bomb, and there are only 25 minutes left until the deadline for clocking in; if you miss it, you're eliminated.

Lu Dan took a deep breath, and the cold wind mixed with the smell of blood made him more awake.

He slowly pulled out the patrol log, which was blackened by blood, afraid of disturbing the "lady" on his back who was admiring his beauty.

The pen tip touched the paper, his hand still trembling slightly, but he gritted his teeth and wrote down, stroke by stroke, the all-purpose phrase that had already infuriated him:

[Second-floor balcony, open-air psychological counseling station, glass railing, everything is normal.]

......

The world outside, the second-floor balcony.

Su Ke's screams were shrill, as if she were about to tear her throat apart. Her hands gripped the cracks in the glass, her fingernails already torn open, and blood covered the transparent barrier.

"Who am I? Who is that laughing person? Tear it off! Tear it off now!"

Lin Xiaoxiao was in a state of utter panic when she felt a burning heat emanating from the paper in her pocket. She pulled it out and saw a line of writing that made her pupils shrink slightly.

"Bao Ping, Zhang Kai, hold her down, don't let her smash her head!"

Lin Xiaoxiao shouted sharply, while quickly replying on the paper.

Bao Ping and Zhang Kai, who were standing nearby, had already rushed over, but the two grown men couldn't hold down the girl who had gone mad.

Su Ke possessed astonishing strength, like a wild beast out of control. Her face was pressed firmly against the glass, and no matter what she did, she couldn't be pulled away.

"Su Ke, calm down, that's not you!"

Zhang Kai roared with red eyes, desperately grabbing Su Ke's arm.

Li Mu, the blood-soaked figure who had been standing to the side, now appeared somewhat dazed. He stared intently at the glass, as if he saw something indescribable beneath the layer of blood, muttering to himself, "Skin? She's looking for her skin."

......

The Other World.

The handwriting on the diary was somewhat messy, clearly indicating that the writer was in a hurry:

[Consultation location changed: Second-floor balcony (basic check-in point).]

really.

Lu Dan closed the journal, a bitter smile playing on his lips.

This explains why there's only an open-air psychological counseling station on this damn balcony, but no attendance machine—because that machine has long been moved to another world.

To break the deadlock, the two worlds need to intersect, or rather, exchange.

Lu Dan stared at the distorted face reflected in the glass and made an extremely bold decision.

He slowly backed away, the weight on his back swaying slightly with the movement. His cold arms were still wrapped around his neck, and he could even feel the dry, dead skin rubbing against his skin.

He was going to take this thing back to Su Ke's dormitory.

Since Su Ke's skin was initially attached to 304, there must be some mechanism or thing there that could "remove" or "send" the skin there.

"Don't let me down, roommate."

Lu Dan felt the shadow throbbing against his left ankle and reluctantly stepped off the balcony.

The corridor remained deathly silent, like the low pressure before a storm, making it hard to breathe.

Lu Dan walked backwards, his gaze fixed only on the path he had already traversed.

The fear of the unknown behind them was magnified infinitely, and with each step back, they had to use their peripheral vision to check the observation windows on the dormitory doors on both sides.

It seemed as if pairs of eyes were following his movements from inside the dark window.

......

The world outside, the second-floor balcony.

Su Ke finally collapsed from exhaustion under the restraint of Bao Ping and Zhang Kai, but her eyes remained fixed on the glass, and she let out intermittent sobs.

"Mirror... mirror!"

"Mirror?"

These two words struck Zhang Kai like a bolt of lightning.

He suddenly remembered that in his panic while fleeing, he had carelessly tossed the small round mirror that could reflect strange phenomena, which he had found in dormitory 304, onto Su Ke's bed.

Since that mirror can reflect Su Ke's human skin from another world, could it be the key medium connecting the two worlds?

"That mirror!"

Zhang Kai jumped up, slapped his forehead, and exclaimed, "I left it in 304! It can reflect the other side of the world; that might be the key!"

Bao Ping was panting heavily from exhaustion when he heard this and almost fainted from anger: "My goodness, you can throw away something so important? Why don't you just throw yourself away?"

"I'll go get it!" Zhang Kai ignored Bao Ping's complaints. "You guys keep an eye on Su Ke, don't let her die. I'll be right back."

After saying that, the kid didn't wait for Lin Xiaoxiao to speak, and turned around and rushed into the corridor like a gust of wind.

"Zhang Kai, don't rush, come back first!"

Lin Xiaoxiao reached out to grab it, but only grasped a wisp of air.

"That hothead!"

She gritted her teeth, glanced at Su Ke and Li Mu beside her, whose condition was extremely unstable, and then at the damned time clock. She had no choice but to stay in this position and hold on.

"Master Bao, get your tools ready."

Lin Xiaoxiao stood there nervously, "I have a feeling this might be bringing real trouble."

......

Zhang Kai ran wildly down the corridor; the commotion from before seemed to have completely subsided. The dormitory doors on both sides of the corridor were tightly shut, and only his own rapid breathing and footsteps could be heard.

"You must stay! You must stay!"

Zhang Kai rushed to the door of room 304 and kicked it open. The room was exactly as he had left it, with a messy bed and an overturned chair.

That ordinary little round mirror lay quietly beside Su Ke's pillow, its surface reflecting the dim yellow light coming in from the corridor.

Overjoyed, Zhang Kai rushed over and grabbed the mirror.

The moment the finger touched the frame, the mirror surface suddenly rippled like water, and then a back view of someone approaching upside down was reflected in the mirror.

The figure was dressed in a security guard uniform torn to shreds, covered in blood. And on his upper body lay a human skin.

"M... Uncle?"

Zhang Kai is holding a mirror.

Lu Dan in the mirror continued to back away until he could see Zhang Kai's direction without turning around.

He slowly turned his eyes, his gaze passing through the mirror and looking directly at Zhang Kai, carrying a chilling warning.

"Catch!"

Lu Dan's lips moved silently.

The next second, Lu Dan in the mirror suddenly slammed backward, as if he were about to hit a non-existent wall with his back.

"Snap!"

The mirror in Zhang Kai's hand shattered instantly, creating a crack.

A tremendous force erupted from the mirror, and a pair of pale, withered arms stretched out from the crack and grabbed Zhang Kai by the neck.