Chapter 5

After waiting for a while, the video was not taken down and instead showed a trend of becoming more and more popular.

Not only Yan Jun, but many other influential figures joined the fray, directly pushing it to the top of the view count chart, overshadowing some of the usual high-traffic content.

Soon, to gain traffic, some people began to live-stream their mutations.

They leaped onto walls over ten meters high, ran swiftly across rivers dozens of meters wide...

One person even claimed that by practicing a technique for ten seconds, he could turn two people in a room into three. However, the live stream was forcibly shut down within a minute, and the person was arrested.

It was impossible to tell what was real and what was fake.

"Do you think... Zhang Xianweng has mutated?"

The class monitor, Liu Lei, suddenly spoke, his eyes filled with envy.

That Zhang Zhen, based on various signs, was very likely no longer the same as them.

The topic immediately resonated with the entire class.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, who wouldn't want to have something extraordinary that others don't?

Of course, crashing into walls was out of the question.

It hurts.

"Monitor, if you were to mutate, what would you hope to be able to do?"

Someone asked curiously.

Liu Lei smiled, "I hope I can fly!"

"Why?"

Not only the other person but also Yang Yi was puzzled.

Liu Lei's gaze was resolute, "I'm pursuing the school beauty, Sun Xiaomeng. She said, 'Why don't you just fly?' So, I want to show her that I can!"

"???" Yang Yi.

...

...

"You can all go home now. If you encounter any problems, be sure to call the police!"

After the third evening self-study class, the school had no reason to hold everyone back. With the streets cleared and no significant danger, Li Jingyong said goodbye to everyone and gave detailed instructions.

Yang Yi didn't linger and quickly left the school.

The streetlights were bright, and the streets were quiet, as if everything had returned to order.

If it weren't for the injured police officers and the collapsed walls and trees, it would be hard to believe that mutants had really appeared.

The world... seemed to have truly changed.

His parents lived in the countryside and had crops to tend. To allow him to focus on his studies for the last three months, they had spent a lot of money to rent a small apartment opposite the school. It was a 36-square-meter apartment with a bathroom and a bedroom, not feeling cramped for one person.

Back in the room, he flipped through the news for a while.

Everywhere, people were talking about the mutations, and it seemed almost certain.

Having learned from his deskmate's experience, he didn't dare to sleep until he figured out if the mirror image would attack.

He went to the balcony and looked up at the sky.

The night was hazy, and the 1080 light points in his reflection were becoming clearer.

He memorized the exact positions of the light points and looked up information online.

They weren't acupuncture points, nor were they intersections of blood vessels, and they didn't fit into any medical theory.

Each one seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

After a long time of research, he got no results and had to give up in frustration.

It was already very late, and he glanced at the digital clock on the wall.

2:00 AM!

His lips twitched, and a sense of unease arose in his heart. He quickly looked up, and his pupils contracted sharply.

He saw that the mirror image, which had always been visible in the sky, had disappeared at some point, leaving only an empty city floating quietly.

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

His shadow had been visible just five seconds ago, but it had vanished after he checked the time.

Could it be like Zhang Zhen's mirror image, about to attack him and possess his body?

He turned his head quickly.

Nothing was there, just an empty space.

"Don't scare yourself..."

The mirror appeared, and he felt a bit superstitious. His deskmate had been attacked, but the probability of it happening to him was not that high, right?

He收回目光，正想抬头继续寻找，一晃之间，就见鞋柜前的镜子中，他的镜像正安静地站在那里，脸上的表情不知是惊恐还是害怕，诡异至极。

好像刚才一直都在那里，注视了不知多久。

手脚冰凉，杨毅情不自禁地向后退去。

影子一步步向前，似乎随时都会从里面走出来。

嘭！

脊背碰到阳台，已经没有退路。

“能杀你一千多次，再多一次，也没什么！”

深吸一口气，杨毅屏蔽心中的恐惧，眼中露出凶狠之意。

一千多次噩梦，能够坚持下来，没有崩溃，内心早已变得无比强大，梦中不知道自己是谁，还会慌张，此刻意识如此清醒，又怎么可能中招！

咬紧牙关，大步向镜子的方向走了过去。

不知是对方害怕恶人，还是其他原因，见他过来，镜像眼中出现了慌乱，着急地摆了摆手，开始向后退去。

越走越远……很快，消失不见。

很快，只剩下一面空空的镜面，映照出地板、鞋子、凳子……就是没有他的影子。

杨毅随手拿起一只鞋。

镜中的倒影凭空悬浮，随着手掌的移动而移动。

好像他变得透明了一般，镜内其他的东西都在，就是看不见自己。

“难道……我已经死了？”

“咯噔！”一下。

据说人死后，灵魂是看不到自己的。

可他也飘不起来啊！

用力捏了一下脸……好疼。

“是镜子古怪……”

确认自己还活着，伸手向眼前的玻璃伸了过去。

手掌没有触碰到任何东西，“呼！”的一下消失在面前，仿佛进入了另一个世界。

能进去？

这……

杨毅沉默。

是过去看看，还是考虑、考虑？

是福不是祸，是祸躲不过。

不敢面对，只知道害怕的话，三年前就死了！

没有纠结太久，杨毅再次伸手，发现镜面依旧像是不存在一般，这才一步跨了过去。

镜中的布局和自己的房间一模一样，只是左右相反，仿佛家里多了一个对称的房间。

36平变成了72平。

沿着镜中房间走了两步，突然想起什么，瞳孔一缩。

“不对……”

颤巍巍地将脑袋转过去，向穿过来的镜面看去，随即，一个熟悉的身影出现在视线中，安静地站在阳台上，看向天空，似乎带着疑惑和不解。

下一刻，身影转头。

四目相对。

杨毅浑身冰冷。

他……竟然成了镜中人！

貌似，又陷入了某种时间循环。

而墙上的电子钟，秒针刚刚来到两点整的位置，似乎有机械弹簧的声音响起。

咔！咔！咔！咔！

一点点地挪动。

（新书现在也可以投月票了，各位别忘了哈！现在第34名，冲到前三十，老涯加更！！）

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Note: The last part of the text is a note from the author to the readers, which is not part of the story. It has been translated as is.