r18novel Chapter 73 Threshold and Bronze Mirror
Chapter 73 Threshold and Bronze Mirror
stumble?
Are we expecting everyone to fall in?
Sun Rui touched his chin, feeling that this shouldn't be the rule.
"What position did you use when you went in?" Sun Rui asked.
"I fell headfirst, then got up."
After listening to Lin Zhensheng's words, Sun Rui seemed to understand something and decided to simulate it using the ghost haze.
However, after the supernatural attack just now, his ghostly aura cannot take shape for the time being.
After waiting for about a minute, the uncontrollable feeling of the ghost haze gradually disappeared.
"If Lin Zhensheng had stepped in directly just now, he would probably be dead," Sun Rui thought to himself.
That kind of supernatural attack could actually disable a vengeful ghost's abilities for a full minute.
As the ghostly haze spread in, a person who looked similar to Lin Zhen appeared in the mist.
Sun Rui didn't let him trip over the threshold directly, but instead bent down and reached in first, thus avoiding triggering the killing pattern.
Then his hand touched the floor inside the room, and nothing happened.
At this moment, Sun Rui controlled the body to climb inside, and the supernatural attack that had occurred before did not happen.
The group waited quietly for Sun Rui to test them, knowing that the grayish-white mist was Sun Rui's supernatural power.
The grayish-white mist dissipated.
"I understand now. You can't just step over the threshold here; you have to touch the ground inside with your body first," Sun Rui suddenly realized.
"Are there really such rules? If it weren't for you, I might be dead by now," Lin Zhensheng said with emotion.
"Let's get started, I'll go first."
After Sun Rui finished speaking, he used the method he had just simulated to enter the main room.
The other three followed suit and entered as well.
Although it looked a bit disheveled, it was insignificant when dealing with paranormal events.
Sun Rui looked around at the room's layout.
In the very center of the room, against the wall, there is a long table with memorial tablets and incense burners on it.
However, these memorial tablets are all blank.
In front of the long table was an eight-immortal table, on which were placed some things that looked like offerings.
Meanwhile, on either side of the octagonal table, there are two black armchairs.
The armrests of the chair were shiny black, as if people used to lie on them and rub them with their hands.
At this moment, Sun Rui noticed something was wrong. Something seemed to be missing from the arrangement here.
Above the table was a black square mark.
The side length of the square is approximately one meter.
It looks like something used to be hanging there, and then it was taken away.
"Something's strange here. Logically, when we enter the main house of a courtyard house, we should first arrive at the main hall, where we should see a table, two chairs, and a painting. But now the painting is missing," Lin Zhensheng said, puzzled.
Everyone immediately became extremely alert.
Anything here could be a ghost, so the missing painting could very well mean that a ghost has broken free from its suppression.
At this moment, Liu Qi, who had been silent for a long time, spoke up.
"I feel somewhat familiar with this place, as if I've been here before, but also as if I haven't..." Liu Qi said.
"What do you mean by saying you've been here, yet it seems you haven't?" Lin Zhensheng asked.
"I don't know either. This isn't the room where I woke up, but I have a vague feeling that I've been here before, and it seems like I'm missing a part of my memory," Liu Qi said.
"Let's not talk about things we're unsure about; it could mislead us," Sun Rui said. "Lin Zhensheng, take me to see the information Sun Yan left behind."
Lin Zhensheng nodded upon hearing this and went to the side room.
The so-called secondary room, or bedroom, was separated from the main room by a flower-covered screen.
This arrangement is quite interesting because it's not a particularly private partition; instead, it has a sense of openness.
This means that the homeowner seems to not want to face the main room directly, but also dares not completely block it off.
The four entered the bedroom, where the decor was even darker, making everyone feel as if a heavy atmosphere was pressing down on them.
"The information I found is on that mirror. There are some messages left on it that I can't understand, but I can sense that it is Sun Yan's supernatural power," Lin Zhensheng said, pointing to a table.
Sun Rui looked in the direction he pointed, and it appeared to be a woman's dressing table.
There is an antique bronze mirror on it.
A red cloth lay on the ground in front of the dressing table.
At this moment, blood was still faintly seeping out of the bronze mirror, and the information left behind was no longer visible.
"How could this be? The mirror moved," Lin Zhensheng said. "The mirror I saw before wasn't facing the bed."
Sun Rui squinted. He had heard many folk tales about the supernatural, one of which was about a mirror that could not see the bed.
However, there is some scientific principle behind this thing. If the mirror reflects light at night, it will scare the people sleeping in bed.
Judging from the current situation, it doesn't seem to be that simple.
The movement of this mirror likely signifies that some taboo in the bedroom has been violated.
"Did you remove that red cloth?" Sun Rui asked.
Lin Zhensheng shook his head; he didn't touch any of the furnishings here.
"Either Sun Yan came here, he uncovered it, and then triggered some kind of taboo, and disappeared... If that's the case, everything makes sense," Sun Rui analyzed.
"You mean we didn't get separated, but just ended up in different parts of the courtyard, and he was attacked by some unknown supernatural force while exploring?" Lin Zhensheng said.
"That's very likely. Your previous guess was very misleading." Sun Rui glanced at him.
This isn't about blaming anyone, since everyone has their own perspective on paranormal events.
"But I got close to that bronze mirror and nothing terrifying happened. I even got out safely," Lin Zhensheng said.
"You didn't touch anything in this room before, which might be the key to your survival," Sun Rui analyzed.
Sun Yan has extensive experience in dealing with paranormal events, so logically he shouldn't tamper with the things here.
But he ultimately chose to unveil the red cloth.
This proves that he had actually encountered some kind of insurmountable danger at that time.
At the last minute, they had no choice but to choose another supernatural item to deal with the danger.
This approach is similar to creating a conflict between one paranormal event and another, which will most likely resolve one of them in the end.
If Sun Yan survives under these circumstances, it means his operation was successful; if he dies, it means his operation failed.
Sun Rui easily deduced Sun Yan's line of thought, since most of Sun Yan's memories of paranormal events were his own.
"The rescue operation is temporarily put on hold... Cover the mirror with the cloth again, then go find the room where Liu Qi woke up," Sun Rui said decisively.
It's extremely dangerous for Sun Yan to test an unfamiliar supernatural object, especially in such a supernatural place.
The red cloth was also placed over the bronze mirror to prevent it from going out of control and affecting the outside world.
He stepped forward, picked up the red cloth, and then covered the bronze mirror with it.
The red cloth was just ordinary red cloth, but the moment it was put on, he could feel the eerie aura of the bronze mirror calm down.
It seems that this red cloth is the key to suppressing this bronze mirror.
"Sun Rui, look at the bed!" Liu Qi said.
The moment Sun Rui covered the bed with the red cloth, a pale person gradually appeared on the bed.