An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 116 : Where Is This?

Volume 3: High School Arc - Mirror Game
Lu Haochen walked over, staring at the second shadow beneath his feet.
That second shadow was clearly shorter than a normal shadow, as if a part of it was missing for no reason.
And what was especially strange was that this shadow didn’t change color with the light—it remained a deep, opaque black.
“No problem…”
He took a deep breath and felt his nose was already clogged, even his voice sounded muffled.
Lu Haochen turned around and directly took off his top, handing it to me.
“Put this on. Even if it’s damp, it can still block some of the wind.”
“…Ah, thanks.”
There wasn’t much else to choose from at the moment, and I couldn’t exactly strip someone else for clothes, right?
I took the clothes Lu Haochen handed over.
At the same time, the others also gradually woke up.
“Where is this…”
“Why am I here?”
“Hanhan!!!”
“Why does my neck hurt a little?”
The other four survivors all opened their eyes, their expressions filled with confusion.
They were probably just exiting the game and still not used to reality.
The blond young man Yaocheng and the middle-aged man in a suit, Xiang Wei, were the first to assess the surroundings upon getting up.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yulong’s first glance after standing up was toward Xu Han.
Xu Han did the same—when she got up, she first looked at Jiang Yulong, and only then noticed her neck had been bandaged.
Jiang Yulong quickly went over to support Xu Han and then began observing the surroundings.
After Xu Han looked away, she saw the other four corpses on the ground.
Then her gaze immediately settled on me and Lu Haochen.
The blond young man Yaocheng stood up, staring seriously at the corpses on the ground.
He scanned the surroundings once, and finally… he and the middle-aged man both looked at me and Lu Haochen.
“Looks like we owe you two this time.”
The previously carefree Yaocheng no longer had that casual attitude.
Makes sense—anyone who could survive this game, even if they were carefree, wasn’t a fool.
“Liu Yunyan… you’re truly something else.”
After Xiang Wei got up, he patted the dust off himself and walked straight to me.
He looked me up and down, his eyes showing a hint of appreciation… and something else?
Why did it feel like possessiveness?
“Come with me.”
Xiang Wei looked at me calmly, his gaze a mix of admiration and possessiveness.
Bro, have you never dated a girl before?
With that look in your eyes, who the hell would follow you?
“No.”
A clean and crisp two-word reply.
Xiang Wei nodded and said nothing more, turning to walk toward the door.
The blond Yaocheng followed right after.
As he passed by me, he deliberately leaned close and whispered in my ear.
“Nice girl. I like you.”
Then he followed Xiang Wei out.
Hearing that, I could only think of four words in my head.
“You’ve got issues?”
What the hell was this?
I’ve never been confessed to my whole life, and now suddenly, after over thirty years of waiting for a girl, I get two dudes hitting on me?
“What the f***ing f***!!”
Xu Han and Jiang Yulong also got up at this point.
Even a fool could guess a few things from this situation.
Let alone people capable of surviving in this game—they were elite level.
“Yunyan, thank you. If it weren’t for you… I don’t know what would’ve happened.”
The first thing Xu Han did after coming over was thank me.
Then she noticed how soaked my clothes were and immediately took off her own jacket to hand it over.
“We can talk about everything later. First, wear mine.”
“This guy… Lu Haochen, right? You’re Yunyan’s classmate?”
“I see you’re soaked too.”
“Yulong, give him your jacket.”
Jiang Yulong didn’t hesitate.
In this situation, the two of them were clearly grateful to us.
Naturally, I didn’t hold back.
After all, I was about to catch a cold—what was there to be polite about?
I reached out to take the jacket.
Suddenly, the phone in my hand vibrated.
Instinctively, I looked down at the phone while reaching out to accept Xu Han’s jacket with the other hand.
Just as the screen lit up, I saw a notification message appear at the top.
【Team mission branch, solo mission triggered. This is a unique mission. Please proceed to...】
I hadn’t even finished reading that line when I suddenly heard the startled shouts of Xu Han, Jiang Yulong, and Lu Haochen by my ears.
“Yunyan!!!”
“Sister Liu!!”
“Liu Yunyan!!!”
The exclamations made me look up at the three of them in surprise.
However… at that very moment, I suddenly felt… the three people before me began to blur and twist into a strange state, pulling away into the distance.
But I didn’t feel myself moving, and it seemed like… they weren’t moving either?
“What’s…”
I didn’t even have time to finish saying “going on” before everything went black!
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Lu Haochen was just about to take the jacket handed over by Jiang Yulong.
Then he subconsciously turned to glance at the girl who had caught his attention.
But in that instant, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
It wasn’t some kind of sixth sense—it was… the shadow under his feet giving him a strange feeling.
A feeling like it was warning him, “Danger. Run.”
Lu Haochen immediately turned around, trying to grab the girl he was concerned about.
But… before his hand could even reach out, her figure suddenly began to twist.
And no matter how he stretched his hand out… he just couldn’t reach Liu Yunyan.
“Yunyan!!”
“Sister Liu!!”
“Liu Yunyan!!!”
Three shouts erupted almost simultaneously.
Not just him—Jiang Yulong and Xu Han also sensed something was wrong.
Xu Han immediately activated her Blood Eyes.
With a ‘pfft’, blood sprayed from both eyes.
Jiang Yulong directly opened the pouch at his waist.
Black strands of hair instantly wrapped around him.
The two of them both tried to reach out and grab Liu Yunyan.
But… they all missed.
However… Lu Haochen didn’t completely fail.
Even though his outstretched hand couldn’t touch the girl, the shadow under his feet did make contact with her shadow.
Still, it was too late.
Her figure suddenly twisted violently.
With a swoosh, Liu Yunyan’s body was instantly sucked into a dust-covered shard of mirror on the ground!
Yes… sucked in!
The three of them stood dumbfounded, staring at the ground before them.
At Lu Haochen’s jacket lying there.
But the girl… had completely vanished.
Lu Haochen’s brows furrowed tightly as he looked at the mirror shard on the ground.
He quickly stepped forward, picked it up, and looked into the mirror…
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I opened my eyes in a daze… and looked around…
It was the rotting, dilapidated, blood-reeking Factory No. 7.
“Lu Haochen? Jiang Yulong? Sister Xu Han?”
Where… am I?