The first step was to investigate the most mysterious mirror!
The mirror in the living room had its red curtain pulled away, aligning perfectly with the yard.
Wang Hao approached cautiously, took a deep breath, and saw his own reflection.
Nothing out of the ordinary appeared, he still looked like an ordinary child in the mirror, his complexion not so good, possibly due to not having eaten all day, his body slightly trembling.
"If the mirror is a Demon Mirror, it ans I am indeed a normal human being. But why did grandma instruct not to look in the mirror?"
"Why did the mirror make the old neighbor look so terrified...?"
However, in that instant!
With a "creak" — Wang Hao listened in horror as the chair behind him moved slightly.
He quickly turned around and found no one on the chair, but the chair had indeed moved inexplicably.
Looking at the mirror again...
Through the mirror, he could see an old woman sitting in the chair, staring expressionlessly at his back.
"Grandma?!"
The sudden scene made Wang Hao shiver.
He kept reassuring himself it was just "the fourth calamity."
Even if grandma was impressive, she was just a plaything of "the fourth calamity."
"If this grandma is real, it ans she never left the house at the beginning but ran into the mirror. Only the mirror could reveal her. Why?"
"If this grandma is fake... well, it ans a fake grandma has appeared. Real grandma, let us be wary of the fake grandma."
"What does the fake grandma want to do?"
Now, a new force had erged: the illusory grandma, giving Wang Hao a bizarre thrill of being beyond fear due to the already chaotic situation: since everything was already so ssy, why not make it even ssier.
His mind was now a ss, the clues were just too plentiful; it was completely unclear which side was the just one, which was evil, or if those villains were just engaging in a dog-eat-dog world, thereby maintaining a terrifying balance of horror?
The grandma in the mirror did not attack him, just sat there foolishly staring at Wang Hao’s back.
After a while, the grandma got up from the seat and walked towards the bedroom.
"So, these past few days, I’ve been sleeping with this illusory grandma..."
Following that, the content in the mirror changed unexpectedly.
A little boy appeared!
The little boy sat expressionlessly in the seat, fiddling with a Luban lock.
"Is this... the previous child ntioned by the neighbor?" Wang Hao was astonished by this discovery.
The Luban lock seed to be the previous child’s most beloved toy; he kept repeating the cycle of assembling it and then taking it apart again and again.
Suddenly, Wang Hao had a thought and left the mirror, heading towards the bedroom.
At this ti, his vision had already been severely distorted; the forrly old bedroom seed to have decayed by decades in a mont, with yellow-brown mold covering the bed and bedside table, unimaginable that he had actually slept there for five days.
And the red fog outside had already entered the bedroom, blocking most of the view.
Once again, noises ca from the living room...
Compared to this unknown sound, the old neighbor’s breaking in seed almost endearing; at least the old neighbor was understandable. The unknown phenonon in the living room, however, was completely irrational.
Wang Hao could not figure out what was happening. He recalled the movent in the mirror and quickly disassembled the Luban Lock!
Sure enough, in its core was a small groove containing a tiny piece of paper with so strange characters on it.
[You have found an important clue—Missing Child’s Diary.]
The Ga popped up a notification, and Wang Hao was greatly encouraged, feeling a bit of good news amidst the extre repression.
[(Unknown date)... The pastries are really tasty, but grandma won’t let eat too many. Today, while grandma was out at the market, I ate two pastries in a row, so satisfying, I ate too much!! I noticed that the fog in the sky had cleared, revealing the long-missed sunny day. I climbed the big peach tree and looked over the entire village.]
[I discovered at the very back of the village... (unrecognizable strange characters)]
[I saw so unusual and bizarre people living in the houses, so were even waving at , wanting to co out... Strange, how did I end up here? Who am I? I can’t rember.]
[(The subsequent content is indistinguishable.)]
[(Unknown date)... A big black bear ca to the door, it seed a bit hungry, constantly digging at the door trying to get in.]
[I was afraid it would break in, so I threw a corn pancake from the fence.]
[The big black bear actually ate the pancake (these words were written very large) It was so satisfied!!!]
[But after eating the pancake, it left, what a pity. I wanted it to stay and play with . Huh, why do I rember the term "zoo"?]
Next entry in the diary.
[...now it’s the fourth day, but I’ve already finished all the pastries, what should I do tomorrow? Am I going to starve to death?]
Next entry in the diary.
[I’m starving... I don’t know how long I’ve been unconscious...]
[Is it the fifth day or sixth day since grandma left? The village fog has turned red. I’m so hungry, dizzy and blurry... I hear the frequent and unusual movent of the tables and chairs in the living room. Damn mice!]
Next entry in the diary.
[Mom ca back! Yay, she brought lots of tasty food and said she will take to the city! Hee-hee-hee! (The subsequent text is illegible)]
Reading this diary made Wang Hao’s scalp tingle and his breath slightly irregular.
Adding to that, his controlled character was currently in the [Hunger] state, casting a dim red glow over his entire screen.
The character didn’t have much ti left.
"The experiences in the diary are different from what I’ve experienced. The child in the diary didn’t have a troubleso neighbor; it was his own doing that led him to this situation."
"But the diary must be hinting at so deeper aning... sothing that could let one finish the Ga. It couldn’t be aningless."
"A mother appeared... What’s going on? Why is there another mother?!"
Wang Hao was in complete chaos. After pondering for a while, he felt he probably wouldn’t survive to the seventh day, and with his foolish younger brother also dead, he recklessly lit an oil lamp and went straight to the Paperman house.
He yanked off the red cloth covering the mirror in the Paperman room, and with the help of the dim light from the oil lamp, his reflection appeared in the mirror.
In the mirror, it was still a childish figure.
The figure’s expression was increasingly terrified, its complexion turning blue, and its body slightly trembling.
For so reason, all the paper figures in the room were facing away from the mirror.
In the mirror, he saw again the scene of "grandma" drawing a paper figure, each stroke looking incredibly realistic.
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