[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-game-i-have-portable-store":3,"chapter-global-game-i-have-portable-store-global-game-i-have-portable-store-chapter-249":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Global Game: I Have Portable Store",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1383104,1832,"Chapter 249 - 248: The Man in the Mirror","global-game-i-have-portable-store-chapter-249",249,"\u003Cp>Running forward following the previous route, the sounds around him gradually quieted down, and the shadow threads on the walls flowed like water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space gradually twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt unreal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing was already familiar with this kind of change. It didn’t seem like the ability of an Extraordinary, but more like a naturally occurring phenomenon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness engulfed his vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a pitch-black corridor with no light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without changing expression, he continued to run forward quickly, estimating that this should be a level of a building that a Hunter had abandoned and rarely entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I haven’t arrived at that place from before...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing frowned. This spatial shift seemed to be constantly changing. There might be some sort of pattern to it, but up to now, he hadn’t detected it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of the corridor was a reading room, its door glass had shattered, but it was tightly shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced inside from outside, finding shelves lined with books and a large stack of paper books piled in a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Were they deliberately stored here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing pondered for a moment, thinking that these Hunters might still hold some hope for the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Books represent knowledge and culture. In such a shattered world, if one wishes to pass down anything, books are essential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing kicked the door open, causing dust to fall. As he walked further inside, he couldn’t help but be stunned by the scene in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the shelves was an open space, with numerous twisted and bizarre characters and patterns drawn on the ground in some kind of red pigment. In the center was a dusty tri-sided mirror, with a black circular object hanging from each side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this another ghostly ritual?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing took a deep breath and couldn’t help but mock, sensing something was off about the environment; the temperature here was a bit lower than outside, possibly due to the room’s structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head chuckled bizarrely, \"Heh heh, this is quite interesting. It seems to be some sort of structural ritual, a rather sophisticated kind of Extraordinary system, but...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head paused tantalizingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing cooperated, saying, \"But what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head was satisfied with Su Changxing’s cooperation and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The problem is significant, there’s a sense of it being a crude imitation, resulting in the ritual being odd. However, the person who set up this ritual is somewhat of a genius. Without a foundational knowledge in this area, they created this setup purely through their own inspiration and understanding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A broken yet still effective ritual.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The information given by \"True Knowledge\" was simple, and Su Changxing became more cautious, saying, \"So what is the function of this ritual?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head responded without hesitation:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not very clear, this ritual is chaotic and has deviated from its original purpose... But I know this type of ritual. It’s a standard structural ritual, roughly aimed at forcibly prolonging the life of someone who is dying. If I’m not mistaken, those hanging above are three eyeballs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing moved closer to observe and found that there were indeed three dried-up eyeballs of different sizes, belonging to different people:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This should count as a rather evil ritual, judging by the materials needed for it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head chuckled, \"On the contrary, this is one of the most neutral rituals. The essence of a ritual is exchange, in all its forms... You must know that humans are not much different from other species, just more spiritual.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you think this might be related to that mole, should it be destroyed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing debated with himself whether to destroy the mirror and terminate the ritual, but doing so might entail some risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In such a world interwoven with mystery, to kill someone, sometimes a knife isn’t needed—a mirror could suffice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, he doubted whether these Hunters had such abilities. This belonged to a higher-level application of power, as the head claimed, this world was too young and shouldn’t have such profundity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head said nonchalantly, \"This thing probably doesn’t have much of a function; whatever you decide is fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Really?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing retained a degree of skepticism about this, mainly because the stuff in the head’s mind was inherently incomplete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He advanced closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to slash the mirror with a knife when he saw something moving in the dusty mirror, a shadowy figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing frowned, wiped off the dust, and the reflection was not his own, but a chubby man in a black robe, with a stupefied expression, his mouth moving silently as if speaking, but no sound emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This seemed to be the director of this hospital before the apocalypse!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this some sort of image retention?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing frowned, wiping off more dust with a tattered cloth, discovering that the chubby man had only his head in the mirror, with blood dripping from below his neck, flowing onto the floor within the mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The floor in the mirror was identical to the outside, but an additional head floated mysteriously in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes narrowed, and he turned to wipe the other two sides of the mirror clean, revealing a pair of hands and a pair of legs, similarly suspended in space, with blood flowing like a stream, as if ready to overflow the mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head wondered aloud, \"Why is it like this? Hmm, a bit strange. The chubby man in the mirror seems to be an Extraordinary, at least a Tier Eight in life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing sarcastically retorted, \"So, things have exceeded your expectations?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slap in the face was immediate and undeniable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without giving it much more thought, Su Changxing turned to leave, suspecting that this might be a trap arranged by Teng Beng for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the traces on the corridor ground, no one had been here for a long time, yet he ended up coming here, seeming like a deliberate setup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a few steps later, the sound of glass shattering came from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing sensed something behind him rapidly approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A burst of flames accompanied by the roar of the revolver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of one bookshelf was blown apart, wood fragments splattering everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There seemed to be nothing there, yet also something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing quickly retreated, observing his surroundings to confirm that something had indeed approached him just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He retreated all the way to the door, but nothing further happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Has it gone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing felt the creepy sensation fade away, the air temperature rising, much closer to the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the thing appeared for such a brief moment, \"True Knowledge\" hadn’t extracted any information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at the shattered mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[An abandoned ritual, you seem to have activated its final function just now]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I was trapped from the moment I entered this room, but it seems that thing wasn’t targeting me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Changxing furrowed his brow, feeling an ominous premonition, suspecting that he might have released something that never should have been released.\u003C\u002Fp>",1163,"2026-06-05T22:29:48.975Z",1,"novelbin.me","693f7cbc17b96f4ccf2d01e3666bc424b99e798cf2d4160d81e92a468ba448c0","global-game-i-have-portable-store-chapter-250","global-game-i-have-portable-store-chapter-248",584,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-game-i-have-portable-store-cover.jpg"]