Chapter 1007

From the style of tonight's events, Lu Mian had some guesses and was prepared to see one or several dream images, but the person who appeared at the emergency center completely exceeded his expectations:

It was actually Peng Deng's roommate, Grisha!

The fact that he shared a room with Peng Deng did indeed symbolize that he had a certain degree of particularity, and we had also observed him, but we didn't find who he corresponded to in reality... Is he the mastermind of tonight's events? What is his real purpose? Lu Mian's thoughts surged, becoming increasingly confused.

He had originally locked the mastermind pushing tonight's events as the one worshipped by the "Aurora Order" and was thinking of taking the opportunity to confirm some things, but Grisha didn't possess the "I am watching, I am listening, I know" style at all; he was eccentric, paranoid, and rude.

"Him?" Franca's reaction was slower than normal; only then did she lean her head over to look at the image Lu Mian had frozen on his phone screen.

The sudden surprise gave her a bit more vitality.

"Discovering an unexpected person is also a kind of harvest." Lu Mian had already calmed his emotions.

"Hmm." Franca didn't say anything more.

Lu Mian also didn't rush to leave; he took out a cracked makeup mirror and carefully sensed it.

His performance attracted Franca's attention; Franca turned her head to look at him and asked with slight confusion:

"What are you doing?"

"Seeing if the Mirror World has recovered and if the corresponding broken mirror has evolved a new mirror-back area." Lu Mian explained simply, "Luo Shan doesn't have a phone, and I don't have other Beyonder abilities; I need to pass information to her through the Mirror World, saying that you are safe, and let her take Zhou Mingrui and leave the underground area.

"There is no urgent matter now, but what if Zhou Mingrui really discovered something?"

Franca was stunned for two seconds:

"Zhou Mingrui went to the underground area?

"Wouldn't there be a problem with that?"

The underground of the Dawn Hospital was a product of the dream's subconscious psychological shadows and the "Desire Mother Tree's" abyss symbol blending together; even if it couldn't truly endanger Zhou Mingrui's safety, it would make him re-encounter past psychological shadows and awaken previously existing intense stimuli, thereby bringing about obvious changes, and these changes were unpredictable; they could be extremely good or extremely bad, so Lu Mian's team previously didn't want Zhou Mingrui to enter the underground of the Dawn Hospital at the current stage.

Lu Mian looked at Franca and laughed:

"Plans don't change as fast as reality; just now, the most important thing was to save you. Everything else can be considered and made up for later. At worst, this mission completely fails, and we change a group of people to come again; at worst, we all welcome the end of the world together. You just can't die here right now."

Franca stared blankly at Lu Mian for a few seconds, unable to say a word.

After a while, she withdrew her gaze, sighed, and said:

"Some things might never be made up for..."

Hearing this sigh and these words, Lu Mian finally had the feeling that Franca had come alive from that kind of dead silence just now.

He didn't pursue what the matter was, waiting for Franca to adjust herself before saying it. He looked at the mirror in his hand that had cracked into three pieces and said:

"The Mirror World has recovered, and the larger mirror fragments have also become mirrors in the mystical sense again."

After finishing, Lu Mian added a passage of words, letting it be dyed with the dim light of flickering waves, and burrowed into the largest fragment of the makeup mirror.

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Dawn Hospital, second basement level.

Luo Shan walked in front, leading Zhou Mingrui, sneaking through the corridor, looking left and right from time to time, searching for the missing Luo Fu.

Just as she cast her gaze toward one of the rooms, while Zhou Mingrui looked toward the other side, she saw a piece of text flash across a piece of glass that had fallen to the ground:

"Luo Fu has already gone home."

*Hoo*... Luo Shan quickly turned around and said to Zhou Mingrui:

"I received news; Luo Fu has escaped."

Zhou Mingrui looked Luo Shan up and down twice, not asking how she received the news.

He had just observed that when Luo Shan went out, she seemed very hurried, not even bringing her phone.

After leaving the underground area of the Dawn Hospital and being sent back to Dechuang Garden by Zhou Mingrui, Luo Shan met Lu Mianna and Luo Fu at the entrance hall.

"You just got back too?" Luo Shan blurted out.

Lu Mian, holding two mirror fragments, looked left and right and said:

"Went to handle the hospital's surveillance."

Although tonight's events didn't involve criminal cases and belonged to a "natural disaster," there wouldn't be police investigating the truth, but Lu Mian felt that it still needed to be treated with caution.

Luo Shan was stunned for two seconds:

*Quite rich in criminal experience... *

Lu Mian then said to Luo Shan:

"Thank you for your help; without you inviting Zhou Mingrui to the second basement level in time, Luo Fu and I would probably not have been able to escape and would definitely have been completely engulfed by that illusory abyss."

Luo Shan couldn't help but show a smile; she forced herself to be modest:

"It's mainly because Zhou Mingrui was willing to take the risk to save people; he has always been quite good."

"Being able to persuade him in such a short time is also very remarkable." Lu Mian didn't skimp on his words of praise.

"It's okay, it's okay." Luo Shan moved her gaze away uncomfortably.

She walked with light steps into the elevator that had just descended to the first floor.

After following her inside, Lu Mian said to Luo Shan:

"We want to check your room to find that hidden danger."

"Okay, okay!" Luo Shan remembered the matter of her inexplicably appearing in the underground area of the Dawn Hospital.

If she didn't find the bad guy lurking in or near her room, she wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully!

Arriving at Room 1502, Lu Mian naturally checked every corner, and Franca also gathered her spirits, silently touching different things.

After dozens of seconds, Lu Mian walked to the living room glass window and said to Luo Shan, who was staying near the coffee table:

"I'll do a 'Magic Mirror Divination' to see if I can get an answer or revelation."

Luo Shan nodded repeatedly.

Lu Mian reached his hand toward the transparent glass that had become a mirror due to the night, chanting the corresponding incantation in his mouth.

He could now only perform "Magic Mirror Divination" by asking his own spirituality.

After Lu Mian asked the question, the surface of the glass suddenly rippled with dim light.

The light settled, reflecting a scene; it corresponded to the oil painting of the parrot with colorful feathers.

"It?" Luo Shan turned her head sharply to look at the wall behind her to the side.

*The helper I painted myself betrayed me? *

Almost simultaneously, the colorful-feathered parrot flew out of the oil painting, attempting to break out of Room 1502 and escape from here.

However, the doors and windows were already locked tight, and it bumped into the walls repeatedly.

"Why?" Luo Shan shouted.

The colorful-feathered parrot replied with crisp human words:

"I am not your puppet; I serve..."

Before it finished speaking, its body suddenly disintegrated; first, the feathers drifted away one by one, and then the flesh and blood dripped down like melted oil paint.

In just two or three seconds, the colorful-feathered parrot turned into countless small dots of oil paint, spilling onto the off-white floor tiles.

"It was controlled by someone else." Lu Mian gave the conclusion.

"How could that be?" Luo Shan was both shocked and stunned.

*This is something I painted stroke by stroke; why would it be controlled by others? *

*If it were said that the other me had quietly resurrected in my body and secretly influenced my painting, I could still accept it; but an outsider, how could they? *

Lu Mian looked at Luo Shan:

"You cannot absolutely trust anything; it's like that with others, it's like that with things you paint, and it must be like that with yourself as well."

"I understand..." Luo Shan remembered before, remembered the other self.

Lu Mian thought for a moment and suggested:

"You stay with us tonight to avoid any other accidents."

He planned to take photos of every item and every corner of Luo Shan's room tonight and then send them to Anderson to see if there were any remaining problems.

"Okay." Luo Shan agreed quickly.

Regardless of whether the colorful-feathered parrot was found, she had originally planned to pack up her things and find a hotel with a higher cost-performance ratio to open a room and stay for two or three nights.

After settling Luo Shan and letting her and Jianna sleep in Room 2303, Lu Mian pulled Franca, taking her with him to take photos everywhere in 1502, not missing a single thing.

After finishing, he immediately sent the relevant photos to "A Name That Leaves a Deep Impression on You," and added at the end:

"Can you find the possible problems in these photos?"

After a while, Anderson Hu De replied:

"Are you trying to invite me to play the game 'Spot the Difference'?"

"You could say that." Lu Mian responded indifferently.

He waited patiently until four or five minutes had passed before receiving a message from Anderson Hu De:

"If it were me, I would show others photos that have absolutely no problems and ask them to find the problems."

*Meaning, there are no problems? * Lu Mian muttered to himself silently.

Anderson Hu De then sent another message:

"That oil painting with a blank spot looks too much of an eyesore; fill it with some paint."

Lu Mian nodded thoughtfully and turned to ask:

"Can you control things that others paint?"

"There are many ways to control things in paintings: one is to become a symbol of the world in the painting, two is to give them a more complete life, three is to endow them with humanity, four is to use the fact that their essence is information and reorganize the corresponding information, five is to grasp the fact that they have spirituality and turn them into your own marionettes..." Anderson answered a lot, which was rare, and finally said, "After reading this, don't you feel that every possibility you envisioned cannot be ruled out?"

"You said it in such detail, isn't it just because you want to see me answer 'yes'?" Lu Mian had no emotional fluctuation.

In his view, finding the remaining hidden dangers in the room didn't actually have much significance, because it had already been confirmed that Luo Shan was targeted by a certain force or a certain enemy; if the other party wasn't dug out and killed, the hidden dangers would be eliminated today, and there would be new hidden dangers tomorrow.

It was a pity that the colorful-feathered parrot was controlled and couldn't finish its words.

Seeing that Anderson Hu De didn't reply to him again, Lu Mian stood up and looked toward Franca.

Franca was standing by the window of Luo Shan's house, silently looking out into the distance.

Lu Mian walked to her side and looked at the same place as her.

He saw the late-night snack stalls on the distant street, saw the people still eating and drinking in the middle of the night, and saw that there were still many rooms with lights on in the high-rise buildings inside the residential area, dotting the night.

Lu Mian gazed quietly for a while and turned his head to look at Franca.

Franca was watching very intently; her gaze seemed reluctant to move away for even a second.

After a while, she sighed in a very low voice:

"Such night scenery is truly beautiful..."

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