PD -Chapter 75 Facing Sin

At first, I didn’t feel anything unusual in this warehouse. But the moment I finished chanting Bloody Mary, a cold chill crept down my back, as if all the mirrors around me had turned into countless eyes, staring straight at me from every direction.

I grew uneasy and instinctively slipped my hand into my pocket, feeling the talismans I had prepared in advance.

I scanned my surroundings, but nothing seemed out of place. There were no strange figures appearing in the mirrors… yet I knew very well that I could not let my guard down.

A thought struck me—I should strike first. I was about to slap exorcism talismans onto every mirror when, just as I pulled one out, I noticed something in the massive antique mirror in front of me.

A person was staring straight at me.

I staggered back several steps and realized the face in the mirror was identical to mine… but its movements were no longer synchronized with mine. It was clearly someone else now.

“You’re the one who harmed her!”

The “me” in the mirror stared at me with a strange, vicious gaze and squeezed out those words from its throat.

I tried to speak, but immediately realized I couldn’t move my mouth at all. My entire body stiffened, and my vision began to blur. At the same time, a sharp pain shot through both of my eyes.

A warm liquid flowed from my eye sockets. I didn’t need to look to know it was blood—because everything in front of me had already turned crimson, the world reduced to red shadows.

“You’re the one who harmed her! You must be punished!”

The voice in the mirror gradually changed from mine to a sharp, female tone.

At the same time, the face in the mirror transformed. My own features melted away and became a woman with disheveled hair. She wore a worn-out long dress, her eye sockets sunken deep, her hair a fiery red. She looked like a foreigner, yet I somehow understood every word she said.

The woman leaned forward inside the mirror and stretched out her hand. Her long, claw-like fingers reached toward me, as if she intended to drag me into the mirror world.

Enduring the pain in my eyes, I forced my spiritual energy to circulate through my body. My body regained some mobility, and I instinctively dodged to the right, narrowly avoiding the claw.

Seeing her attack fail, the woman suddenly burst out of the mirror like a dried-up monkey and lunged at me.

I wiped the blood from my eyes, chanted an exorcism spell, and flung the blood toward the entity.

Under the reinforcement of my spiritual energy, the blood turned into sharp, dagger-like droplets, fanning out toward her like a volley of blades.

The entity was not foolish. It seemed to recognize the danger and abruptly halted midair, then vanished and retreated back into the mirror.

Taking advantage of the moment, I hurled the talismans from my pocket straight onto the mirror. They instantly stuck to its surface. The entity tried to force its way out again—but the moment she touched the mirror, she was violently rebounded.

Golden light erupted from the talismans and began seeping into the mirror world.

“Ahhh!”

The entity let out a piercing scream under the light. At the same instant, the mirror emitted a sharp cracking sound, and fine fractures spread across its surface.

Crash!

The mirror shattered into countless pieces that fell to the ground.

But then I noticed something even stranger happening to the other mirrors around me.

Every mirror in the entire space—no matter the angle—was now reflecting only me.

“You’re the one who harmed her! If you hadn’t taken that piece of yin jade back then, would she have ended up like this?”

Inside every mirror, countless versions of “me” pointed at me and spoke with vicious voices.

“She’s worse than dead now. You might as well kill her yourself!”

The voices overlapped, each sentence like a thin blade slicing into my ears.

Those blades seemed to pierce my brain over and over. My head felt like it was about to split open, and my eyeballs began to swell outward as if they would explode.

“Ahhh!”

I clutched my ears and screamed, helpless as blood and tears mixed and dripped down my face.

At that moment, my mind was filled with images of Tang Shanshan—her every smile, her every glance—and the recurring nightmare I had been having recently: Tang Shanshan hanging above a bottomless dark cliff, reaching out to me through the gaps of a cage, begging for help… while I could do nothing.

“No… no, I don’t want this!” I fell into a state of dizziness, madness, and grief, unable to hold back as I shouted out my deepest thoughts about Tang Shanshan, desperately seeking release.

“Come… let me free you.”

The “me” in the mirror beckoned. My body began to move involuntarily toward the nearest mirror… and I realized the closer I got, the less pain I felt.

The reflection in the mirror smiled in satisfaction and slowly extended its hand, placing it on my face. Its two fingers formed a claw and pressed against my eyes.

Strangely, the pain I had been suffering suddenly eased. My entire body drifted into a strange, ethereal state—like an addict inhaling opium after withdrawal.

The grotesque figure in the mirror shifted back into the disheveled female entity… but I felt no fear at all. Instead, I almost wished she would act faster so I could finally be freed.

I slowly closed my eyes, silently begging for everything to end.

I was truly exhausted.

But at that moment, Liu Xiaopeng’s voice suddenly rang out.

It was the familiar exorcism chant—and it jolted my consciousness back.

I snapped my eyes open and saw a talisman already stuck to the mirror in front of me. With a loud crack, the mirror shattered into countless pieces.

However, the entity had learned from last time. Just before the mirror broke, she had already burst out.

“Those who are guilty must be punished!”

Her figure moved like lightning. In an instant, she appeared in front of me. With a single swipe of her hand, her sharp nails left several bloody marks across my face.

The pain finally brought my mind fully back to clarity. I cursed under my breath and instinctively stepped back, then focused my thoughts and grabbed a bronze mirror behind me, holding it up in front of her.

The entity had been about to finish me off—but the moment she saw her own reflection in the bronze mirror… she suddenly stopped attacking.