The fog covered almost the entire central urban area of Yangzhou.

In this area, there were modern commercial office buildings as well as protected ancient structures—banks, hotels, shopping malls, universities, hospitals, stadiums, Daming Temple, leisure parks, and the Slender West Lake scenic area were all inside!

If you were to calculate the number of people, how many should there be?

Yet the maze was completely silent—no human voices could be heard, and not a single person could be seen.

Everyone understood: there must be some unknown danger inside the maze.

“Let’s go in.” Shen Mo pushed Bai Youwei into the passage.

Old Teacher Cheng followed.

Tan Xiao brought up the rear.

The journey was smooth and uneventful.

Shen Mo kept walking along the main path, completely ignoring the side branches.

After continuing like this for over ten minutes, they finally began to feel something was wrong. On both sides of the walls, mirrors seemed to be increasing.

The side passages, through the mirror reflections and refractions, became visually more complex and intricate.

“Is this a mirror maze?” Tan Xiao looked at both sides. “I played in one once at a science museum. It was full of mirrors, even more than here. You could see countless versions of yourself walking around, and I got dizzy and disoriented in no time.”

Bai Youwei was surprised: “You’ve even been to a science museum?”

Tan Xiao nodded very honestly: “Yeah. When I was short on money, I went there to hand out flyers and balloons to kids.”

Bai Youwei silently twitched the corner of her mouth.

Ahead, an entire building had somehow fallen on its side. The pure mirror-surface tempered glass wall reflected their walking figures, as well as the blue sky and white clouds.

Going further forward were two rows of public restroom wash basins. Each basin had a mirror above it, connected in a long line for at least a hundred meters or more.

Although they hadn’t reached the end yet, judging by this situation, ahead was probably also densely packed with mirrors.

Shen Mo stopped.

The others stopped as well, looking puzzled.

“Look at the mirrors.” Shen Mo said.

Everyone was confused and turned to look at the mirrors on both sides.

“What are we looking at mirrors for?” Tan Xiao examined himself in the mirror.

Still that t-shirt and jeans, still that granny-gray short hair, still… he felt something wasn’t quite right. Puzzled, he walked two or three steps closer to the mirror, then suddenly got scared and backed away repeatedly!

“Holy crap!” Tan Xiao nearly peed himself. “Everyone look at the mirrors!!!”

In the mirrors, they were still themselves, yet also not themselves.

In the mirrors, they had become human-shaped dolls!

Bai Youwei instinctively touched her own face. Her mirror image also touched its face. She touched her hair, and her mirror image also touched its hair.

Bai Youwei stopped looking at the mirror and lowered her head to look at her own hands, then pinched herself.

It turned red and hurt a little.

She was clearly still a living person, yet what appeared in the mirror was a doll!

This made her feel very disgusted.

“Let’s keep moving forward.” Shen Mo spoke flatly. “These mirrors are strange. Everyone try to stay far away from them.”

The mirrors’ abnormality counted as their first small disturbance after entering the maze. It passed without incident.

They walked for about another twenty minutes and came to an open area—

Square and flat, with a circular fountain pool in the center, like a conspicuous landmark.

“It’s the Citizen’s Leisure Plaza.” Old Teacher Cheng looked around, his tone slow and heavy. “This is the place, no mistake… but the trees are gone, the flowers are gone too, and the plaza was next to the canal—the water’s gone as well…”

Here there were only countless mirrored walls, and between the mirrors were maze branches leading in all directions.

Bai Youwei wheeled herself to the fountain pool’s edge and discovered the water surface also reflected her image: a young girl doll holding a plush rabbit.

She reached out wanting to disturb the water surface but was grabbed by the wrist by Shen Mo, whose eyes carried a warning.

Bai Youwei reluctantly gave up.

Shen Mo looked toward Tan Xiao and Cheng Weicai: “Although there’s no inspector or rule explanation here, judging by the current situation, the clearing condition should be to find the maze exit. If you have any thoughts, you can speak up.”