1 0. Mirror Incident (Prologue)
Somewhere on the Internet:
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Disappearance of people.
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Today, January 24, 2074, there was an incident with the disappearance of a person. The media says that the man called the police and said in fright that something strange was happening in his mirror. Explaining that a bright blue glow emanates from his wall mirror, the connection is abruptly cut off.
The man was not found at the house. The only detail is that the mirror is broken.
If you encounter something like this, contact the police at the number:+4/.../../../../ .
Author of the post: Unknown
Comments: 79:
Kayto8378 (Online) : Hey, guys, is your mirror glowing too?
ScreamGuy18 (Online): @Kayto8378 Another one decided to troll...
Qtank7 (Online): @ScreamGuy18 There are plenty of them here, don't pay attention!
Kayto8378 (Online): No, I really have a mirror glowing! Should I approach him?
Qtank7 (Online): Come on, what's to be afraid of, you're clearly mocking us!
AnimeGirl^_^ (Online): @Kayto8378 Don't, what if something happens to you?
Kayto8378 (Online): Guys, I went into the bathroom, the mirror glows bright blue, I'm not lying!
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Soon, more and more people began to appear under the post with glowing mirrors in their house. Many people didn't believe it, and in principle, so did I... Until I decided to go to the toilet ...
As usual, going into the bathroom, everything was exactly the same, but there is one thing. A bluish glow was coming from somewhere. It was clearly not coming from the smartphone in my hands, or rather, something in the room itself was emitting this light.
"Remembering this post from the Internet about mirrors, immediately throws a shudder... Just in case, I'll check..."
Going to the sink, I looked at the mirror opposite me, hanging over the sink itself.
"Phew, thank God nothing... Maybe I'm buggy from fear?"
Again turning in the direction from which the glow came, I was... Surprised, no, even scared...
the glow became so bright that its area already lightened almost half of the room. Trembling all over, I walked with small steps to the source of the glow. The moment I saw what the light was coming from, it was like an electric shock hit me.
The small mirror lying in the shower stall was all cracked, and an azure glow was oozing through them.
"Exactly... Last time I left this mirror here... Don't tell me that I'm going to disappear now, like the person they wrote about in the post?!"
Taking the cracked mirror in my hands, I was about to throw it on the floor with my strength, when suddenly the glass fragments began to gradually fall one by one and beat on the floor, and in place of these glasses more and more and that same bright blue glow that scared me to goosebumps leaked out more.
When suddenly... *pam*
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"Where am I?"
Opening my eyes a little, I glanced around the place in which I found myself.
"Is this a library?"
Looking around, I realized that I was in a huge library: it seems to consist of an infinite number of floors, each one is completely filled with additional books. It seemed as if even all human lives would not be enough to read all the books of this library.
Looking down at my feet, I noticed a strange envelope. All in ornaments, it looked like something very important, expensive. Picking it up from the floor, I opened it.
All that was in the envelope: a letter that reads:
~ Before you is the whole truth of the universe, written in books. Each of the countless books here is a jewel. You can only choose one of them. Choose wisely, because maybe it will become the key to all the doors in your next life ... ~
*Click *
"What does it mean to choose one book? What's going on?! Hey! Let me out of here!"
The whole library started shaking with such force that I couldn't even stay on my feet. Only in an instant did I notice that several huge shelves with books began to move in my direction.
* boom * *bam*
The roar was so strong that my head rang. Soon, everything seemed to calm down. When I opened my eyes, I saw that there was no library anymore, there was only a black void and 15 bookshelves lined up around me.
Only now I noticed that each of the books glowed with its own color. And I had to choose one of them, it's not clear why.
Remembering everything that was written in the letter, I only had more questions to which I have no answer.
"What kind of next life are we talking about? Am I dead?! Damn mirror, if it wasn't for it..."
I needed to collect my thoughts. I tried to calm down, but my heart was still beating fast.
"Well, let's see what kind of books this library offers me..."
It took about 5 hours. All this time I've been looking at every book on every shelf.
But, alas, it was impossible to open them - it was necessary to determine the book that you would take only by its title.
In total, there were 472 books on the shelves, 125 of which were manuals for rural work,
textbooks and ordinary literary works. But further - better. The next "category" of books were the basics of mechanical engineering, engineering, programming - in general, everything related to technology. There were 84 such books in total. Then came the strange cultivation techniques for me. I have no idea what it is, but the names of these "techniques" are quite pretentious. For example: The Flaming Phoenix Disaster. Well, it sounds cool, doesn't it? But is it useful? Not for me. There were the largest number of such books - 238.
Well, the last "category" of books is ancient volumes. Written in an incomprehensible language, these books were also something unnecessary for me. But there was only one book that interested me - the crust is made of stone, and the sheets of paper themselves are like the bark of a tree. A diamond-like pattern was drawn on the cover of the book, with a circle drawn around it, and in the middle a symbol resembling the English "F", only rotated 90 degrees.
"Blo...ma..e Cul..at...n"
"I think I'll take this one."
Taking the book in my hands, I went to the pedestal. In shape, it was perfect for any of the books. To confirm the selected book, you need to put it on this very pedestal.
Placing the book in the hole, it shone brightly in the same color as the mirror - bright blue.
Abruptly, a vortex appeared in the black void, which increased in size every second. The blackness immediately changed to a purple sky, with countless stars.
I was so fascinated by how fast the stars were moving that I didn't even notice how I woke up in a small house.
To be continued...
