"Maybe they rushed out?" David thought, but then he felt something was wrong; if they rushed out, why was the warehouse door left open?
Jon hesitated at the doorway for two or three seconds before retreating.
He always felt that the open warehouse door seemed like a dark giant mouth ready to devour him at any moment. This was the metaphor Jon used when giving his statement to the Royal Wizard Group. Maybe it was some kind of premonition, or perhaps some subconscious realization after learning the truth.
In any case, Jon did not enter the warehouse. However, he couldn’t ignore his physical needs, and according to factory rules, he couldn’t resolve it arbitrarily, so he decided to go to the restroom in the nearby Warehouse No. 2.
He went there because he saw the lights on in Warehouse No. 2.
Inside Warehouse No. 2, it was quite clean, and there was no smell. Jon hurried into the restroom, and after relieving himself, he noticed a large mirror facing the restroom door.
Jon spat into his palm and was about to smooth his hair and style it.
However, just as Jon was acting vain, he suddenly noticed the "Jon" in the mirror grinning eerily, a smile that Jon had never managed before, like a Joker in a circus.
The "Jon" in the mirror also drooped his eyes, as if flickering with a ghostly green light.
Jon was so terrified that he sat down directly on the ground.
And the "Jon" in the mirror smiled even more eerily, even leaning forward as if trying to grab the Jon outside the mirror.
Jon indeed felt as if a pair of hands reached out from the mirror and grabbed his ankle.
Perhaps it was a burst of crisis reaction, but at this critical moment, Jon instinctively picked up a small piece of wood beside him and smashed it into the mirror.
The mirror shattered into a web-like pattern, and the sensation of being grabbed at the ankle began to dissipate.
Jon quickly crawled up, shouting for help while running outside.
As he ran, Jon vaguely heard the sound of a mournful howl behind him, and a chilling wind swept from behind.
At the time, Jon dared not look back, only focused on running forward, wanting to escape Warehouse No. 2, but he found the warehouse door nearby, yet no matter how he ran, he couldn’t reach it.
Just when Jon thought he was definitely going to die this time, he heard a large, booming bell sound.
With the sound of the bell, all the gloomy winds around disappeared, and Jon himself felt his inner fear lessen, his heart tranquil.
Jon didn’t know what was happening, but the survival instinct urged him to immediately get up and rush towards the door.
This time, the warehouse door did not "retreat," and Jon successfully ran outside.
Not long after, Jon saw a wizard wearing a robe flying over on a broom.
The wizard glanced at Jon and told him not to move, then rushed into the warehouse. Warehouse No. 2 yielded no gains, but from Warehouse No. 1, the one Jon hadn’t entered, the wizard dragged out 11 terrifyingly dead bodies.
These 11 corpses were exactly all the members of Carpenter Group 2 besides Jon.
Witnessing this scene, Jon finally understood; the initial silence wasn’t his colleagues not talking, but they had unknowingly stepped into eternal darkness.
...
The last part of Jon’s spoken record had a red pen annotation.
This annotation explained the bell sound Jon heard.
It turned out that one of the Silver Heron Royal Wizard Group members was patrolling nearby when he heard Jon’s cries and sensed something was amiss, immediately ringing the "Copper Bell." The Copper Bell was an alchemical tool refined by Angel and given to Neya, capable of somewhat diminishing the negative effects brought by the undead.
It was precisely because of the Copper Bell that Jon was able to break free from his trapped state at that moment.
The Copper Bell’s effect lasted for a very short time, and Jon was very fortunate to seize the opportunity to rush out of the warehouse before the effect faded, encountering the wizard coming to the rescue.
Frode, after reading this escapee’s spoken record, felt a slight emotional stir.
He didn’t immediately proceed with analysis but continued reading several other spoken records, and after reading them, Frode fell into deep thought.
Jon’s encounter fit the general impression humans have of ghosts, unsolvable and terrifying.
However, this was only from a commoner’s perspective.
From Frode’s viewpoint, he didn’t care much about the manufactured horror atmosphere, as he could create it himself. What he cared about was the attack methods Jon suffered.
The "Jon" in the mirror exhibited strange transformation.
The "Jon" in the mirror directly pierced through the mirror, attacking the real-world Jon.
Through some means, Jon was trapped, unable to escape smoothly.
The three attack methods undoubtedly concealed the Special Undead’s special ability. Among them, the third method of trapping shares a significant similarity with Frode’s own skill, "Soul Blind."
Frode could also create a bizarre blind space, allowing one to see the exit but never reach it.
This is what Jon referred to as "ghost walls."
However, Frode’s Soul Blind could trap even top-tier Apprentices, and it’s challenging to break free even if Angel were present.
Yet, Jon was trapped by a method that was dispelled by a minuscule effect of a Copper Bell sound, clearly very weak, far from being worthy of the name "Soul Blind."
If the ability possessed by the attacker wasn’t Soul Blind, then what could it be?
Frode shifted his focus to the first two attack methods, both involving a medium: mirrors.
This reminded Frode of a Special Undead mentioned in the Book of the Undead—the Mirror Grudge.
The so-called Mirror Grudge is an undead that uses mirrors as a medium. This type of undead can quickly transfer through mirrors and can leverage the power of mirrors to trap a Soul in the Mirror World for confinement. It can be said that its presence is elusive; Wizards fighting it often unexpectedly find themselves overturned, and once trapped, it’s difficult to escape.
This method belongs to a specialized form of Soul Trick.
This Soul Trick is called—
Interference.