Chapter 17 The Shattered Mirror

　　Seeing this, Gao Yan frowned, then looked at Jiang Cheng and said, "This should be what Yuan Xiaoyi left behind at the time."

　　Jiang Cheng didn't react to what Gao Yan said. Drawing conclusions based on this alone was, in Jiang Cheng's opinion, too hasty.

　　He continued to examine the sketch and used the position of the remaining scratch marks as a reference point to look for other clues.

　　He took a few steps back, then found a central position, and then looked in the direction he was facing. That area was also full of debris.

　　This time, without Shen Mengyun and Gao Yan lending a hand, Jiang Cheng cleared away the lighter debris from the upper part by himself. According to the markings on the drawing, there should be a large mirror behind this.

　　These girls had summoned the Mirror Spirit here.

　　The methods were also varied. According to Yuan Xiaoyi's recollection, she was the least courageous of them all and didn't participate in any of it.

　　But she had observed, and as far as she remembered, someone once drew eyebrows in front of the mirror, only drawing one side. Others peeled an apple with their back to the mirror, calling out their own name while peeling, and they couldn't stop no matter what happened midway...

　　Not long ago, Fatty had secretly complained to Jiang Cheng that this wasn't some kind of strange tale association, it was practically a fancy death-seeking competition, and at a final level.

　　Clearing the distracting thoughts from his mind, Jiang Cheng was only faced with a wall. He didn't find any mirror.

　　But at that moment, Shen Mengyun walked up and slowly explored the wall with her fingertips. After a moment, she stopped at one spot, then rubbed her fingers and said with certainty, "This should be the place. It feels sticky. I don't think they would dare to drill holes in the wall to install a mirror. The most likely thing is that they used tape to stick it to the wall."

　　"The tape could be torn off, but some residue was left behind."

　　Before she could finish speaking, Gao Yan made a sound of "Hmm?" and then reached out and took something off an old box on the iron rack above.

　　It looked like a fragment of something, a very small piece that shimmered when the light hit it.

　　"It's a fragment of a mirror." Gao Yan handed the fragment to Jiang Cheng.

　　"It seems there not only used to be a mirror here, but it was also broken." Shen Mengyun looked around and speculated, "It must have been done by the people who cleaned up the scene at the time. Because they were in a hurry, they didn't have time to check carefully."

　　"Who is so determined to erase the traces of those girls' existence?" Shen Mengyun stared at the wall, muttering to herself.

　　Gao Yan's expression changed, and he said in a gloomy and cold voice, "Who else could it be? It must be the school. I bet the school knew those girls were in trouble and didn't want to take responsibility, so they tried their best to erase any trace of their existence in order to escape responsibility."

　　"But that only explains why the school officials don't acknowledge the existence of these girls. What about the students?" Shen Mengyun didn't give Gao Yan any face, turning her head and asking directly, "There are so many students in the school, how do you explain the fact that they also say they don't recognize them and have never seen these missing girls?"

　　"This is still a university after all, with so many students. Even if they wanted to cover it up, I'm afraid it would be impossible, and it's not just one missing student, it's five!" Shen Mengyun emphasized, "They belong to different departments. It would be very, very difficult to achieve that."

　　After the two of them spoke for a long time, they suddenly realized that Jiang Cheng hadn't said anything. He had been silent since just now.

　　Gao Yan had just misspoke, proposing a hypothesis, but he didn't expect Shen Mengyun to react so strongly. Now he was a little embarrassed.

　　So Gao Yan looked at Jiang Cheng, changing the subject and asking, "Jiang brother, what do you think?"

　　Jiang Cheng was pinching the mirror fragment from before, his expression very strange. Gao Yan followed Jiang Cheng's line of sight, but didn't find anything wrong, so he asked again, "Jiang brother?"

　　"You took this fragment from here, right?" Jiang Cheng pointed to a large box, a cardboard box like the kind used to package appliances, placed on the second shelf, about 1.5 meters above the ground.

　　"Yes." Gao Yan nodded, pointing to the box and saying, "Right here."

　　Jiang Cheng walked over with the fragment and found the spot Gao Yan was talking about. He found a small break in the box, as if it had been scratched by something sharp, but the force was limited and it didn't penetrate.

　　Jiang Cheng compared the fragment to the cardboard box and found that the fragment, in terms of both shape and size, matched the break.

　　Immediately afterwards, as if some terrible guess had been confirmed, Jiang Cheng immediately turned around and looked at the part of the wall he had cleared halfway, only exposing the upper part.

　　"Clear the bottom part too, quickly!" Jiang Cheng pointed to the wall, his tone becoming urgent.

　　Hearing this, Gao Yan and Shen Mengyun didn't dare to be negligent. They knew that Jiang Cheng must have discovered something incredible, otherwise he wouldn't be like this.

　　This was the first time they had seen this expression on Jiang Cheng's face.

　　This cleanup only took less than two minutes. After moving the last bag wrapped in iron chains, everyone was shocked by the scene before them.

　　Roughly one meter from the ground, the dark cement wall was covered with traces of chopping.

　　The most central strike even left a crack in the wall.

　　"How... how could this be?" Gao Yan's face changed drastically. This place suddenly seemed to have become a dismemberment site.

　　"Someone smashed the mirror with a knife." Staring at the hideous knife marks on the wall, something surged in Jiang Cheng's eyes, "That's why the mirror fragments could splash so high, so far, and leave marks on the box."