Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 384 Reversing the World
Director Fuling drowned in his room.

When Duan Mingyuan rushed to the infirmary after hearing the news, Fuling's condition had stabilized. Although she had changed her clothes, she was still wrapped in a blanket and her face was pale, and she looked frightened.

When her subordinates found her, she was lying unconscious by the pool.

According to Fuling's account, she was washing her face when she suddenly felt like she was drowning and couldn't breathe. She felt an invisible force pressing her head into the pool.

However, the situation at the scene was far from what she said.

The drain in the pool was open and there was no water at all. After investigating the scene, the security personnel came to a bizarre conclusion - Director Fuling caught a handful of water with his palm and then suffocated himself to death.

They also knew that this was difficult to achieve. Unless there were fixed restraints to restrain Fuling's hands and feet, the pain of drowning would definitely make her open her hands.

In real life, it is difficult for humans to suffocate themselves to unconsciousness using this method.

Seeing Duan Mingyuan enter the room, Fuling immediately drove everyone out.

"It's a mirror."

Before this, she had not told anyone about this. She had no way of guaranteeing where the wizards were hiding. Perhaps they had already infiltrated the security team. Heya mentioned that the wizards knew an evil disguise technique. It was so named because in order to complete this technique, the face of the target had to be peeled off, and it had to be done while they were alive.

"It was me in the mirror burying my face in the pool."

This was the scene that Fuling saw before she fainted. Her head seemed to be immersed in a pool of water. Besides the sound of water, she could also hear some faint whispers. However, her instinct for survival at the time made her not care about what the whispers said.

Fuling looked at Heya who was following behind Duan Mingyuan, "Is this also a wizard's trick?"

"This spell is called 'Demon in the Mirror'. It was created by a genius witch. She was also the first person to explore the space of consciousness and use it as a theoretical basis to enter the reverse world."

Heya showed her erudition as always. "In fact, mysticism also has a complete knowledge system, which is as complicated as science. The theory of reversed world alone can write a book. You only need to know that wizards who can use the reversed world can easily bypass security projects and go anywhere they want. For example, they can walk into your room under the noses of security personnel."

Seeing that Fuling's face was getting uglier and uglier, Heya stepped forward, held her face with her warm hands, and comforted her, "But you don't have to be so nervous. Think positively. The wizard who attacked you doesn't intend to take your life, at least not now."

Although pressing Fuling's head into the water and letting her drown and faint sounds scary, it is more like a tactic to scare people.

In Heya's travels, she had seen much bloodier scenes than this.

She leaned close to Fuling's ear and whispered, "I checked your room before coming here. You put all the tools you usually use for makeup next to the sink. There are many sharp objects in it, so sharp that they can end your life in an instant."

"Don't scare her."

Seeing Fuling trembling, Duan Mingyuan had to step forward to stop Heya from continuing to spread fear.

Heya shrugged, "I'm just being realistic. The witch who attacked you could have killed you in an instant and dragged you into the reverse world. In this way, you wouldn't even have a body left. No one would know what happened to you, and you would become a missing person forever."

"You mean, the wizard just wants to scare me."

"I also know that some wizards like to play with their prey before killing them, making them taste death before they die, but it is obvious that you and the wizards should not have a deep hatred that would make them act like this against you."

As she spoke, Heya looked at Duan Mingyuan.

In her opinion, threatening Fuling itself was meaningless.

When the Church of Embers destroyed the Wizard Star, all the occult books about witchcraft were burned along with the rest of the books. The church then became the "only explainer" of occultism. If it weren't for her, Fuling would not have understood what kind of spell had attacked her even if she racked her brains.

But the wizard can predict what will happen next through Poria cocos.

When Duan Mingyuan hears that Fuling was attacked, he will definitely come to check it out, and then he will learn about the existence of the reverse world.

"Maybe their target is you. They went through so much trouble just to tell you about the existence of the reverse world."

Heya said, "Maybe you can find a way to go to the reverse world."

This result made Heya feel a little subtle.

If her speculation was correct, then the wizard who attacked Fuling must have placed high hopes on Duan Mingyuan, believing that a layman like him could master the technique of reversing the world in a short period of time. In other words, this wizard must have seen Duan Mingyuan, and even knew him very well.

Otherwise, no one who knew witchcraft would do such a thing.

"Reversing the world is one of the highest-level techniques. It not only requires establishing a connection with the consciousness space, but also requires finding an interface that can accommodate the reversed world on that basis."

Mirrors are just one of the most common interfaces.

The world in the mirror is the most intuitive and most similar to the real world.

The good news is that Duan Mingyuan has skipped the first step.

Heya felt that perhaps at this stage no one understood the consciousness space better than Duan Mingyuan.

Not only does she understand, but she also uses the characteristics of the consciousness space to assist the Judge in creating a digital world. This project is much more massive than the one that first discovered the inverted world by the genius witch.

This is also the reason why Heya guessed that the other party knew Duan Mingyuan very well.

"I know someone."

After a little thought, Duan Mingyuan immediately thought of an expert.

That was Jiu Yue’s good friend, a girl whom she affectionately called A Jing. Although he and A Jing had never dealt with each other, from Jiu Yue’s description, A Jing had always lived in a mirror world, and this nickname was also given to her by Jiu Yue.

He once again realized the benefits of making friends widely.

Whenever he encountered difficulties, he could just think of experts in this field.

"I'll go with you too!"

Fuling said immediately.

Although Heya's interpretation made some sense, she didn't want the wizard to decide her fate. There was no safer place on the ship than with Duan Mingyuan.

She also heard an implicit message from Heya's story.

The wizard seemed to be very afraid of Duan Mingyuan, and he didn't even dare to meet him directly, so he had to convey the news of the reversed world through her.

And she suffered a lot because of this.

The feeling of choking on water was really uncomfortable, and she really didn't want to experience it again.

"There's nothing wrong with me."

Duan Mingyuan nodded, then showed a puzzled expression, "I've actually always been curious, where are your security personnel?"

"Ok?"

Fuling was stunned for a moment.

“You’re the director of the Life Sciences division.”

"Correct."

"Then why didn't the company equip you with Long Branch Guards?"

In Duan Mingyuan's opinion, Nagaeda Guards are the company's recognition of the identity of senior executives, and every important person is accompanied by one or more Nagaeda Guards.

He couldn't help but worry about his friend's career, "Are you not doing well in the company?"

(End of this chapter)