Doomsday Wonderland

Lin Sanjiu met her own eyes in the mirror.

The other party's expression was extremely calm, as if she was not aware of the short piece of hair on her head; she was sitting in the mirror in front of the replica creature who was concentrating on giving her a haircut, waiting peacefully. The next time the scissors fell on her head.

Outside the mirror, the two dead heads tied with cloth on the chair had obviously only had a few locks of hair cut off, but the heads in the mirror were already bare - what about my own head? Lin Sanjiu thought to herself, if she could raise her hand and touch her head now, she would find that her hair had been cut shorter, or would it remain the same?

"Watch out!"

Teacher Yi's warning voice, together with the sense of crisis, suddenly increased her blood flow and rushed into her body. Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to look away from the mirror to see what happened; her peripheral vision caught nothing, and she could almost feel the shadow pressing down from in front of her on her skin.

The first reaction that comes to mind and is projected onto the body and limbs is the fifth action: rolling like a newspaper roll.

The first step in this action is to fall to the ground.

At that moment, Lin Sanjiu's body fell to the ground hastily; her field of vision seemed to be composed of fragments, most of which were pressed down blurry shadows, and the other half was of the mirror that was quickly drawn up. Image - Lin Sanjiu sitting in the mirror, and the barber creature behind her, still concentrating on cutting hair as before.

He didn't move, so where did the danger come from?

At the same time that Lin Sanjiu's thoughts arose, her body also hit the floor. Just like the mime, she quickly freed up one hand, pressed it on the ground, and pushed herself out like a newspaper roll - everything went smoothly, except for the bruise on her forehead when she first started rolling. If you were slapped with a "pop".

"What's going on?" Even Teacher Yi was at a loss for ideas, "What hit your forehead?"

Even Lin Sanjiu, who was rolling, was not slow. His back quickly hit the cashier with a "thud" and he jumped up again.

When she stood up and looked up, she realized what the danger was; the shadow that pressed down on her just now was the barber creature not far away who turned around at some point and walked out from behind the chair. . The head, which looked like an enlarged version of a balloon, was floating in the air and looking straight at her.

"Why..." Teacher Yi murmured, "Wasn't the barber in the mirror just now... standing behind the chair without moving?"

In other words, more than just her own image will remain in the mirror?

It turns out that when the barber creature turns around to attack her, his shadow will still remain in the mirror and continue to "cut" Lin Sanjiu's hair in the mirror... What kind of mess is on this road?

"This is terrible," Lin Sanjiu said in his mind, "Even if I can kill this barber... I can't stop the process of 'haircut' in the mirror. Besides, he doesn't look like he's still there. Something that can die again.”

The mime never raised her hand to touch her head, so Lin Sanjiu couldn't raise her hand and couldn't check her forehead; she could only stare at the barber creature opposite, and took two small steps forward until she reached the distance. He stood in front of the farthest mirror and glanced quickly into it.

A thick, shiny, round black strip as thick as rice flour drilled out of the skin above her eyebrows.

Or should I say, it came out of the forehead of the image in the mirror; when Lin Sanjiu suddenly turned her eyes back to the barber creature, the shiny black round hair did not pass her eyes.

Does this mean that her forehead is temporarily clean? What happens when you get your hair cut in the mirror? No matter what it is, I'm afraid it's best not to know.

Compared to just now, the barber creature was much closer to Lin Sanjiu, so close that she could touch her with her hand. She just glanced at the mirror very quickly, but the other person was already in front of her. .

This thing seems to have two ways of action?

One is walking step by step normally, and the other is like teleporting. It takes almost no time and quietly shortens the distance with people... And when Lin Sanjiu looked at the barber creature without blinking, At that time, he stopped moving forward.

"Don't worry, I have already collected all the foreign materials," the barber said with his lips gradually splitting, and he slowly moved his hands a few times.

He held the scissors in one hand and the other was empty.

"I also picked a part of your own hair," the barber said almost contentedly, "so if you want hair extensions, you can already add part of it. The whole head is not enough... I will add some for you first. See To see the effect, look in the mirror, is it good?"

Lin Sanjiu's neck seemed to be stiff, still staring at him closely.

Because the haircut process has reached the "hair extension" stage, so he only needs to use his free hand to pat his head, which is equivalent to completing a "hair extension"?

"I said that I am very efficient, and..." The barber thought for a moment and said, "I can complete the haircut in 33 minutes."

33 minutes?

Although she still didn't understand why, Lin Sanjiu shivered violently - the mime had never trembled before, so her shiver was like a soul trapped in her body, hitting her cage-like skin. Once again, he was blocked back heavily.

33 minutes... Yes, when she stopped kicking on the doors and windows just now, the countdown on the TV screen was 0:38.

Counting from then to now, it's almost exactly five minutes.

"In other words, the countdown on the screen turns out to be a countdown to a haircut?" Teacher Yi shouted, "No, no, this should be a good thing...half an hour is a long time, and it should be enough for us to find a way to leave. Yes, right?"

The store was not big, so half an hour was enough to walk around it and look at it carefully; but she didn't even know what the "way to leave" might be, so how could she find it?

In addition, Lin Sanjiu still has a lingering doubt: Since the screen is showing a countdown to a haircut, what is a mime doing next to it? Do you simply want to show your presence?

"If you could come back with me and sit down, I would be more efficient." The barber creature suddenly spoke, interrupting her thoughts.

He waited for a few seconds and saw that Lin Sanjiu still had no intention of going back obediently. He couldn't help but shook his head, as if he thought this guest was unreasonable, but he didn't rush her. He just turned around slowly and faced the dark side. The leather chair paced over.

When he stood still, he raised the scissors again and began to cut hair in the air - from time to time, he would look up in the mirror, as if he had temporarily forgotten the existence of Lin Sanjiu himself.

This time, Lin Sanjiu did not dare to get too close to the barber creature when he was taking action.

She stared at the barber creature, stuck to the other side of the store, and walked towards the back of the store, where the curtain separated the shampoo basin - after she left the mirror, she turned her head and glanced, I found my image disappeared from the mirror. Without the barber creature, they appear to be just normal mirrors.

When passing behind the barber creature, Lin Sanjiu let go and ran over as fast as the mime allowed; throwing herself in front of the curtain, she turned around and found that he was still standing behind the black leather chair. Giving the air a slow haircut.

On the TV in the corner of the ceiling, the countdown jumped to 0:32. The smile on the mime's face seemed to fade a little, and he opened his mouth and yawned out of boredom.

32 minutes, whether it's long or short, she has to hurry up.

Lin Sanjiu couldn't move back, so she had to stare at the barber creature again, then turned around and walked straight through the curtain - she also couldn't raise her hand to open the curtain, so for a short moment, the curtain The entire wrap covered her face, completely blocking her sight.

When the curtain finally slid down over her head, Lin Sanjiu was mentally prepared to see the huge head again, but she didn't expect that there was only empty blackness in front of her. The barber creature didn't seize this opportunity to give her " Hair extension".

There are two shampoo stations connected to the recliners, both on the left. Even though it was much darker here than outside, Lin Sanjiu could still barely see. They were dirty and old, and even the lounge chairs were cracked. To the right is a small cabinet with towels and white cloths stacked in layers. I wonder if they would all be shrouds if they were shaken out.

Above the cabinet, a piece of paper hangs. Lin Sanjiu came closer, took a closer look, and found that it was a printed form; there were very few words, so she recognized it without much effort.

The line of big characters at the top, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.net, is "Punch-in and Sign-in Form".

In addition, there is only one line of small words on the entire table: "May 1". After this half-human sentence, the name that follows is not Lin Sanjiu or any other word that humans can recognize.

If she really had to describe it, she could only use an analogy like this: That piece of so-called "word" reminds people of a piece of brain, which was smashed to the ground with a "snap"; if you look at it carefully for a moment, you will see that the brain meat is scattered everywhere. In the depths, there seemed to be countless gray-white maggots swarming.

Behind the "name", someone made a crooked tick.

"That is to say, that guy was still checking in here before he came out for the first time?" Teacher Yi said with a little disbelief.

Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to expose her back for too long, so she quickly turned around, facing the curtain and the shampoo table, and looked around, but suddenly an idea came to her.

"Don't mime actors turn on the faucet and rinse their heads?" She stared at the shampoo table and murmured: "There is an extra 'hair' on my head now... Does that movement hit the right spot?" Here?"