The yellow dirt road stretches forward, with no end in sight.

Li Yu was dazed and called 1551, but there was no response, and he was dreaming again.

He rubbed his forehead, feeling annoyed, the box had already opened a gap, and he could almost see what was inside.

It's a small pity at best, and terribly, he fainted.

It was around three o'clock in the afternoon before he fainted. If Shi Yu got off work normally, he should go home three hours later, and he must wake up immediately.

Li Yu stood there, pinching and scratching his arm, it hurt, but he couldn't wake up.

Can only look forward.

Li Yu looked up at the sky, blue sky and white clouds, bright sunshine, lush foliage on both sides of the dirt road, and green fields below.

I don't know if this place is the Nanyuan that the waiter said before.

What people fear most is not poverty, not hunger, but despair. It can erode the will, easily overwhelm you, and bring you down.

With the breeze blowing beside him, Li Yu could not feel the coolness, but only felt hopeless.

He squatted on the side of the road to rest, looked into the distance, his eyes narrowed slightly, there seemed to be a small town in the front of the mountain.

Li Yu suddenly regained his energy, stood up and ran forward. He didn't know how long he ran. He finally saw clearly that in the embrace of the mountains, there was indeed a group of buildings, crowded and huddled together.

He moved his feet, looked up at the front, gritted his teeth and continued on his way.

The mountain road is winding, going around, the sun above the head is going down, the heat in the daytime is sharply reduced, and it is blown away by the cool wind, replaced by a quiet and cool night.

His body was exhausted, his feet seemed to be filled with lead, and he could no longer move.

Li Yu found a small cave nearby. On the way, he picked up dry wood, broken grass and wooden sticks, and came with a drill to make fire.

As soon as he saw a little spark, he threw the dry grass on it. After the fire started, he threw several handfuls of grass in a row, and then put on the slender dry branches, and finally put the wooden stick on it.

Orange fire lights illuminate the narrow cave, giving people a sense of security.

Li Yu curled up inside, napping on his knees, and soon fell asleep.

The second time he opened his eyes, he was still in the cave, not waking up from his dream, which meant he had to keep walking.

From day to night, the stomach went from hunger to colic, to unconsciousness, and finally arrived outside the town.

Only recently did he realize that there was not a single modern building in the town, but only stilted buildings. The people inside were wearing loose cotton national-style clothes, and men and women were wrapped in headscarves.

On the other hand, looking at the T-shirt and shorts on his body, it is somewhat abrupt.

Someone passed by, a child.

The child was carrying a basket on his back and wearing a black vest with buckles, looking up at him curiously, "Are you here to find something?"

Li Yu shook his head, "I'm lost."

The child frowned, "No, you're just here to find something."

Li Yu looked at him quietly for a few seconds, nodded and said, "I remember wrong, I really came to find something."

The child grinned, turned around and rushed into town, running and shouting, "Here he is, here he is!"

This shout attracted all the eyes around him. Li Yu was held in place by those eyes and couldn't help being a little nervous.

A bearded man came over and patted him on the shoulder familiarly, "Little brother, don't be stunned, go inside quickly."

Li Yu followed the man to the town, some people stopped to look at him, and some people who passed by smiled at him.

It can be felt that these people have good intentions.

Beard turned to look at him, "Don't be nervous, everyone is not malicious."

"Do you know that I'm coming?" Li Yu's voice just fell, when he saw a big dog running towards him, with a slap in the face, his tongue sticking out, and his eyes were shining.

The big dog made a screeching sound, and suddenly jumped up at a distance of two or three meters, and the fluffy ball hit the young man.

Li Yu sat on the ground, dizzy, and his face was licked all over, full of saliva.

Beard hugged the big dog away easily, and taught one of its ears, "If you're restless, I'll throw you in the fire tonight."

The big dog made a whimper of grievance and fear, and ran with its tail between its tails.

This dog not only understands human speech, but is also afraid of fire.

The bearded man stretched out his hand and pulled the young man up, "I'm really sorry, this dog is a little noisy, isn't it hurt?"

"No." Li Yu said, "Where are you taking me?"

Beard asked, "Where do you want to go?"

Li Yu said he didn't know.

Beard smiled, "I'll take you to the mayor, maybe he knows."

Apparently, the people here had known for a long time that a stranger would come to town, and they had been waiting for it for a long time.

Li Yu felt that his brain was not enough, so he looked around and kept up with the pace of his beard.

There is no government office in the town, and the mayor works at home.

Beard led the young man through the market and the stilted buildings, and came to a wooden house. There was a yard outside the house, and a young man was growing vegetables in it.

Hearing the voice, the young man looked up and said, "Brother, you're here."

He turned his eyes, his eyes fell on the stranger beside the bearded man, he showed a puzzled expression, suddenly thought of something, widened his eyes in surprise, and said repeatedly, "It's really here, it's really here, I, I'll tell the mayor to go now."

The young man sighed and ran into the house.

Li Yu looked around, thinking that it was in a dream anyway, so if he had something to ask, he didn't need to be afraid of offending people, "Why doesn't the mayor live in a stilted building?"

Beard said, "The mayor's legs and feet are inconvenient."

When he spoke, his expression was a little gloomy, and Li Yu asked, "Are you injured?"

At this moment, the young man came out of the wooden house and walked straight, "The mayor invites you in."

Li Yu pointed to himself, "Me?"

"Yeah." The young man nodded and said inexplicably, "Come in, time is running out."

Li Yu was stunned for a moment, and without asking more, he walked into the wooden house in three steps.

There is a smell of burnt charcoal in the house, and the furnishings are simple, only simple tables, chairs, benches made of bamboo strips, bamboo teacups and a stoneware teapot on the table.

"Cough cough." A hoarse cough came from behind the curtain on the right.

Li Yu walked over, "Mayor?"

"There is a stool nearby, you sit down first, and we will talk slowly." After that, there was another piercing cough.

Li Yu brought a stool and sat in front of the curtain.

The people inside seemed to have a pair of eyes on the outside. Just as the young man sat down, the mayor said, "This city does not exist in reality, but in a mirrored world bordering reality. You know this."

Li Yu's eyelids twitched. If he had dreamed of the old man a few days ago, it would have been great, and he would have saved a few brain cells from dying.

He nodded, remembering that the other party couldn't see, and said again, "Got it."

The old man asked, "Then do you know where the body of the mirror is?"

The last time he fainted, he thought it was something wrong with his body. Having experienced this time, he was sure that it was the things in the box that were doing the trick.

Li Yu said he knew, but he kept an eye on it and didn't say the exact location.

The old man didn't ask, he didn't know whether he knew it well or didn't want to know at all.

He coughed a few times, his voice hoarse like a century-old bellows, and it took a lot of effort to break free from his throat.

"That mirror is a scourge, you have to break it, or, or..."

The mayor's breathing became rapid, as if something caught his throat.

Li Yu didn't care so much, opened the curtain and rushed in, and saw a charred body.

The corpse was burned beyond recognition, and was strangling his neck hard, breathing with his mouth open in pain.

Li Yu was cold all over, and his hands and feet were bound by an invisible rope, unable to move.

The mayor suddenly opened his eyes, stretched out his hand to grab the young man's wrist, opened his mouth tremblingly, and wanted to say something.

Maybe it was an illusion, Li Yu always felt that the place he was holding was sticky and burned badly.

He swallowed, mobilized his muscles and joints, and leaned over with difficulty.

The cold breath spurted out and got into his ears. Li Yu shivered, subconsciously trying to dodge, but the mayor's other hand pressed his shoulder.

He heard the mayor say in his breath, "Find the exit, it's waiting for you."

The suppression on the shoulders disappeared, everything in front of him turned to ashes, and flames burned from all directions, swallowing the body of the town in an instant.

Thick smoke billowed, desperately getting into his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, Li Yu covered his mouth and nose and ran out.

The town that was still full of life ten minutes ago has become a cannibalistic fire ground. The big dog that had rushed forward with enthusiasm was wailing and writhing in pain, its dark eyes drenched in tears.

There were screams and moans around, but no one escaped.

Li Yu reached out and wanted to grab a nearby child, but before he touched it, the child covered his head and stepped back, his feet stepped into the fire, and the tongue of fire climbed up his trouser legs.

The skin festered and turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye. The child twitched in pain, biting his lower lip stubbornly, preventing himself from making a sound.

"Every day, we go through it all over and over again."

The hoarse voice was trembling, revealing the inner pain of the speaker, as well as an imperceptible relief.

Beard came out from behind Li Yu, the firelight reflected in his red eyes, "Every soul in this city is repeating the death of the past every day, endlessly."

"The exit is in the mountains, you have to find it."

The little sparks appeared on him, "Only you can find it."

The moment the dry voice disappeared, Mars suddenly turned into a fire, entangling the whole person.

Li Yu's body was cold, and he stretched out his hand tremblingly, his fingernails passing through the other's facial features twisted by pain, unable to touch the real place.

The flames burned at a speed like being pressed to fast-forward, and everything ended in an instant, leaving only ashes flying in the sky and black choking smoke.

The sky gradually darkened and enveloped the earth.

Feeling exhausted, the eyelids stick together reluctantly.

Li Yu's head sank and fell to the ground.

"Sir, I really don't know what's going on." The housekeeper stood in the corridor outside the ward, with a rare panic on his serious face.

Shi Yu frowned, his lips pursed into a straight line, and his anger was written all over his eyes.

He arrived at the house at 5:30. When he opened the door, he saw the young man collapsed in the house, but no one knew about it, and the housekeeper was standing outside the door less than five meters away from the young man.

"I said before I left, let you take a good look at him." The man's voice echoed in the corridor of the ward, with a heavy sense of oppression.

The butler's back was straight, and the fists hanging on both sides were clenched hard, "It was my negligence, please punish me sir."

The atmosphere around him became even stiffer, Shi Yu took a step forward, and his five fingers grabbed his neck before the butler could dodge.