138: Chapter 138: Mirror Array 138: Chapter 138: Mirror Array Watching Wang Yan’s departing figure, Su Yamo’s hand remained suspended in mid-air, as if still retaining the warmth of Wang Yan’s palm.
Standing there dazed, Su Yamo’s heart was like a jar of mixed feelings being spilled, uncertain of what she was truly feeling.
“What’s wrong with me?
Why am I worried about him?”
“No, it’s not concern.
My duty is to protect citizens’ safety, and he’s just a citizen after all.”
“Su Yamo, stop deceiving yourself.
You definitely care about him.
When he held you just now, whose heart raced so hard?”
“No, no, he’s just a delinquent.
How could I like him?”
“Oh heavens, Su Yamo, what’s wrong with you?”
While Su Yamo was lost in thought, she looked up at a mirror in front of her and saw her own reflection.
The reflection showed Su Yamo with a flushed face, a shy demeanor, and dreamy eyes, embodying a lovesick expression.
Upon seeing her own face, Su Yamo couldn’t help but feel even more shy.
At this moment, Wang Yan began to turn the mirror in front of him at an angle, and through its reflection, Su Yamo saw Wang Yan’s silhouette.
Wang Yan then turned a second mirror, and through the reflections and refractions of the two mirrors, Su Yamo suddenly saw two Wang Yans.
As Wang Yan continued rotating the mirrors, each mirror reflected the image of the previous one, and Su Yamo saw more and more Wang Yans standing before her.
Furthermore, the images of Wang Yan kept multiplying, from a few, to dozens, to hundreds…
Three to five minutes later, the last mirror was turned, and through its reflection, Su Yamo saw the castle’s gate.
It turned out this last mirror was the first mirror at the castle’s entrance.
Wang Yan had used constant reflections to make all the mirrors in the castle reflect the same image.
Su Yamo was astounded, knowing there should be thousands of mirrors in the castle, which meant Wang Yan had turned them all within just a few minutes.
Aside from Wang Yan’s astonishing speed, the key was that he managed to find the optimal angle for each mirror, from the castle’s entrance, reflecting onto himself.
This required incredibly strong knowledge of physics.
It seems this Wang Yan is not a bad student, but a top student.
At this moment, through the mirror’s reflection, Su Yamo saw Wang Yan appear at the castle’s gate, and outside the castle, she could vaguely see the silhouettes of dozens of armed men in suits moving.
Wang Yan stood at the castle entrance, shouting loudly at those suited men, “We’re here, come and catch us.”
Hearing Wang Yan’s shout, the suited men, who had been struggling to find a target, immediately yelled and charged toward the castle.
And Wang Yan quickly darted back into the castle.
Before long, these men, armed with guns, stormed in.
As soon as they entered, they were shocked to see thousands of Wang Yans suddenly appear before them.
The leading man quickly raised his gun and shouted, “Don’t move.”
But he quickly froze, realizing he didn’t know which Wang Yan to aim at, faced with thousands of them.
At this point, hundreds of suited men had come rushing in, and upon seeing this scene, they were all dumbfounded.
But after only a moment, one of them shouted, “Search separately, I can’t believe we can’t find them.”
Upon hearing the order, everyone immediately scattered into the castle.
Upon hearing the noise outside, Su Yamo, deep in the castle, couldn’t help but feel worried.
Even though Wang Yan’s arrangement was clever, the castle wasn’t that big.
With hundreds of men rushing in, they’d surely find her sooner or later.
Hiding here was like walking into a trap.
Once the men outside found her, she’d have no way to escape.
Su Yamo was about to leave and find a way to escape, but remembering Wang Yan’s instructions to stay put, she hesitated.
For some reason, at this moment, an inexplicable trust in Wang Yan arose within Su Yamo, preventing her from moving at all.
But where has Wang Yan gone?
How does he plan to deal with all those men?
Su Yamo’s concerns weren’t unfounded, because minutes later, she heard footsteps approaching her direction, getting closer.
Su Yamo clenched her fists nervously.
She was unarmed, while they had guns.
If she encountered them, she could only surrender.
Why hasn’t Wang Yan appeared yet?
Could he have set her up as bait and run away himself?
Thinking of this, Su Yamo suddenly cursed herself: “Su Yamo, you’ve been tricked again.
Last time he tricked you, searching all over your body, yet you didn’t learn, and now he’s tricked you again.
All that talk about reflections and refractions, he’s just found a way to escape, that bastard!”
Thinking of this, Su Yamo was filled with anger and hatred, wishing she could find Wang Yan immediately and give him a good beating.
But now, no matter how angry she was, it was useless.
Su Yamo held her breath, listening as the footsteps grew closer, ready to strike and knock down a few of the men to escape.
However, Su Yamo knew deep down that facing hundreds of men, she had no hope of escape.
But at this point, she had no choice but to gamble.
As Su Yamo’s heart anxiously raced, she suddenly heard a scream of pain from another corner of the castle: “Ah—”
But the scream was cut short, with no follow-up.
Upon hearing the sound, all the suited men rejoiced: “He’s discovered in the northwest corner.”
“Quick, chase!”
The crowd discerned that the sound came from the northwest corner, and the two hundred men rushed towards it.
Those initially heading towards Su Yamo also turned away and moved further, with the footsteps growing distant.
Su Yamo’s heart finally settled, thinking, “What a stroke of luck!
Someone must have been bitten by the snakes or insects in the castle, making them believe I’m there.
Now’s the perfect chance to escape.”
Thinking of this, Su Yamo slowly peeked out from the corner and, as expected, saw no suited men nearby.
Su Yamo softly stepped out from the corner, trying to find her way out of the castle from memory.
However, as Su Yamo just turned a corner, she froze.
Because right in front of her, in the mirror, she saw hundreds of reflections of Wang Yan, and through the surrounding mirrors, hundreds of suited men were converging towards Wang Yan’s location, already surrounding him.