In the hospital corridor late at night, before the coolness of alcohol on nurse Lin Yuan's fingertips dissipated, she and doctor Jiang Qi were involved in the mirror mutation - the cosmetic mirror in the corridor had strange water ripples, and the pupils reflected in the mirror were floating with silver light. The next second, the two of them were pulled into a void filled with countless mirrors.
10,000 "Participants" randomly selected from around the world were thrown into a 72-hour limited time copy. Lin Yuan and Jiang Qi were assigned to the "Mirror Image Sanatorium", and the main task was directed at the mirror experiment records hidden by the director. As the exploration deepened, Lin Yuan discovered that this sanatorium overlapped with his dusty childhood memories - the experience of being hospitalized with a high fever when he was seven years old was actually part of the director's "mirror synchronization experiment". He was Experiment No. 137, And he had a "proto-nucleus" hidden in his body that could close the mirror channel.
The mirror body crawling out of the mirror shares memories with the main body, the dean's crazy experimental records, Jiang Qi's secret as "Experimental Subject No. 001", The alienation of his companions after being marked by the mirror... As the mirror channel continues to penetrate reality, and when the mirror body exactly like himself approaches with a needle, Lin Yuan finally understands: the real abyss is never the shadow in the mirror, but the past that he dares not face directly.
He and Jiang Qi walked between the broken mirrors, using bonds as blades and memory as fire. They wanted to destroy the experimental records to end this nightmare, but also to recover the stolen self on the boundary between man and mirror. When the sun penetrated the ruins of the sanatorium, they knew that as long as each other was still there, any mirrored abyss could be leveled together.
Concept: Lin Yuan's childhood experience of being used as an experimental subject was a deep trauma, and the mirror body is the concrete manifestation of the trauma. At the end of the story, he did not simply "annihilate" the mirror body, but finally reconciled with himself by understanding and accepting the pain of the past. This implies that trauma cannot be completely erased, but people can choose to move forward with memories and gain growth and transcendence in the dialogue with the past.