[As long as youâre obedient, no matter what the outside world becomes, weâll guard your safety until you become the only survivors in this world.]
[Hahahahaha. This type of feeling, isnât it bad?]
The sounds coming from outside the entrance panel sounded a bit strange. It was fleeting, but also as if many different people said the same sentence.
There were old voices, young voices, male voices, and female voices, but the volumes of those voices werenât loud. Whether it was volume or tone, it all seemed to be from one person. In short, it sounded strange and sickening.
But compared to the unpleasant voice, the words from outside the entrance were truly puzzling.
Based on the attitudes of the malicious spirits and survivors, they seemed to hate and repel each other.
Then why did the malicious spirit named A-Li⊠or even all of the malicious spirits that appeared in the community not take the lives of the survivors in the basement?
The malicious spirits knew exactly where the survivors had prepared their hiding place, but they didnât invade. They kept saying they wanted to guard the survivors?
[Hand over the trainers.]
What was even more strange to the other trainers was that the malicious spirit clearly called out the name âtrainers,â but Su Zimo didnât find it strange.
If they were in another world now and the flow of time was normal, then there must have been trainers who were brave enough to enter here before them. Although he didnât want to think clearly about the outcome of those trainers, they certainly werenât the first group of trainers from another world to come here.
This wasnât a dungeon that resets once you enter it, but a real world!
The passage of time was real, and so were the trainers that entered and died here!
[Itâs strange.] The voice came from outside the entrance panel. The tone felt distorted, as if it could only be described as deliberately ambiguous. [There have obviously been so many trainers before, but you people have never walked out of your doors, let alone hid them in your so-called refuge.]
[Donât you always stand at the window and watch those trainers die? Isnât it your specialty? Why did you hide the trainers this time?]
[To be honest, these trainers donât look as powerful as the ones before. Could it be you actually consider them survivors?]
The terrible voice of the malicious spirit outside the door laughed out loud.
Old Jin walked out of the crowd.
âThen and now are different.â Old Jin, who was respected amongst the survivors, replied calmly, regardless of whether or not the malicious spirit outside the entrance panel could hear.
Su Zimo thought that he was respected because he saw at a glance that Old Jin was the oldest of the survivors. Seeing how he walked out to speak jut now, he must have the right to speak for the survivors.
[Different? Donât you know that ânature is hard to change.â]
There was an unpleasant sneer from outside, then the voice continued: [Trainers hiding inside, I donât care why you came here, but you must know that those people hiding inside arenât survivors, but murderers!]
[You should know about the malicious spiritsâ favorite voting game, right?] The voice asked again.
Voting game? When the malicious spirit outside said such a word, all the trainers other than Su Zimo looked blank.
At that time, Su Zimo didnât want the malicious spirits to notice any differences between them and natives. In the current situation as well, Su Zimo couldnât hide anything, so he explained directly.
âYou mean, the malicious spirits forcing survivors to vote for a sacrifice for them to eat, otherwise the malicious spirits would immediately remove all survivors from the game?â Su Zimo didnât care how much the other trainers behind him could understand. âObviously everyone was human before this, but do malicious spirits like playing with human nature as a game?â
Su Zimoâs words werenât difficult for the veterans who had experienced so many nightmare worlds to understand. What they didnât understand was why Su Zimo knew those things.
Especially Liu Xu and Mu Feng, who thought they knew things about Su Zimo. They didnât know how many secrets were hidden under the delicate skin of this young man.
[Those guys in the basement are despicable voters!] The weird voice outside turned into A-Liâs voice. [My friends and I were trainers. Although we didnât join the Dawn Organization, we didnât do anything worth apologizing to them for either! But what about them? Just because we were part of that society before, they have to give each of us up as sacrifices to the malicious spirits?]
[I still kept that piece of paper full of bloody fingerprints. As long as the remnants of my A-Liâs soul is still there, you will always be despicable murderers!]
[But I wonât let you die! If youâre eaten by malicious spirits, wouldnât that instant death be too cheap for you? Itâs even more impossible for you to become malicious spirits. Iâll let you live. Even if everyone around you is dead, you all have to live to see this world become hell! Hahahaha!] A-Liâs voice was full of resentment. [Anyway, you guys who chose to survive arenât seeking death at all, are you?]
[Youâre so despicable. Why do you want to hide those trainers?]
After listening to A-Liâs words, the trainers didnât seem to know how to stand in line for a while. The words that the malicious spirits said shouldnât be false, after all. Old Jin and the others didnât refute it.
âNo one denies that theyâre a sinner.â Old Jin and the other survivors hid in the darkness, making to the trainers couldnât see the expressions on their faces. âWeâve been shrouded in sin for over ten years, and we will continue to confess our sins. But now is different from then.]
Su Zimo heard the conversations between the two sides and suddenly felt a bit strange. Old Jin seemed to mention many times how now was different from then.
âYouâve been âprotectingâ us for so many years. Are there any residents here during that time that have thrown out the trash? Even if it was some expired cans that would kill people if eaten, they wouldnât eat all of the metal shells, right?â Old Jin smiled bitterly. âAfter being ghosts for so long, would you not forget human habits?â
âYouâre actually pitiful. After you got tired of playing the voting game, you came up the idea of wanting to live as you did when you were alive. You even fabricated a fictional community that looked like it was filled with singing and dancing, but it was still different after a final analysis.â Old Jin seemed to stray away from the topic.
[What are you trying to say?!] A-Li smashed a heavy fist to the entrance panel.
[We havenât eater for a long time. Thereâs no need to eat anymore.] Old Jinâs voice had also become faint at some point.
[Xiao Li, we people are also dead.]
After Old Jin finished speaking, all the âpeopleâ around him fell into complete silence.
Su Zimo suddenly recalled that before, when Old Jin took them all the way from the sixth floor to the basement, his forward movement was even faster than that of trained people like Liu Xu!
Even if he was proficient in such motions day after day, the fact was that Old Jin was high. How could his movements be so agile?
But if⊠if Old Jin had also become a ghost, all of that seemed explainable.
[Donât be afraid.] Old Jin walked out of the darkness. Although his face was pale, there was a kind smile upon it. [When those trainers came before, we werenât able to offer much help.]
[But this time, we want to help.]
Just as Old Jinâs voice fell, the faint candlelight in the basement suddenly brightened, then Su Zimo and the othersâŠ
As they watched the survivors who were hiding in the dark, right when the candlelight was brightest, they all disappeared, leaving in each of their places only one⊠rusty knife!
Thatâs right, itâs really a rusty knife!
Just when the others were at a loss, Su Zimo saw the text boxes on those knives. These rusty knives, watermelon knives, fruit knives, even kitchen knives⊠all turned out to be ghost tools.
And all the survivorsâ⊠âghostsâ turned into ghost tools!
This was the first time Su Zimo saw a ghost transform into a ghost tool with his own eyes.
Su Zimo looked carefully at the ghost tools and found that their quality wasnât outstanding, but they all had the same special abilities.
[Blunt Guilty Knife (Two Stars)]
[Description: They are all sinners, but they at least hope someone can bring peace to the world.]
[Special Ability: When the wielder fights with the belief that they will die, the damage to malicious spirits increases sharply.]
Although there was no specific numerical value or power description, these blunt weapons⊠Without any better options, they may be the most suitable ghost tools for this nightmare world.
After all, everyone knows that if this nightmare world wasnât cleared, they would be completely erased from this world. Except for Su Zimo, everyone would fight with the belief that they would die.
âThese are the ghost tools incarnated by Old Jin and the others. Maybe they can be used with your helpful ghost tools.â Su Zimo wasted no time and directly stuffed one in everybodyâs hands, regardless of whether they liked the style or not. After all, the power of the ghost tool was not the same. Then he very decisively released the Treasure Hunting Doll.
Su Zimo regretted not releasing the Treasure Hunting Doll earlier.
That little thing had gained a lot from walking around the nightmare world before. The number of ghost tools she had harvested really surprised Su Zimo.
Whatâs more⊠What they were in now wasnât a nightmare world, but a real world destroyed by ghosts?! How many ghost tools would there be in such a world, how many ghost tools could the Treasure Hunting Doll collect⊠Su Zimo didnât dare to imagine that number!
However, if they only stayed in the basement, the Treasure Hunting Doll could play almost no role. They had to leave there first.
âIf we hide here, weâre just like fish in a net. We have to leave here as soon as possible.â Although Su Zimoâs identity was unknown, there was unexpectedly no objection to what he said.
After hearing what Su Zimo said, all the trainers took a ghost tool. The treasure hunting doll collected the remaining ghost tools on the side, then the black umbrella in Su Zimoâs hand stretched upwards. A red stab wound that came out of nowhere suddenly appeared on the upper surface, and then there was a ghostly scream from outside.
Su Zimo knew that the red stab wound came from Ghost Umbrellaâs ability. He seemed to have used the same power when driving away the yellow-eyed malicious spirit that the scenic bus had encountered.
After confirming that the ghost guarding the outside was hit, Su Zimo and the others walked up the ladder little by little, unlocked the entrance panel from the inside, then directly rushed out with the umbrella!
âAre we leaving the residential building?â Liu Xu consulted along the way.
âI donât think so.â Uncle Chen Long followed the crowd to open the door and ran to the end of the hall on the first floor of the residential building. âAfter we leave, we may have to face hundreds of malicious spirits. Instead of doing that, we may as well use alley fighting tactics. Guard the end of the hall, letâs kill some malicious spirits, ah!â
âCanât ghosts go through walls?â Mu Feng asked in a daze.
âDidnât Old Jin say they wanted to live like living people? If these ghosts are really so desperate, they may not think about coming through walls to attack us for a while.â
As soon as Su Zimoâs words ended, the residents led by A-Li rushed toward Su Zimo and the others.
Itâs just that, unlike the lively and eager community residents before, although these malicious spirits rushing toward them werenât mutilated or even scary, their hideous expressions and various weapons were enough to make Su Zimo and the others alerted.
More importantly, as A-Li led them, their eyes turned dark yellow.
Su Zimo felt that even if he didnât enter the world with Mu Feng and the others this time, they would have had different opportunities than the prior trainers.
Because this time when they arrived, Old Jin and the survivors not only told the trainers about the background of the world, they even chose to use the atonement method to turn themselves into ghost tools for the trainers to use.
That was an opportunity that none of the previous trainers had.
Before them, Old Jin and the others didnât seem to have built up the courage to die together, but instead chose to watch from the sidelines and deepen their sins.
Although Old Jin and the othersâ decision wasnât completely sure to let Mu Feng and the others clear the task, it did give them a different opportunity than those before.
Adopting what Uncle Chen Long called the âalley fightingâ tactics could definitely reduce the pressure on the trainers to deal with the malicious spirits. But for Su Zimo, the narrow hall would limit his actions.
âGhost Umbrella, now is a good time to use that.â
Su Zimo no longer concealed it. He directly called for Ghost Umbrella.
Unlike Su Zimo and the others crowded at the end of the hall, the way Ghost Umbrella floated in the air was particularly noticeable.
âWhatâs that?â Liu Xu and Uncle Chen Long both showed surprised expressions, then immediately looked at the malicious spirits that were about to charge.
Mu Feng had seen Ghost Umbrella in the Su family manor, so he wasnât surprised.
He even ostentatiously said to Liu Xu: âHeâs equivalent to a wild elf that Mr. Su subdued, ba?â
Ghost Umbrella and Su Zimo had considered various battle plans before going there, so he didnât need Su Zimo to explain and opened his black umbrella immediately in midair.
The moment the black umbrella openedâŠ
Countless bloodstained newspapers with hideous faces flew out from the ghost umbrella!
In the words of countless game enthusiasts, how can you spawn-kill monsters without an area attack?
Uncle Hong, who had forcibly conquered a world before, had his ability to use newspaper attacks, which was very accurately described as an âarea attack skill.â
Although he wasnât able to capture a similar ghost tool, wasnât it enough to have a similar ghost?!
Uncle Hong wasnât bad-natured. After being taken into the black umbrella by Ghost Umbrella, he soon agreed to help Su Zimo and the others get rid of malicious spirits. After all, Uncle Hong was trapped in the nightmare world for so long and his mood was truly terrible!
Since Uncle Hong wanted to use his abilities to vent, now was the best opportunity!
When Uncle Hongâs newspapers rushed toward the unassuming malicious spirits, those malicious spirits stared blankly as other malicious spirits stuck to their bodies. Then those malicious spirits screamed like humans when theyâre splashed with sulfuric acid.
Because Uncle Hong had already left the nightmare world, his abilities couldnât eliminate the malicious spirits instantly. But listening to the screams one after the other, Su Zimo felt that those malicious spirits would definitely not recover.
While Uncle Hong showed off his power, Su Zimoâs attention was drawn to the malicious spirit A-Li who was hiding in back.
Every malicious spirit in front of him obviously help a sharp weapon or even ghost tool in their hands. Only the malicious spirit called A-Li didnât have any weapons. Instead, he was holding a book; it was the book âStarry Lake!â
Itâs just that this âStarry Lakeâ book was different from the ones Su Zimo had come into contact with before. Using the power of his glasses, text boxes actually appeared on the book.
[Fantasy Fairy Tale Book (???)]
[Description: The child in the fairy tale jumps into the lake and travels to another world with stars and flowers. But what if all of that was just a fantasy that appeared in their brain when the child jumped into the lake and lost consciousness?]
[Special Ability: Able to create a 99% real illusion world. No one can break the illusion, no one can leave the illusion. The only defect of this ghost tool is that the ghost tool itself is very fragile and easy to destroy. Please protect it carefully.]
Su Zimo didnât know why A-Li and the other malicious spirits carried such an important ghost tool with them. Maybe it was because A-Li was the most powerful malicious spirit in the entire fake community, or maybe it was because they didnât expect anyone to discover the secret of the fairy tale book.
Regardless of the reason, that fairy tale book was the second thing Su Zimo had seen with question marks for information other than the black umbrella. From a certain perspective, the ability was impeccable, but it was a pity⊠that so-called weakness was too obvious, right?!!
Just when Su Zimo was attracted by the fairy tale book, Qin Rong, who had been standing close to him, suddenly had a serpent-like expression on her feminine face. âSheâ held the ghost tool that Old Jin and the others had transformed into in one hand. In the other hand was, of course, a dagger-shaped ghost tool. A backhand stab aimed at Su Zimoâs vitals!
Just when âQin Rongâ thought that he could definitely succeed, the eyes of the Ghost Umbrella floating in the air suddenly turned scarlet. Translucent red air blades began to appear around his hands, and he rushed towards âherâ as soon as âQin Rongâ was about to do it!
They didnât know what kind of ability the extremely angry Ghost Umbrella used at that moment.
But when the loud sound awakened Su Zimo and he looked back, he found that the hallway walls that had helped them implement the alley fighting tactics had all collapsed. âQin Rongâsâ body wearing womenâs sportswear had been thrown out at some point, and her hands were⊠all cut off!
The trainerâs hadnât figured out why Su Zimoâs elf did something to his teammates, then they saw that Qin Rongâs sports jacket was also cut up over there. Before the crowd could get angry, Qin Rong, whose jacket was cut up, turned into a⊠a thin man!
And inside the cut up sportswear, he was for some reason wearing a linen cloth covered in blood!