The most embarrassing thing was⌠Su Zimo was standing outside the metro, but the trainers he wanted to disguise himself as were inside the metro.
Su Zimoâs plan to join the trainersâ team was ruined in an instant.
The circumstances werenât right, so what could he do?
He sighed secretly within his heart. Su Zimo quickly adjusted to his new status. Although he didnât know what to do next, he seemed to be suffering from an âoccupational diseaseâ and started to look around to see if there were any âcommoditiesâ to pick up in the metro station.
When Su Zimo went to school in the past, although he was usually picked up and dropped off directly at school, he often hung out with his classmates and friends on weekends and holidays. He wasnât some kind of extraordinary young master who had never taken the metro.
The station he was in looked no different than the one he remembered. The white wall was nicely painted, the ceiling lights brightened the entire area, and a screen showing each stop and some advertisements was hanging on the wall. The sweet-looking host was announcing the weather forecast for the next day.
âTomorrowâs low temperature is 26 degrees and the high is 31 degreesâŚâ
There were also two vending machines under the screen, one for drinks and the other for snacks.
Turning around, Su Zimo saw behind him a large sign with a few giant black words: âCentral Square Station,â the route map that Su Zimo didnât understand, and the names of stations he had never heard of.
He was sure that this metro station and all the other stations along the route map were definitely not in Shoushan, unless all the stations had changed their names during the four years Su Zimo wasnât involved in the world.
Itâs a pity that Su Zimo didnât find any commodities to be sold in the station. Even the things in the vending machine didnât display any text, just ordinary public brands.
After looking around as fast as possible and finding nothing, Su Zimo could only turn around and look at the metro that had stopped next to the station. Although the doors hadnât yet opened, the six people who were standing behind them shifted back two steps, staring at Su Zimo outside with wary eyes.
Although Su Zimo wasnât inside the metro, he could imagine how the trainers were feeling.
They were in a nightmare world, they sat down in a metro with only 6 people, and came to a strange empty station with no one around. Then, they found a strange person standing in a strange setting.
Su Zimo would be terrified.
âDingââ
With that sound, the metro doors facing Su Zimo slowly opened.
Would he stay in the empty station? Or would he enter the metro with the trainers? With just those two choices, Su Zimo only thought for a few seconds, then walked toward the metro in front of him.
After realizing that the person outside could move, the trainers inside the metro shrunk back to the corner, and several even clung to each other. However, it was odd that the trainers didnât escape through the other exits after Su Zimoâs movements.
After glancing at the trainers, Su Zimo made a quick step and didnât enter the car they were in, but quickly walked into the other one nearby through the door on the other side.
In order to not scare the trainers too much or cause unnecessary troubles, Su Zimo, who learned from the past, sat down in the empty car in a seat facing the empty Central Square Station.
Because there was nothing to do, Su Zimo could only stare at the metro station under the bright lights and concentrate on what the trainers in the neighboring car would say.
Before entering, Su Zimo noticed that the six trainers in the neighboring car were all young, four men and two women. They were all dressed like him, and were all carrying backpacks like hiking bags. They looked like a team, very different from the previous trainers who had no relationship with each other.
Are they novices or veterans?
Whatâs their clearance task for this nightmare world?
Why didnât they exit the strange metro just now?
There was no partitioning door between the cars, but the trainersâ car was the last one on the metro⌠So Su Zimo was sitting in the one right before that trapped them in the last section. In their car, there was no other one to escape to, they could only shrink into the corner furthest from Su Zimo.
Look at these scared kids!
âŚâŚ..
âSo⌠is it a human or a ghost?â
The metro began to slowly move away from the station. Su Zimo held his breath waited for a long time until someone next door with a male voice broke the silence.
âItâs a ghost.â Another male voice said with certainty, âNothing will appear in this situation except for ghosts. Thereâs no other explanation. But the time hasnât yet passed, and the mission blocked our way out.â
âI havenât calmed down yet.â Another male voice was softer, as if afraid of disturbing Su Zimo next door, and then said cautiously, âYuyang, I alwasy thought the âNightmare Worldâ you were talking about was a boring ghost story for little girls. I didnât expect that we would all enter it.â
âXiao Yuyang!!!â While everyone was speaking calmly, a female voice loudly cried, âDid you deliberately bring me in? Just because I didnât believe what you said, you just took me into such a hell?!â
âYuanyuan, please donât be so loud.â The male voice that was certain that Su Zimo was a âghostâ shushed her. âThereâs no pattern to the selection of trainers for the nightmare world. How was I supposed to know we would become trainers togeter? God knows I was really looking forward to the hiking activityâŚâ
âIt must have something to do with you! If it wasnât because we followed you, why would we have come here!â The howling female voice from a while ago said with an awkward and angry tone.
âMiss Gan, whisper, whisper.â The person next to her pleaded.
âDo you think I like being stared at by ghosts? Is that why you just pulled me back into the car?!â Miss Gan was obviously extremely unhappy.
âMiss, our first task is to stay on the metro for two hours, and right now weâre only halfway through. If I let you off just now, we donât know what terrible things would happen.â Xiao Yuyangâs voice was a little helpless. âEven if you cried just now, you still have to read the blood on your arm, right?â
Su Zimo, who was sitting in the next car, looked sideways with his peripheral vision, and found that everyone else was whispering comfortable. No one noticed the âghostâsâ small motion.
Somewhat⌠difficult to intervene, ahâŚ.
Translatorâs Notes:
*takes a shot every time I have to type the word metro*
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SZ: I think Iâm gonna pretend to be a trainer this time!
Metro: *pulls up to the station with the trainers already inside*