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Translated by rabbitrisu

[Actually, what you’re looking for are called ‘ghost tools’ by trainers and malicious spirits.]

[These words can be used to describe things used either by or against malicious spirits.]

[A ghost tool is something that appears to be attached to a ghost. The more powerful the ghost is, the stronger or more valuable the tool is. By the way, the sheet music you found before is a good tool, and there is a certain powerful ghost attached to it, right?]

[Ghosts tend to have weird abilities, like music scores that let them vent their desires, or tools that can create fake trainers. Most of the ghosts want to capture and ‘eat’ the trainers. The ghost will use its special ability to play with the trainer for a while, then slowly torture them.]

[Most ghosts are more troublesome compared to that one. This child can keep the sheet music, so it’s lucky for you. After all, the biggest advantage of ghost tools is that they can be used by humans, even if it’s not too simple.]

Observing the two teams of identical trainers looking at each other on the platform, Su Zimo heard the black umbrella explaining things about ‘commodities’ in his ears. The voice wasn’t quiet but no one else seemed to hear him.

[Powerful ghosts, or powerful ghost tools, are very rare. For those who claim to be experienced trainers, or even for ghosts, they’re treasures. They are always trying to find powerful ghost tools, hoping to use them for their own benefit.]

[It’s just that ghost tools are hard to recognize. The more powerful the tool, the more they hide their power. They make themselves look indistinguishable from the ordinary things around them, and even become more unremarkable than other things. Being able to find them is a very troublesome things for humans and malicious spirits.]

[To tell the truth, this child’s luck is so good. It just so happened that you got that ghost tool in the last world and the consciousness in the tool obediently obeys you. It’s already lucky to get ghost tools so easily. Before this umbrella took the initiative, its existence was something that others could never imagine.]

[This umbrella really admires your luck.]

Su Zimo didn’t know why the black umbrella was calling ‘you,’ but he knew that it wasn’t a matter of luck or accident that he could find him and the ‘Sheet Music of the Dead.’ ¹ It was because of the glasses that the wore on the bridge of his nose that could show the text boxes on the products!

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Glancing at the black umbrella in his hand, Su Zimo thought that he may not know about it.

In addition, although the ghost umbrella was very annoying, it was Su Zimo who asked him to tell him everything about the commodities. Therefore, the child under the ghost umbrella just observed the situation ahead while taking notes in his heart.

The ‘ghost tools’ that Ghost Umbrella mentioned should be the star products needed for An Yu Yi Yu?

Su Zimo urgently needs them now!

“So, their current situation is caused by a ghost tool?” Su Zimo didn’t have the ghost umbrella’s skill of speaking constantly without being discovered, so he could only ask in a low voice.

[There is no direct attack. This kind of show is indeed caused by a ghost tool, but I don’t know where the ghost itself is hiding.] The voice of the ghost umbrella came again.

On the platform not far away, ten trainers stood very carefully on the edge, looking at the trainers on the opposite side. On the platform arranged by this nightmare world, the trainers had without a doubt met ghosts who were pretending to be fake trainers.

“Everyone stand behind me.” One Xiao Yuyang said aloud, and then the trainers all stood behind their respective teams.

“You can rest assured. You are all newcomers except me, so the ghosts in this novice level can’t be that powerful.” Xiao Yuyang, who was close to Su Zimo, sounded honest and confident. “If you’re afraid, you can go back to the metro first.”

“Ding–“

Xiao Yuyang’s words hadn’t finished yet, but the doors to the two metros closed at the same time. All the trainers who wanted to get back on and go to the next station were blocked from entering, and it took away their last escape route.

“Xiao Yuyang… will we have an accident like Wu Qing!?” Gan Yuan clutched her bag tightly from behind Xiao Yuyang.

“Zii–“

Xiao Yuyang hadn’t had time to answer before the bright lights in the station disappeared without a warning.

The entire platform fell into total darkness.

“Xiao Yuyang, hold me tight!”

“I’ve caught you, don’t move! Everyone stand where they are!”

“Yuanyuan, am I holding you now?”

“Huanhuan, are you behind me?”

“Don’t mess around anyone, you must stand in the same spot.”

“…..”

Although Xiao Yuyang was heard while speaking, when the lights turned on again after a few seconds, the scene had fallen into complete chaos.

Everyone appeared in the middle of the platform, as if the entire floor had moved a few meters in the short time the lights were out. The two Gan Yuan held hands and the two Xiao Yuyang stood back to back. The counterfeit goods were mixed in together and they couldn’t be told apart.

“Don’t panic, don’t move at all.” One Xiao Yuyang quickly stood up to take account of the scene. “The task is to survive on the platform for two hours. As long as we don’t move, we can clear the task even if we can’t tell the difference between real and fake.”

Hearing Xiao Yuyang say this, all the trainers’ eyes fell on the other Xiao Yuyang beside him. His fate wasn’t good. It seemed that he was already determined to be one of the fakes.

“He said that on purpose!” The other Xiao Yuyang noticed everyone’s eyes and hurriedly stood up. “I think so too, but the fake said it first!”

“But everyone should also be careful.” The Xiao Yuyang who spoke before looked righteous. “These fakes will never let us easily clear the task, so we can secretly do it. If possible, we must gain the upper hand.”

Hearing Xiao Yuyang say this, one of the vice presidents of the two sets of hiking club members, Hu Lie, took out a trekking pole from his schoolbag, staring fiercely at the panicking Xiao Yuyang.

“Hu Lie, Hu Lie! We’re old friends. Yesterday, you asked me to borrow two thousand yuan to repay that online loan, don’t you remember?” The panicked Xiao Yuyand obviously wanted to say something to prove his identity.

The two Hu Lie looked at each other, and their eyes became strange.

“Xiaofeng!” Xiao Yuyang looked at another member of the hiking club. “You told me that you like Tu Huanhuan and lied to her that your father is a profitable businessman, right?”

For some reason, Hu Lie and Xia Xiaofeng looked at Xiao Yuyang with more hatred.

While the trainers on both sides proved themselves to each other, Su Zimo, who was standing in the dark, was also observing the situation on the platform, looking for the ghost tool that caused all this!

Su Zimo adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and didn’t miss any corners when he looked around the platform.

After all, Ghost Umbrella said that ghost tools like to disguise themselves as humble things.

“Found it.”

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Su Zimo was different from those trainers that the ghost umbrella spoke about who looked for ghost tools like headless chickens. After all, he had the glasses produced by An Yu Yi Yu and only needed to look for things with text boxes.

[Real Fragment (Two Stars)]

[Sale Price: 50 yuan]

[Description: She was a weather forecaster who goes home everyday on the evening metro. She had been working for nearly ten years, but her parents in the country had never seen their daughter appear on TV because there was only a small screen in the metro station. Only there would her weather forecast appear, the biggest achievement of her working life. In order to keep her job as a weather forecaster, she needed to complete many trivial tasks and maintain friendships outside of her job everyday, and then rush to the last metro with a pale, tired face and a sore waist…. Every time she waited for the subway, she looked blankly at the familiar yet strange woman on the weather forecast. The bright and beautiful woman on the screen, or the one who actually got down on her knees in the dust, which one is the real one?]

[Warning: She peeks out from the screen. She sees you and likes you, but she likes the real you more.]

[Special Ability: Embed the fragment in a mirror. Perhaps a visitor will want to obtain such a mirror. They will be able see and communicate with their true self in the mirror. Only, when the night is quiet, the person in the mirror may appear beside their bed.]

[Limitations: Has a weak effect on those with strong wills.]

When Su Zimo looked at the news screen hanging above the station, he actually saw such a large series of text boxes that was as long as that of the ‘Sheet Music of the Dead.’ But there was one more ‘limitation.’ The star rating was also one level lower than the sheet music, and one level higher than the weapons that the veterans had.

The sale price was fifty yuan. As long as it could be successfully sold, it could extend his life for more than a month.

Now, even though the shop’s door can’t be opened, time still passes day by day. Su Zimo looked at his remaining life of over three hundred days. On the surface he seemed calm, but he couldn’t hide his own anxiety.

Only….

Su Zimo read the large section of text boxes again, then remembered that he had heard the sound of someone reporting the weather forecast when he first came to the nightmare world. He hadn’t cared at the time and didn’t concentrate on reading it. The screen was as big as a TV.

Su Zimo looked at the screen again, but the female weather forecaster on the screen smiled and laughed coldly.

“Tomorrow the low temperature is 26 degrees, and the high is 31 degrees…”

The woman on the screen still reported the same weather forecast as before, but her eyes did not look straight ahead. They were slightly lowered, as if she was watching the trainers who were about to start fighting amongst each other.

There was a smile at the corner of her mouth.

It was like watching a movie.

[There doesn’t seem to be anything here. Did you really find the ghost tool?] The ghost umbrella hidden to the side didn’t seem to realize about the TV screen above the platform, and was looking a little puzzled.

The hiking club members right now.

Footnotes

<ol>Mr. Black Umbrella uses 你们 here, the plural you instead of the singular, so SZ is confused.</ol>