In the nightmare world, Su Zimo, who was sitting across from âXiaowan,â happened to see the odd smile on her face.
He knew that a certain trigger hidden this nightmare world had been activated.
âIn short, the ghost assembly should be over?â Su Zimo actually guessed a lot more, but he knew that the more he said, the more likely he would be to arouse suspicion, so he straightened out his backpack behind him and reached his hand in to stroke the cold black umbrella handle.
After feeling more relaxed, Su Zimo got up from the loveseat with a smile and said to the other trainers, âYou can stay here, or you can get out of here. I have a way to leave here, donât worry.â
For a long time, âA-Yuâ gave Xu Yingying and the other trainers the feeling that he was a gentle and elegant young man, just like the type of boy Zhang Xiaoqing admired in the story, with a gentle temperament and a smile for everyone.
At that time, the glasses on the bridge of A-Yuâs nose seemed to enhance his gentle temperament.
However, when A-Yu narrowed his smile, the eyes behind the lenses were so calm that it even felt a little scary. Even the glasses that had enhanced his desirability seemed chilling.
When Su Zimo spoke, âXiaowanâ had been sitting there quietly with her head down without any other movements, as if she didnât plan to do anything in the apartment.
âYou⌠wonât you go?â Although Xu Yingying thought A-Yu was weird, she couldnât help but care.
In terms of appearance and personality, Xu Yingying was the type that was particularly popular on university campuses. There were always many outstanding men around her. Over time, she was able to see pretty people more often than ordinary university girls.
So her gaze always fell on Su Zimo, feeling that even among the best boys, he would stand out of the crowd.
Such a person shouldnât have any idea about teams.
So Xu Yingying was very surprised when A-Yu offered to stay behind for the team at that moment.
âItâs okay. Iâll just borrow the restroom. The task time is limited. Iâll catch up soon.â Su Zimo didnât seem nervous at all, and was walking towards the first bathroom. When Su Zimo walked out of there before, he was too hurried and didnât take anything, so he felt that it would be a shame to just leave like that.
âWhat the hell, going to the restroom at this time? And a restroom in the nightmare world? He has to be a naive person who hasnât interacted with the nightmare world much, right? No common sense about the nightmare world.â Because he held an inexplicable sense of hostility since the beginning, Du Lei thoughtlessly muttered a few words after listening to âA-Yu.â
Judging from the state of the three trainers, they didnât seem to realize that âXiaowan,â who was sitting on one of the loveseats, was a bomb that could explode at any time. Their expressions all seemed very relaxed, but they only lifted up their left arms from time to time to see if the next task had been released.
After all, when Su Zimo first met Xu Yingying, she said that the nightmare world with only four people would be very simple.
âThis place makes me anxious.â Du Lei looked at âXiaowanâ bowing her head, and finally felt that something was wrong with the entire apartment. âLetâs go!â
âLetâs wait, the second task hasnât been released yet anyway.â Seeing Du Lei walk towards the door, Xu Yingying stood stubbornly in the living room and refused to go.
âAh, Yingying!â At that moment, Zhu Zhu, who had been standing silently in an ankle-length striped dress and glasses, suddenly shouted, âThe second task has been released!â
After hearing what Zhu Zhu said, Xu Yingying and Du Lei immediately glanced at the contents of the task on their left arm. Both of them had a look of uncertainty in their eyes. After looking at each other the expressions on their faces looked a little heavy.
âAhâŚâ Xu Yingying wanted to call Su Zimo, but Du Lei quickly grabbed her arm.
Under Du Leiâs gesture, Xu Yingying saw the girl sitting on the loveseat with her head down had stood up and walked to the outermost sofa, but she still had her head bowed deeply.
Seeing what âXiaowanâ looked like now, even a fool would know that something was wrong.
âHurry up!â Du Lei ignored Xu Yingyingâs reaction and relied on his dual strength as both a trainer and a male to pull Xu Yingying away. Seeing her friend being taken away so forcibly, Zhu Zhu also glanced in the direction of the bathroom, tapped her feet anxiously, and then left the apartment.
âAh!â After the few trainers left the apartment, there seemed to be some exclamations from outside, but they disappeared soon.
Su Zimo didnât know what was happening since he was in the restroom. After exiting, he saw a small jewelry box in front of the vanity mirror, and then he took out an ordinary looking black back from the side pocket of his backpack. He took out a bracelet of one-gram gold transfer beads from inside and tossed it into the small jewelry box.
Although Su Zimo worked hard to raid every nightmare world, he still wouldnât do things like âstealâ from an environment that seemed to be inhabited.
Although âtradingâ with gold seemed to be his loss, Su Zimo clearly knew that no matter how much money he has, he couldnât increase the experience value of An Yu Yi Yu, but a small roll of toilet paper from the nightmare world could do so easily.
These transfer beads were prepared by Su Zimoâs Housekeeper Mu, using the small treasury vault he hadnât touched in four years. But thinking that the money from the small treasury was the pocket money granted to him by his father and grandfather back then, Su Zimo still felt that he had to find something more profitable than An Yu Yi Yu to achieve self-sufficiency as soon as possible.
After completing the âtransaction,â Su Zimo looked around the restroom, but didnât find any familiar zero star products. Instead, he found a few unfamiliar products with higher prices.
[Nightmare Brand Soap (No Stars)]
[Sale Price: 3 yuan]
[Description: This soap is made using a scent that malicious spirits like, but because the amount is very, very small, it wonât attract a malicious spiritâs attention unless you use an entire bar of soap in the bath.]
[Nightmare Brand Cheap Perfume (No Stars)]
[Sale Price: 3 yuan]
[Description: This perfume is mixed with a hint of disgusting malicious spirit scent, but because the amount is very, very small, it will not attract a malicious spiritâs attention unless you spray an entire bottle at once.]
[Nightmare Brand Ordinary Lipstick (No Stars)]
[Sale Price: 5 yuan]
[Description: This is a lipstick that can add a sense of mystery to a person. As long as you wear this lipstick, youâll get a mysterious ghostly sense. Only you will know whether it is a blessing or a curse.]
Although there werenât many things, after throwing the goods into his backpack, Su Zimo felt that this restock trip was already profitable.
Originally, Su Zimo wanted to go to other places to search, but when he walked out of the restroom, he found that the other three trainrs had already left, leaving only âXiaowanâ standing with her head down. She suddenly raised her head as Su Zimo looked over. At first sight, it was really scary.
Su Zimo tried to reach behind him, then found as soon as he stretched out his hand that he could touch the door to An Yu Yi Yu. This showed that âXiaowanâ who was staring at him that very moment was really not a living person!
It may even be the âprotagonistâ of this nightmare world.
âAt the beginning of the story, it was said that Zhang Xiaoqing knew the school flower and the glasses girl because of her name.â Knowing that his escape route hasnât been sealed, and the trainers had left the apartment, Su Zimo stood calmly across from âXiaowanâ and brought up the ghost story again.
Outside the balcony not far from Su Zimo, the pale red moon seemed to be darker than before.
âThe protagonist of the story is Zhang Xiaoqing. According to the information on the tablet on the coffee table, the boy she likes is Lin Zhe. The girl with glasses is Wen Xiaoyu, the school flower without glasses is called Hua Xiaowan, and this is Hua Xiaowanâs home.â Su Zimo turned and pointed to the closed bedroom door. âI thought you were Hua Xiaowan at first, but then I learned that Hua Xiaowan was lying in the bedroom and playing on her phone.â
âThen who am I?â The girl standing in front of Su Zimo tilted her head nearly ninety degrees.
âYou are Zhang Xiaoqing. The Zhang Xiaoqing who jumped down from the rooftop.â Su Zimo said with certainty.
The girl with the tilted head grinned again, and her voice became a little erratic, not as real as before.
[Youâre right.]
[They never regarded me as a friend. Even if our names had things in common, I was still a country girl in their eyes. I could walk with them only because of their kindness.]
[Itâs a pity that I understood that too late.]
[I donât hate Lin Zhe. He didnât say a word since the beginning of the prank. That showed that although he participated in the prank, he didnât intend to lie to me from the beginning, and even wanted to tell me the truth at the end] Zhang Xiaowing straightened her head and looked at Su Zimo. [I think too much. He is still a very gentle person, just like you.]
âPeople often say that most of the happiness of a secret love comes from self-satisfaction, but it can also be said to be self-deception.â Su Zimo said slowly.
[I donât hate Wen Xiaoyu either. She is just Hua Xiaowanâs lackey. She does whatever Hua Xiaowan asks her to do. Sometimes I feel that sheâs worse off than me. I feel a bit like the two girls who left just now.] Zhang Xiaoqing said, half-squinting her eyes. [I just admire Hua Xiaowan. Whether itâs hiding her face and crying, or what she said to me by the lake in the park, it was so real that I couldnât see any flaws. She even cried a lot because of her disappearance.]
âThen what about the other boy who just left? From your point of view, each of us seems to correspond to a role.â Su Zimo asked curiously, âWho corresponds to that boy?â
Su Zimo felt that if he hadnât appeared in this nightmare world, perhaps Du Leiâs corresponding role would be the boy Zhang Xiaoqing liked.
[Maybe someone else in the class, I guess?] Zhang Xiaoqing hooked the corner of her mouth. [There are so many spectators in this world who kept themselves out of the way. They knew that the relationship between me and the other three people wasnât right, but they never wanted to tell me. They just wanted to hide away, smile, and watch the show.]
âIt sounds like you hate Hua Xiaowan more than anything.â Su Zimo asked tentatively, âSo are you staying here? Are you only going to do something with Hua Xiaowan? Are you going to forgive Lin Zhe and Wen Xiaoyu?â
[Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!]
Originally, Su Zimo thought that Zhang Xiaowing, like the old man in the other nightmare world, was a ghost who could communicate.
And because Zhang Xiaoqing had no communication barriers, communication should be more convenient.
But when Su Zimo asked that question, Zhang Xiaoqing, who was standing in front of him, burst into laughter.
At that moment, Zhang Xiaoqingâs original loose bun on her head was instantly ruined, and her black hair fell down loosely. A lot of blood appeared from the top of her head, soaked into her hair, dripped from her forehead, and continued down her cheeks. It finally landed on the originally white skirt, leaving shocking dark red blood stains.
[Forgive? TheyâŚ. none of them can escape!]
[None of you can escape!]
Su Zimo discovered a very serious problem. First, after Zhang Xiaoqingâs appearance completely became that of a malicious spirit, her aura changed drastically. To say it in a dramatic way, her whole body was filled with killing intent.
Zhang Xiaoqing was not a saint, and the grievances in her heart couldnât be relieved after such a thing.
Moreover, what she said at first was ânone of them can escape,â but later it became ânone of you can escape!â
[Lin Zhe!] When Zhang Xiaoqing at Su Zimo, she actually called out the name of the boy in the story. The dark red blood trailing along her eye sockets looked like two very sad tears. [If you donât like me, why do you treat me so tenderly all the time?! If you donât like me, why do you accept my gifts day after day?! Even if you donât like me, why do you want to lie to me with them?!]
[I donât hate you, but damn you!]
Su Zimo could feel that Zhang Xiaoqing, with blood and tears flowing from her eyes, had lost most of her sanity as a human being. She was just a vengeful spirit who crawled out of hell. He had already opened the pen-shaped baton in his hand at her movement, but when he raised his head, he found that something was flying at him⌠It turned out to be the tablet that was on the coffee table before.
Su Zimo could be considered to have experienced a lot of unusual methods of attack, but he hadnât encountered such simple and crude physical attacks. Fortunately, after Su Zimo completed his first official transaction, all aspects of his physical condition had improved a bit, as well as his reaction speed.
So seeing the tablet suddenly flying at him⌠along with all kinds of glassware from the coffee table, Su Zimo almost reflexively searched for the safest direction to dodge at the moment. He watched the computer and various glassware slam into the with terrible force as if they were dropped from a high altitude, and countless fragments scattered everywhere.
Although he avoided being hit by something, the fragments scattering from that kinds of force was extremely terrifying, just like shrapnel flying around after a bomb exploded. Whatâs more, the bloody female ghost standing not far away waved her hand and caused all the floating fragments to attack Su Zimo, who was standing at the entrance of the apartment.
Seeing that the fragments were about to attack him from all sides, he held the black long-handled umbrella in his hand, and opened it with a bang. The OP black umbrellaâs surface was like a shield that was impervious to everything, firmly protecting Su Zimoâs body.
Various fragments hit the black umbrella in front of Su Zimo, but they all seemed to be blocked by an invisible, barrier, doing no damage to the umbrellaâs surface.
Even Su Zimo didnât feel any shock while holding the umbrella!
Ghost Umbrellaâs defensive power far exceeded Su Zimoâs expectation. No, Su Zimo never actually thought about the power of the ghost umbrella who Su Hewen said was a âgood for nothing.â
That was the power that could only be described by a text box full of question marks by the glasses on the bridge of his nose!
[Next time if youâre in a bad mood, you can also try to use me to block the rain of bullets.] The ghost umbrella didnât show up, but the voice came to Su Zimoâs ear with a gust of wind. [Certainly handsome!]
âDonât worry. If Iâm in a bad mood, Iâll use you to block the Titanic, which is much more handsome.â Su Zimo said. He put away the umbrella, directly opened the door of the apartment, and left the apartment where the female ghost was hiding.
[âŚâŚ]
That is, when Su Zimo tried to exit the apartment, the front door closed with a âbangâ and the voice belonging to Zhang Xiaoqing came faintly from the doorâ
[If you want to survive, escape from this apartment.]
[You will know the feeling of despair.]
[Hurry up, thereâs no time.]
Subconsciously, Su Zimo looked at the back hallway of the apartment, he found that there was no long hallway in the apartment, only a downward spiral staircase.
A⌠red staircase!
The stairs were red, the walls were red, and the lights at the edges of the stairs were also red. Su Zimo was only standing in such a space and felt dizzy and nauseous.
The air in the surrounding hallway seemed to gradually heat up, and the floor under his feet also seemed to soften. As soon as he lowered his head, he felt that every step was as if he were walking through mudâŚ
At that moment, the black umbrella in Su Zimoâs left hand sent him a familiar icy chill, and the feeling refreshed his spirit, as if cold blood was circulating throughout his whole body!
Su Zimo suddenly came back to his senses and found that although the surroundings were still that uncomfortable red, his nausea and the illusions of heat and the softness of the floor had all disappeared.
Su Zimo glanced at the umbrella in his left hand, put the metal pen in his right hand back into the side pocket of his backpack, and looked downstairs while holding the black umbrella.
The red staircase was a downward spiral. In the end, only red could be seen, like the legendary fiery purgatories of hell.
Su Zimo looked up thoughtfully at the same upward red staircase next to him. Before he had time to think about it, he heard girls screaming from downstairs.
Knowing that the three trainers who had left early went downstairs, Su Zimo adhered to the concept of âfollow the trainers,â and didnât hesitate to walk downstairs directly with the black umbrella.
The completely red hallway looked like a venomous snake spreading downwards. Su Zimo, who was holding the black umbrella, was very careful, as if fangs would appear on the steps in the next second.