99 - Continuing Sales

Translated by rabbitrisu

From Jiang Wei’s point of view, Su Zimo’s advertising was unacceptable.

Although Ayu was somewhat unfamiliar to Jiang Wei, he believed that Ayu was as clear with them as possible, but Wu Qing was terrible!

It was fine if Wu Qing’s bad thoughts were hidden inside of himself, but Wu Qing’s actions harmed others around him. That Mr. Ayu still spoke familiarly with him even when he knew such things. Jiang Wei couldn’t help but sigh ‘not my race.’ ¹

Su Zimo noticed the change in Jiang Wei’s eyes, but continued looking calmly at Wu Qing. “I believe this notebook will help you a bit. How about spending some money to try it out?”

If Wu Qing actually had cash with him, then there was no need for Su Zimo to speak. But Wu Qing knew that the mysterious NPC understood that Jiang Wei was the only one among them with cash.

“Helping each other in the nightmare world is very important.” Su Zimo turned his head and smiled at Jiang Wei. “If Mr. Jiang is willing to donate some money to his companions, then how about I present Mr. Jiang with cheap and affordable items that you need right now?”

Although he didn’t know whether his meaning was conveyed to Jiang Wei or not, after hesitating for a while, the middle-aged uncle cautiously placed the remaining 40 yuan on the counter.

“Uncle…” Lin Xiao seemed to want him to stop, but swallowed back her words after Jiang Wei shook his head.

“Mr. Jiang is reasonable.” Wu Qing spoke with satisfaction. “After all, these things were bought for all of us for task clearance.”

After speaking, Wu Qing walked to the counter and asked, “Are there any contracts to be signed?”

He obviously hadn’t forgotten that Jiang Wei had signed a contract after the earlier transaction in the store. He thought that he had to sign the same contract whenever he bought something in An Yu Yi Yu.

“The goods on Shelf No. 1 do not require a contract.” Su Zimo smiled and shook his head. “This notebook is yours from now on.”

Su Zimo wasn’t in a hurry to get change. He just stood to the side and watched Wu Qing open the notebook.

Of course, the leather-bound notebook appeared old, there were no words in the notebook, and there was also no information about the nightmare world.

Wu Qing discovered that as soon as he opened the notebook. “What’s wrong with it, there’s nothing in the notebook?”

A notebook that was only worth 1 yuan wouldn’t make Wu Qing angry about the cost, but he was angry at that moment because he felt he had been tricked by the mysterious shop owner in front of him.

“Do you truly believe there’s nothing written in the notebook?” Su Zimo approached Shelf No. 1 again and picked up a box of razor blades. “I remember that some detective movies showed clues hidden inside the thick covers of leather notebooks.”

“These razor blades are also only 1 yuan.” Su Zimo pointed at the two 20 yuan bills on the counter with his other fingers.

Looking at Su Zimo’s smile and the razor blades that appeared to have been randomly picked up, Jiang Wei felt that his 40 yuan may never return to his side. He and Lin Xiao stood silently as they watched Wu Qing take the box of razor blades and directly unpack it, using a blade to roughly separate the back of the cover from the front of the notebook.

Of course, nothing was hidden inside. It was empty.

Turning to face Wu Qing’s red and angry eyes, Su Zimo calmly picked up two boxes of white chalk and said in a peaceful tone: “The ghost on the third floor of the teaching building used this white chalk to draw on the wall. I remember in a detective movie that after smearing a notebook with pencil or something similar, it will reveal handwriting that was left behind.”

Su Zimo had always said that there was no need for plots like that to appear in movies, but once again sold another no-star product.

Wu Qing: “Do you have any other products to recommend?”

Su Zimo turned around and picked up two more products: “How about this pair of glasses and this set of markers? The markers should work similarly to the chalk. As for this pair of glasses, I remember than in detective movies…”

Wu Qing grit his teeth and interrupted Su Zimo: “I’ll buy them all!”

Su Zimo smiled: “Thank you for your patronage.”

Su Zimo turned around and walked back to the counter, watching Wu Qing try to get information out of the notebook in various ways. To be on the safe side, Wu Qing was carefully experimenting with corners of the notebook and some places that may have been written on, but after some tests, still didn’t get any results.

“Pa!”

The final marker was thrown to the ground by Wu Qing.

“Please don’t be too upset. If the goods on the first shelf aren’t suitable, maybe the customer can try the goods on the second shelf.” Su Zimo walked to Shelf No. 2, pleased to show off his advertising skills for a one star product — ‘Ordinary Exorcism Water’ which was priced at 10 yuan.

[Description: It is impossible to exorcise a ghost because this water has no effect. Of course, you can use it to remove traces left by ghosts.]

Wu Qing frowned: “Do you really think you can fool me?”

Su Zimo smiled without speaking, still standing there holding the bottle of ‘Ordinary Exorcism Water’ that appeared no different than normal mineral water.

“I’ll buy it.” At that moment, Su ZImo heard Uncle Jiang’s voice. “After all, the money is mine, so I can buy it, right?”

Su Zimo nodded: “Of course.”

Jiang Wei took the bottle of exorcism water from Su Zimo. After instructing Lin Xiao to remain where she was and not move, he walked over to Wu Qing, stretched out his well-trained muscles, and asked with a frigid expression: “Could I try?”

Wu Qing handed the notebook indifferently to Jiang Wei. “Please.”

He wondered if there was even anything worthwhile in the notebook. Maybe the entire thing was a scam from the start and the shabby shopkeeper just wanted to do business for a few dollars.

It may also be that he thought it was fun to mess with them.

But in the next second, Wu Qing was stunned. He saw that as Jiang Wei poured a small amount of water on the first page, dense words appeared on the notebook in the next second!

Because Wu Qing had performed several experiments just now, many of the characters were unrecognizable. But because the owner of the notebook seemed to be using like a diary to describe what happened, the lack of words or sentences wouldn’t affect the legibility too much.

“September 10th, sunny.” Jiang Wei picked up the notebook and directly relayed the words and sentences within it.

[It’s been over a week since I came to this strange school. At first I was lucky to be admitted to this university with my scores, but now I’m starting to wonder why the scores for this university are so low, but the number of students enrolled is very small?]

[…It’s strange that all the student here are from all corners of the country. There are almost no local students.]

[The school’s teaching building and library are only open during the day, and they all close at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. There are almost no self-study situations in our school, unlike other universities. Even the advisors and lecturers will leave by 4 o’clock. It’s strange, they leave in such a hurry.]

[Advisors are rarely seen… I finally got the courage to chat with an advisor in a private chat group and asked why the school was so strange. I couldn’t help but wonder if the school was some kind of internet scam.]

[The advisor said it was normal, but recommended studying during the day… It takes 36 hours to arrive here by train from my house. How is it possible to study during the day?]

[…I don’t know if it’s an hallucination, but the school has fewer and fewer people staying in the dorms.]

……

[Someone is missing.]

[There are really many strange things in this school.]

[I finally found some things on the internet. What are the five supernatural events in the school? What has it suddenly become the six supernatural events after someone disappeared? After someone disappears, they would become another supernatural event? But what’s worse should be the terrible rumours on the internet. That’s what caused the student to disappear!]

……

Jiang Wei read a few more insignificant diary entries.

When Jiang Wei turned the page again, what appeared after the exorcism water was poured on was no longer a paragraph of text, but a large string of characters across the left and right sides.

[I was killed by a ghost.]

The scribbled words, like an engraving in blood, made everyone who saw it feel a piercing thorn in their hearts!

“Six supernatural events in the school?” Jiang Wei frowned. “It’s obviously the seventh.”

Su Zimo stretched out his fingertips to turn the page forward, then pointed to a line of text and said: “Everyone became an supernatural event after going missing. Then there were six supernatural events before the death of the notebook owner, and after their death it becomes seven supernatural events. The reason should be clear, right?”

Wu Qing frowned: “We still can’t discover the cause of these ghosts’ deaths from this information.”

Su Zimo shook his head: “It was said in the notebook that the owner found a rumour related to this school on the internet. This rumour may involve a certain supernatural event, and that supernatural event caused the disappearance of the six students in the school… or death.”

“Six?”

“That’s correct.” Su Zimo nodded and removed the one star ghost tool ‘The Unstoppable Pointer’ from Shelf No. 2. “You’ve solved six supernatural events. The ghosts who caused these six supernatural events should be the six ‘missing’ students from the school. Their abilities aren’t too strong, and they aren’t difficult to deal with. What’s difficult to handle should be the final supernatural event you have to find… If I’m not mistaken, you have to find the ghost that killed the six students. Its own abilities will definitely not be weak.”

Su Zimo felt…

The words ‘seven supernatural events’ appearing in the task itself was kind of misleading or deceptive toward the trainers.

In this nightmare world, there was only one ghost that needed to be dealt with seriously, and there was only one real supernatural event. That is, there was a potentially very powerful ghost wandering around campus occasionally taking the lives of students.

That was what the trainers needed to solve.

Su Zimo tapped the pointer in his hand: “The war is about to arrive. Maybe you should buy more equipment. If the malicious spirit is also a student in this school, maybe this pointer can improve your chances of victory. You can buy it for only 10 yuan. Why don’t you think about it?”

“……”

Footnotes

<ol>Not my problem to fix.</ol>