Translated by rabbitrisu
After Su Zimo entered the side door, he thought he would directly appear in another nightmare world like before.
He didn’t expect that he would appear inside a white world without any movement around him. After waiting for a few minutes and finding that his surroundings still hadn’t changed, Su Zimo thought about turning around and going back the way he came.
But when that thought appeared, the fog around his body dispersed and the sounds of a busy city entered his ears.
The first thing Su Zimo noticed wasn’t his new environment, but some curious and doubtful faces that he needed to turn his head up to see clearly. At that moment, he knew that he had entered the nightmare world, and the other trainers were standing around him.
Like this, Su Zimo felt that the previous space was like a game login interface.
Thinking about it like that, it was quite normal. In the past when Su Zimo walked through the side door he immediately appeared in the nightmare world. That could be explained by the time passing differently between the nightmare world and the world outside.
Now that time had become synchronized, how could Su Zimo match so easily to a suitable nightmare world as soon as he walks through the side door, ne? Waiting two or three minutes like that isn’t hard to accept.
After thinking about that, Su Zimo began to look around.
The place where they currently were was an old street. Whether it was the buildings or the grounds scattered with all kinds of vegetable leaves, it gave off a shabby feeling. The surrounding shops weren’t tall malls, but grocery and hardware stores with some small stalls directly along the roadside.
The shops to either side of the narrow street were also messy. The shop signs were large pieces of iron that had broken and rusted. Some of the shop names had even rusted over.
It felt like some old Hong Kong film setting.
After looking around, he found that the trainers who should have started whispering already were still silent. Su Zimo looked up with some slight trouble and found that all of the trainers were staring at him, dumbfounded.
Su Zimo suddenly felt a little bit helpless. He knew how eye-catching he was now.
After he turned into Peng Peng’s appearance with the Puzzling Ring, he was wearing what Peng Peng wore when they met for the first time. The British style primary school uniform with a white shirt, little black tie, small suit waistcoat, and small suit shorts looked adorable. He didn’t know if it was because the ring wasn’t strong enough, but Su Zimo looked at himself with his phone camera before leaving. His figure still looked two thirds like when he was a child, but that was enough.
What’s even more attention grabbing was that before Su Zimo entered the side door, a very large doll smashed through the cabinet and rushed into Su Zimo’s arms as if it could fly, and insisted on following along. At first, Su Zimo felt ashamed of being such a small person holding a doll almost as big as he was, but he couldn’t get rid of it. After reading the doll’s text boxes, he allowed her to follow.
The doll really wasn’t that heavy, and she was sticking to Su Zimo’s body. Su Zimo was just pretending to hold it, and it didn’t cause him any issues other than slightly hindering a small part of his vision.
[Treasure Hunting Doll (Three Stars)]
[Sale Price: 200 yuan]
[Description: What the treasure hunting doll finds isn’t necessarily treasure. She will only follow her owner’s orders and find a corresponding item. She can move, discriminate slightly, has a small storage space, and has a unique sense of smell to help find ghosts. However, due to some ghostly bad habits, she sometimes embezzles some shiny golden items during the search process.]
[Special Ability: Treasure hunting, her sense of presence is significantly reduced when acting alone.]
Su Zimo had to admit that the things left in the warehouse were all great. Such a wide and flat face, black braided wool hair, sesame eyes, and a cherry mouth. The large doll in a regular plaid skirt would surprise people at first sight. It also had a specially marked ‘unique sense of smell to help find ghosts,’ which was especially suitable for Su Zimo, who needed to find more merchandise.
So Su Zimo was willing to take the doll with him.
It also made the surrounding trainers look at him with deeper attention.
The shrunk Su Zimo hugged the doll and looked around. He found that there were several familiar faces among the trainers this time. For example, the ones who looked capable and heavily armed were wearing the Dawn Organization badges on their chests. One of them looked simple and honest. It was the leader of the team, Cheng Yun, who had never met him before.
The last time Su Zimo saw Cheng Yun, it was still the snake disguised as him.
The two women standing next to Cheng Yun were Bai Man and Dr. Jin Lei who had crossed paths with Su Zimo, but they may not be able to renew their old relationship in this nightmare world with him now.
It wasn’t surprising that the three acquaintances appeared together in the same nightmare world. After all, when trainers get together, there’s a high chance that they’ll enter the same nightmare world. There are too many related examples.
“Why would such a small child appear in the nightmare world?” Cheng Yun and the others weren’t newcomers who had only experienced three or four nightmare worlds, so they knew that there would sometimes be underage trainers in the nightmare world, but none had ever been as small as the one in front of them.
The little trainer looked extremely cute and jade-like, like a glass doll that attracts love at first sight. But he really was very young, and he had a doll in his arms almost as tall as him.
Of course, there were many movies and TV dramas and novels that mention extremely precocious children with high IQ, but a little boy holding a female doll… The trainers didn’t have much hope for him.
“Kid, is this the first time you’ve entered the nightmare world?” When Dr. Jin looked at the little doll holding a doll in front of him, she felt an inexplicable sense of deja vu and then bent down to gently question him.
Su Zimo blinked, then went without answering.
“Dr. Jin.” Leader Cheng Yun, who should be a truly honest man, quickly spoke. “Children would definitely be frightened when they enter the nightmare world for the first time. He’s already a very good child for not crying or making trouble right now. We’ll protect him and help him safely leave the nightmare world.”
“Leader, we may be able to protect him this time, but what if this child doesn’t meet someone willing to protect him later? It’s too cruel for a child of his age.” Bai Man balanced the two sides.
“Let’s take it one step at a time.” Leader Cheng Yun sighed. “What else can we do? It can only be said that dragging children into these nightmare worlds is terribly cruel.”
“Excuse me, are you senior members of the Dawn Organization?” Inn addition to Su Zimo and the three friends, there were also four young people of similar ages, two men and two women. Based on their expressions, they knew each other.
Those eight people formed the main lineup for this nightmare world, but the main combat power should still be Cheng Yun and those three. After all, when they noticed the Dawn badges on those three, their faces showed bright smiles as they saw some thighs to hold onto.
“Yes, but there are trainers more experienced than us.” Cheng Yun nodded modestly. “Within our abilities, we will do our best to ensure everyone’s safety.”
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“Great!” The four young people looked like they wanted to give each other high fives and cheer. “The members of the Dawn Organization are really good people!”
Seeing the scene before him, Cheng Yun just smiled helplessly. The world is difficult, and they were all human beings. Naturally, they would help if they can help.
But the biggest problem now was…
Cheng Yun looked at Su Zimo with a headache. Su Zimo raised his head and turned toward him with an innocent look.
“It’s okay.” Dr. Jin walked up to Cheng Yun and said in a soft voice. “The task isn’t necessarily combat related. It just requires us to ensure the safety of two people.”
It was a very rare protection task.