âSomethingâs wrong. We have to get out of here soon.â
After Su Zimo finished telling them his suspicions, he could feel that Chen Long was beginning to panic. Even before the slave medallion had exerted its power, he had already felt his chest was stuffy and pained. His face was so pale that is seemed he would collapse to the ground any second.
âIt thatâs true, itâs hard to imagine what the chaos outside looks like.â Mu Feng couldnât help trembling as he imagined the scene.
Su Zimo thought of his cousin Su Zixiang. When he saw him in the transit station earlier, he was standing in the team with Dawn Organization.
âIn short, we should leave quickly.â Su Zimo had no ill will for the members of Dawn Organization, heâd even gotten their help before. He didnât want to let himself stay too far from the situation this time.
How would they escape from here?
The battle amongst the malicious spirits had gradually eased. The number of malicious spirits on the battlefield was rapidly decreasing.
But Su Zimo suddenly thought of a question.
Although they knew how to enter the world, they never thought about how to get out of the world.
Would the trainers disappear suddenly like before?
Even if this wasnât a nightmare world, but another real world?
Su Zimo was afraid to draw a conclusion.
The battle amongst the malicious spirits had come to an end. When only A-Li and his gangsters were left on the field, A-Li finally took control of the situation and began to look for Su Zimo and the others in Zhang Xiaoqingâs illusion.
Itâs just that before A-Li and the others could find their target, the bloody blades around Ghost Umbrella certainly didnât allow them to get close to Su Zimo!
When the withered land suddenly quieted, only Su Zimo and the others remained in the entire wasteland.
When everything seemed to have ended, the trainers still remained there. There was no sign of them leaving the nightmare world at all.
âSo⊠How exactly do we clear our task?â After being silent for a long time, Mu Feng looked at Su Zimo with a sad face.
At that time, it seemed they could only ask Su Zimo for help.
âI think the reason why no one passed the twentieth nightmare world isnât just that itâs too difficult to defeat the malicious spirits here.â Zhang Xiaoqing and Peng Peng, who had become a child again, had retreated behind Su Zimo, guarding him alongside Ghost Umbrella.
âIt may be because even if they defeated the malicious spirits, they couldnât find a way to escape from here.â Su Zimo offered a wry smile.
Su Zimo suddenly figured something out.
Perhaps the existence of the nightmare world itself was for aggression. Tt would get rid of all of the trainers in this world by any means. In other words, it would get rid of anyone with potential.
But what if a particularly powerful trainer was born in the process?
Maybe Su Zimo knew the answer now.
The answer was⊠the nightmare world would exile them to another world.
Although Su Zimo didnât know why the nightmare world used sequential tasks to strengthen the trainers, the only explanation could be that the mysterious existence behind the sun preferred a more exciting game process? <sup>1</sup>
Just like the âvoting gameâ initiated by the malicious spirits, they liked to watch the trainers struggle to maintain their humanity in one nightmare world after another.
But now Su Zimo didnât have a good way out. He could bring ghosts into An Yu Yi Yu, but he couldnât bring living humans there through the side door of the shop.
[I may have a way to leave.] Ghost Umbrella suddenly spoke, attracting everyoneâs attention.
[Boss, you should know that the passage opening between this world and the other is related to me.] Ghost Umbrella looked down at Su Zimo. [To be precise, I actually opened it.]
[In Su manor and the white transit station before, I left some things as markers. I should be able to take everyone back the same way.] Ghost Umbrella showed a slight smile; it was a rare and very tender smile.
âYouâll be exhausted.â Su Zimo didnât hesitate to tell the truth.
[Iâm just An Yu Yi Yuâs housekeeper now.] Ghost Umbrellaâs eyes were smiling. [So even if Iâm exhausted, as long as I return to the shop, my body will get better soon. After all, when I first entered the shop before, I couldnât even use those bloody blades. Moreover, Iâve done things like opening passages twice. Practice makes perfect.]
[And thereâs this guy here to help.] Ghost Umbrella stretched out the black umbrella in his hand.
Su Zimo secretly took notice of that, but before nodding his agreement, the black umbrella in Ghost Umbrellaâs hand attacked them.
At that moment, Su Zimo could feel he wasnât being pulled into the umbrella. After all, it was impossible for the black umbrella to take in ordinary items and living humans. The feeling was more like being pushed away by the black umbrella, but everything his eyes could see around him was black.
As the scene before everyone changed, they experienced a transition from extreme black to extreme white.
In just a blink of an eye, they actually escaped that wasteland of a world. Even the Treasure Hunting Doll returned holding Su Zimoâs thigh.
The place they were at now was the white transit station.
They were welcomed with unimaginable screams and everyone looking as shocked as if the world had ended.
Ghost Umbrella didnât disappear. He continued to guard Su Zimoâs side, but didnât float in the air. Instead, he stepped to the ground and stood behind Su Zimo.
Su Zimo could feel Ghost Umbrellaâs breath weakening.
Then he noticed the eyes of everyone in the transit station.
âYouâre⊠alive?â Wan Hao, who helped Su Zimo and the others before, walked over in disbelief. âYou cleared the twentieth nightmare world? How did you clear the level? Whatâs wrong? Why did you return to the transit station; do you know the way out?!â
Between Wan Haoâs endless questions, Su Zimo saw Su Zixiang among the crowd.
His cousinâs face was pale. His chest really had a badge with a white background and a black circle!
âYou really joined Dawn Organization.â Su Zimo looked around at the members of Dawn Organization whose badges had all changed. âCompared to those things, I hope you would pay more attention to the badges on your chests. I suspect that some malicious spirits, using the name of the Dawn Organization, tricked all of you into wearing slave medallions.â
A prerequisite to wearing the slave medallion was for the slave to willingly take it. That made the scum who used slave medallions fabricate all kinds of lies.
But Dawn Organization⊠that was definitely the biggest lie in the nightmare world!
In the next second, Su Zimo saw Su Zixiang faint. He had no time to consider what Su Zixiang was thinking before he passed out, but there was no way he was just leaving Su Zixiang there.
In Su Zimoâs memory, that guy was still the only peer he had chatted with before going to school during his childhood.
Ghost Umbrella picked up what he had left in the transit station before â a ghost eyeball that he had on him, then took out the black umbrella again.
Ghost Umbrella could always guess what Su Zimo was thinking, so he didnât wait for Su Zimo to speak or interrupt anything. Ghost Umbrella waved the black umbrella in his hand again. His body shook slightly, but he stood firm.
When everyone came back to their senses, they actually⊠appeared on a busy street.
It wasnât an illusion, but a genuine busy street.
It was at that time that Su Zimo discovered Ghost Umbrella had taken out all of the people in the transit station. Everyone, including Su Zixiang who had passed out, appeared on Xincheng street in Jiangdu, outside of An Yu Yi Yu!
Because a large number of people had suddenly appeared, all of the passing pedestrians and vehicles braked sharply. Countless flashes and phone cameras aimed at the trainers who had appeared out of thin air.
But Su Zimo didnât have the time to worry too much; Ghost Umbrella had already disappeared. The black umbrella in Su Zimoâs hand twitched slightly. It seemed that Ghost Umbrella was informing him that he had returned to the umbrella for the first time.
âMu Feng! Come in with me! And you, go carry that guy inside!â Su Zimo gave orders to the Su family housekeeper beside him. Along the way, he instructed the Treasure Hunting Doll who was idling to the side carry Su Zixiang into the store alongside Mu Feng with an aggrieved expression.
What Ghost Umbrella needed most wasnât gratitude from others; he needed to return to the shop as quickly as possible!
Su Zimo knew that and didnât blame Ghost Umbrella for acting without his consent. He turned around and returned to the store. After Su Zixiang was also dragged in, he immediately waved for Ayuyuyu to shut the door and placed Ghost Umbrella horizontally on the shop counter.
Perhaps bringing Ghost Umbrella back to the store worked, and soon Su Zimo saw Ghost Umbrella appear feebly behind the counter.
Su Zimo was relieved that Ghost Umbrellaâs status seemed pretty good.
âThis isâŠâ Mu Feng still couldnât recover after entering the shop in a daze.
âWe need to return to Shoushan as fast as possible.â Su Zimo glanced at Su Zixiang, who still hadnât awakened from his coma.
When he left the world with the trainers, Su Zimo had a feeling that many things would be different.
One reason was because the twentieth nightmare world seemed to be an important stop on the road from the beginning; maybe it might even end there.
But in the end, he broke through with those trainers.
In addition, Su Zimo could be considered to have seen his motherâs homeland. Seeing another world that had become a polluted wasteland seemed to be a major event.
Then, the Dawn Organization, which had always made him uneasy, let go of its radiant cover.
From the moment the Dawn Organization badge turned into a slave medallion and could no longer be removed by the trainers, Su Zimo knew that his guess was correct the entire time. The organization mentioned in his motherâs diary that was betrayed by the survivors was Dawn Organization!
In addition to the countless good members of the Dawn Organization, as well as some powerful leaders and team leaders⊠The real management at upper levels of the organization wasnât humans at all, but a group of malicious spirits who had come to their world from another world!
Things like slave medallions may be products that brought from the other world!
Knowing that the world was about to become unrecognizable, Su Zimo ignored the dazed trainers outside the door and directly tapped the screen next to the door, beginning to re-select An Yu Yi Yuâs location.
This was the fastest way Su Zimo knew back to Shoushan!
Before Su Zimo took the scenic bus and plane back to Shoushan that time, he considered changing the shopâs location, but he really just wanted to take a trip and relax back then and decided not to use this shop function.
Su Zimo would settle his shop in Shoushan, and An Yu Yi Yu would become a physical barrier for the Su family.
âItâs time to return to Shoushan.â Looking at Mu Feng and Su Zixiang who was lying on the floor of the shop, Su Zimo found the name Shoushan City in the list and pressed on it without hesitation.
In the blink of an eye, the outside of the shop was shrouded in mist. After it dissipated, Su Zimo saw a somewhat familiar green forest.
Because all of Shoushan except the top of the mountain was covered in forests, Su Zimo didnât know where the shop was now.
As soon as Su Zimo left the shop alone to look around, he saw the silver thread and golden bells Su Hewen and the others arranged in the woods.
It seemed the shop should be located on Shoushanâs mountainside, which was almost near the entrance to the Su family territory.
âBoss, you leave with them first. I can return to Su manor from the back door at any time.â Ghost Umbrella wasnât human, so he could enter and leave Su manor through the back door like Su Zimo. It was much more convenient than for Su Zixiang and the others.
Su Zimo also knew about Ghost Umbrellaâs condition, so after determining the location of the shop, he didnât wake up the comatose SU Zixiang, but continued having Mu Feng and the Treasure Hunting Doll drag him from the shop. Exiting, they walked along Shoushanâs convenient mountain path all the way back to the Su family territory on top of the mountain.
Mu Feng was good, and he didnât know if the Treasure Hunting Doll was tired, but Su Zixiang, who kept bumping his head on the steps every so often, was suffering. He almost woke up, but was knocked out seconds later.
Soon after, Su Gan and Su Hewen, who were discussing something in the living room, saw Su Zimo and the ones behind him open the door to the manor and walked into the house under the complex gazes of the staffâŠ
It was difficult for Su Gan to describe what he saw. He unexpectedly saw a soft-looking, cloth cartoon doll walking in with a familiar figure, and the person being dragged⊠turned out to be Su Zixiang.
Su Zimo, who was supposed to still be in the study on the second floor, and Mu Feng, who had secretly submitted his resignation before, entered then.
Before Su Hewen asked anything, he saw the Dawn badge that had turned into a slave medallion on Su Zixiangâs chest, so he directly asked: âIs Su Zixiang also a member of Dawn Organization?â
âIs there any news from outside?â Su Zimo frowned and asked.
âThis time there was a big commotion. Even ordinary people already know about slave medallions. They also know that all the badges worn by Dawn Organization members have become slave medallions that canât be removed. The entire Dawn Organization is a devastating conspiracy.â Su Hewen seemed to have a headache. âWhatâs worse is that the news was sent by Dawn Organization itself. They seemed happy to see so many people deceived by the conspiracy. The city under the mountain has been chaotic because of this incident.â
âI need to leave Shoushan and take a look outside.â Su Zimo said with certainty.
âThe matter has nothing to do with you.â Although Su Hewen understood Su Zimoâs feelings, he still put protecting him first.
âNo. It actually has something to do with me.â Su Zimo didnât say much, but repeatedly assured his father and brother that he had a bargaining chip to maintain his safety.
After everything, the passage that allowed the malicious spirits of the Dawn Organization into this world from another was opened by Ghost Umbrella. Now Ghost Umbrella was not only a member of the shop, but someone that would always be by Su Zimoâs side. His affairs could be considered Su Zimoâs affairs.
Su Zimo wanted to deceive himself.
But when Ghost Umbrella that opened the passage twice stood by his side, Su Zimo regretted it for a moment.
In addition, Dawn Organization seemed to have enmity with Su Zimoâs mother from the beginning, and even tried to kill Su Zimo hundreds of times. Su Zimo was secretly a very vengeful person, so he wanted to take this opportunity to end this matter.
âThen Su Zixiang is okay?â Su Gan was worried about Su Zixiang being comatose.
âThereâs nothing wrong for now.â Su Zimo didnât wake Su Zixiang up in the end. âAs long as the owner of the first medallion is found, the ones on the Dawn Organization members will fall off.â
âIâll drive.â Mu Feng hadnât actually figured out what was happening, but he desperately wanted to help Su Zimo.
âNo. If you want to go, drive by yourself.â Su Zimo shook his head. âI have a faster way to get there.â
After instructing them on everything, Su Zimo left Zhang Xiaoqing and Peng Peng at Su manor. Although the outside world was chaotic, most of them were trainers and ordinary people who needed to save themselves, so those two ghosts werenât needed. It was more appropriate for them to guard the Su family.
After making sufficient preparations, Su Zimo passed through the door of the second floor study alone and returned to An Yu Yi Yu.
When Su Zimo returned to the door of An Yu Yi Yu and started selecting the next location on the screen next to the door, the ghost umbrella floating in the shop suddenly asked: âBoss, do you think this world can be saved?â
Su Zimo showed a contemplative expression and didnât answer.
âGhost Umbrella, I actually guessed something.â
âWhen you were in that world before, you said that you had opened the passage twice. That is to say⊠in addition to opening the passage from the wasteland to this world, you did it one other time?â Su Zimo tilted his head and looked at Ghost Umbrella.
âYou donât have any nostalgia for that wasteland world. That kind of feeling canât fool me.â Su Zimoâs eyes were serious. âPerhaps for you, these two worlds arenât the only ones in existence, right?â
âReally?â Ghost Umbrella replied casually.
âIf the wasteland world is world number 2, and the current world is world number 3, then I guess Ghost Umbrellaâs real home world should be world number 1.â Su Zimo said, lowering his voice again. âYou may have even been the last trainer left in World 1, so you would know that the nightmare world would transfer after the last trainer disappears.â
âEn?â Su Zimo looked up at Ghost Umbrella, thinking he had heard wrong.
âIndeed, boss. You guessed it right.â Ghost Umbrella smiled and squinted his eyes, but the words he spoke were sad. âI really supported it for a long, long, long time, but in the end, I couldnât hold on to it anymore.â
At that moment, an image appeared in Su Zimoâs mind.
A barren land, a sky full of yellow sand, and a lone trainer who didnât know how many years he had lasted.
Just as the image spun through Su Zimoâs mind, the scenery outside the shop changed and became the busiest street in Shoushan City.
He didnât know whether or not it was a coincidence, but when Su Zimo arrived at his destination, a gathering of Dawn Organization members was occurring in the central plaza.
They had gathered together for a reason that was very clear to Su Zimo. They were anxiously discussing countermeasures and couldnât help trembling in panic.
Su Zimo stood inside the shop, looking at the trainers outside. The shop he was in seemed to have merged with a row of shops in the central plaza.
It was just like Xincheng street.
âThereâs new news from Dawn Organization on the internet.â Ghost Umbrellaâs voice came from behind him. âThose malicious spirits seem to like causing this kind of panic. Itâs being said that the first city they want to capture is Shoushan.â
âIs is a coincidence?â Ghost Umbrella was puzzled.
âIt shouldnât be a coincidence.â Su Zimo shook his head. âDidnât you say before that those malicious spirits⊠the senior leaders of Dawn Organization had been using ghost tools to track my whereabouts? Have they been keeping tabs on me the whole time? Iâve been in Shoushan all these years, so it seems normal for these malicious spirits to come to Shoushan.â
âThe most important thing is that they probably know who I am, so the news about the Su family grandchildrenâs awakening shouldnât have been hidden from them.â Su Zimo frowned. âI suspect that Third Uncleâs ring was a trap they deliberately set. Its purpose was to try and kill me again.â
âMaybe they learned about me and the shop later. Or maybe Dawn Organizationâs conspiracy interested them more than I did, so they diverted their attention. But to be honest, itâs really not surprising that theyâd come to Shoushan.â Su Zimo looked outside expectantly. âThe owner of the first medallion may also be there!â
âLetâs go out together.â Ghost Umbrella took the initiative to follow by Su Zimoâs side.
âAre you sure?â Su Zimo looked up and down Ghost Umbrellaâs body with some worry.
âThat kind of look would make someone anxious, boss.â Ghost Umbrella raised an eyebrow. âI said I have experience opening passages, and the energy consumption is far less scary than before. This umbrella actually helped offset some of the cost.â
âItâs better for me to focus on that first medallion.â Ghost Umbrella smiled again. âIâll trouble boss with other random trash.â
âDonât worry, thereâs also Uncle Hong here to help!â Su Zimo made a confident gesture. Just as he was about to open the shop door, he paused and asked in a low voice, âActually, you still remember your previous name, donât you?â
âIt was really hard to remember before, but nowâŠâ
As Su Zimo opened the door, Ghost Umbrella floated directly past him. The moment he floated by, Su Zimo heard a name in his ear.
It was accompanied by a slightly cold wind blowing past his ears.
***1 chapter + 1 fanwai left ^-^
So. We donât get to know his name, huh? Youâre gonna play it like that? Okay headcanon time. I put so much thought into this guys you have no idea. His name is now Feng Zhisong (éŁç„æŸ, lit. wind knows the pine), where Zhisong is referencing a quote: ćČćŻïŒèć ç„æŸ æäčććäč, meaning âin winter, the pine and cypress will wither last.â Iâm accepting criticism on this but i think its perfect (chat with me about it if you want) He was the last trainer in his original world, but he didnât wither despite his terrible circumstances. He can open passages to other worlds, and wind can travel anywhere. Also, since the quote mentions winter, it goes along with how he carries a cold/icy aura with him ? and its pretty
<ol>Sun likely refers to the creator of Dawn Organization.</ol>