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Translated by rabbitrisu

“I didn’t expect you to be alive?” Qi Xiaomin was excited and surprised when she saw Su Zimo alive.

Excited because she was very fond of the beautiful boy in glasses. Even if she hadn’t thought about anything with Su Zimo, she didn’t want such a good-looking and friendly person to experience something unexpected because of the nightmare world.

But… Qi Xiaomin clearly saw Su Zimo get swallowed by the ghost in the darkness, and she knew that was Su Zimo’s first experience in a nightmare world. He couldn’t have had any nightmare points to offset the death penalty, so she thought that the boy who helped people feel better in that nightmare world… may have disappeared.

But now, Su Zimo is standing in front of her, not only intact, but with a more lively expression on his eyes and face than when they first met.

“Could it be that you actually….”

Before Su Zimo came up with a suitable explanation, the shocked Qi Xiaomin took a deep breath in front of him. “Were you actually a veteran in the beginning?”

“I wasn’t a veteran…” Su Zimo knew it was difficult to explain how he was devoured by a ghost but stood there intact. He simply made an excuse for Qi Xiaomin’s statement. “But before that, I experienced a nightmare world indifferently. Because of my lack of experience, I was no different than a newcomer.”

“Anyway, it’s great to see you again!”

Qi Xiaomin didn’t continue to ask anything. She patted Su Zimo’s shoulder with great care, smiled, and introduced him to the surrounding trainers. “Everyone, this is my companion who was born and died last time. If he didn’t find the ghost’s weakness when he was eaten, my nightmare points would have been deducted.”

“It’s the little guy you talked about last time?”

The person talking was a mature woman in a white coat with curly hair. She smiled at Su Zimo and said, “Then you really have the others. This task is much more complicated than the novice level you experienced last time. If you were detained for nightmare points last time, it’s normal to be nervous this time. How could I stand here and talk and laugh?”

“Oh, speaking of Su Zimo, your nightmare points have been deducted, right?!” Qi Xiaomin screamed and told him seriously, “There are many powerful veterans participating in this task. I’m afraid it will be very complicated. You need to follow closely with everyone!”

Su Zimo heard from the conversation between Qi Xiaomin and the elder sister that they should be friends who already knew each other. They may have even fought side by side together.

“I see.” Su Zimo looked at the seven people standing in front of him and found that some of them didn’t feel the same as most of the trainers he had met before.

There was a sense of composure, order within chaos.

“By the way, do you know this little guy too?” The female doctor in the white coat didn’t forget the exclamation of the tall young man beside her when he heard Su Zimo’s name. He even announced the name of a school.

“Well, we were classmates and table neighbors in secondary school.” The bald-headed youth was a little embarrassed. “Su Zimo, do you remember me? I’m Du Xin, I sat in your back row in school!”

Du Xin?

Su Zimo pulled up the memories deep in his mind, and finally recalled an old classmate called ‘Du Xin’ from his school days.

Then he couldn’t help laughing.

Because Du Xin looks clean and straight in front of him. The bald hairstyle also made him look very spiritual. But in Su Zimo’s memory, the old classmate ‘Du Xin’ was a problematic teenager who fought, smoked, and drank proficiently. He not only frequently changed his hair color, but also indulged himself in smoky makeup for a while.

No wonder he failed to recognize this old classmate who gave him a great shock when he was a student.

“Sorry, I didn’t expect you to change so much.” The two old classmates reunited, and Su Zimo let out a little sigh of relief in this nightmare world.

“He changed a lot?” The elder sister next to him looked up curiously. “Wasn’t this guy always like this? We still think he’s always too boring, like a Buddhist monk.”

Monk?

Thinking of Du Xin’s school era, where he looked like a biker from TV, it was really difficult for Su Zimo to associate him with the word ‘monk.’

“Hush!” Du Xin immediately made a shushing motion at Su Zimo, then blinked at him like he was hinting at him. “When I was still in high school, I was a little ignorant. It’s not surprising that I would do some stupid things.”

Su Zimo’s mouth twitched a little.

When Du Xin saw Su Zimo smile as he stood there, he was stunned for a while. It wasn’t until the doctor sister next to him hit him that he recovered.

“Fishy.” The doctor sister narrowed her eyes and looked at Du Xin very understandingly.

“This is Dr. Jin Lei. She is very good at emergency treatment.” Qi Xiaomin on the side introduced Su Zimo to the doctor sister. “I’ll introduce the others to you later. We’ll go to the hall now. Leader Cheng told me not to stay in one place too long.”

With that said, under the leadership of that person, the entire team started to move toward the stairs in an orderly manner.

“Who is Leader Cheng?” Su Zimo asked with some doubt. “Has it been long since this task began? Has the leader been chosen?”

“No.” Qi Xiaomin smiled and shook her head. “Leader Cheng is one of Dawn’s team leaders. He is already a very powerful veteran compared to us.”

“Dawn?” Su Zimo heard a strange noun.

“….” Qi Xiaomin didn’t answer directly, but glanced at Dr. Jin and switched places to explain after seeing her nod. “Dawn is a cooperative organization established spontaneously by trainers. There are actually many such organizations, but Dawn is one of the largest and has the best reputation.”

“People need to have a recommendation to join Dawn. I was lucky because I met Dawn members when I entered my first nightmare world. After a period of application and observation, I became a basic member.”

“Because the requirements are very strict, the camaraderie within Dawn has always been very good.”

“We can exchange information and experiences within the organization, and even exchange props. When we enter a nightmare world, we can use the medals on out clothes to temporarily team up.” Qi Xiaomin pointed to her clothes, where there was a small metal badge designed with a radiant style.

“The leader’s medal is different than ours, so it’s quite recognizable.” Qi Xiaomin smiled. “A person who can become a leader must be a very powerful veteran.”

“However, the difficulty of tasks will heighten drastically, and the entire process will be very dangerous.” Dr. Jin interjected.

“Is this a team medal?” When he heard about the medal, Su Zimo’s first thought was Gao Yang and Cheng Jingmeng.

“Team medal?” Qi Xiaomin and Du Xin looked a bit puzzled.

Su Zimo could only briefly tell Gao Yang about them, but saw the expressions of the two people before him become more and more strange.

“That’s not a team medal.” Du Xin said in disgust. “That kind of thing is called the slave mark, and generally only really disgusting guys will use it.”

“It takes seven days to enter the nightmare world each time. Did Su Zimo encounter that kind of terrible guy when you went through your novice level? It’s lucky that you were able to pass through safely.” Qi Xiaomin was thankful.

Slave medal…..

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Su Zimo digested that information cautiously, and then realized that Qi Xiaomin said that they would enter a nightmare world every seven days. So, for Qi Xiaomin, Su Zimo was a companion she met in her last nightmare world.

The side door to An Yu Yi Yu can be opened once every two days, so Su Zimo enters nightmare worlds more often than they do.

“The members of Dawn have to rely on something to get in contact with each other, right? Otherwise, leaving the nightmare world would be a mess.” Su Zimo adjusted his glasses in doubt. “Are there any special props?”

“Of course, the greatest prop in the history of human development.” Dr. Jin looked back again, took out a familiar object from her pocket, and said in a mocking tone. “Cell phones and internet.”

“Hey hey.” Du Xin and Qi Xiaomin smiled when they saw Su Zimo’s surprised expression. “We have special secret software to communicate.”

“In the beginning, there weren’t many people entering nightmare worlds. Every time I cleared a task, I met many acquaintances, but now there are more and more strangers.” Du Xin looked at Su Zimo in concern. “Although it’s a good thing to have more novice levels, it’s not good to have more trainers.”

“There are many people with loose mouths. I heard that more and more ordinary people now know news about the nightmare world…..” Dr. Jin said while taking everyone downstairs. “The nightmare world doesn’t prohibit trainers from exposing the information. It’s like it’s been hoping that more people will learn about its existence since the beginning.”

After Dr. Jin finished speaking, the team fell into an awkward silence.

Su Zimo also went down the stairs and found that he was on the top floor of this old and abandoned building. No wonder the person who found him said that he should be the last one.

“We all woke up in different rooms before.” Du Xin broke the team’s silence. “Leader Cheng was worried that a newcomer was panicking along, so we searched the whole house.

“As a result,, the number of people participating in this task… it’s actually a lot.

Du Xin changed the subject, and with a lighter tone spoke to Su Zimo. “Oh, why did you suddenly transfer to a different school back then and not say goodbye when you left? The girls in the class were miserable.”

Su Zimo just smiled, not explaining the special four years he had experienced.

However, Du Xin’s statement also surprised him a bit. He didn’t expect that his classmates didn’t know that he was in a car accident. They just thought he had left school without saying goodbye.

“I think you were sad too, right Du Xin?” Dr. Jin laughed as if she saw through him.

“Hu- hu-.” Du Xin coughed a few times, then told Su Zimo seriously, “The first two tasks for newcomers aren’t difficult. Most of them are just facing a malicious spirit, and the severity is average.”

“But this time there are so many people, and there are veterans who’ve experienced more than a dozen tasks. This task may be very dangerous. It’s not something that ordinary trainers can deal with, so you must follow me closely.”

Su Zimo nodded, but the next second he was attracted by the vase around the corner of the stairs.