Su Zimo walked through the hall and found a manuscript sheet that was said to be a three star ghost tool. There was a splattered ink droplet on it, a few words, and it looked a little crumpled.
But if the text box was serious, it wasnât only a three star ghost tool, but also has a special ability, âDo Not Enter.â It was an ability that even Su Zimo couldnât understand.
All of the question marks on the ghost umbrellaâs text boxes were taken as a lesson, so Su Zimo didnât find it too strange. At least he could still learn from the text that this ghost tool has the ability to attract special customers, which isnât nothing.
Whatâs more, the manuscript in his hand also recorded a lot of information.
âMr. Su is still the same as before.â
When Su Zimo carefully rolled up the manuscript and put it in his backpack for safekeeping, he heard Qi Xiaominâs voice coming from nearby.
âIn the last nightmare world, it seemed that you took away some toilet paper and vases and such. But, you shouldnât be able to take things away from the nightmare world after failing to clear a task?â Qi Xiaominâs footsteps were very light, and her voice was deliberately hushed. It seems she was afraid to disturb what existed in the darkness. âAre there any special uses?â
âIt may be a habit from childhood. Iâll always be interested in odd things.â Su Zimo turned his head and found that Qi Xiaomin and Dr. Jin had both entered the second floor with their phone flashlights.
âI think the vase over there is also good?â Perhaps after hearing Qi Xiaominâs words, Dr. Jin also followed behind Su Zimo and pointed to a vase on a broken table in the hall. âIt looks better than the one you brought back to the lobby before.â
Su Zimo turned his head to look at the vase. After not finding any text boxes, he was disappointed and prepared to turn his gaze away. He shook his head with a smile and said, âI still think that the previous vase looks more interesting.â
But just before Su Zimo retracted his gaze, he noticed something next to the vase.
After Su Zimo picked up the lacquered black thing in his hand, he looked at it for a while and found that it was a broken cane. The only part left in Su Zimoâs hand was the handle and upper half of the cane. The other half of it had been lost.
[Stupid Old Cane (Unrepaired)]
[Not for Sale]
[Description: Visible after repair.]
[Limitations: Visible after repair.]
Su Zimo didnât expect that Dr. Jinâs ridiculous finger pointing would actually let him find a ghost tool again. Although the details couldnât be seen and it couldnât be used because it was broken, it seemed that as long as it could be repaired, Su Zimoâs store could have one more product!
Looking back at the handle with his flashlight, Su Zimo suddenly felt that Grandpaâs motto, âseek wealth and risks,â was correct. It is true what the ghost umbrella said that ghost tools were prone to appear near malicious spirits. If he had hurriedly left before discovering these two ghost tools, he might have wasted an opportunity to restock.
âThank you.â Su Zimo nodded to Dr. Jin sincerely, then tucked the broken cane into his backpack.
The quality of ghost tools is much higher than that of ordinary things. Peng Pengâs scores all felt unbreakable. The manuscript pages and the cane that Su Zimo discovered were naturally not fragile at all.
âAre you really prepared to spend points to take those things out?â A surprised expression appeared on Dr. Jinâs face. âMr. Su, I like you a lot, and I think youâre a very smart and excellent person, but I really think that these things arenât worth your nightmare points. And Xiaomin said that youâve been penalized. Are you really going to use all the nightmare points from this task clearance to take away these⊠papers and wood?â
âLetâs wait and see.â Su Zimo couldnât explain.
âEven if you really take these things out, what can you do with them?â Jin Lei sighed. âIs this the âone step between the legendary genius and a madmanâ?â
âMaybe⊠it will become a hot commodity in a store?â Su Zimo smiled and stopped talking.
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Ghost umbrella said before that the more powerful the ghost tool, the more they hide themselves, and that hidden ghost tools look like something very ordinary or lacking value, making it impossible for other trainers or other ghosts to discover the tools.
If it werenât for the pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, Su Zimo might be like other trainers, only finding obvious weapons or special things like jade seals.
âLook at the master bedroom.â As Su Zimo walked forward, the other trainers stood outside the hallway and use their cell phones to light the way.
Cheng Yun, who was originally at the back, had wanted to follow Dr. Jin into the second floor corridor, but his sleeve was grabbed by Bai Man, so he could only look into the hole and silently watch Su Zimo as they turned into the master bedroom on the second floor.
The second floor master bedroom was more dilapidated than the one he saw on the third floor.
Although the room was large, the wooden bed in the middle had collapsed. The smell in the air was more unpleasant than the rest of the villa. It had an unspeakable essence of decay. It made people want to leave.
âThereâs a lot of food here, even canned food.â Liu Xu seemed to have a spirit that wasnât afraid of suffering or the smell. He just squatted down in a corner where many terrible substances were piled up and used his phone to light up the area without covering his nose.
âYou can still see that as food?â Su Zimo couldnât help but take a step back.
âAll the canned foods here havenât moved and are piled together. Other non-degradable plastics, even if theyâre buried underground, take hundreds of years to decompose, so we can still recognize the food debris and plastic bags. There are many plastic bags that have been opened, as well as many that havenât, along with a lot of rotten food.â
Liu Xu explained it clearly, so the others stopped moving forward.
âThere are deep grooves in the floor.â Dr. Jin squatted down, illuminating the ruined floor with her phone light. âIt looks like itâs been pressed down many times.â
Su Zimo followed the light of Dr. Jinâs phone, then saw the grooves on the ground. They were like two bicycles driving side by side, leaving two parallel lines along the floorboards.
The grooves could be seen everywhere in the room, and they extended from the bedroom all the way to the end of the hall, then returned back the same way.
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âRemember the creaking we heard from the main hall? And the creaking when we woke up in various rooms?â Dr. Jin took a deep breath. âWe said before that they sounded like a big fat man or a small giant walking on the floor, since the sound was much heavier than the footsteps of ordinary people.â
âYes.â Qi Xiaomin nodded.
âThat creaking was so loud⊠because the one who was moving on the second floor⊠has been sitting in a wheelchair the entire time.â Dr. Jin sighed. âThe weight of that person, plus the weight of the wheelchair⊠On the ruined second floor, itâs enough to make that kind of creak when moving around.â
âThe patient in the wheelchair should be the patient we mentioned before.â Su Zimo clenched his right hand slightly. âThe old man who was left behind in the villa.â
[AahâŠâŠ. aaaaaaaahhhhhâ]
âRetreat!â When Su Zimo heard the slurred voice ringing from the master bedroom, he immediately pushed the two ladies back through the door and retreated to the place furthest away from the source of the noise.
Liu Xu, who was still lingering in the master bedroom, also stood up, but did not immediately back away. Instead, he turned to look at the place where the sound came from.
They used the faint light around them and saw a seated figure suddenly appear next to the bedside table in the place where there should be a window, but the window there was blocked by wood and iron like the others.
Liu Xu, who was obviously very brave, took out his cell phone to take photos of where the figure appeared.
When the corner was lit up by the phone, Su Zimo saw nothing.
But when Liu Xu turned the phone light to other places, the shadowed figure appeared again in the corner where the light was dim!
[Ua-]
The slurred voice came from the area where the shadow was. The dark figure, who may be sitting in a wheelchair, was accompanied by a creaking sound as it slowly approached Liu Xu.
Liu Xu immediately began to back away, almost without any creaking sounds.
When Liu Xu retreated in front of Su Zimo, they saw that the black shadow stopped in front of the pile of âfood.â After a motionless half a minute, they changed their direction with a âcreakâ and came to the door where Su Zimo stood.
âAh!â Qi Xiaomin, who had little experience and even less guts, held up her phone with the flashlight on and then quickly backed away with the others.
When the figure was illuminated, the main bedroom became dilapidated and everything disappeared. Even when Qi Xiaomin moved the phone way, she still couldnât find the figure who should have still been in the bedroom.
âOver there.â
Su Zimo turned his head and saw that the black shadow reappeared in the corridor.
âBai Man, have everyone turn off their phone flashlights.â Dr. Jin said in a small voice. The light that had originally shone from the hole quickly disappeared, and the shadow that continued to move forward in the hall became more solid.
[Boom! Boom! Boom!]
Su ZImo looked at what the figure was holding in his hand and striking hard against the wall while moving forward. The rhythm of the sound made everyone behind feel chills.
So far, the âboomâ and âcreakâ noises they heard before have been explained.
Su Zimo and the others had been crouching behind the shadow the whole time. Originally they thought that the figure might leave since the blockade was broken, but they didnât expect that she shadow would walk only halfway down the corridor before disappearing in the weak light.
Even if there was no light, the dark shadow in the wheelchair disappeared.
Su Zimo sped up and walked over, then found that a thin and round wooden stick had fallen where the shadow disappeared. Su ZImo was sure that there wasnât such a thing in the hall before this. After all, he found the three star manuscript page near here.
When Su Zimo adjusted his glasses and looked at the stick, he was surprised to see text boxesâ
[Stupid Old Cane (Unrepaired)]
[Not for Sale]
[Description: Visible after repair.]
[Limitations: Visible after repair.]
Dr. Jin and Qi Xiaomin, who had been worried about Su Zimoâs future and were considering how to persuade him to give up his habit of picking up things from everywhere, watched him pick up a lump of wood from the ground like it was treasure, and put it into his backpack.
âWhat happened just now?â When Bai Manâs voice came from outside the hole, she was surprised.
âWe found some key things and new clues.â Su Zimo took his phone out and looked around every corner of the second floor. After making sure he wasnât missing anything important, he left with the others into the hallway with the candlelight as bright as daylight.
It was obviously a long-abandoned villa, but the air outside of the second floor felt like the gap between a mountain and a carâs exhaust pipe.
Cheng Yun, who had been blocked by Bai Man in various ways, was looking at everyone who came out of the hold with a particularly strange expression.
Translatorâs Notes:
Jin Lei and Qi Xiaomin are about to go KonMari on Su Zimo.
JL and QX: Su Zumo, do the items you find spark joy?