Su Zimo suddenly understood when he was âeatenâ by the darkness.
While he was unwilling to ignore human life, the strangers he met may have completely different ideas than him.
Whatâs more, he was in a different space known as the ânightmare world,â not in high school where he didnât need to worry about anything except studying before he became âsimple.â
If it werenât for his special circumstances, Su Zimo may not have been able to survive for an hour in the so-called ânightmare world.â
âAiâŚâ Putting aside his negative emotions, Su Zimo held his right hand behind him and grasped the door handle that appeared in the dark while no one was watching. While breathing a sigh of relief, Su Zimo suddenly felt that his surroundings were a bit strange.
In Su Zimoâs imagination, the darkness that had been chasing the trainers was like the malicious spiritâs stomach. As long as he was caught by the darkness, he would be swallowed and eaten directly!
But that wasnât actually the case. The environment he was in was not particularly, strange, itâs just that the candles on either side of the corridor were not extinguished. He could even see the corridor ahead with the red candlelight.
He could see the little fat boy screaming and running.
He could also see Han Ling, who fell to the ground, crawling forward to escape.
He could see them, but they could not seem to see him, otherwise the door handle that he held would probably disappear again.
However, Zheng Ming was right. The speed of the darkness seemed to have stopped after âswallowingâ Su Zimo. The remaining candles in the corridor were no longer extinguished, and Han Ling and the others had the opportunity to breathe and escape.
Although Su Zimo wouldnât fight for them for too long, it should be enough for Han Ling to hide in the second refuge that Zheng Ming found just ahead of them.
Han Lingâs plan could be called successful.
But⌠what about the ghost?
He didnât know if it was because of the ability granted by the pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, but when Su Zimo stayed in the darkness for a few seconds, he could vaguely make something out within it.
He could see the candlestick in the dark and the various mirrors hanging on the wall.
Su Zimo held suspicions from the beginning â why were there so many mirrors hanging in the hotel corridors?
When his eyes swept across one of the mirrors around him, the pupils behind his glasses shrank instantly, revealing an incredulous expression.
What did he see?
He saw a long-haired woman in a red dress with her head down in the mirror! He saw the terrible dark red blood dripping down the neck of the female âperson.â The female âpersonâ was covered with blood on her shoulders and arms, and even Su Zimo couldnât be sure whether the red skirt was originally that color or stained red by bloodâŚ
That person is clearly not a person, but a ghost!
Even more frightening was that Su Zimo watched as the ghost in the red dress disappeared from the mirror in front of him and re-appeared in another mirror close to boundary between the darkness and the empty corridor! She appeared sideways in the mirror and looked down at the candle that was still lit nearby.
Su Zimo could hear the familiar wind blowing when the ghost woman blew out the candle.
Another candle was extinguished, and the darkness in the hallway moved closer.
The lights went out, the ghost was staying!
It turned out⌠the ghosts of this nightmare world were not hidden within the darkness, but within the mirrors that shouldnât have been in the hotel corridors.
That was the truth of this nightmare world.
âDarkness, the darkness is coming again! Why was there no effect!â There was a hysterical voice from Han Ling in the corridor near the darkness which obviously swallowed Su Zimo and had already covered her ankle again.
At first, Su Zimo thought that the female ghost in the mirror would not attack him. He even thought that this was the ability given to him by âAn Yu Yi Yu.â But when Su Zimo accidentally looked at the ghost who raised her head in the mirror, her sharp and broken howling suddenly resounded through the darkness, followed by the ghostâs black hair surging toward him like a waterfall and attacking him without hesitation!
Although he could slightly see things in the dark, Su Zimo couldnât avoid the black seaweed-like ghost hair in the dark, so there wasnât much time left to escape.
Fortunately, the ghostâs gaze didnât make the doorknob disappear.
âSu Zimo!â
Just as Su Zimo pushed open the door behind him, an unexpected figure turned back from the corridor outside, tore off a metal candlestick on the wall, and crossed near the border into the darkness with a swaying red candlelight.
The figure didnât dare go deep into the darkness, but the fact that they took the initiative to return and brought a candle to find a newcomer was impressive enough.
âSu Zimo, grab my hand!â
The candlelight was so weak that the person who broke through couldnât find the one they were looking for in the darkness.
Su ZImo could see Qi Xiaomin standing a meter away with a candle in hand, but he also saw the ghost hair turning to attack where Qi Xiaomin was holding the candlelight.
âRun quickly, the ghost woman is going to you.â Su Zimo thanked Qi Xiaomin for her help, so the moment before he retreated into the shop door, he gave the best advice he could think of, âThe ghost woman is hiding in the mirrors; go to a place without mirrors to hide!â
The bathroom in the hotel room was obviously a modern setup. The reflective windows in the rooms had turned into white walls, and there was no reflective equipment like TVs. Thinking about it at the moment, that was as strange as the hallway filled with mirrors. Su Zimo felt that that may be the survival reminder that the nightmare world had shown to them since the beginning.
He didnât want to save Han Ling, but what he said might save the girl who had tried to keep everyone alive from the start.
Itâs a pity that Su Zimo could only do so much. He could feel that if he hadnât entered the door, he wouldâve also died under that ghostâs attack.
Su Zimo, who retreated into the store, couldnât see Qi Xiaominâs expression, but he could see the candlelight in her hand moving away at a rapid speed, causing Su Zimo to feel relieved.
What made him more reassured was that the moment he stepped back through the door, he had returned to a bright and quiet place â the empty shop named âAn Yu Yi Yu.â He stepped back a few steps, finally seeing the white frosted door that always followed behind him in a ghostly manner, and the endless darkness behind the door.
The next second, the seaweed-like hair, which generally belonged to malicious spirits, suddenly rushed out of the door. Su Zimo, who thought he was safe, was surprised.
Afterwards, Su Zimo saw that the malicious spiritâs hair seemed to feel something terrible, and quickly receded like a tide, and the ordinary white frosted side door closed automatically.
Before closing the door, Su Zimo vaguely heard a scream, which sounded a like Han Ling.
âIâm back.â The moment the door was completely closed, Su Zimo held the counter not far away from him. then sat down on the cold floor of âAn Yu Yi Yu,â looked around and up at the light above his head, and everything seemed to return to the beginning.
In an instant, Su Zimo said goodbye to the screams and noises of the other trainers, and said farewell to the muddy, damp, uncomfortable dark red space. In this way, he stood in the clean and bright âAn Yu Yi Yu,â an ordinary-seeming shop where he could smell fresh air.
The only difference from the beginning was that there were more âcommoditiesâ which he brought back from the nightmare world in his backpack.
Specifically, the so-called âcommoditiesâ where a few sets of toiletries, a few rolls of toilet paper, and a white vase without any distinguishing characteristics.
When taking these things out of the bag, Su Zimo took a deep breath, beginning to reflect on what he had just encountered the the functionality of the door behind him.
First, the door was always behind him and never went away.
Second, no one can see the door except Su Zimo himself.
Third, you can touch the door handle by reaching out to it, but it will disappear when other living humans are watching.
Fourth, you need to walk backwards to enter the door behind you,
After summing it up, Su Zimo knew that using the door was not a all-powerful. After all, the door would only appear when it didnât hold the attention of others.
What if next time he was pushed to the malicious spirit by someone else? What would he do?
Thinking of such a possibility, Su Zimo sighed and told himself that the people he encountered in the nightmare world must not be regarded as his teammates!
If he really wanted to enter the nightmare world again, it would be most appropriate to put himself into a humble and inconspicuous position. After all, his biggest advantage was that, as long as he remains low-key, he didnât need to complete the messy trainer tasks.
He walked to the shelves in the middle of An Yu Yi Yu and began to shelve the contents of his backpack little by little.
When the first package of seemingly ordinary âNightmareâ toilet paper and toiletry set was put on the shelf, Su Zimo found that the âsale price barâ in front of the toilet paper automatically appeared with a text and a price tag â
[Nightmare Premium Roll]
[Sale Price: 1 yuan]
[Nightmare Brand 6 Piece Wash Set]
[Sale Price: 6 yuan]
These goods could really be sold normally.
After putting the last white vase on the shelf, Su Zimo tried to walk to the front and back doors, but the two doors which lacked operating energy and couldnât be opened before still could not be opened now!
The Ayuyuyu Intelligent System, which had spoken to Su Zimo before, shut down due to insufficient energy stores, but even without the system broadcast, Su Zimo could guess why he couldnât leave the store.
Surely itâs because the operating energy wasnât enough?
âThere are still too few products.â Looking at the empty shelves, Su Zimo took off his glasses and wiped them with a sigh.
Although he was relying on Ayuyuyu to increase his remaining lifespan, Su Zimoâs desire to leave Ayuyuyu was also strong.
This was because Su Zimo wanted to know â in the four years since he became âsimple,â who had been taking care of him?
Was it his bastard father who was deprived of the Su familyâs inheritance rights, married four wives, changed many lovers, had many illegitimate daughters, but had only one biological son?
Or was it Su Zimoâs grandfather, who had been bedridden due to a serious illness before his accident?
Because Su Zimo woke up in different villas and retreats, not only must he have had good living conditions, but someone must also have been taking good care of him. He was always confused.
Faced with the two choices, Su Zimo preferred the latter. But did that mean that the good young man had been taken care of by the sick elderly for four years?
What about now?
Was his body suddenly missing from where it was, making the elders search anxiously?
Thinking of that kind of image, Su Zimo urgently wanted to leave Ayuyuyu!
If he couldnât leave because there werenât enough goods, thenâŚ
Su Zimoâs eyes naturally fell on the side door that had just closed,
If the goods werenât enough, he would go to the nightmare world again!