Going to the nightmare world again was not a matter of just saying go.
Although he only listened to what the An Yu Yi Yu system said once, Su Zimo clearly remembered that after leaving the nightmare world, it would take at least forty-eight hours to enter again, so the side door that was just closed is not impossible to open again.
Couple with the fact that the front and back doors of the store couldnât be opened, Su Zimo was stuck in the store for forty-eight hours.
âIf the shop is called An Yu Yi Yu, the sound of that system is Ayuyuyu.â Su Zimo muttered to himself, and didnât seem worried about spending two days in this boring and monotonous shop.
Although it sounds a bit difficult, for Su Zimo who had been asleep for four months straight in four years, it wasnât that uncomfortable. And from the current circumstances, there was no other way to better or more quickly leave the store.
After looking around to see the unobstructed shop, Su Zimo placed the empty backpack on the counter, sat back in the chair, and looked at the old desktop computer that was still on the counter.
Su Zimo experienced an hour or so in the nightmare world. This computer seems to have been turned on the whole time, and the store management software on the blue screen with black and white text has always been on, but the content was slightly different from what Su Zimo saw before.
[Shop: An Yu Yi Yu (Ayuyuyu)]
[Owner: Su Zimo]
[Life Savings: 365 days]
[Shelf No.1 Capacity (no stars): 6/50]
[Shelf No.2 Capacity (one star): 0/20]
This was all the information that Su Zimo obtained from the computer. The two rows about the shelves seemed to appear only after he returned from the nightmare world and corresponded to the two ordinary white shelves in the An Yu Yi Yu shop.
The shelf where Su Zimo put the goods just now should be the [Shelf No.1] mentioned in the software. Whether it was a six piece wash set or a roll of toilet paper and a vase, there were the words âno starsâ in their text. The statistics in the software matched that.
Su Zimo had also participated in some popular online games before his accident, so when seeing âno starsâ or âone star,â even without Ayuyuyuâs guidance, he could vaguely understand what they meant.
Nothing was happening, so Su Zimo searched the store again.
After practically counting the amount of dust in the store, the only new thing Su Zimo found was just a book placed on the bottom of the first shelf. The book looked like the lined exercise book Su Zimo used in high school. The paper was very thin and the quality was not very good.
There were no labels on the side of the exercise book, just like the other goods. The book itself was also old and had traces of being folded. It seems that it had been used by someone. Maybe that was why it wasnât classified as a commodity by the shelf.
The strange thing is that when Su Zimo opened the book, he found that there were no words on the old yellowed paper.
It was blank.
After staring at the blank old exercise book for a while, Su Zimo suddenly remembered what he had done when he was in high school. At that time, the high school he was studying at didnât allow any electronics to be brought into the school. Even if the student had a background as high as the sky, they could not violate that rule.
When students were in their most bored states, even a blank book can be used as entertainment. <sup>1</sup>
Su Zimo remembered that he had found a metal ballpoint pen at the counter before and had thrown it into the side pocket of the backpack. So while he wasnât really tired, he took out a particularly heavy ballpoint pen and recorded some things he had experienced in the nightmare world.
Although he was very sure of his memory, Su Zimo still wanted to record some important things that must be remembered.
For example: the trainers, nightmare points, refuge, and task contents and countdown engraved in blood on the trainersâ left and right arms. Because these things werenât available to Su Zimo, he must remember them well to prevent unnecessary lapses while communicating with other trainers.
Another example: âDonât believe in senior trainers.â
Although the only chair in the store was uncomfortable, at least the back was adjustable. After Su Zimo was lying on the chair with his eyes closed, he quickly fell asleep, and was actually really tired.
This body in his early twenties and the spirit younger than his physical age had really endured too much and experienced too many things that he shouldnât have had to experience. Although he didnât say anything, Su Zimo really needed plenty of sleep this time.
After waiting for forty-eight hours in An Yu Yi Yu, his expressionless face finally showed some eager emotions. He picked up his backpack again, straightened his glasses with thin silver chains, and put the book and oddly heavy pen into the side pockets, then took a deep breath while walking toward the side door.
In addition to being very hungry, Su Zimo wanted to collect goods in the next nightmare world, and then leave An Yu Yi Yu as soon as possible and return to the original world.
After adjusting his mood and preparing himself, Su Zimo stood next to the side door with the white frosted glass. After selecting [001: Nightmare World] on the small display screen next to the door, he firmly grasped the familiar handle.
The cold touch rejuvenated Su Zimoâs spirit, and he smoothly and unhurriedly pushed open the side door to reveal the endless darkness before him.
Su Zimo knew that as long as he passed through the darkened, he could enter the nightmare world again.
If Qi Xiaomin and Zheng Ming were right, their nightmare world would be completely different every time. No one knows what the next world they will experience next will be. Maybe itâs a haunted hotel. Maybe itâs a mountain village with horrifying legends. Maybe itâs an isolated island in the sea haunted by murderous ghosts, or maybe an abandoned school with footsteps echoing through the night. Maybe a mirror hospital that turned into a bloody worldâŚ
Looking at the darkness in front of him, it was like a Pandoraâs box without knowing what was inside.
Then, he stepped in.
The feeling of being invaded by darkness caused Su Zimo to enter a trance-like state. After the light in front of him returned to normal, he found himself in a seemingly ordinary elevator space, and he was still alone!
You know, the last time Su Zimo appeared in the nightmare world, there were already several experienced people standing around him.
Because the elevator space was large and empty, Su Zimo noticed at a glance that a black, long-handled umbrella was placed in the corner of the elevator.
It was a very long-handled umbrella with a sophisticated look. The fabric on the umbrella was very textured. A silver embossed button was set on the buckle, and an exquisite skull was carved with meticulous technique.
In addition, the crank of the umbrella was also silver. It was lightly carved with unknown patterns, more like a beloved walking stick than an umbrella.
But what appeared in Su Zimoâs eyes was indeed an umbrella. What attracted his attention was not its elegance, but the weird text boxes that he saw through the glasses on the bridge of his nose â
[Black Umbrella (???)]
[Sale Price: ???]
[Description: ???]
Su Zimo didnât yet know what the information pop-up meant, or why the umbrella appeared there for no reason, but he did know that he should take the umbrella from the nightmare world or risk regretting it in the future.
Just when he held the umbrella in his hand and felt how light it was in comparison to its appearance, the elevator door that had been shut opened with a âding.â Su Zimo observed for a few seconds, then without hesitation stepped out of the elevator into an unfamiliar corridor.
Fortunately, this time Su Zimo wasnât in a dilapidated hotel with dim candlelight, but in an office building with modern decorations and equipment. The corridors were brightly lit, and various glass partitions and green plants embellished the entire space without any characteristics of a ânightmare world.â
What surprised Su Zimo the most was that he was the only person in the entire hallway, there was not even half of a senior trainer!
âWhatâs going on? Isnât this a nightmare world?â Su Zimo, who was carrying a backpack and an umbrella, seemed to have just joined a hiking team, but was separated from his teammates in a modern office building.
Subconsciously reaching out and looking backwards, after finding the familiar door handle, he put aside the problems of the nightmare world and the trainers. It was more important for him to collect goods than think about those things.
If there werenât any veterans, then the collection process may be smoother.
âThis is⌠a training institute? An educational institution?â
After walking along the corridor for a while, Su Zimo found that the surrounding glass partition was printed with âDeya Training Academy.â In addition to the front desk of the training institute near the elevator just now, there were large classrooms on both sides of the corridor separated by glass walls with signs on the doors to distinguish them.
Looking around, he saw types such as speech classrooms, writing classrooms, art classrooms, and dance classrooms. He tried to open the glass doors of the art classrooms around him, but found that they were locked and unable to be opened.
But even so, Su Zimo still found many things that could be sold as commodities at the front desk, such as a few boxes of unopened paperclips and dovetail clips. several unused ballpoint pens in drawers, some paper rolls stuffed in the cabinet⌠without exception, all of them were produced by âNightmare.â
Because it was a âNightmare Brand,â Su Zimo could take it. The rest⌠even if Su Zimo was hungry, he didnât move the snacks stuffed in the front desk drawer at all.
Carrying the backpack again, Su Zimo walked further into the corridor in front of him.
While sweeping the front desk, he seemed to hear movement from the end of the corridor.
Footnotes
<ol>The raw text was an idiom that translated literally into âto play with flowersâ and gave the sentence the meaning that when youâre bored, youâll do anything to entertain yourself.</ol>