Really, compared to the apparent sound of reading, the two graffiti-caked walls were more depressing. They made him want to leave as soon as possible.
“I used my phone as a light just now, but I didn’t notice the walls.” Jiang Wei also stopped. “I seem to have seen the data on this wall.”
Data?
What Jiang Wei said attracted Su Zimo’s attention. After all, he remembered that Jiang Wei was a newcomer. Novice trainers should ignorant like Lin Xiao, particularly easy to deceive. But this Jiang Wei seemed to have wanted to avoid Wu Qing and the others from the start, and also took care of Lin Xiao as a newcomer. Now he also mentioned… ‘data?’
It’s as if Jiang Wei had long expected that he would enter the nightmare world, and he had already started preparing himself in advance!
“Data? Didn’t Lin Xiao say that you were a newcomer just now?” Su Zimo also paused and turned to look at Jiang Wei. “The nightmare world chooses trainers at random, but hearing you now, you seem to have known that you would enter the nightmare world.”
“I…” Jiang Wei paused, then looked at the two young faces in front of him and sighed helplessly. “Actually, there’s nothing for me to say. After all the disappearances have already caused a lot of trouble. The things I do aren’t a secret.”
“There are more and more trainers entering the nightmare world. Do you think that the relevant departments will continue to ignore that?” Jiang Wei threw the problem back at Su Zimo and the others.
“Are you from a relevant department?” An image of Liu Xu, who claimed to be a veteran, appeared in Su Zimo’s mind.
“No. I can only be regarded as a soldier who’s been retired for a long time.” Jiang Wei shook his head. “The relative departments actually started tracking the nightmare world a long time ago, but there are few people in the department who have entered the nightmare world. Then the incident broke out. Since then, a large number of peripherals have been entrusted to read non-confidential data about various supernatural events in detail, so they would be ready to enter the nightmare at any time.”
“But I didn’t expect that what they spoke of was true. Most nightmare worlds really are formed based on past supernatural events.” Jiang Wei looked around the walls again. “The walls here are very unique, so I’m fairly sure I’ve seen relevant records in the data.”
“Uncle, do you remember what the supernatural event was?”
The walls smeared with blue and white chalk were similar to Zhang Xiaoqing’s red hallways in her fantasy world. Lin Xiao was a scared to look at the walls on either side of her, so she stared down at her toes and carefully moved her eyes to look at Jiang Wei.
“It really is about the supernatural event at the school.” Jiang Wei patted his forehead in annoyance. “I thought I would never be a trainer, so instead of putting everything into my phone like the others, I put it on my computer at home. With my memory, how could I remember so much?”
“Anything you can remember would be good.” Su Zimo said, looking at a certain classroom with an open door without any opinion. Knowing that the whispering sound was from the classroom at the end of the corridor, he nodded his head without hesitating and took a picture of the classroom next to him, finding nothing.
Compared to the first and second floors, the third floor really didn’t surprise Su Zimo.
“But the supernatural events I read about schools are all the same, and this situation seems to be similar.” Jiang Wei thought about it and said, “There have been some deaths in the school, and some weird situations occurred before and after the incidents. Some were called the top ten amazing events on campus, some were called the seven extraordinary events. In fact, many schools have such situations. I remember this one because such a wall is very fresh in my memory.”
Maybe because they’ve spent a long time in the corridor, but Su Zimo seemed to hear sounds from the distant classroom.
The voice seemed to be muttering repeatedly–
[The sky is blue, the sky is blue…]
Su Zimo felt that the supernatural events he encountered in the lecture hall and the one that appeared on this floor were conveying some clues to him.
The shadow in the lecture hall asked him if he could smell burning plastic.
Now, the ghost in the classroom is whispering that ‘the sky’ is blue.
They were all trying to spread some information.
“He seems to be saying that the sky is blue.” Jiang Wei also heard the contents of the whisper clearly. “We should go take a look.”
“Let’s go.”
Su Zimo hadn’t spoken yet when Lin Xiao, the most timid looking, had already made a decision. She also said anxiously, “If we can finish the task and leave here before tomorrow, that would be for the best.”
Although he didn’t know why Lin Xiao was so anxious to leave the nightmare world, Su ZImo nodded. He agreed to go to the classroom at the end of the corridor where there should be one or two useful ghost tools.
The classroom at the end of the corridor was just an ordinary classroom. The door was ajar, and the dim night outside the classroom window could be seen through the crack in the door. Even the murmuring disappeared when they approached the classroom.
Su Zimo thought he was bold, but he didn’t expect the two newcomers to be more decisive than him. As soon as he saw the door was ajar, he opened it and walked in, still eager.
However, what the three of them didn’t expect was that the door would close behind them without warning as soon as they entered the classroom.
“Oops. Careless!” When Jiang Wei realized that the door was about to shut, he hurriedly tried to rush back to stop it, but he could only watch the door shut and lock itself with a ‘pa.’ When he tried hitting the door with his sturdy body, the wooden classroom door that appeared very fragile didn’t respond no matter how hard he tried.
Perhaps he discovered that it was impossible to break through the door. Jiang Wei immediately rushed to the window, picked up a chair with metal brackets, and smashed it toward the window. The glass that looked very fragile made a giant ‘clang’ noise, then remained intact.
“It seems that we’re already trapped.” Su Zimo wasn’t very surprised at the development, and even began to calmly look around in front of him.
The classroom looked ordinary, but it wasn’t ordinary.
Like the chair that Jiang Wei picked up just now… it turned out to be the only chair in the classroom.
Classrooms in Su Zimo’s mind had several rows of desks and chairs, and all of them faced toward the podium in front.
But the classroom in front of him only had one set of table and chair facing the back of the classroom and leaning against the wall, so Jiang Wei could easily pick up the chair and smash it against the window.
In addition, this classroom didn’t even have a podium. Just four clean walls… No, the classroom walls were the same as those in the corridor outside, drawn on with messy blue, and some of the blue had been shaped into human silhouettes.
It’s just that the blue silhouettes were painted distortedly, very odd.
“It may be inescapable for a short time.” Su Zimo tried to check the closed doors and windows in the front and back, and found that it was a secret room that couldn’t be opened by ordinary people, so he sighed helplessly. “It seems that we need to stay here and think about how to escape, or pray that the enthusiastic Leader Wu would kindly come to our rescue.”
Wu Qing’s task was to find seven supernatural events, so he would naturally come to this floor and to the classroom.
But when Wu Qing appeared, whether he would warmly and kindly offer a helping hand was beyond Su Zimo’s imagination.
“When can we get out of here?” Lin Xiao’s expression suddenly tensed. “We should be able to get out soon, right? There must be an exit here, right?”
“Are you in a hurry?” Su Zimo looked at Lin Xiao with scrutiny. “This task feels a lot more complicated than before. We may not be able to escape quickly.”
“I have good news.” Sitting to the side, Jiang Wei suddenly looked at his left arm and said, “Look at our task progress.”
Su Zimo wasn’t a trainer, so he could only pretend to look at his left arm.
But Lin Xiao cried out in surprise. “The task progress changed. The number of tasks cleared was 0, but now it’s 1! There’s also some fine print – the scream in the library?”
“It seems that Wu Qing and the others have completed a supernatural event. The progress of the task is the same for all of us.” Jiang Wei said, then fell silent again.
“This also means that if we can’t solve the problem here, then either no one can leave, or we have to get Wu Qing’s power to clear the task. I believe the latter would require us to pay a price.” Su Zimo expressed Jiang Wei’s concerns.
“I want to get out of here.” Lin Xiao anxiously paced the empty classroom.
“I don’t see anything special for now.” Su Zimo didn’t plan to think about complicated issues with other trainers.
Jiang Wei still held the chair with metal brackets in his hand, as if he still wanted to use violence to overcome the current predicament.
But no matter what he thought about that plan, it was a bit unreliable.
“Why?” Su Zimo, who had nothing to do for some time, looked at the two busy figures. He finally set his eyes on Lin Xiao. “Why do you need to leave the nightmare world in such a hurry?”
“I also feel it’s a little strange.” Jiang Wei also put down the chair in his hands. “The task time this time is very loose, just as long as the task can be cleared within five days.”
“But as far as our families are concerned, aren’t we missing?” Lin Xiao thought for a while, swallowing what she wanted to say. “I would definitely be anxious.”
“Now we know that more and more people are mysteriously disappearing. Although we’re anxious, the most important thing is for us to go back safely to our families.” Su Zimo smiled. “So calm down to clear the task more easily.”
“No, I have to go back before tomorrow. As long as I can go back early, I can do anything.” Lin Xiao grit her teeth, lowered her head, and pinched her eyebrows as she looked at the task text engraved in blood on her left arm. “I must go back.”
“Then what if we can’t find a way to leave?” Su Zimo looked curiously at Lin Xiao. “If Wu Qing finds this place and is able to help us escape, but the condition would be that we wear his slave medallions, what would you do?”
“I don’t know, but I have to go back.” Lin Xiao unexpectedly hid her face, and there was suddenly more panic and tension in her voice.
Su Zimo didn’t understand. What terrible thing would scare an ordinary young university student like this?