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Translated by rabbitrisu
After opening the door to An Yu Yi Yu behind him, Su Zimo could enter the shop instantly no matter where he was.
So after turning around and hiding in the staircase, Su Zimo left the teaching building with two supernatural events and returned to the shop without arousing suspicion.
The door to the classroom where the supernatural even occurred was open, and Wu Qing had no bargaining chips left to intimidate Lin Xiao and Jiang Wei. He could only pick up the slave medallions he wanted them to wear from the floor and grit his teeth before asking, “How did you meet that ghost?”
From the bottom of his heart, Wu Qing didn’t believe Su Zimo was a living person. From the beginning until the end, he always regarded him as a ghost of the nightmare world.
“He said he was called ‘Ayu.’” To be honest, Su Zimo’s confession about his identity really hit Lin Xiao hard. Su Zimo had told her so many important things, even the truth about the slave medallions.
In hindsight, if it hadn’t been for Su Zimo’s advice, Lin Xiao would most likely have spent a lifetime tied to Wu Qing.
For Lin Xiao, because of various overlapping reasons, although Su Zimo didn’t reveal himself before, she did regard him as more reliable than Uncle Jiang Wei. Now Lin Xiao seemed to have been punched out of nowhere, shocked to find that the person she wanted to rely on turned out to be one of the ghosts she should avoid, fear, and hate

It made Lin Xiao’s emotions even more complicated when she saw Wu Qing.
Wu Qing was a scumbag who could eat people without spitting out their bones, but he was completely human.
Malicious spirits were beings that essentially wanted to eat people.
All of a sudden, except for Jiang Wei who stood in front of her, everyone around her looked ugly
 It wasn’t because of Wu Qing or his efforts. Lin Xiao once more clutched the standard dagger in her hand that had started to relax.
“Why don’t we go to the store first?” Jiang Wei suddenly suggested. “Although I don’t know what Ayu’s identity is and I was suspicious of his identity, he really didn’t do anything harmful to us. He could even be said to have helped us quite a bit.”
“I think even if he is a ghost, he may not be a hostile malicious spirit. After all, he should be the person in the store called An Yu Yi Yu, right? The purpose of that store always seemed to be to help trainers. The prices for each item are so cheap, aren’t they?”
Jiang Wei’s words were aimed at Lin Xiao. His two questions caused Lin Xiao to fall into thought once more.
She recalled the first time she met Su Zimo in the dark teaching building, recalled him walked ahead of her on the path lit by his flashlight, recalled the food he took from his backpack, and even recalled the scene where he so quickly broke the door without word or explanation

Thinking about that, Lin Xiao began to worry again

She wasn’t a righteous person who cleansed demons or defended the Way, nor was she an old Taoist who wanted to ruin the love amongst people and ghosts like in fairy tales. She was a modern university student who had seen many fan works about ghosts and monsters.
In the things that Lin Xiao had seen, the ghosts weren’t that bad.
Especially ones that look as good as Su Zimo – there were always many heart-pounding plots in the stories. Although it was kind of shallow to think so, Lin Xiao couldn’t help but think like that.
“It seems that we must go to the store.” Wu Qing saw Jiang Wei and Lin Xiao’s efforts to stay away from him, but he acted as if his coercions and temptations toward Lin Xiao never occurred. He smiled eagerly and spoke to Lin Xiao and the others, “It’s amazing how you can make friends with a ghost”
“If the nightmare world is a game, then the goodwill between you and the ghost is probably much higher than the goodwill between me and the ghost. After all, when I met him in a previous nightmare world, he almost killed me.” Wu Qing smiled and spoke half-truths.
Jiang Wei understood some incredible things from that.
“You mean you’ve met Ayu before in another nightmare world?” Jiang Wei asked as he stepped back.
“I didn’t know what his name was.” Wu Qing shook his head indifferently. “But it’s not the first time I’ve seen him. Even my companions behind me have met him.”
Wu Qing glanced at the three ‘slaves’ behind him and saw that there was no expression beyond sadness on their faces. They didn’t intend to respond to him. In fact, unless Wu Qing ordered them to speak and get along nicely, Wu Qing would always be starring in a one man show.
They didn’t want to die, but they weren’t afraid of death.
“This kind of unresponsive lifestyle is so much better than when she was tortured with head compression before.” Wu Qing suppressed his unhappiness in his heart, spoke secretly, and showed his usual sneer.
“In short, I used to think that guy was a single-use item that only appeared in that nightmare world, but now it seems that he has some other purpose and his identity is more complicated than I thought.”
“Like a functional NPC in a game?” Lin Xiao also played games, so Wu Qing was soon energized and his eyes lit up as he spoke. “Ayu may not be a ghost, but maybe he’s like a game NPC. The characters in the story are arranged by the creator to help us. If we really treat the nightmare world as a game, the appearance of such people should be normal, right?”
“Maybe he can still clear the tasks with us!” Lin Xiao hid behind Jiang Wei but began to think about it.
At that moment, Jiang Wei saw Gan Yuan give them a strange look from behind Wu Qing.
Jiang Wei and Lin Xiao naturally didn’t understand. At thtat moment, Gan Yuan remembered that when they were trapped in the metro station, that mysterious guy appeared out of nowhere, smashed a TV, and then they inexplicably cleared the task.
Gan Yuan originally wanted to tell them about that matter as well, but then she felt that they could no longer be considered trainers. They could only be considered toys caught in Wu Qing’s hands and squeezed at will.
Wu Qing had trapped them and wanted them to suffer longer. Why should she think about such complicated things?
So Gan Yuan and the other two ‘slaves’ who had seen Su Zimo continued to stand there silently.
Over time, those three people sometimes forgot their own names, forgetting they were Gan Yuan, Xu Huanhuan, and Hu Lie who was once the president of the hiking club

They knew their current fates were due to Wu Qing’s torture, but they had already experiences such panic and irritation for so long that they were left only with numbness.
Even they thought of themselves only as tools and dolls to make their lives easier.
“I don’t know about other matters, but I know that he knows the nightmare world better than we do.” Wu Qing ignored everyone and said to himself. “But before going to that store, I have one very important thing to do.”
That being said, Wu qing passed Lin Xiao and Jiang Wei who were still hiding in the classroom, pulled out the cursed sword in his hand, and walked to the wall with the twisted blue figures. Along the way, he stretched his hand out and pushed Jiang Wei to the edge of the classroom door so he could prevent it from closing.
The number of nightmare worlds Wu Qing has experienced was far less than those of Su Zimo, but each time he received nightmare points from the ‘slaves’ around him. He also abducted rookies who don’t understand slave medallions in previous nightmare worlds and used the most cruel methods to take all of their nightmare points.
So Wu Qing not only had a powerful ghost tool, but his physical fitness had also been greatly enhanced. He could even unexpectedly push Jiang Wei, who had professional training.
Looking at the twisted figures on the wall, Wu Qing directly stabbed the sword in his hand into them.
What he did was similar to what Su Zimo had done earlier, but even though Su Zimo pierced something when he thrust the black umbrella into the wall, it was invisible to the human eye.
When Wu Qing’s dagger pierced into it, Lin Xiao, who was still in the classroom, used the light from the flashlight Wu Qing was holding and clearly saw red liquid seeping out of the wall where it was pierced by the sword. It was very fast, flowing all over the floor in the blink of an eye. It instilled a terrible sense of horror in everyone.
At the same time that Lin Xiao saw Wu Qing raise his arm to check, she turned on her cell phone flashlight with an emergency battery pack to see her left arm. She found that the task progress for the seven supernatural events had jumped up to 5!
Only two things left and the nightmare world tasks would be cleared.
“When I went upstairs before, I seemed to have heard movement from the second floor. I still need to check it out before going to An Yu Yi Yu. Of course, if you want to part ways, please feel free to do so.” Wu Qing smiled at Lin Xiao, playing with the sword in his hands as he spoke.
The movement he spoke of should refer to the supernatural event that Su Zimo had discovered before — the sound of drawing on the blackboard in the lecture hall on the first floor.
Lin Xiao retreated again. Each move Wu Qing made scared her.
“I didn’t expect this task would be cleared so easily.” Wu Qing laughed again. “As expected, it’s a novice task with two newcomers. All of the ghosts are simple. It seems that clearing the task really doesn’t need to wait until tomorrow. Miss Lin will have her wish fulfilled.”
“Let’s go first.” Jiang Wei walked to Lin Xiao’s side and pulled her to walk away, making it clear that they would part ways with Wu Qing.
“Don’t worry. Because you’ve simplified our tasks, I won’t force you to join.” Wu Qing stretched his hand out with a kind face and welcomed them to leave. “But maybe soon you’ll voluntarily want to wear the medallion.”
No one thought about what Wu Qing meant. Jiang Wei and Lin Xiao only had one idea at that time, which was to leave Wu Qing and the others and return to the weird shop called An Yu Yi Yu.
“Lin Xiao.” Jiang Wei said while quickly pulling her downstairs. “Wu Qing once said that there would be well-lit refuges for newcomers in novice worlds. Maybe for us
 it’s that kind of refuge.”
Throughout the entire campus, only the store’s lights were always as bright as daylight.
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Nightmare University was completely enshrouded in night.
An Yu Yi Yu was still brightly lit, as bright as daylight, just like the kind of ‘refuge’ open for newcomers that many trainers had heard of or experienced.
As soon as he returned to the shop, the ghost umbrella slipped out of the black umbrella with a relieved expression on his face. “For malicious spirits, the environment inside the shop is much better than outside.”
Su Zimo looked at him strangely and asked, “I thought the nightmare world was a world built specially for malicious spirits.”
Ghost Umbrella replied, “But when inside the store, even a malicious spirit can slightly recall that feeling of being human. Their voice doesn’t sound strange, their body becomes solid. Doing such things is easy.”
Su Zimo saw the ghost umbrella return behind the counter, pour out a glass of milk, and take a satisfied sip. Some white milk foam clung to the corner of Ghost Umbrella’s mouth and was wiped off by his fingers in the next second.
“What’s the purpose behind An Yu Yi Yu’s existence?” Su Zimo often thought about that question. “Ghost tools are sold here at very cheap prices and it can shelter ghosts who want to leave the nightmare world. It seems to be doing things that are beneficial to both trainers and ghosts.”
Ghost Umbrella thought for a while, still holding the glass of milk. “Actually, there’s another thing. I suspect that this store can prevent the recovery of ghost tools.”
Before Su Zimo could react, the ghost umbrella took out a small round object from his sleeve. A closer look revealed that it was the three star ghost tool ‘Ghost Eye of the Berserker.’
“
I remember you asked me to get the ghost eye when I was trading, saying it was useful?” Su Zimo was taken aback. “But I thought you ate it.”
Ghost Umbrella smiled and spoke, “I originally intended to eat it, but later I decided I didn’t like the taste of it, so I kept it for an experiment. Being able to help the boss is enough to make this umbrella happy.”
Su Zimo: “
what are the results of your experiment?”
Ghost Umbrella: “The malicious spirit in the ghost eye has dimmed a lot. Originally, after this kind of thing reaches the maximum recovery point, even if it’s left unused, it will soon revive. But after I hid it in the store, it’s been quiet. Even boss didn’t notice it, did you?”
Ghost Umbrela stepped toward the door again, stretching out the hand holding the ghost eye.
Red bloodshot veins appeared on the originally peaceful ghost eye.
“I brought this ghost eye with me just now when I left the shop and found that it showed signs of recovery again. This confirmed that An Yu Yi Yu has a suppressive effect on recovering ghost tools. The ghost stayed as it was. There are many unspeakable benefits to the shop.”
“
”
Just as Su Zimo was about to speak, he saw the patterns at the corner of Ghost Umbrella’s eyes raise again. There was a hint of expectation in his eyes. “Boss, was this experiment helpful to you?”
Seeing Ghost Umbrella’s coaxing expression, Su Zimo, who originally wanted to reply, couldn’t help but become speechless.
The corner of Su Zimo’s mouth twitched slightly. “En. Good job.”
Ghost Umbrella squinted his eyes and smiled. “It’s because boss leads so well. After returning to the real world, can boss put more money toward this video program? Without a membership, many cooking videos can’t be watched.”
The ghost umbrella’s face was sharp as a sword, beautiful and full of evil with the eye-catching and gorgeous lines at the corners of his eyes, but Su Zimo felt as if he could see a giant imaginary tail wagging behind him.
Su Zimo unconsciously relented: “Okay.”
Su Zimo: “By the way, you said before that this black umbrella has no attack power, so how did you let me stab the tip into the wall where the ghost was hidden?”
Ghost Umbrella: “It’s like a heavy shield that can be inserted into soft sand, en
 It’s like how flat soles can step on a balloon for a moment and it will burst. The wall was covered with energy from a weak malicious spirit, so even if the black umbrella is a blunt weapon, it’s still better than the low-star weapons that have no blades and can’t pierce the barrier.”
Su Zimo put the notebooks, art knives, two boxes of white chalk, glasses, markers, and cigarettes on the first shelf, a total of seven items from the teaching building. He also put the one star products ‘Ordinary Exorcism Water’ and ‘The Unstoppable Pointer’ above the second shelf, then returned to the computer to look at the data for An Yu Yi Yu.



[Shelf No. 1 Capacity (No Stars): 38/50]
[Shelf No. 2 Capacity (One Star): 5/20]



[Shop Upgrade Progress: 558/1000]
Su Zimo made a face as he thought: “What will happen after the store is upgraded?”
Ghost Umbrella thought for a while: “I don’t remember much, but it should be very shocking
”
Before Ghost Umbrella finished his words, the door to An Yu Yi Yu was suddenly pushed open. Jiang Wei and Lin Xiao rushed in hurriedly from the darkness, and found that they really were in the light. The trainers were relieved.
Su Zimo stood behind the counter with a polite smile. “Welcome, thank you for coming again.”
“Ayu.”
“You really are the boss who sold the goods to us before?”