nightmare space

It's still the same castle.

Xu You found himself lying on that big pink dreamy bed, unable to move.

The crystal chandelier flickered on and off, and during the flickering, two figures stood by the bed, one on the left and one on the right, looking eerie.

"Xu You..."

"I don't want to die..."

"Why aren't you dead yet..."

The faint voice echoed in the room.

Xu You found out in horror that these two people were the dead Hao Bing and Qiu Siwen!

Their pale and blue faces and the criss-crossing scars on their bodies looked even more terrifying under the flickering lights in the room.

Xu You wanted to run and shout, but his body was as heavy as lead.

"--what!!"

He screamed out and opened his eyes, only to realize that everything just now was just a nightmare.

Two days have passed since that day.

During these two days, Xu You kept dreaming about Hao Bing and Qiu Siwen.

Dreaming of the bloody appearance of the two, the ghosts usually want to take his life.

His forehead was already covered with cold sweat, Xu You took a breath, leaned on the head of the bed, and turned on the phone screen.

03: 15.

...it's so early.

His tired face was reflected on the screen of the mobile phone, light and miserable.

"This nightmare space is really a nightmare..." His fingers slid across the screen, "After participating, I started to have nightmares..."

Xu You, a 22-year-old college graduate.

He was supposed to have a good job unit, slowly gain a foothold in the big city of City A, buy a house and a car, marry a wife and have children.

It's a pity that something unexpected happened. He had just worked in the company for a few months, and the company was found out for making false accounts and closed down.

Xu You lost his job, and was embarrassed to ask his family for money—and he didn’t want to worry his family—in order to save money, he moved from his original apartment to a bungalow with a poor environment.

He was just about to cheer up and find a job, but he was drawn into the nightmare space inexplicably.

Having been bored in the house for two days and having nightmares for two consecutive days, Xu You, who had had enough, finally decided to go out for a walk.

Before going out, he rummaged through his trouser pockets, and found in embarrassment that he only had a hundred-yuan bill left, and next month's rent would be a problem.

No matter how decadent, survival must continue.

Xu You took the phone key and went out, thinking that after tonight's nightmare game was over, he would have to clean himself up and find a job.

He sat in the Internet cafe all afternoon.

Cheap bungalows don't have network cables, let alone wireless routers.His computer has become a decoration, and he can only find a nearby Internet cafe to surf the Internet.

Xu You opened the search engine to search for Nightmare Space, but he could only find novels, comics, or games.

He wanted to post on the Internet, but every time he typed the relevant content, his hand would type a bunch of garbled characters involuntarily.

...Maybe this game is interfering with him.

Xu You closed the webpage, got up and left the Internet cafe.

It was late at this time, and the lights of the city were just beginning to come on.

Xu You walked slowly along the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets.

There was a beef noodle shop on the side of the road. He just felt empty in his stomach, so he went in.

"Hey, what would you like to eat, handsome guy?" The proprietress greeted with a smile.

Xu You glanced at the menu on the wall, and said casually, "Let's have a bowl...beef noodles."

"Okay!" The proprietress replied, and immediately shouted in the direction of the kitchen, "Beef noodles, a bowl!"

He picked a seat inside and sat down.

There seems to be no business in this store, Xu You thought to himself, took out his mobile phone and started to pass the time.

After waiting for a long time, the beef noodles did not come.

Xu You finally got a little impatient. He raised his head to rush the store, but was surprised to find that the store was empty.

His heart tightened, and he stood up, the chair rubbing against the floor made a screeching sound.

"Hi! Is anyone there!" he called.

No one answered, the lights in the store flickered and then went out suddenly.

The street lamps outside the store had light coming in.

Xu You's heart was flustered, he hurried out the door, and suddenly found that there was an additional school opposite the store.

When he looked back, the beef shop had disappeared without a trace.

What is this...? !

Just when Xu You was feeling anxious, the following voice appeared in his mind: "Dear player Xu You, welcome to Nightmare Space. The game information of this round will be released below.

Nightmare Name: Campus Ghost Legend

Nightmare Goal: Explore the seven supernatural events on campus

Number of Participants: 7"

It turns out...it's the Nightmare Dimension.

He walked to the gate of the school, and found that scattered people were gradually coming up on both sides of the road.

On the left came two girls who looked very similar. If nothing else, they should be a pair of sisters.

On the right, there are two boys and a girl together, chatting about something.

"That," the girls who came over saw Xu You, and one of them stepped forward and asked, "Are you also a player in this game?"

"Yes." Xu You nodded, "My name is Xu You."

"I'm Zhang Yuanyuan, and this is my sister Zhang Yanyan." The girl smiled at him, and the girl beside her also bent her eyes shyly.

"Hey!" The companions also came over, "This game seems to be quite interesting, let's go together!"

After hearing what they said, Xu You forced a smile.

The small boy with glasses called himself Wang Li, the girl next to him introduced himself as Lin Mo, and the tall boy next to her politely greeted everyone and said his name was Zhao Yiqing.

"We seem to be missing one person?" Zhang Yuanyuan counted the number of people and found that there were only six. "The game organizer said there were seven people..."

Game sponsor? !

Xu You keenly grasped the key words: "You mean, the game organizer?"

"That's right!" Wang Li hurriedly said, "City A has recently released a new live-action game called Campus Ghost Legend. I think it's quite fun, so I came here with my friends to play."

Xu You was shocked.

What's happening here? !Live game? !

"What's wrong with you?" Zhao Yiqing saw Xu You's face was a little ugly, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

"I'm fine." Xu You waved his hand.

He thought for a while, but he didn't tell what he had experienced in the last nightmare space—probably no one would believe him.

The six chatted with each other for a while, and then walked into the school's reception room together.

Wang Li saw a few flashlights on the table beside him, and greeted everyone: "Hey, there are flashlights here, it seems that the organizer is quite considerate."

intimate?

Xu You remained silent.

There were six flashlights in total, which happened to be the number of them, so they shared one for each of them.

Zhang Yuanyuan frowned, and couldn't help but said again, "Tell me, the one left..."

"Yuanyuan!" Her sister pulled her, "Don't think about it, maybe that person went in first."

"It's also possible that the organizer made a mistake." Lin Mo comforted.

It is impossible for the "game organizer" to be wrong, and the only explanation is probably that person went in first.

Xu You thought.

The author has something to say:

I wrote this chapter last night with a feeling of dread...

I saw it in the morning, and I don’t feel much anymore~(～￣▽￣)～