Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

Opening the first page of the booklet, Su Zimo saw the name "An Yu" on it, and at that moment Su Zimo's mind seemed to have a feeling of exploding.

That was his mother's name!

But why did he only think of this name when he saw the word "An Yu". Before that, every time Su Zimo thought of his mother, the only thing he could recall was the word "mother". Character!

Not just the name, before opening the booklet, Su Zimo didn't even have a clear picture of his mother in his mind, and the clearest memory related to his mother is just his mother's funeral!

But even so, Su Zimo never felt that this situation was wrong before, as if his whole body was hypnotized by an unknown force.

Before this, Su Zimo had never heard too much information about his mother from his father, let alone heard or seen his mother's name.Even the Su family's main house, which is so big, has never had a picture of his mother.

In Su Zimo's memory, he has been to Shoushan's cemetery many times, where he put flowers on his mother's tomb, but there is no picture of his mother there!

Obviously, for Su Zimo, his mother was the most important person in his childhood, even more important than his grandfather who had been teaching him.Before Su Zimo's mother died, it was not his grandfather who taught him the most, but his mother who was always by his side.

I will read fairy tales to him, take him on a trip to many places, and whisper a lot of soft words when I am about to fall asleep at night.

Every time Su Zimo thinks of the word "mother", Su Zimo can feel that there is a feeling that has been suppressed and wants to break out of his chest. That kind of feeling is not inferior to the bond between Su Zimo and Mr. Su. Tie.

But until now when Su Zimo saw the word "An Yu", the memory of his mother in his mind exploded instantly. That one was always wearing a long skirt, with elegant and delicate looks, and long black hair like a waterfall. The mother who seemed gentle but actually had a bright smile reappeared clearly in Su Zimo's memory after many years.

Anyu...

Mother……

The warehouse of "An Yu Yi Yu" was filled with a shelf of fairy tale books, and many thoughts were stacked together, which made Su Zimo think of an unbelievable possibility.

He began to flip through the thick book in his hand with rare urgency.

The ghost umbrella has been quietly guarding Su Zimo's side, watching the subtle changes in the expression on Su Zimo's face as he flips through the book. Although he can't see the words in the book at all, he can vaguely understand Knowing what should be in some brochures, his expression has always been very calm.

Su Zimo sat at the desk and watched quietly. The time passed until late at night. After midnight and early morning, the stars and the moon were turning, but Su Zimo didn't seem to feel sleepy at all, just watching quietly and seriously.

When he was flipping through half of the book in his hand, Su Zimo stopped what he was doing and let out a long breath.

The book in his hand is actually a diary, and it is a record carefully recorded by his mother An Yu over the long years.

Although not every day is recorded, each time the mother records some thought-provoking true stories-stories that happened in the world of nightmares.

That's right, it's a diary, but it's more about the stories between the nightmare world and the experiencers recorded by the mother as a bystander.

And his mother, An Yu... should be the former owner of the shop "An Yu Yi Yu".According to the details captured by Su Zimo from the diary, before his mother An Yu became the owner of the shop, the shop did not actually have a name. The name "An Yu Yi Yu" was the name chosen by his mother. The gold signboards are all written by Su Zimo's mother.

Because his mother didn't record this "diary" from the beginning, Su Zimo didn't know why his mother met "An Yu Yi Yu", nor did he know what happened to "An Yu Yi Yu" before meeting his mother. what kind of thing.

When my mother started to record, it seemed that it was the time when "An Yu Yi Yu" was about to be upgraded to a third-level store. The stories recorded were very exciting, but there was not much information about the store and my mother herself.

Most of them can be regarded as ghost stories that can be made into classic horror movies.

But Su Zimo can see an astonishing conclusion from the background of the story and the names of some people who should be famous but he has never heard of them—the mother and "An Yu Yi Yu", just like the ghost umbrella, come from another place. From a world.

It should be the world in the mouth of the ghost umbrella that has been completely destroyed by the nightmare world.

It's just that although this answer was beyond Su Zimo's expectation, it is still reasonable. After Su Zimo digested the fact that "mother is the former shop owner", this conclusion does not seem to be surprising enough.

But what Su Zimo remembers the most is that when his mother finished writing the "diary" one time, she wrote several pages of digressions.

Those few pages described a story that my mother had heard from nowhere.

The story took place in the world that had begun to be swallowed by the nightmare world and ghosts at that time. The protagonists of the story were a group of kind-hearted trainees who still wanted to protect the last survivors of that world until the last moment.

In the story, these trainees seem to have set up an organization to support each other and to continue on the road of "persevering", but the mother did not mention the name of this organization in the narration.

In the story described by my mother, the nightmare world will release some of the ghosts that were originally trapped in the nightmare world after reaching a certain stage.At this time, the most terrifying thing is not the attacking ghosts, but the trainees killed by ghosts will become powerful ghosts from birth!

Because of the interference of the nightmare world, the ghosts of that world have reached the stage where they can attack survivors at will and plunder their vitality for fattening. The remaining survivors in a region are almost all protected by the trainees of that organization with ghost devices. , the rest of the city has become a doomsday-like empty city with only countless ghosts wandering back and forth.

Looking at the words on the booklet, Su Zimo still couldn't imagine such a scene.

But the mother who recorded these things changed the subject, saying that the overwhelming advantage of the ghosts actually changed in the end.

The reason is a bit funny, because these ghosts can hardly imagine what it would be like to have only ghosts in a world without humans.These ghosts are full of hatred, and they are jealous of the survivors who are still alive. That kind of hatred, the desire to torture the living and attack the living makes them happy and excited, making them unbearably excited.

But if all living humans were killed by them, and the whole world turned into ghosts, what would this world look like?Did Li Gui and Li Gui stare blankly?

Although I always feel that it is a funny thing for the ghosts to be confused about the future, this group of ghosts actually reached an agreement together and came up with an idea that most ghosts agree with-they want to raise humans in captivity.

They no longer attack humans, but watch the slack survivors build their own siege, and the trainees of that organization are the guardians of the siege.

They watched the living human beings do their best to continue to live, and watched the former relatives, former lovers and former friends turn against each other for a little bit of benefit.

They are like watching doomsday survivors surrounded by zombies in a city in a doomsday novel, except that they are different from zombies in that they have the ability to think and can watch plays.

But just when the survivors felt that their living conditions began to improve, the ghosts who were tired of watching their series of tricks began to feel bored again.

So when the survivors were "living and working in peace" on their own, an unprecedented invasion of ghosts besieged the survivors outside the besieged city, and all the ghosts in this area gathered together. All the trainees in the team must be strong, not to mention that there are still some trainees who are performing tasks in the nightmare world, and their combat power is seriously insufficient!

But just when all the survivors thought they were bound to die, the ghosts blocking the besieged city unexpectedly... proposed a deal.

[We only want to take one person, so you can vote for a victim to give us as food, and then we will leave. ]

This is the deal proposed by the ghosts, allowing the survivors to choose a person who was eaten by the ghosts in exchange for a short-term peace.

When the ghosts get bored again, they'll ask the survivors to vote for the next victim!

Seeing the survivors arguing, crying, angry and even resorting to various conspiracy methods because of voting to send people to death, the ghosts who watched once again felt what joy is.

Of course, what makes them really happy is the ugliness of human nature. They even feel that after death, they, who used to be human, are superior to these survivors.

Such games quickly spread among ghosts in various regions, and became the most interesting pastime for them.

And the most tragic thing in the whole story is not the ordinary survivors who are played like toys, but those experienced survivors who fight hard to protect the last survivors no matter what happens after the establishment of the organization!

In the face of inhuman voting demands, these practitioners have fought and worked hard, trying their best to persuade the survivors not to hurt each other.

But in the end, because the trainees did not use force to make the survivors submit, they could not persuade the excited old people and women at all, and finally chose to abstain sadly.

This is a group of sad and contradictory so-called "Guardians", who want to help survivors because of the word "Guardian", but also because the word "Guardian" cannot harm survivors.

To put it simply, it is a group of good old people who dare not do anything.

This group of good-natured trainees made concessions repeatedly, and the bottom line in the end was not to hurt the survivors, nor to participate in the cruel vote.

And because the attacking ghosts just watched and didn't do anything, the old good people didn't fight back, and stood silently in the corner watching the survivors quarreling and blushing.

At that moment, the good old people seemed to feel the complexity of "human nature" for the first time.

It's just that before the old good people can study it clearly, the name of a relatively weak trainee in their organization is constantly shouted out by the survivors.

Those survivors who were protected by them voted for the first victim to be a weaker trainee in their organization!

"Aren't you going to protect us? Isn't it a matter of course for you to sacrifice to protect us from ghosts?"

After the name of the victim was voted unanimously by all the survivors, the explanation that the good people got was just this sentence.

When the trainee chosen by the vote was taken away by the powerful ghost, the whole world seemed to be silent.

The good old man trainees looked at the survivors seemingly calmly, and the survivors also looked back at the trainees who had been protecting them.

But this time, the minds of the trainees were blank.

But those survivors... were secretly counting the number of these trainees in front of them, and couldn't help wondering how long these people could buy them a peaceful time.

Su Zimo stopped turning the pages because he didn't want to continue reading this story anymore. He could vaguely guess the direction of this story, and felt a chill behind him.