Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

"Old man, we are new here, and I want to ask some things about this community, can you open the door?" Su Zimo asked in what he thought was a soft tone.

"Get out! Don't think I don't know about your tricks! You can't fool me, get out of here!"

The voice of the old man inside the door was very angry, as if Su Zimo and the others were health product salesmen who could not be driven away.

"Old man, we are really newcomers, and we are not bad people." Qin Rong, who was on the side, persuaded again with a soft female voice.

"Bad people? Hehe, there are no bad people in this world today!" The tone of the old man seemed to be completely opposite to what he said. He clearly said that there were no bad people in this world, but he refused to open the door anyway, and he didn't know why.

"You said you are newcomers, so tell me what you do?" The voice in the door gradually calmed down, but there was still no trust in Su Zimo and the others in the tone, but it seemed that they simply wanted to be with Su Zimo and the others. They talk.

Su Zimo and the others looked at each other, and finally introduced themselves briefly. Su Zimo said he was a student, Liu Xu said he was retired from the army, Mu Feng said he was unemployed, Qin Rong said he was a white-collar worker, and Uncle Chen Long said Said he was a physical education teacher.

After finishing speaking, there was no sound from inside the door, not even the voice of reprimand before, and the old man inside the door did not respond at all.

what do we do nowMu Feng asked Su Zimo beside him with his mouth.

Su Zimo thought for a while and didn't hesitate anymore. Since he knew there was a "person" in the door, he directly pierced the relatively sharp umbrella sword into the slightly gapped door, then gave the ghost umbrella a look, and directly let the door " "Crack" was propped open.

The trainee next to him only saw Su Zimo poke the umbrella in, and didn't know what he did. The door lock in front of him went on strike, and the door opened a big gap with a "creak", and the inside of the door was pitch black. can't see anything.

Pushing open the door directly, Su Zimo and the others followed the dim light in the corridor, and saw an ugly old man standing inside, looking at them with a pale face, with a panicked expression.

"I knew... I knew you would kill us sooner or later!" The old man murmured, "Forget it, just die, the old man has lived enough."

The voice of the old man was very soft, but Su Zimo and the others could hear it clearly, and there was too much information in the words.

Who to kill?

Who has had enough?

Are you sure this is what Li Gui would say?

Even a ghost who doesn't know his identity shouldn't be in such a panic situation, right?Could it be that this old man is not a ghost, but an ordinary living person?

"We are really not bad people, we just moved here." Su Zimo emphasized again with some helplessness.

"There's a glass of water over there." The old man pointed to the shoe cabinet next to the door, "If you take a sip of that water and swallow it, I'll trust you."

Everyone looked at the cup on the shoe cabinet. There was indeed liquid in it, but no one was sure whether it was water or not.

"Can we drink our own water?" Liu Xu took out a bottle of water from his backpack, not daring to take the risk of drinking something from the nightmare world.

"Okay, anything, as long as you can swallow it."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Liu Xu raised his head and started pouring water, and even swallowed all the water at an unimaginable speed, and finally wiped off the water stains at the corner of his mouth neatly.

The old man glanced at the water stains dripping in the corridor with a complicated expression, and muttered to himself, "Someone really moved here again? Where did so many people come from?"

Although he said something that the trainees didn't understand, the old man still turned on the dim lights in the room, allowing Su Zimo and the others to see clearly a simple living room with a square table and a few benches.

"Come in." The old man stepped aside, "Hurry up, don't dawdle."

As soon as Su Zimo and the others entered the door, the old man asked a question that they couldn't react: "Are you a trainee?"

Everyone couldn't help but froze there.

They really didn't expect that one day they would hear the name "Trainer" from the aborigines of the nightmare world.

"Old man? Are you not a ghost?" The old man spoke bluntly, and Su Zimo also bluntly.

"Of course I'm not a ghost." The old man glared at Su Zimo, then shook his head helplessly, "But we people are worse than ghosts, and we can only live in fear."

"Grandpa, are there really ghosts in this community?" Uncle Chen Long looked at the old man sympathetically, "Instead of worrying about it by yourself, why don't you tell us about the ghosts, or share it with other people in the community. Maybe everyone can help, don’t hide alone.”

When Chen Long said this, Su Zimo and Liu Xu looked at him thoughtfully.

Although the old man didn't say much, the information he got from these words was enough for Su Zimo to be sure that even if something happened to him, the old man would never ask other people in the community for help.

Sure enough, after hearing what Chen Long said, the old man said with a sneer——

"Do you think those things that look alive and kicking in the community are really people?"

"..."

Even though they had already guessed in their hearts, Su Zimo and the other trainees remained silent when they heard the old man say so directly.

The old man walked to the window and opened the thick curtains, so that Su Zimo and the others could see clearly the bright lights in the community and the "people" who were still singing, dancing, talking and laughing as the night was getting darker. Su Zimo and the others fell into deep thought.

It's lively and lively outside.

It was dark and cold and quiet inside.

The outside and the inside are like two unrelated worlds.

But at the beginning, the trainees thought that the outside was the world of living people, and the inside was the world of ghosts.But if what the old man said is true, then the people living in this residential building are the people living in the dark, and the enthusiastic revelers outside are the almost countless ghosts!

The old man is a human being, Ali, the running girl, the old people dancing square dance and doing Tai Chi are the ghosts!

Everyone felt cold behind their backs.

At first they felt that entering a residential building and meeting dozens of ghosts was the limit of the No. 20 nightmare world.

But now...they are likely to face more than 100...or even hundreds of ghosts!

"If it's true...we're dead." Mu Feng felt his teeth chattering.Who in this world's young experienced practitioners can survive this kind of formation?

Haven't even seen it!

At this moment, the trainees finally knew why no matter how powerful the trainees were, they couldn't come out of the No. 20 nightmare world alive.

But Su Zimo still has a doubt.

Why can't the trainee who failed to clear the No.20 nightmare world use nightmare points to offset his death penalty?

Is the difference between this nightmare world and other nightmare worlds really only in the difficulty of combat?

"Old man, why do you know about the practitioners?" Su Zimo asked aloud.

"Are you really human?" The old man didn't seem to believe it.

"Old man, you let us drink water because ghosts can't eat, right?" Uncle Chen Long on the side seemed to understand this very well, and he gritted his teeth and took out a small but sharp knife from his pocket, directly He cut a wound as shallow as possible on his arm, so that the old man could see the bright red flowing out clearly, "Then will the ghost bleed?"

"..." The old man was silent for a while, and finally walked towards the living room, beckoning to Su Zimo and the others, "Come with me."

Su Zimo and the others just followed the old man into the bedroom, holding all kinds of ghost weapons in their hands, and then saw the old man opened an old wooden wardrobe, and put aside a few clothes hanging in the wardrobe.

After a series of actions, Su Zimo and the others saw a big hole in the closet that had been pulled out forcibly!Barely big enough for a person to get in!

"Follow me." The old man took out a flashlight from the cabinet, turned it on, and went into the hole first.

The trainees just followed the old man's footsteps into the hole, and then saw clearly that they seemed to have entered the next room by the light of the old man's flashlight.

After a coffee table next door was moved away, a downward ladder appeared again.

Although the old man was old, his skills were unambiguous, and he seemed to be very familiar with this route.

Su Zimo made a rough count. They seemed to use this method to directly go down five or six floors, and then entered a space without windows at all. This space seemed to be the basement of a residential building!

In the dark space without windows, candles were lit after Su Zimo and the others arrived, and about twenty or thirty pale-faced people stood there.

If you guessed correctly, they should all be residents of the residential building.

They don't know how long they have lived in this residential building. In order to gather together without going out, they chose this time-consuming and stupid way.

This can also explain why Su Zimo's knock on the door failed to attract any movement.

Perhaps at that time, most of the residents were still hiding in this basement connected by themselves!

"Old Jin, are there any more trainees here?" As soon as they saw Su Zimo and the others, some of these residents asked.

"Yes." The old man also nodded.

"What's going on?" Uncle Chen Long couldn't understand, "Why do you all know about the trainees?"

"There were practitioners who came here before, and they asked the same questions as you. But how could we not know about the practitioners? Isn't it all because of that damned nightmare world that the world is in such a mess now? "A lady with disheveled hair, pale face and ghostly face said through gritted teeth, "In the whole city, we may be the only ones left who have no skills. Even the trainees may be killed by ghosts."

"How is it possible? We saw cars and pedestrians outside the residential area, and many lights." Qin Rong couldn't help shouting.

Others also found it strange that these people spoke as if they were survivors of the last days.

"Those are all fake." Jin Lao said, "Those are all illusions created by the ghosts outside with something. This city has long been deserted, and only us surviving people are left."

Hearing what Jin Lao said, Su Zimo suddenly thought of something, so he asked a question that other people couldn't understand: "Old man, what is the name of the country we are in now? The most powerful country in the world is What? What year and month is it now?"

Not only the trainees were in a daze, but Jin Lao and the others were also in a daze.

But in the end, Mr. Jin and the others answered truthfully.

But what shocked the trainees was that they had never heard of the names of the two countries mentioned by Mr. Jin, or they had never existed in history!Jin Lao even said that their current time is 987 in the new calendar, which is a way of counting years that experienced practitioners have never heard of.

Nightmare world... Aren't they all things that happened in the real world?

At this time, under the light of the candle, Su Zimo suddenly saw some books scattered on the ground. Among them was a book with a tattered cover, which was another copy of "Stars in the Lake".

It is obviously a fairy tale book that no one but yourself has read since childhood, but you can see it everywhere in this "nightmare world"?

"Have you read this book?" Su Zimo picked up the fairy tale book from the ground and asked Mu Feng and the others beside him.

But the trainees shook their heads in confusion, and their thoughts had not recovered from the "New Calendar" and those strange country names that the old man said.

"Then you've heard of this book?" Su Zimo asked the "aboriginal people" standing on the other side.

"Isn't this the fairy tale book that everyone knows?" Even Mr. Jin looked at Su Zimo with a "nonsense" look, "Kids like to read this, especially after the disaster in the nightmare world, Even adults like the stories in this fairy tale book."

"Mr. Su, what's going on?" Mu Feng didn't call Su Zimo the head of the family when he was outside.

"Countries I've never heard of, ways of counting years I've never heard of, books of fairy tales I've never heard of." Su Zimo sighed, "Things we've never heard of, in this world, children are familiar with them." There may be only one explanation for what you know.”

"This is another world."

Although Su Zimo explained briefly, he knew that Mu Feng and the others might not understand what he meant. After all, only Su Zimo and the ghost umbrella behind him knew that there was another world.

Su Zimo's mother, An Yu, came from a world destroyed by ghosts, so the fairy tales that Su Zimo read since he was a child may also come from that world.

Before, Su Zimo wondered why the trainees who failed to pass the No. 20 nightmare world passed away directly, and why they couldn't use the nightmare points to offset the death penalty?

Because this is not a nightmare world at all!

That transfer station is fundamentally the dividing point between Su Zimo's world and mother An Yu's world. A person who has experienced nineteen nightmare worlds is "exiled" to another ruined world!

The land where Su Zimo is now is the hometown of his mother An Yu!

another world!

The ghost world that was completely invaded by ghosts, and even used the method of voting for sacrifices to make human beings fall apart!

"It's nothing." Su Zimo originally wanted to explain, but finally shook his head and said, "Just treat this as an independent nightmare world."

An unimaginable nightmare.

Just when Mu Feng and the others were about to continue to question, they were standing directly above the basement... There was a knock on the door!

Su Zimo immediately looked up, and found that the sound came from the entrance door above the basement.

"Is there anyone else who hasn't come down yet?" Su Zimo looked around.

The old man and the others also counted silently, and finally shook their heads palely and said, "No, we are all here."

So who is knocking on the door now?

[I know you're all down there. ] A Su Zimo seems to have heard it, but now it is like a ghost-like voice coming from above the door panel.

"It's Ali!" Someone in the crowd shouted.

"Ahhh! How do they know this place!" Someone screamed uncontrollably.

"Calm down!" Su Zimo and Jin Lao could only try their best to calm the others down.

[Do you really think it’s safe to hide here? ] Li Gui Ali's voice continued, [Are those human beings who suddenly appeared hidden by you?If you want to continue to live, hand over those few fresh humans. ]

[Be obedient, we will continue to protect you...hehehe...]

The originally bustling and vibrant world seemed to be suddenly uncovered, revealing a cold and even bone-covered inner page.