Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

"Back off!"

All the trainees started to retreat the moment they saw the picture in the mirror. Su Zimo, who didn't know what happened, rushed back to the mirror again, and flew towards the ghost with the tablecloth tightly in his hand. Cluster of mirrors.

"Wait a minute! Don't cover the mirror!" The lunatic on the other side suddenly shouted, stopping Su Zimo's movements.

The surprising scene happened at that moment, when everyone thought that the ghost was about to rush out of the mirror, and when the blood claws belonging to the ghost really broke through the mirror, the lunatic and Liu Xu really blocked everyone. In front of the practitioners, but those ghosts did not rush out!

Those seemingly terrifying ghost claws kept attacking outward just like what Xiaohuo had encountered before, but because the distance between the mirror and the table lens was a bit far, those ghost claws only looked hideous and terrifying, but in fact they kept stretching out. Grabbing the air out of the mirror, the group of demons danced wildly and looked a little funny at the same time.

"They can't get out." Looking at those ferocious faces and ghost claws scratching around, the lunatic heaved a sigh of relief, "It seems that their bodies cannot be separated from the mirror at all. The so-called attack is just a bluff."

"Is it us in the mirror?" Miss Wan Ling held the oversized garden scissors and looked up at the others suspiciously.

"Us?" The lunatic was taken aback for a moment, and then said as if thinking of something, "The ghosts in the mirror seemed to be sitting there like us at first, and seemed to have similar movements, but I didn't think much about it at that time, so I don't remember either."

"Does the mirror remember things that the old man can't remember?" Su Zimo said to himself, and then said, "Actually, when the candle was extinguished for the first time, Du Xin who was sitting next to Mr. Fang Qin It is said that the figure of the old man has become a big fat man. I also saw it when the candle was extinguished just now. In addition, the chef's uniform is very fat. I think if we look carefully in the mirror, we may find that it is the same as Fang Qin's old man. Sitting in the same position is the chef of the villa."

"In other words, the mirror will tell us the role we should really play? Is this the true meaning of 'pay attention to the mirror'?! Oh my God!" Dr. Jin frowned and looked at the mirror where demons were dancing in front of him. How can you tell who is who?"

"Wow—"

When everyone was thinking about what to do, Su Zimo suddenly shook off the tablecloth in his hand, and covered the entire decorative mirror with all his strength, and the ghostly howling sound that was originally caused by the dance of demons disappeared immediately.

"Get your cell phone cameras ready." After Su Zimo felt that the whole mirror was quiet again, he immediately told the other trainees standing on the other side of the table, "If the ghost in the mirror returns to its original position, try to Take pictures with your mobile phone. In order to prevent the mobile phone lens from capturing the image of the ghost, everyone also returned to their seats, and then remembered the identity corresponding to their seats."

"What about you?" Everyone looked at Su Zimo who was holding on to the tablecloth tightly, as if he was about to lift it at any moment, "If you stand there, the mirror will not be able to see you."

"Isn't there an extra person in this game from the beginning? Ten identities have eleven experiencers. Maybe it's my turn to maneuver. After all, there may be personnel lost in the middle of the mission, or just let me play the role." The identity of the birthday star." Su Zimo kept his words tight and completely concealed his unknown identity as an "outsider".

"Prepare!"

"start!"

Su Zimo took a deep breath, and pulled away the covered tablecloth with all his strength, the ghost claws of those demons dancing wildly had disappeared, and the trainees sitting on the other side of the table were concentrating on making judgments. All of them quickly pressed the shutter a few times as agreed.

In less than five seconds, those ghosts began to struggle outward again, and when those ghost claws appeared, Su Zimo simply covered the mirror with the tablecloth again.

"see it?"

Hearing Su Zimo's question, all the trainees nodded.

"I'm still a family doctor." Doctor Jin raised his hand, "I don't know if it's a coincidence or it was arranged from the beginning. Maybe the reason why I entered this nightmare world is because I'm a doctor?"

"I, Qi Xiaomin, and Wan Ling are maids." Bai Man also heaved a sigh of relief, "Now the gender is finally correct."

"It seems that I am indeed a chef." Mr. Fang Qin also nodded, "Such a big guy can hardly fit a chair."

"As Mr. Su said, the mobile phone doesn't seem to have captured the image of the ghost, but I should be the housekeeper." The lunatic smiled helplessly, "Thinking about it this way, this nightmare game does know the details of some experiencers. "

"Mr. Madman is also a housekeeper in the real world?" Dr. Jin looked at the madman's homeless clothes and appearance with a strange expression, and doubted whether this senior man could find a job in the real world.

"Not everyone can afford me." The lunatic took a bottle of water from the table and drank it down. "At least in terms of finances, I will do better than this bastard housekeeper. It really makes me as a colleague Feeling uncomfortable."

"Indeed, for a family, a good housekeeper is far more than just checking the sanitation of the house and keeping an eye on the work of the servants." Mr. Fang Qin also echoed, seeming to have a little appreciation for the lunatic.

"I'm a bodyguard." Liu Xu also said aloud, "Although the bodyguards don't have any uniforms, I saw the ghost in the mirror holding a tactical pen."

Bai Man also put the tactical pen in Liu Xu's hand, which can be considered as a transfer of identity.

"There is a ghost wearing a driver's hat at the seat of the poisonous snake." Bai Man turned her head and glanced at the poisonous snake that had not yet woken up and was placed on the chair next to them. "He should be the driver."

"Then the remaining two gardeners are me and Du Xin." Xiao Huo seemed a little unhappy, "It really doesn't sound like a handsome character."

"It's really hard for people to think that 'pay attention to the mirror' means this." Dr. Jin sighed, "As long as someone tries to walk in front of the mirror, they will see the ghost in the mirror, or they will be scared away immediately , or you will be attacked by the ghost claws protruding from the mirror, and you will soon misunderstand this mirror as an existence that practitioners can't avoid."

"Only when we are desperate like us will we want to look for clues from a mirror stuffed with ghosts." Bai Man breathed a sigh of relief again at this moment, "In this way, everything should be considered ready."

Under the arrangement of the "housekeeper" lunatic, all the trainees put on the uniforms of their correct identities again. Even the poisonous snake, whose identity is the driver, put on the old clothes like a doll at the mercy of Du Xin with the help of Du Xin. He wore a suit with a famous car key in his pocket.

The three trainees who are "maids" are responsible for cleaning and dressing up the hall. The driver, bodyguards and two gardeners are responsible for moving all kinds of abandoned and broken objects in the hall to the next corridor.

Master Fang, Doctor Jin, who are chefs, and Su Zimo, who is idle, are responsible for putting all kinds of dishes and tableware on the table after the maids have wiped them, and bringing the drinking water and various chocolate candies brought by the trainees by the way. The materials are placed on the plate.

All the trainees gathered all the intact vase racks in the villa into the hall where the waste was cleaned up, and placed the broken vase and other intact decorations picked up by Su Zimo, which can be regarded as offsetting some Insufficient plants and decorations.

The decorative mirror on the side was moved and faced directly to the blank wall with nothing, so the tablecloth that had been retired was returned to the dining table, and the tableware for four was placed on the dining table in the correct way by the lunatic who is the housekeeper On the edge, various dinner plates and three candlesticks were re-placed on the dining table.

A tower of various snacks and chocolates was placed on the dinner plate. There were a few cans in the materials donated by the poisonous snake before, and they were all placed on the dinner plate. Because they were reluctant to wash the plates with drinking water, so It's impossible to eat the food after it's on those lightly wiped dishes.

Because the three candlesticks on the table were all empty, Su Zimo took some candles from the candlesticks on the wall and carefully placed them on the candlesticks on the table, making the dining table full of cheap food and fast food suddenly elevated Half a notch up.

"Should it be barely enough for a job?" The lunatic looked around the "new" hall, with a disgusted expression on his face, "Since I chose this profession, it's the first time I've seen such a shabby banquet."

"It's not bad." Su Zimo is also someone who has seen big scenes, but after seeing the shabby results in the eyes of the madman, he still nodded in satisfaction while adding drinking water to the wine glass.

"Then how do we get started?" The lunatic spread his hands, "We've already done everything we can, why can't we just stand here and sing birthday songs?"

After the lunatic finished speaking, all the trainees nodded with understanding, and said in unison: "Good idea."

"If you sing the birthday song? It will have the atmosphere of a birthday party, right? After all, we don't even have a cake!" Su Zimo also nodded in agreement with the madman's proposal. If there is no birthday song, it is really hard to tell what kind of party they are having. .

Saying that, Su Zimo put the two gifts found in the cabinet before on the chair of the chair, and the somewhat broken gray teddy bear sat there, shaking his head for a while.

"Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you..."

Under the leadership of Dr. Jin, the trainees could only sing along in an awkward atmosphere, and even those who couldn't remember the lyrics could hum along, but because everyone was standing at the dining table, the seats and The main seats are all empty and no one is sitting, so the picture looks very weird.

Amidst the not-so-tuned singing, the figure of the wheelchair being pushed came from the direction of the stairs.

All the candlelight in the hall began to flicker, but it didn't darken the hall like before, but just like some kind of omen, telling the experiencers present that something was about to happen.

Su Zimo turned his head to look, and found that the Li Gui on the second floor appeared in the light for the first time in a wheelchair just like this. This old gentleman, who drove the trainees to look for a chance of life, had a scrawny skin and his eyes were like a Staring at them like a black hole, with his mouth slightly open, he kept making "ahhhhh..." sounds.

Only this time, Mr. Li Gui didn't pat the wheelchair anxiously anymore, but took the wheelchair to the dining table bit by bit.

The lunatic quickly pulled away the chair on the side of the main seat to allow the wheelchair to enter, and then stood in a row behind the main seat with the other trainees like the most cautious servants, waiting quietly.

But Mr. Li Gui just sat there, staring at the main seat where the gray teddy bear was sitting with a pair of black hole eyes, which made the hearts of the trainees beat faster, wondering if they had really found the so-called glimmer of life.

[Ah ah ah...]

After waiting for a long time, the old man who had been quiet all this time suddenly stretched out his two skinny arms in the direction of the teddy bear.

Want a teddy bear?

Or remove the teddy bear?

Could it be that he wants to take the main seat?

Just when all the trainees were puzzled, the shadow of his grandfather appeared in front of Su Zimo's eyes. The grandfather who was lying on the bed and persisted in order to see his grandson seemed to overlap with the old ghost in front of him.

When Su Zimo saw the open hands of the old man, he seemed to think of something...

But before Su Zimo could speak, a small figure threw the gardening scissors in his hand on the ground, and then saw the little girl Wan Ling in a white skirt walking up to the old man Li Gui suddenly, and rushed to the ground without hesitation. into the arms of the old man, and said——

"Thank you."

The old man's stiffly opened hands slowly closed, and gently patted Wan Ling's back again and again.

"The task is completed." Suddenly felt a tingling sensation in the arm, Doctor Jin and the others were still a little dazed. The task that has been tossing for so long and had so many accidents is just completed?

"It's expected, right?" The lunatic stretched out his hands and found that his hands were gradually becoming translucent. "It's clearly the No. 18 nightmare world. I don't know why I'm a little calm now."

"Zimo." Du Xin finally turned to look at Su Zimo on the other side, "I'm sorry."

Miss Wan Ling, who was still in the arms of the old man, glanced at the gardening scissors lying on the ground with some regret, and murmured sadly: "I'm sorry, if I have nightmare points, I must..."

This may be the first time that Su Zimo saw the appearance of the trainees after completing the task. All he could do was to stand in the dark of the hall and cover up his body that had not become transparent at all.

In less than a minute, all the trainees disappeared from the hall illuminated by candlelight, leaving only Su Zimo and the old man in the wheelchair looking at each other.

"It seems that we are the only ones left." Su Zimo spread his hands helplessly, and sent the two-star ghost weapon named "Broken Ghost" back to his backpack by the way. In addition, he still has two remaining two-star "Nightmare Brand Sleeping Pills", three-star "Notes on the Lonely Mountain: Postscript", and a mysterious ghost weapon broken in two. Su Zimo is ready to return to Anyu. Then try to "fix" it with scotch tape.

In general, although this trip has been a bit of a toss, the amount of harvest is actually not too much, and it is not as good as the non-star goods harvested in Peng Peng's training institution before.

But one two-star ghost weapon is worth fifty non-star goods, and the value of it can be imagined.

Thinking of it this way, Su Zimo even felt a little sorry for the old man Li Gui sitting in the wheelchair in front of him, as if he had really swept up his villa by accident.

"Actually, old man, there are still some things I don't understand." Su Zimo looked at the motionless old man, squatted down carefully in front of him, and asked gently, "Why didn't this birthday party end in the end?"

"Why are the doors and windows in the villa blocked?"

"What happened to those servants and family doctors who did bad things?"

"Could it be that something happened to them during the preparation of the birthday party? If you are really looking forward to the birthday party so much, you shouldn't stop the party from starting no matter what?"

"What exactly happened?"

What Su Zimo and the others do the most these days is to speculate, but the things they speculate are only approximate after all. Now he can know that these things are almost the limit, but there are still too many things they don't know .

It's a pity that even if Su Zimo asked here, he never really thought about asking the old man to answer. After all, the old man's illness seemed to have affected Li Gui's state, and it was impossible to tell him what happened back then.

But just when Su Zimo was thinking this way, there was a burst of soft and waxy singing that belonged to a girl in the hall——

"Happy birthday tome, happy birthday tome..."

This voice is...

Su Zimo immediately got up and looked around, and found that the voice came from the mirror facing the wall.

"What the old man can't remember, the mirror remembers." Su Zimo recited what he said before, then walked over and turned the mirror over.

When it was just turned over, the mirror was facing the corridor leading to the servant's room. Although singing was still coming, the person who was singing could not be seen.But even so, Su Zimo also found that the hall reflected in the mirror was gorgeous and tidy, not the abandoned and dilapidated appearance outside the mirror at all.

After thinking about it, Su Zimo moved the mirror again so that the mirror could face the long dining table.

This time, Su Zimo saw four people sitting on the long dining table. On the left was a man and woman in luxurious clothes, on the right was an elderly man in a wheelchair who was not too thin and energetic, and on the main seat was a It is a cute little girl wearing a birthday hat and a white lace tutu skirt, like a noble little princess by candlelight.

There is also a banner hanging on the wall behind the dining table, which reads: Happy eighth birthday to the little princess!

The picture reflected by the mirror is limited, but Su Zimo can see many people in uniform walking around the picture, they should be the servants of those villas.

[Pingting, do you like the little skirt that grandpa gave you? ] The beautiful lady sitting on one side asked with a smile.

[like! ] The little girl yelled, and then threw herself into the arms of the old man, [I like grandpa the most! ]

In the next second, the picture in the mirror seemed to be fast-forwarded by hundreds or thousands of times. When it stopped again, the decoration in the hall did not seem to have changed much, but the banner behind it changed into: Wishing you little Happy tenth birthday princess!

[Pingting, do you like the little rabbit toy that grandpa gave you? ] The still beautiful lady sitting on one side asked carefully.

But at this time, the originally lively and lovely girl with a bright smile looked at the old man in the wheelchair with timid eyes and remained silent.

[What's the matter, don't you know grandpa after more than a year?That's right, grandpa seems to have lost a lot of weight, but he's still a grandpa. ] The young father sitting on one side patted his daughter on the shoulder with his hand.

Then, the ten-year-old girl hugged the little rabbit doll in her arms, walked up to the old man step by step, hugged the old man in the wheelchair very carefully, and then shrank back quickly.

The picture in the mirror fast forwarded again.

Because the mirror is aimed at the position of the long dining table, Su Zimo seems to be watching the time of this dining table change, watching the changing of the tablecloth, watching the changing of the dinner plate like magic, watching many figures coming in and out on the screen, watching Watch the wall clock on the back wall spin like a top.

When the screen stopped again, the banner on the wall changed to: Happy 12th birthday to the little princess.

It was still the same dining table, with the same four people sitting, but the old man was getting thinner and smaller, while the girl at the main seat had grown into a big girl, and she changed into a lace princess dress, wearing a school suit and a short skirt, Even put on some light makeup beyond her age.

Before Su Zimo even felt that the identity of Wan Ling who suddenly rushed out to hug the old man was unusual, but now he found that the grown-up Bai Pingting and Wan Ling had no similarities at all. She looks much younger than her real age, and she is not at all like Bai Pingting's aristocratic air of being favored since she was a child.

[Pingting, grandpa has prepared two gifts for you, one is a dress and the other is a teddy bear, do you like it? ] The mother sitting on one side also looked a little indifferent.

[Mom, you know I don’t like that kind of stuff anymore, so let’s put it upstairs first. ] The 12-year-old girl sighed, [When can we go home? ]

[Pingting, grandpa is too rude here. ] The father also criticized indifferently.

[I've tried my best, no matter how I talk to him, he doesn't respond, he can't even speak, maybe he can't hear. ] The girl pouted, [The classmate said that he would help me celebrate my birthday, and the little princess is really embarrassing. ]

[Then let's end like this first. ] The girl's mother shook her head helplessly, completely ignoring the untouched dishes and big cakes on the table.

The family of three left the table one after another like this, only the old man in the wheelchair remained where he was, looking in the direction of the main seat, and slowly stretched out his hand.

The screen began to fast-forward again, and this time it stopped after a while. Su Zimo subconsciously looked at the banner on the wall, and found that it read: Happy 13th birthday to the little princess!

Compared with before, it seems that only a year has passed.

But this time, the family of three and the old man were not sitting at the dining table, but the housekeeper and the servants who were sitting carelessly.

[The master has long said that he will not return to the villa this year. The three of them are going to travel abroad for their birthday, but the old man does not believe in evil, and drags me to babble and gesticulate like a baby for a long time. He must hold a birthday party. ] The butler's suit was open, showing no seriousness.

[It's okay, anyone can eat anyway, all the money is not in the budget. ] As soon as the chef brought up a large pot of braised pork, he began to eat it with big mouthfuls.

[I think this old man is really no one is watching, next time we can be bolder when we do the accounting. ] The family doctor in a white coat put his foot directly on the dining table.

[Wait a little longer... Be cautious first. ]

[That old man is a living cash cow! ] The driver, who was playing with the car keys, said with a smile, [Master and the others moved away, our life has become better and better. ]

[It’s just that the babbling every day is really noisy. Next time, just lock him up and fall down the stairs on the second floor like last time. We won’t have a living cash cow. ] The family doctor frowned.