Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

[Come to my house to play a ghost story conference at night?I have prepared snacks waiting for you! ]

The person who sent this message is nicknamed "Hua Xiaowan", so Su Zimo would not ask the other person's name abruptly, so regardless of whether the nickname is true or not, Su Zimo has already secretly called that person "Xiaowan" at this moment. The girl with the ball head is gone.

"Want some snacks?" Xiao Wan looked around, but she didn't seem to find any snacks, so she got up from the sofa and said with a shy smile, "I'll go to the kitchen to see if there are any snacks to eat."

"No need, let's start directly!" Du Lei shouted anxiously, most of the trainees didn't think about eating the food in the nightmare world.In fact, the apartment they are in looks very ordinary. If it weren't for the light red moon outside, they would almost confuse the real world with the nightmare world... But even so, the food in the nightmare world is not acceptable to ordinary people of.

Su Zimo lowered his head and thought, before leaving, he'd better go to the kitchen to see if there is anything he can take away, there are too few products to "sit in a corner".

"Are you in such a hurry?" Xiaowan's face was full of doubts.

"I……"

"What we mean is that it's getting late now." Su Zimo glanced at the three young trainees, and then explained, "The moonlight is beautiful now, which is very suitable for the ghost story conference."

"That's right, let's start then?" Xiaowan said, and then glanced at the four people present, "It's strange, why does it seem like there is one more person?"

Everyone, including Su Zimo, became nervous instantly, but Su Zimo and the group of trainees probably thought differently.

"Forget it, it will be more lively if there are more people!" A smile appeared on Xiaowan's face, which added a bit of luster to her originally unattractive face. "The rules of the ghost story conference are very simple. A story, if everyone is safe and sound after everyone tells the story, we can throw a party to celebrate together!"

The rules of the "ghost story conference" that Xiaowan said were indeed very simple, but Su Zimo could tell that the premise of "opening a party" was "everyone is safe and sound".If something happened during the storytelling... Maybe they not only didn't have a party, they had a bad thing.

"Then who will tell the first story first?" Xiaowan looked at the three people in front of her, and then looked in a certain direction, "Why don't you come first, anyway, you seem like the extra person."

The person Xiao Wan looked at turned out to be Du Lei who was sitting closest to her, one of the three real practitioners.

"I'm the extra one?" Du Lei pointed at himself in disbelief, and after the other party nodded again, he nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, I'll be the first one."

Then, Du Lei turned around and looked at Xu Yingying who was sitting beside her with her legs crossed, and said in a low voice: "What I just said is true. This NPC has problems. I'm not a ghost mixed in among the trainees. I I really watched your Latin dancing video."

"I see, don't talk too much nonsense." Xu Yingying didn't carry a backpack for convenience like other trainees, but she also carried a small white rattan bag, which is also very precious at the moment, "I still prepare Tell your story."

Xu Yingying didn't seem to like Du Lei very much, so she leaned towards Zhu Zhu subconsciously.

"In terms of ghost stories, people like us still have a few wonderful stocks." Du Lei coughed a few times, cleared his throat, and then began to say, "That's something that I... my friend experienced."

Su Zimo knew that the three trainees here were not newcomers, so he knew that each of them had experienced several nightmare worlds. For them, they only needed to modify their past experiences a little and then tell them. OK.

And this task does not seem to stipulate the horror level of the ghost story, as long as the story is finished.

"The friend of mine once entered the depths of a certain mountain with a certain team, and there was a village called 'Shengwu' hidden in that desolate deep mountain. The name of this village was their population from the village. As far as I know, the pronunciation of those people is a bit difficult to distinguish, so it is probably called such a name."

"Because it is easy to get lost when walking in the mountains at night, so my friends decided to stay in Shengwu Village for one night and leave at dawn the next day. Although there are not many people in the village, they are very hospitable. Only one person lives at the entrance of the village. The old lady kept persuading them to leave the village as soon as possible. When my... friends were surrounded by hospitable villagers, they cried out loudly and wanted to drive them away. In the end, a few villagers pushed the old woman away, and they managed to live in the village .In fact, it's not that they can't leave, it's just that they have to stay in the village for one night due to some force majeure."

The so-called "force majeure", in Su Zimo's ears, should be those nightmare world tasks that must be completed.

"They stayed at the head of the village farthest from the entrance of the village, and then heard a story from the mouth of the village head. The village head had a granddaughter named Xiao Cui, who left the village a year ago because she wanted to work. Well, I will come back with money every six months, but I never came back after I left.”

"At first, they thought that the village head's granddaughter just chose to live outside the mountains and forgot about the folks in the mountains. There was nothing strange about it. But the village head told them that half a year ago, a villager yelled Said that he saw Xiao Cui at the entrance of the village, and said that he felt that something was wrong...then the next day, the villager who was yelling disappeared, and he couldn't find him no matter what!"

"The village chief told them that after this incident, there was a rumor in the village that Xiao Cui had an accident when she left the village a year ago, and that it was actually Xiao Cui's ghost who returned to the village half a year ago. Everyone here is living a good life, but she who wants to pursue city life can't even find her own body, so she will come back every once in a while to take someone away, so that she will not be lonely."

"Because there is too little evidence for this ghost story, the seniors in the team told my friend that a newcomer like him would not encounter such terrible things, so there must be some clues that can be easily found in the village, and the whole village Perhaps the strangest thing here is the old lady who blocked the entrance of the village to prevent them from entering."

"So my friend asked the village head about the old woman. He found that the village head seemed to be in a daze, and then told them that the old woman came in from outside, and he didn't know how long she had been here. Because everyone in the family has passed away and there is no place to go, so I stayed in the village."

"Hearing that the old woman came from outside, my friends and the others felt that the old woman must know something, so they couldn't help running over overnight." Du Lei said with a dry mouth, so he took out a drink from his backpack. After taking a sip of water, he continued.

"When the old woman heard me...they knocked on the door, she hurried them into the house. She said that there were too many villagers around them before, so she didn't dare to tell them a very scary thing, that is this village His name is not Shengwu, but 'Shengwu', which means 'don't let strangers enter', because this is not a place where living people should come in. Therefore, the most terrifying thing is that in such a big village, except for the old woman and her All the remaining villagers are not alive!"

"My...my friend felt very strange at the time. If what the old woman knew was true, why did she live in the village for so long? Afterwards, the old woman said something even worse. Surprising thing!"

Du Lei is very good at whetting his appetite when telling stories, so every time he stops to drink water, the other people in the living room wait quietly for him to continue.For a moment, even Su Zimo thought it was just an ordinary gathering between them, and wanted to hear Du Lei tell the story to the end.

"The old woman asked my friend if he had heard of a ghost named Xiaocui, and that ghost would come to the village to take away a person every once in a while? My friend nodded, and then the old woman shook her head helplessly. With a wry smile, he said...'I am Xiao Cui'."

"My friend and everyone else present were stunned, because the village chief said that Xiaocui had just left for a year, and she was still young when she left! But the old lady in front of her looked at least 70 years old, how could she be the same woman? personal?"

"Later, the old woman who claimed to be Xiaocui told us that Xiaocui did not leave the village a year ago, but 50 years ago. At that time, both communication and other aspects were relatively backward. Xiaocui had to work outside for half a year before fleeing. The people who came out from the same village knew that there was an epidemic in the village, some people escaped, but some could not."

"At that time, Xiao Cui was only thinking about her parents and the elderly at home. Regardless of the dissuasion of others, she went back to the village after taking simple precautions. She thought she would see a very scary village, but she never expected to enter her eyes. It turned out to be peaceful!"

"The village that Xiao Cui saw was the old one. The people who escaped from the village said that the dead people lived in this village. Xiao Cui couldn't believe her eyes, so she stood outside the village and observed. After a period of time, I found that most of the villagers stayed in the house during the day, but they were more active at night, and everyone was doing what they usually do during the day, greeting and talking to each other.”

"Xiao Cui waited for a long time, and finally found a playmate who grew up with her, and wanted to ask him something. But it may be because Xiao Cui appeared a little suddenly, and that stupid big man yelled everywhere, making her Xiao Cui, who hasn't finished digesting the weird things, subconsciously hid."

"When Xiaocui met that Dasha again, she turned on the flashlight and took him to a place where no one was around and asked him a lot of things. The strange thing is that Dasha didn't know anything about the epidemic and didn't remember how many people there were. People leave the village and don't even feel that their life is any different than before."

"But Xiaocui knew that everything was different. Because when Xiaocui pointed the flashlight at Dasha, she subconsciously asked a question—'Why don't you have a shadow?'"

"The next second, the big stupid man standing in front of her suddenly turned into a pale ghost with traces of the disease all over his body, and then he seemed to not recognize her at all, and rushed towards her like a pure beast , strangled her neck and tried to kill her!"

"Xiao Cui only had the heavy flashlight in her hand, so when she was strangled by the neck, she used all her strength to smash the stupid big man's head with the flashlight until she almost lost consciousness, and she was still in the mechanical Hit him on the head like that. When Xiao Cui came back to her senses, the big stupid guy who should have fallen in front of her disappeared, as if the world had evaporated."

"On the evening of the next day, there was a sudden commotion in the village, because they knew that the idiot had disappeared even though they didn't remember anything, and rumors gradually spread that Xiao Cui was a 'ghost'!"

"Xiaocui didn't dare to keep in touch with those villagers, so she has been living in the mountains near the village. What she usually does most is to hide behind rocks and observe this village which was renamed 'Shengwu' Village."

"After a period of time, Xiaocui can almost confirm that all the people living in the village are not living people, because they never leave the village, and they no longer raise livestock and crops, as if they don't need to eat at all. Even more strange Yes, those ghost villagers in the village have a very strange concept of time, obviously Xiao Cui has been observing outside the village for more than half a year, but the villagers are still looking for the stupid big guy who disappeared 'last night'."

"Actually, it's hard to imagine how Xiaocui survived those years, but the fact is that Xiaocui has been waiting outside the village until her young round face became thin and her hopeful eyes became dull. The envious black hair also began to thin out, and it was only after Xiaocui didn’t even recognize herself that she boldly walked into the village.”

"In the eyes of the ghost villagers, this strange outsider is desperate. But in Xiaocui's eyes, she is going home."

"Finally, Xiaocui told me... my friend, the ghost villagers in this village are harmless on weekdays, but strangers who come to the village must never expose this tranquility and harmlessness!"

"Whether it's the time outside the mountain, advanced communication equipment, or never-before-seen movies and music, all the ghost villagers in the village will discover the fact that they are no longer alive. In addition, it is impossible to expose the disappearance of those ghost villagers There are many things to pay attention to, and there are even many prohibited things that Xiao Cui has not discovered."

"Xiao Cui said that before this, many people violated the taboo before looking for her, making the villagers they came into contact with instantly become 'ghosts', if these outsiders were killed by ghost villagers, the second All the villagers will no longer remember these things and return to a peaceful life. But if people outside 'kill' the ghost villagers, then the next day everyone will rumor that Xiaocui's ghost has come to kill again."

"They didn't know from the beginning to the end that Xiao Cui had been living by their side all the time. Her mother-in-law, named Xiao Cui, just kept guard in the village, saving anyone who came from outside."

"However, my friend also said later that he saw something else in the eyes of that mother-in-law, and always felt that the mother-in-law was actually very reluctant to part with such a peaceful ghost village, because as long as this ghost village continues to exist for a day, her family members You can still live like you used to.”

"This is the story my friend told me. They relied on the old woman's warning and tried not to break the taboo before leaving the village, so they left the village safely."

After Du Lei finished speaking, he was greatly relieved, and drank the remaining drinking water in his hand.

"You have a good eloquence and a good writing style. You must be from the Department of Chinese, right?" Xu Yingying couldn't help but sigh after hearing such a long ghost story.

"It's indeed polished a bit, but this is indeed something I... my friend encountered when I was a novice." Du Lei said and looked at Xiao Wan, the convener of the ghost story conference, "Well, my story should be considered passed. Bar?"

"The story of Granny Xiaocui is indeed impressive, but from what you said, if your friend hadn't gone to find Granny Xiaocui that night, would he have been able to sleep until dawn without incident and then leave the village? "Xiaowan asked curiously.

"Ahem, I'm a novice after all, and I won't encounter too difficult problems." Du Lei first explained to the trainees present, and then said, "Actually, it is necessary for my friend to find her mother-in-law, because the next day When he woke up, the village head started to ask about the situation outside the mountain like crazy, and he was also very interested in the cameras and mobile phones that my friends and the others were carrying. If it wasn’t for the reminder from their mother-in-law, they might have killed Apart from all the ghosts in the dead ghost village, there is no other way to leave safely."

"It's a good story. Although it's a bit too long, it's passed." Xiao Wan nodded, as if accepting Du Lei's supplement.

"Since the extra people have finished telling the story, let the most beautiful girl start the story first." Xiao Wan looked at Xu Yingying.

"Okay, I'll just throw bricks and stones at you and tell a very simple story." Xu Yingying emphasized the three words "very simple", as if specifically telling Du Lei.

"Aren't there a lot of beautification cameras in mobile phones now? Most beautification cameras can automatically capture the face that appears in the camera, and perform whitening and skin smoothing together. There are also some beautification cameras that can even intelligently guess what it captures. How old are the faces of each person?"

"One night when I was sleeping in the dormitory, I lay sideways on the bed, facing the wall of the dormitory and playing with my phone."

"For fun, I accidentally turned on the beauty camera in the dark, and then my camera kept telling me that it recognized a face in the dark! And the recognition frame of the face moved from time to time, even It's getting bigger and bigger, it's like a face is getting closer and closer to me."

"I'm pretty sure it's not the selfie lens that was turned on. If there's nothing wrong with the camera, there may be someone lying beside me that I can't see."

"The second I had this thought, a pale grimace suddenly appeared on the screen of my phone!"

"It said: You finally found me..." Xu Yingying lowered her voice.

After finishing speaking, Xu Yingying clapped her hands with a smile, and then said: "Okay, this is my story, should it be considered a customs clearance?"

"Is this a story you experienced yourself?" Xiaowan seemed very curious about everyone's story.

"No, it's just a ghost story I've seen before, and the No. 1 name is also to increase the sense of substitution." Xu Yingying explained, "Other ghost stories should be as long as Du Lei's, and it's a waste of time. "

"Alright." Xiao Wan nodded, then looked at Zhu Zhu who was sitting next to Xu Yingying, "Then it's the turn of the girl wearing glasses."

"Zhu Zhu, tell me something short, don't waste your time." Xu Yingying warned in a low voice before Zhu Zhu started telling the ghost story.

"Yeah." Zhu Zhu nodded, adjusted his glasses, and said in a small voice, "I'll also tell a little story I've read before."

"This is a story without any suspense. Many small details are mixed in ordinary life. I will use the No.1 name to tell it."

"It happened not long after I moved into my new home, and I noticed that some strange things were happening around me. For example, when I was in an elevator that was already full of people, there would always be some empty space around me, as if I had a bad smell. People dare to approach."

"Occasionally when I chat with my neighbors, they will tell me euphemistically to teach my children not to use violence, but to communicate with them in a gentle way, otherwise the children will cry and cry all the time, but I am still single and have not even been in a relationship."

"When I go to work, I get in the car when there are few people, and then I see more and more people in the car. There are even many people standing there holding on to the railing, but there is no one sitting in the empty seat next to me."

"After a long time, I felt a little scared, so I decided to take a taxi to go to work. But as soon as I got into the taxi, the driver turned to me and asked me, 'Miss, where are you going to take the child?'"

"This is the end of the story." Zhu Zhu lowered her head shyly, "Although this story has no end, the main thing is to experience the feeling in it, right?"

"I like this story quite a bit." Xiaowan nodded, "Many things in life are like this. People around me see clearly the things that I keep in the dark."

"Then it's me next, right?" Su Zimo glanced at Du Lei, who was excluded before, and felt that if there was some kind of arrangement similar to the role setting in this nightmare world, then people in the nightmare world might take He and Du Lei made a mistake.

After all, he was the extra one.

As for why it was wrong?

Su Zimo thought about it, and thought it might be because of his face.

"Wait a minute!" But when Su Zimo was about to tell the story, Xiao Wan suddenly stopped her, "This time it's the same as last time, shall I come first?"

Su Zimo couldn't understand what Xiao Wan's words were implying for a moment, so he could only nod his head and obey her arrangement.

Then, Xiao Wan who was sitting there cleared her throat, sat up straight and began to tell her story.

Su Zimo and several other trainees who were present also sat up straight and improved their concentration.They believe that the nightmare world will make useless arrangements, so there must be clues for them to pass the level in Xiaowan's story.

When she started to tell the story, the expression on Xiaowan's face also changed a little, from casual at the beginning to more serious, as if what she was going to tell was not a false ghost story, but a very serious current affairs news.

"The story I'm telling is a real event that happened more than a year ago, and it happened in a high school nearby."

"At that time, it was the last month before the college entrance examination, and everyone felt nervous or even uncomfortable because of the pressure of the college entrance examination."

"So, four students in a class in the third year of high school, and four friends who have always gotten along well, decided to play an exciting game at that time."

"The protagonist of my story is Zhang Xiaoqing. She became friends with three other students because of her name, but she is the one with the least outstanding grades, appearance and personality among the four friends."

"In the beginning, Zhang Xiaoqing didn't dare to play the exciting game they talked about, but she still had a crush on the only boy among the three friends, and that boy was also a well-known schoolgirl in their high school."

"So when the boy invited him, Zhang Xiaoqing finally agreed."

"The name of this game is 'Pen Fairy', which sounds like a very ordinary psychic game, but it triggers an unimaginable nightmare."