Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

"Zhang Xiaoqing and those three friends sneaked to the famous haunted abandoned building behind the high school when there was no teacher watching for evening self-study at school. No one knows whether it is haunted or not, but the teaching building has long been very dilapidated. The door is still the oldest wood, so brittle that it can be broken with a kick, so the school replaced the locked iron door in order to prevent students from running in to play."

"The only boy among the four smashed the window on the first floor, took all three girls into the abandoned building while no one was paying attention, found the scariest classroom in the legend, and planned to play pen fairy in this classroom game."

"Most of the walls of the entire classroom have fallen off, and there are old and rusty desks and chairs scattered everywhere. There are all kinds of debris and papers with unclear contents on the ground, just like those that would appear in horror movies. Scenes."

"They found two tables that looked complete and put them together, and found four chairs to surround them. The girl who originally proposed this plan... Let's call her Xiaohua, Xiaohua is ready for a pen fairy The pen for the game, but I just found a pencil that is still usable on the floor of the classroom, and after wiping it with the broken curtain, I am going to use this pencil to play pen fairy."

"To be honest, Zhang Xiaoqing was really a little scared at that time. If the boy hadn't invited her, she would never have stepped into the abandoned building. When the school belle and another girl... just call her glasses girl, be the school belle and glasses When my sister asked him to hold the pen for the first time, Zhang Xiaoqing was really unhappy."

Xu Yingying and Zhu Zhu were a little stunned and unaccustomed to the fact that Xiaowan used "school belle" and "glasses girl" to describe the characters in the ghost story, but the three people on the sofa did not dare to move around at the moment. Afraid of missing some important clues in Xiaowan's ghost story.

When Su Zimo was sitting opposite Xiao Wan, he was also observing this girl. Her expression and tone were very natural, and there was nothing strange except that she occasionally said some confusing words.

Rather...

Su Zimo, who was sitting on the farthest side of the sofa, always heard some small movements from the corridor next to the living room, that is, the corridor where the woman "person" with loose hair disappeared, making some sounds that were easy to be ignored from time to time.

Su Zimo quietly put his hands behind his back, grabbed the metal pen in the side pocket of the backpack, and then continued to sit there, listening to Xiao Wan finish her ghost story with a smile on his face.

He knows that this kind of nightmare world that completes tasks in stages will control the difficulty. The first task is basically a refuge for the experiencers. It is a stage for them to understand the background of the nightmare world and prepare for it. safe.

"Zhang Xiaoqing didn't dare to hold the pen at all, but at this time the boy in the four-person team suddenly said to her, 'If you hold the pen, I can hold your hand'. Because few people can refuse a crush When the subject said this to herself, Zhang Xiaoqing, like other Huaichun girls, held the pen under the gaze of the boy, and then watched the boy's hand wrapping her hand, feeling a little happiness in this horrible environment feel."

"Zhang Xiaoqing and the boy held the lower half of the pencil, then the school girl held the top half of the pencil, and finally the glasses girl held the school girl's hand. The four of them grabbed the same pen from four directions, and let the pen They stood upright on the A3 white paper they had prepared earlier, and took a deep breath one, two, three to calm down."

Listening to Xiaowan's story, Su Zimo originally thought that Du Lei's story was long enough, but he did not expect Xiaowan's story to be longer, and many details and verbal descriptions were added to the story, as if she Just like on the spot.

Listening to Xiao Wan's story, Su Zimo seemed to have a gloomy and abandoned classroom in his mind. Three high school seniors who were looking for excitement looked at a timid girl and kept urging her to be the first one. Hold that pencil.

"Pen Fairy's game has always been the same, either successful or not. But this time Zhang Xiaoqing participated in the pen fairy should be successful, because she just watched the pen start to draw circles on the white paper, while her hand There was no force at all, and the three friends around me just asked each other blankly, and it was finally determined that there was a mysterious force pushing the pencil."

"Although they think it's scary, they have long known the taboo of playing the pen fairy game. They know that once the pen fairy appears, they can't let go of their hands. My hands were sweating non-stop, but I endured it under the comfort of the boy. Afterwards, Zhang Xiaoqing’s other three friends gathered around and asked some questions related to her academic future, but she said nothing out of fear. No."

Xiao Wan's narration tone seems very indifferent, even a bit like holding a script and reading it without emotion.

"But later, the school belle among friends suddenly asked, 'Pen Fairy, does Zhang Xiaoqing have someone she likes?' A circle is drawn at the sign of '."

"The school girl smiled and said, 'I might know who it is.' Then Zhang Xiaoqing asked again in a tense state where Zhang Xiaoqing's heart was jumping to her throat, 'Pen Xian, the person Zhang Xiaoqing likes, do you like her? '"

"At this moment, Zhang Xiaoqing's whole heart almost exploded. She suddenly pressed the pencil she was holding tightly with her hand, trying to force the 'pen fairy' to stop. Some people say that in fact, a large part of the happiness in secret love comes from oneself Satisfied, Zhang Xiaoqing would rather not know the answer from the beginning than to know an answer without knowing the truth here."

"Maybe it's because Zhang Xiaoqing's movements are too forceful, or maybe it's because the pencil that has been dropped in the abandoned classroom for an unknown amount of time has already become brittle. In short, the lead of the pencil that was held by four people is just like this. It was broken under the eyelid, and the whole pencil left the white paper, committing the number one taboo of a pen fairy."

"At that time, the air in the abandoned classroom was very quiet. This weird atmosphere lasted for three or four minutes. The glasses girl suddenly screamed at the top of her throat, and shouted, 'We are going to die! We will die! Pen Fairy If we are not sent away, we will all die!', and let go of the pen."

"After that, it was Xiaohua who let go, this girl who always seemed to have a strong idea actually covered her face and cried, and said to herself, 'Sorry, sorry, sorry, I shouldn't propose to play pen fairy, sorry !'"

"Then, even the boy let go, walked to the window and turned his back to the other three girls in silence."

"On the contrary, Zhang Xiaoqing, who was still holding the pen at the end, was puzzled, because she felt that the performance of the three friends...was very exaggerated. Yes, it was really exaggerated! Although the taboos of the pen fairy are widely spread, in fact, most of them They are all unreliable ghost stories, and no one has ever dared to say that breaking the taboo of the pen fairy will definitely lead to death, why can't the two girls, even the boy she has a crush on, look melancholy?"

"Zhang Xiaoqing can't figure it out, after all, the 'pen fairy' they summoned didn't even riot like in the ghost story, and didn't write the word 'death' in capitals on white paper, why the screaming of the glasses girl in her ear The sound is getting worse and worse, why is the crying of the school belle getting louder and louder?"

"Zhang Xiaoqing hadn't thought about these things clearly yet, when a teacher heard the screams of the glasses girl coming from the abandoned building, something bad happened to one of them, so she rushed in."

"But the teachers who rushed into the abandoned classroom only saw a few students surrounded by a blank piece of paper, crying and screaming, and a girl sitting there stupidly holding a pen, completely unable to see what happened. What. When the teacher took Zhang Xiaoqing and the others away, the glasses girl was still yelling, "Penxian, the penxian drama is entangled in us, I saw it! It wants to kill us! It will let us go Order, kill us one by one! We are doomed!'”

"Zhang Xiaoqing, who was sitting there stupidly, was also taken away by the teacher. When she left the seat, the pen in her hand fell on the white paper, and she lay there quietly without any mystery."

"'I'm sorry, but I'm really scared. Her eyes can see some strange things since she was a child. Maybe she really saw the pen fairy!' Originally Zhang Xiaoqing wanted to talk to the school beauty, but the girl didn't I just leaned on her and cried for a while, and said that the eyes of the glasses girl can be psychic, if she sees the pen fairy, it must be true."

"Until now, Zhang Xiaoqing still doesn't believe the words of the school belle and the glasses girl. After all, if what the glasses girl said is true, wouldn't she be the first one to let go of the pen?"

"Zhang Xiaoqing wanted to ask the boy she had a crush on, but for some reason, that boy kept walking with his head down after leaving the abandoned building, without looking at anyone or saying anything."

"Zhang Xiaoqing and his family are all nearby, so they all go home after evening self-study. Although Zhang Xiaoqing doesn't think that the matter of Bixian will cause any sequelae, for some reason, she can't help but her heart beats faster. Wait until eleven o'clock Many, when Zhang Xiaoqing was about to fall asleep, the small group established by their class suddenly received a message from the glasses girl."

"The message said 'I saw it, it's here, the pen fairy is here, I will be taken away!' Zhang Xiaoqing and other students contacted the glasses girl with their mobile phones, but all the calls they made in the past failed. When someone answered, Zhang Xiaoqing once again had a very bad feeling in her heart."

"The next day, the glasses girl didn't come to school. Actually, the teacher had already heard the news from the glasses girl's parents in advance. When asking Zhang Xiaoqing and their friends, she said that the glasses girl didn't come home after school yesterday, and she couldn't find her until now. trace."

"After learning the news, Zhang Xiaoqing was stunned. All she could hear was the unstoppable crying of the school girl beside her."

"She couldn't figure it out. It was just a game. Why did the glasses girl really disappear? Did she disappear, or did she really meet a pen fairy? Zhang Xiaoqing's head was in a mess, and it was at this time that the school girl suddenly hugged her. She, then cries in her ear saying 'it's true, it's my turn next!'"

"Zhang Xiaoqing doesn't want to die, and no one wants to die."

"The family conditions of the three friends around Zhang Xiaoqing are all very good, at least they have a few houses in first-tier cities in their hands, unlike Zhang Xiaoqing's family who can only rent an old house near the school in order to let her take the college entrance examination at ease. The house in the suburbs is also a self-built house that my family has built for decades, and I can’t sell it at all. After a lot of hard work, I was admitted to this high school, and with Zhang Xiaoqing’s grades, I have already got a university admission letter in my hand. It is even more impossible to want to die."

"After entering high school, the biggest change for Zhang Xiaoqing was meeting three friends who were willing to talk to her with a smile when other classmates said she was a 'countryman'. Especially the boy Zhang Xiaoqing had a crush on, not only the schoolboy Grass looks, and treats people very gently, always smiling, just like you sitting across from me."

When Xiaowan said this, she suddenly mentioned Su Zimo who was sitting opposite her.

"Actually, I too... tie grass." Du Lei muttered.

"There aren't many boys in your department?" Xu Yingying also muttered, and then looked at Su Zimo out of the corner of her eyes, "Ah Yu's face and your face are indeed not on the same scale."

"..."

Su Zimo found that Xu Yingying and the others were even more relaxed than when Du Lei told the ghost story before. This may be because the story Xiaowan told was longer and more clichéd. Almost everyone who has read the horror story Anyone who read the film has heard of several similar versions, and really can't hear anything new.

But Su Zimo, who has been listening attentively, feels that there are many suspicious things in Xiaowan's story. Just like the protagonist "Zhang Xiaoqing" said, the pen fairy games they experienced were too ordinary, and the glasses girl's The disappearance also seemed inexplicable.

But if you think about it from another perspective, Su Zimo thinks that even if Zhang Xiaoqing was suspicious at first, after knowing that the glasses girl was missing, she might panic all over.

"In short, she learned how to dress herself up, learned to go to KTV to sing those popular songs, learned to save all the lunch money given by her parents, just to drink a cup of Internet celebrity coffee with her friends, just to be able to see the boy she likes A warm smile, she's addicted to it and can't quit."

"Zhang Xiaoqing originally planned that when she got the admission letter, she would hold the admission letter from a prestigious school like that boy, comb her hair the most delicately, wear the best clothes, and confess her love to him with the most beautiful smile. When Zhang Xiaoqing thought of the boy's smile when he looked at her, she felt that she might not have a one-way crush, and that she would definitely be able to confess successfully and complete the counterattack she most hoped for in life."

"But, the glasses girl is missing."

"The boy kept his head down all the time, stopped talking, and stopped laughing."

"At this time, Zhang Xiaoqing concealed her fear and kept using words to comfort the school beauty and the boy, but one was still crying while covering his face, and the other was still silent."

"After school that day, the school belle called Zhang Xiaoqing and said she wanted to chat with her. When the two sat down by the lake in the park, the school belle told Zhang Xiaoqing that she was really scared because she grew up with the glasses girl, so The eyes of the glasses girl can really see ghosts, the pen fairy is really coming to kill, and she is the second person who will disappear."

"Amidst the sobs of Xiaohua covering her face, Zhang Xiaoqing talked for more than half an hour, and comforted her for more than half an hour, and then Xiaohua gradually calmed down, leaning on Zhang Xiaoqing's shoulder and saying, "When a person is about to die, his words are also kind." , In fact, I am really glad that I have a friend like you at this time. Although I don’t say it on weekdays, you are really an angel among the four of us and have helped us a lot.'”

"Zhang Xiaoqing always feels that the relationship between herself and the school belle is close, and she has never confided in the school belle, so when she suddenly heard her say that, she was really moved."

"Following that, Zhang Xiaoqing heard the school belle say, 'From today until I disappear, we will be best friends. If I can see the sun tomorrow, I'll treat you to coffee for a year, okay!'" Zhang Xiaoqing While feeling warm in my heart, I comforted Xiaohua for a long time, and then I heard her say, 'Since we are good friends, I will tell you a secret, in fact, the person you like has always liked you.'”

"When Zhang Xiaoqing heard the news, she froze there."

"'He actually doesn't know how to express himself very much, but he told me secretly before that if what happened this time is true, then his biggest regret is that he can't do anything, and he even has to go one step ahead of you.' Xiaohua said After finishing these words, I leaned against Zhang Xiaoqing and fell asleep for a while as if I was sleepy."

"Zhang Xiaoqing stared at the night lake in front of her in a daze for a long, long time, and thought about many things in her heart. It took her a long time to come back to her senses, and she woke up the school girl who was leaning on her body, and then helped her back without saying a word. In the community, I didn’t turn back to my home until I saw Xiaohua walk into the gate of her apartment. At that time, Zhang Xiaoqing couldn’t calm down in her heart.”

"What's even more unsettling is..."

"The next day, the school beauty disappeared. Everyone who knew about it was rumoring that the school beauty and the glasses girl were not missing, but were found by Pen Fairy! The story of Pen Fairy is true, there are really ghosts in this world !"

"This time, Zhang Xiaoqing couldn't help crying, because she lost the girl who said they were best friends last night, because she regretted not sending the school flowers to the house last night, and then watched her walk into her bedroom. "

"What Zhang Xiaoqing needs to face is that since everything is true, the person who will disappear tonight...is the boy she has been deeply in love with."

"And now, Zhang Xiaoqing's only life-saving straw is a message from Xiaohua on her mobile phone shortly after she sent Xiaohua home. Xiaohua said in the message that there is actually a way to break the curse of the pen fairy, but this method requires Some people took the initiative to sacrifice to break the law of pen fairy killing people, so that those who are still alive can survive. Xiaohua also said in the message that this method was told by the glasses girl in a message before she disappeared. If she herself is not the second target, I will definitely save Zhang Xiaoqing."

"Hiding on the roof of the school and watching this news, Zhang Xiaoqing cried even more heartbreakingly. The targets of Bixian are disappearing one by one in the order they let go, first the girl with glasses, then the school beauty, and then the boy she has a crush on , and finally herself."

"According to Xiaohua, if breaking the order of 'death' can save people, then the only way for her to save that boy is for her to 'die' first!"

"Just as Zhang Xiaoqing was gradually collapsing, a call suddenly came from her mobile phone, and the caller...was the boy she had a crush on. This was also the first time the other party called Zhang Xiaoqing. An environment where maybe she'll be ecstatic about the call."

"Zhang Xiaoqing connected the phone, and there was a boy's anxious voice on the other end of the phone. Although the boy was very gentle to her and the people around him on weekdays, when Zhang Xiaoqing heard this anxious tone, she suddenly felt that she and the boy The distance between them got closer. She only heard the boy say on the phone, "Zhang Xiaoqing, where are you? I have something very urgent to look for you. I'm outside the teaching building right now. Come out right now. I'm really I have something very important to tell you! Don’t bring other people with you, just come out by yourself, only you know about this!'”

"Hearing what the boy said on the phone, and then thinking about what the school belle said before, Zhang Xiaoqing once again fell into the self-satisfaction of her secret love at that moment. She felt that she knew what the man was going to say, and knew that it might be between her and him. The last conversation, but rather than both of them disappearing from this world, Zhang Xiaoqing still hopes that that gentle big boy can live a good life."

"So Zhang Xiaoqing hung up the phone... closing her eyes, with a smile on her face, she jumped down from the rooftop."

"The moment she was about to land, she seemed to have hallucinations in front of her eyes. She saw the boy, and even saw the school girl and the glasses girl. Zhang Xiaoqing felt that the two of them picked her up."

"But why are the expressions on their faces so shocked, so terrified?"

"..."

"This is my story." Xiaowan finished her long story and sat calmly on the single sofa.

Xiaowan's story is very detailed, but if it is summed up in simple words, it is that four high school students played pen fairy together to death, and in the end they violated the big taboo of pen fairy. The world evaporated.

The high school student named Zhang Xiaoqing was supposed to be the last one to "die", but in order to save the boy who was the third target, she took the initiative to commit suicide by jumping off the rooftop, breaking the order in which the pen fairy "killed" people, making the original The man who "died" survived.

This is Su Zimo's brief summary of the story.

"I never thought..." Du Lei couldn't help but sigh, "Someone can tell such a clichéd story for such a long time..."

"Hey!" Xu Yingying couldn't help but pushed Du Lei with her arm, telling him not to talk nonsense, and looked at her left arm by the way, probably wanting to know if the first task has progressed, and then continued to sit upright Waiting for the next ghost story.

"Ding!"

When the atmosphere was somewhat silent, Su Zimo suddenly saw the screen of the tablet computer on the coffee table light up again, as if someone had sent another message in the group with only one chat bubble.

Su Zimo still remembered that the last message seemed to be——

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

And now another message popped up saying: [What time is it, I fell asleep when I saw the message, let’s talk about it next time. ]

The sender's name is Wen Xiaoyu.

Su Zimo originally thought that the lady "Hua Xiaowan" who was sitting across from her would bend over to reply to the message, but he didn't expect...the message from "Hua Xiaowan" popped up on the tablet, saying: [I I have already gone back to my room to sleep, and now I am lying on the bed playing with my mobile phone. ]

Go back to bed?

play cell phone?

Hua Xiaowan?

Su Zimo's originally relaxed body suddenly stiffened. He remembered the person who they regarded as a female ghost because he was sitting on the balcony just now. If the person who came back to sleep from the balcony just now was "Hua Xiaowan"... …

So who is this "Xiao Wan" sitting opposite him now?

"Ding!"

Wen Xiaoyu: [Going to bed so early is not your style, did you go on a date with handsome Lin Zhe again today? ]

Hua Xiaowan: [Ignore him, I feel a little scared now, I always feel that there is a sound outside the door. ]

Wen Xiaoyu: [Stop talking, we agreed not to talk about this kind of thing, and I fell asleep too. ]

Hua Xiaowan: [Yes. ]

The messages on the tablet jumped one after another, and even the three trainees sitting by the side began to feel a little strange.It's just that they don't seem to be able to read things as fast as Su Zimo, so only Xu Yingying asked in a low voice: "Well, don't you need to reply to the message?"

"No, I'm not in the group anyway." Xiao Wan, who had been looking straight ahead, suddenly looked at Xu Yingying, squinting her eyes and smiling.

"..."

"By the way, do you think the story I'm telling is scary?" "Xiao Wan" turned to look back at Su Zimo and asked with a smile.

"Terrible." Su Zimo nodded seriously.

"Really? Can you tell me where the horror is?" "Xiao Wan" seemed very interested in this, "I don't think other people seem to think this story is scary."

Indeed, when Su Zimo said the word "horror", the doubts in Du Lei's eyes almost overflowed.From Du Lei's long ghost story before, it can be seen that deep in his heart he has the desire to show himself with good things, so he can't understand the horror of the previous story about the pen fairy.

"I'd better tell my story." Su Zimo shook his head, not wanting to say too much to disrupt the rhythm of the missions of the trainees, "My ghost story is very short, it's about an abandoned hotel full of mirrors ..."

"No, I would like to hear what is the horror of the 'Pen Fairy' story!" "Xiao Wan" suddenly became sharp, but softened after finishing speaking, "I will use this instead of what you want to say. The ghost story is all right, after you finish speaking, the ghost story conference can end."

"Ayu, tell me." Hearing what "Xiaowan" said, even Xu Yingying urged her.The ultimate goal of the trainees is to complete the task, so Xu Yingying feels that only by meeting the requirements of the NPC can they complete the first task in this nightmare world.

Su Zimo thought for a few seconds, sighed secretly, and then looked at "Xiao Wan" who was sitting opposite and said, "The horror of this story is that only one person died in the whole story."

"One person?" Du Lei corrected with a blank face, "A Yu, three of them died, the glasses girl, the school belle and Zhang Xiaoqing, right?"

"No, only one died." Su Zimo shook his head, "The glasses girl and Xiaohua are both alive, only Zhang Xiaoqing died. This is the horror of the story, because the whole story of the pen fairy is fake, only Zhang Xiaoqing's death is real."

"At the beginning of the story, a few friends made an agreement to do some exciting things before the college entrance examination. I think this so-called exciting thing is not playing 'pen fairy', but a few rebellious students who made up a 'supernatural Topic: "Leaving home without telling family and school, and feigning death to scare that girl named Zhang Xiaoqing by the way, playing a so-called 'prank' that killed her."

"During the time when the glasses girl and Xiaohua disappeared, they might be hiding somewhere to rest, or they might have gone to play in other places. Anyway, they are all alive and well, but their skills are so great that parents, schools and even relevant departments can't find them. That's it."

Su Zimo is not in the habit of talking nonsense, so he just briefly summarized his guess.

After hearing what Su Zimo said, the three trainees who had always subconsciously regarded the story of "Pen Fairy" as a cliché suddenly figured out what was wrong in the story of "Xiaowan"!

Why is the pen fairy game in ghost stories so peaceful?Obviously nothing happened, why did the girl with glasses suddenly scream loudly to attract the teacher?

Because the whole Pen Fairy game is fake, and it might even be just a collusion between the school belle, the glasses girl and that boy!The purpose is to deceive people!The purpose is to seek excitement before the college entrance examination!The purpose is to play pranks!

"What else do you know?" Xiao Wan gradually lowered her head, her tone gradually lowered.

"It was all a nasty prank, but before Zhang Xiaoqing jumped off the roof, I received a call from that boy." Su Zimo had already held the metal pen in his hand, "I guess that boy didn't intend to be on the phone Li confessed to Zhang Xiaoqing, but wanted to tell Zhang Xiaoqing the truth of the prank, told her that everything was a lie, and told her not to take the prank seriously. Unfortunately, it was still a step too late."

"How could this be?" Zhu Zhu, who had been sitting there silently, took off her glasses and wiped them, and said in a somewhat uncomfortable tone, "Why didn't that boy tell Zhang Xiaoqing the truth on the phone? That way, Zhang Xiaoqing wouldn't Do something stupid!"

"Maybe it's the school belle and the glasses girl's idea?" Su Zimo also sighed, "At the end of the story, Zhang Xiaoqing seemed to see the boy, the school belle and the glasses girl in a hallucination. But I don't think it was Zhang Xiaoqing's hallucination, but It's the school girl and the glasses girl who followed the boy to find Zhang Xiaoqing, wanting to witness Zhang Xiaoqing's shocked expression when he saw them alive?"

"That's why they don't let boys explain things clearly on the phone." Su Zimo said, looking at "Xiao Wan", "Am I right?"

Xiao Wan didn't speak.

On the contrary, after hearing the truth of the story clearly, Du Lei suddenly picked a thorn and said: "Although it sounds quite miserable, but in this way, this is not a ghost story, right? Is it against the rules?"

Just as Du Lei finished speaking, a strange smile appeared on the face of "Xiao Wan" who was sitting there with her head bowed.