"Old man, we are new here. I want to ask something about this community. Can you open the door?" Su Zimo asked in a tone he thought was soft.
"Go away! Don't think I don't know your tricks! You can't fool me, get out of my way!"
The voice of the old man in the door was very angry, as if Su Zimo and the others were health care product salesmen who couldn't get rid of them.
"Old man, we are really new people, we are not bad people." Qin Rong on the side persuaded again in a soft female voice.
"Bad people? Haha, how can there be any bad people in this world today!" The old man's tone 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, and he didn't know why.
"You said that you are new people, then you all talk about what you do?" The voice in the door gradually calmed down, but there was still no trust in 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 discharged from the army, Mu Feng said he was unemployed, Qin Rong said he was a white-collar worker, and Uncle Chen Long said Say you are a gym teacher.
After speaking, there was no sound in the door, not even the sound of reprimands from before, and the old man in the door did not respond at all.
What do we do now? Mu Feng asked Su Zimo beside him with his mouth.
Su Zimo thought about it and no longer hesitated. Since he knew that there was a "person" in the door, he directly stabbed the sharp umbrella sword into the door with a slight gap, then gave the ghost umbrella a look, and let the door directly " Click" was pushed open.
The trainee next to him only saw Su Zimo poking the umbrella in, and he didn't know what he did. The door lock in front of him immediately went off, the door opened with a creak, and the inside of the door was pitch black. can't see anything.
Pushing open the door directly inward, Su Zimo and the others followed the dim light of 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 enough to live."
The old man's voice was very soft, but Su Zimo and the others could hear it clearly, and there was too much information in the words.
kill who
Who has had enough
Are you sure this is what the ghost would say
Even a Specter who doesn't know his identity shouldn't fall into 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 are people who just moved in." Su Zimo re-emphasized reluctantly.
"There's a glass of water there." The old man pointed to the shoe cabinet next to the door. "You drink the water and swallow it, and I will trust you."
Everyone's eyes turned to the cup on the shoe cabinet, which indeed contained liquid, 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.
"Yes, 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 on the corners 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 in again? Where did so many people come from?"
Although he said something that the practitioners didn't understand, the old man turned on the dim lights in the room, allowing Su Zimo and the others to see a plain living room with a square table and a few benches.
"Come in." The old man stepped aside, "Come on, don't linger."
As soon as Su Zimo and the others entered the door, the old man asked something that made them unable to respond: "Are you all experienced practitioners?"
Everyone was stunned there.
They really didn't expect that one day they would hear the term "trainer" from the aborigines of the nightmare world.
"Old man? You're not a ghost?" The old man spoke straightforwardly, and Su Zimo followed suit.
"Of course I'm not a ghost." The old man glared at Su Zimo directly, then shook his head helplessly, "But us people, not even a ghost, can only live in fear."
"Master, are there really ghosts in this community?" Uncle Chen Long looked at the old man with some sympathy, "Instead of being alone, you might as well tell us about the ghosts, or share with other people in the community. Maybe everyone can help, don't hide it alone."
When Chen Long said this, Su Zimo and Liu Xu gave him a thoughtful look.
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 really 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 sneered and said—
"Do you think those things that look alive in the community are really people?"
"… "
Even if there was a guess in their hearts, Su Zimo and the other practitioners remained silent when they heard the old man say it directly.
The old man walked to the window and opened the thick curtains, so that Su Zimo and the others could clearly see the bright lights in the community and the "people" who were still singing, dancing and laughing while the night was getting darker. Su Zimo and the others fell into deep thought.
It's lively and lively outside.
It was dark, cold and quiet inside.
The outside and the inside are like two separate worlds.
But at first, the practitioners 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 almost countless ghosts!
The old man is a human being, while Ali, the running girl, the old people who dance square dance and do Tai Chi are the devils!
The crowd froze for a while.
At first, they thought that entering the residential building and meeting dozens of ghosts was the limit of the twentieth nightmare world.
But now... they are likely to face more than a hundred... even hundreds of Specter!
"If it's true... we're dead." Mu Feng felt his teeth chattering. Who are the young and fresh practitioners in this world who can handle this kind of battle
Haven't even seen it!
At this moment, the practitioners finally knew why no matter how powerful they were, they couldn't survive the twentieth nightmare world.
But Su Zimo still had a doubt.
Why can't the experiencer who failed to clear the 20th 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 trainee?" Su Zimo asked aloud.
"Are you really human?" The old man didn't seem to believe it.
"Old man, you asked us to drink water because Specter can't eat, right?" Uncle Chen Long on the side seemed to be very clear about this, and he gritted his teeth and took out a very small but very sharp knife from his pocket, and directly He cut a wound as shallow as possible on his arm, so that the old man could clearly see the bright red flowing out, "Then the Specter will bleed?"
"..." The old man was silent for a while, and finally walked towards the living room while beckoning to Su Zimo and the others, "Come with me."
Su Zimo and the others followed the old man into the bedroom, holding various ghost weapons on alert, and then saw the old man open an old wooden wardrobe and set aside some clothes hanging in the wardrobe.
After a series of actions, Su Zimo and the others saw that there was a big hole in the wardrobe that was abruptly pulled out! 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 got into the hole first.
The practitioners followed the old man's footsteps and drilled into the hole, and then they could see clearly by the old man's flashlight that they seemed to have got into the next room.
After the coffee table next door was removed, a downward ladder appeared.
Although the old man is old, his skills are not ambiguous, and he seems to be very familiar with this route.
Su Zimo did a rough count. They seemed to use this method to go straight down to the fifth or sixth floor, and then entered a space with no windows at all. This space seemed to be the basement of a residential building!
There was no window and it was pitch-dark. After Su Zimo and the others came, candles were lit, and about twenty or thirty pale people stood there.
If you guessed correctly, they should all be residents of residential buildings.
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 can't attract any movement.
Maybe at that time, most of the residents were still hiding in this basement that was connected by themselves!
"Elder Jin, are there any more experienced practitioners 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 it, "Why do you all know about the trainers?"
"There were also trainers who came here before, and they asked the same questions as you. But how could we not know about the trainers? Now that the world has become such a mess, isn't it all because of that damn nightmare world? "A lady with loose hair and a pale face that is worse than a ghost said through gritted teeth, "In the whole city, there may be only those of us who have no skills left, and even the experienced ones may be killed by the ghosts."
"How is that possible? We saw cars, pedestrians, and lots of lights outside the residential area." Qin Rong couldn't help shouting.
Others also find it strange that these people speak as if they are survivors of the end times.
"Those are all fakes." Old Jin said, "Those are all illusions created by the ghosts outside. This city has long been abandoned, and only the surviving living people are left."
Hearing Lao Jin say this, Su Zimo suddenly thought of something, so he asked a question that made others very incomprehensible: "Old man, what is the name of the country we are in now? The most powerful country in the world is What? How many years and months is it now?"
Not only the practitioners were stunned, but Elder Jin and the others were also stunned.
But in the end, Mr. Jin and the others still answered truthfully.
What shocked the practitioners was that they had never heard the names of the two countries mentioned by Mr. Jin, or had never existed in history! Jin Lao even said that their current time is 987 years of the new calendar, which is a way of recording the year that the practitioners have never heard of.
Nightmare world... Isn't it all what happened in the real world
At this time, Su Zimo suddenly saw some books scattered on the ground under the light of the candle. Among them, there was a book with a tattered cover, and it was a book called "Stars in the Lake".
Obviously it is a fairy tale book that no one has read except myself since childhood, but it can be seen 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, their thoughts still not recovered from the "new calendar" and the unfamiliar country names that the old man said.
"Then have you heard of this book?" Su Zimo asked the "indigenous people" 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, "Children like to read this, especially after the disaster in the nightmare world. Even adults love the stories in this fairy tale book."
"Mr. Su, what's going on?" When outside, Mu Feng did not call Su Zimo the head of the family.
"A country I've never heard of, a way of recording years I've never heard of, a fairy tale book I've never heard of." Su Zimo sighed, "Things we haven't heard of, in this world, are children's What you know, there may only be one explanation if you think so.”
"This is another world."
Although Su Zimo briefly explained it, 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 that was destroyed by ghosts, so the fairy tale books Su Zimo read since he was a child may also come from that world.
Before, Su Zimo was very puzzled why the practitioners who failed to clear the 20th Nightmare World would die directly, and why could they not use Nightmare Points to offset the death penalty
Because this is not a nightmare world at all!
That transfer station is the dividing point between Su Zimo's world and mother An Yu's world. Those who have experienced the world of nightmares nineteen times have been "exiled" to another wasteland world that has been devastated!
The land where Su Zimo lives now is the homeland of his mother, An Yu!
another world!
The world of Specter Ghosts that was completely invaded by Specter Ghosts, and even split human beings by voting for sacrifices!
"It's nothing." Su Zimo 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 their questioning, they suddenly heard a knock on the door right above the basement!
Su Zimo immediately raised his head, and found that the sound came from the entrance door above the basement.
"Is there anyone who hasn't come down yet?" Su Zimo looked around.
The old man also counted silently, and finally shook his head with a pale face and said, "No more, all of us are 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 the voice that has become like a ghost came from above the door panel.
"It's Ali!" Someone in the crowd shouted.
"Ah! How did they know about this place!" Someone screamed uncontrollably.
"Calm down!" Su Zimo and Jin Lao could only do their best to calm the others down.
[Do you really think it's safe to hide here? ] The voice of Li Gui Ali continued, [Have those people who suddenly appeared were hidden by you? If you want to continue living, hand over those fresh humans. ]
[Be obedient, we will continue to protect you... hehehe...]
The originally lively and vibrant world seemed to be suddenly revealed, revealing an inner page that was cold and even with bones.