The candles in the hall were blown by the wind for a moment.
Although the candle was not completely extinguished, at least for a short period of time, the light of the candle dimmed instantly, and the sudden change of ambient light made Su Zimo feel a little uncomfortable when he blinked.
At this time, Su Zimo was standing in front of the long dining table. Except for the self-proclaimed lunatic who was lying on the sofa, the other nine practitioners were standing beside or opposite Su Zimo.
The moment the candle light dimmed, Su Zimo was suddenly stunned...
He suddenly saw that these ordinary or friendly practitioners around him suddenly changed their appearances. Because the light was too dark, Su Zimo could not see their appearance, but no matter their hairstyle, body shape or even clothes, they were different from what he saw a second ago. !
"what!"
"What the hell!"
"Who!"
In the next second, the cold wind in the hall disappeared, and the dimmed candlelight returned to its bright appearance at the beginning. Every practitioner around the dining table still looked the same as before. The unfamiliar image seen seems to be just an illusion.
However, except for Su Zimo, the faces of the other practitioners also showed expressions of horror.
"What's the matter? I just saw that Mr. Fang Qin seemed to have changed." Standing between Mr. Fang Qin and Su Zimo was Du Xin, who scratched his head inexplicably, "It seems that he has gained a lot of weight."
"Is there?" Qi Xiaomin, who was standing on the other side, looked ignorant, "Did you read it wrong?"
"I saw it too." Old Man Fang Qin's face also sank, "The old man's appearance is a little different when he sees the people on the opposite side."
"Well..." Wan Ling, the little girl hiding beside Doctor Jin, replied softly, "Doctor, it's different..."
"We were arranging the food just now, but we didn't pay attention to these aspects. It's really bad." Cheng Yun looked at several practitioners with different expressions, and seemed annoyed that he had missed a very important clue.
After all, the second requirement of the mission is to "find a silver lining", which means that what they have to do is not only escape and kill the enemy, but may also need to search for all possible clues.
"Since it happened once, it may happen a second time. After all, we don't know what exactly what happened just now." Su Zimo thought about it and asked, "Brother Xiaohuo, you lit the candles here. ?"
Because Xiaohuo has been playing with the lighter in his hand, when Su Zimo first saw so many candles lit in the hall, he subconsciously thought that the early-arriving practitioner should have lit it.
"How is it possible, we found these candles lit as soon as we came out of the room." After saying that, Xiaohuo also showed the lighter in his hand that looked tattered, "And I am not an ordinary lighter, no You can light it at will."
Su Zimo also nodded secretly. If he remembered correctly, the lighter in Xiaohuo's hand is called "the lighter at the scene". When the flame is lit, it will slightly increase the chance of Specter appearing at the scene. For Xiaohuo, who is a little impatient That said, it is a good item that can force the Specter out and solve it with battle.
"Actually, I really want to use this lighter. Maybe if I'm lucky, I can lure the Specter out at once, but I'm afraid that this time a big guy will suddenly come and destroy us, so I endure it." While muttering, Xiaohuo changed the lighter to play with.
"Everyone calm down first. The time in the nightmare world may only be a few seconds and a few minutes to the outside world, but for us in the nightmare world, it is a real full five days. We need to plan a lot of things." Cheng Yun As he spoke, he pretended to have forgotten what happened just now, and started sorting the food on the table with Bai Man.
Su Zimo also placed the broken vase he found at the corner of the stairs, then took off the backpack behind him, reached through the two items he found in the cabinet in the bedroom on the third floor, and placed the chocolate and drinking water below. Take it out.
Compared with other people's two to three hundred milliliters of drinking water in stock, Su Zimo was able to take out four bottles of one-liter drinking water from a backpack that seemed to have nothing. Features of weight calculation.
"It should be enough." Cheng Yun took a special look at Su Zimo's backpack, and then smiled at everyone, "The logistical matters will be handled by Bai Man, everyone take a good rest first."
Su Zimo took advantage of this time to look around. Just now, he only noticed the dilapidated hall and the candles that were as bright as day. Now he found that the villa itself had doors and floor-to-ceiling windows, but all the doors and windows were the same as before. Like the second floor, it was nailed to death by a mixture of wooden and iron bars.
A few wooden bars near them seemed to have been moved. Obviously, Cheng Yun and the others did not try hard to escape from the villa, but they finally gave up due to various circumstances.
This villa is tight and light, there is no other light source except candles, and it is not even known whether it is day or night outside the villa.
There didn't seem to be any commodities in the living room with broken furniture everywhere, but the whole villa was huge and had many rooms, so Su Zimo believed that there must be something he wanted in some corners of the villa. It's just... Because everyone is gathered in the hall, Su Zimo will definitely attract very bad attention if he leaves without a reason.
"Du Xin." At this time, Dr. Jin suddenly took a note and asked Du Xin, "You just said that when the candle was dark, you saw Mr. Fang getting fatter?"
"Well, but I don't know if it's an illusion." Du Xin nodded.
"It's okay, I'll record all the details first." Dr. Jin said, went to Wan Ling and Mr. Fang Qin again, and wrote down all the details they could remember.
Although Su Zimo also saw some, but because he didn't speak out just now, Jin Lei didn't notice it.
"Everyone, take it easy." Qi Xiaomin on the side might feel that the atmosphere was a little heavy, so he pulled out the chairs for the practitioners who were standing there stiffly, asked them to sit down, and then jumped to Du Xin's side to shoot Holding his shoulder, he said, "Du Xin, Su Zimo is your old classmate, right?"
Hearing that the topic suddenly shifted to himself, Su Zimo, who had just sat down on the creaking chair, was also taken aback.
"Yeah." Du Xin's ears suddenly turned red.
"Then what was Mr. Su like when he was in school?" Qi Xiaomin looked curious, "Du Xin, don't you know, when we did a mission together in Nightmare World last time, Mr. Su was really nice!"
"Zimo was the most popular person in school at that time, right?" Du Xin peeked at Su Zimo beside him, "After all, he is a good-looking person, and he is still the top student in every exam. , this should be the legendary school grass, right? Even students from other schools secretly run outside the fence of our school playground just to see how good-looking Su Zimo from the legendary Shoushan No. 1 Middle School looks. ."
"Cough cough." It was actually the first time that Su Zimo had heard of such an exaggeration. After all, he was sent to Shoushan No. 1 Middle School by his grandfather, which was only part of the social course arranged by his grandfather. And because grandfather arranged too many other courses for Su Zimo, he often did some other courses arranged by grandfather after class and in physical education get out of class, and even deserted during class, and did not communicate well with the surrounding classmates at all.
Except for Du Xin, an impressive youngster who killed Matt, there are not too many classmates that Su Zimo can remember.
"Zimo, after four years, in the eyes of our old classmates, he still exists almost perfectly." Du Xin sighed.
"There is no perfect person in this world..." the madman lying on the sofa beside him sighed with emotion.
"Indeed." Su Zimo said with a smile, "No matter what, I'm just a rookie practitioner who doesn't even have a nightmare point. Maybe even little sister Wan Ling is better than me."
Wan Ling, who was hiding behind the doctor, stuck her head out and looked at Su Zimo curiously with wide eyes.
"Who doesn't start as a newcomer?" Qi Xiaomin gave Du Xin another look, "Du Xin, was Su Zimo's high school days really that perfect?"
"Well..." Du Xin thought for a while, "The only thing that makes people feel regretful is that he suddenly transferred and left without saying a word in the third year of high school? At that time, even the head teacher didn't know the news of his transfer. It's a pity."
"Sorry." All Su Zimo could do was smile and hand Du Xin a candy.
"Actually, our classmates were very angry at that time." Du Xin quickly took the candy, "We always felt that you must have encountered something important, such as the sudden transfer of your parents' work, so you had to transfer schools. But there are It's really maddening that some good guys spread rumors everywhere!"
"rumor?"
"They..." Du Xin said, and saw that everyone around him was looking at him with curious eyes, he didn't dare to say it out loud for a while, he just got closer to Su Zimo and said in a low voice, "They actually said that you are I dropped out of school and went to work, and said that you never participated in social practice activities, never attended private gatherings and dinners, and never even invited everyone to dinner on your birthday because the family was almost unable to solve the problem, so you could only give up your studies and go to work.”
Except for Qi Xiaomin who heard a general idea, the other practitioners didn't hear it clearly.
On the other hand, Su Zimo really didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing it.
He never thought that he would have such an image in the eyes of some classmates. After all, every time Su Zimo recalled his high school days, he always felt that the classmates were quite friendly every time they talked to him.
It was indeed Su Zimo's fault not to participate in social practice activities, but at that time, Su Zimo was actually a little rebellious under his grandfather's high-pressure teaching, so even if his grandfather asked him to go, he still chose to stay at home to study. Contrary to grandpa. Unlike grandpa who is gone now, Su Zimo can't wait to be beaten from one end of the Su family to the other with a teaching stick by grandpa every day.
As for private gatherings, the relationship between Su Zimo and each of his classmates was mediocre, which could be regarded as a failure.
And for the annual birthday party, Su Zimo's grandfather made invitations for each classmate, but Su Zimo felt that it was a big deal, so he refused. But knowing that classmates have the habit of treating each other on birthdays, Su Zimo specially asked Su's chef to prepare ice cream cakes and desserts for the classmates... These things may have long been forgotten.
"Who knows." Su Zimo smiled speciously.
Because of Qi Xiaomin's change of topic, Su Zimo could feel that the surrounding atmosphere was indeed calmer, and Cheng Yun and Bai Man on the opposite side also began to discuss softly, and some even played Lianliankan on their mobile phones.
On the other hand, Doctor Jin, holding a chin in one hand and a pen in the other, kept looking at the notes on the table and thinking about something.
"Captain Cheng." Thinking of the photos he saw in his wallet, Su Zimo thought for a while, and then asked, "Do you know of any way to remove the slave mark?"
"… "
As soon as Su Zimo said these words, all the practitioners who knew the "slave mark" looked over, and the atmosphere in the hall was silent again.
"Why are you asking this question, are you..." Cheng Yun was a little surprised.
"No, I met a girl when I experienced the first nightmare world, that girl used to... um, helped me, but because she was deceived and bound to that slave mark when she was a newcomer, she has been It's very painful." When Su Zimo spoke, he kept paying attention to Cheng Yun's expression.
If Cheng Yun and Cheng Jingmeng really have something to do with each other.
So with Cheng Yun's experience in the nightmare world more than a dozen times, can't he find a connection between Cheng Jingmeng and the nightmare world? Su Zimo not only felt that if Cheng Jingmeng knew that there was such a practitioner around him, he might not have been kept in the dark by Gao Yang's lies.
So what is the relationship between these two people who will take photos together and put the photos in their wallets
Su Zimo subconsciously thinks that Cheng Yun and Cheng Jingmeng should be brothers and sisters, but this can't explain why Cheng Yun just said that the person in the photo is his lover...
"This is really a troublesome thing. Newcomers really have to be more careful about unknown things." Cheng Yun sighed, looking helpless.
"Speaking of which, that girl happens to have the same surname as Captain Cheng." Su Zimo stared at Cheng Yun, "Her name is Cheng Jingmeng."
"Really? That's really a coincidence. If we knew each other, we wouldn't let such a bad thing happen. After all, apart from death, I haven't seen a way to get rid of that kind of thing." Cheng Yun sighed Expressed regret, but did not show any special reaction to the name "Cheng Jingmeng".
Cheng Yun... Really don't know Cheng Jingmeng
"Snapped!"
Suddenly a sound came, and Su Zimo saw Bai Man who was checking the phone in his hand. For some reason, he suddenly dropped the phone on the table. This woman, who had always been calm and neat, suddenly opened her eyes and looked at him. , The hand that was holding the phone was shaking.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Yun frowned.
"It's nothing." Bai Man retrieved the phone quickly, then lowered his head and continued arranging the materials on the table on the phone, "I think it's a pity for that little girl."
Su Zimo looked at Cheng Yun, who was calm, and then looked at Bai Man, who appeared to be flustered but concealed for some reason. The thought lines in his brain began to connect with each other, and a very special idea emerged from his mind. Came out from the depths.
Qi Xiaomin had said before that Bai Man and Cheng Yun knew each other, and from their relationship just now, the two clearly showed a state of mutual familiarity. If Cheng Yun had a younger sister named Cheng Jingmeng, Bai Man would probably know him.
Then, the reason for Bai Man's surprise may be the same as Su Zimo... Discovering that Cheng Yun doesn't know Cheng Jingmeng
In other words, at this moment, Cheng Yun, who is sitting opposite Su Zimo and beside Bai Man, doesn't know Cheng Jingmeng! Su Zimo remembered that Qi Xiaomin said before that there are some props in the nightmare world that can change the appearance of people, and they are in the hands of some dangerous practitioners.
Could this Captain Cheng Yun be pretended to be
Because many people know Cheng Yun's title of "wife-loving madman", and because they don't know the information about other people in Cheng Yun's family, the other party who has this information subconsciously thinks that the woman who took a photo with Cheng Yun is Cheng Yun's lover
Bai Man's performance at the moment seems to be forcing his composure in order not to startle the snake.
if it is real…
Su Zimo's chest tightened, and he felt that it is no exaggeration to say that these experienced practitioners are facing internal and external troubles!