Su Zimo originally had a new guess about this nightmare world, but because he heard the shouts of the trainer, he felt that no matter whether his own guess was right or not, the probability of ghosts appearing around the trainer was higher than in other places. Much more, so I went down the red stairs one level without thinking much.
Because the whole space is too red, Su Zimo is more careful than before when going downstairs. After all, with the red stairs and walls and lights, even if Su Zimo has the help of a ghost umbrella, he can hardly see the edge of the steps. .
When Su Zimo was halfway there, he heard the sound of fighting coming from downstairs.
fight
Su Zimo accelerated the speed of going downstairs, and then saw the second thing in this red world besides the stairs - a door, and it was a door without a door panel. Through the door frame, Su Zimo saw that the trainee Du Lei was carrying a... strange metal cot and swung it straight in front of him.
The weight of the metal cot does not seem to be light, but Du Lei waving the cot looks like waving a fluttering teddy bear. It can be seen that he has used Nightmare Points to strengthen his physique a lot. .
Before that, Su Zimo had seen people with powerful ghost weapons like poisonous snakes and lunatics. Judging from the face-to-face contact with them, Su Zimo can confirm that the number of times they strengthen their physiques is very limited, and they should be collecting ghost weapons. Lord, in order to escape the twentieth nightmare world, there will be no extra nightmare points to use.
Du Lei currently looks more like a pure physique enhancer. After all, Su Zimo has not noticed that he has any ghost weapons to assist in combat, let alone ghost gloves like Liu Xu. As long as there is a ghost weapon available on the body, the practitioner will not go into battle so quickly.
"Get out of here!" The metal bed in Du Lei's hand slammed violently against the wall, and the two female practitioners who were guarded by Du Lei escaped from the door at the fastest speed.
"What happened?" When Su Zimo walked down, he happened to meet Xu Yingying and Zhu Zhu who ran out of the door. Although the two girls looked a little flustered, they didn't actually have too many frightened expressions on their faces. In the red corridor, he can barely stabilize his body, which in Su Zimo's opinion is already out of the scope of novice practitioners.
"Ayu!" When Xu Yingying saw Su Zimo, her eyes dazed for a while before she recognized Su Zimo. Obviously, she was also affected by the surrounding red environment, but she quickly closed her eyes. For those who have no useful props, the fastest way to get rid of the influence, "This apartment is not right!"
Su Zimo took a few more steps forward, looked into the door directly in front, and saw that Du Lei used that strange metal cart to push a long-haired, white-robed, bleeding ghost against the wall. Make it immobile!
That Specter was like crawling out of a horror movie TV. His long hair was scattered in front of him and he couldn't see his appearance. The strange white robe was stained with red blood, and his figure looked a bit like Zhang Xiaoqing upstairs. But that weird and flamboyant look didn't look as smart as Zhang Xiaoqing showed, like an emotionless ghost machine.
"What's going on?" Su Zimo saw that Du Lei had more than enough manpower to deal with Li Gui, so he didn't intervene, but he still felt that this world was a bit strange, because in other nightmare worlds, it seemed that only ghost weapons could hurt Li Gui. Even the remarks Su Zimo saw said so, otherwise, there would be no need for a novice weapon such as the "Nightmare Card Standard Dagger" that can cause a little damage to Specter.
So, will Specter really get stuck on the metal bed
Not to mention that the more Su Zimo looked at the metal bed that Du Lei was holding, the more it looked like an operating bed in a hospital... No, the operating bed had at least one layer of cushions, and the metal bed even looked more like Su Zimo. The planer you've seen on TV, or... the morgue.
Su Zimo realized with hindsight that the air flowing out of this door was also extremely cold, which was completely different from the burning sensation caused by the previous hallucinations. This may also be the reason why the performance of the three practitioners in the corridor was better than that of Su Zimo. The reason why it was much better at the beginning, although the effect of the cold air on the mental destruction is not as good as that of the ghost umbrella, it can still alleviate it to a certain extent.
"As soon as we left the apartment, the door of the apartment suddenly closed and couldn't be opened again. In addition, the task required us to leave the apartment within two hours, so we had to run down desperately." Xu Yingying closed her eyes Explanation, while "kindly" explained the second phase of the task of this nightmare world. "But this staircase is disgusting at first glance. We walked with our eyes closed for a long time, but we couldn't get to the first floor at all, and we stumbled many times. When we looked out from the balcony before, it was just an ordinary multi-storey place. ."
Xu Yingying was originally wearing very short bottoms, but now her exposed legs were covered in bruises, and it seemed that she fell very fiercely.
"We can only take turns opening our eyes and leading the others down. After a long time, we are a little immune to that nausea, but the stairs still can't go to the end, so we can only venture into the door. inside."
"Because there is no door panel, we can see that the door seems to be a mortuary-like place. Every time we pass the door, we will shiver because of the cold air inside, but people can be more refreshed. And in the middle of the room is There is such a metal bed on which it is obvious that something is lying on it, and it is covered with a white cloth. It is not a normal place at first glance. And this door seems to be following us all the time on every floor, how strange it is, So no matter how many floors down, we never went in."
"It's like if we don't go in, we'll never get to the real next floor." Zhu Zhu, who was wearing glasses, said very pale.
"So it became like this."
After Su Zimo understood the situation, he saw that Du Lei raised the metal bed in his hand again, and smashed it hard at the Specter again!
"Ahhhh!" Du Lei seemed to exert all his strength at this moment, with visible strength on his exposed arms and neck, and then smashed against the wall with all his strength.
For a moment, I don't know if Du Lei's strength played a role, or because of other reasons, that Specter really turned into ashes the moment the metal bed came over!
"Cool!"
When Du Lei threw the metal bed aside and shouted, Su Zimo suddenly felt that he and Du Xin might have something to do with each other. The two of them looked like those fitness trainers in the gym who like to show your muscles. Young, college students, and well-developed muscles.
"I just said that strengthening my physique will be useful one day!" Du Lei relaxed his muscles and walked in front of Xu Yingying, "It's rare to meet a ghost that I can fight, it's really comfortable."
Su Zimo listened to Du Lei's words and found that he should have never encountered a ghost who could be punched to the flesh by him before. This should not be considered a "rare encounter", but the world they are in and the enemy they face. Something is not right.
Nightmare world, as the name suggests, is a nightmare, and it has a sense of unreality.
But in this red corridor, there is a ghost's room, and even the previous apartment, there is still an even more unreal feeling in the unreal world.
Like... a double dream
Su Zimo thought about it for a long time, and tossed out a word that he had vaguely heard in science fiction movies.
After the Specter disappeared, the other practitioners naturally had no reason to stay in the red corridor, so they ran into the room full of icy air at the fastest speed. The room was actually a lot more rudimentary than the real facility in the hospital, with white painted walls and a metal bed thrown aside.
The only strange thing in the whole room is another double door on the side wall, which looks a lot like the equipment in the hospital. Su Zimo tried to open the door, but found that the door was firmly locked and could not be opened. This reminded Su Zimo of the two-star ghost weapon "the key to stealing" that he had come into contact with before. The practicality of this gadget is actually really strong.
[How did the one who pushed in just now die? ]
Just when Su Zimo was about to leave and let Du Lei try with his brute force, he suddenly heard a clear and audible voice from behind the door.
He immediately booed the other trainees, and then listened quietly together.
[Suicide by jumping off the building, there are more and more young people like this now. ]
[Isn’t it because the study pressure is too much? Looking at the grade, it should be the same as my son, who is about to take the college entrance examination. My son's mood has fluctuated a lot during this time, and the pressure is too great. ]
[I don't know, but some people say she is for the boys in her class. ]
[My God, if this is the case, the girls today are too cherished and self-loving, and even jumping off the building for such a trivial matter, their parents have to suffer to death? ]
[… ]
After that, the voices drifted away. In order to seek more clues, Du Lei tried his best to hit him like a locomotive that was rushing forward, but he still didn't knock the door open.
"What's going on?" Du Lei rubbed his aching shoulders. "In normal times, even the wall has to be cracked a little. Is this door made of diamonds?"
"Maybe it's the door that is not allowed to be knocked open?" Su Zimo flicked the double door in front of him, "If this is a world controlled by the savage Zhang Xiaoqing, then the key to clearing the customs should be the red stairs outside, this The layout of the room and the sound we heard just now may be what Zhang Xiaoqing wants us to hear."
Su Zimo felt that this building might not be real from the beginning, but a fictional world created by Zhang Xiaoqing, like Zhang Xiaoqing's... dream.
Even the apartment at the beginning, and Hua Xiaowan sleeping in the apartment bedroom were only part of the dream.
They kept walking down the red stairs, as if they were walking in Zhang Xiaoqing's obsessions and dreams. Every room that appeared here might be something that Zhang Xiaoqing couldn't let go of.
"Even after you die, people in this world still don't know why you died? Didn't anyone else discover their pranks in the end?" Su Zimo pressed on the door in front of him, as if he was pressing on Zhang Xiaoqing's On a heart full of scars, there are anger, disappointment, regret, grief, and reluctance...
After talking to himself in the room for a while, Su Zimo turned to the other practitioners and said, "Let's go downstairs, shall we?"
"Will it still be this room downstairs?" Xu Yingying looked a little scared, "And that staircase is..."
"But there is no other way to go." Zhu Zhu, who was standing next to him, had a much tougher voice and tone than before, which made Su Zimo glance at it strangely, "Nightmare world is neither desperate nor dead. If this is really the world created by Zhang Xiaoqing, then she must have laid out all the clues for customs clearance, but it will take a little effort for us to find out."
"I'm a screenwriter, and I like these kinds of stories the most, so I read more." Zhu Zhu noticed Su Zimo's eyes, and her voice became weaker.
After Du Lei tried several times and couldn't break through the "diamond" door, the group finally gave up and continued to search for clues in place. Instead, they took a deep breath and rushed back into the red corridor at the fastest speed. I went down the first floor before I felt dizzy and had hallucinations.
When the other practitioners closed their eyes and rested from time to time, Su Zimo had already walked downstairs.
Maybe it was because they had already cleared the previous room. This time, a very ordinary wooden door appeared in front of Su Zimo. The mottled wooden door looked very old.
This time, the wooden door was hidden, and only a small candle was lit inside, so that Su Zimo could barely see through the crack of the door, three figures curled up with their backs to him.
[Xiao Wan, she is dead] A boy's voice came from the door.
With just such a sentence, Su Zimo knew that the boy's name was Lin Zhe, the boy who was secretly in love with Zhang Xiaoqing, but didn't even dare to mention her name after his death.
The other two figures inside should be Hua Xiaowan and Wen Xiaoyu.
"Ayu!" Xu Yingying, who finally managed to go downstairs, shouted aloud.
Su Zimo immediately booed them again and asked them to lean over carefully and listen to the sound coming from the door. With the experience of the previous room, the practitioners gathered around without saying much, leaned against the red wall, closed their eyes, took a deep breath and listened quietly.
[You've said it many times, it's not our fault after all. Xiaoyu, don't you think so? ] It should be Hua Xiaowan who spoke, and she didn't know if it was because of some guilty conscience. She also checked with Wen Xiaoyu beside her.
Such a room further confirmed Su Zimo's guess. If it was Hua Xiaowan hiding here, and the one in the apartment bedroom was also Hua Xiaowan, then only a dream could make two Hua Xiaowan appear at the same time.
And what Su Zimo is seeing now is probably what happened shortly after Zhang Xiaoqing's death.
[She is dead! because of you! ] Lin Zhe raised his voice, this boy who seemed to have an unshakable conscience, pushed all the matter of Zhang Xiaoqing to Hua Xiaowan.
[It's so annoying, how many times do you have to say it before you stop? I repeat, this matter has nothing to do with us! ] Hua Xiaowan's voice seemed to be squeezed out of her throat, making it a little uncomfortable to hear.