The moment he was "devoured" by the darkness, Su Zimo suddenly understood.
When he is not willing to disregard human life, these strangers he meets may have completely different ideas from him.
What's more, he was in a different space called "Nightmare World", not the high school days before he became a "fool" when he didn't need to worry about anything except studying.
If it wasn't for Su Zimo's special circumstances, he might not have survived an hour in this so-called "nightmare world".
"Hey..." Aside from all the nascent negative emotions, Su Zimo stretched out his right hand and shook it back, holding the doorknob that reappeared in the dark because no one was watching. While heaving a sigh of relief, Su Zimo suddenly felt that the environment he was in was a bit strange.
In Su Zimo's imagination, the darkness that has been chasing the practitioners is like a ghost's stomach. As long as it is caught by the darkness, it will be swallowed into the ghost's stomach and eaten directly!
But this is not the case. The environment he is in is not particularly weird, but just don't extinguish the corridors with candles on both sides. He can even see the corridors with red candles lit in front.
He could see the little fat man screaming and running.
He could also see Han Ling, who fell to the ground, scrambling to escape.
Su Zimo can see them, but people outside don't seem to be able to see Su Zimo, otherwise the doorknob held by Su Zimo might disappear again.
But Zheng Ming was right. The speed of the darkness seemed to have stopped because he "swallowed" Su Zimo, and the remaining candles in the corridor were no longer blown out. The injured Han Ling and the others were all gasping for breath. Opportunity to continue to escape.
Although Su Zimo won't "fight" for them for too long, it should be enough for Han Ling and the others to hide in the second shelter that Zheng Ming found not far ahead!
Han Ling's plan can be said to be a success.
But... what about the good ghost
I don't know if it was because of the effect of the glasses on the bridge of the nose, when Su Zimo stayed in the dark for a few seconds, he seemed to be able to vaguely see something in the dark.
He could see candlesticks in the dark, and he could see all kinds of mirrors hanging on the walls.
From the very beginning, Su Zimo had a doubt - why are there so many mirrors hanging in the corridor of the hotel
When Su Zimo's eyes swept across a mirror around him, the pupils behind his glasses shrank instantly, revealing an unbelievable expression.
What did he see
He saw a long-haired woman in a red dress with her head lowered in the mirror! He saw terrifying dark red blood dripping down the neck of the female "person". The shoulders and arms of the female "person" were covered in blood, and even Su Zimo could not be sure that the red dress was the original one. The color, still stained red with blood...
It was clearly not a human being, but a ghost!
What was even more terrifying was that Su Zimo watched the female ghost in red disappear from the mirror in front of him, and instead appeared in another mirror that was very close to the dividing line between the darkness and the corridor! The female ghost appeared sideways in the mirror, lowered her head and blew out the lit candle next to the mirror.
Su Zimo could hear the familiar sound of the wind blowing when the female ghost blew out the candle.
Another candle blew by, and the darkness in the corridor drew closer.
Lights go out, ghosts stay!
It turns out... The ghosts of this nightmare world have never been hidden in the dark, but in those mirrors that shouldn't be in the hotel corridors...
This is the truth of this nightmare world.
"Darkness, darkness is approaching again! Why doesn't it work!" Han Ling's hysterical voice came from the corridor outside the darkness, clearly "swallowing" Su Zimo's darkness, and covering her ankles again.
At first, Su Zimo also thought that the female ghost in the mirror would not attack him, and even thought that this was the ability given to him by "being in a corner". But when Su Zimo accidentally looked at the female ghost who raised her head in the mirror, the female ghost's sharp and broken whistling sound suddenly sounded in the darkness, and then the black hair of the female ghost came out like a "waterfall". The mirror rushed out and attacked Su Zimo without hesitation!
Although he could barely see in the dark, Su Zimo couldn't dodge the female ghost's black algae-like hair well in the dark, so there was not much time left for him to escape in the end.
Fortunately, the female ghost's gaze did not make the door handle that Su Zimo held tightly disappear.
"Su Zimo!"
Just as Su Zimo pushed open the door behind him, an unexpected figure turned back from the corridor outside, even tore off the metal candlestick on the wall, and rushed into the critical line of darkness with a candle flickering red.
That figure didn't dare to go deep into the dark, but the fact that he took the initiative to turn back and came back with a candle to find a newcomer to experience is enough to make people look at it with admiration.
"Su Zimo, grab my hand!"
The candle light was so weak that the person who broke in couldn't find the person he was looking for in the dark.
Su Zimo could see Qi Xiaomin standing one meter away with a candle, but he also saw the ghost's hair that was attacking where Qi Xiaomin was by the candlelight.
"Run, the female ghost is heading towards you." Su Zimo thanked Qi Xiaomin for his last rescue, so the moment he retreated into the store door behind him, he loudly gave the most correct hint he could think of, "The female ghost Hide in a mirror and find a place to hide without a mirror!"
The washroom of the hotel guest room is obviously a modern configuration, but the reflective window of the guest room has become a white wall, and there is no reflective equipment such as a TV. Thinking about it now, this is as strange as a hallway full of mirrors. Su Zimo felt that this might be the survival hint that the nightmare world had shown them from the very beginning.
He didn't want to save Han Ling, but the things he thought of might be able to save the girl who had worked hard to keep all the practitioners alive from the very beginning.
It's a pity that Su Zimo can only do so much. He can feel that if he doesn't enter the door again, he will die under the attack of the ghost.
Su Zimo, who had retreated into the store, couldn't see Qi Xiaomin's expression clearly, but he could see that the candlelight in Qi Xiaomin's hand was moving away at a fast speed, which also made Su Zimo feel relieved.
What reassured Su Zimo even more was that the moment he stepped back and entered the door, he had returned to a bright and quiet place - the empty shop called "An Yu Yi Yi". Su Zimo took a few steps back, and finally saw clearly the white frosted door that always followed him in a translucent appearance, and the endless darkness behind the door.
In the next second, the hair that usually belongs to Li Gui suddenly rushed out of the door, and Su Zimo, who thought he was safe, was also surprised.
Then, Su Zimo saw that Specter's hair receded like a tide, as if he felt something terrible, and the ordinary-looking white frosted side door also closed automatically with a "pop".
Before closing the door, Su Zimo vaguely heard a scream, which sounded like Han Ling.
"I'm back." At the moment when the door was completely closed, Su Zimo supported the counter not far from him, and sat down on the cold floor "in a corner", looking around, looking at the lights overhead, Everything seems to be back to the way it was at the beginning.
In an instant, Su Zimo said goodbye to the screams and noises that belonged to other practitioners, and also said goodbye to the muddy, wet and uncomfortable dark red space. He just stood in the clean, bright and dignified "comfort in a corner", the originally seemingly ordinary shop, can let Su Zimo smell the fresh air.
The only thing that was different from when he set off was that there were more "goods" in the bag he was carrying from that nightmare world.
Specifically, the so-called "goods" are a few sets of toiletries, a few rolls of paper towels, and a white vase without any features.
When taking these things out of the bag, Su Zimo took a deep breath and began to reflect on what he had just encountered and how to use the back door he had basically mastered.
First, the door was always behind him and never left.
Second, no one could see the door except Su Zimo himself.
Third, the doorknob can be reached by reaching back, but it disappears when other living humans are watching.
Fourth, you need to walk backwards to enter the opened door behind you.
After summing it up, Su Zimo knew very well that the use of doors was not a panacea. After all, doors would only appear when no one else was watching.
What if the next time he is pushed to Li Gui by someone, he will be in front of everyone's eyes
Thinking of such a possibility, Su Zimo sighed and told himself that the people he met in the nightmare world must not be regarded as teammates!
If you really want to enter the nightmare world again, it is the most appropriate to put yourself in an inconspicuous and unnoticed position. After all, Su Zimo's biggest advantage is that he doesn't need to complete the messy tasks of the practitioners, and he only needs to purchase goods as low-key as possible.
Su Zimo walked to the shelf in the middle of the "An Yu Yi Corner" store, and began to try to put the things in the backpack on the shelf little by little.
When the first pack of "Nightmare Brand" rolls and toiletry sets, which looked very ordinary, were put on the shelf, Su Zimo found that the "selling price column" in front of the rolls automatically appeared with text and a price—
[Nightmare Premium Roll Paper]
[Price: 1 yuan]
[Nightmare brand wash six-piece set]
[Price: 6 yuan]
These items are really for sale as normal.
After putting the last white vase on the shelf, Su Zimo tried to walk towards the front door and the back door that could not be opened all the time, but these two doors that could not be opened before due to lack of running energy, still could not be opened at this moment!
The Ayuyuyu intelligent system that had spoken to Su Zimo before went on strike due to lack of energy, but even without the intelligent system's broadcast, Su Zimo could guess the reason why he could not leave the store.
Sure enough, it is because the running energy is not enough, right
"There are still too few products." Looking at the still empty shelves, Su Zimo took off his glasses and wiped them, then sighed.
In addition to wanting to rely on Ah Yuyuyu to increase the remaining lifespan, Su Zimo's desire to leave Ah Yuyuyu and go home is equally strong.
Because Su Zimo really wanted to know who had been taking care of the useless "idiot" during the four years that he became a "idiot".
Is it his bastard father who was deprived of the inheritance of the Su family, married four wives, changed many lovers, gave birth to many illegitimate daughters, but only had one biological son
Or Su Zimo's grandfather who was already bedridden because of a serious illness before the accident
Because every time Su Zimo wakes up from his "slumber", he is in a different villa and retreat, surrounded by not only good living conditions, but also people who take good care of him, so he has always been confused by this. .
Faced with the choice of two answers, Su Zimo has always preferred the latter. But does this mean that for the past four years, the good-handed self has been taken care of by the sick elderly
what about now
Will the sudden disappearance of myself from the place where I was placed will make the elderly look around in a hurry
Thinking of such a scene, Su Zimo was even more eager to leave from Ah Yuyuyu!
If he can't leave because there aren't enough goods, then...
Su Zimo's eyes naturally fell on the white frosted side door that had just been closed.
If the goods are not enough, he will go to the nightmare world again!