nightmare novelist

"Welcome to the world of nightmares - "Mirror""

"Adjusted to novice difficulty."

"The four newcomers are asked to remove ten 'ghosts' within 24 hours. After completing the novice mission, they can leave the nightmare world. Please explore the specific content in the nightmare world by yourself."

The inexplicable voice disappeared from everyone's ears.

The middle-aged man in a suit looked around blankly, but he couldn't see anything except the thick fog. The mechanical voice just like a system prompt said a lot of things without emotion, but now he has forgotten Almost there.

Apart from the dazed middle-aged man, there were three other people surrounded by a thick fog.

One of them is a girl with a ponytail who is still wearing a blue and white school uniform with the school badge of Xincheng High School printed on it. She is sweating profusely as if she just ran a dozen laps on the playground. sense of health.

The third person turned out to be a bride wearing a white wedding dress. The one-shoulder wedding dress with a large skirt looks very expensive. The long veil with lace on the edge is covered, and it can be seen from the haze that this young woman has drawn After finishing the delicate and thick bridal makeup, her expression looked the most peaceful, but she held her hands tightly in white gauze gloves.

The three of them stood one meter away from each other, looking around at the white mist, and couldn't even calm down for a short time to look at each other.

And the last fourth person is a young boy, very good-looking, with long legs and thin waist, and translucent white skin.It's just that the boy stood a little strangely far away from the others, almost standing on the edge of the white mist, as if subconsciously drawing a boundary from others.

Boys wear warm-colored pile-neck sweaters, but they feel cold.He was holding a thick book as big as a laptop in his hand, with a brown cover and metal corners, which looked simple and heavy.

When the boy lowered his head and opened the book, his clean and slender fingers slid across the cover, and his eyelashes like crow feathers cast a fan shadow. If it weren't for the strange environment of white mist around him, many people would be willing to stop and read more Eye.

"Where is this place?" The dark girl in school uniform wiped the sweat off her face, her breathing was still a little short.

"I should be on...the subway to work, why did I come here?" The middle-aged man in a normal suit looked a little anxious, "What time is it? Is eight o'clock almost?"

"Where should I be?" The bride in the most unique white wedding dress looked the calmest of the three.

The place they were in was an open space, with some weeds growing sparsely, but the entire open space was surrounded by white mist, and they couldn't see anything beyond the white mist, and people were too vigilant to enter the white mist without authorization. .

"Su... shallow?!" As soon as the swarthy girl turned around, she saw the good-looking boy who was looking down at the super-big thick book. She even called out his name quickly, making the man in the suit and the young bride follow suit. It landed on the fourth person in the white mist.

"Know?" The bride looked at the girl who was sweating profusely, and then at the boy who stood there like a frozen artwork, and there was no other connection except that they were close in age, "Are you classmates? He Doesn't seem to be wearing a school uniform?"

"He and I are in the same school. Although we are in different classes, I can always hear his name mentioned by friends around me." The girl subconsciously combed the messy hair next to her ears, "Our school does not force you to wear school uniforms, but I am on the sprint team Yes, it is more convenient to wear school uniforms during training."

Perhaps because he noticed the gaze on his body, the boy named Su Qian subconsciously raised his head, his facial features were clear and refined, his expression was still cold, and even gave people a sense of inaccessibility and unreality.

It's really like a layer of ice.

Su Qian just glanced at the girl in the school uniform, and quickly lowered her head to read the book again. She didn't show any confusion, doubt or nervous expression because of the weird place covered with white mist around her, and she really didn't fit in with the others.

"Is this the type of boys who are popular in high school now?" The bride in the wedding dress is tall and tall, and because of her high heels, she lowered her head slightly when talking to the girl, "But that face is indeed irreproachable. picky."

"Is this the time to talk about this?" The middle-aged man in a suit almost jumped up anxiously, "There is no network or signal on the phone, where the hell are we now!"

"The more you have to calm down at this time." The young bride looked at the sweaty man in the suit, her expression was calm under the veil, but her hands in lace gloves were still clenched, "May I take the liberty to ask? Does anyone remember what happened before coming here?"

"What do you mean?" The man in the suit was also thoughtful, but he just asked back, "Didn't I say I was on the subway to work?"

"I remember." The bride's expression was serious, her eyebrows slightly frowned, "I also remembered that I was supposed to wait for the wedding to start in the hotel lounge, but for some reason I felt that this might not be the case."

"Why?" Although the girl in school uniform met the bride for the first time, she looked at the bride as if she was looking at a trustworthy senior.

In other words, even if the bride's dress is a bit strange in the current environment, she does have a serious and trustworthy temperament, which should be the same in daily life.

"Look at the hem of my skirt. If I was transferred directly from the hotel room for unknown reasons, how could the hem of the skirt become such a virtue?"

With a little difficulty, the bride raised a corner of the large skirt of the wedding dress, revealing the exquisite white high-heeled shoes adorned with pearls.

At this moment, everyone can clearly see that the supposedly white wedding dress has been stained with dust and mud, and some of it has even penetrated into the silk material of the skirt, but it is covered by the outermost layer of lace yarn. Never noticed this before.

"What are you talking about in such a mess?" The middle-aged man in a suit couldn't calm down and listen to others, "Standing in such a crappy place, what if you get a little muddy?"

Indeed, although they were surrounded by mist, the place under their feet was a wasteland with sparse weeds.

"And the soles." The bride also ignored the guys who couldn't communicate, and just lifted the soles of the high heels, "These shoes are for the wedding, and maybe they will only be worn in the hotel, why is there so much mud? Even Even the heels are worn out..."

Su Qian, who was standing there with her head down reading a book, raised her head when she heard the sound, as if she had thought of something.

"It's as if we didn't suddenly appear in this fog and come here by ourselves." The bride took a deep breath, "It's just that we forgot about it."

"It's okay, who would come to such a crappy place?!" The middle-aged man in the suit retorted loudly as if he had been severely slandered, "There must be something strange in such a place surrounded by fog, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a place in a movie." A place where evil spirits torture people!"

"You're so smart, but how do we get out of here?" The middle-aged man in the suit roared again.

But this is actually not his own doubts. The four people standing here really want to know the answer to this question. .

"If I remember correctly, that mechanical voice seems to have said that everything has to be explored in the 'Nightmare World'." The bride's calmness and demeanor are very prominent among the three. There is still a sense of the young woman's inadvertent mastery over the situation and those around her.

"And that voice also called us 'experiencers'." The bride thought for a while, "literally, we need to go through some kind of experience, right?"

"Who is controlling these things!" The man in the suit broke down in pain, "I don't want to stay here! I want to go back. Today is my daughter's birthday. My wife and my daughter are waiting for me to go back."

"You don't want to stay here, do you?" The man in the suit rushed to the girl with the ponytail again, "You want to leave right away, too?"

"Uh...um!" The girl was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the man in the suit, but she nodded immediately and said, "I'm going to participate in an important game later, it will be bad if I'm late. And the school is going on I can't delay the final sprint review in the third year of high school."

"You're going to get married today, so you must be very anxious, right?" The man in the suit glanced at the bride standing over there, who was embracing her hands, tapping her left arm rhythmically with the fingers of her right hand, and staring at him under the veil. The aura made the man in the suit dare not get close to the high school student like he did just now.

Turning around, the man in the suit rushed to Su Qian who was looking down at the strange thick book.

"You..." The man in the suit was about to say something, but he stopped abruptly after subconsciously glancing at the contents of the thick book in the boy's hand.

The man in the suit looked at the boy with a weird look.

Because...the book that the boy looked down with concentration on his face didn't have a word in it!It is a completely blank book!

Su Qian raised her head again, looked at the man in a suit who was in a hurry, and spoke out for the first time, with a calm tone: "Please four newcomers to remove ten 'ghosts' within 24 hours, and you can leave the nightmare after completing the novice task." world."

He repeated what he heard just now, with a soft and clear voice, with these southern accents: "Instead of consulting our useless ideas, maybe completing this so-called mission is the fastest way to get out of here, which is also considered One of the things you can learn from a horror novel."

"A horror novel?" The bride on the other side said as if talking to herself, "Everyone has a reason to leave here as soon as possible. In horror novels, this is the most important desire to survive?"

"Su Qian, you should also be anxious to go back to school, right?" The girl with ponytail approached Su Qian a little bit. After all, although the other party was strange, she was the person she knew best here. If it takes a long time, teachers and parents will be very worried, and they will be afraid when they think about it."

"He doesn't look scared at all." The bride also felt that the boy named Su Qian was incredibly calm.

Su Qian's expression was still calm, and she really didn't show any fear.

But I don't know if it's the illusion of other people, Su Qian's expression didn't change, but they could see the look of expectation from this good-looking boy's face, and he seemed to be in a good mood?

While others are nervous, overwhelmed or even panicking...

This boy feels joy and anticipation because he came to a weird and suspicious place to participate in dangerous and unknown experiences?

Noticing this, the bride subconsciously took half a step back, as if she wanted to stay a little farther away from the boy named Su Qian. Her intuition, which was better than ordinary people, told her that there was danger in this good-looking boy in front of her.

At this time, the white mist around the four people in the team of experiencers suddenly dispersed to the surroundings, and the cold wind blew on everyone's faces, even the pages of the book in Su Qian's hand were blown by the sudden cold wind It was moving, and the cold wind was mixed with a little rain, which seemed to be a precursor to a heavy rain.

The sky darkened in an instant. Although there was still sparse grass under everyone's feet, they were surrounded by the night and the cold wind, as if they had returned to the real world from a different world shrouded in white mist. Even the air was comfortable. coolness.

"We left?" The man in the suit blinked to adapt to the sudden change of light, but was stunned again when he looked straight ahead.

"I'm afraid this is the real nightmare world." The bride also took a deep breath.

Su Qian closed the thick book in her hand in the cold wind, and as soon as she looked up, she saw the carved iron gate not far in front of her through the weak light source not far away. They seemed to be standing in front of a certain European-style manor villa. Outside the main gate, a huge carved iron gate is hidden there. Of the wall post lights on both sides, only the light on the left is on, flickering on and off, becoming the only light source other than the moonlight.

Under the weak light, they could not even see the school name on the school uniform of the girl with ponytail.

But on the thick leather book Su Qian was holding, in the corner of the brown thick leather cover, a name that seemed to be written with a golden paint pen was shining in the dark——

Su shallow.

Simple two-character calligraphy, but the paper falls like a cloud of smoke, like a flying phoenix.

Su Qian is different from the people around her.

One of the reasons for saying this is that Su Qian didn't lose his memory before coming to the nightmare world like others, he remembered everything clearly.However, Su Qian did not intend to tell others what their lost memory was, after all, the weirdness of that memory may be far more unacceptable than the "amnesia" incident.

Another reason comes from Su Qian's life experience.

When Su Qian woke up from the hospital bed eight years ago, and when he saw his adoptive parents for the first time, Su Qian didn't know anything about the various questions raised by the couple who adopted him and the doctor.He didn't know the information of his family members, he didn't know the address of his home, and he didn't even know his own name. In the end, he could only use "amnesia" to explain it.

Su Qian's adoptive parents are still looking for traces of his real relatives.

Today, the former Su Qian is hiding a secret that no one knows except him—he has never lost his memory.

The adoptive parents would never be able to find his family either.

Because he clearly remembered his life before he was ten years old, the real reason why he was tired of a peaceful life, chasing horror and excitement, and the fact that he was abandoned by an organization as a "defective experimental product".