nightmare novelist

The thick gray fog in front of Su Qian's eyes gradually faded, and finally turned into a white mist that dispersed little by little.

When all the dense fog dissipated, Su Qian found that he, Bai Kou and others were standing in a large lawn, and directly in front of them was the famous manor-style hotel across a big road, which was the original place of Bai Kou. Where a wedding should be held.

It's as if everything before was just a dream.

But they even held all kinds of weapons brought out from the nightmare world in their hands, which was terrifyingly real.

"This is... the park opposite the hotel?" Bai Kou looked around, "I can't stay here for too long, it's too conspicuous."

Although Bai Kou had torn off the skirt that got in the way, her outfit was still a bit conspicuous in this big lawn park. In addition, Bai Kou had the idea of ​​escaping marriage, so it was naturally impossible to stay in the park for too long.

And not only Bai Kou is conspicuous, but also the short crossbow in her hand, the simple and crude steel bar in Ding Xiang's hand, and the cane held by Su Qian are all conspicuous.However, a group of role-playing enthusiasts just walked into the park. After seeing Bai Kou and his special small group, they showed smiles of sympathy.

"Sister Bai Kou, where are you going?" Ding Xiang was a little worried.

"Don't worry, I've already thought about where to go, and I'll invite you to play when the family affairs are over." Bai Kou looked at Ding Xiang with a free and easy smile, "I didn't bring a mobile phone, so everyone should write down the contact information first?"

"Our school doesn't allow the use of mobile phones." Ding Xiang said, although she searched her pockets, she didn't expect to find a pen and paper.

Uncle Du Zhong next to him didn't speak. He probably felt that the other three people didn't have much intention to contact him later, so he stopped interrupting to spoil the scenery.

"By the way, Su Qian, weren't you holding a book before?" Ding Xiang, who was looking for something to remember the number, suddenly remembered the Ci Hai that this student of the same level was holding when he first entered the world of gray mist. Same thick book.

"It's too heavy, so I lost it in the gray fog." Su Qian's heart rate dropped again after returning to the real world, and even made him feel that his heart rate was slower than before. He seemed to be affected by a strange disease, always facing Expressionless, do not show emotion.

"But I have a mobile phone." Su Qian casually took out the mobile phone that was strictly prohibited by the school from her pocket. Although she looked cold, Su Qian just didn't show her emotions, not without emotions.

"..." Ding Xiang silently looked at the latest smart phone in Su Qian's hands. Is this the legendary three-good student?

Su Qian recorded the contact information of Bai Kou and Ding Xiang with her mobile phone, and by the way, lent her mobile phone to Bai Kou to call a car. After the bride left the vicinity of the wedding scene smoothly, Su Qian and Ding Xiang, who were still standing at the entrance of the park, found that the Uncle Du Zhong has disappeared.

"That uncle is actually just an ordinary person. If my dad encountered such a thing, his reaction would probably be the same." Ding Xiang sighed.

Isn't she an ordinary person?

Su Qian glanced at Ding Xiang, who was performing extremely well in the nightmare world, and didn't ask any questions, but just reminded lightly: "If you start now, you might be able to catch up with the competition."

When Ding Xiang first entered the nightmare world, she said that she was going to participate in a very important competition today.

As a student of the same school, Su Qian also heard about the track and field competition.

Su Qian just confirmed the time on the mobile phone and the electronic signboard at the nearby station. Although they entered a very strange nightmare world before, the passage of time did not slow down like in the film and television novels, and it still passed normally.

"Ahhh!"

Ding Xiang, who was emotionally back to reality in an instant, glanced at the direction of the Pumice City Gymnasium, and ran forward straight away.

"Are you going to run?" Su Qian still had her mobile phone in her hand, and even called a car for Ding Xiang.

"Take it as a warm-up! I'll talk about the nightmare world when I come back from the game!" Ding Xiang's voice came from afar.

"..." After canceling the taxi order as quickly as possible, Su Qian stood alone at the entrance of the park and looked around, lost in thought.

The time they stayed in the nightmare world is not short, but it is not too long. It has been a few hours since the morning, but judging from the situation of the surrounding restaurants, it has not yet reached the noon dining peak.

There were more and more people on the lawn of the park behind Su Qian, and many of them brought their own picnic cloths and food, which made the entire lawn area lively.

More than ten years ago, the mirror manor, which was almost exactly the same as the nightmare world, was located here, but now there are not even fragments of mirrors left in this place, and it is unknown where so many mirrors ended up.

Why could they see the manor again in the nightmare world? Could it be that the gray fog took them back to a certain point in the past?

Were there really that many mirrors before the manor was demolished?Or do ghost mirrors really exist in manors in the real world?

Where would that strange mirror be now, if it existed?

Could it be...was it also destroyed?

Thinking of the word "destroy", Su Qian felt a heart-wrenching pain in her chest again.

The City Gymnasium and City No. [-] Middle School are actually not too far away from this park, so Lilac's running past is not so worrying. Su Qian has already asked for leave from the school, so she can only walk along the bustling commercial street next to Pumice Lake , Slowly go back to "home".

The "home" that he has worked hard for eight years, but he can no longer fully integrate into it.

When returning home, Su Qian happened to see a notice posted on the window of a certain bookstore passing by——

"Su Qian's new work "Monster" is sold out, and online pre-orders are still in progress."

That's right, Su Qian's pen name is still "Su Qian".

It was a name he had acquired with great difficulty, and he never thought of changing it or hiding his name.However, because there are not many authors who use their real names as pen names, and readers don’t think that young authors will use their real names as pen names, Su Qian’s readers either feel that the author’s real name is unknown, or that the author is an old author.

Even Su Qian's classmates would not associate him with the author of horror and suspense novels.

When she first saw the notice on the window of the bookstore, Su Qian was still a little surprised, but then she remembered that horror and suspense novels have not been printed many copies from the beginning, so it is not surprising that they sold out so quickly.Thinking of his editor who is good at marketing, Su Qian didn't find it strange.

Su Qian's "home" is also near Pumice Lake, and her adoptive parents are both successful investors, so it's not surprising that she bought a lake view villa here.And because the adoptive parents moved to this city after adopting Su Qian, the neighbors in the villa area did not know that Su Qian was not related to them by blood.

In the eyes of the neighbors, the Su family, the couple and their children are good-looking, the parents are elegant and decent, and the only son is studious and intelligent, but this family exaggerates a bit and says that they are glamorous, but they are all as cold as ice, and every word they say gives people a cold feeling. It looks like it's real.

Because the Su family and his wife mentioned their business trip plan not long ago, when Su Qian returned home, he was the only one in the empty villa.He went back to his room in this house along the stairs, and sat on the balcony of the room on the second floor overlooking the sparkling pumice lake in the midday sun.

Su Qian's adoptive father and adoptive mother are not good at words, but they adopted Su Qian, who was helpless and helpless at the time, and they still did not give up helping Su Qian find her real family for eight years. There are some things hidden under it that Su Qian can't let go of.

That's why Su Qian didn't fall into that misty world and didn't look back.

... He still has ties to this world.

Taking out the mobile phone in her pocket, Su Qian found Ding Xiang's contact information on the school's official communication platform, and then sent Bai Kou's phone number to her. Totally lost.

Putting the mobile phone on the coffee table in front of the recliner, Su Qian flipped her right hand, and the "Nightmare Book" as big as Ci Hai and without much weight appeared in Su Qian's hand in the blink of an eye, and it seemed to know the owner's thoughts without wind and automatically. , and turned to the page of "The Mirror".

The hand-painted illustrations belonging to the strange mirror on the pages of the book have a strange beauty. After a long time, Su Qian even feels that the reflection in the illustration mirror is somewhat similar to himself.

Staring at the pages of the book for a while, Su Qian just lay on the deck chair on the balcony with the book of nightmares in her arms, and fell into a deep sleep.

When her heart rate returned to normal, Su Qian's battle in the nightmare world was neat and easy, but now that everything has settled, Su Qian's body feels deeply tired after excessive exercise.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Qian was woken up by the phone ringing.

"Hello?" Su Qian waved away the book of nightmares on her right hand, picked up the phone and found that the phone number on the screen was the same as the number of Lilac he found on the school communication platform.

Taking another look at the sky, Su Qian realized that after sleeping all afternoon, her stomach felt empty, but her spirit had recovered a lot.

"Su Qian, I'm Ding Xiang!" Ding Xiang's overly excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Congratulations." Su Qian's first reaction was that Ding Xiang successfully caught up with the competition, and even got a result that surprised her. This call was to announce the good news.

"Look in the direction of Pumice Lake!"

"I don't know if you can see it, but there is a strange fog there!"

Ding Xiang's excited and anxious voice rang in Su Qian's ear.

"I found a website when I was searching for a strange gray fog on the Internet. We will talk about the website tomorrow after we meet at school. What is important now is that I saw a sentence on the most prominent bulletin board on the website page."

"Number E0002-Mom, I'm about to pass the boundary of Pumice City, all trainees, please be careful to dodge."

Number E0002?

Su Qian instantly thought of the number in the Mirror file, as well as his own number.

"Then I saw that there was a huge gray fog over the pumice lake! Su Qian, can you see the pumice lake?!"

"Yes, yes..." Su Qian was modest.

The area where the Su family villa is located is halfway up the mountain next to the pumice lake. While ensuring convenient transportation, the residents in the villa area can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the pumice lake without blocking their sight.

Just like Su Qian who got up from the recliner at this moment, as long as he looks out of the balcony, he should be able to see the pumice lake shimmering under the red clouds as usual, and the mountains on the other side of the pumice lake like the background of ink painting.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

But this time, before Su Qian had time to look at the pumice lake, she heard a strange sound, which seemed to come from far, far away, and was very long, like a desolate and mournful cry. Everyone feels a little uncomfortable.

"Su Qian, did you hear that?!"

"I heard."

Hearing Ding Xiang's inquiry on the phone, Su Qian responded.

Although the desolate cry just now had an ethereal feeling from afar, Su Qian heard it very clearly.

When looking at the pumice lake again, Su Qian realized that the scene of the pumice lake was a little different from what he remembered. At this moment, the pumice lake was almost completely covered by light fog, and even the buildings around the pumice lake were shrouded in the fog. , looming.

"Ugh-"

When he heard that weird cry again, Su Qian felt uncomfortable in his heart for no reason. He felt sad, but he didn't know why he was sad.

"There seems to be something moving in the fog." Perhaps it was because of the excellent view from the balcony on the second floor of Su's house. Su Qian stared at the fog on the pumice lake and found something was wrong. "Although the movement is very slow, but Something really, really big is moving! Is that E0002?"

There are no tall buildings around the pumice lake, and the mountains look more like the background. The surrounding fog almost connects the sky and the earth, causing a blur.

As time passed, Su Qian became more certain that there was a huge shadow in the fog.

That shadow is becoming clearer and clearer!

And that shadow is moving... no, it's more like walking!

The thing in the fog was as big as a shadow play with the sky and the earth as the frame, and the shadow looked like a "female" walking sideways to the west.Through the white mist, the shadow's head, slender neck, slender upper body, and lower body in a long skirt could be distinguished.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"That shadow is like a woman in a long skirt, but how could it be so tall?" Ding Xiang on the other side of the phone came to the same conclusion as Su Qian, "And her walking posture looks a bit strange."

Su Qian actually felt the same way.

The mysterious figure in the white mist, almost towering into the clouds, walked in a strange posture. She kept her head down, her left and right arms stretched straight forward, and her wrists seemed to be tightly bound, connected with a rope like shadow.

"Did you hear the sound of the chain?" Su Qian stood in the wind on the balcony and said softly, "It was mixed with the crying."

Compared with Su Qian's geographical location, Ding Xiang should be standing and watching from a farther place, so he didn't hear the sound of the chain dragging like Su Qian did.

"She doesn't seem to want to move forward, but there is a chain or other things binding her hands, so she can only be dragged forward forcefully." Su Qian listened to the crying mixed in the wind, feeling uncomfortable Reappeared uncontrollably.

"What the hell is that?" Ding Xiang's voice sounded uncomfortable.

"E0002-Mom." Su Qian could only repeat the number and code that Ding Xiang had told him before.

The next second, the figure in the mist suddenly lifted up his bound hands, raised his lowered head high, and let out a desperate cry to the sky—"Woo——"

Although the speed of E0002's movement is very slow, it is indeed moving all the time.

When Su Qian was fascinated, time passed, E0002 also began to leave the boundary of Pumice City, the surrounding mountains gradually covered E0002's figure, and the thick fog around Pumice Lake also began to gradually dissipate.

The cry gradually faded away, slowly disappearing in the wind.

Su Qian hung up Ding Xiang's phone, looked at the direction where E0002 disappeared for a while, and then quickly summoned the Book of Nightmare as if thinking of something, and found that new writing and words appeared on the blank page behind the mirror. illustration.

"File number: E0002 (out of control)"

"File Code: Mom"

"File description: Unlock with contact progress."

"Known ability: Unlocked with contact progress."

"Self-reported monologue: Unlock with contact progress."

Right below the setting file is an illustration of E0002. The mysterious and huge female shadow in the fog is walking forward with her head lowered. It is almost exactly the same as the picture Su Qian saw before. Just looking at it like this can make Su Qian recall It reminded me of the almost mournful cry just now.

It's hard to forget.

The fog, and the things in the fog...

Why did it appear in this world?

And why does the world in the fog give Su Qian such an intimacy that is hard to let go?

It was as if walking into the fog brought him back to his real home.