nightmare novelist

Looking at the sky, Su Qian still decided to go outside to find something to fill his stomach. Although his adoptive father and adoptive mother had prepared enough ingredients in the refrigerator before the business trip, for Su Qian now, he just needed the opportunity to go out for food , Go outside and blow the cool breeze by the pumice lake, let yourself relax.

Although Pumice City is only a small place, Pumice Lake and the frequent lakeside walks are indeed an inseparable part of Su Qian's daily life, and even part of his creative inspiration.

The other source of most of the inspiration is Su Qian's dreams, all kinds of bizarre dreams.

Except for Su Qian and Ding Xiang who had entered the world of fog or the world of nightmares, the other residents and tourists around the pumice lake should not have realized that the large lake was completely covered by fog just now.

At least when Su Qian came to the shore of Pumice Lake, the faces of the pedestrians coming and going were as usual, talking and laughing, taking pictures when they should, and everyone was living in an ordinary world that was not affected by the gray fog.

There are some exceptions.

"it's wired."

When Su Qian was standing by the railing of Pumice Lake with a bag from the convenience store, she heard the voice of a teenager beside her.Turning his head, he saw a boy who was also wearing the school uniform of Pumice No. [-] Middle School lying beside the railing, looking at the Pumice Lake under the sun with a surprised expression.

"It's strange, I saw a lot of fog just now." The boy looked a head shorter than Su Qian, a strange face he had never seen on the floor of the same grade, and his appearance was so immature that he didn't look like a high school student , is likely to be a junior student.

Most importantly... he also saw the gray mist on the pumice lake?

Su Qian had to pay attention to that boy, because he knew very well that not everyone could discover the existence of Huiwu, but he didn't know what Huiwu's criteria were for selecting "experiencers".

Why can both he and this boy see the gray fog?

Why wasn't that boy surrounded and controlled by gray fog like Ding Xiang and Bai Kou?

Why is the world in the gray mist both similar and different from this world?

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The mist brought Su Qian too many doubts, but there must be something in common between him, Bai Kou, Ding Xiang, Uncle Du Zhong, and the boy lying beside the railing. place.

A connection with the gray mist.

"What fog?" Standing next to the boy seemed to be his classmate, who was holding a mobile phone to capture the beauties walking leisurely by the pumice lake.As one of the well-known scenic spots, besides the residents and tourists, besides the pumice lake, there are often people wearing ancient costumes stopping and posing for photos. Over time, it has become one of the scenic spots of the pumice lake.

"Didn't you see it?" The handsome and immature boy also looked at his classmates with a puzzled expression, "Almost the entire Pumice Lake was shrouded in fog just now."

"How is it possible?" The classmate next to him subconsciously flipped through the photos on his phone, "If it was foggy just now, why didn't I take a picture?"

"It's not just fog, there seems to be something moving in the fog! I even heard a horrible sound!" The boy was busy defending himself, but no one around him believed what he said.

Su Qian, who was silently watching from the side, was even more sure that after all, only a few people could see the gray fog.

But even so, Su Qian didn't intend to go up to get acquainted. He just looked at the darkening sky, and then walked back home alone. He and all the tourists who came to Pumice Lake to watch the sunset walked in the opposite direction. The figure alone seemed out of place.

He even misses the world in the gray fog a little bit.

Some miss that weird looking mirror.

Thinking of the strange mirror, Su Qian subconsciously glanced at the window glass of the shop next door, his reflection on the window was clearly visible, nothing was different from usual.

Su Qian, who passed by the window, didn't know...

When he stepped away from the window, the "Su Qian" in the reflection of the window did not move. It was not until Su Qian walked away that the "Su Qian" in the reflection of the window stepped forward to catch up!

Such a strange scene was not discovered by others.

Walking along the street next to Pumice Lake all the way to the intersection, Su Qian was about to turn right to go home, but saw a few students in the uniform of No. [-] City Middle School standing on the other side of the intersection and looking around.If Su Qian remembered correctly, these students were friends of the boy who could see the gray fog.

"Where is Jiang Gracilaria? Have you seen Jiang Gracilaria?" Looking at the familiar student, he asked loudly to the students beside him, "That guy had hallucinations at Pumice Lake just now, and now he disappeared again. Where did he go? "

"Maybe he went home? I remember that his family lives in the neighborhood that is said to be very expensive on the left turn." The classmate next to him was not particularly surprised, "Looking at his strange appearance just now, maybe he is not healthy. Comfortable."

The boy who could see the gray mist just now was called Jiang Li?

Or Li?Su Qian couldn't be sure of the other party's real name just by listening.

Su Qian didn't take it seriously at first, but when he looked at the group of students again... he found that there was a cloud of gray mist among them, it was a human-shaped gray mist!It was exactly the same as when Su Qian met Ding Xiang and Bai Kou who were wrapped in gray mist before!

A figure of a person can be vaguely seen in the gray mist. If I guessed correctly, it should be the "Gracelet" that disappeared from the mouths of those students.

The child didn't disappear, but because it was wrapped in gray mist, it couldn't be perceived by others.

Thinking of the world in the gray fog, Su Qian subconsciously quickened her pace and walked towards the opposite side of the road, but saw the green light on the sidewalk turn red amidst the sound of the car starting next to her, she could only stop and stand there waiting, looking at the The figure controlled by the gray fog turned left at the intersection.

It seems that someone mentioned just now that Jiang Li's house is also in the direction of turning left at the intersection.

When the green light on the sidewalk turned on again, Su Qian immediately crossed the zebra crossing and walked to the left, trying to find the gray fog that might lead to the world of nightmares.The route in that direction is actually not complicated, and because there are residential areas, there are fewer tourists. There are no complicated crossing routes, and the environment is even considered quiet. So Su Qian speeded up and walked for a while, and found that the road ahead was slow. Moving clouds of fog.

In the absence of external stimulation, Su Qian's physical ability is very worrying. She just walked a few steps faster, but it looks like she just walked off a 1000-meter track and field field. Obviously, her heartbeat will not be caused by her body. Tired and accelerated, but there is still a feeling of exhaustion and breathlessness.

The gray mist was also like the lilac this morning, moving forward like a stiff zombie, step by step very slowly, which gave Su Qian a chance to catch up.Su Qian also wanted to hold the boy Jiangli in the gray mist just like this morning, but the figure in the gray mist still did not respond, just like a magnet being attracted by another magnet, if there is not enough strength to hold him Break it apart, and you can only watch them keep getting closer.

Su Qian didn't continue to stop her, and her intuition told him that the direction of the gray mist was the nightmare world!

As long as he followed the gray mist, he could go to the nightmare world that gave him a strange feeling!

To the world in the fog!

Every cell in Su Qian's body seems to be yearning for the wind, the air of the world in the fog, and even the dangerous breath of the world in the fog.

At this time, Su Qian suddenly felt the temperature drop on one side of her body, and when she turned her head to look, she saw another figure wrapped in gray mist coming from the side road and walking behind Jiang Li, two clouds of gray mist And keep going all the way.

Such a scene is really very familiar.

Following behind the two clouds of gray fog, Su Qian could feel that the temperature of the street became very low as night fell, and the street lights in the relatively quiet residential area were far darker than usual. Although there were pedestrians walking around as usual, Su Qian felt Qian felt that the surroundings were too quiet.

Because he has lived here for several years, Su Qian has been to this neighborhood before, and he has a little impression of the nearby residential areas. If he remembers correctly, just turn right at the intersection in front, and you will see that It is a residential community where housing prices are a bit expensive in other populations.

But in the second that Su Qian followed the gray fog and turned right, what appeared in front of Su Qian was not the gate of the community that she had a slight impression of, but...a large piece of gray fog!

The area of ​​the fog that covered the entire lawn park in the morning is larger than that of the gray fog that Su Qian saw at this moment has completely covered the residential area in his memory, and there are residents living here coming in and out at the border of the fog. , coupled with the fact that the figure controlled by the gray mist had long since lost consciousness, among all the people present, only Su Qian knew how strange this scene looked.

In addition to the two clusters of gray fog around Su Qian, there were two other clusters of gray fog standing at the border of the fog.

This time, four... no, five people entered the world in the fog.

Su Qian's right hand caressed the position of the heart, and then followed the gray fog like in the morning, and walked straight into the world in the fog.

The moment the right foot stepped into the boundary, a familiar mechanical prompt sounded in the ears of Su Qian and the other four practitioners who were beginning to escape the control of the gray mist——

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

"It has been adjusted to novice difficulty..."

"The program is abnormal, and the difficulty will be adjusted."

"Adjusted to normal difficulty."

"Please four new..."

"Five trainees are asked to solve the abnormal situation in this nightmare world within 24 hours. After completing the task, they can leave the nightmare world. The specific content is for each trainee to explore by himself in the nightmare world."

This time the notification sounded a bit strange, as if the mechanical voice itself was struggling with something.To Su Qian's ears, this nightmare world seemed to be a novice difficulty at first, but after the difficulty adjustment of the voice, it became a normal difficulty, plus the voice's repeated determination of the number of experiencers...

Su Qian could feel that the abnormality of the notification sound had something to do with him, a practitioner who was not controlled by the fog.

"Where is this place?"

A strange voice came from the side, indicating that the few trainees who were controlled by the gray fog and entered the world in the fog have woken up.