nightmare novelist

"Where is this place?"

Su Qian is very familiar with such a question or tone of voice, after all, he had just completed a novice difficulty experience in the nightmare world with Ding Xiang and the others earlier.

When Ding Xiang and Bai Kou were freed from the control of the gray mist before, they also asked the same question in such a puzzled tone.

Perhaps the nightmare world has never seen a "experiencer" who actively enters the nightmare world twice a day like Su Qian.

but……

Su Qian carefully looked at the other four trainees who had escaped from the gray fog. In addition to the boy Gracilaria that he had seen by the pumice lake before, there was also a young woman in plain clothes with a vegetable basket, and a big gold necklace hanging around her neck. A skinny youth in chains and an old man in tracksuit.

Just like the experience in the nightmare world last time, the experiencers who entered the world in the mist may live relatively close to each other, and everyone has a different identity, and they can't find anything else in common.

When I asked where this place was from just now, it was the young woman with a confused face carrying a vegetable basket, with a fledgling aura on her delicate face.

Judging from the same confused expressions on the faces of the four experiencers, Su Qian guessed that they should all be entering the world of fog for the first time, but the bad thing is that the experience difficulty given by the nightmare world this time is "normal" instead of "novice". ", and the reason is very likely because of Su Qian's intrusion.

Su Qian, who had an intuition that the situation might be a bit bad this time, twitched the corners of his eyes slightly, and then, taking advantage of the fact that the attention of these new trainees was focused on the surrounding fog, he quietly took a step back, distanced himself from the four people, and tried to lower the pressure. own presence.

"Aren't you the babysitter of Mr. Lin's family?" Although the old man in sportswear was gray-haired, he still looked energetic, and he seemed to know the young girl carrying the vegetable basket, and revealed her identity in one word.

In a world surrounded by thick gray fog, the old man's reaction can be said to be calm and calm.

The little girl nodded nervously, but she didn't care about talking to the old man, holding the vegetable basket nervously with both hands, feeling her delicate body trembling slightly.

"What the hell?" The skinny young man wearing a gold chain swears a few curse words silently, his expression also shows the tension of suddenly coming to a strange environment, but his nervousness has become irritable and violent. Impulsive, if there was something like a trash can beside him right now, he would have already been kicked to the ground by that young man.

"Fog..." Jiang Li, a boy, stared blankly at the thick fog around him, as if he felt familiar.

"I think these two young men look familiar, don't you all live in Hujing Jiayuan?" It was the energetic old man who spoke, and he might be the first one to turn his attention away from the gray fog besides Su Qian , and turned to observe the people around the practitioners.

It gave Su Qian a feeling that the ginger was still old and spicy.

"Yeah." The boy Jiang Li's reaction was a little slow, and he bowed politely after he realized it, "Grandpa Qi is good."

The young man who was called on the other side just turned his head aside, ignoring the old man surnamed Qi.

"What a coincidence." The old man said and looked at the thick fog around him, "I clearly remember that I was going to go home after going out for tea with my old friend, and I arrived here in the blink of an eye. I thought this was a completely strange and strange place. I saw so many acquaintances in the same place... It's as if we are still in Hujingjiayuan, but this neighborhood is engulfed by fog."

Su Qian was surprised by the old man's guess.

"Can we go out?" The young nanny stumbled a little while speaking, "It's so foggy, I dare not go."

"Tsk." The young man with the golden chain put his right hand in his pocket, walked into the fog without saying a word, without the slightest hesitation in his movements, and was engulfed in the thick fog in the next second, and no one else could see him anymore .

But before other people had the idea of ​​following into the fog, everyone watched the young man with the golden chain who walked into the fog confidently before come out of the fog on the other side.

When the young man who was walking with his head down looked up and saw Su Qian and the others, and realized that he had walked around in the fog and returned to the same place, he finally showed a moved expression on his face.

"What's going on?" The young man looked back in surprise, "I just, I just kept walking!"

"It shouldn't be that easy to go out." Although the old man was ignored by the young man with the golden chain when he spoke before, he still smiled slightly when he looked at him now, "But thank you, sir, for helping with the experiment."

The performance of the old man is more calm than Bai Kou who surprised Su Qian before.

"Grandpa Qi, aren't you worried?" Su Qian's junior looked at the old man strangely.

The old man smiled and shook his head: "It's the age of knowing the fate, so there is nothing to worry about, but I feel that something happened in life is quite special. I remember that you are the grandson of xx, and your name is... Jiang Forest?"

"Jiangjie." The boy nodded and said, "Add a distance to the beginning of the cursive character."

"It's a little gnat." The old man smiled kindly, and then looked at the nervous little nanny next to him, "Don't be nervous, little girl, Mr. Lin always said that you are a lucky girl, and you are also enthusiastic when taking care of her." You have a lot of heart, and there will be good rewards. Maybe this time we really have to take advantage of your girl's blessing."

The little girl seemed to want to smile, but the expression she showed was half crying and half smiling, which was really ugly.

It was at this time that the old man noticed Su Qian standing beside him, looked him up and down almost imperceptibly, and then said with a smile: "I haven't seen this one before, did you just move to the community?"

Su Qian shook her head calmly: "I was just passing by, I don't know how I came here."

"You are also from No. [-] Middle School of the city." Jiang Li naturally noticed the school uniform on Su Qian's body, and immediately stepped closer, as if he had found a partner who could go with him, "I seem to have seen you in school , My name is Jiang Li, a freshman in high school."

Good-looking, always able to leave an impression on people.

"Su Qian, deep and shallow, I'm in the third year of high school." Su Qian breathed the air of the world in the fog, and he really felt refreshed.

"Senior Su Qian?" Jiang Li was thoughtful, as if he had heard this name somewhere.

"The old man's surname is Qi, you can call me old man Qi or old Qi, plus this little girl named...Peilan." After thinking for a while, old Qi remembered the little girl's name, "and that young man over there , the five of us are walking together."

The young man wearing the gold chain turned his head again, and took a step back with his arms around him, as if he didn't want to be with Su Qian and the others.

"The fog seems to have lightened a bit." Su Qian noticed some changes in the surrounding conditions at this time. He even vaguely saw some light through the thick fog, like a faint light through the thick fog.

That is, not long after Su Qian gave a warning, the dense fog that surrounded them began to disperse at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a well-repaired European-style arched facade appeared in Su Qian's field of vision. Embedded with the four flamboyant characters "Hujing Jiayuan", it is exactly the same as the entrance of the community of Hujing Jiayuan in Su Qian's memory.

Although there was still a lingering thick fog behind Su Qian and the others, the Hujing Jiayuan that appeared directly in front of them seemed... quite normal.

Yes, it's normal, nothing looks out of the ordinary.

The last time Su Qian entered the nightmare world, she faced an abandoned manor that no longer existed. The strange manor that had been demolished reappeared in the weird nightmare world. The world that exists is very different from reality, like a real nightmare.

But at this moment, the Hujing Jiayuan that Su Qian saw was also shrouded in the night, but the surrounding birds and cicadas and the various lights in the residential buildings made this community look terrifyingly real .Under the lights of the community surrounded by flying insects, there are parents playing with their children and couples walking their dogs. Su Qian even saw a delivery boy in uniform walking through the community...

If it wasn't for the thick fog around, what Su Qian saw would be terribly real.

Jiang Li and the others were more familiar with Hujing Jiayuan than Su Qian, so they were surprised to see such a scene.

"Grandpa Qi, isn't this our community?" Monk Jiang Lizhang Er was puzzled, completely unaware of what happened.

"It's our community, but something is wrong." Grandpa Qi seems to be a little short-sighted, but he doesn't wear glasses, so when he tries to see something clearly, he will habitually squint his eyes. I haven't seen it before, how did the Black Cat Convenience Store at the entrance of the community turn into a Jingbei Convenience Store? And the greenery in the community was pruned a few days ago, why is it growing in a mess now?"

Although Grandpa Qi only paid attention to the details of Hujing Jiayuan, Su Qian was able to get a lot of important information from it.

Although the Hujingjiayuan in the nightmare world is the same as the Hujingjiayuan in the outside world, the change of owner of the convenience store at the door and the pruning of the community’s greenery at least show that the time point of the nightmare world is different from that of the outside world. It might be in Hujing Jiayuan a few years ago or a few years later.

If the tricks played by the nightmare world are really related to time, then it makes perfect sense for Su Qian to see the abandoned manor that should have been demolished in the nightmare world.

But is it really that simple?

This still can't explain why Su Qian feels kind to the world in the fog, and even feels that the air in the nightmare world can refresh people's spirits.

"Let's go in first." Grandpa Qi thought for a while, "There is still fog around outside, even if we go into the fog, we will probably come back inexplicably like the young man just now. So apart from entering the community, we may not There are other ways to go."

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

Not long after Su Qian and the others walked into Hujing Garden, the familiar notification sounded again.