nightmare novelist

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

"Among the fog, there is a scene of a community where humans lived in the past. Lost refugees once broke into this place, and they were delighted by the calm and normal atmosphere here, as if they had strayed into a peach blossom garden, hoping to be here peacefully. Live the rest of your life."

"But they soon discovered that there seemed to be something unusual hiding under the seemingly ordinary facade of this community."

"Occasionally, the neighbors would gather in the shadowed corners and whisper. They seemed to be afraid of something. There were more and more missing person notices on the bulletin boards in the community. It seemed that residents in the community disappeared every once in a while. "

"Have you heard? Mr. Deng's wife is also missing in Room 404, Building [-]."

"Yeah, I've been missing for a week. Since then, more and more people have gone missing in the community..."

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

With the night wind blowing and the chirping of birds and cicadas, everything in Hujing Jiayuan is quiet and never dead.But in the ears of Su Qian and the others, the mechanical voice without emotion clearly and strangely read the reminders to the experiencers from this nightmare world. It should be a chatting conversation full of the atmosphere of the market, but it is abruptly read as It's an awkward read.

The most frightening thing is that this unpleasant voice is still clearly imprinted in the minds of Su Qian and the others, and they can't get rid of it for a while.

"What's that sound?" Mr. Qi muttered to himself, "It doesn't sound like a loudspeaker that announces announcements in the community, it sounds like it came directly from the head."

"Why is it like playing a game?" The young man wearing a gold chain probably never thought of acting in unison with other trainees. After cursing in a low voice, he put his hands in his pockets, bowed his waist and walked straight towards the street in the community. go in a certain direction.

In Nightmare World...or in all horror flicks, acting apart can lead to some really bad situations.It's a pity that among the trainees present, only Su Qian is aware of this for the time being. Although the other trainees can feel the weird atmosphere around them, they don't associate the neighborhood they live with with the word "dangerous".

Even the very calm old man Qi didn't stop him when he saw the young man with the golden chain turn around and left. We have to figure it out together."

That's all.

In fact, Su Qian himself is not very interested in other trainees, after all, what he is interested in is only the nightmare world in front of him.What Su Qian was curious about was why he felt familiar with the world in the fog, and what he wanted to know was the reason for the existence of these worlds in the fog.

When entering the nightmare world last time, although Su Qian also had the same question, the only native of the nightmare world who could speak in that world was the ghost mirror, and he was a very troublesome guy to communicate with.

But now, Su Qian stood at the gate of Hujing Jiayuan and looked around, and could see many residents of the community.If all goes well, Su Qian should be able to get a lot of useful information from them.

If possible, Su Qian also has the idea of ​​acting alone.

"Young man, let's talk about what to do next?" The old man Qi over there waved to Su Qian at this time, "You look like Xiao Jiangli, and you have a clever face."

Su Qian really thought about it seriously: "What the gentleman said just now is indeed reasonable. The robot-like voice is indeed very similar to the system prompt sound that appears when playing games. Let us solve the anomaly within 24 hours. It’s very similar to a task given to players by the game. That is, when players don’t know how to clear a certain game, the game itself gives us hints.”

"As long as the task is completed, we can leave this strange place!" Jiang Lian on the side raised his hand as if he had suddenly understood, "The voice we heard just now may contain the hints necessary to complete the task! "

Su Qian also nodded in agreement, it should be so.

"But, isn't this prompt too vague?" Jiang Li still looked a little annoyed, "When I played games before, the tasks in those games were very simple and straightforward, either asking me to find someone, or asking me to go to Go to the designated place."

"..." Su Qian looked at the little nanny Peilan who was completely out of shape, at the old man Qi who knew nothing about games, and then at the schoolboy Jiang Li who was thinking hard. It was found that the eyes of the elementary school boy fell on him with some expectation, and even the old man looked over.

Somewhat unaccustomed to this sense of expectation, Su Qian touched his cheek subconsciously. The expressionless and indifferent attitude he has been accustomed to since he was a child is like a wall separating him from other people around him, and he cannot integrate into others. , and others will not take the initiative to approach him.

What's going on with Jiang Li and Mr. Qi at this moment?Su Qian couldn't help but began to reflect on whether his performance just now was too enthusiastic. After all, this was the second nightmare world he participated in within a day. The way he gets along with this group of experiencers.

"Mr. Deng in Room 404, Building [-]." Su Qian believes that he is not the only one who has captured this information, but he is more experienced than other trainees here, "That voice seems to have mentioned it before."

"Building Fourteen... 404..." Mr. Qi pondered the message in a low voice.

"I remember that the twelfth building is on the east side." The little boy Jiang Li's eyes lit up, "the fourteenth building should be there too."

"Ah." Perrin, who was standing over there clutching the handle of the vegetable basket, wanted to speak for the first time, but he still hesitated to speak.Even if people can understand that people have different personalities, it has to be said that a little girl like Perrin is definitely not an ideal teammate in the world of fog.

Grandpa Qi frowned as if thinking of something at this time: "I remember that there are no fourteen buildings in our community, not only fourteen buildings, not even the fourth and fourteenth floors. After the two numbers four and fourteen, it is impossible to have the address of Room 404 in Building Fourteen."

That's what the little nanny Pei Lan wanted to say before. After hearing Mr. Qi say it so clearly, there was obviously a frightened expression on his face, and his body trembled slightly.A non-existent house number, a string of unlucky numbers in the eyes of many people, is undoubtedly a horror story in the eyes of ordinary people.

"You guys... don't worry!" Jiang Li next to him was also very nervous, but he still said with a positive expression, "This neighborhood just looks like Hujing Jiayuan. Grandpa Qi, don't you also talk about a lot of things here? Is it different from Hujing Jiayuan? It may be a fantasy-like existence in the novel, as long as we complete the task, we can leave here!"

What Jiang Li said actually lacked a lot of context. He couldn't explain what a fantasy is, why it appeared, or why they had to complete the task. He just wanted to say something so that the mood of the people around him would not continue to be depressed. It is also kind.

"Okay, then let's look for the [-]th building." Mr. Qi also took a deep breath, and after doing a few chest expansion exercises, he led Su Qian and the others towards the east of the community.

Along the way, Su Qian and the others also met several residents of the community, but perhaps because the other trainees had a clear goal and only found room 404 in the [-]th building, no one thought of stopping and interacting with these seemingly ordinary people. Residents chat.

Su Qian originally planned to follow Mr. Qi and his team for the time being, but when they passed by the glass bulletin board in the community, Su Qian unexpectedly discovered something that made him stop—he saw the glass on the bulletin board. reflection.

When Su Qian was looking directly at the bulletin board, "Su Qian" in the glass reflection was still looking at Mr. Qi and the others who were walking in front.

Su Qian blinked subconsciously, and when she opened her eyes again, she found that there was nothing strange about "Su Qian" in the reflection, just "looking at" him just like the reflection in an ordinary mirror.

Is it wrong?

Just when Su Qian had such an idea, she saw "Su Qian" in the reflection suddenly took a step forward, with her hands pressed against the bulletin board and showed him a charming smile, as if she was about to emerge from the mirror in the next second. Just like rushing out!

The unexpected development made Su Qian's heart beat faster in an instant.

"Strange mirror? Why are you here?" Su Qian, who had guessed the answer, began to recover after a short while, which instead made "Su Qian" in the reflection show a disappointed expression that he would never show himself. Some grievances.

But what Wei Jing didn't know was that behind Su Qian's expressionless face, his heartbeat that accelerated due to shock did not slow down, but was still beating powerfully and quickly.Su Qian couldn't help but pull down the thick collar of the sweater to catch his breath. He could feel that the recovery of his heartbeat was not just because of being frightened, but more of an inexplicable sense of joy.

At the moment when he left the world of the mirror, Su Qian had a strange idea in his head - he wanted to take the mirror away with him, and take away the side that was alone in the abandoned manor for an unknown amount of time. The trick mirror.

But before Su Qian could act, they had already left the world in the fog.It stands to reason that Su Qian and Sui Jing are not related, but I don't know why whenever Su Qian thinks of this incident, she always feels a sense of loss deep in her heart.

And now, the mirror is here.

Su Qian didn't know how Wei Jing came from one nightmare world to another, but he was indeed here, in the reflection of the bulletin board mirror in front of him.

Perhaps hearing Su Qian's question, the ghostly mirror who was exactly the same as Su Qian in the reflection took a step back, and then put his hand into the side pocket of the jeans on his lower body.Su Qian stretched out her hand imitating the tricky mirror's movement, and actually touched an object in the trouser pocket that shouldn't exist.

A small round mirror.

Very small and very light.

"Su Qian" in the mirror is still Gui Jing's inexplicably aggrieved expression.