nightmare novelist

"Cough cough."

Lin Houhou got a chance to talk about the depression in her heart, but Su Qian's question had not been answered yet. Seeing that she had already started asking for clues about E0014, this Miss Lin suddenly coughed violently.

Su Qian just watched Lin Houhou bend over and cough, and at the same time picked up the sunglasses in her hand and put them on again. Her hand holding the sunglasses felt trembling and unstable.

"Sorry, I want to go to the bathroom, ahem." Lin Houyu subconsciously walked towards the bathroom.

"Don't forget, this is not the real world." Weird Mirror had been watching from the side, and it was the first time he spoke, "There is no bathroom here."

Then the Kung Fu Mirror disappeared from the side of the floor-to-ceiling window in the blink of an eye, and the next second came out from the reflection of the poster glass frame behind Su Qian, leaned behind Su Qian and whispered: "I don't like strangers staying here for too long." Long."

Su Qian respected Sui Jing's idea, but it was obvious that Lin Houhou could speak freely only here.

And... Su Qian thought that those trainees who parted ways with him had evil intentions, and felt that as long as Lin Houhou stayed here, they might not find what they wanted.

"Be patient." Su Qian's tone remained unchanged.

Gui Jing was silent for a moment behind Su Qian, and then asked, "What's the reward?"

"..."

"Owe me once?" Wei Jing whispered for advice.

"Yeah." Su Qian didn't care either, the more he didn't regard Sui Jing as one of his own, the more he felt that it was natural to owe favors in this matter, but he didn't think there was anything strange about the quantifier "once". place.

"Ahem——ahem!" Lin Houhou's cough seemed to be getting worse, but the third floor was the emptiest place in the whole building, and the mirror world based on it was nothing worthy of her. hiding place.

The sound of ordinary coughing began to be different from before, and seemed to become deeper.

Even if there were one or two doors, Lin Houhou opened them forcefully only to find that there was a white wall behind the door!Lin Houhou propped up the door frame which was only for decoration, and his whole body began to tremble slightly.

It was precisely because there was nowhere to go that Su Qian could see that the figure of Lin Houhou, who was originally of medium height and slender, was changing. Although she was bending over to support the door frame, her figure was obviously getting taller. She was wearing a loose black coat. The position of the shoulders is also propped up, and it is widening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Don't look." Lin Houhou's voice was hoarse and fragile, "Don't get close."

"Strange mirror." Su Qian called out softly.

Standing behind Su Qian, Gui Jing didn't need the young man to finish his sentence, he snapped his fingers before Lin Houhou collapsed, and a room suddenly appeared behind the door frame where there was originally a white wall.

A dark room with no windows or lights.

Lin Houhou, who had already changed in stature, rushed in without hesitation, with a violent cough mixed with exhausted gasps, the voice gradually deviated from the female voice, like a man who was exhausted to the extreme.

"Are you okay?" Su Qian stood where she was, not close to where Lin Houhou was, "Do you need help?"

"It's okay, it will be fine soon, cough cough." The voice came from the room, it was no longer Lin Houhou's voice, but a strange man's voice.That voice was not unpleasant, but as long as the person who spoke was Lin Houhou who fascinated people with just a single poster, there was an indescribably weird feeling.

"Will even the hair be different?" Su Qian remembered that the last time she saw a man wearing a black coat, although the man's hair was hidden in a hat, it was still recognizable as black hair, while Lin Houhou's hair It's a dark wine red.

"The red one was originally a wig." Although it was a male voice, the tone of the woman's voice was difficult to change, which sounded very strange.

"So you really have a disease, and it's a disease that will change gender suddenly?" Su Qian's question this time was straightforward enough.

"Don't you already know?" A man in a black coat came out of the room. Although he was still wearing a black hat, he took off his sunglasses so that Su Qian could see his face.

It was a strange face, but it was not completely strange, because Su Qian could see a little shadow of Lin Houhou in the facial features.

"Seeing this face, you seem to be very calm." Without the top-heavy movements and strange tone of voice, the man Lin Houhou turned into could be regarded as young and handsome, but if you think about it, Lin Youhou doesn't care about these things, men and women The most unacceptable is the extremely different physiological state.

"After all, I know you are sick."

"No, I'm talking about this face." Lin Wanwan pointed at his face at the moment, "This is Chen Jingmo's face, although you keep saying that I'm sick, but with such a face, I look more like being raped by Chen Jingmo." Curse, I can't get rid of him even if he dies."

Su Qian once saw Chen Jingmo's photo in a magazine, and after hearing Lin Weiwan mention it, she indeed found Chen Jingmo's shadow on "his" face.

but……

"It's indeed a bit similar, but it also has your own shadow." Su Qian said affirmatively.

Lin Yuhou subconsciously looked at the glass frame of the poster hanging on the wall next to her, but when she saw the reflection on the glass, she closed her eyes in pain for an instant. After struggling repeatedly, she still took a deep breath and looked at the strange self in the reflection.

After watching for a while, Lin Houhou's breathing gradually calmed down.

"I haven't seen a mirror in this state for a long time." Lin Weiwan seemed to confirm something through the reflection, "When this situation first appeared, this face was indeed exactly the same as Chen Jingmo's, as if it had been captured by Chen Jingmo. Haunted by his ghost. But now, the face really doesn't look like that anymore."

Su Qian suddenly remembered after hearing what Lin Wei said. When the employees of the purchasing department on the second floor were chatting together, someone seemed to have said that they had seen Chen Jingmo's ghost appear.

That person...maybe he had seen "him" by chance during the initial stages of Lin Yuhou's illness, so he mistakenly thought it was Chen Jingmo's ghost.

"Didn't you find out the reason for your illness?" Su Qian knew very well that even if she directly asked Lin Houhou about E0014, she would definitely not know about it.

"At first I thought it was a ghost possession, but then I thought it might be the same as other people's disease?"

What Lin Wei said caught Su Qian's attention, and he immediately asked: "Others? Are there other people who have this disease?"

"No, it's just that there have been a lot of strange illnesses outside recently." Lin Yuwan took a step back and distanced "him" from Su Qian, "During this time, the news has been talking about a kind of disease called 'circle'. "Shapephobia" disease, people with the disease will go crazy when they see round things, fortunately, the relevant departments have experience, and the people with the disease will be controlled soon."

"control?"

"Yes, all kinds of strange things that appear outside are all caused by contact infection. Maybe there are too many and too fast, and everyone is no longer as panicked as before." There is too much information in what Lin Wei said The amount needs to be digested by Su Qian.

"There are still many strange diseases?" Su Qian's understanding of this nightmare world is limited to this building, but she learned about the outside of this building from the people in the nightmare world.

Just like in the last nightmare world, Su Qian also knew from E0658 that the world outside Hujing Jiayuan had been completely swallowed by the gray fog, and even people were driven mad by the gray fog.

"Yeah, it seems to have started two years ago." Even when Lin Houhou was recalling, he was avoiding all kinds of glass objects that would produce reflections. It seemed that such eloquent speech could make "he" forget the current situation. Symptoms, "The initial appearance seems to be a disease called 'fantasy', and people infected with that disease will have all kinds of strange hallucinations."

"Haven't you heard of it?" Lin Houhou didn't realize it until he was halfway through speaking, and looked at Su Qian strangely, "Isn't everyone aware of this?"

"I really don't know these things." Su Qian didn't explain much.

"Somewhere there was a case involving human life, and there was a strange eyewitness. The eyewitness claimed that he saw a terrible monster rushing out and killing another monster. He described the appearance of the two monsters so vividly. , No matter how many times people cross-examine, they can't find any loopholes."

"Because the eyewitness was an alcoholic who often got drunk at night, they all thought that the eyewitness had hallucinations after being drunk. Together."

"But later I found out that the witness was the murderer, and he was a murderer suffering from hallucinations. He fell ill in a drunk state and took the people he met on the road as terrible monsters. Once he was at night. Committing a crime next to a closed shop, seeing himself and the victim in the reflection of the shop window as two monsters fighting."

"At the beginning, it was an unsolved case. Later, it was a drunk murderer who was considered mentally ill by others. In the end, it was discovered that more people who had contact with drunks were infected with 'fantasy'. It was a bit chaotic outside at that time. It's creepy." Lin Houhou said and counted his fingers, "Phantomsia, hunger sickness, drowsiness, etc... In addition to the recent circular phobia, everyone seems to be used to strange things happening to their bodies. You have to isolate yourself from other people.”

Su Qian thought of Lin Houhou, who used to yell for people to leave whenever someone approached. No wonder she didn't show any disappointment after seeing other people leaving quickly wherever she went. Maybe this is what she really wanted. of.

However, Su Qian suddenly remembered her new book "Monster", which was just published before. The plot of his book came from a dream he had, and after adaptation, it told the story of a submissive character who was bullied by others. On the way home, he saw an ugly and terrible monster. He fought the monster for his life and won.Since then, the characters in Su Qian's book seem to have become heroes who maintain the order of the city, wander around the corners of the city without anyone's support and trust, and deal with those monsters that no one else can see.

Until one day, when he killed the monster, he saw the reflection of the shop window next to him...

It was not a monster lying dead on the ground in the reflection, but a person who had bullied him.But in the reflection, he himself, holding the knife, turned into a hideous monster.

Su Qian's conception of the whole book is surprisingly similar in some respects to the incident Lin Houhou mentioned.

"So after you got sick, you haven't had any contact with anyone?" Su Qian looked at Lin Houhou, as if she knew her a little better.

"I said that it doesn't matter what happens to my body, but I won't harm anyone. It was like this before, and it's like this now." Lin Houhou didn't seem to feel that he had done anything unbelievable, "And now everyone Some people hide away when they see me, and even if they really have no choice but to get close to me, most of them are very alienated. Except for the trouble of avoiding that kid Caesar Ming, it is easy to avoid other people."

"Anyway, word-of-mouth is already so bad, it's okay to make people feel that my temper has gotten worse." Lin Yuhou gradually calmed down, "It just feels like the illness has been getting longer and longer recently, maybe one day I will completely become like this, and then It can't go back."

"Actually, it might be a good thing." Lin Houhou smiled bitterly and strangely, "This way I won't be Lin Houhou anymore, and then I can get real freedom, right?"

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