nightmare novelist

"What the hell!"

"What do you mean what I'm looking for is right in front of me?!"

"You took away 357 days and 13 hours of my lifespan and just told me this?"

Shen Jiang looked angrily at the black sculpture in front of him. Although Su Qian and the others stood aside and didn't hear what the almighty wishing machine said at all-this may have come from some kind of confidentiality mechanism, but Shen Jiang's words had clearly Su Qian explained clearly what they didn't hear.

The almighty wishing machine seemed to take away Shin Kang's 357 days of life as a price, but it didn't give Shin Kang the answer he wanted.

Among the people present, Su Qian may be the only one who knows that the omnipotent wishing machine is not a lie. Although he doesn't know why the organization Shen Jiang said is looking for the book of nightmares, the person who owns the book of nightmares is indeed on Shen Jiang's side. before.

It's just that Shen Jiang, who had the price taken away, didn't see it.

"Maybe it's a mistake?" Xu Qingdai actually didn't understand what Shen Jiang wished.

"Maybe... maybe it's here! Maybe the book of nightmares is here! If you can find it, it's a very cheap price for less than a year of life." Shen Jiang's eyes lit up when he thought of this. , The thing that looked like a remote control in his hand flickered, and then he returned to calm.

But why such a specific time figure as 357 days and 13 hours?Could it be that the almighty wishing machine really calculated the price perfectly?

It's just that after Shen Jiang took a step in the direction of the cross, the foot he stepped out turned into gray mist and scattered in all directions. The gray mist quickly engulfed his body, and finally engulfed him out of the foot.

A person who was still alive and cursing before suddenly turned into a gray mist in front of Su Qian and the others, and finally dispersed in the wind, leaving nothing but the "remote control" in his hand that fell to the ground .

"Ahhh!" Obviously there was no scary scene, but Xu Qingdai couldn't help covering her eyes.For those who have experienced the nightmare world several times, such an understatement may be more unacceptable than those horrible pictures.

"So that's how it is." Su Qian couldn't help murmuring softly, and walked over to pick up the "remote control" that Shen Jiang dropped. It didn't even have an LCD screen, and it didn't even have red and green lights like a wishing machine. No matter how I press it, there is no response, and I don't know if it is broken or out of power.

The fact that 357 days and 13 hours of life will be taken away has nothing to do with the computing power of the universal wishing machine, it is just because the man named Shen Jiang only has 357 days and 13 hours of life left.

"This is simply a scam." Xu Qingdai's face was complicated, "Don't say he didn't even get any useful clues, even if he did get the clues, how can he bring the clues out of the nightmare world now?"

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"But I still want to give it a try." Xu Qingdai took a deep breath and looked at the black statue. Her glasses, which were originally glowing green, have turned red, like a color that is forbidden to pass on the road. would kill me like this."

"Hello new wisher, the universal wishing machine is at your service at any time. Each wisher needs to pay a different price, please rest assured." The black statue is still in a strange and talkative tone despite the red light .

"Do you know what I want to wish?" Xu Qingdai asked the black statue seriously, and she cautiously regarded it as the object of conversation.

"Yes."

"Will I survive after making a wish?"

"Yes."

"How long can you live?"

"This wish will not affect your lifespan. The universal wishing machine will continue to serve you twelve hours later." The words of the universal wishing machine may be to give Xu Qingdai the confidence to continue, and also told them Time for the next wish.

What Su Qian and Xu Qingdai didn't know was that a short message arrived at a special place in a special way just a second before Shen Jiang's life activities disappeared.

"Of course, compared to the respectable wish-granters, the omnipotent wish-granting machine hopes to be favored by the distinguished manager. If the manager is willing, he can make a wish at any time."

"Su Qian, shall we leave first?"

The universal wishing machine and Xu Qingdai's voice sounded almost at the same time, but Su Qian stopped where she was.Because the voice of the universal wishing machine didn't seem to come from the outside world, it seemed to appear directly in his consciousness.

"Aunt Xu, did you hear anything?" Su Qian confirmed.

"Sound?" Xu Qingdai looked puzzled, "There is no sound."

"For the sake of confidentiality, the universal wishing machine can only communicate with the wisher and the manager." The voice of the universal wishing machine appeared again. "Master Manager, you can also silently read what you want to say."

Why do you call me manager?

"The omnipotent wishing machine needs to calculate the price that each wisher can pay, so it can obtain some relevant information, but the omnipotent wishing machine cannot answer the questions of the manager."

What is special about being a manager to you?

"The manager can make a wish at any time, and the omnipotent wishing machine will give the manager and fellow wishers a considerable discount. In addition, the price that the manager can pay is far more than other wishers, almost enough to bear all the wishes A wish that may come true.”

Can the impossible wish come true?

So what if you want the gray fog and the nightmare world to disappear completely from this world?

"Sorry, but even managers can't pay the same price."

"Su Qian?" Seeing that Su Qian stood still and did not speak, Xu Qingdai reminded her again.

"It's nothing, let's go out first..." Su Qian said halfway, and saw the thin woman sitting on the chair again.To be honest, like Xu Qingdai, he really wanted to ignore the existence of this woman. After all, when he thought of this woman, he would think of the cross behind her, and when he thought of that cross, he would think of what happened here.

That's something ordinary people don't want to imagine.

"Do you want to stay here?" Su Qian walked over and asked.

"..." The woman looked up at Su Qian, "Although we made a wish from the wishing machine, the gray mist can't enter here, but this wish is time-limited, we can't pay the price of permanent protection, we can only make wishes again and again .”

"So, you want to wait here until the statute of limitations expires this time?" Su Qian didn't expect that these people used the method of solitaire to defend this base... Is this why hundreds of people's wishing opportunities are exhausted so quickly?

Doing such a thing is all for Xiaoyu?

"She is the youngest child here." The words that Grandpa Xiao Yu once said resurfaced in Su Qian's ears.

"We can do anything for her, she is the only hope." This is what the skinny woman once said.

Facing Su Qian's question, the skinny woman lowered her head and stopped talking.

"But this is not the way." Xu Qingdai said, "You also said that this kind of protection is time-limited, even if Xiaoyu's grandfather joins in, this kind of protection will eventually be exhausted one day. manage?"

"Then what are you going to do!!!" The skinny woman didn't know where the strength came from, and suddenly rushed up from the chair, "What else can we do besides doing this? Do you think the 280 seven crosses here Did you love that child all your life?"

"Not at all! We just need to have a hope, a goal, and a concern..." The woman who had always looked like a walking corpse raised her head and shed tears, and there were even bloodstains in the tears, "Otherwise, we How can I continue to live in this damn world?"

Su Qian did not directly deny it like Xu Qingdai did, because he knew that he was not qualified to evaluate the behavior of these survivors.

But when they left that woman behind and were about to go back to find Xiao Yu and the others, they found that Xiao Yu's grandfather was standing hunched over behind the bushes. Judging from the expression on his face, he should have heard everything the woman said before. It's clear.

"Grandpa, did you hear everything?" Xu Qingdai's expression was a bit unbearable.

The old man just stood there without speaking. After a while, he walked out of the wall with extremely heavy steps. He was silent, and he didn't know what he was thinking right now.

"Aunt Xu." Su Qian asked Xu Qingdai as she walked out, "What wish do you want to make?"

This time, the requirements of the nightmare world can be said to be extremely simple, neither fighting nor deciphering is required, only the wish needs to be fulfilled within the time limit.For Su Qian, since making a wish is a temporary solution but not the root cause, the smaller the wish, the better.But for other practitioners, they may have certain wishes they want to make.

In fact, Su Qian also wants to know things, such as his life experience, the "school" where he was trained since childhood, the book of nightmares in his hand, and even the "manager" in the words of the universal wishing machine.

But Su Qian did not intend to pay an unreasonable price for these wishes.

Even with great discounts.

In Su Qian's view, the omnipotent wishing machine might be the legendary profiteer.

"I seem to have said before that I want to leave the nightmare world completely, and I want to strip away the identity of a trainee." Xu Qingdai's tone was still very firm, and then she stroked her abdomen carefully, her eyes softened, " I seem to be pregnant, but I haven't been to the hospital for a checkup yet."

"For the sake of this child's safe arrival, I can't continue to be dragged into the nightmare world like this."

"Congratulations, Aunt Xu."

There are some wishes that cannot be shaken by what others say, and now there is such a wish in front of Su Qian.

"Actually, my husband and I didn't plan to have children at first." When Xu Qingdai said this, her face was filled with happiness, "But Yang Hui kept talking about your family in my ears every day, and I was so jealous !"

After leaving the wall and returning to the 16 villas, Su Qian played with Xiaoyu for a while, listening to Xiaoyu introduce the various crops they planted together, as well as various things that happened when she, grandpa and others planted crops.

These experiences and memories are firmly engraved in the child's mind, and together with the smile on the child's face, become a precious treasure.

After a long time, Xiao Yu's grandfather came over from the wall with a normal expression. Although the smile on his face was forced, he still taught Xiao Yu to read as before, as if nothing had happened and nothing had been heard before.

Xiao Yu also obediently didn't ask anything.

"Have you ever thought about taking Xiaoyu away from here?" After Xiaoyu was sent upstairs to take a nap, Xu Qingdai couldn't help asking the old man, "Since the protection here can't last long, why don't you find a safer place? Make a wish to take Xiaoyu to a safe place."

"I really doubt that you fell from the sky." The old man was at a loss for a while, "This world is full of gray fog, where is there a safe place? Even if there is, it is probably time-limited like here?"

A safe place, a place isolated from the fog, a safe place without time limit...

"Yes! There is indeed a safe place!"

Su Qian, who had always seemed calm and breezy, suddenly spoke with some excitement.

"I know there is a place where there is no gray fog! If the wish is appropriate, maybe we can really send Xiaoyu to that place!"