Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

In the white round mirror that Xu Yuan took a fancy to at the beginning, there is a two-star ghost artifact called "Real Fragment". Judging from the length of the remark, Su Zimo can say that this The strength of a two-star ghost weapon is almost comparable to a three-star ghost weapon.

In fact, after sweeping ghost weapons more times, Su Zimo can barely feel the difference between two-star ghost weapons and three-star ghost weapons.

For example, "holy water" and "sleeping pills", two two-star ghost artifacts, are just some ordinary props, which may be made by humans or ghosts, but they are still "dead" objects after all.

The remark texts appearing on "Red Gloves", "Evil Infant Jade Card", Viper's "Ghost Shroud" and even "Dead Man's Music Sheet" in the shop all describe a complete ghost story, and most of them will remind The holder beware of the backlash of the ghosts in the ghost tool.

Adding the example of Peng Peng, Su Zimo can be sure that there is a ghost hidden in the three-star ghost weapon!Moreover, these three-star ghost weapons seem to have a "durability value". After reaching a limit, the ghost is very likely to have a backlash.

Inferring from this, there may also be a ghost hidden in the two-star ghost device "True Fragment" that tells the story of the dead weather forecaster, but there is no information that this ghost will backlash in the remark text, and it was Classified as a "two-star", Su Zimo thought about it, and the only explanation was that the ghosts in the two-star ghost weapon were not as powerful as the three-star.

As a ghost tool, the "fragment of reality" allows the holder to see another self in the mirror and communicate. The content and direction of the communication are unknown, but the note specifically states that in the dead of night, the "person" in the mirror may appear on the side of the holder.

Su Zimo looked at Xu Yuan, who had a harmless face. The student who was working next door seemed to be a little uncomfortable because of the four cups of fruit tea. To hide the discomfort.

But maybe because Su Zimo recommended "holy water" to him, he stood there holding his breath all the time, and said with an ugly smile: "Shouldn't the holy water be unnecessary?"

"Are you sure?" Su Zimo held the small bottle of holy water in the palm of his hand and held it out in front of Xu Yuan, "As an honest businessman, I must admit that this is the product of the real holy water being diluted. In this way, the price of this small bottle of holy water will not be so cheap. Although compared with real holy water, it cannot completely wipe out the ghosts you encounter, but it can effectively drive them away to a certain extent and for a certain period of time. Do you really want it? "

Su Zimo lengthened the ending, and looked at the guest who was finally caught in front of him with a smile on his face.

In fact, if Su Zimo really used this method to sell a bottle of ordinary perfume, maybe Xu Yuan would have obediently paid for the perfume he didn't need and bought it home.

However, Xu Yuan, who was standing in front of Su Zimo, felt a little cold behind him. The shop owner in front of him kept saying "a ghost", as if he knew where he had been, what he had encountered, and who he was. Experienced people even know the existence of the nightmare world!

But even so, the items from the nightmare world only cost two hundred yuan?Is it really not a conspiracy? !

Xu Yuan looked at the beautiful perfume bottle in front of him, because all kinds of entanglements in his heart were mixed together, so he wanted to leave but didn't want to, so he could only stand there stupidly.

In Xu Yuan's impression, every prop from the nightmare world is obtained by those powerful veterans who risked half their lives. To bring these props out of the nightmare world, it will cost them a lot of nightmare points , which is almost equal to the half life of the experiencers.Unless someone is willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy them, it is impossible for these nightmare world props to be sold out, let alone appear in an ordinary store at a price of 2 or [-] yuan.

wrong!

Xu Yuan suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head... Is this store really ordinary?

This is a store that suddenly popped up from the cracks in different dimensions, and there is a clerk who can treat customers to drink four cups of fruit tea for free. No matter how you think about it, it can't be ordinary, right?

"Don't you like it?" Seeing Xu Yuan's silence, Su Zimo felt that maybe he should introduce this product more carefully instead of sticking to the remark text itself, so he continued to say with a polite smile, "Actually, I think this product The best thing about the product itself is its design.”

"Design?" Xu Yuan stared blankly at the very, very ordinary perfume bottle in front of him.

"The guests should have seen some ordinary Western horror movies before, right? If there is a scene of sprinkling holy water in horror movies, those exorcists will just pour out the holy water with a bottle. This is actually a very wasteful thing, because Holy water is much more precious than those horror film directors imagined."

Su Zimo put the holy water back on the shelf, and then continued: "But this product in our store uses a spray-type perfume... ahem, glass bottle, so you only need to press the nozzle lightly when using it. A fine mist of holy water will be sprayed out, and this design can prevent users from wasting holy water and using every drop on the knife edge."

"I really don't know why you recommend this kind of thing to me, sorry." Xu Yuan expressed his rejection almost word for word.

Saying that, Xu Yuan, a temporary clerk of "A Cup of Tea Bookstore", a second-year college student, and a practitioner of Nightmare World, gritted his teeth, and cruelly ignored Su Zimo, who had a smile in the corner of his eyes, and turned to leave "An Yu" corner".

"Are you sure?"

Just when Xu Yuan walked to the door of the store, Su Zimo's voice came from behind him again, very calm, and no longer smiling.Through the reflection of the glass shop door, he saw Su Zimo standing behind him restrained his expression. Although the corners of his mouth still curled up slightly, he completely lost the feeling of spring breeze before.

"When will you go on a trip next time? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow? Or after seven days?" Su Zimo's tone this time was no longer so friendly, but rather like the tone he used when he was trying to confuse the poisonous snake.

"You only need two hundred yuan, and you can give yourself a chance to get useful props." Su Zimo chuckled, "Guess, why don't you think about it, if this prop is real, will your next trip be a good one?" Much safer?"

"The odds of survival, and the negligible two hundred yuan, do you still need to continue to think about how to choose?" Su Zimo glanced at the other party's clenched fist, "Even if this store is a bit strange, the price you have to pay is only two It's only a hundred dollars."

"You are right." Xu Yuan came back to his senses with a round face full of bitterness, like a little girl being coerced, and said, "I'll buy it!"

As he spoke, Xu Yuan tremblingly took out two folded hundred-yuan bills from his trousers pocket, handed them to Su Zimo with great reluctance, and said pitifully, "If it's useless, , can I return it?"

"boss."

Just when Su Zimo was about to take over the first "big business" proceeds, Ghost Umbrella standing aside suddenly called softly.Su Zimo turned around and followed the finger extended by the ghost umbrella, and found that there was an extra sheet of off-white paper next to the pot of big green radishes on the shop counter.

After Su Zimo hooked his fingers to signal Guisan to bring the paper, he found that the off-white paper was very thick, and there were only two short lines written on it.

[The product is sold, and the store will no longer be responsible for the follow-up affairs. ]

[Welcome to visit again. ]

On the lower right of the two lines of characters is a square seal engraved with the words "An Yu Yi Yu". The color of the seal is a strange golden color, which flashes under the light of the store. There is also a place for signature under the seal. Looks like a guest signature is required.

Su Zimo had never seen anything like this before.

This "document" that feels like it violates the relevant regulations of the product looks like a simple sale contract, and it may only appear when the star ghost device is sold.

"What...what's the matter..." Judging from Xu Yuan's flushed round face, he should really be holding back a little anxiously.

"Before the transaction is concluded, I hope that you may need to sign this contract." Su Zimo stretched the off-white cardboard in front of Xu Yuan, and put on a hospitality smile on his face, "I hope you don't mind .”

Su Zimo watched Xu Yuan take the jammed paper from his hand, glanced at it very hastily, and said, "The boss of the store where I work said that such a regulation is invalid, even if I sign it..."

"It's troublesome." Su Zimo still showed that irresistible smile.

"But I... I didn't bring a pen." Xu Yuan's round face was already flushed, and it was obvious that he couldn't hold it anymore. The power of four cups of fruit tea was quickly swallowing his reason.

Pen?

Su Zimo thought for a while, then took Xu Yuan back to the counter, and then took out the metal signature pen that can be turned into a stick from behind the counter!

From the very beginning, Su Zimo guessed that everything in the store should be useful, and later the excellent combat ability of the metal pen also proved Su Zimo's guess.

But when this strange off-white contract paper appeared, Su Zimo suddenly realized that the stick was made into a pen, probably because the pen he found next to the computer keyboard had a larger pen. The function is to let the guests use it to sign the contract!

Odd papers and eccentric pens seem to have been arranged from the start.

"It's troublesome." Su Zimo placed the metal pen beside the off-white contract paper, and stretched out his hand to invite Xu Yuan to come forward.

Perhaps it was because his body could no longer bear some kind of shameful desire, Xu Yuan signed his name on the contract paper as quickly as possible, put down two hundred yuan bills, put the holy water into his pocket, flew Ben left the shop.

"Welcome to come again next time." Su Zimo looked at the figure who opened the door and fled, and bent slightly with a smile, letting the silver chain of the glasses draw a silver arc under the light.

"This is really a strange store. The longer I stay, the more I feel so." Guisan said, and handed an empty glass to Su Zimo, then turned around and went back behind the counter to get a pot New fruit tea.

Su Zimo held the very sturdy glass with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to the off-white contract paper.

But the moment Su Zimo's fingertips touched the contract, the contract seemed to be burning with an invisible flame. Together with the 200 yuan left by Xu Yuan, it was fired from his fingertips. The place where it touched began to scorch and roll up, and in an instant, only a few ashes were blown into the air by the non-existent wind, disappearing.

There was not even a speck of dust left on the white wooden counter, and the 200 yuan... disappeared.

The next second, Su Zimo's other hand exerted a little force because of surprise, and then with a "bang", the thick glass was crushed by Su Zimo's fingers....

"Boss, have you ever crushed anything like this before?" Ghost Umbrella and Su Zimo stared blankly at the shards of the glass that fell on the ground.

"What do you think?" Su Zimo turned around and looked down at his hands for a while. Although the ten fingers are considered slender, they are thin and have little flesh. It doesn't look like they can crush that kind of cup directly. look.

"Maybe it has something to do with that contract?" Su Zimo didn't have any measuring method around him, so he held his left arm tightly with his right hand, and after gradually measuring himself with force, he said with certainty, "The strength seems to be stronger than before. It has been enhanced a bit, but it is not too exaggerated. The glass was crushed just now, which may be related to the sudden change in the strength of the hand."

"The boss looks unexpectedly calm." Guisan changed the cup and poured another cup of fruit tea.

When the ghost umbrella approached Su Zimo, he suddenly found that the owner of the shop had a fresh and pleasant smell, which had never appeared on Su Zimo.Before that, the smell that Ghost Umbrella could smell from Su Zimo's body was the scent of soap after bathing, but now, although the smell on Su Zimo's body was vague, it seemed fresher than the scent of soap after smelling it. Pleasant and very comfortable.

This fragrance is very familiar to ghost umbrellas, and even to many ghosts who have not yet been wiped out. It even made ghosts flee in fear when they smelled the fragrance.

But the person who owned the fragrance before has been away for a long time.

Looking at the fruit tea that had just been filled in front of him, Su Zimo moved his knuckles this time, and quickly held the glass firmly, took a sip before saying: "Anyone who has gone through so many things, They all think it’s nothing, right? After all, in this world, for the time being, there is nothing more terrifying than being unable to control one’s own body and death.”

For the current Su Zimo, having a way to increase his strength is definitely not a bad thing.

"Don't touch the shards of glass on the ground, I'll get someone to find a broom." Su Zimo told the ghost umbrella, and then opened the back door of "An Yu Yi Yu", "By the way, I'll find you a working communication Equipment, if there is a customer who can buy ghost equipment, you can notify me in time."

"Of course, my lord." Ghost Umbrella watched Su Zimo disappear from the back door, and when he turned back to the counter, he noticed some changes in the flowerbed at the door from the corner of his eye.

There was originally a green lily bud in the flowerbed on the left, but I don’t know when the bud was more than half opened.Although this plant named Shouhua does look like a lily, after half of the flower blooms, Ghost Umbrella finds that the white petals of Shouhua are larger and more than those of a lily. It gives people a sense of layering with double petals, and it is more like a flamingo standing among rabbits in the whole flower garden, which is particularly eye-catching.

Ghost Umbrella approached the flowerbed curiously, and then found that there was a scent that was exactly the same as Su Zimo's body, it was the familiar scent!This seems to indicate that the fragrance that suddenly appeared on Su Zimo's body was related to this longevity flower that suddenly bloomed more than half.

The smell that once terrified ghosts was probably the scent of longevity flowers.

Weird contract, weird fragrance, weird birthday flowers...

Are all these changes because "An Yu Yi Yu" sold the first ghost weapon?

"Why didn't I realize that this place is such a strange place before?" Ghost Umbrella murmured softly to herself, "But he is her son, so it's not surprising that he has the same floral fragrance."

Su Zimo left "An Yu Yi Yu" and returned to the study on the second floor of the Su family. When he left the study again, the maid lady Ye Ning came up and said that the housekeeper Mu recommended by Su Hewen had arrived early.

Thinking of the lunatic Mr. who had fought side by side, Su Zimo nodded and walked to the reception area in the lobby on the first floor.

There are sofas in the reception area and the rest area of ​​the lobby, but the sofas in the rest area are more comfortable and softer. There is also a complete set of home theater, which is very suitable for a family to sit together and chat and exchange emotions.

And the Butler Mu who came to apply for the job was sitting straight with his back in the reception area on the other side, as if he was preparing for an interview with the Su family, but because his back was facing Su Zimo who was going down the stairs, so Didn't find out that the future employer was a "newcomer" who had experienced the nightmare world together.

"You are Mu Feng?"

Before Su Zimo went downstairs, he saw his father Su Qian walking towards the reception area, then enthusiastically patted Butler Mu on the shoulder, and asked with a smile, "Are you married?"

"..." Sitting there, Mu Feng didn't expect to be asked such a sensitive question the first time he saw his employer. At that time, the sentence "Why are the Huns still alive?" Let him suppress this sentence, get up from the sofa respectfully and salute, "Patriarch Su."

Mu Feng felt that the person in front of him should be the owner of Patriarch Su. Although the style of the shirt was a bit fancy, it looked like a custom-made expensive formal suit, and the perfectly groomed mustache, coquettish ponytail and dangling red wine glass... ...It's similar to those "nobles" who put on airs in Mu Feng's memory.

It's just that this patriarch looks much younger than Mu Feng imagined. He drove himself into a lunatic because of the No. 20 nightmare world. He was isolated from the world and almost lost his only old man's mobile phone, so he also There is no way to check the information of the head of the Su family, and this kind of thing is not necessarily available on the open network.

In Mu Feng's imagination, the Patriarch of the Su Family might be a very serious old man, about the same age as the old man Fang Qin he met in the Nightmare World before, but he was more serious and would glance at you if he was dissatisfied. A perfect housekeeper is one who can fulfill his requirements perfectly.

So in order to deal with such an old man, Mu Feng shaved his beard, cut his hair short, and even manually kneaded his face, which had been decadent for several months, for a long time. up.At this moment, Mu Feng didn't dare to relax at all, he always felt that as long as he relaxed, the corners of his eyes would continue to droop.

But looking at the "Patriarch Su" who was holding red wine early in the morning, and his cheeks were already drunk, Mu Feng suddenly felt that the other party was more relaxed than him.But employers are employers, and employers are right in whatever they do.

It may be difficult for some people to understand Mu Feng's idea of ​​running to find a job at a critical moment, but he just doesn't want to continue to spend the next two months in decadence, he just wants to find something to look forward to very, very simply.

Mu Feng has no parents, and has no crush. He used to like money a little bit, so he thought about entering the so-called high society in various ways, but because there were no crooked ways, he ended up becoming a high-skilled man with a good salary. housekeeper.But just after his job was stabilized, Mu Feng thought that he would become an old housekeeper like an English gentleman, with white hair, he would accompany the master's family for several generations, and finally he would hold the lovely little lady of the master's house to swing in the garden. ruined everything.

At the beginning, when Mu Feng got the powerful props and went on a rampage in the nightmare world, he was in a good mood, thinking that his luck in any world was very good.Until he knew about the No.20 nightmare world, he completely collapsed.

He had met seniors who were stronger than him in the nightmare world, and even had their contact information, and had exchanged information offline, but all the seniors who were stronger than him had gone without return. just gone...

He began to panic, even went crazy, resigned from his stable job, and curled up like a mouse in the dark rental dwelling, even in the world of nightmares, he became a mouse that kept on living.

But after meeting the calm hero Liu Xu and the kid who tried his best to survive, the lunatic suddenly didn't want to be so decadent anymore. He wanted to give it a try, whether it was the No.20 nightmare world, find Whether it's a new job or imagining the future in two months, he wants to give it a try.

The two-month unpaid trial period is to reduce the loss of the new employer, and the high salary after two months is the new goal and new hope that Mu Feng gave himself.

Looking at the "Patriarch Su" who poured himself another cup in front of him, Mu Feng suddenly felt a little excited.

"Master Su, I will do my best to complete all the work that satisfies you, and I hope you can give me a chance for a trial period." Mu Feng knows that the Su family is bigger and more complicated than the place where he worked before, but there is nothing like No. 20 Nightmare worlds are more challenging.

"Hic." Su Qian hiccupped, and then looked at Mu Feng with drunken eyes, "You are mistaken, I am not Patriarch Su, I am Patriarch Su's father, Patriarch Su is behind you."

"Huh?" Mu Feng was stunned, and subconsciously turned around.

Then, he saw a familiar figure standing behind him, with a slight smile on his mouth, but Su Zimo, who stood there and gestured a little differently from when he was in the nightmare world, was looking at him like this.

In the main house of the Su family, the figure is not as casual as in the nightmare world, and has a feeling that it cannot be approached, cannot be stared at, and cannot be offended.This reminded Mu Feng of the scene where Su Zimo set the poisonous snake up, and the scene where Su Zimo showed his arm and asked the poisonous snake if he wanted to stab it hard, but turned around and beat the snake until he couldn't take care of himself.

At that time, Su Zimo's aura was even more astonishing than now, and they, the bystanders, almost dared not even move.

Perhaps because he was too shocked, Mu Feng took a deep breath, and a fresh scent like soap and flowers was inhaled into his nostrils.Mu Feng didn't know if it was the incense in the hall of the Su family, but it seemed to be a kind of fragrance that could calm the mind.

"We meet again." Su Zimo stretched out his hand to the new housekeeper in front of him, "Please give me more advice from now on."

Su Zimo's words can be regarded as a recognition of Mu Butler's identity. After all, although the madman has been decadent, his impression of Mr. Madman is not bad, and since Su Hewen was able to invite him in person, it shows that Mu Feng's professional ability itself should be very good That's right.

"Please give me more advice in the next two months." Mu Feng knew that changing housekeepers frequently is a troublesome thing. The scammer who exposed him, but the victim still agreed to give him a two-month job opportunity.

"I believe our cooperation will last longer." Su Zimo smiled sincerely. For Su Zimo, two months can sweep away dozens of nightmare worlds. Maybe by that time, he will find the world through No. 20 ways to Nightmare World.

He looked at Butler Mu formally bowing down to salute, and suddenly had a feeling of "my naughty boy has just grown up" and "the prodigal son will never change his money". The housekeeper must be at least seven or eight years older than Su Zimo.

"Ye Ning." Su Zimo called over to the maid, who was already at her command, "Take Butler Mu to familiarize himself with the situation, and let someone send Butler Mu's salute to his room."

"Yes." When Ms. Ye Ning looked at Mu Feng, there was a hint of hostility in her eyes. It was a kind of hostile but harmless look. After all, the position of "housekeeper" was what Ye Ning wanted.

After watching Mu Feng and Ye Ning walk away, Su Zimo walked over and took away the empty wine glass and empty wine bottle in Su Gan's hand. Su Gan, who had already finished a bottle before noon, had brought Drunk lying on the sofa and fell asleep, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, I don't know which confidante he dreamed about again.

Su Zimo remembered that he did the same thing at his mother's funeral, he couldn't wake up no matter how much he screamed, he just fell asleep on the sofa and giggled, which made people angry no matter what.

Putting the empty wine bottle and glass aside, Su Zimo turned around and went back to the study. He asked Ye Ning to prepare some things, which should be ready.

The gains from selling goods exceeded Su Zimo's surprise, but Su Zimo also had to admit that the business of "settling in a corner"...is really bad.On the contrary, the experimental fruit tea and scented tea provided by Umbrella for free are very popular, even attracting regular customers from the "tea garden" next door.

Fortunately, Su Zimo prepared a set of porcelain cups with a smaller capacity, and customers who love "petty bourgeoisie" will not take the initiative to go to the ghost umbrella behind the counter to refill their cups, so the losses on the books of "An Yu Yi Yu" are not easy to cause young people to drink. Patriarch Su's attention is even less important than the half-bloomed birthday flower in the store.

Because the Su family's dinner was arranged on the next Saturday, Su Zimo only stayed in "An Yu Yi Yu" for two days, and at night he simply let the ghost umbrella return to his body to rest, after all Guests who are experiencers are rare, so we can only follow the fate.

In two days, "An Yu Yi Yu" sold out all the nightmare brand rolls, big lollipops, candy boxes and an ordinary teddy bear in the store relying on the free fruit tea provided by Ghost Umbrella. Relying on scattered commodities, I got a net profit of 20 yuan.

congratulations.

Su Zimo never imagined that Mr. Ghost Umbrella would really become the mainstay of "Sleeping in a Corner".The sale of these products also made Su Zimo realize that he could not ignore those non-star products because of the importance of the star-level ghost weapon. After all, for ordinary customers who cannot see the ghost weapon, there is no "non-star product" Settle in a Corner” is just an empty store.

What's more gratifying is that Su Zimo's message has also become——

[Shopkeeper: Su Zimo]

[Lifetime deposit: 573 days (220)]

[Store upgrade progress: 220/1000]

congratulations.

While receiving these good news, Su Zimo also left "An Yu Yi Yu", put on the formal clothes prepared by the maid Ye Ning, and walked up the curved stairs step by step when the lights of the Su family's main house were on at night. Next, go to the Su family dinner once a week.

The dinner was arranged in the restaurant area of ​​the main residence of the Su family. The hall on the first floor of the Su family is much larger than the hall of the villa in the previous nightmare world, so it has been divided into various areas reasonably.

When Su Zimo was still standing at the railing on the second floor, he saw his second uncle Su Duan and third uncle Su Kun, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, sitting on the sofa in the reception area on the other side, whispering to each other from time to time, As if discussing something.

Father Su Gan and fourth uncle Su Ni played with Su Mianmian on the sofa in the rest area, while fourth aunt sitting next to her was typing on the laptop keyboard on her lap, obviously a busy person like Su Hewen.

Su Zimo did not see Su Hewen on the first floor, but this is not a strange thing, because Su Hewen's principle is not to get involved in any Su family's private affairs, and it is really strange to appear at the Su family dinner.

The maid and the cook have already prepared the dinner, and are standing aside, watching the new Butler Mu adjust the position and arrangement of the food.

After noticing Su Zimo coming down from the second floor, everyone in the hall on the first floor focused their eyes, and some of them even wanted to burn a hole in Su Zimo's body.

"Our Patriarch Su really came out after a thousand calls." The third uncle Su Kun was still leaning on the sofa, and when Su Zimo walked over, he sneered.

Su Zimo wanted to say something, but suddenly noticed a ring on Su Kun's finger.

I noticed this ring because in Su Zimo's memory, his third uncle, who pursued quality, always liked expensive jewelry, but he chose to wear a gold ring on his finger that everyone could see, and the gold ring The ring had started to fade and was clearly not genuine.

Taking a closer look, Su Zimo actually saw a string of notes on the third uncle Su Kun's ring!

His third uncle...how could he have things from the nightmare world? !