Chapter 157: The truth appears

"Elderly, we are new here. I want to ask about some things in this community. Can you open the door?" Su Zimo asked with a soft tone that he thought.
"Get off! Don't think I don't know about you ghost tricks! You can't lie to me, get off me!"
The voice of the old man in the door was very angry, just like Su Zimo, a health care product salesman who couldn't get rid of them.
"Old man, we are really new people, not bad people." Qin Rong on the side persuaded again with a soft female voice.
"Bad guys? Ha ha, now there are no bad guys in this world!" The old man's tone seemed to be exactly the opposite of what he said. He clearly said that there are no bad guys in this world, but he refused to open the door and did not know why.
"You say you are a newcomer, then you all talk about what you are doing?" The voice in the door gradually calmed down, but there was still no trust in Su Zimo's voice in his tone, but it seemed like he just wanted to and They talked.
Su Zimo glanced at each other and finally introduced themselves briefly. Su Zimo said he was a student, Liu Xu said he was retired, Mu Feng said he was out of work, Qin Rong said he was a white collar worker, and Uncle Chen Long said Say you are a physical education teacher.
After speaking, there was no sound in the door, even the sound of the previous reprimand no longer appeared, and the old man in the door did not respond at all.
What shall we do now? Mu Feng asked Su Zimo around him with his mouth.
Su Zimo didn't hesitate after thinking about it. Now that he knew there were "people" in the door, he directly thrust the sharper umbrella sword into the slightly cracked door of the room, and then gave Ghost Umbrella a glance to let the door open." "Click" was stretched out at once.
The trainer next to him only saw Su Zimo poking his umbrella in, and he didn't know what he did. The door lock in front of him immediately went on strike. The door cracked open a big crack, and the door was dark. Can't see anything.
Pushing the door straight inward, Su Zimo followed the dim light of the corridor and saw an ugly old man standing inside, looking at them pale, with a terrified expression.
"I knew...I knew that you would kill us sooner or later!" The old man murmured, "Forget it, die if you die, and the old man has enough life."
The old man's voice was very soft, but Su Zimo they heard clearly, and there was too much information in the words.
Who killed?
Who is enough?
Are you sure this is what Li Gui will say?
Even if you don’t know your identity, shouldn’t you fall into such a state of panic? Does it mean that the old man is not a ghost, but an ordinary living person?
"We're really not bad people, just people who have just moved in." Su Zimo emphasized again with some helplessness.
"There is a glass of water." The old man pointed to the shoe cabinet next to the door. "You swallow that water and I believe you."
Everyone's eyes looked at the cup on the shoe cabinet, which was indeed filled with liquid, but no one was sure whether it was water.
"Can we drink our own water?" Liu Xu took a bottle of water from his backpack and dared not take the risk to drink from the nightmare world.
"Yes, anything will do, as long as you can swallow."
As soon as the old man said, Liu Xu raised his head and began to irrigate, even swallowing all the water at an unimaginable speed, and finally wiped the water off the corners of the mouth neatly.
The old man looked at the water drops dripping in the corridor with a complex expression and secretly whispered: "Really someone moved again? Where are there so many people?"
Despite saying something that the practitioners didn't understand, the old man turned on the dim light in the room, so that Su Zimo could see a plain living room with a square table and benches.
"Come in." The old man let go, "Come on, don't bother."
As soon as they entered the door, Su Zimo asked the old man a question that made them unable to respond: "Are you an experienced person?"
Everyone froze there.
They really didn't expect that one day they would hear the name "experiencer" from the aborigines of the nightmare world.
"Old man? You are not a ghost?" The old man said straightforwardly, and Su Zimo also followed straightforwardly.
"Of course I am not a ghost." The old man glared at Su Zimo directly, then shook his head helplessly, "but we people, even ghosts, can only live in fear and fear."
"Senior man, is there really a ghost in this community?" Uncle Chen Long looked at the old man sympathetically. "It's better to tell us about the ghost or share it with other people in the community instead of being scared. Maybe everyone can help, don't hide it alone."
When Chen Long said this, Su Zimo and Liu Xu gave him a thoughtful glance.
Although the old man didn't say much, the information he got from these words was enough to make Su Zimo sure that even if something really happened to him, the old man would never ask other people in the community for help.
Sure enough, after hearing what Chen Long said, the old man directly sneered and said something—
"Do you think that the things in the community that look lively are really people?"
"..."
Even if there was speculation in his mind, but when he heard the old man say it directly, Su Zimo and other practitioners remained silent.
The old man walked to the window and opened the thick curtains so that Su Zimo could see the bright lights in the community and the "people" who were still dark and still singing, dancing and laughing. Su Zimo they fell into deep thought.
It's lively and alive outside.
It was dark and cold and quiet inside.
Outside and inside are like two unrelated worlds.
But at the beginning, the practitioners thought that there was a world of living people outside and a world of ghosts inside. But if what the old man said is true, then the people living in this residential building are the people living in the dark, and the enthusiastic revelers outside are the almost innumerable ghosts!
The old man is a man, and the old people like Ali, the running girl, the square dancers and the tai chi are the ghosts!
There was a cold behind everyone.
At the beginning, they felt that entering the residential building to meet dozens of ghosts was the limit of the twentieth nightmare world.
But now... they are likely to face more than a hundred... or even a few hundred ghosts!
"If it's true... we'll die." Mu Feng felt his teeth tremble. Which of the young and experienced practitioners in this world can handle this situation?
I haven't even seen it!
At this moment, the practitioners finally know why no matter how powerful the practitioners can live out of the twentieth nightmare world.
But Su Zimo still has a doubt.
Why can't those who failed to clear customs in the twentieth nightmare world use nightmare points to offset their death penalty?
Compared with other nightmare worlds, is this nightmare world really only the battle difficulty?
"Old man, why do you know about the practitioners?" Su Zimo asked aloud.
"Are you really human?" The old man didn't seem to believe it.
"Old man, you let us drink water, because Li Gui can't eat?" Uncle Chen Long on the side seemed to know this clearly, and took a small knife that looked very small but seemed very sharp from his pocket. Cut a wound as shallow as possible on his arm, so that the old man can see the bright red flowing out, "Will the ghost bleed?"
"..." The old man was silent for a while, and finally walked towards the living room, beckoning them to Su Zimo, "Come with me."
Su Zimo went into the bedroom with the old man in this way, holding various ghosts in his hand, and then saw the old man open an old wooden wardrobe and set aside a few clothes hanging in the closet.
After a series of actions, Su Zimo saw that there was a big hole in the closet that was pulled out! Size barely enough for one to get in!
"Come with me." The old man took out a flashlight from the cupboard, and opened it and drilled into the hole first.
The trainers then drilled into the hole at the pace of the old man, and then saw clearly through the old man's flashlight that they seemed to have entered the next room.
After the coffee table next door was removed, a ladder appeared again.
Although the old man is old, his skill is not ambiguous, and he seems to be very familiar with this route.
Su Zimo roughly counted, they seem to use this method to directly go down the fifth or sixth floor, and then entered a space with no windows, this space seems to be the basement of the residential building!
There was no window and a dark space. After Su Zimo arrived, they lit candles, and about twenty or thirty people with pale faces stood there.
If you guessed right, they should all be residents in residential buildings.
They did not know how long they had lived in this residential building. In order to gather together without going out, they chose this time-consuming and stupid way.
This can also explain why Su Zimo's knocking on their doors did not attract any movement.
Perhaps at that time, most of the residents were still hiding in this basement connected by themselves!
"Golden old, are there any experienced people coming?" As soon as they saw Su Zimo, some of these residents asked.
"Yeah." The old man nodded.
"What the is going on?" Uncle Chen Long couldn't understand it either, "Why do you all know about the practitioners?"
"Some experienced people came here before, and they asked the same questions as you. But how could we not know about the experienced people? Now the world has become a mess, not because of that nightmare world? "A woman with scattered hair and paler than ghosts gritted her teeth and said, "The whole city may be left to us who have no skills, and even the practitioners may be killed by Li Gui."
"How is it possible? We saw cars and pedestrians outside the residential area, as well as many lights." Qin Rong could not help shouting.
Others also find it strange that these people say they seem to be survivors of the last days.
"Those are all fake." Jin Lao said, "Those are the illusions made by ghosts from outside. This city has long been deserted, leaving only us surviving living people."
Hearing what Jin Lao said here, Su Zimo suddenly thought of something, so he asked a question that others did not understand very well: "Old man, what is the name of the country we are in now? The most powerful country in the world is What? What years and months now?"
Not only were the practitioners stunned, but they were also stunned.
But in the end, they still answered truthfully.
What shocked the practitioners was that they had never heard of the names of the two countries mentioned by Kim Lao, or that they had never existed in history! Jin Lao even said that their current time is 987 in the new calendar, which is a way of dating that the practitioners have never heard of.
The nightmare world... isn't it all what happened in the real world?
At this time, Su Zimo suddenly saw some books scattered on the ground under the light of candles. Among them was a book with a broken cover, and it was another "Star in the Lake".
Obviously it is a fairy tale book that has not been read by anyone other than yourself since childhood, but can you see it everywhere in this "nightmare world"?
"Have you read this book?" Su Zimo picked up the fairy tale book from the ground and asked Mu Feng around them.
But the practitioners shook their heads in confusion, and their thoughts had not recovered from the "new calendar" and the names of strange countries that the old people said.
"Then you have heard of this book?" Su Zimo asked the "indigenous people" who were on the other side.
"Isn't this the fairy tale book that everyone knows?" Even Mr. Jin looked at Su Zimo with a "nonsense" look. "Children like to watch this, especially after the disaster of the nightmare world. Even adults especially like the stories in this fairy tale book."
"Mr. Su, what's going on?" Mu Feng did not call Su Zimo the head of the family when he was outside.
"A country I haven't heard of, a way of dating that I haven't heard of, a fairy tale book that I haven't heard of." Su Zimo sighed. "Things we haven't heard of are children in this world. There may be only one explanation for what you know."
"This is another world."
Although Su Zimo explained it briefly, they knew that Mu Feng might not understand what he meant. After all, it was Su Zimo and the ghost umbrella behind him who knew there was another world.
Su Zimo's mother An Yu came from a world destroyed by a ghost, so the fairy tale books Su Zimo read from an early age may also come from that world.
Su Zimo was wondering why the trainers who failed to clear the twentieth nightmare world would die directly. Why can't they use nightmare points to offset the death penalty?
Because here is not a nightmare world at all!
The transfer station was the point of demarcation between Su Zimo's world and his mother Anyu's world. Those who experienced 19 nightmare worlds were just "exiled" to another world of wasteland that was already devastated!
The land where Su Zimo is now is the hometown of his mother An Yu!
another world!
The ghost world that was completely invaded by Li Gui, and even humans fell apart by voting for sacrifices!
"It's nothing." Su Zimo originally wanted to explain, but he finally shook his head and said, "Just treat this as an independent nightmare world."
An unimaginable nightmare.
Just as Mu Feng was preparing to continue questioning, they were suddenly heard directly above the basement... the sound of knocking on the door!
Su Zimo immediately looked up, and then found that the sound came from the entrance door panel above the basement.
"Is anyone still coming down?" Su Zimo looked around.
They also counted silently, and finally shook their heads pale and said, "No, we are all here."
So who is knocking on the door now?
[I know you are all below. ] A Su Zimo seems to have heard it, but now a voice that has become like a ghost is coming from above the door panel.
"It's Ali!" someone shouted in the crowd.
"Ahhh! How do they know it!" Someone screamed out of control.
"Calm down!" Su Zimo and Jin Lao could only try to calm the others.
[Do you really think it's safe to hide here? ] Li Gui Ali's voice continued to come, [Have the few suddenly appeared humans been hidden by you? If you want to keep alive, hand over those fresh human beings. ]
[Obe obediently, we will continue to protect you... Ha ha ha...]
The originally lively and lively world seemed to be uncovered suddenly, revealing cold, even bone-like inner pages.