Eternal Night

Chapter 891 Feeling scared... (Seeking monthly votes)
(PS: It's a new month, and we're having a double monthly pass event, so Little Z is begging for monthly passes~)

Wu Pifu walked out of the public toilet, and behind him, a strange, multi-armed, multi-headed, multi-legged monster was slowly dissipating.

This space is only five city blocks in size. The kindergarten stands in the center of this space, which is obviously the origin and core of everything. The other five city blocks are not abstract and haphazardly constructed, but are actually built in accordance with Wu Pifu's understanding of 21st-century city blocks.

However... even if Wu Pifu's memory is incomplete, he doesn't think that these five blocks are the area around his childhood kindergarten in his memory, because what country would have gun shops around a kindergarten?
In the country where he originally had memories, there were no gun shops!

So it is still a false world composed of his scattered memories, but there are a few questions here. First, why is it his memories that form the spatial content?
Second, is it a unique ability of this nightmare, or is it due to its own special characteristics that all of this happened?
Third, judging from the behavior of the two nightmares, they also seem very surprised by their own changes. So what were nightmares before the changes occurred?

Wu Pifu had too many questions.

But it doesn't matter, he'll go back to kindergarten as soon as it's light, and he'll get some answers then.

After leaving the neighborhood park, Wu Pifu looked at the streetlights on both sides. One streetlight was flickering slightly, and he could vaguely see a long-haired female student standing in the shadows below it, but he couldn't see her face because her long hair covered her features.

There's no need to guess; it's definitely some kind of strange thing in this space.

However, Wu Pifu remained silent for a moment before walking towards the strange female student.

In front of this flickering streetlight is a pedestrian crossing, and under the streetlight are some withered flowers and small cakes. This strange female student is standing next to these withered flowers and small cakes.

Wu Pifu walked to the pile of offerings. He reached into the cement ground, pinched off a piece, crushed it into ash with his fingers, and sprinkled the ash as incense. As he sprinkled it, he said, "I don't know what's going on in this world, but it's highly likely that the whole world will disappear after I kill the Nightmare. So I can't save you. I'm just a mortal struggling to survive. But thankfully, at least I can now find a way to let you rest in peace..."

As she spoke, the female student suddenly grew larger and darker in a ferocious manner, enveloping Wu Pifu. Her entire being seemed to dissolve into a shadow, no longer resembling her previous human form. However, as soon as this shadow appeared, Wu Pifu was already behind her. Then, the shadow shattered into pieces, while Wu Pifu himself was unharmed.

Even so, Wu Pifu still rubbed his wrist joints with a slightly serious expression.

His body was too young, and he started using it directly without undergoing the three marrow cleansing and nurturing processes of traditional Chinese martial arts. This was only because he had reached the pinnacle of indestructibility at the Divine Realm. Therefore, his body was only sore and weak, with some areas experiencing blood stasis and fluid accumulation. If his cultivation level were even slightly lower, his body would have collapsed and disintegrated.

Meanwhile, with the addition of the second Nightmare, the monster's strength is increasing. He needs to use greater power or a higher attack frequency to annihilate it. At the same time, the strangeness of its attacks is becoming increasingly incomprehensible, almost reaching the level of one-hit kill. This also requires him to concentrate at all times and not be attacked even once.

Overall, with the addition of the second Nightmare, the rules of this space were strengthened, and it also shifted slightly towards the corruption represented by the Nightmare.

Fortunately, everything is still under control, as long as...

As Wu Pifu was thinking about something, he suddenly looked up and gazed at a tall building in a residential area in the distance.

Inside a window of that high-rise building, four high school students, around fifteen or sixteen years old, were hiding with their heads down, their faces pale and their bodies covered in cold sweat.

After at least several minutes, a high school student muttered, "We're so far away, that thing... shouldn't be able to see us, right?"

No one answered because... it was too terrifying!

"Have you seen that female ghost?" a student asked in a low voice.

The other students all nodded.

Another student said, "Six months ago, there was a car accident on the road right outside my neighborhood. It was raining heavily that day. A female student was crossing the road with an umbrella, and the wind was strong, so her vision was obstructed. A large truck also had poor visibility due to the rain, and it crashed into her... No, it didn't just crash into her, but she was dragged under the tires and pulled halfway down the street. My mom told me that the street was a bloody mess, with pieces of flesh everywhere..."

Another student, trembling, said, "Yes, I heard about it too. And I heard that ever since then, walking down this street at night makes you feel cold all over. There were two drunk men sitting on the roadside before, and people thought they were just drunk, but when they looked at them in the morning, their bodies were completely cold..."

The students fell silent, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

Don't be fooled by their gatherings to watch horror movies, play horror games, chat about horror stories, and share urban or school ghost tales. If they actually saw a ghost with their own eyes, they would feel a chill run down their spines and wish they had never seen one.

At this moment, a student muttered, "Could it be that this little brat... no, this master is a legendary master, a cultivator, an immortal cultivator or something, and his appearance is just what it looks like? Or maybe he's one of those immortal children who has lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years?"

Several students looked thoughtful, then their faces lit up with elation.

How could one not be attracted to so-called martial arts, supernatural beings, and immortal cultivation when they were young and rebellious?
But then another student whispered, "...What if it isn't?"

Immediately, the students fell silent again.

They dared not gamble. If before seeing the female ghost they felt fearless, after seeing her, they felt that everything in the world was problematic, and there was no safe place. After a long pause, one student asked, "Was everything that just happened... recorded?"

The student who had just taken the photos with his phone nodded slightly, then tentatively asked, "Should we share this online?"

Several students hesitated for a moment, and one of them said, "Why don't we wait a bit?"

The students all nodded, and then they fell silent again.

Time ticked by, and suddenly a student said, "Can I sleep at your house? Uh, it's too late, I'm afraid I'll get scolded if I go back."

The student with the phone immediately beamed with joy and said, "Sure, sure, my parents are working overtime today, so they can stay at my place."

The others quickly said in unison, "I'll sleep at your place too, otherwise it'll be pitiful for you to be all alone."

Gradually, the children started talking more again. Although none of them dared to talk about what had just happened, they had all managed to regain their spirits... at least when there were many people around. They even heard a rhythmic clanging sound.

"...Who's banging on something? Are they crazy?"

After listening to the clanging sound for a while, one of the students finally couldn't help but ask a question, and then everyone else looked at him with pale faces.

This stunned him, and he froze, but dared not turn his head, because everyone was looking behind him, not at him.

Behind him, the window of the sixteenth floor...

Wu Pifu opened the window and looked at the students who were paralyzed with fear on the ground. He frowned, clapped his hands lightly, and a crisp sound rang out. Strangely, the students who were about to faint from fright suddenly felt a sense of peace. They had almost wet themselves from fright, but now they slowly calmed down.

“Don’t be afraid, I’m a person, just like you.” Wu Pifu said this, then looked around and saw a cell phone that one of the students had placed next to him.

He walked over to the student, picked up the phone, and looked at it from all angles, saying, "Is this the phone that recorded some of the footage?"

Although the students couldn't help but feel fear again, for some inexplicable reason they still nodded calmly.

Wu Pifu gently patted the phone before saying, "Don't look at or think too much about those strange things. They are not real entities, but rather concepts. The more you look at or think about them, the more they can exist in your memories. Fortunately, you don't remember them very well, but recording them with videos or something won't work. These videos contain their information, and if they spread on a large scale, they might become some kind of curse, and they might even be resurrected and become stronger. So this phone is dangerous... As for you, don't be afraid. Get a good night's sleep, and everything will be fine tomorrow. All of this will be like a dream to you."

Several students nodded silently. They were already feeling somewhat like they were in a dream. For example, they were no longer afraid, no longer fearful, and their surroundings felt hazy. They didn't even know how or when Wu Pifu left...

Wu Pifu soon arrived at the street outside. Looking at the pitch-black street and the strange things that were vaguely visible in the darkness, he had more questions in his mind.

Is this world... real?

If it's all fake, then why do these people in this world possess intellect and independent thought? And why do they seem to have their own timelines, identities, families, and vast networks of relationships?

If this is real, then where is this world?

Wu Pifu had so many questions in his mind, and he couldn't wait to go back to the kindergarten to ask each of the two nightmares three questions.

Meanwhile, in the kindergarten, two nightmares trembled with fear, hiding in the sports equipment storage room, too afraid to move.

Just now, the two nightmares discussed how to answer questions tomorrow, and then thought about the arrival of the third, fourth, fifth... and subsequent nightmares, gradually taking control of this space by corrupting it with their respective nightmares. In this way, they could detach themselves from their existential life forms and also kill this special life form. But just as they were having endless daydreams, the piano in a concert hall somewhere in the kindergarten started playing automatically.

At first, the two nightmares didn't take it seriously, but gradually they seemed to realize something. Especially when the piano was being played and long black hair snaked and crawled down the corridor, the two nightmares were terrified and quickly found a place to hide.

They have absolutely no power or pollution now, and are no different from ordinary humans. Let alone ghosts, curses, or strange creatures, even a gang of bandits could easily kill them.

Fear, dread, weakness, despair...

The two nightmares didn't dare to breathe too loudly, and could only cover their mouths tightly, hiding in the small corner of the warehouse with their heads down.

they……

I desperately want it to get light soon!!
(End of this chapter)