Chapter 41: Foolish World Chapter 41: Unease

Foolish World Chapter 41: Unease

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Huaiyou stood up with a dark expression.

He looked around his surroundings.

He discovered that although he was still inside the small restaurant, the surroundings were clearly somewhat different; even though the sky looked like it was daytime,

it was still excessively dark.

A thick, strange, and gloomy feeling permeated the area.

It even felt stranger than an overcast day.

"Damn! I managed to save someone, but I didn't manage to run out myself."

Huaiyou clearly remembered that at the time, he only felt someone tugging at him from behind, followed by the scene before his eyes changing rapidly; when he opened his eyes again, he had already arrived here.

"Forget it, since I'm already in, it probably means the movie has started at this moment... Since I'm here, I might as well stay and adapt; I should think about how to successfully resolve this Horror Movie."

Huaiyou vigilantly observed his surroundings once more.

He discovered that the extremely thick black fog that appeared at the beginning had not reappeared nearby, and as for the so-called child or whatever, he couldn't see them at all.

The restaurant's main door was wide open.

Huaiyou thought for a moment and simply walked out.

Following the door, he left the small restaurant just like that and soon arrived at the open space in front.

However, as soon as he walked out, Huaiyou felt a bit strange.

Because the environmental layout here was completely chaotic.

The place in front that should have been the school was now a blank open space, as if the school didn't exist at all.

Huaiyou stood in front, looking up at the place where the school should have been, and a peculiar emotion couldn't help but well up in his heart.

"Could it be that I've been dragged into a 'Domain' again? Damn, if I had known, I would have asked them what this so-called 'Domain' actually is, to save myself from being so clueless inside."

Huaiyou picked up his phone; he had just wanted to try and see if he could contact the outside world.

And the situation as it appeared now was as expected.

The phone was completely unable to connect to the outside world; let alone making calls, he couldn't even send a message.

Huaiyou couldn't help but think to himself.

I'm really impressed!

I can't even contact the outside world; this time it really is up to me alone. I hope I don't run into that child I saw at the beginning, preferably I shouldn't run into anything at all.

Huaiyou actually knew that this was merely his own wishful thinking; those things would likely still be encountered...

As for when he would encounter them, it was only a matter of time.

"Now, let me think about the movie *Insidious*. I remember watching it before; it was one of the few movies that truly scared me the first time. However, from beginning to end, the scariest things seemed to be the ghosts inside. The environment here looks a bit like the 'Further' shown at that time. If my guess is correct, then there should still be many of those ghost things here, right?"

The "ghost things" mentioned here naturally referred to ghosts.

To use the terminology from the movie, those were the drifting souls.

"The movie said souls are spiritual bodies without physical forms, so they desperately try to occupy empty physical bodies; they want to return to the human world. But if I think about it this way,"

"It seems that from the moment I stepped into this place, my body has always been with me; the feeling of a soul leaving the body never appeared. Does that mean I came here with my body?"

"But if my judgment isn't wrong, this should be the place for those ghosts. They should be able to easily detect my existence, right? If that's the case, wouldn't I be in great danger?"

Suddenly.

When Huaiyou thought of this.

The surrounding environment seemed to become dim and gloomy again at this very moment.

From a very distant location, layer upon layer of white fog began to surge; the white fog spread very slowly, but the area it covered was extremely vast.

Huaiyou lowered his head to look.

Even on his feet, there was some white fog slowly gushing up from the ground.

And at the same time.

A faint stench of corpses suddenly drifted over from somewhere unknown at this moment.

It permeated the air, lingering and refusing to dissipate.

There was even a trend of it becoming thicker and thicker...

"Damn, something's not right..." Huaiyou looked at the white mist gradually enveloping the surroundings and the increasingly dim sky, and a sense of unease couldn't help but arise in his heart.

Although it looked empty outside, and even seemed like an open space extending to a great distance.

Everything also seemed very calm.

But it was precisely because of this environment that the surroundings seemed even more ethereal and eerie.

However, when Huaiyou turned his head back, he was surprised to discover that near the small restaurant he had originally walked out of, unexpectedly, that row of more than ten shops had not disappeared like the school in front.

These shops still existed.

But there was one more difference.

Huaiyou shone his phone's flashlight on them.

"Hiss... When I first walked out, these shops weren't like this, right? It seems they weren't connected together..."

Huaiyou couldn't help but gasp.

Because at this moment, what was displayed before his eyes was that this snack street of more than ten shops had actually been pieced together in a strange way.

That's right, they were pieced together. Now, these shops no longer had their own characteristic styles of decoration, but without exception, they had been completely replaced by a blue-gray tone.

It was as if they had been decorated by the same person.

Some of the shop signs that were originally bright red had now also turned into a dismal gray.

And the most bizarre thing was that the structure of these floors had also undergone strange changes.

Although most of these small shops and restaurants outside the school were ground-floor storefronts, they actually also had second and third floors; usually, the second and third floors were used for living.

But now, the second and third floors of these buildings were also shrouded in the same dismal gray.

And on the first floor, each shop no longer used its own shop door as the only entrance and exit.

Instead, even on the walls between adjacent shops, there was a door; such doors appeared on every wall, completely connecting these ten-plus shops together at this moment.

All of this made these shops form a huge, large-scale connected "house."

Huaiyou turned his head to look.

The stench of corpses appearing in the surrounding environment was becoming more and more intense.

The white fog on the ground and gradually surging from the surroundings was also extremely close.

Huaiyou inexplicably felt that once he was completely surrounded and enveloped by these white mists, something extremely terrifying would happen.

So at this moment, Huaiyou gritted his teeth and walked straight back toward the small restaurant he had originally left.

At least for now, it seemed there were no terrifying things in these small restaurants.

Perhaps that was the temporarily safe place for now.

Of course, Huaiyou knew it was only "for now."

But it was still much better than being enveloped by those strange white mists right now.

Soon, Huaiyou re-entered the small restaurant he had left earlier.

And at this moment, he quickly closed the glass door.

Huaiyou stepped back a few paces, watching the gradually approaching white mist envelop most of the places outside.

And at the same time, the thick stench of corpses at that moment was also more obvious, having reached its peak, making Huaiyou unable to help but feel a bit of dry heaving at this moment.

The smell was simply too heavy.

And Huaiyou also vigilantly watched the glass door, ready at any moment to run if the white mist outside could come in.

Fortunately, things did not develop in a bad direction; although the white mist outside was already very close, it seemed unable to pass through the glass door, only lingering and covering the outside of these white mists.

The color was getting deeper and deeper, and gradually, he could no longer see the specific situation clearly.

And inexplicably, Huaiyou inadvertently could also vaguely see inside that white mist, as if it were just like the black mist at the beginning.

Because there were things swaying past, sometimes approaching, sometimes moving away, but what was certain was that there were definitely things inside.

However, looking at the situation, it should be impossible for the white mist to come in.

At least it was still considered safe for now.

And after Huaiyou confirmed that the white mist outside and the things inside seemed unable to cross the obstruction of this seemingly fragile glass door.

Huaiyou quickly turned his target to this small restaurant.

Because at this moment, logically speaking, if the danger outside could not come in, then it did not necessarily mean that the inside was completely safe.

Because the situation just now, actually, no matter how he thought about it, felt like he was being forced into this place.

With Huaiyou's thinking, it was hard not to let his imagination run wild about whether something was guiding him in.

So it was necessary for him to check at this moment whether there were any strange things or dangers here.

Slowly, Huaiyou began to patrol and vigilantly observe inside these small restaurants, attempting to find some things that were not right.

All the lights had been turned on, and it looked the same as usual; it seemed there was nothing wrong.

Just like that, after Huaiyou slowly wandered around here, he didn't find any situation.

Although these houses around were connected together.

But after he walked around back and forth once, everything was still normal.

But for some reason.

It was precisely this normality that made Huaiyou somewhat uneasy.

Since he couldn't find the problem here, logically speaking, it should mean there was no problem.

This strange feeling shouldn't appear in his heart; it was more like a sixth sense.

Could it be?

Huaiyou suddenly thought of a point he seemed to have overlooked at this moment.

When the strange things happened in the movie *Insidious*, although part of it was during the day.

But in fact, the vast majority of the time, it actually happened at night.

And looking at it now, it seemed it was not yet night.

Huaiyou checked the time; the phone said it was 17:00.

So that meant it was 5:00 PM now.

There was still more than an hour until dark.

It just happened to correspond to the fact that it was still considered daytime.

If he thought about it this way, then did it count as those things only revealing themselves at night?

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