It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most prosperous place in the whole of China. It has always been in the first echelon, with all kinds of high-rise buildings standing side by side, high-end and atmospheric; but there are also hundreds of years old houses and old streets and alleys. Walking in is like crossing time and space in an instant.

Of course, that feeling only exists in the real world.

If it were in a nightmare world, it would feel a little different.

It also transcends time and space, but it travels from modern horror to modern horror.

It's like traveling between two different horror scenes.

Of course, this is in the safe zone, so it should be safe and free of nightmares, because the nightmares in the safe zone had been cleared away long ago.

The policies for safe zones in various places are very clear.

Unless it is a registered and controllable nightmare, all other nightmares will be cleared.

Each safe zone has a team responsible for patrolling and clearing nightmares. Most of them are experts from the branch. If a nightmare encounters them, there is only one way to go, and that is death.

So although the place is eerie, it is actually very safe.

It is said that old men often play chess in dark places and old ladies dance the yangge in groups in the alleys.

But now we are in a special control period, so it is very quiet here.

For special control, the General Administration has a general outline, and each place has different rules. For example, in Tunjing City, no one is allowed to move across the control area, whether alive or dead.

This is one of them.

Also, living people are not allowed to dream during the control period, because the plague is spread in the nightmare world. So, if an outbreak really occurs, as long as you don't dream, you won't be infected.

The last point is to screen out the Abyss dwellers.

Because as far as we know now, the Abyss dwellers cannot be born among living people, only dead people, and they are the kind of dead people who want to end their lives in the nightmare world.

Some people would think that if living people are excluded, then it should not be difficult to search among the pile of dead bodies in a place like Swallowing Whales.

yes.

This is indeed the case under normal circumstances.

But this time it's different.

One is that there are many deaths in Whale Swallowing City.

It has been several years since the nightmare world's full-scale invasion, and the number of people who have died both normally and abnormally in the real world is absolutely astronomical.

From a certain perspective, the nightmare invasion gave those who should have died and completely disappeared a "second life".

Although the nightmare world is a little scary and eerie, I am conscious and can live in a safe zone and meet my living family in my dreams.

It’s pretty good actually.

On the contrary, the happiness index of many people has increased during this period.

In other words, everything has its pros and cons, and every con must have its pros.

It is now fully reflected.

Those who remain here are all dead.

When Lin Mo came in, it could be seen from the figures flashing past some windows that someone had noticed him.

But Lin Mo didn't care about these residents.

He has only one goal.

That's where the special smell comes from.

After walking about three hundred meters, Lin Mo looked up at an apartment building.

The original sign of the apartment has been covered by another simple sign that reads 'Sleepless Apartments'.

This is an apartment that is rented out specifically to the dead.

The price is cheap, of course, but someone needs to pay the rent for the dead in the real world.

This is ironic.

When people are alive, they work hard for a place to live and three meals a day; when they die, they still cannot escape. If they have family to help them, it's okay, but if not, they need to "work" in the nightmare world.

This way, the boss will pay rent to these dead people.

As for the living environment of this kind of apartment, Lin Mo has never lived there and is not very clear, but it is said to be very bad, even worse than a pigeon cage.

The smell is inside.

Lin Mo walked over and pushed the door.

The door was locked, and perhaps having heard the noise, a figure approached from inside.

"who?"

"Security Bureau!" Lin Mo took out his ID and shook it.

The tone of the person inside immediately softened.

No matter whether it is the real world or the nightmare world, public officials should never be provoked. This is the law and it applies no matter where you go.

"What do you want?"

"Open the door."

The other party was obviously reluctant, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't afford to offend government officials, especially those from the Security Bureau, who had the right to act first and report later.

It doesn't matter whether you're killing people or ghosts, it's all the same.

The person inside opened the door.

There were three locks on the door, but Lin Mo could kick it down along with the door frame.

The gatekeeper was a fat man with dirty clothes, and he seemed to have been eating.

There is a desk lamp over there.

In the dim light, there were several colored magazines on the table.

Electricity in the nightmare world is relatively precious. After all, it is not as easy to generate electricity as in the real world. To generate electricity here, nightmare black technology is also needed.

Of course, the fat gatekeeper is also a dead man.

"Who lives in this place?"

Lin Mo asked.

The fat man was a little afraid of Lin Mo. He was probably intimidated by that special aura.

"I know they are dead. I am asking, what do they do?"

"Oh, they are all homeless poor people, mostly young. Some of them work in factories, producing batteries; some of them work in garment factories, as weavers."

These two industries are also developing rapidly in the nightmare world, and there are several large nightmare factories in the Whale City.

Obviously, this is the staff dormitory.

The fat gatekeeper said that under normal circumstances, everyone would be out at work by now, but because of the security bureau's control, everyone is staying in the house and not allowed to run around.

"How many people live here?" Lin Mo asked again.

The fat dead man said there were about three hundred people.

Lin Mo nodded, said, "I'll go up and take a look," and then went up the stairs on his own.

The fat man guarding the door did not dare to stop him. After seeing Lin Mo go up, he closed the door again, sat on his chair, and flipped through the colored magazines, reading them with great interest.

Lin Mo walked up the stairs and when he reached the second floor, he saw two old men hurriedly packing up their chess stall.

Seeing that it was Lin Mo, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought it was that fat guy." An old man muttered softly.

An old man next to us asked if we were going to go down yet.

"Go ahead. You almost lost your old general in the last round. This time, I'll let you have a taste of my chain cannon again."

"You are bragging, you are a chain gun, you picked up a wallet on the street and really think you are a high-income person. This time, I will let you see what a chain horse is."

The two old men obviously ignored Lin Mo, and Lin Mo did not disturb their fun.

It was in this dim place that two eerie old men were playing chess. It was really weird.

But Linmert understood.

The living have their own entertainment, and the dead also have their own lives.

But Lin Mo remembered that the fat gatekeeper said that most of the people living in this apartment were young people who worked in factories, so why were there old men here?

Lin Mo went over and asked you two how old you were.

"I'm thirty-seven!"

"I'm thirty-five!"

Lin Mo was completely confused and asked what the two of them did when they were alive and why they looked so anxious.

"I'm a programmer, and he writes novels."

The thirty-seven-year-old man said.

Lin Mo decided not to disturb the two from playing chess. Their lives were miserable enough when they were alive, and they didn't expect that even after death, they would be exploited by unscrupulous capitalists.

Go up to the third and fourth floors.

There were also some people on these two floors who came out to entertain themselves, going all the way up to the seventh floor.

Lin Mo stopped.

The smell came from this floor.

Finally, Lin Mo stopped at the door of room 709.

There were a lot of miscellaneous items in the corridor, and Lin Mo looked down at a shoe box.

The next moment, the shoe box flipped over and a black mouse ran away.

Lin Mo stretched out his hand and pointed, and the mouse was caught in mid-air and brought in front of him.

"Open the door, your sentinels are exposed."

After he finished speaking, the door in front of him remained quiet and no one opened it.

The next moment, countless black shadows suddenly emerged from the black doormat and pounced towards Lin Mo.

Like a bunch of sharp knives.

However, Lin Mo's iron skin can completely withstand this kind of attack. Moreover, in the next moment, these things will be instantly strangled by Lin Mo's mental power.

Only then did Lin Mo see clearly.

It turned out to be thousands of black bats.

These bats have sharp fangs and are really hard to deal with when they pounce on you all at once.

Even experienced experts can stumble.

This time Lin Mo reached out and pushed.

The door was violently opened.

Just as Lin Mo thought, even the door frame came down.

Inside was a dormitory with bunk beds. A man was sitting on the floor with his head covered, seeming to be in some special "pain".

Anyone who comes in at this time will definitely focus on the person who is covering his head.

This is also the stage when you are most vulnerable to sneak attacks.

At this moment, a figure jumped down from the door frame and the ceiling.

Extremely fast and decisive.

With a killing momentum.

Lin Mo didn't look back.

Liu Bao and Cheng Yingru, who were hiding in his shadow, suddenly appeared at this time, stretched out their deformed hands to grab each other, and then dragged them into the shadow amid the other's terrified wails.

Lin Mo sighed and said, "Liu Bao and Cheng Yingru, you two are too impatient. How can I judge you if you kill each other?" Probably because they knew that good intentions led to bad results, Liu Bao and Cheng Yingru hid in the shadows and didn't come out, with a sense of "you can do whatever you want".

"Forget it, at least there is one more."

Lin Mo muttered something and spoke to another stunned person in the room.

"The one just now was a vampire, right? Then you are the spreader of the plague?"

(End of this chapter)