Nightmare Assault

The woman in the qipao couldn’t sit still anymore. She stood up and walked to the door.

“Sister Qipao,” The girl looked so scared. She wasn’t going to be left alone in the room. “Where are you going?” She jumped down her bed, didn’t put on her shoes and rushed over to the woman, stepping on the cold cement floor.

“I’ll go check with the others and see if they’ve encountered anything strange.” She pretended to console the girl, “Don’t worry. I’ll be back after I ask them about it.”

The girl seemed to be scared of the dark corridor. She thought about it and eventually said, “Then, big sister, you have to come back quickly. I’m scared being by myself.”

“Okay. I promise you.” After she took a deep breath, the woman slowly pulled open the door a small gap. The corridor was very quiet. If she didn’t know the other rooms were inhabited, she would think she and the girl were the only people there. After confirming there was no anomaly, she opened the door and quickly slithered out. She didn’t plan to return to the room if she had her way. She shut the door with an audible click. Then, she quietly reopened the door and left a small gap to Room 407. If she encountered any danger, she could run back quickly. Furthermore, if she were taken in by the other room, Room 407, with the slightly open door, would be the ghost’s best target.

Her goal was Room 404. The people in Room 405 had heard the scratching. No matter what the sound represented, she was not going to take the risk. Plus, the two people in Room 404 didn’t look like good people.

The woman in the qipao was not naive. Therefore, she knew the suited man had been acting all along. There were no good people in the nightmare realm. Only those who died earlier or later. She didn’t pick Room 406 because it had too many newbies. Newbies meant uncontrollable factors. A careless mistake could mean death. Like most experienced players, she didn’t like newbies. On the other hand, she had high hopes for Jiang Cheng and Fatty. Jiang Cheng looked numb and a bit dull. However, she couldn’t have a good read on him. To be honest, she had met dummies in the nightmare realm before, but none survived as well as Jiang Cheng did.

Surviving a few nightmare missions taught her a lesson: too many people were good at acting.

The two rooms were not far from each other. However, she was exceptionally careful, worried that she might wake something in the dark. Along the way, she kept her eyes on her surroundings.

The door came closer and closer. She thought about reasons she could get them to open the door and for her to stay with them. The people inside were not dumb. She couldn’t tell them she had heard the scratching sound. They would not let her in after hearing that. She paused and thought to herself.

Suddenly, she was startled. It was already midnight. The lights in the corridor should be off. Why could she still see things so clearly? She looked around and soon found the light source. It was from a door that was left slightly ajar. Light seeped out. Her eyes trembled. Then, her eyes slowly moved up until she saw the room number.

407.

407!

She shivered. How could it be 407? That was her room. She just came out of Room 407… She quickly turned around. Everything behind her was covered in darkness. Room 407, she had just left, had disappeared.

As she expected!

Those who didn’t hear the scratching were the targets! The ghost was coming after her…

The fear triggered the woman’s need for survival. She knew that she couldn’t give up until the last moment. If she played this well, she could survive. There was rarely certain death in the nightmare realm. Everything was fair.

The main thing she needed to do was to figure out if this new room was the real Room 407, or more precisely, was it a ghost or a girl waiting for her inside?

Ghost’s power couldn’t be explained using logic or science. Therefore, the Room 407 before her could be the real Room 407. She decided to make a gamble. Perhaps the ghost hoped that she would not treat this as the real Room 407. After confirming that, she ran to Room 407. As she moved, the corridor behind her was consumed by darkness, like it had never existed.

She knocked on the door but didn’t enter the room.

“Who…?” A scared female voice asked, “Who is it?” It was the girl with the dinosaur pyjama’s voice. It sounded so real. It was like she was going to die from fear the next second.

“It’s me!” The woman in the qipao answered quickly, “Open the door!”

As she said that, she turned around to look. The darkness behind her approached her. Soon, it would reach her. Then… she would be gone.

If she was lucky, the rest of them might find a corpse somewhere.

“Quick!” She slammed the door. “Open this door!”

The girl inside was clearly frightened by this aggression. She started to cry. Through her tears, she asked if the woman was a ghost and pleaded to be left alone. “The door is left ajar. Why do you need me to open it for you? Is it because you’re a ghost, and you can’t move the door on your own?”

The woman outside could even hear the bed creaking as the girl cried.

The woman spoke through the door. “It’s really me. I’m Sister Qipao, who left earlier. Please believe me…” She paused. “I’m entering the room now…”

The crying didn’t stop. She could imagine the girl’s helpless expression. It was so real.

Therefore, the woman in the qipao comforted the girl as she slowly retreated. Then, she caught her chance and ran.

The moment she ran, the crying inside the door disappeared. The light that came from the door also disappeared.

It was replaced by a tapping sound. Something moved on all fours and crawled out of the fake Room 407. It couldn’t be the girl.

The acting was good, but the woman still found flaws.

The woman in the qipao made sure that the girl in the dinosaur pyjamas didn’t notice her purposely leave the door open a small gap because she wanted to betray her. So only the ghost would know the door was not fully closed.