"Fortunate resident of the Nightmare World, may the blessings of the Red Moon be with you always."
When the Administrator's familiar mechanical voice, tinged with that ambiguous amusement, sounded in his ear, Su Bai was standing in the Rest Room of the Mist Shop.
During the day, Su Bai liked to sit inside or outside the shop and enjoy the scenery of the Real World. Once night fell, however, he preferred to stay inside the Mist Shop.
After the Mutation in Qingliu City, Qin Ge had said that everything connected to it had been rooted out. Although there were many things he could not readily share with Su Bai, he could guarantee that the merfolk corpse on the lowest level of the Underground Research Institute had been properly dealt with.
Even so, whenever Su Bai was in the Real World at night, he always felt as though something lurked even in its darkness.
That was why Su Bai would return to his home in Honghuai City after dark to stay with his mother, or return to the Rest Room.
Ever since the Mist Shop's last upgrade, a door leading to the living room had appeared beside the desk in the Rest Room. When the living room first appeared, Su Bai had not liked going there. Beyond its floor-to-ceiling windows, there was neither a blue sky nor a starry night, only darkness-utter darkness, like a vast, bottomless abyss. If he stared at it for too long, it seemed as though even the light in the living room would be swallowed up.
By now, however, Su Bai had grown accustomed to meditating in front of the living room's floor-to-ceiling windows. His meditation was even a little more effective when he leaned against them.
Perhaps the Void Sea lay beyond the windows. Perhaps