Su Bai looked around at the surrounding streets again.
Under the Red Moon, the dilapidated apartment buildings and cracked streets looked ruined and distorted. Yet for some reason, he felt that the scene was familiar, as though a forgotten image buried deep in his memories was faintly resurfacing.
At first, he thought little of it, assuming that everywhere in the Nightmare World looked this run-down. But a moment later, a flash of realization crossed his mind, and Su Bai abruptly stopped walking.
He remembered.
In his previous life, he had passed through this place several times, not only in the Nightmare World, but in the Real World as well.
The apartment buildings' battered but still recognizable red exterior walls, the streets narrower than those in other areas, and the bollards faintly visible at the far end of the pedestrian street all matched the street in Su Bai's memories.
Su Bai had long known that certain streets and buildings in the Nightmare World were influenced by the Real World. The Red Moon merely added an eerie layer of distortion and decay, making them difficult to recognize at first glance.
"This isn't Qingliu City..." Su Bai murmured.
Su Bai had been in Qingliu City before entering the game, so even if he had been sent somewhere in the Nightmare World, the streets here should have resembled Qingliu City.
But clearly, the Director had not sent him to the corresponding location, because this street closely resembled somewhere in Honghuai City from Su Bai's memories.
If Su Bai remembered correctly, a large school called Honghuai Normal University College stood not far beyond the end of this street.
That school's existence in the Real World meant little to Su Bai, but in the Nightmare World... it was the Nameless Society's base.
It was the "home"