Chapter 71 Parallel Paths (4) “You shouldn’t be here…

Water, Shi Yu felt as if his throat was on fire, making him extremely thirsty. The burning sensation quickly spread to his entire body, destroying his pain nerves, and causing a tearing pain in his analgesic heart.

As if he had stepped into an area he shouldn't have been involved in, every cell in his nerve endings was screaming and fleeing, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.

His vision was blurry and hazy, with mottled colors smeared together like a painting with strange brushstrokes, evenly dividing this world without bright colors.

Underfoot is reddish-brown soil without vegetation, overhead is the overcast sky, and between them is nothing but the endless horizon and the slowly burning, scorching red setting sun at the end.

Shi Yu could hardly concentrate. He stared at the direction of the setting sun and took a long time to realize that it was not the sunset in the normal human perception, but a blood-red eye.

In front of it, the huge dead tree was shrouded in a scarlet sheen, making it impossible for him to see clearly. Shi Yu dragged his exhausted body and walked in the raging sea of ​​fire. The lingering pain made him unable to feel more.

Invisible hands grabbed Shi Yu's neck, as if to wipe out this existence that violated the rules. His tears overflowed unconsciously and fell on another pair of hands that touched his cheeks. They were real entities, and even the pain began to ease.

Syllables with strange accents came into his ears, piecing together a language system that was difficult for humans to understand. Shi Yu tried his best to get rid of the trance state, and he saw a familiar face.

——It was Bo Bei’s face.

Shi Yu's mind was dazed, and his aching vocal cords squeezed out bloody words: "Bai Bei...?"

No, that's not right. Shi Yu slowly realized that there couldn't be any other humans here besides him, and the irises of Bai Bei's eyes were black, but the eyes of this "Bai Bei" in front of him were blue-black.

The monster with a human body withdrew its hand. Its eyelids drooped, and its long black hair, like cold and gorgeous silk, slowly slid down its shoulders as it leaned forward, wrapping around its pale and handsome face.

His cold and indifferent gaze moved over Shi Yu, with personified confusion and puzzlement. When he opened his lips, he once again uttered those syllables that almost disrupted human consciousness. Shi Yu did not quite understand what he was saying.

He must have realized this. After tilting his head and looking at him for a moment, He imitated human language and spoke in a slightly hoarse voice, "They asked you to come here."

Shi Yu was still a little confused: "W-what?"

He clearly had no intention of explaining. His long, thin fingers simply tapped the trunk. From the outside, the male figure sitting on the large branch at the bottom of the dead tree looked no different from a normal human. "I've been observing you for some time."

"This world is very boring. There are only those ghost stories and players struggling to survive. After the ghost stories came, the game was announced to be closed, and everything became even more boring." He leaned against the tree trunk beside him, his eyelids lazily half-closed.

The inhuman monster, who shared the same features as Bai Bei, slowly added, "So I started observing the other world. It's strange, too. You know there's a high chance of death when repairing the barrier, right? I don't understand why you're doing this."

Whether it was his appearance, language or behavior, he was too human-like. Even without any horror elements, it inexplicably gave Shi Yu goosebumps.

"Even if I tell you, you won't understand." Shi Yu looked at him. He suddenly stretched out his hand, wanting to test whether the inhuman monster in front of him was breathing. As expected, there was no breathing.

He also couldn't blink. Shi Yu pressed his fingers on the skin around his collarbone, but there was no sound of his heartbeat. The touch was unusually cold, like that of a corpse.

Shi Yu couldn't help but ask: "What on earth are you...?" How could there be such a strange thing that looks so similar to a human?

"You really want to know?" He imitated Shi Yu's blinking rhythmically, which was even more terrifying. "This is the outer area of ​​the game. Do you think I'm the same as those weirdos who are bound by the rules?"

So similar, even the cunning side of human nature is felt exactly the same... Is He truly not human? Or is this just a horrible imitation?

How could the existence of the world of ghost stories not be constrained by rules? Shi Yu's thoughts were in chaos, and he soon thought of the existence of the Lord of Ghost Stories. He tried to remain calm: "You said before that you observed me. You knew I would come, right?"

Shi Yu asked again: "Are you waiting for me here?"

The monster sitting on the dead tree nodded casually, his mouth curled up into a false smile, "Very clever, I was indeed waiting for you."

"In your minds, it seems like there's a reward for answering questions correctly." He opened his palm, revealing a black key with the letters "Bei" engraved on it. "I'll give this to you."

"This key can open all items, except for the thing called the door, and also includes other things. Try it yourself."

Shi Yu took the key and looked down at the letters. He then noticed that he was gradually moving towards Ming's hand, but he didn't seem to care anymore. "What do these letters mean?"

"No." He said disapprovingly, "In your terms, this should be considered my name."

Shi Yu thought of Bai Bei again at an inappropriate time. Was it a coincidence? But these coincidences piled up in more than one place. They had similar looks, speaking habits, and even the pronunciation of the characters that made up their names were exactly the same.

"...Do you find it boring?" Shi Yu didn't know if He would agree, but at least he had to try. "Would you like to make a deal with me? Who knows, you might find it interesting."

He raised his eyes, and his smile seemed to become a little more genuine. "Then tell me about it."

"I know I can't go back to the entire reality right now. I can't change anything." Shi Yu's expression became a little depressed when he said this. He continued, "If it were you, maybe you could do it?"

"Have you ever thought about leaving here? After all, it seems like there's nothing here. It might be more interesting to find more fun in reality instead of me than to stay here all the time." Shi Yu tried his best to propose conditions that might arouse his interest.

He tightened his grip on the key and refused to let go. "I'll accept anything, as long as you're willing to help me. I want to turn everything back to a time before it happened."

The monster's reply indirectly reflected an attitude of acceptance: "Is that all? Of course."

He caught the key that fell from the young man's body, which had become transparent. After a brief thought, he hung the key on a thin black rope that he had taken out from somewhere, and then put it around the neck of the person in front of him.

"I can help you turn reality back to before the ghost story happened, but even that won't change much. In that case, why not just turn it back to an earlier time?" He didn't specify what he wanted from him, but just chuckled.

"That's fine then. You should get some sleep first. We'll see each other again soon."

The young man's body was so transparent that it was about to disappear, but He just looked at him calmly, responding with the "goodbye" that humans often say when they leave. He did not understand that this situation was actually not so appropriate.

When the thin shadow completely disappeared from the spot, the monster that was originally sitting on the dead tree walked down. He stepped on the ground, and everything around him seemed to begin to melt, collapsing and dissolving, until only darkness remained in the space where he was.

He lifted his eyelids and stared at the young man with an identical face not far away. "You shouldn't be here."

"That's exactly what happened." Bo Bei stood in front of Him, wondering how he used to have long hair. "How strange! Are you really that human? In the earliest days of my memory, I acted like a fake human."

He smiled casually, "It's just imitation, isn't it? It's very simple? We are different from those empty shells of monsters in the Surveillance Bureau. But even if we have emotions, it's still boring."

Bai Bei didn't answer. He glanced at the key in the monster's hand. It seemed that this thing should be more important than he thought. However, he left it to Shi Yu. He didn't know if he could make another one.

Moreover, after looking back, the key was not in Shi Yu's hand. It seemed that the surveillance bureau had interfered, which was why it appeared at the scene of the car accident where Shi Yu's adoptive parents had an accident.

"So why did you erase your memory?"

Hearing this question, He simply maintained His original smile, the corners of His lips seeming to rise even more. "You obviously know it very well."

“Because it won’t be boring.”

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At the end of the re-enactment scene, Bai Bei saw his still empty self.

The adoptive mother standing in front of him looked confused, as if she didn't understand why a child suddenly appeared in her office. When the young man raised his head, she saw that his eyes and eyebrows were extremely similar to those of his friend who had no news from him.

The doubt quickly turned into disbelief. The woman walked forward quickly, but could not find the familiar figure in the room, so she looked at the young man again.

"Your mother isn't here. Didn't she come with you? Is she still in that world?"

The young man simply tilted his head, his face expressionless. His dark pupils were enough to confuse people's minds just by looking at them, and they couldn't help but recall that twisted and terrifying world.

The short-haired woman's hand froze in the air.

After coming back to her senses, she finally remembered the most abnormal thing. Her friend had just become pregnant before she disappeared, and only three months had passed. How could the child be eighteen or nineteen years old?

Moreover, her friend suddenly disappeared after completing the game. It is very likely that she was left in an area outside the ghost story game. She didn't know whether she was still alive. After all, humans were not allowed to exist there.

...But if she is really still alive, then it is very likely that she is not the original her. Is she still human?

There is no normal birth in the world of ghost stories. The child will either die or exist as a monster.

She stared at the monster in front of her. His eyes were so similar to her friend's that she felt as if she had seen her friend again through those eyes, whether dead or alive.

She asked softly, "Do you have a name?"

The young man looked at her steadily, strange syllables spilling from his lips, each tone carrying a meaning that ordinary people couldn't understand. After a long time, she finally heard the familiar pronunciation, bei.

"Will you come with me?" the short-haired woman asked. She extended her hand toward the young man and gave him a gentle smile. "If you don't mind, could you wait here for a while?"

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The author has something to say: This chapter is a limited edition, featuring the evil boss and the handsome long-haired brother.

I will write a sequel later which is the if line of this version of Hunxie Ge, but there is no Xiaoyu. After all, if Xiaoyu is there, our brother will never become a cold and evil person (x)

Maybe it means that although she has a bad personality, she looks very charming because of her beauty. She kills everyone with her strength and bullies everyone with her beauty. She must wear red-soled leather shoes. (Unconscious)

In this extra chapter, Shen is indeed influenced by Hunxie Ge and may not be a good person. As for the villain friends group...

I haven't finished writing the main text yet and I'm already thinking about the extra chapters. I really want to write it. Damn it (I'm running around in a hurry)