Chapter 140 Datai City 5

"What's wrong with that?" Chang He drank a cup of concentrated bitter coffee. "I guessed it all. She definitely won't accept this statement, and will definitely attack you in a more intense way."

Wan Wan immediately looked up at her, "You actually guessed it."

I don’t know if it was because she guessed it, but Wanwan stopped remaining silent and told her everything.

"When I first told her, she burst into laughter, clapping her legs and laughing until tears came out of her eyes. I stood aside and watched her laugh like that, and the anticipation and happiness in my heart were extinguished little by little. Not only did I feel uncomfortable, but I also felt ashamed."

"She said that my roommate was too kind and I believed her words of comfort."

"She said, how could I be so funny that I would believe such a thing."

"I thought this was enough and the matter was over." Wanwan began to pick at the flesh near her nails again. There was a piece of flesh that had been picked off by her nail, and the blood that seeped out quickly dyed the nail red.

Chang He frowned and gave her a Band-Aid, "Stop it!"

After applying two Band-Aids in a row, the bleeding stopped being noticeable, but tears started to flow.

She cried and said, "It was the first day of the Lunar New Year. There was a family dinner and many people came to pay New Year's greetings. When there were the most people, she suddenly stood up and said she wanted to tell everyone a joke, and she pulled me up."

"Let me tell you a joke, hahaha. On the first day Wanwan returned home, she told me that her roommate praised her for being very beautiful, hahaha. Two kind-hearted girls comforted her, and she actually believed it and even showed off to me, hahaha!"

"While there are so many people here, show us what's beautiful about you. Is it your big mouth? Or the bulging part? And look at your bent legs, they're so funny. Tell me, is this beautiful? Are you the only one who's beautiful?"

Wanwan will never forget the scene of that day, and it often appears in her dreams.

She was pulled up by her mother, her mouth was pinched, her chest was grabbed, her legs were patted, and she was looked at by so many people, elders, and children, with different expressions. Those eyes were like hands, and she seemed to be stripped naked, like a clam that had lost the protection of its shell, and she couldn't stop trembling and wanted to die.

The relatives looked at it for a while and then started talking.

"Hahaha, is this a family show? It's quite innovative."

"Wan Wan, you don't know people well enough. Don't take people's polite words seriously."

"Girls, you shouldn't care too much about your appearance. Why do you think about these things all day long?"

She saw the way her mother looked at her, a look that was happy, satisfied, and a little crazy.

It turned out that her eyes were the most terrifying, and together with her words, they kept appearing in her dreams.

There were so many eyes in the dream, and the eyes kept pulling at her, her nose, her mouth, her breasts, her legs...

"I can't stay in that place anymore." Wanwan said, "It's getting more and more difficult."

After hearing this, Chang He asked her directly: "Does your mother also have big breasts?"

Wanwan was stunned for a moment, and without thinking, she nodded.

"That's right." Chang He said, "I guess your mother was hurt when she was a child. Maybe your grandmother or someone else hurt her with words or actions. It left a deep shadow in her heart, which she may not even realize."

"Well, she has been doing this to you since you were very young. There are two possibilities."

Chang He said: "First, it is pure harm. She used to be a victim, and could only be harmed by a group of perpetrators. After enduring for so many years, a weak daughter who could not resist her finally appeared. She finally changed from a victim squatting on the ground to a perpetrator standing on the high ground."

"Especially if your father loves you very much and some people like you very much, she will not be able to accept why she has suffered so much while you are so happy even though you are the same."

"Don't doubt it, some mothers will be jealous of their daughters, especially when she has suffered a lot of injustice."

"Second, she was hurt by this kind of thing before, so she thinks that some things and some appearances will hurt people. In fact, she is afraid that you will be hurt in the future, so she over-educates you, which leads to her extreme behavior."

She told her two possibilities, but Wanwan seemed to have only heard one.

Miraculously, after hearing that her mother might have been hurt before, her heart knot seemed to loosen, and she was no longer so depressed and cautious, and really began to enjoy her trip.

She looked even, as if she had forgiven her mother.

This silly girl just forgave her mother and seemed to no longer blame her.

Chang He told them: "Wan Wan was a little shy before, but she would never want to commit suicide just because someone saw her face and hands. Especially in the last two days, she started to be much more cheerful and even looked at skirts online."

"But she does have low self-esteem because of her mother's excessive shame education and suppression since she was a child. More importantly, she is very traditional. She wears very tight and baggy clothes, and except for her face and hands, she hardly shows any skin. I thought this might be very important to you, so I told you in more detail."

"Thank you." Zhou Buyu said, "It is indeed very important."

After hearing Wanwan’s story, everyone was silent for a few seconds.

Ling Changye walked over to her side. Changhe had already covered her with a quilt. Perhaps because no one could see her now, she no longer struggled so violently, and her body only shook slightly.

"I'm sorry." Ling Changye apologized to her, "I didn't expect you to have such an experience. I used my mouth to support you just to stop you from biting your tongue. I didn't mean to offend you."

Wen Yuxin said: "Why don't we go? We are all in her room, and she might suffer even more."

"Okay, let's go back to the sixth floor first." Ling Changye said to Chang He, "Thank you for the clue. We will tell you when we have a guess. We are leaving now."

Chang He nodded and asked, "Did she become like this because of the Cai Gui?"

She guessed it was like this. The most exaggerated thing she had ever heard was that a woman in ancient times committed suicide because a man looked at her feet. How could a normal modern human commit suicide if their face was seen? Even in some countries, women must wear masks, and they would not do anything if their faces were seen. It must be caused by a colored ghost.

"It should be." Ling Changye said.

Without sufficient clues, he usually wouldn't give a definite answer, but in Wanwan's case, there were indeed obvious traces of the colorful ghost, which was a key breakthrough.

Back in the viewing room on the sixth floor, Ling Changye asked, "What do you think?"

Hua Haoming said: "The colored ghosts seem to attack humans based on the characteristics of the human beings themselves. Wanwan originally had a strong sense of shame, and the colored ghosts aggravated this, magnifying her sense of shame to the extreme. She was so ashamed that she couldn't live if her face was seen."

"The terrified man in 302 is usually very timid. After being attacked by the colorful ghost, his fear reached its peak. That's why he was extremely terrified and ran away in all directions as seen in the surveillance video."

"The person who committed suicide in 605 was already suffering from depression. After being attacked by the colorful ghost, he was so sad that he committed suicide."

"The man who chopped up the body, the painter who chopped off the finger, and the man who burned his mother to death as the waiter mentioned, they must be easily angry at ordinary times. After being attacked, they were so angry that they could not bear it, so they killed their wives, abused themselves, and killed their mothers. There are many people who are prone to anger, so the waiter and us thought that they would go crazy after being attacked by the colorful ghosts at first."

His analysis was unanimously agreed upon; they all thought so.

Yang Yi added: "There is also Wang Chenyang. Fang Jian said that when he saw him yesterday, he felt that he was quite scared, but he paced back and forth at night. It didn't seem like he was scared, but anxious, which is consistent with the finger biting in the video I took. After being attacked by the colorful ghost, his anxiety was amplified, and he relieved it by walking quickly. When Fang Jian shouted at him, he exploded and wanted to kill people."

Zhou Buyu said: "This makes sense now. This is how I feel."

Yang Mei sighed softly: "Actually, what the waiter said is not wrong. Whether it is fear or anger, once it is infinitely magnified, it will be like going crazy. Wang Chenyang also looked like a madman last night."

Xia Bai thought that the game mechanics of the first Peace Medical College game he and Hua Haoming downloaded were somewhat similar. In that game, people's habits were distorted, and in this game, emotions were magnified. Anything that a living person possessed would be extremely terrifying if magnified to the extreme.

The main game system seems to be still studying humans through games.

The man he brought into Room 302, after his fear was infinitely magnified, even the slightest sound around him would cause him great terror. In the surveillance video, he was running around with his eyes distorted with fear, perhaps thinking that his room was full of scary things like ghosts.

He also added a discovery, "The colorful ghosts that you all saw on TV last night attacking the host were all black, right?"

"yes."

"Black is right."

"What we see are all black, why do people here call them colorful ghosts?" Xia Bai asked.

This question is a bit simple. The second child holding the coffee cup said, "First, the colored ghosts can change color. Second, there are colored ghosts of different colors, black, red, and colorful."

Xia Bai nodded, "Colors may correspond to emotions. Different colors represent different emotions. The black ghost that attacked the host last night may represent fear, anxiety, or sadness."

Hua Haoming: "Are you saying that when the colored ghosts attack humans, they will be stimulated by the most obvious emotions of that person to produce corresponding colors, or..."

Xia Bai: "I am more inclined to believe that there are ghosts of different colors in this world. Each ghost of a different color corresponds to a different emotion and will be attracted to that emotion. In other words, there are different emotional ghosts. No, the game is talking about monsters, shame monsters, anger monsters, fear monsters, sadness monsters, anxiety monsters, etc. They are hidden in various places in the human world. They are not easy to see, but they are everywhere and will jump out and attack humans at any time."

The more they thought about it, the more they felt that this was very likely.

Yang Yi glanced at Xia Bai, and once again felt Xia Bai's keen understanding of the game. "In this case, the background mechanism and difficulty of the game are all there."

"As society develops, humans become more and more extreme and singular in their emotions under the influence of the environment. They are swept up in different emotions and become mentally unstable. At the same time, humans will constantly have emotions. Emotional monsters are related to emotions and may be difficult to completely eliminate. This should be the difficulty of this super large map."

Xia Bai thought, isn't this the main system? It's hard to say that it didn't have its own agenda when designing this game. Was it corrupted by human resentment and wanted to let humans experience the feeling of being attacked by emotions?

At this point in the discussion, all nine players breathed a sigh of relief. This was the morning of the second day since they entered the game, and they had already figured out the mechanics of the game and were finally no longer confused.

This speed makes the members of the assault team feel less pressured.

Although they don't say it, they all know how heavy the burden is on them in this game.

Seeing that everyone had finished speaking, Ling Changye made an additional guess: "When the colorful ghosts attack humans, they may amplify a certain emotion of the human. However, it is also possible that a certain emotion of the human is too obvious, which may attract the colorful ghosts."

"Two players got into trouble last night. One was Wan Wan. Most people wouldn't have her experience, and wouldn't be as ashamed as she was. This was an emotion that stood out to her compared to most people. And there was also Wang Chenyang. Yang Yi casually captured him biting his finger, which shows that he is usually a very anxious person."

"As for the members of our assault team, they have become more stable in all aspects after playing many games, so no colorful ghosts came to find us last night."

"No, Erwa..." Hua Haoming said as soon as he opened his mouth.

Erwa, who was suddenly called out for something bad, raised the branch in his hand and said, "Don't be afraid! Little hero!"

“…”

Xia Bai fell silent instead. He was a little nervous last night, and actually anxious. If he allowed his anxious emotions to develop, it might attract colorful ghosts.

Fortunately, Ling Changye discovered it in time and helped him deal with his anxiety.

He thought again that Yang Mei was not as happy as she usually looked. He had a sad spot in his heart before. Fortunately, the misunderstanding between him and Yang Yi was resolved, and that sad spot was leveled.

Only after being tempered and healed can they stand here relatively safely.

When people are gradually brought up by love and suffering, they become stable and strong, and even games are not so easy to play.

Ling Changye said: "At first, the colorful ghosts will look for people with the most obvious emotions, or they will be attracted to them. After this person dies, the next one should be people with relatively less obvious emotions. Even if our emotions are relatively stable, we can't avoid them. We still have to find a way to eliminate the colorful ghosts as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Wen Yuxin asked, "Should we tell the new players that Cai Gui will be attracted by obvious emotions, so that they can pay attention?"

"No need." Ling Changye said: "The more you tell them that anxiety can be life-threatening, their anxiety will not decrease, but will increase. However, we can use their strength to find ways to eliminate the colorful ghosts and find more clues together."

Xia Bai said: "You can tell Chang He that she is emotionally stable and we promised her."

Ling Changye nodded, "Okay."

Just as they were about to do this, Chang He ran up in a hurry, her breath unsteady as she said, "Help! Go and save Wan Wan! She's biting her tongue!"

Several people ran out in a hurry.

On the way, Ling Changye asked: "What happened? Didn't I hold her up?"

He used his mouth to hold it open because he was afraid that he would vomit if he used a towel or something like that. Normally, he would not vomit if he used a mouth to hold it open.

"Didn't I cover her with a quilt?" Chang He said, "I knew she would die if her face was seen, so I didn't uncover it after you left. I just stood in front of the bed and talked to her. She didn't respond. I smelled blood, so I quickly uncovered the quilt. I saw that she had stretched her mouth and worn it out while lying on the bed, or she had bitten off her tongue!"

When a few people rushed over, there was already a lot of blood on the bed.

In novels and TV dramas, there are often plots of people biting their tongue to commit suicide. In fact, there are no large arteries on the tongue, so a person will not die in a short period of time if the tongue is bitten off. However, there are indeed a lot of blood vessels on the tongue, and if not treated in time, the person will die from blood loss.

Chang He: "Who among you can save her? Do you want to sew her tongue or have something else to stop her bleeding?"

Several players looked at Xia Bai.

Xia Bai stopped and looked at the girl lying on the bed without saying a word.

He listened to Changhe talking about Wanwan's story and knew that her mouth was the most suppressed and the most inferior part of her since she was a child. After her shame was infinitely magnified, she wanted to die even if someone saw her face. But if someone saw her mouth, it was more than just a desire to die.

Unexpectedly, he would face that medical challenge so soon: to give the patient human dignity or to prolong his life.

He pursed his lips, took the prop bandage Hua Haoming gave him, and walked to Wanwan's bed.

When he stretched her mouth open and sewn her tongue, Xia Bai saw from the corner of his eye that her tears were flowing like a dam bursting, her hair and pillow were all wet. The pain and pleading in her eyes were as much as her tears, so much that they overflowed, and her body never stopped shaking for a moment.

If only I could die.

She must want to die very much and not want to suffer this kind of torture.

"I'm sorry." Xia Bai closed her mouth and covered her with a blanket. "The teacher told us that life is more important than anything else. Your life, and the lives of many others."

Several people saw what happened to her just now.

Zhou Buyu was full of pity, "Can she really survive like this?"

"It shouldn't be possible. People will be pissed off to death by reality, and maybe shame will too." Ling Changye said, "So, we have to find a way to eliminate the colorful ghost as soon as possible to save her."

The waiter had already told them that in order to restore a person to normal, they must destroy the colorful ghost that attacked him.

"I will organize everyone. I am good at this. After all, I came from the Organization Department." Shi An said.

Hua Haoming: "Let me help you."

Yang Yi said: "When it comes to finding a way to eliminate the colorful ghosts, there is no need to avoid the NPCs. From what the waitress said, she doesn't know exactly how to eliminate the colorful ghosts, and what they might have discovered."

Shi An: "I understand. I will call them together."

The only place in this hotel that can accommodate all the guests at the same time is the restaurant.

Shi An lived up to expectations and called everyone in the hotel to the restaurant at lunch time in just two hours, except for Wanwan, there was one person who didn't come.

Shi An told them: "Fang Jian is dead."

Several people were stunned, then they understood.

Wen Yuxin said: "He was attacked by a fear monster and committed suicide out of fear?"

Tonight morning, when Fang Jian told them how he moved into Wang Chenyang's room, he also said that he was a little scared last night. He also looked scared when he told them that he killed Wang Chenyang. There was also the video they saw of Yang Yi looking out through the crack in the door back and forth.

His fear was also obvious.

Shi An: "It should be. The body was inside the quilt. He probably didn't dare to face the 'thing' outside the quilt, so he committed suicide inside the quilt."

Zhou Buyu said: "People die too frequently in this game. Emotional monsters may indeed be everywhere. We must quickly find a way to eliminate them."

I don’t know how many more people died outside.

Seeing that most people had arrived, Shi An said, "Let's look for them now."

He was the one who called everyone here, so he was the one who spoke first.

"Everyone, I have just roughly told you the purpose of calling you all here. Now I will tell you the situation again."

Shi An stood at the front of the restaurant and said, "Another person died in our hotel just now. The colored ghosts have harmed people too frequently. We may have a lot of colored ghosts in our hotel."

"It may be that soon, one of us, you or I, will be harmed by the colorful ghost. We must unite and eliminate the colorful ghost as soon as possible."

"At present, our primary goal is to find a way to quickly eliminate the colorful ghosts. Please speak freely about what you have heard and seen, and everything related to eliminating the colorful ghosts, for your own survival and for everyone else's survival."

A discussion immediately broke out in the restaurant.

Several people stood aside and observed. Most of those who were discussing heatedly were new players. The people in the gaming world seemed a little numb. Perhaps they had seen too many deaths caused by colorful ghosts, and had become accustomed to it and no longer held out hope.

"What are we trying to eliminate? If the colorful ghosts were so easy to eliminate, would the world still be like this?" One of them said, "If even the government and the army can't eliminate the colorful ghosts, how can you expect us to be able to eliminate them? The colorful ghosts cannot be defeated."

Shi An said: "Don't say that. Since the colored ghosts haven't completely spread out and there are still so many humans, there must be a way. Otherwise, why would the Security Bureau call on us to actively eliminate the colored ghosts?"

The man laughed, "That's because their security bureau can't do it, so they pushed it to us. The colorful ghosts can be eliminated, but it's very troublesome. The first colorful ghost in our community took four visits from the security bureau to eliminate. There were so many of them, and they had water from the fire department and fire from the military factory. They took turns to eliminate one. What do we have?"

A musket appeared in Hua Haoming's hand, and the fire inside rushed to the roof. "This one?"

“…”

Ling Changye: "Besides fire, what else did you see them use?"

"I can only see water and fire, but I can't see the rest." Perhaps Hua Haoming gave him a glimmer of hope. He took it more seriously and tried to recall, "I also saw a very strong light there, but, alas, it took them several attempts to succeed. It's possible that they didn't use a specific method to eliminate it all at once."

Maybe they would have been confused before, but after hearing Xia Bai's classification of monsters by color, they had some ideas when they heard this sentence again.

Maybe different emotional monsters fear different things.

"No, no." An old man said painfully, "It's useless to completely eliminate the colorful ghosts in that way. It's useless..."

As soon as they heard what this person knew, the players all looked at her. She was an elderly woman with some gray hair. She kept shaking her head as she spoke, "There is no way to eliminate the colorful ghosts. It's a sin. It's the human beings themselves who are doing the sin."

Zhou Buyu, who was the most approachable, walked up to her and asked, "Grandma, do you know anything? You see so many people are eager to know, can you be kind enough to tell us everything, whether it's good or bad?"

The old woman looked at the faces of the people looking at her with longing, and sighed.

"Do you know why the Security Bureau wants us ordinary people to eliminate the colored ghosts? Why haven't they told us how to eliminate the colored ghosts yet?"

The old man's face was full of hopelessness and sadness, "Because they can't afford it."