Chapter 109

The dead rioted. They returned to their little houses, but instead of squatting down again, they started smashing the houses that looked like tombs.

They tore apart the structure of the house, [This is not my home! ]

They smashed the small window in front of the house, [This is not where I belong!]

They completely destroyed this little house. [I was never the one who lied!]

After smashing the small house, the dead gathered again and started walking in another direction. They walked across the bridge, passed the gravel road, and came to the suggestion box. Countless hands grabbed the suggestion box, and the fragile suggestion box was torn into pieces by them. Countless white papers fluttered in the air, and finally the white papers turned into debris, like an untimely snow.

They tore up the accusation paper, just like tearing up the handwriting of the person who was wrongly accused at that time, tearing up those lies.

After all the white paper scraps fell to the ground, they moved again, and this time their target was the Real Temple.

Wherever they touched, the real fragrance broke into pieces and shattered into pieces in the air.

The dead in the real town are the support of the rules of the real town and the raw materials of the real incense. After the dead rebelled, the real incense was no longer effective and was like nothing.

The dead who had died once were no longer afraid of being controlled by the Real God. They went to the Real Temple and tore down the Real Temple they had built with their bare hands. Every time they tore down a plank or a stone, they opened their mouths and screamed silently. They smashed everything that belonged to the Real God, leaving the entire town empty.

The real God uttered an angry voice that sounded like a man or a woman, and the voice kept echoing in the ears of the dead.

"There is no place for lies in the town of Truth. You lying sinners, go back to where you belong!"

"Those of you who should repent are not allowed to come to the Temple of Truth!"

"Go back! Repent!"

The red words finally spread to the front of the Real Temple, and the words began to penetrate into the Real Temple inch by inch. As the dead man's movements became faster and faster, the walls and roof of the Real Temple were smashed down, and the red words climbed up the gray-white stone statue of the Real God.

Countless red words swarmed up like mosquitoes smelling blood and piled up on the stone statue. Layers of words could be seen everywhere.

Give me back my tongue!

【I didn’t lie! 】

[I don't repent! I didn't do anything wrong!]

【It's you who deserves to die! 】

The huge real statue in the temple crumbled into pieces, and the stone fragments fell to the ground. The words were still crawling, and the angry resentment of the dead dyed the words red.

Codename Hope cupped his hands and put them over his eyes, like a child playing with a telescope. He was watching happily. Shen Yunzhe sat next to him and didn't react much. He just looked quietly into the distance, venting his anger at the dead man.

At this moment, Shen Yunzhe felt that these birds were like little birds that had broken out of their cages, fluttering happily in the sky and chirping happily.

This is a very happy thing.

"There is still a difference." Codename Hope put down his hand and looked at Shen Yunzhe. "Although the power comes from the same source as the game field, it is not the same path."

"The playground is abominable. It makes everyone trapped here terrified and weeping. Even death itself twists everyone's mind into thinking, 'I'm miserable, I want everyone else to be miserable too.' It's this twisted, extremely vicious emotion." Codename Hope thought for a moment. "Hmm, it's pretty awful."

"But erosion seems different," said Codename Hope. "The power of erosion seems to maximize the triggering of my suppressed emotions."

Codename Hope looked ahead, "The true anger towards the playground and the strange things, and the kindness hidden in my heart, will be magnified a lot, but this is indeed different."

Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "The inner anger is real, but the malicious interference from the playground is fake, right?"

"Yes, yes, it seems that Shen Yunzhe is the real one." Codename Hope concluded happily.

The dead people demolished the entire temple, and in the end only a real palm-sized statue of the god was left sitting on the altar. The dead people reached out but could not grab it.

This is the medium of the playground and the core of the playground.

However, even if the media playground remains, it will never return to its original state.

The dead no longer abide by the rules of the 'real town'. They are seeking revenge in anger and blaming the real God.

Each playground has its own area, including but not limited to hospitals, schools, exhibition halls and playgrounds. They must erode and determine their own scope in a certain area, expand little by little within this scope, and finally become its own territory, giving birth to a series of game rules.

But now, the rules of the game have been broken, the residents of the real town are no longer proud of its authenticity, and the game field itself is mostly destroyed.

The True God screamed, the voice coming from the medium. Codename Hope patted Shen Yunzhe's shoulder and said, "It seems that they are going to perish together."

"I've been prepared for this move." Shen Yunzhe said, "Although it has thoughts, its thoughts are simple and boring. You can guess it easily."

The medium statue began to shatter from the top of its head, and the real god tried to die together with the guy who interfered with the game field.

It cannot erode reality, but at the same time, once the medium destroys the person, there is no way back to the original world. It has been defeated to this point and can only return to the darkness with the "real town".

It did not notice that countless thin and dense silk threads emerged from the red words, and the invisible silk threads were wrapped around the medium, densely wrapped from head to toe. When the Real God discovered it, the silk threads had already been taut, and the sharp silk threads controlled all the movements of the stone statue.

After a brief pause, the True God let out a sharp sound, so loud that even the players in the bridge tunnel could hear it.

The silk thread pierced into the stone statue, and the blood words finally covered the small stone statue, wrapping it up layer by layer.

The dead people stopped moving. They stood around the stone statue in black clothes, not moving or making a sound, just watching silently.

This was the strangest playground Cheng Yiyi had ever been to, although he had only been to four playgrounds.

The wails of the True God continued to echo. It was a sharp sound of terror and resentment. Cheng Yiyi had never heard such a sound in her life. However, Shi Xingxiang said that she had heard such a sound. There was a woman in the mountain village who was bought back. She was tied up with chains by her family and gave birth at home.

She made this sound when she was caught and beaten after a failed escape.

Desperate and difficult to escape.

It is really puzzling that a strange object in a playground can make such a sound.

Of course, they didn't dare to see what was happening, so they just waited in the bridge hole. They squatted there for a long time, so long that they almost got used to the screams of the Real God. They finally held on until the seventh day.

"It's the last day." Cheng Yiyi sighed, "I don't know where Shen Wei is now. After I found the medium, the person who looked exactly like Shen Wei also disappeared."

"But I think he's still alive. He must be alive."

Shi Xingxiang sat next to him and said, "I also think he is still alive."

"In the hotel over there."

"Who is Chen Wei? I've been thinking about it for a long time and still can't figure it out." Shi Xingxiang asked: "I remember you were often with him, did you know?"

"I don't know much more than you. I only know that he may have a relationship with the authorities, or at least has had contact with the authorities." Cheng Yi supported her chin and recalled the memories of her exploration with Shen Yunzhe, and finally confirmed that Shen Yunzhe really did not reveal anything.

Shi Xingxiang looked at him doubtfully, "Official?"

"Don't you know there are officials?"

"How would I know? I live in a small village and can't leave," Shi Xingxiang said. "I don't have time to pay attention to the Internet."

So Cheng Yiyi sighed and said to the official Shi Xingxiang Science Popularization Official, and as they were talking, a prompt came from their mobile phones.

[The Real Town mission is completed, congratulations to the player. ]

They saw the sunlight breaking through the clouds and shining down, so Cheng Yiyi and Shi Xingxiang stood up. The moment they left the playground, they saw the dead people in front of the real temple in the distance. The dead people stood quietly, and the real statues wailed and shattered. After the real statues shattered, the dead people finally turned into foam under the sunlight.

They are finally no longer trapped in this terrible playground and return to where they belong.

In front of the hotel window, Shen Yunzhe also heard the prompt that the mission was completed. Everything around him was collapsing, and Shen Yunzhe knew that he would leave soon.

This playground will no longer exist.

He turned around and saw a man standing in front of him with his back to him.

In the white light of the collapsing playground, Shen Yunzhe recognized that the figure was none other than Yang Pei, whom he had failed to save.

"Chen Wei, thank you." Yang Pei said words of thanks with her back to him.

Shen Yunzhe stood there, "Are you thanking me?"

"Of course I'm thanking you." Yang Pei smiled. Even though her back was facing Shen Yunzhe, he could still see the dimples on her face when she smiled. "Thank you for stopping me from throwing the confession letter, and for always keeping me by your side. You even chased me when I was captured."

"Thank you for never giving up on me."

Shen Yunzhe looked at her with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"I really, really hate this playground. I don't want to kneel down and repent at all. I hate people who kneel the most in my life." Yang Pei laughed and cried at the same time, "But I died like this. Even after death, I still have to kneel there. I hate it so much that I almost feel like I'm not myself anymore."

"Chen Wei, thank you for setting me free, for letting me stand up and say to that damned statue: I do not repent."

"Great, I'm still me."

Shen Yunzhe repeated her words, "That's great, you are still you."

"I'm going to where I need to go now." Yang Pei took a step forward. "We won't see each other again, so I came to you to say thank you."

"...Then, goodbye."

Shen Yunzhe watched her disappear before his eyes. He murmured softly, "Actually, there's one thing I haven't told you."

"My name isn't actually Chen Wei."

[Shen Yunzhe?]

Shen Yunzhe raised his head and looked into the sky, as if he was looking at something and yet looking at nothing.

The playground is a place that takes lives and twists people's emotions. Passing through it should give you a better understanding of this. Although Code Erode's death was voluntary, he can indeed truly guide the deceased's original emotions. Code Erode couldn't find this, so he left.

But you did it.

Shen Yunzhe thought about it, but he didn't say anything and didn't react much.

His mind was flooded with words again, and his memories were churning.

'They weren't truly a blessing, but I never considered myself a curse.'

'I want to see them for who they really are.'

'I died for them.'

Codename Erosion is not a fool. Apart from his kindness and impartiality, he is not much different from a normal person. Therefore, he knows better than anyone how terrible the current situation is.

There were no fewer than tens of thousands of people affected by his ability, and all of them seriously wanted to die for him, to the point that they actively sought death. One after another, people died in places where they shouldn't have died, revealing unreal smiles in front of him. Codename Erosion saw it all, and he knew everything.

"We know you didn't do anything wrong on your own initiative, and we're sad to make this decision."

'Don't be sad, if you are sad, you will become like them.'

"...Shen Lin."

Many trees form a forest, and its name is Shenlin. It is a forest formed by countless trees gathered together, a forest that one person alone cannot form.

He was perhaps the one who was sadder than anyone else about this outcome, but as the one who started it, he always had to end it, to restore these people to normal, so that they would no longer die for another person. If one tree is missing, the forest is still a forest; if another tree is missing, the forest is no longer a forest.

【Synchronization canceled.】

【You made him see more possibilities, and you did what he couldn't do. 】

[You reminded him that there were countless 'dead people' trapped in the playground he destroyed. They returned to where they belonged with the help of Code Erode.]

【Thank you. 】

…

Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes and felt his body was very warm, with something warm covering him. He remembered that he was almost falling asleep when he entered the playground.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the ceiling of his house. The exquisite doll beside the bed walked towards him step by step and got into his quilt.

Shen Yunzhe snuggled into bed with the doll in his arms, and then his sleep was interrupted by a phone call.

Almost frightened to death, Shen Yunzhe took the phone from beside the pillow and took a look. The person calling was his old acquaintance Qiao Dong.

"Hello?" Shen Yunzhe answered the phone.

Qiao Dong was obviously relieved. "Congratulations on passing the fifth game field."

"It's the fourth one." Shen Yunzhe corrected his mistake.

"Maybe I remembered it wrong. Congratulations on passing the fourth game field." Qiao Dong knew that he would not make a mistake, but Shen Yunzhe said the fourth one was the fourth one. He would not bother to refute it, especially when Shen Yunzhe was a very important person.

After Shen Yunzhe entered the game field, the officials were very worried. The game field was too dangerous and no one could guarantee that they could survive.

Theoretically, if Shen Yunzhe was Shen Wei's son, he would definitely have a way to save his life, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Shen Yunzhe sat up and asked, "You called me just to make sure I'm still alive?"

"This is a routine inquiry, as you know." Qiao Dong said with a smile: "Then when are you free? I want to come and ask about the playground."

After Qiao Dong and Shen Yunzhe made an appointment, he hung up the phone decisively.

Players who have just come out of the game will be very tired, because they can't eat or sleep well in the game, and they have to be nervous, so most of the players want to have a good sleep after coming out and don't want to be disturbed at all. Only the ultimate office worker like Qiao Dong will be involved in work and unable to extricate himself right after leaving the game.

Shen Yunzhe threw his phone to the side of the bed. He yawned loudly and held the doll in silence for a while. After thinking for a while, he picked up his phone and started searching.

He entered the name 'Cheng Yiyi'.

Soon, the entire search term was occupied by Cheng Yiyi's portrait. The first three were encyclopedias, and the rest were gossip, various Weibo and headlines. Shen Yunzhe stared at this complicated information and finally clicked on the first encyclopedia searched.

He is a very famous star. He used to be a singer, but later switched to being an actor. He has good looks and acting skills, so he is considered a top male star in recent times.

Unfortunately, Shen Yunzhe had no interest in television, and he didn't even know Weibo when he was playing with his phone, so he didn't know her at all.

It is also possible that you have heard of this name but just never took it to heart.

After looking for a while, Shen Yunzhe rubbed his eyes, yawned, turned over, and then clicked on Li Yuluan's chat box.

Li Yuluan sent him a message half an hour ago, asking if he was "dead".

So Shen Yunzhe replied: [Can I introduce you to a client? ]

Li Yuluan sent a question mark.

Rich, very rich; famous, very famous!

【Do you know anyone like this? 】

[Does the famous star Cheng Yiyi know about this?] Shen Yunzhe typed while nestled in his bed. [Go find him. He's the client I introduced you to.]

Li Yiluan sent another question mark.

【Don't believe it?】

"It's not that I don't believe him, but why didn't you just give me his contact information? Why did you ask me to find him myself? Do you think I could snatch a ticket from his millions of fans?"

【There is no other way, you need to fight for it yourself. 】

Li Yiluan thought for a moment and continued typing, "If we really meet, what should I say to prove my identity?"

【Tell him your name is Chen Wei.】

【？ 】

【Isn’t Chen Wei your father? 】

Shen Yunzhe didn't reply. Li Yuluan looked at the name and thought for a long time. After a while, he called Qiao Dong directly.

How could Shen Yunzhe know Cheng Yiyi? He had never mentioned this name before. Maybe he didn't even know who Cheng Yiyi was. There was only one possibility for him to suddenly say this: Shen Yunzhe and Cheng Yiyi met in a game field.

This guy is asking him to help report it, both openly and secretly...

Qiao Dong sounded in a good mood and was very enthusiastic. He kept asking Li Yuluan if he wanted to join the official team.

Li Yiluan interrupted his solicitation and asked, "Do you know Cheng Yiyi?"

"Cheng Yiyi? That celebrity?" Qiao Dong responded. "What happened to him?"

"He's a player."

"Oh?" Qiao Dong's voice was a little hesitant, and then he raised his eyebrows as if he understood something. "Oh, I see. Thank you for the clue."

It's so comfortable to talk to smart people.

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Dong immediately took his people away.

So Cheng Yiyi, who had just come out of the playground and had not had time to rest properly, was blocked by the official people at the door. He looked at Qiao Dong blankly as he stood in front of him with a smile.

No? Why? He doesn't remember being exposed?!

On the other side, Shen Yunzhe, curled up in the quilt, rubbed the pillow with his doll in his arms.

He still remembered that Codename wanted to help him under certain conditions. Although they had not been put forward yet, he estimated that they would not be good conditions.

When he was in the game field, he didn't seem to like Cheng Yiyi very much, so he decided to sell out some teammates and ask for code names in the hope of pleasing her.