Chapter 114

The event of strange objects invading reality is very difficult to deal with, because it is like another playground, isolating the world and everyone outside.

People outside can't get in, so people inside have to find ways to break down this barrier.

If you are lucky, there is a player inside who understands the flow of the game field. If you are unlucky, then it is all over. Everyone will die inside. The game field becomes a dead city. This place becomes taboo and designated as a dangerous area, like the "mountain village" in the past and the "train" now.

When Shen Yunzhe arrived, Qiao Dong was trying to find a way to enter the game field, but unfortunately, they were helpless.

The authorities are helpless in dealing with the already eroding gaming landscape and can only wait for an outcome.

Shen Yunzhe looked at it for a while, then thought, "Is there a way to get in?"

The official immediately explained to Shen Yunzhe that this matter was really difficult because there was no technical gap at all. In other words, they didn't even know how the game field was formed. But in fact, Shen Yunzhe was not asking him, but asking the system.

The system's voice overlaps with that of official personnel.

[Living people cannot enter.]

Shen Yunzhe turned and left. As he walked, he asked in a low voice, "What do you mean living people can't get in?"

[The strange creature erosion is the same as the game field. No one except the selected players can enter this game field. However, if the living cannot enter, they can rely on the dead. ]

"What's the meaning?"

There are many dead bodies in the playground. Even when strange things invade reality, they carry those dead bodies with them. If you're lucky, perhaps one of your counterparts dies there. Of course, those who die there can return to the playground because they originally belonged to this playground.

Shen Yunzhe understood that it still depends on luck.

He walked to Qiao Dong who was not far away. Qiao Dong was busy, and Pentagram, whom he had met once, was also observing something.

"Director Qiao," Shen Yunzhe asked, "Can you tell me what kind of playground is inside?"

Hearing this, Qiao Dong glanced at Shen Yunzhe and then handed him the information in his hand.

"We identified three possibilities through screening the police calls. The keyword "flowers blooming on the chest" confirmed that the first possibility was a gift from a girl. The general background story is that the girl was given a flower by her deceased mother, and the flower eventually took root and grew in her body. The second possibility is that a couple committed suicide for love, with many flowers falling around them. The deceased couple is seeking revenge against those who opposed them. The third possibility is very small and is a plantation."

"There's also the possibility that we haven't included the game venue."

Shen Yunzhe looked at the information and then continued, "Then which one do you think is the most likely?"

"Two," Qiao Dong said, "There was a message in the police call: flowers bloomed on everyone's chest, in large quantities."

Shen Yunzhe lowered his eyes slightly.

This is a rather complex game field, and its content changes frequently. Currently, I only have information about your counterpart while they are in the game field.

[Game Field: Jiahua Cinema - Emergency Department.]

Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment, "Doctors, patients and flowers have something to do with each other?"

[Unrelated, so now it should be the game venue: Jiahua Cinema - Liang Zhu.]

As soon as this word came out, Shen Yunzhe immediately realized why the system said that the content of the game field would change, because this is a movie theater, and it is very normal to change the movies played in a movie theater. The movie played back then was Emergency Department, and the movie played now is Liang Zhu.

"Who is it?" Shen Yunzhe asked.

[World A03719, codename: Doctor, synchronization rate 85%, synchronization begins.]

Code name doctor?

Shen Yunzhe still remembers that this was the first peer he synchronized with after entering the game field. He only synchronized with it for a short day in the first game field. Because he synchronized with the doctor, he synchronized with a more advantageous forensic doctor and never synchronized with a doctor again.

Unexpectedly, he died in this playground...

[Codename Doctor synchronized successfully.]

[85% synchronization can temporarily deceive the game field. At the beginning, you must maintain your sanity and wait for problems to appear before increasing the synchronization rate. Now go forward and turn at the second intersection to enter the game field.]

Shen Yunzhe walked forward following the system's instructions. He passed by Qiao Dong and Pentagram. Pentagram turned to look at him as if he had noticed something. Qiao Dong saw Pentagram turned his head and also turned to look over. So he watched Shen Yunzhe turn a corner.

As if he noticed their gaze, Shen Yunzhe turned his head, but the next moment he was swallowed up by the playground.

The pen fell from between his fingers, and Qiao Dong was stunned for ten seconds without blinking.

"Did you see it?" Qiao Dong asked the pentagram beside him.

Pentagram pushed up his sunglasses and said, "I'm blind. I don't see anything."

"Fuck!" Qiao Dong blurted out a curse word he would never say, "He disappeared! Where is that place? Why did he disappear there?! Pentagram, you really didn't see anything?! Oh my God! Pentagram, we lost Shen Yunzhe!"

"He must have been swallowed by the playground." Pentagram said steadily, "Just now, I saw a strange creature appear and pull him in."

It’s hard to describe.

But when the Pentagram saw the playground at that moment, it was like a big cat that had lost its kittens. It stretched out its claws and grabbed Shen Yunzhe in, and did not forget to fill the gap afterwards.

Very strange.

"So what do we do now?"

"Calm down. Putting aside the fact that Shen Yunzhe might be more eager to enter this playground, it's better to have him inside right now." Pentagram said, "He can get people out of the train, and he can also get the people inside out of here."

Qiao Dong sighed, "It's not that I don't believe this, it's just..."

However, Shen Yunzhe is being watched by countless people. The stronger he is now, the more people will think that Shen Wei must have kept some secret on him. Now some people have begun to try every means to contact him. His father is Shen Wei, but he has never received any gift from Shen Wei.

Perhaps in his own eyes, he is just an orphan with nothing.

Why should he be responsible for Shen Wei?

Of course, Qiao Dong knew that he could only think this way. The reality was that no one could decide where they were born, nor could they decide what others thought of them.

Qiao Dong shook his head and said, "Keep paying close attention. I'll be back soon."

I need to report the situation first.

…

In a blink of an eye, Shen Yunzhe found himself in another scene. This was a familiar place and familiar streets. He had stayed here for more than ten years. Even after leaving this city, his memory was still clear when he came back.

There is no one on this street now. The street is empty and the residential buildings are silent. When you look up, you can see dark clouds.

Is it going to rain?

Boom, thunder sounded. Shen Yunzhe looked around, turned around and walked in the direction he remembered.

The gate of the orphanage was still the same as before, but the sign had been changed. It was no longer the wooden sign he remembered, but a metal sign with a logo. Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door of the orphanage and walked in. The yard was very messy, and some broken toys could be seen thrown on the ground, but there was no one here.

Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly, looked around, turned and walked into the back room.

The conditions in the orphanage are not very good. There are bungalows at the back and several children live in one dormitory. The teaching is in a separate classroom, but the orphanage does not have teaching qualifications, so the children can only be sent to school when they are old enough to attend elementary school.

When Shen Yunzhe stepped into the classroom, he unexpectedly found that the classroom was equipped with a projector, and the projector was on.

A video is playing above.

There is a line of words engraved on the projector - Jiahua Cinema.

Below is the introduction of the film - "Liang Zhu".

[The lovers who were forced to death turned into black butterflies, and they returned for revenge...]

The scene changed, and a large area of red flowers appeared on the projector. Flower vines covered the ground, and red flowers dotted it like blood. In a small house, several adults protected their children behind them and looked at everything outside in horror.

Shen Yunzhe immediately recognized that the person standing in front was the director of the orphanage, Shen Xinlu was standing next to him, and the child behind him was crying.

They're actually in a movie?

"System." Shen Yunzhe said: "What should we do now?!"

[Wait, wait until the media realizes that you were once a dead person in the game field and pulls you back in.]

Shen Yunzhe stood in front of the curtain. The children were crying, the vines were approaching little by little, and Shen Xinlu's expression was serious and nervous.

"According to your information, how can this playground survive?"

[Following the plot, the game field will assign roles to each person, and each character has its own story. Following the plot can help you avoid death, but you can't completely trust the plot. The death of the code-named doctor is the best example.]

Shen Yunzhe nodded, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down little by little.

After coming here, he felt an inexplicable feeling of nausea. He felt so sick that he wanted to vomit. His mind was full of adjectives such as dirty and messy. He was very irritable and wanted to leave here urgently.

Shen Yunzhe realized that this was the mood of the code-named doctor, and he hated this playground very much.

Codename Doctor died here. He should really hate this place, but Shen Yunzhe felt that this hatred was a bit weird.

It's so disgusting. This feeling of nausea is probably not because of the death of the counterpart itself, but because of disgust towards something.

Just as he was calming down, he unexpectedly saw words appear on the curtain.

"What's this?"

【audience. 】

Shen Yunzhe was stunned. "Audience?"

Every gaming venue has an audience, but this one is special. It's a movie theater, and the players are the actors in the movie. The audience exists like moviegoers, which aligns with live streaming. So, even without a live streaming interface, they still exist.

[What you're seeing now is them enjoying a new movie.]

Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly, "...I feel uncomfortable in my stomach."

[Hold it in. It's not nice to vomit in front of children.]

"But I can't see what the audience is saying," Shen Yunzhe murmured. "It's a little different from live streaming. I can't know exactly what the audience means, but at the same time, there's no added difficulty associated with the audience."

That would be a lot less fun.

"What?"

[No, we're about to go in. Please be careful. I will increase the synchronization rate if necessary.]

As soon as the system finished speaking, Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes and saw everything in front of him.

The vines and blood-colored flowers were no longer things on the curtain, but appeared before his eyes in real life.

It was what was in front of him that made Shen Yunzhe notice that the vines were covered with thorns, with red flesh hanging on the thorns, some even dyed red with blood. Red flowers dotted the branches, but under each red flower was a corpse with its eyes open.

The flower's roots emerged from the corpse's chest, nourishing the man-eating flower.

Just as Shen Yunzhe was about to avoid the flower vines and go find the people from the orphanage, a voice sounded in his ears.

"A brave and fearless warrior appears on this desolate land. He decides to save this world devoured by evil spirits. Can he do it?"

"Warriors and trapped persons, please assemble."

Shen Yunzhe sighed, "...It's like a play."

He still remembered the location of the orphans in the curtain. He avoided the flower vines and walked forward. After a while, he saw the small house in front of him. Faint crying sounds were heard. It was the young children inside.

Shen Xinlu held the child and coaxed him, comforting them in a low voice.

As a police officer who had access to internal information, Shen Xinlu knew very well what this thing was. She didn't expect to be so unlucky that the strange object invasion would directly devour the orphanage. Since the subway incident, the problem of the playground has been reported to all police and military, because there is no certain time when the strange object invasion incident will occur, and the possibility of players being present at the place where it occurs is extremely low.

Even if there are players, their quality varies, and there may be bystanders who are indifferent.

So every police officer received a thick document, each of which contained precautions for the playground, and they needed to protect the people present when encountering such emergencies.

Thinking of this, Shen Xinlu felt lucky again. At least she came here and this place had a police officer like her.

At this moment, Shen Xinlu suddenly stood up. She looked outside nervously and heard a faint sound of footsteps not far away.

Someone's coming?!

Who is it?

Shen Xinlu handed the child to Dean Shen, then walked carefully to the window. Her muscles were tense, ready to attack at any time. The people in the room also realized that something was wrong. Everyone held their breath, fearing that something would go wrong. The footsteps became louder and louder, and soon Shen Xinlu saw a pair of shoes.

She slowly raised her head and looked upwards, but the moment she saw the person, she froze in place.

"Xiaozhe?!" Shen Xinlu whispered.

When Shen Yunzhe heard her voice, he made a hushing sound to Shen Xinlu, indicating not to disturb the flower vines outside, and then walked over step by step.

On the way here, Shen Yunzhe noticed that these flower vines like quietness and are particularly sensitive to sounds. Once the sound is too loud, they will immediately have a stress response. The stress of the flower vines cannot be easily overcome by the death of a person. When the flowers are clustered together, there must have been some shocking sounds.

"Why are you here?!" Shen Xinlu asked him anxiously but quietly.

Shen Yunzhe didn't know how to explain it. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I'm currently an official non-staff member."

"Official?" Shen Xinlu looked at him in surprise, "Really?"

"Well, I'm here to rescue you now." Shen Yunzhe replied in a low voice: "I can only send one person in, so I came."

"Are you a fool? How dare you come in here?" Shen Xinlu poked his head, and she almost cried as she poked.

She always felt that as a police officer, she must take the people here away, and that she needed to support herself here, but she didn't expect that there would be someone willing to come in here to save her and help her.

This is her younger brother!

On the other side, the writing on the curtain slowed down for a moment, and then some questioning words appeared.

【Why is there suddenly one more person? 】

New character?

It's normal to add new characters midway through a movie, but this isn't a normal movie. All the characters were confirmed at the beginning, so how could there suddenly be an extra character?

Who is he?

[Official introduction: Warriors, those who step into this area to save the survivors. ]

I thought adding characters mid-game was something only the arcade did, but now it seems like it's not the arcade adding new players, it's the arcade encroaching on reality. Could it be that the arcade is spreading outward and pulling in more people? I'm really looking forward to it.

[More than half of them are already dead.]

[…Why does this person look familiar? ]

[Who is this? He looks so familiar. I feel like I know him. Where did we meet? How could I have forgotten? He is, he is...]

[Chen Nuo!? Wasn't he dead? Why is he here? He's still alive? How could he still be alive?!]

[Chen Nuo! Chen Nuo! Why are you still alive?!]

[You killed us, you must pay with your life! You will not die well!]

[Oh, you're so angry, but I'm going to pour a bucket of cold water on you. If you die and he lives, you can't get out and kill him.]

[And this isn't a game field, it's an erosion of reality. There's no live stream to bind your game difficulty.]

【You will not die well! 】

[As expected, appreciating the players is not as good as appreciating the audience who broke down their defenses.]