Chapter 126

There is only one rule that can be confirmed at the moment: you cannot stay outside the box for too long.

Once the time limit is exceeded, the waiter will come. The waiter is obviously not right and has a knife in his hand. He looks at them like a piece of pork, so you must avoid being left outside for a long time.

But the private room isn't necessarily a good place.

"Seeing joy is like seeing evil. Do you remember what it said on the menu?" Qi Xue asked Shen Yunzhe, who was sitting next to him. "Look, this is a birthday party. It's a celebration."

Shen Yunzhe looked at Qi Xue in surprise, "Why are you asking me?"

"Because I noticed you're quite capable, courageous, and observant." Qi Xue looked at him. "The authorities aren't good enough. They didn't even recruit you."

Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows. "Are you an official?"

"I'm considered a non-staff member," Qi Xue said. "I help out occasionally, just keeping my name on the team so the authorities can notify me if something special happens. I heard a while ago that there's a mysterious player who can actually directly damage strange creatures. It's said his last name is Shen, and the authorities have been looking for him for a long time."

"Really? There really is such a player?" Shen Yunzhe asked, "What does he look like?"

"Black hair and black eyes, what else could she look like?" Qi Xue thought for a moment. "I saw her from a bird's-eye view during a surprise Easter egg livestream. I couldn't see her very clearly, but judging by her hairstyle and clothes, she didn't look very fashionable."

Not very fashionable. Shen Yunzhe nodded, "It seems to be an ordinary appearance."

"You're quite fashionable, with long hair. Very few men have long hair, and it seems only art students do it."

Shen Yunzhe raised an eyebrow. "Don't you think it's particularly iconic? You'd recognize it even if you walked into the game room."

Shen Yunzhe sighed again, "Actually, my mom asked me to keep it. She said it looked like the male protagonist in a romance novel. After all, male protagonists are different from ordinary people. This is actually the length after I cut it a little bit. If I cut it any further, my mom would commit suicide."

Just then, the birthday song came from the box, and they all turned their heads to look forward.

The girl was making a wish, and the couple was smiling and singing Happy Birthday. It looked very warm.

"The warmer it gets, the weirder it feels." Qi Xue murmured, "This is a playground, how could it be like this?"

Shen Yunzhe also nodded, "Do you want to try it out?"

"How to test?"

Shen Yunzhe took out a piece of paper from his pocket. He had picked up this piece of paper when he went exploring. The paper was red with golden lace on it, which looked very festive. Shen Yunzhe lowered his head and began to fold the paper. His hands were very fast, and he folded out a red rose in just one minute.

The roses didn't look cheap at all, and even became extraordinarily beautiful in his hands, which was more than enough to coax a little girl.

In fact, Shen Yunzhe was also very curious about how he could do this, but after thinking about it, he knew that it was the ability of the code-named Fraudster.

He should have a lot of small skills. To cheat someone, one must have the skills to do so.

After the little girl made her wish and blew out the candles, Shen Yunzhe stood up and walked over with a smile.

"Happy birthday." Shen Yunzhe handed the paper flower to the little girl. "This is the flower I folded for you just now. I thought it would be the best time to give it to you. The red flower suits you best."

The little girl looked at the paper flowers in surprise and said, "Thank you, brother."

She took the flowers, and her parents looked at Shen Yunzhe with gratitude. Shen Yunzhe sat back with a smile, but the smile on his face disappeared instantly when he sat down.

Qi Xue was a little surprised that he could fold paper flowers, but this was not the most important thing now.

"How about it?"

"Cold." Shen Yunzhe whispered, "Her hands are very cold, not like a living person."

Qi Xue's face also looked unhappy.

This little girl looked so pitiful and well-behaved, but she was actually dead!

"This is a gift from us for you." The couple gave the gift to the little girl. The little girl happily opened the box and found a pair of beautiful red shoes inside. The little girl cheered and immediately put on the new shoes, jumping around in the box.

Then the couple looked at the players.

"What gifts have you prepared?"

The players were all stunned and looked at each other.

"You didn't bring any gifts, did you?" The couple stood up and looked at the player. "Today is Lili's birthday. Lili always looks forward to her birthday party. Didn't you bring any gifts? Lili is waiting here."

"Where's the birthday present?"

"Where's the gift?"

The couple grinned strangely, "Do you want to give yourselves to Lili?"

After hearing these words, everyone's faces turned pale instantly. They quickly began to look for something on their bodies. No matter what they found, they would pass this level first. However, only Shen Yunzhe had nothing because he had given the birthday present before.

Finally, Qi Xue gave a notebook and said it was a diary for the girl. This was pure lies. Qi Xue picked up this notebook when he was surveying because he thought that if it was a wedding banquet, he would need to prepare gifts, so he just took one with him.

Unexpectedly, the couple and the little girl were not picky and accepted whatever was given to them. They didn't care about the size of the gifts at all and even happily accepted the shoes of the last player.

The gift-giving session passed without any incident, and the girl's birthday party moved on to the next stage, where she began to cut the cake.

She divided the cake into pieces bit by bit and gave a piece to everyone, including the players, but no one present dared to take a bite.

Even the cake exudes a rich creamy aroma.

The little girl handed the cake to her parents with a smile, and at that moment, a phone rang.

The girl's mother took out her cell phone from her bag, looked at the phone, then looked at her husband beside her, and then answered the call.

"I told you it's my daughter's birthday today, so don't call me." The mother said, "If you have anything to say, we can talk tomorrow."

"Don't be unreasonable. I promised my daughter that I would accompany her today."

"Okay, I'm hanging up."

The mother hung up the phone and the scene was silent. The girl holding the cake looked at her mother blankly, then looked cautiously at her father beside her, only to see that her father had an ugly expression on his face. He stared at her mother fiercely, as if he had seen an enemy.

"Who's calling?"

"Who else could it be? Just a friend." The mother didn't care at all and said the same thing as she did on the phone, "My daughter is here. We can talk tomorrow if there's anything."

"Why do you have to say it tomorrow? Say it in front of your daughter!" The father raised his voice and the little girl trembled with fear.

The man dragged the little girl over and pressed her in front of the woman. "Just say it in front of your daughter! Are you looking for someone again? You shameless woman!"

"I'm shameless? Are you being too much?!" The woman also raised her voice. "It's not you who gambles? It's not you who has enemies everywhere?! Because your debt collectors have caught up with us, we've been running around, and our daughter can't go to school or make friends! This is all your fault!"

"That's not a reason for you to cheat!"

"Then tell me how you act like a father? Don't use my daughter to pressure me! Of course my daughter is closer to me!"

Under the horrified eyes of the players, the man roared and slapped the woman. The woman was stunned, and when she came to her senses, she screamed and pounced on him.

The cake was scattered all over the floor, and the man and woman were fighting on the ground. The little girl who was celebrating her birthday was standing nearby and crying. She was holding a plate of cake and crying for her dad and mom. The players present were watching this scene, their faces were grim, but they didn't dare to go up.

No one knows how things turned from celebrating the daughter's birthday to a fight.

"Mom and Dad." The little girl kept crying, "Don't fight, don't!"

"I was wrong. I don't want to celebrate my birthday anymore. I don't want to eat cake anymore."

The people fighting did not hear the girl's crying. The woman could not resist the man's strength. Shen Yunzhe saw the woman pick up the cake knife from the ground. Shen Yunzhe noticed this knife from the beginning. It was obviously used to cut cake, but it was a fruit knife.

The knife stabbed into the man's chest. The man opened his eyes wide, looked at the woman fiercely, and used his last strength to throw the woman onto the stone table next to him.

With a bang, the woman fell to the ground and lay motionless, blood gurgling down the stone table. The man also fell limply to the ground, never to move again.

The only one left was the little girl still standing there crying.

Shen Yunzhe stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go!"

He immediately ran out of the box, and Qi Xue also reacted quickly.

In the game field, the death of an NPC means that a ghost is about to appear, which is a very ominous sign. Moreover, seeing good is like seeing evil. If they see good, they will see it. If they see the dead, now only evil is left!

The players followed and ran out, but the last one stepped on the cream. He gave his shoes to the little girl and slipped and fell to the ground with his bare feet on the cream.

He cried out in pain and looked up again only to see the little girl standing in front of him.

"Aren't you Mom and Dad's friend?" The little girl looked at him with red eyes and asked, "Why didn't you stop Mom and Dad?"

"Why?"

"Aren't you here to celebrate my birthday? Why don't you do anything?"

The little girl's shadow suddenly expanded and became taller than the two of them. Her arms and legs were ridiculously long. When she opened her mouth, three voices came out. The three voices overlapped and they were basically the voices of her father, mother, and Lili.

When Shen Yunzhe and the others left the box, they heard miserable screams coming from inside, accompanied by the crunching sound of teeth chewing bones.

Someone was frightened and fell to the ground, looking at the box door in horror.

The screams lasted for more than three minutes before disappearing, but after the screams disappeared, there was a persistent chewing sound, crunching, as if something was biting bones, biting continuously.

This posture directly scared everyone outside.

"What are you doing?" a voice sounded behind them.

They almost jumped up. Shen Yunzhe turned around and saw the waiter standing behind them with a smile on his face.

Shen Yunzhe looked down at the waiter's tie.

The last waiter's tie was red, but this waiter's tie was yellow. Shen Yunzhe remembered that the player who surveyed the first floor at the beginning said that there were four waiters in total, and they looked exactly the same.

"Guests?" the waiter continued to ask them, "Is the food not to your taste?"

"I'm bored, let's go out for some fresh air." Qi Xue said, "I'll be back soon."

"How could that be? Our food is incredibly delicious, not greasy at all, just fragrant." The waiter pulled a notebook from his pocket. "Which dish made you feel greasy? I'll go check it out now. If it's the chef's fault, we'll punish him."

Qi Xue didn't expect her to say that. He had no idea what dishes were available.

Shen Yunzhe glanced at him, and he continued, "It's a cake. We're having a birthday party and we're tired of eating cake."

"So it's a cake?" The waiter wrote "cake" in the notebook. "Don't worry, I'll go check it out now."

The waiter pushed open the door of the box. The creaking sound from inside had long disappeared. The moment the door was opened, a strong smell of blood hit them in the face. Shen Yunzhe and Qi Xue were fine, but the faces of the others changed instantly. They already knew what that smell was.

"It smells so good! This cake is so well made." The waiter sniffed the scent intoxicatingly. "It must be delicious!"

She walked into the box and soon heard voices coming from inside.

"The cake is really well made, it must be delicious, right?"

"You're very satisfied, right? The cake smells really good? The ingredients are really good too? Yes, I think so too."

"It's just that customers have different tastes. I understand."

"What? You want to share the cake with everyone at the birthday party? Do you want me to do it for you? Okay, okay, it's rare to see guests as generous as you!"

After saying that, the waitress came out tremblingly, but she was not alone. She was pushing a small cart with a blood-red cake on it.

Everyone looked at the cake with pale faces.

The blood-red cake had a strong smell of blood, but that was not the point. The point was that there was a human head on top of the cake. The head had a terrified face and tears of blood were constantly flowing from its eyes. It was the player who had not escaped in the first place.

The waiter hummed a song and pushed the cake downstairs without paying any attention to them.

After the waiter disappeared, one player finally couldn't stand it anymore. He retched and vomited everything in his stomach.

Qi Xue's face wasn't looking good either. He leaned his hands on the windowsill and said, "No, what's going on with this playground? I've never seen anything like this!"

"We can't stay in the corridor for too long, but someone might die in the box. What should we do?"

Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "I'll go down and take a look."

"Go down?" Qi Xue looked at him in surprise. "I haven't figured out how long I can stay in the corridor yet. What if I don't have time to get into the box?"

"I want to know something." Shen Yunzhe said expressionlessly, "I'll try to come back as soon as possible."

After saying that, Shen Yunzhe turned around and went downstairs.

At first, the waiter didn't know where he pushed the cake, and Shen Yunzhe didn't care. He looked around on the first floor and saw a waiter standing in a place. She was wearing a purple tie.

Seeing Shen Yunzhe, the waiter came over with a smile on his face.

"What can I do for you, sir?"

"My friend drank too much and fell asleep now. Do you have any guest rooms?" Shen Yunzhe asked tentatively, "It would be very uncomfortable for people to sleep in a chair."

"I'm sorry, sir. This is a restaurant, not a hotel. We don't have guest rooms," the waiter replied. "Do you have any other questions?"

Shen Yunzhe looked at her.

She still maintained her usual smile and said, "If you have no further questions, please return to your room."

She licked the corner of her mouth and said, "Guests, please return to the private room quickly. Our dishes are very delicious. If you go back too late, you won't be able to enjoy them."

"The restroom." Shen Yunzhe changed to another place. "Where is the restroom?"

The waitress smiled and pointed Shen Yunzhe in a direction, which was the northeast corner of the first floor. Shen Yunzhe thanked her and walked towards the bathroom. When he arrived, he turned around and saw the waitress following him three meters away and smiling at him, as if to make sure he was really going to the bathroom.

Walking into the bathroom, Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief. He turned on the faucet and the water flowed down. Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief in the sound of water to calm himself down.

He asked this question just to confirm one thing.

Happy Dumpling House is a 24-hour restaurant, which means they have to work 24 hours a day. This means they have no place to live, no way to sleep, and even nothing to eat. After all, they dare not eat anything in this restaurant.

Is it possible to drink water only in the toilet?

Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly and looked at himself in the mirror. At this moment, he saw blood dripping from the faucet through the mirror.

Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment. He lowered his head to make sure that it was water flowing out of the faucet, but when he looked in the mirror again, it was indeed blood.

Huh?

Shen Yunzhe thought of a possibility.

When Shen Yunzhe left the bathroom, he saw the waitress waiting not far from the bathroom. Shen Yunzhe thanked her and left, counting down silently in his heart as he walked.

3, 2...1!

With a bang, the sound of the mirror shattering was particularly obvious. The waiter turned and rushed into the bathroom. Shen Yunzhe calculated her steps and took out a lens from his pocket when he was sure she couldn't see him. He looked at the waiter standing at the bathroom door through the lens.

The waitress was looking at the shattered mirror in the bathroom with her back to him, but in her hair there was a face moving constantly behind her head.

The face at the back of her head turned its eyes and finally glared in the direction of Shen Yunzhe.

Shen Yunzhe quickly put the lenses back into his pocket. He pretended that he had not seen anything. He kept walking forward without even breathing heavily.

"System," Shen Yunzhe said, "Can you tell the approximate size of this gaming field?"

[With great luck, the difficulty is around 10.]

"For a gaming venue of this level, you're still using the codename Fraudster?"

[Codenamed the Fraudster, he excels at deceiving people through small details. He possesses multiple skills, but he tends to be insecure in times of crisis.]

[Don't change it for now. Although the codename Fraudster is a little less confident, he also has a strong ability to react suddenly.]

[This game is not that simple, and the ability to react quickly is very important.]