Chapter 157

On New Year's Eve, all supermarkets were closed and there were few people on the streets. Shen Yunzhe stood at the balcony window and looked downstairs.

Because of the playground, fireworks were allowed this year. As the saying goes, the sound of firecrackers can scare away the terrible monster "Nian", and this move has calmed the people's hearts a little.

The fireworks outside had already been set off, and the news was playing diligently, but the sound was not very clear.

"According to reports, an abandoned movie theater has appeared in the northern part of the original Jiangbei area. Please stay away."

"Yang country has experienced the largest strange object invasion incident. No less than a thousand people are missing. Please stay at home and do not go out."

"The possible appearance of singing girls on the streets has been confirmed to be a rumor. Please do not spread rumors."

"Don't look at other people's phones. The surprise Easter egg has been confirmed to be back. Please put down your phones and refrain from any online activities this year."

It's getting more and more chaotic.

The players were panicking, and ordinary people were also at a loss. The sound of firecrackers continued, but it could not calm people's hearts. Shen Yunzhe remembered what codenamed Hope once said. He said that when he became a player, the world had already been corrupted and in chaos. The news was exposed, and the whole society was in change.

The authorities always hope to save more people and are unwilling to give up on the players, but in the end they regret not killing all the players and cutting off the path from the game field to reality.

But now it seems that the pace at which strange things erode reality is getting faster and faster, and nothing can be changed at this time.

Even if you kill all the players, the game field will still come step by step.

"I don't feel good." That day, Li Yiluan called Shen Yunzhe and said, "I saw a lot of strange things."

"How strange is it?" Shen Yunzhe asked.

Li Yiluan thought for a long time, "Maybe... everyone I see turns into a shadow."

"It's the shadow that appears when it's close to the ground and only when the sun shines on it."

"Everyone looked dead, crawling on the ground like shadows." Li Yiluan was silent for a moment. "Yes, it was as if no one was qualified to walk upright and could only crawl on the ground. I was shocked when I suddenly saw this scene."

Shen Yunzhe looked at the people outside the window and asked, "Will I still see such a scene now?"

"I just saw it suddenly, like a flash of inspiration." Li Yiluan said: "Oh, yes, I also think I saw a huge stone statue."

"Have you talked to Director Qiao about this?"

"Not yet. He's so busy he almost died." Li Yiluan sighed. "Yesterday, the surprise Easter egg was restored. I called him, but the call was completely blocked. I don't know how many people called him. I guess he couldn't answer all the calls all day."

Shen Yunzhe also sighed, "It's quite pitiful that he's still busy working to the point of sudden death at this time."

"Maybe it's voluntary overtime, with no overtime pay at all."

The two of them felt sorry for Qiao Dong together.

"Okay, I'll talk to him later." Shen Yunzhe tapped his phone. "If you see anything else, tell Huang Yihua directly. The officials are so busy right now, and she'll probably have to go into battle with an injury."

Li Yiluan responded, sounding a little depressed, "Okay, I'll tell you when the time comes."

After saying that, Li Yuluan hung up the phone.

Shen Yunzhe flipped through his sparsely populated address book and called Qiao Dong. Even though it was Shen Yunzhe's call, Qiao Dong took about a minute to answer.

"Hello?" Qiao Dong's voice was full of fatigue. "Shen Yunzhe?"

"It's me." Shen Yunzhe sat on a chair on the balcony. "Li Yiluan called me just now. He told me he saw something. He said everyone had the look of death on them. He also saw everyone turned into shadows and giant stone statues."

Qiao Dong was silent for a while, then sighed, "Okay, I understand."

"How long has it been since you last rested?"

"No more, no less, three days and three nights." Qiao Dong smiled bitterly. "Oh, by the way, there's something I need to tell you. This time, things have developed too bizarrely. We're planning to cooperate with that organization. Although it may sound a bit spineless, the authorities just want to save as many people as possible, and they're willing to cooperate with their former enemies to achieve this."

"Of course, we are just sharing technology now, and we can't say for sure whether we will actually cooperate in the end."

Shen Yunzhe also knew that this would always happen. The erosion of strange objects was becoming more and more serious. The official had not yet been able to grasp the location and time of the strange erosion, but the organization had done it. However, the official also had information that the organization could not grasp. Temporary cooperation and information sharing were necessary until now.

Before the game field completely erodes reality, save as many as you can.

"What do you think of that new surprise Easter egg?" Shen Yunzhe changed the subject.

"It's the mountain village." Qiao Dong sighed again. "After the mountain village disappeared from under our noses, it started to move. It began to devour random villages. An unidentified female corpse appeared in the village. The villagers, regardless of gender or age, were fighting over the body. By the time we got to the end of the investigation, everyone was dead."

“To this day, not a single one is alive.”

Qiao Dong's voice was filled with helplessness and sorrow. "Because it's so random, we can't even handle it. Where else can't there be a few villages?"

When Shen Yunzhe hung up the phone, he heard the sound of firecrackers outside. Shen Yunzhe looked outside and saw several children playing with firecrackers. They seemed to be having a lot of fun, with bright smiles on their faces. However, the parents who were watching around had no expression on their faces.

They stood there, looking lifeless, with the smoke from the firecrackers rising weakly, with a slightly gray hue.

The weather is bad today, a bit cloudy, which makes it look even more depressing.

Shen Yunzhe looked at it for a while and then looked back at his phone. Then he opened WeChat and clicked on the contact list. There was a long list of add requests. Shen Yunzhe randomly selected a name that he liked and added it. The moment the addition was successful, the other party sent an exclamation mark, and then a voice call began.

Shen Yunzhe frowned and hung up, then another video call started and Shen Yunzhe hung up again.

This time the person on the other end learned his lesson and typed very obediently.

【What is there in the mountain village? 】

[If you cooperate with the official, you should know this. I have told the official.]

[Chen Wei, the kind female corpse, and the statue of the Virgin Mary... Do you know how to enter the core game field? ]

【Know. 】

"Tell me what to do!" The other party suddenly became excited. "The core game field is where everything can be solved! Whether it's coexistence or something else, we need to go there!"

Shen Yunzhe looked at the message and said, "Then go find the mountain village. Only from the mountain village can you enter the core game field."

【I will find it, and then I will come to you. 】

After saying this, the other party stopped talking, as if countless requests to add him were just for saying these two sentences.

Shen Yunzhe sighed.

He returned to the living room from the balcony and picked up a doll from the cabinet and held it in his arms.

He had been alone for so many years, but this was the first time he felt so uneasy.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a very short scream. Shen Yunzhe turned his head to look at the balcony. The moment he looked over, a figure fell like a leaf. Shen Yunzhe suddenly tensed up.

He stood up holding the doll and carefully moved to the balcony. He opened the window and looked down. The moment the window opened, screams rushed into the room with the wind.

All I saw downstairs was a body that had been smashed to pieces. The children who had set off firecrackers were crying, the adults were screaming, and blood was slowly oozing out.

What?

Someone jumped off the building at this time?

"Hehe." A faint laughter appeared around.

Shen Yunzhe turned his head and looked to the side. He saw nothing, but the sound came from all directions.

The voice sounded wrong, so Shen Yunzhe immediately tried to make a call, but surprisingly, the call went through.

Not only was the call made, but someone also received it.

Qiao Dong, who was at the top of the contact list, answered the phone blankly. The next moment, he heard a woman's strange laughter. The sound went straight into his head through the phone, causing goose bumps to appear all over Qiao Dong, who was so tired that he could fall asleep with his eyes closed.

"What's that sound?!" He couldn't help but stand up and stamp his feet, trying to shake off the goose bumps all over his body.

"The call was made?" Shen Yunzhe was also surprised. "Isn't it a strange invasion?"

"Director Qiao, I was at home and someone jumped from the building, and then there was this strange noise."

"I understand. Wait a moment. I'll confirm with the security personnel around you. Don't hang up and keep in touch!" Qiao Dong said quickly.

Of course Shen Yunzhe would not hang up the phone. He put the phone on the balcony table and looked down. He saw that the children and parents in the community square were covering their ears and screaming. They started running, as if they had also heard the strange sound.

The corpse downstairs was still in the same state as before. Just when Shen Yunzhe thought he was wrong, the corpse suddenly twisted.

The view from the tenth floor was not very clear, but Shen Yunzhe was sure that it must have moved!

The corpse twisted on the ground and suddenly raised its head. Shen Yunzhe saw its bloody face and the smile in its mutilated eyes.

"whee."

It smiled at Shen Yunzhe.

Shen Yunzhe shouted into the phone: "Director Qiao! It's a strange creature!"

"I heard it!" Qiao Dong listened to the sharp laughter on the phone, "No, Shen Yunzhe! It's not just where you are, there are strange things appearing in other places, but the communication hasn't changed, damn..."

"What's wrong?"

"Damn it! How come there's even an official who jumps off a building!" Qiao Dong cursed. "I'm laughing here too."

Shen Yunzhe frowned, closed the balcony window, and stopped looking at the corpse downstairs.

"Director Qiao, I have thought of a possibility."

"What?"

"You said... maybe it's because I called you and you heard the voice on my end, so you have the same strange thing there?"

Qiao Dong was stunned for a moment, nearly fainting. He took a deep breath before recovering. "You mean to say: this strange thing, it replicated and spread through mobile phone communications?! So this time, the phone can be used normally?"

"Yes." Shen Yunzhe said, "How else could it be such a coincidence? I just finished calling you, and there was a strange creature jumping off the building over there."

"Let me die." Qiao Dong almost collapsed, "How can I defend against this thing?"

“We can’t ask everyone to stop using mobile phones and telephones!”

Amidst Qiao Dong's wailing, Shen Yunzhe heard the sound of knocking on glass.

He turned his head and looked at the window behind him with his cell phone in hand. A bloody corpse was lying on the balcony of his house, giving him a disgusting smile.

It spoke, "You heard my voice."

"You saw me."

"I'm here to see you."

The sound was very small, and it was even smaller through the balcony window, like a whisper, but it was this whisper that made the horror even more intense.

Shen Yunzhe never thought that one day a corpse would climb through his window.

Invisible silk threads sprang out from the ground and hung on the corpse one by one. The corpse was pulled down with force. The corpse was unwilling to be pulled down. It held on to the window tightly, and finally left a line of blood marks on the window. The corpse fell heavily to the ground and was tied to the ground tightly by the silk threads.

"I don't want to see you!" Shen Yunzhe cursed.

Qiao Dong listened to Shen Yunzhe's voice without hanging up the phone. Although he didn't know what happened, Shen Yunzhe seemed very angry.

Qiao Dong walked forward with his cell phone in hand, while all the officials were running to investigate.

"Lü Shuo, Ding Mingcheng!" Qiao Dong called out their names, "What's going on now?"

A man wearing glasses came running over in a hurry, and another fat boy was also panting.

"It's spread. Women are committing suicide by jumping off buildings everywhere." The bespectacled man, Lu Shuo, said anxiously, "It's not just in our country. The same thing has happened abroad. This strange thing isn't powerful, but it's spreading like a virus."

"They're everywhere, like flies!" shouted the chubby Ding Mingcheng. "But they're not very powerful. A normal adult male can handle them! They can't kill them, but they won't hurt anyone either!"

"It's mainly mental damage." Lu Shuo nodded. "Some people have already had heart attacks from being frightened."

How could I not be scared? A person jumped off a building and fell into a mess, which was an eyesore. Then this ugly corpse actually moved and was crawling around looking for the person who heard the sound.

I didn’t hear Shen Yunzhe, an experienced player, start cursing.

"Issue a notice immediately." Qiao Dong said, "If there are players, let them handle it. If there are no players, whoever is brave enough will handle it. Don't make any external calls for the time being, this thing will spread!"

Shen Yunzhe heard what was said on the other side. He leaned over to take a look at the body that he had thrown to the ground for the second time. The body was covered in blood and flesh. Shen Yunzhe closed his eyes and didn't want to look at it anymore.

He looked around, then took out a bottle of alcohol from the medicine box, took a lighter and went downstairs.

The news had probably spread throughout the community that someone had jumped from a building and the body was moving. Shen Yunzhe saw some people wanting to come over to watch and some people running out, but Shen Yunzhe ignored them all. He quickly came to the side of the body, which was still tied firmly to the ground by invisible silk threads. It was moving its eyeballs, and the eyeballs rolled to the ground.

It looks even more disgusting.

Shen Yunzhe frowned and poured alcohol on the corpse, then lit a lighter and threw it on the corpse. With a whoosh, the corpse immediately caught fire.

"Ah!!" The corpse let out a sharp scream.

The scream was too scary, and Shen Yunzhe subconsciously took a step back. The corpse wanted to struggle, but it was completely unable to do so and could only be burned by the fire until it became motionless.

Can fire consume this body?

There were people around looking over here quietly, and some were even taking pictures.

"Don't take pictures!" Shen Yunzhe shouted, "This thing can spread!"

The person taking the photo's hand shook a little, but the other person didn't care at all and continued to take pictures.

Shen Yunzhe clicked his tongue and turned around to stop the man. The silk thread moved away from the corpse. At this moment, Shen Yunzhe heard someone scream. He turned around and saw the charred corpse staggering to its feet. It had a strong smell of burning and smiled at Shen Yunzhe.

"whee."

Shen Yunzhe didn't even turn his head. The invisible silk thread pulled the body back again. The body fell to the ground, trembled for a moment, and then stopped moving. Shen Yunzhe didn't care about the body anymore. He walked to Qianmian, the person taking the photo, and pulled out his mobile phone.

However, this person had already sent the photo, and the picture of the charred corpse quickly spread in the chat group.

"What are you doing?!" The man tried to snatch the phone back. "This is my personal property! I'm calling the police!"

Shen Yunzhe kicked the man out and then threw his cell phone next to him.

"Call the police now." Shen Yunzhe looked at him expressionlessly, "Didn't you hear me say not to take pictures?"

"I tell you, if one more person dies, it's all your fault."

"You're going to jail for sure."