Chapter 179

This place was really far away from the Xiangsheng Community where they lived. Because it was so incredibly far away, they had to imagine how many buildings like the Xiangsheng Community there were.

Is it filled with strange things? Are those strange things also victims and players?

After finally coming out of the ground, Shen Yunzhe looked at the time. It was past three in the afternoon, which was past the pilgrimage time.

Shen Yunzhe leaned against the wall and sighed, "Our meal today is ruined."

"I didn't go yesterday, and I ate the last bite of food this morning." Li Yiluan looked at Shen Yunzhe, "Do you have anything else to eat?"

“No more.”

They looked at each other and then walked upstairs together.

Now only Huang Yihua is left here. She must have something to eat. Let’s go and have a meal first.

As soon as they reached the fifth floor, Shen Yunzhe pulled Li Yuluan back. Li Yuluan didn't look surprised. They carefully poked their heads out of the corridor door and saw that the door of 5-7 was covered with yellow talismans. There were more than a dozen players standing outside the door. They all stood at the door of Huang Yihua's house, staring at the door.

"What happened?" Li Yuluan murmured softly.

"Perhaps Huang Yihua did something that attracted attention." Shen Yunzhe said, "Wait here, I'll go deal with it."

Li Yuluan stepped back and hid himself in the corridor, showing with his actions that he would never go out.

Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief.

"system."

[World C07390, codenamed Corrosion Synchronization, synchronization rate 100%.]

[World D00801, Codename: Fraudster, syncing in progress, 100% sync rate.]

Shen Yunzhe walked out, and everyone present turned to look at Shen Yunzhe.

"What are you doing here?" Shen Yunzhe asked them. "Are you visiting?"

"But isn't it very rude to gather around someone's door like this?"

These people stared at Shen Yunzhe.

Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment, "This is the Xiangsheng Community, where everyone lives in peace and love. If you do this, you'll frighten this resident. The Virgin Mary will blame you."

The people gathered at Huang Yihua's door looked at each other in bewilderment. They didn't know whose brain was moved by Shen Yunzhe, or perhaps Shen Yunzhe at this moment had such great magic that made everyone, including the strange creatures, trust him. After a few seconds of silence, they chose to turn around and leave.

Li Yuluan was amazed by what he saw.

Although this time it was not as useful as last time, these strange creatures simply left without dying of shame.

But last time there was only one strange creature, but this time there are a bunch of them. The effect is already very good!

After the strange creature left, Huang Yihua's door opened quickly. She quickly pulled Shen Yunzhe in, and Li Yuluan hurried over and entered the room together.

There were still bright red scars on Huang Yihua's neck, and she still seemed unable to speak.

After entering, Li Yulun went to find something to eat first. Huang Yihua quickly took out the food he had received this afternoon and put it on the table. Shen Yunzhe and Li Yulun each chose a small piece of bread and started eating, while Huang Yihua was typing on her mobile phone.

How is it? Is it effective?

"There should be, but this main quest has multiple conditions, so it's not yet complete. Shen Yunzhe speculates that we still need to find some information about the Virgin Mary."

【so. 】

Li Yiluan swallowed the bread in his mouth and said, "Let's not talk about us first. What's wrong with you?"

"There are all these weird things outside piled up at your door. What did you do?"

Huang Yihua was silent and covered her face silently.

Only then did she type and tell them exactly what she had done.

It is very difficult to tell which player has been replaced by the strange creature. Huang Yihua cannot speak, and she has thought of many ways but none of them seem simple or practical enough. While thinking, she suddenly remembered Hu Mingli's words. Hu Mingli said that he was the only one who knew that he was not the original body, so he wanted to kill Huang Yihua.

So Huang Yihua had a bold idea.

She covered her door with talismans before going on the pilgrimage, and then showed her phone to each player at the pilgrimage site.

There was a line of words written on the phone: [I know you are not you. ]

Driven by the desire to become residents of the community, these strange creatures that replaced the players must have wanted to kill Huang Yihua to silence her, so Huang Yihua quickly returned to the room after the pilgrimage, and then waited quietly at the door for these players to come.

Players who try to kill her are replaced.

[I've recorded all the players outside. After sorting through the records, I found that besides the three of us, there was only one player who hadn't been replaced. He lived on the third floor and hadn't been able to leave the house.]

"The loss rate is quite high." Li Yuluan sighed.

In fact, they both knew very well that the reason they were safe until now was mostly due to Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe had a way to protect himself, and this method also protected them, so until now those who had acted with Shen Yunzhe had not been replaced by strange creatures.

"But you're a bit too bold, aren't you?" Li Yiluan looked at Huang Yihua. "Just rushing in like that? What if you had entered the room a step later?"

"Aren't you the biggest advocate of being prepared for anything?"

Huang Yihua shook her head. She smiled and typed on her phone, "Talking with Shen Yun."

"Why me?" Shen Yunzhe was shocked.

"Because only you would venture into the most dangerous places without 100% certainty." Li Yiluan understood. "Completely disregarding the consequences, you think differently than normal people, but you often get the best results. Huang Yihua has learned a lot from this, at least we got the data we wanted."

Huang Yihua sighed, "Anyway, I can't stay here any longer. If you need to look for information later, take me with you. I'll also come with you to the altar."

If I continue to stay, I'm afraid I'll be knocked on the door until I die.

They nodded.

Although Huang Yihua was injured and her throat could not make any sound, her abilities were not damaged and her basic mobility had long been restored. After all, she had already taken a walk around with the strange creatures outside and confirmed their identities. They were not in the mood to shout at the only surviving player on the third floor, and they estimated that even if they knocked on the door, no one would open it.

Now we can only find a way to get rid of this playground as soon as possible so as to save this last person.

After having a simple meal, they started to move. This time they went down to the basement together. The corridor was still the same as Shen Yunzhe saw it last time. Even the corpse in the first door was the same as before. After looking for a while, Shen Yunzhe decided not to enter the first door.

After searching through the second door, they found it was actually quite empty, like an empty laboratory, and they didn't find anything about the child.

As expected, I still have to go through the first door.

Because there were experimenters inside, and in a later period, it was the experimenters who took away the Virgin Mary's child, so they must have something of the child on them.

Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua waited behind while Shen Yunzhe began to pry the door open.

Shen Yunzhe's lock-picking skills were still very good. With a click, the door was pushed open. They did not go in immediately, but stood at the door and observed the body locked inside.

At this moment, Shen Yunzhe suddenly spoke, as if telling a joke.

"I suddenly thought of something."

Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe in confusion.

"The player is replaced by a strange creature, but it uses the player's appearance and identity. So if this game ends, will it return to reality because of the player's identity and continue to use the player's real-life identity?"

Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment, "Then, while hugging his family, he suddenly turned into a strange creature."

There was no need to conjure up the image, as Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua's expressions had turned much uglier.

Shen Yunzhe is very sensitive to the gaming field, and the credibility of his words can be increased by 50%, so this is very likely to happen.

"Just a joke to liven up the atmosphere." Shen Yunzhe said calmly, "I'll go in and take a look first. You can come in after you're sure it's okay."

Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua had complicated expressions, but they both knew that now was not the time to focus on other things, so they nodded.

Shen Yunzhe stepped into the place full of corpses. He stood in the middle of the corpses and nodded to the two people behind him after making sure that there was no impact. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and entered the place together. Then they began to divide the direction and started to check the things around them.

The place was in a great mess, with corpses lying on the ground. Each corpse had chains on its ankles, and heads were rolling everywhere. After searching for a while, Shen Yunzhe turned around and looked at the corpses.

He walked up to the bodies and reached into the chest of one of the white coats and pulled out a piece of paper.

It was an examination photo that looked like an X-ray of a child's body.

There is another line of words below, which looks like a comment written by this person.

[After testing: This is just an ordinary child, a useless little thing with no abilities.]

[The Virgin Mary's children are also ordinary people. It seems that she is the only miracle that cannot be replicated.]

[It's not completely certain yet. He's only three years old, so further examination is needed.]

Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, put the paper away, and continued to search on the body. Finally, he found more test data and comments. At the same time, Li Yuluen and Huang Yihua also found the same thing.

They continued searching but couldn't find anything new, so they walked out of the room with what they had found. After Shen Yunzhe locked the door, they squatted at the door and began to sort things out.

Li Yiluan found the boy's photo and a piece of clothing, and Huang Yihua found some information.

Or the information from the physical examination.

The physical examination data was extremely detailed, even including brain waves. It could be seen that these people were very concerned about the child, but it was particularly ironic to think that this concern was because they wanted to get a second Virgin Mary to use.

Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua couldn't understand some of the physical examination data, but Shen Yunzhe could see it very clearly.

This is not a healthy child. He has many congenital diseases. Each of these congenital diseases is a disaster for a child, but this child has several of them. It is clear that he will not live to the age of eighteen. The more Shen Yunzhe looks at him, the worse he feels.

He is clearly the Virgin Mary's child, yet his body is so weak.

And this child also has some intellectual problems.

Shen Yunzhe silently put the file on the ground, and then began to look at the various information he found from the corpse. It was also some data records, but there were some comments from the experimenters below.

[He's five years old and still can't speak. He must have a problem with his brain. He's really a fool.]

【It is unexpected that the Virgin Mary's child is a fool. 】

His health is so poor that he wouldn't even make it to adulthood. I doubt he'd die if he fell.

[The Virgin Mary is a miracle. She has the best gifts in the world, but her child was cursed by God. It's really funny.]

[Don't be sour, what do we do now? The experiment has completely failed. We can't get another Virgin Mary, so we can only change direction.]

[I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just being honest. This little idiot is useless anyway, so let's just go in the second direction and squeeze out all the remaining value.]

Sacrifice?

[Yes, sacrifice to extend the life of the Virgin Mary until a second Virgin Mary is found.]

Looking at these files, the three of them fell silent.

It is really difficult for them to connect the current Virgin Mary with the Virgin Mary in the records, but they fully understand why the Virgin Mary degenerated into a strange creature after her death. The pure Virgin Mary did not get a good result in her lifetime, and even her only child was used as a tool. It is right for her to take revenge after her death.

It would be nice if the Virgin Mary’s actions stopped at the completion of revenge, but unfortunately she didn’t.

In order to save her child, she started the second sacrifice. She turned into a strange creature and sacrificed countless women's children, eroding the people of the entire world. She also transmitted this pollution and erosion through space to other worlds. In the end, there was unrest in the world and countless parallel worlds were destroyed.

All actions after revenge are wrong.

"The dead cannot be resurrected. Even the Virgin Mary cannot change this fact." Li Yiluan said, "The living have their own path, and the dead have their own destination. If you force the reversal, it will probably become this so-called strange thing."

Li Yiluan sighed, "Hasn't the Virgin Mary thought of this? Even if she forcibly resurrected her child, all she would get is a strange object."

"Because she's also a weird creature, it's normal that she can't imagine it."

The three of them looked at each other, then picked up their things on the ground and prepared to leave.

They could find no more about the Madonna and Child; her child had been dead for twenty years, and now they had only a few small clues.

Walking along the cave towards the altar, Li Yiluan glanced at the time and said as he walked, "It will probably be very dark by the time we get there."

"It's probably around ten o'clock."

Huang Yihua typed on her phone, "Let's get rid of this playground as soon as possible. Even at night, there's no way around it."

"Yes, deal with it as soon as possible and go back. This is the core game field. The longer you stay here, the greater the impact will be." Shen Yunzhe said.

Li Yilun and Huang Yihua blinked, looking at Shen Yunzhe blankly, as if asking, "What impact?"

"Don't you know?" Shen Yunzhe looked at them helplessly, "This is the core game field. Most of the game field is shaped by negative emotions. You may not notice it now, but it will soon be eroded by negative emotions bit by bit, and eventually become a shell dominated by negative emotions."

"In other words: you will become a weird creature with only negative emotions."

Even code-named Hope, as the only person who can directly harm the strange creatures, he has been in the small black box for more than 20 years and has suffered mental damage. His extremes are even more extreme than before, even to the point where it is difficult for him to survive in the real world.

He was a wild animal before, and now he is a wild beast.

The two nodded seriously, their eyes looking forward becoming more determined.

We need to finish this game quickly and go back.

Arriving at the altar, Huang Yihua saw the body of the Virgin Mary standing on it at first sight. Her sight and thoughts were immediately taken away. Fortunately, she was not the only one there. Li Yuluan held her tightly and prevented her from moving forward.

Shen Yunzhe made sure that Li Yuluan had held the person back, and then he walked to the altar with the information.

The Virgin Mary's body stood quietly, the hood still covering the upper half of her face. She looked so beautiful and alive. Shen Yunzhe sighed slightly.

I don't know whether I sigh for her fate or the transformation after her death.

Putting her child's information on the altar, Shen Yunzhe took two steps back. For a moment, the altar was quiet and nothing happened.

"Why is there no movement?" Li Yuluan asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a ding-dong sound, as if some solemn bell rang. Li Yuluan raised his head suddenly, and saw that the surrounding floors suddenly lit up, and countless lights illuminated the altar. The strange creatures on the floors were walking over spontaneously. They stuck tightly to the windows and raised their hands to the Virgin Mary on the altar.

It's like offering a sacrifice.

The sound of a baby crying rang out, and this sound immediately broke Huang Yihua's trance. She suddenly regained her consciousness and turned around, only to have her ears filled with the sound of a baby crying.

She covered her ears, but the baby's crying continued.

Li Yiluan looked up at the sky. He looked at the rolling clouds in the sky, and after a moment he spoke, "...What is that?"

They saw a huge statue of the Virgin Mary appear in the air. The statue was exactly the same as the one they had seen before. The Virgin Mary raised her hands with tears in her eyes, as if she was welcoming something. There was a click, thunder sounded, and rain fell, soaking the statue of the Virgin Mary.

Shen Yunzhe looked expressionlessly at the statue of the Virgin Mary, which could scare people into gigantic fear.

In mid-air, the statue of the Virgin Mary turned its head little by little, and finally stood in the same position as the body of the Virgin Mary on the altar. The body of the Virgin Mary slowly opened her eyes, and her dark pupils reflected all the people in front of her. Those were a pair of beautiful eyes that were hard to forget after just one look, but everyone present felt it was weird and terrifying.

The corpse of the Virgin Mary raised her hands, gradually aligning herself with the statue of the Virgin Mary.

"My child." The Virgin Mary's corpse opened her mouth and uttered a sweet and gentle voice like an angel. "My child, come back."

Crack, another loud thunder.

Shen Yunzhe looked at the sky, but the next moment he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

Because at that moment, he saw countless images. These images were not his memories, nor the experiences of the Virgin Mary, but the lives of countless people.

They are different people, with different lives. Some are poor, some are rich, some are young, some are old. They stroll through life, and then at a certain moment they all turn their heads and look back. With a click, it is as if the world has cracked open, and the shadow of the Virgin Mary appears.

Shen Yunzhe knew these people and had even experienced the lives and personalities of some of them.

Even Shen Yunzhe saw Shen Wei's figure inside.

They are...Shen Yunzhe's counterparts.

"My child, my child." The Virgin Mary still called out in a voice so gentle that it was not harsh, "Come back, my child."

"Mom is here."