Chapter 2

"No one knows where these playgrounds are, nor does anyone know how they were formed or what their significance is. By the way, how did you get in?"

Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment, "I don't know. I was using my key to open the door just now. Speaking of which, my door was open. Could a thief have broken into my house and stolen something?"

"If your life is gone, why would you care about material possessions?" Ning Xiao sighed. "Anyway, have you ever watched any strange live broadcasts? Or clicked on any suspicious links?"

"Live broadcast?" Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly and asked in surprise, "Suicide live broadcast?"

"So we were tricked." Ning Xiao looked as if he understood. He began to explain, "Most of the people who were pulled into this world came here after watching the 'suicide livestream' like you did. A small number clicked on strange links. I don't know the format of the links, but those who watched the 'suicide livestream' were tricked into coming here."

"If you leave the first game field, you'll know that we all have to enter the next game field at a fixed time, without any exceptions. However, if you share the suicide live broadcast with others, if you reach a certain number of people, you can redeem it to delay entering the game for a few days. This is called a 'surprise easter egg'."

Shen Yunzhe understood.

Anyone who watched the suicide livestream will be dragged into the game, but the person who shared it will receive a survival bonus… Isn’t this exactly Pinxixi’s “pull someone in and get slashed”? Except the slash goes to the person being dragged in.

The recruiting man was not recruiting anyone at all, he was just trying to get people to cut costs on Pinxixi!

Shen Yunzhe silently cursed in his heart that he failed to bargain and fell through.

"But why are there only two people playing this game? No matter what, it's impossible for only two players to enter a game field." Ning Xiao muttered to himself. He looked left and right, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

With a ding-dong sound, both of their cell phones rang at the same time. They looked at each other and took out their phones at the same time. The blood-red announcement appeared on the phone screen again.

The game "Qingcheng Jianbai Central Hospital" has been upgraded, with increased difficulty and player count.

[The game progress of new and old players has been merged.]

[Hidden Rule ① has been confirmed: even number.]

Ning Xiao's face looked as ugly as if he had died once. His hands were shaking and he could not hide his fear at all. Anyone who came could see that he was scared to the extreme.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yunzhe didn't quite understand what this meant.

"This is simply courting death!" Ning Xiao's voice rose, and his roar echoed in the empty hospital. He was startled by his own voice and quickly forced himself to speak again with a pale face. However, the forced lowered tone still contained distortion and fear. "This is not a newly opened playground. It was accidentally upgraded halfway through, and the difficulty level has been completely increased!"

"Because most of the players died, the remaining players couldn't handle it, so they brought us in!" Ning Xiao grabbed her hair and couldn't calm down at all. "I only finished two games, how could I encounter such an extreme situation?! I'm going to die, I'm really going to die!"

It seems that the situation is really bad now.

"No, I can't stay here and die." Ning Xiao stood up.

Shen Yunzhe looked at him puzzledly.

To be honest, when Shen Yunzhe first arrived in this strange place, he had no idea what to do or where to go. Ning Xiao obviously knew more than him, so he chose to follow Ning Xiao, at least to know where this place was and what to do.

Ning Xiao turned on his cell phone, held it up and stared at the screen, then suddenly knelt down on the spot.

"Dear audience members, please tell me where the other players are. Please, I'll do anything you want me to do!"

Shen Yunzhe stood there in a daze. He hardly reacted and just looked at Ning Xiao strangely as he kept kowtowing to the empty phone screen and responding to something with a flattering smile on his face, which looked extremely ugly.

It seemed that Shen Yunzhe's gaze was too noticeable, and Ning Xiao finally turned around.

At that moment, Ning Xiao's initial calmness and kindness had completely disappeared. He stared at Shen Yunzhe as if he had become a different person, with a twisted and flattering look on his face that had not yet completely disappeared.

"You think it's ugly?" Ning Xiao's voice was filled with ice. "But there's nothing I can do. This is for survival. I won't share the other players' positions with you."

"If you want a way to survive, get down on your knees and beg like me, newbie."

Ning Xiao avoided Shen Yunzhe and left, leaving Shen Yunzhe alone there. Ten seconds later, Shen Yunzhe seemed to react and took out his mobile phone. He held the phone horizontally in front of him. The next moment, the screen of his phone lit up, reflecting his figure and the floating barrage of comments of all sizes.

[Sticky Post: Congratulations to the player for starting the live streaming system. ]

[Notice: Audience popularity will affect the difficulty of the game for players, please "please" your audience. ]

[Finally discovered live streaming. These newcomers who joined in halfway through are really uninteresting. They didn't even know the basic rules and just joined in without a clue.]

[I actually find it exciting, this newcomer who died without knowing anything.]

[I finally found a new player to level up, but there's still no one left? What a shame. I was quite optimistic about the previous one.]

[Little player, why don't you say something? If you try to please us, we might give you a clue to survive. Follow the example of the person in front of you and kneel down and kowtow.]

[Players with weak knees are not good-looking. I hope this time it will be a tough one. That way it will be more interesting to play with.]

The comments on the barrage were filled with malice, and Shen Yunzhe could clearly see that these 'audiences' just wanted to have fun with him, and it was negative fun at that.

Are these audience members human? Shen Yunzhe tried to think about this question.

Not everyone is addicted to this kind of cruel game. Only a small number of people have this habit, and it is difficult for this small number of people to escape being discovered at the national level. Or is it that this strange playground has really found such a large number of cruel game enthusiasts?

But no matter what, at the beginning he just wanted to find a job, how did he end up in this situation, not only did he not find a job, but he was also deceived into watching a suicide live broadcast and dragged into this place.

Is there anyone more unlucky than him?

"I'm talking to you guys..." Shen Yunzhe tried to communicate with the barrage, but at that moment his voice stopped abruptly.

There was a click. Perhaps only Shen Yunzhe could hear this very subtle sound, because it was more of Shen Yunzhe's imagination. He just clearly felt that something hit his shoulder.

Not daring to speak anymore, Shen Yunzhe still held the phone horizontally. On the screen, Shen Yunzhe clearly saw a shadow. The shadow was so dim that only the lower half of the body in a suit could be seen. It seemed to be hanging from the ceiling, with its toes swaying, and with every small shake, its toes would bump against his shoulder.

Shen Yunzhe was very familiar with that pair of shoes because he had seen them fall to the ground in someone's live broadcast.

He didn't dare move, even his fingers began to tremble.

The man who was hanged, live broadcast of his suicide!

【This is a fantastic way to make an appearance. 】

[Newbie's first level, is this a hanged ghost? Speaking of which, have a lot of newbies been drawn into this livestream recently?]

[I saw the record, 99, just one away from 100, hahaha, just one away!]

I just love this kind of plot where things just fall apart at the last minute.

The barrage of comments was still refreshing, but Shen Yunzhe could no longer pay attention to the floating words. He stared at the screen of his mobile phone, watching the man with only his lower body shaking constantly. At this moment, Shen Yunzhe felt something grabbing his trouser leg. He did not lower his head because he had already foreseen what would happen.

The pungent smell of blood rushed into his nostrils, and a sticky liquid wet his socks and flowed into his shoes. A pale hand stretched out from his waist, and the hand began to stretch, stretching to the mobile phone held by Shen Yunzhe. The blood-stained fingers attached to his fingers, cold as a piece of ice.

"Fuck!" Shen Yunzhe finally couldn't control himself and threw away the phone and the pale hand, then rushed out. Shen Yunzhe thought that this was the fastest he had ever run in his life.

He did not look back, nor did he go back to pick up the phone that was broadcasting live. His footsteps disappeared in the corridor without stopping for a moment.

So he didn't even notice that the live broadcast on the phone that fell to the ground was still showing his front view, moving as he ran, nor did he hear the gloating voices of the audience in the barrage.

[The blood seeped in, and this new player is going to die.]

[Do you really think you can escape? This is just a mark. That's why I actually like this hanged ghost. He doesn't kill people right away, but marks them first.]

[I hope he can hold on longer. The last time he was found, he collapsed in the first round. It was really boring that he didn't even run.]

After running for an unknown amount of time, Shen Yunzhe looked around breathlessly. To be honest, he seldom came to the hospital, let alone this was an unfamiliar abandoned hospital. Shen Yunzhe couldn't figure out where he was. Hospitals always had navigation maps, which were usually placed in the lobby.

Shen Yunzhe swallowed his saliva and quickly walked towards the lobby of this floor, looking for any possible remaining route map.

Because it is an abandoned hospital, it does not feel very clean. There is dust everywhere, and under the dust are various broken metal tools, some of which are already rusted. Looking to the side, even the glass is broken. It looks more like it has been violently smashed than a normal relocation.

Fortunately, most of the route map in the hall was preserved, probably because it was installed high, and only a small part at the bottom was damaged.

From this route map, Shen Yunzhe determined that he was now on the second floor of the hospital's treatment building. There was a passage on this floor that led directly to the inpatient building, but this passage required an elevator.

What idiot would take the elevator in this situation? It's a must-see monster spawn location in horror movies!

Generally speaking, there will be passages leading to the inpatient building on the first floor and the basement, but the map below was torn cleanly, and Shen Yunzhe didn't want to go down and take a look at it himself.

At this moment, a drop of water fell from the sky onto his forehead. Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment. He reached out and touched it, and felt blood on his hand. He hurriedly took a step back and looked up. He saw that the ceiling was slowly being wetted by blood, and blood was seeping down bit by bit. A pair of wobbly legs fell from it.

This time, the legs and waist fell directly to the ground with a thud, and blood splattered, just like a dead fish thrown on the concrete floor.

The man's upper body came out slowly. He was still hanging on the rope, his neck stretched to the limit. This was the first time Shen Yunzhe saw the face of a dead person. The pale complexion, bulging eyeballs and lolling tongue, it was a kind of hideousness engraved in the soul. Shen Yunzhe's head buzzed, he heard his own heavy breathing and the beating of his own heart.

"What the hell is this thing?" Shen Yunzhe barely managed to avoid sitting down on the ground, but if he took two steps, his legs would definitely go weak and he would fall.

Of course, the hanged man did not listen to Shen Yunzhe. He moved towards him little by little while hanging on the rope, his dead white pupils staring at Shen Yunzhe, and his fingers twisting as he struggled towards Shen Yunzhe.

No horror movie could describe the horror happening before his eyes. Shen Yunzhe kept backing away until he reached the window, stepping on the broken glass. But Shen Yunzhe had no way to retreat.

This is the second floor. As long as you don't hit any important parts, you won't lose any arms or legs. You may get some bruises, but it's better than being killed by a ghost here!

Shen Yunzhe used his elbow to smash the remaining window glass and jumped directly from the second floor as fast as he could. When he landed, Shen Yunzhe's mind went blank. Finally, he slowly stood up, knelt on the ground and looked up. The pale man's face was pressed against the window, staring at him intently.

His goose bumps danced wildly on his arms and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably.

Just a little bit more!

This lousy place!

He struggled to stand up, and his knee, which was the first to touch the ground when he landed, felt painful. Shen Yunzhe didn't dare to stop and look, so he could only walk towards a place that he intuitively thought was not dangerous.

But he knew very well in his heart that the hanged man would continue to chase him until he could no longer run or until he collapsed mentally. This was also what the live broadcast audience wanted to see. He was just an ordinary person who didn't fight with anyone in real life, so how could he deal with these unnatural things?

Running forward step by step, Shen Yunzhe panted and continued today's overload exercise.

[Ding, a special situation has been detected, and the system has automatically woken up.]

Shen Yunzhe's feet froze in place, and inertia almost made him fall. After stabilizing his body, he kept looking around, trying to find the source of the sound.

[No need to look for me. I have no physical form. I currently reside in your mind. Of course, I can't be a collection of these disgusting resentments.]

[Don't ask anything, please don't reveal the existence of the system. I will help you survive in this world.]

"Let me see how we should handle this situation. Oh, and this is a hospital, so there's no problem."

[Parallel world: Doctor; Communication: Confirmation.]

【Synchronize: Start!】