Chapter 28

There is no key in the warehouse. There is a doll in the warehouse, and the doll killed two players at once.

Eleven people entered the game, one died before the game, six died in the game field, and including him, only four people were left alive.

He looked at the shadow on the dining table that was trying to drink the soup. The soup in the spoon kept flowing back, but it would not change its behavior and just kept scooping it mechanically with the spoon. This was an employee who worked during the day. Although it looked dark and strange, it seemed that it was being persecuted just like them.

Shen Yunzhe moved to the side and sat down. He turned his head to look at the staff dormitory at night, and after a moment a bold idea came into his mind.

There seemed to be one place they hadn't been to, and that was the staff dormitory at night.

Of course, he was not referring to sleeping in the staff dormitory late at night. Anyone who entered the staff dormitory at night would fall into an abnormal sleep, and no one inside would be able to wake up. The unexpected awakenings of Shen Yunzhe and Feng Zhou were due to special circumstances.

So no one actually knows what happens in the staff dormitory at night.

"Is there a parallel world where you can't fall asleep even if you enter the staff dormitory at night?" Shen Yunzhe asked the system.

【I don’t recommend you to do this, or I’m against it. 】

"Are you sure?"

The emotions that the code name hopes to influence you are forcibly suppressed by the code name Forensic Doctor. At most, you haven't gone berserk yet. Changing to a new code name world will remove the Code Name Forensic Doctor's suppressive effects and add another layer of emotional influence. I'm not sure if this will cause you to have a mental breakdown.

Shen Yunzhe kept staring at the staff dormitory.

He looked at it like this for a minute before he spoke, "As long as you don't go crazy, you can use it."

【……】

[Parallel world B03415, codenamed Sleep Disorder, this parallel world's counterpart suffered from extremely severe sleep disorders, lasting up to two weeks without sleep. He eventually went into shock and was forced into a mental hospital for treatment, but forced intervention had little effect.]

"This is exactly what I need. I want a companion who can't sleep in the staff dormitory at night."

【Now you should be very clear about the consequences of not being able to sleep for a long time. 】

Science has proven that insomnia can greatly affect an individual's mental state. More than three days of sleeplessness can make an individual fall into a negative state. More than seven days will make a normal person hysterical. After half a month, the individual will become half a madman. Therefore, people with sleep disorders are almost at the intersection of a madman and a normal person.

Weak, collapsed, and helpless in despair.

"Rationally speaking, someone who was in a desperate situation, yet suddenly saved someone, I think this is a great comfort to the individual himself. Don't try to force my point, that's just me, I'm absolutely certain and certain of it."

Shen Yunzhe said: "I have to believe in myself. Isn't that what you told me before?"

The system was silent for a moment.

【Change the parallel world. 】

[Parallel world B03415 is synchronizing, codenamed Sleep Disordered, synchronization rate 15%.]

【Synchronization successful.】

[Then, Shen Yunzhe, I wish you good luck.]

Shen Yunzhe didn't notice any difference when the parallel world suddenly switched to synchronization. He still remembered his purpose. After confirming that the synchronization was successful, he got up and walked into the dormitory. He didn't turn on the lights or lie down on the bed to sleep, but just groped and sat on the desk chair at the edge.

But once it was dark, he couldn't help but close his eyes, as if he was simulating falling asleep.

As time passed, Shen Yunzhe began to count in his mind. Some messy memories began to surge in fragments. Countless random things emerged layer by layer, piling up and weighing down his spirit. Soon Shen Yunzhe felt very tired.

I’m so tired, my eyelids feel heavy, and my eyes hurt… I really want to sleep, but I can’t fall asleep.

Shen Yunzhe yawned and pressed his temples again.

My sleeping condition is worrying, and my mental state is also worrying.

Just then, Shen Yunzhe heard a click and he looked up to make sure the sound came from the ceiling.

It sounded like someone was walking on the ceiling, making a creaking sound all the way. The footsteps quickly faded away, but the next moment there was another strange sound. Shen Yunzhe had heard this sound before. It was someone crawling on the ground, crawling very slowly, so there was the sound of clothes rubbing against the floor.

Someone is walking on the ceiling? Walking isn't enough, so they're climbing on it?

What a messy hobby.

Shen Yunzhe pressed his temples, and he suddenly realized that he didn't care about this strange incident at all, and didn't even have a trace of fear. This feeling was stronger than that of the rational code-named Forensic Doctor.

[For the codenamed sleep disorder patient, long periods of insomnia bring him hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and nightmares. Accustomed to this kind of life, he is not afraid of any hallucinatory monsters. This is also the only advantage of the codenamed sleep disorder patient in this situation.]

Shen Yunzhe: “…I understand.”

It is also good to not be afraid.

Shen Yunzhe continued to listen to the movement upstairs. Although it was a little difficult to concentrate, he managed it with some effort. He listened carefully to the location of the footsteps upstairs, where they stopped, and where they crawled from. While listening, the knowledge of Codename Forensic Doctor assisted him.

The thing crawling upstairs seemed a bit asymmetrical, with its arms being of different lengths or its legs being one long and one short, so there was a difference in the sound when it crawled.

Missing arms and legs? Well, this reminded Shen Yunzhe of the doll design in the curator's office. To create a sense of horror, the curator had designed the doll with one arm of an old man and one of a child, and two legs of a man and a woman.

When Shen Yunzhe saw the doll, his first reaction was: "It can't walk normally in this form, it can only crawl on the ground."

After climbing around and around, Shen Yunzhe heard a sound again. The sound was very subtle. After listening carefully, he found that it was a child crying softly and calling for his father.

"Dad." His voice was filled with tears. "Where is my head?"

“Where’s my head?”

"Give me my head now."

How exciting, Shen Yunzhe thought expressionlessly.

The light from outside came in. Shen Yunzhe was tired of listening to the repetitive crying from the ceiling. After making sure that there would be no more sounds from above, he was ready to go out. At this moment, he turned his head to look to the side and was surprised to find someone lying on the bed.

The dark figure was lying there, and seemed to have sensed Shen Yunzhe's gaze. It slowly opened its eyes, revealing green eyeballs in the dark, just like those of cats and dogs.

They looked at each other.

"You also have insomnia?" Shen Yunzhe asked directly.

The next moment, the person on the bed disappeared. When Shen Yunzhe turned his head, he found that the pitch-black thing had blended into the darkness and was squatting on the other side of him, staring at him with its green eyes.

The thing didn't say anything or make any movement, it just stared at him.

"I didn't sleep in your bed, so don't bother me." Shen Yunzhe said again, "Is this dormitory yours? We work in shifts, and you sleep here at night. Can't I come in to get something? And I want to sleep more than you do. I'm so sleepy that I'm giving you my bed."

"Why am I the only one who can't sleep?"

Only someone with sleep disorder can express such a real resentment towards sleep.

The black shadow seemed a little unresponsive. It stared at Shen Yunzhe for a few seconds. Finally, it stood up seriously, walked step by step to the bed and fell down. However, it did not close its eyes at all. It was lying on the bed with its green eyes staring at the ceiling.

Until there was a "pop" sound, and a small hole seemed to appear in the ceiling. A long, sticky tongue stretched out, and the tongue pierced through the dark shadow on the bed fiercely and accurately, and the dark shadow finally fell asleep sweetly.

Shen Yunzhe: ...

Grass!

He didn't want to think about whether he had been taken care of by this strange tongue when he went to sleep in the dormitory on his first day.

But from this we can be sure that there is definitely a space above the staff dormitory.

There was no need to stay here any longer, so Shen Yunzhe quickly stood up and walked out of the staff dormitory. The moment he opened the door, he was stunned. There were three people standing neatly at the door of his dormitory. The three people put their ears to his dormitory door, and they almost fell in when Shen Yunzhe opened the door.

"What are you doing?"

"Shen, Shen Yunzhe!" Lu Ronghua was startled. "It's okay. We just heard from the chef that you went into the dormitory and we were a little worried about you."

Ding Yue nodded, "You seem to be sleepy lately, so you can't sleep in the dormitory at night."

"If you fall asleep, you won't wake up."

"It's okay, I just can't sleep." Shen Yunzhe said in a voice so subtle it made people's hearts tingle: "If I can sleep through the night in the staff dormitory tonight, I will be very grateful."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, until Shen Yunzhe came out of the dormitory and they saw the blood on Shen Yunzhe's body.

"What's wrong with you?" Ding Yue asked him with concern, "There's so much blood."

"Lu Feng." Shen Yunzhe paused, turned around and said in a teasing voice, "I just saw him die. I couldn't dodge in time and was splashed with blood."

Ding Yue was also rarely stunned.

If Shen Yunzhe was just sleepy before, and had changed a little, but was still a normal person, now he was very extroverted and bright, which was not a good word in the playground. Now no one could laugh out loud, but he was laughing happily, like a lunatic.

The three people who saw him smile felt uneasy.

"Oh, right, I shouldn't laugh now." Shen Yunzhe put away his smile and fell silent again. "I'm fine. Lu Feng is in the warehouse. His arm was chopped off by Wawa. He's with Duan Ziyao's body. Although I think they should have disappeared by now."

Ding Yue grabbed his wrist and asked, "Are you really okay?"

Ding Dong, an announcement came from outside that the Museum of Wonders was closing. Shen Yunzhe turned his head and looked outside. "I'm hungry. I need breakfast."

"Shen Yunzhe?"

"There's something crawling on the roof of the staff dormitory at night." Shen Yunzhe pointed up at the dormitory. "Wawa is looking for something. There might be a hidden room up there. You can go check it out after breakfast."

After saying that, Shen Yunzhe turned around and left. He didn't walk steadily and staggered a little, leaving the three people behind him with confused eyes.

Lu Ronghua: "Why do I feel so wrong? Could it be that Shen Yunzhe is really possessed by something?"

Qiulan shook her head. "But he said there's a hidden room above the staff dormitory. Could that be why he went into the staff dormitory at night? We don't go to dangerous places, so the clues are all in dangerous places, including the director's office and the warehouse."

"Could it be that he's trying to stay awake at night..." Ding Yue frowned, "Did he take some medicine to force himself to be awake, so he looks dazed now?"

"How does he know what to eat?"

"He's a doctor, and a forensic pathologist. Doesn't he know what drugs can force a person to wake up?" Ding Yue's voice was filled with anxiety. "He wants all of us to return alive!"

At this time, the barrage was silent for a while, and then some doubtful words slowly emerged.

【Take medicine? Did you see him take medicine?】

[So righteous? Why don't I remember this happening?]

[No, I was wondering why he had to go to the staff dormitory, but I ended up sitting there listening to the noise.]

He also cursed the day shift workers, sending them back to bed.

[What the hell? Are the rest of the players idiots? Shen Yunzhe is clearly possessed by a ghost. He's not the player you know at all, and yet you're still trying to save his reputation!]

"Don't think you can confuse right and wrong just like that. We don't believe your nonsense. Several players died because of what you said." Ding Yue quickly retorted to the audience, "You have bad intentions!"

【……6】

[Although we do have bad intentions, why do we feel so bad about cursing right now?]

[In the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Shen Yunzhe is the wolf.]

[Let's be honest, Shen Yunzhe is not a normal person at all. Did you know that he talks to himself? It's like he's talking to someone he can't see.]

[Right, right, right. Before entering the staff dormitory, weren't you also talking about changing the setting so that you can't fall asleep in the staff dormitory?]

Is this person really not schizophrenic?

"This is too obvious." Qiulan sighed. "It's obvious that they're trying to make us think Shen Yunzhe is possessed. Sometimes I feel like the audience on the live broadcast doesn't know how to adapt. They can't hide their stereotyped desire to harm others."

Lu Ronghua agreed, "Even the live broadcast audience is targeting him like this, it seems that Shen Yunzhe is really fine."

audience:……

I finally told the truth, how could it turn out like this?

Shen Yunzhe, who was having breakfast in the restaurant area, had no idea about the confrontation between the three people and the live broadcast audience, and he didn't know that his audience's dislike for him had increased even more because of this confrontation. He just drank his porridge slowly, unable to concentrate while drinking, and drank three mouthfuls in ten minutes.

Symptoms of people with code-named sleep disorders: difficulty concentrating.

Ding Yue and the others came to the restaurant, but Shen Yunzhe didn't even look at them. No one except Ding Yue would bother to please someone so cold. Everyone ate their breakfast quietly. Ding Yue didn't pick up his chopsticks right away, but watched Shen Yunzhe stirring the bowl of porridge with a spoon as if playing.

"Shen Yunzhe?" Ding Yue couldn't help but ask him, "Don't you want to eat?"

Shen Yunzhe turned to look at him, "It has no taste."

"ah?"

"Taste, like sweeter or saltier." Shen Yunzhe murmured.

He used to not eat carrots and preferred green vegetables. Now he doesn’t even eat rice. He’s acting weird.

Ding Yue lowered his head and prepared to eat the porridge in his bowl, but as soon as he put the spoon down, he felt the spoon hit a hard object. His hand trembled, and then he slowly fished out the hard object. As he expected, it was a bald baby's head.

Qiulan and Lu Ronghua were so frightened that they stood up and didn't dare to touch the food on the table.

"It's really ugly." Shen Yunzhe commented on the doll's head. "It's so ugly that even a three-year-old wouldn't fall for it."

Is now the time to judge whether the doll is good-looking?

"Don't worry, I have a feeling that no one will die." Shen Yunzhe finally drank some porridge again.

No one knew why Shen Yunzhe was so confident, and Shen Yunzhe didn't know either. He was just not nervous at all, as if the whole world was no big deal. He slowly put aside his bowl of porridge, and then began to look along the staff dormitory, as if he was sure that there was something here.

In the end, he really pulled me down a flight of stairs.

This ladder that looked like a warehouse door surprised everyone present, but Shen Yunzhe ignored them.

There was indeed a space on the top floor. As soon as Shen Yunzhe came up, he saw bloodstains all over the floor. The bloodstains had long since rotted and turned black, emitting a foul smell. The traces looked like something crawling with blood over and over again, making a mess everywhere.

Walking forward on the bloodstains, Shen Yunzhe sat on a chair, looked around casually and took out a new drawing from the desk.

If the diagrams in the curator's office are of doll production, then the diagrams here are of doll disassembly.

Because this is the director's dormitory.

The players behind caught up and their faces turned unhappy when they saw the blood on the ground.

"What are you standing there for? Look, the key to the doll house must be here." Shen Yunzhe said.

Ding Yue came over first. He stood behind Shen Yunzhe and looked at the blueprint in his hand. "What is this?"

"The disassembly diagram and some notes left by the curator of the Museum of Curiosities." Shen Yunzhe stared at the diagram. "You sound quite calm? Aren't you afraid?"

Ding Yue thought about it, and then decided to tell the truth, "Everyone has dolls in their bowl, including yours, you know?"

"Oh." Shen Yunzhe nodded, "I know."

Ding Yue was silent for a while, because he didn't know what to say, he could only sigh. He would still eat it knowing that there was a doll in the bowl!

He calmed down a bit before speaking again, "Is there really a key here? Sister Qiu and the others don't seem to want to come in."

"Let them. This is the last place we haven't been to. It's also the only place where the original doll has appeared. There must be the key to the doll house in it." Shen Yunzhe replied.

Ding Yue could only nod. He couldn't understand the doll disassembly drawings, so he went to look for the key. Shen Yunzhe tried hard to concentrate and finish reading these things.

"I realized I couldn't go on like this. It was becoming whole, but it wasn't really alive. I had to stop it."

"I figured out a way. Since I made the doll, I could also dismember it."

"But why? When I dismembered the doll, I discovered that those limbs, those artificial limbs that were supposed to be made from my own materials, were actually rotting human bodies. When I used a knife to cut through the skin, the stench of decay terrified me."

"I remember the serial murders that happened nearby, and the police coming to collect evidence several times. Could it be that..."

"It's just like that horror story. It kills people to complete itself. It kills many people and then attaches their limbs to itself. My design was its reference. This is my fault!"

'I feel sorry for everyone at the Museum of Curiosities.'

The recording came to an abrupt end, Shen Yunzhe closed the decomposition diagram, and at this moment Ding Yue's voice rang out.

"Found it."

Shen Yunzhe looked over and saw Ding Yue standing beside him holding a bunch of keys. Hanging on the key was a very small doll head, but unlike the dolls that appeared around them, this doll head was small and exquisite, and it could be seen that it was carefully made.

"Is this the key to the doll house?"

"This way we can enter the Doll House tonight. The Doll House is probably where we'll retrieve our body parts. Only in this way can we leave here alive." Shen Yunzhe leaned back in his chair and looked at the key. "Two days left."

Ding Yue stood beside him and said, "No matter how difficult it was, we got through it. So many people died, but in the end, we still couldn't figure out the reason."

"It's still difficult to cooperate." Ding Yue said, "Shen Yunzhe, do you think that if everyone had cooperated well and divided the work from the beginning, we might have been able to find the doll house and get the key on the first or second day?"

“Maybe not so many people would have died then.”

Shen Yunzhe looked at him for a moment before speaking, "...I feel like I'm not a forensic doctor, you're more like one."

"ah?"

"Compassion, reflection, order." Shen Yunzhe smiled. "Your way of thinking sounds very official."