Chapter 30

Ding Yue felt uneasy, so he hurried to find Shen Yunzhe, and Qiulan and Lu Ronghua did not follow him.

Now all the doors of the exhibition hall are open, regardless of day or night. There are doors wide open everywhere, and the female ghost in white is no longer squatting outside the publicity hall. Did Shen Yunzhe really go to the doll house?

He ran all the way to the exhibition hall, but before he could get there, he saw Shen Yunzhe coming out holding the head.

"Shen Yunzhe!" Ding Yue called his name.

Shen Yunzhe looked at Ding Yue strangely, "What are you doing?"

"You didn't give the doll its head?"

"Didn't I tell you? We'll only accept dolls if the curator voluntarily donates his own head. I'm just trying to see if it works." Shen Yunzhe said, "It seems the curator isn't willing to give his head to the dolls, so he won't accept anything from the doll house."

Ding Yue released his strength and slowly stepped back. He closed his eyes, covered his mouth and nose, and looked as if he was relieved.

Shen Yunzhe didn't know what was wrong with him, so he turned around and prepared to leave.

As a result, he had not taken two steps when Ding Yue turned around and grabbed his sleeve.

"Shen Yunzhe." Ding Yue turned and looked him straight in the eye. "I'll tell you the truth. You can't give the director's head to that doll, even if the director is willing. This is a necessary condition for its completion and the final step. Shen Yunzhe, you must not do this. There will be serious consequences."

"What are the consequences?"

"I have a confidentiality agreement. I'm sorry I can't tell you directly."

Shen Yunzhe smiled, "Are you really from the official side?"

"I'm not, I really am not." Ding Yue looked at the head in Shen Yunzhe's arms. It looked like he was about to snatch it away. He swallowed hard and tried to make his voice more friendly. "We still have nearly two days, so maybe there are other ways. We can think about it again."

Shen Yunzhe looked at him, then glanced at the head in his hand, "So we are colleagues?"

Ding Yue was stunned for a moment, then nodded frantically, "If you really are a forensic doctor!"

"Then colleagues really need to trust each other." Shen Yunzhe still had a nonchalant smile on his face. He said, "You have to trust me."

Ding Yue was stunned for a moment, "Shouldn't you trust me?"

"Why should it be the other way around? Just because you can sleep, I can't?" Shen Yunzhe's words were hard to understand. "Wait patiently. Only when you can't come up with a solution will I consider giving it the head."

In the end, they could only wait. Shen Yunzhe returned to the restaurant and sat there waiting for time to pass. Qiulan and Lu Ronghua would occasionally go out for a walk, but they were just too anxious. Only Ding Yue was trying to find another way, a way to get back their pawned bodies without giving the head to the baby.

It would be nice if it really existed.

After searching for a whole day and finding nothing, Ding Yue returned to the restaurant dejectedly, his stomach rumbling because he hadn't had a drop of water. Everyone looked listless and too hungry to have any strength.

Among everyone, Shen Yunzhe had the darkest dark circles under his eyes, but he was also the most excited.

He was playing with the exquisite doll he brought from the exhibition hall with great interest, and it was obvious that he really liked the doll.

Trust.

Ding Yue leaned on the dining table and sighed heavily, confirming once again that he had no solution for the time being.

He turned to look at the seated Shen Yunzhe, "Shen Yunzhe."

"Huh?" Shen Yunzhe didn't even look at him.

"Can I really trust you?" Ding Yue asked him.

"Mr. Ding is the friendliest player in the game. From the very beginning, he acted like a saint, saving people from being nearly scammed. He's incredibly kind to everyone in the game and trusts everyone. Why is he suddenly asking if he can trust me? Am I that bad?"

"No..." Ding Yue raised her head, "You know what I mean."

How could I not know?

Shen Yunzhe glanced at the curator's head placed next to him without saying a word. He continued to tidy up the doll's hair and clothes, wiping off all the dirt that was deliberately made to look old. After removing those old things, the doll became more exquisite.

Completely handmade, limited edition of only one in the world.

Of course, Shen Yunzhe was still thinking about one thing. Ding Yue's identity was special and mysterious. He did not agree to hand over the director's head to Wawa, but he did not try to stop Shen Yunzhe at all. He gave the power of life and death of this playground to Shen Yunzhe.

This doesn't seem to come from an official source.

In short, Shen Yunzhe decided to hold the baby in his arms when he left, to see if he could take it out. Even if the result was slim, he had to give it a try.

In this way, time passed by minute by minute, and the night of the seventh day soon arrived. Shen Yunzhe still did not move. While they were waiting, strange things always happened around them. Occasionally, Qiulan saw black shadows spying on them, and could hear the sound of something crawling on the roof. There were also some strange plastic dolls appearing in various places.

Shen Yunzhe regarded them all as a means for the doll house to urge them to do their homework and ignored them completely.

He was really not afraid, only the other three teammates were frightened and almost had PTSD.

He was too calm, so calm that he didn't seem like a normal person. They still remembered that Shen Yunzhe was afraid and worried when he first entered the game. They didn't understand how he could become like this in just a few days. But he was really patient and ignored the urging of others and just sat here to waste time.

They waited until four in the morning, with only an hour left before closing, when Shen Yunzhe moved and the others hurriedly followed him. They walked all the way to the doll hall.

When Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door of the doll room, a smell of blood hit him in the face.

Qiulan and Lu Ronghua were so frightened that their faces turned pale, because in front of them was a rather terrifying scene.

The original exhibition stand and the scary dolls on it were still there, but that wasn't the reason why they were so scared. The most important thing was that the moment they opened the door, they saw countless headless people standing at the door, reaching out their hands towards them.

The headless men were wearing the work clothes of the Curiosity Exhibition Hall, with badges hanging on their chests, and there was also the woman in white whom they had already seen.

Everyone stretched out their hands to ask for something.

"Shen Yunzhe, give it to them quickly!" Lu Ronghua shouted.

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's not time yet." Shen Yunzhe took out his mobile phone and took a look at the announcement. There was a countdown on the announcement.

He held the phone in front of Lu Ronghua and said, "See? There are 50 minutes left."

Ding Yue stood at the back. He looked at Shen Yunzhe and his hands clenched and unclenched involuntarily, repeating this for a long time. Finally, he closed his eyes and stood there without moving.

"It's only 50 minutes! Why did you wait until the last minute?!"

Lu Ronghua scolded: "If you are afraid and dare not, let me do it!"

As he said that, Lu Ronghua tried to grab the head in Shen Yunzhe's arms. Ding Yue was startled and immediately came up to stop him. He pressed Lu Ronghua to the ground. He looked thin and weak but he could really suppress such a big man. Qiulan looked at this and that and decided not to help either side.

"Will you die waiting for an hour?" Shen Yunzhe didn't care. "I said you've been so anxious since yesterday. Are you the one possessed by a ghost?"

Lu Ronghua was stunned for a moment, then started cursing.

Now even Qiulan realized that something was wrong.

They will be leaving here soon, Lu Ronghua can be anxious, but he should not do anything bad. Besides, it has come to this time, why can't he wait for the last hour?

Ding Yue suppressed Lu Ronghua with force, "Calm down!"

"Give me your head!" Lu Ronghua struggled towards Shen Yunzhe with a hoarse voice, "Give it to me!!"

"If I only have this I shall be free!"

"He owes me!"

After hearing this, all the headless people in the doll house began to get agitated. Ding Yue and Qiulan pressed Lu Ronghua to the ground and stared ahead with a little fear.

The entire exhibition hall was filled with resentful voices that came from nowhere.

"Why me? Director, you made the doll, why did I die instead of you!"

"Give me your head. It's because you didn't give me your head that I can't eat a single bite of rice. I can only watch the food get cold in front of me. I'm so hungry."

"I want to sleep, let me sleep, just give me your head and I will sleep."

"Director, please save me. I want to go home. My wife is waiting for me at home."

'Give it the head, and we'll be free!'

The weird laughter of the dolls could be heard behind these headless people. The unpleasant and sharp sound made people cover their ears. Shen Yunzhe held the head in his arms and looked at the hands that kept reaching out to try to grab something. He had no expression on his face and his eyes did not fluctuate at all.

It seemed as if everything in front of him did not cause him any psychological pressure.

"He must have encountered the doll before, and then he was possessed by something." Ding Yue held Lu Ronghua down hard. "Luckily, he's just possessed, and he's not dead yet."

Qiulan nodded. "I was wondering why he always wanted to send his head to the doll house in advance."

There were wailing sounds all around, Qiulan couldn't bear it at all. She covered her ears tightly. Ding Yue also frowned. Only Shen Yunzhe stood there calmly. He seemed unaffected and let the sounds continue to howl in his ears.

The person with code name sleep disorder has a certain degree of auditory hallucination, and he has long been accustomed to this kind of ghost call.

It wasn't until the last three minutes that Shen Yunzhe took a step forward. He held up the curator's head and a pile of dolls and shouted, "Give us back the pawned body parts."

The doll opened its mouth, but it didn't move. However, everyone present understood what it meant, which was to give it the curator's head and the deal would be done.

So Shen Yunzhe threw the head over.

Ding Dong, a notification came from the mobile phones of the living people, including the possessed Lu Ronghua.

[Congratulations to the player for completing the hidden mission: Reclaiming the pawned body.]

[The remaining time until the game closes is: 00:01:32.]

"Success!" Qiulan shouted happily. She jumped up on the spot, looking like she was waiting for the game to end.

Lu Ronghua fainted directly on the ground. Ding Yue breathed a sigh of relief and let go of his hand after he was sure that he was just fainted and not dead. He walked to Shen Yunzhe with sweat on his forehead and looked into the doll house.

All the headless corpses in the doll house were returned to the front of the exhibition stand, and the horrific puzzle dolls slowly integrated their heads into the stand. In order to put the head in, it tore its own skin, and its eyeballs rolled out. The rotten flesh and blood were clearly visible, and it looked extremely terrifying.

Shen Yunzhe raised his hand and let Ding Yue see something in his palm.

Ding Yue was stunned when she saw it.

It was a modified version of an explosive initiator, probably small in size and about the same power as a firecracker.

"You have to trust me, and you have to trust the curator, too. After all, he volunteered to donate his head to the doll." Shen Yunzhe said with a smile, "Is it fun? I found it in the exhibition hall."

Ding Yue immediately remembered that Shen Yunzhe had been to the exhibition hall yesterday. Was he looking for this?!

"I put some medicine in it. This exhibition hall really has everything. The director is also crazy. He messes with everything."

Ding Yue stared at Shen Yunzhe, but Shen Yunzhe didn't even look at him.

Shen Yunzhe's eyes were fixed on the doll house in front of him, watching the strange doll happily tearing itself apart and stuffing its head into its body, completely unaware that there was something extra in the head. He heard Shen Yunzhe start counting down.

He said: 54321.

The moment he pressed the button, Ding Yue saw him laughing, like a child who had successfully played a prank, clapping his hands and looking at his masterpiece.

With a "puff", something exploded inside the doll's body, and a chemical smell instantly rose up. The doll's screams filled the entire room. The highly corrosive liquid corroded the doll's eyes and skull almost instantly, and was still corroding downwards.

[00:00:00, the game is over. Congratulations to the players for completing this game.]

The timing was just right; the moment the doll exploded, they both left the game.

【???】

【what happened? 】

[What did he put into the curator's skull?]

[Holy crap! He blew up the doll and melted it!]

[How is this possible? This is a playground! It's supernatural!]

[It's not impossible. Although this is a playground, the dolls are made of human corpses. Logically, any human body would be destroyed. Even if the dolls themselves can't be destroyed, the director's skull can still be destroyed.]

[This bastard had never intended for the doll to get the curator's head from the beginning, and now, he's really destroyed the curator's head!]

[So it can be done this way, so...]

[Because of this, the director volunteered to give his head away, right?]

[This player is not easy to deal with.]

[Warning! Player 'Shen Yunzhe''s game difficulty exceeds 10, warning! warning! ! !]

…

The moment he opened his eyes, Shen Yunzhe began to breathe heavily. He could not even stand steadily. He panted and slowly squatted down to the floor while holding onto the wall.

There is no synchronization in reality, so the fear and terror suppressed by those code-named sleep disorder patients all come flooding back.

He now clearly remembered the appearance of the patchwork doll, and the way those headless people reached out to him for their heads. Oh, and he even held a head in his arms for more than a day!

Shen Yunzhe looked at his hands tremblingly and let out a soul-stirring cry.

"I can't keep this hand anymore!"

He repeatedly scrubbed and disinfected his hands with hand sanitizer, vowing to wash away all the bad luck. While washing, Shen Yunzhe cursed the parallel world system in his heart, saying that it was a neurotic system to some extent. After synchronization, even his personality was affected in a strange way, like a schizophrenic.

Ding Dong, a new message notification came from the phone.

After drying his red hands with a towel, Shen Yunzhe took out his mobile phone. As soon as he opened the phone interface, it automatically jumped to the strange APP, and an announcement prompted him to select it.

[Congratulations to the player for passing the game. The clearance reward of 300,000 has been deposited into the player's bank card.]

[The next time a player enters the game is 15 days later, the clearance reward will be increased to 500,000.]

[Warning: The player's game difficulty has exceeded 10, and new live broadcast system rules have been added.]

[Once the player's game difficulty exceeds 10, the game difficulty will not reset. Once again, we emphasize: the audience's preferences affect the game difficulty. Please please your audience to reduce the game difficulty.]

"What do you mean?" Shen Yunzhe looked at the last announcement. "Does that mean I start with a game difficulty of 10? My chances of encountering ghosts are 10 times higher than those of an average person?!"

"Oh my god, this is so bad!"

[There's also another possibility: you'll enter a more difficult game field than you originally intended, for example, entering the game for the third time but entering a more difficult game field than you should have entered for the fifth time.]

Shen Yunzhe threw his phone onto the bed, looking particularly troubled. "System, are you still here?"

【Of course, I am everywhere, right next to you. 】

"I remember you said last time that every parallel world has a playground. Do other parallel worlds have official organizations?" Shen Yunzhe asked the system.

【have. 】

"Really?!"

The purpose of the game field is expansion, and any means to expand are used. This is the origin of the "surprise Easter eggs" and the root cause of the official's awareness of problems. For example, the Yuanqi Soda that brought you into the game field successfully brought in 99 new players, 76 of whom died accidentally. How could the official not notice this commonality?

Shen Yunzhe blinked.

You are right. So many people suddenly died accidentally in a small area, and those who died happened to have interviewed for the same position. This is not right no matter how you look at it. How could the higher-ups not be suspicious?

But if that’s the case, then Shen Yunzhe, as someone who was interviewed and survived...will he really not be summoned by the police for investigation?

Just as Shen Yunzhe thought of this, he heard the doorbell. He put his phone in his pocket, then walked to the door and looked out through the peephole. Two people in police uniforms were standing outside the door.

"Who is it?" Shen Yunzhe asked knowingly.

"Hello, I'm from the police station. There is a case that requires your cooperation in the investigation." The policeman sounded friendly.

Shen Yunzhe opened the door. After all, he thought: I have never done anything shameful, so of course I am not afraid of the police.