Chapter 35

"Forensic doctor?" Li Yiluan looked at him in surprise. "But you said you were looking for a job..."

"Even forensic pathologists quit their jobs and change jobs," Shen Yunzhe said confidently. "I quit because I didn't want to deal with the dead. I never thought I'd end up here and have to deal with the dead."

Li Yiluan didn't know whether he believed it or not.

"Let's go find the others first and tell them that Lu Shun is in trouble," Shen Yunzhe said, changing the subject. "This place is so strange. I wonder if Lu Shun's accident is related to that singing bird."

They went out through the side door and headed towards the flag-raising platform where they had agreed to be.

Just then, a small stone fell from the upstairs.

Shen Yunzhe stopped and grabbed Li Yuluan, and the next moment a human body fell to the ground along with the pebble.

The person who fell from the tall building hit the ground heavily, blood kept flowing out. Li Yuluan's eyes changed. If Shen Yunzhe hadn't pulled him just now, this person would have hit him when he fell down, and the force would have killed him together.

"Who?" Shen Yunzhe looked at the body that was only a meter away from them. "Who jumped down?"

"He was lying prone on the ground, so I couldn't see his face clearly." Li Yiluan replied, "But judging by his attire, he looks like Lan Sicheng."

Only Lan Sicheng was wearing a beige coat, which was covering her and was stained red by blood.

Shen Yunzhe looked up at the sky. The rooftop of the teaching building was empty and there was nothing there. When he looked up, he could only see the gray sky.

"Ah!!" A scream came from the side.

It turned out that the three people who went to check the wall came back. They saw Lan Sicheng's body on the ground. Yuan Jing, who saw this situation for the first time, couldn't help screaming. Bi Jiayin and Bei Chuanchuan also looked very ugly, and they hurried over.

"What's going on?" Bi Jiayin asked them.

"He jumped from the rooftop," Shen Yunzhe replied. "Not only Lan Sicheng, but Lu Shun was also in trouble. He was trapped in the wall of the teaching building. By the time Li Yiluan and I dug him out, he had already been dead for a long time."

Bi Jiayin's face turned grim. "How could this happen? We've only been here for a short while."

"We haven't even finished investigating the teaching building, how come two people are already missing?! It shouldn't be this difficult, and there shouldn't be only seven of us!"

It was hard for everyone present to believe this.

There are only seven people in this game field, and five of them are entering the game for the fourth time. However, in no other game has two people died in less than a day without any prompts, and they don’t even know how these two people died, and they can’t see any clues.

They sat on the flag-raising platform with grim expressions, and Lan Sicheng's body was not far away.

"Is there really no sign at all?" Bei Chuanchuan asked again.

Shen Yunzhe looked at her and said, "Does it count if the bird in the cage sings? It sings quite beautifully."

"Song? So, did we hear the singing too?" Yuan Jing looked at Bi Jiayin. "At that time, we were wondering if it was the break and the assembly music was playing."

"Yes, but we listened to this song and nothing happened."

Li Yiluan looked at the body next to him and said, "Lan Sicheng jumped from the rooftop. When we looked up, we didn't see anyone. Shen Yunzhe and I walked all the way down from the teaching building and didn't find anything."

"Besides this, there is another problem."

Shen Yunzhe nodded. "Why did Lu Shun and Lan Sicheng, who were supposed to be waiting at the gate, enter the teaching building?"

He began to recall what happened.

When Li Yuluan and he were preparing to gather, they heard singing. Finally, they came to the first-floor lobby and saw birds singing. Then they found a figure that looked like Lu Shun. After realizing that something was wrong with Lu Shun, they chased after him and dug out Lu Shun's dead body. So they asked them to come out from the side door and go to the gathering point to prepare to tell everyone about this matter.

Just as he reached the center, Lan Sicheng jumped off the building.

"No way?" Shen Yunzhe looked at Li Yuluan, "Could it be that when we were digging for Lu Shun, Lan Sicheng happened to go up to the rooftop?!"

Li Yiluan frowned. He was quite resistant to this guess, but this might be the answer.

If they had entered the teaching building while they were exploring, there was no way the two of them would not have discovered it.

"Anyway, let's not separate for now. This is too scary." Bi Jiayin said, "We'll all act together later."

Li Yiluan nodded, "Did you get anything?"

Hearing this question, Bi Jiayin shook his head grimly, "No."

Yes, absolutely no delivery.

The three of them walked along the wall of the school, hoping to find a place to leave, but the wall of the school was very high and was wrapped with a circle of barbed wire. The barbed wire was covered with mottled rust, like dried blood, which made people feel discouraged at first sight.

They were sure there was no way they could get over the wall and leave the school.

"So are we going to stay on guard now?" Bei Chuanchuan asked quietly, "or go somewhere else?"

"I don't think it's necessary, including climbing over the wall," Shen Yunzhe said. "Because this is a boarding school, the school only has holidays every two weeks. Students eat, wear clothes and live in the school, which means they won't leave unless necessary. Climbing over the wall is also against school rules."

Bei Chuanchuan was stunned for a moment, "How do you know?"

"There is a school introduction sign in the teaching building." Li Yiluan answered for him.

In other words: squatting in the guard room is useless.

Bi Jiayin opened his phone and looked at the announcement, trying to find some information from it.

Some people also turn on the live broadcast and watch the comments from the audience, which is also one of their ways to get information.

[Are you scared already? This is just the beginning.]

【Completely passive, hopeless, I like to see this kind of development.】

[When will it end? I'm tired of watching it and want to fast forward.]

This isn't an ordinary playground. If you were to think about it with ordinary thinking, you'd never guess what's going on. You're looking for a hint, right? Then I'll be so kind as to tell you.

【Girls' dormitory.】

Is that what you told them?

What else? Develop it faster. This is a slow-burning game, still in its early stages. If we want to get to the exciting part as soon as possible, we need them to speed things up.

[That seems to be true.]

"Slow to warm up?" Li Yuluan obviously caught this word. He looked at Lan Sicheng's body on the ground with confusion in his eyes.

Is this what you call a slow start? Two of them died in just a short while.

In a game field with only seven people, this loss is huge.

The five people looked at each other, they didn't know what to do. Their game task was to escape from the school, but now they were confused and didn't even know how the person died. They didn't dare to believe what the live broadcast audience said, but they couldn't just stay here.

"Go ahead." Bei Chuanchuan finally spoke up. "We have to go to the girls' dormitory to check anyway."

"That's right." Bi Jiayin nodded, "Everyone, be careful and don't let anything happen again."

The dormitory building is behind the teaching building. There are two buildings in total. The left one is the girls' dormitory and the right one is the boys' dormitory. Like the teaching building, the dormitory building is also empty. They can also see clothes hanging on several balconies. Because no one has collected them for a long time, the clothes have become wrinkled and tattered.

It takes courage to enter the girls' dormitory. Everyone was on high alert and their minds were tense.

Li Yuluan walked in front, followed by Bei Chuanchuan.

He looks indifferent, but he is much more enthusiastic and bold than he appears. He dares to take the lead in such a place. If you ignore his cold face, he is simply a good man of the new era.

"It smells musty." Li Yiluan said as he walked, "It seems like there's a water leak."

Sure enough, as soon as they walked in, they heard the sound of dripping water. There were several dripping faucets in the public laundry room on the first floor. Moss had grown on the faucets because they had not been used for many years. Several pieces of clothes were moldy by the sink, and the laundry detergent had spilled into the sink.

They took a rough walk around and confirmed that there were 20 rooms on the first floor, each with 6 beds. They did not dare to choose the student dormitory, but instead chose the dormitory manager's room and planned to spend the night there.

Then they continued to move upwards.

As he stepped onto the stairs, Bei Chuanchuan couldn't help but count the number of steps in his mind.

The horror stories in school are always similar, including the location being a cemetery, a senior student committing suicide by hanging, and the 24-step staircase.

Sometimes when I think of something, I can't help but keep thinking about it. This horrible rumor keeps echoing in my mind, and then I can't help but count the steps one by one in my heart. This is a strange psychology of human beings. I am afraid but can't help wanting to try it.

Li Yuluan went up to the second floor first, and Bei Chuanchuan was the second. She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart.

Level 23, there is not even one more level.

"Beichuanchuan?"

Bi Jiayin's puzzled voice came from behind him, and Bei Chuanchuan subconsciously turned his head.

But just as she turned her head, she felt a huge force pushing her. She opened her eyes wide and her body fell down due to inertia. At the moment of falling, she suddenly realized: Bi Jiayin was walking at the back, and the voice she had just heard was ringing in her ears.

It wasn't Bi Jiayin calling her name at all!

"ah!!"

Li Yiluan was startled. He subconsciously reached out to grab Bei Chuanchuan, but the next moment he felt a powerful force, as if someone was pulling Bei Chuanchuan down.

She was pulled out of Li Yulun's hand without any chance of turning around, and her whole body fell heavily on the steps. Shen Yunzhe had no time to catch her, and the people behind her could only watch with wide eyes. The blood slowly slid down the steps, and finally she slid down softly.

Yuan Jing's face turned pale with fright. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to scream, watching Bei Chuanchuan's body slide past her feet and finally stop at the entrance of the corridor on the first floor.

Tears fell uncontrollably, Yuan Jing's body was so weak that she could only squat down, and there was dead silence everywhere.

"Something was pulling her." Li Yiluan said, "It pulled her out of my hand and she fell on the steps."

Shen Yunzhe looked at Li Yuluan, "Are you sure? We didn't see anything."

"Sure, because I held her hand." Li Yiluan replied.

No one spoke anymore. Bi Jiayin pulled Yuan Jing up to the second floor, and the remaining four people looked at Bei Chuanchuan's body at the entrance of the corridor on the second floor.

They, including Shen Yunzhe, found it difficult to accept such a thing.

It was too fast, so fast that they couldn't digest it.

Just half a day had passed and three of them had died. Half of them disappeared in a daze, and they hadn't noticed anything wrong. There were no rules, no dolls, not even a ghost or a warning.

They were dying, very quickly.

"We can't go to the first floor anymore. Let's find a room on the second floor." Bi Jiayin finally said, "Maybe we can leave soon."

After saying that, she stood up and walked towards the second floor corridor.

They quickly found an alternative room, a dormitory that was very close to the corridor entrance but not directly facing it. There were only four of them left, and the girls' dormitory was very large, so they had to split up again and investigate from the left and right.

The edge of the girls' dormitory is the edge of the school, and the wall is very close to the dormitory building.

Shen Yunzhe stood at the window and looked outside.

Li Yiluan came over and stood beside him. "What are you looking at?"

"Look over there." Shen Yunzhe said, "Look, the distance from here to that wall is not far."

Li Yiluan watched for a while, then looked at Shen Yunzhe in surprise, "You don't think you can jump directly from the girls' dormitory to the outside of the wall, do you?"

"You can try." Shen Yunzhe replied, "The second floor isn't high enough. We should start from the third floor and jump from the window up there. That's high enough to reach the wall, and the fall won't kill anyone."

"Are you sure?" Li Yuluan didn't believe it.

"It's okay for professionals." Shen Yunzhe leaned against the window, "But it's best not to try it."

He looked at the wire on the fence and said, "The black color on the wire looks like dried blood."

“It really does look like it.”

Li Yiluan was silent for a while, and after seeing that Shen Yunzhe didn't bring up a new topic, he spoke, "People die too quickly."

"Um?"

"Oh, right, you're a newcomer, this is your first time in an amusement park," Li Yiluan explained. "People wouldn't die so quickly in previous amusement parks. They usually give people half a day to a day to explore the venue, figure out the rules, or any oddities before they die."

"People don't die too often. Three deaths in just half a day is very strange."

Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "Although I have never been to a game field, I also noticed something was wrong."

"The announcement said: 'No time limit,' but people seem to be dying so fast. That's fine, but the live viewers are saying this is a slow-burning game. Their words are completely contrary to the actual situation, which makes me feel very conflicted."

"Do you have any ideas?"

"No." Shen Yunzhe shook his head. "Sorry, I'm not a good forensic doctor. I haven't studied criminal investigation, so I changed my career."

Li Yiluan shook his head. "Forget it. We can only take it one step at a time."

"Perhaps the fact that he died so casually is a clue," Shen Yunzhe said. "Human life is a very precious thing. I'm a doctor who treats corpses, so no one knows better than me how tragic it is to be without a soul."

"Life is priceless, but it's a shame we ended up in a place where life is treated like worthless."

Li Yiluan turned and left, and it seemed that he was going to look for Bi Jiayin.

After Li Yiluan had completely left, Shen Yunzhe spoke up, "Did I just say something really powerful?"

Are you showing off?

"I just wanted to solidify my reputation as a forensic pathologist, but who knew a bunch of famous quotes would come out of my mouth." Shen Yunzhe sighed, "It doesn't have to be like this."

"Hey? Can I contact codename Hope now? These kind of sweet words are the best way to cheer a doll up."

Please do not touch your Hope Doll in the playground unless you want to be considered schizophrenic again.