Chapter 47

Shen Yunzhe opened the announcement and confirmed that the content of the announcement had not changed. Their mission was still to escape from the school, and it was still an unlimited time mission.

Li Yuluan looked at Lu Shun hiding in the corner with complicated eyes.

"Why him?" Li Yiluan began to analyze. "Is it based on the order in which we died at No. 1 Middle School?"

Shen Yunzhe tilted his head, "I don't think that's right."

"Huh?" Li Yiluan looked at him. "Then what do you think is going on?"

Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "I told you, have you heard that players who die in the game will become ghosts and come back for revenge? Lu Shun killed Bi Jiayin, and Bi Jiayin came back for revenge. He was cursed."

Li Yuluan had a strange look in his eyes, but Shen Yunzhe looked quite serious.

"How many playgrounds have you been to?" Li Yiluan asked. "I've heard of this kind of thing, but as a newcomer, you probably haven't heard of it, right?"

Shen Yunzhe blinked, his mind came back to normal a little, and he finally remembered that he was still pretending to be a newcomer to the game field.

Unfortunately, the one he is syncing with now is not the code-named Climber, but the code-named Sleeper.

"Don't worry about such a small problem." Shen Yunzhe answered nonchalantly.

"There's no theoretical basis for the idea that players will turn into ghosts and come back for revenge after death. I've been through three game fields and haven't seen a player ghost come back for revenge."

Shen Yunzhe interrupted him and said, "I have encountered this before."

Li Yiluan was stuck. "...you?"

"In the last game, a fellow player tried to frame me but failed. He died and wanted to pull me down with him." Shen Yunzhe smiled. "Let's go to the cafeteria, okay? We won't have to do it again this time, so we need to eat. I'm starving! I need to eat!"

"Where's Lushun?"

"Why bother with him? We don't raise sparrows."

In the end, they didn't go. Li Yuluan asked Shen Yunzhe to stay here and watch Lu Shun while he went to find other people and decide what to do after everyone arrived.

So Shen Yunzhe could only squat not far from Lu Shun and stare at him.

Lu Shun, who turned into a sparrow, was very timid. Although he still looked tall and strong, he was shaking all the time. He huddled in the corner and kept looking at Shen Yunzhe. If he had hair on his body, he would have stood up long ago. Shen Yunzhe stared at the human-shaped sparrow with a smile, and looked quite excited.

"Are you afraid of me? Why? I won't eat you." Shen Yunzhe said, "I don't eat birds. Besides, you ate poisonous millet, and your body is also poisonous. If I eat you, I will turn into a sparrow too."

"Don't you feel dizzy from shaking like that?"

The sparrow didn't understand and started shaking even more violently.

Soon Li Yuluan brought the others. They looked at Lu Shun with surprise in their eyes. Li Yuluan told them everything that had happened, including the discussion with Shen Yunzhe, but deliberately concealed the fact that Shen Yunzhe was not a newcomer. Finally, he asked everyone what to do now.

Lu Shun is not normal now, but he is not dead yet.

"That horror story says sparrows can take over a person's body. So, is that a sparrow or a Lushun?"

"I don't know." Li Yishun shook his head, "But even if it's not Lu Shun, we can't just ignore it."

Yuan Jing nodded and looked at Bei Chuanchuan beside her. "Chuanchuan, what do you think?"

"Although I hate him, but..." Bei Chuanchuan's eyes were filled with disgust. "Since it's like this, why don't we tie him up and put him somewhere? We can't let him run around, and we can't lose him. We still have to look for clues, so this is the only way."

Lan Sicheng agreed, "I think this is the only way."

"We can hardly protect ourselves, and it's unlikely that we will protect someone like Lu Shun."

"Your interpersonal relationships are really bad." Shen Yunzhe poked Lu Shun's forehead with a pen. "Look, look, no one is willing to protect you. You're doing so badly. Do you know what's most important in this society? It's interpersonal relationships and opportunities. You have to seize them."

Li Yilun pulled him back helplessly, "Okay, you too, be normal."

Shen Yunzhe said innocently, "I'm normal."

It took a lot of effort to tie up Lu Shun. Lu Shun was not quiet. When someone approached him, he started to struggle. He made even louder noises, shouted sharply, and hit people with his hands and feet.

If he really was a sparrow, he could be described as cute, but he is not a sparrow now, he is a grown man.

Li Yuluan couldn't hold him down, so Shen Yunzhe went up to help, and finally Bei Chuanchuan also went up.

It took three people to barely hold Lu Shun down and tie him up. Shen Yunzhe even tied a bow on his neck in a mean way.

Because he often plays with dolls at home, Shen Yunzhe has very skilled skills in tying bows. The bows he ties are delicate and beautiful, which makes the three girls present couldn't help but look at him. Even they three girls couldn't tie such beautiful bows.

"Let's go to the cafeteria! I'm so hungry." Shen Yunzhe had enough fun, he raised his hand and suggested again.

No one objected this time. Everyone of them was very tired. After dying five times in a cycle, they came to a new place. They had long forgotten what comfort was like.

Unfortunately, there was no food in the cafeteria, not even water. The rotten food piled on the plates gave off a strange smell.

There was a lot of food, but it was all rotten, and plates of it were placed on the table.

Li Yiluan carefully picked up a plate of rotten food on the table and finally picked out the corpse of a sparrow.

"Ugh!" Yuan Jing was stimulated by the smell and almost vomited.

There was no way to eat, no one wanted to eat this kind of food, and everyone's spirits were not very high. Although they had left No. 1 Middle School, they were still mentally exhausted and couldn't fully cheer up.

Seeing that everyone was lifeless, Yuan Jing coughed and said, "Well, how about we all take a break first?"

Yuan Jing said, "Just go to the teaching building and find a classroom. You can even push the desks together and lie down for a while."

"That's fine." Lan Sicheng covered the lower half of his face. "I'm really tired. I really need some sleep."

Bei Chuanchuan also nodded, "Li Yiluan, what about you guys?"

Li Yuluan glanced at Shen Yunzhe next to him. Shen Yunzhe was sitting there staring at the food on the table. He looked very quiet, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or unhappy. When he was quiet, he gave off a feeling of being aloof.

"You guys go ahead, Shen Yunzhe and I will look for it again. We can't go without food."

Yuan Jing nodded and said, "Thank you for your help. Sister Chuanchuanlan, we will leave first."

The three girls left, leaving only Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan.

In fact, Li Yuluan was also very tired. He was not much less tired than others. He was able to maintain his sanity thanks to his own perseverance.

But he knew Shen Yunzhe couldn't sleep.

After becoming like this, Shen Yunzhe kept emphasizing that he couldn't sleep, that he was suffering from insomnia, that he was so sleepy and tired and wanted to sleep, but he never closed his eyes and kept them open to observe everything around him.

In the past, they couldn’t sleep. After all, if they died once a day, who would have the courage to sleep?

But now it's okay, time will not go back, and they can also steal some time to rest.

But what if everyone fell asleep? What would Shen Yunzhe do? He would be alone in the dark, watching with his eyes open. Who knows if that would make Shen Yunzhe, who was already not normal, even more abnormal.

"Are you okay?" Li Yuluan asked him.

"I should be the one asking you this question. Are you okay?" Shen Yunzhe said.

Li Yuluan was stunned for a moment.

"I'm used to days when I can't sleep. Time has 24 hours in a day for me, but you're different. You're still a normal person." Shen Yunzhe said, "Aren't you tired? You must be dead tired after five days of running around."

Li Yiluan sighed and shook his head. "I'll sleep when it's safe."

If time didn't repeat itself, finding something to eat would be an urgent problem. They left the cafeteria and went into the kitchen, trying to find some food that hadn't rotted.

But the cafeteria was empty, there was nothing there.

"A small shop." Shen Yunzhe leaned against the door frame and said, "Middle and high schools all have small shops selling stationery and fast food. Maybe there's some left over."

Li Yiluan nodded, "Then where is this small shop usually located?"

"Next to the cafeteria, or next to the teaching building."

"Let's go and have a look."

They walked out of the cafeteria and began to look around it, but no matter how they looked, there was no place like a convenience store around. Further back was the dormitory, and there were no other buildings around the dormitory, so they turned and walked towards the teaching building. At this moment, Shen Yunzhe stopped and looked to the side.

Li Yuluan looked over and found that Shen Yunzhe was looking at the library.

It was already evening, and the thin night light cast a foggy feeling on the building. Li Yiluan saw that the library was open, but he still remembered that he closed the door when he left.

He was startled and quickly ran towards the library. He turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone and shone it into the library, only to find that there was no one inside.

Lu Shun disappeared, leaving only a piece of rope lying there.

"Lushun ran away!"

"Of course he'll run. He's not a simple sparrow. You can't just tie his wings and legs to hold him back." Shen Yunzhe said quietly from behind Li Yuluan, "He still has hands and fingers. He'll untie the ropes and go wherever he wants."

Li Yiluan exhaled deeply, "We are going to the teaching building, let's go find Yuan Jing and the others first."

"Oh." Shen Yunzhe responded.

His voice was a little soft and absent-minded, seeming much calmer than his previous liveliness.

This was certainly not Shen Yunzhe's original intention, but he was very sleepy, really very sleepy. He closed his eyes as if he was going to lose consciousness. He couldn't think of anything in his mind, and he could hardly hear Li Yuluan's voice. But even though he was so sleepy, he couldn't fall asleep, so he could only hold on.

He gradually felt a pain more unbearable than death.

I felt awake but not awake, tired but unable to rest, and my head began to hurt violently.

In his confused mind, he realized: This seemed to be the limit of the synchronization of Codename Sleep Disorder Patient.

…

In the teaching building, Lan Sicheng had fallen asleep on the table.

She was really too tired. During those five days, she felt like she was dying almost all the time. She would die soon after opening her eyes.

Yuan Jing and Bei Chuanchuan were sitting on the other side. They were dozing off, but they didn't fall asleep as quickly as Lan Sicheng.

"Chuanchuan." Yuan Jing said softly, "I'm a little hungry, and I also want to go to the bathroom."

Bei Chuanchuan opened her eyes, glanced at the sky outside the window, and then spoke, "I want to go too, but are we going to leave Lan Sicheng here?"

"It's just for a moment, I'm sure it will be fine."

After hesitating for a moment, Bei Chuanchuan nodded.

To be honest, because Lan Sicheng had died so young, they hadn't gotten to know him well yet. And since they really needed to use the restroom, leaving him alone didn't take them long to decide. They entered the restroom together, and to avoid any problems, one of them stood guard outside while the other went in.

Bei Chuanchuan finished first, and Yuan Jing went in immediately after she came out.

"Hurry up, we have to go back quickly." Bei Chuanchuan instructed Yuan Jing before she went in.

Yuan Jing nodded vigorously and quickly ran into the bathroom.

It was a little dark in the evening, and the toilet without windows was even darker, so one could barely see people's figures. Bei Chuanchuan leaned against the toilet door waiting for Yuan Jing to come out. At this moment, she noticed something wrong. She slowly looked towards the side of the toilet and felt like there seemed to be something squatting there.

She swallowed, "Yuan Jing, are you okay?"

"Alright, alright, come out now!"

Hearing that Yuan Jing was about to come out, Bei Chuanchuan quickly turned around and tried her best not to look at the door.

She comforted herself in her heart that it must have been too dark and she must have seen it wrong. Maybe it was just a bucket and a rag.

Yuan Jing came out quickly. She knew what to prioritize. The two of them hurried back. On the way back, Bei Chuanchuan turned on the flashlight on her mobile phone. Although she knew it was useless, the faint light from the flashlight made her feel a little safe again.

When they returned to the classroom, they saw through the window that Lan Sicheng was still sleeping on the table, and Bei Chuanchuan breathed a sigh of relief.

But just as they were about to push open the back door and go in, a hand suddenly came across and pressed on the back door.

They subconsciously looked around and saw Lu Shun, who had been tied up in the library, standing next to them. His face was severely distorted, his hands were swollen, and his eye sockets were sunken, making him look more and more like a sparrow. He opened his mouth and made a bird's cry.

Lan Sicheng was awakened by Bei Chuanchuan's screams. She raised her head and hurriedly looked for the source of the sound, and suddenly saw that scene.

Bei Chuanchuan's cell phone fell to the ground, illuminating Lu Shun's face.

His face began to crack from his forehead, and a layer of skin was slowly peeled off along the crack. Lan Sicheng watched helplessly as a combination of a bird and a human crawled out of Lu Shun's body, and the thin layer of human skin fell onto Bei Chuanchuan's body.

The strange bird began to cry, and its cry sounded like a human scream, exactly the same as the bird in the cage in No. 1 Middle School!

"Ah!!" Bei Chuanchuan screamed and pushed the bird away, kicking Lu Shun's skin away. The strange bird flapped its wings and began to sing a song.

This song was different from the school song of No. 1 Middle School and was a tune they had never heard before.

Lan Sicheng quickly ran over, opened the door and pulled the two people in. Although they had encountered such a thing, they were all fine, no one was dead or injured. Only the bird stared at Bei Chuanchuan with a resentful look that anyone could see, and kept chirping and singing.

This was the scene Li Yiluan saw when he ran up after hearing the screams.

There are three girls huddled in the classroom, and a strange bird singing outside the classroom door. There is a piece of skin at the door, looking Lushun.

"Li Yiluan!" Yuan Jing shouted hurriedly after seeing Li Yiluan: "Where's Shen Yunzhe? Can he hear what the bird is singing?!"

"Shen Yunzhe?" Li Yuluan then realized that Shen Yunzhe was not following him.

He was startled and hurriedly turned around and ran back, looking for Shen Yunzhe along the way. Finally, he saw the man sitting on the ground and leaning on the stair railing in the lobby on the first floor. He was very quiet with his eyes closed, breathing slowly, and his face was calm and tired.

It was like my legs went weak and I fell to the ground, so I sat down and fell asleep.

"Shen Yunzhe?" Li Yuluan called him in a low voice.

No response.

Li Yuluan carefully stretched out his fingers to test his breathing. After confirming that he was still breathing, he exhaled heavily. Although it was not good to leave Shen Yunzhe here alone, something must have happened upstairs, so he turned around and went back to call the three down.

When he reached the end of the stairs, he turned back to make sure Shen Yunzhe was okay, but found that he had opened his eyes and was looking at him.

But unlike before, Li Yiluan felt that his eyes were very bright, as if they were filled with light, but this light was not gentle, and could even be described as cold.

Shen Yunzhe looked at him coldly. After staring at each other for a few seconds, he slowly closed his eyes again.

In a trance, Li Yuluan seemed to see another person.

Unlike those destinies that have ended, his destiny is vague, but it does exist.

He held Shen Yunzhe carefully in his arms, as if he was bearing the fatigue for him.