Chapter 78

"Who exactly is Shen Yunxi? Why does he know so much and suddenly appear here?" Zhang Xian was still asking this question.

Shen Yunzhe didn't have time to pay attention to him, but was looking for a way to leave the haunted house.

"Shen Yunzhe!" Zhang Xian raised his voice. "He's very dangerous. I sense a strong killing intent coming from him. Because of this killing intent, I can't even feel the female ghost approaching."

Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "I hope it's me."

"What?"

"I was born from a different choice," Shen Yunzhe said. "Do you understand? If you join the official system, you're one person, but if you don't, you'll be another person. But ultimately, this will always be you. I hope it stays this way."

Zhang Xian's eyes widened. "One, join Shen Yunzhe in the official hypothetical situation?"

But Zhang Xian wasn't so easily fooled. "No, if he really was a hypothetical dummy, then why would he know so much about official information? If he really was your creation, he shouldn't know about official matters, since even you, the creator, don't know."

Shen Yunzhe sighed, "Can you please put this aside for now? You know he's dangerous, but have you ever considered what he might be doing here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Yunzhe felt something was wrong.

The emotion codenamed hope surged into his heart along with the synchronization rate.

If before it was sadness and uncontrollable resentment, now it was uncontrollable joy. He was like a child who had found a favorite toy, completely immersed in happiness. What was he doing? What had he done to make himself so happy?

He immediately looked for a way to leave.

The dressing room for the five female college students is next to the haunted house dressing room because they are dressing up as female ghosts. After leaving the dressing room, there is also a haunted house with a female ghost wandering outside. However, the amusement park has a safe passage, and the haunted house must have a safe route.

Ignoring Zhang Xian behind him, Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door and tried to find a safe passage according to the route.

The moment Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door, he stopped where he was, because what he saw was not the safe passage, but the white room at the beginning.

With a click, a stone slab fell down. Shen Yunzhe raised his head and saw the female ghost sticking her head out from the ceiling and staring at him.

Shen Yunzhe quickly closed the door. There was a bang outside and Zhang Xian's heart skipped a beat. He had just seen what was outside.

Creaking sound, it's the sound of nails scratching on the door.

"Let me out." A soft female voice mixed with the sound of scratching nails, "I want to go home."

"Mom and Dad, save me."

"I want to go home."

Bang! Shen Yunzhe trembled due to the powerful force, and the voice of the female ghost behind the door continued to come over.

"It's all because of you, the tourists, that we can't go home!"

"Kill you! As long as there are no tourists, I can go home!"

“Go to hell, go to hell!!”

Zhang Xian helped Shen Yunzhe close the door. He looked outside with a look of surprise in his eyes.

"There's no way out in this situation," Zhang Xian said. "That female ghost is blocking the door! And this route isn't right either. I guess the haunted house and the maze are connected."

Shen Yunzhe frowned, "I have to go out. I don't know what to do. He gives me a very bad feeling now."

"Bad feeling?"

"Very bad."

Zhang Xian could still feel the sense of crisis tense in his head. He looked at Shen Yunzhe and listened to the howling of the female ghost outside. He closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the door. The creaking scratching sound kept coming to him, and he began to mentally prepare himself.

He can die, but this playground cannot erode their real world, and his own world cannot be turned into such a deserted playground.

He can die, but he cannot let Shen Yunzhe die. No matter how dangerous Shen Yunxi is, he is the only player who can directly harm the strange creature.

He can die because he is an official.

Zhang Xian suddenly opened his eyes and took a deep breath. He looked at Shen Yunzhe and said, "There is only one female ghost in the haunted house. I will lead her away. You immediately find a way out of this maze and find Shen Yunxi."

"I'll leave the rest to you!"

"What are you going to do?"

Zhang Xian laughed, and as a joke he said the words that Ji Yu had been on the tip of his tongue, which made all of them feel creepy.

He said, "Trying to die for you."

He bit his finger, and blood flowed to the palm of his hand, and a small red mark appeared. He did not explain but just opened the door and rushed out. Shen Yunzhe immediately heard the ghost girl's screams and angry roars. When Shen Yunzhe opened the door, he only saw Zhang Xian's back and the slowly fading black hair on the ceiling.

Zhang Xian pushed open the door in front of him, but it was another haunted house exhibition hall. Different venues had different weird stories. He could only keep looking for new doors, but after opening them, it was still a haunted house.

But he didn't have time to judge the route, so he could only push the door he saw because the female ghost was following him.

There are about a dozen members with special abilities in the official team. One of them is a person who can draw talismans with blood on the palm of his hand. It can be activated by just cutting his finger and letting the blood flow onto it. It can cause some obstacles to strange objects. Unfortunately, this thing can only be used once by a person, and due to the problem of ability, only a few people in the official team have it.

Because Zhang Xian was considered a half-special ability user, he managed to get a talisman, but that was all.

He thought breathlessly: Shen Yunzhe, you have used it all. If you waste it and don’t get out, I will beat you to death even if I turn into a ghost!

On the other side, after Zhang Xian rushed out, Shen Yunzhe began to look for a way to leave. This place was like a maze, and every door he opened was a new place.

Shen Yunzhe took notes as he walked. Fortunately, his memory had become very strong due to the previous synchronization, so it was more than enough for him to remember these rooms.

After opening a few doors, he determined that these rooms had no rules. Opening a door would randomly lead him into one of the rooms, and it all depended on luck. Shen Yunzhe felt his heart churning. He ignored the door and went straight to the window to break the glass.

Rushing out from the broken glass, Shen Yunzhe indeed discovered that the window would not cause random teleportation.

He hoped that Zhang Xian would notice the broken window and follow him out.

Shen Yunzhe smashed all the windows and finally returned to the original Red Bride area. He kicked the door open and finally saw the light, but at that moment, Shen Yunzhe saw the pale arm stretched out from the ticket gate suddenly twisted, the ticket machine fell to the ground, the arm twisted and twisted, and finally shattered into ashes.

A woman's scream came from the ticket gate, and it seemed to be coming from far away.

Shen Yunzhe went out quickly and saw a scene that could be considered horrifying.

Women's screams could be heard in every amusement project, and every pale hand was twisting and deforming. They twisted and turned into ash, and the ashes drifted into the sky bit by bit, and then the whole world turned black.

Shen Yunzhe heard a ding-dong sound, he took out his cell phone from his pocket, and the next moment he saw the announcement of mission failure.

【Main quest failed】

【Hidden mission failed】

【Mission failed... failed, failed.】

With a click, Shen Yunzhe's mobile phone screen cracked. He quickly opened the electronic ticket of the amusement park, but there were two big words written on the electronic ticket: [Invalid].

The mission failed, the amusement park e-ticket was invalid, what did Codename Hope do?

Shen Yunzhe began to look for the location of code-named Hope. On the way, he saw Xie Yiyu screaming. Xie Yiyu collapsed and squatted on the ground crying. When Shen Yunzhe walked over, he heard her talking to herself.

"So many people, why are there so many people?"

"Are they all players? Are they all the people who died here?"

"Don't look for me, I didn't do anything! Don't!"

"I didn't kill you!"

She broke down and cried as if she was in a nightmare, and Shen Yunzhe had no time to pay attention to her.

The sky seemed to have a big hole in it, and darkness was gradually spreading. This darkness brought a feeling of oppression, and this darkness was constantly falling down, constantly swallowing up everything around it. Shen Yunzhe began to retreat, but the speed of that thing was too fast, like a punctured balloon, and it shrank to his feet almost instantly.

Shen Yunzhe picked up the white hairpin on the ground and rushed onto the pirate ship holding it. The pirate ship was shaking, but it was not really corroded.

Strictly speaking, the pirate ship is not part of their game mission, but it is not completely impossible to get on the pirate ship.

Both the background story and their personal experience told them that as long as they picked up the ghost girl's hairpin, they would board the pirate ship, either by jumping off or falling from it.

Shen Yunzhe chose a position, and everything around him was swallowed up by darkness, even Xie Yiyu's crying and wailing stopped abruptly.

There was nothing, no light, no smell, no sound, it was empty, completely empty in this darkness.

"If you are swallowed, even your memories will be erased bit by bit, and you won't even be able to dream." A voice exactly the same as Shen Yunzhe's sounded.

Shen Yunzhe looked across. Codenamed Hope was sitting on the pirate ship directly opposite. His hair rope had broken at some point, and his long silver hair hung down on his seat. The long hair gave him the same well-behaved feeling as always, and he looked like such a well-behaved and delicate doll.

Shen Yunzhe did not choose this place randomly, but this place has not been swallowed.

In this situation, the only one who has the ability to prevent this kind of thing from invading is Codename Hope.

Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "What do you mean?"

"I thought you'd guessed it. After all, we're one person, and you can still sense my emotions." Codename Hope sighed with some regret, "But it doesn't matter, Shen Yunzhe. I like you, so I can overlook your little bit of stupidity."

"You promised me that you would always be with me."

Codename Hope spoke in a shy and gentle tone, as if he had never done anything bad.

"You don't want to die, and I don't want you to die either, so let's live together."

Shen Yunzhe laughed angrily, "Living in that little box of yours?"

"So this is why you came here to trick the system."

"It's all about the right time, right place, and right people. This kind of game field, where the medium is the main body, is so rare. Wouldn't it be a big loss if we don't take advantage of it?" Codename Hope actually sounded a little aggrieved. "Shen Yunzhe, you see how much I trust you. I know you can complete the task immediately, so I directly destroyed the medium."

Shen Yunzhe: "Is this how you got in?"

"Yeah," Codename Hope said with a smile, "Didn't I tell you this kind of playground is actually very rare? I stumbled upon it by accident, and there happened to be an official nearby. He destroyed the medium the moment I completed my mission, saying that the playground must not be allowed to continue entering reality."

"I'm very sad, Shen Yunzhe." Codename Hope said, "I feel like I really don't cherish myself enough, so I want to pull you in to accompany me."

"We can always be together."

When Codename Hope saw this playground, he couldn't help himself. He kept looking at everything around him, constantly recalling the feeling of staying with Shen Yunzhe for those three days. Malice surged in his heart, and he kept imagining what Shen Yunzhe would do after being dragged here?

Will I be angry or collapse?

But I will definitely lose my temper with him and maybe even beat him up.

Hurt him or be hurt. If Shen Yunzhe wanted to strangle him to death, he would definitely let Shen Yunzhe strangle him calmly. Shen Yunzhe would look at him fiercely, and maybe his eyes would even turn red. He was so excited at the thought of this possibility.

Before sending him out, the system told him: Don't oppose Shen Yunzhe, because hurting Shen Yunzhe is equivalent to hurting yourself.

But Codename Hope loves self-abuse too much, he is extremely interested in hurting himself!

Shen Yunzhe knew Codename Xiwang very well. He knew that Codename Xiwang did this just because he was happy. No matter what Shen Yunzhe's attitude was about this, he was very happy. This guy had a problem after being locked up in the small dark room and always wanted to find someone to go to jail with him.

If he can't harm others, he will harm himself.

After thinking about this, Shen Yunzhe became calm instead.

"Why are you giving me the doll as compensation?" Shen Yunzhe said, "Tomorrow I will have two dolls arriving. I just picked them out and have been looking forward to them for a long time."

Codename Hope smiled, "Isn't it enough for you to have me? Don't you think of me as your doll?"

"I only like obedient dolls." Shen Yunzhe looked him up and down, "I don't want a disobedient doll no matter how beautiful it is."

"What a pity, I haven't been a doll yet." Codename Hope was still smiling, like a bird wandering in happiness.

Shen Yunzhe could feel that he was looking forward to the future. Not only did he live alone in that dark little box, but he also forcibly dragged a neighbor in. He was afraid that he would be happy even if Shen Yunzhe broke his legs. Shen Yunzhe, who was still in sync with Code Name Hope, was infected by his happiness and was not nervous at all.

It's just too dark.

It sounds strange that two people are afraid of the dark together.

The darkness was swallowing up bit by bit. Shen Yunzhe knew that it was Codename Hope that had released his control over the darkness. Shen Yunzhe could see that the corners of the pirate ship had been melted away.

"But, Shen Yunzhe, I suddenly remembered something." Codename Hope said suddenly.

Codename hoped to look at his face. He didn't blink, as if he wanted to engrave this person who looked like him in his mind.

The sadness is real, the loneliness is real, and staying in the small black box for more than 20 years is real. Only the reason for entering this black box is fake. He did not enter here to save the real world in the first place.

That year, Li Yuluan entered the game field, and Codename hoped to see him off. In the only small area where the game field had not yet appeared, Li Yuluan looked at him before leaving.

"Let me tell you a fortune." Li Yiluan said, "30,000 yuan."

"No." Codename Hope refused immediately.

"You can keep the debt. I want to settle it today." Li Yiluan looked him up and down. "You might be tricked soon and locked up in an airtight place."

Codename Hope tutted, actually looking forward to it. "In this day and age, there's still a plot about imprisonment in a small dark room?"

"In short, it's a dark place with no light, and you'll be locked up for a long time."

"But at the end of the darkness, you can see hope."

"What kind?"

"I don't know, but it's hope anyway." Li Yiluan smiled. "Maybe it's the hope of clearing out the playground. You have to persevere."

That’s great.

Codename Hope thinks: My hope is myself.

He is narcissistic and self-abuse. Because he is too unscrupulous, he has always been at odds with the authorities. Qiao Dong, who first came into contact with him, once asked him: Why can't you be nicer to yourself?

He thought: I am good enough to myself, I am too selfish, but he thought about it again and felt that it would be nice to get hurt, so he didn't want to refute it.

He treated everyone equally as fun, including himself.

Codename Hope smiled and stared at Shen Yunzhe who was sitting there quietly.

He said, "Goodbye, my dear."

"I hope you won't be so scared that you never come back to see me again. That would make me sad."

Suddenly, there was nothing underneath him, and Shen Yunzhe felt like he was falling. Gravity pressed him down, and he saw codenamed Hope still sitting there. He was swallowed up by the darkness bit by bit, and at the moment he was completely swallowed up, Shen Yunzhe felt like he wanted to cry.

There was light in his eyes, but I couldn't tell if it was tears.

Then he fell into the snow, and the soft snow covered him. Shen Yunzhe felt the snow melting on him, and the street lights illuminated the snowflakes floating in the air.

The lights are real, and the snow is real.

He seemed to have returned to reality.

Shen Yunzhe sat up and took out his cell phone from his pocket, but there was a big crack on the screen and it could no longer be turned on.

Throwing the phone aside, Shen Yunzhe stood up by holding the telephone pole.

"System." Shen Yunzhe shouted at the system, "Get out and die!"

"Are you really an intelligent AI? How could you be so stupid as to fall for such a series of tricks?"

On the other side, the official looked at the paper in front of him in silence.

Today their insider Zhang Xian entered the game field. Obviously he did not come back, but he left a message before he died.

They also didn't know how Zhang Xian did it.

The message consisted of only one sentence.

[Shen Yunxi is Shen Yunzhe]