Chapter 80

It was too easy to strangle Codename Hope. This guy wouldn't even resist. Shen Yunzhe felt it was too boring and stopped.

"Codename Hope's existence is quite necessary. Even if you're deeply resentful, it's best to pretend he doesn't exist." The system added, "Or just lock him up there and leave him alone. If you ignore him, that place will still erase his memories, returning him to his original state."

"Why?"

What and why?

"Why would I do this?" Shen Yunzhe's voice was strange. "Do you think I'm that kind of person who would let someone stay in a small dark room and slowly have their memories erased?"

Okay, forget that Shen Yunzhe is a good kid who grew up in a peaceful era.

"Okay, I am." Shen Yunzhe nodded. "This guy isn't as cute as he was at the beginning. I really want to punch him until he loses his memory."

The system was silent. It felt that there was no point in talking about serious matters with Shen Yunzhe.

"But I can't do it." Shen Yunzhe sighed, looking out the window at the scenery. "How could I dare to kill someone, especially when the person is me? No matter how angry I am, I won't push myself to death, even if he's a jerk."

Codename Hope almost touched all of Shen Yunzhe's traps, but Shen Yunzhe just couldn't bring himself to do it. He could strangle Codename Hope's neck and force him to apologize, and he could say the most unpleasant words to him, but he couldn't really kill him.

Because the code name is hopefully himself, and because Shen Yunzhe finds it hard to imagine the feeling of a person's memory being slowly erased.

Because Shen Yunzhe once really thought: Perhaps he is the only person in this world who can be trusted without reservation.

"Am I also so annoying?" Shen Yunzhe asked the system.

The system was silent for a moment, then replied, "You're quite likable."

"Come on, I know what I'm like. He's just an extreme, exaggerated version of me," Shen Yunzhe said self-deprecatingly. "If I can't even accept myself, who else can I expect to accept me?"

Ding Dong, the doorbell rang.

Shen Yunzhe glanced at the door, but he was not prepared to open it.

Then came the constant ringing of the doorbell.

Shen Yunzhe glanced at his cell phone which had been thrown aside and was in a state of disrepair. Yes, he hadn't changed it yet. After the doorbell rang again, he still went to open the door.

There were two people standing outside the door, two people Shen Yunzhe was quite familiar with.

Qiao Dong and Yue Ding.

"Ding Yue?" Shen Yunzhe looked at the people outside. "Long time no see."

Yue Ding and Qiao Dong exchanged a glance, and then Qiao Dong smiled. He asked, "Why can't I get through to you on the phone? I thought something had happened to you."

"My phone is broken, and I haven't replaced it yet." Shen Yunzhe opened the door to let them in. "I might need to get a new card."

Shen Yunzhe threw his phone on the table. There were cracks visible on the screen, and even the internal parts of the phone could be seen. It was as if it had been cut by a sharp knife. It was obvious at a glance that this was not damage that could occur in reality, but everyone knew that under normal circumstances, everything would be restored after leaving the game field.

Including the scars on the person and the only mobile phone that could be brought in.

Logically speaking, this phone should not have this damage.

Shen Yunzhe was clearly telling them that he was not leaving the playground normally.

This hint made Yue Ding and Qiao Dong excited. They were eager to know how Shen Yunzhe left. This was a player leaving the game field using illegal means.

"Shen Yunzhe, you should know why I'm here. I'm here to collect information about the game field." Qiao Dong tried to slow down his heartbeat with a smile on his face.

Shen Yunzhe placed two glasses of water in front of them. "I know, but there's no need to worry."

“The playground is gone.”

"Gone?" Yue Ding frowned. "Same as the previous exhibition hall?"

"It's even more thorough than that." Shen Yunzhe said, "I'm in the same playground with your official Zhang Xian. Is he still alive?"

After the words were spoken, Yue Ding and Qiao Dong fell silent.

In this silence, Shen Yunzhe nodded, "No, that's right, it's impossible to escape in that situation."

Qiao Dong immediately spoke up, "What on earth did you encounter?"

Shen Yunzhe sat across from them with a glass of water. After staring at them for a few seconds, he spoke, "The main body is the medium's playground."

As soon as the words fell, Yue Ding and Qiao Dong's faces became extremely ugly.

They are all official people, so of course they know what kind of playground this is. There are very few such playgrounds, and only three have been recorded over the years. These three recorded playgrounds have caused quite terrifying and strange invasion incidents in the world, and this type of playground has become a taboo.

Every official member swears upon joining: if they encounter such a gaming field, they will get rid of all the players at all costs.

This kind of playground must never be allowed to become reality.

"This matter needs to be reported to the authorities immediately!" Qiao Dong reached for his cell phone, but was held down by Yue Ding.

"Don't worry yet." Yue Ding said, "Shen Yunzhe just said there's no need to worry about this playground."

Only then did Qiao Dong calm down a little from his panic. He looked at Shen Yunzhe and found that Shen Yunzhe was looking at them very calmly, and it could even be said that he was observing.

Shen Yunzhe was observing them.

"I know why you're here. After all, Zhang Xian asked me countless times inside." Shen Yunzhe said, "Are you here for Shen Yunxi too?"

Yue Ding smiled and nodded calmly, "That mysterious player is obviously related to you. Even if you don't want to tell us, there's nothing we can do. But finding him has always been our mission. We can only investigate on our own. This isn't to exploit anyone, but for the sake of social stability."

"He's dead." Shen Yunzhe answered expressionlessly.

Qiao Dong was helpless. "Even if you don't want to say it, there's no need to curse him to death, right?"

"I'm not kidding you." Shen Yunzhe said, "How do you think I got out of there?"

Qiao Dong and Yue Ding looked at each other, then looked at Shen Yunzhe, motioning Shen Yunzhe to continue.

"I can't control Shen Yunxi at all. He exists independently of me, a terrifying being." Shen Yunzhe didn't hesitate to use all sorts of words to curse Codename Hope. "Zhang Xian said that the threat he posed to me overwhelmed the playground, making it impossible to tell when strange creatures in the playground were even approaching."

"He took advantage of Zhang Xian and I completing our mission to destroy the medium."

But Shen Yunzhe said this just to get rid of the code name. After all, Shen Yunzhe still wanted to protect him.

"The medium of the playground is the main body. If the medium is destroyed, the playground is destroyed too. Black fog fills the air, and the playground begins to collapse from the sky. Announcements announce the mission failure, and the phones simply shatter. All the surviving players suffer mental breakdowns and are swallowed by darkness."

"Then why did you come back?"

"Because Shen Yunxi was devoured in my place." Shen Yunzhe said: "In a sense: he is me, so he can be devoured in my place."

Yue Ding and Qiao Dong originally wanted to say that this was impossible, but they immediately remembered the reason why this mysterious player attracted their attention.

He can directly harm strange things...

If this is the case, it is not impossible that he pushed Shen Yunzhe out and was swallowed by himself.

After the game ended, Shen Yunzhe did not come back, but disappeared directly. No one saw him alive or dead. A day later, he appeared three hours away from home. They found the video of Shen Yunzhe's appearance. There was a dazed look on his face as if he had lost weight, and a broken mobile phone in his hand.

He appeared suddenly, as if he was thrown there by something.

Yue Ding was silent for a moment, then looked at Shen Yunzhe, "You just said: He is you, then he... who is Shen Yunxi?"

"I don't know." Shen Yunzhe said: "He just appeared suddenly, I don't know when he will come out. Ding Yue, haven't you seen him either?"

Yue Ding was silent.

Indeed, he had been in the same playground with Shen Yunzhe. Although Shen Yunzhe's mental state was worrying, there was indeed no Shen Yunxi around him.

It was after that reality erosion that a mysterious player appeared next to Shen Yunzhe and was discovered by the authorities.

Finally, they asked carefully about what happened in the game field, including Zhang Xian's behavior. Qiao Dong typed more than 10,000 words on the document. Finally, Shen Yunzhe said that there was nothing else. Only then did they stand up and say goodbye to Shen Yunzhe, with no intention of forcing him to stay.

We are all adults and we know that we can’t be forced to say what we should and shouldn’t say.

Especially Shen Yunzhe himself is their target.

While waiting for the car to arrive, Yue Ding and Qiao Dong looked at the documents and talked.

"What's going on with Shen Yunxi? Could it really be Shen Yunzhe's special ability?"

"He appeared inexplicably and disappeared without a trace. This doesn't quite conform to the standards of modern society," Qiao Dong replied. "With so many surveillance cameras, how could they not capture anything?"

Yue Ding sighed, "So, is his ability upgraded?"

"That's possible."

"But what is his special ability? An unstable mental state?" Yue Ding laughed at himself. "I was in the same playground with him at the time, and I watched him go through several personality changes. He was even more schizophrenic than schizophrenia. Do you think it's possible that this schizophrenia-like condition is actually the result of a special ability?"

Qiao Dong also laughed, "Special ability type multiple personality?"

"The main reason is that when he switches his personality, you can clearly feel that he focuses on different abilities. I'm not kidding." Yue Ding squatted down and flipped through Shen Yunzhe's file. "He's a good kid. He grew up in an orphanage and was a top student since childhood. He studied hard from elementary school to university."

"First, I haven't seen any evidence of him studying medicine, second, I haven't seen any evidence of him taking a forensic examination, and third, he hasn't even traveled far, yet he knows a lot of things that only professional tour guides know."

Yue Ding said, "You see, this has been strange from the beginning."

Yue Ding had this idea after leaving the game field and finding Shen Yunzhe's information, but it was just an idea.

Because Shen Yunzhe's health report showed no psychological or mental problems, nor did he have multiple personality tendencies. He was just a very normal person, except that he had the bad luck to enter the game field.

But things had developed to this point, and he had to guess more and think more.

Qiao Dong raised an eyebrow. "From multiple personalities to independent personalities? Is that why Shen Yunxi pushed Shen Yunzhe out? To protect the main personality?"

"Just tell me if this is possible."

Actually, yes, because so far, most people with special abilities have very strange abilities. No one has the superpowers like those in normal novels. They all have weird abilities.

Intuition, prophecy, talisman drawing... there is even one who can walk through walls like a ghost.

"There's no point in us guessing," Qiao Dong replied with a smile. "Actually, the best way is to let Shen Yunzhe go to the authorities. He can explain the situation to us honestly and seriously. But it seems difficult now. Shen Yunzhe is wary of us."

"There's nothing we can do. It's normal for someone who possesses a treasure to be wary of the outside world. All we can do now is try to eliminate his guard."

Yue Ding shrugged, "This is your job. I'm a non-staff member. I won't get involved in coaxing people."

"How can you say it's coaxing people? It's an attitude."

Qiao Dong shook his head.

…

Shen Yunzhe doesn't care about the official at all. He is now unscrupulous. The official cares so much about the mysterious player who can directly hurt the strange objects. Shen Yunzhe is the only one who knows who he is. The official has nothing to do but use terrible means to threaten him.

First, he changed his mobile phone, then went to the nearby vegetable market to buy vegetables. After returning home, Shen Yunzhe stuffed the vegetables into the refrigerator and then ordered takeout.

He was very concerned about the delivery man's physical and mental safety at night, so he very considerately asked the delivery man to leave the takeaway at the door so that he would not come in and be scared by the wall of dolls.

While waiting for the takeaway, Shen Yunzhe first opened his mobile phone. The new phone actually had that app. Unfortunately, when he clicked on it, it didn't lead to a successful game, but a huge game failure and bug fix. Unfortunately, the bug couldn't be fixed, so the app was abandoned without any repairs.

Just 20 days later, Shen Yunzhe had to re-enter the fourth game field.

The way to fix the bug is to restart the game, haha.

After turning off his phone and throwing it on the sofa, Shen Yunzhe turned on the TV. It was evening news time and the host was reporting the news.

"The suicide rate in the city has recently increased. Experts believe this is related to social work pressure. Citizens are calling for the abolition of overtime and the improvement of work happiness rates."

"A suicide attack occurred in a residential complex, killing dozens of residents. The attackers are now dead. Whether it was a cult in nature requires further investigation."

"Survivors in a certain residential complex have died one after another. It is suspected that the suicide attacker poisoned the area in advance. Doctors and research institutes are conducting emergency tests to ensure the survival of the remaining residents."

95% of the players in the game field spread the news through "surprise easter eggs", and only 5% through other means, that is, strange objects invaded reality, and those survivors of the invaded reality would enter the game field. Shen Yunzhe believed that the official had told this news to all survivors, but their survival rate was still not high.

In fact, it’s not just the newcomers; the survival rate of old players is also not high. It’s luck if half of the people are left in a game field.

A phone call came in, it was from a delivery man. The community did not allow takeout to be brought in, so the food had to be left in the security room and wait for the owners to pick it up. Shen Yunzhe thanked him and strolled downstairs.

After finishing his takeaway, Shen Yunzhe looked at the sky outside and wondered if he should take a nap. But he had already slept all day.

[You should get more sleep. Synchronizing with Codename Hope will make you very tired.]

"I feel even more tired when I sleep now." Shen Yunzhe sighed, "I will go to his place when I fall asleep, and I get angry when I see him."

[But I can't not sleep.]

People will die if they don't sleep. Seeing the code name is just his retribution.

Thinking this, Shen Yunzhe wrapped himself up into a ball on the bed.

Finally, we arrived at Codename Hope.

Code name Xiwang was sitting quietly next to him. After seeing Shen Yunzhe, he kept looking at him. In the endless darkness here, Code name Xiwang was so white that he seemed to be glowing, and he looked like a fairy from his hair to his eyes. Shen Yunzhe was sitting next to him and staring at him.

He looked from beginning to end, and then from end to beginning, and finally his eyes stopped on his neck.

Shen Yunzhe used a lot of force when pinching him, leaving marks at the beginning. After a while, the marks became even more horrific, with red and purple interlaced on the fair skin. It must be said that the current code name hopes to give people a strong desire for sadism.

Even though he was pinched like this, Codename Hope was not afraid of him. Instead, he moved towards him with shining eyes.

"Don't come over." Shen Yunzhe could only call him back.

"Don't give me the chance to continue."

Then he saw Codename Hope sitting back with a wronged look on his face.

"Actually, you don't have to be so restrained." Codename Hope added fuel to the fire, saying something no one would believe. "Look, I won't resist. I'm your obedient child."

"You can continue to do it, I will endure it."

"You're asking for trouble." The system taunted him, "I get angry when I see him, but my mind is filled with the desire to see him. It's okay when I can't sleep, but once I fall asleep, my mind loses its focus and my heart takes you with it, and then I get angry again, a vicious cycle."

Shen Yunzhe pressed his solar plexus and exhaled deeply.

He looked at Code Name Hope and asked the first serious question since returning.

“How did the authorities attract you to join?”

Codename Hope blinked, looked at Shen Yunzhe, and then tilted his head.

"hope?"

"You want to know?" Codename Hope looked at him with bright eyes. "I can tell you, but I don't do business that will lose money."

He must be mentally ill to ask questions about Code Name Hope.

"Kiss me and I'll tell you." Codename Hope seemed to know that he was already impatient, so he made a direct request, "The last time you kissed me, it was very warm. I want to try again."

Shen Yunzhe: ...

He really has a problem with his brain!