Chapter 83

"This is much more exciting than the arcade." Li Yiluan put his hands in his pockets and looked at the small number of people left on the train. "There are only a few players in the arcade, and there are so many people here."

He pulled Shen Yunzhe up and sat on his seat. The injured female student could not move, so he had to leave her where she was.

"Why didn't you go downstairs when the door opened?" Shen Yunzhe asked him.

Li Yiluan frowned slightly. "I was thinking of going down, but as soon as I got to the door, I saw that everyone going down had a dark cloud over their face, a look of death on their faces."

This was enough to make a fortune teller stop in his tracks, but he finally chose to stay on the train. The next moment, he saw all the people who got off the train being dragged into the ground by hands that suddenly appeared. There were screams everywhere, and Li Yuluo was standing at the door in a cold sweat.

Li Yulun's special ability is based on his own fortune-telling skills. He is people-oriented and can see the fate of living people. This ability may not be too prominent in the game field, but it is extremely powerful among the crowd. In other words: he is very suitable for dealing with such strange events that erode reality.

Being stared at by Shen Yunzhe with strange eyes, Li Yuluan couldn't help but take two steps back and rub the goose bumps on his arms.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Like you're looking at money."

"I just think you're really capable." Shen Yunzhe stared at him. "There are so many people here. You can predict what will happen to each person by looking at their future. This means you can avoid a lot of danger. Isn't that more valuable than money?"

Li Yiluan's expression was a little awkward. He sat next to Shen Yunzhe and looked at the people around him. "There's not much to see. The difference between life and death is just too great and too obvious."

After saying that, he asked Shen Yunzhe, "Where's your brother?"

"who?"

"The one who packed up my hot pot." Li Yiluan lowered his voice. "I remember he can directly harm strange objects. If he's here, at least we can keep ourselves safe."

Shen Yunzhe answered decisively: "He's dead."

"Dead?"

"Yes, he will die without a complete body, reduced to ashes and smoke, and his soul will be shattered." Shen Yunzhe used three idioms in one breath and concluded, "Don't count on him."

The strange erosion scene is a foregone conclusion. If the code name Hope is really released, he might really become extreme. This guy is extreme enough. If he is really provoked to have some fun, he might overturn the entire playground and kill everyone alive.

Shen Yunzhe didn't trust him at all, absolutely not at all.

"So what should we do now?" Li Yiluan didn't care. He watched the arrival light in front of him light up. "We're almost there, but we're still arriving at the same station."

Train Square.

No one knows where the Train Square is, but this train keeps moving at this station. The first time it came to this station, it did not stop. The second time it came to this station, it stopped, and all the people who ran down died. This is the third time it came to this station.

"Let's see first."

With a ding-dong sound, the train arrived at the station. They felt the train slowly stop in their seats. Those who were still on the train didn't dare to breathe and wanted to shrink into the corner.

The train door slowly opened.

This time no one went out and the car door closed quietly. Just when everyone thought nothing would happen, a man walked into the station. He was wearing a black suit and looked normal, but his black leather shoes were covered in sticky flesh and blood, and he smelled of blood all over.

He raised his head and stared at the station with a pale face.

"Why are there so many people?" the man opened his mouth and said, "There's no room left."

Then more people came in, one after another, people with missing arms and legs and covered in blood entered the carriage.

Shen Yunzhe closed his eyes when the first person came in. His eyes were stinging, as if he was suddenly exposed to strong light. He took a long time to adapt before opening his eyes and looking around. He saw black human-shaped mist sticking in the carriage. They were crowded together and got on the train like people.

Li Yuluan was still quite calm. He looked around for a while, then lowered his head as if he saw nothing, without even breathing fast.

After all, he is a player who has played five games, so he is capable of coming out of it.

After waiting for a while, there was nothing wrong in the car. He looked at Shen Yunzhe next to him, but found that Shen Yunzhe had a pale face and closed his eyes, with his hand pressed on his temples, his fingertips were white and trembling, and it was obvious that something was wrong.

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

Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes, looked at him, and shook his head slightly.

It's nothing serious, just a headache and a sharp, stabbing pain in my forehead.

Along with the pain came the screams of countless people who were enduring in their hearts. These screams, one after another, all rang in his mind.

"What is that?!"

"A ghost! It really is a ghost!"

"Isn't this the person who was sitting next to me just now?! Wasn't he killed when he got off the car just now? How could he come back? He must have turned into a ghost!"

"Peng Jing, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Don't come to me, don't come to me..."

Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes and turned to look to the side. Li Yuluan saw him moving and looked over there.

He only saw a man wearing glasses and looking timid sitting there, and a woman with a bloody hole on her neck sitting next to him. The man was trembling, his face was pale and sweaty, and there was a layer of mist on his glasses. He was probably so scared that he was too weak to move.

Li Yiluan could see that his fate came to an abrupt end, this was a sign of death.

He is going to die.

Li Yuluan raised his eyebrows slightly, and then felt Shen Yunzhe holding his arm. Li Yuluan looked at Shen Yunzhe strangely.

"Don't worry about it." Shen Yunzhe whispered, "This place is not a playground."

"Compared to saving people, it is more important to deal with this playground first."

Li Yuluan knew this truth, and he was not stupid, so he had no intention of saving anyone under such circumstances.

"What now?"

Shen Yunzhe turned his head and looked to the other side. In his eyes, there was a strange ball of light not far away. The ball was a little gray and not obvious before. Until so many black things squeezed in, the ball of light was particularly obvious. Shen Yunzhe was sure that the other side was a safe place.

"Let's go over there." Shen Yunzhe stood up and walked forward.

Li Yuluan took one last look at the man with glasses, then stood up and followed Shen Yunzhe.

No one dared to move in this situation, so everyone present was surprised to see someone get up and leave. They couldn't help but look up at the person who left, including the man with glasses and a deathly look, Mu Zhiwei. When he raised his head, he and Li Yiluan happened to look at each other.

He clearly felt the indifference in Li Yuluan's eyes. He looked at him as if he was looking at a dead person.

Dead person, dead person?

"Honey, what are you looking at?" The woman's familiar voice sounded in his ears. Mu Zhiwei got goosebumps all over his body. He opened his eyes wide in horror, but didn't dare to answer a word.

The woman had a bloody hole on her neck, and every time she spoke, there was an airy sound, and every word she spoke had a cold tone.

"Honey, why don't you look at me?"

"Honey, look at me."

"My dear, am I beautiful?"

Mu Zhiwei's little finger was trembling. He didn't dare to say anything and didn't dare to raise his head at all.

He deliberately pushed the woman off the bus. He heard Shen Yunzhe's voice and heard him say that this was not the station they wanted to get off. At that time, many people were trying to squeeze out of the bus. He didn't know where the idea came from, but he pushed the woman who had not squeezed out at the door out.

He hid in the crowd and told her affectionately that she should leave first and he would find a way.

Then the car door closed, and he watched helplessly as the woman's neck was pierced by a sharp spike that came out of the soil.

"Honey, I love you." The woman's voice was still ringing.

Mu Zhiwei trembled even more violently.

But he thought...it's not entirely my fault.

He cheated on his wife, and the mistress became pregnant. Because his wife Peng Jing was unable to have children, he needed a perfect divorce and a large sum of money to support the mistress and the child. So at that time, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he actually thought of buying accident insurance for them.

If Peng Jing died, he would be free from his wife and have money.

But he didn't expect that the train would stop at the original station and the dead person would be back on the train.

"Honey, I love you. Do you love me the same?" The woman's voice kept ringing.

"I know. I know everything."

"So, darling, die with me."

Mu Zhiwei fell off the seat. He wanted to run out, but his hands and feet were too weak to move. He was so scared that he couldn't even walk. The woman smiled and dragged his feet, pulling him forward amid his screams. There was a ding-dong sound, which was the sound of the train arriving at the station.

Mu Zhiwei was dragged off the train, screaming continuously.

The people in the train listened to the sound in horror. A minute later, two bloody people stepped back into the station.

It turned out to be Mu Zhiwei and Peng Jing who had just left.

The heartbeats of the living people kept ringing, they were trembling with fear, they forced themselves to cover their mouths, afraid that they would scream, but even so, the sounds gradually became louder, and from time to time someone was dragged off the train screaming, and then put back on.

But those who come back are no longer human beings.

At this moment, Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan walked forward, avoiding people, but the further they walked, the tighter Li Yuluan's brows furrowed.

He saw many people's fate suddenly turn into death, and he also saw people being forcibly dragged off the car, and they were not the same people when they got back on the car. There were screams everywhere. Some people wanted to escape, but they might be caught on the way. Some people were already scared to death, and they sat there laughing foolishly.

Shen Yunzhe covered his ears, but the sound still continued to come in.

"Help! Don't kill me!"

"I finally got into the civil service exam, how can I die here?"

"Go to hell, go to hell, everyone go to hell!"

"Why was it me who died and not him?! Don't come looking for me! He was the one who teased you, not me!"

Shen Yunzhe stepped into the last car of the train and saw countless people squatting there, looking at them in horror. Shen Yunzhe looked here and then turned back. There was black fog everywhere, but it was abruptly cut off here, as if this was a safe house in a game.

Li Yuluan discovered this earlier than Shen Yunzhe, because no one here had a dead look on their face.

The woman sitting in the front seat was drawing talismans with her bitten fingers, which she then pasted on the doors and windows. They could see that her face had turned pale, as if she was very tired.

Hearing someone coming, the woman looked up at them, and then surprise, or rather joy, flashed in her eyes.

"I didn't expect you to be here too." The woman obviously knew them.

Li Yiluan looked at the woman, then turned to look at Shen Yunzhe, "Your friend?"

"I don't know him."

"I don't know her either." Li Yiluan said, "But she knows us."

After drawing the last talisman, the woman stuck it on the window in front of her and then stood up.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm official member Huang Yihua. I'm here to investigate the strange erosion incident. I didn't expect to encounter something like this on the way here." Huang Yihua looked at the carriage behind him. "I had no choice but to rescue these people and shelter them here temporarily. I thought I could handle it alone, but I didn't expect my teammates to show up."

She smiled, "Mr. Shen and Mr. Li."

"So he's an official." Li Yuluan still didn't react much, maintaining his cool guy image.

He looked at the talismans plastered all over the train and said, "I didn't expect you could protect so many people."

"I'm a Taoist priest, practicing since childhood. Talismans are just something I'm good at." Huang Yihua replied with a smile, "The one I put on there is a talisman to ward off evil spirits. It happened so suddenly, so I had no choice but to try it. I didn't expect it to work, but unfortunately, I'm not strong enough, so I guess it can only hold out for a short time."

The situation was urgent, and after they knew who Huang Yihua was, they didn't ask any time-wasting questions.

Shen Yunzhe asked directly: "Do you know what kind of playground this is?"

"I don't know." Huang Yihua also answered briefly. "In fact, special game fields have always been the official's biggest enemy. Because unlike ordinary game fields, they are not hidden. These game fields will 100% appear in the real world after the player completes the mission. And it happens immediately. The official has no time to collect data."

"It's just a matter of luck this time. Not a single official member showed up at this game." Huang Yihua looked at the train. "Alas, so many people, and just disappeared like that."

Li Yuluan looked at Huang Yihua and Shen Yunzhe in confusion.

"What is the special playground?"

"The medium is the main body's playground," Shen Yunzhe answered him. "It's not eroded from the outside, but rather a place that breeds strange things."

Li Yuluan is smart and he understood it as soon as I said that.

"What we can do now is to find the pattern first." Huang Yihua said.

Shen Yunzhe spoke, "Fear."

"fear?"

"Or rather, extreme emotions." Shen Yunzhe looked at them. "The more frightened a person is, the more likely they are to attract the attention of those creatures. Once fear reaches a certain level, they can be touched by them. From the very beginning, the strange people and strange sounds that appeared on the glass were designed to inspire fear in people."

Huang Yihua frowned slightly, "The more afraid you are, the easier it is to die."

"He died the way he feared most." Shen Yunzhe sighed. "The man pushed the woman off the train, but no one knew he was going to kill her. The woman didn't know it was a dead end before she died, so how could she come back for revenge the next time the train stopped?"

"It's just a man's delusion," Shen Yunzhe said. "He was killed by his own fear."

Li Yiluan shook his head. "But how can I not be afraid? Anyone who isn't afraid in this situation isn't normal."

"Negative emotions can create even scarier monsters. It would be great if I had a purification talisman." Huang Yihua sighed. "I don't know if it will work, but it's a comfort."

Li Yilun hissed and looked at Huang Yihua. "If you just want to comfort me, a piece of yellow paper should be enough, right?"

"Hmm?" Huang Yihua suddenly realized something. She and Li Yiluan looked at each other and said, "You're right."

So Shen Yunzhe watched as the two charlatans, Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua, inexplicably hit it off, and then began to flip the yellow paper. Li Yuluan went to find the survivors on the train to guide them here, while Huang Yihua drew a line on the yellow paper with a brush, then folded it up and distributed it to everyone.

Shen Yunzhe had nothing to do, so he watched her write and draw on paper.

"You two seem to get along very well."

"It's just that our work ethic is somewhat similar," Huang Yihua replied with a smile. "Whether it's fortune-telling or talisman-seeking, they're not necessarily seeking a result, but rather good words. Who doesn't know that gods don't exist these days? A little psychological comfort is always better than nothing."

Shen Yunzhe thought about it and decided to attract some business for Li Yuluan. "Li Yuluan's calculations are quite accurate."

"To be a master, it is definitely not the most important factor. The best thing is to know what people are worried about. After all, this is a modern society." Huang Yihua finished painting, and then gave a bunch of talismans to Shen Yunzhe, asking Shen Yunzhe to help distribute them.

The talismans were distributed one by one, and every huddled person expressed their gratitude profusely. Shen Yunzhe could occasionally hear their voices, but most of them were filled with sadness and worry, without any overly sharp emotions. They held the talismans tightly, either lowering their heads or looking out the car window.

After distributing the talisman papers, Shen Yunzhe sat back down. Huang Yihua also breathed a sigh of relief and was now waiting for Li Yuluan to return.

"I once drew a talisman for Zhang Xian." Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe. She still had a smile on her face, but there was some regret in the depths of her eyes.

Shen Yunzhe looked at him, and he remembered that Zhang Xian rushed out at the last moment, and the female ghost was injured that time, and he also helped Shen Yunzhe to lure the female ghost away.

But Zhang Xian couldn't leave the playground.

"Feel sorry."

"There's nothing to apologize for. He's an official, and he had anticipated this outcome," Huang Yihua said. "That was a special playground. We were all told that if we encountered this kind of playground, all other players would be wiped out, including ourselves. I think he'd be happier than anyone else that you made it out alive."

Shen Yunzhe looked at her, "Is there no other way?"

"Look here, look at this train," Huang Yihua said. "We once thought about other options, but until this playground appeared in reality, twenty years ago, there was not a single living person in the entire village. Even now, it's a forbidden place for living. No one who enters it comes out alive."

"It's not like other strange invasions; it exists forever," Huang Yihua murmured. "If it weren't for the irreversible consequences, who would be willing to send someone to their death?"

Shen Yunzhe stood up and said, "I'll go see Li Yiluan."

"Protect your own safety," Huang Yihua said. "Only the three of us could possibly discover the problem and leave this place."

"So, you must protect yourself."

“This is for everyone, too.”