Chapter 28: Confessing the Picture Book to Teammates
Chapter 28: Confessing the Picture Book to Teammates
Chu Chengan and Lu Zhenqiu appeared on the main street in the real world at the same time. The road here was still as quiet as a dead city. There was no one else here except the two of them.
There should have been another one, but it's no longer there.
Chu Chengan said: "I didn't expect it to be such a game, some people live and some people must die..."
“…”
"Oh, luckily I don't have two good friends to go into the dungeon with me, otherwise it would be really hard for me to start."
"Can you stop making such a fuss?" Lu Zhenqiu had a headache. According to some unwritten laws of cause and effect, the flags set by Chu Cheng would eventually come true on his head.
"Yes, it's useless to feel sad and pity people here, Lu... Little Mermaid, ah, no, I can call you Lu Zhenqiu here, you come home with me, I have a very important clue to share with you."
"Go... go home?" Did he hear correctly? Go home now? He's going back to his home? Isn't that too fast...
Lu Zhenqiu asked: "You don't live in the school? You rent a house outside?"
"Well, my two roommates had conflicting personalities and we were always fighting. After negotiating with the head of the dormitory to no avail, he suggested that I move out."
Lu Zhenqiu thought: That's right, Chu Cheng'an is sometimes stubborn and inflexible, and he speaks too aggressively. It just so happens that we are all at this age, and we are usually hot-blooded and can't tolerate anything, so friction and conflict are inevitable.
What's more, if he remembered correctly, Chu Cheng'an seemed to be a rich young man?
…
Chu Chengan’s rental house was not far from the school. They walked and talked on the road and soon arrived at their destination.
Lu Zhenqiu watched Chu Cheng'an take out the door card, swipe it to open the door with familiarity, press the elevator button, and then heard him say: "When I came out before... I didn't take the elevator. I was afraid that there might be something strange in the supernatural world, so I walked down the stairs of my house. Do you think we should go up too..."
If he hadn't told them they could still take the elevator, would they still dare to take it now that he said that?
Lu Zhenqiu continued, "What you said makes sense. Let's go upstairs. Which floor is your house on?"
"28th floor..."
“……”Just think of it as exercise!
When they reached the door, both of them were panting.
Of course, Chu Chengan is the only one who looks like him. After all, Lu Zhenqiu has been a barista for three years, and he now pays a lot of attention to his personal image.
After opening the door, Chu Chengan immediately lay down on his 2-meter-long bed. The quilts and sheets on the bed were all made of high-quality fabrics. Chu Chengan felt that even those in the medieval palace could not compare to his.
Lu Zhenqiu frowned and looked around Chu Chengan's "doghouse". There were slippers at the door, but Chu Chengan didn't change them immediately. There was still some dust on the floor, which meant he didn't sweep or mop the floor diligently, or Chu Chengan, who was too lazy to change his slippers, stepped on them and made them dirty.
There was some freshly prepared food in the kitchen, covered with plastic wrap. I'm afraid it wasn't made by him, but probably by his mother or a hired aunt. Then, looking at his bedroom...
Chu Chengan had piled all his stuff on the bed, including his coat, clothes and pants that he hadn't had time to change into, comic books, novels, and game consoles...
When a guest comes, he doesn't even bother to clean up or find a place to put the messy things. He really doesn't treat him as an outsider.
Chu Chengan lay down for a minute before coming to his senses. He remembered to "greet" Lu Zhenqiu: "Lu Zhenqiu, please bring me a can of beer from the refrigerator. If you want to drink, take two cans."
Thank you so much...
Nanny Lu Zhenqiu gave him some, but he said, "I don't want to drink it. You said you have information to share with me?"
Chu Chengan opened the lid, took two sips and said to him, "Yeah, yes, I think the world we are going to is very similar to the story in a horror fairy tale comic book I am reading right now. Here, this is it."
He found it, opened it and showed it to Lu Zhenqiu.
Lu Zhenqiu was worried that the water on the beer can in Chu Cheng'an's hand would damage the book, so he quickly took it to read it himself. He turned to the story of the candy house adventure, which tells the story of brother Hansel and sister Gretel who were driven out of the house by their stepmother and went to a candy house in the woods. However, they didn't expect that the owner of the candy house was an old witch who could eat people.
The contents of the book up to this point are very normal, but the contents that follow are extraordinary. The book says that Gretel, the younger sister, suddenly lost her mind due to some unknown reason and kicked the old witch away, causing tension in the originally unclear and seemingly harmonious relationship. Later, Gretel fought with the owner of the candy house several times, and the relationship was almost broken and could not be mended.
The old witch had to advance her cooking plans...
What the hell is going on here? What kind of weird book did Chu Chengan buy? Even though the experience was exactly the same as theirs.
"Why would you buy a book like this? This kind of illogical book can't be sold at all. Can you see that?"
"Ah? It makes no sense?" Chu Cheng'an snatched the book back and looked at the part that Lu Zhenqiu had just read. "Eh? It's a bit strange..."
Chu Chengan thought that although he fell asleep while reading last time, the pages of the story he read should not be so short, and the few stories he had read before were all very well written and very rich. It was impossible for the situation that Lu Zhenqiu said was illogical and could not be sold...
Suddenly he had a bad feeling, and he immediately began to flip through the book, looking for the story of the Little Mermaid.
"Lu Zhenqiu, come over here and watch with us."
The story described in the book is also very nonsensical. It is a far cry from the original Andersen fairy tale of the Little Mermaid. It is not even a pirated copy. It has been changed beyond recognition. Not only that...
The book says that the little mermaid suddenly became rebellious and didn't want to follow the routine and drink the medicine she had finally obtained from the sea witch.
Even those who would sacrifice themselves to this extent for love are fools.
But she still went on the day the prince and the human princess got married.
And she incited her people to cause trouble at the prince's wedding.
After reading this, Lu Zhenqiu suddenly snatched the book away.
"What are you doing? I want to watch more." Chu Chengan protested.
"You can't take this book seriously, it's just nonsense." Lu Zhenqiu was not very happy.
"Of course I know it's nonsense. Please show it to me. The content after it is very important. I need to judge whether it is..."
Chu Cheng'an took the book back and warned Lu Zhenqiu not to steal it again.
The next content of the book is that the human princess and the mermaid princess fought for the prince, but the prince was indifferent and did not help anyone, just like a playboy who wanted to have it all.
“It’s really not something you can take seriously.”
Chu Chengan managed to suppress the urge to curse and continued watching.
Then the mermaid princess won by dishonest means, and the human princess was furious. Before she died, she made a contract with the sea witch and was resurrected once more.
The prince and the mermaid princess returned to the bottom of the sea together, carrying the body of the mermaid princess's mother.
The mermaid princess turned against her father after the prince was beaten by his father. They eloped to an island, where they met the sea witch...
"Elope? Is that a very informal term?"
Lu Zhenqiu said calmly: "If we look at the situation of the little mermaid in the story, the only option is to elope with the prince."
"Ah... Anyway, the story of the Little Mermaid will always be a thorn in my heart. Of course, this mermaid story is an exception. I still don't understand it."
The book says that the sea witch and the human princess formed an alliance. The human princess originally wanted to kill the prince and the mermaid princess, but because the environment was harsh, she thought they could not survive, so she waited on the island.
"As expected." Chu Cheng'an said, "Yan Qing wants to wait until we are killed by the rain of fire outside so that she can pass the level directly."
"There was nothing wrong with her idea, but she didn't expect us to be alive to find them."
They continue reading, and are about to reach the ending, to see how the author writes it.
The author actually wrote that... the prince killed Hannah, the human princess who was going to marry him in the past, for the sake of the mermaid princess. He was simply insane and heartless. The two of them also desperately showed their love in front of the sea witch. After they couldn't beat the sea witch, they actually used cruel means to throw the sea witch into the sea. Although they were later drenched in fire, the ending was a happy ending for the prince and the mermaid princess.
What? Although Chu Cheng'an has always wanted to see a happy ending where the mermaid princess survives, this is not the case. With such a rough ending, it would be better to let the fire rain kill them all and let them be a loving couple in the underworld. Such a meaningless and ruined protagonist should be sent to the underworld for transformation.
But... when reading this book, why did he feel that the author was spying on them? Shouldn't the plot be arranged according to the plot of a fairy tale?
Chu Chengan suddenly jumped out of bed and began to search for surveillance cameras on the ceiling and floor, in the corners, and under the cabinets of his house.
"What are you doing?"
"We must be being watched!"
"Are you stupid? Even if it's surveillance, it's in the game... When did you buy this?"
"I bought it about a week ago from Taobao. I've only read a few stories, including Snow White, Cinderella, etc..."
Lu Zhenqiu pulled him up and said, "This is very important. According to the two stories just mentioned, we only need to finish reading the remaining stories. Then we won't have to worry about not knowing the plot development of future games. Before the next game comes, hurry up and read the guide!"
Chu Chengan obeyed and read every story, but what they saw was... almost every story only had a beginning, and the middle content was completely missing. It was not like this when he first bought the book, the middle was full of words...
Now not only are the words gone, but the pictures in the picture book have also been blurred.