Chapter 55: Dream Amusement Park (37)
Pushing open the door of Warehouse No. 521, the room remained the same as when Su Yue and the others left. The maze-like bookshelves were covered in dust, and even the videotape was still in the CD-ROM drive of the player.
They had already watched the videotape last time. Through the videotape, they learned that the director had a childhood sweetheart. Later, the director himself said that his wife was the reason why he built this amusement park.
Unfortunately, strange things gradually happened in the amusement park. Strange employees moved into the park, and his wife died unexpectedly. Only the director was left in the park, keeping the agreement between the two.
A beautiful love story turned into a ghost story.
Obviously, the key question of the amusement park is why it is haunted. Afterwards, Su Yue received a hidden task, the goal of which was to "help the director fulfill his dream."
Because he couldn't see the director, the current progress was stuck. However, Su Yue had felt that the ghost in the warehouse had a story. Now that he was back in the warehouse, he naturally had to find a way to call the ghost out.
"But how should I shout?" Su Yue walked around the room.
In the light of the small electric lamp, the shadows of the bookshelves on all sides almost overlapped, like ghosts in the dark, peeking at them.
But the ghost from last time did not appear again.
The first time it appeared was when Su Yue and the others were watching a videotape, and the second time it appeared was yesterday when Su Yue and the others went down to the warehouse. For some reason, the vengeful ghost started roaring like crazy across the warehouse.
At that time, Su Yue thought it was holding a grudge because they had beaten it up before.
But now that they have entered the warehouse, the ghost has not reacted, which means that there must be some problems with the original judgment.
"There seem to be only two things in this warehouse that can be investigated." Su Yue looked around, "One is the TV, and the other is the bookshelf."
"We have already investigated the TV last time." Cang Zhi said.
Su Yue nodded, "So this time we can only investigate the bookshelf."
Cang Zhi also nodded: "Yes."
The two of them simultaneously looked at the maze-like bookshelves stacked in this room: "..."
There is no other way. Since I can’t call out the ghost, I can only do hard labor.
"You go one side and I'll go the other." Su Yue said, walking towards one end of the house, and Cang Zhi then walked towards the other end.
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These books looked like no one had touched them for at least a hundred years, and there were cobwebs at the corners of the shelves. Su Yue cleverly pulled up the collar of his work clothes to cover his mouth and nose before walking towards the bookshelves.
Because he was sure that if he took a breath, the mountains of dust piled up between the bookshelves would definitely make him unforgettable for the rest of his life.
As soon as I pulled up my collar, I heard Cangzhi coughing over there.
Su Yue: "..."
Su Yue frowned.
He has been professionally trained and he cannot laugh.
"Pull up your collar." Su Yue said.
"Oh." Cangzhi answered sullenly.
Su Yue walked along his row of bookshelves. He saw many books on architecture, design and mythology. They should be the reference materials when designing and building this amusement park. It can be seen that the director has put a lot of effort into this amusement park.
However, none of these books had a special appearance or content, so Su Yue did not take any of them out rashly.
Because according to his experience, looking for a needle in a haystack is the dumbest method. Since it is a game, there must be a trick to pass it.
After passing the first row of bookshelves, the second row of bookshelves was lower, and the wood texture was darker in color than the first row. When Su Yue walked over, his body created a flow of air.
At this moment, he noticed a book with a bright cover diagonally opposite, so he stopped and reached out to take the book.
In a confined space, the airflow caused by human movement was enough to create a draft, and the books were stacked unevenly, some horizontally and some vertically.
Behind Su Yue, a very heavy book swayed twice with the wind, and then fell silently on the back of Su Yue's head!
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This book looks like a bilingual English-Chinese dictionary. If it hits the back of the head, even someone with a strong physique like Su Yue would be in trouble.
However, just when the hardest spine of the book was about to hit Su Yue, Su Yue suddenly lost interest, withdrew his hand that was reaching for the book with a bright cover, muttered, "Oh, it's just a design concept book," and took a step forward.
So, the book that was supposed to hit the back of his head fell to the ground with a "clang".
Su Yue glanced at the ground and said "Oh" in surprise.
In the corner of the room, there was an angry rattling sound as chains were being pulled apart.
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The sound made Su Yue stunned for a moment, because there was no chain in the room when he came last time. But just when he raised his head to look in the direction of the sound, his attention was attracted by something else.
After the heavy book fell, a notebook was revealed at the back of the shelf. It had a light pink hard cover with gold lace on all four corners. In the middle was a thin piece of transparent plastic paper, and behind it was a photo of a colorful floral pattern.
This seems to be a diary.
This was the only paper product on the entire bookshelf that could not be called a "book". Su Yue pulled it off the bookshelf without hesitation, holding the diary, and walked towards the place where the chain made the sound just now.
The chain is located in the corner of the bookshelf. It is really hard to see if you don’t know in advance. It is a very old chain. Maybe it wants to pretend that it has always been here, but you can tell from the fact that there is no dust on the chain that it was placed here recently.
What's more, the last time I came to Warehouse No. 521, there were no chains here, and Su Yue is not stupid.
The end of the chain is tied to the ground, and it looks like an empty lock, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a faint shadow cast on the ground.
Su Yue was very familiar with this shadow. It was the vengeful ghost who had been lying on his shoulder watching the video before.
When Su Yue came over with the diary, the chains made even louder sounds. It was obvious that the ghost had a strong reaction to the diary, the videotape... in short, to everything related to the director and his wife.
If this ghost was not obviously a male ghost, Su Yue would have suspected that he was his dead wife.
Although the ghost reacted strongly to the diary and struggled so hard that the chains rattled, it did not make any sound this time like before, which meant that Su Yue could not get any clues from it.
After thinking about it, Su Yue and Cang Zhi took the diary to the bookshelf at the back to look at it. Otherwise, the ghost would keep struggling with the chains, making it difficult for people to feel at ease.
Opening the diary, Su Yue opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Because he always thought that the amusement park game was a story between a couple, but in the first diary entry, three names appeared.
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[June 5th, sunny.
I took Weiwei to meet my brother today, and he really likes him. The three of us had dinner together, and two of them were fighting over me at the table. I was so happy ^_^]
The following content is basically centered around "Weiwei" and "Brother".
It can be seen that the owner of the diary has a good relationship with both of these people. He/she must be a person who has been well protected since childhood. The words are full of sunshine and happiness.
"This should be the wife's diary, right?" Su Yue speculated after flipping through a few pages.
Cang Zhi agreed.
After reading this diary, I found that the three characters of the director and his wife, and the wife's brother who had never been mentioned before were all portrayed in a very three-dimensional and vivid way.
The director of the garden, also known as "Weiwei", came from a prominent family and had profound attainments in architecture and art. He inherited the family business at a young age. He was his wife's childhood sweetheart and they loved each other very much.
This wife was also a little princess born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She and "Weiwei" were regarded as a golden boy and jade girl.
Her brother is her biological brother, and naturally he is also a young master from a prominent family. He is very talented in business and is also very successful at a young age. His wife grew up under the dual care of her brother and her lover.
If one were to go by the diary, the wife's lover was naive and stubborn, a pure romantic, while the brother was intelligent and resourceful, never losing out no matter who he interacted with. The woman herself was equally innocent and simple, a fact most evident in her writing, as if the world had no darkness, and even the long nights were filled with starry romance.
My wife's brother and her lover have a very good relationship, just like real brothers, which makes her sweet and proud.
"The question is, is it really as good as it looks?" Su Yue closed the diary and tapped the hard cover lightly with his knuckles.
"Why do you say that?" Cang Zhi asked.
Puppets lack the ability to think actively, while the main god lacks the delicate emotions of humans. In this respect, the two of them are very similar.
"This girl has a brother, and she claims they're very close. But whether it's the childhood videos of her and her boyfriend growing up together or the wedding footage, there's no trace of his brother at all," Su Yue said. "Does this make sense?"
"You mean, her relationship with her brother is not that good." Cang Zhi said after thinking for a while.
"Or maybe her boyfriend and her brother are not as good as they seem." Su Yue turned to the end of the diary because there was too much content in the front. The diary was so big that if it fell on Su Yue's feet, it would break his bones. They only had an hour and could not read so much.
Su Yue’s guess was correct. He saw what he wanted to see. The last few diaries were related to the amusement park.
The couple invested together to build an amusement park, and the brother served as the supervisor. However, just like all stories of friends and relatives investing together, in the middle and late stages of the amusement park's construction, the husband and brother began to have disagreements and they had a big fight.
The husband said his brother knew nothing, and his brother said his husband was "stubborn, domineering and overbearing."
In the end, the brother chose to withdraw because this was an amusement park for the couple.
As they walked out of the amusement park gate, the brother turned around and smiled at his wife who was standing by the gate, and said with a hint of regret, "See you later."
From the girl's perspective, it was obvious that her husband was more at fault in this matter.
Su Yue snapped the diary shut. "So that's the story, right?"
"The headmaster's husband and the supervisor's older brother had a quarrel over the amusement park or something else, and they became enemies. Therefore, there is no trace of the older brother anywhere in the amusement park. But this girl may have been deceived, and her husband, the headmaster, is not necessarily the one at fault."
Because the hidden tasks are all about helping positive NPCs, it is obvious that the headmaster is not the villain in the story.
"It's interesting that this brother said 'see you later'. Considering that the girl said he was very skillful in doing things, this sentence sounds very interesting."
Su Yue said, "What do you think, Ah Zhi?"
Cang Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I agree with you. According to what the director said, all kinds of strange things started happening in the amusement park soon. If the timeline matches, it's very likely that my brother did it."
The most important thing is that this is a game, and there will be no invalid clues given in the game. My brother is definitely a very key figure in the story.
"But I still have a question. Why did this girl die?" Cang Zhi said, "If we go by what she said, both her brother and the headmaster loved her very much."
Su Yue was silent.
He couldn't answer this question.
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Cang Zhi does not have human emotions, whether good or bad, so he does not understand that the so-called "love" may just be empty words.
It is very likely that this girl died in a dispute over interests, or her accidental death completely broke down the already precarious relationship.
Su Yue is a god close to humans. Many gods have always believed that what Su Yue did was unnecessary because humans have these ugly emotions.
Although this is just a game, Su Yue knows better than anyone that similar things will definitely happen in the real world. Human emotions certainly have disappointing and unsightly sides.
Of course, Su Yue himself didn't care. When he chose to love humans, he accepted this dual emotion, because he saw just as many, or even more, hopeful and beautiful sides in the human world.
But he didn't want to reveal these ugly things to Cang Zhi in person.
Fortunately, Cang Zhi didn't ask any further questions: "Then let me change the question. What is the origin of this ghost in the warehouse?"
"Two possibilities," Su Yue replied with a sigh of relief. "The first possibility is that it was murdered and imprisoned here, unable to leave. The second possibility is that, as the guardian of this warehouse, it cannot allow anyone to learn the true side of the story."
After saying this, both of them fell silent at the same time.
At some point, a strong smell of smoke filled the air.
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Su Yue and Cang Zhi quickly walked around the bookshelves and saw that the path leading to the warehouse door had been engulfed in flames.
The orange flames danced dangerously, engulfing the tattered bookshelves and the books on them, and turning the snow-white papers into black curled edges. The whole room was filled with combustible materials, the fire grew bigger, and the rolling heat waves invaded the skin.
The warehouse door could not be opened before the one-hour deadline.
The chain that bound the vengeful ghost had been stretched to its limit at some point and was swinging proudly. A box of matches was knocked over beside it, and the matchsticks had been burned to only a few ashes.
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