Chapter 102
[What do you know?! You've never been here, you've never died, you don't know how terrifying this place is!]
There's nothing, just empty darkness. Only through this tiny screen can I glimpse a living person. I want to go home, I want to go home so badly!
[If you came in, you wouldn't be able to bear it. ]
Shen Yunzhe looked at these words with sharp sarcasm in his eyes.
Yes, he had never been there, so he didn't know how empty and scary it was, but he had seen someone who had been there, a person who had been there for more than 20 years and was still able to maintain his normal thinking. Although he often had attacks, he still had the bottom line of being a human being.
Code name: Hope.
"Not everyone will turn into a monster like you and stay here. Saying more will only prove your despicableness." Shen Yunzhe's words were filled with contempt. "If you let go of your obsession with returning, you can truly die. It's you who don't want to die, and you're dragging others along with you."
"It's just selfish after all."
Codename Sleeper is right, the live broadcast audience is just a bunch of disgusting dead people.
But that's what happened?
Shen Yunzhe thought of the audience yelling at him and using all kinds of moral blackmail to tell him he didn't understand. He felt angry just thinking about it. He had to retaliate, at least to make these guys dare not speak without restraint anymore, but how should he do it?
If I don't retaliate now, he will keep thinking about it and feel aggrieved. This is absolutely not acceptable!
[Synchronization rate increased, synchronization rate increased to 95%, Shen Yunzhe! It's reached the limit! It can't reach 100% yet.]
Shen Yunzhe listened to the system's voice, "What do you mean?"
[With 100% synchronization, you will be more severely affected by your counterpart. Your thoughts will be assimilated, and your memories will likely be suppressed. You will also behave as your counterpart would when they die. The death of the codename "Sleep Disorder" is bizarre, so you cannot synchronize at this time.]
【Synchronization canceled.】
Shen Yunzhe shuddered, blinked and looked around, then after a moment he looked down at the phone in his hand. After looking at it for a while, he turned off the live broadcast and returned it to Yang Pei.
Then he turned and walked to the suggestion box, walked around the unburned incense on the ground, and took his mobile phone out of the suggestion box.
"Tsk." Shen Yunzhe put the phone in his pocket and finally let out a light tsk. "You desynchronized too quickly. I haven't thought of a good way to retaliate yet."
[Shen Yunzhe?]
"Of course it's me." Shen Yunzhe walked over and patted Yang Pei on the shoulder. "Let's go back. We can still make it in time for dinner."
Yang Pei looked at him in a daze, and walked beside him for a few minutes before speaking, "Have you forgiven me?"
"No." Shen Yunzhe said, "I'm too sad, so I won't forgive you."
"I'm sorry for making you so sad." Yang Pei's face was filled with guilt. "I will try my best to make you forgive me."
[Codename: Sleep Disorder Patients Can't Think of Any Normal Solutions.]
"It seems that death due to sleep disorders is related to the audience." Shen Yunzhe said.
The system was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "Perhaps."
"What's not maybe? It's definitely." Shen Yunzhe walked along the path with his hands in his pockets. "Sleep disorder is very sensitive. It seems that he is not afraid of anything and doesn't care about anything, but he also has his own persistence. He must do what he said."
"Since he said he was going to get rid of these livestream viewers, then he's definitely going to get rid of them. Even if it means getting himself killed, he's going to get a piece of their flesh."
"He has always been vindictive and unwilling to suffer any loss."
In fact, the more synchronized they were, the more Shen Yunzhe felt that these isotopes were indeed himself, and that they were very similar to each other to some extent.
Sleep disorders are Shen Yunzhe's stubbornness, hope is Shen Yunzhe's extreme, music creation is Shen Yunzhe's loneliness, and forensic medicine is Shen Yunzhe's rationality...
They represent the amplification of a certain level of Shen Yunzhe, each a brand new individual that can correspond to Shen Yunzhe.
When they returned to the hotel, Zhang Luqing was leading Qiu Shurong and Cheng Yiyi to sort out the false accusation papers.
Most of the false accusation papers have been sorted out, and only a small part is left. Those that have been sorted out have been burned for fear of problems.
Shen Yunzhe walked over and sat on the sofa. Yang Pei looked around and finally sat opposite him.
"Do you need help?" Shen Yunzhe asked.
Zhang Luqing didn't look up, but Cheng Yiyi looked up at him.
"Did you really put your phone in the suggestion box?" Cheng Yiyi asked him as she sorted through the notes. "What was the result?"
"Judging from the results, it's okay." Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment. "The Real Incense is useful to the audience. At least they really said some truthful things. However, I don't recommend using the Real Incense to ask them for clues about the game field. Those are losers and may not know how to leave the game field."
"Hmm?" Cheng Yiyi was stunned for a moment, he looked at Shen Yunzhe, "Chen Wei?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "What's wrong?"
"You seem to have become more serious."
"Was I not serious before?"
"It's not that I'm not serious." Cheng Yiyi didn't know what to say, "It's just that... I'm a little rebellious."
Qiu Shurong interrupted, "What he said is a bit crazy."
Cheng Yiyi did not refute. After all, his face was still burning before. He hit himself hard and it took half an hour to heal from the pain.
He originally thought that after asking this question, Shen Yunzhe would smile and let him try it himself, and would also give him examples on how to get the best results, and maybe even put up a spectator sign in the hotel, but he didn't expect Shen Yunzhe to really tell him the result seriously.
"First of all, I am a forensic doctor. Secondly, a forensic doctor is a police officer. How could I be dishonest?" Shen Yunzhe retorted seriously.
Qiu Shurong couldn't help laughing, "Sorry, I'm even more crazy."
Shen Yunzhe sighed and leaned back on the sofa, feeling that there was no point in explaining, as explanation would only confirm his symptoms of mental illness.
"Oh yes, and one more thing. Don't lie after you smell the true fragrance." Shen Yunzhe said, "Yang Pei went to the confession box to confess, but I brought her back. You guys keep an eye on her to prevent her from going back to confession when something goes wrong in her mind."
The three of them stopped what they were doing and looked at Yang Pei strangely.
Zhang Luqing finally spoke, "In other words: people who can smell the fragrance of truth will go to the suggestion box and the confession box after telling a lie?"
"Then, are the rules of this playground determined?" Qiu Shurong's eyes lit up.
"Players who smell the truth, tell lies, and then reveal their lies themselves will be killed if they put them in the suggestion box."
"Then there is another question." Shen Yunzhe said: "Besides people like me who deliberately look for the real fragrance, why can Shen Ji and Yang Pei smell the real fragrance? Where did they smell it?"
This question really stunned everyone present, and they all felt a little weird.
"Because of the lie, the real fragrance will appear?" Zhang Luqing proposed an idea.
"How did they know we were lying?" Shen Yunzhe pointed at the front desk. "In the real hotel, only this receptionist was there. Behind them were piles of dead bodies. There were hardly any living people in this real town. How did they know we were lying? Is there a surveillance camera?"
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "No, there really is surveillance, right?"
After these words were spoken, the entire hall fell into dead silence. When Shi Xingxiang came back for dinner, he saw them sitting quietly without saying a word.
"What are you doing?" Shi Xingxiang asked, "Have you been possessed by a ghost?"
Cheng Yiyi shook her head, "Chen Wei said: It seems that we have surveillance here."
"Surveillance?" Shi Xingxiang subconsciously looked at the ceiling, "I don't see any."
Qiu Shurong made a face at her, "This surveillance is just a term. Shen Wei is referring to... something that has similar surveillance functions but is not a camera."
"How do we judge this?" Shi Xingxiang found a place not too close to them and sat down. "If it really exists, then it would be the closest place to ghosts. The danger is too high."
"That's right." Qiu Shurong nodded.
Zhang Luqing said, "There is another way."
She looked at Yang Pei, who was sitting there speechless and bewildered, and said, "We have a ready-made bait here who has lied before."
Everyone present was silent.
The first one to stand up was Shi Xingxiang, who was at odds with them, "What do you mean? You want Yang Pei to lure the ghost over here?!"
"She's lied before, and she's also smelled the truth. She always throws in a confession letter. She's already beyond saving." Zhang Luqing's expression remained unchanged. "We only have seven people this time. This is a reasonable use of resources."
"Chen Wei finally rescued her." Cheng Yiyi disagreed, "You want to send her back now?"
Zhang Luqing had a blank expression on her face. She nodded and said, "Since you object, then so be it."
It seemed as if she had simply put forward an idea.
Cheng Yiyi no longer helped her to sort out the false accusation papers on the table. Shen Yunzhe did not participate in the argument just now. Yang Pei looked at all this in a daze. Her mind could no longer understand what was happening now. Soon it was dinner time. The front desk brought the food and everyone ate the meal quietly.
No one would go out at night, and no one knew what the situation was like outside. Shen Yunzhe went upstairs early. Before returning to his room, he specifically told Yang Pei not to go out, and Yang Pei nodded seriously.
Having only slept for three hours last night, Shen Yunzhe sat on the bed pressing his temples and felt a bit of a headache.
Sleep deprivation is a real pain.
Just when Shen Yunzhe was about to go to bed early, his door slammed. Shen Yunzhe was startled. He opened the door and saw Shi Xingxiang standing at his door with a grim expression.
"Zhang Luqing left the hotel. I suspect she went to throw the note again. I'll follow her and see. Keep an eye on Yang Pei."
After saying that, Shi Xingxiang turned around and left, leaving Shen Yunzhe alone standing in the corridor.
Shen Yunzhe was silent for a moment, then spoke, "Why me?"
"Because you saved Yang Pei during the day, and you are a policeman. We are born to trust policemen, even if you are a psychopath." Cheng Yi leaned against the door and looked at him.
Shen Yunzhe shrugged, "Big star, you're out too?"
"Shi Xingxiang's voice is very loud. It's impossible for anyone not to hear him as long as he's there, or he's just pretending not to hear him." Cheng Yiyi was referring to Qiu Shurong who had been keeping the door closed.
They walked to Yang Pei's door together, and Shen Yunzhe knocked on the door.
"Yang Pei." Shen Yunzhe called her name, "It's me, open the door."
On the other side, Shi Xingxiang chased after Zhang Luqing. It was already eight o'clock in the evening, which was not too late, but there were no lights in the real town at night and the road was pitch black. Shi Xingxiang could only use the flashlight on his mobile phone to find his way.
She had just been delayed in order to call Shen Yunzhe, and now she had no idea where Zhang Luqing had gone. She frowned and went to the Real Temple first. It was quiet in front of the temple, but the door was open. Only one person could enter the Real Temple at a time. She realized that Shi Xingxiang was not in the temple, otherwise the door would not be opened.
"Oh no, suggestion box!"
Shi Xinglian hurried to the suggestion box and saw Zhang Luqing there, but by then Zhang Luqing had already stuffed the note in, and the note made a very light sound when it fell to the bottom of the box.
"Zhang Luqing!" Shi Xingxiang pushed her away. She tried to open the box and take out the paper.
Zhang Luqing looked at her and gave her a mocking smile. "The paper has already been thrown in. It's useless for you to do anything now."
“Why did you do that!?”
"Don't act so noble. Every one of us here wants to leave the game. Since Yang Pei has already lied, it's perfect for us to be pawns." Zhang Luqing sneered, "Since you can't make a decision, I'll mercifully help you make it."
"Don't go too far!"
"Do you think Shen Wei really wants to save her? Shen Wei just wants a pawn, otherwise why didn't he refute it, and why didn't he watch me to death?" Zhang Luqing said: "Forensic doctor? Police? We are all human beings, and this is a playground!"
If it were someone else, Shi Xingxiang might have believed it.
But Shen Wei...
Shi Xingxiang thought of Chen Wei during the day. There was no fear or disappointment in his eyes. He didn't care whether he would die or not.
"Disgusting people think everyone is the same as themselves. What a pity, you are the only one who is so disgusting." Shi Xingxiang turned around and ran back, "You are the one who deserves to die the most!"
…
Shen Yunzhe knocked on the door, but he couldn't hear any sound from inside for a long time, let alone anyone opening the door.
Cheng Yiyi began to think hard in her head, wondering whether Yang Pei was asleep or something had happened to her.
Before his battle between heaven and man could come to an end, Shen Yunzhe took a step back and kicked the door in front of him. With a bang, the door dented inward. Shen Yunzhe did not stop. He kicked the same place again. The door latch was directly knocked off, and the door flew out and bounced back.
Before Cheng Yiyi could react, Shen Yunzhe had already rushed in.
"So fast!" Cheng Yiyi hurriedly followed.
Shen Yunzhe climbed out of the window almost instantly, and the whole room was in chaos. Cheng Yiyi ran to the window and looked up. She was so scared that she gasped at the first sight.
Yang Pei was seen hanging in the air by one hand, and a pale woman on the outer wall was pulling Yang Pei up. The woman had white hair and white clothes, which looked so obvious in this dark night. But when you look closely, it seems that her color is not white, but light yellow.
It's like...
Cheng Yiyi murmured, "A real stone statue in a real temple?!"
Shen Yunzhe climbed onto the windowsill of the upper floor, but the thing was climbing too fast, and it was not possible for a human to catch up with it. Yang Pei opened her mouth, and she seemed to regain consciousness briefly. She looked at Shen Yunzhe, opened her mouth and stretched out her hand to Shen Yunzhe, but the next moment she was grabbed by the thing and walked up.
There is no way to go up any higher, and only non-humans can climb up the wall.
Shen Yunzhe took a deep breath, and when he lowered his head, he saw Cheng Yiyi sticking her head out of the window.
So Shen Yunzhe reached down and said, "Come up!"
"Ah?" Cheng Yiyi was shocked. "You want me to go up?"
"Hurry up, I'll hold you back." Shen Yunzhe said.
Cheng Yiyi frowned, but finally climbed out of the window. This was the second floor, so she wouldn't die even if she fell.
Shen Yunzhe grabbed his hand and pulled him up. Then Shen Yunzhe kicked open the window in front of him and went into the third floor with Cheng Yiyi.
They had been around the hotel before because the document they signed when they arrived said there was a rooftop and a basement, and from the outside they could see that the building had five floors, but they had never found the stairs leading up.
"As expected of a police officer, he's quite skilled." Cheng Yiyi suppressed her heart that was about to jump out of her chest.
Shen Yunzhe ignored him. He just took out his cell phone from his pocket and turned on the built-in flashlight.
The faint light illuminated a small space. Cheng Yiyi, who was about to say something, shut her mouth immediately after seeing what was around her.
Those are stone statues, countless stone statues of real gods.
Kind-looking women filled the entire room. All the stone statues faced the same direction, and all the eyes were looking at them. Cheng Yiyi considered herself an actor who had seen countless things and had been to the playground several times, but she was still almost weakened by such a look.
"The stone statue has eyes." Shen Yunzhe said suddenly.
"There must be many stone statues like this around us, with eyes trying to make sure we're not lying."
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