Chapter 111
When Qiao Dong arrived, Mr. Shi was already waiting at the door. When he saw Qiao Dong coming, he waved to him.
Qiao Dong hurried over and they went straight into the meeting room without any further greetings.
"I suspect Shen Yunzhe's ability may be in triggering other people's emotions." Qiao Dong said.
Mr. Shi frowned slightly. "What do you mean?"
"Take a look at this first." Qiao Dong handed Mr. Shi the summary of what Cheng Yiyi had said. "Cheng Yiyi and Shen Yunzhe were at the same playground. Cheng Yiyi said Shen Yunzhe separated from them halfway through the playground, but in the end, something major happened there."
"The souls trapped in the playground rioted, rebelling against the True God and destroying the True Temple." Qiao Dong asked, "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"
Mr. Shi's eyes froze slightly, and after a few seconds he shook his head.
Not to mention having heard of it, it is simply something I have never seen or heard of before!
Everyone knows what kind of person the game field is. After Shen Wei concluded that the nourishment of the game field is negative emotions, they no longer have any hope. The dead people in the game field are all people with distorted minds. The live broadcast audience of the game field are all bad people left after screening, and then their emotions are distorted to provide the basic nourishment of the game field.
Even the live broadcast audience should be replaced in batches. The human soul cannot withstand extreme emotional outbursts for such a long time. They will only dissipate after consuming the last bit of value over a long period of time.
It sounds so sad and helpless.
So Mr. Shi never thought that these dead people trapped in the playground would have their own emotions.
"Impossible." Mr. Shi said, "This is impossible!"
"The dead are all puppets controlled by the playground. Like the livestream audience, they have long lost themselves."
"But they found themselves again, right here in this playground." Qiao Dong said, "That's why I said this. I suspect Shen Yunzhe's ability is to draw out a person's truest emotions, even those who have died in the playground."
"So far, all the players we've confirmed to have special abilities have abilities that are consistent with the weird. This is completely different from our impression of supernatural abilities. They are completely similar to the game field. Such abilities are possible."
Mr. Shi was silent. "So, not only does he have information about a mysterious player who can harm strange creatures, but he also possesses this ability?"
"Why does he have so many abilities?"
"I can only say that it might be due to Shen Wei." Qiao Dong said: "Shen Wei was researching a way to give ordinary people special abilities. He was about to figure it out when something went wrong. But now his child has more than one special ability. This is very likely the result of Shen Wei's research."
"In this case, we can't just leave Shen Yunzhe alone." Mr. Shi tapped his temple worriedly, "We need to find someone to protect him."
"He is our lifeblood now. No matter what ability he possesses, it is important. We must keep him alive!"
Qiao Dong was helpless, "I think Shen Yunzhe will be safer this way."
"Yeah?"
"Shen Wei's research was in line with that organization's research. They created that result simply because they wanted Shen Wei to lose important people so that he could focus on studying the game field. Shen Wei was unwilling to share his research results with them, but Shen Wei finally figured it out."
"If they want to get the results, they won't dare to do anything to Shen Yunzhe."
Because Shen Wei died and disappeared without a trace, the only person in the world who could prove the success of Shen Wei's research was Shen Yunzhe, the only "experimental subject" who was still alive.
"You have a point." Mr. Shi nodded, "But we still need people to protect safety. What if they play dirty tricks?"
After saying this, Mr. Shi left in a hurry, apparently to arrange security.
Qiao Dong sighed, threw the documents in his hand into the shredder, and watched the white paper being cut into pieces.
To be honest, if the people from that organization really approached Shen Yunzhe, they might not get any benefit.
Shen Yunzhe is not Shen Wei. Although he doesn't know why, he has many skills. So far, he has collected records of Shen Yunzhe claiming to be a forensic doctor, a policeman, and a tour guide. He also knows that he has good physical fitness, almost to the level of flying over eaves and walls, and it is no problem for him to knock down two or three normal people.
The most important thing is: he is not as easy to talk to as Shen Wei.
Chen Wei comes from an academic family. He was well-educated and a good student since childhood. He was admitted to university. His wife is also a very good person. The couple lives in harmony and has never had any quarrels.
Shen Yunzhe is different. Although he has good grades, he grew up in an orphanage and has experienced many things that others cannot experience. His heart is harder. Those people cannot easily move Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe will just listen to their chatter and turn away. If they continue to pester him, it will not be as simple as calling the police.
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Li Yuluan wanted to meet Shen Yunzhe for the first time. When the call came, Shen Yunzhe was curled up on the sofa looking at his doll cabinet.
He stared at the doll cabinet for a long time before he remembered that he had left his favorite doll at Code Name Hope's place and forgot to bring it back.
It's not his fault. After all, Shen Yunzhe was at a loss when he left. It was the first time in his life that Shen Yunzhe felt like he was in a mess.
Shen Yunzhe agreed in a depressed mood. This time, Li Yuluan did not make an appointment at a coffee shop, but directly made an appointment at a hot pot restaurant. When Shen Yunzhe arrived, Li Yuluan had already ordered the dishes. He ordered a shuangyuan hotpot as if it was a joke, half of which was super spicy and half was clear soup. The super spicy hotpot was in front of Shen Yunzhe.
Shen Yunzhe stared at the red soup in front of him, then looked up at Li Yuluan.
"What's the meaning?"
"Your brother ordered this last time he came. It's a super spicy hot pot." Li Yiluan replied calmly, "So I think you like this taste too."
Of course not. Shen Yunzhe's ability to tolerate spicy food is at the bottom, and he can only eat slightly spicy food at best.
Shen Yunzhe threw down his chopsticks and asked, "What's the matter with you suddenly looking for me?"
"Oh, Cheng Yiyi asked Qiao Dong for my contact information." Li Yilun said calmly, "When I picked up the phone, I heard him calling me a psychopath. When I asked who it was, he realized he was calling the wrong person. He then apologized frantically and asked who I was."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "Didn't you say you were Shen Wei?"
"I said I'm your father." Li Yiluan looked at him with disdain. "How on earth did you offend this big star at the arcade? After he found out I knew you, he burst into tears and asked me where I worked. He wanted to abuse his power and mobilize his fans to take revenge on you."
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "That's not right. I didn't do anything to him."
"Impossible, you must have overlooked it." Li Yuluan poured half a plate of lotus root slices into the red oil pot.
Watching the lotus root slices instantly stained with red oil, Shen Yunzhe sighed, "I remember now."
"I asked Yunxi to pretend that I was with them for two days. Yunxi must have done something to him."
"Your brother?"
"Um."
Li Yilun thought about Shen Yunxi's personality. He looked innocent and pitiful. He would stick to Shen Yunzhe whenever he saw him. He was curious about the cigarette so he tried to snatch it from Shen Yunzhe's mouth...
It really looks like a psycho.
Li Yilun silently mourned for Cheng Yiyi for three seconds, then stirred the pot twice, "You lied again, saying you're a forensic doctor?"
To be honest, Li Yuluan once really thought that Shen Yunzhe was a forensic doctor. After all, he had solid knowledge. It was not until he was contacted by the authorities that he realized that Shen Yunzhe was not a forensic doctor at all. He even studied literature in college and was just fired because of the bankruptcy of his company.
Shen Yunzhe sighed and looked at Li Yiluan depressedly, "Can you see my fate?"
"I can see a little bit, just a little bit." Li Yiluan said, "Bad luck is hanging over me. There's a black aura all around me, and I feel like I'm dying."
"Is this true?"
"It's been almost the same since the first time I saw you, so I'm not sure whether you will die or not." Li Yiluan took a sip of Coke. "To be honest, my fortune-telling methods are useless to you. If I were to say, your fate has been covered with a black veil from the beginning. It's hard to say."
Shen Yunzhe sighed, "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"No," Li Yiluan said. "I keep myself clean and dedicate my life to the great cause of fortune-telling."
"Can you go have a relationship now?"
"Why?"
Shen Yunzhe said seriously: "I want to see what it's like for normal people to fall in love."
"First of all, asking me to just find someone to date isn't the normal way for people to date," Li Yiluan said, looking down on him. "What's going on? Are you in love? For whom? Your brother?"
"To some extent, he is me," Shen Yunzhe said, "just a different individual born from different choices."
Li Yiluan looked at him doubtfully, "Then what's there to worry about?"
"Narcissism is not something that is excluded in this world."
Shen Yunzhe was choked.
In fact, he didn't mean to be narcissistic at all. He just felt that Codename Hope was not a normal person. Codename Hope's hobbies always made him unbearable. That extreme spiritual need made Shen Yunzhe feel that Codename Hope would be very happy even if he died.
No, he would indeed be very happy. He said at the beginning that he would be very sad if Shen Yunzhe died, but he also liked this kind of sadness.
He will continue to persevere while savoring the sadness of Shen Yunzhe's death.
This is not a normal relationship, nor is it the way normal people love.
Codenamed Hope has no idea how to love others properly. All his actions are just for the sake of seeking excitement for himself, whether he is relying on Shen Yunzhe or engaging in intimate behavior with Shen Yunzhe. He does not care and lets things develop to an irreversible point, all because he only considers himself.
Shen Yunzhe was just a tool for him to seek excitement.
Code name Hope is abnormal, but Shen Yunzhe doesn't need to accompany Code name Hope to be abnormal.
They finished their ordered dishes, leaving the super spicy hot pot untouched. Shen Yunzhe paid the bill as compensation for his previous code name's wish to take the dishes away. Li Yuluan was very satisfied and said when leaving that he would not give Cheng Yiyi Shen Yunzhe's contact information.
In other words: if it wasn’t for paying for this hotpot, the contact information would have been on Cheng Yiyi’s phone.
Shen Yunzhe waved goodbye to him casually, turned around and prepared to go home.
This time he has thirty days in the real world after the game is launched. Li Yiluan told him that the time intervals between game sessions will only get longer and longer in the future, because the player attrition rate is too high, and it will take time to gather players who can enter the game together. Maybe when it reaches a certain level, a time interval of one or two years will be normal.
The game has been around for over 20 years now, and I don’t know if there are any players who have been there since the early days of the game.
Shen Yunzhe pulled his scarf and just walked to a street when he saw people giving speeches in the square next to him. There seemed to be several people, some giving speeches and some handing out flyers.
Only in Japan do political voting require speeches in the square to canvass for votes. In China, speeches in a circle are mostly for marketing and selling cards. There are also some free small gifts to attract popularity. It is the favorite of old men and women, who will just turn around and leave after receiving the free gifts.
Walking forward with his hands in his pockets, the person handing out flyers in the square spotted Shen Yunzhe and quickly ran over to hand him a flyer.
"Look, handsome!" He stuffed the flyer into Shen Yunzhe's arms. "We are a new generation of thought after the supernatural incident!"
Shen Yunzhe did not reach out his hand. After the man let go, the flyer fell to the ground. Just at this moment, the voice of the speaker came over.
"We believe that the playground is a process of selection, an ecological change where the fittest survive! The strong survive, and the weak are eliminated. This is a revolution in the new world!"
"We should not be afraid, but face this challenge positively!"
The person handing out flyers took out another flyer and handed it to Shen Yunzhe.
Shen Yunzhe glanced at him, stepped aside and left without giving him any face at all. The person handing out flyers turned pale.
"How rude." The flyer hander muttered twice. He stared at Shen Yunzhe's back fiercely and said, "I curse you to enter the game room immediately and die immediately."
Shen Yunzhe heard his voice, stopped and turned to look at the man handing out flyers.
oh?
The young man continued handing out flyers. He smiled and handed it to another person, but that person waved his hand to indicate that he didn't want it. After being rejected by the third person, he could no longer maintain the smile on his face. He was filled with anger and thought to himself, "I've handed out flyers like this, why don't you take them?"
If the people above had not asked them to give a speech, he would not have come to suffer this.
I handed the flyer to an old lady again, but was pushed by her.
"What a charlatan!" the old lady muttered. "You come here to give a speech and deceive people? Call the police and have you arrested!"
This sentence completely ignited his anger. He threw the flyer to the ground and pushed the old lady to the ground.
"You, what are you doing?!" The old lady sat on the ground and looked at the young man in horror.
"You're lowly people, stupid people who don't even know what an arcade is! I'm kindly handing you flyers to let you know how great it is, and you're so perfunctory!" the young man roared. "We're not scammers! Take the flyers seriously!"
The old lady was stunned for a moment, then started crying loudly, attracting everyone around her.
The speaker could no longer continue, and several other people handing out leaflets came over in a panic to pull the young man away.
"Xiao Si, what's wrong with you?!" the person who pulled him shouted, "What are you doing?"
"She's the one insulting me! Everyone is insulting me!" Xiao Si roared, "Don't you see? They all look down on us, and they all say we're liars. We shouldn't be handing out flyers like this. We should let them all see how terrifying the playground is!"
They covered Xiao Si's mouth in panic, but the words still came out.
The people around looked at them in horror and began to retreat together. When they looked over, they scattered. Even the old lady who was sitting on the ground crying just now got up and ran away quickly.
In order to prevent more people from being framed by surprise Easter eggs, the official has reminded them more than once not to watch unfamiliar videos and live broadcasts sent by others, because this may be a death spell. Everyone can be bad, but they cannot ignore life!
Seeing that everyone ran out, the speaker slapped Xiao Si in anger.
Xiao Si was stunned. He sat on the ground and looked at others blankly.
"Xiao Si, what's wrong with you? How could you say that?" Someone sighed, "I know you might be thinking that way, but we agreed before that we need to be patient, to control ourselves, and to be kind to everyone. That's how we can win people over. Why..."
"But, but..." Xiao Si stumbled over his words, "I just suddenly wanted to speak out what was in my heart."
"I want to tell them what I'm thinking. I don't want to keep hiding it."
Xiao Si tore at his hair. "They don't deserve it. They know nothing. They can only be cannon fodder. There's no point in us trying to win them over."
"Yes, that's it."
"Xiao Si, wake up!"
Before Xiao Si could return to normal, they suddenly discovered that there were people around them again. However, this time they were not ordinary people on their way to work, but well-equipped professionals with guns pointed at them.
The dashing policeman stood opposite them with a smile, "Mr. Liar, please come with us."
The moment Xiao Si heard the word "liar", he broke free from the people around him and rushed forward, "We are not liars!"
"We are here to carry out our ideals! Our research!"
"You have no right to call us liars!"
The police grabbed the man who rushed over and pinned him to the ground, and handcuffed him while he screamed.
"Are you still attacking police?" The policeman pressed him down with his knee and looked at the others opposite, whose faces were all pale. "Take everyone away!"
Shen Yunzhe was still sitting on the other side of the road until the police brought their men away. He sat there quietly, as if in a daze.
"This isn't much better than the initial erosion ability." Shen Yunzhe suddenly said, "Everyone who is affected by it acts like a psychopath."
It's just that the people affected by Code Corrosion are eager to die for him. This is due to the Code Corrosion's own view of good and evil. Now Shen Yunzhe can stimulate a person's true inner emotions and amplify them. The result of this amplification is the young man just now.
He spoke out his true thoughts, did not think he was wrong, and continued to express his thoughts.
[At least now you can control the scope of influence, such as affecting only one person, or only a few people like before.]
"Can the ability be removed?"
[No, you have to know that Codename Corrosion can only choose death to free those affected.]
Shen Yunzhe sighed, stood up and walked back. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was already getting dark. Winter nights always come so early.
I wonder if I will dream about Code Name Hope again when I sleep tonight.
And his doll.
What a sin! He is now afraid to sleep because of code name Hope.
[Isn't this your choice? After all the picking and choosing, you chose yourself as your long-term partner. You deserve it.]
"……roll."
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