Chapter 127
The mirror can reflect the true appearance of strange creatures. They are real in the mirror, so what they see now is a false shell.
Keep the mirror; it's very useful.
Shen Yunzhe returned to the second floor, but no one was there.
I don't know if they went to a new box or found a safe place.
Just then, a waitress appeared in front of him. Shen Yunzhe took a look at her tie, which was red. She was the first waitress.
"Sir, what are you doing here?" the waiter asked him. "Is the food not to your liking?"
Shen Yunzhe thought: Could it be that these waiters are patrolling around the private rooms? Why do I always run into waiters when I come out?
"How could that be?" Shen Yunzhe smiled contentedly, seemingly lost in thought. "Your food is delicious. Just the smell makes my mouth water. But I'm a germaphobe, so I have to wash my hands before eating."
The waiter nodded contentedly, but a strange look remained in his eyes. "Yes, the food in our restaurant is the best. Please enjoy it."
Shen Yunzhe nodded. "Especially that plate of cake. Which guest is celebrating his birthday? How could he eat such a delicious cake?"
When the word "cake" was mentioned, the waitress's expression changed immediately. She swallowed, her mouth overflowing with saliva, and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, that's the best cake I've ever had."
“It’s really delicious.”
"You have good taste, sir."
"Hurry back to the private room. More dishes will be served soon. If you don't go back now, other customers will grab them all."
After saying that, the waiter turned around and went upstairs. It was obvious that he was going to inspect the third floor.
Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked forward. Just as he reached the corner, Shen Yunzhe saw a man standing there and looking downstairs. It was a boy, wearing a suit and looking a little melancholy. Shen Yunzhe was sure that there was no such person among the players.
In other words... the real guests in the box.
Shen Yunzhe, the girl who celebrated her birthday in Box No. 1, has confirmed that the guests in the box are not normal people and it is best not to have too much contact with them.
Just as Shen Yunzhe turned around, a faint voice sounded.
"Aren't you going to my graduation party?"
Shen Yunzhe paused.
"This is the best restaurant. I held my graduation party here to make friends. Do you hate me too?"
"No." Shen Yunzhe turned around and said with a smile, "I just wanted to give you a surprise graduation gift."
"Gift?" The boy's expression changed instantly. He looked a little surprised and a little cautious. "Really? Is it a gift for me? Can I really receive a gift?"
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Yes, it's a gift for you."
As he spoke, Shen Yunzhe reached into his pocket and took out a hair tie. Fortunately, because of his code name Hope, he was used to wearing hair ties when he went out, and he would always bring several with him every time.
Shen Yunzhe tied the hair tie around the boy's wrist and tied a bow. Because the hair tie was relatively thin and the bow was tied very delicately, you couldn't tell that it was just an ordinary hair tie. The average price was two yuan.
Shen Yunzhe opened his mouth and said: "This is a lucky bracelet I specially selected for you. I give it to you at this time. I wish you a happy graduation and smooth work in the future."
"Lucky bracelet." The boy looked at his wrist with bright eyes and smiled. "Thank you. This is the first time I've received a gift."
"Come in quickly, the food will be served soon!"
So Shen Yunzhe was forcibly pulled into the box. When he entered, Shen Yunzhe glanced at the box number, which was Box 4.
When being dragged away, Shen Yunzhe quietly took out the small lens from his pocket. The lens instantly illuminated Shen Yunzhe's face and the back of the person in front of him. Just a slight glimpse of the lens made Shen Yunzhe almost break out in a cold sweat.
When Shen Yunzhe was being pulled away, he noticed that his hands were very cold, but he didn't expect the person in the mirror to look like this.
There was a big bloody hole on his back, where a knife had pierced through from the front to the back. His whole body was covered with cuts, and his elegant suit was full of holes. The most terrifying thing was his neck, which was almost completely fallen off, with only a little flesh left.
Shen Yunzhe hurriedly put away the mirror, pretending that he saw nothing, and told himself to stay away from this person.
Box No. 4 was different from Box No. 1. There were a lot of people inside. Shen Yunzhe counted them and found that there were more than a dozen of them. Each of them was dressed casually, and only the host of the banquet was wearing a suit formally.
When they saw the boy come in, the people inside immediately raised their glasses with a smile.
“Congratulations on your graduation!”
"I heard you were admitted to a doctoral program abroad? You're so lucky!"
"Don't forget us when you become rich."
"We've prepared a graduation party for you and ordered the best graduation celebration dishes!"
The boy was a little excited, his eyes slightly red, "Thank you, thank you everyone!"
Shen Yunzhe looked around and found an acquaintance at the very end. It was Xing Ruomiao, who had come up with him to investigate before. The girl said that she was a minor and was only invited to dinner, so she turned down all the drinking invitations and sat at the back to watch.
After seeing Shen Yunzhe, Xing Ruomiao waved to him.
Shen Yunzhe walked over and said, "What a coincidence."
"Unfortunately." Xing Ruomiao whispered, "There are only seven rooms with guests here. I heard something happened in room 1, so there are only six left. The probability of encountering someone is still very high."
"Be careful, and sit closer to the door if necessary."
Xing Ruomiao nodded, "There's a player in front, do you know him? He seems to have come out of Box 1.
Following Xing Ruomiao's instructions, Shen Yunzhe took a look and saw a man trembling in the crowd, sitting in the seat closest to the door.
This is the player who vomited after coming out of Box No. 1. He is a newcomer who entered the game field for the second time. He was probably too frightened by the last game field, and he is now in a completely dazed state.
"How is it here? Is there any problem?" Shen Yunzhe asked Xing Ruomiao.
"This is a big problem." Xing Ruomiao looked at the people inside with indifference. A high school student looked like a little adult. "Did you see the host of this party? He invited many classmates to the graduation party, but in fact, none of them looked up to him."
"Before you came in, they were talking bad about the host of the banquet behind his back, saying how to deal with him."
"School bullying."
Shen Yunzhe looked at the people in front of him and said, "In other words, this wedding banquet is not really a wedding banquet at all."
Xing Ruomiao nodded, "Seeing joy is like seeing evil. What if joy is evil from the beginning?"
"There are 7 wedding banquets in 7 private rooms. They are called wedding banquets, but there are all kinds of problems." Shen Yunzhe thought about it.
"But our biggest problem right now is that we have no idea what this main mission is." Xing Ruomiao held his chin and sighed, "We can't leave here, and we don't know how to complete the mission. The accident rate is still so high. What should we do?"
Shen Yunzhe thought about it and nodded, "It is indeed a problem."
At this moment, the students in the box began to sing "Farewell". The host of the banquet had tears in his eyes and looked very moved.
"How pitiful." Xing Ruomiao said, "He was clearly being bullied at school, yet he still hoped to make friends and even invited these people over. If it were me, I would definitely beat them down one by one."
"Indeed." Shen Yunzhe agreed with her.
Xing Ruomiao looked at Shen Yunzhe in surprise, "You've also been bullied in school? You're not a handsome guy, but you're good-looking and fashionable. You look like the most handsome boy in the school. How could someone like you get bullied?"
"Bullyers don't care whether someone is handsome or fashionable, right?"
"That's right." Xing Ruomiao curled her lips and asked, "Did they beat you?"
"They can't beat me."
"That's also very cool." Xing Ruomiao sighed, "I'm different. I can't beat them."
But her tone changed, "But it doesn't matter. The college entrance examination will be soon. After the exam, I can stay away from them. I have kept the evidence of their cheating. When they go to college, I will spread it to their universities!"
After the farewell song was sung on the stage, the waitress opened the door and came in, pushing a plate of food. Shen Yunzhe deliberately took a look at her tie, which was black.
The waiter brought the dish with a smile, covered by a metal cover.
"Come and take a look!" The students laughed and pushed the host to the side of the dish. "This is a dish we made especially for you!"
The boy looked shy. Amidst the laughter of the crowd, he carefully opened the cover. The moment he saw the food, the smile on his face froze.
Inside was a huge pig's head.
"Hahahaha! Pighead! You pighead!" Those so-called classmates dropped their disguises and showed their true colors.
"You're such a jerk! You're the trash of the school!"
"What's the point of studying well? No one will like you!"
Shen Yunzhe looked at the pig's head. He took out a mirror from his pocket and carefully looked at the reflection. The guests around him all looked very strange, but the strangest thing was the pig's head. The color of the pig's head was liver-colored, but the shape was completely different from that of a pig's head.
He looked at it carefully and found that it looked more like a human head than a pig's head.
Hiss...No way?
The boy's face turned pale. He stared at the pig's head and finally burst into tears.
"Still crying, how shameful!"
"Hahaha! Did you hear? His mother is ashamed of giving birth to a son like him!"
"The teacher said he went to a fake university abroad and bought his doctorate!"
The boy kept crying. At this moment, Shen Yunzhe saw the man sitting at the door suddenly stand up. Shen Yunzhe was a little surprised. In this situation, he must not move. What on earth did he want to do?
"It's over." Xing Ruomiao closed her eyes. "He has lost his mind now. He may want to be brave for once, but this is not the time to be brave."
The pig head in the lens slowly changed its appearance, and Shen Yunzhe was surprised to find that the pig head became the player's head in the reflection of the mirror.
Putting away the lenses, Shen Yunzhe stood up and walked over. He unnoticeably grabbed the man who was about to stand up and pinned him down in his seat.
"What are you going to do?" Shen Yunzhe asked him in a low voice.
Xing Ruomiao also followed carefully and sat next to Shen Yunzhe.
"They're bullying us," the man murmured in fear. "You were in Box 1 just now, remember? The little girl said at the end: Why didn't we stop them? If we had stopped them, would all this have happened and no one would have died?"
"So I have to stop it, to stop it..."
Xing Ruomiao closed his eyes and covered his face. "This person is stupid, there is no way to save him. There are no real people in the playground. All the weird things are malicious. They can't give you an option to win by being kind."
The man looked at them blankly, but was held down and didn't really get up.
On the other side, the host of the banquet was still being ridiculed. At this moment, a bucket of dark water was poured down and directly splashed on the host of the banquet. There were actually daggers in the black water, and the daggers were stabbed into the host of the banquet's body.
He looked at the knife in his body and tried to pull it out in confusion.
Before Shen Yunzhe could hold anyone down, the player next to him rushed out. That person's mental state was not very good. To be honest, Shen Yunzhe rarely saw such a new player who was completely disobedient and ran to dangerous places.
He stood in front of the host of the party and said, "What are you doing? No, you can't do this!"
The laughter of the people present stopped abruptly, and everyone looked at him.
The box was dead silent. The man's sluggish mind seemed to have finally returned to normal. He looked at the person staring at him in confusion and horror.
"No, I can't do this." He murmured softly.
Everyone raised their hands, each holding a dagger in their hands. They approached step by step. Shen Yunzhe and Xing Ruomiao immediately realized that something was wrong. They quickly approached the door of the box, but the door was guarded by a waiter. The waiter in a black tie looked at them with a smile.
"Guests, where are you going?"
"I, I have to go to the toilet!" Xing Ruomiao said.
The waitress looked at them with a smile, her dark eyes reflecting their figures. She said with a forced smile, "I suggest that you return to your seats, because our special dishes will be ready soon. You should watch carefully as they are prepared."
"No, you want us to watch you cook?"
"Of course, because our dishes are delicious and are meant to be enjoyed. Our specialty is that we let our customers watch the dishes being prepared." The waiter stared at them, "So please sit down at your seats and wait for the dishes to be prepared."
As soon as they finished speaking, screams rang in their ears.
Shen Yunzhe and Xing Ruomiao turned their heads and looked behind them, only to see the guests stabbing the host of the banquet and the player with their daggers.
That was the real Lingchi. The dagger was cutting off pieces of their flesh. The guests were laughing as the flesh was being cut. The cut flesh was placed on the plate.
The meat soon piled up into a small hill.
"Look how happy the guests are!" the waiter said happily, "This is the meaning of our special dishes!"
“It makes the guests feel involved and they get delicious food.”
"It smells so good! This dish smells so good! It must be delicious." The waiter looked at the meat on the plate with a greedy look, "I really want to have a bite."
Xing Ruomiao was about to vomit.
That's human flesh, not pork at all!
"Before you throw up, think about how to get out first." Shen Yunzhe said, "The entrance is blocked, and the meat over there is almost cut. Do you think they will come looking for us after they finish cutting it?"
Sure enough, the screams stopped and everyone stopped moving. They turned to look at Shen Yunzhe and Xing Ruomiao.
"Yun Xi! What should we do?" Xing Ruomiao was scared. "There are so many of them, we..."
Shen Yunzhe didn't know what to do, but at this moment, the person who had been lying motionless on the ground stood up. The host of the banquet who had been stabbed countless times stood up tremblingly, opened his eyelids and stared at Shen Yunzhe.
"You are so nice." The boy said with a broken throat, "This is the first time someone has given me a gift."
"I like this gift so much, and I like you so much too."
Xing Ruomiao looked at the male corpse, then at Shen Yunzhe, with a horrified expression.
The boy walked over step by step, his eyes fixed on Shen Yunzhe, "You will die with me!"
"Impossible." Shen Yunzhe frowned, looking at the miserable male corpse with disgust in his tone, "You are so ugly, why should I die with you?"
To be honest, this psychopath is completely different from Codename Hope. Why doesn't he go crazy with Codename Hope, but instead die with him?
Big loss!
Xing Ruomiao took a breath of cold air.
Bro! Is now the time to complain about someone's ugliness?!
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