Chapter 132
The boy staggered down the stairs, dragging his bruised body towards the kitchen, leaving a trail of blood along the way. Shen Yunzhe sat on the steps and watched calmly.
At this moment, he found himself surprisingly calm. Although the code-named Fraudster showed various signs of lack of confidence and was a little panicked, his heart rate did not even beat faster when he was sure that he would really use the affected strange object.
It fits the stereotype of this setting perfectly: it's really cold and heartless.
[You can make a promise casually, but it will make the ghost remember you.]
"I know." Shen Yunzhe said, "I didn't agree to die with him. I agreed to help him avenge those strange creatures. Can he blame me if he misheard? Not me at all."
[Then how do you help him take revenge on other strange creatures? ]
"That doesn't mean there's still hope." Shen Yunzhe didn't seem to care. "Hope is also my partner. You also said that my partner won't refuse my help. Even if he disagrees, I can still force him to synchronize. I'm asking because I respect him, not because I can't do it."
Shen Yunzhe nodded as he spoke. "Wow, that's such a cool thing to say!"
"I can play the overbearing CEO now!"
[Codename Hope is the pure little white flower that you can take and take away at will?]
Shen Yunzhe thought about the innocent look of codenamed "Xiwang" and shuddered. "Are you really not disgusting me? When has he ever acted anything less than innocent?"
"How can you say he's a pure little white flower?"
If Shen Yunzhe equates the code name Hope with the pure little white flower, he will probably have a nightmare for the rest of his life.
The boy didn't make any movement after entering the kitchen. Just when Shen Yunzhe was puzzled, a waitress came out of the kitchen. She was wearing a red tie, and there were bloodstains on her clothes and face. She walked to the kitchen door and looked up, and happened to meet Shen Yunzhe's eyes.
Shen Yunzhe saw her open her mouth and say something. His good eyesight and ability to read lips allowed Shen Yunzhe to know what she said.
She was saying, "Rat!"
Shen Yunzhe stood up and quickly chose to leave. Now that he knew where the cake was, he felt tempted to let the strange creature in box number four go. Judging from the waiter's expression, the result might not be good. He quickly returned to box number one. He leaned against the door of box number one and soon heard a clattering sound.
The waiter was walking outside in the corridor and talking loudly.
"Rats, damn rats! Rats that steal food!"
"We have to kill all the rats!"
"Set up mousetraps everywhere, put out food to lure the mice, and make sure to kill these mice!"
Lili ran over and hugged Shen Yunzhe's calves. Shen Yunzhe picked her up. Lili also heard the noise outside and she looked around curiously.
The waiter lingered at the door for a long time, then turned and left. Shen Yunzhe and Lili made a hushing gesture.
"Uncle has something to do and needs to leave for a while. Can Lili stay here by herself?"
Lili tilted her head, "Uncle, what are you going to do?"
"Go find a cake, and then find uncle's friends and ask them to come celebrate Lili's birthday together." Shen Yunzhe said, "They've run into some trouble and are just as sad as Lili, so uncle wants to help them too."
Lili nodded and said, "Okay, then uncle must come back early."
Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door of box number one. At this time, the waiter had already gone up to the second floor. Shen Yunzhe walked forward and came to the door of box number four. Qi Xue happened to come down the stairs on the other side at this time, followed by three people. In order to avoid the waiter behind them, they quickly opened the door of box number four.
Shen Yunzhe held them down, "No!"
"Yun Xi?" Qi Xue was a little surprised. "Why not? We just came out of box number four."
"The waitress went in just now," Shen Yunzhe said. "She was catching mice and setting up mousetraps. I'm worried she might have tampered with Box 4."
Everyone present looked unhappy when they heard this.
Rats. Ever since Shen Yunzhe took away the pig's head from box number four, they were called rats instead of guests. They gradually realized that this was what the notice said about not being discovered, but now they have been discovered and can only try to avoid the waiters.
"So, what should we do now?!"
The player behind Qi Xue was almost crying.
They had no idea how they survived, and were terrified every minute of every second. Most of them were newcomers, and they were facing this type of situation in their second game, which almost broke their mentality.
Just when they were so tired that they couldn't even take a break, Qi Xue told them that there was a safe place where they could rest, even though they could only rest for three hours!
They were all looking forward to it, but now suddenly they say they can't go.
Everyone had sad faces.
"Go through Box One." Shen Yunzhe said, "Each of you prepare a gift and give it to the strange creature in Box One. Wish her a happy birthday. After that, go through the mirror in Box One."
Qi Xue was surprised, "The strange thing in box number one?!"
"Listen to me, hurry up, the waiter will be back soon." Shen Yunzhe led them away, and Qi Xue nodded to them.
They quickly began to look for anything on them that could be used as gifts. If they didn't have anything, they looked around. In the end, everyone had something in their hands. Shen Yunzhe took them to box number one. He knocked on the door and led the people in after the little girl opened the door.
Qi Xue looked at the little girl, swallowed, and then smiled. He knelt on one knee on the ground and said happy birthday to the little girl.
Then he handed the gift to her for the second time.
Everyone followed Qi Xue's example. The little girl looked at the gifts in surprise, and her eyes looked at Shen Yunzhe with even more admiration.
While the little girl was happily saying thank you to Shen Yunzhe, Qi Xue brought those people to the mirror. He directed each of them to go into the mirror and asked them to wait there. Then he turned around and prepared to find the rest of the people. When he left, he smiled at the little girl again.
Although he put away his smile as he walked out of the box, his back was covered in cold sweat.
After finding all the remaining players who were still alive and sending them to the mirror world, Qi Xue and Xing Ruomiao breathed a sigh of relief. Before three hours had passed, they waited in the corridor for the time being. Anyway, they didn't dare to stay in box number one!
"Some bad news." Xing Ruomiao said, "A player died in box number five."
"What?" Qi Xue looked at her, "So, the special dish has appeared in Box 5?!"
"Yes, that's what the player who entered Box 5 said before. But luckily, only two players went in, so it didn't cause a big commotion, and we didn't see the waiter go in either." Xing Ruomiao said, "So the dish is still in the box."
Qi Xue instantly put on a mask of pain, "I have to tear off the mirror cloth again."
"We'll talk about this later. I'm thinking about Box 4 now." Shen Yunzhe leaned against the wall and said, "The waiter is catching mice, which means catching us. I heard her say she set up bait to catch mice. What do you think the bait is?"
Xing Ruomiao tilted his head, "Bait?"
"The bait for mice is food. We are mice, so our bait is also food." Qi Xue looked at Shen Yunzhe, his voice filled with surprise. "Could it be that the bait is the cake that was taken away?!"
"I think it's possible." Shen Yunzhe looked towards Box No. 4 not far away. "Have you noticed? For such a long time, no waiter came down to patrol."
Xing Ruomiao squatted down and said, "They are waiting for us to take the bait."
"Wait until we get to box number four..."
"But we have to fall for this trick, because if we want to complete the task we have to get this piece of cake," Qi Xue concluded.
Shen Yunzhe grabbed Qi Xue who turned around and ran towards box number four.
"What are you doing?" Qi Xue looked at him.
"There's another possibility." Shen Yunzhe said, "In fact, there's nothing in Box 4, only an ambush. The waiter is also lying to us in this way."
Qi Xue looked at Shen Yunzhe in confusion, and spoke after a moment, "How could a strange creature be so intelligent?"
"None of us have ever seen or heard of this, but Qi Xue, this isn't your eighth game, it's a difficulty level 10 game," Shen Yunzhe said. "The official internal records the gaming experiences of a large portion of players. They're the organization with the most access to high-level players in the world."
"Players above level ten have all said that level ten is a dividing line. Once you cross that level, the game field will change substantially."
"I think I've heard of it, but that's not right. Yunxi, are you connected to the authorities? How do you know this?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at him and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Guess?"
"Let me guess?" Qi Xue slapped his hand away. "I won't guess! Does that mean there's a good chance that there's nothing in Box 4?"
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "It's possible, and it's very likely."
"We have to go and see it." Qi Xue said, "We have to complete our main mission, so we need that piece of cake. Even if there is only a slight possibility, we have to try it."
Xing Ruomiao also nodded, and the little girl also felt that she should go and take a look.
Since they all decided this, Shen Yunzhe did not stop them. He followed behind. It would be best if he could deal with it. They could not keep going in and out of Box No. 1. The little girl's hostility was reduced under his influence, but this was something that could not be controlled all the time, and he would not always synchronize the code name fraudster.
Once the peer is changed, the little girl may eliminate the influence, and then the players entering and exiting this box will be in danger.
So the three of them came to the door of box number four. They stood at the door and listened carefully to the sounds inside. It was very quiet and there was no sound at all. Qi Xue pushed the door open carefully, and it was empty and there was nothing inside.
It looks like nothing has changed.
But the three people present did not dare to relax easily.
Just like Shen Yunzhe said, it is very strange that the waiter does not come to patrol the second floor.
"Is it different from when you came out?" Shen Yunzhe asked.
"No." Xing Ruomiao shook his head. "I was just focused on leaving at the time and didn't pay much attention. Brother Qi, do you think there is any difference?"
"No, but..." Qi Xue frowned slightly, "I always feel that the air is much heavier?"
Xing Ruomiao thought: Is this how Chinese reading comprehension appears in reality?!
But no matter whether the air was heavier or not, they had to enter the box. Qi Xue went in first. He tiptoed and was ready to escape at any time. Shen Yunzhe and Xing Ruomiao followed behind. They mainly looked around to see if there were any cakes around as bait.
After they all entered the box, nothing changed inside.
There was still a pool of blood on the spot, and the bathroom still smelled of burning.
Shen Yunzhe covered his nose. The smell and the blood were a bit irritating, and his uncontrollable heart was beating wildly again.
Trickster, you're a Trickster, and you even have the ultimate weird charm! How could you be afraid of a little blood?! You're such a loser!
[Codename Fraudster faints at the sight of blood, but since it's you standing here, not him, you won't faint right away.]
...as if he didn't say anything.
"It seems there is no cake." Xing Ruomiao said: "It also seems there is no..."
Before Xing Ruomiao could finish his words, he heard a crack and a corpse fell from the ceiling. The corpse hit the ground with a bang. Xing Ruomiao opened his eyes wide and saw someone crawling out from under the table.
Xing Ruomiao discovered that this was the strange creature that was originally in box number four, a classmate of the host of the banquet!
"Surprise." Strange creatures appeared from all directions, looking at them with knives in their hands, "We have a surprise for you."
“It’s great to have so many friends.”
The three of them stepped back, and the door of the box behind them closed with a click, and the waiter's laughter rang out from behind the door.
"We caught the mouse."
"Kill the rat now!"
"Cats love to eat mice!"
The strange creatures in front of him were saying the same things as before, except this time they were talking to them instead of the host of the banquet. Everyone was staring at them and saying hateful words like school bullying. Qi Xue immediately realized what kind of wedding banquet was in this box.
Facing such a scene was within his expectations. The only thing that made him uneasy was... the host of the party didn't seem to be here.
There is a wedding banquet in each box, and the host of the wedding banquet is the starting point and end point of the strange things in this box. In other words, the host of the banquet is more terrifying than these strange guests.
Those holding knives walked towards them step by step.
Just then, the waiter's scream suddenly came from outside the door.
"Guest, what are you doing?!"
"This is our specialty, not for you!"
"Even if the guest in Box 1 says they want to share it with you, you can't take it without our consent!"
"lay down!"
The door of box number four was slammed open, and a person fell in front of Shen Yunzhe. Qi Xue and Xing Ruomiao were also startled, and the strange creature in the box stopped.
The man on the ground slowly sat up. His whole body was broken, even one of his eyes was pierced. But when he saw Shen Yunzhe, a light shone in his intact eye. He took out a piece of bloody meat from his arms with great anticipation and stuffed it into Shen Yunzhe's hand.
Shen Yunzhe was almost stiff as he looked at the meat stuffed into his hand.
Huh? Huh?
"Cake." The boy said, "I got the cake you wanted."
"I'll give you my share of the cake, all of it!"
The boy pushed Shen Yunzhe away, and the next moment all the strange creatures in the box rushed over. They surrounded the boy and stabbed down with their knives, because in this box, the host of the banquet was such a person. He was despised and even bullied by all the classmates he wanted to make friends with, and was finally killed here.
Even though he was the host of the party, he was still the one who got hurt.
Shen Yunzhe sat on the ground and looked at everything in front of him. He then looked down at the bloody meat in his hand.
"Qi Xue." Shen Yunzhe said, "It's time. Take it to Box One, enter the Mirror World and deliver the cake to Box Eight."
Qi Xue frowned and took the bloody mass of flesh, "What about you?"
"I have things to do, please leave now."
Qi Xue nodded, and he and Xing Ruomiao quickly rushed out of box number four. There was a pool of blood outside box number four. When they looked out, they saw that the waitress had been smashed to pieces, but she was twisting herself to pieces, staring at them fiercely.
"Rat!" she yelled. "Put the food down!"
Damn! Run away now!
In box number four, Shen Yunzhe stood up slowly. He forced himself to ignore the blood on his palms and the pounding of his heart.
"System." Shen Yunzhe looked at the strange objects tangled in a ball in front of him, "Synchronize hope."
【clear. 】
[World G00001, codenamed Hope, synchronizing, 85% synchronization rate, sufficient.]
In the dark little box, Codename Hope was pulling his hair out of boredom. Although it was not fun at all, he could only pull his hair off one by one.
Just then, Codename Hope suddenly raised her head.
"Hmm?" Codename Hope blinked. "Synchronized? But not completely?"
"Why?"
Shen Yunzhe actually didn't let him out and just borrowed his abilities?
This kind of thing has rarely happened since Codename Hope was able to leave here for a short time. Only at the beginning, when Shen Yunzhe had not yet adapted, would he borrow a little strength like this.
Shen Yunzhe is not polite now and uses him as a thug!
Damn it, even after all this, Shen Yunzhe still hasn’t called him out.
Thinking of this, Codename hopes to close his eyes and use this incomplete synchronization to determine Shen Yunzhe's current mood and state.
After a few seconds, Codename Hope opened his eyes and slowly stood up from the ground.
"System." He called softly.
"System, let me out."
[Not yet.]
"Why not?"
[Because you are in an extreme emotional state right now, wait until you calm down before speaking.]
Codename Hope smiled, then he sat down and stared at the dark ground, muttering to himself sadly.
"Shen Yunzhe."
"Who did you give my hair tie to?"
"...I should really strangle you to death."
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