Chapter 146
Shen Yunzhe raised his phone and tried to take a picture, but the phone was empty. Not to mention the strange creatures in the mountain village, he couldn't even take a picture of the mountain village.
The hilltop is just a hilltop, with only rocks and wasteland.
"Digital devices can't take photos, so we need people to draw them." Ping Chu explained, watching him take pictures. "Once you go in, all digital devices will be disabled, and there's no way to contact people outside. So this place is basically like an amusement park."
"The basic functions of the mobile phone can be used." He Yufeng added.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the mountain village and asked, "Looks like a playground?"
They both looked at him.
"A place you can see in reality, but inside it's no different from a playground." Shen Yunzhe stroked his chin. "You can even enter it normally for a period of time... It's not like something strange is invading reality, it's more like the playground itself has arrived in reality."
Ping Chu and He Yufeng understood what Shen Yunzhe meant.
Strange things erode reality by sending media into reality through players. The medium is the most important thing, but the medium of special playgrounds is the playground itself.
This is what makes special playgrounds so difficult to handle.
This strange erosion event is equivalent to those invisible and intangible playgrounds in other dimensions, which appear directly in reality and cannot be dealt with.
Shen Yunzhe thought about it, then left the telescope, asked Ping Chu and He Yufeng to continue observing and organizing the data, and went to the other side of the observation post to make a phone call.
When Li Yuluan answered the phone, his voice was a little confused, as if he was woken up from his sleep.
Shen Yunzhe glanced at the time. It was ten o'clock in the morning, almost noon.
"You still sleeping?"
"What's the problem?" Li Yiluan yawned. "I don't know why fortune tellers like to come at night. I'm almost losing my sleep. I didn't go to bed until six yesterday, and I've only slept for a little over three hours, and you woke me up. What are you doing?"
Shen Yunzhe said, "You said before that I went to the mountain village, but did you see what I did afterwards?"
"Hmm?" Li Yiluan thought confusedly, "Where are you now?"
"Outside the mountain village."
Li Yuluan sat up suddenly.
When he and Shen Yunzhe went to the official site before, Huang Yihua told them in detail what the mountain village was. Li Yuluan certainly knew how dangerous it was there.
"No, didn't you say you wouldn't go to the mountain village? And you said normal people wouldn't go to dangerous places."
"This isn't about telling your clients that you have great fortune-telling skills. You told me to come to the mountain village, and I came," Shen Yunzhe said. "That's not important. What's important is whether you saw what I did afterwards."
Li Yiluan was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "Bad luck! Is there anyone around you? Remember not to let them leave."
"Why?"
"I was afraid you'd die there alone, so I found two people to take your place. Maybe you could come back alive."
Shen Yunzhe sighed, "Then wouldn't I be harming others?"
"If I dare to go out with you, I guess I've already prepared to die." Li Yiluan buried himself back in the quilt. "Be careful, I can't see a thing. Your fate is already dark and unclear, and now it's buried in the dirty darkness, it's even more unclear."
"But you don't look dead." Li Yiluan said, "Believe me, you won't die."
Shen Yunzhe smiled slightly when he heard this and nodded, "Okay, since you said so, then I believe you."
He hung up the phone and returned to the outpost. Ping Chu and He Yufeng were in contact with the authorities. Due to the previous accident, there were not many people in the officialdom who could contact them. They tried their best to release all the details, and Shen Yunzhe did not disturb them.
He just whispered softly.
"Didn't they say this counterpart had gone deep into the mountain village? Why didn't they feel anything?"
【It means the time has not come yet.】
"Time?" Shen Yunzhe murmured, "What time?"
The strange creatures in the mountain village did not move all day long. She just stood quietly at the door, looking more and more like a statue. Ping Chu and the others kept observing until it was getting dark. They ate something casually and began to take turns observing. Ping Chu was in the first shift and Shen Yunzhe was in the last shift.
This is also to take care of Shen Yunzhe.
He Yufeng was very calm. He went to sleep while Ping Chu was on duty. Shen Yunzhe surprisingly did not feel nervous and even did not feel like sleeping, so he stayed with Ping Chu for a while.
"You're really calm," Ping Chu said to him. "Normally, even experienced people would get nervous in a place like this. After all, this isn't some other place, but a mountain village where no one has survived."
Even if Shen Yunzhe wanted to be calm, he shouldn't be so calm, but Shen Yunzhe felt that his heart didn't even beat faster when he looked at Shancun.
Maybe it’s because Codename Thousand Faces has gone deep into the mountain village, so there’s not much tension.
"I looked calm, but my heart was beating like crazy," Shen Yunzhe said. "I was scared."
"Haha, really?" Ping Chu stared at the telescope. "I really don't know how long she'll stand there. You're really lucky. In the past, even when the mountain village was active, no strange objects were observed. There was only that piece of news that there were people in the mountain village, but no one had ever seen them."
"This is the first time the authorities have discovered the existence of strange objects."
Ping Chu didn't need Shen Yunzhe to answer, he just kept chattering until Shen Yunzhe finally felt sleepy, so he returned to his seat and lay down to take a nap.
Shen Yunzhe was not nervous and even slept quite soundly. What woke him up was the urgent sound of the alarm clock.
Shen Yunzhe sat up suddenly and was almost jumped up by the ringing of the bell.
He looked around and found that the room was very dark. He fumbled to turn on the light, but it didn't light up. Shen Yunzhe realized that something was wrong. He turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone to look for Ping Chu and He Yufeng. He Yufeng was sleeping next to them, and it seemed that the alarm clock didn't wake him up at all.
Shen Yunzhe called his name and shook him hard. He Yufeng yawned and slowly opened his eyes. He seemed to be fine.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Shen Yunzhe ran to Ping Chu who was standing next to the telescope, only to see Ping Chu sleeping soundly on the table.
He Yufeng immediately realized that something was wrong.
Even if he was sleeping soundly, why did Ping Chu, who was on duty, fall asleep?
He hurriedly got out of bed and ran to wake Ping Chu up, while Shen Yunzhe looked into the telescope. It was pitch black in the telescope, with only a light on at the position where it was aimed.
"There's a light!" Shen Yunzhe said, "and the strange thing is gone!"
"What?!" He Yufeng pushed away Ping Chu, who was wailing on the ground after being pushed to the ground by him. He hurriedly looked through the telescope. It was too dark outside. He could only vaguely see a little light coming from the house. The light was dim and extremely obvious.
But as he watched, He Yufeng widened his eyes slightly.
"No, no! Pingchu, come and take a look!"
"Ah?" Ping Chu quickly woke himself up, ran over to look through the telescope, and as he looked, he hissed.
"No, this...why does it look so much like our outpost?"
"It's not like, it's exactly like." He Yufeng said, "Didn't you notice? When we looked at the top of the mountain, we looked up from the bottom, but now through the telescope, we look down from the top!"
Ping Chu blinked. "So what do you mean? We are now..."
"Yes." He Yufeng said, "We should be in a house in the mountain village now."
"Fuck!" Ping Chu cursed, and said important things three times, "Fuck, fuck!"
After cursing, he immediately turned on his cell phone and found that there was no signal.
After listening to their words, Shen Yunzhe looked into the telescope. In the telescope, there seemed to be a shadow floating towards him, like a leaf, or a piece of tattered cloth. It was not until the thing blocked the telescope that Shen Yunzhe was really sure that it was a person.
When an eye full of bloodshot suddenly appeared in the camera, Shen Yunzhe's heart skipped a beat even though he was prepared.
He managed to maintain his composure, then grabbed someone and motioned him to look through the telescope.
Ping Chu, who was captured innocently, looked at the telescope in confusion, and was so scared the moment he saw it that he jumped up.
"Oh shit!" He fell to the ground. "Oh my god! The weird thing is outside!"
He Yufeng knew what was outside without even looking. He grabbed his sketchbook and said, "First of all, I want to remind you that no one who gets sucked into the mountain village can return alive."
"What you said is not accurate. You should say that everyone disappeared, the kind that no one can see alive or dead." Ping Chu was still in the mood to find fault with his words.
Shen Yunzhe looked at them and said, "You two should think about what to do now."
"What can we do? We've been dragged into the mountain village. We can only take it one step at a time." Ping Chu sighed, "But you're also unlucky. There haven't been any accidents in the mountain village in several years, and you were dragged into it as soon as you arrived this time."
"I've even been on a train, and I'm standing here perfectly fine."
"Indeed, that's your survival ability." Ping Chu gave him a thumbs up, "This time, the great god will also turn the tide and lead us out alive!"
It is impossible to say that they are not afraid. If they are not afraid, how could they be scared to the point of swearing? But as official members and official personnel of the Observation Village, they have long been prepared for being involved at any time, especially now that Shen Yunzhe is here with them.
Shen Wei was once a professional in charge of the mountain village, and even now he is a deafening presence in the official circles.
People who officially knew Shen Wei said that Shen Wei's understanding of the mountain village might be deeper than imagined, and he must have left something important to Shen Yunzhe, his only child.
It's not impossible, Ping Chu and He Yufeng are very optimistic.
Maybe I can really go back alive.
He Yufeng covered Ping Chu's mouth and said, "Be quiet, there's noise outside."
Ping Chu quickly covered his mouth, and the sound outside finally became clearer.
It sounded like the voice of an old man, with an air of maturity and a bit of arrogance. It sounded like it might be someone like the village chief.
"What? Is she still crying?"
"This woman is such a nuisance. She's crying and wailing like she's dying. She's just a little girl."
"Lock her up for a few days and I promise she won't cry again."
As they spoke, their door was kicked hard twice.
"Why aren't you crying or making a fuss anymore? Do you know you're wrong?!" This time, the person speaking sounded more like a middle-aged man than an old man. His tone was filled with resentment. "If you cry again, I'll throw you into the river and drown you, leaving you and your little girl to die together."
After the curse, the sound gradually disappeared.
The three people in the room looked at each other.
"Um, is the person outside scolding us?" Ping Chu asked.
"We must have replaced someone and are experiencing some kind of plot." He Yufeng was calmer. "This type of game field is quite common in the later stages and is difficult to avoid because of the plot kills."
"But there is another possibility." Shen Yunzhe suddenly spoke.
He Yufeng and Ping Chu looked at him, "What's the possibility?"
"The woman they scolded is also in this room."
As soon as the words fell, the room fell into dead silence. Ping Chu and He Yufeng gasped and got goosebumps all over their bodies.
They quickly looked around the room, but it was too dark. The light from the mobile phone flashlight could only illuminate a very small area. They were afraid of illuminating a female ghost, so they didn't dare to look around in a panic.
"Quiet." Shen Yunzhe said in a low voice: "There is no movement for the time being, so we should not react. Nothing should happen."
Ping Chu bravely looked at the telescope again. This time there was no eye in the telescope, but similarly, the lights of their outpost in the distance were also out, and all he could see was darkness.
After thinking about it, Ping Chu took down the telescope, put it in his bag and placed it in a corner.
This thing is too heavy and too big, they can't take it away, so they can only leave it here.
In fact, Shen Yunzhe is also very confused now. He is in the mountain village now, but he doesn't feel anything. He doesn't know what he should do or where he should go. He can only stand here passively.
This was different from what he thought.
He thought that after synchronization he would be able to walk deep into the mountain village as if assisted by God.
[This isn't how the codename Thousand Faces is used...]
Shen Yunzhe thought: How to use it?
You’ll know later.
Tsk, still hiding it at a time like this.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the time. It was already past one in the morning, still very early, but none of the three of them could sleep. It was really too careless for them to be able to sleep at this time. They stopped talking for fear of problems. At most, they used their mobile phones to type messages to each other.
I endured like this until six o'clock in the morning. There was a little light in the room and I seemed to be able to see something vaguely.
Just then, they heard a creaking sound, as if someone was opening the door from outside.
The door opened and a burly man walked in. Ping Chu and He Yufeng immediately took a defensive stance, but he seemed to have not seen the two men at all and reached out to grab Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly. He was grabbed by the wrist and dragged out. This scared Ping Chu and He Yufeng, and they hurried to chase him.
But this man dragged Shen Yunzhe out of the room and pushed him outside, as if he didn't see Ping Chu and He Yufeng at all.
"Don't cry, it's bad luck."
This sound is like the person who kicked the door last night.
Shen Yunzhe quickly looked around and found that this was indeed the mountain village. It was dark at six o'clock in the winter. In the dark night, Shen Yunzhe saw a piece of tattered cloth covering something not far away. The cloth was wet and was frozen into ice in the winter night, looking hard.
Ping Chu and He Yufeng also came out, and they waved their hands in front of the man in surprise.
"Can't see us?" Ping Chu was puzzled. "Really can't see us?"
"What's going on? This is different from what I know, and Shen Yunzhe has obviously been seen, and he carries a certain identity."
Shen Yunzhe stood up, and the man threw a basin in front of him, "Wash your face quickly, it's so ugly."
With that the man turned and left.
Shen Yunzhe watched the man leave. He lowered his head to look at the basin. There was water in the basin, and soon he saw his own reflection in the basin. The moment he saw the reflection, not only Shen Yunzhe, but also Lian Pingchu and He Yufeng were speechless.
Because the person in the reflection was not Shen Yunzhe at all, but a woman with messy hair and mud on her face.
"This isn't..." He Yufeng flipped open his sketchbook and showed them what he had drawn, "isn't this the strange thing we saw?"
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, and he found that he was not very surprised.
He seemed to realize what the code name Thousand Faces meant.
You're right.
[Codename: Thousand Faces, Ability: Disguise. He can completely assume a certain identity, becoming that person or strange object without being discovered.]
After being dragged into the mountain village, Codename Qianmian used his abilities to replace the strange creatures in the game field, and only after following the plot did he go deeper into the mountain village.
[Use this ability with caution. Although it is useful, plot kills can kill you.]
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