Chapter 154
Shen Yunzhe tried to go inside, but he felt a huge resistance.
He immediately realized that it was the strange creature Yuehong that he had replaced that was unwilling to go in. Even Shen Yunzhe felt this resistance after replacing him. Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly and tried to continue walking inside.
When he reached the middle, Shen Yunzhe felt the door behind him close with a creak, and the next moment the scenery in front of him changed completely.
This is an old thatched house with leaks everywhere. The only good thing is that it is daytime and the light coming through the holes allows you to see some things clearly.
"Why are you crying? Stay in there and reflect on your actions. Come out when you stop crying!"
"I'm so angry! She died in childbirth after giving birth to a girl, and the second one was obviously a boy."
"What bad luck! Burn it, burn it."
Shen Yunzhe carefully approached the hole and looked outside. It was daytime outside so he could see clearly.
It was a big haystack, on which lay a young-looking woman. She opened her eyes wide and looked sideways at this place, with her belly bulging. Shen Yunzhe felt as if the woman was looking at him, or rather, at Yuehong.
It was clearly a horrifying death, and even the woman's face was quite distorted, but Shen Yunzhe strangely saw a kind of kindness on the woman's face, a sense of holiness that made no sense.
A man lit a fire under the haystack, and the flames suddenly ignited. The high-temperature flames burned the air and distorted it. In the firelight, Shen Yunzhe seemed to see the woman's towering belly moving.
Shen Yunzhe took two steps back.
“It seems like a different space.”
The system did not answer, and Shen Yunzhe did not continue to ask. He turned around and began to look for something in the thatched hut. Soon Shen Yunzhe found a few pieces of paper. These papers had the same words written on them as those outside, the official code words.
【I am Wu Yan.】
"Wu Yan?!" Shen Yunzhe widened his eyes slightly.
He knew that Wu Yan, Shen Wei's apprentice, was a person capable of supporting the official even after Shen Wei left, but he disappeared in the mountain village.
There were official traces everywhere outside, and everyone was trying to find a way to leave, but Shen Yunzhe did not find any trace of Wu Yan inside, let alone Shen Wei. It was as if the two of them had never entered the mountain village. Unexpectedly, they were found here.
I followed the traces left by my master and came here, trying to find a way to deal with the mountain village, but I was trapped here and couldn't leave.
To break through the mountain village, two things must be done: 1. Help Xiaoqing descend the mountain, and 2. Force the village chief into the punishment room. Once the village chief enters the punishment room, the second storyline will begin. Master calls it the "deeper storyline," explaining why the village chief's rules restrict the entire village, and why Xiaoqing was able to give birth to the strange creature Yaya.
[This power comes from the Punishment House, or rather, somewhere connected to the Punishment House.]
[If I could find something odd, the balance would be broken, but I couldn't detect anything wrong no matter what I did. I could only vaguely feel oppressed. Those who come here later, if you find yourself here, you must find a way to move forward. The truth must be just ahead.]
Shen Yunzhe put down the paper and looked at the small hole in the thatched hut in front of him. The fire outside was still burning. Every time the fire burned, Shen Yunzhe felt his heart pounding.
Yuehong was very scared. This strange creature was afraid of the burning things outside.
Who is the person being burned outside?
Shen Yunzhe walked to the door again. He sneaked through the hole in the door and continued to look out. This time he saw a familiar face.
Or if he was a little older, Shen Yunzhe would definitely recognize that this was a younger village chief.
The young version of the village chief was throwing firewood onto the burning woman, cursing her while doing so. Shen Yunzhe covered his ears, and his cursing kept drilling into his mind. Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly.
That's right. Since Xiaoqing was locked up in the village and there was even a punishment house, and there were no other women in the village except Xiaoqing, this could only mean that this village had been trafficking women a long time ago. The village chief had a daughter but no wife, and his wife was also trafficked.
The person locked in the punishment room at this time was Yuehong, and the person burning outside was probably Yuehong's mother.
The real village chief line.
"Why can't it be burned?!" the village chief's terrified voice came.
Shen Yunzhe hurriedly looked outside.
The flames gradually died down, but on the burnt haystack, the woman was still lying peacefully, her eyes wide open and her belly raised high. Such a big flame did not burn any of her clothes, she was still radiant and exuded a strong sense of holiness.
Even this sense of holiness becomes more attractive after being burned.
"What a nice view."
“She’s so beautiful.”
"Why didn't I realize how beautiful she was before?"
The villagers began to fight over the body, yes, a body that was not burned.
Shen Yunzhe watched expressionlessly as the villagers fought over the corpse until they were covered in blood. They killed each other to determine who would own the corpse, and the blood flowed onto the burnt haystack. Shen Yunzhe watched for a while and then looked at the paper in his hand.
Can't find anything wrong no matter what? No way...
The final winner was the village chief. He laughed heartily. He sat in the ashes, hugged the woman's body and kissed her. The next moment, the woman's abdomen retracted little by little, and a baby boy slid out of her body, making the first cry of a baby coming into this world.
Everything is so absurd that it is unbelievable.
With a creaking sound, Shen Yunzhe subconsciously took a step back, and the thatched door in front of him opened.
The village chief immediately looked at him with hostility, but when he saw it was Shen Yunzhe, he smiled. He smiled and waved to Shen Yunzhe to come over. Shen Yunzhe walked over slowly, and the village chief put the newborn baby boy in Shen Yunzhe's arms.
"Yuehong, this is your brother." The village chief said, "He is your brother, you must take good care of him."
Shen Yunzhe's hands were shaking, or rather, Yuehong was shaking.
In the reflection of the village chief's eyes, Shen Yunzhe saw a girl covered in blood and trembling with fear. She was probably only five years old, and her eyes were full of blood.
Shen Yunzhe looked up at the corpse still lying in the ashes. The woman was still not breathing, but her face was always looking at Shen Yunzhe. There was a smile on her face, as if it was a smile of relief.
This scene made Shen Yunzhe, who was no longer afraid of strange things, frown.
"Yuehong, we're taking our brother home."
Shen Yunzhe had a strong impulse, and he did not stop this feeling. He stuffed the baby boy in his arms into the arms of the village chief, then turned around and ran into the punishment room. He closed the door with force, then sat down against the door. His heart was pounding and he could not recover at all.
"Yuehong!"
"You stupid girl! You didn't listen to me!"
The village chief was kicking the door, but Shen Yunzhe ignored him. He was not Yuehong after all. He was an adult male and it was not his responsibility to have the door kicked open by the village chief.
After kicking for ten minutes, the village chief left cursing.
Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief.
He moved away, but at this moment he glanced at the hole in the thatched hut, and the next moment his hair almost stood up.
He saw an eye looking at him through the hole. It was an eye full of tenderness. Her pupil was motionless, even dead white, but it made people feel that she was full of tenderness. Just one look at her would melt him. Damn, the woman's body was at the door, and he didn't know how long she had been looking at him!
"What the hell." Shen Yunzhe still cursed, "What the hell is this thing?!"
【Strange thing.】
"A strange thing." Shen Yunzhe frowned. He looked at the smiling eye in the hole. "Does this mean that I can embody this character?"
【Hmm...you can try it.】
[World E03961, Codename Thousand Faces synchronization rate increased, synchronization rate 90%, improvement completed.]
[Change the substitution object: Unknown female corpse.]
Damn, Unknown Female Corpse, what a random name.
In an instant, Shen Yunzhe felt that his perspective had changed. He found himself lying on the wall, looking inside through a hole. A little girl in the room was screaming miserably. She kept crawling backwards, and finally grabbed a wooden stick and poked her out.
Shen Yunzhe leaned back to avoid the stick.
That was close!
It was also with this action that Shen Yunzhe felt something was wrong with his body. Although it didn't hurt, his whole body was stiff. However, this was normal. The dead body had no vitality after death, and the muscles would quickly stiffen. That's why the zombies in doomsday movies move slowly and strangely.
Shen Yunzhe slowly got up and pushed open the door of the punishment room amid the girl's screams. The girl finally couldn't bear it anymore and fainted from being too excited.
"I now understand why only codename Qianmian can enter the mountain village." Shen Yunzhe murmured.
"After sending Xiaoqing down the mountain and forcing Yuehong into the punishment house, and unlocking the second level of the plot, we need this unknown female corpse to enter the punishment house before we can move forward, right?"
"Wu Yan came here, but he couldn't go any further and was trapped inside because he couldn't come into contact with the unknown female corpse."
Shen Yunzhe walked forward barefoot, very slowly, because his body was very stiff. After taking a few steps, Shen Yunzhe found that the punishment room in front of him had changed again. There was a dark passage in front. Shen Yunzhe seemed to see his own appearance as he walked forward.
It was as if he had changed from his own perspective to a God's perspective, and could vaguely see a kind-faced female corpse walking forward step by step.
Sounds a bit weird...
Finally, Shen Yunzhe found that he seemed to have reached the end. He looked up and saw a picture that made his mind go blank in an instant.
It was a dim sky, and the air was dead silent. There was no wind and no smell, as if time had stood still. It was a sense of dead silence that one would understand as soon as one saw it. There was only emptiness left, and only a huge statue of the Virgin Mary not far away was so terrifying.
The statue of Our Lady is huge. How big is it? An 18-story building would only reach her ankles.
She had a compassionate look on her face, her eyes closed as if about to cry, her hands raised to the sky as if she was holding some treasure.
The feeling of enormity could make people with gigantic phobia vomit on the spot, and it would make ordinary people like Shen Yunzhe, who are not afraid of huge things, feel very uncomfortable.
It is so huge that one can tell at a glance that it is not something that can be built by humans.
"Statue of the Virgin Mary." Shen Yunzhe murmured.
"Here it comes." A voice appeared in Shen Yunzhe's ears.
He wanted to turn his head immediately, but because he was impersonating the unknown female corpse, his whole body was extremely stiff and he could only turn slowly.
The moment he turned around, he saw a familiar person?
How familiar was he? Not really, because Shen Yunzhe had only seen photos of him and other people's descriptions of him, and he had no impression of him in his mind.
Deep and subtle.
[Synchronization canceled.] The system appeared at the right moment to cancel the synchronization. The next moment, the unknown female corpse fell to the ground and disappeared on the spot.
Shen Yunzhe immediately found that he had regained his normal mobility. He looked at Shen Wei in front of him, "Shen Wei?"
The young man was sitting on the steps. More than 20 years had passed, but he still looked young, even almost the same as the photo Shen Yunzhe had seen. It must be said that anyone who saw them would think that they must be related, because they looked so similar, even their eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same.
"It's me." Shen Wei sat there and smiled at Shen Yunzhe, "I didn't expect to see you grow up. It's great."
Shen Yunzhe wanted to walk over, but after thinking about it, he didn't go over. "Are you still alive?"
"It's not considered alive, but it's not completely dead either." Shen Wei said: "Just think of it as dying unwillingly, so you left behind a little obsession."
"what is going on?"
Shen Wei kept looking at Shen Yunzhe, as if he was looking at something he missed. His eyes were so sad. Finally, he smiled bitterly and lowered his head.
"The mountain village was the first strange event to erode the real world, and it was also the beginning of the playground's erosion of the world. I have been exploring the mountain village to find the source of the playground, and finally found this place." Shen Wei turned his head to look at the statue of the Virgin Mary behind him, "This should be the original playground, the core point of everything."
Shen Yunzhe also followed his gaze and looked at the statue of the Virgin Mary, "Statue of the Virgin Mary?"
"The Virgin Mary refers specifically to women who possess special abilities and are selfless and devoted. They often have a selfless heart, giving everything they have to others." Shen Wei said, "The Virgin Mary can fulfill people's wishes, so humans have built huge statues of the Virgin Mary to commemorate her."
"However, her devotion has its limits. Once her special abilities disappear, she will no longer be able to fulfill people's wishes, and exploitation will begin."
"A story of ingratitude?"
"No, it's a story about the Virgin Mary's awakening after being ungrateful." Shen Wei looked at Shen Yunzhe, "After being exploited to the last moment, the Virgin Mary turned into a demon. Endless resentment gave her powerful strength. The Virgin Mary began to seek revenge and swept the entire world with hatred."
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, "The beginning of the game field?"
"Is that all you want to tell me?"
Shen Wei was stunned for a moment, and after a moment he asked with some confusion: "What else should I say?"
Shen Yunzhe sighed. Why did he feel that this person was different from what he had imagined?
"Um..." Shen Wei said awkwardly, "I'm very happy to see you, but I can't leave anymore, or I shouldn't leave. I don't want to cause you any trouble, emotionally or otherwise."
"I know you don't have any feelings for me, that's good, keep it that way."
"I've been worried about you."
"Now I'm relieved. It all depends on you."
Shen Wei pointed to the road behind Shen Yunzhe and said, "You can leave the mountain village from there. If you enter the game field again, you will most likely enter the core game field, which is the statue of the Virgin Mary. That is your only chance."
"Are you that confident in me?"
"Of course." Shen smiled, "But you... forget it."
“Believe in yourself.”
There seemed to be no difference between meeting and not meeting. Shen Yunzhe looked at Shen Wei with confusion on his face. He didn't quite understand what the current situation was, nor did he understand why it was like this?
Normally, shouldn't a father and son hug each other while crying when they meet? Why is Shen Wei so calm, and why am I so calm too?
As expected, the plots in TV dramas are all fake.
Shen Yunzhe held his breath and turned around to walk back. Halfway through, he couldn't help but turned back. He saw Shen Wei standing there, staring at him. When he turned around, he smiled at him. He didn't have any nostalgia, nor any sadness.
【what's on your mind? 】
"What are you thinking?" Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment, "I always feel that Shen Wei is very strange."
What's strange?
"The way he looked at me wasn't like he was looking at his own child, it was like he was looking at a collaborator."
Shen Yunzhe said, "It's as if I'm not his child at all."
After saying that, Shen Yunzhe turned and left without looking back.
Shen Wei closed his eyes only after Shen Yunzhe's figure disappeared. He turned his head to look at the huge statue of the Virgin Mary. There were tears in the corners of the Virgin Mary's eyes, as if she was in great sorrow.
He realized something was wrong.
"Yeah." Shen Wei nodded, "He is very smart, it is normal for him to discover it, or it would be abnormal if he didn't discover it."
What are you going to do next?
"Even if I've come this far, I don't know what else I can do." Shen Wei stepped onto the stairs. "From now on, it's up to him, or rather, it's up to you. Parallel world system? We're accomplices."
The system's voice continued to ring in his ears.
He will be sad when he knows the truth.
[Codename: Thousand Faces, no, codename: Mystic.]
"Don't give me a new code name. A name is a code name. My name is Shen Wei, and I hate all code names." Shen Wei stood at the top of the stairs. "When I took him away from here, he was just that small. In the blink of an eye, he has become an adult."
Shen smiled, "Twenty years of hiding the truth from the world, and finally it has come to the last moment."
"It depends on the outcome."
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