Chapter 16
Run! Now!
The lights went out one by one, and the shadows merged into the darkness. They stood there quietly, as if watching him escape indifferently. Shen Yunzhe realized that he could not be caught up by the darkness.
The light that seemed like a death warrant in the hospital is now a life-saving medicine.
Jumping down the stairs takes less time than running, but escaping is not that easy.
With a click, the hospital gate automatically closed in front of Shen Yunzhe. The sound of the lock was clearly audible. Not only the hospital gate, but also the security bars of all the windows fell down at the same time, and Shen Yunzhe staggered.
We can’t go this way anymore. Is there any other way?
Oh right... the elevator on the third floor, the rules say that the elevator cannot be used during the day, but it never says that it cannot be used at night.
The elevator on the third floor goes directly to the medical building in front, and there must be a sidewalk going straight there!
Shen Yunzhe climbed up quickly, avoiding the darkness at the last moment and heading towards the center of the third floor.
He once met the little girl Jiang Shuqi here, but now it was dead silent. Only the elevator that could not be opened kept flashing red error messages. Shen Yunzhe kicked open the closed corridor and saw the passage leading to the diagnosis and treatment building.
This passage was built on the third floor and was made of solid glass on all sides. It was very spacious inside, and Shen Yunzhe, who was running inside, could clearly hear his own breathing and footsteps.
The light flickered, then went out, with a final, small, crackling sound.
Shen Yunzhe subconsciously turned around. He heard the sound of sparks, but could not see the flickering of fire in the darkness. The thick darkness continued to rush forward. At the edge of the spreading darkness, countless figures of all sizes kept crawling forward. They stretched out their hands and opened their mouths towards Shen Yunzhe, wanting to pull him into the darkness as well.
The corridor door in front of him was not locked. When Shen Yunzhe pushed it open, he saw a medical building with a few scattered shadows and the darkness approaching from behind.
He now understood why there were so many shadows on the inpatient building but so few on the diagnosis and treatment building, because it took time for darkness to erode.
The time it took to erode the inpatient building was enough for the people in the treatment building to escape.
Shen Yunzhe tried to find a way out. Medical buildings generally don't have security windows because they only treat patients and don't worry about patients committing suicide by jumping off the building! Before he could choose a suitable window, he felt his ankle being pulled and his whole body being pulled backwards.
After being dragged down, Shen Yunzhe looked back and saw a dark shadow lying on the ground, stretching out its hand to tightly grab Shen Yunzhe's wrist. Even with only a shadow, one could see its broken neck and long hair. It was lying on the ground hugging Shen Yunzhe's legs. Shen Yunzhe seemed to have seen her twisted smile that she didn't show.
...Fuck! That intern! She's still in the clinic building!
The darkness behind him was about to spread over him. Shen Yunzhe frowned hard. He barely supported his body and then jumped down directly from the hospital atrium. The force of his falling body finally broke free from the shadow's pull. Shen Yunzhe fell to the ground on the first floor with a pale face. He felt like he was going to vomit blood.
Internal injuries, absolutely internal injuries!
Even if it was an internal injury, there was no time to care. Shen Yunzhe got up from the ground and ran towards the nearest window. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, probably a broken rib. He barely walked to the window and hit the glass with his elbow. In the reflection of the glass, he saw darkness right under his feet.
There is no time, no...
Even if he left the clinic building, he would be caught up outside, especially since he was injured.
"Think of a way!" Shen Yunzhe could only knock on the window hard and shout.
[World G00001, codenamed Hope, can handle the current situation.]
"Then synchronize!"
[No, Codename Hope is the strongest individual in all your parallel worlds, overwhelming you in both spirit and ability. Not to mention that you can't synchronize with him while awake right now, he will affect your mental world to a certain extent.]
[I don't even know what will happen once the synchronization is completed. The worst-case scenario is that you will be replaced.]
"Brother, I'm at my wit's end! I'm going to die!" Shen Yunzhe shouted, "I don't care if I'll be replaced later. I just have to survive now."
[Even if you synchronize, you can only maintain synchronization for 30 seconds based on your current physical strength.]
“We should try our best to save the dying horse!”
【Synchronous capability change.】
[World G00001, Codename: Hope, Synchronous Beginning.]
[Synchronization successful, countdown: 30s...29s, 28s.]
The darkness invaded his body. Shen Yunzhe could clearly feel himself being devoured from the feet. His flesh and blood turned into sticky black. The shadow's outstretched arms entangled his body, and the clear feeling of being grasped became deeper and deeper.
Because the distance was too close, Shen Yunzhe seemed to be able to hear their wailing.
'Why are we the only ones dying here!'
'Let me out!'
'Mom, it's so dark here and I'm so scared.'
“It hurts, it hurts so much…”
Just as the shadows were about to grab his eyes, a broken light lit up from behind him. The light looked very ordinary, not even as bright as a lamp, but the moment it illuminated the shadows, they screamed and let go of their hands, and the darkness kept retreating as if it was stabbed.
A warmth spread across his chest, dispelling the pain in his body.
Realizing nothing and discovering nothing, Shen Yunzhe only saw the light.
G00001, codenamed Hope, in Shen Yunzhe's eyes this light really fits his definition of hope, stealing 30 seconds or even more of survival time in a desperate situation where death is inevitable.
The burst of light dispelled the darkness in an instant, and disappeared without a trace in an instant. Shen Yunzhe realized belatedly that 30 seconds had passed, but this belated realization cost him all his energy.
I feel so sleepy and tired that I can’t open my eyes. My hands and feet are so weak that I can’t move.
The darkness that was pushed out in an instant spread again with great force. The wounded shadows screamed wildly, they were enraged.
Bang! The sound of shattering glass was a little dull. Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes with force and saw a familiar person smashing the window and reaching out to pull him.
He could no longer hear what Le Jia and Qin Chao were saying. Their voices were getting farther and farther away. He was no longer conscious and seemed to be being dragged and pulled in a daze, moving through the dead lawn and the waterless fountain.
The only remaining thinking ability in my brain was subconsciously judging their flickering lip movements.
Unable to control or understand, just constantly judging.
'Don't die, stand up, hurry up we are almost there.'
"We must return alive together."
“Just a little bit…”
He was pulled through a door, and a cold wind blew his nostrils. Fresh, flowing air rushed into his lungs. There was no smell of dust and decay that had been sealed in the hospital for three years, only an icy, piercing yet clean smell.
Shen Yunzhe felt inexplicably relieved, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
"Hey, are you okay? Brother Shen?!"
"What should we do? Wake up! You'll freeze to death!"
"Oh my god, do I need to call 120?!"
Shen Yunzhe slowly opened his eyes and continued to look at the sky blankly. After a moment, he turned his head to look to the side. The three college students who rented a house next door looked at him nervously. Shen Yunzhe was still dizzy. Both the people and the surrounding scenery were flashing.
My fingers were cold and painful, but it seemed they were frozen.
"Awake? Brother, how are you?" Several young men hurriedly helped him up. "Why did you faint at the door so late at night? It's so cold and you've frozen into a popsicle in just an hour!"
Shen Yunzhe paused for a long time before speaking, "...low blood pressure."
"I'm fine, thank you."
"Really? We don't need to go to the hospital? Just call 120." They asked worriedly.
Shen Yunzhe shook his head, propped himself up and barely stood up. After thanking them, he walked slowly and unsteadily into the house. On the way to the bedroom, he almost fell three times. He held on to the wall before finally walking into the room and lying on the bed.
He couldn't think of anything because he was too tired and his mind no longer allowed him to think about the current situation.
He fell asleep almost the next second, so naturally he didn't hear the notification sound of his phone.
…
It was already noon when Shen Yunzhe woke up. He stared at the old ceiling in the rental house and slowly sat up after a while.
After sleeping in a thick down jacket for a whole night and a whole morning, the muscles all over his body were no longer the same as before. Shen Yunzhe almost felt confused and felt that everything that happened before was just a dream after he fell into a coma, but he also knew very well that he would not remember dreams so clearly.
When Shen Yunzhe took out his cell phone from his down jacket, he realized that the phone had run out of battery and was turned off.
He quickly connected his phone to the charger and turned it on ten minutes later. The message he missed yesterday popped up on the phone.
One was from the landlord asking him when he could pay the rent, and the other was a notification that 100,000 yuan had been deposited into his bank card. Shen Yunzhe was stunned. He stared at the message for a long time and couldn't come back to his senses. After a few minutes, he exited the message interface. This time, he found a strange APP on the screen.
The APP is a black icon with red stripes in the middle, and it doesn’t look like a serious thing.
Click on the APP and a few lines of messages pop up.
[Congratulations to the player for passing the Novice Game Field. The clearance reward of 100,000 has been deposited into the player's bank card.]
[The next time a player enters the game is 10 days later. The reward for clearing the game will be increased to 300,000. The time to enter the game will not be changed, so please do not try to avoid it.]
[Bonus Easter Egg: Please share this game with other players! 1 person sharing will delay access by one day, 10 people sharing will delay access by two days, 100 people sharing will delay access by three days, and so on!]
[Live Broadcast System: Players may have already discovered our live broadcast system, and there are viewers cheering us on! The audience's preference affects the game difficulty. If the game difficulty is less than 0.1, you will be directly discharged from the game field without taking any damage. Try to please your audience!]
"Only 100,000?" Shen Yunzhe sighed, "You can buy your life with such a small amount of money? That's outrageous."
After saying that, he very honestly transferred the money from his bank card to pay the rent. Seeing the landlord sending him a smiling emoticon, Shen Yunzhe sighed that this society is indeed a world that values money.
Most people with money can do whatever they want.
Shen Yunzhe got out of bed barefoot. He hadn't even drunk a sip of water since he slept until now. Now he was thirsty and hungry. He pushed open the bedroom door and went straight to the refrigerator to see if there was anything he could eat. Unfortunately, there was only an opened bag of bread in the empty refrigerator.
Biting the piece of bread in his mouth, Shen Yunzhe turned around and looked at the wall behind him.
"Good afternoon." He said incoherently.
Dolls of different sizes and sizes were piled on the cabinets on the wall. The entire wall was safely protected by glass partitions. The dolls were exquisite and beautiful, and the glass bead eyes seemed to be looking at him. Shen Yunzhe admired them for a while and nodded.
Collecting dolls is just Shen Yunzhe's special hobby. Most of his salary after work is used to buy all kinds of beautiful dolls.
The landlord came once after renting the house to Shen Yunzhe. That time was the darkest moment of his life. He came in late at night and was almost scared to death by the wall of dolls. He hurriedly signed the contract with Shen Yunzhe and ran away like a flash. From then on, even if he wanted to urge the rent, he would only do it on WeChat and never dared to come to the house.
After swallowing the bread, Shen Yunzhe finally felt a little better as he finally had something in his stomach.
But the next moment Shen Yunzhe felt a sense of emptiness, a kind of aimless emptiness and loneliness that constantly eroded his spirit.
Shen Yunzhe clearly sensed something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.
[I warned you that the synchronization code would affect your mental state.]
"System?" Shen Yunzhe was stunned.
Even a brief mental connection will allow you to sense the other person's mental state. It's unavoidable, so just bear with it.
[Characteristics of Codename Hope: Long-term endurance in loneliness.]
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