Chapter 160
Early the next morning, Shen Yunzhe was taken to the official headquarters.
I don’t know how many times I have stepped into this place, but this is the first time Shen Yunzhe entered and felt that this place was noisier than a vegetable market.
Official personnel also have a division of labor, and different people have different responsibilities. Those who go out on duty are action personnel, and those who stay behind are information collectors and commanders, including Qiao Dong, who is both an action and commander. Now the people who stay behind are arguing, getting anxious, and cursing.
Because there are so many things to do, they can hardly handle it with so few people.
Qiao Dong did not go out this time. He stayed inside the official waiting for Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan. Not only him, many people were waiting for them.
After Shen Yunzhe arrived, Qiao Dong took him to a place where many people were already waiting, including Li Yuluan who had already arrived.
Li Yuluan obviously doesn't like dealing with people. He even wears sunglasses and sits on a chair without saying a word. When others ask him questions, he just says "hmm". He looks aloof and cold, which doesn't match his identity as a fortune teller at all.
Seeing Shen Yunzhe coming, he nodded at Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe walked over and sat down next to him. Li Yuluan was obviously relieved.
He really had no sense of identification with the authorities, and his profession as a fortune teller made him even more inclined to avoid the police.
"Well, now that everyone is here, I'll let them in." Qiao Dong said after coughing.
He looked at the people around him and said, "Everyone, please leave for now."
The people in the room looked at each other. They didn't want to leave, probably because they wanted to be the first to know the result. But under Qiao Dong's gaze, they still left. In the end, only Qiao Dong, Li Yuluan and Shen Yunzhe were left in the room. Li Yuluan took off his sunglasses and gave Qiao Dong a look of gratitude.
"Then, this time we'll really begin." Qiao Dong said, "I'll have everyone arrested come here to have their files made. Li Yiluan, you'll be in charge of observing them."
"For now, you two should just act like official staff members recording the files. Don't let them notice anything is wrong."
Li Yiluan nodded, "Okay."
Shen Yunzhe had no objection either.
And so, Qiao Dong brought the first person.
The man looked a little timid. He kept looking around and looked at everyone cautiously. There were special handcuffs on his wrists.
Qiao Dong smiled at him and said, "There is good news. We plan to release you."
"Release us?" The man's eyes lit up.
"Yes, because the situation outside is not very good right now, we no longer have the energy to arrest too many people, so we decided to release you players who have not caused any substantial harm. But before that, we have a few questions for you. Once the files are completed, you can leave."
The man nodded immediately, "Okay, okay! I'll make the file now!"
There was a gleam in his eyes, and he was so excited that he looked strange. Everyone present knew that he wanted to leave immediately to find the kind female corpse.
In fact, they were not well-behaved in prison. I don't know how many of them even committed self-harm in order to get out of the prison, just to get away from the authorities and search for the female corpse on their own. This made the prison guards very worried, and they decided to release them based on this consideration. After all, if they were to continue to be imprisoned, they might kill themselves.
After finishing the first person's file, that person was taken away happily. Qiao Dong turned to look at Li Yuluan.
Li Yuluan shook his head.
Then came the second, the third...
It wasn't until the eighth one that Li Yuluan raised his head. He stared at the person in front of him, and his black eyes flickered.
He finally saw something.
The towering scaffolding, the sparse bloodstains, and the female corpse on the scaffolding. The female corpse has a hideous face, but there is a sacred feeling all over her body. There are two hands raised, as if offering their hearts to it.
"How about it?"
"I saw it," Li Yiluan said. "Scaffolding. The name is: Chengyang Construction. It might be an unfinished building."
Qiao Dong immediately asked someone to check, and then continued to ask: "What's the time?"
“I don’t know.”
"I understand." Qiao Dong looked outside. "Let's continue until we confirm the time. You can also check out a few more locations to prevent any problems."
After all the captured people walked past Li Yiluan, he finally determined the location and time.
Wen'an Community, a famous unfinished building in the city, has been left unfinished for three years with no one in charge because the mountain village has been encroaching on the village. I didn't expect to go to a community, especially an unfinished building, and the time is three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, because everyone Li Yiluan saw lost their lives at about four o'clock in the afternoon.
Give them an hour to struggle, and that's about it.
After determining the specific time and place, the officials immediately began to select people to enter the mountain village. They must have sufficient psychological quality and psychological endurance. After all, everyone knows how powerful the kind female corpse is.
Not only the officials, but the organization was even more excited. Unlike the officials who still had some reservations, they even planned to let all their main forces enter the mountain village.
Li Yiluan sat in the official reception room. He sat on the chair and sighed.
"I think Huang Yihua will go too," Li Yilun said. "If she goes, at least she can ensure the officials remain sober."
"By her sobriety charm?"
"Yeah." Li Yiluan nodded, then he looked at Shen Yunzhe, "Will you go?"
Shen Yunzhe thought about it and said, "It's very likely that I will go."
"Why? Don't you hate danger and trouble?"
"Because many things need to come to an end, and I also have an appointment with someone to take him home, so I have no choice but to go in and take a look." Shen Yunzhe said: "If we continue to delay, we will really have no future."
Li Yiluan thought about it and nodded, "Okay, you are right."
No one knows what the future will look like better than Li Yuluan.
He can see everyone's fate, and everyone he meets on the road tells him the ending.
In fact, everyone's life stops on a certain day, and this day is not too far away, it should only be a few days.
The playground is weird and terrifying. No one wants to live in such a world forever. If someone can really survive in such a place, he must be more superhuman than Superman. The result of the world turning into a playground is that everyone will die over time and the world will become a death place.
Li Yuluan doesn't want to die yet.
He had worked so hard to earn so much money and thought he wouldn't have to worry about the rest of his life, but in the end, he didn't even have a second half of his life.
"Why don't I go and take a look," Li Yiluan said, "maybe I can be of some help."
"I can't always let you go alone."
"Maybe someone who's unlucky will suddenly have their luck turn around one day." Li Yiluan looked at Shen Yunzhe, "I'm going to bet on you that your luck will turn around."
Shen Yunzhe laughed, "Maybe I'll lose everything."
"Who cares!" Li Yiluan shouted, "Isn't life all about gambling? It's only a few days away, so it's worth taking one last gamble!"
Just bet: they can win.
…
It was the third day of the Lunar New Year, and the day was not special, but many people gathered outside an abandoned unfinished building, far more people than expected.
After asking around, Shen Yunzhe found out that the organization had announced the news without authorization, attracting a group of players. Shen Yunzhe even saw acquaintances among these players, such as Qi Xue from the Happy Dumpling Restaurant.
The official questioned the organization, but the organization believed that this was a major disaster for the entire world, so it was normal to let them know. Whether they wanted to find a way to save the world like the official, or wanted to find a way of coexistence where humans could live safely like the organization, they needed to enter the mountain village and find the core game field.
They need to know and they deserve a choice.
The authorities didn't expect the organization to resort to this trick until the end, but it has come to this point and there is no way to stop it, so they can only let them do it.
"We haven't given up yet. As long as the authorities are here, we won't give up." Huang Yihua stood next to Shen Yunzhe. "How can coexistence be considered a victory? Giving up humanity's living space and finally coexisting peacefully with these heretics is unacceptable to me."
Huang Yihua sighed and said, "Although it sounds nice, it is still a bit self-deprecating."
Li Yiluan nodded, "It's a bit exaggerated indeed, but there's nothing we can do. We are all ordinary people with mortal bodies. How can we possibly fight against ghosts?"
"What can you fight with ghosts? Is it also a ghost?" Shen Yunzhe asked Li Yuluan.
This question stumped Li Yiluan. He thought for a long time before speaking, "Actually, I haven't seen any ghosts anywhere else except in the playground. If it weren't for the playground, I wouldn't even think there are ghosts in this world."
Huang Yihua looked at him in surprise, "You don't believe in ghosts, but you're still a fortune teller?"
"Isn't this just a job? And I'm a fortune teller, not a ghost catcher." Li Yuluan emphasized, "Shouldn't you be the one catching ghosts, fellow Taoist?"
"I've never seen a ghost either." Huang Yihua lowered her head. "I grew up in a Taoist temple, drawing talismans to cultivate my character. My master never asked me to catch a ghost. I guess there were no ghosts in the past. The ghosts in the playground are not the same as the ghosts we talk about."
Shen Yunzhe listened to their chatter and soon began to discuss their teaching materials.
Li Yulun's unconventional approach is completely different from Huang Yihua's formal dojo. Their theories are vastly different, and some directions are even opposite.
These two people didn't care. When they talked about something wrong, they just changed the subject and had no intention of discussing it.
Shen Yunzhe yawned and just treated it as a play.
Just then, Shen Yunzhe heard someone speak.
"Is there an extra door there?"
“It seems so…”
Door?
Shen Yunzhe looked over and the next moment he saw the extra door. There was a sign hanging on the door with familiar words written on it.
[Punishment Room].
"It's the punishment room!" The organizer spoke first. "The punishment room is the entrance to the core game area!"
Many times people follow the crowd, even players are the same. After careful observation, they decided to go in with the organization. Shen Yunzhe and the other two fell far behind. Shen Yunzhe looked at these people going in and seemed very calm.
"Do you want to come in?" Huang Yihua asked Shen Yunzhe.
As the only person who has knowledge of the mountain village and has entered and left it throughout the entire process, Shen Yunzhe's statement is considered official and orthodox.
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "You can enter, but I guess you'll just be entering the mountain village. There are conditions for entering the core game field."
"What are the conditions?" asked a player who had not entered.
"1. Send Xiaoqing back home from the mountain. 2. Force Yuehong into the punishment room. Finally, find a strange spot." Shen Yunzhe said, "But you say: Are Xiaoqing and Yuehong still in the mountain village now?"
No one knew, they could only go in and take a look.
Most people had already entered, and there were only a dozen or so left. Shen Yunzhe moved as they followed suit. Shen Yunzhe was the first to push open the door of the punishment room. After passing through the door, Shen Yunzhe immediately saw something familiar.
The thatched house was dilapidated, with cracks and holes at the door, and the door was half open.
When Shen Yunzhe opened the door, he saw many people standing there, and a female corpse was hanging on a scaffold not far away.
The corpse was wearing a white dress and her belly was bulging high. She was dead with her eyes open and her stomach was moving slightly, as if something was moving inside her stomach.
She looked so holy and kind, perfectly attracting everyone's attention.
"She is so beautiful." Someone suddenly said this.
After hearing this, everyone was stunned for a moment. They regained consciousness and stepped back. As they stepped back, some of them took a step forward.
"She's so beautiful." The person at the front raised his hands in adoration. "I want to give her everything I have!"
Shen Yunzhe had actually seen such a scene before. When he was in the mountain village, he had seen such a fratricide through Yuehong's perspective, but this time it was actually happening before his eyes.
The players who were still conscious quickly retreated.
"She smells so good, so beautiful, I want to have her."
"No, she's mine!"
"It's mine!"
The first few people quickly started fighting. They began to fight over the body. Just one encounter made several people lose consciousness while fighting for the body. This feeling horrified everyone else.
This is much more difficult to get through than an ordinary game field. No one knows how this temptation is formed and who will be deceived.
Shen Yunzhe turned his head and stopped watching the fight. He quickly looked around and found that this was indeed not the mountain village he was familiar with. Xiaoqing and Yuehong were not there, only the female corpse.
The only thing that was the same as the mountain village was the punishment room.
Shen Yunzhe quickly returned to the punishment room and began to look for things there. Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua had been following him all the time. When Shen Yunzhe came back, they also came back.
"What are you looking for?" Li Yuluan asked him.
"Look for clues, no matter what. The situation in the mountain village now is different from what I experienced back then."
Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua looked at each other and nodded. They began to search for things in the punishment room in different locations, leaving no details unturned.
"Wu Yan?" Huang Yihua was a little surprised when she looked at the information she had found. "I didn't expect Wu Yan to leave a message. Wu Yan died here? But why is there no body? Or did he leave here and go somewhere else?"
"Who is Wu Yan?" Li Yiluan was puzzled.
"Chen Wei's apprentice, also a very famous mystic, disappeared in the mountain village." Huang Yihua explained, "Wu Yan said that this punishment room should be connected to somewhere. He thinks it is deep in the mountain village, but so far he has not found a way. Perhaps only Chen Wei can do it."
Li Yiluan looked at the file, and after a moment he frowned slightly, "Hmm... I think I saw something."
Shen Yunzhe and Huang Yihua turned to look at Li Yuluan.
"What did you see?"
"Yes, it seems there is someone here." Li Yiluan said: "He looked towards... the door?"
The three of them looked towards the door together, and the next moment they met eyes.
The eye was dead white, and it was obvious that it was a corpse, but this dead eye was filled with a kind and gentle smile. It looked at the people in the punishment room with a smile that made people want to be moved to tears.
Huang Yihua took a deep breath and took out three heart-clearing talismans from his pocket and slapped them on the three people.
Li Yuluan was also choked. He didn't expect to see this.
Only Shen Yunzhe was very accustomed to looking at this eye. After all, he had encountered this kind of thing before.
"Although Wu Yan studied under Shen Wei, his research direction is not exactly the same as Shen Wei's." Shen Yunzhe said: "His body is not here. Perhaps he has gone to another place. This punishment room is more like an intermediary point connecting spaces. Certain conditions must be met before entering certain places."
"Oh." Huang Yihua nodded. "Well, what are you going to do with the female corpse outside?"
Bang! The door of the punishment room was kicked hard.
This was followed by a baby crying.
The baby's crying sounded particularly strange and lingering in everyone's ears.
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