Chapter 161
When Shen Yunzhe entered the mountain village, he didn't pay too much attention to what was in the punishment room.
He only saw some of Wu Yan's belongings. He was anxious to find a way to leave and did not care that Wu Yan's body was not there.
It was not until he entered again now and Huang Yihua reminded him that he noticed this problem.
Where did Wu Yan go? If he died in the punishment room, why wasn't his body there?
Creaking. While Shen Yunzhe was thinking, the door of the punishment room kept making noises, as if something was pushing the dilapidated door from outside. The kind eyes were still looking at them, and the baby's crying continued intermittently with no sign of stopping.
The three of them were trapped in the punishment room.
Huang Yihua stuck the talisman in his hand on the door. The talisman began to burn the moment it touched the door and was completely burned out in a few seconds.
"As expected of a mountain village," Huang Yihua said with a wry smile. "The spell won't last long. This place is much more powerful than the train."
"Li Yuluan." Shen Yunzhe looked at Li Yuluan. "Can you find him?"
Li Yuluan's expression was a little reluctant. He looked around and finally found a corner to sit down. He stared at the entire punishment room, as if he was looking at something and also as if he was not looking at anything. He sat there in silence for more than a minute, and suddenly he turned his head to look to the side.
"Here." Li Yiluan pointed to a location.
Huang Yihua was close by, so she hurried over and quickly found a stele from under a pile of thatch. She carefully touched the scratches on the stele, and after a moment her eyes lit up.
"It's a message!"
She began to translate.
[As long as you find this strange place, you can leave. In my opinion, the dead giving birth is the strangest thing.]
[Bring the baby born by the female ghost into the punishment room, and you will definitely be able to open a path.]
My master once said that sometimes my choices might lead me down the wrong path, but there's also a small chance that they will lead to the best outcome. This time, I still choose to trust myself.
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly.
The last time he came, he used the codename Qianmian to substitute for the kind female corpse and sent the corpse to the punishment room, thus opening the way to the core game field. The core game field contained the residual soul of Shen Wei, which should also be the birthplace of Shen Yunzhe.
Shen Yunzhe believes that the reason why it is the core gaming field is the huge statue of the Virgin Mary.
But is that really the core gaming field?
"Are you bringing the baby to the punishment room?" Li Yiluan frowned. "Wow, there's a female corpse outside."
Shen Yunzhe looked at them and asked, "Who of you is lucky?"
"Luck?" Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe in confusion. "Speaking of luck, our luck shouldn't be that good. If we were lucky, we wouldn't be able to enter the game field. The truly lucky people are still ordinary people now, and haven't even seen any strange things."
Shen Yunzhe was silent. Okay, Huang Yihua was right.
"Look, the last time I entered the core game field, I sent a female corpse into the punishment room. I saw the statue of the Virgin Mary and the remnant soul at the end of the road. But this time, the message we found from Wu Yan said that the baby should be sent to the punishment room. Who do you think we should listen to?"
Looking at Shen Yunzhe's serious eyes, Li Yiluan said silently, "Don't you think you deserve a beating for asking this question?"
Shen Yunzhe tilted his head, "Really?"
"Now is not the time for us to choose. We can't afford to offend either of those two guys outside. It's a blessing to let either of them in." Li Yuluan looked at Shen Yunzhe speechlessly, "Are you still entangled in this? Who cares which one comes in!"
"In other words: random?" Shen Yunzhe seemed to be thinking about something.
[World B03415, codenamed Sleep Disorder, is synchronizing, with a 100% synchronization rate.]
Shen Yunzhe snapped his fingers, not caring at all how abrupt this action was in the current environment.
Huang Yihua and Li Yuluen had no idea what Shen Yunzhe was doing. They looked at him strangely, and then saw Shen Yunzhe stretching his hand forward. People have conditioned reflexes, and they subconsciously looked at the place where Shen Yunzhe was pointing, only to see a wavy hole suddenly appear in the thatched wall in front of them.
The hole was covered with ripples and had a sense of transparency. The next moment, it seemed as if something instantly penetrated the hole and pierced out.
This is something that ordinary people cannot see with their naked eyes. Even Huang Yihua and Li Yulu can only feel it slightly.
"What?" Li Yiluan looked ahead. "Something went out?"
"I seem to have heard that Shen Yunzhe has other special abilities." Huang Yihua said uncertainly.
Shen Yunzhe seemed a little excited. He raised his hand, his voice filled with joy, "Dear audience! The prizes are announced!"
"Let's see if we catch a female or a juvenile this time!"
The next moment, a black object was thrown in directly by an invisible silk thread. Because of the great force, the object was thrown in front of Li Yuluan. Li Yuluan looked at the flesh-colored ball less than one meter away from him with an expressionless face. The object was wriggling and it slowly raised its head. It was a distorted human face, very small but very ugly.
Shen Yunzhe squatted down to look at the little thing and started clapping his hands, "Wow, it's actually a fry!"
Li Yilun: ...
The flesh-colored ball squirmed and spread rapidly like a ball of melted slime. Li Yiluan quickly stepped back. The thing melted so quickly that the three people present had to climb onto the cabinet. The entire floor was soon covered with the flesh-colored slurry.
The baby's cries soon filled the entire punishment room.
Shen Yunzhe squatted on top of the cabinet and looked at the things on the ground, "Hmm, why didn't it appear?"
"What on earth happened?" Li Yiluan looked at him. "Also, how did you pull this thing in?"
"There should be. After all, this is a transfer station. This thing has been put in the punishment room. Did I forget some steps again? Don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss. It's just that my memory is a little poor, but I will remember it." Shen Yunzhe touched his chin and muttered, "But it seems that I didn't remember the steps wrong."
Shen Yunzhe raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the punishment room. His eyes lit up, "I found it."
Li Yiluan and Huang Yihua followed his gaze upwards, and the next moment they discovered that a small door had been opened on the roof of the punishment room at some point.
Shen Yunzhe stood on top of the cabinet, opened the small door and climbed up. Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua hurriedly followed him.
No matter what was up there, they would never let Shen Yunzhe go alone.
After getting up there, they discovered that it was actually a very large space. This space was so large that it didn't look like the top of a punishment room at all. It was pitch black all around, and they could only see a faint path. Shen Yunzhe took out his cell phone from his pocket and turned on the flashlight. The faint light sprinkled on the surroundings and was almost invisible.
But Shen Yunzhe still enjoyed waving it, and even turned on the flashlights on Huang Yihua and Li Yuluan's mobile phones.
"Isn't it the same as if the light is off?" Huang Yihua asked doubtfully.
"Yes, but don't you think this light looks like fireflies?" Shen Yunzhe said, waving his phone with interest. "Three fireflies, finding their way home in the darkness."
Huang Yihua thought for a long time but still couldn't understand the relationship between fireflies and the playground, so she asked. Li Yulun had already expected it and gave Huang Yihua a sympathetic look.
As expected, Shen Yunzhe said happily, "Of course it's because I like fireflies!"
"A bug with a glowing butt, how cool!"
Huang Yihua: …
Sorry, she has never seen Shen Yunzhe in this state.
The three of them walked along the dark road. Shen Yunzhe's interest seemed to be lost in an instant. He began to count how many steps he had taken. As he counted, he would miss a step. If he found out, he would start counting again from 1. If he didn't find out, he would continue counting.
Along the way, Huang Yihua and Li Yulun listened to Shen Yunzhe counting more than ten or twenty times, but he never got it right.
Huang Yihua was not familiar with Shen Yunzhe like this. She looked a little worried and wanted to interrupt Shen Yunzhe several times to remind him that he had counted wrong. Li Yuluan shook his head at Huang Yihua and was not worried about Shen Yunzhe at this time.
After all, as someone who had worked together in a game field, Li Yuluan knew Shen Yunzhe quite well, and he had seen this situation before.
At that time, he suddenly yelled at the live audience in the game field, and his sudden change of attitude made many people think that he was possessed by a ghost.
"This road is so long, I can't walk anymore." Shen Yunzhe suddenly stopped and looked at the endless darkness in front of him. "How about we go back?"
Huang Yihua was almost stunned, "Ah? Go back?"
"This doesn't look like a good place. If it's not a good place, why are we here?" Shen Yunzhe said seriously, "People have to learn to give up. If we give up this path and take another one, we might find the best way out."
"But this is the only way here."
Hearing this, Shen Yunzhe looked forward, then looked to the left and right.
"I have to remind you," Li Yiluan also said, "the road behind us has disappeared."
Shen Yunzhe looked back and saw that the road behind them had disappeared without a trace. There was no road behind them anymore, only darkness. No light could penetrate into it. Instead, he could see black mist spreading in through the light. His retreat was indeed cut off.
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, with a hint of displeasure in his eyes.
The person with code name sleep disorder is the most willful and unwilling to suffer any loss. Others always compromise for him, and he will never give in for any reason.
Looking at Shen Yunzhe's dangerous eyes, Li Yiluan asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Not only did you not open the door for me, but you also dared to cut off my retreat?" Shen Yunzhe said.
"I want revenge!"
"What's there to seek revenge for? Let's go." Li Yiluan grabbed Shen Yunzhe and pulled him forward. "Hurry up, I know you still have strength. Weren't you very happy climbing walls and jumping over rooftops before?"
Huang Yihua watched the two people leave. She scratched her hair and finally chose to follow them.
Never mind, I don’t understand.
On the way forward, Shen Yunzhe was obviously cheating, and Li Yulun had to use various methods to force Shen Yunzhe to move forward. The traditional cool guy tried to coax him, but Shen Yunzhe was unmoved. During this episode, Huang Yihua opened his mobile phone to see how long they had been walking, but found that time had not moved forward.
Huang Yihua was startled. She turned on the time and found that time was frozen at the moment they came in. She turned on the stopwatch, but it didn't move.
All functions of the phone were working normally, only time stood still, and Huang Yihua even breathed lighter.
"Time can only be calculated mentally here." As if noticing Huang Yihua's shock, Shen Yunzhe replied as Li Yilun pulled him away, "Because everything here is still."
"Whether it's time, air, or light," Shen Yunzhe raised his hand. "They all paused at the last moment."
"The core game field is suspended?" Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe, "Really?"
Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "Don't act so sad. There are benefits to taking a break."
"benefit?"
"There are so many benefits," Shen Yunzhe said. "People don't grow up, the injured don't die, the elderly don't go into the grave. Everyone is frozen in time at the last moment. They're not dead, they're just frozen."
Shen Yunzhe nodded in satisfaction. "Unless you're as strong as that guy who can still think in this suspended space, otherwise you'll be like dehydrated vegetables."
"When it's soaked in water, it returns to its original state." Shen Yunzhe's eyes lit up as he spoke. "Dehydrated vegetables? I like this description!"
"Describing people as dehydrated vegetables," Li Yiluan complained, "...an indescribable feeling of disgust."
Shen Yunzhe immediately put away his smile and said, "What do you care?"
Seeing that Shen Yunzhe was unwilling to continue talking, Li Yuluan glanced at him. He was actually wondering who the person Shen Yunzhe was talking about who "still had thoughts in this paused space" was. Since Shen Yunzhe mentioned it, it meant that there really was such a person.
Li Yuluan looked around. It was pitch black, with no wind, no smell, and even no sound. If a person stayed here for a few hours, he would probably go crazy.
If there really were thoughts left in the paused space, that would be a terrifying thing.
"Let's go, let's go. We're almost at the exit." Shen Yunzhe said.
They did not ask Shen Yunzhe how he knew it. There was no point in asking such a question. Shen Yunzhe himself was a huge mystery, and they had long given up exploring this mystery.
They continued walking forward, this time quickening their pace, and soon they saw the end of the road. There seemed to be a little light in front of the dark road.
Li Yuluan went out first, followed by Huang Yihua and Shen Yunzhe. After walking out of the dark road, they finally arrived at a new location.
It looked like a square, or a residential area. There was a fountain in the center of the square, and a statue stood in the fountain. Shen Yunzhe was very familiar with this statue. It was a statue of the Virgin Mary.
The statue of the Virgin Mary has her eyes closed, her hands raised high, and the fountain water splashing on her face as if she is crying.
In front of the statue of the Virgin Mary are countless female statues. They kneel on the ground devoutly, with their hands raised towards the statue of the Virgin Mary, as if they are offering something.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the statue, then looked at the row of buildings behind. There was a person standing behind the window of each building. Those people were pale and expressionless as they looked at Shen Yunzhe and the other two below. Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua quickly became nervous, fearing that these strange creatures would come down.
Shen Yunzhe felt his hand getting cold. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a room card with 1-1 written on it.
Li Yiluan and Huang Yihua also found the room cards, which were 2-4 and 5-7 respectively. There was complexity and worry in their eyes.
"1, 2, 3..." Just when they were extremely nervous, they suddenly heard Shen Yunzhe's counting voice behind them.
Li Yiluan looked at Shen Yunzhe, "What are you counting?"
"An empty room." Shen Yunzhe said, "There are many empty rooms in this building."
The two immediately turned to look at the building. Like Shen Yunzhe, they quickly counted the locations in their minds and found that there were 20 windows in this building and no one was there. Moreover, there were no strange objects in the room where their room card number was located.
Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "Oh, do we have to wait until 20 players show up?"
"Wu Yan's luck was bad. He chose a dead person's child, and ended up entering a super game field. A game field that can only be opened with 20 players."
Huang Yihua was a little surprised when he heard this, "Could it be that he couldn't wait for anyone, so he kept wasting time here?"
"That's not right." Shen Yunzhe looked at Huang Yihua with a subtle look in his eyes, "You seem a little insensitive to the difficulty of the game field itself."
Huang Yihua was stunned for a moment, then she widened her eyes slightly.
"The game field will automatically replenish the number of people, but it's too difficult and no one will survive, so no one will notice if Wu Yan dies here!"
"Wu Yan didn't die in the mountain village, he died here!"
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