Chapter 176
Shen Yunzhe walked out of the room. All he could see now was news about the Virgin Mary. At least he now knew very well that the Virgin Mary was once a very respected person.
She possesses the strongest abilities and is like a miracle in this world full of strange things.
After closing the door, the next moment the lights in the corridor went out with a puff, and the lights were flickering. Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment. He saw the Virgin Mary in a black robe at the entrance of the corridor opposite him, with her head lowered. She pointed to the room next to her. With a bang, the lights in the basement shattered and the space turned completely black.
Shen Yunzhe silently took out his cell phone from his pocket, turned it on, and observed his surroundings with the remaining light.
The Virgin Mary has disappeared.
"What does she mean?" Shen Yunzhe couldn't help but frown. "She's appeared several times, but she never hurt me. It seems like she's always been guiding me."
[Based on Codename Hope's judgment, it's possible that she can provide guidance. If she wants to invade the real world, she needs to quickly complete this game field.]
"Is that so?"
Shen Yunzhe walked to the place where the Virgin Mary had pointed just now. Shen Yunzhe had been here before. There were two rows of headless people tied up, each holding their own head. But this time, the headless people were lying on the ground, with their heads rolling everywhere.
It was like they were finally dead.
Although the death was not pretty.
But there was nothing to see here. Shen Yunzhe withdrew his gaze, and at this moment he noticed that the notebook next to him seemed a little more worn than before.
Shen Yunzhe picked up the notebook.
Could it be that the Virgin Mary was pointing at this notebook instead of this room?
Shen Yunzhe opened the notebook with a complicated look and soon saw content that was different from before.
[The Virgin Mary has been in a coma until now. We cannot reverse the loss of her abilities, but she is still unconsciously fulfilling the wishes of mankind. If this continues, her abilities will continue to be drained.]
We need a new sacrifice to maintain her power. Only she can fulfill wishes. Only she is this miracle, and only she can be manipulated so easily.
We established a large community dedicated to the Holy Spirit, using desire to maintain her abilities.
So big?
Shen Yunzhe thought about the scale of the playground. Wasn't it just a building? How could a building be described as so large?
He continued to read.
The plan was a success, and we welcomed the first group of residents to Xiangsheng Community.
For the second batch, we chose to rotate residents once a year to provide more opportunities.
The third batch...
[The Virgin Mary is dead? The Virgin Mary is actually dead?! Why? Didn’t they say the Virgin Mary would never die? Why did the Virgin Mary die?]
【The body of the Virgin Mary disappeared.】
A hand patted his shoulder, and Shen Yunzhe slowly flipped through the notebook in his hand. After making sure there was no new content, he put the notebook down and turned around.
Codename Hope stood behind him and looked at him quietly.
He said very dissatisfiedly: "Shen Yunzhe, you weren't even scared!"
"Because the system reminded me when you came down." Shen Yunzhe said: "How are you doing over there?"
"We found nothing. The Holy Mother you were looking for isn't there." Codename Hope leaned against him. "But most of your fellow players have been corrupted. Only a few remain. I couldn't find you when I came back. I was guided down here by the system. The Talisman Master is waiting for us up there."
Shen Yunzhe nodded and pointed to the room next to him. "Take a look and see if that's where the Virgin Mary stayed."
Codename Hope looked at the room for a moment, then tilted his head. "This place is similar to my little black box, but I don't know what the Virgin Mary you're talking about looks like."
"It mentions that the Virgin Mary died and her body disappeared. I was thinking, since the Virgin Mary is so important, could her body be the medium?"
"Is the corpse of something a medium? Such playgrounds do exist," Codename Hope said, "but these are mostly special playground treatments, primary strange incidents that ultimately transform the entire space into a playground, similar to that amusement park."
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, "That makes it even more appropriate."
"This playground is the core playground. It has been eroding the world around it. It is definitely not an ordinary playground."
There was no other information that could be investigated here, so Shen Yunzhe wanted to go back with the code name. When they climbed up, they happened to see Huang Yihua squatting there, like a child guarding his silkworm chrysalis. Huang Yihua breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them coming up.
"You finally made it up." Huang Yihua asked, "What's down there?"
Shen Yunzhe told Huang Yihua everything he saw below.
Huang Yihua frowned slightly just by listening to the story. She came from a dojo and was naturally more compassionate than ordinary people. Although she was dragged into the game field, she thought more about how to save people. She was a good person with a kind heart far more than ordinary people.
After hearing these things, she began to feel sorry for Our Lady.
She subconsciously began to empathize with him, which was a common trait of good people.
"The name of the playground, 'Our Lady,' rather than 'Xiangsheng Community,' makes it very clear," Shen Yunzhe said. "The theme of this playground has little to do with this community. The main theme is still Our Lady. I suspect the missing body of the Saint is the medium."
Huang Yihua nodded. "I think so too. That means we need to find the missing body of the Virgin Mary, right?"
"That's right." Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly. "Come to think of it, I also learned something during my investigation. The residents of the entire community died in an accident. According to the records, this happened to be the time when the Virgin Mary died. And this has never happened before."
Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe. Being a smart person, she immediately understood what Shen Yunzhe meant. "You mean: strange things started happening after the Virgin Mary's death. Perhaps the source of these strange things is the medium's location?"
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Perhaps we can look for the records of these strange creatures to determine what they encountered before they died."
Huang Yihua frowned, "But we've already checked before. Everything recorded in the logbook starts from when we entered the game field. Nothing before that."
“Maybe it’s different now.”
Huang Yihua didn't quite understand, "Why?"
"Have you never played a horror game? Generally speaking, the clues in horror games can be obtained repeatedly, and the time can be switched at will. After you meet certain conditions, the subsequent clues will be revealed."
“We’ll be able to see new things.”
Codename Hope tilted her head, her long silver hair drooping down, "Shen Yunzhe, are you still playing horror games? I'll play with you next time!"
Shen Yunzhe looked at him expressionlessly, "Don't interrupt."
"We discovered that the Virgin Mary's past is a condition. Once this condition is met, the clues will change." Huang Yihua quickly understood. "I understand. So how do we read the record book?"
"Let's go check the record book in our room first." Shen Yunzhe snapped his fingers. "After all, there were residents living in our room many years ago."
Huang Yihua's eyes changed. She frowned slightly, and after a moment she relaxed her brows and nodded.
"Let's go back to our rooms and confirm. I'll find you after I'm done."
"good."
Shen Yunzhe returned to room 1-1. At this moment, the door of 1-3 creaked open and a little girl walked out. Shen Yunzhe looked at the little girl in confusion, then glanced at the sign on the door and confirmed that it was 1-3.
"Hello, I'm the new resident 1-3." The little girl greeted Shen Yunzhe with a smile, "Are you brothers? You look alike."
Shen Yunzhe turned his head and glanced at Code Name Hope. At this time, Code Name Hope frowned slightly. He stared at the little girl, and his eyes gradually became displeased.
Shen Yunzhe pushed him back into the room, then smiled and said, "No, I'm alone."
The little girl was stunned for a moment, "Huh? I just saw you two, and you pushed someone into the room."
"You're mistaken." Shen Yunzhe said with a smile, "I don't have any brothers. I've always been alone. You can't do this. You need to see a doctor. If the hallucinations and auditory hallucinations are severe, they can develop into a mental illness."
The little girl put away her smile in an instant, and looked at Shen Yunzhe expressionlessly, "I'm not mentally ill!"
"But you're hallucinating." Shen Yunzhe said, "Instead of arguing with me here, why not go see a doctor? I'm saying this for the sake of our neighbors. Honest advice is hard to hear, so please don't be upset."
After saying that, Shen Yunzhe turned and walked into the room. The little girl stared at him as he entered the room and twisted her neck.
"I'm not, I'm not mentally ill."
"I don't need to see a doctor."
"I don't have any hallucinations or auditory hallucinations. Those are real things. This is how the world is."
The little girl muttered to herself, turned and left.
Shen Yunzhe didn't really care. He hadn't even thought that his words had hit the nail on the head for the newly arrived strange creature. But speaking of that, what about that pesky man in 1-3? Was he eliminated by the Virgin Mary?
Codename Hope then spoke, "The mouse was killed by the cat."
"Oh, the mice were killed by the cat." Shen Yunzhe picked up the record book at the door and flipped through it for a while before he looked at Codename Hope as if he had realized something. "You mean to say: you dealt with residents 1-3 before?"
Codename Hope looked like he wanted to be praised. He nodded proudly, "I told you, rats smell bad. We need to get rid of them!"
Shen Yunzhe looked at Codename Hope in silence for a while before nodding, "Well done, but tell me in advance next time."
This way I can pry open the door and read the record book before three o'clock.
Now that new residents have moved in after three o'clock, there is no way to safely pry open the door and read the record book. What a pity.
Codename Hope understood the hidden meaning in Shen Yunzhe's words. He thought about it and turned around and walked out when Shen Yunzhe was flipping through the notebook.
[Codename Hope has left.] The system reminded him.
"Let him go out. He's a special player who can directly harm strange objects. His life is not in danger. Let him run around. He won't be bothered by his high energy all the time."
[He's going to knock on every door and kill the strange creatures.]
"That's a good thing." Shen Yunzhe said the terrifying words calmly, "Most of these weird creatures don't want to live anyway. This will help them escape and also help me get information. It's a win-win situation."
So the system stopped talking.
OK, you are indeed a peer.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the record book. The text on the record book had indeed changed and became a record of a person Shen Yunzhe did not know.
Xiangsheng Community is truly a great place. Since moving in, everything has become so comfortable. I don't have to work, I just do my own thing. My next-door neighbor is so cute, bringing me cookies every day. The neighbor across the street is a little strange, though, constantly peeking through the crack in the door.
[The neighbor in 1-2 committed suicide. She ran to the rooftop and fell off. But I remember running into her that day. She said she was going to the rooftop to get some fresh air. She was baking cookies in her room. It didn't seem like she was going to commit suicide.]
[Before she jumped, residents on the 8th floor heard her vehemently cursing the Virgin Mary.]
Another person died. He went to the rooftop to dry his quilt, but when he came down, the elevator broke down and his head was chopped off. How horrible.
What the hell is going on? Why are people dying one after another?
[Another one, he wanted to escape from Xiangsheng Community, but he ended up being pierced through the window.]
[The fourth, the fifth...]
No, I can't stay here any longer. I have to find a way to leave Xiangsheng Community. Some people say the gates open at 10 p.m., but I don't know if that's true. I need to go to the rooftop. It's the highest point with the best view. I need to find a way to survive.
[Our Lady, Our Lady... She is not the Lady, the Lady's vow is a hoax! ]
【We will all die! 】
【No one can escape! 】
Shen Yunzhe closed the notebook, opened the door and walked out.
This time he clearly captured a location in his records, that is: the rooftop.
The first person to die was going to the rooftop to get some fresh air, and the second person to die was going to the top floor to dry the quilt. So far, all the people who died mentioned above have gone to the rooftop, and there is also the loophole that will be opened after 10 o'clock in the evening.
It turns out that in the beginning, this loophole was not intended to allow outsiders to enter Xiangsheng Community, but to allow people in Xiangsheng Community to escape?
I really didn't expect that.
At this moment, Codename Hope jumped out. He happily pointed to the two open doors to Shen Yunzhe and said, "Shen Yunzhe, I'll give you a gift, okay?"
"I've cleared out the rats and am giving you their home!"
Shen Yunzhe looked at the empty house and could completely guess what Code Hope had done. The innocent weird creatures had their doorbells rung, and they opened the door, only to be greeted by Code Hope's gift of love.
"It's not necessary now." Shen Yunzhe said: "I'll go find Huang Yihua first, you stay here and play."
Codename Hope blinked and watched Shen Yunzhe turn around and go up the stairs.
At this moment, the little girl from 1-3 came back. She saw the wide-open door and Codename Hope standing silently in the corridor. A silent feeling of fear stopped her from moving forward.
They stood there in silence. The little girl felt her body trembling and she didn't dare to move.
Codename Hope gave her a smile that looked pure and innocent, but darkness was swirling in his eyes.
"You came just in time." Codename Hope said, "I'm in a really bad mood and need an outlet."
…
After meeting Huang Yihua, Huang Yihua's face was calm. They looked at each other and understood that the other party had come to the same conclusion.
They walked up quickly without saying a word. When they reached the eighth floor, they found that the door to the rooftop was locked. Shen Yunzhe opened the door to the rooftop in the same way. The moment they stepped onto the rooftop, they smelled a faint strange odor. Huang Yihua couldn't help but slow down her breathing.
They stood at the entrance of the rooftop and saw a corpse displayed on the rooftop.
The corpse was wearing a white robe and its head was covered by a hood, but even so they could feel that the corpse was extremely beautiful and holy.
There was a talisman engraved under the corpse, and no one knew what it was for. Shen Yunzhe looked at the clothes on the corpse, but he couldn't convince himself at all, because the clothes were exactly the same as the clothes of Codename Hope, and there was no distinction between men's and women's styles.
Huang Yihua obviously noticed this, but there were other things to pay attention to.
She pulled Shen Yunzhe's sleeve and pointed her finger forward.
It was already getting late at this time. Countless lights lit up in the dim evening sky. Shen Yunzhe saw countless buildings that were exactly the same as the Xiangsheng Community. There were one or two people standing behind the windows of the rooms in each building. They stood there quietly, like souls trapped inside.
At first glance, it looks like an endless cage with no end in sight.
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