Chapter 22
At 2:30 in the morning, Shen Yunzhe and Qiulan quietly dragged two chairs from the restaurant to the dormitory area. They sat on the left and right, like two door gods.
The chef was weird, but he didn't look like he was going to leave the restaurant.
Shen Yunzhe checked the time. The comments were becoming increasingly active, as if they had noticed that the two of them hadn't slept. Shen Yunzhe became increasingly confused. Why were these viewers on the livestream always online? Didn't they need to sleep? Could they be jet-lagged?
He didn't plan to go back to the dorm to sleep. Who knew if he would never wake up? He had tried calling Duan Ziyao earlier, but he didn't wake up no matter how hard he tried. He finally understood why Qiulan was so surprised to see him awake.
After sitting like this for a while, Shen Yunzhe took out his mobile phone out of boredom and started playing the single-player game he downloaded before entering the game field.
Maybe he was the only one who had nothing to do during the short ten days, so he did nothing but buy dolls and play single-player games.
At this moment, Qiulan suddenly said, "I don't want to tell them about the story hall."
Shen Yunzhe: "Who?"
"It's these people who are still sleeping." Qiulan finally looked at Shen Yunzhe. "They left me alone outside and didn't care whether I lived or died. I'm not as generous and kind as you and Ding Yue. I didn't tell them the news even though I got it."
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment, "Should I tell you about the chef's doll?"
Qiulan was stunned for a moment, and then she spoke, "I thought you would lecture me, saying that this is a matter of life and death..."
"Why?" Shen Yunzhe's eyes were filled with a hint of confusion. "Just like you said, you got this information because you were left outside alone, and I was here because I have good hearing and happened to be woken up by you. It's your freedom to tell them or not."
Qiulan: "I think doctors are kind."
Shen Yunzhe shook his head. "Being a doctor is a profession, and medical skills are a professional skill. It doesn't mean that doctors are born good people. In other words, I help people purely because I'm a good person."
"Okay, let's go to the storytelling room tomorrow," Qiulan said. "Take Ding Yue with you."
As the first person willing to help Qiulan, Ding Yue was still taken seriously.
"You can tell me about the doll, but you should say that you met the chef looking for the doll at breakfast. Don't mention what happened tonight." Qiulan still remembered Shen Yunzhe's question before.
"That's it, there are still three or four hours until daylight, some of us can hold on, and hopefully nothing else will happen."
Shen Yunzhe pointed to his mobile phone screen and said: It doesn’t matter, he has games.
Three or four hours passed quickly, and those in the dormitory woke up one after another. At this time, Shen Yunzhe and Qiulan had already moved the chairs back, and they also entered the restaurant one step ahead. No one would think that Shen Yunzhe was not sleeping in the dormitory.
Seeing Qiulan still sitting here well, those people looked a little unnatural.
"Good morning." Shen Yunzhe greeted everyone who came out, "I have something to tell you after everyone is here."
Liu Yaran, who came out first, sat down and asked, "Any new discoveries?"
Shen Yunzhe did not give a clear answer. Qiulan seemed a little indifferent. Anyone who was left outside alone would have this expression. Qiulan was very polite not to scold them on the spot.
They waited until everyone came out of the dormitory and spontaneously sat in the same seats as last night.
"I have something to tell you all." Shen Yunzhe looked at everyone. "This morning when I entered the restaurant, I ran into the chef. He seemed to be looking for something, so I chatted with him. He told me his doll was missing. It was stolen by a tourist."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and like Qiulan, they immediately thought of the baby head next to Luo Yiyue's body yesterday.
Shen Yunzhe also knew what they were thinking. "It's not Luo Yiyue's doll. The chef told me clearly: the doll was stolen by a tourist and thrown into the exhibition hall. And you can tell that the doll is smiling as soon as you see it."
Feng Zhou shuddered, "Oh my God, what a scene."
"Anyway, it's not a good thing." Lu Ronghua bit his bun viciously, "Nothing good will come of being associated with the doll."
Just now: "So should we avoid this doll or find it?"
"Of course we should avoid it." Liu Yaran looked at him as if he were a fool. "Don't forget that our mission this time is to survive for seven days, not to decrypt the code or to find out the cause."
She was unhappy. "How can you avoid it if you don't know what's here? Do you think you can just stay in the dormitory like Luo Yiyue? Don't forget, Luo Yiyue was the first one to die!"
Liu Yiran's face looked ugly, and she was obviously angry with him.
"Okay, okay, stop arguing." Ding Yue tried to stop the fight, but was ignored by both of them.
Shen Yunzhe ate in silence. This morning's breakfast was a bowl of porridge with a steamed bun. Although he had no idea what the pairing of staple foods meant, at least there was no meat in it and it was still edible.
After dinner, Qiulan asked Ding Yue to come over. Although Ding Yue was confused, he still went out without finishing his meal. The people around him didn't care at all about Ding Yue and Qiulan leaving. After all, Ding Yue was the most talkative person among them, and everything this good guy did was normal.
Shen Yunzhe waited until he finished drinking the bowl of porridge before slowly putting the bowl down and leaving, creating the illusion that he left at a different time from Qiulan.
When he walked into the propaganda hall, Shen Yunzhe saw Qiulan and Ding Yue waiting for him.
"You're so slow." Qiulan complained, "No one is following you, right?"
Ding Yue looked at Qiulan with some worry, then at Shen Yunzhe, "Are you really not going to tell anyone? Just the three of us?"
"You've been talking for as long as you've been here. Aren't you annoying?" Qiulan began to dislike him.
Shen Yunzhe knew this would happen.
Ding Yue is too nice to everyone, even to the point of being a saint, reaching a state where "in order to help one group of people, he will hurt another group of people." If this were posted online, she would probably be called a saint bitch. Well, no one in the game field is scolding her now simply because they think Ding Yue is really easy to use.
"Of course we can't tell them. Look how bad things are between them and Sister Qiu right now. If Sister Qiu tells them, they'll think she's lying and won't believe it at all." Shen Yunzhe walked over and patted Ding Yue's shoulder. "Sister Qiu told us two because we'd believe her."
"We can definitely tell everyone after we find the clues. When we both tell everyone, everyone will understand that Sister Qiu is trustworthy."
“Time in the playground is very valuable, and this is the best way to save time.”
Ding Yue suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."
Qiulan looked at Shen Yunzhe's nonsense with complicated eyes. It was true that you can't judge a book by its cover. Even doctors can tell lies.
Of course, Shen Yunzhe thought that this had nothing to do with him and was entirely due to the help of the code-named tour guide. He felt that he could now "cheat" with ease.
[It seems you've discovered the true nature of the Codename Tour Guide: language is a weapon.]
Rolling his eyes in his heart, Shen Yunzhe felt more and more that this system was really sick. It would only tell him the personality and characteristics of the code world after the impact, and it was not afraid that he would change like a schizophrenic and be mistaken for a ghost by his teammates.
Ding Yue stopped making a fuss and told everyone, and the three of them finally arrived safely at the small door on the left side of the exhibition hall. Shen Yunzhe reached out and knocked on the door, but there was no sound from the other side.
Shen Yunzhe tried to push the door, but heard a creaking sound and the small door was pushed open.
"It's right here, the story hall." Qiulan took the lead and stepped in. "It's similar to what you described, Shen Yunzhe. It looks like a lounge."
Shen Yunzhe: "Thank you for the compliment."
Going in with Ding Yue, they saw the doorplate of the story hall in the corner of the wall, which was made of the same material as the propaganda hall outside.
Ding Yue stared at the doorplate and even reached out to touch it. "It's a real doorplate. Will there be any new clues?"
"I think the smiling doll is a new clue." Shen Yunzhe said: "Luo Yiyue got into trouble because of the doll."
Although this story hall is called a story hall, it is indeed just a lounge with benches and some small tables. There is a bookshelf next to it with some magazines and storybooks on it. I don’t know why there are several boxes placed in the middle of the hall.
Shen Yunzhe was observing the box. He didn't open it rashly because who knows what might be inside.
There was a sign next to the box. Shen Yunzhe glanced at it and only saw the three words "hideable".
Just then, Qiulan walked past Shen Yunzhe from behind and went straight to the table next to the box and sat down.
"Hey, come here and take a look," Qiulan called out to them. "There's a story on this table."
Ding Yue was puzzled: "Story?"
Shen Yunzhe turned around and happened to see her back and a corner of the storybook in her hand. The cover of the storybook was different from the one on the bookshelf. It looked dark and not very beautiful.
"I'm coming right away." Ding Yue came over from the other side and sat on Qiulan's side with Shen Yunzhe.
Qiulan: "I think this storybook is different from the others. I think I can find some clues in it."
"That's great. This book can be taken out. Everyone will believe in Sister Qiu after reading it." Ding Yue was happy about this.
Only Shen Yunzhe, looking at the book cover, felt something was slightly off, as if something had been overlooked...
【Left. 】
What? Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment, then he raised his head and looked forward.
Ding Yue asked in confusion, "What are you reading? Qiulan is about to open the book, and the three of us should read it together."
"No." Shen Yunzhe shook his head.
【Left. 】
The sound was so subtle that it seemed non-existent, and it was obvious that Ding Yue and Qiulan did not hear it. This meant that this sound, like the system, was only audible to Shen Yunzhe, but it was not the system at all. If one had to say... this voice sounded a bit like his own.
who?
Left?
Shen Yunzhe casually looked to the left. He still remembered that Qiulan was sitting on his left.
But the moment he looked over, Shen Yunzhe's pupils suddenly contracted, and goose bumps and sweat stood up on his back. He tried hard to maintain his calmness and composure, but his hands trembled unconsciously, so he had to hide his hands behind his back.
The Qiulan on his left is not "Qiulan"!
The pale woman was wearing a white dress, and her long hair was soaked with blood, drops of blood dripping down, staining her white dress.
As if she noticed Shen Yunzhe looking at her, she turned her head. The corners of her lips were torn and forced into a smile. Every time she spoke, her rotten tongue and scraped skull could be seen in her mouth.
Qiulan said, "Shen Yunzhe, why are you looking at me? Is there something on my face?"
No! It’s a big attraction!
Damn...what a stupid word!
Shen Yunzhe laughed awkwardly, "Isn't this because Sister Qiu is pretty? It's okay, it's okay."
The white-clothed female ghost laughed even more happily, her mouth cracking even wider, even scarier than a cracked mouth, "You really know how to talk."
"I like honest people like you."
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