Chapter 27
The innermost door of the men's restroom was open. Shen Yunzhe pushed it open and saw a wide-open door. Sure enough, it was as dark inside as they said.
Shen Yunzhe turned on the flashlight on his phone and shone it around, then turned on the light and looked at the ceiling.
From what happened just now, he learned to look up. No one knows if there is a ghost above their heads.
Creak, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, Shen Yunzhe turned around and found that it was Ding Yue following him.
It was not surprising that Ding Yue came. Although he had an abnormal kindness, he was indeed very brave. He dared to take the lead in many things and dared to go into unfamiliar places. In all this time, he had never been seen to be extremely scared of anyone's corpse, including the scene where Liu Yaran was skinned.
"I'll look for it with you," Ding Yue said. "Qiulan and Lu Ronghua didn't come. They said they were going to look for Liu Yaran's body."
Anyone who heard it would know that this was an excuse, but Shen Yunzhe believed that Ding Yue actually understood it.
But only Qiulan and Lu Ronghua?
Shen Yunzhe looked towards the door again, and sure enough, a person cautiously poked his head out. It was Lu Feng, who had just been crying with tears all over his face.
This surprised Shen Yunzhe a little. This newcomer was very timid. He was the first one to be scared out and was afraid of him. Now he actually followed Ding Yue into the warehouse again?
"I, I just thought I should come in and take a look, because I don't want to die." Lu Feng seemed to know what Shen Yunzhe was thinking, and he explained quietly, "I want to go home. My childhood friend showed me the live broadcast, and I want to go back and ask him why he treated me like this."
Having said that, Shen Yunzhe didn't want to dissuade him.
They walked through the dark warehouse with flashlights, trying to find the missing Duan Ziyao.
Lu Feng was still afraid and followed Ding Yue closely. He knew very well that Ding Yue was the one who would protect him if he encountered danger. As for Shen Yunzhe, no one knew what had happened to him in the past two days. His behavior was completely different from what it was at the beginning, so weird that it was scary.
"I just went to the Propaganda Hall and found that it had been smashed. Was it you who did it?" Ding Yue asked Shen Yunzhe as they walked.
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe shone the flashlight on the road ahead. "I smashed the ghost girl's workplace and followed her to the director's office."
Ding Yue was stunned for a moment, and he and Lu Feng looked at him with an indescribable expression of horror.
What normal person would think of this?!
"You can't think like a normal person in a game like this." Shen Yunzhe ignored their fear and said to himself, "It's true that you avoid ghosts because you're afraid of them, but sometimes you have to look at the problem from another perspective, like treating them as chess pieces that can be used."
No, no player dares to use ghosts as pawns...
Lu Feng's voice trembled as he spoke, "You're so abnormal, have you already taught the bastard who dragged you in here a lesson?"
"No, he died when I left the playground." Shen Yunzhe said calmly.
Lu Feng looked at Ding Yue awkwardly, "Ding Yue, what about you?"
Ding Yue didn't seem to like this topic, but he rarely refused others. "I wasn't tricked into watching the live broadcast."
Now even Shen Yunzhe looked at him.
95% of the people in the game field were drawn in by the suicide live broadcast, and only a small number of 5% were drawn in other ways. Unexpectedly, Ding Yue was one of them. Is that why he still maintains kindness to strangers?
Lu Feng wanted to ask something else, but they all knew that Lu Feng was afraid and couldn't help but speak, adding sound to this dark space.
But Shen Yunzhe covered his mouth with his hand.
"Hmm?!" Lu Feng was horrified.
"Shut up, there's a sound." Shen Yunzhe frowned.
Lu Feng quickly swallowed the sound that was rising in his throat.
The sound was very slight, but not small. Not only Shen Yunzhe, but the other two people also heard it after the silence. They kept lighting up the surroundings to try to find the source of the sound. Only Shen Yunzhe slowly raised his head and looked at the sky. He shone the tiny and not bright enough flashlight of his mobile phone at the ceiling.
In the dim light, they could see a wobbly object hanging above their heads, with its shadows cast on the wall. Ding Yue quickly turned on the flashlight and shone it upwards. Lu Feng also swallowed his saliva and joined in. The three beams of light combined, and they finally saw clearly what was hanging there.
Blood dripped down with a plop.
"It's Duan Ziyao!"
With a snap, the rope above Duan Ziyao's head broke, and the legless body fell in front of them, blood splattering, and the three people present were all covered in blood.
Because it was not very high, Duan Ziyao's body was not damaged too much. Shen Yunzhe squatted down and shone a flashlight on the body. Duan Ziyao's legs were cut off at the root, revealing the white bones. Shen Yunzhe turned him over and saw that his eyes had also been gouged out, and blood was flowing out of his eyes, like his tears of blood.
The person was dead in just a few minutes.
"But the doll didn't appear. Why did he die?" Ding Yue looked at the body with its legs amputated. "Did he see the doll but didn't tell us?"
"Then what should we do now?" Lu Feng stared at Duan Ziyao's body and swallowed.
"Do you want to take the body back?"
Shen Yunzhe glanced at Lu Feng, then said, "Leave it here, don't worry about it."
Lu Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Since they had found the body, there was no need to go any further. On the way here, they had also roughly looked at the warehouse, which was full of messy exhibits that had been removed during upgrades, and there were also many templates with horror stories written on them.
Things related to various legendary serial murder cases were produced. Some of the cases were solved over time, so they were all hidden in this warehouse.
Lu Feng walked very fast, as if he was frightened, and he was two or three meters faster than them.
"Ding Yue." Shen Yunzhe looked at his back and asked Ding Yue, "Why did Lu Feng want to come down?"
Ding Yue shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe it's because of a change of heart."
"It's difficult for people to change their attitude in an instant. This unusual behavior can only mean one thing: he had other motives." Shen Yunzhe began to analyze. "Because he had other motives, he ignored his fear and followed us here. But we only found Duan Ziyao's body."
"Could it be that he was asking for Duan Ziyao's body?"
Ding Yue looked at Shen Yunzhe with a strange look in her eyes. "... Speaking of changing attitudes, don't you think you're the one who's changed the most?"
Shen Yunzhe was unmoved. "Didn't I tell you? I'm actually a forensic doctor. Finding the truth is a big deal for me."
"No, what does this have to do with my profession?" Ding Yue was almost distracted by Shen Yunzhe. "I'm talking about the fact that your attitude is different now than before. You know what? Many people think you're possessed, so they don't want to work with you."
"It's dangerous to be alone in such a dangerous playground."
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Thank you for worrying about me."
"...You're welcome."
Shen Yunzhe patted Ding Yue's shoulder and said, "Anyway, please pay attention to Qiulan and Lu Ronghua. I think something is wrong with Lu Feng. I have to keep an eye on him."
At this time, the live broadcast barrage also had some small fluctuations.
[A medical examiner? The one who performs autopsies on bodies for forensic examinations?]
[Could this explain why he's both a doctor and a parkour expert?]
[…So he's always just saying he's a doctor? What? He doesn't trust others? I hate people who mix the truth with lies.]
If he had told everyone from the beginning that he was a forensic doctor, given his police identity, everyone present would have trusted him.
[Perhaps they're collectively cleaning him out. Haha, putting a character so humane in this inhumane game is breaking the rules. Those selfish guys will be the first to clean him out. I think he's protecting himself by not revealing his identity.]
[You really have no confidence in human nature.]
"Could it be that there are still some among us who have faith in humanity? We've watched so many games, so many players, and they're all just a bunch of selfish bastards. The rare kindhearted ones all die the most tragically."
The comments fell silent because they assumed this was right.
By the time Shen Yunzhe and the others left the warehouse and finally turned on the live broadcast, the discussion had long since ended, and the live broadcast barrage had returned to its original state. Only Shen Yunzhe inexplicably discovered that the difficulty of his game had unknowingly increased to level 3 and was heading straight for level 4.
What did he do again?!
Obviously, I didn’t argue with the audience or scold them this time!
He is so wronged!
But compared to this, the first person he should pay attention to is Lu Feng.
At night, the broadcast announcing the opening of the exhibition hall sounded. The survivors ate dinner listlessly, then left the staff dormitory area and walked towards the exhibition hall. They could not stay in the staff dormitory area. Shen Yunzhe stood outside the publicity hall with his hands in his pockets. If he was not wrong, Lu Feng would come out again.
Sure enough, after waiting for a while, Lu Feng came out alone. He looked around carefully and made sure that there was no one around before he trotted to the dormitory area. Shen Yunzhe watched him go into the warehouse.
Shen Yunzhe followed him as closely as possible without being discovered by him. The code-named forensic doctor was also a policeman. Although he might not have received police training, forensic doctors also needed to go out on field work. His basic investigation and counter-reconnaissance abilities were higher than those of ordinary people. In addition, Lu Feng was too nervous and walked very slowly, so tracking him would be easier.
He walked all the way to the location of Duan Ziyao's body. His body was still lying there. Lu Feng was kneeling on the ground with his cell phone thrown beside him. He took out a knife from his arms, which he should have taken from the exhibition hall.
"I'm sorry, brother, but you're already dead, and your arm is no longer useful to you. So give it to me. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. You will be rich and prosperous in your next life!"
Lu Feng murmured, shaking as he grasped the knife. "Give it to me, give it to me now!"
He raised the knife, and at that moment he saw a shadow slowly approaching him. He opened his eyes wide, turned his head suddenly, screamed, and stabbed wildly.
But he didn't get stabbed and didn't feel any pain, so he opened his eyes carefully. Shen Yunzhe was standing in front of him, looking at him calmly. His body was still buried in the darkness in the middle of the night, which looked weird and scary. Lu Feng was so scared that he fell down.
He screamed and raised the knife, but Shen Yunzhe stepped on his hand and the knife. Lu Feng screamed again, this time in pain.
Shen Yunzhe squatted down and looked at him on the same level. He asked, "What are you doing?"
"I, I..." Lu Feng felt the hot breath on his face when Shen Yunzhe spoke, and immediately realized that the Shen Yunzhe in front of him was a human, not a ghost.
"Nothing, I just wanted to come over and deal with Duan Ziyao's body!"
"Do you think I'm deaf?" Shen Yunzhe nodded his ear. "I have a pair of very useful ears. I heard you say 'Give me your arm' to the corpse."
Lu Feng's tears rolled down. He tried hard to pull his hand out, but he couldn't. Shen Yunzhe pressed his hand down and wouldn't let him move.
"I just want to live!" Lu Feng burst into tears, "Shen Yunzhe! You can't do this, I didn't hurt anyone, I just wanted to find a body!"
"I don't want to kill someone and then look for the body. I, I..."
Lu Feng couldn't stop crying. Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly. He loosened his foot but kicked the knife aside.
While he was crying, Shen Yunzhe took out his mobile phone and turned on the live broadcast, trying to find the reason in the live broadcast barrage. When a group of players are in the same space, the live broadcasts will be merged into one. At that time, everyone present can see the content of the barrage, just like when Luo Yiyue died.
Sure enough, all the barrages at this time were misleading content.
"This is your last chance. If you can't replace your arm, even if everyone else can get out, you won't be able to leave."
[I want to stay as an employee in this museum of rare objects for the rest of my life.]
[What a shame! It would have been much quicker if I'd traded with the players, but I'm so timid that I only dared to look for corpses.]
[Even corpses have a time limit, and after this time, they cannot be used.]
[Hey, Mr. Forensic is reading the comments? Why are you trying to stop him? This is his only chance of survival. What are you going to do? Protect the corpse or help the surviving player?]
"What's going on?" Shen Yunzhe turned off the live broadcast and asked Lu Feng.
Lu Feng looked at him with red eyes, and after a moment he rolled up his sleeves. He picked up the flashlight and shone it on his arm. The next moment Shen Yunzhe realized something was wrong. Although it was very similar to a human arm, it was definitely not the feeling of a human arm... an artificial arm?
Or rather: the doll's plastic arms.
"When I entered the warehouse during the day, the lights suddenly went out. I don't know why everyone present stopped moving, only Duan Ziyao and I were able to move. I watched Duan Ziyao being dragged away by a rope. I tried to chase him but couldn't catch him. Then, another rope was wrapped around my neck."
Lu Feng’s face was pale and his eyes were full of fear.
"I saw a doll come out and sawed off Duan Ziyao's leg alive. Duan Ziyao kept crying and screaming in pain. Later, he stopped crying and screaming. Then the doll came to saw off my arm."
Lu Feng huddled on the ground, trembling. "I was in so much pain that I kept begging for mercy. I almost forgot what I said. Maybe because I begged for mercy so sincerely, the doll sawed off my arm and gave me a pair of its own arms. The doll told me that if I wanted to live, I should get a new arm."
"Exchange it for a living person, for someone who just died. Only in this way can I survive."
"I don't want to kill anyone, nor do I want to harm you, but Duan Ziyao is already dead. His body can still be used. As long as I replace it with his arm, I can survive."
Lu Feng tugged at the corner of Shen Yunzhe's clothes, crying and begging, "Let me go, Shen Yunzhe, aren't you a doctor? Aren't doctors supposed to heal the dying and the wounded? Please save me, I beg you to save me!"
Shen Yunzhe looked at him for a long time before speaking, "I'll tell you one thing: in the game field, neither ghosts nor spectators can be trusted."
"They will never give you such an easy answer."
"Even so, are you going to try?"
Lu Feng nodded continuously, "Please, let me try."
"People can only be responsible for themselves." Shen Yunzhe stepped back and turned on the flashlight on his phone to illuminate the road ahead. "Go."
Lu Feng quickly wiped the tears from his face. He quickly picked up the knife on the ground and chopped it hard at Duan Ziyao's arm. Duan Ziyao had not been dead for long, and although his body was stiff, it was still fresh. Lu Feng hugged the arm he had chopped off and cried and laughed, like a madman.
"I will be fine. I will survive."
He put his arms down on the ground and began to unbutton his shirt. Shen Yunzhe realized what he wanted to do, so he closed his eyes.
There was a "puff" sound, and Lu Feng screamed. He had cut off his arm. The howls of pain and laughter mixed together in this dark warehouse. The sound made by a person was even more terrifying than a ghost. Lu Feng's face turned pale with pain, but he smiled and stuffed Duan Ziyao's arm into the cut on his arm.
He tried to push it in, but it wouldn't go in.
He thought the cut was not smooth enough, so he gritted his teeth and cut off another piece of his broken arm. Blood gushed out, but even then he couldn't put his arm back together.
"No, how could this happen?!" Lu Feng looked at his arm that was bleeding profusely in shock.
"It shouldn't be like this, why can't it be changed?!"
He turned to look at Shen Yunzhe, who had already opened his eyes and was looking at him.
Lu Feng quickly stood up, holding Duan Ziyao's arm and ran to Shen Yunzhe, and put his arm into Shen Yunzhe's arms as if he had seen a savior.
"Doctor, please save me." He said, "You are a doctor, you must be able to perform surgery. Can you sew my arm up? Doctor, Doctor Shen..."
"I can't do that," Shen Yunzhe said. "There are no conditions for surgery here, and I don't have any surgical equipment, whether it's a scalpel or a suture needle."
"Then I...what should I do?" Lu Feng looked at the wound that was bleeding profusely. "I, I will die."
"But I don't want to die yet!"
The right hand that was not severed stabbed Shen Yunzhe directly with the knife. The knife pierced into Shen Yunzhe's arm in his arms, and the sharp blade instantly pierced through his arm.
"It must be a dead person's arm that can't be replaced, only a living person's!" Lu Feng stared at Shen Yunzhe intently, "Doctors should save the dying and the wounded. Please save me. It's just a pair of arms. I promise not to take anything else!"
"I'm sorry." Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "I'm a doctor, not Jesus."
People don't feel pain when they suffer a huge trauma in an instant, because the instantaneous adrenaline will make people ignore the pain, but an injury is still an injury, and the person will not be able to support himself after regaining a little consciousness. Lu Feng cut off his arm, which is a major operation in the hospital, not to mention in such a dirty and messy warehouse.
He knocked the dagger out of his hand. Because he was missing an arm, Lu Feng fell to the ground unsteadily and never got up again.
"Ah!" Lu Feng fell to the ground and screamed, "I don't want to die yet, I don't want to die!"
Shen Yunzhe did not stay here any longer. He left the warehouse covered in blood and walked all the way to the door. The light shone on him. Through the mirror in the bathroom, he saw that he was in a terrible state.
When I walked out of the bathroom, the chef in the restaurant was putting bone soup on the table and saw Shen Yunzhe.
"Are you coming to dinner too?"
Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly. He walked a little closer and confirmed that the chef this time was different from before. His originally dry and hollow eyes now had a pair of eyeballs. The eyeballs looked lifeless, with red bloodshot in the whites of the eyes, as if they were dug out from a corpse and stuffed in.
"Your eyes?"
"Oh, you mean this?" The chef touched his eyes with caress. "These are my new eyes. They are really good. I found them in the warehouse."
In the warehouse... Duan Ziyao's eyes were gouged out.
Shen Yunzhe was silent for a moment. "Eyes can be replaced? Then can other body parts be replaced? For example, arms."
"Of course you can." The chef smiled wrinklily, staring at Shen Yunzhe with lifeless eyes. "But you can't replace body parts while you're still alive. Only if you die and become a corpse like me can you replace someone else's eyeballs. Do you want to die like me?"
"You don't like your arm? No problem, I can cut it off for you."
Shen Yunzhe forced a smile and said, "I am very satisfied with my body. I just want to confirm my thoughts."
Yes, how could a living person change his body? Only a dead person could cut off his body parts and replace them at will. Lu Feng was deceived from the very beginning.
He sat on the dining chair and began to think about what to do next and how to avoid the things below.
Just as he was thinking hard, the chef came over and said to Shen Yunzhe, "You're sitting in someone else's seat."
Shen Yunzhe looked up at him.
"It's time for the day shift staff to eat. If you sit here, where will he sit? He will be angry if he can't get his meal." The chef showed a vicious smile.
"Everyone is working so hard, we need to unite."
Shen Yunzhe turned his head and looked to the side, where a dark shadowy figure stood behind him.
It held a spoon in its hand with a hole on it. After Shen Yunzhe stood up, the dark shadow sat on the chair and began to drink the soup, but because there was a hole on the spoon, all the soup flowed out through the hole and it could never get a sip of soup.
The chef smiled as he watched it drink the soup. "Is the bone soup delicious? This is the bone soup I've been cooking for several days."
"Drink it, drink it. Only after you finish the soup can you go to sleep."
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