Chapter 29
Ding Yue didn't say anything else. He moved his eyes away from Shen Yunzhe and didn't say yes or no.
Shen Yunzhe didn't ask any further questions, but just took the doll disassembly diagram and the key and went downstairs, with Ding Yue following him.
Daytime is rest time, and players always sleep during the day. Although no one has slept well yet, Shen Yunzhe is still the first one to enter the dormitory, as if what he sees in the dormitory at night is nothing. Unfortunately, he can't sleep, no matter what he does.
Shen Yunzhe tossed and turned, his headache as severe as if it were hammered with nails. Finally, he sat up from the bed, feeling so dizzy that he nearly banged his head against the wall.
There was a knock on the door at this moment. He stared at the dormitory door for a full ten seconds before getting out of bed to open it. Then Ding Yue, who was knocking on the door, saw Shen Yunzhe, who looked like a ghost.
"Shen Yunzhe?!" Ding Yue looked at his dark circles in horror.
"He's not dead yet, just suffering from insomnia." Shen Yunzhe let him in. "What's the matter?"
Ding Yue carefully reached out and touched his neck, and only after confirming that it was hot did she breathe a sigh of relief and come in.
Instead of lying back on the bed, Shen Yunzhe felt that his headache was getting worse the longer he lay there. He might as well stand up and get some fresh air. He leaned against the wall, using the cool touch of the wall to stimulate his brain, allowing him to concentrate on the conversation with Ding Yue, although he didn't know what Ding Yue wanted to say.
"Shen Yunzhe, do you know that the playground will affect reality?" Ding Yue asked him.
"I don't know." Shen Yunzhe answered lazily.
Ding Yue choked, not knowing whether what Shen Yunzhe said was true or not. "I wasn't tricked into coming here to watch the live broadcast. I came here for other reasons."
"My sister and I depended on each other for survival and grew up together. Our parents died in a car accident. Later, I graduated from university and my sister was working in another city. Suddenly one day, her company notified me that she had committed suicide by jumping off a building. She was gone instantly and contacted me to bring her belongings back."
"My sister was always optimistic and cheerful, so how could she have committed suicide? I didn't believe it, so I searched through her belongings and found a strange app on her phone. When I opened it, it was a live broadcast."
"Before I knew it, I was already at the playground."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "Why are you telling me this?"
"You asked me before if I was an official, and I was thinking: If I can see that video among my sister's belongings, then even if I die, the live broadcast on my phone won't disappear." Ding Yue said: "Even if it was an accidental death, some of the information needs to be verified and recorded by the police. Do you think they will check the deceased's phone?"
"You're a forensic doctor, you should know better than me."
Shen Yunzhe thought: What kind of forensic scientist is he? He is just a shell he put on himself after synchronization.
Fortunately, Ding Yue didn't come to ask for an answer. He left after he finished speaking without any hesitation. Shen Yunzhe yawned and looked at the time. It was eight o'clock in the morning.
Can't sleep, bored, irritable.
Finally, he took out his mobile phone and started playing a single-player game. Unfortunately, he got bored after ten minutes, so he turned off the single-player game and started the live broadcast.
During the live broadcast, I saw my face looking a little tired, and there were only a few comments.
"Come and chat?" Shen Yunzhe looked at the barrage, "Talk to me."
Soon, a question mark appeared on the screen.
【???】
[Am I dreaming? He asked us to chat with him?]
【What are you talking about? Aren’t you supposed to be sleeping at this time every day?】
"I've been sleeping too much and I've got insomnia." Shen Yunzhe stood leaning against the wall. His voice was hazy, but his words were extremely harsh. "Forgive my harsh words, but who the hell are you all?"
[…I want to curse.]
[Just curse him, this guy is really annoying.]
"Don't tell me you really think you're human. Dreams are beautiful, but reality is harsh. I think you're well aware that you're not much of a human being." Shen Yunzhe mocked them, even the mockery was gentle. "You want to be treated like a human when you're not doing anything human? How can it be so easy?"
"How can you be any better than the ghosts in this playground?"
"Oh, I see. Ghosts can chase me, but you can't. You can only watch and can't hit me."
"I can't make you die of anger."
[Fuck, Shen Yunzhe, are you sick?!]
"Wasn't he quite polite at first? Why did he suddenly become like this? More fickle than a ghost?"
I still think he's crazy. Crazy people are sometimes hard to understand.
[But he found the key to the doll house. It wasn't someone else who found it, it was him! How could a madman who was half crazy and half sane still be able to complete the task when he was sane?]
[Sooner or later, I will kill him! ]
[Where's the baby? Why hasn't he come out yet and killed him?]
[System prompt: The audience's preference has changed, and the dislike has increased. Players, please "please" your audience.]
[Player 'Shen Yunzhe''s game difficulty increased to 6.2.]
His mood improved, and Shen Yunzhe turned off the barrage of comments with satisfaction. He couldn't fall asleep. He spent the whole day looking at the doll production file, thinking that maybe he could replicate a nice doll himself when he returned to reality and add another one to his collection.
It becomes very difficult to kill time when there is nothing to do. He endured for a long time, and even ate another meal at noon. He chatted with the chef for a long time, and then went into the warehouse and walked around twice to make sure that Lu Feng and Duan Ziyao had disappeared.
Finally, I waited until night came and the announcement of the opening of the Curiosity Exhibition Hall came on the radio.
After Qiulan and Lu Ronghua knew that they had obtained the key to the doll house, they no longer made excuses to leave separately. They gathered in the exhibition hall and waited for the doll house to appear. Because there were so few people, no one spoke. Only Shen Yunzhe was left waiting and admiring the dolls on the side.
Not only did he admire it, he also took the doll out of the display stand and held it in his arms.
Everyone was horrified when they saw the doll appear in the exhibition hall, and seeing Shen Yunzhe like this made their scalps tingle.
Everyone present was looking forward to the doll house coming out, so they waited until one o'clock in the morning. As time passed, the doll house finally appeared. Ding Yue took the key. He first looked at Shen Yunzhe, and then used the key to unlock it. The moment the lock was opened, a foul smell rushed into everyone's nose.
They stood at the door of the doll house and didn't dare to go in, because there was nothing in the doll house except an exhibition stand in the middle with a scary doll on it.
This was the scariest doll they had ever seen in their lives.
The doll's hands and feet looked like different limbs spliced together, and even its skin was sewn together with pieces of human skin. The different skin colors made it very clear. Human eyes were stuffed in the doll's eye sockets, and its dead white eyeballs stared at everyone at the door. Blood was dripping under the exhibition stand.
"It's really the real thing." Shen Yunzhe held the exquisite doll in his arms and admired the scary doll, "It's really ugly."
This derogatory remark touched Wawa, who suddenly turned his head to look at Shen Yunzhe. The people present watched in horror as the Wawa slowly raised a hideous smile.
Qiulan retreated frantically, Lu Ronghua had already run away and disappeared, Ding Yue took two steps back, but when he saw Shen Yunzhe didn't move, he stopped again. Only Shen Yunzhe stood there calmly and looked at the baby.
After hesitating, Qiulan turned around and ran. This place was too weird, and she didn't think this was their last chance to survive.
Shen Yunzhe ignored them and just asked, "How can we get back the pawned items?"
The doll grinned but didn't say anything.
Just when Ding Yue was about to pull Shen Yunzhe away as soon as something went wrong, a man slowly walked out from behind the exhibition stand. He was wearing a black suit stained with blood, and most importantly: he had no head.
Ding Yue quickly recognized that this was the husband killed by the female ghost in the story house!
"As long as you get what the owner wants in exchange, you can get back what was pawned."
They couldn't tell where the sound came from, but it was coming from somewhere.
"What is it?" Shen Yunzhe asked him.
The thing laughed, "It's the head of the curator of the Museum of Wonders."
Ding Yue was a little surprised, "Huh?"
"But it must be a head voluntarily offered by the curator of the Museum of Curiosities." The headless thing's voice was filled with a sharp laugh. "Only the head voluntarily offered by the curator can be used by the master. Only then can the master take back the body you pawned. This is the condition!"
"But isn't the curator dead?"
The thing was still laughing when the door of the doll house creaked closed in front of them.
"Hey, explain it clearly!"
"Okay, stop shouting. We already know almost everything we need to know." Shen Yunzhe turned around and walked away with the doll in his arms. "Let's go find the director."
Ding Yue chased after him, "But I don't know anything now. I don't know why it wants the curator's head, and I don't know how to get the dead curator to give it his head voluntarily."
Shen Yunzhe: "If you look carefully at the doll production drawings and decomposition diagrams, you will find that the curator's drawings do not include the production diagram of the doll's head. This is because when he was making the doll, he had not yet completed the design of the doll's head when he realized something was wrong."
Ding Yue nodded blankly, "And then?"
"The Curator of the Museum of Wonderful Things is the creator of the doll. That's probably why the doll can only be created by the Curator's hands. What if there's no head? You can just use the Curator's. As for the Curator giving it voluntarily, it's a game restriction, limiting the doll's abilities to reduce the difficulty of the game."
"So, now all that's left for that scary doll is to get the curator's head, and it'll be complete and even more powerful than before, right?"
"right."
Shen Yunzhe said, "Do you remember the director's records? The director refused to let the doll become whole. He also said that he was sorry for the staff of the Museum of Wonders. I guess the doll tried to use the heads of everyone in the Museum of Wonders. Every time it tried, it threatened the director with a corpse, demanding that he give it the head, otherwise it would continue killing people."
Ding Yue's eyes were tinged with sadness. "But the director didn't. He's dead."
"I was afraid I'd be soft-hearted, so I committed suicide. That way, I'd never voluntarily give my head to the doll." Shen Yunzhe thought of the remains in the director's office. "Even after death, the doll still chopped off my head. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I try, it can't use the head as long as the director doesn't want it to."
The director of the Museum of Strange Things was willing to sacrifice himself and all the staff of the Museum to prevent the doll from being completed and harming people, even at the cost of his life.
This is also the last thing the curator can do.
Ding Yue stepped forward and stood in front of Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe looked at him in confusion, "What are you doing?"
"If we really get the director's head, and the doll is complete, wouldn't that mean that all the efforts of the director and the entire exhibition hall staff have been in vain?"
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Yes."
"But if that's the case..."
"Do you want to die?" Shen Yunzhe asked him.
Ding Yue shook her head.
"That's all." Shen Yunzhe walked around him. "Don't be too greedy. The bright and upright life is yours, and the future is yours. I don't want to disappoint the people in the background story. Ding Yue, you have to learn to give up. At least you have to give up two things to get the final result."
Ding Yue watched him walk out, "Aren't you greedy?"
Shen Yunzhe didn't even turn his head. "What's the point of worrying about greed at this time?"
"Surviving is the most important thing we should do now."
…
The story hall is only open at night. If it is opened during the day, the ghost will 100% be caught by the female ghost. That is to say, they can only get the curator's head tonight, and can only give the curator's head to the doll tomorrow, the seventh night.
Shen Yunzhe climbed onto the ceiling of the story hall and quickly went into the director's office. Ding Yue went to look for Qiulan and Lu Ronghua who had just escaped.
It was still as dark up there. Shen Yunzhe sat on the ground. He took out his cell phone and turned on the flashlight to illuminate the front.
The director's body was still in the same condition as when Shen Yunzhe left, with his head thrown beside him and his body turned over by Shen Yunzhe. On his chest was a badge that read "Director of the Museum of Strange Objects". It was obvious that he cherished this badge and everything in the exhibition hall very much.
"I'm sorry." Shen Yunzhe picked up the head and went down from the story hall. When he walked out of the story hall, he unexpectedly found that the female ghost who usually stayed in the propaganda hall at night was gone.
I walked all the way to the restaurant area, but there was no chef in the kitchen. It was deserted and empty.
After a while, Ding Yue and the remaining two finally came back. Qiulan and Lu Ronghua looked a little embarrassed, as if they knew that it would be too unfair for them to run away.
"Shen Yunzhe!" Ding Yue didn't care about any of this at all. He said, "Something strange is happening!"
"What's strange?"
"The door of the doll house is open again, but there are no dolls. Not only the doll house, but also the female ghost in the exhibition hall and the strange things we encountered are gone." Ding Yue said: "It's empty, as if there is nothing here."
“Even the chefs in the restaurants disappeared.”
Shen Yunzhe sat on the dining chair and put his head on the table. "I guess it's urging us to give it the director's head."
Lu Ronghua looked at the head carefully. "Is this what the doll wants? Then should we give it to it quickly?"
"No." Shen Yunzhe said, "I'm afraid of trouble, afraid that thing will change its mind, so I have to wait until the last moment of the seven days to give it to it."
"Yes, yes, yes, how could I forget this." Lu Ronghua said quickly: "We can't give it to it so early, what if he changes his mind?"
Shen Yunzhe is most accustomed to wasting time.
They sat like this until five in the morning, but apart from the announcement that the exhibition hall was closed, the chef did not show up and they were not given breakfast, although they could not eat it.
When there is nothing to do, some people like popularity, such as Lu Ronghua, who starts to chatter.
"Do we really have to wait until night? Or should we give it to him in advance? Maybe it will be okay. It's quite creepy to leave a head here."
"Will you die if you keep your mouth shut? Don't you know what's going on right now?" Qiulan scolded him. "What if that thing really changes its mind?"
"But if we don't give it to it, what if it gets angry and changes its mind?"
Ding Yue tried to mediate, "Stop arguing, stop arguing. This was all found by Shen Yunzhe. Let Shen Yunzhe decide for himself."
"Huh? Why should I let him decide? This is my life!"
"Then if you have the ability, find clues and survive on your own," Qiulan said, raising her voice. "In the end, wasn't the most important thing found by Shen Yunzhe?"
Listening to them arguing, Shen Yunzhe suddenly stood up, picked up the head on the table and walked out. Everyone present was stunned.
Ding Yue stood up, "Shen Yunzhe? Where are you going?"
"Let's see if this head is willing to be taken by us." Shen Yunzhe said: "That thing is very difficult to say. The curator must give his head voluntarily."
After saying that, he walked towards the exhibition hall with his head in his hands.
[The code name "Sleeping Disorder" has a big impact on you. Now you want to switch to a parallel world?]
"Don't change it yet." Shen Yunzhe said, "I have a little [vicious] idea right now, but don't let it disappear after I change it. Wait until I'm sure of this idea before I talk about it."
"There are plenty of parallel worlds, but you can't always play pranks."
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