Chapter 33
Now that things have come to this, how could they not tell him the news?
Because they did not enter the same game field, Qiao Dong called them out and recorded them in different places. Shen Yunzhe was left in the conference room to wait for the person in charge to come. It was a long time before Qiao Dong came in.
"Shen Yunzhe, right?" Qiao Dong sat in front of him. "I'm your supervisor."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him in surprise. "I thought you were responsible for someone more important?"
"Who is the important person you are referring to?" Qiao Dong asked him with a smile.
I don't know, maybe they are some old players who have passed by the game field many times, maybe they are dignitaries who accidentally saw the live broadcast, or maybe they are dangerous people who have been corrupted by the game field to the point of losing their humanity, but it will definitely not be an orphan like Shen Yunzhe.
"You're overthinking it. There are so many players, and we're short on manpower. We're splitting each person into ten roles. Right now, I'm just recording your files part-time." Qiao Dong, a good-natured man, even joked with Shen Yunzhe. "I can't rest until all the recording is done. I don't want to work overtime."
Shen Yunzhe nodded in agreement, "Working overtime is too painful."
"Then let's get started." Qiao Dong began typing. "We've already confirmed that the medium for every new player's novice game field is their mobile phone. Starting from the second game field, things will be different. So, what do you think your medium will be in the second game field?"
"Baby." Shen Yunzhe said.
Qiao Dong stopped typing and looked at Shen Yunzhe. "The information shows that you particularly like dolls. Most of your expenses are for expensive dolls. The officer who brought you here said you have a cabinet at home?"
"It's different. Mine is a regular doll, machine-made. It won't come to life." Shen Yunzhe said, "The dolls in the playground can use the players' limbs to piece themselves together."
"I understand." Qiao Dong nodded. "Then what are the conditions for passing?"
"Head. Exchange the head of the exhibition hall director for our pawned body parts, and survive for seven days."
Qiao Dong frowned slightly. He carefully read what Shen Yunzhe said over and over again, asked some details and confirmed the name of the game.
Then he said, "This doesn't seem like your second game. Judging by the difficulty, it's more like the third game for an average player."
It was true. Apart from a few newcomers, most of the people in this game field were players who were playing their fourth game.
Speaking of other players...
Shen Yunzhe looked at Qiao Dong, "Do you know someone named Ding Yue?"
"...Ding Yue?" Qiao Dong thought for a moment, "I don't know her."
Could it be that Ding Yue is really not an official?
"But I know a guy named Yue Ding. He's a non-staff member of our special department. He's quite capable, but he has a strange personality. He often disguises himself in the game field. Yue Ding did enter the game yesterday. What happened? Did you just happen to run into him?"
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, "Oh? You like to disguise yourself?"
"Then I'll have to raise your level. Yue Ding is a veteran player and has completed the game more times than expected. The game will be much more difficult with him around." Qiao Dong said, "Looks like I can ask him directly about the details of this game field."
Come to think of it, how could there be a player who is as kind and sharp as the Holy Father in the game field?
After recording all the files, Qiao Dong gave everyone his phone number and then announced that they could go home.
Shen Yunzhe asked them implicitly if they had any way to control players to share the "surprise easter eggs", and Qiao Dong just patted him on the shoulder and said they would do their best.
Only after they all left did Qiao Dong look to the side.
"What? Aren't you coming to recognize your companions who have experienced life and death together?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a person walked out from the side. If Shen Yunzhe was still here, he would find that he was Ding Yue who came out of the Strange Objects Exhibition Hall with him.
Now he should be called Yue Ding.
Yue Ding leaned against the wall and said, "I don't want to see him. Wouldn't it be very embarrassing if we did? You pretend to be so kind and fearless, but it's all fake."
"When did you become so shameless?" Qiao Dong felt a toothache. "But I've never seen you care so much about a player."
"That's because you don't know what he did in there." Yue Ding smiled. "Doesn't he look honest and serious? Very cooperative, like a good citizen? But in reality, he dared to smash the female ghost's workbench in the playground, dared to enter the forbidden staff dormitory in the middle of the night, dared to hold the doll inside and refused to let go, and even dared to pour chemicals into the doll's head."
Qiao Dong was stunned, "So fierce?!"
"So, there's no need to worry about the playground at the Wonders Exhibition Hall," Yue Ding said. "He melted the entire doll with chemicals, so the doll will never be complete."
Taking a deep breath, Qiao Dong began to look through Shen Yunzhe's file.
"No way, the files never mentioned that."
"He even told me he's a forensic doctor," Yue Ding tutted. "Forensic doctor? How did he get to be one? He has absolutely no medical training, but he does have some theoretical knowledge. I didn't do much in the playground just to observe him."
His unstable personality and emotions, overly aggressive actions, and even his rich and vast knowledge almost made him think that this person had a split personality.
This young man named Shen Yunzhe is very mysterious and must be paid special attention to.
As soon as Shen Yunzhe returned home, the police knocked on his door again, but this time it was not about the playground, but a murder case.
The victim that Shen Yunzhe had heard about at the police station was indeed the little girl he had helped. The police were investigating when the doll stuffed in her stomach when she died appeared. The investigation revealed that the little girl had run away from home more than ten days ago and was holding the doll when she came back.
Shen Yunzhe told the police everything he knew, including that the little girl was shaking the trash can and holding a dirty doll.
The police looked at each other. In fact, after checking the surveillance footage, they found that it was indeed the case. The doll was a toy that the girl found in the trash can after she ran away from home. Later, Shen Yunzhe came back from outside and found the little girl next to the trash can.
After thanking Shen Yunzhe for the clues, the police left, and the college student next door then poked his head out curiously.
"Brother Chen!" The university student hurried out, holding a notebook in his hand, and gave Shen Yunzhe a flattering smile. "Brother Chen, are you related to that murder case? Can you tell me some information?"
Shen Yunzhe knew that the college student next door was studying journalism and was working hard on his graduation thesis. It was said that his tutor asked him to follow the latest news and write a complete cause and effect. It had to be a major event, and cats and dogs or quarrels and fights would not be qualified.
He howled loudly all day long and ran around everywhere to graduate.
"I just happened to run into that little girl a dozen days ago, took a photo of her in the property management group, and sent a message asking her parents to pick her up. That's all."
As he spoke, Shen Yunzhe opened the photo album on his phone, wanting to show him the photos he had taken at that time, but he was stunned the moment he opened the photos.
There was no little girl on his phone, but instead a weird pink cat holding a tattered doll.
"Brother Shen?" The people around noticed Shen Yunzhe's strange pause.
"It's nothing. I just suddenly remembered that I cleared all the messages a few days ago, including the photos." Shen Yunzhe turned off the phone screen. "Anyway, that's all I know."
"Hey, I thought Brother Shen was visited by the police twice because you found a major clue." The college student opposite him instantly wilted, seemingly mistaking the previous police visit to his arcade for a homicide investigation. "It's not nice to say this, but this is the closest I've ever been to graduation."
The college student clenched his fist and said, "I will try my best to make the best report!"
Watching him return home in high spirits, Shen Yunzhe thought: If you really report the truth, you will probably be regarded as a psychopath.
After all, this is not an ordinary homicide case.
Shen Yunzhe returned to his room, closed the door, and reopened the photos on his phone. Looking at the pink cat in the photo, he remembered what Qiao Dong said: the playground would affect reality. The completed playground would come to the real world through the medium and cause mysterious events.
If there were any survivors nearby who had passed through this playground, they would be scared to death.
The playground that he had finally gotten rid of actually followed him into reality.
Codename hoped to look outside through Shen Yunzhe's eyes. After a long while, he finally spoke, "I seem to remember why I was locked up here."
Shen Yunzhe paused because he found that he actually heard the voice of code name Hope.
"System?" Shen Yunzhe asked.
[Your sync rate with Codename Hope is increasing. Your experiences have touched his memories, so a temporary telepathic connection will occur. This is only for Codename Hope.]
Okay, he knew it again, because Codename Hope was special, Codename Hope was his only surviving counterpart.
"The problem with the playground has never been a problem; the problem is its expansion," Codename Hope whispered. "As long as players complete the playground, the real world will be eroded. Slowly, slowly, the real world will become like the playground."
"We can't let all players die in the game, but we can't let the real world become as cruel as the game."
"I'm here because I want to control the expansion of the gaming grounds."
Codename Hope raised her hands and looked at her palms, "Yeah, I remember now."
"I'm the stone that keeps the playground from spreading. But why did it appear again?"
Codename Hope stared outside, "Why is the playground still affecting reality?!"
"I've been here all along and never left!"
[Calm down.] The system's voice blended in with Codename Hope's mumblings. [This isn't your world, this is Shen Yunzhe's. You're not in the same parallel world, so naturally, we can only suppress the spread of your world's playground.]
【You can only save your own world. 】
The voice of code name Hope disappeared. Shen Yunzhe sat on the sofa in the living room holding the doll, and the system did not speak.
Shen Yunzhe unexpectedly discovered that he did not seem to feel any fear, not even a little fear. He felt that he was indeed affected by these code-named isotopes, and even though he had lost synchronization and returned to the real world, there were still some differences.
...It's like, different experiences make different people.
And he experiences the experiences of other peers in synchronization.
…
In the following time, Shen Yunzhe only met code name Xiwang once in a dream. He sincerely thanked and apologized to Shen Yunzhe, and acted a little shy.
He seemed to have too little contact with people and couldn't communicate with anyone. Or maybe he had forgotten and didn't think about it, but he was obviously more like a normal person than before.
He said that he would definitely cooperate with Shen Yunzhe. This was the first time he knew that there was a parallel world and a parallel self in the world.
"I have a request." He finally said to Shen Yunzhe, who was a little hesitant: "If possible, can you come to see me more often?"
He felt a little embarrassed after saying that, "I'm a little too lonely, because you are myself, so I can't help but want to be more eager."
Shen Yunzhe silently covered his chest and thought: Why would I be like this in the parallel world?
She is simply an exquisite doll that lacks love!
"Don't treat Codename Hope like a doll." The system warned him, "Besides, your dolls are just for show. You just want to fill your house with them, not really love them."
"What do you care?" Shen Yunzhe continued to think about the code-named Hope, who looked like a perfect doll.
Can I raise one? I really want to!
[He won't run away, he'll just stay there forever. Just treat him like a doll in a black box, and touch it in your dreams whenever you have time.] The system gave him the perfect suggestion: [Treat him the same way as the doll in your closet.]
"Raising a doll requires regular cleaning, tidying up clothes and hair, and occasionally changing hairstyles and clothes. I can't do that to him."
Shen Yunzhe felt extremely regretful.
The system stopped talking, probably because it was speechless to him.
Time passed quickly, and fifteen days flew by in a flash. Shen Xinlu came once, but she didn't mention the playground again, and Shen Yunzhe didn't ask her if she knew about it. But when she left, she couldn't help but tear up when she saw the wall full of dolls. She probably knew something about the inside story and knew that the place Shen Yunzhe went to was terrible.
Before this, Shen Yunzhe had given Chen Xinlu a heads-up. He told her that if anything happened to him, she should donate all the dolls in the room to the orphanage, including the one he had lived in.
Every child should have a beautiful and exquisite doll.
Before entering the game, Qiao Dong called him. According to him, they would call to express their condolences before every confirmed player enters the game. The game field is still unclear, and they have no way to prevent players from entering. They can only try their best to tell everyone the possible taboos.
For example, Qiao Dong told Shen Yunzhe that the ultimate goal of every game field is to achieve the integrity of the medium by relying on players to complete the tasks. This medium is the shortcut to complete the tasks.
Although completing the game mission will affect reality, they sincerely hope that every innocent player can come back alive.
Come back alive.
The voice cut off and the call was hung up. It was not him who hung up the call, but an incoming call forcefully squeezed out Qiao Dong's call.
[The game "Qingcheng No. 1 Senior High School" is loading.]
[The game is loading...]
Qingcheng? Shen Yunzhe immediately thought of his first playground, which was called "Qingcheng Jianbai Central Hospital."
Why do they all have the same prefix?
Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly, but instead of dwelling on it, he turned around and looked around. Several people appeared beside him one after another.
Finally, Shen Yunzhe discovered: There are only seven people in this game?!
Ding Dong, confirming that everyone is present, a reminder is issued.
Shen Yunzhe opened the announcement. At this time, everyone was looking at their phones, so he couldn't tell whether there were any new people among the seven people. He had to look at the announcement first.
[The game "Qingcheng No. 1 Senior High School" has been loaded.]
Game content: The story begins with a female student committing suicide by jumping from a building. A news report reports that the day after the female student's suicide, her homeroom teacher attacked with a knife, seriously injuring two teachers, killing one student, and slightly injuring several others. To report on this horrific incident, you, as intern teachers, enter the school to investigate.
[Main Mission: Escape from school.]
[Note: There is no time limit for this game, and the completion of the main mission is the first criterion.]
An escape mission with no time limit?!
Shen Yunzhe was sure that he had opened his eyes wide, and he was also sure that the people around him were as surprised as he was.
But they didn't have time to be dazed. The countdown came out quickly, and everyone present immediately ran towards the school in front. Only one person seemed to have fallen behind, but when she saw everyone else walking inside, she immediately followed. It was not known whether it was because she was following the crowd or because she was calm enough.
As soon as everyone stepped into the school gate, the school gate closed tightly with a click, and at the same time the school bell rang.
"The bell for school starts." The girl who came up last listened to the sound and asked, "Is this school?"
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