Chapter 36
Bad news, there's nothing in the girls' dormitory either.
This is an empty old school. When the students left, they left behind some daily necessities and clothes. It is as empty as the heart of each of them.
"How could this happen?" Bi Jiayin was almost in tears. "Li Yulu, this is your fourth game too. Have you ever seen a game field like this?"
Li Yuluan shook his head.
"There's nothing in this playground, and people started dying for no apparent reason. There are no ghosts or supernatural objects, just an empty space, and we're trapped inside with no way out. We don't know when we'll die." Bi Jiayin leaned against the window and looked into the distance. "What kind of playground is this?!"
As a newcomer, Yuan Jing squatted quietly at the back. She didn't dare to speak. As a newcomer, she was the most confused one among them.
Shen Yunzhe stood next to Yuan Jing and looked a little calmer than Yuan Jing. Given his identity as a "former forensic doctor", neither Bi Jiayin nor Li Yuluen cared about his calmness.
Forensic pathologists are police officers who work with criminal police. They must have seen countless ugly corpses, so it's normal that they are not afraid.
"Wait a little longer, it's almost night." Li Yiluan said, "Maybe we can see something at night."
"By then, we might all be gone. They died in unclear circumstances, and we will follow in their footsteps!" Bi Jiayin's face was pale.
Shen Yunzhe looked at Bi Jiayin's back and realized that although Bi Jiayin seemed quite mature and amiable at the beginning and even explained the rules to the newcomers seriously, her mentality was actually not very good, or even very bad.
Her heart was completely in turmoil.
"There will always be clues." Li Yuluan still said this.
Bi Jiayin shook her head and rubbed her face hard to make herself look more energetic. Then she turned and left, saying that she wanted to go to the dormitory where the dorm manager lived. Maybe she would see something. There was also the female student who committed suicide. She must have lived in this dormitory building.
"...Bei Chuanchuan's body." Yuan Jing reminded her quietly, "It's still on the first floor stairs."
"If you're afraid of corpses, you won't be able to return alive! This is a hurdle you must overcome!" Bi Jiayin taught her, "The survival rate of newcomers is very low. This is because newcomers are afraid. It is fear that makes them lose their composure. You have to learn not to be afraid."
Yuan Jing nodded quickly, "I, I will."
"Come with me to the first floor." Bi Jiayin said finally.
Yuan Jing's face turned pale and she looked at Shen Yunzhe for help.
"Don't look at him. He's a forensic doctor and isn't afraid of corpses." Bi Jiayin pulled her up. "It's you who needs training now."
"Okay." Yuan Jing could only agree and was pulled downstairs by Bi Jiayin.
For a newcomer who had just entered the playground, having to walk past the corpses of people she knew was a huge test for her, but Bi Jiayin would not let her escape. He insisted on pulling her along and letting her watch and walk until she was no longer afraid of the corpses.
When Yuan Jing came back, her eyes were red and it was obvious that she had been crying for a long time.
She huddled carefully in the corner, sobbing a little. Bi Jiayin ignored her and discussed countermeasures with Li Yuluan. No matter how slowly time passed, it began to get dark.
Shen Yunzhe squatted beside Yuan Jing, "Are you okay?"
"No, it's okay." Yuan Jing wiped away her tears. Perhaps because Shen Yunzhe was a newcomer like her, she was more willing to talk to him. "Do you all face corpses like that as forensic pathologists?"
"There aren't as many homicides as you think." Shen Yunzhe began to make up stories. Since there were no forensic doctors here, no one knew the specific circumstances. "Most deaths are accidental, and not all deaths require autopsies."
Yuan Jing's eyes hurt from crying, but she couldn't stop her tears. "I just went to the first floor and saw Bei Chuanchuan's body still on the steps."
"This was the first time I was so close to a corpse. I tried my best to walk close to the edge, but I was still scared."
"When I couldn't help but look back, I saw Bei Chuanchuan's face pressed against the steps. She opened her eyes as if looking at me. I burst into tears on the spot. My tolerance was too low, but I really had never seen..." As Yuan Jing spoke, she lowered her head, and her voice was replaced by sobs.
Shen Yunzhe patted her shoulder and said, "It's human nature."
At this moment, Bi Jiayin, who was discussing, suddenly raised his voice, "What else do you want? We are almost dead!"
Everyone present looked over, but Bi Jiayin didn't care. She threw the paper in her hand on the table, turned around and walked out of the dormitory.
Shen Yunzhe walked over and picked up the paper on the table. "What's wrong?"
"She wants to try climbing the wall by stacking people." Li Yiluan took the white paper handed to him by Shen Yunzhe, "I think this method is reckless and should not be considered."
Shen Yunzhe understood.
"She's too anxious." Li Yuluan still had no expression on his face, and even his words were not hurried or impatient.
"We can't help but be anxious in this situation." Yuan Jing said on behalf of Bi Jiayin, "People are dying so quickly and in such large numbers, aren't you anxious? We don't know who will be next."
Li Yiluan shook his head, "Let's go out of the dormitory building and check out the cafeteria."
"The cafeteria?" Yuan Jing was surprised by the location. "What's in the cafeteria?"
"There's breakfast, lunch, and dinner," Shen Yunzhe said. "If this is truly a long mission, and we have to stay here for who knows how long, then there should be a place for us to eat. Otherwise, we'll all starve to death here. Even if the game can starve us to death, there should still be a place to eat."
Li Yilun: "He's right."
Yuan Jing nodded, and they set out for the cafeteria together. On the way, they passed by Bei Chuanchuan's body again. After a few hours, the body had obviously become stiff. If it was left here without being dealt with, it might rot, but they were not in the mood to deal with it now.
When I walked out of the dormitory, it was a little dark outside.
"Why don't we go find Bi Jiayin first?" Yuan Jing still remembered her. "Is it really okay to leave her alone in the dormitory?"
"She is an old player and knows this matter very well. She will go to the cafeteria by herself," said Li Yuluan.
Yuan Jing nodded and turned to look at the dormitory building. At this moment, her eyes suddenly widened, "...Bi Jiayin?"
"Look! It's Bi Jiayin!"
Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan looked in the direction she pointed, only to see Bi Jiayin walking forward step by step on the balcony on the third floor of the girls' dormitory.
"What is she doing?" Yuan Jing asked curiously.
"Bi Jiayin!" She called Bi Jiayin's name, "Come down quickly, we are going to the cafeteria!"
But Bi Jiayin continued walking forward as if she didn't hear her voice at all. She climbed up the dormitory building and slowly approached the side.
Shen Yunzhe blinked and looked at Li Yiluan, "...What does she mean? Is she planning to jump out from the third floor?!"
Li Yuluan's face looked extremely ugly, and they immediately ran over there.
"I mentioned it to her, but I didn't expect her to actually do it." Li Yiluan's voice finally laced with gritted teeth. "I really just mentioned it and warned her not to do it."
They rushed to the edge in a hurry. At this time, Bi Jiayin finally climbed to the window sill at the edge. She stood on the windowsill and the wind blew her long hair.
"Bi Jiayin!" Li Yiluan called out to her, "You can't jump! You can't get out of there!"
Bi Jiayin stood there steadily, her eyes fixed on the wall, without answering a word.
"Bi Jiayin!" Yuan Jing also called her.
But all she could see was the wall.
"Something's wrong."
Shen Yunzhe quickly unbuttoned his coat and threw it on Yuan Jing, then started climbing up from the first floor. The protruding balcony and railings were the best support. Shen Yunzhe climbed up at an extremely fast speed, trying to get ahead of Bi Jiayin.
But she is fast, and Bi Jiayin is even faster.
Just as his hand grabbed the railing on the third floor, Bi Jiayin jumped. She looked into the distance, as if looking at a beautiful dream. When she jumped out, Shen Yunzhe could even see the smile on her face.
But what she jumped over was not a sweet dream, but a nightmare.
She failed to jump out of the wall, and her whole body was pierced by the iron wire on the wall. She looked outside with her eyes open, her eyes frozen, and she didn't make a sound until her death.
Shen Yunzhe hung on the railing on the third floor and looked at her body, his eyelids trembling.
"Ah!" Yuan Jing screamed again.
Shen Yunzhe stepped on the second-floor windowsill and jumped down. He stood below, looking at Bi Jiayin's body, and then spoke, "She jumped over the wall not because of a word from you or me."
Li Yuluan knew what Shen Yunzhe was talking about.
He nodded. "She's not in the right state. She seems to have been lured by something and is seeking death as if possessed."
"Thinking about it, why did Lan Sicheng go to the rooftop? Was he unconscious like her?" Shen Yunzhe said, "That's very possible. How could veteran players like you not know that you can't act alone?"
Yuan Jing squatted on the ground and began to cry, "Isn't the point now that another person has died?"
"Bi Jiayin is dead, and the only old players left are Li Yulun and Shen Yunzhe. We are all newcomers, and there is no way we can leave here on our own."
"We will die too."
"I don't want to die."
Shen Yunzhe and Li Yiluan exchanged a glance, and Li Yiluan shook his head, "Don't count on me, I can't even protect myself."
Shen Yunzhe sighed: "What should we do now?"
"Let's go to the cafeteria as planned." Li Yiluan said, "have dinner."
That's all we can do.
They dragged Yuan Jing, who was lying on the ground with weak legs, and took her to the cafeteria.
No one knows what happened, and no one knows why or how they died, but they are still alive, and since they are still alive, they have to move on.
…
There was no food or chef in the cafeteria, and dust covered every table. Shen Yunzhe reached out and touched it, and his fingers turned earthy.
"There's no food." Li Yiluan murmured, "Why?"
There was no time limit for escaping the mission, people died quickly, and there was no food or water provided. They didn't dare drink from the leaking faucet in the dormitory building, because who knew if there was anything strange in it.
"Based on this, it seems like this is indeed a very tight deadline," Shen Yunzhe said. "People lose their strength after two days without food or water."
Li Yiluan frowned, "Something's wrong."
Yuan Jing didn't care whether the chair was dirty or not. She squatted on the chair and looked into the distance with a blank look in her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.
"We still don't know how they died."
Shen Yunzhe sat on the chair next to Yuan Jing. Dust rubbed against his pants, but he didn't care at all. Extreme sports enthusiasts often fall and roll around, so dust is nothing.
"I do have an idea."
"What?"
"Do you know about the supernatural horror incidents on campus?" Shen Yunzhe looked at them. "The kind that are common in major universities."
Yuan Jing rolled her eyes, her eyes red. "Are you talking about the rumor that the school was built on a cemetery?"
"right."
Shen Yunzhe leaned over the table and faced Li Yiluan. "First, a staff member who worked on the school construction was killed in an accident or murder, and his body was found embedded in the school wall. Lu Shun."
"There was a senior who, because she felt let down by her studies or boyfriend/girlfriend issues, committed suicide by jumping off a building or hanging herself. Lan Sicheng."
"Don't count the stairs when you go up, or you'll find there's an extra step. Or if you hear someone calling your name while you're going up the stairs, don't turn back, because a classmate fell to his death and is looking for a scapegoat. Bei Chuanchuan."
"The school had extremely strict rules that didn't allow students to leave the premises. Finally, one day, a student, unable to bear the loneliness, climbed over the wall to skip class. As a result, due to the school's added measures, he fell from the wall and died on the spot. Bi Jiayin."
Yuan Jing's face turned pale, and she nodded continuously, "Yes, that's it!"
"They're all scary ghost stories that would go around in school!"
Li Yiluan was stunned by the surprise. After a long while, he nodded, "...So that's how it is."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him curiously, "You don't know?"
"I, I." Li Yilun was stunned by the question, finally unable to maintain his cool and indifferent image. After a long pause, he said, "I didn't go to a regular school. In order to inherit my family's business, I have been studying at home."
"Wow, someone who slipped through the net of nine years of compulsory education?" Shen Yunzhe sighed. "What's your family business?"
Li Yuluan was silent again. Just when Shen Yunzhe thought he wouldn't say anything, he spoke in a low voice.
"Fortune-telling."
Now it was Shen Yunzhe's turn to be silent. He looked at Li Yuluan, trying to find out if he was joking. However, Li Yuluan's serious eyes told him that he was not joking.
"The master of exorcism has also been dragged into the playground?" Yuan Jing complained in a low voice.
"I only tell fortunes, not catch ghosts," Li Yilun retorted. "A client suddenly said he had entered a strange place and insisted I save his life, no matter how much money he offered. I thought he was a scam so I watched the live broadcast. Who knew it was real?"
"Well, I'm a forensic doctor, redressing the injustices of the dead; you're a master, changing the fate of the living, and today you were all caught in a tangle at this playground."
Li Yiluan shook his head, "No, it's not that serious yet."
"You calculated it?"
"Yes, I counted it." Li Yiluan said, "Not only us, but even those who died didn't look dead. Logically, they shouldn't have died."
He finally spoke more, but his eyes were filled with confusion. "None of them should have died, but they all died."
"Why?"
Gurgle, a voice interrupted Li Yuluan's soliloquy.
Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan turned to look at Yuan Jing.
Yuan Jing quickly covered her stomach and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't eat when I came in, and now I'm starving."
They both looked at each other and sighed.
There was no food in this abandoned cafeteria, and there was no food in the entire huge school. There was nothing they could do if they were hungry, so they could only go back to the girls' dormitory together before it got too late. Yuan Jing followed them with a red face, saying as she walked that she wanted to try a few bites of the grass just by looking at it.
They were so hungry and hadn't had any water for the whole day, so they finally turned on the tap and got some water to satisfy their hunger.
Yuan Jing was lying on the innermost bed, while Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan were sitting on the bed in front of her, and they didn't seem to be planning to sleep.
Yuan Jing was extremely nervous after the whole day. She was hungry and tired, and finally slept uneasily on the wooden bed. Shen Yunzhe yawned, feeling a little sleepy but afraid that something might happen. To be honest, this was the first time he encountered such a difficult situation.
The codename Climber assigned to him by the system was of no use at all, because they had never seen a ghost.
[The code world cannot be changed yet. There are no landmarks, so it is impossible to judge the situation and assign a suitable peer.]
This system always pops up to explain to him the moment he is confused, as if it knows what he is thinking.
[I said, I am in your mind, of course I know what you are thinking.]
Grass.
Shen Yunzhe's pupils trembled.
What kind of social death scene is this?!
[I have no interest in your memory. You can just treat me as an AI that answers your questions.]
The more he thought about it, the more embarrassed he felt. Shen Yunzhe decided to divert his attention. He looked at Li Yuluan, who was sitting next to him, and asked, "Have you ever calculated whether anything will happen tonight?"
Li Yuluan didn't even look at him, just closed his eyes and dozed off.
"Li Yiluan."
"I can't predict it right now, and I don't know what will happen." Li Yiluan finally spoke, "At least in my opinion, none of us will die at this stage, but the last person I judged to be alive, Bi Jiayin, is already dead."
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Does that mean everything is fine?"
Li Yiluan opened his eyes and looked at him, "What are you going to do?"
"I just drank too much water and I need to go to the bathroom." Shen Yunzhe sighed, "You see, I'm a little afraid to go. The bathroom is a place where supernatural things often happen. How about you come with me?"
In fact, Shen Yunzhe didn't want to go to the bathroom, but he just lied.
Shen Yunzhe sighed inwardly: This is a really bad habit.
Li Yiluan looked at him with disdain, "I'm not going."
"I know. After all, we can't leave Yuan Jing alone in the dormitory." Shen Yunzhe had to go to school even if he didn't want to. He stood up and coughed, "Then I'll go."
Li Yiluan nodded, "Be careful."
Okay, okay, it’s just going to the bathroom?
Is it possible to wipe them all out in one day?
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