Chapter 42
They gradually filtered out more posts.
"Did you know? My dad used to go to this school. He told us it was a special place. A renovation worker had gone missing. My dad said he might have been murdered and then buried in the wall."
"A look back at seven seniors who jumped off buildings due to academic pressure after the school was founded."
"Did you know? A guy from the class next door fell down the stairs. The railing was in disrepair. He heard someone shouting downstairs, so he looked back up and saw the railing snapped."
Why is the school wired up against the wall? Because someone skipped class and climbed the wall, but they bumped into a rock and died instantly.
"There are all these stories, but I feel like most of them are made up, especially the one about the renovation workers being built into the wall," Yuan Jing questioned. "But here, all these supernatural legends have come true."
"So there aren't any supernatural stories about teachers and students together." Li Yiluan stared at the screen. "The content is too mixed."
As he said this, he glanced at the time. There was less than an hour left before he and Yuan Jing died.
At this moment, Shen Yunzhe's mouse stopped on a post.
The school song competition seems to be held at the No. 2 Middle School next door. What a shame! Why isn't it held at our school? I'm so exhausted from studying every day.
School song competition?
Shen Yunzhe remembered that this seemed to be mentioned behind the teacher's photo.
He clicked on this post and was surprised to find that there were so many replies, 300 pages high, and this post had actually been turned over three pages.
"That's a lot of content." Yuan Jing was surprised. "It will take more than half an hour to finish reading this."
"We only have more than half an hour left." Li Yuluan reminded him.
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Let's take a gamble. What we want is in this post."
The three of them were the last survivors. Shen Yunzhe didn't last more than an hour after Li Yuluan and Yuan Jing died. They almost died at the same time. Everyone present wanted to find a solution. Since Shen Yunzhe said so, they didn't object.
The three of them read the post quickly to avoid missing anything.
Last year's school song competition was held at our school. This year, of course, it's held at No. 2 Middle School, and then it'll be No. 3 and No. 4 Middle Schools. It takes turns every year.
[Who is participating in the competition this time? Which teacher and which student?]
"I'd say it's ridiculous that a teacher and a student have to sing the school song together to express their love for the school. This competition is just in name only."
[A senior class teacher, who seemed to be a Chinese teacher, and her class representative.]
[Top students are favored by teachers, and even this kind of thing happens.]
[But do you know? It's said something strange happened at No. 2 Middle School.]
【What's strange? 】
Sparrows died en masse, likely from eating poisoned food. They died one after another, leaving a pile of bodies on the playground. The cleaners couldn't even fit them in a sack.
[Poisoned food? Real or fake?]
I don't know. Maybe they deliberately fed the sparrows. We humans wouldn't eat grains dropped on the ground, only sparrows would. Anyway, there's a rumor going around that there must be something fishy going on with the sparrows dying in droves. I have a junior high classmate from the school next door, and he told me there's a story about sparrows there.
What story?
[It's said to be a sparrow, but it's not actually a sparrow. It's just something that has taken over a sparrow's body. It hides in the sparrow's shell and waits for someone to pass by. If it takes a fancy to someone, that person will die, and it will crawl out of the sparrow's shell and into that person's body.]
[Oh my god, this is so scary.]
[I don’t know if the teachers and students who participated in the competition saw this grand scene.]
"That must be it." Yuan Jing's voice trembled. "The sparrow corresponds to the birdcage and bird in the school hall. The people who went to the competition were Yin Yin and her Chinese teacher. They must have seen the bird there, and then one of them was possessed by the sparrow."
"If that's true, then who is possessed?" Li Yiluan said, "Both of them behaved in ways that weren't their own. Yin Yin committed suicide, and the teacher went crazy and killed people."
Shen Yunzhe listened to their words for a moment before speaking, "But if you want to change the skin, the other party must die. Yin Yin is dead, but the teacher is not dead."
"That's Yin Yin." Yuan Jing said, "If it's Yin Yin, then why did the teacher go crazy and kill people?"
"Maybe she didn't kill a human, but a sparrow?" Shen Yunzhe made another guess.
Li Yuluan and Yuan Jing were stunned for a moment.
They found it unbelievable, but also thought it made perfect sense.
The teacher didn't believe that her beloved student would commit suicide, so she began to investigate. During the investigation, she discovered sparrows, so she began to hunt sparrows. How many of those teachers and students were replaced by sparrows?
"So, the medium for this game field is a sparrow?" Li Yiluan murmured. "The main theme is a campus supernatural legend, and the medium is a dead sparrow. But where is the sparrow?"
"If there's only one bird, it's the strange bird in front of the teaching building." Yuan Jing said, "Is that it?"
Shen Yunzhe shook his head, "Not really."
"ah?"
"It cries every time one of us dies, but rather than causing our deaths, it's more like it realizes we're about to die, so it starts barking out of fear, hoping to warn us." Shen Yunzhe murmured softly, "Its cry is filled with fear, very... anthropomorphic?"
Damn, they're starting to get psychological trauma from the word anthropomorphism.
Ding Dong, Yuan Jing's cell phone made a notification sound. Yuan Jing hurriedly turned off the phone and her face turned pale instantly.
This was the alarm she had set in advance, which started ringing five minutes before their death.
The scene fell silent in an instant. After all, although they figured out a few things, they still didn't know how to escape from the school.
Her phone lit up. When she was in a hurry to turn off the alarm, she accidentally turned on the live broadcast. The live broadcast was blocked by a bunch of viewers, and the comments they sent blocked the screen. They could see the comments at a glance by lowering their heads.
[It's about to begin! The second round of fighting!]
They're really trying hard. They started to resist after knowing the order of death, even changing the way they died. Previous players only started to act after the third or fourth time.
Although there are only seven of them, their basic qualities are very high.
[It's useless to have high quality. If you are destined to die, you will die anyway.]
[I'm curious. Shen Yunzhe was with them this time, too. He died over half an hour later than them. How could this happen? Could it really be a triple kill?]
【Looking forward to it.】
I think Shen Yunzhe is pretty good. He has a dozen skills. When I first joined, I didn't expect him to be able to play the piano or read music.
[No matter how high your quality is, it's useless in this round. Maybe there will be a surprise in the next round.]
These comments made the atmosphere at the scene even colder, and Shen Yunzhe began to feel anxious for some unknown reason.
Dark environments and extreme situations can change a person's mood, and the weird atmosphere can also make people panic and anxious, so he stood up, but at this moment Shen Yunzhe felt something entangled around his feet. He quickly lowered his head, and it was pitch black under his feet and he couldn't see anything.
He hurriedly took out his cell phone and used the brief light of the phone to look at his feet, but before he could see anything, a huge force hit him.
Shen Yunzhe was dragged down and his cell phone fell to the ground. He subconsciously grabbed the table, and as a result, the table was pulled over by him. Li Yulun and Yuan Jing were startled. Li Yulun grabbed his hand that was being dragged away, and only then did they see what was wrapped around Shen Yunzhe's feet.
The long black cotton-like hair was wrapped around his ankles, the hair was wrapped very tightly and thickly, and Shen Yunzhe was dragged backwards.
"It's hair!" Yuan Jing screamed, "Lots of hair!"
The hair was still spreading, climbing up along Shen Yunzhe's ankles little by little. In a few seconds, his legs were buried in the hair, and Li Yuluan gradually couldn't hold him back.
"Don't worry about me." Shen Yunzhe said, "If I really followed the order, I wouldn't die. Hurry up and leave!"
Li Yuluan let out a breath and let go of his hand. The next moment, Shen Yunzhe was dragged to the back of the classroom by his hair. Countless black hairs hung from the ceiling. He was pressed against the corner of the wall, and his whole body was tightly entangled by the hair. Shen Yunzhe felt the hair wrapped around his neck, and the feeling of suffocation made snowflakes appear in front of his eyes.
Not dead, but hovering in the dying range, unable to move at all.
"Let's go!" Li Yuluan grabbed Yuan Jing and wanted to leave the computer room, but as soon as they reached the computer room, there was a knock on the door.
Bang bang, the knocking sounds continued to echo in the computer room.
"Ah!!" Yuan Jing screamed, pointing at the window.
Unlike the girls' dormitory, the computer classroom has many windows. On the side near the corridor, one can clearly see a pale face pressed against the glass. The face was knocking on the window and looking inside, and when they discovered it, they showed a terrifying smile.
The knocking got louder.
Soon, there were not only knocks on the door and the glass, but also noises from every table, as if someone was hiding on the table and banging away.
Shen Yunzhe finally knew how the two of them died.
The person who knocked on the door opened it. It was impossible to see the face clearly, only pale skin and the reflective blade. A person slowly emerged from under the table and walked slowly towards Li Yuluan and Yuan Jing. The door and windows were filled with these pale people, and they had no way to escape.
Li Yuluan was the first to be stabbed to death, followed by Yuan Jing who kept crying.
Shen Yunzhe couldn't struggle, his mouth was tangled up by the dense hair, and he could only watch everything happen.
A sharp feeling of grief burst out from his chest, which was even stronger than the stabbing pain of being unable to breathe.
No, I don't.
I am a person with normal values. I have never killed anyone, and I don't want to see anyone die like this.
I am a musician who studies life and death. Why should I ignore the word "life"?
don't want……
Countless voices echoed in Shen Yunzhe's mind, accompanied by sad cries. This voice was very similar to his, but it was definitely not Shen Yunzhe.
The synchronization rate of the Codename Music Creator is rising, 30%, 35%, 41%... No, it can't continue to rise!
【Emergency change to parallel world. 】
[World B03415, codename: Sleep Disordered, synchronization begins, synchronization rate 35%.]
The dazzling sorrow and crying gradually faded from Shen Yunzhe's mind, and his brain was gradually rescued from the ocean of sadness. Shen Yunzhe slowly raised his head and found that his eyes were blurred. It was not the effect of suffocation, but his eyes were full of tears.
When people cry, their breathing becomes rapid. Shen Yunzhe almost fainted on the spot due to the increased feeling of suffocation, and then shed more tears due to suffocation.
[Although Codename Sleeper is emotionally unstable, he is an absolutely confident and arrogant person, and nothing can affect him.]
[Codename Music Composer's synchronization rate has stopped at 51%. This is an unexpected situation, but fortunately, his ability will no longer be needed.]
Shen Yunzhe slowly raised his head, looked forward with wet eyes, tears sliding down his cheeks. He stared at the bodies of Li Yuluan and Yuan Jing, with nothing left in his eyes except tears.
The photo fell out of Shen Yunzhe's pocket. Most of it must have fallen out when he was being dragged. A gust of wind blew in through the open window, and the photo floated in the wind for a while, and finally fell on Li Yuluan's blood-stained chest, slowly absorbing the red color.
His hair was scattered and he disappeared as suddenly as he appeared. Shen Yunzhe fell to the ground and coughed violently.
His exposed wrists, ankles and neck were covered with red marks, the skin was broken and flushed.
"What happened to him?" Shen Yunzhe coughed and asked, not caring whether the audience was still watching. "Li Yiluan said they were all dead and attached to me, and you said he didn't commit suicide by himself."
Shen Yunzhe recalled the feeling in his mind just now, "Was he killed?"
In gaming, popularity represents the level of danger. This is different from the difficulty of the game. The difficulty of the game comes from the audience, while the danger comes from the players.
Few players in the gaming field can maintain their true nature; most are gradually corrupted by desire. As a renowned musician who studies life and death, I don't need to explain how I'll be treated in such a field.
By players, by their own people...
Shen Yunzhe held his head and sighed deeply.
After sighing, Shen Yunzhe got up from the ground. He walked to Li Yuluan's body, picked up the photo, and shook off the bloodstains on the photo. Shen Yunzhe saw that the words on the back of the photo changed.
"Yin Yin is not dead?! I just slept, why is this happening?! Did I remember it wrong?"
"...It wasn't Yin Yin who committed suicide by jumping off the building. I went to the place where Yin Yin died, but I watched another child jump from the building."
'There must be something wrong here.'
Shen Yunzhe smiled.
There were still tears on his face and his exposed skin was covered with marks, but he just smiled.
"Oh my, new discovery." He smiled and said, "Yes, the announcement only said that a female student committed suicide by jumping off a building, but it never said that the female student who committed suicide was Yin Yin."
“What a surprise!”
He threw the photo on the ground and lay down on the messy computer room floor, closing his eyes as if letting himself immerse in the darkness and fall asleep.
I can’t sleep, of course I can’t sleep!
At this moment, the audience watching the live broadcast were silent for a long time. It was not until Shen Yunzhe stopped moving that someone sent a comment.
What is he doing? Why is he like a completely different person?
[He was crying just now, but now he's laughing? How come he's scarier than a ghost?]
[A mentally ill person has entered the playground? ]
[Oh my god... the genius is on the left and the madman is on the right?]
"No, with less than half an hour until his death, he's already lying motionless on the floor? Where's that initial drive to bravely move forward and seek a way out?"
[I don’t understand this person, can you understand? ]
【Even ghosts can’t understand.】
With only five minutes left, Shen Yunzhe moved. He sat up from the ground, and the photo in front of him had changed into another one. But it was not the strange female ghost from last time, but countless hairs. Shen Yunzhe looked at the hair and recalled the feeling of being hung up by these hairs just now.
He curled his lips, looking very unhappy.
Even if he died, he wanted to choose a comfortable death.
So Shen Yunzhe started to tear the photos into pieces quickly and efficiently, scattering them on the ground, like a child tearing paper for fun.
[You're not really crazy, are you? You're still laughing.]
[He's really amazing. He made me feel weird for the first time in a long time.]
Good guy, I remember him.
There was no use tearing the photo. Soon the photo was restored the moment Shen Yunzhe turned his head. It was placed neatly on the table next to Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe was not afraid. He even picked up the photo and looked at it curiously, with the female ghost reflected in his eyes.
Finally, Shen Yunzhe picked up his mobile phone from the ground, held it up and placed it tightly in front of the photo.
"This ghost will come out to scare the audience first. If you feel scared, give this ghost a bad review and send it away from this world!" Shen Yunzhe said.
“I’m very optimistic about you!”
Audience: ...Shit.
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