Chapter 48
Chapter 48
When Li Yuluan brought the three girls down from upstairs, Shen Yunzhe was still sitting in the same place.
His breathing was still steady, and he looked like he was really asleep, but when Li Yuluan and the others came down, Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes and looked at them in the dark.
"Shen Yunzhe!" Yuan Jing didn't meet his eyes and rushed over to grab his arm. "Let's go! Lu Shun has turned into a monster!"
Shen Yunzhe slowly lowered his head and looked at Yuan Jing without saying a word.
He was unusually quiet, and Yuan Jing subconsciously let go of his hand.
[I hope the code name won't mess around.]
[The Codename Sleep Disorder's erosion is too severe, and you're too exhausted. Not many can suppress it, so you can only try to fight poison with poison.]
[Codename Hope's emotions were extreme, but now you've almost adapted to it, so you can at least get a little more sleep.]
"Shen, Shen Yunzhe?" Yuan Jing spoke a little fearfully.
Shen Yunzhe did not answer. He was still sitting there. He looked at everyone around him but seemed not to be looking at anyone. After a while, a strange sparrow sound was heard. They looked towards the stairs and saw the Lushun sparrow using its wings to crawl forward bit by bit.
His legs had degenerated and disappeared, and his fat body could only crawl on the ground.
Li Yuluan looked at Lu Shun Sparrow nervously, then looked at Shen Yunzhe who remained silent.
Shen Yunzhe is very strange now, or he is not sure whether to call him Shen Yunzhe.
"Turn on the lights." Just when everyone was nervous, Shen Yunzhe suddenly spoke.
"What?"
"It's too dark." Shen Yunzhe's voice was very soft, even deadly dull. It seemed as if he had been struggling for a long time before he could only utter these three words. It was unlike the Shen Yunzhe of any other day.
Bei Chuanchuan screamed, "Where is the light here?!"
So Shen Yunzhe stopped talking. Li Yuluan reached out and tried to pull him up, and he followed suit. The five of them ran out of the teaching building. Shen Yunzhe kept his head down while running. He seemed to be looking at the running footsteps of the person in front of him, and didn't look around at all.
It was only after they left the teaching building that they discovered that there was still a light on in one place.
A stage-like place appeared in front of the worn red carpet. There were a few seats under the stage. Two lights were on on the stage, and a dusty speaker was playing a song. It was a cheerful song, exactly the same as the one sung by Lushun Sparrow.
"Is this also the school song?" Lan Sicheng frowned. "The school song of No. 2 Middle School?"
Shen Yunzhe sat on a chair. He stretched out his hand to catch the escaping light, but unfortunately he could not catch anything and could only bathe in the light.
Behind him was Lu Shun's cry. Li Yuluan was the first to go on stage. He walked around the stage and finally nodded to them to indicate that everything was fine.
Lu Shun crawled over, but he seemed to be afraid of the light here. He ran away in fright when he came into contact with the light, rolling and dodging continuously. The players immediately realized this and decided to stay here before dawn.
Li Yiluan sighed, "Let's confirm the time, divide the time between shifts and let the others rest."
No one had any objection. Bei Chuanchuan wanted to be on the first shift. She said she couldn't sleep and wanted some quiet time. Li Yuluan roughly divided the time and went to look for Shen Yunzhe. He found that Shen Yunzhe had fallen asleep leaning on the chair. He closed his eyes and buried himself in the light. The light made his hair and eyelashes look white.
"Let's not schedule Shen Yunzhe for now." Li Yiluan whispered to the others, "He looks very tired."
"That's fine. Actually, I think so too..." Yuan Jing sighed, "Although I don't want to say this, Shen Yunzhe seems to be mentally unstable. It would be good for him to sleep a little longer."
Bei Chuanchuan also nodded. Lan Sicheng didn't understand anything, but seeing that everyone else said so, she had no objection and kept her opinion to herself.
In this way, Shen Yunzhe slept comfortably. Although he slept leaning on a chair, at this stage, if there were no conditions, it was good enough that he could fall asleep.
So when he opened his eyes, he felt a rare sense of mental relaxation.
The sky was white, without any clouds or sun. He looked at the stage in front of him. The others had already woken up and were looking around to see if there was anything they could investigate.
"System?" Shen Yunzhe called out to the system softly, "Who am I syncing with?"
【No synchronization.】
Shen Yunzhe blinked.
Last night, I synchronized you with Codename Hope for half an hour, fighting fire with fire. After half an hour, I desynchronized you and didn't synchronize with any other peers.
Shen Yunzhe sat up, lowered his head and said nothing.
[There may be some residual influence from the code name Hope, but the decisions and judgments are made by you, and you will no longer be able to synchronize with them. You will need to rely on yourself.]
Shen Yunzhe raised his hand and looked at his palm, then pressed his solar plexus. Finally, he stood up and walked around the chair before making a serious judgment:
He is normal now.
There has never been a more normal moment than now.
"Awake?" Li Yiluan came over and handed him a small bread in a packaging bag. "Eat something. It's been a while since you last had anything to eat."
Shen Yunzhe took the bread and said, "Thank you."
"Thank you?" Li Yiluan was a little surprised. He looked Shen Yunzhe up and down, and after a few seconds, he replied, "You're welcome."
Shen Yunzhe opened the package and ate while watching the other three people turning the stage. "Did you find anything?"
"There are only sparrows. They are all dead sparrows." Li Yiluan also opened a piece of bread. He ate slowly and leisurely, not looking hungry at all. "There are sparrows on the stage, and sparrows on the chairs too. It's like a group of dead sparrows watching another group of dead sparrows perform."
Shen Yunzhe thought about the situation and nodded, indicating that it was indeed quite strange.
"I thought you would applaud and say you wanted to see the sparrow show."
"Why should I watch a sparrow show?" Shen Yunzhe was surprised.
Li Yuluan, who tried his best to treat Shen Yunzhe as a child, touched his chin and said against his will, "I don't know, I just thought about it."
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he understood why.
To be honest, Shen Yunzhe felt that this was none of his business. The code-named Sleep Disordered Person became very domineering after the synchronization rate increased. Unlike the previous game field, he could not detect anything wrong during the synchronization, and his entire thinking was in line with the Sleep Disordered Person.
His capriciousness, weirdness and bad taste are copied completely, making it hard to resist.
In the future, it is better to avoid synchronizing with people with sleep disorders.
Before he could finish his thought, Lan Sicheng suddenly raised his voice not far away, "Everyone, come and take a look!"
Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan looked at each other and hurried forward. Bei Chuanchuan and Yuan Jing were faster than them.
There was a box in front of Lan Sicheng. As soon as she opened the box, she saw a bunch of signs in the alley. Each sign had a person's photo and name on it. Under the signs were a pile of sparrow corpses. Lan Sicheng took out a sign from it.
The photo on the sign was of a smiling person. Her smile looked sunny and she was wearing black-framed glasses.
But it seems particularly strange to appear in a place like this.
"Is this Teacher Wang and his student Yin Yin?" Lan Sicheng asked.
Teacher Wang's name is Wang Lian.
"This looks like a list of names coming to participate in the competition," Yuan Jing said. "From No. 1 Middle School to No. 13 Middle School, there's a sign for each one."
And that's not all. There was a small sign hanging on the body of each dead sparrow with a name written on it, and it happened to be this group of people.
"But there's no sparrow named Teacher Wang."
"Of course not, Teacher Wang is at No. 1 Middle School." Shen Yunzhe concluded.
Everyone didn't quite understand what Shen Yunzhe said, but Shen Yunzhe didn't seem to want to explain.
The world was dead silent. They lamented in their hearts how difficult this so-called indefinite mission was. There were no NPC reminders, no extra tips, and there were only seven of them. They could only search aimlessly for something that might be useful.
They don’t know when to leave, or maybe they will never be able to leave in their lifetime.
"Oh, right." Bei Chuanchuan suddenly asked, "Where's Lu Shun? Is he still alive?"
The people present were stunned for a moment.
In the first half of the night, Lu Shun was still wandering around the stage, but he was afraid of the lights and did not dare to approach. In the second half of the night, his voice disappeared. He no longer cried or crawled, and he was completely motionless. It was not until now that they realized that Lu Shun seemed to have disappeared for too long.
"How about we go look for it?" Bei Chuanchuan suggested.
No one said a word. Lan Sicheng and Yuan Jing obviously didn't want to go. Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluen remained silent and didn't express their opinions.
"Are you all cowards? How can you let Lu Shun disappear at this time?" Bei Chuanchuan was angry, "Yuan Jing! You're not going either?!"
"I don't want to go. I'm sorry Chuanchuan."
Bei Chuanchuan snorted coldly and turned away, obviously going to find Lu Shun.
Shen Yunzhe watched her leave, and spoke after a moment, "Why does she care so much about Lu Shun?"
Indeed, this is really strange. Bei Chuanchuan has always hated Lu Shun, not to mention that Lu Shun has now turned into a weird sparrow, which scared many people last night. Logically, she should not care about Lu Shun, let alone look for Lu Shun now.
Lan Sicheng turned around and walked to the side, and it was obvious that he didn't want to get involved. Yuan Jing was silent for a while. She probably noticed that something was wrong with Bei Chuanchuan, but she didn't have the courage to chase him.
"Let's go check it out." Shen Yunzhe said, "It might be related to Lu Shun's transformation into a sparrow."
"That's fine." Li Yiluan nodded, "Let's go together."
The two men looked for someone in the direction Bei Chuanchuan left, but there was no trace of anyone in front. Finally, they came to the teaching building. After taking two steps, Shen Yunzhe stopped. He looked at the withered flower bed next to him. Li Yuluan did not notice his movements and entered the teaching building alone.
Shen Yunzhe tilted his head, walked to the flower bed, then squatted down. He carefully took out the body of a sparrow from the flower bed.
There was a sign hanging on the sparrow's body with a familiar name written on it: Lu Shun.
Looking at the name, Shen Yunzhe had some guesses in his mind. He casually stuffed the sparrow's body into his pocket, then turned and entered the teaching building. Li Yuluan was looking up, trying to find Bei Chuanchuan.
"Didn't you see it?"
"No." Li Yiluan said, "What were you doing just now? I turned around and found that you didn't catch up."
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "I saw something strange, so I looked at it for a while longer."
Li Yiluan nodded, "You are much more normal now than before."
"It's not that abnormal, is it?"
"It's okay." Li Yuluan seemed to be just saying it casually.
"Come to think of it, what did you mean by Teacher Wang in No. 1 Middle School?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at him. "Every game has tasks. If there are tasks, there must be ways to complete them. The game field has media, and most tasks will be completed around the media. Teacher Wang's name appears in that box, but the sparrow representing Teacher Wang is not there."
"Perhaps the condition for opening the doors of this school is to bring back the sparrow that represents Teacher Wang."
Li Yiluan was a little surprised. "Bring that strange bird from No. 1 Middle School to No. 2 Middle School?"
"The school song competition will only end when all the participants are complete." Shen Yunzhe murmured, "But Teacher Wang didn't come to participate in the competition. At least she's not here now."
Li Yilun suddenly realized, "Wait a minute, the reason why Teacher Wang is not here is because we came to No. 2 Middle School to participate in the competition in his place?"
"It's probably a game mechanic issue," Shen Yunzhe said nonchalantly. "Because we have to replace Teacher Wang to participate in the competition at No. 2 Middle School, the door to No. 1 Middle School is open. But No. 2 Middle School needs Teacher Wang to participate in the competition, so we can't leave here. We have to transform into a sparrow in Teacher Wang's place."
Li Yuluan clicked his tongue.
"Oh yes, I also suspected that Bei Chuanchuan had begun to become a sparrow." Shen Yunzhe said.
"What?"
"Remember what I said before? I tricked the audience into believing I was being controlled by Ma Sparrow," Shen Yunzhe analyzed. "My behavior at the time was easy to identify. My mental state was different from usual, and my actions were different from before."
He said, "Don't you think it fits in well with the current Bei Chuanchuan?"
Li Yuluan neither nodded nor shook his head. He looked at Shen Yunzhe with complicated eyes. He only spoke when Shen Yunzhe looked at him curiously.
"You really knew you weren't normal before."
…
Bei Chuanchuan kept vomiting in the sink.
Before she could even enter the teaching building, she was suddenly overcome by dizziness and nausea, so she hurried to the nearest bathroom.
She first vomited out the small piece of bread she had eaten during the day, and then vomited out the sour water mixed with saliva, but even so she still couldn't help dry heaving. She felt a hairy feeling in her throat, as if something was stuck in her throat.
After several dry heaves, nothing came out. Bei Chuanchuan looked at herself in the mirror with a red face. Finally, she opened her mouth and covered her throat with her fingers.
But just as she put her fingers to her throat, she felt something like fuzz. She immediately withdrew her hand, her eyes filled with horror.
No way? That's not right?!
Before she could judge again, she felt an unbearable itch running from her neck all the way down, and her whole body began to itch like a burning sensation.
"Itchy, so itchy."
Bei Chuanchuan began to scratch her skin through her clothes, but this level of scratching could not relieve the pain at all, so she began to take off her clothes, but as soon as she took off her coat, Bei Chuanchuan saw a fluffy feather floating out of the coat.
She froze there, forgetting even the itch on her body.
After a long silence, she began to take off her clothes. When she took off her top, she saw something unbelievable: her body was covered with hair.
The white and brown ones...are sparrow feathers.
"How could this happen?!" Bei Chuanchuan scratched his own fur, "Is it Lu Shun who is cursing me?! Why? Why is it me?"
She began to pull out the hair on her body, pulling out the newly grown hair.
It was very painful and even bleeding, but she kept pulling with red eyes, and soon her left shoulder became bloody.
"It works!" Bei Chuanchuan shouted in surprise, and she began to pluck the remaining feathers.
She kept plucking, not caring at all that her skin was getting redder and the blood was flowing more and more. Until she plucked out more than a dozen feathers, she found a red lump of flesh in the middle of the feathers. Bei Chuanchuan was stunned for a moment, and a dull pain came over her instantly.
Bei Chuanchuan screamed and fell to the ground, tears streaming down her face due to the pain. In her blurred vision, she saw her fingers contracting.
"No!" Bei Chuanchuan screamed miserably, "I don't want to turn into a sparrow!"
"Let me die, let me die as a human being!" Bei Chuanchuan rolled on the ground, "I don't want to become a beast!"
Bei Chuanchuan groped her way up. She smashed the mirror hanging in the bathroom with force, clutching the broken lens with her bloody hands.
The fragments reflected Bei Chuanchuan's face. Her face was covered with fur, one of her eyes had turned into a bird's pupil, and the other eye still held Bei Chuanchuan's anger.
Bei Chuanchuan opened her mouth, but she began to be unable to speak and could only make the chirping sounds of sparrows.
She was trembling, but her already sticky hands firmly grasped the fragments and stabbed them hard at the eye.
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