Chapter 49
"Everyone has secrets, that's normal, but yours is a little strange." Li Yiluan looked Shen Yunzhe up and down, "But I won't delve too much into it."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him, meaning, if you don't know how to investigate, why are you asking?
"I'm just curious, is that person still alive from last night?" Li Yiluan said, "I've seen dead souls possessing people before, but this is the first time I've seen a living soul possessing a person."
Shen Yunzhe sighed, "Just think of it as a dual personality."
"Diploidy is a pathological disease with scientific basis. What I said is not scientific at all."
"You're quite lucid."
"Science can't explain this playground either." Li Yiluan looked around. "It seems Bei Chuanchuan isn't in the teaching building. Let's go look somewhere else."
As Shen Yunzhe walked, he began to think about what kind of person Li Yiluan was. Not only could he discover synchronized isotopes, but he could also discover the codename "Hope".
He doesn't look at people, nor at life itself, but rather at the trajectory of life, which he calls destiny.
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly. Fortunately, he was normal now, so he didn't ask questions directly.
This type of person began to appear after the appearance of the playground. They can subtly perceive the playground and ghosts, and can see supernatural events happening in reality. They belong to a different category, able to see the subtle trajectory of a person's life. Your counterpart is also a living being, with a life trajectory.
But except for the code name, all hope is dead, right?
Shen Yunzhe added the system's words in his mind in advance.
After saying this several times, he no longer felt afraid.
[You want to ask how many people like this there are? There are probably a few hundred around the world, but even fewer can actually be found. Most of them are hidden in the crowd and don't enter the game field.]
After walking out of the teaching building, they were about to change direction, but they stopped as soon as they reached the side.
Li Yuluan looked in one direction, and only after he found that Shen Yunzhe had also stopped did he confirm that he was not mistaken. A strange fishy smell came over, and this fishy smell was like stale seafood that was casually steamed and served on the table with a strong fishy smell.
The direction of the smell is... the bathroom?
"Where does this smell come from? It's so empty here, only the cafeteria stinks like a toilet." Shen Yunzhe said, "There was no smell when we entered the teaching building just now."
Li Yiluan nodded and said, "Go in and take a look."
He walked to the bathroom door, and the closer he got, the more certain he was that the smell was coming from there.
I pushed the door open carefully, and a gust of wind blew in. In an instant, a pile of fluff was blown up by the wind and fluttered all over the bathroom.
Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan stood at the door of the bathroom. The moment they saw inside the bathroom, they stood there in silence, with a terrifying look in their eyes.
White and brown fluff flew all over the bathroom, and more fluff piled on Baichuanchuan.
She sat on the ground with her back against the sink. Half of her face had turned into a sparrow-like shape, and her face was covered with fur. A piece of broken mirror pierced deeply into her eye, and there was a sharp wound on the palm of her hand. It was not difficult to see that she had grasped the fragment and stabbed it into her own eyes.
And there was still a smile frozen on that half-human face, a kind of stubbornness that refused to admit defeat.
She committed suicide before she could completely turn into a sparrow.
This is the second person who died since they came to No. 2 Middle School, and today is their second day at No. 2 Middle School.
Although she was obviously not breathing, Shen Yunzhe still squatted down to confirm it. Finally, he said, "Dead."
Li Yiluan took a deep breath and said, "There's no time to confirm. I'll just do as you say."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him, "What?"
"Bring the strange bird from No. 1 Middle School to No. 2 Middle School and open the door to No. 2 Middle School."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him silently, neither saying good nor bad.
"What? You don't want to do this?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at the half-bird, half-human Bei Chuanchuan in front of him. He inexplicably thought of the pink cat in the photo on his mobile phone. Thinking of the code name, he almost collapsed and asked why reality was still affected. He stayed there as a guardian stone for more than 20 years just to prevent reality from being threatened by the playground.
If this continues, will this playground reappear somewhere in reality?
"Not really." Shen Yunzhe said, "I'm thinking about something."
Li Yiluan wanted to ask him what he was thinking, but before he could ask, he heard a voice behind him.
"Li Yuluan, Shen Yunzhe!" It was Yuan Jing. "We found something new!"
"What are you looking at?"
“Ah! Chuan Chuan!!”
Yuan Jing looked at Bei Chuanchuan's body in horror. She died miserably and in a miserable state, and looked so helpless. Yuan Jing covered her mouth and slowly knelt on the ground, but she couldn't even shed tears. She had cried here too many times and now she couldn't cry anymore.
Lan Sicheng followed her. She didn't say anything, and her beige coat was still clean.
They are the last survivors.
Shen Yunzhe took off his coat and covered Bei Chuanchuan with it. Although he suffered a great loss from his behavior in the playground last time, he did not think that Bei Chuanchuan would retaliate against him for this reason.
"Let's go and see your new discovery." Shen Yunzhe said.
Yuan Jing was helped up by Lan Sicheng, and they led the way in silence. The good mood they had originally had from discovering new clues was gone.
They walked to the back of the teaching building and after turning several corners, they entered a room that looked like a monitoring room with a very large screen in front of them.
"Yuan Jing said there must be cameras in the school, and maybe they could have captured something." Lan Sicheng spoke on Yuan Jing's behalf, "We searched for a long time before we found this surveillance room, but the cameras had been broken for a long time. We searched for a while and found a DVD."
This is a very old name, DVD.
"There's a DVD player over there, and the disc says: School Song Contest. We thought it must be important, so we went to watch it with you guys."
Lan Sicheng finished his explanation and then closed his mouth. Yuan Jing never spoke again.
"Take a look." Shen Yunzhe put the CD into the player, and the moment he pressed play, the entire big screen lit up.
The faint blue light sprinkled on their faces. Shen Yunzhe took a look, picked a chair and sat down, as if he was really watching a movie.
The synchronization of codenamed Sleep Disordered Person and codenamed Hope has made Shen Yunzhe's psychology extremely strong. He is no longer afraid of anything. Anyway, no one is as weird as him, and the audience has verified it.
Others also chose a seat, but none of them sat down.
Images gradually began to appear on the big screen.
Two students in school uniforms stood on the stage, one boy and one girl, speaking the opening speech, obviously the hosts.
There were many people attending the school song competition, including school leaders, contestants from other schools, and some students watching. They also saw familiar people among them, Teacher Wang and Yin Yin from No. 1 Middle School. The two of them took a photo before the competition.
The camera was on Teacher Wang, who was still introducing himself with a smile, and the students who were being interviewed had prepared questions.
Just in the middle of the interview, Teacher Wang's cell phone rang. She turned around to answer the call, and after hanging up the phone, she ran out in a panic.
"Teacher Wang?" the student who was interviewing her called out in surprise. "The competition hasn't started yet, where are you going?"
"Something happened to my student. I'm sorry I can't attend!"
"But it will be your turn soon!"
Teacher Wang pushed her away and hurried out of the school, and soon his figure disappeared.
Just then, a friend who was also interviewing me said, "Big news! Someone jumped from a building at No. 1 Middle School. It was a senior student in her third year of high school."
"What?! Then Teacher Wang..."
"It must have been one of her students. He took advantage of the fact that she came to the competition and couldn't see him, so he jumped."
The noise started to get louder, with a mix of random songs playing. They saw the picture fast-forwarding, with representatives from various schools singing. The school leaders sitting in the front row kept clapping, they cheered and laughed, and the singing became louder and louder.
In the end, everyone on the stage turned into sparrows.
Host sparrow, singing sparrow, clapping sparrow and visiting sparrow.
The sparrows were chirping and flapping their wings. At the last second, the screen went black and they saw that all the sparrows were dead, lying quietly in their original positions.
Lines of words appeared on the dark screen:
"Teacher Wang, come back."
"Teacher Wang, we are missing you in our competition."
"Teacher Wang, we are all waiting for you."
"Teacher Wang, our competition cannot be without you."
The screen lit up again, and it still showed the dead sparrows, lying in each person's position. Only the contestant had a sign, but a damn sparrow was missing.
Crunch, crunch.
The screen went out, but everyone present heard a strange sound.
The sound was like nails scratching wood, sharp and uncomfortable.
"Where does the sound come from?" Li Yuluan asked.
"Yes, I'm sorry..." It was Yuan Jing who apologized, "I don't know why my nails are itchy, so I want to scratch them."
Shen Yunzhe immediately realized that something was wrong. He grabbed Yuan Jing's hand and dragged her out of the dim hut. Lan Sicheng and Li Yuluen were a little surprised. They didn't even have time to stop Shen Yunzhe. Yuan Jing only reacted after being dragged out and started asking him what he was doing.
"Shen Yunzhe?!"
"What are you doing? It hurts, it hurts!"
Shen Yunzhe pulled her into the sunlight, then pulled up her hand to look at her nails.
It didn't matter that they just looked at her, everyone was shocked by her nails, including Yuan Jing herself.
"What, what is this?!" Yuan Jing shouted almost in collapse.
I saw that Yuan Jing's fingers had been twisted and became very thin. The skin on her fingers was getting thicker and wrinkled. What was even more terrifying was that her nails were growing wildly. The front part became narrow and pointed. The nails were still growing and were about to become as long as her fingers.
It doesn't look like a human hand at all, it looks more like a bird's hooked claw.
"Sparrow." Lan Sicheng subconsciously took a step back.
"I don't want it, I don't want it!" Yuan Jing recalled the scene when Bei Chuanchuan died and the horror of Lu Shuncong's scalp splitting. "Save me, help!"
Shen Yunzhe let go of her hand, but Yuan Jing hugged him and said, "Shen Yunzhe, help me."
“I don’t want to die!”
At this moment, Shen Yunzhe, who brought them out of No. 1 Middle School, became Yuan Jing's best person to turn to for help.
She only knew that the person most likely to save her now was Shen Yunzhe.
"Go to No. 1 Middle School to find the bird?" Li Yiluan asked him.
Shen Yunzhe looked at Yuan Jing's hand and nodded, "Okay, let's go take a look first."
"You two stay here and wait. We have some ideas we want to verify." Li Yiluan comforted Yuan Jing. "You'll be back soon."
"Us!" Lan Sicheng wanted to follow.
"You'd better stay." Shen Yunzhe said, "You'll die the fastest in No. 1 Middle School. It's morning now. If you go, you'll die immediately."
Lan Sicheng was frightened. She nodded quickly and hugged Yuan Jing's shoulders from behind.
Seeing them stay, Shen Yunzhe and Li Yuluan walked to the school gate. They could walk out of the gate, but they would end up at another familiar school, the No. 1 Middle School they had left before.
"Try to finish it tonight." Shen Yunzhe said, "Our death cycle is still going on in No. 1 Middle School."
Li Yiluan nodded, "I understand."
They walked directly to the lobby of the teaching building. The strange bird was still squatting in the cage, singing the same school song.
Shen Yunzhe looked at it, "Teacher Wang?"
The strange bird ignored Shen Yunzhe and continued singing.
So Shen Yunzhe started singing too. After a while, the bird stopped singing and stared at him with its round black glasses.
"Teacher Wang, we were sent back from No. 2 Middle School. The competition organizer said that Teacher Wang must go because she sings well and they only want to compete with her."
The strange bird twisted its neck, and no one knew what it meant.
Shen Yunzhe looked at it and said, "Yin Yin is still waiting for you."
The strange bird shook its feathers and cried out.
"It's Yin Yin, your student. She doesn't want to partner with us. She said she has to wait for you to come back. She said you promised her that you would sing with her."
The strange bird finally responded, but it didn't move.
Li Yuluan watched for so long and finally spoke.
"Why not just tie it up and forget about it?"
"It's locked in a cage and doesn't want to leave. I couldn't pull it out before." Shen Yunzhe looked at the strange bird in the cage. "I originally wanted to use Yin Yin to lure it out, but I didn't expect that this would fail. How scared is it to go to No. 2 Middle School?"
"Fear?"
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe recalled what happened before. "Every time someone died, it cried miserably. It sang the school song, but it was extremely afraid of this school song."
"I think it just doesn't want to go to No. 2 Middle School."
Li Yiluan couldn't tell how scared the bird was of the school song.
"What should we do then?"
"Let me think about it." Shen Yunzhe murmured, looking at the bird, "Let me think about it."
…
On the other side, Yuan Jing and Lan Sicheng from No. 2 Middle School were sitting on the stage waiting for Shen Yunzhe and the others to come back.
Time passed so slowly for them. Yuan Jing huddled in a corner, hugging her knees and hiding her hands that had become strange shapes.
She could feel her fingers itching terribly, and it felt like something furry was growing out of them.
"Yuan Jing." Lan Sicheng called her, but Yuan Jing didn't look up, just stared at the ground.
"Are they really going to No. 1 Middle School? Are they lying to us?"
Yuan Jing didn't answer, and Lan Sicheng didn't care, as if he just wanted to say his own thing.
"I'm not familiar with either of them, but I still feel uneasy. If they really have the ability, why would they care about us? I've been to so many game fields and I've never seen anyone who would help other players. They won't just leave us here and leave the game field themselves, right?"
"Leaving us here, they went home."
"Could it be so?"
Lan Sicheng kept saying, "I'm not at ease at all."
"Has that been enough? I believe them." Yuan Jing lowered her head. "If you don't believe me, just follow them!"
"But if they really went to No. 1 Middle School, I would die, and I don't want to die," Lan Sicheng muttered. "I was dreaming the whole time yesterday. There were so many sparrows in my dream, and they were all calling me over. I just couldn't seem to get over there. I wanted to leave quickly."
"I'm so scared, Yuan Jing."
"Yuan Jing? Yuan Jing... Yuan Jing."
"Chirp, Yuan Jing, chirp, scared."
Chirp?
Yuan Jing was stunned for a moment, then she suddenly opened her eyes wide and slowly turned her head to look at Lan Sicheng beside her.
There was a furry sparrow sitting next to her, wearing Lan Sicheng's clothes, talking to her non-stop, occasionally speaking human language and occasionally bird calls. Lan Sicheng seemed unaware of what was happening and was still talking seriously.
Finally, Lan Sicheng stopped talking, his big eyes full of confusion.
"Yuan Jingjiu, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Chirp? Chirp?"
Yuan Jing couldn't say a word and just looked at her in horror.
Lan Sicheng finally saw his current appearance through the reflection of Yuan Jing's eyes. She raised her hands in horror, but saw fleshy wings covered with feathers.
“Ah!!” Lan Sicheng screamed, “Chirp! Chirp!”
“Chiu!”
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