Chapter 54
Today was supposed to be the day for Qiao Dong to go to the playground, but he just couldn't let his mind go.
Because Shen Yunzhe didn't call him, Shen Yunzhe said he would comfort him before he entered the playground.
His heart was beating wildly and he was feeling extremely anxious. Just as he was about to enter the playground, his subordinates finally sent him a message saying that the entire Phoenix Community was shrouded in thick fog and that it was impossible to contact the people inside. Qiao Dong's premonition came true.
He could only find someone he trusted to take over his job, and the next moment he entered the game field.
If Shen Yunzhe were here, he would find that the person who took over was also an acquaintance, Yue Ding, who pretended to be the saint in the game field.
Yue Ding sat in the police station's conference room, watching the surveillance footage of the neighborhood covered in white fog. He turned to ask those around him, "Has the news been blocked?"
"It's blocked off. They just said there was a homicide in the community, so all the roads around the community are closed."
But this is just a delaying tactic, we can't keep it a secret forever.
Yue Ding frowned, "Can you confirm the situation inside?"
"We can't contact the people inside, but..." the young man said, "Brother Yue, you probably didn't watch the live broadcast. There's a follow-up to the surprise Easter egg live broadcast. We've been searching for a long time and found that it's inside the Phoenix Residential Complex. This place was broadcast live on the surprise Easter egg."
"What?" Yue Ding was surprised. He took out his mobile phone and opened the strange APP. After clicking on the surprise easter egg, he found that there were an unusually large number of people online, and the live broadcast had also turned into a God's perspective. They could clearly see that there were many people gathered at the gate of the community, and they were all trying to leave the community.
Yue Ding watched the livestream for a moment before speaking, "It would be great if there were other players in the community. Perhaps we could communicate through this livestream."
The young man hesitated and said, "Actually, there is."
"have?"
"That's Shen Yunzhe, the guy you spent time with at the arcade. He lives in this neighborhood. Brother Qiao was able to locate the surprise egg so quickly because Shen Yunzhe happened to see that little girl." The young man handed him Shen Yunzhe's file. "He's the only player in the neighborhood."
Yue Ding nodded, "Okay, we'll try to contact Shen Yunzhe."
"This isn't a crisis for just one person, or just one place. If we can't get through this, our world will be in tatters. So, we must make sure Shen Yunzhe stays alive."
On the other side, Shen Yunzhe was about to go downstairs, but he suddenly thought of a question: would there be no spectators and live broadcasts in this kind of game venue?
Shen Yunzhe opened his phone, and sure enough, the phone was still a phone, and the APP remained the same.
He thought about it and tried to open the surprise easter egg, only to see the barrage of comments filling the screen and the live broadcast footage.
It’s actually in this neighborhood!
What's going on? Is there a follow-up to the surprise Easter egg?!
There are so many people, this doesn't feel like a game place, nor does it feel like a single surprise Easter egg.
[Oh my god, this looks like a residential complex, a residential complex in our real world!]
[S, can you see this? S! You're the only player in the entire community! If you see this, please reply in the comments!]
Is the above official?
[Yes, we are the official ones. We are trying to contact one of the players trapped in the community. He is our only hope.]
[Holy shit, is this telling us something's really wrong in reality?! I've heard that arcades can affect the real world, but I never thought something like this would actually happen. Damn it!]
[What can we do? If we don't complete the mission, we'll die. How many people are willing to die for reality?]
[There are hundreds, even thousands, of people inside. Now isn't the time to argue about this. Let's first think about how to save them. Are there any high-level players here?]
[I didn't expect there was a player inside. What a blessing in disguise.]
[S! Are you watching the live broadcast? Reply! ]
"Is S calling me?" Shen Yunzhe murmured. He carefully typed a question mark on the barrage, but it was quickly brushed away.
At this moment, the live camera turned around, as if showing everyone in the community. Shen Yunzhe saw a young mother holding a young child, an elderly person in a wheelchair, many students, and young people preparing to go out to work.
Shen Yunzhe turned his head to look out the window facing the live camera, and his figure flashed by.
[Wait? Was there someone watching the live broadcast in that scene just now?]
[Oh shit, is that S? He found out about the livestream?!]
Is S here?
Shen Yunzhe turned off the screen. There was no need to recognize him now. He would slowly get to know him later. He would look at the barrage when he needed information. This time, the barrage audience was no longer the half-human and half-ghost guys in the game field, but people who could help him.
He left the room and walked towards the stairwell. The elevator was still running normally. He could see that the elevator was moving very slowly and was always moving. It was obvious that many people were using the elevator.
This means that nothing has happened yet.
"System?" Shen Yunzhe turned and went back to his room. "Do you want to synchronize?"
The system did not respond and seemed to be offline.
"system?"
[World G00001, codename Hope, synchronization begins, synchronization rate 100%.]
Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment, "Ah? What? Codename Hope?! What's the synchronization rate?"
[In this case, Codename Hope is most effective, as it can directly damage strange objects.]
"But I'm not..."
[Don't worry, I've already taken care of everything. Go to the bedroom and take a look.]
Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes wide and rushed into the bedroom. As soon as he opened the door, he found that there was an extra person in his unmade bed. The person was curled up in the warm bed, with long silver hair scattered on the pillow, looking a little insecure.
But he had a face exactly like Shen Yunzhe's, with a delicate face and silver eyelashes. He looked like he was sleeping very soundly, with even a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
"system!"
[Codename Hope can only exist for three days. During this time, you will not switch to another entity. Codename Hope is the strongest force I have sent you. Resolve this strange incident within three days.]
"'Shen Yunzhe' and the others are all martyrs. Whether it's you or Codename Hope, all of them are working towards one goal. They choose to help you because, like you and Codename Hope, they long for a world without playgrounds."
The words sounded strange, but Shen Yunzhe still understood what he meant.
That is, all isotopes will help him, they are all helping each other, and all isotopes in parallel worlds are backing him up.
So they joined forces to send Codename Hope, perhaps the price was that one of the isotopes replaced Codename Hope as a mortgage in the black box.
Shen Yunzhe went to bed and looked at Code Name Hope who was sleeping.
"Hope?" Shen Yunzhe called him.
Codename hoped there would be no sound, so Shen Yunzhe tried to poke him.
"Wake up."
Finally, Shen Yunzhe tried pinching his nose, and soon Codename Hope opened his mouth to breathe, and then slowly opened his eyes.
From the first time I met Codename Hope Shen Yunzhe, I realized that he might be a bit slow. Even though he is in extreme emotions now, he used to be an adventurous guy, but his reaction is really slow, he speaks slowly and gently, and he will be shy if he says something embarrassing.
The contrast between inside and outside is huge.
Codename Hope kept staring at Shen Yunzhe, and after a moment he turned his eyes to look around.
But the moment he saw his surroundings, he sat up suddenly.
"Where is this? Where am I?!"
The moment he realized that he had come out of the small black box, what Codename Hope showed was not joy and happiness, but panic.
"No, I can't leave!"
Shen Yunzhe grabbed him and said, "Calm down, calm down, someone will help you stay there!"
He hugged the person and held him in his arms. He breathed a sigh of relief when he felt the person in his arms calm down. Soon, Shen Yunzhe felt the code name put a hand on his shoulder. The person spoke in a muffled voice, his long silver hair still hanging on the bed. He asked, "Who is it?"
"Identical." Shen Yunzhe said: "The me in this parallel world is also the you in this parallel world."
"Three days, we only have three days."
Codename Hope rested her head on his shoulder, "I stole three days from them."
"You didn't steal it. They gave it to you. And you were doing me a favor. In the end, we're all family, so don't use that word."
"One of us?" Codename Hope whispered softly.
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe carefully let him go.
Code name Xiwang was still sitting on the bed with the quilt covering his lower body. Shen Yunzhe looked at his clothes and suddenly realized that he couldn't let him go out like this. He opened the wardrobe and took out two pieces of clothes and handed them to Code name Xiwang to change.
"The clothes you're wearing are too eye-catching." Shen Yunzhe said, "Try mine first. We're both alone, so it should be suitable."
Codename Hope looked at the outfit and nodded, "...Okay, thank you."
"No need to thank me." Shen Yunzhe said, "What's the difference between thanking me and thanking yourself?"
"Your hair also needs to be taken care of." Shen Yunzhe looked at his long hair with some worry.
But to be honest, how could Shen Yunzhe, a man, have a hair tie?
Finally, he went to ask the neighbor next door to borrow money, but he couldn't borrow it after looking around. Shen Yunzhe sighed and decided to grow his hair long from today.
This way he will have hair ties at home.
As soon as Shen Yunzhe opened the door, he saw code name Xiwang standing in front of the balcony. He was wearing Shen Yunzhe's clothes, and his long silver hair was tied with a red rope. Shen Yunzhe walked forward to observe with some surprise, and finally found that it was the handle on the milk box bag. He took off the red rope and tied his hair.
Shen Yunzhe stood beside him and asked, "What did you see?"
Codename Hope didn't answer. After a long while, he finally spoke, "So beautiful..."
"Um?"
"So many people, so many buildings, so much snow, and the sky." Codename Hope murmured, staring at everything outside without blinking, "It's so beautiful."
After he finished speaking, he seemed to realize something. He blinked and looked at Shen Yunzhe. When he looked at Shen Yunzhe, he found that Shen Yunzhe was smiling. There was a hint of interest on his face, which was exactly the same as his. But he was indeed smiling, and he was smiling very happily.
"Shen Yunzhe?"
"For the past three days, you've been called Shen Yunxi. You're my twin brother. We just met and recognized each other recently. Do you understand?" Shen Yunzhe put his arm around his shoulders. "We're going downstairs to find a matchmaker. It's hard to explain that you and I look exactly like each other, and I'm still an orphan."
Codename Hope tilted her head, "I should be older than you."
"Then I want to be a brother too."
Codename Hope looked at Shen Yunzhe strangely. After a few seconds, he nodded and said, "Okay."
Codename Hope looked at the doll cabinet in the living room for a long time. He seemed to be in a daze, but the dolls were reflected in his eyes, so he must have been really looking at them. Shen Yunzhe walked over and asked, "Do you like them?"
"Very beautiful." Codename Hope replied.
"Come to think of it, I should have a doll arriving today, but the neighborhood is sealed off, so I can't get it at all," Shen Yunzhe complained, even mumbling unconsciously to his codename, "It's a new doll with white fur. I fell in love with it right away, but they don't have it in stock. I can only pay a deposit and wait for it to be ready."
Codename Hope looked at him, then glanced down at her own long silver hair.
Hmm...
He seemed to have discovered Shen Yunzhe's preferences.
Walking out of the door, Shen Yunzhe was stunned as soon as he pushed the door open. Code name hoped that he could stand next to him so that he could see outside at a glance and also see the dirty doll placed next to the door.
The doll was really dirty and of very poor quality. One could clearly see with the naked eye that a cut had been made on the doll's belly with scissors and then sewn up with black thread. Now a black and red liquid with a fishy smell was slowly seeping out of this dirty doll.
Shen Yunzhe went out to see, and found that there was an identical doll not only at his door, but at every door.
Instead of carrying the doll into the house, Shen Yunzhe took out a pair of scissors and started to cut open the doll's belly right at the door.
As soon as the thread was untied, a flesh-colored object rolled out from inside. It was a skinned black cat with blood dripping from it.
"Could it be that there's a black cat among the dolls at every door?" Shen Yunzhe was surprised. "How many cats would that be?"
"We can't judge strange events based on reality." Codename Hope squatted down and looked at the cat. "The black cat in the doll? Is it 'The Black Cat's Blessing'?"
Shen Yunzhe was surprised, "You know?"
"There are records," Codename Hope said. "By the time I learned of the existence of the playground, the world had already been largely eroded. Official information couldn't suppress the collapse. I saw this playground in the official information archives, or rather... the records of this playground eroding the real world."
Shen Yunzhe squatted beside him, "Have you recovered your memory?"
"Well, because it seems like there's hope for the future, and I don't need to live in a muddle." Codename Hope whispered, "So, I slowly recovered."
But Codename Xiwang knew that he had gained hope passively. The moment he saw Shen Yunzhe, he could no longer let his heart sink into the darkness. His heart beat with Shen Yunzhe, and he could no longer think like a dead person.
He had to come back to life.
"I've had a general understanding of this playground before. The medium should be cat skin, but there can't be so much cat skin, right?" Shen Yunzhe looked at the dirty dolls at the neighbor's door. "With so many, how long will it take us to burn them?"
"Should we mobilize the residents of the neighborhood? Let's burn the cat skin together."
As Shen Yunzhe opened the owners' group, the number of messages had reached 999. Shen Yunzhe was too lazy to read the chat history and could only look at the current one.
Who threw the doll at my door? It's so dirty!
[Holy crap! There's a skinned cat inside this doll! Children and the elderly, stay away!]
【Meow. 】
[Who is this? Such a prank!]
A skinned cat inside a doll? Doesn't this sound familiar? There was a time when an old man found a doll, opened it, and found a cat inside. I remember he had a heart attack and couldn't be saved even after being admitted to the hospital.
【Meow. 】
[What's going on? Someone please explain!]
【Are we really encountering a ghost? 】
【Meow. 】
[Who is it?! You keep meowing! Are you afraid of dying too late?!]
[Wait a minute? Is this person in our owner group? The building number hasn't been changed and there's no information.]
I checked the time he joined the group and saw he joined this morning. And his chat history is all meow!
[Fuck, what a supernatural event! ]
【Meow. 】
[Meow... who of you took my skin? ]
[Meow...Give my skin back to me. Give my skin back to me.]
The owners' group was dead silent, no one dared to send messages anymore, only this cat kept sending messages, and kept asking people in the group for its skin.
Codename Xiwang reached out and snatched the phone from Shen Yunzhe's hand. Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment. He turned to look at Codename Xiwang and thought: The way he snatched the phone from someone else's hand was exactly the same as mine.
It turns out to be myself in a parallel world!
"It's okay." Codename Hope responded to Shen Yunzhe's previous question. He said, "As long as I'm here, there's no problem."
Even this unfounded self-confidence is exactly the same as his.
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