Chapter 7
"He was strangled to death." Shen Yunzhe covered his mouth and nose and pointed at the hand next to the corpse, "It should be that hand."
Everyone present had a grim look on their faces, because they knew very well that the hand belonged to Zhang Wenli, whose body had been dismembered.
A dead man who had already turned into minced meat actually strangled Wang Liyang who stayed behind?
"Are you sure?" Qin Chao still had a glimmer of hope.
"I'm not a forensic doctor, I can only say it's highly likely." Shen Yunzhe said, "And aside from that, don't you think the shadow on the wall is moving?"
"It's not just moving, it's moving towards us." Le Jia has been paying attention to the shadows in the room.
The two shadows, who were obviously Wang Liyang and Zhang Wenli, were moving out little by little.
"Sister Le, what should we do now?" The girl grabbed Le Jia's sleeve tightly.
"What else can we do? We can't stay in the safe house anymore, everyone leave!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the shadow's speed increased instantly, as if it had heard their words. The people outside were frightened and stumbled, rushing out in a hurry. Shen Yunzhe was running behind. He subconsciously glanced back and saw a shadow clinging to the door of the safe house. Another black shadow was clinging to the opposite wall of the room, moving quickly towards them.
The shadow was moving extremely fast, and sunlight poured in from the broken window. Shen Yunzhe looked at the light coming through the window. He was stunned for a moment, looked at the sunlight for a while, then turned his head to look behind him.
Their shadows were stretched by the sunlight until they were close to the edge of the corridor.
"No!" Shen Yunzhe shouted, "Back off quickly!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" someone cursed, "Didn't you see the shadow chasing us?!"
"A shadow can only catch its own shadow! The sunlight is coming in, and now the further you run the longer your shadow will get! You have to find a place where the light can't reach!"
Before the people running in front could react, a man let out a miserable scream. It was the man named Zhu Xin who was running in the front. He fell to the ground, and his legs seemed to be pulled by something. Qin Chao hurriedly squatted down and grabbed his hand, but the force that came from nowhere was too great.
"Don't let go! I don't want to die yet!" Zhu Xin desperately grabbed Qin Chao's sleeve, "Save me, save me!"
Qin Chao pulled him to look at the corridor entrance. Zhu Xin was lying on the ground in the sunlight, and his shadow was constantly being pulled by another shadow.
"Hold on!"
Shen Yunzhe quickly removed a billboard from the wall. He dragged it to the broken windowsill as fast as he could to block the light. The shadow of the billboard instantly blocked their shadows. Zhu Xin felt his feet loosen, and he hurriedly climbed up and huddled in the shadow, crying ugly.
Shen Yunzhe didn't dare to put down the billboard because he could no longer see the shadow. He looked around to make sure the shadow was not hiding anywhere.
When the incident just happened, Le Jia and the girl Yang Siwei had already run away without a trace, and now there are only three of them here.
"Let's go to a place where there's no sunlight." Shen Yunzhe said, "Go inside. The wall over there can block the sunlight."
Qin Chao and Zhu Xin nodded, and they quickly ran to the middle stairwell, which was a place that could completely block out sunlight and didn't even have windows.
Throwing the billboard in his hand to the ground, Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the steps to calm his breath.
"What should we do next?" Zhu Xin wiped away the tears of fear that had just come out. "It's sunny during the day, and we can't go back to the safe house. How can a person not have a shadow? If we don't pay attention to the light when we run, the shadow will lengthen."
Qin Chao sighed and grabbed his red hair. "There's nothing we can do. Let's go our separate ways."
"W-what?!" Zhu Xin looked at Qin Chao in horror, "Go separately?"
"That's a solution." Shen Yunzhe continued, "There are only two shadows that kill people during the day. If the five of us go separately, even if we're unlucky, only two of us will be caught. The remaining three can continue. If we can find a dark place, maybe all five of us will be fine."
Qin Chao nodded, "As long as one person completes the task, the rest of the people can leave this playground."
"...What bad luck! We're in the upgraded novice game field. Now we can only rely on luck. It's normal to be wiped out if we're unlucky." Qin Chao stood up. "Wish us good luck. I'm going downstairs now."
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Then I'll go upstairs and take a look."
"Aren't you afraid of death?!" Zhu Xin looked at them with a look of confusion in his eyes. He huddled in a corner and said, "I'm not going anywhere. There are no shadows here, and there's not much light coming in. I'm going to stay here and wait for the sun to set!"
"Are you mentally ill?" Qin Chao frowned. "The sun sets at six in the evening. Do you remember what happens at six in the evening?"
Zhu Xin's face turned pale.
Yes, the theater opens at six in the evening, and all the lights will be on at that time, and there will be many, many shadows.
"But Zhou Mingming wasn't dead at the time! It's okay, it will be okay!" Zhu Xin murmured, as if trying to convince himself, "Just leave me alone!"
The moment Zhou Mingming's name was mentioned, Shen Yunzhe saw Qin Chao's face suddenly turn ugly.
"Who is Zhou Mingming?"
"It's the person who came back with two more shadows last night." Qin Chao answered perfunctorily. He shouted at Zhu Xin: "I don't care about you. Here, everyone is responsible for their own life. Let's go. Don't pay attention to Shen Yunzhe. If he wants to stay here, let him stay."
After saying that, Qin Chao went downstairs angrily. There was a slam from the corridor door, and it seemed that it was closed with great force.
...Will it really not attract security?
Shen Yunzhe took one last look at Zhu Xin. Seeing that Zhu Xin was completely unmoved, he sighed softly and turned to walk upstairs.
There was no one left, only Zhu Xin was left sitting there.
"Yes, Zhou Mingming just disappeared, he's not necessarily dead." Zhu Xin murmured softly to comfort himself, "Maybe Zhou Mingming has been alive all this time, but he just refused to come find us. After all, we had a very unpleasant quarrel. Yes, that must be the case."
Zhou Mingming, a newcomer, Qin Chao and Le Jia think he has good qualifications. If he survives this time, he may become a high-level player.
He believed that strange things happening outside at night should not be avoided. The weirder they were, the more likely there were clues. He walked out of the safe house at night despite everyone's opposition. Surprisingly, he did not die, but came back normally, except that his shadow had turned into three.
That day Zhou Mingming was excluded by everyone and everyone was very scared.
He was locked up outside, and no one was willing to let Zhou Mingming, who had three shadows, in. This was human nature.
After waiting for a whole day, Zhou Mingming gave up, left the safe house and never returned.
"He must be alive, and I can be alive too."
Zhu Xin's eyes were blank, staring blankly at the air.
…
The upstairs and downstairs were equally dilapidated, and the ground was littered with all sorts of junk. It didn't look like a normal hospital relocation at all. Shen Yunzhe avoided the light and tried his best to find something that might be useful in this messy environment.
For example, keys, spare parts, and medicines.
That's how horror games work.
However, this is not an ordinary horror game, and Shen Yunzhe found nothing.
He sighed, then took out his phone from his pocket. The phone was always on the live broadcast interface. He ignored the barrage and began to observe whether there was any problem with the live broadcast angle. In Shen Yunzhe's opinion, this live broadcast was only useful in this way, to observe the blind spots that the person himself could not perceive.
After making sure that no shadow appeared, Shen Yunzhe leaned against the wall and roughly looked at the content on the barrage.
So far, Shen Yunzhe doesn't trust the so-called live broadcast audience, but unfortunately, the reactions of these audiences sometimes represent certain things, so he can't just ignore them.
For example, when the audience is annoyed, it must be that the players are doing well. When the audience is happy, it must be that a player is unlucky or has died directly. The audience does not care and casually discusses the life and death of the participating players in the barrage, as if they are really just NPCs in the game and they will die if they die.
[Now it's an odd number, but the one chasing after me is a shadow. Shadows are too limited and not very pleasant to watch.]
[I think it's okay. The players in this game field are almost wiped out.]
Will you continue to recruit people? There are only five left.
[It should become four soon, maybe two.]
[Are you watching the comments? If you're so bored, why not come chat? One of you will definitely die, how about we give you a chance?]
"What opportunity?" Shen Yunzhe looked at the words on the barrage.
[Come and vote.] The barrage of comments became active again, and the word "vote" filled the live broadcast interface.
[How about you five vote for one person? This person will become the scapegoat, and the rest of you will escape the shadow's pursuit?]
【Come and vote! 】
【Just give up one of them! 】
【You can all survive! 】
Shen Yunzhe looked at the increasingly obvious inducement, he sighed, tried for a long time on the live broadcast interface, and finally found the button to turn off the barrage. He turned off the barrage directly and put the phone in his pocket.
Out of sight, out of mind.
These audiences really don't have any good intentions.
【He turned off the barrage? 】
[Not only did he not choose? He also turned off the comment section and stopped talking to us?]
Who is he? How can he think he can survive? Where does this confidence come from?!
He was unwilling to vote and refused to believe anything we said.
【……】
[Reminder: As the live broadcast room becomes more annoying, the difficulty of the game will increase.]
[Warning: Dislike levels are skyrocketing. Once again, please note that audience likability will influence the difficulty of the game, so please please your audience.]
[Player Shen Yunzhe, the game difficulty has been increased to 2.]
Shen Yunzhe didn't pay any attention to the so-called increased difficulty of the game. He certainly knew that the increased difficulty of the game meant that he had a higher chance of encountering ghosts. Others might pass by without any problem, but he would be chased by a female ghost. However, Shen Yunzhe was a person who loved freedom by nature and didn't want to be bound by anything.
Moreover, after synchronizing with the doctor, this level of self-awareness was elevated to more than one level.
In other words: if he was just suspicious of the live broadcast audience before and didn't care much about them, now he only feels disgust.
He hated these monsters who left bad comments in the barrage.
There was nothing on the second floor, so Shen Yunzhe went straight up to the third floor. As soon as he walked out of the stairwell, he saw a ball rolling to Shen Yunzhe's feet. Because the ground was covered with dust, the ball rolled around and was also covered with dark red dust.
Shen Yunzhe did not touch it rashly. He watched the ball rolling beside him due to inertia, and finally revealed a childish name on it.
'Jiang Shuqi'.
"Doctor Liu, can you pick up my ball?" The little girl's childish voice echoed in the empty hall.
Shen Yunzhe looked towards the elevator next to him. A little girl with two ponytails stuck her head out and stared at him. Her eyes were very beautiful, but there was a blood hole as big as a fist on her forehead. The blood hole had split to her right eye, and her entire eye had lost its shape.
She stretched out her arms, revealing their white bones, as if asking for a hug.
"Doctor Liu, what are you doing there?"
"Doctor Liu, is it time for games?"
"Doctor Liu? Why don't you speak?"
Shen Yunzhe thought: I am so unlucky. People should be more careful with their words.
In order to avoid the security guard, he casually said that he was Dr. Liu Ruoyu and that he was coming to the inpatient building to handle the procedures for a little girl named Jiang Shuqi.
Here comes the price.
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