Chapter 77
Shen Yunzhe was checking the ticket in front of the haunted house. With a ding, Shen Yunzhe saw the sold-out sign on the electronic card, which meant that this was really the last venue.
Once he comes out of the haunted house, he can leave this playground.
Then you can take this playground into the real world and implicate innocent people.
Shen Yunzhe cursed in his heart.
Zhang Xian followed to check the tickets. The door of the haunted house creaked open and they walked in together. However, the scene they saw was not what they had imagined.
The haunted house was filled with the sound of suona, a popular ghost music on the Internet. There was a bright red bed and red candles, but it was obvious that these things had been moved, and not for long. Zhang Xian squatted down and looked at the dust on the ground.
"Someone came here early?" Zhang Xian was surprised. "Ji Yu?!"
Now there are only a few of them who can move freely. Tang Feng didn't know where he was beaten to by Wen Hai and his gang, and he hasn't woken up yet. Xie Yiyun is still on the roller coaster. Only Ji Yu can move freely.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the mess and asked, "Do you think it's dangerous?"
"Ah? Ask me?" Zhang Xian thought for a moment. "I don't know."
At this stage, he could not feel any sense of threat from the game field at all. All his intuition was given to Shen Yunxi. The strong sense of threat brought to him by Shen Yunxi could not be dissipated for a long time. Even now, it was difficult for him to think, let alone detect other threats.
Shen Yunzhe didn't count on him. He took a look at the traces on the ground, made a rough judgment, and turned to walk towards the next room.
Squeaky music sounded behind them, but Shen Yunzhe acted as if he couldn't hear it and didn't look scared at all. He came to a door and stood in front of it. Zhang Xian followed him. As he reached the door, his breath stopped, and the sobbing sound of a woman came from the room.
The voice was very light and muffled, accompanied by a hint of sobbing. It was not Ji Yu's voice.
Crunch.
Suddenly a sound came and Zhang Xian subconsciously took a step back.
He kept judging and finally determined that the sound inside was like someone scratching the door bit by bit with their fingernails.
Shen Yunzhe kicked the door open. Zhang Xian was so frightened because he was caught off guard that he almost jumped up. He looked at the kicked-open door and the standing Shen Yunzhe in horror, and then watched Shen Yunzhe walk straight in. His courage was so brave that it left people speechless.
"Shen Yunzhe?!" Zhang Xian hurriedly followed.
As a result, Zhang Xian's words were stuck in his throat as soon as he entered.
I saw a woman in a white dress hanging from the ceiling, swaying. The wind from somewhere blew up the hem of her dress, revealing her bloody legs.
"It's fake." Shen Yunzhe patted him, "It's a prop."
"Props?!" Zhang Xian looked carefully and found that it was indeed not a real person. Because it was hung too high and the details of the legs were well done, he was actually scared.
After breathing a sigh of relief, Zhang Xian finally had the mood to observe the surrounding environment.
Unlike the scene of the bride in red outside, this place looks like an operating table or a morgue. The walls and floors are pure white. There is an operating table next to it, the dummy is hanging from the ceiling, and some medical records are scattered around.
"That's probably how amusement parks deceive people. After you enter the haunted house, a new door opens, and this door leads to a new scene," Zhang Xian said, covering his nose as he spoke. "What a strong smell, this smell..."
It smells like blood.
Because the room is so small, the smell is even more intense.
Shen Yunzhe turned his head to look at the operating table next to him. He walked over and placed his hand on the white cloth covering the operating table.
He lifted the white cloth, and his eyes flickered slightly when he saw what was on the morgue. Zhang Xian saw that scene when he came over.
The woman lay quietly on the morgue, with a mark of strangulation on her neck. Her mouth was slightly open and her eyes were looking somewhere unknown. She was wearing a white dress. The dress looked so familiar. It was the dress of a female ghost and she would never wear it.
This is: the dead Ji Yu.
"Ji Yu, she's gone too?" Zhang Xian looked at her body in silence. "Why would she come to the haunted house alone?"
"It's like why Wen Hai and Xie Yiyun suddenly got on a roller coaster."
Zhang Xian's face turned grim. "That ghost was affecting us, making us mistakenly think we were seeing other players. Only after we followed them did we realize we had entered a place like this."
Shen Yunzhe covered Ji Yu with the white cloth, then looked at the dummy hanging from the ceiling. Without thinking, he stepped on the stool above it and tried to pull the dummy down with his hands.
"What are you doing? Shen Yunzhe?"
"Look at what this dummy is." Shen Yunzhe said, "Look at Ji Yu's wounds. She died by hanging. There was only one place where she could have hanged herself. She stepped on a stool to hang herself up, so this stool was pushed to the side and there are footprints on it."
Zhang Xian remembered that Shen Yunzhe seemed to have claimed to be a forensic doctor, although the official had no experience of Shen Yunzhe learning medicine.
"So?" he asked.
"So, who put Ji Yu down from here and hung this dummy up again?"
As Shen Yunzhe spoke, he pulled the rope from the ceiling down with force. With a click, a crack appeared in the ceiling and the dummy fell heavily to the ground. Its pale porcelain face shattered and its black hair was spread on the ground. With a click, pieces of the ceiling fell down.
Zhang Xian raised his head, and the next moment his eyes suddenly froze.
He almost shouted in horror: "Shen Yunzhe?!"
A white shadow huddled on the ceiling, and the woman's pale face was twisted as she looked at them. The crack just revealed half of her hideous face and resentful eyes. Her black hair hung down and tried to entangle Shen Yunzhe. Zhang Xian could only kick the stool, and Shen Yunzhe, who was standing on the stool, fell down from it, just avoiding the ghost woman's hair.
"What the hell, what the hell!" This was the first time Zhang Xian was scared in the playground.
There is a woman squatting on the ceiling, looking at you through the gap. The thought of it makes one's scalp tingle, let alone that this is a real thing.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the female ghost, frowning slightly. He asked Zhang Xian as if he was not afraid at all, "Zhang Xian, do you think this female ghost looks different from the female ghosts outside?"
"Who the hell would look closely at the appearance of a female ghost!" Zhang Xian roared.
After yelling, he remembered to pull Shen Yunzhe and run out. They ran very fast, but after running out of the small room, Zhang Xian was horrified to find that they had moved to another place.
Outside was still not the familiar bride in red, but a messy dressing room.
There was a staff sign on the wall, and it looked like a dressing room.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the cards, and after a moment he pulled one out and handed it to Zhang Xian, "Take a look, does it look like the female ghost in it?"
"I..." Zhang Xian opened his eyes wide. How could he recognize him!
Not to mention how scary that female ghost is, this photo shows a normal person without makeup. The staff of the haunted house all need special effects makeup, so it is difficult to recognize them normally. He was surprised how Shen Yunzhe could recognize her at a glance.
"Are you face-blind?" Shen Yunzhe asked him.
"I'm not face-blind. Even normal people wouldn't be able to recognize it!" Zhang Xian said, "Okay, I understand. The female ghost outside is one of the staff here."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him and said after a few seconds: "It's not just the female ghost in the haunted house. All the female ghosts in the amusement park are staff here."
"ah?!"
Shen Yunzhe handed him the photo in his hand, and then took out another one, "This is the female ghost in the carousel, this is the female ghost near the pirate ship, and this one is the female ghost on the roller coaster."
"Including the haunted house, there are a total of four female ghosts. Oh, yes, there should be another wandering female ghost who tricked Ji Yu into coming in."
Zhang Xian looked at Shen Yunzhe for a moment before speaking, "The amusement park director initially hired someone to play the female ghost. Is this the staff member he hired?"
"That's right."
Shen Yunzhe began to look through the things inside. Zhang Xian knew that he wanted to find something with records. People in extreme environments tend to write diaries or records. Everyone hopes to leave some evidence or proof even if they die.
That’s why there are so many paper records in amusement parks.
Soon Shen Yunzhe turned to a notebook. It seemed that the notebook was shared, and the records at the beginning were even quite lively.
[I'm working a part-time job! The money is just enough for us to go out and play together in a haunted house this summer. It's so fun!]
In order to earn money for summer travel, five female college students came together to work part-time and play female ghosts in an amusement park. They were very excited at first and were happy to see the haunted house or other tourists being scared. Each of them had their own area and it was enough to come part-time occasionally. The work was not tiring and they were happy.
But gradually, things started to get weird.
They found that there were more and more tourists in the amusement park, and countless people were trying to find the female ghosts they played. As soon as they appeared, many people would gather around to check in. This inexplicable popularity made them feel uneasy. They wanted to resign and leave, but the director offered them three times the salary to help them survive the next few days.
"Triple the salary! And it's only for three days. I think it's no problem. In three days, we'll have enough money for our trip!"
【Then hold on for three more days. 】
【Think ahead about where to go. 】
However, things became increasingly dire.
[Someone died? I heard someone jumped off a pirate ship!]
How is that possible?! The pirate ship has been locked up for so long, is there anyone who could have climbed up there with their bare hands?!
[I feel like I can’t stay here any longer. Let’s go! We have to leave quickly!]
But they still didn't have time to leave. When they wanted to leave, they found that the gate of the entire amusement park had disappeared. They couldn't call the police, but tourists kept pouring in and there were people everywhere. They began to ask for help from the tourists, but no one paid any attention to them.
Then, the real female ghost appeared.
She wandered around the amusement park, throwing down real hairpins. Tourists walked by unawares, and more and more people jumped off the pirate ship.
They went to look for the director, but found that he had committed suicide in the cinema. Finally, one of them could not hold on any longer and she collapsed and hanged herself in the haunted house. Her body hung there for three days without being discovered by any tourists. When they found her, her body was still emitting a strange smell.
The second person to die was crushed under the carousel, and the white dress she was wearing was dyed red.
Then the third, the fourth...
We are trapped in this amusement park and cannot leave. We don’t know what these tourists are. They always come in waves, play around the entire amusement park, and then disappear.
Everyone is dead, and I'm the only one left wandering here. I can only walk to the place where everyone died again and again, as if I'm not the only one alive. Occasionally, a tourist will follow me, but I can't think about it. Everyone will die anyway.
Sometimes I would go find the real ghost girl and ask her why she did this. We didn’t do anything, we just wanted to make some money.
Where will I die? Where should I go?
[Let me die, let me die, let me die...]
"The last person recorded should be the wandering female ghost." Shen Yunzhe concluded, "She has been constantly wandering around the locations of several dead companions. Maybe Wen Hai and Ji Yu saw it just by coincidence. It's just bad luck."
Zhang Xian's face turned grim. "Is she still conscious?"
"What's the meaning?"
"She wrote on it: Occasionally, tourists would come, play once, and then disappear. Doesn't this look like a gamer?!"
"Only players come to the playground in waves, only players have the task of playing the playground once, and only players disappear after playing."
Shen Yunzhe looked at Zhang Xian, and Zhang Xian waited for him to speak.
So Shen Yunzhe sighed, "Compared to this, I care more about this."
He pointed his finger at one of the sentences.
[Sometimes I go to find the real female ghost.]
"The real female ghost." Shen Yunzhe said, "The female ghosts nowadays are all staff members pretending to be female ghosts. They eventually died in the amusement park and became female ghosts. But before they died, there was a female ghost born from rumors. This female ghost appeared first, and then the amusement park changed."
Zhang Xian blinked, "Are you going to look for this female ghost?"
"It's not necessarily true that there's no way to control this kind of playground, and there's one thing I've always been very concerned about."
"What?"
"Why did hope come?" Shen Yunzhe wondered.
This is a game field, not reality. In the words of Codename Hope, the game field is actually not much different from the small dark room where he is. There are dark things everywhere. Codename Hope can completely threaten the system and then synchronize it after Shen Yunzhe leaves the game field.
The real world is what the codename wants to see.
This is the world of Codename Hope, and Qingcheng City is his home, but this was something Codename Hope discovered only after he came here. Shen Yunzhe was sure that he didn't know this at all when he first arrived.
So why did he come?
Is this playground special? If I leave, reality will 100% erode.
Because he didn't want to see reality eroded? So he came to help? Was he really that kind?
Shen Yunzhe realized belatedly that he was uneasy.
"Zhang Xian, what will happen if an ordinary game field destroys the medium?"
"Destroy the media?" Zhang Xian thought for a moment. "Logically speaking, the media is very important to the game field. If you want to complete the mission, you can't touch the media. But you can exploit loopholes. For example, in your exhibition hall, you destroyed the media after completing the mission."
“A playground without a medium cannot invade reality.”
Shen Yunzhe interrupted him, "I'm talking about destroying the medium in advance."
Zhang Xian was silent. He said, "I don't know."
"No one has ever done that. No one who has done that has ever left the playground alive. We've speculated that in playgrounds where the media has been destroyed in advance, the players must have been devoured along with the playground itself."
"So, destroying the medium can actually eliminate all players?"
Zhang Xian nodded, frowning as he looked at the playground. "But, the medium of this playground is the main body. How could anyone have the ability to destroy the entire playground?"
On the other side, Codename Hope was walking on the cobblestone path, following the female ghost in white in front of him.
The female ghost walked to the pirate ship, then to the roller coaster, passed the haunted house and went to the carousel. Finally, it slowly walked in another direction. That was the gate of the amusement park and the ticket office at the gate.
A pale arm stretched out from the ticket office window, holding an amusement park ticket.
The glass of the ticket office was transparent, and Codename hoped to clearly see a pale female ghost sitting inside. There were countless hands on her back, and each pair of hands extended from the ticket gate of a different amusement project.
Only with a ticket can you enter the amusement park, and only after checking the ticket can you start the equipment. The essence of this amusement park is: tickets.
Codename Hope laughed, he was very happy now.
He said, "I finally found you."
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