Chapter 88
This is what makes special playgrounds so scary. Even if the medium is destroyed, the playgrounds cannot be destroyed. They are living monsters.
Destroying the medium only creates a gap where people can survive for a short time, and the playing field remains the same.
A mysterious train appears in the subway!
A train filled with corpses appeared on the subway, forcing the entire subway system to close. Was this a terrorist attack or a true paranormal event?
"It is reported that people waiting for the train were dragged onto the train and disappeared."
The authorities have not commented on this matter.
It was rush hour, and there were so many people at the subway station. We all saw it! They weren't even alive! They were dragging everyone waiting for the train up there!
I ran so fast that I could hear screams even after running two floors.
[What the hell is this?! Is there really a ghost?]
[It's so scary. I saw the video. Those people really don't look like humans.]
[You didn't know? A while ago, a Line 3 train lost contact, and the people on board disappeared along with the train. Some people said the dead people they saw on the train were the missing people, and some people saw their loved ones in the video, but they were no longer alive.]
【Why is there no one to refute the rumor! 】
[What's the point of refuting a rumor? This sort of thing has actually been around in this world for years, but it's been kept secret from the public. Now, a subway line can't hide it anymore.]
[Is this real? Is that a ghost?]
[You could say it's a ghost, but it's actually a playground. Yes, a playground...]
The news spread like wildfire on the Internet, and subway videos were everywhere, but no one knew whether this kind of video would have the same effect as the "surprise easter egg", so the authorities were working hard to delete all of these videos. On the other hand, Qiao Dong and Pentagram had no time to care about this kind of thing. They were still planning to find the missing people.
Talisman Master Huang Yihua left a lot of talismans in the headquarters, and all of them are useful.
"You can't get a tiger cub without entering the tiger's den." Qiao Dong said, "Only by entering that train can we find Master Fu and the others."
"It's too dangerous." Pentagram disagreed. "We also sent many people in during the 'Mountain Village' incident, but none of them returned. Now we've lost our Talisman Master and can't send anyone else in."
Qiao Dong shook his head. "But whether it's Master Fu or Shen Yunzhe, they are the pillars of our current players. Their abilities are unique. For them, it's worth taking this risk."
"Let's give it a try. The combination of Master Fu and Shen Yunzhe, I believe they must still be alive."
…
Time does not exist in this place. The battery level on the mobile phone remains unchanged, but time has not moved at all. This is a platform. There is nothing here except a small area of the platform. It is empty and dark.
Shen Yunzhe sat on the steps and looked down. The remaining thirty or so people sat quietly on the ground.
According to their physical sense, they have been waiting here for no less than three days.
Although I knew that Xiwang had been in that box for more than 20 years and that it was not an easy thing, I could not empathize with him. It was not until Shen Yunzhe sat here for three days that he realized how difficult it was. What's more, he had people around him, but Xiwang was alone.
Time stands still, the body remains the same, but the spirit becomes absolutely exhausted.
I am so tired, but I can't sleep. In a place like this, even sleeping is a luxury. There is no such thing as sleep.
They could only sit here and wait.
The first person's collapse was understandable. He was a young boy, probably a high school student, and the clothes he was wearing didn't look like something an ordinary person could afford. He suddenly started crying and slammed his head against the pillar next to him. It took Li Yuluan and several others to hold him back.
"How long do we have to stay here? Will we never be able to go back?" the boy cried, "This is no different from being dead!"
Li Yilun said, "You're still breathing. As long as you're alive, there's still hope. We finally got off that train and made it this far. Are you planning to die so easily?"
But this young man was not the only one who had this doubt.
Shen Yunzhe silently covered his ears. He was actually very far away from these people, but those voices kept drilling into his ears.
"I'm so tired and sleepy. I really want to sleep. Why can't I sleep? I want to die."
"I want to go home. I don't want to die here."
"I should have died on the train. What a hell of a place this is..."
"Let me die, give me a reason, let me die now."
Their emotions have collapsed. It has only been three days. Shen Yunzhe realized that this place has brought people tremendous psychological pressure and it is easy for people to fall into negative emotions. Even Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua unconsciously showed negative states.
This negative emotion will only intensify, forming a vicious cycle.
This is the essence of the game field: the transmission of negative emotions. The system spoke, "Human emotions can be transmitted and contagious. If you're exposed to extreme emotions for a long time, you'll become the one to vent those extreme emotions. If you listen carefully, you'll hear all sorts of extreme language here."
Shen Yunzhe covered his ears to express his refusal.
He had heard enough.
[If they can't find a way to leave, these ordinary people will be assimilated and become the living dead on the train.]
The young man cried out, broke free from Li Yuluan and the others, and rushed down, jumping directly from the station to the track. The next moment, with a bang, in the horrified eyes of everyone, a train staggered over, and the windows showed densely packed people in the train.
The corpse raised its head, and countless pairs of dead eyes stared at everyone here.
With a creak, the car door opened and a person fell out of the door, blood spilling on the ground. Huang Yihua opened her eyes wide and she quickly rushed down to drag the person up.
"Junior brother?!" Huang Yihua slapped his face, "Huang Ye!"
Shen Yunzhe jumped off the stage and quickly checked the man's injuries.
"Do you still have the bandages and medicine from before?" Shen Yunzhe said, "He needs to stop the bleeding."
Huang Yihua hurried to find medicine, and Shen Yunzhe gave him emergency treatment, and then he had time to look at this person.
A young man, neither a corpse in the train nor a survivor here. Judging from the fact that Huang Yihua called him junior brother, he came from outside.
"Why is Huang Ye here?" Huang Yihua looked at the track, but the train had long since disappeared. "We destroyed the medium, but the train is still there! We simply created a safe place for ourselves."
"Don't be so anxious." Li Yiluan said: "The last strange invasion was so easy to resolve not only because Shen Yunxi was there, but also because Shen Yunzhe could contact the outside world."
"No such luck this time."
Shen Yunzhe looked at the injured man and said, "He's about to wake up."
Sure enough, a few seconds after Shen Yunzhe finished speaking, the man named Huang Ye opened his eyes and coughed, and his face became uglier with every cough.
"Junior brother?" Huang Yihua called him.
The man looked around blankly. After a while, he focused his gaze on Huang Yihua, "...Senior Sister."
"How did you get here?!"
"I knew you were still alive." Huang Ye smiled, "Senior Sister, we need to go back quickly. It's a mess outside."
As he spoke, he started coughing again, and stuttered as he coughed, "I must go back."
From Huang Ye, they learned that the subway was under complete closure and trains were appearing in disorder. Every time a body appeared on a train, someone would be arrested. The authorities arranged a number of people to guard each station and get on the train as soon as it appeared. Their goal was to find Fu Shi and others who disappeared on the train.
But after they boarded the train, they followed the train to various stations in disorder. Everyone who came was devoured by the zombies inside. In the end, he was the only one who was still barely holding on.
Just when he was in despair, he suddenly heard the train calling out a new station he had never heard of. The train drove into a place he had never seen before. When he opened his eyes, he saw Huang Yihua and others.
"The news can't be concealed anymore." Huang Yihua closed his eyes and sighed, "How can we possibly keep secret a mysterious train that appeared directly on the subway?"
Li Yiluan shrugged. "I don't quite understand why your officials are hiding the news, but the problem now is: there's chaos outside, but we can't get out."
"Although it's safe here, it's just a small area. It's not realistic. Can we stay here forever?"
Shen Yunzhe corrected his words, "Wrong."
"If you can hold on, it won't just last a lifetime, it will be forever." Shen Yunzhe said, "Time doesn't pass here."
Li Yiluan's face turned extremely ugly. "This is more terrifying than eternal life."
Someone committed suicide within three days.
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "I have an idea. It's very dangerous, but maybe we can get out of here."
"What?"
"A train." Shen Yunzhe pointed at Huang Ye, who had fainted on the ground. "He got off the train, right? We also said before that trains are appearing randomly on the subway. In other words, if we can get on that train, it is possible to return to the real subway."
Huang Yihua's face looked grim, and Li Yuluan also fell silent.
This was indeed very dangerous because the train was full of corpses and they had gotten off the train to avoid them.
"But, we don't know when this train will arrive. Huang Ye also said that many people died on the train, and he is the only one who doesn't know why he appeared here."
Shen Yunzhe said: "I have a second guess."
Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe and said, "Please speak."
"Before Huang Ye and the train arrived, there was an incident where a teenager jumped onto the tracks after a breakdown. We've previously learned the rules of this playground: those who experience extreme emotions will be targeted, and the more afraid they are, the more likely they are to be found."
"Perhaps the train had no way of returning here after its medium was destroyed, and could only wander around in the real subway. However, the sudden outburst of extreme emotions here connected to the train, so it appeared briefly."
Li Yiluan's eyes widened slightly. "In other words: the boy who jumped onto the tracks caused the train to return here, and accidentally saved Huang Ye's life."
"He also sent us clues." Shen Yunzhe nodded.
Li Yiluan thought for a moment, "Then don't we have to find someone who has a breakdown and wants to commit suicide?"
"This is very dangerous," Huang Yihua said. "If more people die, everyone here will collapse. By then, maybe only the three of us will be able to return alive."
Shen Yunzhe thought about it and his eyes rolled.
[Don't even think about it. Suicidal tendencies are extremely terrifying. Even if there were an isotope like that, it wouldn't be possible to synchronize with you.]
"You know what I'm thinking without asking?"
Suddenly talking to himself, Li Yuluan and Huang Yihua looked at each other, and then looked at Shen Yunzhe together. They had long been accustomed to Shen Yunzhe's talking to himself.
[I've said before that I can know what you're thinking because I'm based on your own parallel world system.]
"It doesn't necessarily have to be suicidal, and negative emotions don't necessarily lead to suicide."
What do you mean?
"Music composition." Shen Yunzhe said a word. "I remember he was the first peer to lose control."
【……】
"I understand. Since you've made that judgment, I won't refuse." The system replied, "But I must tell you in advance that, unlike Codename Hope, 100% synchronization with other peers is not pleasant. Codename Hope still has a future, but these peers are long dead. 100% synchronization will only bring the pain of their death."
【are you sure? 】
[This is death, betrayal, and the resentment of a dying person.]
Shen Yunzhe smiled. He stood up and looked at the railroad tracks in front of him. "I couldn't ask for more."
"I also want to try and see what the difference is between this kind of death and the previous playground."
They didn't know what Shen Yunzhe was talking to himself, but they still heard words like suicidal tendencies and death.
Li Yuluan opened his eyes wide, because he saw death in Shen Yunzhe. This death reminded him of the playground he and Shen Yunzhe had experienced together, the place where they died and came back to life repeatedly, but this was not the playground of reincarnation.
"Shen Yunzhe, what are you doing?" Li Yuluan walked over and grabbed Shen Yunzhe's wrist, "No, you will die."
"I won't die." Shen Yunzhe said with a smile, "I'm just using death."
Huang Yihua also stood up, she realized what decision Shen Yunzhe had made.
"Call everyone, get on when the train arrives, and get off immediately when it stops at the next station." Shen Yunzhe calmly explained everything. "Don't worry about me. I won't die here."
His words were a decision, and although his voice was soft, everyone present knew that it could not be changed.
"Shen Yunzhe." Li Yuluan was silent for a moment. He seemed to want to say something, but he just called out the name and didn't say the rest.
Finally, he said in an almost sighing tone: "Shen Yunzhe, you still owe me money, don't forget, you must pay it back to me."
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled provocatively, "Not only will I not pay it back, I will owe you another 30,000 yuan."
Li Yiluan was stunned for a moment, "You are too much, that's 30,000!"
After shouting, Li Yiluan smiled. He seldom smiled, so this smile was unexpectedly gentle. "I'll remember this. You owe me 30,000 yuan. I have to ask you to pay it back."
"So, don't get into trouble."
After saying that, he turned around and told the 30 or so ordinary people. Huang Yihua nodded and thanked Shen Yunzhe, then mobilized everyone with Li Yuluan.
Seeing that everyone had stood up, there seemed to be some hope in everyone's eyes. Shen Yunzhe closed his eyes and breathed softly.
"system."
[World C05801, codename Music Creator, synchronization begins, synchronization rate 100%]
【Synchronization successful.】
[The code-named music composer's life motto: Life and death are the best music of life.]
At that moment, the sound of his heart that was constantly ringing in his head disappeared, the mist in his eyes also dissipated, and the surroundings were as quiet as a ball of cotton. Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes slightly, but the next moment, a voice rang in his mind.
There was a sharp fear in the voice, and human fear is the very catalyst for violence.
"He must be a ghost in disguise! What a graduate student and a dead musician! What bad luck!"
"But, the game field doesn't allow players to fight each other. Should we..."
"What's with players fighting each other? We're killing a monster that threatens our lives. He's a monster!"
"Yes, he is a monster, kill him!"
The young man fell to the ground, blood oozing from his forehead, sliding onto his eyelashes and then falling to the ground. He was in a daze and could hardly get up. In his peripheral vision, he saw someone walking towards him step by step, with blood on the soles of his shoes and a bloody wooden stick in his hand.
He died in the game field, but he was not killed by a strange creature, but was attacked from behind by a fellow player.
Just because there is a ghost disguised as a player in this game, just because he is suspected of being that ghost.
Shen Yunzhe slowly knelt on the ground, his forehead was in severe pain, but it was nothing compared to the pain in his heart. His fingers were shaking with pain, and he could only press his chest hard. The pain was so severe that he wanted to pull his heart out with his hands.
"It's not me." Shen Yunzhe couldn't help but tremble. When he came to his senses, he found that his eyes were blurred by tears.
He must be in great pain, so much so that even Shen Yunzhe could hardly bear it.
In a sad mood, he heard the sound of a train slowly approaching. Li Yiluan and Huang Yihua took their people to get on the train as quickly as possible. The zombies on the train stared at them with hatred in their eyes. The moment someone got on, they were held down by the zombies and strangled to death.
Shen Yunzhe heard the screams and looked up. Li Yuluen and Huang Yihua on the train finally saw Shen Yunzhe's appearance.
His eyes were red, filled with tears, and his expression was filled with sorrow, which could make people feel heartbroken for a moment just by looking at him.
But after looking at him for a few seconds, Li Yiluan opened his eyes slightly.
The sadness disappeared from Shen Yunzhe's eyes, leaving behind a sharp murderous intent.
'He eventually grew resentful of every player who didn't help him.'
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