Chapter 89
The train started moving, Shen Yunzhe knelt and watched the train move.
He had somewhat forgotten why he was here, his heart filled with pain and sorrow. He watched the train leave in overflowing sadness, and he vaguely felt as if he had no choice but to stay here.
Shen Yunzhe subconsciously raised his hand, as if trying to stop the train.
"It wasn't me." Shen Yunzhe murmured, "I didn't hurt anyone."
Li Yuluan looked at him on the train. He was silent for a while, then quickly pushed everyone aside and ran in the opposite direction. The train was shaking and he ran to the very end. He found the carriage with all the glass smashed. He climbed up and reached down with force.
"Shen Yunzhe!" he shouted, "Hold on to me, I'll pull you up!"
Shen Yunzhe heard the sound, he turned his head to look to the side, and in an instant someone on the train grabbed his hand. He staggered and was lifted up, and fell onto the train. His strong self-rescue consciousness made him subconsciously grab the window on the edge of the train, and the intense sadness was interrupted by this unexpected situation.
"How could I let you stay here alone?" Li Yiluan tugged at his arm tightly. "Aren't you good at climbing walls? Climb up quickly!"
The train began to accelerate, and Li Yuluen was startled. Shen Yunzhe almost subconsciously jumped in through the window. He fell in the carriage, and then looked blankly at the countless zombies around him who were staring at him. Li Yuluen sat on the ground and breathed heavily.
The zombies around them stared at them hungrily, as if they would attack them immediately if they showed any excitement.
Shen Yunzhe was silent, his mind was blank, and the sadness and sharp hatred seemed to disappear suddenly.
He blinked, then looked at Li Yiluan and said, "I don't."
"Nothing?" Li Yiluan was puzzled, but something was really wrong around him. He quickly got up from the ground and pulled Shen Yunzhe up. "Okay, I know you didn't. Let's go, let's go find Huang Yihua."
Shen Yunzhe was pulled away by Li Yulun. He looked at Li Yulun and said after a long moment, "Do you believe me?"
"Yes, I believe it." Li Yuluan was neither perfunctory nor serious, he just followed what Shen Yunzhe said.
"But no one believed me before." Shen Yunzhe murmured, as if he was talking to Li Yuluan or talking to himself. "They said I was weird and that I must be possessed by a ghost. Do you really believe me? Maybe I really am possessed by a ghost."
"Even if you are possessed by a ghost, it is Shen Yunzhe." Li Yuluan dragged Shen Yunzhe forward, avoiding the living dead. "Of course I know you are possessed by a ghost. I have eyes that can see the truth. I have seen that many strange people are possessed by you, including your brother, right?"
Shen Yunzhe didn't quite understand what Li Yuluan meant, but that didn't stop him from listening carefully.
"I don't care what happened to you. I only know that you saved me at the playground. You were possessed, but you're not a ghost, let alone a monster. You're still you. You saved me, so I'll save you too." Li Yiluan tried hard to keep his heartbeat steady. "Shen Yunzhe, you still owe me 30,000 yuan. If I save you, it means I'm saving my money."
"Don't worry, I won't abandon you."
At that moment, Shen Yunzhe's consciousness suddenly returned to normal. He looked at the back of Li Yuluan's head, and it was rare for him to think for a moment with Shen Yunzhe's thinking in this state.
He suddenly understood why Codename Hope was such a person, but was friends with Li Yuluan.
Li Yiluan has a rare pure heart. He will sincerely help his friends even in such a terrible environment.
So after seeing Shen Yunzhe's eyes, he pulled him up without hesitation, because at that moment Li Yuluan realized: Shen Yunzhe cannot be abandoned now, even if this is Shen Yunzhe's own request.
Even if it was this lonely bastard who wanted to, he couldn't refuse Li Yuluan as a friend.
The train was accelerating and the whole train was shaking. The subway itself was very stable, but this was not an ordinary subway. Li Yuluan almost fell because he did not stand firmly, but was supported by Shen Yunzhe from behind.
"Don't go any further." Shen Yunzhe said.
"Um?"
"There's a sound." Shen Yunzhe squatted down, listened to the voice inside, and then hummed a few words quietly, "It sounds like a mother is coaxing her child to sleep, singing a lullaby."
Li Yiluan opened his eyes wide, "There are no mothers or children left alive."
"The tune is getting faster and faster." Shen Yunzhe listened to the sound, "and it's getting closer and closer, as if it's moving towards here."
Li Yiluan quickly squatted beside Shen Yunzhe, "What should we do now?"
"Wait a minute." Shen Yunzhe narrowed his eyes slightly, "There are other sounds, as if someone is crying, crying..."
A scream came from the train, which made Shen Yunzhe raise his head suddenly. Then he was forced down by Li Yuluan, who covered his mouth.
"I finally understand. I can hear the emotion in the tune all of a sudden. I think I've seen this personality of yours before, the one that plays the piano, right?" Li Yuluan looked at him. "Music composition? Are your other personalities divided into professions? No, I'll ask you about that later. Let's wait for that thing to leave first."
They were squatting in a concave corner next to the car door, which was not easy to be discovered.
Soon, Li Yuluen also heard the humming sound. The tune was soft, it was a lullaby.
"Baby, go to sleep. Mommy will take you to sleep." The female voice hummed.
The sound of footsteps gradually rose on the train.
Soon, a woman holding a swaddling baby came over. There was a big bloody hole on her chest, and blood soaked her yellow coat. She walked slowly, but Li Yuluan saw that the swaddling baby in her arms was covered in blood. The woman walked step by step while holding the swaddling baby and humming.
Li Yuluan suddenly opened his eyes wide when the woman passed by.
What was in the cradle was not a child at all, but the head of an adult, with the face frozen in fear. Li Yiluan still remembered this person, one of the thirty survivors.
It is difficult for a normal person not to be afraid under such stimulation. Li Yiluan felt his heartbeat accelerating almost instantly.
The woman suddenly stopped and stood there humming a lullaby. She didn't move or turn around, just humming the strange lullaby.
This feeling of fear was difficult to control. Li Yiluan frowned and closed his eyes, but the lullaby still drilled into his ears.
Li Yuluan knew that if he continued to lose control, his ending would be the same as that of a baby in swaddling clothes, but how could such a thing be so easy to control? In fact, the more he tried to control it, the more out of control it would become. His mind was in a mess, and it was full of the woman standing next to him.
Just then, Li Yiluan heard singing.
The singing was very soft, but it was not a woman's lullaby. The song had a gentle melody. Li Yuluan opened his eyes and looked to the side, and found that the person singing was Shen Yunzhe.
It was very strange. Shen Yunzhe was just humming, and even his voice was very small, but he inexplicably drowned out the ghost girl's lullaby. Li Yuluan felt strangely like he was being comforted, and his manic heartbeat returned to normal. He sat quietly there, breathing softly.
The female ghost finally took a step forward. She continued to walk forward holding her swaddling clothes. After she walked a certain distance, Shen Yunzhe stopped humming.
"You can sing too?" Li Yuluan asked in a low voice in surprise.
"I can play the piano, so of course I can sing, right?" Shen Yunzhe replied. "I don't feel like singing at all in this state. Those things are staring at me."
Shen Yunzhe then asked, "Where is this place? Why are so many ghosts looking at me?"
Li Yiluan looked at Shen Yunzhe in silence, "Hmm...what do you remember?"
"You pulled me onto the train." Shen Yunzhe asked him again, "Why did you pull me onto the train?"
"Stupid?" Li Yiluan was bewildered. "Forget it. Even if I'm stupid, I'm still more useful than those ordinary people. Anyway, just follow me."
Shen Yunzhe nodded blankly and followed Li Yuluan.
In fact, Shen Yunzhe was thinking all the time during the movement, and he was always thinking about problems in his not very clear mind.
What was this place? Why was he here? He seemed to have been attacked before, perhaps by a player. The player thought he was a ghost and beat him to death there... No, this wasn't him. It was the codename Music Composer.
Shen Yunzhe frowned, he pressed his temples and made himself follow Li Yuluan closely.
"Why didn't anyone come to save me?" Shen Yunzhe suddenly spoke.
Li Yiluan turned around and looked at Shen Yunzhe, "What?"
"There are so many people in the playground, why didn't anyone come to save me?" Shen Yunzhe asked him, "Everyone says I'm a ghost, but there is only one ghost, and the ghost could be anyone."
Li Yiluan sighed, "Don't think about it, didn't I save you?"
"We're almost there. The place ahead is where we'll get on. Huang Yihua is here too. Everyone, try to stay together and get off immediately when the train stops."
Huang Yihua saw them. She and a few others were squatting in the corner. When they saw them, they raised their hands and waved. Li Yuluan led Shen Yunzhe forward. After they arrived at the position, Huang Yihua looked at Shen Yunzhe and breathed a sigh of relief. She looked very relieved.
She said that was great, luckily Li Yuluan pulled you back.
This situation was very different from what Shen Yunzhe had imagined. Half of Shen Yunzhe's head was filled with grief and anger for being killed by his companions, but the other half told him that there were two teammates here who cared about him very much.
Which side is true?
Just as his mind was still in a state of confusion, the sound of a lullaby suddenly rang out, and Shen Yunzhe suddenly raised his head and looked behind him.
Huang Yihua and Li Yulu also realized this. They quickly shut their mouths and reminded the survivors not to make any sound.
The tune of the lullaby was getting closer and closer, and Shen Yunzhe raised his head to look at the woman holding the swaddling baby.
The woman was reflected in his eyes, but she could not see him in her eyes.
The woman stood beside them, holding the head, humming a tune with a smile on her face.
"Baby, baby, go to sleep quickly. Mommy is here to sleep with you." The woman kept singing, "Baby, go to sleep quickly."
She kept singing and just stood there and refused to leave.
Li Yuluan had also experienced this kind of thing. He knew that this was because someone here was afraid. This fear attracted the attention of the female ghost, but it had not yet completely aroused her anger.
"Isn't she a bit pitiful?" Shen Yunzhe suddenly said, "Her child died a long time ago, and she can only hold an empty swaddling cloth and search for her own child on the train. She imagines humming to soothe the child to sleep, and fills the swaddling cloth with all kinds of things."
"How sad she must be to be here looking for her child."
"Then aren't we pitiful?!" A voice suddenly became louder, almost a scream. Shen Yunzhe was startled. He turned around and saw that it was a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man roared, "I came here for no reason, and so many people died! And you're still pitying this murderous female ghost!"
"Madman! Pervert!"
The piercing sound instantly penetrated Shen Yunzhe, but the one who reacted faster than Shen Yunzhe was the female ghost holding the swaddling baby. She grabbed the middle-aged man's neck and pulled him out of the crowd.
"My daughter is not dead." The ghost stared at him, "My daughter will not die."
"See? This is my daughter." The female ghost showed the swaddling clothes in her arms to the middle-aged man, but the middle-aged man could only see the head in the swaddling clothes. The middle-aged man screamed in fear, and the female ghost strangled his neck and dragged him away.
"It's all because of you that my daughter became like this!" The female ghost strangled his neck with force.
The middle-aged man's head was forcibly torn off. She threw away the head in the cradle, replaced it with this head, and then turned back into the mother who sang a lullaby.
Shen Yunzhe watched all this, and the female ghost slowly turned her head to look at him.
Just then, a man stood in front of him. Li Yuluan blocked his figure and pushed him inside.
At that moment, a picture suddenly popped into Shen Yunzhe's mind.
The blood-stained wooden stick was swung down heavily, but it didn't hit him, but another person standing in front of him.
"This guy has been defending him all this time. He must be possessed by a ghost!"
"Isn't there only one ghost?"
"The announcement didn't say there was only one ghost. Isn't that strange? The two of them found so many clues so quickly. Is this the ability of an average player?"
"Yes, he must be a ghost too!"
"Kill him, kill them!"
"Once we kill the ghosts, we can leave the playground! We can go home soon!"
He stretched out his hand to grab something, but he could grab nothing. He only saw blood splattering and the person standing in front of him could no longer move.
Shen Yunzhe began to tremble and his head started to hurt sharply.
"Shen Yunzhe?" Li Yiluan noticed that something was wrong with him. "Shen Yunzhe?! Are you okay?"
Shen Yunzhe couldn't hear Li Yuluan's voice, but he understood why the codenamed music composer was so sad and why he was so angry towards the players.
The code-named Music Composer is a musician who studies life and death. He likes to challenge the emotions of life and death. He thinks he has let go of life and death, but before he dies he understands that life and death are never something that people can accept with a broad mind.
He couldn't accept dying in this way, nor could he accept the people who stood in front of him leaving like this.
Birth and death are never fair!
"I can't die." Shen Yunzhe murmured.
Li Yiluan tried hard to listen to what Shen Yunzhe said, "What did you say?"
"You can't die." Shen Yunzhe looked ahead with empty eyes, "You can't die."
As soon as he finished speaking, a brief cry of surprise came from behind him. Li Yiluan looked back and his eyes widened instantly. He saw the middle-aged man who had just died staggering to his feet, but he had no head. Without a head, he groped on the ground and finally touched the head thrown by the female ghost.
So it put its head on its own body, and then stood in front of Li Yuluan like a guardian. Li Yuluan had a blank look in his eyes.
Shen Yunzhe tilted his head and looked at the person in front of him. He blinked and then looked at Li Yiluan, "What is that?"
"How should I know?" Li Yiluan looked at the thing. "But...why do I seem to see something extra in his broken destiny?"
Shen Yunzhe blinked and tilted his head.
[Don't think about it, it's you who did it.]
Shen Yunzhe subconsciously looked for where the sound came from.
"I'm in your mind, but you can't find me. I've already said that 100% synchronization with all other isotopes besides Codename Hope is unpleasant. I never thought you would actually activate Codename Music Composer's special abilities after his death."
"Special abilities?"
[Marionette.] The system replied, [Strong faith will allow you to control a strange object. The strange object has no thoughts, but will protect you based on your thoughts.]
"I don't want it."
Why?
"Death is death. I don't want to be used to protect others after I die, nor do I want to control others to protect me." Shen Yunzhe stared at the corpse in front of him. "Everyone is a medium in the game field, everyone is a pawn in the game field. They shouldn't be like this."
[Okay.] The system agreed easily. [As expected, you are still Shen Yunzhe. Even a 100% synchronization rate cannot change your essence.]
[Codename Music Composer ends synchronously.]
Thank you for reminding him that there was once someone who stood in front of him and tried to protect him.
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