Chapter 94
Qiao Dong was called back anyway. The old man said on the phone that he had a bad heart and would be frightened to the point of having an attack.
So he could only apologize and hand over the work to Pentagram again. Qiao Dong returned to the official headquarters. As soon as he entered, he saw Shen Yunzhe sitting on a chair, holding a cup of hot water and drinking it, his eyes fixed on the big screen in front of him. On the big screen was the "surprise easter egg" that could be confirmed so far.
"There aren't many surprise Easter eggs that immediately go wrong like 'Black Cat,' and we've only located about half of them," Qiao Dong explained. "The remaining half haven't been found yet. They might have happened in remote areas, or they might simply not have happened."
"So we've been rotating people around to look at this thing, trying to find some clues."
Shen Yunzhe took a sip of water and nodded.
"What did you say to Mr. Shi before?" Qiao Dong asked Shen Yunzhe, "Why did he call me back so anxiously?"
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "No."
"Really?"
"He's just too timid, it has nothing to do with me." Shen Yunzhe said disdainfully, "He seems to hold a high official position, so how could he be frightened by just one sentence?"
The young man who was watching the surprise Easter egg nearby was amazed. "If you weren't taking sleeping pills in an attempt to commit suicide."
Qiao Dong sat up straight abruptly, "What?"
"I've already said I just have insomnia. Sleeping pills can help me sleep." Shen Yunzhe closed his eyes. "Sleep is the most important factor in maintaining a person's vitality, but I can't get this gift at all. I can only find it through medication. How can you deny me?"
Qiao Dong still remembers that when he went to see Shen Yunzhe yesterday, he was already asleep at eight o'clock.
He quickly recalled Shen Yunzhe's room.
The living room was empty because he had only moved in a few days ago. There was a whole wall of dolls and a medicine box on the shelf. There was no sign of sleeping pills outside. They might have been placed in the bedroom, but Shen Yunzhe did not have insomnia, at least not in his past archives.
Waving his hand to let the young people watching the show continue looking for clues, Qiao Dong took out a stack of information from the side and placed it in front of Shen Yunzhe.
"These are some assets left by your father. Take a look at them. If there are no problems, we will transfer them to you. By the way, your identity file is in the orphanage. We are going to return it to Shen Wei's name."
Shen Yunzhe looked at the document, leaning back in his chair, and after a moment he suddenly began to tear it up.
Qiao Dong watched him tear the papers into pieces and scatter them on the table. Shen Yunzhe stared at these things with no smile or other emotions in his eyes, as if he simply wanted to tear the papers into pieces. Qiao Dong did not stop him. He had already prepared several copies. It was no problem to tear one off.
After a few seconds, Shen Yunzhe looked up at Qiao Dong and asked, "Why did he leave the official?"
Qiao Dong and Shen Yunzhe looked at each other.
"He has so many assets and a child." Shen Yunzhe asked him, "He's alone, with a child, and doesn't want anything. He left so easily. I don't believe you when you say it's okay."
"What? Are there still conflicts among your officials?"
Qiao Dong was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "This happened more than 20 years ago. I don't know much about it."
"In the past twenty years, the official personnel have changed countless times. Only a few of the original founders remain. Mr. Shi, who just left, is one of them. The Pentagram was just a relatively new member back then. If you ask me that, I really don't have an answer."
Shen Yunzhe didn't continue asking, he just suddenly laughed again, and Qiao Dong immediately knew: Shen Yunzhe understood everything.
He was too sharp, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Qiao Dong was too absurd, as if this place was just a ridiculous playground.
So he watched Shen Yunzhe stand up. Shen Yunzhe scattered the torn white papers into the air. The scraps of paper with words on them fluttered in the air for a while before falling, like a funeral ceremony. Shen Yunzhe stood in the middle of the scraps of paper and said in a gentle and eerie voice:
"Nothing can be missing."
After saying that, he turned and left without staying for a second.
Qiao Dong sighed, looked at the scraps of paper on the ground, and then made a phone call.
After the call was connected, he spoke, "Mr. Shi, let's investigate thoroughly."
There was silence on the other side.
"Even if it happened more than 20 years ago, if you want Shen Yunzhe to join, you must thoroughly investigate this matter." Qiao Dong said seriously, "In the current situation, let alone saying that Shen Wei is his father, even if he is not, it is not enough to convince the public that a member with such high achievements can be hurt just by saying that he was hurt."
Mr. Shi finally spoke, "He knows?"
"He guessed it." Qiao Dong said, "Don't treat him like a child. He sees it very clearly."
"I suspect he knew it when I went to see him yesterday. I came here today just to make my position clear, Mr. Shi. He's not some junior. If you really think Shen Wei's research is important, then you have to listen to him carefully."
"He's smarter than Shen Wei." Mr. Shi sighed, "That's good, that's good."
On the other side, Li Yiluan just came out of the game field. The sixth game was extremely troublesome and dangerous. He had no idea what to do in it. In the end, he had to rely on looking at the fate of other players to escape. If someone had a death look on their face, he would avoid them after reminding them. In the middle of the game, he was even regarded as a ghost possessed, otherwise how could he know who would die and when.
He was exhausted after finally coming out of the playground, and then he heard his cell phone ringing.
He thought it was just a game attack announcement, but when he picked up his phone, he was horrified to see 99+ unread messages.
These 99+ messages were all sent by Shen Yunzhe.
From single interjections to counting, from greetings of good morning and good night to simple sentences, Shen Yunzhe actually sent a message to him after he entered the game field and waited for him to come back.
Li Yuluan looked at these news that seemed to be about an illness in a daze, and finally replied with a question mark.
【Don’t join the official one.】
The next second after Li Yuluan replied, Shen Yunzhe's message came.
【？ 】
[People in the official community eat children. If you join, you will be forced to eat children! ]
【？ 】
[I misjudged you. You turned out to be a man who likes to eat children.]
【What are you crazy about? 】
I'm eating children!
"Send me your location." Li Yilun replied, "Hurry up, I want to see you eat a child live."
Shen Yunzhe quickly sent a location. Li Yuluan found a coat to put on, then went out to take a taxi. As soon as he got in the car, a phone call came. Li Yuluan took a look and saw that it was Qiao Dong.
He had a good impression of Qiao Dong. This man gave the players the greatest respect. He did not regard every player as a criminal who might get out of control, but looked at them with the eyes of a victim. He would call them before they entered the game field, hoping that they could come back safely.
According to Shen Yunzhe, he will make another phone call after the player comes back to confirm the player's survival.
Li Yuluan still likes people with humanity.
"Are you going out?" Qiao Dong heard the sound of traffic coming from his side.
"Well, go find Shen Yunzhe." Li Yiluan did not hide it, "He seems to be a little strange."
"Well, he's definitely not feeling well. It might be because he's in a bad mood." Qiao Dong said, "I'm glad you're back safely. It's good to have you with Shen Yunzhe. It's not easy for official people to go there. Thank you."
Li Yuluan was a little confused. Why should he be thanked by the authorities for going to see Shen Yunzhe?
Moreover, the official did not mention letting him join, but before he entered the game, people came to him every few days hoping to join.
Qiao Dong seemed to be very busy too, and he hung up the phone after he finished speaking. Li Yuluan waited for a taxi to take him to Shen Yunzhe's location with a puzzled heart.
Dessert shop.
Li Yuluan looked at the seat. Shen Yunzhe also likes to eat desserts?
He pushed open the door of the shop and walked in. The next moment he saw Shen Yunzhe sitting on a chair. Shen Yunzhe was staring at a piece of cake on the table. There was a decorated chocolate man on the cake. Li Yuluan walked over and sat in front of Shen Yunzhe.
"Hello." Li Yiluan said, "I just came out of the playground. What's going on with you?"
Shen Yunzhe looked up at him lazily, "Who are you? Do we know each other?"
Li Yilun: ...
"You still have amnesia?"
"I didn't, I just don't have a good memory." Shen Yunzhe looked at him and stared at him for a long time before speaking, "I remember now, you are a fortune teller who eats children."
Li Yiluan thought: It’s better that you didn’t remember this prefix.
Seeing Li Yuluan with a blank expression, Shen Yunzhe curled his lips. He picked up a pink chocolate man with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth, biting it with his teeth with a crunching sound.
"Do you like to eat?" Li Yuluan was referring to cakes and chocolates.
"It's greasy." Shen Yunzhe said while holding a piece of chocolate in his mouth, "But the color looks good, I want to eat it."
I don’t eat it because I like it, but because it looks good.
Li Yuluan wondered if he had ever seen Shen Yunzhe in this state, and he quickly remembered.
In the game they played together, after a death loop, Shen Yunzhe suddenly started mocking the live audience, scolding them until the game difficulty was close to 10, which surprised all the players present and made them think he was mentally ill.
Shen Yunzhe's current condition is very similar to that time.
"What happened?" Li Yuluan asked him.
"Nothing." Shen Yunzhe continued to eat the remaining cake. "I'm just warning you not to join the official team. People like you who like to meddle in other people's affairs will be screwed over sooner or later until only hair is left."
Li Yiluan fell into deep thought. He resisted the urge to pull his hair. "Why do you say that? Isn't Huang Yihua pretty good?"
Shen Yunzhe thought of Huang Yihua's ending and had a sneer on his face.
The world of Codename Hope is almost identical to his world, and most of the information he gets about the future comes from Codename Hope.
So he remembered that the code name was Hope, which was swallowed by the special game field. He remembered that Huang Yihua did not die in the game field, but died at her workplace. She exhausted all her blood but did not gain any hope. He did not know what Li Yuluan's ending was, but Huang Yihua was like this, how could Li Yuluan be okay?
There are problems within the official system, that is for sure.
Codename Hope is the only player who can harm the strange creatures. Zhang Xian said that he knew that even if this kind of game field came into reality, he had to protect Shen Yunzhe, but Codename Hope was trapped in it for more than 20 years by fellow official members.
This is really interesting.
Li Yiluan was no fool. He looked at Shen Yunzhe's expression and nodded, "I understand."
"I won't join the officialdom until you say it's okay."
"You trust me so much." Shen Yunzhe swallowed the cake in his mouth, "What if I'm deliberately lying to you?"
"What can I do? It's a lie, but I can't see my own destiny." Li Yiluan held out his hand and asked the waiter to bring him the same cake as Shen Yunzhe. Then he took off the chocolate figurine on it and threw it on Shen Yunzhe's plate. "I don't eat children, so I'll give it to you."
Shen Yunzhe said disdainfully, "I don't eat from other people's bowls."
"I haven't eaten it yet." Li Yiluan said, "If you don't eat it, just throw it in the trash. It's not a waste to waste a piece of chocolate that you paid for."
Li Yilun took a bite of the cake, it was so sweet...
So he put down the spoon and believed Shen Yunzhe's comment that it was greasy.
"Are the officials looking for you to join? You suddenly told me this."
"No, I'm actually the real young master left behind by the government. The government wants me to go back and inherit the estate." Shen Yunzhe said seriously, "The estate is very generous, at least three houses."
Li Yulun was speechless, so he took another bite of cake and said, "The True and False Young Master is out of fashion. Now the popular literature is about substitutes."
"The True and False Young Master and body double literature are, to some extent, similar genres." Shen Yunzhe said, "I'm not lying to you. I'm not an orphan. My father was a figure who founded the officialdom. He had great power within the government and left me a large inheritance."
Li Yiluan nodded, not knowing whether he believed it or not.
"Then you should inherit the legacy and shape the entire official website into what you want, turning it into a face-slapping and satisfying article."
"A cool story about a true and false young master slapping each other in the face in the infinite flow?"
"It's a bit strange, but modern people have strong tastes, so maybe they'll like it." Li Yiluan said naturally, "I support you in entering the literary industry."
Shen Yunzhe shook his head, "No."
"Life is short, so whether it's smooth or rough, I already have insomnia, and if I keep getting more involved, I'm afraid I'll die suddenly."
"I'm almost dying. Shen Yunzhe, did you know I just left the playground?" Li Yuluan sighed. "I've been in the playground for seven days and seven nights, and I haven't slept for a total of 20 hours. Can you let me go home and sleep?"
So Li Yilu was released by the merciful Shen Yunzhe, and he returned home.
After arriving home, Shen Yunzhe lay on the sofa holding up a doll and looking at it. The doll's black eyes seemed to be looking at him.
[When the tide of war is at its limit, anyone can become a pawn, a part of maintaining order.] The system spoke in the empty house.
Shen Yunzhe looked at the doll in front of him and said, "Hopefully, he also knows about this, but he won't agree. The authorities also know that he won't agree."
"What a great opportunity that is."
The speed at which the game field is eroding the world is so fast that Codename Hope said that "the authorities are regretting not eliminating all the players." Sending Codename Hope to the interior of the game field to become a guardian stone is probably the official plan, but Codename Hope will never agree.
Chen Qi is an unscrupulous person. He can hurt himself, feel pain, and hurt others, but he just won't let himself lose his feelings.
His madness is based on perception.
So, that was a great opportunity. The authorities finally pushed him into the darkness and turned him into an unconscious stone.
Shen Yunzhe suddenly sat up and threw the glass on the table away. The glass hit the ground hard and shattered into pieces of glass.
[Change all this.] The system said: [Shen Yunzhe, you still have time.]
"Time is something that is invisible and intangible." Shen Yunzhe stood up holding the doll, his shoes stepping on the broken glass. "Time is also something that is visible."
"System, guess why Qingcheng was swallowed up in the end?"
"Because it is their choice that leads to the faster expansion of the gaming field."
Shen Yunzhe smiled. "It can't be helped. Humans are the kind of creatures that indulge themselves in times of danger, causing themselves to lose control."
"The more out of control, the more out of control, isn't it?"
The system listened to Shen Yunzhe's words which sounded like nonsense but also had a meaningful meaning.
The code-named sleep disorder patient is a very sensitive person, his sensitivity almost exceeds people's perception of the outside world, and his insomnia is more like a punishment to make up for his perception.
Emotions, love, hate... even the perception of the playground itself after entering it.
However, he is the strongest one among Shen Yunzhe except for the code-named Hope. He has never considered suicide and never worried about the current situation.
His sharpness is just his sharpness.
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