Chapter 96
Chapter 96
"The reason for not having a tongue is to prevent people here from lying. It sounds really perverted." Yang Pei frowned.
Then she looked at Shen Yunzhe with a strange frown, "Huh? Aren't you afraid of a newbie?"
Cheng Yiyi said from the side, "He's not a newcomer."
"Huh?" Qiu Shurong was shocked. "Then why did you say you were new?"
"I never said that. You guys thought I was new." Shen Yunzhe sat on the sofa, his voice slightly bored. "You're no good. You're only now realizing I'm not a newbie at all."
Yang Pei and Qiu Shurong looked at each other, and then Qiu Shurong whispered, "It seems he really didn't say he was new."
It was because at the beginning he didn't behave like an old player at all, he was in a completely confused state. When Zhang Luqing first met him, he called him a newcomer and he didn't deny it, so all the players here assumed he was a newcomer.
"Which game are you playing?" Cheng Yiyi asked him curiously.
To be honest, even if he is not a newcomer, there are not many newcomers like Shen Yunzhe. He doesn't seem to be afraid at all and is accustomed to the playground.
"The fourth game." Shen Yunzhe paused, then murmured in a confused voice, "Or was it the fifth game?"
Everyone:?
Why do some players forget how many times they've entered the game? Is he really okay?
Just when they were speechless, there was a bang and everyone present was startled. They all looked towards the window next to them. The window was open and the white curtains were blown by the wind. Something could be seen swaying outside the curtains.
Shen Yunzhe stood up and walked over. He pulled open the curtains and the next moment he saw a man in black clothes hanging and swaying from them.
This was a middle-aged man, wearing tattered black and gray clothes. His eyes were wide open as if he had died, and his mouth seemed to be about to split open. There was no tongue in his dark mouth, and he was hanging there with a terrified and distorted expression.
"Isn't this the receptionist at the door?!" Yang Pei was surprised. "Is he dead?"
Qiu Shurong also frowned. "He was still at the door when we came in. How could he be hanged here?"
Shen Yunzhe leaned against the window and looked at the body. After a while, he said, "He wasn't hanged. He was hung here after death."
The people present were stunned for a moment, "Huh?"
"Don't believe me? But I'm a forensic pathologist, specializing in revenge for the dead." Shen Yunzhe said, "Before I came here, I worked three nights and three days to investigate the case. You finally had a day off and you went to the playground, and now you're still working. How about you put him down and I'll do a live autopsy for you?"
Everyone took a step back and shook their heads violently, "No, no!"
Of course, no one went to let down the person hanging outside. Yang Pei and the other two hurriedly left the window. Shen Yunzhe stood there and heard their whispers.
"A forensic pathologist is also a police officer, right? A police officer with a bad temper."
"Forensic pathologists usually work with criminal police and deal with murderers. Of course, they are different from ordinary police officers. They have to be more aggressive to catch people."
"This is my first time meeting a forensic pathologist. It's different from what you see on TV."
Shen Yunzhe smiled slightly, taking out his cell phone from his pocket and checking the time. It was almost noon. The lunch time was agreed upon in the agreement. This time might not necessarily have any significance, but since it was written there, it must have a meaning.
Many other players will come.
He put his hands in his pockets and walked out of the hotel. He came back ten minutes later and naturally took a paper cup to pour himself a glass of water. However, he did not drink it. Instead, he used his fingers to draw on the table. The drawing was ugly, just a mess of symbols.
Seeing the other three people looking at him speechlessly, Shen Yunzhe drew a skeleton for Cheng Yiyi and praised Cheng Yiyi's skeleton for being very beautiful.
Cheng Yiyi almost ran away, but fortunately it was already twelve o'clock.
Sure enough, the players who had just left came back one after another. Yang Pei and Qiu Shurong talked about Shen Yunzhe's not a newcomer and Cheng Yiyi's identity. Everyone showed a lack of interest. It didn't matter whether Shen Yunzhe was a newcomer or not, and it didn't matter whether Cheng Yiyi was a big star or not.
When life is threatened, all fame and fortune seem false.
Then Yang Pei told them what he had seen, including the body at the window, and asked them what they had learned.
"I went back the way we came. There were houses and shops on both sides," Zhang Luqing said first. "There were people in the shops, but they didn't say a word. They just looked at me strangely. I asked several people but no one answered, so I came back."
"Now it seems that they are the same as those things behind them. They have no tongues, so they can't speak."
"I saw a temple at the very back. There were several people at the entrance, but they wouldn't let me in," the last woman spoke. Her name was Shi Xingxiang, and she spoke softly. "I tried to force my way in, but they stopped me and pointed to a stone tablet at the entrance. I went over and took a look. It said: Only one person can enter at a time."
"There's someone inside, so I can't get in."
Upon hearing what Shi Xingxiang said, they turned their attention to the last person, the man who was very unfriendly at the beginning. The man snorted coldly, "It's not me."
"But there are indeed people inside. I heard noises." Shi Xingxiang looked at him. "Four people stayed at the hotel. Zhang Luqing is on the trail. The only ones who can go to the temple are you and me. And you are the only one who didn't go anywhere and you're nowhere to be found."
The man didn't say anything and looked very unhappy.
"There's nothing in there except a strange statue," the man finally spoke. "There's a strong smell in there, and you can see dried blood. Someone must have performed a sacrifice in there."
The people present looked at the man strangely, completely unable to understand why he would hide such a small thing.
Just when they were about to continue asking questions, there was a creaking sound, and the person at the front desk came out with a paper airplane on his head and lunch on the cart in his hand. They immediately shut up and waited for the front desk to bring the food to the table. A few people looked at the paper airplane on the person's head curiously.
For example, Zhang Luqing's hands were already itching to take down the paper airplane to see if it was any clue.
Cheng Yiyi, the only one who knew the truth, turned her head away silently and stared at the food in front of her.
Everyone confirmed again and again that there were no clues, so they had to eat lunch first. The lunch was tasteless, just some boiled vegetables without oil, accompanied by steamed buns and millet porridge. Shen Yunzhe ate while playing, and when everyone finished eating and left, he didn't eat much, leaving a lot of food.
"Why don't you eat it?" Cheng Yiyi asked him, "Is it not tasty?"
"The color is too ugly." Shen Yunzhe replied: "I only eat food that looks good."
Cheng Yiyi fell into deep thought, and spoke after a moment, "In your eyes, what color of rice is considered good-looking?"
"Red, green, pink or blue." Shen Yunzhe replied.
Cheng Yiyi thought about the blue rice and pink vegetables, then closed his mouth, feeling deeply that Shen Yunzhe seemed different from normal people.
The man sitting next to Shen Yunzhe snorted coldly, stood up and walked out of the hotel. No one knew where he went. He was obviously targeting Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe didn't care and continued to pick and choose. Unfortunately, before he finished picking, the front desk took away the plate with a paper airplane on his head.
Cheng Yiyi was obviously not full, but there was nothing she could do. "That person is really hard to get along with."
"Chen Ji?"
“Who is Shen Ji?”
"You just said that he is a difficult person to get along with." Shen Yunzhe said shockingly.
Cheng Yiyi was stunned. He looked at Shen Yunzhe in surprise, "No, you can tell fortunes? How do you know his name?"
"I can't tell fortunes, and a fortune teller can't tell me." Shen Yunzhe smiled and took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket. He waved them around as if showing off. The papers stacked together and made a rustling sound. Cheng Yiyi was even more surprised.
Because he was very familiar with these papers, because he had just touched them when he came to the playground!
This is what the receptionist asks them to sign when they enter the hotel!
"You, you, you...!" Cheng Yiyi kept saying "you" for a long time, but couldn't utter a word. Finally, she managed to say, "You went out for ten minutes before lunch. Did you go to steal these papers?!"
"I took it openly, how can it be considered stealing? And to me, this is called evidence." Shen Yunzhe smiled like a fox.
To be honest, Cheng Yiyi never thought that this could be done. The greeter was hanged at the window. Although Shen Yunzhe said that he was not hanged, he was dead anyway. All the players were paying attention to the person shaking at the window, and they never thought that this thing could be stolen.
Shen Yunzhe did it very quickly and efficiently. After seeing that the receptionist was dead, he brought the things back in ten minutes.
A player like this...is this really just the fourth game?
"This thing is useless. It's just a signature so we know his name." Shen Yunzhe placed the seven signed papers on the table one by one. "Chen Ji, this surname is quite uncommon. By the way, did he lie about lunch?"
Cheng Yiyi was stunned for a moment, then he widened his eyes slightly, "Yes, he lied!"
"You really didn't seem to notice this. Are you too slow?" Shen Yunzhe looked at him. "When Shen Ji said it wasn't him, several people's faces changed."
Cheng Yiyi lowered her head and said, "I was wearing sunglasses and didn't see it."
"What will happen if he lies? The agreement we signed says that you can't lie in a real town. Will he get into trouble?"
“I don’t know.” Shen Yunzhe took out the paper signed by Shen Ji and placed it in a separate row, “Everyone is waiting.”
Cheng Yiyi is not stupid and knows what Shen Yunzhe means.
Shen Ji lied. The agreement they signed said they couldn't lie. They were all waiting for Shen Ji's outcome to determine the consequences of lying.
The hotel was very quiet, and they couldn't stay here all the time. It was necessary to go out and look for clues. Because of Shen Yunzhe's skills, Cheng Yiyi really felt that he was extraordinary, so she followed him outside.
Shen Yunzhe went to the rows of small houses behind the hotel. Just as Yang Pei said, the small houses were smaller than tents. There was a person sitting in front of each small house. They squatted quietly like corpses, with dead eyes.
"How creepy." Cheng Yiyi had already taken off his sunglasses. He frowned at these people and asked, "Are they dead or alive?"
"Let's try it."
"Ah? Try it?" Cheng Yiyi was shocked again.
Shen Yunzhe took out a box of candles from his pocket, and then placed the candles in front of one of the people. He even took out a lighter from his pocket and lit the candles as if he was burning incense. The person who was sitting in front of the house just now slowly stood up, then leaned in front of the candles with his mouth open.
It's like it's eating candle smoke.
"Oh my god..." The celebrity cursed, "He's dead!"
Only dead people smoke.
Shen Yunzhe picked up the candle when he got the agreement. It should be a handicraft bought at the entrance of the hotel. Although he didn't know why candles were sold at the entrance of the hotel, Shen Yunzhe didn't care. He liked this kind of white candle very much, so he put a box in his arms and touched a lighter.
But it was also because of this that they realized that these small houses were tombs and the people sitting in front of the tombs were dead.
So many dead people.
"You should have noticed when you came in. This is called Real Town. It's a small town, but there aren't many people here. That means they're all dead." Shen Yunzhe stared at the graves, looking at the dead with open mouths and tongueless bodies, his eyes filled with unrealistic indifference. "I just don't know what this so-called 'real' means anymore."
In the end, no useful clues were obtained. Time quickly came to dinner time. Shen Yunzhe was still picky about his food. Many of the leftovers were taken away by the front desk. The paper airplane above the receptionist's head was gone. He saw a creased flyer in the trash can. He didn't know which player had thrown it into the trash can in a fit of rage.
Thinking of this, Shen Yunzhe was happy and drank another glass of water happily.
Just then Yang Pei let out a cry of surprise.
"The body is gone!"
The people present looked towards the window. The wind blew the white curtains, and the swaying body was no longer visible.
Qiu Shurong opened the curtains and looked outside, then shook his head, "It didn't fall outside."
"The body just disappeared like that?" Shi Xingxiang was uneasy. "Should we go out and look for the body? I don't think something is right."
"If you want to find me, go find me. I don't think you are afraid of death by wandering around the playground at night." Shen Ji snorted coldly, "I'm tired, I'm going to sleep, don't disturb me."
After saying that, Shen Ji went upstairs in a menacing manner, and a bang was heard from upstairs.
"Let's see how long you can be so arrogant." Qiu Shurong couldn't help but say behind his back: "Maybe you will be the next corpse."
"This is the first time I've seen such an uncooperative player. How did he survive until now?"
Zhang Luqing sighed, "It's really not safe to go out at night. Let's go back to the room and rest. It's very common for bodies to disappear in playgrounds. I'm really worried about looking for them tomorrow."
After saying that, Zhang Luqing also went upstairs.
Shi Xingxiang knew that Zhang Luqing was saying that she was too ignorant, and her face looked very ugly. She sat downstairs for a while but couldn't sit there any longer, so she got up and went upstairs. Then came Yang Pei and Qiu Shurong. Soon, only Shen Yunzhe and Cheng Yiyi were left here. Cheng Yiyi sat quietly on the sofa. He could stand loneliness very well and didn't want to go back to the room so early.
He can't sleep.
Just when he was about to say a few words to Shen Yunzhe, he saw Shen Yunzhe stand up, but Shen Yunzhe did not go upstairs. He walked straight to a wall and then stood upside down with his hands on the ground.
Cheng Yiyi blinked and walked to Shen Yunzhe curiously.
"What are you doing?"
"Handstand."
"I know you're doing a handstand. What I'm asking is why?" Cheng Yiyi subconsciously tilted her head and looked at him. "This is the playground, the real hotel, the center of this game. Why are you doing a handstand here? Are you testing something?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at the upside-down Cheng Yiyi and said, "I heard that standing upside down can cause congestion in the brain and make it easier to fall into a coma."
"ah?"
"Don't understand? I'm treating insomnia!"
Cheng Yiyi found that he didn't understand Shen Yunzhe at all, and he found it difficult to understand Shen Yunzhe's thoughts.
After standing upside down for ten minutes, Shen Yunzhe felt dizzy and finally ended the torture of himself. He went upstairs slowly, leaving Cheng Yiyi alone on the sofa doubting her life. He opened the door with the key, and Shen Yunzhe put himself on the bed. He closed his eyes and prepared to fall asleep.
But I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t sleep at all, and I felt like vomiting because of standing upside down.
Finally, he got up and went straight to the bathroom to vomit, vomiting out all the food he had eaten at noon and in the evening.
After vomiting, he still had to go back to the room. Shen Yunzhe pushed open the door and looked into the room, but did not step in.
The body was hanging in the window, swaying. Shen Yunzhe wiped the corner of his mouth.
"Hello." Shen Yunzhe said, "This is my room. You've gone to the wrong place."
The corpse did not answer. Red liquid spread from the top of the curtain little by little, soon soaking the entire curtain, emitting a strong smell of blood.
"Revenge." A hoarse voice sounded.
Shen Yunzhe stretched his neck and asked, "What?"
"Help me, get revenge." This time the voice was clearer than before.
Shen Yunzhe stood at the door and did not go in. "Let me help you get revenge? Why?"
"Revenge." The thing kept repeating: "Kill him, kill him..."
Being blocked by a corpse and asked for revenge? Shen Yunzhe began to think about when he had given it this illusion. Then Shen Yunzhe suddenly remembered something he had said during the day: he was a forensic doctor, the one who avenged the corpse.
At that moment, Shen Yunzhe suddenly understood why this place was called "Real Town" and how this real town could remain "real".
If everything you say is true, then there will be no lies.
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