Extra three
Chapter 188
As far as he could remember, Shen Yunzhe had been in a very strange place.
It was very quiet there, with nothing in it. There was a huge statue of the Virgin Mary in the empty air, and then there was solidified air and solidified time. Shen Yunzhe grew up there. He tried to explore that world, but no matter where he went, the world looked the same.
Until one day, an outsider broke this strange silence.
He looked strangely similar to Shen Yunzhe, except that he had changed into someone else's appearance when he came in. He was a little surprised when he saw Shen Yunzhe, perhaps because he did not expect that there would be living beings in this place.
"What is this place?" the man asked him.
Shen Yunzhe was not called Shen Yunzhe at that time, he didn't even have a name, so he shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.
As if he was sure that he was not a threat, the man breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at the things around him. He also walked to many places. Shen Yunzhe followed him from a distance to make sure that he didn't find anything like himself, because this was an empty place.
The other party finally gave up. He turned to look at Shen Yunzhe who was following not far behind him and waved at him.
Shen Yunzhe walked over with his hands behind his back, and the man spoke, "My name is Shen Wei. Can I use your identity? I think your identity may be very important. I'm here to look for clues."
"Chen Wei." Shen Yunzhe looked at him and said, "I don't have a name."
"No name? This is difficult." Shen Weiwei frowned slightly.
Shen Wei's ability is a thousand faces. He can replace any person or strange object to some extent, but this replacement is conditional. He must know the person's appearance and name. This person is standing in front of him, but he has no name.
"Then I'll give you a name." Shen Wei said, "My child passed away half a year ago. I've always wanted to pass on some of his legacy, but he was so young that I couldn't do it. But I miss him so much. Can I pass on his name to you?"
"Shen Yunzhe."
Shen Yunzhe listened to the name for a long time and nodded, "Okay."
He accepted the name, although he didn't know what it meant.
After he got a name, Shen Wei said something to him and then started to use his ability. He said goodbye to Shen Yunzhe and turned to go somewhere else, but he didn't notice that Shen Yunzhe was standing there in a daze.
His fingers trembled, and then he raised his hand in a daze and looked at his twitching fingers. A dull pain came over him, and Shen Yunzhe covered his fingers with his hands, his eyes a little confused.
The moment Shen Wei used his identity, he found that his perspective seemed to have changed, and an extra memory appeared in his mind.
This memory clearly came from Shen Wei.
He saw obscure books, beautiful women and little boys smiling and calling "Daddy". He saw countless terrifying scenes, which were playgrounds. He also saw the stable and happy life in reality, with people walking on the streets and cars driving on the road.
Not fixed, but fluid.
The moment Shen Wei took on his identity, he also took on Shen Wei's identity.
Shen Wei investigated quickly, and after getting the information he wanted, he removed his ability. He asked Shen Yunzhe if he was willing to leave with him. After Shen Yunzhe refused, he turned and left without continuing to persuade him.
But Shen Yunzhe still remembers that world, that huge world where many people gathered together.
It's different from here. Here there is only eternal loneliness.
So Shen Yunzhe began to try to leave here. After Shen Wei left, Shen Yunzhe found that he was changing. In the past, he could not get out of this space, but after Shen Wei came, he found that it was not so difficult to get out of here. He only needed to walk in one direction to go to many places.
Those places seem to be the playgrounds in the faint memories, either quiet or open.
There will be many people in the opened game field, and those people are being chased.
Shen Yunzhe tried to save one or two people, but the people who were rescued would become hysterical and attack him in extreme fear. After this happened many times, Shen Yunzhe stopped intervening.
Until that day, he unknowingly stepped into a new playground, and outside the mirror of the playground he saw a person who looked exactly like him.
He walked over curiously, and the man behaved completely differently from the others. He was not afraid or worried, and even wanted to chat with him.
What surprised Shen Yunzhe the most was that he discovered that there was a path in this person.
This road led to a place he had never been to and had never seen. He wanted to know where the end of the road was, so after the man left the playground, he immediately followed the road, and then he came to this world.
A real world in motion.
...This person with a road on his body and named Chen Qi seems to be seriously ill.
She harassed him every day, pasting a room full of sticky notes greeting him. If he didn't reply, she would post more the next day. She even jumped off the building to force him out when he didn't reply.
Is this a normal person? So special.
Shen Qi took out two cans of beer from the refrigerator again and put one of them in Shen Yunzhe's hand. Shen Qi leaned on the railing and opened the beer by himself, acting as if nothing had happened, and still looked as simple and innocent as before.
"So you're not a weirdo?"
"What is this strange thing?" Shen Yunzhe thought about it and opened the beer can. He tried to take a sip and then frowned.
It doesn't taste good.
Shen Qi swallowed his cold beer. "It's those things in the mirror, or what some people become after they die."
"No, I'm a living person." Shen Yunzhe put the beer on the railing next to him and answered while staring at the can: "Those are puppets supported by negative emotions. They don't even have thoughts."
"Really?" Shen Qi looked at Shen Yunzhe, "That's strange. You are a living person, but you appeared in the game field, unharmed, and followed me here."
"He hid in my house for several days."
Shen Yunzhe glanced at him and said, "I knew things would turn out like this. It's really troublesome."
"I also hate trouble." Shen Qi nodded, "Forget it, I don't really want to know."
Shen Yunzhe: ...
What a willful person.
"I'm here because I can only be here." Shen Yunzhe said, "Don't you think we look alike?"
"Yes, you are mine after all..." Shen Qi's words stopped abruptly. He paused for a few seconds before speaking, "You look like this?"
"certainly."
Shen Qi was horrified. He had thought about it for a long time but couldn't remember having a twin brother. Could such a coincidence really exist in this world? Half-brothers?
"But what do you mean by you can only appear here?"
"Literally." Shen Yunzhe spread his hands, "I can't leave."
It was not like this at the beginning. Shen Yunzhe even ran outside to take a look, but starting from the second day, Shen Yunzhe inexplicably found that he and Shen Qi could not be separated for more than three hours. Once it exceeded three hours, he would be automatically teleported back.
He tried many times, even retracing his previous route to return to the game field, but the end result was always that he returned to Shen Qi.
It's like some author ignored logic and imposed a restriction on them, forcing them to stay together and develop their relationship.
Okay, ignore the previous sentence.
In short, they were like a bond, Shen Yunzhe had no way of leaving Shen Qi, and could only follow him under certain circumstances.
So Shen Yunzhe got angry. He didn't want to pay any attention to this guy who inexplicably restricted his freedom.
"This is a good setting!" Shen Qi's eyes lit up.
Shen Yunzhe tutted his words, his expression showing disdain, "Do you really like being with other people?"
"I don't like being around people, but I have to participate in interesting things." Shen Qi said with a smile: "How about we work together to find a way to remove this restriction?"
“This is a new game!”
Shen Qi didn't care at all whether he agreed or not. He didn't ask Shen Yunzhe's opinion at all. Instead, he ran to the living room and covered the entire mirror with his sticky notes again. Each sticky note had "Victory" written on it. Then he picked up a writing board from the trash can, drew a strange heart on it, and put it back on the balcony humming a song.
He is in a good mood.
"Would you like to eat something?" Shen Qi said as he opened the food he had packed. "But I don't think today's food is very tasty, so I'll just eat something casual."
He started eating by himself. After taking a bite of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, he frowned and quickly spit into the trash can next to him. In an instant, Shen Yunzhe noticed that Shen Qi's mood was changing. If he was in a very happy state just now, now he was inexplicably angry.
He got angry because of a mouthful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
Is this dish so powerful?
Shen Yunzhe sat opposite Shen Qi. He learned to use chopsticks to pick up a piece of food and put it in his mouth. Soon, a strange taste filled his mouth.
It's sour, and has a sweet taste because of the sugar added, but it has too much salt, and it makes the throat tight after one bite.
It’s not very delicious, but it’s not something that will make you angry after one bite.
Just when Shen Yunzhe was confused, he heard a voice from the other side, "You ate what I bought."
Shen Yunzhe looked up and saw Shen Qi looking up at him. The anger he had just felt was swept away and filled with joy again. He was happy, but when he saw the food on the plate, he became angry again. He was like a doll that could change its expression at will. He would get angry when he was pinched, and happy again when his hair was patted.
Shen Yunzhe: ...
How could this person be so moody? Does he really not need to see a doctor?
"Life is short, so enjoy it while you can." Chen Qi picked at the scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the lunch box, a smile on his face, "I think this sentence is so true."
"I'll go smash his stall soon. Serving such disgusting food is a crime."
Sure enough, he is still angry.
In the end, he didn't go to overturn the stall downstairs because he received a call before he left.
The call was from an official.
"Can you go to a place?" The official asked. He told Shen Qi the address and then added, "We have detected something wrong in this place. People have been calling the police saying it is haunted. The owner of the house has died three times."
"We suspect a bizarre erosion of reality."
Shen Qi thought for a moment, "Salary?"
"three times!"
"Are you treating me to a meal?"
"no problem!"
So with such a promise, Shen Qi accepted the job. He threw all the food on the table into the trash can and then prepared to go to work.
When Shen Yunzhe was watching, he turned to look at Shen Yunzhe and said, "You want to go too."
"Why?"
"Because that's the plan." Shen Qi said mysteriously, "Aren't you looking for a way to leave me? Aren't you from the playground? That was a strange event that eroded reality. In other words, the playground entered here. If you go in, does that mean you're home?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at him, his black eyes expressionless.
It took him a few seconds to speak, "You think I haven't thought of that?"
"Oh?" Shen Qi suddenly realized, "You have tried it?"
"Not only have I tried it, I also know what's in that place you're going to." Shen Yunzhe followed him, "Do you still want to take me with you now?"
"Of course." Shen Qi was even happier. "Bringing someone with you is much more useful than I thought."
"Let's slay the demons together!"
Shen Yunzhe clicked his tongue, but didn't show much resistance.
Although he had been to that place, the game field was not open when he went there. Game fields are mostly opened because players enter. Game fields without players will generally be silent, returning to the time when even time was paused. If someone enters, the game field will be activated again. Can they leave?
Thinking of this, he followed Shen Qi over. Official members had already arrived, and several of them were surrounding the house to conduct inspections.
After seeing Shen Qi, they immediately greeted Shen Qi.
Shen Qi had a lot of speeches prepared, ready to introduce himself to Shen Yunzhe when they saw him, but he didn't expect that these people didn't even look at Shen Yunzhe, as if there was no one around him at all.
Shen Qi turned to look at Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe looked at the house expressionlessly and didn't look at him.
"They can't see me." Shen Yunzhe looked at them for a while before explaining to Shen Qi, "I have the ability to make people ignore me."
"Special abilities? That's impressive. Not only are you from the playground, you also have special abilities."
Actually, there is more than one, Shen Yunzhe thought.
For some reason, after Shen Wei left, something dormant in his body seemed to be awakened, and he began to have all kinds of strange abilities, although he was not very skilled in using them, and even made a lot of jokes because he just realized it.
But, he is indeed an all-rounder who can do it all!
Thinking of this, Shen Yunzhe felt a little proud.
He is very powerful! More powerful than Shen Wei and Shen Qi!
After making sure that he didn't need to worry about Shen Yunzhe's identity, Shen Qi asked others for information. This house was a haunted house. Like all horror stories, the husband in this haunted house killed his wife and children in the house and built them into the wall. It wasn't until a strong stench of decay appeared in the wall that the neighbors found the house full of blood after calling the police.
The husband was diagnosed with mental illness and was put into a mental hospital. The house was taken away, cleaned up and rented out again. Because of the low price, it attracted many people.
But soon another murder occurred, following the same pattern. Three homicides occurred in this house in just six months. In all of them, the husband killed his wife and children. The murderer either committed suicide or went crazy, so the house became the focus of official attention.
"So, why get married? In the end, there's no good life." Shen Qi murmured, "It's best to be alone and free."
"Except for the fun stuff, of course."
Shen Yunzhe turned to look at him, "You don't like socializing with people?"
"Not bad?" Shen Qi thought for a moment and murmured, "It's mainly because he's ugly and not interesting."
Shen Qi's childhood was not happy. His parents died in a car accident when he was young, and the compensation was swallowed up by his uncle's family. He had been living under the care of others since he was a child, which was really not good. He was bullied by kids at school because he was not clean enough, but Shen Qi has been a person who never admits defeat since he was a child.
So he never listened to his uncle. He beat up everyone who bullied him or was about to bully him, and asked his uncle to compensate every parent of the child he beat.
In the end, he ended up dropping out of school at a young age.
He'd seen enough of people's ugliness to finally just want to be happy. Play fun games, live an interesting life, and forget about bitterness and hatred. As long as he had a little strength, he'd squeeze every last bit of it out of him. He didn't care what the future held.
All these have shaped his twisted personality and his way of thinking that is different from that of ordinary people.
For Shen Qi, life can be used as a tool as long as he can achieve his goal.
"Time's up!" A voice interrupted their conversation. They looked over and saw an official member waving at them.
This means you can enter the house.
Shen Qi made a gesture of invitation to Shen Yunzhe, and then followed these people into the haunted house. Shen Yunzhe tilted his head, and followed the crowd in, but did not move with Shen Qi.
According to official judgment, there should be only one strange object in this house. This strange object affected the husband of the house, causing him to become mentally ill and kill his wife and children. They only need to deal with this strange object to clear this place.
This strange creature was easy to find. Shen Qi grabbed the creature's neck and pressed it against the wall on the second floor. The creature screamed and stretched out its hands, but it was of no avail. It could only howl miserably and completely disappeared.
"That's good." The official in charge of recording was somewhat pleased. "It should be a very low-level playground, so the scope is not very large."
As he spoke, he walked up to the second floor steps and said, "Old Zhao, the strange objects have been dealt with. How are you guys doing?"
"Really?" The man called Lao Zhao looked at the instrument in his hand in confusion, "But why hasn't the data on my instrument changed?"
"Old Zhao!"
A sharp call came from above, as if reminding him of something.
Old Zhao was stunned for a moment, he raised his head, but the next moment he felt a pair of cold hands pinching his neck from behind. He opened his eyes wide and turned his head. Behind him was a pale woman. The woman grinned at him with blood in her mouth.
"ah!!"
"No, there's not just one weird thing here! There's a second one!"
Chen Qi came out of the room following the sound. The first thing he saw was a white figure that flashed by. He looked down from the second floor and saw that Lao Zhao, who was in charge of instrument testing, had fallen to the ground. His neck was twisted backwards and he was lying on the ground with his broken neck and hideous face facing the ceiling.
The official members called out Lao Zhao's name, but there was no way he could still be alive in this situation.
This kind of accident happens from time to time. After all, Chen Qi is only one person, and he can only deal with one strange creature at a time. If two strange creatures act together, he will not be able to stop them at the same time.
He leaned on the railing and continued to look down, but he was not looking at Lao Zhao or a white figure, he was looking at Shen Yunzhe.
Shen Yunzhe, who was wearing ordinary black clothes, stood less than three meters away from Lao Zhao. He looked at the dead Lao Zhao and the crying members of the organization calmly, as if this was just an ordinary thing. He looked around, then slowly raised his head and looked at him.
There was nothing in those black eyes, no sadness and no emotion.
Shen Qi laughed.
"Cold-blooded little ghost?" Shen Qi said, "You are really interesting."
Shen Yunzhe is not a scary villain, Shen Qi is very clear about this. After all, if he is really a ruthless person, he would not have held Shen Qi back when Shen Qi jumped from the building, but now he completely ignored the fact that someone was dying beside him.
This is really an interesting contrast.
What to do? He wanted to find out more about this strange person.
I did a stupid thing, I won't go into details about what it was, but the result is: I will add a chapter every day for the last three days of this month.
I will try my best and wipe away my tears.
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