Chapter 85 Sadness [VIP]
Chapter Summary: Let's go to Tsinghua University together.
"I will not leave."
The sound echoed in the sealed room, resounding loudly.
The staff exchanged glances but said nothing, and then proceeded with the surgery as if nothing had happened.
They moved their surgical instruments aimlessly through the air, splashing cold liquid as they went. From inside the room came the sharp cries of an infant, along with the whispers and desperate shouts of some men.
Gu Linzhao felt the hand in his palm trembling.
He thought Fu Xianyin was scared, so he stroked her fingertips to comfort her, saying, "I'm here, don't be afraid, it's okay."
The boundless darkness covered everything.
The dim light from the old ceiling lamp couldn't illuminate the gloomy room. Gu Linzhao held Fu Xianyin's hand and, after confirming that she wanted to stay and play, gently coaxed her.
He couldn't see her clearly.
I couldn't see her eyebrows or eyes clearly, nor could I see her expression.
Her face, blurred by tears, was also obscured.
Actually, the moment Fu Xianyin took Gu Linzhao's hand, she wasn't so afraid anymore.
She just really wanted to cry.
Tears welled up and streamed from her eyes. Fu Xianyin lay on the cold operating table, her whole body trembling as she cried.
She didn't even dare to speak, afraid that the sobbing voice at the end of her sentence would be exposed and couldn't be hidden.
So she could only bite her lip tightly to keep herself from making a sound.
The operating table was icy cold, chilling to the bone.
Fu Xianyin curled up on the operating table, feeling tears streaming down her face.
I'm so sad.
Why, why won't Heaven even give her a little bit of sweetness?
She thought she had a chance to hold onto, but she had to give it up herself.
The despair that seemed to have ended never truly came to a close.
She wanted to escape, yet she also wanted to stay forever.
My heart felt like it had been split in two; one half was being pulled upwards by feathers, while the other half was being entangled by rooted thorns and kept falling downwards.
The boy's gentle coaxing echoed in her ears.
For a fleeting moment, Fu Xianyin wanted to back out.
She couldn't bear to give up everything she had now, and she wanted to fight against what Fu Dongyuan said was impossible.
She wanted to stay.
She didn't want to leave.
But it only lasted for a fleeting moment.
...
The "surgery" may have lasted a long time, or it may have only taken three to five minutes.
Fu Xianyin has no concept of it.
She only sensed the people around her gradually leaving, so she quickly composed herself, groped her way up from the operating table, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are they gone?"
Her voice still had an unmistakable heavy nasal tone, and even she herself was momentarily surprised when she said it.
Fu Xianyin quickly tried to justify herself: "Let's get out of here, it's so cold."
The moment she finished speaking, a coat, still warm from her body, covered her.
The coat still carried the familiar scent of the boy, and Fu Xianyin pulled the coat tighter, as if she were being embraced.
Gu Linzhao said, "There should be some other clues here..."
Before he could finish speaking, Cheng Zhaozhao's timid voice rang out in the room:
"Hello, hello? Can you two hear me?"
Fu Xianyin cleared her throat and replied, "Can you hear us? Can you see us?"
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "I can't see it, I can only hear it."
Chen Nianke asked, "How's the situation on your end?"
Fu Xianyin, her fingers tucked into her sleeve, said, "We're on an operating table here. I just had surgery on it. The doctor kept saying that the baby was very far along and it was a pity that there were dangers, but in the background music, I not only heard a child's voice, but I also heard a man's voice."
She paused, then said, "I guess 'I' probably didn't want an abortion, but 'Gu'..."
She subconsciously used herself and Gu Linzhao to immerse herself in the characters and describe the plot.
When Fu Xianyin mentioned her "abortion," she didn't seem to think anything of it. However, when Gu Linzhao only mentioned the first three words, she pursed her lips.
When they spoke again, they had already changed their wording:
"The mother didn't want an abortion, and the father didn't want the child. This child came unexpectedly, but it wasn't a pleasant surprise."
Cheng Zhaozhao asked, "Under what circumstances would a father not want a child, feeling that a child is too burdensome and troublesome?"
Fu Xianyin said, "Yes, or it could be a distorted relationship. The child's father is the main party at fault. For example, the mother might be the other woman, and the father might have cheated on his wife while still having a wife. So when the child came unexpectedly, he didn't want the child."
She paused, then added, "Although I can't tell from the voice, I think the child is a girl."
Fu Xianyin turned her head as Gu Linzhao squeezed her palm, and heard him ask softly, "Aren't you afraid anymore?"
Fu Xianyin shook her head and said, "Don't be afraid. I'll talk to them here. You go find the clues."
He still didn't let go of the hand that was holding hers.
Fu Xianyin struggled for a moment, then repeated, "Go."
The person beside me left.
Although it was not very clear, the sense of emptiness in this space was particularly obvious.
Fu Xianyin took a breath and continued, "The child who was aborted should be able to accurately distinguish who didn't want her to be born into this world. So she chose to retaliate, and the targets of her retaliation were those 'fathers who didn't want to have children.' Perhaps that's why I heard not only the child's cries but also some men's voices just now."
As soon as he finished speaking, the room lights suddenly turned on.
A staff member's voice came over the loudspeaker: "Congratulations to the player for successfully uncovering the truth behind the hospital's haunting. The ghost baby has become extremely agitated after discovering your true purpose and is about to retaliate against you. Please find a way to escape the hospital as soon as possible."
Gu Linzhao had already cracked the code and found the way. Fu Xianyin informed Cheng Zhaozhao and the others before following them into the next room.
They thought the two groups would reunite along the way, but they ended up splitting up until the very last challenge.
When Cheng Zhaozhao solved the last puzzle and escaped from the secret room, her legs were so weak she felt like jelly.
Fu Xianyin and Gu Linzhao had come out twenty minutes earlier than them and were standing at the door waiting for them. Cheng Zhaozhao suddenly threw herself into Fu Xianyin's arms, hugging her and starting to wail:
"Waaaaah, this is so scary!!"
Fu Xianyin hugged her and said with amusement, "Didn't you choose it? Will you play again next time?"
Cheng Zhaozhao wiped away her empty tears, nodded, and sobbed, "I...I want to play again."
The group laughed uncontrollably.
They returned the walkie-talkies and were about to leave when they were stopped by staff.
The staff member, still dressed as a doctor, walked up to Fu Xianyin and Gu Linzhao and asked, "Were you the two who were doing the double mission just now?"
Fu Xianyin nodded, somewhat puzzled: "What's wrong?"
The staff handed each of them a small gift bag, smiling and saying, "You triggered a hidden Easter egg; this is a little gift for you."
Hidden Easter egg?
Fu Xianyin searched her memory but still couldn't recall what they had done in the room.
She asked hesitantly, "What hidden Easter egg?"
The staff member said, "When you were lying on the operating table, the doctor told him to leave, but he didn't. The ghost baby saw that he hadn't abandoned you, so his resentment deepened, which is why the difficulty increased later on."
Lin Anxu suddenly realized: "I was wondering why the last few levels were so difficult. It turns out that Brother Zhao, we're the ones who have to pay for all the bad things you did."
Gu Linzhao smiled and said, "Then I'll treat you to dinner tonight as an apology."
Cheng Zhaozhao curiously took the gift bag, muttering as she looked at it: "Doesn't Gu Linzhao's fact that he didn't leave mean that the two of them are in love? Shouldn't the obsession in the ghost baby's heart have disappeared by now? How come the resentment is even deeper?"
Fu Xianyin said, "Because what she wanted didn't happen to her, but happened to someone else, she was jealous."
Cheng Zhaozhao said "Oh," then her attention was drawn to the contents of the bag. She picked up the knitted object and asked, "What's this?"
The staff member replied, "It's a cup sleeve, a couple's set."
After he finished speaking, he winked at Fu Xianyin and Gu Linzhao, his tone somewhat excited: "I saw it on the surveillance footage, you two are a couple, right?"
Fu Xianyin froze in place.
She didn't even blink.
Beside him, Gu Linzhao nodded and replied frankly, "Yes, we are dating."
The staff member looked like he'd been "stumbled upon," his gaze shifting back and forth between the two.
He explained, "This cup sleeve was hand-crocheted by our store manager; consider it a small gift..."
Lin Anxu suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Hey, but I remember you two won a pair of couple's thermos cups at the arcade on New Year's Day, right? The size seems just right, perfect for us."
Lin Anxu excitedly took Gu Linzhao's gift bag, opened it, and said, "It's perfect, one pink and one black. Your cups are also one pink and one black."
Chen Nianke said, "Or Yinyin could use black and Gu Linzhao could use pink; a mix and match would also look good."
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "Anyway, the little bear on Gu Linzhao's cup is pink, so using a pink cup sleeve won't look out of place."
The three were having a lively discussion, but Fu Xianyin and Gu Linzhao, who were in the middle of the conversation, fell into an eerie silence.
Fu Xianyin kept her head down the entire time.
The thought of the pink thermos that had been put away, leaving Gu Linzhao's thermos all alone on the desk, made her feel guilty.
She kept her head down, her gaze fixed blankly on the ground, until Cheng Zhaozhao called out to her, "Yinyin, Yinyin?"
Fu Xianyin looked up as if waking from a dream, only to meet Gu Linzhao's gaze in an instant.
He kept looking in this direction, I don't know how long he looked.
A direct, almost naked gaze fell upon Fu Xianyin.
She felt like she was being slowly tortured to death.
Gu Linzhao's gaze was so honest; it was as if he were laying his heart bare for her to see.
The gaze was like the light controlled by a god, without even a trace of judgment, yet it left no one nowhere to hide.
Reason told Fu Xianyin that she should look away.
But her eyes seemed glued shut; even as her heart was being slowly tortured, she couldn't bear to look away even for a second.
"Yinyin, Yinyin?"
Cheng Zhaozhao was calling her.
Fu Xianyin spoke softly, "What's wrong?"
Cheng Zhaozhao handed her the gift bag and said, "How about you use the black one?"
That "okay" stuck in my throat like a fishbone.
Her fingernails dug into her palm, but Fu Xianyin couldn't lift her hand to take the packaging bag that Cheng Zhaozhao handed her.
That's strange.
She's clearly someone who can lie without batting an eye.
But why is it that at this moment, I can't even utter a casual remark?
The atmosphere was eerily quiet, and even Cheng Zhaozhao sensed something was wrong.
She waved her arm, which was raised in the air, and was about to say something when she heard the paper bag rustle. She turned her head and saw that Gu Linzhao had taken the gift bag containing the pink cup sleeve.
Gu Linzhao said, "Then I'll use the pink one."
His gaze fell on Fu Xianyin, whose fingertips trembled slightly. For a moment, she almost wanted to abandon everyone and flee.
She took a short breath, resisted the urge, and then reached out to take the paper bag, saying, "Give me the black one."
She didn't even say anything like "I'll use it," she just accepted it.
Gu Linzhao's eyes darkened.
From the moment the staff member announced that the gift was a cup sleeve, his gaze never left Fu Xianyin.
Therefore, he could clearly see every movement of Fu Xianyin.
I saw her stiffness, her silence, her refusal to speak, and her blatant, overt avoidance.
Her lips were pursed, her eyes were lowered, but once she looked at him, she couldn't look away.
I was clearly very nervous, my mind was in complete turmoil, and I desperately wanted to escape.
But why is she still looking at him with such a longing gaze?
That look in her eyes almost told Gu Linzhao that she liked him.
I like him very, very, very much.
But if you really like him, then why run away?
Why do this, why are you avoiding him?
Gu Linzhao couldn't understand it.
So he just looked at Fu Xianyin, hoping to get an answer.
It doesn't matter even if the answer doesn't come from her mouth.
But he got nothing.
Cheng Zhaozhao and the others sensed something was wrong, but the three of them didn't know the truth and assumed it was just a young couple having a fight.
So they quickly walked a few steps, leaving the remaining space to the young couple behind them.
Almost the instant the two came together, Fu Xianyin felt her hand being held.
She instinctively gripped his hand, but then realized she wanted to pull away.
However, Gu Linzhao held on tightly, giving her absolutely no room to maneuver.
They left like that.
After a long silence, Gu Linzhao suddenly broke it.
He said, "Let's go to Huaqing together."
This statement is completely incoherent.
However, Fu Xianyin's eyes stung for a moment.
Gu Linzhao spoke these words with an unusually firm tone. Although it was a pre-arranged agreement, his words carried an air of unquestionable certainty.
He wasn't making an agreement with her, nor was he asking for her opinion.
He is making a request.
Or rather, in a request.
But Fu Xianyin did not speak.
The boy repeated it again, his tone more resolute, but the end of his voice carried a subtle, almost imperceptible fluctuation.
He said, "Let's go to Huaqing together."
My hand was gripped tightly, so tightly that it even hurt a little.
Fu Xianyin lowered her eyes.
She remained silent.
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