Chapter 18 [Scene 2] He is my doll number 13...
"Hello, are you a relative of the owner of this phone?"
"Hey, yes, yes, is there something wrong?"
"Oh, okay," He Yuezhe said, sitting on the sofa, holding Yuan Yang's phone. "Look, I found this phone in the lobby of the Traffic Light Company. You're the emergency contact. Do you have time to come and pick it up?"
"Ah, Traffic Light Company, is that the company that produced 'Nuts'?" The sound of clothes rubbing against each other came from the other end of the phone.
"You know that? That's it."
He Yuezhe replied while looking at the knife on the table that she had polished to a shine, the blade reflecting her smiling face.
The old man's voice was a little anxious: "Then I'll be right over. You may need to wait for me for a while."
"Ouch!" He seemed to have fallen because of something.
"...Are you okay?"
"Hiss...it's okay, it's okay."
"Oh, by the way, I have other things to take care of here, so I left my phone at the front desk. Just go over there and tell them you're here to pick up your phone."
He Yuezhe picked up the knife and spun around. "But I heard the security here is not very good recently. There might be thieves."
"I'll do it as soon as possible, as soon as possible." The sound of wind whistling came from the old man's side.
"Okay, I'll hang up first. Someone's calling me."
"Okay, okay, thank you."
“Beep—beep—”
The phone was hung up.
He Yuezhe used a knife to cut the phone into pieces. After making sure that it was completely unusable, he wrapped it in newspaper and stuffed it back into Yuan Yang's clothes bag.
After giving Yuan Yang another pill, He Yuezhe changed into a coat, took a knife and prepared to go out.
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The weather is very bad today. The newspapers pasted on the windows are rustling in the strong wind.
Only then did He Yuezhe understand the origin of the sound on the other end of the phone.
It turned out that there was a big hole in the window on the floor where Yuan Yang lived for some reason, and the wind and rain outside directly soaked the newspaper and formed a big puddle at the door.
The old man must have been a little anxious and didn't see it, so he stepped into the water and fell.
He Yuezhe opened the door with the key he found in Yuan Yang's bag.
The familiar cold air still blew in from inside the door, and combined with the wind outside the window, it almost blew He Yuezhe to the ground.
Oh, if only this system was more reliable, otherwise I wouldn’t have to sneak into other people’s homes to find out the information of the task target.
The Tang Liu family and the Yuan Yang family are located on the upper and lower floors of the main building. The Tang Liu family is on the third floor and the Yuan Yang family is on the sixth floor, so the layout of the two families is basically the same, which makes it easier to search.
Because the traffic light company is not far from here, the time it takes for the old man to go back and forth, plus the time he spends looking for his cell phone, is no more than half an hour to an hour.
So He Yuezhe must find the information she needs as soon as possible.
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There was a somewhat old TV in the living room, but the TV series on it was paused and not playing.
There was a row of dolls knitted with thick wool under the TV, each with a medal hanging on it, all of which were nameless awards for computers, programming, and games.
The coffee table was a strange rectangular solid with a few glasses of lemonade on it.
The kitchen was normal, but the knives on the knife rack were neatly arranged and there was no missing one.
Deep in the house, Yuan Yang's room was empty, and the bed was made very cleanly, as if no one had slept in it.
The books in the bookcase in the room were also normal, and there didn't seem to be anything sandwiched between them or any layers.
He Yuezhe turned over several times, and in order to be quick and not be discovered, her movements were always very small.
There was nothing on the desk, but the drawer underneath was locked with a combination lock.
Shaking the desk, she heard a sound similar to metal colliding, and it was very mixed, so there must be a lot of it.
He Yuezhe then used a knife to pry open the drawer easily.
She opened the drawer and found dozens of knives exactly like the one in her hand.
There was a partition in the middle, and the knives on the left were all stained, while those on the right were all brand new.
...But why are there so many dirty knives?
Sure enough, I didn’t experience the entire cycle, but only a part of it!
Otherwise there is no way to explain it. It's still morning now. Where does Yuan Yang have the time to use these knives!
There was also a notebook under the knife, which was somewhat similar to the one Yuan Yang brought to her house, and should be the same style.
There were two big words written on the notebook: Diary.
Open the first page.
——"Day 1. I actually won the closed beta test qualification for "Nuts"! Even though it's in the strategy world, this game sounds really good. Let's put the quests aside for now."
——"Day 2. The mission still hasn't triggered. The system says it's not time yet."
——"Day 3. The original owner actually has the same name as me?"
——"Day 4. The original owner's neighbor looks familiar. I might know someone who looks like her, but I can't remember. It must be this."
——"Day 5. I still failed."
"Day 6. Which world is this? I thought a new world would be a bit new, but I didn't expect it to be the same. I'm so tired."
——"Day 7. Met a lot of familiar people in the game."
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——"Day 32. After completing the game, the world resets?"
——"Day 33. I returned to the beginning of this world. It disappeared. Should I find it again?"
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——"Day 45. I'm trying a different way to complete this game. I don't know if it will work."
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——"Day 63. Failed. It still didn't appear, and the world reset again, but this time the reset time seems to have been pushed back."
"Day 64. Surprisingly, everyone remembers what happened. This might be a breakthrough. We can unite. Let me figure out what to do."
A page of the diary was torn off, which should be the page with "Breakthrough Plan" written on it.
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——"Day 372. We all celebrated our first year together. It was lively. The ringing bells gave me a headache."
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"Day 744. Year Two. Everyone's a little tired. Project Breakthrough hasn't made any significant progress."
——"Day 745. Ringing Scroll discovered a house that suddenly appeared in the 'Valley'. It turned out to be a central control room."
——"Day 746. I started to crack the control."
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——"Day 750. Someone died because of my hack. The hack is paused. I don't want to hurt anyone."
——"Day 751. It came back and brought my task, to clear Nuts. It urged me to continue cracking it, but I refused."
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——"Day 806. Everyone urged me to continue, but I really had no choice. Many people died in this operation, and I didn't want anyone else to die. I didn't want to die from the ringing of the bell."
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——"Day 1488. Everyone committed suicide. The operation was forced to continue."
——"Day 1489. Ringing Roll is with me, and progress is rapid."
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——"Day 1492. Ringing Roll committed suicide. 'Breakthrough Operation' progress is 97%."
——"Day 1493. I don't know if everyone will be alive after the crack is completed. I don't want anyone to die."
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——"Day 0. I killed everyone! I killed everyone!! I killed everyone!!! I'm going to die too!!! I'm going to die too!!!!"
The next few pages were filled with strings of numbers written in blood, and some of the paper was wrinkled.
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After packing up the things inside and pushing the drawer back, He Yuezhe smiled and walked towards the living room with a knife.
"How strange, how strange, where did all the dead people go?"
She walked towards the coffee table, humming the lullaby she had learned from "Valley of Wonders".
Lifting the tablecloth on the coffee table revealed a snow-white rectangle underneath.
He Yuezhe was just curious. There was neither air conditioning nor refrigerator installed in the house, so where did the cool air come from?
This strange coffee table caught her attention.
"puff--"
Cold air gurgled out of the rectangle.
"Freezer?" He Yuezhe found the opening and opened the lid with one hand.
A person who looks exactly like Yuan Yang is lying inside!
His body was stabbed with the same knives as those in Yuan Yang's room, but his breathing was not affected at all!
"Hello, hello, how are you?" He Yuezhe asked in the cold air.
What an inhumane operation this is, freezing people in freezers.
Ah, but it is already inhumane that there are two identical people in this world.
The young boy lying upright slowly opened his eyes.
"Day 7812," he sheathed his sword and sat up, "you finally found this place."
He Yuezhe smiled: "Isn't this as it should be? Don't you want me to find this place?"
"Let's talk somewhere else." She walked out the door.
"Yuan Yang" nodded stiffly, tidied up the "coffee table", and followed He Yuezhe to Tang Liu's home.
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"Did you kill him?" "Yuan Yang" saw the lifeless boy tied to a chair, turned around and pulled out a knife from his body.
He Yuezhe just looked at the person on the chair and suddenly took a deep breath and woke up.
“Ha…ha…” the person on the chair gasped, “You…why are you awake!?”
"This world needs an ending." Following He Yuezhe's signal, "Yuan Yang" walked towards the man, slightly bent his knees, and untied him. "...I need an ending too."
"Then, what about me?" The man grabbed "Yuan Yang's" arm and fell limply on the carpet.
“…”
"What about me?!"
“…”
"Answer me! Answer me!! What about what you promised me?! Tell me!! Are you going to break the contract?!" The man supported himself and got up from the ground.
"Yuan Yang" glanced at He Yuezhe who was sitting on the sofa watching a show, turned around and punched the man to the ground next to her.
"Hey, if you break the sofa, you have to pay for it." He Yuezhe said.
Why do these two people act weird when they meet? Are they crazy?
Yuan Yang's voice was very cold: "He has money, you can ask him for it."
"Is that so?" He Yuezhe nodded. "Actually, the sofa and the like don't matter. I'm more interested in what's going on between you two."
"Yuan Yang" also sat on the independent sofa on the other side at this time. He kept staring at the boy next to him who was gasping for breath due to the violent impact.
The young boy curled up in pain, holding his head. He Yuezhe vaguely saw tears sliding down from the corners of his eyes.
"He's my puppet number 13, the longest-lived one among the puppets that currently carry part of my personality." Yuan Yang's gaze remained unchanged, "...and the one that's most like me."
"You're talking nonsense! I'm nothing like you or you!!" Doll No. 13 turned around and glared at him angrily, but shrank back after meeting his gaze.
"......I'm talking about your appearance." Yuan Yang replied after a moment of silence.
He then showed He Yuezhe the images and stories of the first few dolls.
Indeed, No. 13 in front of the two people looked almost exactly like Yuan Yang in appearance, but their personalities were indeed completely different.
Yuan Yang, who was awakened from the freezer by He Yuezhe, combined with the contents of the diary, may have become numb to rationality because he had experienced too much.
However, the puppet No. 13 that He Yuezhe had seen before was dull and only became smart after a while.
So, his illness in the game might not be accidental, but probably caused by his identity as a "puppet", and his personality is probably the same.
As for Yuan Yang's words about "carrying part of his personality"...
"I just transferred my emotional part to the doll." Seeing that she didn't say anything, Yuan Yang reminded her.
"I'm smart too! I'm rational too!" No. 13 retorted.
Yuan Yang held his forehead with his hand: "Being emotional doesn't mean you're not smart."
"What do you mean? Besides, I'm not a puppet! I'm a human, a living person!" No. 13 was so angry that he raised his fist in the air.
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"What I mean is that you only possess my sensibility, but the rest is something you perfected after you were born. It has nothing to do with me."
"So in my eyes, you already exist as a 'human'."
"...I don't understand." No. 13 tilted his head and looked at him in confusion.
"...You are very smart and capable. You are a qualified person. So..."
"You really didn't abandon me!"
Yuan Yang's hands froze in mid-air, and No. 13 pounced on him and rubbed against him.
Through the gap, he saw He Yuezhe spinning a knife. His eyes met his, and then he looked at him and smiled.
...No, when did she start to change her knife?
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