Chapter 131

Chapter 131

Teacher Xiao Guangtuan lit up under the quilt.

Yu Tang moved his fingers, and it was as if a tiny electric current ran into his chest along the path where Zhan Chen had kissed him, stirring up warmth.

Yu Tang pursed his lips and grabbed Zhan Chen's wrist hard.

Zhan Chen looked at him, put his free hand on the back of Yu Tang's head, hugged him to his chest and shoulders, and waited quietly for the dazzling light outside the window to go out.

…

The flashlight light left the transparent glass of the door.

The blindfolded hunter failed to find his prey and smashed the informer's mirror.

Footsteps resounded in the dark corridor again, hitting the prey's shaky nerves lightly and heavily.

Yu Liuhui fell down and sat down without any strength.

She watched her realm shatter in front of her eyes, and hurriedly tried to retrieve it, but she only touched the fragment of the mirror in her hand.

"It's impossible...they must be hiding in here!"

Yu Liuhui shook her head desperately in disbelief. She struggled to hit the door hard, but before she could touch the door panel, she was firmly held down by a shadow.

Yu Liuhui's eyes widened.

She looked at the person who was slowly peeling out of the shadows, and her expression changed: "It turns out to be you...you have been following me, casting shadows on all my mirrors?!"

No wonder no matter which room she looked at just now, there was a figure sleeping in it!

That's not a real image at all!Someone was controlling the shadow and blocking her detection in the dark!

Yu Liuhui struggled to get up, trying to call the "dean" back. After calling several times in vain, her face finally turned completely pale.

She was shocked to find that all the sounds she made were quickly swallowed up, like throwing a pebble into the sea, sinking silently into the shadow that enveloped her.

"This villa is alive. Everything that belongs to the orphanage cannot be mimicked or manipulated by me."

Sui Zhengfan's voice rang out, slowly reaching him through the shadow realm: "The lizard tattoo reminds me that I can still control shadows."

Only light and shadow are free, and do not belong to this orphanage, nor to that "director".

Yu Liuhui sat slumped on the ground. She seemed to be looking at an enemy who was about to kill her. She stared at Sui Zhengfan with almost hysterical hatred in her eyes.

The ghost of "Dean" came to the end of his patrol and slowly came back.

It seemed that it didn't notice anything strange about this shadow at all. When it reached the end of the corridor, the light of the flashlight flickered for a few times, then turned back to the other end of the corridor.

No matter how Yu Liuhui screamed or struggled desperately, her voice was completely swallowed up by the shadow.

"This is a trap." Sui Zhengfan said, "We cannot follow the dean's rules. Under his rules, everyone will die."

Yu Liuhui didn't seem to hear his words at all, and moved her eyes firmly behind Sui Zhengfan.

Where the flashlight passed, the staircase that once took the lizard up to the third floor suddenly appeared again!

This time the stairs must be a reward for her. The game has long promulgated the rules. The dean only likes obedient children. As long as they are obedient, they will be rewarded...

Yu Liuhui clenched her palms tightly, and despite the heartbreaking pain, her eyes revealed chaotic ecstasy.

"No matter when, betraying one's companions is never a good choice."

Sui Zhengfan was not going to provoke her any more, so he softened his tone and said, "Go back. You haven't caused more serious consequences. There's still time -"

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly grunted and held his arm.

Yu Liuhui clutched a sharp piece of broken glass and severely scratched his territory.

Her hand had been cut with blood by the broken glass, but she still clenched it tightly in her palm and refused to let go, as if she was holding on to the last life-saving straw.

The "Dean"'s ears were not sealed. Hearing an abnormal noise, the flashlight's light immediately turned around.

Sui Zhengfan's body rubbed against the light of the flashlight and melted into the shadows dangerously.

Yu Liuhui had no time to care about him anymore, so she rushed over and tried her best to climb the stairs.

What made her a little strange was that no matter how much noise she made this time, not only did no force appear to block the way, but even the ghost of the dean did not turn to her again.

The flashlight only searched the place where the sound was made a few times, and found nothing unusual, so it resumed its original patrol frequency.

Perhaps I have finally become one of their "own people", so I will no longer be ostracized and no longer need to hide in fear...

Yu Liuhui gritted her teeth and swallowed back the bitterness in her throat.

She had had enough of this deadly game. She just wanted to live and return to her own world. She no longer wanted to live in fear in this ghost place, counting the minutes.

She used her last bit of strength to climb the seemingly endless stairs.

At the end of the stairs is an empty conference room.

There is also a portrait of the dean hanging in the conference room, which is the same as the one in the hall, with two black circles under the eyes and two red crosses that have almost faded.

Next to the portrait is a bulletin board, tightly sealed by a glass cover.

…

Yu Liuhui hesitated for a while, but still had the courage to walk over.

The good news was prominently printed on the bulletin board. Two photos had been posted inside, and the space for the third photo was still empty.

The first photo is worn and yellowed. The child in it is wearing glasses and sitting upright, like a little robot.Yu Liuhui didn't recognize it, so her eyes swept over inadvertently and landed on the second picture. Suddenly her eyes widened in shock.

In that photo, it was the lizard that had just tipped off and rushed up this staircase!

Like the dean, the lizard was also sealed in that photo, scurrying around desperately but unable to escape from the edge of the photo no matter what.

Like the first photo, it is slowly yellowing and fading, and its edges are beginning to become worn and curled.

He has indeed...become the dean's "one of his own".

Yu Liuhui suddenly had a terrible premonition uncontrollably. She turned around in panic, trying to escape from this terrible area, but a strange and irresistible suction force came out from behind her.

"Help!" Yu Liuhui screamed, "Help, help me -"

This time, no one could hear her voice at all.

She struggled in vain, but the suction seemed to be unstoppable.Her body slowly melted into paint, and was filled in bit by bit until the last photo. The air fluctuated twice, and a steel seal was knocked out of thin air.

—A broken piece of lens fell out of the air and landed on the ground.

Silence returned to the orphanage.

The light of the flashlight reached the end of the corridor, then changed direction, and turned back slowly.

The sun rose as usual the next day.

As the first ray of sunlight slipped in, the dean's ghost quietly disappeared into the corridor.

The players barely managed to hold on for half the night. Finally, they couldn't stand the double erosion of fear and fatigue. They arranged the candidates for the night watch and took turns sleeping in the second half of the night.

It was a peaceful night. Dai Lei woke up from his nightmare and sat up with a bang. He was still a little unaccustomed to it: "We weren't captured? Nothing happened?"

"It seems that nothing will happen if you choose not to move."

Chai Ning looked at the new bandage on Sui Zhengfan's arm: "Mr. Sui, were you attacked by Yu Liuhui?"

Sui Zhengfan's injury was not serious, but there were people with special powers in their team who specialized in healing. This minor injury should have been healed immediately.

Only a dying blow from a superpower user with all his strength would leave a superpower user of Sui Zhengfan's level with such a wound that would take time to recover.

Sui Zhengfan sat in the corner. He didn't want to say more about this and shook his head: "I was not careful."

Chai Ning obviously didn't agree with his protective style towards everyone. She shrugged her shoulders, said nothing more, and reached for the bedroom door handle.

"Hey!" Dai Lei was startled and quickly stopped her, "You don't want your life? Who knows what will happen if you go out..."

"Can't—stay here."

Chai Ning said: "I was so anxious last night that I didn't have time to figure out anything. I have to go and see what's going on."

Dai Lei was stunned for a moment, and looked at Meng Nanke walking to her side, feeling a little resentful: "Forget it, let's get up... Anyway, our mission is completed."

He and his partner were ordered to undergo transformation and enter this game to arrest Duan You, Cyclops, and Lizard.

Now, all three of them are in the orphanage, and the mission has been completed by accident.

"These are the only people we have left. If there are any less, there won't be enough for any group activity that requires ten people to complete."

Dai Lei couldn't help but sigh, he grabbed Song Sihang who had just woken up, and rubbed his sore neck with pleasure: "Maybe - when we open the door, someone will tell us that the game is over, and everyone cango out……"

Chai Ning didn't have the leisure to dream, so she opened the door, carefully looked at the noise outside, and walked out of the bedroom with ease.

She and Meng Nanke were originally hiding on the second floor. At that time, everything here was still bright and warm, and anyone could see that it was a fully qualified and high-quality orphanage.

After the door appeared, all the pretense began to peel off, revealing the hidden true face.

…

The iron-gray walls were cold and depressing, and the iron door between the two opposite corridors was equipped with a wire mesh. The windows were completely welded shut by the railings, and large pieces of rust swayed and fell down when blown by the wind.

There are overgrown weeds outside the window, and the garden landscape has not been carefully taken care of. Several pieces of sports equipment are stuck in the grass about half a person's height, crooked and almost toppled, and there are large stains on them.

The high wall outside could be seen through the corridor window. Countless broken glass was poked into the wall, and there were sharp iron drills glowing coldly all over.

"……how could this be?!"

Dai Lei couldn't help but frown: "This doesn't look like an orphanage at all! It's an orphanage, it's better to say -"

"prison."

There was a sudden voice behind him. Dai Lei was startled, turned around suddenly, and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Sui Zhengfan's figure clearly.

He opened his mouth and wanted to tell the players to try not to be intimidating when communicating. However, seeing Sui Zhengfan's face, he swallowed his words unconsciously.

...For the first time, uncontrollable anger appeared on the face of this middle-aged man who had an overly good temper.

Sui Zhengfan walked to the window, the anger of having been deceived for a long time suppressed his eyes, and the arms hanging by his sides were stretched almost stiffly.

——Over the years, the Sui family’s funds have been continuously poured into this orphanage.

They had been to this orphanage many times, but they never imagined that each time they entered, it was actually a realm disguised by the director of the Secret Service using his powers.

These children were tortured, abused, intimidated, and forced to answer questions they couldn't understand in the cold wind-swept hall. They were then picked out by the director of the orphanage and used as bargaining chips in transactions.

"Go and search the other children's bedrooms."

Sui Zhengfan said: "According to what the NPC said, this orphanage is a realm formed by imitating the player's abilities and integrating books and Feng Qing's memories. Then these levels must have their origins."

The piano keys that can eat people, the picture frames that can eat people, the door to another world.

These are not parts of Feng Qing's memory. If they are not from fairy tale books or picture books, they should be in other forms...

"It's a diary."

Yu Tang came over: "We searched the remaining bedrooms."

Among the children in the orphanage, there is a diary that is recorded in turn.

He and Zhan Chen seemed to suddenly appear in the corridor. Dai Lei was startled and almost jumped up: "You two, can you make some noise when you walk?"

Although he did not agree to hand over these two weird NPCs, he still had objections to the sudden disappearance of these two people yesterday: "Since we have formed a team, at least stop running around in private? This is not your home...…”

"It's indeed not my home." Yu Tang looked at Chai Ning, "Is it your home?"

Dai Lei was even more confused. Just as he was about to speak, Chai Ning and Meng Nanke looked at each other and fell silent.

…

Dai Lei's eyes widened in shock.

"We don't know," Chai Ning said. "Before we were adopted, our memories were wiped."

She and Meng Nanke were both adopted. The forces in the edge asteroid belt were chaotic, and the central star whip was out of reach, making it difficult to maintain the proper order.

It has long been an unwritten consensus that children in orphanages and slaves on the black market can be traded as pets and goods at will.

Before being traded, their original memories will be erased.

They are blank line drawings that can be bought and sold at will, painted and colored again and again, to change their identity and destiny.

"I originally thought this place was unfamiliar. I have never lived in such a nice place."

Chai Ning said: "But now it looks familiar, I recognize this place."

"The Orphanage - the players that have been rotating in, we can feel that it is not only looking for the director, it should also be looking for us."

"I can remember a few things now."

Chai Ning walked to the window and knocked on the bullet-proof window glass: "I broke a leg on that wall."

"I wanted to run away, but someone brought the dean over."

"Actually, I don't blame her." Chai Ning said, "She was cleaning that day and accidentally broke the bathroom mirror. She was forced to sleep in a pile of weeds. She was frightened. It was very cold."

"She was freezing and she was trying desperately to get inside."

Chai Ning: "The dean allowed her to go back and rewarded her with a small mirror."

Hearing this, the expressions of Dai Lei and others could not help but change slightly.

...Yu Liuhui's superpower is the mirror.

That's why Yu Liuhui showed stronger fear than others in the orphanage. During the exam, when the cold entered the hall, she was less able to resist the cold than others.

Among them, some were pulled in to replace the children in the orphanage, while others returned to their original identities after their memories were wiped away.

Not everyone can successfully overcome fear, and not everyone has the courage to resist an abuser who seems impossible to resist.

"Not long after that, the two of us were sold."

Chai Ning looked at Meng Nanke and said, "A wealthy businessman bought us and wanted to train us to dance pas de deux and let us participate in competitions."

It is common for children in orphanages to be injured, and doctors will treat them promptly so as not to affect their "appearance" and prevent them from getting a good price from buyers.

Chai Ning didn't take the leg injury to heart. It wasn't until she was practicing high-altitude lifts with Meng Nanke that she realized that the leg couldn't dance for a long time.

The person who bought her found that the orphanage was shoddy and returned the product in anger, wanting to buy Meng Nanke a better dancing partner.

She found an opportunity the night before she was returned and escaped to the station, only to find that Meng Nanke had also run out.

"I blasted him, but he didn't go back." Chai Ning said, "You have to accept the superpower transformation with me. Now, both of us can discharge electricity. Let alone lifting at high altitude, we can't even hold hands."

Meng Nanke was used to being scolded, so he still kept his head buried in silence, uncomfortably avoiding the sight of others.

Chai Ning tugged his clothes behind him and looked at Yu Tang: "Have you found our original diary?"

Yu Tang nodded and opened the diary: "There are many things mentioned in it."

Chai Ning flipped through a few pages of the diary and racked her brains to read it for a long time: "What the hell did we write?"

"..." Yu Tang coughed slightly and raised his head to meet the faint smile in Zhan Chen's eyes.

The children didn't know many words, and they could barely write a few words even through guessing, and they used horrible simple drawings to do the rest.

When Yu Tang was working as a little light group, his communication skills were at the peak of this level, so it was not that difficult to identify.

"Start on page -."

Yu Tang lowered his head, determined to ignore Senior Zhan who took the opportunity to laugh at the electronic storm for three seconds, and opened the diary.

The children's handwriting was clumsy, and they wrote down the important events in the orphanage.

"The uncle and aunt who sponsor the orphanage came to the orphanage."

"The new orphanage is very beautiful, with many flowers. We are hidden in a small grid and are not allowed to come out."

"Uncle and aunt have no children, so they took away the most sensible brother."

"Someone wants to buy a kid who plays the piano well."

"Someone wants to buy dancing kids."

"If you can't practice the piano well, you'll have to sleep on the stairs. If you fall down while dancing, you'll be thrown out."

"My brother who knows how to make clay figures secretly sent a letter outside."

"The most sensible brother came back to the orphanage to be a volunteer. He gave us toffee, helped us study, and forbade the director to beat us." "After the exam, the new wooden man got the first place, and the other two got the first place.Second and third.”

"They are no longer in the orphanage. They are just pictures on the wall."

…

"I found where the ghost stairs lead."

Yu Tang said: "It is not on the third floor, but between the second and third floors. There is a conference room there."

He closed the diary and held Zhan Chen's hand on his back.

He held Zhan Chen's hand in his palm, raised his head and looked at Zhan Chen's thoughtful brows.

Zhan Chen came back to his senses and met his gaze: "What's wrong?"

"It's time to show them, Senior Zhan." Yu Tang reminded, "That empty conference room."

Zhan Chen nodded. He took Yu Tang's hand and naturally held Yu Tang by his side. He nodded slightly to Sui Zhengfan and said, "Please follow me."

Yu Tang followed Zhan Chen, walked in the empty corridor, and slowly held the notebook again.

In fact, he always had a question, but he never asked it.

——He failed the assessment as Feng Qing and was coaxed by those people to peel off his most well-behaved and capable particles and give them to Chuan Bookstore, turning into seventeen-year-old Yu Tang.

It was his first time as a human being, and he interacted more or less with Feng Qing's particles, so Yu Tang directly had the same experiences and memories as Feng Qing.

But he was looking for Zhan Chen after all.

If the protagonist in that book was just a person named Sui Si, why would the Electronic Storm at that time willingly hand over its particles?

Why did Nie Chi choose that book and become a professional manager for the Sui family?