I Became a God in a Horror Game: 74. The Real World (Double Change)

Bai Liu put down the pen after finishing his three guesses. The pen rolled on the table twice, and rolled to Mu Sicheng's hand with an expressionless face.

Bai Liu's attitude was still flat, as if he didn't feel that he had said anything serious, and finally Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng who was numb and sincerely added: "Of course, this is just my personal opinion. It may not be the case."

The narrow rented house fell into a long silence, only the wind passing through Bai Liu's fingertips occasionally, blowing the paper on which he wrote the real world.

It is midsummer now, and the sun shines in from the window behind Bailiu. It is already noon, and you can hear the noisy chirping of cicadas splashing wantonly, and the noisy horns of cars can be heard outside the window.

But these visual and auditory experiences that seem to endow the human world with smoke and fire suddenly become black and white in Mu Sicheng's world, just like Bai Liu, who is sitting in front of the desk and looking at him quietly and intently against the light, is curling into data. The multi-dimensional lines receded continuously, disappearing into the gap between his closed eyes.

The moment Bai Liu put down his pen, Mu Sicheng felt his ears ringing for a few seconds, as if his breathing was fake for a split second.

Is reality a game?

He tried his best to keep a promised land away from his despicable desires, which turned out to be nothing more than a game.

Mu Sicheng collapsed and then leaned back on the chair, with the back of one hand resting on his eyes, and the other hand hanging down, he kept this posture silent for a long time.

Bai Liu didn't bother him.

After an unknown amount of time, Mu Sicheng sneered with difficulty and said, "Bai Liu, I was wondering if you made up such a horrible thing to fool me in order to coax me to join you in the league? False? Not true, right?"

"Most of the real things in this world are scary, otherwise where do we get the materials for making games from?" Bai Liu got up and folded the paper with these words written on it and put it in a book. He looked at Mu Sicheng again.

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu quietly.

Bai Liu shrugged: "But it seems that you are not willing to accept it, so emotionally, I think I should give you a buffer space to escape and accept, so I said that this matter may not be like this, after all, it is true. It may also be the first and second cases."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

Damn it, but what is the difference between you and telling me that it is the third situation!

Mu Sicheng sat slumped on the chair for a long time before looking at Bai Liu in a daze and asking, "Bai Liu, if the reality we live in is just a game, where is the real reality? There is a real reality. Is it realistic? What is real to us? Why aren’t you scared by this game-like reality?”

Bai Liu wasn't confused by Mu Sicheng's barrage of questions, he thought for a moment.

"I have been asking myself what reality is and what is most meaningful to me since I was a teenager." Bai Liu spread his hands, "but except for one of my best friends, most of the My peers couldn’t understand me, and I later discovered that they may not think about this issue in their entire lives, and they can survive well in this illusory reality.”

"Whether reality is a game or real, believe me, for the vast majority of people, it doesn't actually have any impact on them. Using an objective idealist point of view to interpret, people's objective view of the ontology and the world Cognition constitutes a human value logic chain, so as long as [I] is real, and the things [I] pursue are real, that world is real for [I].”

Bai Liu said calmly: "For me, it doesn't matter if this world is a game or something else."

"As long as human currency exists, my desire for money will never go out. This is my truth and meaning."

"If you can't find your own meaning for the time being, would you like to try using mine?" Bai Liu picked up the key hanging behind the door, and looked back at Mu Sicheng who was stunned, "Try to find it." Visible currency, such as the 500 million points of the game competition champion?"

"At that time, you might be able to use money to buy the reality you want." Bai Liu pushed open the door, "With 500 million points, I think you can buy an earth to create the kind of reality you want. 【Real world】."

Mu Sicheng was silent for a while with a distorted expression.

"Bai Liu, your eloquence is really a pyramid scheme, right?"

He was once again convinced by this crazy logic!

"So your answer is?" Bai Liu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you want to participate in the league?"

Mu Sicheng gritted his teeth: "I will participate!" Then he quickly asked, "But you have to deal with at least five players? Otherwise, how can we participate?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I will take care of it, just wait for my notification." Bai Liu turned and asked Mu Sicheng, "I'm going out to eat hot pot with my friends, do you want to come together?"

Mu Sicheng: "..."

What time is it, why are you still in the mood to eat hot pot? !

It may be that Mu Sicheng's too ferocious expression revealed his questioning, Bai Liu took out two discount coupons from his pocket, shook them, and briefly explained: "Because I have two discount coupons for hot pot restaurants, today If you don't eat it, it will expire."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

Mu Sicheng can't compare with Bai Liu, a person whose psychological quality is so strong that he is abnormal. After exchanging contact information and school address, I went back to the dormitory alone to think about life.

Bai Liu went out with two hot pot discount coupons in his arms, with a happy expression, not at all like someone who just came out of a life-and-death escape game, or someone who just revealed the truth of the magical world in front of Mu Sicheng .

Mu Sicheng sighed inexplicably and speechlessly: "You seem to be in a good mood?"

"Yes." Bai Liu nodded and admitted, he bent his eyes and smiled, "Now it's my off-duty time, of course I'm in a good mood."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

He remembered Bai Liu's horror game theory again.

Fuck! ! This guy really felt like he was off work! !

This sturdy psychological quality - what kind of environment can this guy be a monster? !

But after Bai Liu bid farewell to Mu Sicheng who was in a trance, he went to look for Lu Yizhan.

Because Bai Liu woke up and found that Lu Yizhan had called him twice, but because he didn't answer them in the game, Bai Liu sent a text message to Lu Yizhan asking him what's wrong, and Lu Yizhan said to talk face to face.

Speaking of face-to-face chats, Bai Liu thought that he might lose contact in the next two months. If he disappeared so silently, the policeman at Lu Yi Station would definitely report the case if he couldn't find him. Bai Liu felt that it was necessary for him to report to Lu Yizhan in person, so he invited Lu Yizhan to the hot pot restaurant in a text message, and was going to chat with Lu Yizhan face to face.

Bai Liu arrived at the hot pot restaurant early, and there was no one there, so he ordered a pot base and some dishes, and after confirming with the boss that the coupons were still valid, he waited obediently.

The boss turned on the TV in the shop for Bai Liu before he went down. A news program was being broadcast on the TV at noon. When Bai Liu saw it, he saw a picture of Li Gou's eyes marked on the TV screen.

The male host in a suit and leather shoes on the TV folded his hands in front of the table solemnly, and reported in a very orthodox voice:

"Welcome everyone to watch the "Noon News" column. Recently, the key criminal evidence of Li Mou, the major criminal suspect in the corpse dismemberment case of a senior high school girl, has finally been found... If Li Mou's crime is true, the maximum sentence can be the death penalty, but in Before the trial came to an end, yesterday, Li was in prison, and suddenly he was hacked into pieces by an inmate, Wang, who was also guilty of murder..."

The male host lowered his head and flipped through the manuscript on the desktop, and continued to raise his head to broadcast:

"Recently, a small-scale collective food poisoning incident suddenly broke out in a privately funded children's welfare home in our city. A large number of children in the welfare home were admitted to the hospital urgently. There are a lot of cheap ingredients, many of which are rotten and spoiled, causing diarrhea and vomiting in children after eating, and dehydration shock in severe cases... We appeal to caring people from all walks of life to donate money to the orphanage..."

Bai Liuzheng watched with relish, and Lu Yizhan came here with a tired face.

When Bai Liu saw his standard social animal face, he knew that this person had stayed up a lot lately.

Lu Yizhan sat down and drank himself two sips of tea. Looking at Bai Liu, he began to complain endlessly, "I'm lost! You don't know how busy I am recently! I'm so busy! I can't even drink tea all morning. There is no time!"

"It's been a few days since I had dinner with you last time, right?" Bai Liu raised her eyebrows, "Is it so scary to get married?"

Lu Yizhan waved his hand wearily. He looked up and saw the news on TV. His expression changed, and he asked the waiter to lower his voice: "It's not just about the marriage, waiter, can you change the private room for us?"

There are not many people now, so the waiter readily changed Bailiu and Lu Yizhan to a small private room.

As soon as Lu Yizhan entered the private room, his expression was serious, and he took out a cigarette to smoke.

Bai Liu hasn't seen Lu Yizhan smoking for a long time. After he got a girlfriend, he was treated as a twenty-four filial boyfriend. He quit all bad habits such as smoking, playing games and playing cards. He went out to drink a bottle of Coke secretly, because His girlfriend, no, now we are going to talk about his fiancee.

Lu Yizhan's fiancée firmly believes that cola kills the spirit and hurts the body, and Lu Yizhan is strictly forbidden to drink any carbonated drinks.

In this regard, Bai Liu said that fortunately, Lu Yizhan's fiancee did not know that beer is also a kind of carbonated drink, otherwise Lu Yizhan would be deprived of the only joy of life, drinking and eating barbecue.

Bai Liu smiled calmly and asked Lu Yizhan, who smoked with a face full of bitterness and hatred: "Should I be worried and ask now, what happened to Lu Yizhan, why are you smoking? Didn't you swear back then The world is collapsing, will you never touch soft drugs like cigarettes again? Why, your world collapsed within a few days of my departure, right?"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Lu Yizhan choked on his cigarette after being teased by Bai Liu, he couldn't help laughing, Lu Yizhan is a very standard young man with a square appearance that pleases the elderly, laughing He looked a bit naive and handsome, "Bai Liu, you can ask any questions! You must mention my history of the second black in middle school!"

"Let's talk." Bai Liu poured a cup of tea for Lu Yizhan and pushed it over, "I'm off work now, I can waste some of my precious time listening to the troubles in life that make your world collapse."

"Marriage is really annoying." Mu Sicheng took the teacup Bai Liu handed him and was silent for a few seconds, "But the thing that bothers me the most is not getting married. You saw the news about the Children's Welfare Institute on TV just now. Right?"

Bai Liu nodded: "I see, what's the matter?"

"A colleague of mine is dealing with this matter. He said that it doesn't look like ordinary food poisoning. Many children are being rescued urgently now, and no specific results have been investigated yet." Lu Yizhan frowned, "But the bacteria Mushroom poisoning, you and I have both stayed in the orphanage. Jingcheng is not a place where mushrooms are produced, and the price of mushrooms is high. The orphanages here rarely buy mushrooms, which are relatively expensive and prone to accidents. Vegetarian dishes , another welfare home donated by private individuals on the verge of bankruptcy..."

"All in all, I think this is not right, but the current solution still tends to preserve this orphanage. Before the investigation is clear, the safety of the children staying in the orphanage is actually not well guaranteed. of..."

"It sounds complicated." Bai Liu asked calmly, "But what does it have to do with you? Lu Yizhan, although you are a policeman, this is not your job, right?"

Lu Yizhan was silent for a while, and said: "I took the initiative to participate in the investigation team."

Bai Liu glanced at Lu Yizhan, but said nothing.

"You also know that I'm getting married soon. Sister Dian (Lu Yizhan's fiancée) is not in good health... The doctor said that she might not be able to conceive. We discussed whether to adopt a child before getting pregnant... "Lu Yizhan clasped the cup tightly with his fingers, and he smiled wryly, "Bai Liu, I know you will think that I am too impulsive, and my current financial situation is not very good..."

Lu Yizhan inhaled: "But after discussing with Sister Dian, I plan to go to this orphanage to adopt a child. After all, it's good to have one less child in such an unstable situation. After all, I also came out of the orphanage. Yes, it can be regarded as giving back to the society."

"So you tell me one thing, you know that I probably don't agree with what you do, what is the purpose?" Bai Liu asked calmly, "What do you want me to do for you?"

Lu Yizhan lowered his head and fiddled with the cigarette on his fingertips, but said nothing.

The waiter came and took a mouthful of hot red pot, which was bubbling between the two silent people.

Then Lu Yizhan spoke to himself: "Bai Liu, I really don't want to involve you in this kind of thing, but your brain is really easy to use in this kind of thing."

"If a matter involves a lot of criminal interests, you can almost immediately guess what the other party will do next. You are a genius in this area."

Bai Liu took a sip of tea expressionlessly: "I'll just take you as a compliment, and it's not the first time you've come to me for being meddlesome, just tell me what's going on."

"Can you help me find out what happened this time?" Lu Yizhan looked up at Bai Liu, "My colleague's investigation ideas are stuck. That's right, so..."

Lu Zhan seemed a bit embarrassed to say: "I know I'm meddling in other people's business, but once I know it, I can't ignore it, they are all children..."

Bai Liu raised his hand and took apart a pair of disposable chopsticks with a bang, interrupting what Lu Yizhan hadn't finished saying: "I can help you take a look, but I don't do it for nothing. Please."

Lu Yi nodded, and was already familiar with Bai Liu's request for payment.

"And I only have one day to help you meddle in your own business." Bai Liu said, "I'm going on a business trip tomorrow, and I won't be back for two months."

Lu Yizhan was shocked: "Two months? So long? What exactly do you do with this job? If it's the kind of performance job you mentioned last time, it won't take as long as two months, right?"

Bai Liu paused for a moment, and considering the blocking mechanism of the game, he changed his words: "This time I will bring a monkey and a young master to form a team and play games on the stage for the audience to see. It will take two months to perform."

"..." Lu Yizhan's expression was very complicated, "Is your job really legal?"

Bai Liu said: "Legal."

"It's a monkey and a young master, and it's still legal to play games for the audience, and there are still two months to perform..." Lu Yizhan thought for a while, then suddenly realized that he patted his thigh, and watched Bai Liu's decision to go to the ground. Judgment, "You are a circus performance team, right? You are going on tour in two months, right?"

"..." Bai Liu was silent for a few seconds, "Yes."

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After returning home, Bai Liu took a look at some relevant materials and information about this private orphanage that Lu Yizhan gave him.

Most of the children's welfare institutions in the world they live in are public welfare institutions for children run by the government. Both Bailiu and Lu Yizhan came out of this kind of public welfare institutions.

Lu Yizhan, on the other hand, was educated to be a kind-hearted young man who is full of gratitude to the society. He has determined to serve the society as a policeman since he was a child.

As for Bai Liu, a freak, he never got out of Qian's eyes all the way. If Lu Yizhan hadn't been vigilant and tense to pull Bai Liu on the road of abiding by the law, Bai Liu, a psychopath, would have done everything for money. It's really hard to say what happened.

However, the children's welfare home that happened this time was not a public one, but a private children's welfare home that was donated by a large number of corporate philanthropists ten years ago.

Many entrepreneurs here are said to be terminally ill. According to the traditional practice of [a person who is about to die is also good], these people donated a large sum of money to build this private welfare home, saying that they are dying I did some good deeds to accumulate virtue before, and won a lot of praise at that time, and Lu Yizhan also praised this behavior all the time.

Coincidentally, shortly after the construction of this children's welfare home, the illnesses of these entrepreneurs got better, as if they got better like "what goes around, goes around".

However [people who are about to die do good deeds], people who are not about to die will naturally not want to spend a lot of money to do good deeds for good rewards. After that, these entrepreneurs gradually became less concerned about this orphanage As a result, this private orphanage slowly lost its way within ten years.

After reading the information given by Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu understood why he felt something was wrong.

There have been various accidents in this poorly managed private children's welfare home, most of which were poisoned by various mushrooms, but this time it was the biggest.

Lu Yizhan said that these food poisoning accidents piled up together, and they didn't seem to be accidents at first glance, but after investigation, they did not find any clues to the crime, either intentional poisoning, or pure accidental food poisoning, and This time the incident was the same.

It was as if some higher-level existence had erased all clues other than "accidental food poisoning".

Lu Yizhan even wondered if there was something wrong with their internal staff, and some traces of the crime were deliberately erased.

From the point of view of an inhuman game designer, this is simply a natural and good material for designing horror games-an endangered children's orphanage, and a bizarre accident of food poisoning, and in A child who died tragically from poisoning.

Compared to Lu Yizhan's suspicion that someone inside erased the traces of the crime, Bai Liu suspects that the one who erased the traces is not a person. If his previous guess is correct——

——He thinks that this children's orphanage is likely to be a [horror game copy] that is being released into the [real world].

——————

Early the next morning, in the early hours of the morning, Bai Liu was woken up by Lu Yizhan's series of fatal calls. As soon as he picked up the phone, Lu Yizhan's tone on the opposite side was unprecedentedly serious: "Bai Liu, come here The First People’s Hospital in Jingcheng, the child who was sent to the hospital last night—”

"A lot of people died, right?" Bai Liu calmly said the following.

Lu Yizhan on the opposite side took a breath, and then exhaled slowly, he said, "Did you find anything?"

"Not yet." Bai Liu said frankly, "But from the information you gave me, if someone deliberately poisoned, and the other party repeated so many times, the purpose should be to kill people, and this time the situation is so Serious, so I think the mushrooms eaten by these children sent to the hospital should be lethal."

"...Yes, many of them died after rescue failed." Lu Yizhan's voice was rough and hoarse, "But one child is still alive."

"There is still a living child?" Bai Liu obviously sensed something was wrong.

If this children's welfare home is a [horror game copy] that the [system] is releasing into the real world, there is a high probability that the group of children in the background of the game will be wiped out, just like the episode in "The Last Train Exploding" Same as the passengers in the carriage.

Bai Liu asked softly, "Can I come over?"

Lu Yizhan: "Yes, come here."

When Bai Liu got dressed and went there, the outside of the hospital was crowded with reporters from various news media.

Bai Liu was picked up by Lu Yi Station from the elevator in the operating room. When he passed the operating room, he could see small corpses with their heads covered in white cloth placed in the corridor, because there were too many of them. Some corpses have not had time to be transported away, and they are piled crookedly in the corridor of the operating room, turning the operating room into a small mortuary.

From time to time, numb-faced nurses would come up and push the corpses of these dead children down. Occasionally, when they hit the wall, a small bruised and purple hand covered with various corpse spots would shake out from under the white cloth.

These plaques and some hematomas bulge on the surface of the child's corpse, like mushroom patterns all over the back of the corpse's small hands. It seems that a mushroom will burst out of the corpse's skin in the next second.

A disgusting smell of mushroom fermentation filled the entire operating room, as if the mushrooms eaten by children had been fermented overnight with these freshly dead corpses as the culture medium. The smell was rotten and full of fungi Vigorous.

Bai Liu calmly withdrew his sizing gaze, looked sideways at Lu Yizhan, and asked softly after waiting for the operating room: "Are you sure these children died last night? The decay of these corpses The degree is not right."

"Yes." Lu Yizhan rubbed his forehead, "It's too early for the corpse spots to appear densely, and the time of corpse rigor is not right."

Bai Liu squinted at Lu Yizhan: "What's wrong?"

Lu Yizhan stopped when he heard Bai Liu's words. He leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette. good.

"Corpse spots emerged from the child's body a few minutes after the death was confirmed, and appeared and spread very quickly. This usually occurs after more than 24 hours of death." Lu Yizhan used points The thumb of Yan's hand rubbed the center of his brow, and wanted to get rid of the frown, but it didn't seem to have any effect, "Corpse... Also, the corpse hardens rapidly after death, and it has already softened this morning. The decay stage, which usually occurs after death for more than 24 hours.”

"It's almost like..." Lu Yizhan paused and said, "These poisoned children died before entering the hospital."

They were talking and walking at this time, and they had reached the stairs of the ward on the first floor of the children's emergency room. From the half-open door of the exit of the emergency exit, they could see the corpses of children covered in hoods on the beds in the corridor of the hospital ward. , and the nurse who was packing the body into a body bag.

The faces of the corpses of those children were not the bluish white of the dead, but also colorful protruding spots.

Bai Liu knows that some mushroom poisoning will cause this kind of skin ringworm similar to allergies, but the spots on the faces of these children are so dense that they are like a color blindness test, and they will bulge on the surface of the skin. Bai Liu is not secretive. Wearing a slight discomfort.

It feels like there are mushrooms growing under the face that haven't sprouted yet.