Ch 183
ten minutes later.
Ear-piercing screeching and wailing resounded throughout the apartment building, the eyes hidden in the walls frantically rolled and turned, black-red rancid blood gurgled from the cut wounds, soaking the dirty floor. They were staring at the young man standing in the corridor with both deep hatred and fear flashing in their eyes.
Those dense eyes blinked violently, trying to avoid the opponent’s attack in this way.
But the other party seems to be addicted to playing.
He held the fire axe, whenever an eye opened, he poked, as if playing whack-a-mole with great interest.
The players standing in the stairwell were as quiet as chickens: “…”
Weak, pitiful, helpless.
Finally, after a near-howling scream, there was a wave of fluctuation on the bare walls, and then, those creepy eyeballs disappeared, leaving only bare wall of dark red bricks.
Ge Xiu put down the axe in his hand with some regrets, feeling like he hadn’t played enough.
Suddenly, he saw that in the depths of the dark red wall bricks, between the gaps that had been opened by the axe, a pale and smooth thing was exposed.
Ge Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly.
He raised the axe in his hand and continued to chisel along there twice.
More wallpaper and bricks fell down, exposing the things hidden behind them more clearly.
It was a round and slender white bone, slightly bent inward, sinking deeply into the thick wall like a bracket.
Ribcage.
Ge Xiu was slightly taken aback.
He thoughtfully looked at the ribs sunk deep in the wall in front of him for two seconds, and then recalled the special items he had found on other floors.
On the first floor was a severed finger.
On the second floor was the eyeball.
The fourth floor had hair.
Although he didn’t know what Chen Jian found on the third floor, judging from the missing flesh and blood on other player’s legs, it should have been some kind of human organ.
And this floor, hidden deep in the ribs, clearly was the heart.
If the main entrance of the apartment building was the front of the person, then the heart should be located in the middle left of the fifth floor…
Ge Xiu’s eyes moved slightly and fell on the dark red door, he was taken aback for a moment.
Three numbers were written dimly on the door in chipped paint:
502.
Ge Xiu frowned in confusion.
But… He clearly checked around 502 yesterday, but found nothing.
……strange.
Even so, he still decided to go to find out.
502’s door was unexpectedly unlocked.
Ge Xiu pushed the door and entered with a fire axe in hand.
The players standing in the stairwell looked at each other. After a brief hesitation, they decided to follow their instincts and followed—— After all, standing in the same room as the man who directly fought ghosts with an axe in hand made the sense of security grow exponentially.
As they walked into 502 cautiously, they saw that the other party had begun to wreak havoc without any scruples.
The tables and chairs were kicked and fell to the ground, the glaring “Xi” characters on the walls were ripped off and the white walls were left with deep marks chops of the axe, the wallpaper peeled off, the wall bricks were thrown down, everything was thrown into a mess.
Ge Xiu had no psychological burden.
After all, although he could see the existence of spiritual power, this sense was alike to sight, hearing or smell, which had a limited perception. Since he didn’t find it when he entered the room last night, then, there was a good chance that that prop was hidden deep within some object out of sight.
The young man with the aex in his hand swept across the room like a tornado, in a blink of an eye throwing everything into chaos, almost turning the whole room upside down.
The players, on the other hand, quietly huddled in the corner, watching Ge Xiu wreak havoc in the room like a bandit tremblingly.
After a long time, Ge Xiu finally stopped.
Standing in the middle of the apartment with an axe on his back, he slowly looked around the ruined room, frowning slightly.
——still nothing.
Could it be that he was mistaken?
That this floor’s special prop was not here?
At this time, a spot of bright red suddenly flashed at the edge of his sight, Ge Xiu paused, and subconsciously looked in that direction.
A brightly coloured red rose was inserted in the crystal glass vase beside the bed. The delicate and fresh flower bloomed charmingly, as if nourished with fresh blood.
Ge Xiu hesitated for a second, then walked towards the rose.
He took the rose out of the vase, turned it in his fingers slightly, looking carefully.
The flower stem was slender and the petals were gorgeous.
No matter how he looked at it, it was an ordinary flower.
Except…
The position of the petals, the curvature of the branches or the size of the leaves, they were all exactly the same as the rose he saw yesterday, and even the nail prints he unconsciously left on the stem yesterday were exactly the same.
Ge Xiu was slightly taken aback.
When he saw that the flower had fully returned to its bright and fresh appearance this morning, he subconsciously thought that the flower had been replaced, but in fact—
it was the same flower entire time.
Ge Xiu put his hand into his pocket and his fingertips touched cold and hard metal structure.
He pulled it out.
Ge Xiu opened his hand, a small brass key lay in the center of his palm, glimmering slightly under the light.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a gentle force on his wrist.
It was cold to the touch as it tightly held his wrist, invisible fingers slowly winding upwards along the warm back of the hand, fingertips embedded in the gap between the fingers, pulling them forward little by little.
The small brass key was slowly inserted into the center of the rose petals.
“click”.
There was a slight sound of clattering metal.
In the next second, the petals so tender and soft as if soaked in fresh blood, began to peel off quickly, like heavy rain falling from between Ge Xiu’s fingers and a thick layer of scarlet formed on the ground in an instant, his feet were submerged in the gorgeous petals and the rich rose fragrance spread in the air along with the strong smell of blood.
Ge Xiu lowered his eyes.
He saw that what he was holding now was a soft and warm bright red heart.
It laid quietly between Ge Xiu’s pale and slender fingers, completely bare, exposed to the air without any cover, fresh and fragile, pulsating regularly with the heartbeat.
“Thump”
“Thump”
Ge Xiu suddenly had a thought.
——It turns out that he had been offered it with both hands from the very beginning.
At this moment, the mechanical female voice sounded in the air, echoing in the empty apartment corridor:
“Congratulations on finding all five special items in the residential building and winning!”
Unknown if it was Ge Xiu’s illusion, but he always felt that the sound seemed to be mixed with the sound of electric current, flowing along with subtle changes in tone and articulation, making the already very stiff voice appear slightly distorted.
“The points will be settled after the game is over.”
The second after the voice disappeared, Ge Xiu felt his eyes go dark.
It was as if the whole person had been pulled into the extremely deep black ice water, out of sudden all the sounds, lights and shadows were far away from him and quickly disappeared out of his mind and consciousness. One second before his consciousness disappeared, he could still feel the cold palm tightly clutching my wrist, the cold touch was like being branded on the skin, not even dispersing as he fell into coma.
It felt like only a second had passed.
It felt like a century has passed.
Ge Xiu opened his eyes suddenly, countless noisy and chaotic voices rushed towards him like a tide, and the brightly coloured pieces suddenly engulfed Ge Xiu at that moment—he was like a drowning person suddenly dragged out of the deep sea, overwhelmed by the swarming sensory perception at that moment.
Everything in front of him seemed to be spinning.
A strange sense of weightlessness took hold of him.
Ge Xiu staggered forward a few steps and stabilized his figure just before falling to the ground.
It took a full three seconds before he realized where he was.
Ge Xiu stood in the middle of the busy road.
The deafening vehicle horns rang in my ears and the entire busy intersection became extremely chaotic because of his appearance. Human voices mixed with harsh brakes echoed in the air, amidst the sharp sound of tires rubbing against the ground. From a car that braked suddenly and stopped right in front of Ge Xiu, someone rolled down the window, stuck his head out angrily and shouted: “Do you fucking have eyes—”
Ge Xiu looked up in the direction of the sound.
The driver froze, the remaining swear words abruptly stuck in his throat, he couldn’t even budge now.
Ge Xiu had completely regained clarity of mind at this moment, he lowered his head and quickly glanced at his clothes.
——The same prison uniform from the cell.
It seemed that he still maintains his original appearance.
Ge Xiu lowered his head and hurriedly walked towards the side of the road.
He didn’t want to cause too much commotion.
Especially now, when although it was somewhat over, he didn’t seem to have left the virtual world. There were too many things that are still unclear and he didn’t want to attract too much attention.
At this moment, a hand stretched out from the crowd that was gradually gathering around and grabbed Ge Xiu’s wrist:
“Hey! Over here!”
Ge Xiu turned his head and looked.
He had seen that person in the game. It was the player whose legs had been eaten. It seemed that after the game ended, his legs also returned to their original state.
Ge Xiu noticed sharply that everyone had watches of the same style on their wrists.
——And he was very sure that when he was in prison, his wrist was absolutely empty.
He didn’t resist, but let the other party pull him away from the crowd.
Soon, they came to a deserted alley.
The player stopped and turned to look at Ge Xiu: “Are you a newcomer? I remember seeing you in the game…”
— After all, such a face was really hard to forget.
He bent down, resting on his knees, he took a gulp of air and after he recovered his breath, he continued:
“You are really unlucky. Not only were you assigned to that level of difficulty on your first time, but you were also teleported back to the middle of a busy road… Although others wouldn’t notice your sudden appearance, it’s easy to get hit…”
The player wiped the sweat from his brow and straightened up:
“My name is Cheng Xiao, do you remember me?”
Ge Xiu nodded.
When the crisis was resolved, Cheng Xiao’s expression quickly relaxed.
He joked:
“It seems that after I was injured, you solved the puzzle very quickly.”
Cheng Xiao was a little curious: “However, how did you manage to find two special items in such a short time?”
Ge Xiu thought about it seriously and replied:
“Probably… just step by step.”
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ten minutes later.
Ear-piercing screeching and wailing resounded throughout the apartment building, the eyes hidden in the walls frantically rolled and turned, black-red rancid blood gurgled from the cut wounds, soaking the dirty floor. They were staring at the young man standing in the corridor with both deep hatred and fear flashing in their eyes.
Those dense eyes blinked violently, trying to avoid the opponent’s attack in this way.
But the other party seems to be addicted to playing.
He held the fire axe, whenever an eye opened, he poked, as if playing whack-a-mole with great interest.
The players standing in the stairwell were as quiet as chickens: “…”
Weak, pitiful, helpless.
Finally, after a near-howling scream, there was a wave of fluctuation on the bare walls, and then, those creepy eyeballs disappeared, leaving only bare wall of dark red bricks.
Ge Xiu put down the axe in his hand with some regrets, feeling like he hadn’t played enough.
Suddenly, he saw that in the depths of the dark red wall bricks, between the gaps that had been opened by the axe, a pale and smooth thing was exposed.
Ge Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly.
He raised the axe in his hand and continued to chisel along there twice.
More wallpaper and bricks fell down, exposing the things hidden behind them more clearly.
It was a round and slender white bone, slightly bent inward, sinking deeply into the thick wall like a bracket.
Ribcage.
Ge Xiu was slightly taken aback.
He thoughtfully looked at the ribs sunk deep in the wall in front of him for two seconds, and then recalled the special items he had found on other floors.
On the first floor was a severed finger.
On the second floor was the eyeball.
The fourth floor had hair.
Although he didn’t know what Chen Jian found on the third floor, judging from the missing flesh and blood on other player’s legs, it should have been some kind of human organ.
And this floor, hidden deep in the ribs, clearly was the heart.
If the main entrance of the apartment building was the front of the person, then the heart should be located in the middle left of the fifth floor…
Ge Xiu’s eyes moved slightly and fell on the dark red door, he was taken aback for a moment.
Three numbers were written dimly on the door in chipped paint:
502.
Ge Xiu frowned in confusion.
But… He clearly checked around 502 yesterday, but found nothing.
……strange.
Even so, he still decided to go to find out.
502’s door was unexpectedly unlocked.
Ge Xiu pushed the door and entered with a fire axe in hand.
The players standing in the stairwell looked at each other. After a brief hesitation, they decided to follow their instincts and followed—— After all, standing in the same room as the man who directly fought ghosts with an axe in hand made the sense of security grow exponentially.
As they walked into 502 cautiously, they saw that the other party had begun to wreak havoc without any scruples.
The tables and chairs were kicked and fell to the ground, the glaring “Xi” characters on the walls were ripped off and the white walls were left with deep marks chops of the axe, the wallpaper peeled off, the wall bricks were thrown down, everything was thrown into a mess.
Ge Xiu had no psychological burden.
After all, although he could see the existence of spiritual power, this sense was alike to sight, hearing or smell, which had a limited perception. Since he didn’t find it when he entered the room last night, then, there was a good chance that that prop was hidden deep within some object out of sight.
The young man with the aex in his hand swept across the room like a tornado, in a blink of an eye throwing everything into chaos, almost turning the whole room upside down.
The players, on the other hand, quietly huddled in the corner, watching Ge Xiu wreak havoc in the room like a bandit tremblingly.
After a long time, Ge Xiu finally stopped.
Standing in the middle of the apartment with an axe on his back, he slowly looked around the ruined room, frowning slightly.
——still nothing.
Could it be that he was mistaken?
That this floor’s special prop was not here?
At this time, a spot of bright red suddenly flashed at the edge of his sight, Ge Xiu paused, and subconsciously looked in that direction.
A brightly coloured red rose was inserted in the crystal glass vase beside the bed. The delicate and fresh flower bloomed charmingly, as if nourished with fresh blood.
Ge Xiu hesitated for a second, then walked towards the rose.
He took the rose out of the vase, turned it in his fingers slightly, looking carefully.
The flower stem was slender and the petals were gorgeous.
No matter how he looked at it, it was an ordinary flower.
Except…
The position of the petals, the curvature of the branches or the size of the leaves, they were all exactly the same as the rose he saw yesterday, and even the nail prints he unconsciously left on the stem yesterday were exactly the same.
Ge Xiu was slightly taken aback.
When he saw that the flower had fully returned to its bright and fresh appearance this morning, he subconsciously thought that the flower had been replaced, but in fact—
it was the same flower entire time.
Ge Xiu put his hand into his pocket and his fingertips touched cold and hard metal structure.
He pulled it out.
Ge Xiu opened his hand, a small brass key lay in the center of his palm, glimmering slightly under the light.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a gentle force on his wrist.
It was cold to the touch as it tightly held his wrist, invisible fingers slowly winding upwards along the warm back of the hand, fingertips embedded in the gap between the fingers, pulling them forward little by little.
The small brass key was slowly inserted into the center of the rose petals.
“click”.
There was a slight sound of clattering metal.
In the next second, the petals so tender and soft as if soaked in fresh blood, began to peel off quickly, like heavy rain falling from between Ge Xiu’s fingers and a thick layer of scarlet formed on the ground in an instant, his feet were submerged in the gorgeous petals and the rich rose fragrance spread in the air along with the strong smell of blood.
Ge Xiu lowered his eyes.
He saw that what he was holding now was a soft and warm bright red heart.
It laid quietly between Ge Xiu’s pale and slender fingers, completely bare, exposed to the air without any cover, fresh and fragile, pulsating regularly with the heartbeat.
“Thump”
“Thump”
Ge Xiu suddenly had a thought.
——It turns out that he had been offered it with both hands from the very beginning.
At this moment, the mechanical female voice sounded in the air, echoing in the empty apartment corridor:
“Congratulations on finding all five special items in the residential building and winning!”
Unknown if it was Ge Xiu’s illusion, but he always felt that the sound seemed to be mixed with the sound of electric current, flowing along with subtle changes in tone and articulation, making the already very stiff voice appear slightly distorted.
“The points will be settled after the game is over.”
The second after the voice disappeared, Ge Xiu felt his eyes go dark.
It was as if the whole person had been pulled into the extremely deep black ice water, out of sudden all the sounds, lights and shadows were far away from him and quickly disappeared out of his mind and consciousness. One second before his consciousness disappeared, he could still feel the cold palm tightly clutching my wrist, the cold touch was like being branded on the skin, not even dispersing as he fell into coma.
It felt like only a second had passed.
It felt like a century has passed.
Ge Xiu opened his eyes suddenly, countless noisy and chaotic voices rushed towards him like a tide, and the brightly coloured pieces suddenly engulfed Ge Xiu at that moment—he was like a drowning person suddenly dragged out of the deep sea, overwhelmed by the swarming sensory perception at that moment.
Everything in front of him seemed to be spinning.
A strange sense of weightlessness took hold of him.
Ge Xiu staggered forward a few steps and stabilized his figure just before falling to the ground.
It took a full three seconds before he realized where he was.
Ge Xiu stood in the middle of the busy road.
The deafening vehicle horns rang in my ears and the entire busy intersection became extremely chaotic because of his appearance. Human voices mixed with harsh brakes echoed in the air, amidst the sharp sound of tires rubbing against the ground. From a car that braked suddenly and stopped right in front of Ge Xiu, someone rolled down the window, stuck his head out angrily and shouted: “Do you fucking have eyes—”
Ge Xiu looked up in the direction of the sound.
The driver froze, the remaining swear words abruptly stuck in his throat, he couldn’t even budge now.
Ge Xiu had completely regained clarity of mind at this moment, he lowered his head and quickly glanced at his clothes.
——The same prison uniform from the cell.
It seemed that he still maintains his original appearance.
Ge Xiu lowered his head and hurriedly walked towards the side of the road.
He didn’t want to cause too much commotion.
Especially now, when although it was somewhat over, he didn’t seem to have left the virtual world. There were too many things that are still unclear and he didn’t want to attract too much attention.
At this moment, a hand stretched out from the crowd that was gradually gathering around and grabbed Ge Xiu’s wrist:
“Hey! Over here!”
Ge Xiu turned his head and looked.
He had seen that person in the game. It was the player whose legs had been eaten. It seemed that after the game ended, his legs also returned to their original state.
Ge Xiu noticed sharply that everyone had watches of the same style on their wrists.
——And he was very sure that when he was in prison, his wrist was absolutely empty.
He didn’t resist, but let the other party pull him away from the crowd.
Soon, they came to a deserted alley.
The player stopped and turned to look at Ge Xiu: “Are you a newcomer? I remember seeing you in the game…”
— After all, such a face was really hard to forget.
He bent down, resting on his knees, he took a gulp of air and after he recovered his breath, he continued:
“You are really unlucky. Not only were you assigned to that level of difficulty on your first time, but you were also teleported back to the middle of a busy road… Although others wouldn’t notice your sudden appearance, it’s easy to get hit…”
The player wiped the sweat from his brows and straightened up:
“My name is Cheng Xiao, do you remember me?”
Ge Xiu nodded.
When the crisis was resolved, Cheng Xiao’s expression quickly relaxed.
He joked:
“It seems that after I was injured, you solved the puzzle very quickly.”
Cheng Xiao was a little curious: “However, how did you manage to find two special items in such a short time?”
Ge Xiu thought about it seriously and replied:
“Probably… just step by step.”
————————————————————————————————————————————–
The author has something to say:
Game:…? ? ? What did you say? ? ?
——————————————————————————
Ge Xiu, offering demolition services with only an axe! Quick, effective, destructive, call today!
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