Chen Siyu's meaning was too obvious, almost like a blatant hint.
Brother Lou didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but Chen Siyu's messages came one after another, and his phone vibrated frequently.
It turns out that Chen Siyu is just as unreasonable as his female boss!
Brother Lou finally couldn't stand it anymore and picked up his phone angrily to reject her directly. But what he didn't expect was that Chen Siyu suddenly sent him a photo.
Has Chen Siyu realized that talking alone is useless and is ready to take action?
Brother Lou thought about it as he opened it without any expectation. After all, he remembered that Chen Siyu had a skinny figure, and the photo of her probably wasn't worth looking at.
I can only say that Chen Siyu is too confident. She actually thinks she can impress him with just a photo...
However, after the photo was loaded, Brother Lou's pupils shrank suddenly.
That is indeed a pretty revealing photo.
The background of the photo was not a dim dormitory as Brother Lou thought, but instead looked like a staff lounge.
A woman leaned against the cabinet where the coffee machine was placed, her head hanging weakly to the side. Even though Brother Lou's medical level was not even as good as a certain degree, he knew that the woman's cervical vertebra looked like it was broken by force.
The woman's body was also covered with scars. Most of her flesh had been cut off, revealing large pieces of bones, while some of the flesh was tightly connected by skin.
No matter how you look at it, the other person doesn't look like he is still alive.
Brother Lou was sure that this was Chen Siyu.
Because he hated his female boss, when he saw Chen Siyu, who looked similar to him, he deliberately looked at her several more times, so he was particularly familiar with Chen Siyu's appearance and figure.
Judging from the abundant light in the photo, it was obviously taken in the afternoon. Manager Tang was always demanding, so Brother Lou quickly ruled out the possibility that it was during their working hours, and soon locked the time to when they had just met.
But if Chen Siyu was already dead at that time, then who would be following them now...
Brother Lou noticed that this photo of Chen Siyu was taken from a different angle, which meant there was another person at the time... No, it was a ghost at the scene.
After all, only a ghost could kill Chen Siyu and then disguise himself as her.
Now think about it, they were divided into different rooms. When he first met Chen Siyu, she also came out of the employee lounge and took the initiative to greet him after seeing him.
Now it seems that the real Chen Siyu was probably killed and replaced by a ghost the moment she was teleported here...
This idea successfully made Brother Lou break out in a cold sweat.
Because the other party's death was too horrible, Brother Lou almost screamed out loud when he saw the photo for the first time, but he managed to swallow it back. After all, the male players were assigned to different dormitories. Although he was lucky enough to be assigned to the staff dormitory with only two people, the other person who stayed with him at this time was a real employee.
If the noise attracted the other party, he would have to find an excuse to explain.
But why did the other party suddenly send this photo to me...
Brother Lou realized that the ghost disguised as Chen Siyu was going to attack him.
Sure enough, in Lou Ge's peripheral vision, the screen of his phone was already changing -
The corpse's head, which was originally hanging down, suddenly lifted up, revealing a face that also looked like it had been cut by a sharp weapon, with the skin and flesh turned inside out. Judging from the remaining features, it was indeed Chen Siyu.
And now she moved.
The joints of the corpse seemed to be rusted and not flexible, but Chen Siyu's movements were not slow. Brother Lou had just recovered from holding his breath when he saw the corpse suddenly raise his head. When he looked up again, he found that the face had occupied most of the screen. The hair was stuck together by blood, and his figure was reflected in the eyes that were already covered with a layer of death. If it weren't for the phone screen blocking it, the corpse would have been face to face with him.
However, the mobile phone screen obviously could not really block the opponent. Chen Siyu's body also noticed this barrier and punched the glass directly, and cracks appeared on the screen instantly.
The "click" sound was particularly noticeable in the quiet dormitory. Another person who was sleeping also heard the sound and sat up from the bed, half asleep and half awake: "What's that sound?"
"Did you drop the glass?"
The other party's voice woke up Brother Lou, who was still in fear. He subconsciously threw the phone at the man, then turned around and ran towards the door.
The voice of the person behind me was still coming intermittently. When he was hit by the phone at the beginning, he cried out in pain: "Hey, what did you take...a phone?!"
"building……"
His voice soon stopped, and was replaced by a "ho ho" sound as if he was out of breath.
Brother Lou naturally heard it too.
Even without turning his head, he could already imagine the scene behind him——
The half-bone hand had already come out from the broken screen, and grabbed the man's neck without warning, squeezing out the last bit of air left in his chest. Because of the difficulty in breathing, the man's bloodshot eyeballs should have bulged out, and his face turned the color of liver, but no matter how he struggled and begged for mercy, it was useless.
Brother Lou had also encountered a situation where a player turned into a ghost after death and came back to look for other players, but the threat was relatively small, and he left after killing one person. Although he knew that Chen Siyu might also leave after killing the employee like before, he still wanted to go find Yan Shen for safety reasons.
Knowing that it was dangerous at night, after learning that the dormitories were separate, he, Qin Taiyang and Andre naturally had the idea of ​​staying in the same dormitory with each other, but they were forced back by Yan Shen's aura.
But now he has important information, so he thinks Yan Shen should show some leniency.
It was late at night and the corridor was very quiet, with only the sound of him running quickly.
But soon Brother Lou heard another voice——
Click. Click.
This sound...
Brother Lou realized something.
He turned his head and took a look, and the next second he directly rushed out a family tree. I thought Chen Siyu would leave after killing the employee, but I don’t know whether the other party did not kill anyone at all, or was still not satisfied after killing someone, and actually chased after him again.
And the crackling sounds were the sounds of Chen Siyu's joints.
The corpse's movement was already fast, and after hearing Brother Lou greeting her relatives, it moved even faster.
The corpse's fingernailless hand almost grabbed his shoulder several times. After Brother Lou passed the corpse for a distance, he took advantage of the other party's blind spot and casually pushed open the door of a dormitory and hid inside, then observed outside through the air vent on the door.
He thought he was careful enough, but he didn't expect a low voice to sound behind him -
"Brother Lou?"
It was Qin Taiyang's voice.
Qin Taiyang and Andre lived in the same dormitory, and they had agreed to take turns keeping watch, and now it was Qin Taiyang's turn.
Since he had been nervous since entering the dungeon, and was worried that it would be his turn to keep watch soon, Qin Taiyang did not fall asleep much and was still a little sleepy.
He was paying attention to doors and windows, places where ghosts could easily enter, and unexpectedly he witnessed a dark shadow sneaking in.
He saw clearly through the moonlight through the window that it was Brother Lou, so he realized something was wrong and subconsciously moved forward and called out.
When he felt Qin Taiyang's warm body , Brother Lou was relieved. However, he didn't have time to explain to Qin Taiyang. He could only make a quiet gesture before he could speak again, and then looked at the window again.
At this time, Qin Taiyang finally woke up completely, realized what was happening in front of him, and stopped talking.
After a long while, Brother Lou finally turned his head to look at Qin Taiyang, and then spoke.
"Then Brother Lou told me what happened, and I realized that Chen Siyu was actually a ghost..." Qin Taiyang said while looking at the player in front of him.
Because he had discovered that Chen Siyu did not leave like before after killing someone, Brother Lou was particularly careful this time. In order to prevent the body from being discovered again, and because the running just now had consumed a lot of his energy, Brother Lou decided to wait in the dormitory for a while.
They waited until the sun appeared, and only when they heard some movement did they finally open the door and go out.
Brother Lou was going to look for Yan Shen as planned, but he didn't expect to run into female players one after another as soon as he went out.
But fortunately, there are only Qiao Yuan and Fei.
When leaving the room, Aning also continued her behavior of not wanting to stay in the same space with Fei, so she deliberately dragged Chen Siyu behind her. Therefore, Qiao Yuan and Fei left the room first and prepared to find other players.
Qiao Yuan was still thinking about the clues of the mission, while Fei frowned, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Brother Lou only wanted to tell Yan Shen the news. Qin Taiyang did not set any threshold for the people who heard the news, and soon told the second-hand news to Qiao Yuan who noticed something was wrong and followed him.
"ghost?"
Sheng Guiye's voice rang out.
His room and Yan Shen's room were close, so the two of them kept their distance and walked out one after the other.
Sheng Guiye just happened to catch what Brother Lou said. Although he didn't know what had happened, his first reaction was to walk towards Qiao Yuan, looking at him nervously to make sure if Qiao Yuan was okay.
Brother Lou walked forward quickly and told Yan Shen what he knew anxiously: "There has always been a ghost hiding among us..."
Looking at Yan Shen's expressionless face, just looking at him coldly, Brother Lou realized that the other party probably didn't believe what he said.
Words were not enough, so he decided to take Yan Shen back to the dormitory where he stayed last night. After all, he had left his phone there in order to escape.
Qiao Yuan and others naturally followed.
Led by Brother Lou, they walked towards each other's dormitories.
Brother Lou was so nervous when he ran away that he forgot to close the door. As soon as they approached the door, they smelled a foul odor.
Even though Brother Lou, who was walking in front and leading the way, had already imagined the situation in the dormitory, he still subconsciously took a few steps back when he saw it.
A man was lying on the upper bunk in the dormitory.
It was a man who looked quite young. His neck was like a flattened plastic straw, with only a circle of purple marks on it. His face was purple, and he had a terrified expression with his mouth wide open. He had obviously died at that moment.
And his resentful gaze was always on Brother Lou.
Brother Lou gritted his teeth and went to look for his cell phone.
He originally thought that the phone should be in the corpse's hand or on the upper bunk, but after searching around he didn't see it.
Brother Lou was stunned, sweat dripping down his forehead: "Strange, where is my phone?"
Although he didn't turn his head, he could sense Yan Shen's increasingly impatient gaze when it fell on him, so he quickly quickened his actions.
After enduring the stench and searching the room, I still couldn't find any trace of the phone.
"Could it be that the corpse took the phone away..." Brother Lou just said, and quickly denied his previous words: "No, it didn't take anything when it chased me..."
The incident of being chased by a corpse happened last night, and Brother Lou couldn't forget it even if he wanted to. Although he only took a quick glance at it at the time, he was sure that he had seen it thoroughly.
Just as Brother Lou was thinking about where the phone might be, his eyes fell on the slightly bulging belly of the corpse: "His belly..."
Although Brother Qin had not paid much attention to his roommate before, he knew that he was too young to have a beer belly.
Could it be that...
As soon as he finished speaking, a figure stopped in front of him and pulled the body on the upper bunk down like lightning.
The corpse fell heavily to the ground, splashing dust all over the floor. Then the man took out a folding fruit knife from his pocket and stabbed the corpse directly.
With a sound like tearing cloth, the sharp blade pierced through the flesh.
The other party exerted a little force on his wrist, and the flesh on the corpse's abdomen was like a blooming petal, extending to both sides along the incision. He moved the knife and directly picked out a mobile phone with a broken screen from the deformed organ. With his other hand, he held a clean handkerchief and caught the phone.
His movements were smooth, as if he was an artist splashing ink on rice paper. When he was done, he wiped the dagger clean and put it away.
Everything happened so fast that Brother Lou could only call out the name at this moment: "Yan, Yan Shen!"
His eyes fell on the phone in 's hand: "Yes, this is my phone, how come it is here..."
Brother Lou paused, then quickly thought of something and said anxiously, "I know, it must be that ghost who wanted to destroy the body..."
However, Yan Shen did not show any intention of responding. He lowered his head, opened his mobile phone and checked the chat history.
Qiao Yuan had guessed that the phone was in the corpse's stomach. She wanted to go forward and take the phone, but Yan Shen got there first. However, this was convenient for her, so Qiao Yuan finally chose to go forward and check the situation, while Sheng Guiye followed closely behind her.
Yan Shen also felt Qiao Yuan approaching.
Qiao Yuan could feel that the other person tensed up the moment she approached him, and his eyes were fixed on her. But when she looked up from the corner of her eye, she found that he had already withdrawn his gaze, as if everything was just her illusion.
Just as Brother Lou described, there were indeed chat records with Chen Siyu on the phone, as well as a photo of a corpse. The person in the photo was indeed Chen Siyu.
"So that ghost is Chen Siyu?" Thinking of the fact that Chen Siyu and Qiao Yuan had lived in the same dormitory before, Sheng Guiye couldn't help but frown.
Fortunately, Qiao Yuan is fine.
Because the stench in the dormitory was getting stronger and stronger, and there was a dead body next to it that was forced to expose its chest and abdomen, the few of them went outside to the corridor.
Although it was not the first time Qin Taiyang had seen a corpse, the stench still made him feel sick and he hid aside and retched. Brother Lou was standing aside, excitedly telling Yan Shen that Chen Siyu was a ghost.
Andre woke up early in the morning and found Qin Taiyang was not there. He looked puzzled and came over. He looked around and saw Fei and Qiao Yuan. He asked Fei where Aning was. Seeing Fei didn't speak, he raised his voice subconsciously and reached out to shake Fei's shoulder: "Why don't you speak?"
"I told you that you can be mad at me, but Aning is innocent, so where is she? Or did you do something?"
The one who finally answered him was Qiao Yuan.
Qiao Yuan also heard the noise coming from Fei and Andre. She noticed that Fei pursed his lips and his eyes were a little dazed.
She realized that Fei didn't want to answer, but he couldn't open his mouth.
After all, it was the first time for the other party to enter the copy. Just this morning, he was caught off guard by seeing the miserable corpses and photos. He must have been in a state of tension and torment, and was just subconsciously holding on.
And Andre's almost interrogative attitude also made her look more painful.
After hearing Qiao Yuan's words, Andre's attention shifted away from Fei.
As soon as she found out that Aning was with Chen Siyu, she heard Sheng Guiye's words and instantly became nervous: "What? Isn't Aning in danger?"
Qiao Yuan: "I don't think she is a ghost."
Although Chen Siyu was indeed looking at her phone last night, she still remembered how lively she was when she complained about her boss. The hatred she felt so much that she wanted to die together with her boss and superiors was so real. It was impossible for her to act like a ghost, which seemed superficial to her.
After all, she had only heard of office animals, but not office ghosts.
However, Qiao Yuan's reason obviously could not convince Brother Lou, after all, he saw it with his own eyes. Therefore, Brother Lou ignored Qiao Yuan at all, but still looked at Yan Shen with nervous eyes, obviously trusting the other party's judgment more.
But as soon as his eyes fell on Yan Shen, Brother Lou's pupils suddenly shrank: "She's here..."
Everyone followed Brother Lou's gaze and saw Chen Siyu and Aning walking over. Aning was talking to Chen Siyu without noticing anything until she heard Andre calling her name anxiously, then she turned around.
After seeing Andre, her eyes lit up, and she quickly left Aning and ran towards Andre.
Chen Siyu also subconsciously wanted to join the main group, but she found that just as she was about to walk over, several players subconsciously took a few steps back.
Brother Lou's reaction was even worse. His face turned pale and he stared at her closely, as if he was looking at some dangerous person.
Chen Siyu frowned: "...What's wrong with you?"
Because of Yan Shen's presence, Brother Lou no longer had to feel fear. He also didn't want a ghost to stay by his side any longer, so he said directly, "Stop pretending, we already know your true identity."
"You are the ghost."
Chen Siyu was startled and pointed at herself: "Me?"
Brother Lou: "Are you still pretending? I showed everyone the photos you sent on WeChat last night..."
After hearing the WeChat message, Chen Siyu's expression finally changed: "What are you talking about? Although I did send you a WeChat message last night, wanting to ask you how you convinced Manager Tang, I didn't send you a photo."
"You didn't reply to me later..."
Brother Lou did not believe Chen Siyu's words, after all, he had seen everything that happened with his own eyes.
The most important thing is that the ghost disguised as Chen Siyu also mentioned some things that only the players knew last night.
Although Chen Siyu had not heard the details before, she finally understood why Brother Lou was so wary of her. Judging from the expressions of other players, many players had obviously believed what Brother Lou said. Even Aning, who had been close to her and had always stayed with her, looked at her with a look of horror after hearing what Brother Lou said.
Seeing that she was about to become the target of public criticism, Chen Siyu hurriedly said, "Wait, since you haven't replied to me, I'm too tired to stare at my phone at night, so I turned off my phone and stayed up all night. Aning can testify for me!"
"Right, Aning, you were on guard with me at that time, so you should have seen when I turned off the screen of my phone, right?"
Aning suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention and said fearfully, "No...I didn't notice."
As Chen Siyu spoke, she hurriedly took out her cell phone, not caring about privacy at this moment, and directly showed the screen to everyone.
After noticing Chen Siyu approaching, Qin Taiyang stopped retching and became alert. But after seeing the chat records that Chen Siyu held up, he couldn't help but be stunned: "Why are there two chat records..."
Qiao Yuan also saw Chen Siyu's chat history, which was almost the same as Brother Qin's. The only difference was that Chen Siyu did send a lot of WeChat messages, but Brother Lou never responded. On Brother Qin's side, Chen Siyu sent a photo of a corpse.
After seeing these two chat records, Qiao Yuan’s guess was finally verified.
Brother Lou responded quickly: "WeChat can delete chat records, not to mention that you are a ghost, it is easy for you to do this."
Chen Siyu was also completely angry: "Then I said you were a ghost!"
"If you were a ghost, you could also forge the chat records with me..."
Brother Lou regarded Chen Siyu's words as a weak rebuttal and immediately turned to look at Yan Shen beside him: "No matter what, we can't let it continue to follow us."
"I have the simplest way..."
That is to kill the .
He couldn't do it, but Yan Shen in front of him could definitely do it, so he spoke frankly and gave his advice.
Although Brother Lou hadn't finished his words, Chen Siyu had already understood what he meant. She screamed with horror in her eyes, "I really am not..."
"Chen Siyu is not a ghost." Qiao Yuan's voice sounded again.
Brother Lou didn't expect Qiao Yuan to speak again, so he was a little annoyed for a moment: "I'm talking to Yan Shen..."
"She is not a ghost." This time it was Yan Shen's voice that sounded.
Brother Lou was stunned: "But, but..."
Chen Siyu's eyes lit up: "Brother Lou lied, he is the ghost!"
Now it was Brother Lou who was anxious to explain.
Qiao Yuan: "You are not ghosts, but the ghosts played tricks on you."
"This ghost is really scheming..."
According to Qiao Yuan, this ghost deliberately picked a photo of Chen Siyu after she turned off her phone, and then sent a fake photo of Chen Siyu through her WeChat, making Brother Lou mistakenly believe that it was sent by Chen Siyu.
The other party obviously made preparations for both situations.
If Brother Lou died, they would also find the cell phone in his stomach and suspect Chen Siyu. They would either drive her out, as Chen Siyu, who was left alone, might not survive; or they would kill Chen Siyu, who was still a player, and everyone would fail the mission and be wiped out.
In order to make it look like the man was destroying the body out of guilt, the other party chose to hide the phone in the belly of the corpse even though he could have destroyed it. His careful planning was fully exposed.
If Brother Lou hadn't died, the current situation of the two fighting each other would not have happened. In any case, there would be a rift between the internal hearts, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone.
An ordinary ghost can only kill one person in one night, but if this ghost's method is successful, it can completely kill two people, and even lead to the destruction of all players.
This method is indeed good, and Qiao Yuan decided to keep it in mind in case it might be useful someday.
She sighed in her heart that there were teachers everywhere in the copy, and she didn't know which teacher had assigned the test paper this time.
No one else had any idea what Qiao Yuan was thinking while he was explaining.
After Qiao Yuan finished speaking, Yan Shen did not say anything, as if he agreed with her words.
Brother Lou and others also realized that what Qiao Yuan said was right, and they all broke out in cold sweats.
Qin Taiyang rubbed his arms subconsciously, trying to warm himself with his own hands: "This is too scary..."
He now finally understood why the system asked them to complete the task earlier. The first night was so terrible, and he didn't know what they would do next.
"But why were these two chosen?" Fei asked.
Qiao Yuan looked at Fei encouragingly: "Good question."
She was just about to ask and answer the question herself, but she didn't expect Fei to raise it first.
Fei was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips. A thin layer of red appeared on his face, which was particularly obvious against his porcelain-white skin.
Qiao Yuan: "I think it's because of Manager Tang."
"Although the ghost has the probability of randomly selecting people, there is a common premise for Brother Lou and Chen Siyu to be selected this time - they have both been formally warned by Manager Tang."
Qin Taiyang: "So Manager Tang is a ghost?"
Qiao Yuan: “I don’t know.”
After all, she didn't have much contact with Manager Tang, but she just felt that there was a connection between the two. It was obviously better to wait and see for now.
But no matter what, the misunderstanding between Brother Lou and Chen Siyu was finally resolved.
Chen Siyu had already planted the seeds of resentment towards Brother Lou, but she couldn't get angry in front of the rules and other people, so she snorted coldly: "I said I'm not a ghost."
Although Brother Lou felt embarrassed, his pride did not allow him to apologize to Chen Siyu, so he said in a timid tone, "I didn't expect this ghost to be so cunning."
"And Manager Tang..."
"What's wrong with me?" A deep middle-aged male voice sounded behind Brother Lou, causing him to subconsciously turn his head and look. He saw that the person he was talking about just now was standing behind him, staring at him with a pair of bull eyes, as if waiting for Brother Lou's next words: "Speak!"
Brother Lou glanced at Yan Shen from the corner of his eye, and after finding that the other party showed no signs of taking action, he said, "Good morning, Manager Tang."
Manager Tang grumbled and then sent everyone out to work.
The audience in the live broadcast room also had a panoramic view of what was happening before their eyes and knew exactly what was happening.
[Damn, I really thought Chen Siyu was dead]
[How is that possible? You must not have carefully watched the comments just now. Didn’t someone search Chen Siyu’s live broadcast room and found that she was still broadcasting normally? Doesn’t that mean she is not a ghost?]
[My worry is different from the one above. I am worried that Qiao Yuan and the others have been deceived by this ghost.]
[Indeed, this ghost is much smarter than the ones I encountered before. I think if I were there, I would definitely choose to side with Brother Lou.]
[To be on the safe side, I will kick both Brother Lou and Chen Siyu out]
Some players subconsciously put themselves in the shoes of what they would do in the dungeon, while others focused on Qiao Yuan and Yan Shen.
[Luckily Yan Shen and Qiao Yuan both saw it]
[I feel like Sister Qiao figured it out before Yan Shen. Before she even saw the phone, Sister Qiao had already said that Chen Siyu was not a ghost.]
[? So what? I would also subconsciously say at the scene that she couldn't possibly be a ghost, after all, Chen Siyu had been with her yesterday]
[Yan Shen must have had this guess, but he just hasn't found any definite evidence to support his idea yet]
[But Qiao is willing to explain the following things first]
[Yan Shen usually doesn’t bother to talk, so to be precise, it wasn’t Qiao Yuan who explained, but Yan Shen who gave her this opportunity, otherwise how could she perform?]