Recap
Chu Shici took out the small box for collecting cards.
Chickens, dogs, monkeys and rats refer to the four types of people?
Combined with the news he heard, he felt that this world seems to be getting weirder and weirder.
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The discussion yielded no results, and Shen Xiuzhe has no intention of delving into it any further.
Even with plenty of sleep and no physical exertion, he still felt tired.
He often had the illusion of being out of breath, but once he was idle, suicidal thoughts swirled in his mind.
Last night, Shen Xiuzhe dreamed that he cut his wrists and died in the bathtub.
Everyone asked him to be strong and had high hopes for him. They were extremely disappointed with his cowardice.
His body was buried in the ground, and people at the funeral were wondering why such a brilliant person would choose to commit suicide.
There was only a strange man, who knelt in front of the tomb, crying loudly.
‘I’m sorry, I was late and couldn’t pull you out. I know you had a hard time, Ge, now you can rest.’
The man looked very familiar, but Shen Xiuzhe was sure that he had never seen him before.
The man had light blonde hair and a tattoo of a cobra on his arm. He was dressed like a hooligan, but he was very good-looking.
Shen Xiuzhe felt that this person seemed to understand him so well, and was probably a figment of his imagination.
Originally, he wanted to take a closer look at the man’s appearance and draw a portrait of him from memory.
But the little Speaker had a nightmare and was so frightened that he cried. After he was woken up by the crying, he couldn’t remember what the person had looked like.
He only remembers those clear eyes filled with watery light, and the moment when the two of them looked at each other, the feeling of his heart speeding up.
Last night he dreamed of a blond beauty, and this morning he got a bunch of messy information. Shen Xiuzhe was a little absent-minded while painting.
He was about to land his first brush stroke when he suddenly heard the hesitant voice of the little speaker.
“I don’t know much about oil painting. I don’t know much about it. But Zhe-ge, why are you painting faces in water? Isn’t this a landscape painting?”
Shen Xiuzhe’s arm suddenly stiffened.
Chu Shici stared at the painting for a long time, “Although there are only color patches, it really looks like the outline of a human face. Do you want to draw a person?”
He waited for a while but didn’t get any response.
Chu Shici looked up and saw that Shen Xiuzhe’s usually pale and bloodless face was now flushed. His hand holding the pen was trembling slightly.
Chu Shici narrowed his eyes in confusion.
Why did Zhe-ge react so intensely?
Looking at the abrupt outlines on the oil painting, and looking at Shen Xiuzhe, whose face is full of embarrassment.
He swung the charging cable and hit Shen Xiuzhe’s finger with his plug.
Fuck, he just said that Zhe-ge was not in the right state for painting today. It turned out that he was thinking about someone else!
Chu Shici pointed at the canvas, gritted his teeth and said with a smile: “Who is this? Is it Zhe-ge’s crush? Can you draw the whole picture? I really want to see what he looks like.”
Then kill him.
Shen Xiuzhe said goodbye, his tone as cold as ever, “It’s just the wrong drawing.”
Chu Shici is furious.
Anyway, it’s just a draft, this painting can still be patched up.
Shen Xiuzhe could tell that the little speaker was jealous, but he didn’t take it to heart.
He is a human being while Ah Ci is a speaker. There is an unbridgeable gap between the two of them.
When the time comes to see the Sakura Pink Princess Speaker, Ah Ci will probably stop pestering him.
Shen Xiuzhe changed the color again and continued to apply it.
Seeing that he ignored him, Chu Shici’s soul ran into the system space and began to complain to the system.
‘Zhe-ge looked so flustered just now, as if I had just exposed his heart. I am so angry.’
[…Do you think it’s appropriate to use the word ‘fluster’ to describe your husband?]
‘Why is it inappropriate? Is it okay for him to harbor feelings for another person but not okay for me to be angry with him? I’m in a bad mood right now, so I won’t praise him.’
[I have wanted to say this for a long time. Every time you complain to me about your husband, it always sounds like you are showing off your relationship. I don’t even know if I should scold him for you. Alas, it’s so hard to be a gay’s best friend.]
‘…’
[You know better than me what kind of character your husband is. Don’t think too much. Didn’t you just finish discussing his adoptive father? Maybe the person he drew is his adoptive father. Many people will be so fed up that they’ll tell you to break up at this point, if you continue feeding me this dog food every day, I might just stop shipping this CP. Want to play games, honey?]
Chu Shici was about to answer when he suddenly saw a message pop up in the background.
[The vitality value is increased by 2, and the current vitality value is -22/100.]
Chu Shici hesitated for a moment then looked outside.
Shen Xiuzhe stood in front of the canvas with a cold face, but his blush spread from his face to his neck.
The system didn’t see anything wrong. The male protagonist looked cold and domineering, but he was actually shy and introverted. He would blush whenever the host teased him, so it was used to this.
But Chu Shici can accurately pinpoint Zhe Ge’s psychological state of mind.
He observed for a while and said, “Damn, he really is falling in love!”
System: [???]
Shen Xiuzhe’s vitality was only high for a few seconds, but he soon returned to calm.
He did not continue to draw the person in his dreams. They were just characters of his imagination and would not bring any changes to his life.
He imagined a little speaker that would comfort him, and dreamed that someone would cry for him after his death.
Sometimes Shen Xiuzhe wonders if he has gone crazy.
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After lunch, Shen Xiuzhe prepared to go to bed.
The little speaker has been very quiet, as if he is still sulking.
At around three o’clock in the afternoon, noisy footsteps suddenly came from the corridor, and then the door opposite them was opened.
When Chu Shici heard the movement, he tilted his head in confusion.
Is there a new person coming over?
The moment the door was closed, he heard a man’s angry roar.
“Let me go, you are committing a crime! I am a police officer. If I disappear into thin air, the police will investigate this place! Let me warn you one last time, you are committing the crime of assaulting a police officer!”
The fat steward laughed at him loudly: “You really are bold, Officer Li. I want to see who can find out about this place. Bring the collar and put it on Officer Li!”
Chu Shici, who was still a little depressed at first, is now completely energetic.
The door was closed, and the man who claimed to be Officer Li kept banging on the door.
The fat steward opened the small window and handed over the small metal box.
“Do you see the four animals engraved on it? There are three set meals: A, B and C available every day. There is one set meal with a card randomly placed in it. After collecting all the cards, you can come to us to redeem a reward.”
The fat steward paused, lowered his voice and laughed, “Rewards includes letting you go.”
Officer Li threw the box to the ground, “You criminals will all get the punishment you deserve!”
The only answer he received was the laughter of the men.
As the elevator dinged, the group of people left this floor.
The sound of banging on the door continued to echo in the corridor for five minutes before gradually becoming quiet.
Chu Shici has a very thick filter on the police.
He ran back and forth on the table, banging the plug on the table, “Zhe-ge, it’s the police! We have hopes of getting out!”
Shen Xiuzhe ignored the little speaker. He turned over and prepared to continue sleeping.
The little speaker couldn’t get off the table by itself, so Chu Shici ran to the table and said, “Zhe-ge, do you want to talk to the police officer?”
Shen Xiuzhe didn’t respond.
“I’m just a speaker, not suitable for appearing in front of others.”
Seemingly annoyed by him, Shen Xiuzhe said calmly, “Who said he was a police officer?”
“Brother Liu in charge said it. He himself mentioned it just now.”
“Did you see the police uniform or ID?”
Chu Shici was speechless for a moment.
Shen Xiuzhe turned around and reached out for the little speaker, “You seem to like the police very much.”
Chu Shici hummed.
Shen Xiuzhe stroked the casing of the little speaker with his fingertips, “How do you know if he is a real police officer? In a place like this, how do you know if he will always be a police officer?”
“You mean he might be in cahoots with those people?”
“It’s very chaotic here, and the information is extremely limited. If his belief is not firm, he will be assimilated into this filthy environment sooner or later. Even if he has enough convictions, he may be deceived and become an accomplice unintentionally.”
Shen Xiuzhe raised the corners of his mouth and showed a sarcastic smile.
Chu Shici could tell that he was not laughing at the police or the little speaker.
He is mocking himself.
To any ordinary people imprisoned in a place like this, hearing a police officer’s voice, even if they don’t take the initiative to ask for help, will not be as vigilant as Shen Xiuzhe, and might not even question the police officer’s identity.
Chu Shici asked tentatively, “Zhe-ge, what have you encountered before?”
No one answered his question. Shen Xiuzhe was breathing steadily and seemed to have fallen asleep.
Chu Shici knew that he just didn’t want to answer.
But what Zhe-ge said makes sense. No matter what happens, being cautious and vigilant is the prerequisite for survival.
Chu Shici decided to observe for a while to see if that person really is a police officer. Even if he is, he may not be reliable.
If an upright policeman lives across their room, their chances of escaping will be much higher.
At about eight o’clock in the evening, someone knocked on the metal door.
“Mr. Shen, what set meal do you want to eat tonight?”
Shen Xiuzhe put down his brush and said, “C.”
“A set meal C for Room 3!”
The man knocked on the door opposite.
“Mr. Li, Officer Li, are you ready to eat something?”
There was silence outside the door for a few seconds, then Officer Li said coldly: “C.”
“A set meal C for Room 3!”
For a moment, Chu Shici thought he heard wrongly.
Officer Li’s reaction was the same as his, “What are you talking about? Room 3 is opposite, and you just shouted it out earlier.”
“This is room 3 too.”
The man in charge of recording the set meals pushed the cart away.
The man doesn’t shout out the set meals every day, sometimes he just keeps it in a small notebook.
The previous resident in the opposite room left too early and it has been vacant for some time.
This was the first time Chu Shici heard the room number of the opposite room.
He looked at Shen Xiuzhe in surprise, “Zhe-ge, you…”
“I have no idea.”
“Didn’t they take you to the public hall before? After leaving this room, did you observe anything outside?”
“I couldn’t. They would put handcuffs and a blindfold on me. I was dragged along the whole time and it couldn’t be taken off until I entered the public hall.”
Chu Shici tsked, feeling that there was a contradiction in this.
A person is locked in a small room alone, the metal door is closed for a long time, and the room is well soundproofed. Even if they leave for a short time, they will not be able to see where they’ve been kept.
It seems that they want to completely isolate them from the outside world and prevent them from obtaining any information.
But in this case, why did they create a public hall to provide a common space for communication?
Or should it be that the public hall was actually a trap?
They put suspicious people together for centralized surveillance. When these people gradually relax their vigilance and inadvertently reveal their true thoughts during communication, they nip the danger in the bud.
Shen Xiuzhe fell into the trap and took the risk, and was eventually blinded.
When he mentioned blindness, Chu Shici thought of another thing.
Shen Xiuzhe was motionless, as if he had fallen asleep.
Chu Shici shook the plug, hesitating whether to take the opportunity to lift the white cloth and take a look.
Whether sleeping or taking a shower, Zhe-ge never takes off that piece of cloth. Even if he changed the cloth, he would do it secretly behind his back.
He has been curious for a long time.
The plug moved upward little by little and quietly landed on the edge of the white cloth. Chu Shici took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and finally gave up.
That piece of cloth covered not only his eyes, but also the scars in Shen Xiuzhe’s heart.
Chu Shici couldn’t bear to tear Zhe-ge’s wounds open.
He suppressed his curiosity, retracted the charging cable, and wrapped it around the pale fingers in front of him again.
At the same time, a prompt popped up in the background of the system.
[The vitality value is increased by 2, and the current vitality value is -20/100.]
Chu Shici: …
Fuck, Zhe-ge is pretending to sleep? If he had really taken action just now, would he have been thrown out of bed directly?
Shen Xiuzhe is easy to talk to. He customized a special skin for the little speaker. He talks about him every day and makes him shine. Last night, the little speaker had a nightmare, and he still hugged him to comfort him.
They had been getting along so harmoniously this week, and Chu Shici thought that their relationship had at least improved from a stranger to a friend.
Unexpectedly, the little speaker was still placed on the suspicious list by Shen Xiuzhe.
Chu Shici didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.
In this environment, if Zhe-ge hadn’t been vigilant and tough enough, he would have been insulted by those scum long ago.
He just felt distressed.
Chu Shici rubbed Shen Xiuzhe’s fingertips, and when the vitality value rose to 0, Zhe-ge will truly accept him.
Only when Zhe-ge is in front of him, can he feel assured.
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Early the next morning, Chu Shici got up on time.
Last night, the system had climbed into the boss’s bed. It turned on the Do Not Disturb in the backend at around nine o’clock, and hasn’t come out of the bedroom yet.
The system was not there, Shen Xiuzhe was taking a shower in the bathroom, leaving Chu Shici alone.
He listened to the news for a while and didn’t hear anything special.
The content is the same as usual, except for the usual talk shows, where they discuss the impacts of excessive entertainment on society.
The only special news today is that someone proposed to abolish the traditional death penalty and replace it with a new penalty that can better reflect humanism.
Chu Shici was confused.
The person watching TV changed the channel, and he also switched out the mini program.
As soon as Chu Shici wrote down the news in his memo, he heard the neighbor from the opposite door shouting in a low voice: “Is there anyone else who has been locked up? If you hear this, please talk to me.”
Chu Shici is not a human being, he is just a little speaker.
Officer Li was still shouting, “There is no one in the corridor right now. Does anyone know where this place is and what is going on here?”
“Is there anyone out there?! Can anyone hear me?!”
The little speaker dangles the plug.
He heard it, but he couldn’t speak.
Without waiting for a response, Officer Li gave up shouting and continued to pound his fist on the metal door.
When Zhe-ge came out of the shower, Chu Shici told him what had just happened.
Shen Xiuzhe pursed his lips, “With a corridor separating us, no one knows what is going on there. There is no possibility of escape in the room, so there is no point in contacting him now.”
Chu Shici thought for a moment, “But if the public hall is also a trap, isn’t it a dead end now?”
This sentence brought back Shen Xiuzhe’s memories, and he didn’t say a word.
A lot of clues have been collected, and it’s time to prepare a report.
As soon as Chu Shici ran into the space to borrow a computer, he found that the system was back. Now he is lying on the sofa with a worn-out look on his face, with a chocolate bar in his mouth.
Chu Shici looked at it up and down, “One cigarette afterwards, will you be as happy as a god?”
System held the chocolate bar and sighed sadly.
[Happy for fart, when we got to bed last night, I realized that my boss is also a fucking 0. We laid side by side and waited for a long time. Then it asked me if I wanted to do it.]
‘Fuck?’
[I’ve taken all the medicine, what else can I do! Damn it, I did it for love, the more I think about it, the more I lose. I’m warning you, don’t mess with me, I’m very irritable now! I got some news, and I will tell you when I’ve calmed down.]
The system kicked over the chair: [Fuck! What I thought was a sure-win deal turned out to end with me, gritting my teeth and becoming a 1. Damn it! Truly wasted!]
Chu Shici: …
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Update: Tomorrow~
- After becoming enemies with the lord god
- Blog
- Completed
- Don't talk to me!
- Dropped
- Ghost Marriage
- Hunger Academy
- I opened a safe house in the Infinite Stream
- Notices
- Ongoing
- The Dragon Lord is Weak and Helpless but Has a Big Appetite [Interstellar]
- Want to ascend? Then fall in love.
- What can I do, I'm not human.
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