Recap
This is not reality, this is a virtual prison.
The police did rescue everyone back then, but ‘Shen Xiuzhe’ was sent in again.
The appearance of the police now means that the main plot of the prison has ended and a new cycle is about to begin.
Due to the main plot’s constraint, the prison staff are not present for the time being.
Shen Xiuzhe broke free from the policeman and turned towards the opposite Room 3.
The police officers automatically generated by data are not smart enough and will only follow the set route.
They didn’t seem to notice that the victim had left at all, and still kept moving forward while supporting air.
Shen Xiuzhe walked to Room 3, put his hands against the metal door, and rested his forehead against the door. There was an uncontrollable tremor in his voice when he spoke.
“Ah Ci, wait for me to come back.”
You are mine and no one can take you away. Not even if it’s my other self.
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The metal door was soundproof, but Shen Xiuzhe said it next to the door.
Shen Chengan happened to be standing beside the door, holding the small speaker close to the metal door, and heard Shen Xiuzhe’s words clearly.
Chu Shici clearly felt Shen Chengan tighten his hold around him, as if he wanted to crush the small speaker and stuff it into his body, making it his own completely.
Ten minutes later, movements outside the door faded, and the entire room fell into a deathly silence.
Chu Shici was held up in front of Shen Chengan. One person and one box were so close that they were almost touching.
Looking at the face that looked exactly like his husband, Chu Shici was slightly dazed.
The corners of Shen Chengan’s mouth raised, revealing a slightly perverted smile.
Zhe-ge had never smiled like this before, and Chu Shici suddenly shook himself out of his stupor.
Pale fingertips caressed the casing, and the man’s tone when he spoke made people feel goosebumps.
“He called you Ah Ci?”
“His voice is so gentle. He sounds like he likes you very much? So you two really are lovers. The other me actually fell in love with a speaker?”
No matter what he said, Chu Shici remained silent and pretended that he was just a speaker.
After Shen Chengan finished speaking, he bit his lower lip. He would do this every time he was deep in thought.
Chu Shici has seen it many times.
After a while, Shen Chengan came up close and seemed to want to kiss the small speaker. When his lips were about to touch the casing, he turned away in disgust.
Chu Shici heard him whisper, ‘Freak.’
After being together for so long, he has already seen Shen Chengan’s obsession deep in his heart.
Whatever Shen Xiuzhe has, he wants it too. Whatever Shen Xiuzhe has done, he wants to do it too.
But he can’t, at least he can’t force himself on a speaker.
Chu Shici didn’t think Zhe-ge was a freak. They are a speaker and an artificial person. They are both not human beings, so why can’t they fall in love?
Wait, Zhe-ge seems to be a real person?
Chu Shici was silent for a second and felt relieved instantly.
Wouldn’t it be better to be a real person? Interspecies romance can be very sweet too.
Chu Shici had been pretending to be a real speaker and did not show any special care to Shen Chengan.
He just pretended to have triggered the voice activation once when Shen Chengan had hurt himself so badly to the point where he was covered in blood, kneeling down and groaning in pain. With one or two simple words, he successfully pulled him out of his inner world.
It was partly out of sympathy, partly out of fear that he would lose control and kill himself.
As a person with normal habits, Shen Chengan finally gave up imitating Shen Xiuzhe, thinking that he was not so crazy as to touch a small box in that way.
The more Chu Shici observed, the more he felt that he was a very contradictory person.
Shen Chengan hated this body and hated himself who looked exactly like Shen Xiuzhe.
But he will try his best to imitate Shen Xiuzhe and occupy what belongs to Shen Xiuzhe.
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After a while, Shen Chengan began to pace back and forth in the room, he pursed his lips several times and made a sad crying expression, but tears did not fall.
He plugged the small speaker’s charging cable into the socket and whispered in a low voice, “Classmate Ah Ci.”
Chu Shici replied blankly: “I am here.”
“Is there any way to quickly cry?”
“Thinking of sad things should help you.”
Shen Chengan worked hard for another long time, and finally cursed in a low voice, “How can he cry so much?!”
After saying that, he turned around and entered the bathroom, wetted the white cloth with some water on his fingertips, and then put some water on his face, pretending that he was crying.
Chu Shici was a little confused.
How did he know that Zhe-ge cries easily?
After completing these series of actions, Shen Chengan went back to bed and lay down. Holding the small speaker in his arms and covering his head with the quilt.
Two minutes later, footsteps were heard again in the corridor.
The metal door was opened and when Chu Shici heard the movement, he peeked out through the gap in the quilt.
The fat steward led his men into the room. They walked around and inspected the room carefully. Finally, he walked to the bed and stretched out his hand to pull back the quilt.
The man on the bed remained motionless, letting the fat steward turn him over. Seeing the ‘tear stains’ on his face, the fat steward took back his hand with satisfaction.
Immediately afterwards, he did something Chu Shici did not expect.
The fat steward signaled all his men to go out, walked to the table, and picked up the inconspicuous Bluetooth speaker.
After turning it over for a while, he skillfully opened the base and pulled out a black object the size of a mahjong tile. The thickness is much thinner than a mahjong tile, about one-third the size.
Seeing this, an object flashed in Chu Shici’s mind: the black box.
The fat steward has a very well-thought out plan.
He knew that Shen Xiuzhe treasured his smart speaker and had no interest in other things and would not carefully look at the Bluetooth speaker he sent.
The most important thing is that no one told Shen Xiuzhe what the black box looked like. How big and heavy is it and what characteristics it has.
Shen Xiuzhe is blind. Even if he found the black box in the Bluetooth speaker, he couldn’t figure out what it was with just his sense of touch.
The black box literally meant a black box. If he touched a small and thin object, he would just think it was a fallen part from the speaker.
Shen Xiuzhe has a lot of limits imposed on him here, and the focus of Shen Chengan, Dr. Sun and others are in other more suspicious places.
The fat steward has really mastered the art of hiding in plain sight.
Under Chu Shici’s gaze, the fat steward pressed some buttons on the black box, and a virtual screen was projected.
There were several videos, each with a different main character.
Sister Qiu, who was pretending to be calm, but her body couldn’t stop trembling.
Teacher Hao, who looked wide-eyed into the camera in horror, collapsed on the ground and was shouting out.
Xiao Jinzi, whose face was full of tears, was treated like a piece of merchandise, her chin was pinched by a rough hand off camera. There is no sound in the video, but through the shape of her mouth, it can be inferred that the man in front of her should be her former rich second-generation boyfriend.
The few people Chu Shici met in the public hall only accounted for a small part of the video. There are many more people that he has never seen before.
The fat steward did not finish watching the video. He fast-forwarded through a few clips. After confirming that the contents in the black box were not damaged, he put the black box back.
But in just a few clips, more than twenty victims appeared.
In those clips, those people were treated like pets waiting for selection, carelessly held and tossed around. There was a very cute boy who was so frightened that he cried. Because he cried, he was rejected by the customer who originally liked him and became a spare chicken.
Chu Shici felt coldness spread through his heart.
The child looked to be twelve or thirteen years old at most.
The world in this novel only imposes moral values on adults. From the very start, the state has never imposed punishments on minors based on their moral values.
The boy did not go to a moral school.
He may be just like the little girl that Officer Li always wanted to protect, but without the protection of his parents, he was quietly abducted.
Or, like Shen Xiuzhe, he might be betrayed by the people around him. For various selfish desires, he was stuffed into the holographic cabin.
Chu Shici sighed sadly.
As long as there are interests, people will have desires, and the dark side of human nature will gradually be revealed. If people are able to suppress these desires, this might not have happened the way it did.
But the absurd farce created by this world allowed all sins to find a noble and justifiable reason. If they are able to peel off this outer skin of ‘justice’, they will see the mountain of corpses already piled up underneath.
Chu Shici was just a passerby, and the only thing he could do was to help rescue the remaining people who are still struggling in this predicament.
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The fat steward also placed the black box in its original place, it was as if he was not afraid of Shen Chengan knowing about it.
He checked the person on the bed again, and after making sure there was nothing wrong with him, he opened the door and left.
The metal door closed again and the footsteps gradually faded away.
Shen Chengan sat up from the bed suddenly, put the small speaker aside, and got out of bed to get the Bluetooth speaker.
He moved too quickly and the small speaker was too close to the bed. As he stood up, it fell to the ground with a thud.
Hearing the sound, Shen Chengan paused. After figuring out what it was, he ignored it.
The distance between the bed and the ground is quite high for a small speaker. Chu Shici, who was thinking about life, fell hard before he could react.
The speaker seemed to be dented in a corner. He waited for a long time, but no one turned him back over.
Looking at the familiar figure at the table, Chu Shici suddenly felt a little disappointed.
The thoughts deep in his heart came out, and he began to miss Zhe-ge.
On the side, Shen Chengan pried open the Bluetooth speaker, turned it over and felt around for a while, and successfully took out the black box.
This victory came so suddenly. Chu Shici came back to his senses with a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
Knowing that the hearing of blind people is sharper than that of ordinary people, he has to know that Shen Chengan was fully conscious, yet, he took out the black box blatantly and put it back again.
How could such a shrewd person like the fat steward make such an obvious mistake?
Chu Shici intuitively felt that this was a trap, but Shen Chengan seemed to be dazed by their sudden victory. After confirming that this was the black box, he thought for a moment and put it directly into his pocket.
This is too impulsive.
Chu Shici kept looking at the metal door, and his heartbeat gradually accelerated due to anticipation.
Shen Xiuzhe didn’t know what a black box was, only Shen Chengan knew this.
If opening the Bluetooth speaker up is a trap deliberately set by the fat steward, then Shen Chengan’s actions at this time are tantamount to directly exposing the secret of his and Shen Xiuzhe’s identity swap.
The cycle has just begun, a single night has yet to pass.
There are only a few staff members in the prison, and the rats inserted by the note man have not yet appeared. Most of the people in Dr. Sun’s camp are not placed in the prison, they have no internal assistance.
If the fat steward notices and kills Shen Chengan, no one will be able to stop him. When the time comes, not only will something happen to Shen Chengan, but Shen Xiuzhe will also be in danger.
Zhe-ge was not around, Tong-ge is helpless.Chu Shici does not have anyone with whom he could discuss.
He was in a hurry. Seeing that Shen Chengan was about to go back to bed, he was ready to give up pretending to be just a simple speaker and directly remind him.
Just when he was about to blurt out, Chu Shici looked at Shen Chengan’s slightly crazed expression, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.
Those details that he ignored were pieced together with the clues to form a complete puzzle.
Chu Shici’s pupils shrank and he looked at Shen Chengan in shock.
He closed his mouth tightly and kept his breathing very low.
Shen Chengan came over, picked up the small speaker and took him to bed.
He leaned his back against the wall and ran his fingers back and forth on the small speaker.
The face that looked exactly like Zhe-ge showed a smile that was very unfamiliar to Chu Shici.
A chill ran down his spine and he simply went straight into the system space.
The elevator dinged, and someone entered this floor. The footsteps echoed in the corridor from far away, approaching Room 3 step by step.
The system is also anxious, [It’s over, it’s over! It seems like someone is here, Ah Ci, please remind him to put his things back!]
Chu Shici’s expression was very calm, but upon closer inspection, there was a hint of uneasiness that could not be concealed. He took a deep breath and raised his hands to cover his face.
[Ah Ci?]
‘This is not a trap for Shen Chengan, it’s for me. This is a trap. Tong-ge, we have all been deceived.’
Before he finished speaking, the metal door was pushed open.
The fat steward came back. He walked straight to the bed and looked at Shen Chengan condescendingly.
“How is it? Have you found out what exactly it is that has been helping him secretly?”
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T/N: dundundun…
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