Recap
Looking at the pink paper and the gaudy patterns on it, he suddenly had a bad feeling.
Shen Xiuzhe dried the paper and wrote a “Shen” square in the center.
He applied glue to the paper, grabbed the little speaker that was about to run away, and fumbled to stick it to his body.
Forced to put on a new skin, Chu Shici sighed.
Zhe-ge has become a great artist, but his aesthetics have not changed one bit.
Seeing that Shen Xiuzhe was about to speak, Chu Shici quickly blocked his mouth with his charging plug, “That’s enough, Zhe-ge, don’t call me Xiaobai, Xiaofen or Fang Fang. My name is Ah Ci!”
Shen Xiuzhe: …?
Why does he say that? Because he knows.
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Whether Chu Shici wanted it or not, the new skin had already been put on.
Fortunately, Zhe-ge in this world has the attributes of a great artist. No matter how strange his aesthetic is, the things he draws casually are still beautiful.
Shen Xiuzhe couldn’t appreciate his masterpiece. He touched the white cloth that covered his eyes, and there was a trace of regret on his usually expressionless face.
Chu Shici, who had always been curious, raised his head and asked, “Zhe-ge, do you like the colour pink?”
Shen Xiuzhe pressed on the paper hard to prevent it from falling off.
Hearing this, he raised his head slightly and voiced a simple “en”.
“Then why do you only wear black, white and gray clothes?”
“I tried on a pink shirt once, but the color was too eye-catching and didn’t suit me.”
“Then why did you use the colour pink for me?”
Shen Xiuzhe was silent for a moment, then reached out and tapped the little speaker, “You are very cute, and the color pink goes well with you.
Chu Shici: …
A curve ball caught him off guard.
He stopped the system who was watching the excitement and said, “Tong-ge, my husband complimented me on how cute I am.”
[He didn’t even blush when he said this! This is unscientific! This innocent tsundere Gong who blushes at every turn!]
‘His ears are red.’
[Hey, hey!]
For dinner, Shen Xiuzhe ordered a set meal C.
The reasons he gave are very good. If everyone chooses it but he doesn’t choose it, it will attract others’ attention.
Shen Xiuzhe wanted to die, but he didn’t want to find trouble.
In this set C, a new small animal card was printed on it, a white cartoon mouse.
According to the rules of the game, if he obtains a chicken next time, he can redeem a reward.
The lies he used to deceive himself and others were exposed by the little speaker, so at the moment, Shen Xiuzhe didn’t care about the card anymore.
He put the little speaker at the bathroom door and asked him to guard the door. He picked up the bath towel and walked into the bathroom.
Listening to the sound of running water behind him, Chu Shici didn’t hesitate at all and turned around to look inside.
Through the transparent bathroom glass, he can see everything clearly in the bathroom.
A few days ago, Chu Shici felt extremely distressed for Zhe-ge when he saw the transparent bathroom walls that he didn’t even take a closer look.
Shen Xiuzhe’s skin is fair and looking at his smooth and lean muscles, he must be fierce in fighting.
His eyes moved downward, around 20.
Every world is similar, and it seems that this is Zhe-ge’s own set of characteristics.
Chu Shici leaned up against the glass and looked in. Such a good catch his husband is. He is really blessed.
The system looked out at the mosaic. This damn mosaic was still as thick as ever.
Before Chu Shici could appreciate it enough, there was a sudden noise outside.
The sound was not loud, but the sound affected Shen Xiuzhe, though he did not hear any other movements.
Hearing faint footsteps coming this way, Chu Shici knocked hard on the bathroom door.
The sound of water stopped instantly, and Shen Xiuzhe didn’t care about his unwashed hair. He quickly pulled the towel to wipe his body, put on his clothes and walked out of the bathroom.
As soon as he went out, he felt something nudge his calf.
It’s his little speaker.
Shen Xiuzhe’s irritable mood became slightly better.
The footsteps stopped when they reached the next door, and Chu Shici heard someone shouting at the top of their lungs.
“Why are you acting so crazy this late at night?”
Mr. Wang, who lives next door, was knocking on the door frantically, “I’ve gathered them all! A chicken, a dog, a monkey and a mouse! Look, I’ve gathered them all!!!”
Chu Shici was stunned for a moment, then continued to eavesdrop with his ears raised.
“Let me see…it’s really all here. Ask Brother Liu to come over.”
Not long after, the fat steward Brother Liu rushed over.
He checked the card again, and after making sure it was OK, he asked Mr. Wang what he wanted.
Mr. Wang was very excited: “I want to go out!”
Brother Liu answered happily, “Okay, just follow him and he will lead you out.”
“What about the money?”
“It’s okay. He will bring you to pick it up later.”
Mr. Wang left happily, leaving Chu Shici confused.
At the same time, the sound of the radio came from the outside.
[# Mr. Wang, Room 10, Building 2, successfully escaped by collecting all the cards. Congratulations to Mr. Wang. #]
The next second, there were chaotic noises throughout the corridor.
People locked in other rooms began to slam their hands against the door. They shouted and screamed, some of them seemed to be celebrating, with hints of enviousness and jealousy in their voices.
The deafening shouts were mixed with cries, curses and pleas for mercy.
Until the person in charge of the floor knocked on the doors hard and shouted: “Quiet!!!”
The corridor gradually returned to dead silence.
After a few seconds, everything returned to calm.
With a ‘ding–‘, those people took the elevator and left the floor.
Chu Shici looked at the system, ‘Tong-ge?’
[Don’t ask me, I’m stupid, just pretend I’m not here.]
Chu Shici raised his head again, “Zhe-ge?”
Shen Xiuzhe remained expressionless.
But Chu Shici saw confusion spelled in capital letters on his face.
Seeing that both his brothers were unreliable, Chu Shici felt that he could only rely on himself.
Did those people really let Mr. Wang next door go? Or did they pretend as if they were letting him go, but are actually taking him somewhere to kill him?
What is it with the radio and the other people who were locked up?
The procedure and everything in this place was strange. Chu Shici thought hard for a while, but still couldn’t get any inklings of what was going on.
He didn’t even understand where they were.
Now Chu Shici had reasonable suspicion that this was no ordinary urban world.
After all, the original plot has been completed, and no matter how much you twist it, it will not affect the original plot. Maybe this place has changed from an urban face-slapping novel to a battle royale unlimited streaming world.
Chu Shici told Tong-ge his thoughts, and the system responded with three question marks.
He sighed, Tong-ge is really broken.
After this episode, Shen Xiuzhe had no intention of taking a shower again. He dried his hair and lay back on the new wooden bed.
He is usually a quiet person and doesn’t like to talk much, but he has a good attitude towards little speakers.
Every time the little speaker asked a question, he would answer one or two sentences.
Chu Shici stretched out his plug and poked his finger.
Shen Xiuzhe picked him up, hugged him in his arms and got ready to sleep.
Chu Shici thought for a long time and said, “Zhe-ge, where did you learn about the ‘Monster Room’?”
Shen Xiuzhe caressed the little speaker casually and said in a cold tone: “In the public hall.”
“?”
“Every once in a while, they will bring us in batches to a large room where we can move around freely.”
“How freely?”
“We can do whatever we want, no restrictions, but we can’t leave the room.”
Under Little Speaker’s questioning, Shen Xiuzhe told him everything he knew.
According to Zhe-ge, it was a room of little more than 100 square meters. Two bedrooms and one living room, with an attached bathroom.
There was enough food for them to last for a day in the refrigerator, as well as a lot of expensive wine. The available TVs and computers can be used, but there is no way to contact the outside world.
The person in charge took ten people at a time and locked them in a large room and told them that they will stay there for 24 hours and they can do whatever they want during that time.
The interior structure of the room is no different from that of an ordinary room, with a security door locked from the outside and several locked windows.
Not bulletproof windows, just regular glass windows. Through the window, they can see a stone wall outside.
The wall is not too high, and an adult male will easily be able to climb out.
The people responsible for guarding them patrol the perimeters just outside the security doors and the area beyond the stone walls. Four men outside the security door and ten beyond the walls. There will be a change of guard every six hours.
Shen Xiuzhe has been there twice, and each time the people in the room with him are different.
As he eavesdropped on the chatter of others, he heard them say, ‘Every time the bell rings at night, someone is taken to the monster room.’
As for what the monster room is, those people don’t know. All they knew was that the people who were taken there never came out again.
People who live near the monster room can often hear screams, cries and the roars of beasts at night.
Shen Xiuzhe only knew so much.
Chu Shici is an experienced host, and he accurately captured the key point in the male protagonist’s words.
“Zhe-ge, how do you know that there were ten guards standing beyond the stone walls?”
“It is what others in the room said.”
“You can only see the stone walls through the window. People staying in the house cannot see what is beyond the stone wall.”
Shen Xiuzhe ignored him.
Chu Shici asked hesitantly, “Zhe-ge, did you try to escape over the wall once during the two times you were taken there?”
The room was quiet, Shen Xiuzhe seemed to have fallen asleep, and no one answered his question.
Chu Shici felt that it was not a good question to ask, but it was a question that kept bubbling up in his heart.
He thought for a long time, and then said softly: “Zhe-ge, how did you become blind?”
Shen Xiuzhe didn’t say a single word, but the atmosphere instantly became heavy.
After a long time, a voice that was so cold and emotionless sounded in the room.
“This has nothing to do with you. If you don’t want to sleep, get out.”
Chu Shici can hear his answer from these words.
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The memory played over and over in his mind, and he recalled what he had heard and seen during this time.
The man who came in to deliver food to Shen Xiuzhe for the first time asked him if his eyes hurt, and then said, ‘The operation was successful. Mr. Shen can’t see anymore. Don’t run around again in the future.’
Later, Shen Xiuzhe asked for better food, Brother Liu, the fat steward, also specifically reminded him, ‘The two surgeries were successful. You are a patient now. Please pay more attention in the future and stop running around.’
At that time, Chu Shici thought that ‘surgery’ was the key point, but it turned out that ‘stop running around’ was.
Zhe-ge was taken to the big room twice. Although he couldn’t figure out what was going on there, he had no other choice.
The room where he was imprisoned had no windows, and the metal door was always locked from the outside.
The room with several windows and a view of the outside world was his only chance to escape.
In Chu Shici’s impression, Zhe-ge is not an impatient person.
For the first time he was brought there, he probably didn’t take any action, just exploring the terrain to collect intel.
After being taken to that room again, Shen Xiuzhe decided to take a risk.
He managed to escape the room and climb over the stone wall, so he knows the exact number of people guarding the outside.
At that time, his eyes were still good and his fighting ability was exceptional. He was sure to be able to deal with those people.
But something unexpected happened later. It may be that the guards carried special weapons, or that there may be too many reinforcements, but whatever it was, he subsequently failed to break out of this place.
Shen Xiuzhe failed to escape. In order to punish him and make him more honest, they blinded him.
Chu Shici told the system his speculation.
The system made a confused sound, [I have some cruel words, I don’t know whether to say them or not.]
‘We have been together for many years, we are best buddies, why are you being so polite?’
[See, he is a painter, they expect him to paint. If they want to punish him, why not break his legs? This way he can’t run away and it won’t delay his painting. Isn’t it better than blinding him?]
‘…’
[Another way of thinking, if you make him deaf or mute, and then put him in a chain and chain him in the room, wouldn’t it also achieve the purpose of punishment and imprisonment?]
‘Fuck, Zhe-ge died repeatedly in your mind!’
[Ouch! I’m supporting you guys! It’s hard for me, a hardcore CP fan, to be tortured like this. This is a serious discussion and I’m just telling you my objective and rational thinking.]
System tilted his head in confusion, [A painter cannot do without his eyes and hands. There are so many things that can be damaged on the human body, so why must the painter’s eyes be blinded? Although the male protagonist is very good and can draw even without seeing, the efficiency and quality are lower than before. From a profit perspective, this is a big loss.]
Chu Shici thought it made sense.
Those are nothing more than three possibilities.
Zhe-ge saw something he shouldn’t have seen, so they blinded him as a warning.
There is something fishy here. Those people are afraid that Zhe-ge will see something and blinded him in advance.
Someone targeted Zhe-ge, deliberately retaliating against him, and wanted to use this method to torture him bit by bit.
Maybe he can get some information from Shen Xiuzhe.
But this is Zhe-ge’s carefully hidden scar, he doesn’t want to talk about those things.
Chu Shici just asked briefly, but Shen Xiuzhe reacted in a fierce and defensive manner. If he keeps chasing after it, Zhe-ge’s attitude towards him will probably drop from friendly to hostile.
Chu Shi resigned and took a look at the backend. It showed that the male protagonist’s current vitality value was -24.
As the vitality level increases, their relationship will become closer. When the time comes, he won’t need to ask, Zhe-ge will take the initiative to tell him the secret in his heart.
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Chu Shici couldn’t sleep peacefully because he had something on his mind before going to bed.
He had a dream that he returned to the place where he lived during his lifetime.
He lay in the small room, staying up late reading novels with his mobile phone. He didn’t die suddenly, and there was no system coming to find him to play with quick travel.
In the dream, he was reading a novel enthusiastically, when suddenly there was a sound of the door being kicked from the outside. He jumped up from the bed and pulled out the stick from the drawer beside him.
The dreams after that became very confusing.
He first got into a group fight, and a group of people beat him up. When he was knocked down, the dream turned into a complete nightmare.
The gang pressed him down on the bed and tore off his clothes. A plot that only appears in pornographic novels happened to him.
In the dream, he didn’t seem to know Zhe-ge. When he was assaulted, he cried helplessly and didn’t know who to ask for help.
When he was about to be tortured to death by these people who couldn’t see their faces clearly, a cold hand fell on him. In the dark and desperate dream, he heard a cold male voice.
“Ah Ci, wake up.”
The familiar voice of his lover instantly pulled Chu Shici from dreamland to reality.
He instantly opened his eyes and saw Shen Xiuzhe’s handsome and pale face.
His eyes were covered with cloth. Chu Shici couldn’t see his eyes, but could feel his worry.
The system, who stayed up late to catch up on dramas, clasped its hands together and muttered softly.
[As soon as you started breathing heavily, I realized something was wrong. I called you several times but you didn’t respond, you only cried louder and louder. Your man only said one sentence and you woke up immediately. Hmm, the boat of friendship can capsize so easily.]
The system finished talking and found that its host did not reply. It looked over and saw that Chu Shici seemed to be frightened and frozen motionless on the bed.
Shen Xiuzhe also noticed something unusual about the little speaker.
He held Chu Shici in his arms and caressed his outer shell.
Feeling the charging cable tightly wrapped around his wrist, Shen Xiuzhe was a little distracted.
It turns out that little speakers can also cause nightmares.
Being hugged by his lover for comfort, and having his good brother making jokes on the side, Chu Shici gradually came out of the nightmare.
His soul entered the system space and grabbed the little ball of light that was making a face, ‘Tong-ge, tell me honestly how I died.’
The system looked at his trembling hands, then at his bloodless face, and said blankly: [You died suddenly after staying up late.]
‘Don’t lie to me, how did I die!’
[I’ll find a video for you.]
The system rummaged through the computer for a while and found a video.
He was the only one in the video from beginning to end, and he did indeed die suddenly.
Chu Shici breathed a sigh of relief.
He closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, and suddenly covered his face and cried loudly.
He shouldn’t have that kind of dream for no reason, that might have been his original ending. Someone changed his fate and rescued him.
Apart from Zhe-ge, he couldn’t think of anyone else who would take such a big risk to save him.
Shen Xiuzhe found that the thing in his arms was crying more and more violently, and kept rubbing against him.
He was not good at getting along with people, and he had no experience in making people happy. He was a little at a loss.
At this moment, he heard Chu Shici’s tiny sobs: “Zhe-ge, I love you. No one has ever been so kind to me. I really, really like you.”
Shen Xiuzhe: …?
Was he confessed to by the little speaker?
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