Translated by Crooked
Edited by Dust Bunny
As Gu Xizhou was thinking about it, a voice suddenly broke him out of his thoughts, saying skeptically, “What sound are you talking about?”
It was Lai Shenglei. He got up from the ground and brushed off the dust on his clothes.
Si Yu said indifferently, “It’s none of your business.”
“You’re wrong, you’ll need everyone’s cooperation to get out of here.” Before Lai Shenglei had a chance to speak, a sweet-looking young woman interjected with her delicate voice.
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and watched Si Yu give a cold smile and say, “We can get out by ourselves.”
“You can’t say that. Won’t you need our help sooner or later?” The young woman glared at Si Yu.
“Okay.” Gu Xizhou blocked Si Yu and turned to the young girl. “We really do need your cooperation to get out, but everyone has their own secrets. We don’t want to talk about them, and it’s not convenient to do so, so please understand.”
“Oh…” The woman’s mouth twitched in response, but she didn’t continue to interrogate them and instead turned to the others to discuss their escape.
At noon, the person outside brought in their meal like before, and Lai Shenglei also accosted the man just like last time.
“Dage, when will you let us go? It’s too crowded here,” Lai Shenglei asked, narrowing his eyes.
The person delivering the meal seemed to know Lai Shenglei, squinting at him with one eye and giving him a strange look. Without saying anything to him, he pushed Lai Shenglei back and closed the door. Outside, he said to his partner, “Shit, the officer’s gone crazy. He actually just asked when we were going to release him.”
Beside him, a man smoking a cigarette laughed and said, “It’s probably because his head got hit a little too hard.”
“But those guys really have guts, abducting cops,” muttered the man who delivered the meal.
“Careful, don’t let Hu Ge hear or he’ll take care of you!” The smoking man said mysteriously.
The man who delivered the meal shrugged. “As long as you don’t tell Hu Ge, then he’ll never know. Say, when do you think Hu Ge and the others will finally divide up the money?”
“Tch, at least a month for a few tens of thousands.” The smoking man had a greedy expression.
Inside the locked room.
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Lai Shenglei pressed his ear against the door to listen to the conversation outside.
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As a newcomer, the first thing Lai Shenglei learned was to be cautious and prudent. He was taught that by an older experienced mission taker in his first world.
He thought silently to himself, and soon time crawled to the afternoon. His heart rate began to rise. It was night again, and many things tended to go sideways at night.
Gu Xizhou noticed that their five companions were uneasy and looked over at Lai Shenglei. In the end, this person was now in Hong Ge’s body. If he could smoothly escape, Ji Hong could come back to life. Gu Xizhou naturally didn’t wish for him to die, so he kindly offered some advice. “You don’t need to worry so much. We’re still waiting for one companion to arrive. Not everyone is in one room.”
“En.” Lai Shenglei nodded, scratching his nose. He looked at Gu Xizhou and inwardly pondered their situation. “That, I mean, when can we finally get out of here?”
“Tomorrow. Wait for our companion to arrive, and then we’ll go.”
“Oh, you said earlier that this is your second world?” asked Gu Xizhou.
Lai Shenglei was surprised. He didn’t think Gu Xizhou would take the initiative to ask him something. “Yes, what about it?” Lai Shenglei responded.
Gu Xizhou waved his hand dismissively, raising his eyebrow. Before this world, he’d already entered twelve different worlds, and even Fang Zhi had entered almost ten worlds. From the number of people in previous worlds and the degree of difficulty in each, they shouldn’t have entered this type of world at all. This world seemed almost too peaceful on the ghost side.
Gu Xizhou turned his head and sized up Tu Yao. Even the ghosts could only apologize, and they didn’t do anything or try to kill people at night.
But the most important thing was… the timing really was too coincidental. Just after arresting Liao Chunhua, he entered a world that was related to the events from 20 years ago. It was like a setup, as if there was a pair of invisible hands manipulating everything, like… those hands were specifically giving him an opportunity to come back to life.
Gu Xizhou was conflicted about the situation and decided to temporarily set the problem aside.
“Since it’s your second world, it shouldn’t be too difficult.” Gu Xizhou muttered.
Lai Shenglei laughed and smiled on the surface, but in his heart he was apprehensive. Hell if I believe you, you definitely think that I’m easy to cheat because I’m so new.
At night, Tu Yao behaved the same, mumbling to herself. Gu Xizhou also knew that no matter what he said, this ‘girl’ was unlikely to understand him, so he directly ignored her.
“Si Yaoxing, do you still remember the case that brought about my resignation?” Gu Xizhou asked.
Si Yu had just opened his mouth when Gu Xizhou added, “It’s them. The one guarding the door is Guang Ge.”
Si Yu nodded. “It’s that case.”
Gu Xizhou glanced at Si Yu. Clearly, Si Yu had already guessed the basic ins and outs of this matter with his high IQ. Gu Xizhou said gravely, “Yes, but I think something’s a little off. That case just concluded, and then we were brought here. And, I…”
“Don’t think too much.” Si Yu rubbed Gu Xizhou’s head. “I’m here, so nothing can happen.”
Gu Xizhou: “……”
Si Yu smiled. “Don’t you believe me?”
Gu Xizhou saw Si Yu’s confident appearance and remained silent for a while before nodding.
That day, Gu Xizhou once again proved that he didn’t lie to Lai Shenglei and the other five people, and nothing happened during the night.
The next day, Fang Zhi was also brought to the room.
Fang Zhi was carried in by people, and his face was covered in bruises. After he came in, he was clearly surprised, and he uncertainly called toward Gu Xizhou, “Si Ge?”
Si Yu, beside him, raised an eyebrow and looked at Fang Zhi.
Gu Xizhou pressed his fist against his mouth and shook his head. “I’m your Gu Ge.”
Fang Zhi awkwardly acknowledged his mistake. “You look too similar…”
“En.” Gu Xizhou touched his cheek and muttered, “Is it really that similar?”
Fang Zhi nodded. They swapped basic information. Fang Zhi casually glanced at Lai Shenglei’s badge and jumped, flabbergasted. “Isn’t that thing from..? It’s even the same name!”
Fang Zhi whispered to Gu Xizhou and Si Yu, his mouth hanging open. He was obviously referring to that ‘case’.
Gu Xizhou nodded and the three exchanged glances.
In the afternoon.
Ren Pengzheng narrowed his eyes and picked up the documents he’d just received. He sat in his chair and opened them up. A smile surfaced in his eyes, lighting them up with vitality.
Because it was an abandoned factory, they only turned on lights in the underground rooms. There were no lights on in the factory, mainly because they were afraid of being noticed by people passing by.
It was that police officer thing. Ren Pengzheng frowned slightly. He wasn’t very happy with Hu Ge and his gang bringing those two officers back, but because he was afraid of Li Longhu’s gun, he didn’t dare say anything.
Ren Pengzheng stared at the secret passage. Anyway, these people couldn’t escape, so a police officer was just a police officer.
Ren Pengzheng was looking for a while when Li Longhu walked over and asked, “How’s it going? Have you found a match yet?”
“En, there is one. Someone successfully matched with the corneas of that police officer you brought back. After the surgery, should I kill him?” Ren Pengzheng asked after some thought. In his heart, he thought that being killed under anesthesia would be a lot better than being tortured to death by Li Longhu.
At the beginning, when he started doing these operations after being fired from the hospital, even though they were illegal surgeries on people from rural areas who were mostly deceived, they were at least still voluntary. They received half of the money from selling the organ. However, afterwards there was a man on the operating table who hadn’t been put under yet who jumped up after regretting it and ran away.
As soon as the man ran out, he was stopped by Li Longhu and killed in front of a group of little brothers!
After Li Longhu killed him, Ren Pengzheng was almost scared to the point of peeing himself. He’d never seen anything like that before. Li Longhu looked at him hatefully, shouting at him to continue with the surgery. He didn’t dare to disobey and did it…
That first time they sold the organs of someone who’d died and got the entire profit and earned so much, Ren Pengzheng clearly felt the attitudes of his comrades change, until they became what they are now.
“Cornea?” Li Longhu licked his lips and said greedily, “Why kill him? It’s just his corneas, so maybe we can sell something else in the future.”
Ren Pengzheng shivered, and his forehead beaded with cold sweat. He nodded.
The room Gu Xizhou and the others were in was underground, but there was one part that showed the ground. There happened to be a window about two palms wide, welded with iron bars. It might not be possible to escape from there.
A dim yellow lightbulb was suspended from the tile ceiling that two moths flew at incessantly. The walls were covered with yellow mold and black water spots.
The room was suffused with a moldy stench, but no one paid it any attention at this time, including Gu Xizhou and Si Yu. With Fang Zhi’s arrival, everyone in the mission world was inside the room now. If they were still there at night, the entire group would be wiped out.
Lai Shenglei and the others were even more anxious than yesterday. They didn’t want to stay in this dusky, gloomy environment anymore.
“Bang bang bang!”
A harsh knocking on the door pierced the silence.
“Open the door! Someone is sick!”
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