RPGCh14 - Prisoner and Prison (V)

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Those words seemed to strum Shan Ziwei’s heartstrings, and he heard a stifled breath of surprised admiration from Rice Lover. The other’s voice was so beautiful, tinged with a mesmerizing indolence.

In myths, sirens were sea monsters capable of producing beautiful song and using it to lure in sailors, sinking their ships. More importantly, sirens were known as the “Daughters of Achelous” in myths – that was to say, they were female, female, female!

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Important things should be said thrice.

Shan Ziwei subconsciously closed one eye to use Investigate, but didn’t receive any information. Holding a fragile sliver of hope that he might be wrong about the other’s identity, Shan Ziwei addressed the beautiful prison guard (♂) in front of them, “Siren…?” AbGjig

The another gave a noncommittal confirmation, completely crushing Shan Ziwei’s self-delusions. Unparalleled Dragon King leaned in towards Shan Ziwei from behind, asking in a low tone, “This guy is Siren? I saw his medical records in the infirmary. I think he took a lot of medical ethanol or ether or something? What’s your relationship with him?”

What relationship? A forced one, by the system!

Almost like it didn’t think Shan Ziwei had been provoked enough, the system then added a new Scenario.

[Scenario 8: You use Siren to break out of prison. (00:01:00)]

“I got a ‘use Siren’ scenario just now. You did, too, right?” Unparalleled Dragon King solemnly shoved the responsibility onto Shan Ziwei’s shoulders, “You’re closer to him. It’s all up to you.”

No no no, not up to him please! He was a good citizen and as straight as a ruler! He couldn’t use Siren’s feelings like that book had talked about doing!

Just as Unparalleled Dragon King and Shan Ziwei were whispering to each other, the prison guard called Siren unfolded his legs and rose, walking towards them.

“My dear, I’ve been waiting for you.” Siren stood in front of Shan Ziwei, his tone adoring. He raised his cap slightly, glancing at Unparalleled Dragon King and the others behind Shan Ziwei for a mere moment before ignoring them. “Let’s hurry. The riot will be over soon.” 0wMTEd

“… Oh okay.” Shan Ziwei responded a moment late. He still wasn’t sure how to act around Siren. Whenever he thought of how his character had apparently tricked the other into falling for him and used his feelings, he felt awkward. “What should we do?”

“Come with me.”

Siren smiled, holding out a hand to Shan Ziwei. Shan Ziwei stared at the open palm in front of him. This pose… he was clearly offering Shan Ziwei his hand, waiting for Shan Ziwei to place his hand upon the other’s own.

… Well, from the book, he knew that Siren’s behavioural template towards him was that of a “lover”, there was nothing wrong with this. Shan Ziwei’s gaze went from the hand in front of him, following Siren’s arm up to his face. The other didn’t hide his infatuation, his gaze practically burning. EhDGoz

Shan Ziwei could barely raise his head under Siren’s loving gaze. He realized that his Clubs SP (Sorrow) was beginning to fall slowly. It seemed the system judged his lack of action as a violation of his scenario.

[Scenario 8: You use Siren to break out of prison.]

Shan Ziwei took a deep breath. It was just holding hands, not a hug or anything. He could do it.

Thus, a certain hypersexual heroically sacrificed himself, placing his hand on the other’s palm. zfdjvT

“… How wonderful.”

The murmur fell from Siren’s lips. His voice was so sensual, it brought embarrassing yet exciting images and sounds to mind. Due to this, Shan Ziwei’s brain wasn’t able to react in time when the other kissed the back of his hand.

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“!!!”

Soft lips pressed against his knuckles. The feeling sunk into his skin like lava, burning through his veins. Shan Ziwei reflexively pulled his hand away, but Siren’s grip was too firm. He heard Unparalleled Dragon King give a sharp intake of breath behind him while Rice Lover cried out softly in surprise. Yet of all these noises, his heart was the loudest. mqMKnP

To this hypersexual, holding hands was level one, hugging was level two, and anything with the mouth was at least level two.

“F – “

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Before Shan Ziwei could cry out, Siren’s lips had left his hand, and he smiled like he hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary, “Let’s go.”

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Shan Ziwei surrender to his fate and quickly adjusted his breathing and gait, docilly allowing Siren to pull him along. He did his best to ignore the tremors of desire coming from their held hands, asking Siren, “Where are we heading?”

“To the morgue.” Siren’s voice was still ever so ear-pleasing, yet his answer gave people chills. “There’s a tunnel connecting the cafeteria to the morgue. Very few people know about it. That’s why I had you meet me here.”

… Why the hell was the cafeteria connected to the morgue?! The more Shan Ziwei thought about it, the scarier the mental images got. He shook those images out of his mind and continued asking, “What are we going there for?”

“I’ll explain when we get there. It’ll make it easier.” 7olUzn

Siren turned his head slightly to look at Shan Ziwei. His eyes were rose coloured, a colour that made people think of dreams, fantasies, romance…

“Don’t worry, we’ll succeed for sure.” Siren began to murmur all his plans for the future, his tone holding a natural allure that made it easy for people to lose themselves in his words. “After we leave, I’ll take you across the Pacific. We can go to Hawaii like you wanted to, then to the Great Barrier Reef to see the corals, or we can tour the Maldives. I know of an island with very smooth, thin white sand. We should try making love on that beach. I bet it’ll feel so good…”

At this, Siren’s rose-coloured eyes deepened, his voice so sweet it was practically dripping with honey. Every single word exuded an overpowering, entrancing rose-scented aroma.

“My dear, it’s been so long since I’ve touched you.” XM3lJp

“…”

The cafeteria was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Unparalleled Dragon King, Rice Lover and host had completely blended with the background, watching the dog couple and their PDA. Shan Ziwei’s entire face was frozen. If he were a girl, he might be moved by this romantic declaration and fall into the other’s embrace, blushing. However, he was a guy, a very much straight guy! Christ, being forced to be gay was so stressful! Even worse, the system was forcing him to respond! If he didn’t get along with Siren (= use Siren), then his Clubs SP would fall!

“Let’s talk about it after we get out,” Shan Ziwei could only say. A certain hypersexual was very glad that the checkmate requirement for this chessboard was to escape from prison. As for what “GShanzi” and Siren got up to outside, well, that didn’t have anything to do with him.

“I can’t wait.” Siren flicked his tongue, making a drawn out and distinctly sexual noise. “To celebrate our successful escape, I’ll use your favourite position, and pleasure you with my tongue until you’re sated.” zKoSOD

Gulp. Shan Ziwei could hear the sound of someone swallowing loudly, but he wasn’t sure if it came from him or one of the others. His body was one that had a hard time resisting temptation, and now with these provocative sounds and words, his entire being was starting to heat up. A certain hypersexual felt that he needed to control the flow of the conversation. If he let Siren continue, his Hearts SP wouldn’t be able to take it.

Shan Ziwei took a deep breath to calm his excitement. Catching a glance of the book in Siren’s other hand, he awkwardly changed the topic. “You’re reading Rusalochka?”

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Let’s talk about fairy tales! They were so pure, so cleansing!

“That’s right. You came just as I got to the part where, due to losing her voice, the little mermaid could do nothing but watch as the prince chose to marry the princess from the neighbouring country.” Siren allowed Shan Ziwei to turn the conversation to fairy tales. “Poor girl, hm?” GQzjt5

Once they started talking about fairy tales, Siren’s voice lost that provocative tone to it, which made Shan Ziwei sigh in relief. He was about to nod his agreement, but Siren continued talking without waiting for a reply.

“However, I think that even if the little mermaid told the prince everything, the prince would still choose the princess over the mermaid.” Siren pulled his cap down, casting a shadow over his eyes. It made the emotion on his face difficult to recognize, leaving only a pair of chillingly red eyes visible. “After all, it’s the prince and princess who are of the same kind. What do you think?”

“That’s not true…”

Shan Ziwei subconsciously refuted him. Hearing the other’s words, Siren’s eyes seemed to narrow slightly in joy. mB9yt0

“You think the prince wouldn’t choose the fellow human princess, but the sea monster little mermaid?”

“… I’m not the prince, I don’t know his decision.”

Siren stared at Shan Ziwei emotionlessly for a moment before suddenly giving him a bewitching, devilish smile.

“That’s right. You don’t need to make a choice.” nyRA08

Before Shan Ziwei could ponder on the issue, Siren retracted his gaze, looking forward once more.

“I think that the little mermaid simply didn’t love her prince enough, because she watched her prince make his choice, rather than becoming her prince’s only choice.”

This sentence marked the end of the conversation, as they had arrived at the morgue.

Siren let go of Shan Ziwei, grabbing a set of keys from his waist and using the one labelled “morgue” to open the heavy metal doors. 5XAxKT

“Click – “

The moment the door opened, they were met with a cold breeze, carrying a faint foul odor. Shan Ziwei shuddered, his desire instantly extinguished. The room in front of them lived up to its foreboding name, dark, damp and cold. The entire room was kept cold by the air conditioning, possibly to slow down the decay of corpses, so it was like a walk-in freezer. Against one wall sat rows pf metal cabinets, with body bags neatly stacked under. Many corpses were haphardardly placed on the other side of the room. They seemed to have been brought in recently. The bloodstains had barely dried.

Siren led the way into the morgue. He walked up to a metal cabinet and opened one of the body bags.

“Many people will die in the riot.” Siren’s tone made it sound like he was talking about something he couldn’t care less about. “Soon enough, they won’t be able to fit any more bodies here, so there’ll be cars coming to take away some of these body bags.” 1FPQym

Siren dragged out the corpse in the body bag, throwing it onto the pile of corpses to the side under the players’ shocked gazes.

The criminals in the body bags are those whose identities have already been confirmed. Only very few prison guards have the key to the morgue, so they would never think that a prisoner might get inside.” Siren gave the body bag to Shan Ziwei, glancing at the haphazard stacks of bodies and saying meaningfully, “I doubt they’ll have the energy to check the bags again.”

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At this point, if Shan Ziwei still didn’t get what Siren was getting at, then his brain must be malfunctioning. His internal narrative was flooded with “wtf”. It wasn’t only Shan Ziwei. Unparalleled Dragon King’s expression had twisted as well and Rice Lover was pale with fright. This method of breaking out of prison was a test of human limits. The only one who remained calm was host, but Shan Ziwei felt that even if the apocalypse came, host’s wooden expression would probably barely twitch.

Under the stunned gazes of the other players, host very logically began to discuss the logistics and feasibility of this plan with Siren. hi9bqg

“Where will the body bags be taken?”

Siren didn’t seem to be very willing to talk with any of the other players, but seeing Shan Ziwei also looking at him questioningly, he still answered.

“The crematorium to the east outside the prison – of course, you’re not actually going there to be incinerated. You guys can come out once the cars leave the prison boundaries.”

“How do we tell when that happens?” Jei016

“The cars will leave through the east gate. There’re two checkpoints. Your opportunity will come after the cars stop twice.”

With Siren’s logical answers, host went silence. He copied Siren and chose his own body bag, dragging out the corpse inside.

Seeing that host had acted, Unparalleled Dragon King’s expression hardened, seeming to find it somewhat embarrassing that he was the only guy that had yet to make any progress. He walked towards the body bags, clearly unwilling to seem weaker. Rice Lover was the only one remaining, her face white as a sheet. She was too scared to rummage through the body bags.

Shan Ziwei felt it would be a bit bad to force a girl like her to do this, so he put down the body bag Siren had given him and walked towards area with the body bags. Seeing this, Rice Lover clearly understood Shan Ziwei’s intentions, and  almost burst into tears, thanking him profusely. “Th-thank you, Shanzi, thank y – “ yuqbM0

Her last “you” cut off halfway and Rice Lover shuddered. She cautiously turned her head, realizing that the prison guard with the beautiful voice was looking at her, not even bothering to hide his hatred.

–– Though Shanzi is a really nice person but everyone around him is so terrifying. QAQ

Shan Ziwei had no idea that his barely budding love had been cruelly crushed before it could begin. He randomly chose a body bag to open and almost choked on the suffocating pungent smell. Shan Ziwei had gotten unlucky with his pick. The corpse inside the bag had died a particularly horrifying death. The purpling face of the corpse had become puffy and swollen from being in water for too long or something, causing their facial features to disappear amidst the swollen flesh and skin. A single glance had Shan Ziwei’s Diamonds SP (Fear) dropping. He turned the corpse onto its front, feeling the hair on the back of his neck stand up, and quickly stripped the body of its body bag.

“Clink.” rYtxsh

The moment he pulled the bag off, a metal tag fell from it, clinking against the ground. Shan Ziwei picked it up. There was a name on it, a familiar one. Shan Ziwei thought for a while before he remembered where he had seen it. He took out his book to check. The name had been mentioned on the book. It was the next target of “GShanzi”.

“What’s wrong?”

Siren came over and Shan Ziwei subconsciously put the book away, hiding it. He clenched the metal tag in his fist and blinked innocently. “Nothing.”

“We have to hurry,” Siren said, “The cars will be coming soon.” vYN7QG

Shan Ziwei nodded. He dragged the body onto the corpse pile and gave the body bag to Rice Lover. The girl had her head bowed, not even daring to look at him. She took the bag and thanked him in a tiny whisper before running off.

… It seemed the mirror image had really scarred her.

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Shan Ziwei turned to grab the body bag Siren had given him. Right now, everyone was already getting into their respective body bags. Host was completely calm, as if he was getting into a sleeping bag and not a body bag. Unparalleled Dragon King’s expression was gloomy like his parents had just died in front of him or something, cursing all the way. Rice Lover had her back to him, so he couldn’t see her expression, but from her tense figure, it was clear she wasn’t enjoying it.

Lying in a body bag was definitely an experience they’d never forget. This game really enjoyed pushing players to the limits, playing with their heads. 5htEGT

Shan Ziwei laid out the body bag, pulling the zip up as he climbed in. Siren squatted next to him, hugging his knees and staring at him deeply. He didn’t even care that his long hair was draped over the other body bags.

“Soon enough, we’ll be together forever.”

Shan Ziwei didn’t know how to describe the other’s tone. It was like poisoned syrup, a blessed curse. Shan Ziwei was stunned by it. He saw Siren reach out for him, seeming to want to touch his face.

The hypersexual reflexively withdrew his head into the confines of the body bag and, surprisingly, didn’t smell anything foul. Instead, there was a faint, sweet scent. Did Siren spray perfume in here for him? How sweet of him. But, weren’t they breaking out? If another prison guard smelled it, then wouldn’t they get found out? Xwm87I

And this scent, it was kind of familiar. It was like… like…

Shan Ziwei held his breath, suddenly sitting up. His abrupt, obvious motion caused everyone in the room to look at him.

Darkness threatened to overtake Shan Ziwei’s vision. Though he had only breathed it in for a few seconds, it still almost made him lose consciousness. He knew that scent. When he had been taken to the hospital after being in that car crash, he remembered smelling that scent through the murkiness of his mind. It was a little sharp, a little sweet. Perhaps it was because the memories before what he had thought would be certain death were deeply imprinted in his mind, but he clearly remembered that scent and what the doctor had said then.

–– Put him under with ether – eo9ki0

Shan Ziwei took large gulps with air, shaking his head to try and clear his mind. He raised his head, looking at Siren. Black spots danced in his vision, blurring the other’s expression.

“There’s… medical ether in here…?”

“What!?” Unparalleled Dragon King leaped up, almost getting tripped up by the body bag. He hurriedly kicked it away. “Why is there ether in here? Who did – “ Unparalleled Dragon King suddenly stopped, glaring at Siren. “In the infirmary, the records said you took out a lot of ether. It was you! You want to knock us out!?”

Even with Unparalleled Dragon King’s heated accusations, Siren didn’t move, merely gazing at Shan Ziwei passionately. Shan Ziwei swallowed drily. Before he had only thought it was a bit too lovey-dovey, but now it wasn’t short of chilling. KJifsV

“Don’t… don’t you want me to break out?”

“I don’t.”

Under their gazes, Siren began to smile darkly. It was as if he had torn off a disguise, revealing his most evil yet most true self.

“I never wanted to.” Siren spoke with his honeyed voice, using his song-like words to form his blueprints. “You’re a prisoner, forever shut here in prison. I’m a guard, forever watching over you in prison. Isn’t that simply, perfect?” gQxRUM

Fear began to creep up Shan Ziwei’s spine. The other wasn’t asking for his opinion, but describing a fact. A relationship where he would be imprisoned forever.

Shan Ziwei could hear his own voice, asking weakly, “But you agreed to…”

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“If I didn’t, then you’d run off to find someone else, no?” Siren’s smile grew wider as he pulled his cap down, his tone intimate and loving, “Little liar.”

Shan Ziwei… Shan Ziwei didn’t know if he should feel angry at that “GShanzi” or not. Conman his ass! This victim had him in the palm of his hand this entire time! t8WZ1k

Suddenly remembering how “GShanzi” had wanted to find a new target in the book, Shan Ziwei subconsciously glanced at the bloated and deformed corpse, a terrifying theory forming in his mind.

–– I think that the little mermaid simply didn’t love her prince enough, because she watched her prince make his choice, rather than becoming her prince’s only choice.

As if to prove Shan Ziwei’s theory right, Siren placed the book he had been holding all this time, Rusalochka, down. He moved so fast, Shan Ziwei didn’t have time to react before Siren had grabbed his left hand. The other pried his fingers open one by one, revealing the metal tag in his hand.

Siren took the metal tag from him and clenched his fist under Shan Ziwei’s stunned gaze. The metal tag was crushed into a ball, and Siren threw it to the side carelessly. 1D9xYr

“You needed only to just lie to me. Why did you choose someone else?”

“You need only to stay here, in prison. Why would you choose to leave?”

Siren let go of Shan Ziwei’s wrist, grabbing his shoulders as he attempted to run, and pushing him down onto the body bag with unrelenting force.

“You’re a prisoner. You always have been, and always will be, my prisoner.” 0lHQzx

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