(Kill , or Kiss )
Edited by Sliver Wind
"… Can you call the werewolf back and let
play with him?"
Behind the screen.
Zhou Wenyan put down the legs he was resting on the table and leaned his body towards the most central screen of the six displays. The screen resolution was clear; he could see the person standing in front of the cara well, even the small tiger tooth peeking through and the ever-present dimple.
Involuntarily, he stretched his hand out, fingertips falling right on his cheeks to press against the small and cute dimple.
After a pause, he laughed, and his voice was a little low and hoarse, "No…"
His fingers slowly traced the outline of the person on the screen, and just as he touched those distinctive black and white eyes, it twitched suddenly.
Signs of struggle appeared on his face. Zhou Wenyan covered most of his face with the palm of his hand but it still exposed an eye that was shifting from a light coffee shade to the deepest of blacks.
"If you like him, I can make him accompany you by making him stay."
The voice that spoke from his mouth was completely different from before – it was indifferent and emotionless as if he was a god that was looking down on all beings.
This was the real Director.
"No."
Zhou Wenyan spat out the word with all the adamance he could muster.
The Director's voice did not fluctuate: "You will agree eventually. After all, you will go insane very quickly if you don't find so entertainnt here."
Zhou Wenyan's complexion was ugly, "Shut up."
Zhou Wenyan did follow Shen Dongqing into the Fukuyama Psychiatric Sanatorium Copy, and while he did not know if it was due to an error cropping up or because the ga scheming against him, there were indeed six players when Shen Dongqing joined which made him the additional seventh player. Due to such circumstances, the ga could only open up a temporary ga with two opposing camps and it had issued him the identity of the Director.
It was fine if he did not enter the copy, and similarly, he had been subjected to gas where there were two camps before. It was just that… the original Director's consciousness had yet to dissipate and it continued to exist within Zhou Wenyan and it would jump out from ti to ti to fight for physical control over his body.
Director: "Oh, you care about this person."
Zhou Wenyan's brows jumped, "None of your…"
Before he could finish speaking, his body stiffened and he slowly put down his hand. His other eye had also turned black and it exuded an inorganic indifference.
In the literal blink of an eye when Zhou Wenyan's state of mind had destabilised, the Director had taken advantage of his weakness and seized full control.
The Director stood up and smoothed out his white coat. Facing the reflection on the screen, he revealed an emotionless smile.
"It's ti to welco the guests."
*
Shen Dongqing stood in front of the cara and waited for a while.
But the red light was still flashing without giving any visible reaction, and the werewolf did not run out either.
It seed like his request was rejected.
"Stingy," Shen Dongqing muttered.
Shen Dongqing no longer dawdled; he turned around and walked outside.
What Shen Dongqing did not know was that, just as he turned around, the cara suddenly tilted upwards as if…. It was trying to catch his figure.
As they andered out of the inpatient building, they ca to an empty sports field that had so fitness equipnt.
But they were installed ages ago so rust and stains long had its way with the equipnt. The simple swings were swaying slightly as they hung in mid-air.
Blueberry held onto the map and pointed out the directions: "The office building is opposite of us and we need to cross through the sports field."
Thus, the group of people walked towards the sports field.
After the last person stepped onto the sports field, a sudden mist shrouded around them and the entire inpatient building was obscured by mist.
It was made apparent that they could not go back and could only move forward.
The radio set up in the sports field suddenly sounded.
The loudspeaker had seen little use in the past years and the sound being transmitted from it beca distorted and strange and it even had a scratchy quality to it.
"So patients have escaped from the ward. All dical staff and security guards are requested to catch these patients."
"The patients are currently on the sports field."
The sports field went quiet again.
Fang Qi lowered his head to look at the hospital gown he was wearing while he clung onto the vestiges of his hope: "Is he talking about us?"
Twin Ponytails returned him a question: "Who else, if not us?"
Boom—
The players on the sports field suddenly heard a dull noise, and following that, there was a series of scattered and fragnted footsteps approaching them.
It seed like there were a lot of people that were rushing here.
Fang Qi noticed that Shen Dongqing's complexion had changed slightly. Concerned, he imdiately asked: "Big boss, what's wrong?"
Shen Dongqing waved his hand: "It's nothing, I'm just a little uncomfortable."
He could hear the innurable screams of the spirits who had been wrongly murdered and it was so noisy that it was giving him a headache.
Deeply worried, Fang Qi asked, "Should we make a run for it first?"
Big boss was the only fighting force here.
*
And the first opponent to arrive was a giant.
The giant was one floor tall and it was clad in a security uniform, except it was not exactly a suitable description, considering how it was tattered and torn and exposed the sutures sewn across his four limbs. His face was of a similar patchwork; there was the young and the old, male and female could not be differentiated; it was as if soone had taken every face and stuck them together by ans of thread to form a single face and it was extrely uncoordinated.
Probably because his body was colossal, the giant's speed was not very fast and each step he took caused a wave of tremors on the earth.
"RUN!"
Blueberry ordered and the group lifted their legs and ran away.
As they were running, Blueberry did not stop analysing: "The ga will not give us a dead end and this is just a ga of pursuit. As long as we reach the office building, we will be fine. The giant can't enter."
The sentence gave them hope.
After running for a while, Fang Qi had a realisation: "Why are we missing a person?"
Once they heard Fang Qi say that, the others subconsciously stopped.
None of them had noticed it because they had run off in a hurry just now, but all of them ca to realise that they were missing one person – naly, Shen Dongqing had disappeared, and the giant was not chasing them either.
The group stayed in a safe corner and looked back, only to discover that Shen Dongqing was standing in front of the giant.
Shen Dongqing had the height of a normal adult man, but he was akin to a little chick when he was standing in front of the giant and he looked awfully small. Despite the huge difference, he did not flee and still chose to raise his head to look at the giant instead.
"You're very ugly," Shen Dongqing pouted his lips in disgust, "Aren't you irked by the fact that you're trapped inside this ugly monster?"
The giant drew back the corners of his mouth and ignored the man's ravings. With both hands, he raised his axe up high.
Bang—
The axe impacted the ground heavily, and a deep pit was smashed into the flat ground. The gravel and dust surged up together and blurred their vision.
Excited by the prospect of seeing the broken bits and pieces of flesh and blood that it had caused, the giant issued an unfathomable roar as he pulled out the axe that was stuck in the ground.
However, his imaginings did not manifest; there was not even a single trace of blood or flesh in the pit, and the young man had disappeared.
With the IQ the giant had, it could not understand why that was the case. Muddle-headed and ignorant, he decided to search for another target.
"I'll help you."
Shen Dongqing's voice sounded from behind the giant.
The giant was huge in stature and it made it inconvenient to move. Stiffly, he turned his body around in an attempt to find the person who had spoken only to feel sothing land on his back as he was turning halfway.
*
"Ah…" Twin Ponytails exclaid.
From where they were standing, they happened to see Shen Dongqing land on the giant's back after executing a light leap. Subsequently, the giant wracked up a frenzy as it started slapping its back incessantly, trying to slap the person off him.
The giant's palms were very large and it was heavy in weight; each slap incurred a loud slam, and if it were to land on a person, there was a high likelihood they would break upon touch.
It pulled at the heartstrings of the people spectating, and they were terribly afraid that it would accidentally hit Shen Dongqing.
Twin Ponytails: "Is he not afraid of death?"
Skinny was already scared to the point he had no soul left and he proposed: "We should really run while he is buying us ti."
While Shen Dongqing's previous performance was quite fantastic, it did not necessarily an he would win against that giant. If you had to know, the giant's arm was almost as thick as Shen Dongqing's whole person and the axe he was holding was big and heavy, in fact, Sister Axe's axe was essentially a child's toy compared to it.
Running away while they had the opportunity to do so was the better option.
Fang Qi was the least worried and he said firmly: "I want to stay here and wait for Big boss."
What kind of joke were they cracking? Why would he run away with them when he had a big thigh to hug?
After a mont of hesitation, Blueberry stated, "I will stay too."
Since it was three against one, Skinny could only choose to stay.
However, after waiting for a while and seeing Shen Dongqing consistently fail to overwhelm the giant, the idea of leaving reared its head within Skinny again. The open field had been dangerous from beginning to end, and they would only be safe once they entered the office building.
Skinny said cautiously: "Why don't I go ahead and explore the road first?"
Fang Qi: "If you want to leave, just leave, stop making excuses."
Blueberry glanced at him: "Do whatever you want."
And thus, the small group that had temporarily ford was dissolved.
Skinny left the team. After being taken away by the werewolf, it had broken his courage and he hated the fact that he could not leave the sanatorium earlier. He still had so life-saving props in his hands, and it should suffice until he found the key.
Before he left, Skinny had stolen the map Blueberry had as well.
Blueberry hadn't taken any precautions against him. When she finally reacted, it was too late to give chase because Skinny's figure had already entered the mist.
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*
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Once the vest was torn off, it revealed the giant's gigantic and thick upper body.
It was apparent that his body was made out of many remains stitched together, and how many it took to form such a huge and tall body was not known.
His figure was extrely disgusting and it was vomit-inducing.
Shen Dongqing threw away the vest and raised his eyes to et the pair of eyes on the giant's chest.
He was probably a young man in his teens and his entire person was embedded into the giant's body, all twisted up and weird. After finally seeing the light after a long ti, the teenager's eyes were bursting with joy, and he kept wriggling in an attempt to break free from the giant but the thin threads kept him bound tightly to the large network of bodies.
If the vest hadn't been taken off, he was afraid that those eyes would have enveloped in the darkness forever.
Shen Dongqing snorted.
In his eyes, the body was composed of countless spirits who had been wrongly murdered, and they were ceaseless in their cries and shrieks, similar to that of a hundred sparrows chirping close to his ears.
"So freaking noisy." Shen Dongqing yelled out, "SHUT UP!"
Those wronged ghosts closed their mouths in fear.
The giant remained oblivious as he lifted his axe to chop down at Shen Dongqing again.
Shen Dongqing did not evade it this ti, and he grabbed the axe before it could fall on him.
The scene was a little strange.
The giant, taller than three tres in height, was carrying an axe that was more than a ter long but it was caught by the frail Shen Dongqing with one hand, and no matter how hard it pulled at the axe, it could not move it.
The spectators were all stunned.
Twin Ponytails was gobsmacked: "This, this.."
Fang Qi continued for her: "This is a Big boss, do you understand?"
Twin Ponytails and Blueberry: No, I don't really understand it.
Shen Dongqing simply snatched away the axe and used it to slash the giant.
Due to its gigantic body, it was extrely cumberso which made it impossible to dodge, and it could only passively bear the blow.
The axe fell.
The giant let out a sharp and blood-curdling scream. What Shen Dongqing truly did was unknown as well because the flaxen threads that kept the giant together broke. Like dumplings going under, the countless numbers of bodies fell from him and beca a small pile of corpses.
Leaving only a cowering, short and small dwarf.
The dwarf, upon seeing Shen Dongqing, was so frightened he blacked out directly. What remained was only a pile of corpses – no, it was more accurate to say that it was a ground strewn with wronged ghosts.
They were nebulous in conduct as they wandered around in confusion, and it looked quite spectacular.
Fang Qi was the most afraid of ghosts and he hugged himself as he trembled.
Blueberry stared at the group of wronged ghosts with vigilant eyes, afraid that they would suddenly act up.
Shen Dongqing……
Shen Dongqing was hungry.
Before he entered the copy, he did not eat much. Right now, in his eyes, these groups of wronged ghosts were like little biscuits, and they were little biscuits who could walk.
He could not help but swallow.
While the wronged ghosts were without intelligence, they could still perceive danger and their translucent bodies started shivering in fear.
Fortunately for them, Shen Dongqing had been a human for a fair amount of ti and because he had eaten tastier things, he no longer cared for these dirty begrudging ghosts. Shaking a cookie jar of this sort in front of him had little effect.
He lowered the axe and leaned on it before he spoke: "If you want to be redeed, stay, if you don't want to be redeed, scram now."
As soon as he said those words, he saw so corpses climbing out of the pile because they were either unwilling to leave or they were afraid of Shen Dongqing. In a mont's work, they had slunk away, unseen, leaving behind the wronged ghosts who harboured sentints to leave.
Noticing that the intensity of the wronged ghosts had decreased, the other three converged with Shen Dongqing.
Fang Qi asked: "Big boss, what are you doing?"
Shen Dongqing chopped down with his axe and the corpse disappeared into thin air. He replied: "Redemption ah."
Fang Qi ……
Was this a physical redemption?
With the greatest care, he took out a stack of rune paper: "You can use this to speed up the process."
They were items that could be redeed from the System Mall. It was fair to the young and the old and it could be used to redeem harmless wronged ghosts in a convenient and efficient manner. However, it had no effect on ferocious ghosts.
Shen Dongqing waved him away: "Move that further away from , I'm not comfortable with it."
How could he give a forr ferocious ghost a redemption talisman?
Fang Qi quickly put away the talisman.
Shen Dongqing continued with his physical redemption.
One corpse after another, they turned into white lights and disappeared into thin air, and the speed could not be considered as slow.
Just as they were at the final two wronged ghosts, Blueberry suddenly spoke: "Wait…" She scrutinised the handso teenager and said with so uncertainty: "I think I know this person."
Feeling strange, Fang Qi asked: "Isn't he a NPC?"
"No," Blueberry said, "I think he's a player."
Shen Dongqing halted his action: "We'll know once we ask him."
He stretched out his hand, index and middle finger closing together, before he tapped on the space between the teenager's brows.
The teenager's body shook as his consciousness was awakened again. His eyes sobered from its previous confusion and he struggled to grasp the current situation.
"I… What happened to ?"
Warmly, Shen Dongqing reminded him: "You died."
Teenager: "… What?"
"We're in the Fukuyama Psychiatric Sanatorium."
The teenager rembered it: he was pulled into the Infinite Nightmare Ga and later, he entered this copy only to lose his life. Calm as ever, he accepted the reality that he had died.
"Maybe I can go ho after I die." The teenager was extrely open-minded. "Would you like
to help you send a ssage? If I really make it back ho, I can help you report that you are safe and sound."
The others looked at each other.
Fang Qi took the lead in speaking: "I am a second-generation nouveau riche who possesses neither the learning nor the skill, and I am the only child my parents have. Since I've disappeared, my parents must be very upset, so I'll trouble you to find them and tell them to hurry up and have a second child."
Similarly, Blueberry and Twin Ponytails wanted him to help them report back to their hos, especially Twin Ponytails who was in tears as she did so.
Only Shen Dongqing said nothing.
The teenager gazed at him and asked: "How about you?"
Indifferently, Shen Dongqing said: "No need." This body was already dead; otherwise, he would never have co to occupy this body.
The teenager gave him another glance before he nodded: "I'm going back."
Before he was almost redeed, the teenager suddenly rembered sothing as he hurriedly said: "Map… The map is fake! Beware of the Director!"
Right after, he turned into a streak of shining light, and his future destination was unknown.
Fang Qi felt a little lancholic: "I don't know if I can really go ho after I die."
Twin Ponytails joked: "Would you like to try?"
Fang Qi shook his head imdiately: "No thanks." He jogged towards Shen Dongqing and asked: "Big boss, do you know where you'll go after you have been redeed?"
Decisively, Shen Dongqing answered: "I don't know."
Fang Qi: "But…"
Shen Dongqing rolled his eyes: "It's not like I've been redeed before."
Fang Qi: That sounds very true.
Only Blueberry rembered the important point: "He said that the map was fake."
Fang Qi shrugged his shoulders: "It's been stolen anyway, it doesn't matter if it's real or fake at this point."
Blueberry was sowhat anxious: "How do we find the Director's office then?"
Fang Qi: "Big boss?"
Shen Dongqing clapped: "We'll grab soone and ask for directions."
Raising his spirits, Fang Qi urged: "Then let's hurry."
In the other gas, they were always the ones being chased by the ghosts and monsters, now that they had the rare opportunity where they could bully the ghosts and monsters, they naturally had to do it a few more tis.
"We're not in a rush." Shen Dongqing sat down on the swing that was nearby.
He shifted his backpack to the front and opened it before he went through the contents in it with great interest. "I want to eat sothing first." He took out a packet of cookies before he widened the opening of his bag and showed it to them generously: "Do you want so?"
Other people: ……
Was it really okay to think about eating at a dangerous ti like this?
Shen Dongqing tore open the packaging for his biscuits and tilted his head as he nibbled on his them. He asked, "Aren't you hungry?"
Now that they thought about it, they did feel hungry.
Fang Qi was the first to go up and
take a packet of small bread.
Like a broken pitcher that was damaged from the fall, Blueberry lined up behind Fang Qi.
In the end, the four people sat around the swings and wiped out all the snacks in the bag, littering the entire ground with its various packaging.
Fang Qi sighed comfortably: "How nice—"
If the sky was clearer, it would be like an outing in the wild.
Shen Dongqing polished off the last jelly before he stood up. He instructed: "Clean up the garbage."
Fang Qi did not fully absorb what he said: "Ah?"
Strictly, Shen Dongqing said: "Everyone has a responsibility to protect the environnt."
The sentence was quite reasonable, but why did it feel incompatible with the sanitorium they had as their background?
However, the others could only climb to their feet and pick up the trash that was on the ground. When the last packaging was stuffed into the backpack, they heard the sound of footsteps coming closer.
"They're here!" Fang Qi's eyes brightened.
After waiting for a few beats, nurous figures could be seen wobbling out of the fog one by one.
They were wearing clothes that identified them as doctors and nurses and their complexions were ghastly white. They wielded instrunts like scalpels and pliers in their hand and they surrounded the entire sports field.
However, they did not expect that not only did these people not fear them, they actually looked faintly excited that they had arrived.
*
Skinny was holding onto his map as he ran on quick feet.
Perhaps because the ghosts and monsters had been lured over by the other group, he did not encounter a single instance of danger and his journey thus far had gone unimpeded.
He could not help but pat his own shoulders for running away so fast, and he was even gloating at the misery of others: "They're all idiots. They should have ran while they could, and now they can't even run at all."
However, he was fine with that – since soone was attracting the heat, it would only make it easier for him to find the key.
As he continued to follow the map, Skinny stepped into the office building that was being illustrated.
Initially, he had been extrely careful as he held onto his life-saving props. But after discovering that there was no one in sight, he gradually relaxed his vigilance.
The map indicated that the Director's Office was in the basent.
Skinny murmured: "Why is it below?"
Despite his apprehension, he did not think too much into it and continued to follow the signs shown on the map.
Without having to waste much effort, Skinny found himself at the door of the Director's Office. He tried the door and he realised he lucked out because the door was not locked.
He just had to find the key before he could leave….
As he was thinking that, he pushed open the door.
Before he could properly scan the office's appearance, an odour infiltrated his nose.
"What—"
A figure flung itself onto Skinny and latched onto his body, knocking him down.
It was a small fetus that was not fully developed; its skin was pink and there was a long umbilical cord hanging on its navel.
The fetus was, without a doubt, smaller than the palm of his hand, but Skinny could not throw it off no matter how desperately he struggled.
Then, it grinned at him, revealing densely packed sharp teeth in its mouth before inclining its head, gnawing and biting at his flesh. Skinny was screaming miserably throughout until his hands finally fell to his sides, powerless, and the map slipped out of his grip, soaking itself in his blood.
"The stupid do not deserve to be my toys."
Before he died, Skinny heard an indifferent voice speak up, and as he struggled to open his eyes, he could only see a figure in a white coat gradually fade away.
*
"This one won't do."
"Not this one either."
Shen Dongqing grabbed a nurse to scrutinise her. Dissatisfied, he tossed her aside before he grabbed another doctor.
All these multitude of ghosts with their teeth and dancing claws were essentially defanged and declawed in front of Shen Dongqing, and they were being picked and tossed like goods on a shelf.
Fang Qi who was standing at the side: "Big boss, just what kind are you looking for?"
Shen Dongqing: "These ones are too ugly."
All the dical staff present looked a little cruel to the eye; if they were not missing their arms, they would be missing their legs and Shen Dongqing was not a fan of bullying the disabled.
It could be said that he did not have a choice previously, but now that he had an array in front of him, he had to properly choose one that was of sound body and health.
Lowering his voice, Fang Qi told Blueberry: "Maybe it's because we aren't big bosses ourselves, which is why we can't keep up with Big boss's rhythm."
Having finally found soone he was satisfied with, he waved away the group of doctors and nurses as he carried away a cultured middle-aged man with glasses. "You can all go."
The other ghosts who were not selected looked like they had been pardoned as they fled the scene as if they could not wait to get back into the mist.
Despite the fact that the doctor had a sharp scalpel, he could only stare at Shen Dongqing as he held it stiffly, not daring to use it.
Shen Dongqing let go of his hand and directed: "Take us to the Director's Office."
After hearing the word "Director
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