LGSG Chapter 32
by Volare“Can we sleep together?”
Mr. Xie’s request was simple and direct.
Xia Ran was so startled that he leaned back.
He hesitated and said, “Can this bed accommodate two people?”
Xie He: “Yes, it can. Moreover…”
His expression became serious and profound.
“I’m scared. Haven’t you heard this story before?”
Xia Ran: “…What story?”
Xie He: “In a school, Xiao Ming and Xiao Jun were good friends. They lived in the same dormitory, on the upper and lower bunks…”
When he told stories, his voice became very soft, neither hurried nor slow, making it easy for people to listen.
Xia Ran’s appetite was piqued: “And then what?”
Xie He: “Then one day, Xiao Ming couldn’t find Xiao Jun anywhere. Not in class, not in the dormitory. The teachers and classmates hadn’t seen him either.”
Xia Ran frowned: “Could he have dropped out of school and gone home?”
Xie He smiled: “Xiao Ming thought so too. So he called Xiao Jun’s home. The call went through, but the signal seemed bad, with a lot of static. No matter what Xiao Ming asked, the person on the other end didn’t respond. Just as he was about to hang up, he suddenly heard a low, hoarse male voice…”
“He said, ‘Good friends, back to back… back to back.'”
“Xiao Ming felt strange and a little scared. He hung up the phone. A week later, Xiao Jun’s family reported his disappearance to the police, who came to the school to investigate. They eventually arrived at Xiao Ming and Xiao Jun’s dormitory. The curtains of Xiao Jun’s bed were pulled open, and Xiao Jun, who had been missing, was on the bed.”
“His body was nailed to the bed board of the upper bunk, back to back with Xiao Ming, having been dead for a week.”
Xia Ran: “…”
Xia Ran: “Mr. Xie, I’ll sleep with you.”
Xie He smiled: “Don’t be afraid, it’s just an urban legend.”
“I’m not afraid.” The black-haired youth awkwardly shifted his gaze. “I’m afraid Mr. Xie will be scared remembering this story.”
In short, Xie He’s goal was successfully achieved.
However, it wasn’t yet nighttime, so after roughly putting down their belongings and tidying the bed, Xia Ran and Xie He went out again to find Shen Hua and Fu Qu.
Xie He put on his mask again, and his voice became boyish.
Xia Ran was distracted, thinking that he didn’t expect Mr. Xie to use a falsetto.
“Should we try to find that doctor again?” Shen Hua said. “He was busy just now. I suspect he thought we were patients registering for admission.”
Xia Ran: “I think we can.”
What if the doctor forgets about it later?
Shen Hua: “Is Mr. Gu coming?”
Fu Qu frowned: “Why bother with a liar?”
Shen Hua: “I just feel like someone as flamboyant as him can’t be ordinary. What if we can catch a ride…”
Shen Hua was timid and afraid of ghosts. If it weren’t for the task, he would have left right away. But he had personally accepted the chef’s task. He mainly thought it was a good job.
Xie He said, “You’re too late. His room is empty now.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Okay. He really comes and goes like the wind.
They first tried to wander around the fifth floor.
Strangely, the floors were usually blocked with cement to create area divisions, and they had assumed the same. But based on observations of the corridor from the outside and the number of rooms they passed, the divided areas were not equal.
“Let’s assume this is Area A,” Shen Hua said. “That side is Area B. The doctor said earlier that Aunt Zhang is on the fifth floor, so she should be in Area B. But why divide such an area?”
Fu Qu said, “Maybe these wards have other uses?”
Xie He narrowed his eyes. “Why do you say that?”
Fu Qu: “Because this village isn’t very big, and the resources allocated to the mental hospital are limited. The five floors may not be solely for patient accommodation. Some rooms may have other functions. If I were management, that’s what I would do. Firstly, to save costs, and secondly, this village can’t accommodate many patients anyway, so we can maximize the use of space.”
Shen Hua was dumbfounded listening from the side.
He swallowed and said, “Master, what did you do before?”
This overall planning perspective looks like a high-level elite.
Is it too late to hug his thigh now?
He admitted that he was a bit loud with Fu Qu before.
“I didn’t do anything,” Fu Qu said. “Just lazed around at home, waiting to die.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Shen Hua resentfully said, “Your one sentence is my entire life.”
Xia Ran hadn’t spoken for a long time.
After probing Fu Qu, Xie He approached the black-haired youth.
“What are you looking at?” Xie He said. “You wouldn’t be thinking about hitting this wall, would you?”
Xia Ran was immediately a little embarrassed.
Normal people would just think he was staring blankly, daydreaming.
How could Mr. Xie see through his little plans he had in mind all day long?
Although he was happy to be understood.
There was still a little shame.
After all, some of Xia Ran’s occasional thoughts were a bit reckless and chuuni.
“Mr. Xie, how likely do you think it is that I can break through this wall?” Xia Ran asked.
Xie He frowned: “It’s poured with cement. You’ll break your hand.”
Xia Ran: “…Okay.”
The violent solution was ruled out.
“Then let’s go down and ask the doctor to clarify the layout of this building and the location of Aunt Zhang’s ward,” Shen Hua said. “I don’t want to stay here for several days without completing the task.”
A smiling young voice emerged.
“It’s a pity, but no.”
Shen Hua was startled and quickly hid behind Fu Qu.
Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Gu Qiufeng, who had disappeared earlier.
He was still wearing that black suit. Because of his tall, slender figure, the suit made him look quite decent.
However, there were several visible rusty patches on the suit, and his gloves were covered in dust.
“Mr. Gu,” Xia Ran said, “what were you doing just now?”
Gu Qiufeng first took off his gloves and casually placed them on a nearby abandoned fire hydrant.
His hands, apart from the gloves, were wrapped in layers of bandages, which looked a bit strange.
Shen Hua stared at the bandages that disappeared into his sleeves, feeling uneasy, wondering if this guy was really alive.
Wrapped in so many bandages, like an evolved mummy.
Gu Qiufeng: “I just went to find the elevator. It took a little effort.”
Shen Hua puzzled: “Why bother finding the elevator? Didn’t we just come up by elevator?”
“That’s what I thought too,” Gu Qiufeng said. “But when I went back, I found it was one-way. I thought, if there’s an ascending elevator, there must be a descending one, so I searched inside and out, and even climbed the outside air conditioner, but there was no descending elevator.”
Fu Qu frowned: “I’ll go take a look.”
After all, Gu Qiufeng, as a clearly non-negligible human “player,” everyone couldn’t truly confirm his position. Although everyone believed most of it, after all, they were now trapped on the fifth floor, and Gu Qiufeng didn’t really need to tell such a small lie that would be exposed upon verification, but they still had to witness it themselves to be completely convinced.
After all, it was hard to say whether Gu Qiufeng’s real purpose was just to find the idol.
From the beginning when he deliberately asked Shen Hua to tell fortunes, he was deliberately connecting with them.
Fu Qu hurriedly returned, his expression serious: “There really isn’t one.”
Shen Hua was shocked: “Then aren’t we…”
Unable to go downstairs?
Fu Qu: “Let’s take it one step at a time.”
Although this situation was rare in copy, it had happened before.
If they couldn’t go downstairs, it means they had come to the important area of the copy.
Although it no longer had much to do with the original task of Aunt Zhang.
However, the situation of nested copy in the game was the first time Fu Qu had seen it.
Xie He was the calmest of everyone.
He was wearing a mask, and no one could see his expression, but they could still hear the subtle indifference and even a bit of joy in his voice: “Anyway, we have no clue now, so why not go back to our respective wards?”
Fu Qu frowned uncomfortably.
He thought that the monster was indeed cold-blooded in nature.
He could still smile at this moment?
Shen Hua wondered: “Aren’t we going to keep trying?”
Xie He: “I’m sleepy.”
Xia Ran said from the side: “I think we can wait for the doctor’s room check.”
Shen Hua: “What if he doesn’t come?”
Xia Ran: “If he doesn’t come, it means this area is very dangerous. Then it’s useless for us to ask the doctor for help. I’d rather let me try to break through this wall.”
Shen Hua: “…”
Although this idea was simple and crude, he was actually convinced by it.
“Then let’s do it,” Shen Hua said, giving up.
Anyway, there were two big shots, Fu Qu and Xia Ran, in the team.
He shouldn’t be that… unlucky, right?
After deciding to return to their respective rooms, Xia Ran quietly approached Xie He.
The black-haired youth’s mouth drooped slightly: “Mr. Xie, when I made the suggestion just now, you seemed to be smiling? Do you think I’m naive?”
Xie He: “I was just thinking, if there really are ghosts, our Ranran would protect me and beat them to a pulp, right?”
Xia Ran: “If… if they have a physical body!”
As the saying goes, all fear comes from insufficient firepower.
Xia Ran’s natural strength had indeed prevented him from developing any fear of unknown phenomena since childhood.
The reason he stuttered was because of Xie He’s unconventional address.
Did Mr. Xie just have a slip of the tongue?
Why did he… call him Ranran?
This kind of nickname-like address, in Xia Ran’s mind, was only used by very close relationships.
Causing his heart to skip a beat.
Xia Ran was about to tug at his ear when Xie He grabbed his hand.
“You’re wearing earrings, don’t tug randomly.”
So that kind of shyness wasn’t relieved in time, and it flowed into his limbs along with the blood.
Burning Xia Ran to the point where he didn’t dare to look directly at Xie He.
His voice was very soft: “Mr. Xie, what did you call me just now?”
Xie He put the mask aside on the side of his forehead.
He said, “Ranran, let’s sleep together.”