Chapter 261
Chapter 261
Three nights later, everyone lay on the floor with bloodshot eyes and unkempt stubble, Liu Ye’s delighted laughter constantly ringing in their ears.
“Ahahaha…”
Watching Liu Ye run all over the place, Brother Biao clutched his hair so hard that he tore it out.
For three days, they had lived through hell. They jumped off buildings in the morning and hanged themselves at night. When Liu Ye finally fell asleep, he sleepwalked and shouted in the middle of the night. In three whole days, they had not slept well for a single minute.
“Please, little master, can we rest for a while? I want to sleep! Boo-hoo…” Brother Biao cried miserably.
Bang!
A toy was thrown into his face.
“Hehehe… tee-hee-hee…”
Director Zhao had gone mad and was playing with his own fingers. Brother Biao and the other two were becoming abnormal too. Now, the sight of Liu Ye made them need the bathroom. They finally understood what it meant to find death preferable to life.
Only Xiaoshuai and the other two, whose wills were stronger, were slightly better off, though they too were close to breaking.
Still, there had been one benefit. Parents throughout the real world had become much more tolerant of their children.
They no longer became angry when their children refused to study. Fine, don’t study; at least it would not kill anyone. Compared with Liu Ye, their own children were angels.
“John, are you done yet?”
Xiaoshuai stared at the screen with bloodshot eyes.
He had strapped cameras to the hospital’s Fiends and sent them to map the terrain. John would turn the footage into a map and send it back so they could locate the remaining rooms.
“Crunch, crunch. Almost done.”
Xiaoshuai: “…”
“What are you doing? Are you eating sunflower seeds? Your favorite brother is suffering in here, and you’re outside eating sunflower seeds! Are you enjoying watching me suffer?”
“Ahem. You misheard. That was my mouse clicking. I’ve sent you the map and marked several important rooms. You can go there, but there’s something I need to tell you first.”
John’s expression immediately became serious.
“Nothing that happened in this hospital could be called pleasant. We investigated. Leaving aside Brother Liu’s part, the viewers experienced huge emotional swings while watching what happened to those people. You could even call it oppressive.”
“You mean Liu Sibo will be affected?”
“Exactly. The boy was originally timid, but here he gained the power to change his life, then witnessed every dark corner of humanity. What do you think he’ll do?”
“Take revenge on the world? So that’s why he caused all that trouble in reality?”
Xiaoshuai chuckled. It was not hard to understand. Liu Sibo’s personality was still developing. Experiences like these could easily drive him toward extremes.
“So the next puzzle pieces will probably deepen that influence.”
Liu Sibo had already gained eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and hands. Considering the Stomach they had seen in reality, the remaining parts were probably his internal organs.
“I understand.”
“Big Brother, come play!”
Xiaoshuai shuddered, then forced a smile.
“Brother Liu, aren’t you a good child who loves helping others?”
“I’m a good child who loves helping others!”
Liu Ye proudly puffed out his chest.
“Hah! Ptooey!”
Brother Biao and the others spat heavily on the ground.
Xiaoshuai glared at them, then smiled gently.
“Xiao Bo is in trouble now. Shouldn’t we help him?”
“What trouble is Brother Xiao Bo in?” Liu Ye asked curiously.
“Well, here’s the thing. Xiao Bo is missing a few things. We need to help him find them, or he’ll die. You don’t want him to die, do you?”
“No! I don’t want Brother Xiao Bo to die!”
Liu Ye hugged Liu Sibo tightly, as though terrified he would die. Even at such a young age, he already understood how frightening death was.
“If you don’t let go, I really will die!” Liu Sibo said with difficulty, his eyes rolling back.
Everyone hurriedly pulled Liu Ye away. This time, however, Liu Sibo merely glanced at him and, unusually, said nothing.
“So we need to find some doors. The things Xiao Bo needs are hidden behind them.”
“Those doors?”
Liu Ye pointed outside.
Xiaoshuai looked out and saw five doors labeled Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lungs, and Kidneys!
“Exactly. These are the… doors?”
Xiaoshuai and the others stared outside in disbelief, then looked down at the map.
Everyone: “…”
After a moment of silence, they all erupted.
“Then what was the point of everything we suffered these last three days?!”
“Give me back my three days!”
Seeing everyone lose their minds, Liu Ye happily joined them!
Once they finally calmed down, the group approached one of the doors. Heart was written on it.
Yet something felt strange to Xiaoshuai.
“We entered through the door marked Stomach. Why isn’t there a Stomach door here?”
Before he could think further, Liu Ye opened the door.
Whoosh!
White light flashed.
Liu Sibo discovered that everyone around him had vanished. He stood before a familiar building.
“This is…”
His pupils contracted. The building was his family’s home, a self-built house of a little over eighty square meters. His maternal grandfather had left it to his mother. It was supposedly about to be demolished for redevelopment, but unfortunately, his mother had not lived to see that day.
He hurried inside, reached the ground floor, and opened the door. A group of people sat in his home.
“Xiao Bo, you’re back? Good. We need to discuss something with you.”
The speaker was his eldest maternal uncle, who held a document.
“Xiao Bo, I know you’re grieving and life hasn’t been easy, but whose life is easy right now? Your eldest cousin is getting married, and we still don’t have the bride price. You need to understand your uncle. This is money your mother borrowed from me. When can you repay it?”
Liu Sibo took the document. It claimed his family owed the man three hundred thousand yuan and bore a red fingerprint.
At that instant, his ears picked up a voice.
“Heh. This stupid brat has no idea I pressed his mother’s hand onto it at the hospital. Now their house will be mine! Once it’s demolished, I’ll earn another fortune. Hahaha…”
“Hey, what are you doing? Your younger sister just died, and you’re already pulling this? Xiao Bo, ignore him. From now on, you can live with me. I’ll pay for your schooling!”
This was his second maternal uncle. The moment the man finished speaking, Liu Sibo heard his thoughts.
“If the brat moves in, I’ll make him work. We can’t waste such good labor. Wouldn’t it be better to make him hand over all his wages and support our whole family? When the time comes, the house will be his too!”
Liu Sibo clenched the IOU so hard that it crumpled.