Chapter 27 (1/2)
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Who is it?
Who’s calling him?
Xiao Tangqiu had difficulty opening his eyes, but in the next second, he was faced with Tang Mianmian’s zoomed-in face because he was leaning too close his own face. It almost scared him into cardiac arrest.
Seeing that he was conscious, Tang Mianmian got excited, “You’re finally awake! That’s great! I thought you were dead!” As he spoke, he started to cry.
Was he joking?! How could he be dead? He was clearly alive and well……
Wait a minute… he seemed………to have really died?
…… Didn’t the BOSS stab a hand through his chest? So was he dead? Wait a minute! There seemed to be something else…… What the hell was live stream channel thing about?!
“Tang Mianmian?” Xiao Tangqiu struggled to stretch out his hand and touched Tang Mianmian’s face. He found that it was warm to the touch, so he felt his own face as well. It was also warm. “You’re not dead? I’m not dead either? What happened?” If they were already dead, how could their bodies still feel warm?
Tang Mianmian dived into Xiao Tangqiu’s arms and sobbed loudly, “I don’t know what happened….. I hid in the wardrobe the entire time. I didn’t even dare to look out. After a while, I heard movement outside, so I looked out quietly through the crack in the door…… and then I saw the BOSS kill you! I thought you were dead!”
Bit by bit, Xiao Tangqiu started to recall that scene, and couldn’t help but smile bitterly “I also thought that I was finished……”
Hearing Tang Mianmian’s words, Xiao Tangqiu shifted his attention to their surroundings. His heart sank at once – obviously, this wasn’t the real world. Were they somehow drawn into a new mission without their knowledge?
This was a really large square, much bigger than the public recreational square downstairs of Xiao Tangqiu’s apartment, where several dance aunties would fight for space and gather every day. It was almost impossible to see till the end. A tall sculpture stood in the middle of the square, facing Xiao Tangqiu.
It was a sculpture of a woman. The sculpture seemed to be arrogantly looking down as it overlooked all life from its high position. Although there were no eyeballs in its eye sockets, Xiao Tangqiu thought he saw a hint of pity for all things living within those eyes.
With Xiao Tangqiu’s extremely limited knowledge of the arts, he really couldn’t tell whose statue it was, but subconsciously he felt a little uncomfortable. So, he turned away to look elsewhere. Not far from the statue was a row of horizontal white cylinders, which looked a bit like a coffin at first glance. But at a closer look, they resembled the transfer chambers depicted in holographic video games.
He stared at it for a while, only to find that behind the row of white cylinders were rows and rows and rows of……. the square was almost filled up with these cylinders!
“What the fuck?!” Tang Mianmian had also caught sight of those things, and was shocked, “What the hell are they? Coffins? Is this some sort of special morgue? “
“Such a big morgue? Plus it’s open air?” Xiao Tangqiu gave Tang Mianmian the side eye, “Stop spouting nonsense! Didn’t you see someone climbing out of one of those things?”
Tang Mianmian’s face twisted, “Isn’t that more frightening?! The corpse has come back to life ah!”
Xiao Tangqiu stared intently at those who climbed out of the white cylinders. Almost instantly, he confirmed the identities of those people. They were probably “players” like he and Tang Mianmian.
Just then, a group of people suddenly appeared out of thin air in the empty space beside Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian. There were about seven or eight people; some of them were awake, others were unconscious, just like Xiao Tangqiu had been earlier.
When that group of people realized that they were somewhere else, some of them cheered, some looked like they were in a trance, while others cried and shouted.
“We‘ve finally escaped! We did it!”