Fan Cong's emotions were unstable, and it was obvious that he had been greatly traumatized. "Mr. Chen, that game was so despairing. Whenever Xiao Bu died, it felt like she was looking at me like I was the one who killed her."
After taking a deep breath, Fan Cong took out his phone. "Whenever I cleared the game, I would record down the process. The next time I cleared the game, I would change the option to try a new ending."
Swiping the screen, Fan Cong clicked open the note on his phone. It was filled with words. "After unlocking all the achievements in this game, the system rewarded me with a 'Mama's Pajamas'. The key to the dungeon was found inside the pajamas, and it was after the key was found that the main character's name changed to Xiao Bu.
"The entrance to the dungeon was hidden behind the cupboard in my classmate's house. After using the key, the style of the game changed. I've told you what happened next.
"I controlled Xiao Bu to walk out from the underground and saw a bus stop. To avoid the red shadow monster, I was forced to get on the bus."
The part at the top of the note was similar to what Fan Cong had said earlier.
"The bus soon started to move, and it moved down the road.
"Xiao Bu, who was wearing her mother's pajamas, would walk around the bus. Not long after that, the sound of a child crying would come from the game. After listening for a while, two options would appear on screen — find the source of the crying and ask the driver."
"The first option was to ask the driver, but when I reached the driver's seat, I realized that there was no one inside the bus. There was no driver.
"The crying became louder and louder. It felt like it was not coming from the computer but directly ringing inside my head.
"The bus soon reached the first stop — Li Wan City. At that moment, a sentence appeared on screen. 'I need to leave this place as soon as possible.
"I controlled Xiao Bu to leave the bus. After I got off the bus, I turned to look at the bus, and something scary happened. The windows were filled with human faces. They were all looking at me through the computer screen.
"Before I could react, a red shadow ran toward me from the platform. It was the scary woman in the red raincoat.
"To avoid her pursuit, I ran into the nearby Li Wan City."
"This town is the town where the main character of the game goes around doing quests. The architecture is the same, but the style is completely different. It goes from cheerful, warm, and full of sunshine to gloomy, gray, and filled with uneasiness and strangeness.
"The woman in the red raincoat chased after me. I controlled Xiao Bu to run down the street. The bottom of the screen kept popping up — Help! But no one came out from the town.
"In the end, I was forced into a dilapidated residential building with nowhere to run."
"The woman in the red raincoat is getting closer and closer. Her face is enlarging on the screen until it occupies the whole screen."
"The black hair that was stuck together parted, and the woman in the red raincoat revealed her true appearance. Her eyes were bloodshot, and her lips were sewn shut. She looked very scary."
"A very scary laughter came from the computer, and then a line of words appeared on the screen — Xiao Bu has become her new child."
"Xiao Bu's head was wrapped up by the woman's hair, and I could no longer control Xiao Bu."
After saying that, Fan Cong took a deep breath. The game was too depressing, and just thinking about it made him feel uncomfortable.
"Is this one of the bad endings?" Chen Ge grabbed a bottle of water from the worker and passed it to Fan Cong.
"Compared to the other endings, this is the best one." Fan Cong did not accept the water. With a pale face, he continued to talk about the other endings.
"After Xiao Bu was taken away by the woman in the red raincoat, the screen turned black, and the sound of a child's crying and laughter came from the computer. Moments later, a line of gray and white letters appeared — Why do you want to kill me?
"The words were like the child's numb and despairing eyes; it was heart-wrenching. After a long time, the words disappeared, and the screen returned to normal. Xiao Bu was wearing his mother's pajamas, lying in his own room. "
At this point in Fan Cong's story, Chen Ge raised his hand to cut him off. "Lying in his own room? In other words, after the character died, he loaded the file in his own room.
"Yes, she was lying in bed like everything that had happened earlier was just a nightmare. The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and people were busy at work, greeting each other." Fan Cong did not think there was anything strange about that. "The game restarted, and I controlled Xiao Bu to enter his classmate's dungeon. I got on the bus, but this time, I made a different choice."
"You chose to search for the child's crying on the bus?" Eastern Jiujiang was different from Western Jiujiang. All the scary scenarios and ghost stories seemed to be connected by something to form a whole. He could not act rashly, so Chen Ge memorized everything that Fan Cong said. He felt like there was an important clue hidden in the game.
"Yes, I controlled Xiao Bu to the last row of the bus, and I saw an old school bag. At that moment, a message popped up — 'Xiao Bu found a phone that was soaked in water inside the bag.' In the game, Xiao Bu turned on the phone, and then a few more messages appeared in the chat box. It sounded like Xiao Bu was reading the message on the phone.
"There was a phone inside the bag at the last row? What did the phone say? " Chen Ge was reminded of what Xiao Gu had said the night before. He had seen a high-schooler on the last bus on Route 104. The high-schooler hugged the bag and sat at the last row. His hand kept reaching into the bag like he was holding something.
"I've memorized everything. These few sentences are the reason I came to find you today. I feel like this might have gone beyond the scope of a game. There's definitely a murder that happened in real life." Fan Cong handed his phone to Chen Ge. There were three sentences written on the note.
"September 1st, my mother and I moved into a new apartment. Our neighbor was a young man who lived alone. He had a large dog that looked very gentle. His name was Xiao Bu.
"September 7th, when I came back from the internet, I saw the neighbor carrying a large black bag downstairs. He looked very sad, saying that the pet that he had raised for so many years had left him just like that. The dog seemed to have eaten something unclean and died at home.
"At the end of October, the neighbor moved away. The landlord found a fridge full of dog meat inside the neighbor's house. When Xiao Bu died, the neighbor must have been very sad."
At first glance, these three sentences didn't seem to be a big deal, but if you read them carefully, you would find the problem. The neighbor came downstairs with a sad look, holding a big black bag, saying that his pet had died, but the landlord later found a fridge full of dog meat. Then on the night of September 7th, what was in the black bag that the phone owner saw?
Fan Cong's finger continued to slide down the screen. "I checked the news from Jiujiang last September. At the time, there was indeed a similar murder case, and the location of the murder was the Li Wan City mentioned in the game."
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