The missing piece of the puzzle was finally coming together at this moment.
He looked around and laughed to himself.
Among all the previous puzzles, he was most confused about the one thing, and that was what on earth were boys?
And now, Huanhuan told him.
This place seems to have suspended time.
Cheng Ye smiled.
The deep eyes seemed to be hidden in the sea, unfathomable.
Now, there is still one last step left, which is to verify his guess.
secret……
He raised his head and looked toward the dark heights.
Right there.
Cheng Ye walked up, being careful not to make any noise.
He now had one last question, and that was what exactly the blue drink was.
Is it beneficial or harmful to children?
Is it control... or...
He suppressed the last bit of doubt and walked towards the answer.
The dim staircase exudes the damp smell of not seeing sunlight all year round.
There are some dark and unknown objects in the corners and gaps of the wall.
This is actually not the first time Cheng Ye has come up, but he still feels that it is his first time.
The footsteps were so soft that only he could hear them.
One step, two steps, three steps...
He is getting closer and closer to the answer.
The difference from last time was that this time Cheng Ye briefly explored the second, third, and fourth floors in addition to the fifth floor.
The second and third floors have been abandoned for a long time, and the large desks are covered with dust.
Cheng Ye felt inexplicably familiar, an instinctive reaction caused by this body.
Following the reaction, he touched the wall and stopped.
As if something had been triggered, a picture appeared in my mind for no apparent reason.
The wind is sunny and the breeze is gentle.
Several grown men were exercising in this room with their upper bodies naked.
They are all basic exercises. Without equipment, I just tie sandbags to my legs and arms and do squats.
The environment is not very good, the room is very dusty.
But no one disliked anything, and everyone had happy smiles on their faces.
Their clothes were rudimentary, even with a few holes in them, and their faces were dirty.
But no one cared, they were talking and laughing.
A voice came from the right:
"...xxx, are you in a group with xx?"
Cheng Ye wanted to look to the right.
The scene ended abruptly.
Everything dissipated, and he was still standing in the same place, in that dark and damp room.
There is no one or thing except cleanliness.
The image just now is like a memory that remains here.
Touch triggers in normal newbie dungeons.
Because I came here, I naturally unlocked the clues.
Cheng Ye recalled the scene in the picture and suddenly saw something.
The badge pinned to the clothes lying aside was the badge he found in the teaching building.
That triangular, metal, somewhat rusty badge.
The scene you just saw is probably the trace left by the people who once lived here.
Yes, part of the clue.
Cheng Ye looked at the empty room and felt a little uncomfortable for no reason.
He squinted his eyes slightly, unable to see his emotions.
After a while, he went around the empty room to check one by one and found many traces of where things had been placed.
The indentations and drag marks on the ground prove that something was once placed here.
Although it is impossible to guess what was placed here before, but like the teaching building, it has also been cleaned.
Cheng Ye sighed.
The quiet space echoed with echoes and sighs continued for a long time.
It's all cleaned up.
Cheng Ye went to another room again, and there were no other scenes.
But that vaguely familiar feeling lingered.
It's familiar.
After getting to the fourth floor, some rooms were locked and not opened. In order to prevent noise, Cheng Ye did not force it.
He opened the room he could.
There are many weapons in one of the rooms.
What machetes, rifles, pistols and the like.
Glittering with cold light, slightly cold.
Cheng Ye picked up the gun and tried it. There were no bullets in it.
I searched around, but there were no bullets.
Bullets were also cleared.
These empty shells are left behind, useless.
After wandering around for a while, I found another room on the fourth floor that looked like a storage room, with several large iron shelves on which were placed bedding and some cotton-padded clothes.
Cheng Ye took off the quilt and checked it. It was a little yellowed, but it was still soft and comfortable. It was made of cotton.
It's just a little thin, weighing only about three or four pounds.
The cotton-padded clothes were exactly the same as those seen in the teaching building at that time.
It's just that the ones here are clean and the ones there are dirty.
Although it is clean, after inspection, it will be found that there are many holes, and it is wearable but not warm.
Inside the shelf, there is a pile of shoes.
It was shriveled and had no thickness, as if it had been rushed out and then thrown here without being put into use.
Seeing these things, Cheng Ye became more certain that the predecessor of this orphanage was a garrison for combat troops.
But for some unknown reason, they moved away and converted it into an orphanage.
Cheng Ye exited the room.
I've almost checked the fourth floor, and there's basically nothing special about it.
He continued walking upward.
Thinking about that badge, that map, that diary, those bloody star maps.
He wanted to tie these things together.
In fact, what concerned Cheng Ye more was the last entry in the notebook.
"On Monday, they said I was sick and asked me to rest here.
sick! ?
How could I be sick? I am a hero who has killed countless enemies.
You are the ones who are sick, you are the ones who are sick! "
Sick, sick, sick.
What exactly is this disease?
Is it a disease caused by random killings?
Did the stars in that room bloom only after getting sick?
Cheng Ye walked to the fifth floor.
There were no cameras on the fifth floor, so he was in the middle of the corridor openly.
Look in front, and look behind.
There are no windows here, just a little light from a small window in the stairwell.
The two sides of the corridor looked unreal.
On Cheng Ye's left hand side, a door opened slightly, and warm orange light poured out of it.
There are people there.
Cheng Ye stood still and didn't move.
He met no one along the way, and all the floors were clean and empty of anything.
He vaguely remembered that when he was in school, there would always be teachers in the office building.
Although it is not clear what time some teachers work, there are people in the office in Yongzhou.
But now, those teachers are neither in class nor here.
They disappeared into thin air.
People will not disappear inexplicably, unless they were not human from the beginning.
In this orphanage, perhaps no one except myself and the director really existed.
Here, maybe...
Cheng Ye suddenly lowered his head and chuckled.
He stood up straight, his back straight.
There was no trace of embarrassment or panic on his handsome face.
Just like the last time, the last time, and every time he failed, he pushed open the door on the right.
After some searching, I got some answers.
Then I heard the door open on the left.
The fat woman came out.
Her face was solemn, as if something had happened.
Cheng Ye squatted behind the door and stared at the fat woman's expression.
Where is she going?
Did you find that someone was awake last night?
This is Cheng Ye's opportunity to create for himself.
Since he was going to come here, the room he should go to was the fat woman's room.
But what if the fat woman stays on the fifth floor forever?
After all, those children said that except when drinks were handed out at night, they basically didn't see fat women.
It was as if she was not in this orphanage but somewhere else.
But Cheng Ye believed that she was just keeping watch.
So he needs a little bit of opportunity.
As for this opportunity, he had thought about it last night when he was thinking about whether to risk going out.
He had to make the fat woman notice something was wrong and then make a move. Only if she made a move would he have a chance.
It's safe to stay the same, but now, he has collected almost all the clues.
Much faster than the three days initially estimated.
So, he can start taking risks.
Cheng Ye hid in the darkness and closed his eyes.
Listen carefully to the footsteps coming from the stairwell,
The footsteps became smaller and smaller, and the fat woman had already gone down.
As the sound gradually becomes inaudible...
Cheng Ye opened the door.
He walked toward that room at the same pace as the fat woman walked.
The door was locked.
Cheng Ye was not surprised.
Important places must always be locked.
He was the same as last time.
Opened the next room and hid behind the window.
It wasn't until he saw the fat woman leaving by the window that he returned to where he was and kicked open the door.
He walked in...
At the same time, the fat woman was walking quickly, explaining something anxiously: "There was no accident, everything is fine."
"They drink on time every night, how could there be an accident?"
"You ask me why I'm leaving the monitoring room now? Can't I go see my children?"
There seemed to be an argument with the person over the headset.
After talking a lot, the other end of the headset didn't know what was said. The fat woman's expression changed again and again, and she simply ran towards the dormitory building.
"Okay, don't worry, I will take care of it."
She interrupted the other person impatiently and hung up the call.
She wanted to confirm something.
She felt something was wrong in the early morning.
But she still had many children, so she didn't think too much about it for the time being.
In addition, I had to mentally train myself so that I wouldn't hate Cheng Ye so much, so I spent a whole morning like this.
But during lunch.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.
Where do the slap marks on children's faces come from?
It cannot appear out of thin air!
Everyone should sleep like a baby.
But why was every child beaten?
It can't be just children playing games and slapping themselves for fun, right?
Unless... someone didn't sleep last night, got up and beat the other children.
But how could the child who drank the drink stay awake?
You know, part of the function of the drink is to soothe the nerves, so they will sleep soundly.
Moreover, drinks are a little bit addictive, and normal children will not deliberately avoid drinking them.
Unless... someone fails.
Some people have developed antibodies to this medicine and are on the verge of mutating again.
This is very dangerous.
This is something that will produce blood and tears.
The people above were already warning her.
She must confirm this...
So, she quickly looked at the video from last night and started to check it carefully.
When I checked the dormitory, I found that a child stayed up in the middle of the night and ran out.
He lowered his head all the way and couldn't see his face clearly.
But that outfit was familiar to her.
She would come in every night to check on their health, and she had seen this outfit countless times.
So she recognized it at a glance, it was 073's clothes.
073 Didn’t sleep at night and ran out?
At that time, she was a little scared, and quickly checked the office building. After searching several times, she finally found that 073 went to the teaching building.
She breathed a sigh of relief. There was nothing she couldn't do in the teaching building.
Just why go to the teaching building in the middle of the night?
She was holding back a lot of questions, and the more she thought about it, the more she thought about it.
Didn’t I tell everyone that drinks are a must?
How could someone suddenly start resisting?
This shouldn't be...obedience is their instinct...
The fat woman was even more worried, so much so that even when her superiors called for consultation, she was not in an impetuous mood...
Decided to go directly to 073 to ask clearly...
Because she was anxious and confused, she missed several shots.
No matter how familiar, keen and careful Cheng Ye is, he can't completely avoid all cameras.
So there are still a few shots of his face.
It's a pity that she didn't see it because she was anxious for accountability...
Cheng Ye kicked open the fat woman's locked door.
Dozens of monitors came into view, playing every detail about the orphanage.
As usual, Cheng Ye searched the room.
No abnormalities were found.
Same as every time.
He still discovered the room where the dolls were kept.
But this time, he did not move the doll first, but stood there and observed the position of the doll first.
He noticed...what the doll represented...
Dolls are the source of control for every teacher, and those teachers are transformed by dolls.
In the entire orphanage, only the director is real.
What about myself, what about those children...
Cheng Ye fell into deep thought. His thinking was too fast. Maybe it was because although the game had been reset, this was not the first time he had thought like this. Everything fell into place quickly.
He quickly deduced that there was another room between the monitoring room and the doll room.
What was different from the past was that Cheng Ye had no plans to come back to get a room next time. He was going in today.
He already had enough clues that he didn't need to wait any longer.
He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly ran towards the fourth floor quickly.
Machetes, there's a bunch of machetes there.
The walls here must not be very thick. Although no mechanism or anything was found, the room must have a trap door.
Since there is a trap door, there is a loophole, so you can use brute force to open it.
Cheng Ye quickly brought several sharp machetes up.
He stood among the dolls covered in mucus, raised his knife, and chopped hard...
…
I don’t know how long it has been...
The door opened.
The extra space between the doll room and the monitoring room, at this moment
Unexpected.
There was just a row of shelves quietly placed inside, and on top was a stack of documents.
Packed in a brown paper bag, it looked so ordinary.
But Cheng Ye's breathing gradually became faster.
His eyes became hot and he stared at the documents.
This is the final answer.
This is the final piece of his puzzle.
Cheng Ye couldn't wait to step forward and picked up the first document.
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