Chapter 0502 – The murder case corresponding to the dress-up game

　　Fan Cong was in a very unstable mood, obviously greatly stimulated, “Boss Chen, that game is really too desperate, every time Boo died, I felt like she was looking at me, as if I killed her with my own hands.”

　　Taking a breather, Fan Cong took out his own cell phone, “Every time I pass an ending, I record the flow and change the options to try a new ending next time.”

　　Sliding the screen, Fan Cong tapped on his cell phone sticky note, which was densely filled with words, “After unlocking all the achievements of this dress-up game, the system rewarded me with a ‘mom’s pajamas’, and the dungeon key was found inside the pajamas, and it was also after discovering the key that the game’s protagonist’s name changed to Boo. ”

　　”The entrance to the dungeon was hidden behind a closet in a classmate’s house, and after using the key, the picture of the healing game changed, and what happened next I had told you about.”

　　”I maneuvered Boo out of the underground, saw a station, and was forced to get on a bus in order to avoid the red shadow monster.”

　　The part at the top of the sticky note wasn’t too far off from what Fan Cong had told earlier.

　　”The bus vehicle quickly drove up and down the highway.”

　　”Boo in his mom’s pajamas would walk back and forth in the bus, and before long, the sound of a child crying came out of the game, and after forcing myself to listen for a while, two options would appear on the screen: find the source of the crying and ask the driver.”

　　”My first choice was to ask the driver, but when I came to the driver’s cab I found that the bus was empty, there was no driver.”

　　”The cries were getting louder and louder, and it no longer felt like they were coming from a computer, but as if they were ringing directly in my head.”

　　”The bus quickly reached the first stop – Liwan Town, at which point a line appeared on the screen: I have to leave this place quickly before I can do so.”

　　”I maneuvered Boo to leave the bus, got off the bus and then looked at the bus, a shocking scene appeared, the window of the bus was crowded with human faces, they were all looking at me through the computer screen.”

　　”Without waiting for me to react, a red shadow ran across the platform, it was the scary woman in the red raincoat.”

　　”In order to avoid her, I ran into the nearby town of Liwan.”

　　”This town is the town where the main character of the dress-up game goes around doing quests, the building layouts are all the same, only the styles are completely different, from cheerful, cozy, and full of sunshine, all of a sudden it becomes gloomy, gray, and full of uneasiness and weirdness.”

　　”With the red raincoat chasing after me, I maneuvered Boo to run wildly through the streets, and the words – Help – popped up at the bottom of the screen from time to time, but not a single person came out of the town.”

　　”Eventually I was forced into a dilapidated family building with no way out.”

　　”The red raincoat was getting closer and closer, and her face on the screen was zooming in, slowly taking over the entire screen.”

　　”Sticky black hair parted to the sides, Red Raincoat revealed her true face, her eyes were full of blood, her mouth was sewn shut, she looked extremely} human.”

　　”A very scary laugh came from the computer, followed by a line on the screen – Boo had become her new child.”

　　”Boo’s head was wrapped in red raincoat hair and I could no longer manipulate Boo.”

　　Fanchon took a deep breath when he finished, the gameplay footage was so depressing that it seemed to make him feel bad to think back on it.

　　”Is this one of those bad endings?” Chen Ge brought a bottle of water from the staff and handed it to Fan Cong.

　　”Compared to the other endings, this is considered the best one.” Fan Cong didn’t bother to pick up the bottle of water as he blanched and continued to talk about the other several endings.

　　”After Boo was taken away by the red raincoat, the screen went black, the sound of a child’s crying and laughter came out of the computer, and a moment later a line of grayish-white font floated up – Why did you kill me?”

　　”The font was like the child’s eyes of numb despair, it was disturbing to look at. After a long time, the font dissipated, the screen returned to normal, and Boo was still lying in his room wearing his mom’s pajamas.”

　　When Fan Cong said this, Chen Ge raised his hand and interrupted, “Lying in his own room? That means that after the character dies, the place where the file is read is her own room.”

　　”That’s right, she was lying on her bed as if what she had just experienced was just a nightmare, the sun was still shining outside the window and people were working hard and greeting each other.” Fan Cong didn’t find this strange, “The game restarted, and I maneuvered Boo into the dungeon of my classmate’s house again, and got on the bus, only this time I made a different choice than I did earlier.”

　　”You chose to look for the baby’s cries on the bus by yourself?” The eastern suburb was different from the western suburb, all the horror scenes and weird talks seemed to be strung together by something to form a whole, pulling the strings and not being reckless, that’s why Chen Ge had memorized all of Fan Cong’s words, he felt that there were important clues hidden in that game.

　　”Yes, I manipulated Boo to the last row of the bus and saw a broken school bag, at this time a sentence popped up under the screen – Boo found a waterlogged cell phone in the school bag. The game shows Boo turning the phone on, and that’s when the dialog box comes up with a few more sentences that appear to be Boo reading off the screen of the phone.”

　　”There’s a cell phone in a book bag in the last row? What did the cell phone say?” Chen Ge recalled something Xiao Gu had said last night, that he had met a high school student on the last bus on Route 104, and that high school student had sat in the last row holding his school bag, and his hand had been sticking out of the bag as if he was grasping something.

　　”I’ve written it all down, and these few words are also the reason why I came to find you today, because I feel that this may have already left the realm of the game, and there’s definitely a murder case hidden inside that happened in reality.” Fan Cong handed his cell phone in front of Chen Ge’s eyes, and three sentences were written on the sticky note.

　　”September 1, my mother and I moved into a new apartment, and my neighbor is a young man who lives alone, and he has a big, docile-looking dog called Boo.”

　　”On September 7th, when I came back from surfing the internet, I saw my neighbor walking towards the stairs holding a big black bag, he looked sad and said that the pet he had kept for so many years just left him, the beloved dog seemed to have eaten something unclean and died in the house.”

　　”At the end of October the neighbor moved out and the landlord found a freezer full of dog meat in the neighbor’s refrigerator, the neighbor must have been very sad when Boo died.”

　　These three sentences don’t seem like much at first glance, but a careful read through before and after reveals the problem, the neighbor looked sad and came downstairs holding a large black bag, saying that the pet he owned had died, but the landlord later found a refrigerator full of dog meat in the fridge, so what exactly was in the black bag that the owner of the cell phone saw on the night of September 7th?

　　Fan Cong’s finger continued to slide down the screen, “I checked the news flash of Jiujiang in September last year, and there was indeed a similar murder case at that time, and the place where that murder happened was in Liwan Town as stated in the game.”