Salted Fish Zombie

Ch. 128.1.2.3

(Part 1)

After escorting Shi Tianzhu and the female player back to the dorm, they returned.

It was around eleven at night by the time they got back to the dorm. By then, many people had already returned.

The third floor was occupied entirely by players, and tonight it was much livelier than usual.

As soon as they went upstairs, they heard excited shouts.

The noise was coming from Dorm Room 302. The door was wide open, and a faint smell of blood drifted out from within.

"Hold him down! Don't let him move!"

"Pin his arms down!"

"Why is he still shouting? Cover his mouth so the dorm supervisor doesn't come after us!"

Inside Room 302, a group of players had gathered.

They were holding down a male player who had lost his memory and were engraving characters onto his skin, while a crowd of male players on the outside watched excitedly, egging them on.

Ji Zeming, who had arrived before the three of them, explained, "This player is about to completely lose his memory. Since he hasn't engraved any characters onto his body, they're forcibly engraving them for him."

To create markings that would last more than a month, the cuts obviously couldn't be shallow.

With various stationery knives and fruit knives slicing into warm skin, fresh blood instantly welled up, trickling down fingers and onto the messy floor.

"At first, they were just carving his name and the character [解] (meaning 'liberation' or 'release'), but then they started..."

Carving characters onto one's body had begun with the first group of players who had lost their memories, following Zhou Xiang's lead.

At that time, they didn't know what it would be like to experience complete memory loss. They didn't know if it would leave them with a permanent blank mind, lost and vacant.

It was an act of resolve they made from the heart before they lost their memories.

The first batch of players who lost their memories confirmed that they did indeed suffer complete amnesia. After losing their memories, they were like small children who knew nothing. However, once they experienced total memory loss, the invisible monsters would leave their bodies. After that, they could retain new memories, like children, and could even be taught to fill in their names, class, and exam numbers on the test papers.

In other words, they didn't actually need to engrave anything.

However, the second group of players who lost their memories, wanting to show their determination to the others, also carved those unnecessary characters onto their bodies, just like the first group had.

This turned "unnecessary" into "necessary."

This led to the situation where a player who hadn't carved the characters was forced to do so.

Randomly carving characters onto someone's body seems to create a twisted sense of control.

At first, they just carved that player's name and information, but then someone etched their own name onto him. This sparked cheers and laughter, and others began to imitate.

If inscribing his exam information was barely justifiable, then carving other people's names onto his body was blatant bullying and humiliation.

The skin exposed on that male player was covered in bloody scars.