Chapter 3

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Big Brother, Please Save Us! / From Doomsday to Escape Game

Translator : Xiao Wentian + Li Zhinu

Editor : Kirishima Ririka

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THE/TOMAS/SON/FAMILY – III : Game Start

Evening. All students returned to the dormitory, chattering as they finished their evening classes.

As soon as Zhang Lu pushed open the door, she smelled the aroma of freshly cooked food. On the table in the dormitory, she saw a hot pot, an empty KFC family bucket, spicy and sour noodles, several trays of steamed dumplings, and the remains of two whole sweet fried ducks.

She gawked at Lin Rurui, who was lying motionless on the bed, “RuiRui, did you eat all of these by yourself?

Lin Rurui hmmm-ed.

“Did you actually go out to play this afternoon during sick leave? RuiRui, we’re both third graders in high school, you can’t be so relaxed.” Zhang Lu shook her head.

Liu Xueling came up worriedly, “RuiRui, the family of the girl you have injured went the school this afternoon, Old Li said he wanted you to call your parents …….”

Lin Rurui put the book over her face and turned over: “Whatever.” She went out to eat and drink this afternoon, spent all the money she had, and enjoyed the life before the apocalypse for a long time. As for the consequences of hitting someone? She doesn’t even care.

The school won’t have the time to pursue her tomorrow anyway.

As she lifted her book, her cold amber eyes looked down: “Can you please not talk to me? It’s really annoying.”

Liu Xueling was stunned, tears filled her eyes in a flash and wept.

“RuiRui, did you also hate me now?”

She was rejected by all the girls in the class, and the others were gloating over this, and after a few words of perfunctory comfort to her, they turned out the lights and went to sleep.

In the darkness of the night, time passed silently, and the dawn of the second day came without a hitch with the glimmer of the sun in the sky.

Lin Rurui was called to the office by an exasperated Old Li. Lao Li scolded her while talking on the phone. “Yes, yes, the student who was beating up has been called the office, are you in front of the school? OK, OK, I’ll wait..”

”Old Li.” Lin Rurui raised her hand.

Old Li frowned and snapped, “What are you doing?”

”I want to go to the bathroom.”

Old Li waved his hand impatiently, “Go, go, go.”

Old Li didn’t expect her to be a bold person[1], she left the office and never returned. Lin Rurui went to the bathroom and unzipped her backpack, which contained a work undershirt, a black jacket and long pants.

She grabbed the hem of her T-shirt with both hands, stripped off her clothes in a swift motion, and replaced them with the black ones. The outfit had been prepared on purpose, because the bloodstains on the school uniform would be too difficult to wash.

The girl’s face was reflected in the mirror, she was dressed in black, with black hair and an indifferent look, her amber eyes stinging with cold light.

“The game is about to begin, and I will repeat the rules.” Setehks’s voice sounded in his head.

”Be careful with your abilities, you can’t expose them, and for each time it was exposed, you will be deducted 100,000 reputation (REP) points. When the REP points are negative, it is concluded that you are unfit for the Gods’ Battle Royale.”

“Reputation points are the common currency in the ‘Gods’ Battle Royale’ game, and are issued after each Battle Royale according to each person’s evaluation level, and can be exchanged for all surreal items in the Gods Store.”

“Abide by the rules of the game, take care of the monsters, oppress the tyrant bloody freaks, and don’t destroy all the monsters at the beginning of the game, it will make the game evaluation meaningless.”

“What happens if you have negative Reputation Points?” Lin Rurui asked in a soft voice.

Setekh ruthlessly said: “We’ll wipe you out.”

“All right.” She put on her boots and jumped twice: “That’s a lot to ask.”

Setekh began counting down, “Ten, nine, eight, seven….”

A white light flashed before her eyes, and dizziness of déjà vu struck her. When Lin Rurui got used to the dizziness and opened her eyes, she was already in a moving bus.

The weather outside the window was sunny, the road was lined with spreading wheat fields, green waves of wheat swirled in the wind, and a fragrance entered the bus.

The bus was driving on a dirt road with an unfamiliar driver in the driver’s seat and a slender female ticket inspector standing next to the door.

The ticket inspector mechanically nodded her head in greeting, smiling sweetly like a dummy.

At that moment, the wheels ran over the uneven ground and the bus jolted violently, waking up the students of the third grade’s class 3 one after another.

Sitting next to Lin Rurui was Xue Feier, who muttered, she was half-asleep, “What the hell is going on?” When she opened her eyes to see the scene before her, she thought she was in a dream, and her eyes were sluggish.

More students were waking up. One moment they were in the classroom, and now they were suddenly in the bus.

Old Li was pushed awake by the students and obligingly walked up to the driver: “Who are you? Regardless of your intent, you are guilty of kidnapping disregsrding the willingness of others to bring someone to the car, please stop the car immediately…”

Suddenly, there was a piercing crackling sound of electricity.

Lin Rurui was familiar eith the AI voice sounded in the air: “You were the lucky ones who have been chosen, God invites you to play the game. You are currently in the Gods’ Battle Royale – Warsaw District – C1 District. I am the Messenger of the Gods, Setekh. In order to help you get used to your roles, the following scenario will be explained.”

As Setekh’s voice trailed off, a light screen unfolded in front of everyone, and text emerged after flashes of light.

“Far away from town and in the beautiful countryside, students who were traveling far from home, visit the poor Tomasson family, who have just lost their young daughter.”

“Accidents happen and students go missing one after another. There are increasingly oppressive atmosphere, and the hysterical suspicion. Scattered limbs, entrails, familiar faces of the students appear inside the thick broth.”

“Malicious people in the woods, their saliva are dripping into the ground…. What secrets are the Tomassons hiding? And what horrifying mysteries reside in the distant mountains?”

As the mechanical voice read out the contents word for word, a compelling atmosphere of terror invisibly enveloped the entire bus.

Lin Rurui’s fingers curled up a strand of hair and played with it, and she thought: It seems that in order to clear the game, is it also necessary to decrypt the secrets?

In a flash, Xue Feier stood up, with an unbearable temper she rushed to the front of the car, yelling at the driver, “I don’t care about your game! Stop the car right now!”

The driver drove steadily, his expression as if he was sculpted, without a trace of emotion. Xue Feier in a fit of rage actually reached out to grab the steering wheel, the front end of the bus swayed, and the crowd in the car fell to the ground.

Suddenly, the high-speed bus braked to a halt. The driver flew out of the driver’s seat, crashed through the windshield, and hit the ground, not moving.

A puddle of red bled out beneath him.

Xue Feier’s face turned pale, and she took a few steps backwards in fear: “It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me! He ejected himself!”

Xue Feier’s lips trembled with fear as this was the first time a human life had been lost in front of her, even though she had often been an authority figure at school.

The ticket inspector’s sweet smile fell, his face twisted fiercely, and a sharp, high-pitched tone issued from his throat: “Xue Feier, you have violated the rules! Xue Feier, you have violated the rules!”

Setekh’s indifferent electronic voice sounded in the air: “Player Xue Feier, you have violated the sixth rule of the game: attacking NPCs. The player group will face the NPC’s revenge: “ The return of the Spirit.”

Suddenly the driver moved! His broken limbs were propped up against the ground, spider-like, and he was sneezing like a rabid dog with rabies, his eyeballs, teeth, face, and black blood…. spattering wildly on the ground.

The crowd was gripped by fear, unable to make a sound.

The driver lifted his face and smiled a blood-smeared, horrible smile. Then he stomped on all fours and ejected himself into the bus.

”Ahhhhh!!!” The students screamed wildly and ran to the back of the car.

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“What is this? Suspense-style Variety Shows?”

“Is it a newly released movie? Looks good, the special effects are quite realistic.”

“Strange, isn’t that bald guy my kid’s homeroom teacher? ……”

In the downtown area, a middle-aged woman was puzzled by the picture that suddenly appeared on the LED screen in the square. The husband beside her patted her on the shoulder, pointed to a student in the picture and said, “Honey, isn’t that our LuLu?” [2]

The middle-aged woman’s face changed as she fixed her eyes on it.

In the crowded square, more and more people stopped by the screen.

The image is shockingly real. Not only were the actors all online, but the voice actors were also extremely skilled, hissing and portraying the fear and panic of being chased by spirits and were very vivid as if they were going to be torn apart.[3]

Some people even went online to search for the name of the movie and plan to enter the theater to contribute to the box office by buying the ticket.

A woman in the crowd suddenly screamed and cried out, “My child! That’s my child!” She caused a small commotion, her husband helped his crying wife into the car and, in a cold sweat, dialled the police.

At the same time, the atmosphere in the police station was tense. Police hotlines were going up and down, officers were hustling with paperworks, and white pages were being blown around by the brisk wind from the fan.

”Okay, you say slowly. Your child has been kidnapped? They are forced into the game? Playing live in real time?”

In his office, Captain Feng had just finished a call from his superiors and was pulling his hair out in a frenzy: “What’s all of this about? A class of students collectively vanish from the face of the earth and there is no clue, do they think this is a novel?” [4]

The phone rings again. A colleague from a neighboring city called to borrow someone, and again, a number of citizens have mysteriously disappeared, and no positioning or motive can be found even after digging around.

All this happened an hour and a half ago, without any warning, as if it was on some science fiction novel – some unknown presence’s doing.

“Captain…” One of his men shouted in a delirious tone, looking at the photo of the missing student and out the window.

“What are you calling me for? It’s annoying.”

He pointed at the LED screen of the commercial building across the street from the police station, Captain Feng looked over at it. In the next moment, he was also flabbergasted and speechless.

Such a chaotic scene was being screened simultaneously live around the world. And a joint supreme meeting of the countries are also being urgently held in an unknown corner…

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”Xu Lie!!!”

In the chaos of the bus, a boy named Xu Lie was thrown to the ground by the driver.

The driver’s long, barbed tongue leaned closer to the boy’s face, as if he was about to lick off a piece of flesh, when suddenly, a slender arm strangled his neck and dragged him backwards.

The driver jumped like a thunderbolt, and his scythe-like fingers pulled on both sides of the seat, and the seat collapsed, but he couldn’t stop it from being dragged backward.

Old Li raised a long-handled umbrella and shouted, “Student Lin, let me help you!”

Lin Rurui looked at his flimsy footsteps and trembling hands, the corners of his mouth pulled out, and she said, “I’d rather you don’t.”

She stomped on the wall of the bus, leaned back, grabbed the driver, breaking the window and falling out of the bus.

The driver’s body smelled like a rotten dead fish in the gutter, and his flesh was falling down. It was not a pleasant experience to tumble into a roadside field with such monster in her arms.

Lin Rurui parted her knees, kneeled down and pressed down on the driver’s flailing arms, pulled out two fruit knives from her back, stabbed them into its empty eye sockets with a stern and expressionless face, and spun them around.

The students who gathered at the car window was watching the scene with stunned silence.

”WTF, awesome sh-t!” Zhang Lu, a bold and unrestrained person, bumped her elbow against the stunned person next to her, “Was she this tough before?”

In front of the big screen in the square, the audience who had stopped by began to comment on it one by one.

“This girl is kinda cool, has she ever acted in anything else before?”

“The scene is so dangerous and no body double is needed, for this dedication, I’m going to pick for this young big sis!”[5]

“Hiss, why does the murderous aura in her eyes makes me cold all over, this acting is really remarkable.”

Footnotes:

1 Its donkey person, someone who follows the instruction. Our MC isn’t though.

2 Zhang Lu’s parents

3 It is as if they aren’t acting.

4 haha the Captain unknowingly break the 4th wall

5 This is when someone said they’re following a tv shows/novel/film because of a character on it

XWT: Remember guys, during escape game, don’t provoke the NPC. Especially during team wide escape game, there were bound to be foolish teammates inside the team. Also the story Setekh said reminded me of the cabin in the wood

Ririka: Both Escape Game novel Big Bro Please Save Us and UHW is up today, if you are in escape game would you rather be the cool and ruthless Lin Rurui – the protagonist who is OP from the start, or the funny and cute Jiang Xiaoli – a grassroot type protagonist? Both mc have hottie lover of course haha.

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