Chapter 8

From the first day, House warned them repeatedly not to go out after midnight. It wasn’t that House feared they would lose their lives from danger but he feared their lives would nourish the growth of John’s ability.

After all, House killed John and sealed him in the wooden barrel. If John had the ability, the first he would get vengeance on would be House.

On the first night, the male and female newcomer died of mutilation. On the second night, Zhao Jun died with a clean smiling expression. It was evident he was subjected to John’s bewitchment. Tonight, the wax figures downstairs came to life, spurred by John.

John’s ability became stronger.

The room sank into darkness. In the evening, the NPC told his story so everyone wasn’t able to sleep. Separated by a thin door, the sound outside could clearly be heard. It was practically inevitable to sketch out the scene outside in their minds.

If they didn’t face it head-on, the imagination just based on listening to the sound was scarier.

Wang Xiaoxiao was staying alone tonight. After Lin Qianqian pointed at Chen Caixing in the dining room, Wang Xiaoxiao decided to dwell alone. It was not that she had a stronger sense of righteousness but simply, to live with this type of teammate who sold others out, she feared Lin Qianqian would throw her into the pit.

Luckily the second floor still had an empty room.

Zhao Ru urged her with a few words but Wang Xiaoxiao didn’t agree and stayed in the room next door.

They were coming.

Those wax figures reached the second floor.

Wang Xiaoxiao hid in the quilt alone and strained her ears to hear. The thoughts in her mind were in shambles as her entire body trembled. She didn’t know if it was the fear or the cold. To tell the truth, she was a little regretful she lived alone right now.

”

”

Ka ka.

The sound came to their side.

Wang Xiaoxiao felt the things outside were getting closer and closer to her.

Pa.

It stopped.

Wang Xiaoxiao’s heart also stopped when those things outside stopped.

Peng.

“Qian Qian, I’m here to play with you. Hee hee, come out. Let’s play together, all right?”

Wang Xiaoxiao recognised it after a while. Those wax figures outside were those who died on the first night. A woman called Xiao Ling. At that time, Lin Qianqian and the other party befriended each other after they had a little chat. The two still said Zhao Ru was too good at acting behind her back.

“Come out. Why are you ignoring me? Don’t you dislike Zhao Ru? If you play with her, I’ll get mad.”

‘Peng Peng!’

“Qian Qian, come out. I’m in pain, it hurts. A knife stabbed me. It hurts. Qian Qian, didn’t you say you wanted to be my good sister? Come out.”

The voice of the thing outside was jerky and shrill. Seeing that Lin Qianqian didn’t come out, the sound of it knocking on the door got louder and louder.

Unless the people in the room were dead asleep, they’ll be awakened by the noise made from the movement in the corridor. Moreover, no one was sleeping.

Chen Caixing naturally heard it too. To be honest, when it was quiet and a bit of rustling resounded, his imagination would scare him more. Now that the outside was so ‘lively’, on the contrary, Chen Caixing wasn’t that afraid.

A while later, a voice was heard over here close to their room. After listening carefully, Jin Hai’s door was being knocked on.

A male voice heard from outside the door. Surprisingly, it was the deceased Zhao Jun who was made into a wax figure.

“Jin Hai, didn’t you want my props? Come out, I’ll give it to you.”

Zhao Jun’s voice was smoother compared to the woman’s dullness. There was no difference from when he was alive. Chen Caixing felt a hint of bewitchment when he heard it, appearing to entice people behind the door to come out.

It should be because the woman suffered a lot of stabs from the knife and the way she died was more tragic. In relation, Zhao Jun was completed intact.

Chen Caixing listened very seriously. His mind thought of the clues given by the NPC.

“Gege, it’s very noisy outside.” Yuan Jiuwan’s voice was soft and vague. He seemed extremely sleepy but still wanted to persist. Then, his small body went into Chen Caixing’s embrace, closer and closer. His pitiful soft and glutinous voice said, “Gege, I’m really sleepy. I want to sleep.”

To listen and to feel sleepy. If an adult man he interacted with for only a few days, dared to say this while going into his embrace, Chen Caixing would hit him until his mother couldn’t even recognise him. But towards a little brother who was a primary school student, Chen Caixing wouldn’t feel disgusted. Instead, he felt the little brother was cute.

As a result, he tucked them into the quilt and covered the little brother’s ears. His mind was like a loving father as he said, “It’s nothing, let’s go to sleep.”

“Alright, Gege should sleep earlier too.”

Yuan Jiuwan’s head leaned against Chen Caixing’s neck. When he spoke, his breath puffed onto Chen Caixing’s skin, making it a bit ticklish. After a while, the continuous sound of the little brother’s breathing sounded. He might have been influenced. Chen Caixing, whose mind was sorting out the clues, also got sleepy. The wax figures outside seemed to have knocked on the door with a ‘peng peng peng’ but he slept under this sort of environment.

On the second day, Chen Caixing woke up fairly early.

There wasn’t a clock here so he didn’t know the time at all but Chen Caixing felt that he woke up earlier than before. Also, because there wasn’t a clock, everyone didn’t know what time in particular after midnight would John show up until the time he went back to the basement. Therefore, to go out of the room as soon as possible in the morning or not

Chen Caixing was the same.

He got out of bed, wore his coat and stood in front of the window to check. The foggy and gloomy sun outside couldn’t shine through, he wasn’t able to distinguish what time it was at all. The window of the room he stayed at wasn’t facing the backyard but he was able to see the pathway at the front yard leading to the backyard.

There was a shadow of a human figure on the foggy pathway at the moment.

Chen Caixing was startled. He opened the window and saw it clearly this time. Not only was there really a person going to the backyard, it was also the back view of a girl. It was obviously only a back view but Chen Caixing could feel the other party appeared to be very happy.

After a while, the figure disappeared from the pathway.

Chen Caixing knitted his eyebrows, opened the room door but didn’t walk out. The corridor was quiet, the wax figures that came out at night were gone but he didn’t dare to take any risks.

One, he didn’t know whether or not that back view was of a girl in their group.

Two, he didn’t have the ability to save a person. The precondition of saving people was to guarantee his own safety to use his life to save someone. Chen Caixing was not that noble.

After about ten minutes, Yuan Jiuwan, who was on the bed, woke up. He covered his mouth with his small hand as he yawned, raising his head full of curly hair. His hair was always a bit curly from the start. When he woke up in the morning, his hair became more curly.

Sitting on the bed, his apricot eyes were watery and with a head full of small curly hair, he was too adorable.

Chen Caixing’s heart stirred. He considered adopting a child in the future—but when he thought that he had never been in a romantic relationship before, he crossed out raising a child, it was also quite good to change it into raising a dog. A teddy with curly hair.

“Gege, why were you looking at the window?” Yuan Jiuwan obediently wore his own clothes.

Chen Caixing thought of that back figure and this broken game where one would die at any time, wept and also crossed out raising a teddy.

“There was a person outside just now, I didn’t see it properly.” Chen Caixing didn’t hide it from Yuan Jiuwan. While waiting for Yuan Jiuwan to wear his shoes, the sound of a girl weeping came from the corridor, “Wu wu wu, Xiaoxiao, I’m scared. Yesterday, I was scared to death……”

It was the sound of Zhao Ru crying.

Chen Caixing looked, no one was in the corridor. It should be that Zhao Ru didn’t dare to go out and complained tearfully in the room.

“……Xiaoxiao, won’t you accompany me to sleep tonight. I was wrong. I also don’t know where Lin Qianqian went off to.”

After midnight, there was the sound of the door being knocked on and also a female wax figure who called for Lin Qianqian. Zhao Ru was timid and at that time, she was so scared she almost peed. She kept holding it in, opening her eyes wide to stare at the door, fearing that the female wax figure would break the door and come in. And so, she definitely didn’t sleep for the whole night but she was unable to tell how Lin Qianqian had disappeared.

Chen Caixing thought of that back figure and walked out.

“What time did Lin Qianqian disappear?”

“Wu wu wu, I don’t know, I really don’t know how she just disappeared.” Zhao Ru said unintelligibly.

Chen Caixing didn’t question her again and headed to the bathroom at the end of the corridor. He could see the walnut tree in the backyard from there.

The thick fog dispersed a bit. The walnut tree had an extra corpse.

In the wake of the morning breeze, it lightly swayed. The girl’s facial expression was tranquil with a deathly pale face, her eyes were closed and the corner of her mouth was slightly raised, forming an arc. She seemed to be sincerely happy. She was barefooted, wearing a thin blouse and skirt. Her white skirt was being drenched in blood; blood constantly oozed out and trickled.

Blood unceasingly dripped down onto the grave mound, nourishing the thing under the grave mound.

Suddenly——

The closed eyes of the girl opened. Her eyes without pupils looked in the direction of the bathroom window, directly looking at Chen Caixing.

Chen Caixing wasn’t startled. His complexion was so tranquil so much that he wanted to erect his middle finger at her. He was scared by this sort of cheap trick once before, okay?! He headed out. People already came out and were standing in the corridor with not one missing.

Looks like John didn’t succeed last night.

“……I really don’t know where Lin Qianqian went off to. I didn’t fall asleep but I don’t remember.” Zhao Ru’s explanation crumbled as she got interrogated by Monkey.

Chen Caixing: “Lin Qianqian is hanging on the tree in the backyard.”

“Die, she died?” Zhao Ru was astonished.

“Jin ge, I said I didn’t see the wax figures on the first floor wrongly. I didn’t expect she would die on a tree.” Monkey said.

Chen Caixing ignored them, went towards the first floor, with Yuan Jiuwan obediently following behind. When they arrived at the first floor, Chen Caixing swiftly found the small door hidden behind the group of wax figures as per Wang Xiaoxiao’s notice.

The door leading to the basement.

The door was quite hidden and was even blocked by wax figures. It could be seen but fairly difficult to go in. Zhao Jun might have wanted to go down then but it was easy to bump into wax figures when opening the door. As a result, he wanted to find out whether the death condition would be triggered if the wax figures were broken.

After midnight, John could control the wax figures to move out.

Looking at the placement of the wax figures and the indifferent look of Wang Xingping, those three veterans, Chen Caixing didn’t believe anyone had gone down.

“You want to go down?”

They’ve already come down here, Wang Xingping asked as his eyes shone.

Chen Caixing knew what Wang Xingping was thinking with a glance. After he went down, it seemed like the situation was easily detected.

“The experience of veterans is to carelessly come over?”

Wang Xingping was silent and didn’t reply. In fact, he and Zhao Jun would search for clues in every single game, finding important clues to be rewarded with more gold coins but they would absolutely not take the stick out when they ran into critical danger. If you looked for them on the first day, the door to the basement was already found but someone died when the wax figure was broken and there were no newcomers who dared to go down. They also didn’t dare to.

With one look, it was a dangerous place that wanted people’s deaths.

Chen Caixing discovered it long ago. The four veterans, Wang Xingping and Zhao Jun were awfully negligent; They appeared to be as steady as Mt Tai but they would withdraw at crucial moments. Monkey was a hoodlum, Jin Hai was impertinent but not foolish, only knowing how to shoot one’s mouth off about their in front of the newcomers, showing off their strength.

But this game had pits everywhere. On the condition that there are clues, if you’re too negligent and don’t solve the problem, you would be doomed sooner or later.

Chen Caixing had a premonition. If they really were negligent until the seventh day, it would definitely be more terrifying.

“If you want to get out earlier, move them.” Chen Caixing said.

Wang Xingping, that trio, naturally wouldn’t listen to Chen Caixing. Zhao Run suddenly shook her head. The cranky male died before her eyes because he broke the wax figure. Wang Xiaoxiao was still hesitant.

“You said this game was an intermediate-low world, the difficulty is not high but why did Zhao Jun die? If you continue to be negligent, the three of you can’t even guarantee you’ll live until the end, right?” After Chen Caixing said those words, his indifferent gaze looked towards Zhao Ru who was weak and weeping endlessly, “Lin Qianqian died because she didn’t drink the tea.”

Zhao Ru stopped crying on the spot,” I don’t believe it, I won’t, aren’t I still alive and standing here——” Meeting Chen Caixing’s tranquil gaze, Zhao Ru couldn’t go on. She had an inkling that if someone were to die, she would be next.

“Gege, I’ll help you move them.” Yuan Jiuwan said clearly.

Chen Caixing looked at the little brother by his waist. The little brother really supported him as always.

“No need.” Chen Caixing was deeply touched but rejected him. He was cold and detached when he faced the others, “The difficulty of this world itself is not high but using the flesh to nourish the boss, the difficulty would naturally increase.”

He already had an idea on how to leave this world.

Wang Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and threw caution to the wind, “I’ll help to move them.”

“I, I can also help.” Zhao Ru didn’t cry but she was still scared. Her voice trembled but the hope to survive made her decide. To leave the game earlier, wouldn’t she not die?”