Chapter 13 - Second Game (6)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 13 — Second Game (6)

Another child had died. Four children died this time. It was said that they went to the bathroom together at night. Afterwards, they couldn’t sleep and wanted to sneak out to play. The four children died in the bathroom, presumably from asphyxiation. The body disappeared after they saw it. The deceased were children from Guan Lin’s class. Maybe…it was because they didn’t do the task, so the ghosts came after to trouble them first? Jiang Xiaoli thought absentmindedly while having breakfast. If that was the case, the preschool was made up of entirely NPCs……

——“I’m sorry!” When she accidentally bumped into the teacher next to her, Jiang Xiaoli apologised immediately. Fortunately, she didn’t knock over the plate. The teacher glanced at her, didn’t say a word and went to sit down at a place where no one was — a steaming hot breakfast was still carried by the teacher.

That was an NPC.

“Are you all right?” Wei Qianrong waited for Jiang Xiaoli to come over and sit down. She immediately asked, “That NPC didn’t have any response, right?”

“Mhm, he didn’t seem to care at all. ……However, I seem to……” Jiang Xiaoli was somewhat hesitant, then she added, “It might be a misperception but I seem to have smelled a very faint burning smell from him.”

Wei Qianrong took a sip of the porridge and consoled her, “Don’t be afraid. You can confirm if you have the chance to smell it a few more times. But since it’s a burning smell……Let’s just stay away from Preschool and not let the children go that way too.”

“That’s right. If it was a burning smell, those people should have died a long time ago. It’s also hard for us to change anything.” Ding Yirong was afraid that Jiang Xiaoli would not be able to think straight, he even deliberately persuaded her with two sentences. He took a bite of a steamed bun. He made a meaningful look at Jiang Xiaoli all of a sudden, looking behind Jiang Xiaoli. Jiang Xiaoli looked back and caught sight of Guan Lin hugging Yao Qinyu towards the window in the canteen. Yang Zixuan followed after them quietly like an invisible person.

“Do you mind if you sit down here?” Shang Chi came over carrying a bowl of millet porridge and two bread rolls. He placed those things down and sat next to Ding Yirong. “It’s too dangerous on my own. After all, those by my side are all NPCs. Fortunately, I did that hint task, or else I’ll be the one who dies first.” Shang Chi said while he smiled. He seemed a little funny with those green coloured spectacles. However, despite these words, Wei Qianrong and Ding Yirong were still on guard against him.

Shang Chi only raised his hand up and made a gesture of surrender, “Those two NPCs want to kill me. I still don’t want to die. The hint I obtained is simple, ‘no one survived’.”

“Why are those two NPCs want to kill you?”

“They were very mean to the child, even to the point of hitting the child. I tried to persuade them a few times at first and they didn’t do it again but they kept staring at me darkly. I suspect that they will swallow me alive as soon as the restrictions from the rules are gone.” Shang Chi smiled for a while, watching Guan Lin and his party go a little further away before he said in a low voice, “Guan Lin and Yao Qinyu have grey mist on them, the priority target of the ghosts are them.” When he said this, Shang Chi looked carefully at Jiang Xiaoli, she also didn’t know what he was looking at.

“ Guan Lin and Yao Qinyu should not have done the task for the hint, Yang Zixuan should have done it. But it wasn’t known if they have exchanged information.” Shang Chi sighed, “This is my first team copy, I thought that we could all unite to pass it.” As a result, he was inexplicably hated by Guan Lin. Guan Lin even stuffed that piece of paper with the story at his door. Shang Chi was not afraid to do one more task to get one more hint but the task was obviously not transferable. As soon as he held the paper in his hand, it would disappear spontaneously but Guan Lin’s behaviour……

“Ok, Brother. Since you have said a hint, then you can exchange a hint with us, whose do you want?” Ding Yirong raised his hand to put it around Shang Chi’s neck in a brotherly manner but he did not suffer a loss at all from what was said.

“Jiang Xiaoli.” Shang Chi took a look at Jiang Xiaoli and quickly retracted his gaze like he was afraid of attracting any attention.

“Since it is a gift, then it is must be kept properly.” Jiang Xiaoli frankly said the hint that she go. She suspected Shang Chi sensed Li Hongying’s presence. Was it because of those spectacles?

“All right. I’ll exchange with you the rest of the information that I find.” Shang Chi nodded. He did not suspect that the hint was false. He started immersing himself into eating the bread rolls and drinking the porridge.

They didn’t communicate anymore and began to eat their breakfast quickly; it was getting late. They had to wake the children up at seven o’clock, then wait for them to get dressed and wash up before taking them to have breakfast.

Shang Chi ate in a hurry and then trotted out of the canteen. All after, his partners were two NPCs so he had to arrive early. If not, he feared some unforeseen event might happen.

After they made a headcount of the little dumplings, they made them line up properly and took them to the canteen to have breakfast. Ding Yirong volunteered to go around the preschool to see if he could find anything unusual. Wei Qianrong and Jiang Xiaoli stayed to watch over the children.

“Picky eaters are not good children. Egg yolks should also be eaten, do not waste them.”

“Forget it. If he doesn’t eat it, then he doesn’t eat it. I’ll help him eat it.” This was Shang Chi’s voice. He held down the male teacher’s hand that was raised up high and protected the little boy, who almost cried, behind him.

“Wuuuuu……” Another male teacher picked up the egg yolk and pulled the boy’s collar to stuff it down. Shang Chi simple could not protect him on his own. The child cried out. the egg yolk was firmly stuffed into his mouth. He seemed like he wanted to retch but the male teacher stared while holding his mouth.

“Are you going to choke him to death! F*ck!”

“Teacher, don’t fight. Teacher, don’t be angry. Xiao Hei, just eat it, don’t be picky!” A little girl next to them, who was a little bit more courageous, was also very scared. She even shouted and the rest of the small dumplings also agreed. The little boy, who was called Xiao Hei, held back his tears and swallowed the egg yolk with difficulty. The anger and hatred in the depths of his eyes could clearly be seen. Shang Chi slapped that male teacher who stopped him. He handed the little boy a glass of milk in fear that the child would choke to death later.

“Breakfast must be finished and those who don’t finish it are not good children.” That male teacher was not angry with Shang Chi’s actions, he simply stared at Shang Chi and said flatly as he bent his mouth.

At that moment, Shang Chi vaguely saw the male teacher covered in blood. There was a bloody mark on his face from the left side of his forehead to the right side of his chin. That pair of eyes also became empty……That virtual image disappeared in the blink of an eye. Shang Chi managed to keep a straight face as he adjusted his glasses. He turned his head and no longer looked at this ‘person’.

“There are still five minutes. Children who have not finished their meal will be punished.” Another male teacher looked at the time and said this in the same flat tone as all the NPCs.

The children were very frightened that they ate their breakfast in big mouthfuls. Some children felt aggrieved and their tears dripped into the porridge and they drank it all together.

Jiang Xiaoli glanced at the time and also coaxed the children to finish eating quickly with Wei Qianrong, “Class is about to start soon. Everyone eat quickly, or else you won’t be energetic in class.”

The second lesson was from Ding Yirong. After he finished the class for the little dumplings, Jiang Xiaoli took the children to the building block room and let the children play with the building blocks.

“I’ve talked to the three teachers and they really had a burning smell.” Ding Yirong said in low voice, “But I can’t see any burns on them. Could it be that they were burnt to death? Those children……I deliberately picked up a child and played with the child for a while. Although it was very faint, the child also has……”

“Has this kindergarten ever been on fire?” Wei Qianrong was somewhat speechless, “This kindergarten is a collection of all the crap that can happen, isn’t it? Child abuse, fire and what else?”

“A furnace?” Ding Yirong chimed in.

“How is it possible, this is a kindergarten, they’re all three to six years old……” Jiang Xiaoli suddenly stopped talking and did not continue. The kindergarten incident……also seemed to have happened before, it wasn’t completely impossible……Some demons in human’s clothing. They don’t even care how old the children were or whether they died or lived.

The three-person group was silent for a moment and had tacitly stopped talking about this topic.

“Shang Chi is considered as a teammate. We will be able to know the information on his side. But the news from Guan Lin’s class……” Jiang Xiaoli pondered for a moment. She felt that it wasn’t too good for her to go and ask Yao Qinyu. After all, this fellow had stuffed the note under her door. Guan Lin was a pass, for the time being, then only Yang Zixuan was left. “Can you get some information from Yang Zixuan?” This was what she was asking Ding Yirong.

Ding Yirong smacked his lips, “Ok, I’ll try.”

He was going to try but he couldn’t even try anything. As soon as Ding Yirong went towards Yang Zixuan, Guan Lin came before he could start a conversation. He was not given a chance to exchange information at all. Guan Lin’s face was dark and very fierce. Ding Yirong considered his own small physique, turned around as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Xiaoli and Wei Qianrong took advantage of the evening after the children were asleep to searched through the kindergarten once over. They even dug the soil under the locust trees but could not find a single flower. The two of them, who were covered in dirt, looked at each other and sighed. They patted the mud on their hands off and before they were about to slip into the classroom to look around. Jiang Xiaoli felt that the classroom in this preschool was warm, maybe they would find some clues. The two were still walking in the playground and they saw a tall and thin figure coming over with a flashlight from a distance.

“Ding Yirong?” Jiang Xiaoli called but that person did not respond. The flashlight flashed past and shone towards her.

Wei Qianrong’s chest was hot. When she took out her compass, she unexpectedly turned quickly. the pointer swayed and kept pointing straight at the figure all of a sudden. “Run!”

Jiang Xiaoli also found out at this time that even though the person was scouting around with a flashlight, he didn’t have a shadow! She was startled by Wei Qinarong’s loud bellow, Jiang Xiaoli broke into a run and ran. For a moment, she ran not much slower than Wei Qianrong. The two of them ran around taking a detour from the school building and were about to go back to the apartment building.

“Don’t stay……outside……at night……” A gloomy voice sounded from behind them. Jiang Xiaoli found the time to look back and discovered that the figure with the flashlight was far behind them. No matter how fast they ran, the figure was at this distance behind them.

“Ah!” When she ran across the corridor, she slipped. Jiang Xiaoli fell directly and even slid a short distance and hit the ceramic tiles on the wall. Her whole body was in pain but her reaction was quick, she wanted to stand up. However, caught a glimpse of a ray of white light moving up from the corner of her eye and landed straight on her.

“Jiang Xiaoli!——”

A gloomy chill rose from the bottom of her heart. Her entire body was so stiff that she couldn’t move anymore?!

——This flashlight would immobilize a person when the person was shone on!

Hello! If you enjoyed my work, please consider supporting this sleep-deprived translator a Ko-fi.