Chapter 17 - Second Game (10)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 17 — Second Game (10)

It was a pity that everything was over, it was too late even if Shang Chi wanted to do something.

There were also differences between a child and another child. Some children had a particularly deep grudge and could cause damage to those ghost teachers so much that they would even disappear together with them under certain circumstances. And most of the children seem to be simply trapped puppets?

In any case, he should have safely passed the great danger today. Shang Chi held the doll carefully and thought with a sigh. This doll was a valuable item. If he placed it in the dorm room……it should be fine, right? He thought that after he locked the door, no one should go to the teacher’s apartment building to do anything to a doll, right?

……

Jiang Xiaoli took advantage of the children’s nap time, she couldn’t resist going to the classroom once more to see if there was any difference. It was the classroom that was burned down.

At first, she felt a little hot in that classroom but now that she thought of it……it was probably because of a man-made fire? These hints were rather cryptic but it was actually quite easy to think of it if they made associations carefully. They even noticed the strange burning smell of the NPCs and also thought of the possibility of a fire. But they never thought that the teacher would commit arson and drag the children to death, to die with them?

The other teacher boldly did what was right but was unable to escape. Before he died, he watched on helplessly as his hope of being rescued —— Li Wang, the remaining teacher, unexpectedly let him die. He didn’t even dial the emergency number in time when he fled, so he developed a resentment? From what she saw had happened later, the third teacher was caught by ghosts and burned to death in the room……

This classroom, or perhaps this building, should have been refurbished? Otherwise, it was impossible not to leave any traces but even if it was refurbished, there should also be traces left. Only that none of them ever checked.

Jiang Xiaoli touched the slightly yellowed timetable on the wall. She used her fingernails to knock the white wall, it appeared as if she could knock the burnt and blackened traces underneath. This classroom……What else still remained?

“Li Hongying?” Jiang Xiaoli asked in a low voice, “Do you think there are any clues we can obtain here?”

‘Reports of incidents that have occurred?’ The burning scenario was already over and the event constituted of NPCs. There have been no casualties after this scenario. Either those victims become ghosts in the storyline after they died and the restrictions were released so they could start hunting, or a new mode had begun.

Jiang Xiaoli turned around in the classroom and rummaged through the podium but didn’t find anything; then the book corner, the garbage corner; even the corner where the broom was kept and the cupboard where the rags were kept were searched but there was still nothing.

“Did I get it wrong?” Jiang Xiaoli looked at the time. After all this time, she still got nothing in the end.

Think through it carefully……The NPC ghost teacher was in the middle of the classroom at that time……Could there be something in the drawer inside the desk?

Jiang Xiaoli went to look at the drawer of the desk in the middle first. If there was nothing, she planned to look over all the drawers once more. If there was truly nothing, then forget it. She estimated that nap time was coming to an end.

However, there was something.

It was a strange newspaper.

The strange thing about this newspaper was that it only published incidents related to the events of this kindergarten’s fire and its follow-up reports.

A divorce due to the contradicting views of the wife and the family, refusal to accept the appeal and wanting to fight over the custody of the child; it was unsuccessful. After that……he took things too hard, spent a week preparing gasoline and alcohol to bring them to the kindergarten. He brought the children to the classroom during a lunch break on a certain day, committed arson for them to perish together.

The report also stated that the arsonist might be suffering from a mental illness.

When the fire spread, another male teacher, who was in charge of the Preschool class with this teacher, rushed into the scene of the fire to rescue them but died in the classroom and didn’t come out in the end. The report also commented on the impulsiveness and recklessness of the ‘brave’ male teacher and even cut off a section of comments. Most of which, blamed this male teacher, thinking he was a fool.

“If it were me, I would call 119. A person rushing into a fire doesn’t even know a bit of protection?”

“Was there no fire extinguisher? This man is actually a teacher, how can he be so stupid? Serves him right that he died.”

“Can’t you make your body wet and then save people? He’s quite stupid, he lost his life in vain.”

“If only I were there, I would definitely be able to save the children.”

……

In the follow-up report, the last teacher in charge of the Preschool class set themself on fire at their home a week after the fire, presumably due to the shock from the fire incident of the kindergarten.

Perhaps the psychological shock from the comments in the report might have been too much, so they fell into a mental aberration and set themself on fire.

The thing that was worth mentioning was that the name of the kindergarten and the date of the fire have been blacked out.

For a while, Jiang Xiaoli didn’t know how she should assess it after she finished reading the newspaper. The root of all evil should be the scum who vented their anger on the children because of their own family affairs. It was obvious that their life wasn’t going well and they took it too hard. They had and to pull innocent and irrelevant people down with them when they wanted to die……

“Hey, what did you find? Show me.”

It was Guan Lin.

Jiang Xiaoli stepped back vigilantly and grasped the newspaper tightly. Guan Lin obstructed the classroom door, he blocked in front of the door closely with his tall body. She glanced at the back door, the door wasn’t opened, she reckoned it was locked. If she went through the back door……

“Hand it over.” Guan Lin wrinkled his brows and said crudely, “I’ll count to three, or if you don’t, I’ll act on you.”

It was noon at the moment, even if Li Hongying was a red-clothed ferocious ghost, her strength should also have an impact, right? There should be other props on Guan Lin. If there were any props that could cause damage to ferocious ghosts……Jiang Xiaoli shifted her position, she held the newspaper as she thought. There was no record in this newspaper about the other incidents in the kindergarten but the scenario of that fire was recorded. Perhaps there was no other use for……

‘Do you need me to take action?’

Not needed for the time being.

The hand Jiang Xiaoli used to grasp the newspaper gradually relaxed, “I’ll give the newspaper to you but how can you guarantee that you won’t do anything to me after I give it to you? You’re blocking the classroom door.”

“Tch, I disdain dealing with a woman.” Moreover, a woman who looks like she has no power.

Also, after entering this copy for such a long time, Guan Lin hadn’t taken any action against his teammates before. Even if he couldn’t put up with Shang Chi’s poser act, Guan Lin could only reject him with contempt but there was in fact no action taken.

Jiang Xiaoli put the newspaper on the desk, “Come in and take it yourself, let me go out first.”

“It’s a pain in the ass.” Guan Lin was very impatient but still moved out of the way and watched Jiang Xiaoli walk out of the classroom door without doing anything. Jiang Xiaoli was very nervous when she walked past Guan Lin, she was afraid this person would suddenly act up and do something but he did not. As soon as Jiang Xiaoli left the classroom, Guan Lin walked in and went to the desk in the middle. He picked the newspaper up and read it for a long time. His brow furrowed in a frown, his entire face was in anger and sinister looking. Jiang Xiaoli didn’t stay for long and left in a hurry after confirming that Guan Lin really only wanted the newspaper.

……

“If you commit suicide, then commit suicide, they unexpectedly had to drag a lot of children into it?” Ding Yirong was furious beyond compare when he heard the information Jiang Xiaoli got from the newspaper. He was so angry that it seemed like he wanted to beat a tree with his fists to vent his anger but he raised his hand to beat the locust tree twice. He barely moved and the skin on his hand got scraped.

“Hss, it hurts!”

Although Wei Qianrong was angry, she calmed down. She groaned, “You met Guan Lin? He didn’t do anything to you, right?”

“No. Although he appears to be fierce, he really let me go when he said he would. It seemed like he only wanted that newspaper.”

“Was it just a regular newspaper?”

“Yes, it has information about the fire accident written on it and there wasn’t any notice about it being a prop when I held it in my hand.”

Wei Qianrong stopped talking and touched her chin as she pondered over something but she caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her by chance, “Wang Ze!”

It was the name of a boy.

Wei Qianrong ran over in a hurry to where the fitness equipment was.

Jiang Xiaoli looked over in a rush and saw a little boy fall off from the three-person leg press. This was originally a piece of fitness equipment used to exercise the leg muscles while sitting down. The child didn’t know any better and climbed up to stand as they play, so much that he reached the top. In the end, he lost their footing……

He disappeared.

He really disappeared.

Wei Qianrong rushed to the boy and almost picked him up to check his injuries but the person disappeared in front of her before she reached her hands out?!

What was this? If one doesn’t keep an eye on them, they’d disappear if they get injured? Wei Qianrong froze there for quite a long time before she retracted her hands.

“How could……” It was also unbelievable to Ding Yirong. No wonder there were fewer children every day. If they looked at it in this way, they didn’t watch the children and they would disappear when they accidentally fell? It wouldn’t be long before the kindergarten would be left with only a few players, right? There would be no survivors……

It was too much.

What’s more, Guan Lin died that night.

There was a lot of movements because ghosts might knock on the door. Ding Yirong, Yang Zixuan and the rest did not dare to sleep deeply at night. They got up as soon as there was movement next door on Guan Lin’s side. The sound of crackling and rattling as if the furniture had been overturned and crashed. Ding Yirong dressed and was very guarded. As soon as he came out, he ran into Yang Zixuan. Yang Zixuan didn’t say a word and merely knocked on Guan Lin’s door. Was it locked?

“It’s not midnight yet.” It was only half past eleven and not even early in the morning yet, why did the ghost……

It’s not a ghost?

“What’s going on?” Wei Qianrong draped a simple coat over her shoulders and ran up in a hurry. The compass in her hand was originally blindly spinning rapidly and in disorder but now, it suddenly stopped and pointed straight at the Guan Lin room.

“Is Yao Qinyu in there? Knock on the door……Smash the door?”

“Ah——” It was Yao Qinyu screaming.

“Break down the door!” Ding Yirong and Yang Zixuan didn’t hesitate no more, they faced sideways and slammed into the door repeatedly.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

“What happened?” Jiang Xiaoli, who arrived a step later, felt lost.

“Isn’t it not early in the morning yet?” That flashlight ghost had not come.

“I don’t know.” They rushed over here after hearing the noise.

——“Why? What did you do to me?”

“D**n it, you……Ah——”

The door was knocked open.

A tattered little rag doll carrying a machete more than ten times its own size sat on the floor. A large expanse of blood soaked the floor and the rag doll sat next to Guan Lin with its head drooping down. Guan Lin’s large body was now lying motionless on the floor. Furthermore, his body was separated.

The round black button stared straight at the players at the door and the curvature of the stitches from the needlework made the doll look like it was smiling.

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