Chapter 2 - Novice Copy (2)

Hongyi Amusement Park

Chapter 2 — Second Game (2)

Jiang Xiaoli discovered that she was roommates with Li Hongying. Moreover, it was a four-person room but to one’s surprise, there were only two of them living there. Jiang Xiaoli got sent in yesterday and the rest of her roommates……submitted an application to change their room.

This campus, no, this class seems to be against Li Hongying. Genuine bullying on the campus? Jiang Xiaoli couldn’t help but to start observing Li Hongying.

But Li Hongying’s behaviour was very normal, other than not liking to communicate and unsociable, she was not different than a normal third-year high school student.——Primarily, even if she wasn’t unsociable, the others were not willing to approach her too.

Li Hongying. Jiang Xiaoli was unable to restrain herself from writing this name, stroke by stroke, in refined regular script. 1

When night self-learning 2 ended, students began to return to their dorm rooms one after another. Li Hongying was still writing very earnestly on her test paper. Jiang Xiaoli could only sit and wait for her. She didn’t know where her own dorm room was and it wasn’t recorded in her phone so she could only follow Li Hongying there. The questions on the test paper were thrown back to her teachers as soon as the day her university entrance exam ended. Nowadays, wherein she did school assignments once again, she could only scratch her head in confusion and bite her pen. Since Li Hongying did not leave, she could only pretend to write.

It was the sound of the chair moving.

Jiang Xiaoli couldn’t help but to turn her head and saw Li Hongying carrying her schoolbag as she walked over, stopping in front of her desk.

“What, what, is it?”

“Let’s go.” Li Hongying said, “Let’s return to the dorm room together.”

“Alright!” Jiang Xiaoli’s eyes lit up. She put away her school assignments and soon carried her schoolbag to follow Li Hongying out. When she was tidying her things, Li Hingying carefully closed the windows in the classroom. After she went out of the classroom, Li Hongying switched off the lights and closed the door. Then, she walked ahead to lead the way.

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She didn’t talk to Jiang Xiaoli about anything. This made Jiang Xiaoli, who had experienced high school with her bosom friends, to be at a loss. She simply followed behind dejectedly.

“This is your bed.” Upon returning to the dorm room, Jiang Xiaoli at the back, heard Li Hongying saying this while memorising the route and the door plate number. She looked over and saw Li Hongying had already turned on a small desk lamp and continued writing on her test paper.

……So, Li Hongying intentionally brought her back to the dorm room?

Perhaps, she was a bit narcissistic but Jiang Xiaoli closed the door and sat down on a seat. She secretly glanced at the earnest Li Hongying who was writing on her test paper and thought all of a sudden: Li Hongying…..was a good person.

This dorm room was set up so that there was a loft bed with a desk underneath, the same as Jiang Xiaoli’s dorm room during her studies in university.

Li Hongying was an extremely quiet person. Jiang Xiaoli almost could not hear Li Hongying’s movement when she laid down on her bed at night. Furthermore, Li Hongying didn’t seem to be on her phone. She thought she would see a glimmer of light on Li Hongying’s bed but Li Hongying actually went straight to sleep?

Jiang Xiaoli couldn’t fall asleep.

A mysterious world. She shouldn’t have opened that door! Why was she not clear-headed! She stared at the ceiling. In this pitch-dark environment, nothing could be clearly seen. Escape-from-being-killed world……she posited the back of her hand over her eyes. Jiang Xiaoli sobbed softly. Why was she so unlucky!

No vehicle, no house, no money, no partner. She was merely an ordinary person who couldn’t be any more ordinary. Lottery tickets were often bought and her republishing of articles was not lacking; all of them did not win any rewards. On the contrary, on the night she went to the toilet, she won ‘first prize’. At that time, she didn’t put in great effort in school and ended up in an escape game, even returning to the wretched third year of high school. She got punished on her first day here. She also couldn’t get out through the school gate. She didn’t know when she would die……

The more Jiang Xiaoli thought about it, the more upset she got and felt that she was probably the world’s most unlucky person.

[In view that the difficulty of the novice book is too high, a few hints will be given to the player.]

Jiang Xiaoli wiped her tears and had a bewildered look on her face but after lying down for a long time, she didn’t hear that voice saying anything else. Don’t tell me it’s recorded on the phone? Jiang Xiaoli cautiously turned on the screen and as expected, there was an addition of an explanation under that [7] in her player information.

Novice Protection Period: 7 days

(Novice Protection Period: For the first time a novice participates in a copy, enjoy an unconditional duration of safety up to 7 days; it is determined by the difficulty of the copy.)

A few hints?

Jiang Xiaoli cried even louder.

The next moment, a bag of something hit her on her head. Jiang Xiaoli was startled. She noticed a whole box of tissue paper……ah! She forgot that Li Hongying was in the room! “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Go to sleep. I promise I wouldn’t make a sound.”

“En. 3 ” Li Hongying seemed to turn over.

Jiang Xiaoli carefully opened the tissue box, wiped her snot and eyes with tissue paper. She carefully looked at Li Hongying but saw the two bright words, ‘hong yi’ 4 , all of a sudden when she looked above which were glowing with red light in the dark.

……WTF?

Hongyi Amusement Park – Hongyi

Li Hongying is the main character! So the meaning of a few hints was……to make me take note and watch her? Could Li Hongying be an important NPC that could not die? Or to say she needed to hug her thigh? Or……Li Hongying will kill her and is a dangerous person?

There are still six days left, she will go and have a look at whether there were words above the other students’ heads. What if everyone was a variety of coloured ’yi‘? 5 Jiang Xiaoli thought simply. After all, if by any chance she was truly in the same room as a big shot, she felt this ‘escape game’ might be too difficult. En, it seems like that voice before also stated that the difficulty was too high.

Tossing and turning restlessly in bed, Jiang Xiaoli’s rest was not sound at all. Li Hongying woke up really early. Although her movements were very quiet, Jiang Xiaoli still woke up. To be precise, it should be awakened by ‘the possible consequences of being late for class’.

With obvious dark circles, she simply washed her face and changed into her school attire. Then, Jiang Xiaoli got her school assignments and books to follow after Li Hongying to the canteen.

A night of not sleeping caused her to decide her next move. This kind of mission can’t be a mortal situation. Didn’t she see a whole class that was alive and kicking, excluding Li Hongying? Jiang Xiaoli intended to try hugging Li Hongying’s thigh and treat her as an important NPC. Then, see how the following plot would go.

“Li Hongying.” Li Hongying’s legs were a bit long. Jiang Xiaoli’s mind had wandered before she was lagging far behind. She quickened her pace to catch up and call this silent roommate, lowering her voice like she was a special agent exchanging intelligence, “Your family……runs an amusement park, right?”

After that, Jiang Xiaoli noticed that it turns out that her expression of ‘looking at a retard’ can really be reflected in reality through one’s eyes alone.

“They’re working in other parts of the country, I also don’t know what they do. But, they definitely do not run an amusement park.” Li Hongying explained to Jiang Xiaoli anyways. She planned to quickly leave but Jiang Xiaoli stickily followed behind her, “You’d better not follow me.”

“Why?” Jiang Xiaoli awkwardly stopped in her steps. She obviously planned to hug Li Hongying’s thigh!

“You will be singled out.” Li Hongying said very seriously. She looked at Jiang Xiaoli, with not the slightest bit of malice in her eyes and clearly called Jiang Xiaoli who was in a daze. She said, “It’s true that I like girls.”

“But it’s not like you’re going to like me.” Jiang Xiaoli didn’t understand, even a person was heterosexual, a woman would not like any guy. She wasn’t narcissistic and also didn’t intend to flirt with Li Hongying. It should be ok if the two of them become normal friends, right? Judging from the simple contact she had with Li Hongying yesterday, Jiang Xiaoli felt Li Hongying was not anything like a perverted murderer. Even though she didn’t like to talk much, a bit aloof and whatnot but she was generally a good person.

Homosexual, aloof, unsociable, plus……poor? Above-average was not regarded as a particularly exceptional result. When prejudice arises and continues to spread, perhaps, the students in the future do not understand Li Hongying but heard a lot of rumours. The facts did not matter. Rejecting, ignoring and looking down on this person has maybe become the ‘right’ thing to do. If they didn’t, then they were ‘unsociable’.

Students these days……are grouping up. Jiang Xiaoli stepped forward to pull Li Hongying’ hand. It was evidently almost summer but her hand was extremely cold as if her hand had been dipped in ice.

Jiang Xiaoli had a classmate in junior high school. It is said that because she had a fever that fried her brain when she was younger so she wasn’t good at expressing herself and speaking. To say it bluntly, it was ‘not right in the head’. Afterwards, she was bullied by the classmates in her class.

The boys in the class seem to think bullying her was right, snatching her hairpin by force or throwing her bag on the ground to step on, kicking it everywhere and then laughing at her crying. Then, she went to find their form teacher who reprimanded and punished them but after class ended, it was the same as before. Most people had the attitude of spectators. There were people who dissuaded at the beginning but after many times, they have become accustomed to it. Obviously…..it’s not something they should be accustomed to.

The adjective Jiang Xiaoli heard the most from everyone’s mouth was ‘idiot’ and apart from when she was being bullied, she really seemed like an ‘idiot’; she was happy all day long. After she graduated, Jiang Xiaoli did not ask about the news of this classmate later on but after she gradually grew up……she felt a little guilty.

She felt guilty that she didn’t concern herself with the matter, ashamed about that ridiculous sense of justice. She was ashamed of herself who was as ordinary and timid as everyone else.

What if she had one more chance? Would she have the courage to stand up for the weak? ——She was also a weak person.

Jiang Xiaoli didn’t know. But at the moment, she came to this copy and met someone who also suffered from bullying on the campus but seemed no different than an ordinary student. So much that……when Li Hongying was still really friendly to her but just not good with her words, she was astoundingly courageous for the first time.

People are bound to be courageous for once, right? Her cowardice in junior high school made her remember it for so many years, then how about now? She didn’t know what to do in an escape game copy and didn’t know how long she could survive. Although she didn’t want to admit it, Jiang Xiaoli faintly felt that she would be cold 6 once the protection period was over.

——She was a person who would die at any time. Besides dying, there was nothing else to be afraid of.

Jiang Xiaoli said this to herself.

Li Hongying looked indifferent at the struggle in the depths of Jiang Xiaoli’s eyes. She didn’t feel like guessing what the toy’ this time was thinking. As the master of this copy, Jiang Xiaoli was not the first ‘player’. This copy usually received a group of four or more players but the group’s protection period for this copy was only one day. Besides, the restriction of that day’s protection period did not only apply to ghosts, it also applied to the killing between members of the same group.

On the second day, this ghost school would be reduced to an amusement park for ghosts. Everything was used to please her. Frequent occurrences of supernatural events and players would disappear mysteriously after asking around for information alone with the students who appeared to be an NPC. Few people could leave this copy alive.

To be precise, it was impossible for a male to get out of this copy. Unless he was extremely upright and kindhearted, asking Li Hongying to let him go.

Why would the escape world choose a novice to be sent to her copy? Li Hongying lowered her head to look at Jiang Xiaoli pulling her hand. The corner of her mouth lifted and her lips were raised to form an outline of a slightly strange curve.

Perhaps, it’s a new game.

The author has something to say:

Due to censorship, the name had to be changed and it was changed to I Have Red Clothes Unlimited…

I can already foresee that the future of this book is bleak.

The novice copy isn’t scary, the female lead’s halo is on so there’s no difficulty.

She’s as good as attacked by a ferocious ghost._(:з」∠)_

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Footnotes

隽秀的小楷 jùn xiù xiǎo kǎi : 隽秀 is used to define people as outstanding or refined. 小楷 is a type of font in Chinese, which is the regular script that is commonly seen nowadays in modern writing and publications. 晚自习 wǎn zì xí : It is a self-study programme available and administered to students after their curriculum. Most high schools in China have this programme to allow students to stay back in school to self-study. 嗯 ēn : showing agreement or approval 红衣 hóng yī : red clothes 七彩衣 qī cǎi yī : What our cute MC means is what if there’s a Hongyi (Red Clothes), Chengyi (Orange Clothes), Huangyi (Yellow Clothes) and the other colours of the rainbow. 会凉 huì liáng : She means that she’ll be dead with a cold corpse.