Chapter 20 - Second Game (13)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 20 — Second Game (13)

Li Hongying flung her hand abruptly and the ragdoll actually shed tears of blood all of a sudden and two streaks of blood flowed all the way down to Li Hongying’s hand. The mouth sewn by needlework appeared like it wanted to open its mouth to speak, but it was tightly closed and incapable of making any sound, its silent tears of blood kept dripping down…

Rip…

“S…sorry…sorr…y…” The stitches were being torn bit by bit and the doll was struggling to make a sound…a sound? It sounded like a rather young female voice?

“No, shut up! You piece of shit! I hate you——” Nian Jing was even more resentful when she heard that voice and she suddenly charged towards Li Hongying. Li Hongying’s hand that clutched the doll didn’t let go, but she raised her other hand, and with only a single gesture of waving her hand, countless strands of blood came back to frantically coil around Nian Jing.

“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…” The ragdoll said these words over and over again. The tears of blood mixed with the initially red colour on Li Hongying’s hand. Li Hongying showed a look of disgust and glanced at Nian Jing who was obstructed by her wisps of blood. She raised her hand and suddenly threw the doll——

A black mist emanated from the doll’s body, accompanied by a mournful screech. The doll floated up and the black mist condensed into a blurred human form. It stood in front of Nian Jing, and the young woman’s voice gradually became hoarse and unpleasant, but it kept saying, “I’m sorry.”

Rip.

Nian Jing crazily went through the black mist and she raised her hand to tear the ragdoll in half. The cotton wool should have emerged from inside it, but after it was torn apart, lumps of bloody cotton fell out, mixed with mincemeat…The black mist that condensed into a figure did not stop it, but opened her arms and hugged Nian Jing as she kept apologising.

“I’m…just…too scared…I’m sorry Xiao Jing…”

“It’s…It’s fine…Even if…you become a doll…and kill other people…or do anything else…it’s fine…”

“I won’t…leave Xiao Jing…ever again…”

“Get out of the way!——” Nian Jing waved her arms in an attempt to disperse the dark shadow, but the shadow had lost its medium—the doll—and had begun to dissipate unceasingly.

“You’re not my sister! Sister is very nice…Sister…”

If you don’t treat your gift well, the gift would turn into an abattoir hatchet and it’ll be chopped at you. Every doll had a soul in it, a soul that was forcibly stuffed into it.

And the one in Nian Jing’s doll…was her sister.

Her elder sister that abandoned her and ran away. Her elder sister that was a coward. Her elder sister who didn’t look back.

——The elder sister who regretted it.

“Sister…” The dark shadow gradually dissipated, faintly revealing the appearance of a young woman. She hugged Nian Jing, her face when she was alive was full of tears…gradually dissipated.

“No, no…You liar!” Nian Jing panicked suddenly and was anxiously trying to catch the shadow, but she couldn’t touch it in any way.

“Why…Why…”

“Because she’s dead. Little brat, it’s a person you killed. Why are you asking about it?” Li Hongying sneered. She turned sideways, came to Nian Jing and picked up this malicious spirit that wasn’t right in her mind, “You killed a human being and made her into a ragdoll to keep you company for such a long time, but you still felt that the real person was better?——Heh. That person is mine.”

The doll was given to Jiang Xiaoli for her to care for and Jiang Xiaoli could not do anything bad to the doll. Even if it was discarded, the spirit inside the doll would turn into a malicious spirit to claim one’s life——but if it was truly properly cared for, the doll could not harm Jiang Xiaoli and could temporarily keep itself in check.

Li Hongying laughed but it was incomparably cold, “Little brat, do you want to be strangled to death once more?” Although she died very pitifully, that didn’t mean that the little brat was anything like a good ghost. A ragdoll was nothing more than a ragdoll; it couldn’t do anything. Ultimately, didn’t it still yearn for the warmth of a living person? Sister?

“No, no…” Blood continued to seep from Nian Jing’s mouth and nose. A look of resentment was revealed on her face and suddenly strangulation marks appeared on her neck… “It hurts, it hurts…”

Li Hongying loosened her grip, Nian Jing fell to the ground and the bloody scene gradually began to dissipate.

Nian Jing lay on the ground and raised her head. Her fingers trembled as reached out to the ragdoll that she had torn in half and with a single touch, the doll dissipated. Nian Jing seemed to be taken aback for a while. She stared at her hand blankly and suddenly closed her eyes.

“A rag doll, a rag doll

Pluck out your eyes

And sew your mouth shut

A rag doll, a rag doll

My dearest sister

Has turned into a ragdoll

Always and always

Accompanying me forever”

As a cold breeze blew past, Nian Jing also disappeared.

Jiang Xiaoli collapsed on the stairs and watched blankly as everything seemed to have changed back to the way it was before. Nian Jing, the ragdoll, everything was gone.

“She…”

“Her obsession is gone.” Li Hongying snorted and her tone wasn’t that nice. She turned around and helped Jiang Xiaoli up. She raised her hand and touched Jiang Xiaoli’s face, “Did that little brat do anything to you?”

“No, but she did want me to stay here like you.”

What do you mean by ‘like you’? Can it be the same?

Li Hongying was a little displeased. Jiang Xiaoli didn’t agree, so she found a way to come out with Jiang Xiaoli. That little brat wanted to eat Jiang Xiaoli! Moreover, that little brat wanted an elder sister, but she didn’t want this kind of relationship.

“Ah, the children!” Jiang Xiaoli suddenly remembered that she was still in vocal class!

And she hurriedly pushed the door to enter——it was empty.

There was not even a single child.

All that was left were the ragdolls in their original seats, motionless.

What was the meaning of this? The children in her class were all ragdolls made by Nian Jing to keep her company? Jiang Xiaoli held onto the door frame and felt a chill run up her spine, “They, they…”

“Nian Jing has dissipated, so their true appearance has been revealed.” Li Hongying took a brief glance and said indifferently. Just like her previous copy, she was the biggest boss and the master of the campus. When she left that copy, the ghosts who were dependent on the ghost domain could not stay behind. After Jiang Xiaoli cleared the copy, no one else would be able to enter that copy.

Wasn’t that was what an escape game was like?

So what were they going to do next? Did they have to wake the dolls up every day? And teach the dolls in class? Jiang Xiaoli’s mind was in a mess. She should go find Wei Qianrong and the rest to talk about the situation. Where were they right now…They parted to find information and she didn’t even know where they were!

Forget it. How about having a meal first to calm her nerves? Jiang Xiaoli thought of this and planned to head to the canteen first. As a result, once she went downstairs, she saw a ghostly aura pervading the playground. Wei Qianrong and the rest seemed to be playing The Eagle Catches the Chickens 1 with a large number of children? And the mother hen was Wei Qianrong and the rest of the group of players…

What was with this situation?

“Jiang Xiaoli?” Wei Qianrong manipulated the compass to deal with the horribly strong ghost in front that was holding a machete dripping with blood. She caught a glimpse of Jiang Xiaoli, who had come down the stairs, out of the corner of her eyes——Weren’t they having their lesson? Could it be that something happened to their class too?

“Damn it! Shang Chi, you jinx! I won’t gather information with you ever again!” Ding Yirong cursed anxiously and gestured with his peachwood sword carefully to protect the group of ‘little chicks’ behind him.

Shang Chi looked awkward, “I didn’t expect it either!”

He took the children here to do broadcast gymnastics today. At first, there wasn’t any problem. Then the remaining NPC suddenly came in to join the fun and they just picked out a few of the children and scolded them for not doing it seriously. While Shang Chi was persuading them, he saw Wei Qianrong taking her compass walking towards the locust trees, followed by Ding Yirong.

Then…Wei Qianrong found the remains of Guan Lin’s body under the locust tree. He was eaten until only his bones were left and there were clothes beside, which belonged to Guan Lin.

Shang Chi was taken aback at that time and pushed his glasses up to take a look and he found that the yin energy here was terribly heavy. They hadn’t communicated yet when; suddenly, a man came in from outside the campus. It was a man with a black trench coat, who had climbed over the wall and landed on the ground.

Shang Chi: ?

“Dude, where did you come…” Before he finished his sentence, the man in the trench coat pulled out a huge machete from his pocket——a very unscientific huge machete!

How did you keep a huge machete over a meter long in your trench coat?! Shang Chi didn’t have time to react before that man slashed down on a child and blood splattered.

“F*ck!” Shang Chi was shocked. He promptly protected the children and made them back off. With that loud beratement, Ding Yirong reflexively took out his peachwood sword and Wei Qianrong also took out her compass when she saw that the situation was abnormal.

——Speaking of which, her compass was obviously not a prop for attacking, so Wei Qianrong simply used it as an iron bowl to hit people. Ahem, hit ‘ghosts’.

They couldn’t beat it at all. The mini peachwood sword could only keep the trench coat ghost from getting close to Ding Yirong at best. It was impossible to use that small sword against that one-metre-long machete. Before the sword could hit the ghost, the machete would come slashing down. It was nothing more than relying on Wei Qianrong’s compass to deal with it once or twice.

What they didn’t expect was that the remaining NPC in Shang Chi’s class actually stood up and fought with the trench coat ghost. They didn’t know where an NPC got a ferule 2 and slapped it on the trench coat ghost. The trench coat ghost had no alternative but to put forth its machete to fight with the NPC.

Clearly, a ferule could not beat a huge machete. The NPC teacher fell to the ground and died after being slashed by several hits then the trench coat ghost began to attack the children frantically. A class was only about thirty children, and in this period of time, seven or eight of them disappeared and now, this ghost unexpectedly killed a few more.

“Ring ring ring…”

The bell rang.

The trench coat ghost suddenly became a maniac. He didn’t even care that his body was burned by the peachwood sword and he broke through Ding Yirong’s defense perimeter and cut down two children. Before he raised his machete again, Jiang Xiaoli saw a few guard-like NPCs rushing over from out of nowhere, with their flashlight shining on the trench coat ghost, they devoted themselves to subdue the ghost.

“……God.” Ding Yirong was insipidly shocked. Weren’t this group of security guards the flashlight ghosts that hunted them and made them run around campus at night?

“The trench coat ghost, they want to…” Wei Qianrong was going to ask them, but halfway through her sentence, these security guards took out a familiar fire axe from their possession…Damn! It was really that group of ghosts?

…The scene was bloody and was not suitable for viewing. However, Wei Qianrong noticed that although these security guard ghosts were getting rid of the trench coat ghost, they stared at their group of players with a fanatical look when they wielded their axe. If it weren’t for the fact that it wasn’t nighttime yet, perhaps…these ghosts would be itching to pounce on them?

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The Eagle Catches the Chickens brings back childhood memories, it’s quite chaotic and intense but fun. ( ^ω^ )

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Footnotes

One person acts as the eagle and the others form into a line, with the first one in the line acting as the hen and those behind him or her as chicks.

The goal of the eagle is to catch the chicks and the hen will protect the chicks. If one of the chicks gets caught by the eagle, the chick is dead and is out of the game. Teacher’s rule used to discipline, normally to hit the hands, for misbehavior.