Chapter 21 - Second Game (14)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 21 — Second Game (14)

Until the trench coat ghosts completely dissipated, the security guard ghosts stared at the players for a while and then they also disappeared.

It was not until then did Wei Qianrong and the others relaxed. Ding Yirong even sat on the ground and his complexion didn’t really look too good. Shang Chi wiped his sweat and nodded to the children in the class. There were only nine of them left.

Jiang Xiaoli came over at this time. Initially, she wanted to go to the canteen but after watching that bout of a bloody fight, she lost her appetite. After retching for a while, she looked at Wei Qianrong and the others with a blank face, “The children in our class…”

“Are they all dead?”

“Turned into ragdolls.”

Ding Yirong: ?

Wei Qianrong: ?

Shang Chi: ??

Jiang Xiaoli was met with the dumbfounded expression of the three of them and reluctantly told them about Nian Jing’s story.

What happened to Nian Jing while she was alive was lamentable and what Nian Jing did after she died and turned into a ghost really made one speechless. Make your sister into a ragdoll to accompany yourself? There were even minced meat and bones of her sister stuffed in it! And when Nian Jing died, the entire class of children became ragdolls. Didn’t that mean that…the rest of the children had long been made into ragdolls by her and Nian Jing had been manipulating them before? ——No wonder those children were so interested in Jiang Xiaoli.

“I was looking for you to ask all of you…Do we have to take care of ragdolls in the future?”

Wei Qianrong had a headache and she sighed deeply, “If those dolls did not disappear, I think so. So basically, it makes sense that we should care for the gifts that were given properly and we don’t know whose soul is stored in it…that’s right.” Wei Qianrong suddenly thought of something. She looked at Jiang Xiaoli and frowned slightly, “You…How did you survive?”

“What?”

“Based on what you said, Nian Jing is a semi-malicious ghost. You don’t have any props and you should have used up your flashlights, so how did you survive?” Wei Qianrong asked once more, her inquisitive look was rather obvious.

After all, the last time Jiang Xiaoli met a ghost, she said that she had used the flashlight and that flashlight could only be used twice. It didn’t make sense if she could still use it now. It was not easy to survive without the use of props when facing a semi-malicious ghost…

Did she have to tell them about Li Hongying’s existence? To speak of it at this point…

‘I live in your heart and every time I use my strength, it will cause a burden on you. ’

“Nian Jing, she…actually wanted me to promise her that I would stay. To remain in the copy and to always keep her company.” Jiang Xiaoli recalled the ragdoll nursery rhyme and sang it in a low voice before she continued, “I stalled for time and found a chance to escape from the classroom. Moreover, that ragdoll I have, the soul in the doll that Nian Jing gave me was her sister. Nian Jing…Her obsession was that her sister had left her behind.”

“The ragdoll was torn in half by Nian Jing, and its soul scattered. The appearance of when Nian Jing’s sister was alive was shown, then she completely dissipated. Nian Jing went crazy after seeing that and then, she also dissipated.”

“Makes sense, Nian Jing has always been sticking to you…a malicious ghost can actually let a player stay in this copy? Although the player must agree, that is too much…” Ding Yirong felt a chill. Were there players who actually agreed to stay in the copy? What would they become if they stayed in the copy? A ghost? Or an NPC? Would they still have their own will?

“Nian Jing’s sister looks a lot like you?” Wei Qianrong could refrain from asking.

“It seems like so, but I didn’t dare to look anymore. However, Nian Jing used to say that I look a lot like her sister.” Jiang Xiaoli scratched her head, somewhat embarrassed.

“Nian Jing…the J homicide case of a young girl? This is for our class…except for the grievances of Shang Chi’s class, it’s the indiscriminate massacre from the newspaper and on the NPC’s side, it’s arson. That only leaves Yang Zixuan’s and Yao Qinyu’s class.”

“It sounds ridiculous. Those murderers are not afraid of death. They want to drag others with them to die before they die and the majority of them are women, children or the elderly. Yet they hardly take action against men…” Wei Qianrong lowered her head and touched the knife marks on her compass. The anger and unwillingness in her eyes could only be turned into a sigh in the end.

Nothing could be done about it.

Shang Chi had to take care of the remaining nine children. Ding Yirong, Wei Qianrong and Jiang Xiaoli went up to take a look at the dolls in the vocal classroom. In fact, at first glance, seeing a large number of dolls sitting where the children were originally sat at looked extremely scary. Ding Yirong was mentally prepared, but he was still scared out of his wits when he met those black button eyes.

There were not many children missing in their class; there were originally twenty-four children. Who knew that there was a semi-malicious ghost hidden in their class and all the children were made of dolls. That went well. Once this point had passed, the remaining children became dolls.

“Tonight…Don’t return to the apartment building.” Wei Qianrong sighed and looked at the twenty-four dolls and felt that it was rather tricky. “Our identities are kindergarten teachers, this means that…we must take care of the children. There was no danger in the initial stage, and then a child died, security guard ghosts appeared and then the children disappeared one after another. The security ghosts increased from one to two and later there were a lot of security guards ghosts at night.”

“You’re saying that…”

“It’s just a conjecture. However, look at what happened in this copy? Isn’t it being unlocked along the wake of the death of the children?” We can’t stop that class with the NPC, maybe it’s fine? So long as they distributed the players into each class in the beginning, but they didn’t do so. So…the children in that class were annihilated. With the disappearance of that entire class, the danger level of this kindergarten instantly increased.

The children in their class…had all turned into dolls and they didn’t know if they were still alive. If they didn’t count as…

Wei Qianrong can hardly think of what they were going to face tonight, a crowd of evil spirits?

Each person carried eight dolls and put them on their bed in the dormitory and because they were ragdolls, the sewing techniques were the same, simple and crude. They didn’t even have their names on their backs. So they just put the dolls to bed one by one and did not put them on their original bed.

“This is…Nian Jing’s bed?” Jiang Xiaoli opened the quilt and was about to put a doll in, but she found a piece of newspaper. It was exactly the same newspaper she found in that classroom.

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“J homicide case of the crazy murderer who killed a young girl…Suddenly died at home? The elder sister of the victim also disappeared soon after…” Both of them were made after Nian Jing turned into a ghost. There were very few reports in this newspaper. The scars on Nian Jing’s body were written at the back and she could guess how cruelly she was treated when she was alive. “She was assaulted on the way home and the body was thrown into…[blackened out] in the alley next to the kindergarten…”

Jiang Xiaoli felt tightness in her chest, these things…these things looked too uncomfortable. She looked on the other side, thinking that there might be nothing on the other side of the newspaper but what she found instead appeared to be some comments?

“Starting in three years, a death penalty is not bad.”

“I will exchange three years of my life for you to be traumatised for life.”

“You will make a steady profit starting in three years and there is no loss if you are sentenced to death. If you want to reincarnate, you won’t have to wait until you get old. What is there to fear in the barren cemetery?

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“F*ck.” Jiang Xiaoli didn’t continue to read any further. She closed her eyes and her head was aching with bursts of pain.

“What’s wrong?” Ding Yirong walked over once he had placed the dolls. Jiang Xiaoli didn’t speak but handed him the newspaper. Ding Yirong took it and read it with Wei Qianrong and he immediately blurted out foul language. He punched the bed frame and the bunk beds shook with a thud.

“F*ck! What the hell are they? This kind of thing…” Ding Yirong couldn’t continue. He took several deep breaths, folded the newspaper and placed it back. His eye seemed a bit bloodshot and he looked somewhat sinister.

“This game is…gathers all the evil things and displays them?”

“Otherwise? There’s no kindergarten in the world that is so unfortunate.” Perhaps due to the influence of the newspaper, Wei Qianrong’s condition was not very good. She was a little irritated as she called out on Ding Yirong and her lowered hands tightened up before they loosened again. After repeating that several times, she became slightly calmer.

This dormitory seemed to have become stifling. Wei Qianrong turned around and went out, “Let’s head to the canteen.”

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“I’m coming along.” Ding Yirong responded and hurriedly followed after her. “Jiang Xiaoli?”

“Mhm.” Jiang Xiaoli cast a glance at the bed belonging to Nian Jing and recalled the first day she came here in a daze. At that time, the first child she met was Nian Jing. She was fair skin and was extremely cute.

“Your sister may not have prevailed over her fear…but she definitely loved you.” Jiang Xiaoli said in a low voice but after saying this, she laughed at herself. What qualifications did she have to say that? It’s just that she felt that way…Although, judging from the time when Nian Jing disappeared, her sister didn’t seem to hate her sister for doing these things at all.

Pulling the quilt up to cover the newspaper, Jiang Xiaoli ran out of the dormitory.

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“Do you want to warn them?” On the way to the canteen, Jiang Xiaoli couldn’t help asking that.

“Let’s warn them.” After all, they were all players, she hoped that…everyone could live.

When they arrived at the canteen, Shang Chi was taking those children who survived to eat. Wei Qianrong briefly talked about her conjecture about tonight and then saw Shang Chi nodding with a wry smile, “I think so too.”

Otherwise, they would not have been given an identity.

The only thing they can pray for is——to hope that the children who turned into dolls were not considered as them providing inadequate care. After all…they were all dolls in the beginning, right? It was only because of Nian Jing, so they weren’t controlled anymore and they changed back into dolls.

After Yang Zixuan heard that, he didn’t have much of a reaction like he seemed to have known it. As for Yao Qinyu…

After listening to that, Yao Qinyu looked terrified and seemed like she wanted to grab onto Wei Qianrong, but she avoided her.

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“Don’t move.” Wei Qianrong was relatively wary of her. Despite the fact that Yao Qinyu appeared to be extremely scared, Wei Qianrong was afraid of what this woman would do to her. With the blessing of Ding Yirong, she only has two talismans. Regardless of whether Yao Qinyu wanted to show her goodwill, rely on her and do something to her…Wei Qianrong refused.

Yao Qinyu’s outstretched hand froze mid-air, appearing to be extremely awkward. She looked around, Jiang Xiaoli and Ding Yirong stood behind Wei Qianrong and neither seemed to have any intention of speaking for her. Yang Zixuan turned around, and teased the children to eat and didn’t seem to care about these things at all, as for Shang Chi…

That guy pushed up his green coloured spectacles on the bridge of his nose as if he was watching a good show.

The tears that were about to fall from Yao Qinyu’s eyes were held back in the end. She lowered her head and whispered, “I also…didn’t do it on purpose. I just. I just…I, I don’t want to die…”

“Yes, Miss. No one wants to die. Neither do we, nor did Guan Lin.” Ding Yirong gave an odd salute and seemed to be mocking her. He scrunched up his brows and continue to say, “None of us wants to be scapegoats.”

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Phew, that was a close one on Jiang Xiaoli’s part. She saved Li Hongying from being exposed by twisting the truth a bit and saved herself too. Who knows how much they would rely on her to make sure they all get out alive. It’s quite worrying if I had someone like Yao Qinyu, like you never know when she’ll push you out as a sacrifice.

The second game is coming to an end soon. Hopefully, they don’t get a big wave of ghosts going after them.

It’s a mystery what awaits them next…