Chapter 22 - Second Game (15)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 22 — Second Game (15)

“I didn’t! I merely…” Yao Qinyu staggered back a few steps, she opened her mouth but said nothing else and sat next to the children.

“Pay attention to the children in your class, it’s only you that hasn’t passed your end of the storyline.”

Yang Zixuan nodded. There were still 21 children in their class and if they thought about it, it was actually the class with the most children.

As the wee hours of the morning passed, there were three days left.

They didn’t dare to close their eyes tonight and waited for the security guard ghosts to strike but…

“This is a…ragdoll?” Wei Qianrong’s compass flew around and she watched as a ragdoll climbed up exasperatingly slow up the head of the stairs, followed by two more and then three…

It can’t, it can’t be?

It made Wei Qianrong’s scalp tingle. Could it be the children in the class who had changed back to their doll forms? Just because a plot point was triggered, it was no longer the security guard ghosts who chased after them?!

Even so, dolls were fine, at least they had a physical body. Wei Qianrong ran downstairs from the other end of the corridor, and in a blink of an eye, she saw the trench coat ghost that had once dissipated chasing Shang Chi around the teaching building. Fortunately, Shang Chi was only chased by one ghost and there were no security guard ghosts to join in on the fun. On top of that, the security guard ghosts who originally chased the players went…after Yao Qinyu and Yang Zixuan? After all, they hadn’t dealt with a plot point yet.

In that case, what was with the burning classroom? They couldn’t go there when they were escaping?

——She hoped that ghosts in that classroom could not come out.

Otherwise…

“Eight.” There were eight dolls following her. Wei Qianrong took action with her compass. It went high up in the sky and changed direction to knock against a few dolls. After working with this compass, Wei Qianrong was already able to manipulate it skillfully.

They weren’t a problem. It was not dangerous tonight.

The corner of her mouth turned up slightly in a smile. After all, no one wanted to die in this game.

“Sister, Sister Wei!——”

Wei Qianrong’s smile froze and she looked at Ding Yirong who was running towards her with eight dolls. She retrieved her compass and turned around to run away.

“Help, Sister Wei! Save me!——”

Wei Qianrong: “Get lost!”

Couldn’t Ding Yirong learn from Jiang Xiaoli? Although she looked weak, she never thought about surviving with the strength of others and even passed a plot point on her own! This was the qualification necessary for a bigshot in an escape game! Use the games as a testing ground and improve yourself constantly…

“It would be great if your running was half as fast as when you’re chasing after me.” Suddenly, her clothes got pulled and Ding Yirong grasped onto Wei Qianrong and didn’t let go. So Wei Qianrong had no choice but to slow down to catch her breath. She swung her compass and smashed two dolls that were running faster, then she looked up with a dead fisheye expression.

“The thing is when others walk their donkey, they would still hang a carrot in front of the donkey.” Ding Yirong couldn’t catch his breath either, but he still had the energy to continue to banter. He didn’t want to run all night and this mini peachwood sword he had could only deal with a few dolls, and he really could not handle eight at once. It would be better to cooperate with Wei Qianrong, she’d block most of them with her compass and he’d use his peachwood sword to resist a smaller number of them, which would make it a whole lot easier.

——The main point was that Sister Wei still had two talismans, and if anything happened…

“If I make it alive out of this copy, I hope I never match up with you in a copy in my whole life again.” Wei Qianrong gritted her teeth and longed to knock Ding Yirong out with her compass. Yet the dolls were probably evenly distributed and because of their distance apart, Jiang Xiaoli wasn’t nearby. And she had to face 16 dolls alone…

“You should be glad that I’m not a person who likes to dispose of the same kind.” There were lots of cautionary tales in the forum. Some people exposed their formidable props in the game and carelessly revealed their names and their information in the real world. As a result, they were found by others when they returned to the real world. It was different from the supernatural world, in the real world…it was a common occurrence to be killed for their treasures and for the props to have a change in their owners.

In the game, some players would also deliberately pit other players alike to death under the premise of clearing the game in order to seize their props.

After all, in order for a prop to have a change in its ownership, the original owner of the prop must die.

Ding Yirong gave a wry smile and felt extremely guilty. He gestured with his mini wooden sword so that a few dolls who broke through the attack of compass did not dare to approach. Essentially, they would get burnt as soon as they approached. He was incomparably grateful as he glanced at Wei Qianrong. It felt great to be able to cling to someone powerful!

“One-thirty…There’s still an hour and a half left.” The dark figures disappeared at three o’clock the previous time, so the timing shouldn’t change this time, right?

“Let’s go climb the stairs.”

These dolls had short legs, and they didn’t seem to have changed and they also haven’t pulled out any weapons such as a big machete. Except for the cotton inside turning to minced meat and the dolls leaving a dripping blood trail, so long as they do not get close to them, they would not get harmed. If that was the case…They had an extremely slow speed in climbing the stairs, so the two of them could go up to the top floor but not go up to the roof, wait for when the dolls were almost there to run across the corridor and go downstairs from the other end of the corridor.

If the dolls were smart and learned to split up…then she would use her compass to clear the way once more.

When she went to the teaching building before, Wei Qianrong saw Yao Qinyu and Yang Zixuan running through the playground like a gust of wind with a group of security ghosts following after them. These two people didn’t seem to have taken out any props. Were they planning to survive this period of time with their stamina?——It was strange that after running for such a long time, how come she didn’t meet Jiang Xiaoli?

As they climbed up the stairs, Ding Yirong and Wei Qianrong sat on the upper steps to rest while the dolls were still climbing up the stairs. “Where’s Jiang Xiaoli?”

“I don’t know…Maybe she hid? That’s not right, we can’t hide from them! We probably missed her.” Ding Yirong also didn’t know what was going on.

“If only you were as self-reliant as Jiang Xiaoli.”

Ding Yirong: ?

——Jiang Xiaoli, who is self-reliant, was sleeping in Li Hongying’s arms at the moment.

At the end of Jiang Xiaoli’s bed sat a row of dolls, exactly eight of them after a careful count. They sat in a neat and orderly fashion, the stitches of their mouth that had been torn open due to their singing before also recovered themselves and they revealed a perfect smile. As for bloodshed? Flesh and blood? It was non-existent.

Li Hongying held onto Jiang Xiaoli and her eyes were still circling on the eight dolls from time to time. Of course, ghosts could feast on other ghosts but this escape game was not willing to have the ghosts needed by the game to be eaten so there were some restrictions.

Under Li Hongying’s malicious gaze as she was in fact, pretending to be asleep, the eight dolls were conscientiously motionless and they were more real than real dolls.

——Chasing the player? Scaring the player? Killing the player? Weren’t they in the same room with the player according to the rules? Just that they couldn’t move and they had tried their best.

It was not until 3:30 in the morning that the eight dolls disappeared from the end of the bed in an instant as if nothing had happened and they returned to their bed in their dormitory.

“It has been delayed for half an hour.” Wei Qianrong yawned with dark circles under her eyes. If she got out alive, she must sleep a lot to make up for all the sleep she didn’t get in the game.

Ding Yirong was also sleepy, but he frowned and looked at the time of the day, only to get a headache, “Wouldn’t that mean it would be…four o’clock tomorrow?”

How long could he sleep then? Take a nap while others were in class. After all, the schedule was set to call the children at seven o’clock and they wouldn’t want to test out what happens if they didn’t call them up.

Even if the children had become dolls and wanted to kill them at night…But if the dolls were still there during the day, they had to consider them as children, take care of them the same and give them lessons. In the only class where the children were annihilated, the teachers were also annihilated.

Wei Qianrong touched her compass and thought if Jiang Xiaoli hadn’t survived Nian Jing’s plot point, or if the three of them hadn’t survived, perhaps it would be the end of the whole class of dolls?

The scene was bizarre. She didn’t dare to think about it, she didn’t dare to think about it.

As she yawned, she could hardly keep her eyes open. Wei Qianrong waved her hand to say goodbye to Ding Yirong and went back to sleep.

“Tomorrow——follow me and I’ll kill you.”

Ding Yirong: ……

In the morning, in the canteen.

“You don’t even have dark circles under your eyes?” Ding Yirong couldn’t help but say sourly as he looked at Jiang Xiaoli, who was immersed in drinking her porridge. He was a grown man exactly the same as a national treasure, how did Jiang Xiaoli…not have any dark circles?!

“Why do I have to have them?”

“Yesterday you…didn’t get chased by dolls?” Wei Qianrong looked at Jiang Xiaoli’s very energetic appearance, which was completely unlike her whose temples ached because of a lack of sleep.

“…That’s right.” It was somewhat awkward as Jiang Xiaoli stopped drinking her porridge. Could it be that they knew about Li Hongying’s existence? Wouldn’t they be suspicious? For sure——

“Is this the benefit of going through a plot point alone? Because Nian Jing favours you?” Wei Qianrong said and she shook her head. In any case, it was Jiang Xiaoli’s chance. They did not encounter any Ladies In Red and no props were consumed and the plot point was cleared. No matter how she saw it, she got off easy. If one got chased by a doll, so be it. It was better than being chased and intercepted by the security guard ghosts, and one even had to worry about being shone on by a flashlight.

Ultimately, once one was frozen by a flashlight, one talisman must be consumed. If not, one would be surrounded by security guard ghosts and be dismembered into pieces.

“Eh?” Jiang Xiaoli glanced at Li Hongying with a look of surprise.

“What? We’re not unreasonable people. You must have some benefit when you fight the boss alone. After all, the game is about fairness.” Wei Qianrong was surprised by her attitude so she couldn’t help but say a few more words, “You’re a good player, really. Much better than Ding Yirong. Ding Yirong, if you follow me again tonight, I’ll kill you even if I don’t clear the game.”

Ding Yirong lowered his head and chewed on the mandarin rolls without saying a word. It depended on the situation tonight. If he couldn’t live through it…there was still a way to survive with Wei Qianrong. If he could live through it, he wouldn’t anger her. Ding Yirong silently sighed in his heart, he thought that he was at least a young man. Although he was not so handsome, his looks weren’t that bad either. Why couldn’t he rely on his vessel to get Wei Qianrong protection?

Thinking about it, Ding Yirong felt that Wei Qianrong was brooding over the fact that she had spent a talisman on him.

He angrily took a bite of the mandarin roll. Wasn’t it just a talisman?! He also…couldn’t afford it.

“Breakfast is too monotonous. Every day, there are all kinds of porridge with mandarin rolls and steamed buns, there’s no pasta or anything else.” Ding Yirong grumbled. This canteen was rather weird anyways. Once they had ordered, there would be someone at the display counter serving their meals and the canteen would be empty for the remainder of the time. It was probably the handiwork of the escape game.

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Hello everyone, it’s an update after such a long time. I didn’t notice that I actually left this chapter unpublished ever since two weeks ago. Apologies!

To be honest, I’m starting to pity the other players. They’re working hard to survive while Jiang Xiaoli just takes it lying, sleeping soundly with her trump card, Li Hongying.

This arc is quite long but don’t worry! It’ll be over soon enough in around 4-5 chapters!