Chapter 24 - Second Game (17)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 24 — Second Game (17)

The dolls with Jiang Xiaoli and her company were no different from ordinary dolls during the day and thus, it was like talking to the wall when the lesson commenced. It was extremely boring but that was likewise good; they breezed through the day.

——“What are you doing? Freeze!” A loud shout came from the classroom next door, Jiang Xiaoli heard Yang Zixuan’s voice. She was stupefied for a moment. She wanted to go out to see what was happening, but she was afraid that it was against the rules. She frowned and thought for a while before she said to the ragdolls below, “Teacher is going to see what has happened, all of you should sit here obediently and not move from here, ok?” There shouldn’t be a problem with this, right? After all, her teachers would sometimes go out to talk to other teachers when she was in class in the past.

——“Get out of here!”

Jiang Xiaoli stuck out her head and looked from the door, and she found that two unknown male NPCs had appeared at the door of Yang Zixuan’s classroom. Were they teachers too? Furthermore, ‘Teacher Wang’ who was present on the first day and disappeared later on also showed up there.

Teacher Wang was no different from the one she saw on the first day, but she didn’t know whether it was due to the passing of time; she always felt that this Teacher Wang was much more like a zombie now. His body and expression were stiff and dull, and he stood upright at the door like a wooden dummy.

Those two male NPCs seemed to want to enter the classroom, but Yang Zixuan stopped them from entering. The expression of those two NPCs gradually became impatient, “We’re looking for a few children for some matter…Do you know vaccination? It’s time for them to get their vaccination today.”

Yang Zixuan’s eye seemed to be spewing fire. He stared at the two NPCs coldly and said to Teacher Wang, who was like a block of wood behind him, “Teacher Wang, lead them away. The children in our class are not taking any vaccination.”

“This is a regulation, we have it every month.” Teacher Wang’s mouth pulled off a smile that was stiff and forced, as if he was forcibly manipulated to smile by an invisible hand. He said these words calmly, as if he were an emotionless robot and his eyes looked straight ahead without any focus.

Jiang Xiaoli’s eyebrows knitted together. Was this an exclusive plot for Yang Zixuan and his company’s class or…? Their class were all ragdolls, could they even get vaccinated?

“Fellow teachers, how about handing over the rag…ahem, children in your class for vaccination?”

Yet, the two NPCs seemed to be unable to hear her words. Not only did they ignore her, but their expressions also began to become hideous over time. One NPC even started to push Yang Zixuan, trying to break in forcibly.

“Do you think I’m afraid of you? Come on! If you want to go in, you’ll have to do it over my dead body!” Yang Zixuan seemed to be crazy too. He knocked the NPC who was pushing him out and punched the NPC in the stomach, “A bunch of scum, come on!”

“Yang Zixuan, what’s going on?” Shang Chi walked out, protecting the only three remaining children in his class, only to see Yang Zixuan unexpectedly making a move against an NPC?! Holy cow, this brother! He wasn’t going to hide his skills anymore and started to fight the ghosts when he met them?

“It’s a plot point, I had a dream last night.” Yang Zixuan gritted his teeth while pulling the NPC’s collar and punched him in the face, knocking the NPC’s spectacles away. Another NPC stepped forward to pull him away, but Yang Zixuan dodged nimbly, avoiding the approaching hand. After integrating the human skin mask, his body constitution had also improved a lot.

He made a helpless choice last night and today, these ghosts still manifested before him, showing their true nature and they still wanted to take the children in his class away?

“Molesting children, they’re all scum. Saying it’s for vaccination, I don’t even know what they’re injected with. There was a little dark room in the utility room of this kindergarten and the children were dragged into it…” Yang Zixuan kicked another NPC who rushed over, knocking this guy to the ground. Perhaps it was because it was during the day, or some other reason? These two NPCs had not yet shown their true form.

“I’m going to find Wei Qianrong and the others!” Jiang Xiaoli made a quick decision to find Wei Qianrong. Wei Qianrong had a compass in her possession and Ding Yirong had a peachwood sword, which were all useful in dealing with ghosts.

“Shang Chi, help me look after the dolls in the class.”

Jiang Xiaoli ran in a hurry, for fear of wasting any time. After all, if those two ghosts suddenly went mad, she felt that Shang Chi and Yang Zixuan would not be able to resist them for long.

When Wei Qianrong and Ding Yirong rushed over, they found three strangers scuffling together in the corridor. According to Jiang Xiaoli, two were NPCs, so what about the third one?

“Yang Zixuan? He’s wearing Yang Zixuan’s clothes, it should be some ability of his.” Wei Qianrong remembered what Yang Zixuan wore today and on the contrary, she recovered her senses rather quickly, the compass flew out from her hand and smashed out.

Contrariwise, Ding Yirong was astounded, “Where did Yang Zixuan go to change his head? It’s actually…rather handsome?”

He was quite handsome; it was that kind of exquisite handsome. Just that, his face was too pale so it looked a bit horrifying.

Teacher Wang merely stood aside from the start to finish, as if he was watching a play and he also seemed to have turned into a stone statue. Watching the two NPCs being beaten up by the teacher, his expression did not change at all.

“Something’s wrong.”

Yes, something wasn’t right. No matter how hard these two NPCs fought, they didn’t turn into ghosts and show their true form like those ghosts such as Nian Jing.

Yang Zixuan was taken aback for a moment and his appearance suddenly changed back. He threw the NPC in his hand onto the tile, ran into the classroom and stood there, counting the number of children…

Short, they were short of children.

He should have discovered it earlier. He should have discovered it a long time ago! As Yang Zixuan trembled, he spoke, “Since you’re all here, come to teacher.”

The children began to leave their seats, some children lowered their voices and cried, appearing to be terrified. Just then, Yang Zixuan saw two dark shadows flashing in from the door, pulling a child from the left and right before they disappeared.

“No, no, not here…” Yang Zixuan’s temples throbbed. He frowned, “Go find Yao Qinyu, she should have had a dream too. Let her take you to the little dark room behind the utility room!” Cooperation is needed this time! The NPC outside the classroom door, Teacher Wang was very much like a surveillance monitor. Where does it end? That little black room!

“No, no. Wei Qianrong, Ding Yirong, I’ll trouble both of you to look after the children. Don’t let these two NPCs in.” As he spoke, Yang Zixuan changed his appearance again and ran outside. The NPC at the door seemed to be trying to stop him, but Wei Qianrong raised her hand and ruthlessly slammed him to the ground with her compass. Shang Chi unknowingly got a mop from somewhere and pressed the mop on the back of the NPC lying on the ground, unexpectedly pressing it down.

“I’ll go after Yang Zixuan.” Was this the last plot point? Jiang Xiaoli ran after him. At any rate, she had Li Hongying and was able to protect herself. If she encountered something she couldn’t understand, she could also ask Li Hongying. If Yang Zixuan couldn’t solve it, she should also be able to help.

Why didn’t she go look for Yao Qinyu? Because she couldn’t find Yao Qinyu and Yang Zixuan didn’t know where she was either. Moreover, the children had already disappeared for a few days and if they delayed it any longer, all the children could have disappeared by the time Yao Qinyu was found.

Utility room, utility room…

With a bang, Yang Zixuan tripped over because he was too impatient. He couldn’t care less about the pain in his knees and got up from the pile of miscellaneous items. Where’s the hidden room? Where’s the little dark room? …It’s here, it’s here!

As soon as Jiang Xiaoli stepped into the utility room, she saw Yang Zixuan stepping into the little dark room. In an instant, the scene in this utility room suddenly changed and countless fine grey strands isolated the room from the outside world. In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xiaoli was in a space with black as its base colour: a black ground, black walls, a black sky; everything was pitch-black and only cobweb-like grey strands were hanging around.

Jiang Xiaoli didn’t move but the world seemed to be changing constantly. The grey strands twisted, extended and pulled back continuously. Jiang Xiaoli seemed to be standing on top of a fast-moving train. The strands on both sides retreated rapidly and the white dots in front of her continued to enlarge, like she was running to get closer…

It was close and it was getting closer.

The white spot of light turned into that of a human and when it was enlarged to the same size as Jiang Xiaoli, the white color suddenly turned blood red, as if a beast had opened its mouth wide to swallow her in one bite——

But the scene abruptly stopped.

No, it was forced to stop.

Wisps of blood spread from Jiang Xiaoli’s feet winding around the grey strands in the scene, inch by inch and twisting them little by little.

Crack, crack, crack…

With the sound of fine and dense cracking, Jiang Xiaoli looked at this world. Fine white lines started to appear in the black sky, which was tightly locked by wisps of blood and then it suddenly shattered.

The world also got shattered.

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Large pieces of fragments fell from above and melted in mid-air. Out of the confined space, Jiang Xiaoli saw crying children facing the black wall. The children’s countenance was a mix of these three colours: black, white and grey. They were naked and scars could be easily seen on their naked bodies.

The children on the other side were coloured. Jiang Xiaoli glanced at them and found that they were the children in Yang Zixuan’s class; they looked kind of familiar. These children were also crying with their heads down and were extremely scared. Two tall men——the NPC at the door forcibly dragged the children to the sofa, on which sat a man.

She didn’t know what he said or berated, the children trembled and seemed to be more petrified, but they started to take off their clothes.

The wisps of blood spread out. Li Hongying raised her hand and countless wisps of blood spread to all corners of this small room, and at that moment, the progressing scene suddenly changed. The men, both of the NPCs turned into dark shadows.

Just like children’s sketches, ghostly figures that have been hastily blacked out, with only their eyes and mouth left blank.

“It would be disgusting for me to swallow ghosts like you.” Li Hongying still maintained her human form and did not show her appearance with her seven orifices bleeding when she died a tragic death. She just stood in front of Jiang Xiaoli, raising her hand to direct the movements of countless wisps of blood.

“Heeheehee!”

“Hehehe!”

“I don’t believe in ghosts, these little b*stards…actually turned into ghosts to harass me…Hehe, I’ve found an expert and a few talismans should wipe them out…”

“I’ve killed quite a number of little ghosts, hahaha…As a result, I still got killed by them. But what does it matter? I’ve become a ghost too.”

“I actually came back to this kindergarten?”

“Hehe, are you scared? All of you little shits, even if you die, you’re not my opponents!——”

One wisp of blood after another wrapped around the necks of those dark figures, and they constricted and constricted even more under Li Hongying’s control. Numerous wisps of blood climbed up, shredding and shredding those three figures up in the midst of their shrill and exaggerated laughter.

“Let’s get out.” The wisps of blood condensed, constantly thickening to form a blood red door. This door was obviously not the sort of door for the escape game, the blood on it was too conspicuous. Li Hongying exercised control over the door and made it open. She said in a low voice, not to Jiang Xiaoli, but to the children in the room.

They were caught and imprisoned in this ghost domain. By killing the master of this ghost domain, these imprisoned little kids would not get any good from it. However, Li Hongying could use her power to open a door in this ghost domain and let these little ghosts leave from there.

——As for Jiang Xiaoli and her, the ghosts had dissipated and the plot was over, so they naturally left.

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Oh! This arc is almost coming to an end. It was considerate of Li Hongying to do a favour for the little ghosts, to let them roam free instead of being trapped in their worst nightmare of a kindergarten, repeating this tragedy over and over again… They did nothing wrong and were subjected to this—they need their peace at least as a ghost.