Chapter 25 - Second Game (18)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 25 — Second Game (18)

“They’re…all dead?”

“To begin with, they were ghosts. What do you think?” Li Hongying watched the children leave one by one, then she abruptly shattered this ghost realm.

Their surroundings suddenly shattered into pieces and dissipated, Jiang Xiaoli staggered forward and found herself at the doorway of the utility room.

Thereafter, she heard a muffled grunt from Yang Zixuan. His face full of blood and an altered appearance—Yang Zixuan stuck his head out of the little dark room with the support of the door frame and made eye contact with Jiang Xiaoli

…and Li Hongying.

“You…”

“I won’t tell anyone.” Yang Zixuan cut off Jiang Xiaoli’s words. He raised his hand to wipe his face and his face changed back to its original appearance, “Thank you for rescuing me.” After thanking her, he shot a wary glance at Li Hongying, “The plot point is over.” He didn’t expect that Jiang Xiaoli, whom he thought would drag one’s tail like Yao Qinyu, actually had a ghost too. Unlike his which activated when it lived away from the prop and this ghost could actually come out independently. Moreover…it was very strong.

Was this the so-called wolf in sheep’s clothing? Yang Zixuan didn’t care about this at all, it was enough for him to just survive the game this time. It was no good to expose Jiang Xiaoli. Since Jiang Xiaoli didn’t want to get exposed, he wouldn’t speak anymore of this either.

Jiang Xiaoli: Actually, I wanted to say ‘Are you ok?’

After Yang Zixuan said a whole lot, she swallowed back her words. Jiang Xiaoli thought for a while and didn’t even get to say that sentence of ‘Are you ok?’ After all…With Yang Zixuan’s energetic appearance, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with him no matter how she looked. She thought: Perhaps Yang Zixuan had also entered that kind of ghost domain, just that he was not with her and opened independently. Yang Zixuan failed to get out of that place but because Li Hongying got rid of it, Yang Zixuan got out as well.

It could be regarded as saving his life.

“Are you all right? Those ghosts suddenly disappeared!” Ding Yirong and Wei Qianrong ran over, extremely anxious. Then they saw Jiang Xiaoli at the door, “What’s going on? What happened…Yang Zixuan, your face?”

Why was his face covered in blood?

“The plot point couldn’t be already…over, right?”

“It’s over.” Yang Zixuan pulled the corners of his mouth into a smile, though it was a little stiff. He rubbed his face and said, “My prop, the human skin mask, can borrow the power of a ghost, just that…it might backfire.”

“…It doesn’t matter as long as you’re alright.” Ding Yirong scratched his head. A human skin mask? It sounded very frightening. If he obtained this prop, he reckoned he wouldn’t have the courage to use it——unless he was about to die.

Yang Zixuan changed so much just because he made up his mind to use this prop? It was no wonder the yin energy surrounding his body suddenly became heavier.

Wei Qianrong looked at Yang Zixuan, seemingly wanting to comfort him, but she didn’t say a word. All of them were in an escape game, what qualifications did they have to console each other? They were all hanging by a thread as it is and it was difficult for them to protect themselves. As for a backfire, it might not necessarily backfire, but the power an individual gained was real. With power, only then would there be hope to live through more games.

Yang Zixuan nodded. He mulled over the events for a while, then he began to briefly talk about the plot he saw. About the little dark room and about the kindergarten. After the brief narration, he froze all of a sudden, “That, Teacher Wang…”

“Eh?”

“Why was he involved? He wasn’t present in my dream.” Yang Zixuan frowned. Speaking of that, this NPC was also very strange. Apart from the first day he took them to the kindergarten, they never saw this teacher again and the principal had disappeared as well.

“This might be the last plot point.” Wei Qianrong surmised. That NPC greeted and ushered them in and naturally, they would…watch them leave?

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Shang Chi still had three children left in his class and there were eight remaining on Yang Zixuan’s side, adding up to a total of eleven children.

Jiang Xiaoli looked at the eleven little dumplings and always felt that they would become eleven ragdolls in the next second.

Once they got through tonight, tomorrow would be another day and everything would be over. During the day…no matter how powerful the ghosts were, they wouldn’t be much stronger, would they?

Early in the morning.

[Congratulations to the surviving players on the last night, please take the children together with you to avoid the ghosts tonight~

*Note: The number of children is linked to the clearance reward.]

[0:00]

[Please enjoy the wonderful carnival night to the fullest~]

“???” Wei Qianrong was shocked, so were their pile of dolls children or…ghosts?

The number of children is linked to the clearance reward…regardless of class? They had to find Yang Zixuan without delay!

[Player Jiang Xiaoli was forced to enter the special mini-game session due to a special reason.]

What?

Wei Qianrong was stunned. She looked sideways at Jiang Xiaoli and found that Jiang Xiaoli also looked confused. The next moment, she saw a pitch-black door appearing behind Jiang Xiaoli! Numerous ghost hands sprang out of that door, pulling Jiang Xiaoli’s limbs, forcibly dragging her in! In addition, the moment that door appeared, Wei Qianrong found that she couldn’t move a single step, she couldn’t even blink. It wasn’t until the black door disappeared, only did it seem like the play button was pressed and everything went back to normal…

What was with this situation? Why did she enter a special mini-game session? Moreover, that door…No matter how she looked at it, it was the door to that special ghost show! What did Jiang Xiaoli do? It was on the account that she cleared the plot point alone or because of Nian Jing, but nothing happened to Yang Zixuan…

She was unable to figure it out nor able to explain it but at this moment, it was obvious that she could not stand here in a daze and waste time. Wei Qianrong lit a candle for Jiang Xiaoli in her heart, turned around and ran to the children’s dormitory.

“What’s with Jiang Xiaoli’s situation?” When she went downstairs, she met Ding Yirong, who was rushing to the dormitory.

“I’m not clear on that, she was captured by the ghosts all of a sudden and brought through the door. Could she have touched something?” Wei Qianrong said while running. When the two of them came to the ground floor, they happened to meet Shang Chi and Yang Zixuan, who came down with the children, as well as Yao Qinyu.

A ghost chase? …A night carnival?

“What’s that smell…?” Ding Yirong coughed twice and he saw the school building bursting into flames at once, it seemed to have appeared in an instant. Thick smoke and flames consumed the school building in a short duration.

“Heeheehee!”

“Hahaha!”

“Come on, you can’t get away~”

The charred, pitch-black ghosts smiled and the flames raged on them, accompanied by the sound of the children laughing and crying, approaching them step by step…

“Get out of the school building!”

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That building couldn’t be approached anymore!

But as soon as they turned around, they saw 24 ragdolls holding hands in a circle.

“A rag doll, a rag doll.

A handsewn ragdoll.

Black eyes and long hair.

Eyes that don’t blink.

A rag doll, a rag doll.

A rag doll for you.

His curved mouth is always smiling.

But he doesn’t speak.

He look at you, he listens to you.

A rag doll, a rag doll.

He wants a friend to accompany him forever.”

A compass shot out, two talismans were tightly clasped in Wei Qianrong’s hand and her expression was grave. This ghost carnival…it was all, all the ghosts that appeared would come? Fortunately, Nian Jing had dissipated, otherwise wouldn’t they still have to face a malicious ghost that was half their size?

“This way!” Yang Zixuan protected the children as he cleared the way. His facial features transformed and a gloomy aura came from him. Yang Zixuan seemed to be familiar with the power the human skin mask brought, patting the ragdolls ahead away and charging out.

“Who is…wandering around in the middle of the night…” The light from the flashlight came closer from afar and that sound of laughter was extremely low, “…I found you.”

“Disobedient children have to be punished~”

As it laughed, all of the ghosts made a move.

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Jiang Xiaoli’s expression was horrible, she didn’t understand why she had to play some kind of ghost game.

Just because of Li Hongying? Because Li Hongying was too overpowering and the carnival tonight was not difficult enough for her? So they forcibly increased the difficulty for her alone? How could there be such a reason! Why should she be treated differently when she got a cheat by luck!

She was standing in a black coloured maze, with red, yellow and blue cards present in her mind.

[Please select a movement card.]

Red.

[Five steps forward.]

What? Jiang Xiaoli’s eyes widened, and she found that her legs didn’t listen to her commands and were moving on their own! Li Hongying?

‘I can’t help it, I’m too powerful.’

‘The primary copy is a small means of screening the players, but its purpose is actually to make players stronger.’

Whereas if she made a move, Jiang Xiaoli would not get any chance to hone herself.

Red. Jiang Xiaoli chose a card again.

Sure enough, this escape game wasn’t willing to let her continue on without doing anything.

[You have discovered a prop box, do you want to open it?]

Yes.

[A gust of wind howled and you let out a Specter.]

[You cannot use any external forces, the Specter will hunt you down within five minutes. Have fun escaping~]

Jiang Xiaoli: ???

Damn it. In terms of manipulation, no one could beat this escape game!

The three-coloured card disappeared and was replaced by a countdown.

5:00

4:59

Jiang Xiaoli took to their heels, and in the place where she stood earlier, strands of black mist continued to entangle and condense, ultimately turning into a 3-metre-tall black coloured ghost. It hung its head low and a long black mist trailed on the ground…

“Hide and seek~”

“Are you done hiding? Let’s start~”

It was clearly an extremely tall ghost, but its voice was exactly the same as that of a child, and because of excessive excitement, its voice is extremely sharp. He raised his head all of a sudden, there were no facial features on his pitch-black head, just that there were two pure white eyeballs embedded into the area where his eye sockets were. Apart from that, there was no other colour.

When his voice fell, he sensed the direction of Jiang Xiaoli’s escape and jumped after her.

…….

“H-help!” Yao Qinyu cried out. She was pulled out of the light range of the flashlight by the arm, by Wei Qianrong; and in the next instant, the compass spun around, flew out and hit the security guard’s arm. That flashlight dropped to the ground with a thud and went out.

However, even without the light from the flashlight, they could see everything clearly with the light from the burning school building.

“Get a move on!”

Because they have to protect the children they could not scatter. Once they got scattered, how could one person protect the children alone? Excluding Yao Qinyu, there were only four of them, but there were only eleven children. Even if Yao Qinyu was included and everyone ran away with two children?——It was no different from sending themselves to their deaths.

There were too many ghosts and nowhere was safe, so they had to keep on moving, moving unceasingly.

“Let’s go check out the principal’s office!” Yang Zixuan frowned and said out of the blue.

“There? There’s nothing there and we’ll be stuck there once we get there.”

“Then do we have to run until four o’clock in the morning?” If they couldn’t go on running, the game would certainly have a lifeline.

“…Go.”

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Time to light some candles for Jiang Xiaoli…Meanwhile, OP Wifey Ghost Cheat Li Hongying can only watch but worry not, our dearest MC won’t die off like this! There’s another hidden cheat called—protagonist halo.