Chapter 26 - Second Game (19)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 26 — Second Game (19)

“How long do I have to run in this game?” Jiang Xiaoli gasped for her breath against a black wall. She reached out her hand to wipe her perspiration. She had never felt so unlucky before.

She encountered a box, which she did not open. Then after choosing a card twice…

[The seal on the box has lost effectiveness and the malicious ghost will come into being~ The player to please enjoy your escape game adventure in three minutes~]

What the heck?! ‘Come into being’ could be used as such? Since when was a ghost worthy of the phrase, ‘come into being’?

Perhaps the cause wasn’t because she chose to open the box of her own accord. As such, she simply had to flee for three minutes. Even so, sometimes when she came across a corner, the game would do some manipulation like this:

[Turning the corner, you encounter love. Player Jiang Xiaoli looks at the ghost who died by hanging in curiosity for 3 seconds, angering the hanged ghost. The remaining time of the hostility of the hanged ghost: 3 minutes.]

Jiang Xiaoli: ?

I’m horrified, alright? Not curious. Ok?!

Who the hell would be curious when they turned a corner and suddenly saw a ghost in white with their long tongue and feet hanging off the ground?! That head full of long straight black hair…Who could really see what he looked like?! She can’t even tell whether they were a man or a woman!

Jiang Xiaoli made a U-turn and bolted. If she had been any later, she would have thought that the tongue of the hanged ghost was ready to lick her.

“Time’s up.” Li Hongying consoled her, “Don’t worry, you will be a bit tired at best, just take it as training your body.” After all, the reason why Jiang Xiaoli was isolated was because she was too inexplicable in the beginner copy. Apart from the escape game wanting to play tricks on the player, it should purely not want to Jiang Xiaoli’s existence to interfere with the growth of the death of the other players.

It was quite a workout. Jiang Xiaoli panted and watched the 1-minute countdown appear on the three cards within her mind. The escape game began to urge her to make a choice again.

Jiang Xiaoli always chose red because of Li Hongying and she thought that this colour would safeguard her. Now it seemed…

“Blue.”

Li Hongying: ?

[100 push-ups in 45 minutes (standard).

Red card: Run 1000 metres in 5 minutes.

Yellow card: 100 sit-ups in half an hour.

Select a card 3 minutes after completing the task, extra time will be counted as rest.]

Huh?!

Jiang Xiaoli was shocked. Did this escape game have spiritual intelligence? Now this is…holding it against her for being troublesome?

“This is a beginner-level world after all. This sort of minigame…is generally an advanced-level killing game, and you can’t die here, otherwise it would be unfair.” This was nothing much compared to the escape game. Although the existence of that fellow also has the role of maintaining the balance of yin and yang, preserving order and stability, but as a game, he has his own preferences as well.

As for the escape game, how amusing it was, to watch players snivelling and being so scared that they shit their pants. Or possibly watch ghosts getting beaten wretchedly to the point that they scampered off like frightened rats and got annihilated. How fun it was.

When the 45-minute timer started, Jiang Xiaoli had no choice but to get on all fours to do two push-ups on the ground, which were not counted because they were not standard…

Great, such a ruthless game.

……

“Meeting conference…This is where it all started, the principal’s office…the door’s locked!”

“Get out of the way!” Ding Yirong stepped aside and Yang Zixuan made a powerful impact on the door by ramming it with his side. He kneaded his shoulders and was about to ram the door once again, only to hear a click and the door opened on its own.

“Let’s try entering.”

“I remember this place wasn’t locked before…” Wei Qianrong said with misgivings as she entered first while protecting the kids and scrutinised the office. They’d already visited such an obvious place, having looked for information everywhere else in addition to the secret room in the utility room.

“Is this a newspaper?”

It was a newspaper. And it looked familiar. They had seen the news report about Nian Jing. It clearly appeared on the bed of a dorm room but now, it showed up in this office. Additionally, there were also records of arson, homicide and child abuse…These newspapers were neatly arranged.

On the reverse side of the homicide case was a small article about a conflict between Xiao Hei and that teacher. The boy was beaten to death by the teacher and had his limbs broken. That teacher looked cultured and refined, and the police did not suspect him at first, until the teacher abruptly died in his home 7 days after the boy’s death. The murder weapon was a machete, but the surveillance showed that no one had entered the teacher’s house. In the end, it was suspected that the teacher had staged his own suicide because he was ashamed of the child he had killed.

A subtle news report.

However, that was not what they should be worried about right now, rather it was the ghosts outside.

A strong burning smell mixed with the unpleasant stench of decay rushed into the office. Wei Qianrong, Ding Yirong and Yang Zixuan all geared up. If that group of ghosts charged in, they would have to use their props to block the front.

——But that group of ghosts came to a halt, stopping outside the door.

It was extremely quiet.

The door should not be opened. Yang Zixuan walked hesitantly to the door and cautiously looked out from the peephole…White?

——It was an eye without a pupil.

“They’re outside.” Yang Zixuan did not get frightened. After saying that, he turned around and started to look around the office.

The office, which was unchanged from the beginning, was suddenly locked, and reports of cases appeared. All the tragedies seemed to be more or less related to the kindergarten, even Nian Jing who died outside the kindergarten. She was still a child studying in the there and she died in the alley near the kindergarten.

This game agglomerated a large number of ghosts with grudges and the only thing in common was the kindergarten.

There should be a hint for a way out in the principal’s office.

“What time is it?”

“03:30.”

“Over here, there’s a file envelope!” Wei Qianrong pulled out a kraft paper envelope. She carefully uncoiled the white string and pulled out a stack of documents inside.

“This should be a kindergarten teacher? Security? This is Li Wang.” That pitiful individual, who fled because they were terrified, was captured back by a ghost and burned to death.

“What’s the use?”

Yang Zixuan and the rest began to look through them one by one. They should all be staff members of the kindergarten, but there was no ‘Teacher Wang’ or the principal in the documents.

Wei Qianrong rummaged through the drawer and found a lighter…? What did this hint at?

“Bring over the details of the teacher involved in the arson case.”

There were 3 pieces of paper as a result. The papers started to burn after Wei Qianrong lifted their corners and lit them on fire with a lighter.

When the file photo was burned, screams suddenly broke out outside the door. There was another commotion outside the quiet door. Yang Zixuan went over to look at the peephole. In the darkness, there seemed to be another fire. This fire was very odd because it only seemed to surround three scorching shadows.

“It’s working. Will the remaining staff be burned as well?”

The rest were teachers and security guards. The remaining teachers? One died with Xiao Hei, another was killed by the trench coat ghost. The security guard ghosts were all gathered outside the door but would burning work? Wei Qianrong hesitated for a moment and did not respond, “Let’s find out if there’s anything else in here.”

04:00

The darkness had not dissipated and the ghosts outside the door had not dissipated either.

04:30

Nursery rhymes began to be sung outside the door.

“It’s getting cold in the room.” Ding Yirong rubbed his arms and looked at Shang Chi. Shang Chi nodded with an ugly expression on his face.

“The yin energy has become heavier. We might not…be able to stay here any longer. But it’s not dawn yet.”

“Burn those documents! What’s the use of these? Won’t the ghosts all die after being burnt?” Yao Qinyu reached for the lighter on the table. Her hands trembled as she flicked it twice and then she was going to burn the file envelope on the table.

“Don’t be impulsive.” Wei Qianrong snatched the file envelope. This shouldn’t be set on fire arbitrarily…

“Let’s try burning the ones for the security guards and let’s put the ones for the teachers here and not touch them.” Some dissipated and some were killed by the ghosts outside the door. If they burned the record of the teacher who was killed by the trench coat ghost…What if the strength of the trench coat ghost increased drastically?

“Ok, let’s burn them. Once we’ve set it on fire, let’s open the door and make a run for it.” Yang Zixuan exercised his strength, readily swinging a chair in the office, intending to throw this out later to open a path.

Sometimes, people’s intuition was accurate, especially for this sort of copy with ghosts. Intuition could sometimes save your life.

The flames ignited the stack of security guard documents. Yang Zixuan slammed the door open and flung the chair out, “Shang Chi, Yao Qinyu! Take the children and make a run to the playground first!”

“Ho ho. Die…” A burnt smell gradually emerged from the security guards, but the effect on them was very limited, only their movements were much slower.

Ding Yirong was stunned and gestured to this peachwood sword, “The weapons of the security guards are gone!” Perhaps it was because of the fire?

“Kill the ghosts.” Making a prompt decision, Yang Zixuan dodged the ghost doll’s machete. He opened the lid of the iron box containing the fire extinguisher and picked it up to smash it at the ghost doll as a weapon.

Ding Yirong also became decisive at this time. He promptly approached a howling security guard ghost and thrust his peachwood sword into the dark figure——Zzzzz, that howling became all the more miserable and the dark figure gradually dissipated…

The dark figure dissipated and a flashlight fell to the ground.

Thud.

The compass knocked against the trench coat ghost’s knife, “Quick, pick it up and go!”

Yang Zixuan couldn’t deal with so many dolls by himself and the trench coat ghost was also…Wait, ragdoll?

Wei Qianrong thought of something, took out the lighter and threw it to Yang Zixuan, “Give this a shot!”

Small flames sprang out and the ragdolls that threatened Yang Zixuan in an encirclement and were itching to tear him into pieces started to cower all of a sudden.

However, Yang Zixuan did not spare them. He knocked a ragdoll’s machete away, grabbed the doll in an instant and burned it with the lighter——

“Ahhh——it hurts so much——”

The screams didn’t last long and the doll turned into ashes and dissipated.

“What happens if you kill the doll during the day?” Wei Qianrong inquired all of a sudden.

“Maybe nothing will happen.” Ding Yirong picked up the flashlight and shone it at the windbreaker ghost, then rushed up with his peachwood sword.

After all, the injuries on these dolls would be reset. Who knows if they would still appear at night even if they were broken apart and dumped in the trash? There might also be an increased animosity from being destroyed.

05:00

“When…when will this end…”

They were too tired.

“I don’t know.” They thought it was 5 o’clock, but nothing had changed. The lighter could restrain the ragdolls. The security guard ghosts were unable to use weapons due to the burning of their records and their movements were sluggish, so the threat was greatly reduced. Ding Yirong killed a security guard ghost and got a flashlight, which could temporarily immobilise the ghosts.

“We can’t stop, let’s go.” They really couldn’t stop. The moment they stopped, the ghosts would catch up. The ghosts were following after them way too closely.

“The flashlight can still be used two more times, can we kill the trench coat ghost?”

“Is there somewhere like a library here?” If we ignite a fire like this…it can surely kill a lot of ragdolls, right?

The author has something to say: This story is guaranteed to end tomorrow! ( I don’t even know why it’s not over yet.)

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All the best to Jiang Xiaoli to clearing the minigame!

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It’s going alright on the other players’ end as well, at least they’re still holding up.