Chapter 8 - Second Game (1)

Rainbow Kindergarten

Chapter 8 — Second Game (1)

The days of living with a ghost were not very good at all.

Especially for a salted fish like Jiang Xiaoli.

She lay on the bed and swiped through Weibo. 1 She did no more than take a few glances at pictures of celebrities and had not felt any sort of emotion before her heart started to twitch with pain. “Li Hongying!”

Li Hongying absolutely did not understand her at all. She didn’t know what method this ferocious ghost had used to become the reward for her copy and even lived in her heart. When she was in a bad mood, she would start to pinch her heart which hurts a lot. Without a doubt, Jiang Xiaoli also did not know whether Li Hongying pinched her heart or used a needle to prick her. In any case, it just hurts.

She also didn’t know what her heart was like right now, whether or not it was wrapped by a ghost hand. Jiang Xiaoli planned to take the time to go to the hospital to take an x-ray but she was afraid it would be treated as a strange illness and be taken to be sampled.

Life is hard.

The salted fish laid for two days and sneaked into the school group to rummage through. She intended to take over as a substitute teacher for the other sister. As soon as she typed the polite words of ‘dear’ and ‘muah’, Jiang Xiaoli was in so much pain that she rolled down from the bed…… “This is an exchange of pleasantries! As a ghost, can’t you keep up with the times a bit? It is normal to be polite and intimate to a customer!”

Li Hongying did not say a word like she was dead and did not even show up, she just tormented her with heartache.

A real sense of heartache.

Jiang Xiaoli: Cries.

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The only good point is that Li Hongying is powerful. Although she didn’t know how this ghost became her reward, she would definitely not let her die since they are bound together……Thinking of the door that might still open in the future, Jiang Xiaoli endured.

——It would be better if Li Hongying lay on her and drool in the middle of the night.

If it weren’t for being bound, Jiang Xiaoli would suspect that Li Hongying would have torn her into shreds and swallowed her raw on the first night she returned.

“My flesh and blood are very attractive to ghosts? But I have never experienced any supernatural events.”

“That’s because you did not meet me.” Li Hongying sat at the bedside and looked at Jiang Xiaoli at her desk, typing on an article on her computer. She said softly, “Moreover, ghosts rarely cause chaos in this world.”

It was nothing strange to not encounter them.

“What does that mean?” Jiang Xiaoli was taken aback for a moment and even stopped on her ass-kissing praise to the products of a rich daddy. She asked while she opened Baidu 2 and took a look if she could find some information about it.

“Tyrannical ghosts will all be forcefully recruited by the escape game. The copies are equivalent to independently sealed planes of existence.” Li Hongying actually did not conceal it. After all, Jiang Xiaoli also needed to go through a lot of games in the future. It would not do if she did not know anything at all. In some copies, her strength would be restricted or else it would be too unreasonable.

“Every time a player clears the copy, it can weaken the resentment in the copy and weaken the ability of the ghosts. Thus, lowering the difficulty of the ghost game. After it comes down to a certain extent, the plane of existence can be purified and allow the ghosts to free themselves of worldly worries, reincarnate or be annihilated.

And if players keep failing in a copy, the restriction power of the seal will become lower and lower. The ghosts also become stronger from killing and absorbing the player’s flesh and blood. They might be able to roam around, escape into this world and it would be chaotic.”

Li Hongying smiled for a while. Looking at it made Jiang Xiaoli’s heart cold, “Of course, there are also ghosts who are like me who bind to a player, advancing in games together with the player. They either possess the body or fuse with a certain organ, usually the hands or eyes. After borrowing their power to use for a long time, there are also ghosts that will forcefully seize the body.”

After saying this, Li Hongying then looked at Jiang Xiaoli and saw that her eyes were on full alert. This made her reminisce a bit about that pitying look Jiang Xiaoli used to look at her when she was not exposed yet.

“I won’t forcefully seize your body.” Li Hongying’s voice fell. Jiang Xiaoli only felt cold over her body. This ghost came behind her in an instant, her spiritual body passed through the chair and she hugged her. She rubbed her fangs against her neck and her voice had a trace of enticement, “If you need my help, providing blood is fine.” Cutting off a piece of flesh is also fine but Jiang Xiaoli might not be willing. And if it’s raw food, Jiang Xiaoli, who lacks an arm or a leg, won’t look good.

“Stay away from me. I won’t need your help in this life.” Jiang Xiaoli scattered Li Hongying’s spiritual body away, thinking that this red-clothed feracious ghost did not know what the heck she was planning. She bent over her desk and continued writing her article with continuous banging sounds. Li Hongying, that servant, was lying on her and she was extremely cold but she also did not do anything to harm her. Her heart also did not ache. Jiang Xiaoli didn’t feel like caring about it and left her to it.

The most important thing now was her account balance. She’s going to eat rice! 3

This week’s article is done but her salary has not been settled. Jiang Xiaoli did not even eat a great meal. When she finished her bath and went to dry her towel, she saw the balcony door turn red.

Jiang Xiaoli: Heh, do you think I will open it? I will not!

Then she was forcefully sucked in.

[Welcome back to the escape game~]

[Currently extracting a copy……]

[Beep! Welcome to Rainbow Kindergarten!]

Rainbow Kindergarten? Rainbow? A red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple-clothed ghost?

She snapped out of her thoughts all of a sudden. Jiang Xiaoli already came to a place similar to an office and there were six strange people standing around. She instinctively pressed her heart area. The truth was that she was frightened by the previous copy and feared all the personnel would be ghosts……

[Team copy, Protection Period: 1 day. One cannot do any form of harm to a ‘teammate’ during the protection period~]

A line of words like a bullet screen 4 flying across in her mind in bold text and enlarged. Jiang Xiaoli looked at the expressions of the six people around and reckoned that they also had words streaking across in their minds. These six people should be her teammates in this game.

“Let’s introduce ourselves first. I’m Shang Chi, the Shang in yet 5 and the Chi in persevere. 6 This is my second game.” The first to speak was a man that wore a simple checked shirt and lush green spectacles, looking around twenty plus. That pair of spectacles are really too blinding and she didn’t know why this person had matched with this colour.

“Guan Lin, the Guan in open and close; 7 and the Lin in forest.” 8 The second man looked somewhat undisciplined and wild. His skin was suntanned and his words were rasped out. He smiled, “I’m on my third copy.”

“Yang Zixuan, second copy.”

“Ding Yirong, second copy.”

“Wei Qianrong, I’m on my third copy.”

“Yao Qinyu, I, I’m also on my third copy, I hope everyone can take care of me.” This young woman looked like she just became an adult not long ago and bowed after she said so.

“Jiang Xiaoli, also on my second copy.” Jiang Xiaoli was the last to introduce herself. Everyone only briefly introduced themselves and then began to guess what the context of this game was. Based on what they said, everyone was a ghost in this escape game, Rainbow Kindergarten……

Kindergarten teacher? Child? The majority of them had only just cleared a novice copy. The difficulty was relatively low, even if the difficulty is high, there would also be hints. Everyone exchanged what they encountered in their own copy and concluded more or less that there will be two types of ghosts in the game. The first type did not have memories and exists as ghost NPCs to act in accordance with the plot. They will only kill people if a mechanism is triggered. The other type likes to act and play tricks on the players, quietly killing you in the end.

“I’m sorry, I’ve kept you waiting for a long time.” The office door was pushed open and startled everyone. A middle-aged man with a big beer belly and a bald head appeared. He smiled kindly, “We invited you here because a part of the teachers returned home to rest but there are many children and they also need excellent kindergarten teachers. I hope you can take good care of them for two weeks.”

“Naturally, taking care of children is our profession. It’s only that we aren’t that familiar with this place, you see……” Shang Chi pushed his green-framed spectacles and stared at these people for a moment. That man that seemed like the principal, squinted his eyes and smiled while looking over. He was still polite and said,

“I will assign people to take you around the kindergarten to familiarise yourselves. We are a kindergarten in seclusion. Neither the children nor the teachers can leave this place in these two weeks.” After he spoke, he turned and walked out. He shouted, “Xiao Wang, take these new teachers on a stroll.” Then he left.

Their identities have been arranged. It looks like the task this time is to survive in this kindergarten for two weeks.

“The first day is a safe period. We should disperse and try hard to find information related to this copy.” Shang Chi saw the principal leave and turned around to suggest to everyone.

“En. After we finish the stroll around this kindergarten, we will disperse to gather information. Especially newspapers, it must certainly not be missed out.” Yang Zixuan continued. His previous task was inadvertently to flip through newspapers and the XX homicide case made progress, was written on it. Then, he realised the situation of that copy.

Everyone nodded and did not have any objections. Jiang Xiaoli looked at her group of teammates. Not one of these people mentioned the reward of their copy. She could not figure out for a while whether it was because she got a reward due to her perfect clearance or they were hiding their trump cards on purpose. Her heart was more inclined to the latter. After all, there were players who were on their third game and those people who could survive two copies are definitely not easy to deal with at all.

Jiang Xiaoli lowered her sense of existence, silently following behind her teammates and barely spoke. The person taking them on the tour was Xiao Wang, a young male teacher but this teacher was so thin that it was scary. He had sunken eye sockets and protruding cheekbones. It was as if his body had been sucked dry and was extremely empty. He did not have any spirit when he walked and seemed like he would be blown down by the wind in the next second.

Shang Chi looked at Teacher Wang who led them. His expression was a bit ugly. He dared not to get too close, following behind and kept a distance of about more than 1 metre away. Shang Chi kept his distance and the rest of them all the more, followed behind him. This scene was a bit strange. If it was exchanged with another teacher, maybe the teacher would be angry and say something but this Teacher Wang did not mind at all. He did not even turn his head, as if he was simply carrying out his own duty.

“The children are playing with toys in the playroom right now. The schedule is posted in the classroom. You can see for yourself. This is the classroom.” Teacher Wang stopped in his steps, talking while walking and explained as he passed by a room. “This is the washroom and the pantry is next door.”

Walking all the way to the stairs and going upstairs, “This is the music room.”

This was very obvious because they could already hear a nursery rhyme coming from the classroom when they were at the stairs.

“A rag doll, a rag doll

Large eyes and black-haired

Large eyes and black-haired

Laughing heartily the whole day

Clean and obedient

Laughing heartily the whole day

Clean and obedient

A rag doll, a rag doll

Large eyes and black-haired

Let me hug you

As your good mother” 9

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Footnotes

微博 (wēi bó) : China’s version of Twitter/Facebook. 百度 (bǎi dù) : China’s version of Google. 她要恰饭的啊！(tā yào qià fàn de a!) : This is used to describe of ridicule content writers that advertise for a living. It has the meaning of ‘I was forced to do this for livelihood and have no other choice but to do this, please understand. It’s a new feature in China and Japan that allows real-time comments from the viewers to fly across the screen. 尚且的尚 (shàng qiě de shàng) : The ‘尚’ in this word. 持之以恒的持 (chí zhī yǐ héng) : The ‘持’ in this idiom. 开关的关 (kāi guān de guān) : The ‘关’ in this word. 树林的林 (shù lín de lín) : The ‘林’ in this word. ‘布娃娃 (bù wá wá)’ is a children’s song about a rag doll. If you’re interested in how the song sounds like:

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%B8%83%E5%A8%83%E5%A8%83/16923965