Chapter Nine Memories

  Qiao Jia listened quietly to Lian Xi's analysis. "Right!" Lian Xi suddenly stood up.

  "What's wrong with you! You scared me to death."

  "The first hidden task I encountered, Weyin was completely unaware of it. And this time, will only Xiaomu trigger the hidden task alone? Of course, all of this is just speculation... But if my guess is correct, then perhaps Xiaomu couldn't avoid it when he touched the hidden task..."

  Qiao Jia suddenly remembered something and stared at Lian Xi with a straight face. "Isn't it stated in the game rules that as long as you give up a part of your body, you can pass through the hidden task smoothly? Why didn't you tell her!"

  "Qiao Jia, can't you just stop this! You're always targeting me! What if we still don't see the game rules this time?"

  "But this time we saw it! If we had told Xiaomu, she might not have died!"

  "You also said maybe!" Lian Xi had lost control of her emotions and shouted loudly.

  "You also saw it, why didn't you tell her!"

  "I... I'm too scared... and I didn't expect the hidden task to be so terrifying, without any warning... Why didn't I tell Xiao Mu?" Qiao Jia's tears flowed out of her eyes. She wailed "Why do we have to go through this! Why do the three of us have to experience these things! Why..." Lian Xi hugged Qiao Jia tightly, comforting her. This made Qiao Jia feel an unprecedented warmth.

  Zhe, Qiao Jia and Lian Xi had not fallen asleep yet.

  Qiao Jia kept thinking about what Lian Xi had said, and all the memories of the three girls, from the moment they met...

  "Hello everyone, I'm Yuan Qiao Jia. I'm very happy to be here studying and hope to become friends with all of you. Please take care of me."... Ding!

  "Finally class is over." Xiaomu lazily stretched her waist.

  "You still have the nerve to say that class is finally over! You obviously slept through a whole period." Lian Xi said with a smile.

  "Go away, stop ruining the scene! ... Oh, a new pretty girl has arrived? Xiaomu saw Qiao Jia quietly reading in the corner and excitedly rushed over."

  "Hi, beautiful!"

  "Hello, I'm Yuan Qiao Jia, and I just transferred here."

  "What a elegant name! It's definitely more ladylike than some people!" Saying that, Xiaomu gave a sly smile as she looked at Lianxi.

  "My name is Xin Xiaomu."

  "Just call her crazy." Lian Xi walked over.

  "Don't be ridiculous! You're the crazy one! I'm a goddess! How could someone as beautiful and elegant as me be crazy?" Xiaomu gave Lianyu a disdainful glance, lightly stroking her long hair. This gesture made Qiao Jia and Lianyu burst out laughing, "A goddess with a bad temper is just a goddess with a mental illness! Haha!"

  "Don't laugh! I hate it!" The three of them burst out laughing together.

  From then on, they became the best of friends. The three of them were sometimes inseparable, sticking together every day, and sometimes they would fight and bicker, with Ling Xi and Xiao Mu joking and scolding each other, teasing and mocking, while Qiao Jia would intervene after a few minutes and they would stick together again.

  Qiao Jia gradually stopped advising them because they would always make up in the end. Unlike Lian Xi and Xiao Mu, Qiao Jia was a very quiet girl, although she didn't look particularly outstanding, but she could be considered a little loli. She was always gentle and weak, so Lian Xi and Xiao Mu always protected her from the side.

  One scene after another kept appearing in Qiao Jia's mind... Thinking of this, Qiao Jia couldn't help but sob uncontrollably.

  Qiao Jia didn't want to think about it anymore, she really couldn't accept this reality. During the day they were still together playing and laughing, but by the next day the person was gone. She didn't dare believe it, didn't want to believe it, and even more so didn't want to admit it. Qiao Jia made an effort to control her emotions, and finally calmed down.

  Memories of the three people are still piecing together in my mind. How could Lian Xi kill Xiao Mu? Qiao Jia gradually began to suspect that she had wrongly accused Lian Xi. Thinking about this again brought a wave of inexplicable sorrow, if it was really her mistake, and she treated Lian Xi like that, Lian Xi must have been heartbroken. Xiao Mu is already dead, now only Lian Xi is left. She started blaming herself for not believing Lian Xi. She had lost Xiao Mu, and couldn't lose Lian Xi again.

  Lian Xi didn't overthink the misunderstanding between her and Qiao Jia, because she believed in their friendship, and she knew that sooner or later Qiao Jia would believe her. Or rather, Lian Xi didn't have extra experiences to think about these things, compared to this matter, going to Qiao Jia's fate was more important. She had already lost Xiao Mu, couldn't lose Qiao Jia again.

  In Ling Yu's mind, there had always been a question - was this game only left with two people, or were there others? Had that man named Ying survived? To Ling Yu, everything about Ying was a mystery. If he too had survived, then he must be someone with very strong survival abilities. Because in Ling Yu's view, those who could survive in this 'game' were definitely not relying on luck...

  Lianxi also had doubts whether she was the one who killed Xiaomu. If it were true, then she would have gotten the kill points. But if not herself, then who could have killed her? Ying? Maybe she was just overthinking, perhaps it was just time to move on. Lianxi still believed in her initial instincts. They survived because they made it through those two hours.

  Perhaps Lian Yu would never know that they had completed their mission in just an hour.

  What happened after they parted ways? The ghosts in the game are restricted to some extent, why do they need to attach themselves to Xiaomu's body. Is it...?!......

  Can't help but say, Lian Xi is indeed very clever. Is it that the ghost in the last game could only possess the player's body to kill people?!

  But why did it have to be Xiaomu? Or is it that someone had to trigger the hidden task and die at the hands of the evil spirit first, in order for their body to be possessed by the ghost? If that's really the case, then the "Xiaomu" standing before them once again was actually already dead!

  Or can ghosts transform into one of us to play the game? There are too many doubts and I don't dare think about it anymore. It's all too terrifying. Playing games with non-human, unexplainable 'things' from another world, where one wrong move means death.

  All of Ling's doubts and speculations would probably have to wait until the next game began...