Chapter Nineteenth: Lian Yu's Speculation

  "Hey, Lingxi is at home waiting for me, I'm going to find you now!" "Uh... okay." Before Lingxi could finish speaking, Qiaojia hastily hung up the phone. Lingxi understood that Qiaojia must want to discuss something related to this nightmare with her, and also... Ying.

  "Bang...bang...bang, Lian Yu, open the door quickly!" Qiao Jia knocked anxiously on the door.

  "Ah... Auntie is good." The one who opened the door was Lian Xi's mom.

  "Qiao Jia, you're here so early to find Lian Xi! Come in quickly!" Lian Xi's mom saw Qiao Jia with a big sweat and panting heavily, didn't dare to ask more questions.

  "Li Xiang! Li Xiang! Qiao Jia has come to find you!" Li Xiang opened a crack in the door, stretched out her hand with her palm facing upwards and curled her fingers in a "come" gesture. Qiao Jia quickly walked in, "What's going on? Why are you hiding?"

  Mother Li was bewildered. What's wrong with these two kids today? Not only are they as mischievous as usual, but also slightly mysterious. "Alas, I really don't know what these two girls are planning again, it's really... The eldest is not a bit more stable."

  "Wait a minute," Lian Yu interrupted Qiao Jia's words with a gesture. "Qiao Jia, don't be in a hurry. Sit down and calm down first, I have something very important to tell you." Lian Yu's expression was unusually solemn. Qiao Jia nodded quietly and sat down next to Lian Yu, waiting for her analysis. "Qiao Jia, I was just looking for you too. Do you know that on the night this game started, which is last night, I killed myself..."

  " What! What did you say!" Qiao Jia suddenly stood up, her face stiff. "I jumped from the 17th floor." Lian Xi walked to the balcony in his bedroom. "Right here." Qiao Jia looked at Lian Xi with a shocked expression.

  "Qiao Jia, you know that my pain tolerance is much higher than average people. Normally, I don't feel pain, but last night, the moment I hit the ground, I felt an unprecedented, heart-wrenching pain. When I woke up again, I thought I had died and gone to another world, a world with Xiaomu. But the aura around me told me that I was indeed in another world, a dream world... After waking up from the dream, I found myself still lying on my own bed."

  "Why are you trying to kill yourself?! Didn't we agree to live together?!... Are you deceiving me?! Jumping from the 17th floor, that's definitely a sure death!"

  "Ever since the last game, I've been having the same dream almost every day. In the dream, Xiaomu is standing beside me, looking at me. She wants me to accompany her..." Lianxiu's tears burst out instantly, and she frantically wiped away the tears on her face. Like a wounded filial daughter, it was heart-wrenching. "I should go with her... Xiaomu, Xiaomu!" Looking at the extremely fragile Lianxiu in front of her, Qiaojia's heart broke into pieces. She only then realized that Xiaomu's death had pained Lianxiu just as much as herself, and Lianxiu's distress was not one bit less than her own. But if it were true what Lianxiu said, wouldn't it be her who killed Xiaomu? Then how could Xiaomu come back to find her? Yet Lianxiu's tears were real, this collapse was not something she could fake.

  "Evening, why didn't you die..."

  "I don't know, I don't know... probably the game doesn't allow us to commit suicide either in reality or dreams..." Lian Xi said it right, from the moment they entered that nightmare, their lives were no longer their own. They had no right to end themselves privately. All they could do was continue playing until... death!

  Two girls hugged each other and cried for a long time. "Qiao Jia, we must be strong! We can't be defeated by this despicable game! I know why you came to find me today. I also understand what you want to ask, let's analyze it together." Lian Xi entered a moment of contemplation.

  "In the final voting process, I was confused and didn't know who to vote for. The last chance was too precious and important. Unintentionally, I raised my head and saw that Shadow had moved behind Blue Sky and killed him. Then he quickly moved behind Ye Zi's back and killed Ye Zi. Finally, he rushed towards Han Yifeng. And when he killed Han Yifeng, you also saw it."

  "Why... why did Shadow do this?"

  "If Shifu hadn't done that, we'd all be dead."

  "What does it mean?"

  "This time the game rules said that the ghost cannot be killed. I guess, Shadow probably planned to kill everyone from the beginning. Humans can be killed, so the one who can't be killed must be the ghost! As for why Shadow didn't attack us, maybe it's because he was certain we weren't ghosts and there was no need to kill us."

  "Can players in this game kill each other? Is there no penalty for killing other players?"

  "I don't know about this, can only wait until next time to ask Ying. I think since Ying took the risk of getting a cold, the punishment would be at most deducting points. Although we're not clear about these things, but I think Ying is quite smart and probably made some judgment."

  "What exactly is Shadow?" Chao Jia's emotions had never calmed down. She stared at Lian Xi with wide eyes, and Lian Xi could see the fear in her eyes but didn't know how to comfort her.

  Because of what happened this time, although he saved her and Qiao Jia, but Yin unexpectedly had such great power, in the complete ignorance of others, killed Lan Tian and Ye Zi. If it wasn't for herself accidentally seeing it, Lian Xi wouldn't dare believe that there was still someone so formidable existing in the world.

  "Ling Yu, how did you know that the ghost was blue sky. After being attacked by the shadow, did he have any movement? If he really is a ghost, probably to confuse us, he wouldn't take any action either?"

  "Perhaps at that time you were frightened and didn't notice, but actually the moment Shadow made his move, I probably already knew Shadow's purpose. So I carefully observed. When Shadow kicked Han Yifeng to the ground, Ye Zi disappeared from her seat..."

  Qiao Jia suddenly realized "So that's how it is! According to what you just said, Blue Sky was killed first, so he should have disappeared before Ye Zi! But what if Blue Sky only pretended to be dead because he was afraid?"

  "Do you think anyone would choose to play dead at such a critical moment?" Qiao Jia listened with confusion, Lian Xi saw the puzzlement on Qiao Jia's face "Let's put it this way, assuming Lan Tian is human and was lucky enough not to be killed by the shadow, if you were Lan Tian, would you choose to play dead?"

  Qiao Jia thought for a long time and suddenly said "Help!... I will choose to ask for help! When the shadow walks away, shout loudly!"

  "Right! That's not just you, every normal person would do the same. People's subconscious mind is afraid of death, and when faced with danger, it triggers the most instinctive reaction - to seek help! So seeing this scene I wanted to stop the killer from killing Han Yifeng, but everything was too late..."

  "Ah-ha!" Ling Xi suddenly realized something and her expression turned serious. "Maybe Shuang didn't spare us because he thought it was unnecessary to kill us. Because in the last round, he was the host and didn't have voting rights. But we do! If both of us were dead, there would be no one left to vote, and the ghost definitely wouldn't vote for himself. Leaving the two of us is just right for a 2-to-1 match!"

  Qiao Jia suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Good heavens, there was actually a ruthless "devil" among them, and they still had to continue playing the game with this "devil"! Even if they didn't die at the ghost's hands, it was very likely that the shadow would kill them for its own sake.

  The scene of killing people is still vivid in my mind. With such action power and attack power, they can be killed instantly in an instant. If such a situation occurs, it is very likely that none of them will know how they died.