Chapter 68 The Feeling of Being on the Verge of Death

  In the end, he decided to maintain the status quo, trying his best to control his emotions and avoid developing a romantic relationship with Lian Xi, as if he had no other choice.

  After all, if you love her, then you should protect her...

  Lan Yu and Qiao Jia walked out of the room, and Lian Xi heard the noise and hurriedly turned her head to look. Lan Yu and Qiao Jia were both staring at Lian Xi with strange eyes... In an instant, Lian Xi forgot all the good things in her heart, she knew why Lan Yu and Qiao Jia looked at her like that...

  "Lan Yu, Qiao Jia, are you both okay?" Lian Xi said awkwardly, not daring to make eye contact with Qiao Jia and Lan Yu. "If you've rested well, let's go downstairs. Ying is preparing breakfast. After we eat, we'll sit down and have a good talk. I know what you're thinking now, and I'll answer your questions later... Just hope you believe me."

  Lian Yu turned around and walked downstairs, Lan Yu and Qiao Jia didn't say anything and followed her down.

  Several people quickly finished their breakfast and sat on the sofa. "Lian Xi, I want to know when you found the exit and successfully escaped from the nightmare! Why did you abandon us!" Qiao Jia's words were direct, like a sharp knife that pierced Lian Xi's heart...

  "We didn't even know that was the exit, Shiro and I went in with a determination to die, but unexpectedly we survived. If we could have confirmed that it was indeed the exit, why wouldn't we go look for you?"

  "So you clearly know that shadows can remember all the paths they've taken and won't get lost, why do you still choose to walk in groups?" Qiao Jia's emotions were unstable, shouting with a sobbing tone. Lan Yu was by her side, holding her hand and comforting her.

  "What did you just say? Does Ying have such ability? I don't know!" Lian Xi turned her head to look at Ying beside her, "Ying, is what Jiao Jia said true? Why didn't I know?"

  The shadow just sat quietly and didn't say anything.

  "Lian Yu, in that game of Graveyard of Death, Ying said he wouldn't get lost. Maybe you were bleeding too much at the time and your mind wasn't clear so you didn't notice..."

  Upon hearing Lan Yu's words, Lian Xi immediately stood up and walked to Qiao Jia's front, squatted down, and touched Qiao Jia's knee "Sorry Qiao Jia, if I knew it was a million times I wouldn't have chosen to walk away!"

  Lian Yu didn't know that if they hadn't parted ways, what awaited them might have been a tragic outcome of collective death.

  Qiao Jia finally couldn't hold back her tears and burst out crying "Lian Xi, I believed in you so much! Lanyu and I always believed that you and Ying would come back to find us... but... but..."

  "Chao Jia..." Lian Xi and Chao Jia hugged each other and burst into tears.

  "Lan Yu brother, Qiao Jia, it's like this......" Yin Nai Xin recounted his experiences with Lian Xi along the way.

  "What? You've been staring at the mirror for half a day and nothing's happened?" Lan Yu's forehead was already beading with sweat, "We were just about to leave when Su Yunxue appeared in the mirror waiting for us!"

  "Lan Yu, speak clearly!"

  "There were four of us originally acting together, when we came to a fork in the road, we decided to split up and act separately. He Zhuang and Su Yunxue were very cooperative and willing to let me and Qiao Jia act together, then they would go together. Not long after, we heard He Zhuang's miserable cry, we were certain that Su Yunxue must have met with disaster... Myself and Qiao Jia had originally given up hope, even thought that you guys had also encountered harm, but unexpectedly found the exit..."

  By now, Lan Yu was already drenched in sweat, thinking about the situation in his nightmare, he still felt extremely dangerous, as if it was a matter of life and death...

  "At the exit, however, a mirror stood still. The reflection in the mirror indeed showed three people - me, Qiao Jia, and Su Yunxue! Later, Su Yunxue smiled slyly and slowly approached, and she actually passed through Qiao Jia's body in the mirror... Just as I was about to open the door, Su Yunxue's hand pierced through Qiao Jia's body... I desperately pulled Qiao Jia towards the exit, and later felt a sharp pain on my shoulder, cold and eerie... After that, we woke up!"

  After listening to Lan Yu's account, Lian Xi also broke out in a cold sweat. She looked at Qiao Jia with sorrow, they had actually gone through such a perilous moment, no wonder they would have special misunderstandings about her and Ying...

  "What's going on here?" Ying thought of his final score again, and if He Zhuang died, Su Yunxue should have also died. According to the rules, he should have gotten 6 survival points... Could it be that just like in that game of hide-and-seek, the ghost needed to borrow a player's body...

  "Could it be... could it be that..." Lian Xi also thought of this point, "Could it be that Su Yunxue was already dead before we met her? And the one playing games with us is a real vengeful spirit!"

  "But Lian Yu, if it's as you say, why didn't the vengeful spirits kill us when they encountered us? Why did they wait until you had escaped before taking action?"

  Ling Yu sank into thought for a moment, and suddenly her eyes lit up. "Don't look in the mirror! The game rules said not to look in the mirror! You also said that when you last saw Su Yunxue, she was waiting for you in the mirror! Maybe she can only start killing players after looking in the mirror... and she can't move freely in the maze, she can only rely on the mirror!"

  Can't help but say that Lan Yu really admires Lian Xi, saying it makes perfect sense, "If explained this way, it's indeed reasonable... then what about He Zhuang?"

  "As for He Zhuang... probably the maze has more than one exit mirror... maybe He Zhuang and Su Yunxue encountered the first mirror in the maze... and when the vengeful spirit saw the mirror, it could start killing players, so it killed He Zhuang, entered the mirror, and passed through the mirror to the exit mirror, waiting for you..."

  As she thought and analyzed, she felt all her hairs standing on end, this was simply too terrifying...

  Ying saw Lian Yu trembling and hurried over to support her. "If it's really like what you said, then being able to survive is truly a stroke of luck... Congratulations to you both..."

  Qiao Jia was also stunned at this moment, she really had a close call this time. The moment Su Yunxue's hand pierced through her chest, she first felt an unbearable pain, followed by a comfortable feeling that she had never experienced before. Moreover, she felt that everything around her was so clear and audible. Originally, Qiao Jia's eyesight wasn't good, but now everything around her seemed crystal clear...

  Slowly she felt that all her organs were slowly decaying, at that time in her world, everything became very slow, as if time was about to stop...

  She seemed to have lost her soul like in a TV drama, and could see her own body slowly falling down, with the scenes of the past reflected in her mind... Xiaomu, Lianxi, Lan Yu. Dad, mom, even Youying...

  Qiao Jia felt exceptionally relaxed, she clearly heard the beautiful melody ringing in her ears, probably heaven welcoming her. It was too unbelievable.

  Everyone thinks that 'death' is a very painful thing, but after experiencing it, Cui Jia discovered that perhaps death is the happiest and most comfortable thing.

  It wasn't until the moment she was about to die that Jiajia realized she didn't want this comfort after all, and there were still too many things she couldn't bear to part with...