Chu Huai immediately went over and his pupils suddenly shrank when he saw a woman lying on the edge of the carousel project, unsure if she was alive or dead.
Chu Huai asked the screaming girl beside him: “What happened?”
The girl shook her head like a rattle drum, and when she saw Chu Huai, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in her dilated pupils. She immediately ran up to him and got close to him. Chu Huai then realized that this girl was the one he saw earlier under the Ferris wheel.
“Sister Jiao,” the girl trembled, her hands slightly shaking.
“I… I was passing by here after finishing the project, and saw her lying on the ground. I thought something had happened, so I turned her over, but then…”
Chu Huai asked: “Then what happened?”
The girl’s lips quivered, and she dared not look back.
Meanwhile, Jin Tianyi had already turned the body over, and Chu Huai saw the woman’s face and was briefly stunned.
He remembered her; she was the one he saw in the women’s restroom earlier, acting suspiciously.
She had stolen the ticket and killed her own boyfriend. He didn’t expect that she was also dead now.
The woman’s stern and rigid face was now adorned with a creepy smile, which looked somewhat like a clown under the lights, with her facial features twisted together.
Chu Huai frowned: “Dead?”
Jin Tianyi nodded, looking at the slowly rotating carousel in front of them. The woman had died on the carousel.
Chu Huai asked the girl: “What about your boyfriend?”
The girl’s face turned pale and she forced a smile as she explained:
“We have a total of five projects, and besides the Ferris wheel, which is a couple’s ride, the other four are all single rider projects… His ride is different from mine, and we didn’t dare to be the first ones to ride, so we didn’t have much time. In the end, he insisted on separating from me and didn’t want to wait for me…”
As she spoke, her expression became anxious and panicked.
“Are you going to ride?!”
The girl’s eyes suddenly lit up. It was well known that Jiao Jiao and her boyfriend were skilled at these rides, so if they rode, then she… would have a chance to survive.
After discussing, Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi prepared to get on the ride.
At the entrance stood a clown with a red nose, holding colorful balloons with yellow pentagrams painted on them.
As Chu Huai stepped onto the ride, he unconsciously took out his ticket and noticed that there was now an additional line at the bottom of his ticket that read “Carousel.”
A blood-red warning flashed in his mind – Friendly reminder: Once the mission participant joins the ride, they cannot quit midway, otherwise it will be considered a mission failure with self-consequences.
Chu Huai sneered, feeling like he was being forced into something.
Jin Tianyi said: “Three minutes until it starts.” He had been keeping track of the time.
Chu Huai quickly rode around inside and didn’t notice anything unusual, so he picked a short red horse.
In case of any unforeseen circumstances during the ride, he could immediately get off if he was on a low horse, whereas if he was on a high horse, it would take some time to get down.
Contrary to Chu Huai, Jin Tianyi didn’t pick a horse, but instead walked towards him calmly and confidently.
“What are you doing?” Chu Huai looked at him suspiciously.
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The ride began to rotate. Chu Huai, worried that the nursery rhyme had a special meaning, listened carefully and suddenly felt his hand holding the pillar getting wet.
He suddenly looked forward and saw blood seeping from the bottom of the pillar in front of the horse’s head.
The blood flowed against gravity, climbing up the pillar quickly covering it.
He immediately let go of his hand and looked down, only to find his hand was clean.
More and more blood oozed from the pillar, dripping onto the horse’s head and flowing down the neck.
Chu Huai looked back at Jin Tianyi, who was also frowning and looking at his own hand.
Chu Huai couldn’t determine the situation for a moment, so he didn’t plan to act rashly.
The carousel spun rapidly, making the people outside dizzy. Suddenly, a little girl with double ponytails appeared in their field of vision.
The little girl was wearing a strawberry-patterned dress, with white socks and black shoes underneath. She was holding a doll, and her small face was cute and snowy.
In the blink of an eye, the little girl disappeared.
He had a premonition and quickly turned around, and the little girl was standing behind him.
“Brother, sister, stand up…” The little girl spoke in a coquettish tone, but it sounded incredibly chilling.
Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi exchanged a glance, and they stood up as instructed.
The little girl seemed to be somewhat pleased, mechanically tilting her head to look at them, her eyes hollow and revealing a sinister smile.
“Come find me…” The little girl extended an invitation.
Chu Huai deliberately softened his expression, trying to appear gentle. “How do we find you?”
With another flash, the little girl appeared in another corner.
“Xiu Xiu is inside the carousel, you have to find Xiu Xiu before the nursery rhyme ends, otherwise Xiu Xiu will get angry!”
The little girl, who was giggling before, turned menacing as she spoke.
In the blink of an eye, she changed her location again.
“You only have one chance, once you get on the carousel, you can’t change your mind! No cheating allowed!”
After saying that, the girl called Xiu Xiu started playing and frolicking among the carousel horses, occasionally emitting a chilling laughter.
Chu Huai calmed down and tried to make sense of her words.
First, there is a time limit for the level. They must find Xiu Xiu before the carousel stops when the nursery rhyme ends.
Xiu Xiu is inside one of the carousels, and they only have one chance to choose the right one.
Xiu Xiu is inside the carousel… Could this be the reason for the bleeding pillar…?
Thinking of this possibility, Chu Huai’s eyes narrowed.
He counted before coming up, there are a total of twenty-four carousels. They are running out of time.
And the problem is, they are not sure how long the nursery rhyme will last.
The nursery rhyme could be three minutes or five minutes…
Jin Tianyi quickly made a decision: “You take the left half, and I’ll take the right half!”
Chu Huai nodded and quickly checked the carousels, while his mind raced.
What could be the clue to the rotating carousel?
There are no remaining clues related to searching among the remaining twenty words… It seems there are none.
Chu Huai frowned.
After a rapid inspection, Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi met up again, shaking their heads to indicate that they found nothing.
Chu Huai also felt the horse’s body, trying to see if he could open it, but failed.
Jin Tianyi: “The chorus is over.”
Chu Huai’s heart tightened, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. The next few words are almost the same as the chorus, with only a few words changed, indicating that the chorus has two parts, and the nursery rhyme is relatively long, which is good news for them. If the climax comes right after the chorus, then their time would be tight.
Chu Huai stood still, propping his chin with one hand, lost in thought. At this moment, only by staying calm could he quickly find a way out.
Jin Tianyi grabbed the hand that Chu Huai had hanging down, glanced sideways at the little girl happily playing between the horses, and his gaze suddenly fell on the doll she was holding in her arms.
Jin Tianyi tugged at Chu Huai, raised the corner of his mouth with a meaningful smile, and said: “Is there a clue about ‘catching dolls’ in the lyrics…?”
The girl said “finding Xiu Xiu”, and Xiu Xiu was right in front of them, right?
Why bother searching for anything? Just catch it.
Catch dolls, whether it’s the doll Xiu Xiu is holding, or Xiu Xiu herself as a “doll”, aren’t they all “dolls”? In the end, they all have to catch Xiu Xiu, right?
Chu Huai was momentarily stunned, then smiled and praised: “Impressive.”
“I’ll give it a try first.” Jin Tianyi said, intuitively feeling that it wouldn’t be that easy.
He headed towards the direction where the little girl was, but before he could get close, the little girl noticed him.
She had been lying on the ground playing marbles, but now she suddenly stood up, giggled, and swiftly moved to another location, increasing the distance between her and Jin Tianyi.
Jin Tianyi stared at the spot where the girl was, attempting again. This time he approached from behind, but the girl seemed to have eyes on her back, immediately changing her position.
It seems that this approach won’t work.
Chu Huai watched calmly and didn’t rush to help Jin Tianyi. After several attempts, Jin Tianyi finally stopped and came over to find Chu Huai.
Just then, the second verse of the nursery rhyme ended, and the climax was approaching: “Oh, my good friend, the merry-go-round, you take me wandering in the fairy tale…”
Jin Tianyi said: “Did you see it?”
Chu Huai smiled and said concisely: “Pentagram.”
The girl’s position changes were methodical.
The merry-go-round is shaped like a pentagonal prism, and every time the girl dodges, she draws a line like a pentagram, sometimes long, sometimes short.
“I’ll go after her,” Jin Tianyi said: “You catch her in the next corner.”
Chu Huai nodded in agreement and slowly approached one of the corners, standing there.
“Big brother, you can’t catch Xiuxiu…” The girl grinned and continued to smile tirelessly as she approached Jin Tianyi.
Jin Tianyi raised an eyebrow and glanced at Chu Huai. The girl moved again, and Chu Huai, who had been focused in the corner, seized the opportunity and pounced on the girl, barely grabbing hold of her clothes.
The girl’s tinkling laughter suddenly disappeared, and Chu Huai’s world instantly turned black and white, as if it had become a grayscale.
A ringing sound echoed in his ears, and the nursery rhyme faded away.
Chu Huai tightly grabbed the little girl’s clothes, only to realize that the well-made fabric was rotting, and crimson blood seeped onto his hand.
The little girl, who had her back to him, suddenly turned around, and Chu Huai saw a twisted face!
The corners of the girl’s mouth tore open, with scars extending all the way to her ears, and her eye sockets were empty, with no eyeballs.
The two marbles they had seen earlier turned out to be her eyeballs!
The girl’s face had cigarette burn-like scars, and there were several pieces missing from her scalp, with maggots crawling out of the holes in her head.
Chu Huai instinctively wanted to let go, but the girl’s expression turned sinister, and her voice was icy cold: “Sister, you… found Xiuxiu, huh.”
A overwhelming dizziness swept over him.
When he woke up again, Chu Huai found himself sitting unharmed on a black wooden horse.
Chu Huai’s heart was still pounding, and when he looked back, he realized that the little girl had disappeared.
As the climax approached the ending, time was running out, and Chu Huai immediately called Jin Tianyi over: “This one! Come up quickly.”
Jin Tianyi approached him from behind.
Chu Huai suddenly snapped back to his senses, and his body tensed. It seemed like at the beginning, Jin Tianyi had asked to sit with him, but he had refused.
Jin Tianyi chuckled softly, as if he knew what Chu Huai was thinking, and shamelessly wrapped his arms around Chu Huai’s slender waist, rubbing his chin against his neck.
Chu Huai trembled: “…” He really wanted to kick him off.
Jin Tianyi seemed contemplative, and suddenly reached up to grab the horse’s head with one hand.
“I’ve tried, it doesn’t work…” Chu Huai knew what he intended to do, but before he could finish his sentence, Jin Tianyi had easily removed the horse’s head.
A pungent smell of blood and foul odor wafted out.
Jin Tianyi said: “It seems that if you can’t catch the little girl, you can’t open the wooden horse.”
Chu Huai looked into the dark hole, and even he, who was usually calm, almost vomited.
The hole was filled with minced meat, with bones and flesh vaguely visible, mixed together like a hotpot.
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That’s just nasty, especially if it can rattle even Chu Huai into almost throwing up. 🤢
Thanks for the chapter(s).
Why mention hitpot?!
Is it little girl’s corpse ?