Chapter 159
Lin Yi was momentarily distracted.
He stared closely at ‘Blood-red Eyes’. He was certain that ‘Blood-red Eyes’ was the one he encountered in Building 2.
When he went to Building 2 to find the reporter, Blood-red Eyes had followed him but hadn’t harmed him.
Shifting his gaze downwards, Lin Yi looked at Blood-red Eyes’ arms. Blood-red Eyes’ body was badly mangled. You could barely distinguish between its head and body. The only thing that one could see clearly were its pale arms.
Judging from the thickness of these arms, Blood-red Eyes was most likely a girl.
“Lin Yi.”
Qin Zhou’s voice reached his ears.
Lin Yi came to his senses. Qin Zhou said, “Let’s go.”
Lin Yi nodded. He thought for a while and then said, “Senior, I think…”
He originally wanted to tell Qin Zhou, ‘There’s something wrong’. But then again, they were already crossing the river. Even if something really was wrong, there was nothing they could do now. They couldn’t turn back.
If they go back at this time, they’d only be going back to die.
“It’s nothing.” Lin Yi changed his words.
In front of him, the participants who knew how to swim helped those who couldn’t across the river. Lin Yi was making his way across when Qin Zhou said, “Even if this path is wrong, we’ll be able to discover other things.”
Lin Yi knew that Qin Zhou was trying to comfort him. Qin Zhou had seen through his thoughts. Lin Yi waded through the water, his movements somewhat awkward. “En.”
Lin Yi had been the one to propose this path. If anything were to happen to anyone, he would be responsible.
Qin Zhou looked at him and was about to say something when suddenly there was a noise from the other side of the river.
Lin Yi and Qin Zhou looked over and saw people running out from the village. They were startled when they saw so many people in the river and quickly helped to pull them up.
“Oh, come up quickly. Water is being released from upstream these days. Careful you don’t get washed away by the strong current.” One person who helped then said.
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Hearing these words, Lin Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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“Are you cold?” Qin Zhou asked.
Lin Yi shook his head. The weather here wasn’t cold. Even in the real world, winter was just beginning.
Once all the participants were ashore, Lin Yi looked back to the other side of the river. He didn’t know when Blood-red Eyes had disappeared.
While he looking the other way, a hand towel was thrown on Lin Yi’s head. He then felt a pair of hands drying his hair.
Lin Yi pulled back the towel covering his eyes and saw that it was Qin Zhou.
“It was given by the villagers.” Qin Zhou explained where he got the towel.
The villagers brought clean clothes from home for the participants to change into.
“You’re wet. Be careful not to catch a cold.” The villager handed two sets of clean clothes to Qin Zhou and asked, “Did you swim here from the other side of the river?”
The villagers also asked the other participants but no one else dared to answer carelessly. They asked the villagers to ask Qin Zhou, their pillar.
Qin Zhou gave an ‘en’ and said, “We escaped.”
There was nothing to hide. They needed the help of the villagers now. Even if the villagers weren’t good people, they were already among them and there was no way to struggle. It was better to tell the truth.
They had to take a gamble that the villagers were good people.
Qin Zhou told their situation to the villagers who had helped them. The villagers were shocked. “Goodness! Didn’t I just say? I often hear screams from over there. So, this is why.”
Another villager said, “Police! We have to call the police! Call the police!”
Hearing these words, the participants breathed a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Lin Yi stiffly took the towel and continued rub his hair dry.
He still felt uneasy.
It seemed that they have really escaped from Xiushen Academy. But they were still in the world of the Monster and the plot was still continuing on.
Naturally, Qin Zhou knew this. As a villager was leading the participants to his home, Qin Zhou said to Lin Yi, “They did call the police.”
Qin Zhou had seen this with his own eyes. “Let’s see what the police say later.”
Lin Yi nodded. “Okay.”
The villagers cooked a large pot of ginger soup and the participants held their bowls of ginger soup with tears in their eyes. Their nerves had been strained this entire time. They hadn’t felt kindness of others for so long.
After everyone finished drinking their ginger soup, the police arrived.
The villagers told the police indignantly, “What poor babies! It’s so cold and they’re soaking wet from the river. They’ve even been releasing water from upstream! Fortunately, they weren’t washed away. Comrade police, please take these babies home quickly. They’ve been away from home for so long, their families must be worried sick!”
Lin Yi raised his head suddenly. Qin Zhou put down the ginger soup and looked at the villagers solemnly.
The other participants were basking in their good intentions and didn’t notice anything wrong.
Qin Zhou had clearly told the villagers about Xiushen Academy but the villagers made no mention of it to the police. There was no lack of concern for the participants in their words. It was obvious that the worry in the villagers’ voices weren’t fake but it seemed as though they’d forgotten all about Xiushen Academy.
Lin Yi looked at Qin Zhou, who gently shook his head at him.
Lin Yi had no choice but to keep silent but uneasiness slowly spread in his heart.
“For now, get in the car and we’ll go back to the police station,” the police told the participants after finding out the situation.
The participants had no objections. Everyone got into the police cars, sleeping peacefully during the drive.
About an hour and a half later, they arrived at the police station.
After leading them inside to wait, the police said, “Your parent has been notified and she should be here in a while.”
Even the other participants, who were immersed in the joy of their escape, noticed something was wrong. Hua Hua was stunned. “Parent?”
They were all adults and ‘parent’ was no longer appropriate to refer to their mother and father.
“Yes, your parent.” The policeman said, “Running away from home when you’re still so young. Do you know how many bad people are out there? You have no idea of the dangers out there.”
Hua Hua fell silent and looked fearfully at Qin Zhou and Lin Yi, who had been silent since entering the police station.
Who was their parent? Those people from Xiushen Academy?
Lin Yi thought for a moment and asked, “Uncle Policeman, do you know my name?”
He explained, “I’m afraid you might have been wrongly notified.”
The policeman said, laughing, “How could that be?”
Realizing that Lin Yi was still looking at him, the policeman said sternly, “Your name is Tang Fei, isn’t that right?”
The faces of the participants instantly turned pale. The joy at having escaped from Xiushen Academy completely disappeared.
It didn’t work at all. They were still playing as this kid in this weird escape room.
Tang Fei…
Lin Yi’s inner reaction was greater than that of the other participants, only that he didn’t let it show on his face.
In the interview he’d eavesdropped on, the principal mentioned a name: ‘Xiao Fei’.
The principal had said that the child’s mother was very disappointed with her child and she changed from calling him ‘Xiao Fei’ to ‘Devil’.
The Tang Fei they played as was probably this Xiao Fei…
If they were this Xiao Fei and the police hands them over to their mother who was already disappointed with them, the result would be obvious. They were going to be sent back to Xiushen Academy.
Qin Zhou noticed Lin Yi’s ugly expression and was about to ask about the situation when a policeman walked in. “Tang Fei, your mother is here to pick you up.”
Then came the heavy sound of heeled footsteps hitting the floor.
Everyone looked up towards the door, where a woman appeared in front of them.
Lin Yi’s mind buzzed when he clearly saw the woman’s appearance.
If they are Tang Fei then is the blood red figure his sister trying to stop him from getting caught by their mother? Thanks for the chapter!