Screaming Cycle (Infinite Flow)Ch78 - The game has begun, and the [Ghost] has been born!

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“Come on. The fun is over! Everyone disperse! Everyone disperse!”

At this point, a middle-aged man’s voice could be heard in the lobby, unexpectedly curbing the bustling main hall.

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Ji Dong followed the sound and saw several demons standing in the corridor on the third floor of the main hall. A steward was leading the group. His headscarf was embroidered with an exquisite pattern, slender and handsome, with a white face and a beard, he looked like the immortal monarch from Wu Daozi’s painting.

The bearded steward was polite and did not shout, but when he spoke, his voice was exceptionally clear. oX0QBd

His voice echoed in the lobby and everyone could hear it clearly.

“Tonight’s party will begin soon. Go and start the preparations!”

This bearded steward obviously was of a high-ranking status; all the monsters gathered in the banquet hall had obediently dispersed.

Ji Xiao’niao also followed behind the duck demon, quietly preparing to leave.

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Taking this opportunity, Ji Dong carefully looked at the main hall’s layout.

This room looked somewhat like the structure of the inn he had seen in ancient historical dramas. The entrance was a lobby that could accommodate more than ten tables, and there was also a staircase on each side of the hall, leading to the second and third-floor corridors.

At this time, there was already a group of tall and sturdy demons wearing green Chinese-style single coats who had come in, carrying tables, chairs, and low couches, presumably to prepare for the banquet.

Ji Dong calmly looked up and stared at one of the demons in a green Chinese-style single coat. x9ynBN

——Fuck, it was a monsterous Mr. Dagen!

Mo Tiangen, this time, was an enormous bearded character, looked older by ten years, and had his head wrapped with a green and gray cloth. If he changed his robe, he would look like an Arab!

Nevertheless, the two of them were familiar with each other. Ah, not to mention the beard, even if he was dressed like a ninja and showed only a pair of eyes, Ji Dong was also confident they could recognize each other.

The two pairs of eyes met only for a second and then moved away as if nothing had happened, tacitly brushing past each other as if they were just passers-by who had never met before. QjGLpD

“Aigoo!”

Just when Ji Dong crossed the threshold of the lobby, he suddenly heard the duck demon beside him let out a low cry.

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“Those two pottery puppets, when did they break?”

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——This household is worthy enough to be inhabited by these demons!

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Ji Dong exclaimed with disgust in his heart.

Just thinking that these things were, possibly, transformed from those living human beings, he only felt very uncomfortable. wHvesb

While complaining about this messy house in his heart, Ji Xiao’niao moved his eyes and scanned each decoration outside the lobby door.

Soon, he saw a doorway.

On the far right were three brass soldiers in armor as tall as real humans, holding spears and halberds.

Behind the brass soldiers, there was a dead tree. The leaves had long fallen, but on the branches hung four wooden masks, all of them looking like ferocious ghosts. rnWPax

In front of it was a narrow landscape of rockery and spring water. The gurgling spring gushed from atop the boulder, flowing into the center of the pool, directly on the figures of two people, a boy and a girl playing in the water that had been carved out from a blue crystal.

And on his left side were three half-bodied figures carved out of red iron ore. Their styles were rough and bold, and their colors mixed and varied. It was as if they were products from the Stone Age, completely unbefitting of the exquisite Suzhou-styled courtyard

Next to the three red iron ore figures, there were pottery fragments on the ground. Ji Dong could only judge from the two pairs of shoes left on the base. It was originally a pottery figurine in the shape of a man and a woman.

Ji Dong noticed five groups of human figures, which were abruptly placed, arranged in the order of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, from right to left. su4GVy

“Hey, let’s go and go back!”

The duck demon turned around and saw Ji Dong was slowing down, so it waved at him and urged.

“It’s almost midnight. If they can’t find us later, Steward She will definitely be troubled!”

Ji Dong immediately took his attention away from the several groups of statues. He glanced at the water clock in the courtyard, saw that the scale on the water surface was less than a quarter away to midnight, and hurriedly trotted to catch up with the duckling in front. vN5GZh

As he walked, he was still pondering about the five elemental statues he had just seen, and his hand couldn’t help but press gently on his belt.

Not long ago, when the participant, who came from the [Peach Blossom Spring] with him, was besieged by a group of demons, Ji Dong picked up a token that had fallen off his body.

It was a wooden token that wasn’t much bigger than a mahjong tile. The base color of the log had a light layer of varnish. It was the same as the one Ji Dong found in the center of his clothes when he woke up. The only difference was the engraved words on it.

Ji Dong’s piece was engraved with {Gold A}, while the one that the manservant dropped was engraved with {Earth B}. 43NSRC

These two words were so coincidental that Ji Dong couldn’t help associating them with the five elemental statues he had just seen.

In particular, the sign in the manservant’s hand started with the word {Earth}, which coincided with the broken male terracotta figurine. When Ji Dong followed this logic and made a small guess, he thought that it was possible that {Earth A} referred to the other broken female terracotta figurine, that was… the one who transformed into a peach tree?

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After this deduction, Ji Dong quickly calculated the number of all the dolls.

There were three brass soldiers, he recalled. There was a high possibility they corresponded to him, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen. qQWnvE

Therefore, there were four people in the {Wood Group}, two people from the {Water Group}, and three individuals in the {Fire Group}, not counting the two people in the {Earth Group} who were removed from the [Film] earlier before midnight. There should still be twelve participants left in this [Film]…

…… ……

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Ji Dong and the duck demon returned to the back hall. The snake spirit steward, surnamed She, had asked all the little demons to hurry to the back kitchen to help. J3MWEo

Ji Dong lowered his head, mixed himself into the group of busy monsters, and took the opportunity to firmly print the road map of the places he had been to in his mind.

Over time, there was only a short period left before it was midnight.

The sound of Jiangnan Sizhu resounded one after another in the mansion, and at the same time, Ji Dong heard the voice of a strange young man as if it were close to his ear.

[The game of hide and seek will soon begin. Please pay attention to the rules.] dOuiUh

The voice was neither male or female, but it was different from the sharp and thin male voice of the snake demon steward, surnamed She, which was like a eunuch. It sounded like the croaking and squeaky voice of a young boy in puberty. The tone was sweet and soft, with a hint of a waxy nasal sound, adding a bit of childishness.

Typically, if Ji Dong met a boy who talked like this, he would probably imagine that this was a delicate and beautiful child likened to a flower, and he would be curious about his appearance while feeling good in his heart.

However, what Ji Xiao’niao felt at the moment could only be described as “creeped out”.

His hair stood on end, goosebumps all over his body, resisting the urge to look around and forcing himself to remain calm so as not to arouse suspicion from the monsters around him. AcRtUr

Sure enough, except for Ji Dong, the busy little demons around him still did their duties. No one noticed the sudden soft young voice.

Ji Dong became more convinced.

This voice could only be heard by him or by the participants from the [Peach Blossom Spring].

The only people invited to this “hide-and-seek” game were the twelve “participants” who were still alive in the mansion. In9Yor

[I will choose one of you, and they will be the [Ghost].]

The young voice with a nasal voice then explained to the players.

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Ji Dong listened carefully and found that although the rules of the game didn’t sound complicated, they were brutal.

The teen voice told them that he would randomly select one of the participants to play the role of [Ghost] in the game. The person who acted as the [Ghost] must find any player within half an incense or fifteen minutes. They must then touch any part of the other player’s body while saying the word “caught” to transfer the identity of the [Ghost] to the other player. 9pGcDa

If the player who became the [Ghost] couldn’t find and catch someone who could replace his identity within 15 minutes, he would immediately be “out” – and the price of being out, of course, was a one-way ticket to death.

What was more frightening was that the same person could only be a [Ghost] twice at most. In other words, if caught for the third time, the result would only be immediate death.

After hearing every rule of the game, a drop of cold sweat silently trickled from Ji Dong’s temples.

Ji Xiao’niao explicitly remembered that this was a big house full of monsters! jYZPlI

In other words, it was a challenging and risky move to seek another human being by running around the house and exposing one’s human identity.

Moreover, apart from Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen, he couldn’t recognize the other participants…

——Goddamn, that’s insidious!

Ji Dong secretly gritted his teeth. TShF2

——The sinister part of this game was to have the participants, with their lives threatened and cornered, betray those they had gone through hardships with their most familiar companions!

Just when Ji Dong figured out the complexities of this game, the sudden sounds of the drums thumped from outside.

At the same time, the soft teenage voice that lingered in his ears preached word by word and in a smiling tone:

[The game has begun, and the [Ghost] has been born!] LfVBjr

Ji Dong’s heart tightened, instinctively looking down at the watch on his wrist, and surprisingly found an additional 12-hour electronic clock on the dial. The shape was the same as that of a modern digital watch. The only difference was the line below the hour prompt. Now, the electronic watch was starting from 00:00:00, jumping forward second by second.

The pointer on the progress bar had moved a section forward, and the pointer skipped from the relatively safe white color and went directly to the yellow state.

These changes plainly told Ji Dong the reality that the “hide-and-seek” game had begun!

Although he was lucky enough to not be randomly assigned as a [Ghost] in the first round, it also meant that from this moment onwards, not only the monsters in the room but also other participating players from [Peach Blossom Spring] had become a potential threat! ujbSDE

Ji Dong’s mind involuntarily recalled the two lines he saw in the trailer.

——Don’t be found, don’t get caught.

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——Beware of the ghost that hides around you.

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5 comments

  1. Страшно слышать детский голос в таком случае, но я не могу перестать смеяться, представляя, что в какой-то момент голос должен сломаться, как у мальчика в период полового созревания

    Большое спасибо за перевод 🤍

  2. in theory if every participant cooperated and they waited until the very last second to transfer the ghost role to each other then no one would die at thend of the 12h… but we all know it won’t happen 😅

    • Nevermind idk how to do math anymore… even if they do that no one will survive since they can’t be ghost more than twice and no more than 15min every time (15x2x12=360 so 6h…)