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[Aiyaa!]
Just when Ji Dong thought this so-called “hide-and-seek” game couldn’t get any worse, the soft youthful voice suddenly whispered in his ear cheerfully,
[The game will end when one person remains. Hee, hee, hee, who will it be?]
——Dare you pit us a little more?!
——This is a fucking escape game!
If not for the fact that he was now stuck amongst a group of demons where even the smallest of flaws could expose his identity, Ji Dong really wanted to greet the ancestors of the [Peach Blossom Spring] for one hundred and eighty generations in an all-round way.
Even if Ji Xiao’niao’s movie viewing experience was not too rich, he had watched the classics: “The Battle Royale” and “The Hunger Games”!
Now they not only have to hide from foreign enemies but also kill each other until only one person remains. The [Peach Blossom Spring]’s arrangement of this [Film] showed it really does not want them to leave alive ah!
……
“Hey hey hey, the kid behind, don’t be in a daze!”
A maid with a floral headband shoved a plate of fried shrimp into Ji Dong’s hand, urging him on.
“Take it out, take it out!”
Ji Dong hastily held the plate, lined up with the crowd of male and female servants, steadied his mind, and walked out.
Unfortunately, he had just taken a step when the soft young voice of a teenager came to his ears again.
[ {Wood A} passed the identity of the [Ghost] to {Wood B}.]
——Goddamn, so fast!
Ji Xiao’niao was terrified. He almost stumbled and tripped on his left foot.
He lowered his head and glanced at his wrist quickly – 00:01:32, only a minute and a half later, the player who was randomly selected as the [Ghost] had thrown out the hot potato?!
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In the mansion, including Ji Dong, all the players are still in a state of confusion, the only one holding the {Wood A} token, is the only one who knows what just happened.
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The player who got the {Wood A} token, nicknamed Grasshopper, was a twenty-three-year-old art student before entering the [Peach Blossom Spring].
Although he didn’t belong to the rich second generation, he had gone to a school with people who came from good families, money, and leisure. Grasshopper had a group of like-minded people—they are a group of donkeys and are keen on going for dangerous adventures.
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People who try to court death sooner or later will die, this was the iron law.
So last summer, Grasshopper and his friends ventured into the mountains during the flood season, then unsuspectingly got trapped by heavy rains. When crossing the river, one of the cars in their motorcade was washed away by the sudden turbulence. When Grasshopper opened his eyes again, he had entered the [Peach Blossom Spring] with the other three students in the car.
Later, Grasshopper crawled and fought his way through three [Films], but only one of his buddies had survived with him.
After acquiring their powers, he and his classmate joined a small guild called “Heavenly Dragon Gang”, and then with two other new companions, he entered the [Film] called [Painted Wall of Souls].
This is the first time Grasshopper entered a B-level difficulty [Film], but according to the other two companions in the guild, as long as he was careful enough, the survival rate would still be as high as 70 to 80 percent.
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And he was quite lucky to wake up in the mansion and get the basic information about this [Film] at the same time, Grasshopper discovered that his classmate, his good buddy, Dashan, was in the same bedroom, and was assigned the same identity as him.
However, the excellent start only allowed Grasshopper to breathe a sigh of relief before reality smacked him square in the face.
Because he was randomly selected to be the first one to be the [Ghost]!
Grasshopper and his classmate Dashan were assigned the role of a servant by the [Peach Blossom Spring], so when the hide-and-seek game began, they were staying in a small courtyard, pretending to weed and cut branches with three other demons of the same status at a distance of ten meters.
At that time, Grasshopper and Dashan listened to the rules of the game and looked at each other. They were full of doubts and at a loss.
They didn’t even have the slightest sense that the “game” had started.
But in the next second, the Grasshopper heard the boy’s soft and smiling voice in his ear.
[{Wood A}, you are the [Ghost].]
“What, what?”
Grasshopper was completely frozen and did not even notice that he had spoken out loud the shock
Immediately after, he felt a sudden burst of searing pain in his hand.
Grasshopper hurriedly spread out his hand to take a look, and found a blue-black mark in the center of his palm, like the tattoo he saw in a costume drama.
His whole body froze, and his whole body stiffened as if it had fallen into icy water. Grasshopper was completely frozen and did not even notice that he had spoken out loud the shock
Just when Grasshopper was bewildered, the soft teenage voice rang in his ears again.
This time, the boy told him that at the end of the game, only one person could survive.
– Only one person…
– Fifteen minutes…
– If you don’t pass the [Ghost] to others, you will die…
– Will die…
– Will die…
Grasshopper’s mind went blank.
“Hey, did you hear that?”
At that moment, Dashan, who was next to him, brought his face over, lowered his voice, and said.
“How can we play if we don’t even know how many other participants are here?”
Grasshopper turned his head woodenly and looked at his roommate, his gaze straightened and his expression frozen.
Dashan, “Hey, how do you….”
His words were only half-spoken when he saw Grasshopper suddenly move.
His best friend stretched out his hand and gave him a quick tap on the shoulder, mouthing a few words vaguely, “I caught you…”
Dashan’s eyes rounded in complete disbelief at what had actually happened in the last second.
But along with the hot feeling coming from the palm of his hand, the soft teenage voice told him that the identity of the [Ghost] had been transferred to his body.
Dashan was furious.
He just couldn’t believe it
Just now, his good roommate and good brother had pitted him!
And he had no defense, he had not expected the other party to do this!
Dashan leaped up and lunged towards the Grasshopper, wanting to return the [Ghost] in his hand to the other party.
But the Grasshopper’s speed was faster than his.
Grasshopper had already leaped away like a rabbit and was running towards the grass and trees where he could rely on his small size for agile convenience. He jumped off the fence, dived into the garden trees, and sprinted away from his friend.
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Ji Dong carried a large plate of fried shrimp and returned to the main hall again where the banquet had already begun.
As he saw in the trailer, the huge main hall was symmetrically arranged with 28 tables. A group of men in rags were sitting at the table, one at each table, surrounded by three or five beautiful maids.
These men, who were treated as guests of honor, were all dressed in rags, emaciated, and haggard—some without shoes at all. They were all sitting barefoot and cross-legged on the table and seemed to be very confused about their situation, not knowing what was going on.
They were just a group of peasants who had fled from their hometown only to end up following a bandit leader who called himself “General Chishui” to become bandits, roadblocking and robbing day in and day out until someone had finally alerted the government.When they were attacked by a team of police reinforcement, they had fled into the mountains along a hidden trail behind the stockaded village.
… Then… What happened after that?
The bandits looked at each other, but no one could remember.
They did not remember how they came to this mansion, only feeling as if they were in a beautiful dream.
The group of demons refused to allow their guests enough room to think about these irrelevant “trivialities”.
The enchanting female demons made every effort to distract the guests with glasses of wine.
These mountain bandits were all rough men who plundered the land for food and made money out of it, and these women were the most beautiful women they had ever seen in their lives. They were the little widows who sometimes sell cooked cakes in the market when the weather was good. Seeing so many beauties around them, they were stunned into silence.
What’s more, these beautiful women were all smiling and behaving intimately: cladded only in thin chiffon, she leaned her body close to him, supple and pliant as if she had no spine…There were more than one for each of the bandits. With all this distraction, no matter how cautious they had initially been, they were convinced they were really just in a fairyland on earth.
Plates of delicacies were placed on the table, and the white faced and bearded steward put his hands behind his back and greeted the guests with a smile.
“Don’t be polite, just enjoy it.”
Ji Dong took the opportunity to set up the dishes and peeked at the guests at the table. He saw that the skinny man didn’t need the beautiful maid around him to help him with the dishes at all. He had already picked up chopsticks and was directly reaching for the dish of braised meat with thick oil and red sauce in the middle of the table.
——Sure enough.
Recalling the trailer he had seen and the ending of {Earth A} after eating rice candy just now, Ji Dong thought that the guests in the whole lobby were probably hopeless.
At that moment, he saw Mo Tiangen, who was dressed up as a man with a headscarf.
Mr. Dagen was holding a sledgehammer tied with red silk, standing in a corner of the hall, not squinting, and not even looking at Ji Xiao’niao out of the corner of his eye—just simply looking quite serious and very dedicated.
After setting the dishes aside, Ji Dong took the opportunity to get up and deliberately passed in front of Mr. Dagen.
As expected, a small hard object was stuffed into his hands through the cover of his sleeve by Mo Tiangen.
——No way, who said that they couldn’t use other means to communicate with each other in this era!
Ji Dong hastily tucked the information given to him by Teacher Dagen into his sleeve, then took advantage of the chaos to shake off the duck demon and a bunch of other small demons to leave through the side door and slip into the garden.
At the same time when Ji Xiao’niao left the living room, a group of dancers wearing light pink robe dresses, together with seven or eight musicians holding Jiangnan Sizhu, entered the banquet hall in formation.
One of the tall musicians wearing a Shā mào gave a quick glance at Ji Dong’s back through the parting of the gauze before moving his gaze away again.
A musician huh it does suit him
Mm, looks good
Thank you for your translation
The hat and veil, he’s so mysterious ~ lol
What an interesting instance! I wonder how theyll eventually figure out who the other players are, if the wooden tags aren’t obvious.
Thank you so much for the chapters!! 😊😊😊
The veil definitely suits him and adds to his mysteriousness. I was just imagining him as an alluring dancer the whole time lmao
!!! Captivating!