Playing the Foolish Beauty in a Deadly Game - Chapter 79

After Lin Qiao exited the game, he didn’t return to reality immediately but was transported to the hub station.

This time, the system was considerate enough to clothe Lin Qiao and provide a blanket.

However, Lin Qiao’s condition was far from good. In the final moments to evade the NPCs, he had hidden directly within the top-tier prop, “The Terrifying Shadow.”

In the pure white space, a black mass lay on the fluffy blanket, resembling a chaotic tangle of lines. The contrast between the black and white was striking.

Lin Qiao’s arm struggled out from the lines, much like a swimmer breaking the surface to gasp for air.

He wasn’t drenched, but his body was covered in strange marks, resembling fingerprints or… something else.

Lin Qiao, bare-chested, fell onto the plush carpet, only to be grabbed by the ankle and pulled back into the chaotic black mass.

The shadow condensed into a humanoid form, forcing Lin Qiao to tilt his head back and then aggressively suck on his lips.

Lin Qiao’s Adam’s apple involuntarily swallowed, and though the shadow didn’t have any strange taste, he had spent nearly ten days like this. His lips were probably swollen and red, and his skin was bruised.

Fortunately, under Lin Qiao’s crying and threats, the shadow didn’t do anything else, but that was still quite unbearable.

Lin Qiao was still in the assimilated form from the game, with white cat ears flattened backward and a tail that impatiently lashed at the shadow.

The shadow simply pinched the tail and slid its fingers along it, lingering at the base of Lin Qiao’s tail based on its experience over the past ten days.

This made Lin Qiao’s patience wear thin, and he angrily bit the shadow’s tongue. However, the shadow, lacking a definite form, seemed eager to burrow into Lin Qiao’s stomach.

“Throat… hurts…” Lin Qiao could barely speak, trying several times to retract the shadow: “Cough, cough, cough.”

Lin Qiao coughed, tears welling up in his eyes as he lay weakly on the blanket. A blanket appeared out of thin air and covered Lin Qiao, causing him to blush when he realized it. The system had seen…

Lin Qiao wrapped himself in the blanket, exhausted both physically and mentally.

If it were a human’s physical condition, going without food or drink for ten days would be unbearable, but in the final moments of the game, Lin Qiao was in an assimilated state.

Even without eating for ten days, he was fine and cleared the game with the top score.

Now, all the values obtained from the game had been converted into points.

However… Lin Qiao propped himself up: “Did System Brother put me into the game a day earlier just to let me obtain more information for clearing the game?”

Lin Qiao clearly hadn’t forgotten the system’s actions in the game, where it “clang clang” threw money around and said, “You deserve it.”

In fact, without Nelson, Lin Qiao wouldn’t feel that the system had tricked him.

But Nelson had raised the entire game to a new level of difficulty, directly involving NPCs, which made Lin Qiao suspect that perhaps the system wanted him to interact with NPCs.

Specifically, with the black cat and Doberman 08.

When Lin Qiao saw the two pets turn into humans and looked exactly like Yan Ting from the first game, he recalled that the system had once asked him to choose a person in the game.

At that time, Lin Qiao had chosen Jun Shuyang, but now he thought that the system probably wanted him to choose Yan Ting.

So Lin Qiao sat cross-legged, his lack of strength causing him to stagger a bit, and he had to use his palm to support himself on the ground, looking shattered.

His red lips were particularly conspicuous.

The thin blanket suddenly moved on its own, wrapping around Lin Qiao’s body. The system’s voice rang out, its cold tone tinged with guilt: [Hmm.]

Just a “hmm”? What does that mean? It’s not admitting it, is it?

Lin Qiao frowned and lifted the blanket the system had covered him with, deliberately exposing his body: “You… dare to do it but not to admit it?”

The system, acting like a conscientious old father, covered Lin Qiao with the blanket again. Lin Qiao’s tail “smacked” against the hovering blanket and then “smacked” on the ground several times, venting his dissatisfaction.

System: [Hmm, I wanted you to interact with the black cat and Doberman 08.]

[The purpose was to close this game and obtain all the power.]

[I didn’t tell you because you would cry.]

Lin Qiao’s tail stopped in place, and his cat ears perked up. This time, he didn’t stop the system from covering him with the blanket. In a flash, Lin Qiao understood something: “You would destroy the previous game world.”

[Restore it to its original state.]

The two voices spoke in unison, telling the same outcome.

Restoring it to its original state meant no evil spirits, no church, no live broadcast competition. Lin Qiao felt guilty and sad about Nelson’s sacrifice.

If he had known from the beginning that the cats and dogs with human forms in this game would disappear because of his arrival, Lin Qiao might have broken down.

Now, Lin Qiao’s expression was a bit off. He didn’t cry, but he frowned and was silent, looking somewhat at a loss.

Lin Qiao had seen the despair of the evil spirits in the previous game.

The female teacher with a purple mask in the school, she and her students had a bright and beautiful future. But after the horror game arrived, they were forced to become ghosts and died before dawn.

The female teacher and the students symbolized education and the future, and the destruction of both seemed to predict the end of the previous game. The evil spirits should not exist, and some ghosts themselves did not want to exist.

“The disappearance of the evil spirits is a good thing, but the cats and dogs that turned into human forms will also disappear. Is this really a good thing?” Lin Qiao voiced his thoughts.

The system replied: [Yes.]

In the final encirclement and escape, although the leader of the Miaomiao Sect said that the animals supported the rule of the horror game, in fact, only humans participated in the encirclement.

Humans were afraid that Lin Qiao would really bring changes to the game, causing pets to be free from the constraints of the Horror Game’s rules。

They also feared that Lin Qiao’s appearance would cause the horror game to be dissatisfied, leading to greater disasters in this world.

But the pets’ indifferent onlookers proved two things. First, they did not pursue Lin Qiao, indeed wanting to resist the horror game. Second, most of them did not want to become humans.

Lin Qiao wanted to ask more questions, such as how to restore the game to its original state, whether the pets would stop turning into humans or all the pets would die.

Why were there two Yan Ting in the two games? Was Yan Ting a smuggler?

The system didn’t answer, but simply said: [Ask Yan Ting.]

After saying this, the time at the hub station was up, and Lin Qiao was transported back to the real world.

When Lin Qiao opened his eyes again, there was a person on top of him, the murderer Izutsuro who had been tracking him before entering the game.

The other party was also a player and had died in the game just now. As a result, in reality, Izutsuro had already stopped breathing and showed no signs of life.

Lin Qiao’s eyes widened, and the next second the door was kicked open.

A large number of R country police officers rushed in to arrest Izutsuro. Classmates Kusa Sawa, Hanawa, and Ludwig were also among them.

Lin Qiao had just lived in the game for a month and had gone through so many things, so his mind hadn’t switched over yet.

He looked dazed and frightened, trembling like a little cat, which was endearing. In fact, Lin Qiao felt dizzy and his memory seemed to be affected. The feelings and emotions from the game were disappearing, and the memories before entering the game became more and more obvious.

In fact, the horror game deletes players’ memories, probably also to protect the players. After all, once you enter the game, it’s several days. If you go back to reality and forget what just happened, it’s easy to arouse suspicion.

Lin Qiao’s experience of being tracked and threatened surfaced in his mind, as if it were yesterday. His body couldn’t bear the ups and downs of the memory, so he had a vomiting reaction. In a daze, Lin Qiao heard several R country police officers saying something like: “The criminal’s… below… seems to have taken some kind of stimulant. He died of pleasure.”

Lin Qiao vomited even more violently. He grabbed his classmate Ludwig’s arm. In fact, he didn’t vomit out anything, just kept dry heaving and trembling.

That night, it wasn’t until three in the morning that Lin Qiao came out of the police station.

Of course, he still needed to cooperate with the investigation the next day.

Lin Qiao’s cheeks were flushed abnormally, and his throat was very uncomfortable.

Classmates Kusa Sawa, Hanawa, and Ludwig stayed by Lin Qiao’s side all the time. During this period, Ludwig wanted to hold Lin Qiao.

He looked serious and said: “Your legs are weak. Please don’t be polite to me.”

Kusa Sawa disdainfully said: “I suggest you practice R country language. Your word choice is very inappropriate.”

Ludwig didn’t hear the dissatisfaction in it and said: “I want to learn Z country language. Lin Qiao will make me enthusiastic about Z country language.”

When the group reached the exit of the police station, they found that a car was already waiting there. The driver next to the car was tall and his face was somewhat familiar. He said to Lin Qiao: “Hello, our master…”

Before he could finish, the back door of the car was opened from the inside, and a person who made Lin Qiao lose his composure stepped out – Yan Ting.

This was the second time Lin Qiao had seen Yan Ting in reality, and the other party looked very different from the one in the game. Of course, there was no difference in appearance, but the Yan Ting in reality seemed more silent.

There was no sharpness of the rich man in the first game, nor the domineering of the black cat in the second game and the gentleness of Doberman 08. He stood there, both strange and familiar.

Lin Qiao took half a step back, and Yan Ting’s snake-like gaze became somewhat restrained.

Yan Ting was wearing a R country robe, probably having rushed over in the middle of the night and waited for a long time.

Although there was a coat outside the robe, it still couldn’t hide the disheveled look.

Yan Ting’s face was very pale, with a dark ring under his eyes, and his lips were still bright red. He lowered his eyes and let Lin Qiao look at him.

After realizing that Lin Qiao was no longer afraid, Yan Ting greeted him in authentic Z country language: “Hello, Lin Qiao. I’m Yan Ting. Nice to meet you.”

After speaking in such a formal and stiff manner, he even tried to shake hands. Lin Qiao was a bit taken aback by this formal and old-fashioned behavior.

By the time he reacted, Yan Ting had already held his hand for five seconds. Lin Qiao extended his hand and shook it. It was cold and dry, seemingly with many calluses.

Yan Ting suddenly grabbed Lin Qiao’s entire hand and quickly pulled him closer. Lin Qiao let out a cry of surprise. The next second, Yan Ting’s palm was pressed against his forehead: “You have a fever. You need a doctor.”

Lin Qiao moved, turned his head away: “I’ll see a doctor tomorrow.”

Yan Ting’s palm was brushed by Lin Qiao’s eyelashes. After retracting his hand, he was silent for a moment: “Stay at my place. I have a doctor there.”

Lin Qiao felt a bit embarrassed and reluctant to go. He was a bit scared.

“Hey!” Kusa Sawa wanted to say something, but he guessed Yan Ting’s identity and said discontentedly: “You make Lin Qiao feel scared.”

Yan Ting pulled out his trump card: “I want to talk to you about the game.”