Chapter 17

[Ding Dong! The player has triggered the female ghost hide-and-seek game. In five minutes, the female ghosts will start the hide-and-seek chase mode. Please hide as soon as possible.]

As the prompt sounded, the restaurant door closed instantly, isolating Yang Yufei and the other two who had not yet reacted.

The restaurant, which was originally brightly lit, gradually dimmed and became pitch black.

"Hehehe... there's a new person playing hide-and-seek with us..."

Jiang Lele took off his sunglasses and looked around the audience.

The environment at the scene was so dark that Jiang Lele couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly at all. He could only hear the laughter of the female ghosts from time to time.

At this moment, a weak cry for help came over, "Save me, I'm here..."

It was the voice of the male player from before.

Jiang Lele walked in the direction of the sound and came to the restaurant bathroom.

She pushed the door open tentatively and saw the male player sitting on the toilet with his hands and feet tied.

When Su Zeming saw Jiang Lele's figure, his eyes suddenly lit up, "It's me, it's me!"

Jiang Lele looked at him hesitantly, "Have you been tied up here since you were captured?"

Su Zeming nodded quickly, "Yes, I've been listening to those female ghosts bragging about how great their boyfriends and fiancés are. My ears are almost callused from listening to them."

"Do you know how to play hide-and-seek?" Jiang Lele asked again.

Su Zeming had stayed in the copy longer and did understand the situation of the hide-and-seek game.

He explained to Jiang Lele: "After the game of hide-and-seek starts, the player has five minutes to hide. After that, the female ghosts will come out in groups and hunt the player. The hunt will last for three minutes. If the player can avoid the female ghosts in these three minutes, the player will win the game of hide-and-seek."

"On the contrary, if the female ghost succeeds in hunting down the player, then the player will become her food."

The restaurant's door has been blocked, so the hide-and-seek game is currently limited to the restaurant.

But according to Jiang Lele's observation, there were at least a dozen female ghosts outside. In such a small restaurant, it was obviously not an easy task to escape the pursuit of all the female ghosts within three minutes.

Jiang Lele helped Su Zeming untie the rope while she was lost in thought.

Su Zeming stood up and whispered in Jiang Lele's ear, "I'll give you a life-saving prop. It should be able to help you escape the crisis of this hide-and-seek game."

"What props?" Jiang Lele turned around with interest in his eyes.

Su Zeming secretly took out a box of matches and carefully took out a matchstick from the matchbox.

"This is a ghost-repelling match. It has a strong effect on dispelling NPCs in all difficult dungeons and below. Don't you need to hide from the female ghosts for three minutes? In the first two minutes, the female ghosts' attacks won't be too strong, so you can just run away. In the last minute, the female ghosts will become very dangerous, so light this match then. It's enough to burn for over a minute."

Jiang Lele took a quick look at the number of matches in Su Zeming's hand and estimated that there were at least a dozen left.

No wonder he could stay in the dungeon for half a month.

Seeing that Jiang Lele didn't reply, Su Zeming thought she was dissatisfied, so he gritted his teeth and said, "How about this, if it really doesn't work, I'll give you two, and you only need to hide for a minute."

Jiang Lele looked at Su Zeming and asked, "Why did you take the initiative to give me the life-saving prop?"

She never believed in inexplicable kindness, especially in this terrifying world where she could die at any time.

Su Zeming looked at Jiang Lele seriously, "I'm helping you now. If I encounter any danger in the future, can you help me?"

"That's fine." Jiang Lele replied.

Then she reached out and took the two matchsticks that Su Zeming handed over.

[Warm reminder: Players have three minutes left to hide.]

The cold machine voice sounded again.

Jiang Lele, holding two matches in her hand, turned and went to the women's restroom next door. She closed the door, summoned her mace, set it aside, and began to wait.

Three long, silent minutes passed.

【The game of hide and seek officially begins! 】

The annoying laughter of the female ghost spread throughout the restaurant. "Hehehe, my dear friend, are you hiding well? Let me find you. Where are you?"

Jiang Lele sat on the toilet, and soon felt a cold wind blowing from the soles of her feet.

She lowered her eyes to the ground and saw a ghostly hand with red nail polish slowly reaching in from the gap under the door.

Jiang Lele immediately raised his foot and stepped on it.

"ah!!!"

The female ghost screamed miserably.

Jiang Lele quickly opened the toilet door and lit the ghost-chasing match.

The dim light flickered on the ghost girl's face, and her originally angry expression instantly turned into horror.

The next second, Jiang Lele picked up the mace and smashed it towards the female ghost's head.

With a "clang", the female ghost lost consciousness and fell to the ground in a coma.

Jiang Lele blew out the match, dragged the female ghost into the next toilet cubicle and left her there, then turned back to his original position and began waiting for his second prey.

Not long after, the second female ghost came to the door.

She hung her head upside down, stretched her neck from above the toilet door, and put her head in front of Jiang Lele, "Hehehe, I found it——"

Before the female ghost could finish her words, there was another "clang" and the mace hit her head hard.

Jiang Lele opened the door again and dragged the female ghost to the next room and left her there.

Two minutes after the hide-and-seek game started, the number of female ghosts in the restaurant became fewer and fewer, until only three or four were left.

The most prestigious female ghost, the socialite Feng, narrowed her eyes. "What's going on? Where did the other sisters go to slack off again? It's taken so long, and we still haven't found the player."

The little ghost girl flattered him, "It seems that this time you have to take action yourself to end this game."

"Hmph." The socialite ghost snorted coldly, puffing out her chest proudly, "Then I will take the stage myself!"

The smile on the socialite ghost's face immediately turned cold, and she began to patrol the restaurant lightly.

After a while, the socialite ghost came to the bathroom with her little follower.

As soon as she entered the bathroom, the socialite ghost smelled a familiar human scent.

A scarlet light flashed in her eyes, and she followed the smell to the toilet cubicle where Jiang Lele was.

"Let me see, are you hiding here?"

The socialite ghost opened the restroom door expectantly, but before she could think of what harsh words to say to the human players, she was frightened by the ghost-chasing match that suddenly lit up.

"Ah!! What a disgusting smelly match!"

As soon as the shout fell, another stick came over.

"You dare to hit me!"

In just a few seconds, the remaining three female ghosts were taken care of one after another by Jiang Lele.

[This hide-and-seek game is over, and the player wins! ]

[The winning prize will automatically drop to the player's location after three seconds. Please check it in time.]

Three seconds later, Jiang Lele picked up a box of the same type of ghost-chasing matches on the ground, with as many as twenty matches. It was estimated that Su Zeming's box of matches was also dropped while playing games.

The game ended and the lights in the restaurant came back on.

Yang Yufei and the other two, who had been locked outside the restaurant, rushed into the restaurant nervously.

"Sister Lele?" Yang Yufei looked around the room but didn't see Jiang Lele.

Chu Yu frowned, "Why is there no female ghost in this restaurant?"

Just when everyone was puzzled, a dragging sound of something rubbing against the floor was heard, and it was particularly clear in the silent restaurant.

Jiang Lele slowly walked out of the bathroom dragging a female ghost in one hand.

She saw Yang Yufei and the other two, turned around, and said, "There are thirteen female ghosts in the toilet. If you have time, help me tie them up."

Yang Yufei and the other two: “???”

What I mean is, you defeated more than a dozen female ghosts?!

So, in the next few minutes, everyone began to hurriedly move the ghost out of the toilet.

When all fifteen female ghosts woke up, they were shocked to find that their hands and feet had been completely tied up.

Anger flashed across the face of the leading female ghost, a socialite. "You dare to tie me up? You're done! My fiancé will never let you go!"

"Yes! If my boyfriend knew you dared to do this to me, he would definitely kill you!"

"Don't worry, everyone. My boyfriend gave me a pair of concentric rings. Once they're linked, if either person presses the help button, the other will receive a message immediately. I just took the opportunity to press the help button, and my boyfriend will be here soon."

"Sister, what a coincidence! My boyfriend also gave me this concentric ring, and I pressed it too."

"Me too!"

What is shocking is that all fifteen female ghosts have the same concentric rings.

"It's over. If they call over another fifteen male ghosts, how can we defeat them?" Chu Yu said worriedly.

Jiang Lele glanced at the fifteen female ghosts curiously. He felt something was wrong.

At this moment, the Pen Fairy, who had just finished a date with a pure and lovely little ghost girl, suddenly received a concentric ring summoning signal from fifteen backup girlfriends.

The Pen Fairy was shocked: “?”

How come his fifteen lovely girlfriends are looking for him at the same time?