Chapter 33 The Terrifying Four Corners Game

"I don't know either." Zhang Dongyang shrugged, "After all, it's just a legend."

He looked at Li Ping'an and smiled wickedly: "How is it? Is it scary?"

Li Pingan thought for a while and said, "Well... rather than saying it's scary, it's more pitiful. The little girl probably doesn't remember how she died. Because she lost her memory, she has been wandering around the library in order to regain her memory, and she is unable to reincarnate..."

Zhang Dongyang was a little disappointed that Li Pingan was not scared, and asked in confusion: "Why aren't you scared?"

"What's so scary about that?" Qi Yu put his hands in his pockets and snorted coldly: "This incredible legend is obviously made up by adults to deceive children, in order to prevent children from staying in the library after closing time at night."

"Ah, I thought it was true." Li Pingan raised his innocent little face and looked at Qi Yu.

Qi Yu: "You can tell it's fake, and only some fools would believe it."

"Who are you calling a fool!" Zhang Dongyang said angrily.

Qi Yu shrugged: "Whoever asks is the one."

"You!" Zhang Dongyang's face flushed instantly after being despised by Qi Yu. He blurted out: "Go forward and you will see the circular corridor in the stairwell on the second floor of the library. Do you dare to play the four-corner game with me?"

Hearing him mention this game again, Qi Yu couldn't help but frown: "I've already told you it's a lie, why do you still want to play it? Aren't you childish?"

Zhang Dongyang challenged, “If you don’t dare to play, cast your vote for me in front of the whole class next week.”

The head can be cut off and blood can be shed, but a man must not lose his face.

This kind of behavior is no less than bowing to a competitor in front of the whole class. How can this be tolerated?

Qi Yu said coldly: "Just play, who's afraid of who?"

Very good, now Zhang Dongyang has finally achieved his goal.

He looked at Li Ping'an, Qi Yu, and uh... a little baby who could barely walk (Li Ping'an's distant relative, who was said to have been recruited through the back door).

Well, anyway, we’ve managed to get enough people to play the four-corner game.

Zhang Dongyang began to assign their respective positions.

As we all know, there are four points in the circular corridor, and one person can stand at each point. The first person starts from the first position and walks to the second position. The second person starts again and walks to the third position, and so on, until the last person starts and walks to the starting point of the first person, then the entire four-corner game is completed.

Zhang Dongyang suggested: "This is a duel between Qi Yu and me. Junior sister, you and this little brother should take the second and third baton positions in the middle. This is safer. What do you think?"

Li Pingan nodded.

Qi Yu shrugged, "It doesn't matter, it's just a test of courage anyway."

So everyone unanimously decided that Zhang Dongyang would be the first runner, Li Pingan would be the second runner, Xiao Qingjiao would be the third runner, and Qi Yu would be the fourth runner.

After the positions were assigned, everyone set off to their respective positions.

Soon, everyone stood in their positions smoothly.

Zhang Dongyang stopped at the starting point of the first leg, took a deep breath, and headed towards Li Pingan.

The library was quiet at twelve o'clock in the morning. The moonlight shone into the window through the mottled shadows of the trees, stretching his shadow very long.

His heart was pounding, and he felt that this corridor, less than a hundred meters long, was longer than any other corridor he had ever walked through.

Walk faster, walk faster.

Why haven’t I seen Li Ping’an yet?

Finally, a hazy figure appeared in front.

Zhang Dongyang breathed a sigh of relief, showing a look of joy, and walked forward quickly, "Junior Sister..."

The figure turned around, his face covered by his black hair, but his eyes could be vaguely seen behind the hair, glowing bloodshot.

She tilted her head and asked, "Do you... know how I died?"

Zhang Dongyang:! ! !

***

Li Pingan waited for a long time at the second position in the circular corridor, but Zhang Dongyang did not come over.

She was almost dozing off while waiting, until a scream of “Ahhhhhhhh” came from the front, waking her from her drowsiness.

What's going on? What happened?

Li Ping'an ran towards the direction where the shouting came from.

After running a short distance and turning two corners, he saw Qi Yu sitting on the ground, waving his hands in the air, shouting, "Don't come over here, don't come over here! Ahhhhh, there's a ghost, a ghost!"

Li Pingan was shocked by his words, "Ghost? Where is the ghost?"

Qi Yu pointed forward and shouted, "There, right there, a green ghost just passed by!"

Li Ping'an looked in the direction Qi Yu pointed, and sure enough, he saw a green tail flash by in the shadow in the corner.

Do ghosts have tails?

Li Ping'an took out the glass sword given to her by her uncle to give her courage, and walked towards the corner where Qi Yu pointed.

When he got closer, the green 'ghost' revealed its true form. He saw a small green dragon lying in the corner, looking at Li Pingan with an innocent face.

Li Pingan: Embarrassing!

Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, Li Ping'an hurriedly walked forward and asked in a low voice why the little green dragon suddenly revealed its true form and ran over to scare Qi Yu?

It turned out that the little green dragon had been waiting in the same place for too long and couldn't help but want to complete the task first. As a result, it was not used to walking on two legs, and while walking, it actually turned back to its original form. Then it happened to be seen by Qi Yu, who scared him a lot.

Alas, it turns out that everything was a misunderstanding.

Li Pingan squatted down, touched Xiao Qingjiao's head, and comforted him: "Xiao Longlong, hold on a little longer, we can go back to sleep after finishing the game soon."

The little green dragon lay on the ground, shook its tail twice listlessly, then yawned loudly and fell asleep.

After all, it is just a baby less than one year old, and we cannot ask it to stay up late with adults at such a young age.

Li Pingan: What should I do?

One of the three in the Four Corners game is missing. Can we still play it?

There was no other way, so she had to pick up the little green dragon and hide it in the storage bracelet. After thinking for a while, she took out a piece of jade from the storage bracelet and placed it on the ground.

Then he said loudly, "Why is there a green stone here?"

Qi Yu, who was not far away, was listening to the noise here. Hearing this, he quickly asked, "Are you sure it's a green stone and not a green ghost?"

Li Pingan waved at him and said firmly: "It is really a green stone, not a ghost. You may have seen it wrong just now. Do you want to come and take another look?"

Qi Yu:? ? ? Is he dazzled?

He calmed down and walked forward doubtfully, and sure enough, he saw a green stone behind Li Ping'an.

It turns out to be just a stone.

Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but then his face became hot again.

"Don't talk nonsense about what happened just now!" He warned Li Ping'an righteously.

Li Pingan asked curiously, "Are you afraid of ghosts? Don't worry, I won't laugh at you. Everyone has something they are afraid of. Who says boys are necessarily braver than girls? There is nothing shameful about it."

"Who said I'm afraid of ghosts!" Qi Yu hurriedly thought of an excuse, "I, I was just startled suddenly, that's all. You are not allowed to tell anyone about what happened just now."

"Is that so?" Li Ping'an nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly screamed and pointed behind Qi Yu with a horrified look on his face: "Ah, behind you!"

Qi Yu turned his head suddenly, and there was nothing behind him. When he turned back again, an enlarged ghost face suddenly appeared in front of him.

Qi Yu: “Ahhhhhh!”

He fell to the ground with his buttocks, holding his head and covering his head, muttering frantically: "Can't see, can't see, can't see me..."

A series of silver bell-like laughter rang out, and Li Ping'an walked to Qi Yu's side, made a face and said: "I was the one who lied to you just now. It turns out that you are so timid. You still said that you are not afraid of ghosts."

Only then did Qi Yu realize that the person standing in front of him was Li Pingan, and she was just making faces to scare him.

He stood up in anger and said, "You've gone too far!"

He turned around and ran away angrily.

Li Pingan also felt that what he had just done was too much, so he quickly chased after him, saying as he ran: "Hey, Qi Yu, don't be angry, I was wrong, I apologize to you, I will never scare you again..."

After turning a corner, the front was empty and pitch dark. There was no sign of Qi Yu.

Where is Qi Yu? Is he so scared that he's hiding somewhere and crying?

Li Ping'an felt more and more guilty.

She walked forward in the dark, trying to call out softly: "Qi Yu, Qi Yu, I won't scare you anymore, please come out soon."

No one responded to her. It seemed as if Li Pingan was the only one left in the dark corridor. It was so quiet that she could only hear the sound of shoes rubbing against the ground.

Li Pingan felt uneasy for no reason.

Nothing will happen to Qi Yu, right?

Just when she was getting anxious, suddenly, a gentle voice called out from behind: "Li Ping'an."

Is it Qi Yu?

Li Pingan turned around happily, and his eyes widened instantly when he saw the figure behind him.

She remembered that Zhang Dongyang had told her before she came that there were ten incredible legends in the Extraordinary Children's Academy. If you encounter someone calling your name in the library at twelve o'clock in the morning, you must not turn around at this time. If you turn around, she will ask you -

The little girl in red stood not far in front of Li Ping'an and asked her, "How did I... die?"

Li Pingan: It’s over. She seems to have forgotten Zhang Dongyang’s advice. Is it too late to escape now?

On the other side, after Qi Yu ran away, he didn't run far before his anger subsided and the fear in his heart surged up again.

He didn't know where he was running to, and seeing the pitch-black darkness around him, he couldn't help but slow down his pace.

His steps became slower and slower, until he could no longer lift his feet and stopped where he was.

The dark corridor was so quiet that not a sound could be heard. All kinds of terrifying thoughts popped up in Qi Yu's mind, scaring him so much that his sanity level almost dropped to the warning line.

He held on to his last bit of face and refused to return to look for Li Ping'an, but in his heart he prayed that Li Ping'an would catch up with him soon.

In the dark and deserted place, he just waited and waited quietly...

Until he finally heard footsteps behind him, and a clear voice called him: "Qi Yu."

Great, Li Ping'an finally caught up, she was running too slowly!

Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly put on a poker face and turned around, "Why do you always follow me..."

Before he finished speaking, a flash of lightning flashed outside the window, illuminating the little girl in a red dress behind him.

The little girl tilted her neck towards him, opened her bright red lips, and uttered a clear voice: "Do you... know how I died?"

Qi Yu: “…Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”

***

Li Ping'an woke up from her dream. She had a nightmare.

In the dream, she was holding her uncle’s hand and walking together on the zebra crossing. There were so many people that they separated her and her uncle.

She tried desperately to turn back to find her uncle, but she couldn't find him. Until everyone disappeared, she was left standing there alone, lost and helpless.

Li Pingan was frightened awake.

Although I woke up from the dream, the fear of standing alone in the crowd still lingered deep in my heart for a long time.

She was so scared that she desperately wanted to find her uncle and seek comfort.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a dirty and messy room. The lights on the ceiling were dim, and the walls of the ceiling were yellow and cracked, with some mold spots visible upon closer inspection.

Everything here is familiar, yet so strange.

She remembered that this was Angel's Home Children's Welfare Home.

How did she end up back in the orphanage?

"Uncle, I want to go find him." She jumped off the bed and rushed to the door.

Before she could run to the door, the door of the room opened in front of her, and two people in white coats and masks walked in.

When Li Ping'an saw them, he could no longer suppress the urge to escape, so he turned around and ran in the opposite direction.

Unfortunately, she was too small and was caught after running a few steps.

"Uncle, I want my uncle!" Li Ping'an struggled desperately in the hands of the man in the white coat.

He grabbed her white coat and was stunned, then looked at his companion, "What uncle?"

The other man had a cold look in his eyes. He tied Li Ping'an up and shook his head, saying, "Who knows? Could it be that he went crazy while doing the experiment?"

The two men tied up Li Pingan and took him to the laboratory. The lighting here was different from the dim lighting in the welfare home, it was blindingly white.

Such pure whiteness houses extremely bloody experiments.

Li Ping'an was tied to the test table, with her hands and feet fixed. Big tears flowed from her big eyes. She didn't understand why everything changed suddenly.

A group of people in white coats came in from outside the door, one of them held up a syringe and started drawing blood from her veins.

Blood flowed quietly out of Li Ping'an's body, one tube after another. It was unknown how many tubes of blood they drew before they finally stopped this operation.

Li Pingan asked weakly, "Where is my uncle?"

The face behind the mask showed a mocking smile, "What uncle? You must be dreaming. You have never had any uncle."

"Impossible." Li Ping'an argued, "My uncle has been in a coma for twenty years. When he wakes up, he will come to the welfare home to take me home. He is the most powerful person in the world, and he will definitely come to find me."

The man in the white coat said coldly, "You should wake up from your sweet dream. Your uncle has been in a coma for twenty years. How could he wake up? You are just comforting yourself in your dream because the experiment is too painful."

"Now that you've woken up from your dream, it's time to do today's experiment." Their eyes lit up with enthusiasm. "Don't be afraid. You have a rare healing ability. Even if you're injured, you can recover. What's unique about your ability is that it can regenerate infinitely. Do you understand how valuable a test subject you are? This means that you can be reused forever."

"Your blood can be supplied to extraordinary people of all blood types, allowing them to recover quickly from injuries. Next, we want to see if your organs can regenerate. If this experiment is successful, it will be a great discovery for human beings all over the world. Your name will be recorded in history books, and your achievements will be remembered for thousands of years."

They raised their scalpels and slowly surrounded Li Ping'an.

Li Pingan kept shaking his head: "I don't want it, I'm scared, uncle!"

Someone yelled in her ear: "How many times have I told you that it was just a dream of yours? You don't have an omnipotent uncle. It's just a fantasy you made up to save yourself!"

impossible! Li Pingan didn't believe it.

The uncle must be real.

She didn't know where she got the strength from, but she broke free from the restraints and escaped from the laboratory table.

She ran and ran, ran desperately, and finally escaped from the laboratory and came to the hospital.

Her uncle once told her that he woke up in this hospital.

Li Pingan came to his uncle's ward based on his memory. He pushed open the door and saw his uncle lying on the bed. A doctor stood beside the bed and shook his head. He said, "He is hopeless. Tell the family to prepare for his funeral."

Then he covered his uncle’s face with a white cloth.

The electrocardiogram showed an unchanging straight line, and at that moment, the whole world went dark.

Li Pingan lay in front of the bed and called softly: "Uncle, uncle..."

No one responded to her, as if everything was really just a dream.

Now that she's awake from the dream, it's time for her to accept reality.

He heard the sound of pursuers behind him and someone started banging on the door. Li Pingan glanced at his uncle on the hospital bed with reluctance and began to look for a place to hide.

The ward was too small and everything was in plain view, so she couldn't find a place to hide.

Li Ping'an could only retreat in despair until her back hit the windowsill. She glanced out the window and saw that the height was right so she could jump down and escape.

As soon as this thought came to her mind, she couldn't help but climb up to the windowsill.

Before jumping, she looked up at the sky for the last time. The first ray of sunlight in the morning shone on the world, casting a layer of golden light on everything in the world.

At that moment, her brain, which was hazy due to excessive blood loss, suddenly became clear for a moment, and Li Pingan recalled the ultimate summoning technique taught her by her uncle.

That should have been a technique that she was extremely proficient in, but in this absurd timeline, she somehow suddenly forgot it.

Now she thought about it, as long as she said that formula, her uncle would immediately appear in front of her even if they were thousands of miles apart.

The banging on the door became more and more urgent, like the soul-calling sounds from hell.

When the door was finally broken open, Li Pingan jumped off the windowsill, and with an extremely pious heart, he silently said, "Hurry up, as the law commands, uncle will show up soon."

The feeling of weightlessness from jumping off a building came, and then it stopped abruptly.

A big hand grabbed the back of her collar, and a familiar voice rang in her ears: "Li Ping'an, are you sleepwalking?"

At that moment, Li Pingan finally couldn't help crying out loud.

She opened her big tearful eyes and looked at the man who was holding her by the collar.

That man is my uncle.