Chapter 197 (Catching Bugs)
The game that Xie Jinan wants to play with Yunmian is very simple. It is a game that tests attention and reaction.
The specific rules are: one party can ask any questions, and the other party must not answer related questions. For example, if someone asks you what you are eating, you cannot answer anything related to food.
The system originally thought that Xie Jinan would play the "quick question and quick answer" game, but she actually did the opposite.
But we have to say that she is smart, because this way of asking questions often makes it easier for people to reveal their true thoughts, and there is not much time to respond.
However, from the beginning, he asked Yunmian to try the food to see if there was any problem, and now he has been forcing Yunmian, the youngest, to play games. The system feels that Xie Jinan seems to be paying too much attention to Yunmian.
But no matter what it thought, when Xie Jinan clapped his hands, the game officially began.
The first question was asked by Xie Jinan: "What color is your hair?"
Yunmian quickly replied: "Little bird!"
The next question was Yunmian's turn to ask: "What does sister want to eat?"
Xie Jinan: "Pencil."
After a round of games allowed Yunmian to understand the rules, Xie Jinan noticed the two children next to him who had diverted their attention to him, and casually asked them if they wanted to join in and try a game.
He Jiarong was indeed moved, and He Fang was a little hesitant holding the pencil.
It’s not that they are not focused on their own things, but that children in the mountains don’t have many ways to play on a daily basis. The most common games they play are either cat-and-mouse or playing house.
The content of the game is extremely monotonous and poor.
Therefore, any game that Xie Jinan casually mentioned became particularly attractive.
At Xie Jinan's invitation, the three children finally lined up to participate in this novel game.
After explaining the rules clearly again, Xie Jinan started the game as the questioner.
Start with He Fang, who is the most nervous, then He Jiarong, and finally Yun Mian. This is the order of questions.
There is no requirement for the order of answering questions. Anyone can be designated to answer. Each person has three chances to be asked in each round. If there is no answer within three seconds, it means failure. The loser will have a line drawn on the face with a pen.
At first, Xie Jinan asked questions casually, even wildly. After fully arousing the emotions of the three children, she began to insert some things they wanted to know into the questions.
For example, she asked He Jiarong who he was most afraid of.
He Jiarong finally gave an irrelevant answer, and Xie Jinan quickly asked who was more afraid of, grandma or dad.
He Jiarong was so flustered that his tongue got a little tangled: "I'm most afraid of my dad. No, I hate sunbathing!"
Xie Jinan counted his answer as correct, and he just breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could calm down, he heard Xie Jinan's even more rapid question: "Why are you most afraid of your father? 3, 2, 1, answer quickly!!"
"Because he knows how to hit people!!" He Jiarong was so panicked that he closed his eyes and blurted out the real reason.
Before he could react whether he had said the wrong thing, he heard Xie Jinan happily announce that he had lost the game again, and asked Yunmian to help him draw on his face with a pen.
He Jiarong obviously rejected this kind of punishment, but as soon as he showed a little bit of displeasure, Xie Jinan patted him on the shoulder and reminded him: "Take this opportunity to think about who you want to ask what questions. You can't lose more than Mianmian, right? Look, we don't have as much punishment on our faces as you do."
After saying these words, he did not give He Jiarong any time to think rationally. He completely led He Jiarong's thoughts by the nose and controlled all of the child's current thinking ability with just words.
She also used a similar method to create a tense and exciting atmosphere, which made He Fang stay tense and try to respond to all sudden questions.
However, the two siblings proved through personal experience that the more nervous you are and the more you want to avoid something, the easier it is to make mistakes.
At the beginning, they could still respond to Xie Jinan's questions, but later on, almost every answer would fall into a trap, and before they knew it, Xie Jinan used this method to trick them into saying a lot of things.
Only Yunmian escaped.
Because she handled it very well at the beginning, Xie Jinan asked two questions and found that the rhythm would always be stuck when it came to Yunmian because of her successful answers. So he decisively gave up on using the routine against Yunmian and instead asked Yunmian to help draw punishment on the two children's faces.
So for more than ten minutes, Yun Mian was busy holding the brush. Before he finished painting one face, another one failed. Just as he started painting another one, the previous one was gone.
Yunmian simply put the two children together and scribbled on their faces depending on her mood.
When it was He Jiarong's turn, one stroke was enough to draw a complete circle around his fat face.
When it was Sister He Fang's turn, the first stroke was to gently poke her face with the tip of the pen.
The bias is obvious, and the double standards are justified.
When Xie Jinan finally stopped this adrenaline-fuelled little game, there was no trace of humanity left on He Jiarong's face.
He Fang's face only had small black spots that were not too dense, like freckles.
Yun Mian admired her masterpiece and put down her pen with satisfaction, just like Xie Jinan.
Everyone got the result they wanted, except for He Jiarong's injured world.
He Jiarong also cared about his image, and as soon as the game was over, he couldn't wait to run to find a mirror.
When he saw the dark and messy self in the mirror, he stared in disbelief for a moment, and the next second he burst into tears with a loud "Ah".
The instigator Yun Mian was very innocent, and the other instigator Xie Jinan was even more innocent. The big and the small watched He Jiarong rolling on the ground crying, and they both slipped away tacitly.
And no one knew when He Fang disappeared.
The three of them spontaneously left the big stage outside the house for He Jiarong to perform on his own.
The system feels that its host is a bit stupid.
At the beginning, when the game was not too intense, she painted small flowers, stars and grass on people's faces. Later, when the game became more and more exciting, she was too busy and began to draw scribbles perfunctorily, turning He Jiarong's white and chubby cheeks into an abstract style.
She seemed quite innocent. Before she slipped away, she took the mirror from He Jiarong's hand, saying that she wouldn't be so sad as long as she couldn't see it.
It is very bad to teach others how to cover up their crimes at such a young age.
But in fact, Yunmian is really innocent!
She didn't scribble at first, but then she was really too busy. Can't we blame her for that?
Moreover, He Jiarong cried so sadly that he rolled on the ground and his body was all dirty. If he saw himself so dirty in the mirror again, he would definitely cry even louder.
Yunmian felt that she took the mirror away for his own good!
"...Then why did you bury the mirror?" The system was ready to listen to the host's continued quibbling.
Yunmian dug the soil in the pit and answered without hesitation: "I'll hide it first, and then dig it out for Mom after she takes a bath and looks pretty!"
The system is silent.
It never expected that when the host mother's rescue progress was still 0, the host had already started to consider such a distant issue.
After saying so much, are you actually afraid that Yun Jinxing will be sad and collapse after seeing herself in the mirror?
At least he was much more devastated than He Jiarong just now.
It was because Yun Mian saw that He Jiarong could not accept the sight of his face being painted all over that she thought of her mother’s face being scratched and covered in blood, so she snatched the mirror and buried it secretly, so that when Yun Jinxing came out, she would not see that face so quickly and have an emotional breakdown.
This is the tenderness and thoughtfulness that is unique to little Mianmian.
The system flew over and touched Yun Mian's cheek. After she buried the mirror, it pushed open the door of the cowshed to see the imprisoned Yun Jinxing.
Then He Jiarong cried heartbreakingly and found He Fang to ask her to give him hot water to wash his face and take a bath.
Xie Jinan learned the news from the child's trick and had already gathered with others to discuss it.
Yunmian pushed open the door of the cowshed and then closed it, leaving a gap the width of a palm to allow the light from outside to come in and the hot, smelly air inside to dissipate.
The system squatted on the roof of the cowshed to keep watch for her.
Yunmian took out the paper ball and a pencil head as short as a finger that she had stuffed in her pocket and handed them to her mother.
Facing her mother's surprised gaze, Yunmian tilted her head and smiled at her: "Mom, the sister who came in from outside taught me how to write my own name. Can I write your name on it, too?"
She squatted in front of her mother, but her hands gently hugged the other's legs that were placed on the ground, skinny and feelingless. After touching them with heartache, she came over and clinged to her, just like a puppy who likes to cling to people and act coquettishly.
Yun Jinxing touched her daughter's cheek. Her voice was much better and smoother than yesterday: "Mianmian, can you tell mom about that sister?"
When Yun Mian was whispering about Xie Jinan in the cowshed, the system on the roof was not surprised at this development at all.
As early as when Yun Mian asked Xie Jinan if he could teach her to write, the little girl had the idea of letting Yun Jinxing and Xie Jinan have a "dialogue" and immediately implemented it.
The system didn't realize it at first, but when the host crumpled up the paper with the name on it and stuffed it into his pocket, and took the pencil away as well, the system was in a state of shock and trance.
In the morning, when Yunmian was herding cattle, she asked it many questions: "can'ts and no's?". When all her ideas were rejected one by one, the kid probably racked his brains to think of new ways.
The system has no idea how hard the host has tried to come up with this solution within the constraints of the game rules, and it is actually not sure whether this solution will work.
The words written by Yun Jinxing on the paper will most likely be erased by the rules when Yun Mian brings it to Xie Jinan.
But this possibility is very low, and it is more reliable than Yunmian's rough method of directly taking Xie Jinan to the cowshed.
After all, this is a game level. Yunmian and Yunjinxing are both NPCs set in the game. Once she behaves in a way that far exceeds the character plot settings and greatly affects the player's game progress, it will be regarded as a bug by the game system and will be cleaned up and eliminated.
Players only need to follow the rules of the game world, but for NPCs who are already part of the game, if their rules are incompatible with the plot they have set, they will be detected and warned, or cleared and reset.
So in response to Yunmian’s questions this morning, most of the answers given by the system were “no”.
However, with the influence of Yun Mian's repeated behavior of not crossing the bottom line, she can now at least put a piece of paper and a pencil in front of Yun Jinxing.
Next, it depends on whether Yun Jinxing can seize the opportunity to escape from the predicament as soon as possible because of the appearance of players such as Xie Jinan, and completely avoid the death in two days.
There is only one chapter left and I will update it during the day. My eyes are dry and sore from typing on the computer at night. I can't bear it.
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