Chapter 84 I'm in [VIP]
Chapter Summary: I won't leave; I'll stay with her.
The weather is getting warmer.
Around mid-April, the sun began to get quite glaring.
Many boys in the class have changed into summer school uniforms, and some girls who are not afraid of the heat are still wearing long sleeves, but it is only a thin layer of clothing.
Fu Xianyin has always been the type who is more afraid of heat than cold.
She doesn't wear thermal underwear in winter unless it's below freezing, and she can wear short skirts and vests in mid-October, just with a jacket on top.
It's not that she loves beauty for the sake of her image; it's just that she's the type who can't stand heat.
In the past, by mid to late April, Fu Xianyin should have already switched to short sleeves, at most wearing an autumn school uniform as a jacket.
But for some reason this year, no matter how strong the sun was outside, Fu Xianyin still wore a thin sweater under her school uniform.
Usually, it was the hot weather that urged her to quickly change out of her spring clothes, making her realize that summer was gradually approaching.
But this year, she only realized it was almost May when she saw the countdown to the college entrance examination on the bulletin board, which showed less than fifty days left.
The May Day holiday is the last vacation for senior high school students.
When school resumes, it will be time to focus all efforts on preparing for the college entrance examination.
Fu Xianyin has been counting down the days on her fingers lately.
Never before had she so desperately wished that time could slow down, just a little bit more.
Cheng Zhaozhao's birthday is on May 1st, which happens to be a holiday.
With only one month left until the college entrance examination, this is the last time they can relax.
After evening self-study, Cheng Zhaozhao excitedly planned for tomorrow:
"Let's go out for lunch tomorrow, then in the afternoon we can play an escape room or a murder mystery game, and in the evening we can go to karaoke. How do we raise a child like this?"
Lin Anxu was the first to speak, saying with a grin, "I have no objection."
Chen Nianke said, "I don't have any either."
Fu Xianyin hooked her little finger with Gu Linzhao's, looked up and said, "I can too."
Cheng Zhaozhao clapped her hands and said, "Then it's settled. Tomorrow afternoon we'll see whether to play a murder mystery game or an escape room game!"
On May Day, after Fu Xianyin got up, she subconsciously put on a sweater. She had already buttoned up half of the cardigan before she suddenly remembered to check the weather forecast.
Seeing the temperature approaching 30 degrees Celsius, Fu Xianyin hesitated for a moment, but still changed her sweater into a short-sleeved shirt, though she still wore long pants.
After changing her clothes, she made the bed, lay down on the blankets, and stared blankly at the sky.
When Cheng Zhaozhao knocked on the door, Fu Xianyin even wondered if she had just taken a nap.
She could clearly see the pattern on the ceiling distorting; what else could this be but a dream?
Outside the door, Chen Nianke was carrying cosmetics. Cheng Zhaozhao's face was covered with foundation. She looked at Fu Xianyin, who was drawing a sketch on the sky, and said with some dissatisfaction, "Yinyin, why aren't you wearing makeup? I'm planning to take pictures. Hurry up and make yourself look beautiful."
Fu Xianyin hesitated for a moment, then said "Ah," and sat down at the table.
She casually covered her dark circles and that was it, but Cheng Zhaozhao, not satisfied, made her curl her eyelashes before she would stop.
As she was leaving, Chen Nianke looked at Fu Xianyin's trousers and said, "Yinyin, it's almost 30 degrees today. Aren't you hot wearing trousers? I remember you were quite sensitive to heat."
Fu Xianyin paused for two seconds and said, "I feel fine in the dormitory, nothing's wrong, it should be alright."
Lin Anxu and Gu Linzhao were waiting downstairs at the girls' dormitory. When Chen Nian saw Lin Anxu, she grabbed Fu Xianyin's arm and whispered, "Hey, look, did Lin Anxu take special care of himself today?"
She said, "You're wearing sunglasses and a necklace, and I bet you even polished your shoes?"
Fu Xianyin's gaze fell on Lin Anxu's spotless sneakers, and she whispered, "It seems so."
Cheng Zhaozhao's voice came from the side: "What are you two whispering about?"
Fu Xianyin and Chen Nianke exchanged a glance and said in unison with a laugh, "It's nothing."
Cheng Zhaozhao made a face at the two of them, but laughed the moment she saw Lin Anxu.
She said, "Lin Anxu, why are you wearing sunglasses today? What are you trying to show off for?"
Lin Anxu stammered, a rare occurrence for him: "I didn't... I wasn't showing off... Oh, never mind, wasn't this showing off cool? Aren't these sunglasses good-looking?"
Cheng Zhaozhao nodded haphazardly: "It looks good, it looks the best, it's a perfect match for the dog collar around your neck."
Lin Anxu shouted, "Cheng Zhaozhao!"
Lunch was a choice Chen Nian could make.
Cheng Zhaozhao said she had been craving mushroom hot pot for the past few days, so Chen Nianke chose a highly-rated restaurant on Dianping and dragged a few people over to eat there.
Chen Nianke really has a talent for choosing restaurants and ordering food.
She always orders the food, and she can pick out the best dishes in the restaurant that suit everyone's taste.
Even when Fu Xianyin, Chen Nianke, and Cheng Zhaozhao went to the small shop to eat noodles, the noodles that Chen Nianke ordered were always the best.
Fu Xianyin had secretly asked Chen Nianke what exactly had given her such talent.
Chen Nianke said, "It's probably hereditary. My dad is also very good at ordering food. I guess I inherited his good tradition."
The mushrooms were poisonous, so after they were put into the pot, the waiter carefully collected all the utensils, for fear that they would try to eat the mushrooms before they were cooked and get poisoned.
Cheng Zhaozhao stared longingly at the mushrooms in the pot, then suddenly blurted out, "Do you think if I get mushroom poisoning, I'll be able to score higher on the college entrance exam?"
Chen Nian patted her head affectionately and said, "Look at this child, the pressure of studying is so great that she's starting to talk nonsense."
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "I'm serious. What if I hallucinate and think I'm possessed by Yinyin, and then I write like a god, writing a lot, and when the results come out, I'll get straight into Tsinghua University?"
Lin Anxu said from the side, "You'd better pray that the proctor doesn't arrest you for cheating."
Enraged, Cheng Zhaozhao reached out to pinch Lin Anxu's ear, but Lin Anxu immediately cowered and begged for mercy, "Hey, sister, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong!"
The aroma of mushrooms was already wafting from the pot, but the waiter still wouldn't bring any cutlery, so Chen Nianke had no choice but to pour herself a glass of water and drink it while quenching her thirst.
She asked, "Where do you plan to travel after your college entrance exams?"
"Yes! Of course I want it!"
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "I want to go mountain climbing, I want to see the sea, and I want to go rafting in a river that is as green as jade."
Lin Anxu said excitedly, "After the college entrance exam, let's go to a travel agency to look at places to travel to? It's just in time for us to finish the college entrance exam before junior and senior high school students have their holidays, so it shouldn't be the peak tourist season."
He started counting on his fingers: "We'll finish our biology exam around noon. We can eat lunch and then go see where we can go for fun."
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "I don't want to join a tour group. We'll do our own research and planning. There's no fun in joining a tour group."
Chen Nianke said, "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
The waiter brought over the tableware, and Gu Linzhao scooped mushrooms for Fu Xianyin. As the white porcelain bowl gently tapped on the table, Fu Xianyin heard Gu Linzhao ask softly:
"Where do you want to go after the college entrance exam?"
Fu Xianyin turned her head and met his eyes.
Those eyes were so sincere, so clear, and when they looked at her intently, Fu Xianyin felt that she really couldn't make any promises about the uncertain future with Gu Linzhao when facing his gaze.
So she simply picked up the white porcelain spoon gently, lowered her eyes, and said:
"Nianke already said we'll talk about it later."
...
After finishing her meal, Cheng Zhaozhao hesitated between playing an escape room game or a murder mystery game.
Fu Xianyin and Gu Linzhao held hands under the table. Fu Xianyin's arm was completely relaxed, and her hand fell entirely into Gu Linzhao's palm. He held her up, and his fingers were casually kneading her fingertips.
Fu Xianyin felt a little itchy from being pinched and wanted to pull her hand away.
However, just as he hesitated, his hand was suddenly gripped tightly.
She turned her head and looked at Gu Linzhao.
The boy's lips were pursed, his eyelashes were lowered, but his hand did not loosen its grip even slightly.
Fu Xianyin struggled, but couldn't break free.
She opened her lips, intending to explain her earlier hesitation, but somehow the word "itch" ended up sounding like:
"pain."
Gu Linzhao said, "Then I'll be gentler."
The grip on his hand loosened slightly, but he still held him tightly, showing no intention of letting go.
Fu Xianyin's heart was weighed down by heavy dark clouds, impenetrable to wind and rain, and just kept falling.
In that instant, she almost thought that Gu Linzhao had figured something out.
I could see her wavering, I could see her retreat.
I saw through her calm exterior and the heart that was about to take a different path.
Cheng Zhaozhao ultimately chose the escape room option.
She said, "The murder mystery game takes too long, and we're going to sing karaoke tonight. I'm afraid we won't have enough time."
Escape rooms are generally horror-themed.
Fu Xianyin isn't afraid of ghosts at all, Chen Nian is a little afraid but can still complete the mission, only Cheng Zhaozhao...
"He's addicted to bad food."
Lin Anxu commented.
Among all the escape room themes, Cheng Zhaozhao deliberately chose a horror hospital theme.
The moment the first door opened, a chilly wind blew out of the pitch-black room, and the faint roars of ghosts echoed in her ears. Cheng Zhaozhao's legs instantly went weak.
She stammered, "Should we...should we change to another one?"
Lin Anxu mocked her: "Didn't you want to play the scariest one? You chose it but you're too scared to play it, tsk tsk tsk."
Cheng Zhaozhao was instantly spurred on. She rolled up her sleeves, shook her head, and said, "Who's afraid to play? I'm going in right now!"
After saying that, she strode inside.
Lin Anxu followed closely behind.
Fu Xianyin crossed her arms and followed him inside.
In the end, it was Gu Linzhao who covered the rear.
The story is set in a hospital that is often haunted. Every night, doctors and nurses would hear eerie sounds in the hospital corridors, and sometimes blood would even seep out from the cracks in the walls.
Their mission is to find out the truth behind the hospital's haunting and then successfully escape from the hospital.
The first challenge was that the lights were turned on instantly after they entered the room.
The bright lights illuminated the entire room; brightness always makes people feel safer than darkness.
Everyone searched for clues and props, when suddenly Cheng Zhaozhao exclaimed, "Why is it still leaking?"
Lin Anxu said, "Leaking? Are you sure it's water leaking? Why don't you take a look at the color?"
Cheng Zhaozhao wiped her face, then held it in front of her.
"It's blood! Aa ...
A scream came from inside the house. Cheng Zhaozhao looked at her hands covered in crimson blood and jumped up on the spot.
Unfortunately, by sheer coincidence, the lights inside the checkpoint also went out completely because of her shout.
Now it was Lin Anxu's turn to be startled: "How do I turn it off?!"
Eerie music began to play, accompanied by Chen Nianke's leisurely remark: "You two really are a pair of hidden dragons and phoenix chicks."
Lin Anxu fumbled around on the wall, muttering nonsense: "What Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick? I am Zhuge Kongming's younger brother, Zhuge Kuai."
His voice was still trembling: "Brother Zhao, say something, Brother Zhao, say something."
Gu Linzhao said, "I'm looking at the clues. The first one should be related to the year, such as the date of death or the date of birth of the deceased."
"Or on the same day."
Fu Xianyin's calm voice came from another corner: "The ghost in this level is a child. Judging from its size, it should have died shortly after birth, or it may even be a fully formed fetus that was miscarried for various reasons. Its resentment was too strong, so it became a ghost."
Lin Anxu's somewhat weak voice came through: "Sister, how...how did you know it was a child?"
Fu Xianyin paused for a moment.
She uttered the most terrifying words in the calmest tone:
"Because the moment the lights were turned off, it felt like a child fell from the sky into my arms."
Lin Anxu fell silent.
Cheng Zhaozhao fell silent.
The two of them didn't dare to utter a sound, standing there dumbfounded.
In the earlier multiplayer levels, Fu Xianyin and Gu Linzhao almost singled out the team, while Cheng Zhaozhao and Lin Anxu were like mere accessories, carrying the team all the way to the fourth level.
The fourth level is where the single-player mission begins.
There were five of them; three did solo tasks, and the remaining two did duo tasks.
Cheng Zhaozhao and Lin Anxu were timid and originally planned to do the duo mission together, but Chen Nianke found a small mission hint on the wall, which said that the roles in the duo mission were the parents of the child who was aborted.
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "I've seen these online. Is this one of those couple-specific missions that involves intimate contact?"
Fu Xianyin said, "Then let's go. If it really doesn't work, I'll do the solo missions later. Anyway, the rules don't say that we can't do them repeatedly."
Lin Anxu was practically clinging to Fu Xianyin's leg and weeping bitterly.
He stood there wailing, "Sister, you are my sister, you will always be my sister!"
The tasks were assigned, and then, with a click, a small door next to us opened.
The two slipped through the small door and entered another room.
This was an operating room, and Fu Xianyin guessed the mission almost instantly.
She said, "I'm supposed to simulate a pregnant woman undergoing induced labor. You go and find clues."
As she spoke, she walked toward the operating table and then lay down on it without hesitation.
Fu Xianyin thought she wasn't afraid.
The coldness of the operating table seeped through the fabric, and the moment it reached her, Fu Xianyin felt her whole heart tremble.
How... how could I feel like this...?
She bit her lower lip, her shoulders trembling.
Fu Xianyin called out in a trembling voice, "Gu Linzhao."
Gu Linzhao's voice approached from afar: "Are you scared?"
Fu Xianyin nodded, squeezing out a single word through gritted teeth: "Afraid."
She's not afraid of ghosts.
Ghosts aren't scary at all; no matter how much you scare her, she won't react.
What she feared was the helplessness of lying alone on the operating table, completely at the mercy of others.
This reminded her of many things.
I remember being looked at with resentment by Chen Huimei when I was young, and I remember Fu Dongyuan's words, "No one wanted you to be born, you are an unplanned mistake."
She even had some trouble recognizing who she was.
Is she a player, Fu Xianyin, or Chen Huimei, who once lay on a cold operating table, facing the same thing?
As the cold operating table beneath her warmed her hands, Fu Xianyin felt her fingertips gradually losing sensation.
Suddenly, warmth enveloped her.
Gu Linzhao stood beside her, took her hand, and said, "It's okay, I'm here."
The operating room door was pushed open, and a group of people dressed as doctors entered.
They told Gu Linzhao, "Sir, your wife needs surgery, you need to leave temporarily."
Upon hearing this, Fu Xianyin almost instinctively tightened her grip on Gu Linzhao's hand.
However, he quickly regained consciousness.
Gu Linzhao felt his hand being gripped tightly, but it was quickly released.
He grabbed Fu Xianyin's hand before it could fall.
He said, "I'm not leaving."
The doctor was wearing a mask, so his voice sounded muffled.
He said, "If we don't leave, the subsequent missions will be even more terrifying and difficult."
Gu Linzhao nodded.
He held Fu Xianyin's hand and remained standing still, not moving an inch.
He said, "I won't leave; I'll stay with her."
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