Chapter 016 Chapter 16
"Ding! Unlock the second ability - Nightmare."
"Nightmare - when you are alone, it is easy to be haunted by nightmares. It drags the person who is alone into a terrifying environment, and no one can wake him up except the owner of the nightmare."
The faceless boy continued to face the tree trunk, smiling and shouting the countdown: "Thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight..."
The seven people dispersed again. After the previous lesson, they learned their lesson. They found that hiding in one place all the time was not the best choice. The only way to win was to hide and keep moving all the time.
The thirty-second countdown ended quickly, and the Faceless Boy turned around and started exploring.
Soon they found their first target - a young woman with a handsome face.
She noticed the strange little girl coming and was now trembling under the bushes, covering her mouth with her hands in fear.
The faceless boy hummed a ballad and walked straight towards her.
Qi Liuhai trembled even more violently, and even the bushes where she was hiding made rustling sounds.
"I found you~" The small hand stretched out from the bushes, and when it was about to touch Qi Liuhai, she screamed and rushed out.
"Why me? I don't want to play anymore. Just take whatever you want!!" Qi Liuhai burst into tears and ran away while crying.
The faceless boy was floating behind her, chasing her from half a meter away: "Can you have anything?"
"I haven't found my ball yet. I want a new ball. Can I use your head?"
"not good!!!"
"Well, big sister, you can give me anything you want."
"I didn't say that!"
The corners of the faceless boy's mouth drooped down: "Big sister is lying? Are you deceiving me?"
Qi Liuhai was running out of breath. The carefully applied makeup on her face had long been smudged by tears and sweat. She shook her head desperately.
She tripped and fell to the ground without noticing, and broke her elbow. However, Qi Liuhai didn't care about such a minor injury. She turned over and looked at the faceless child who was so close to her, crying.
"Big sister, can you give me the ball?" The faceless child's little hand was already placed beside Qi Liuhai's ear. She grinned with her fangs bared, looking very excited. "Although it's not round enough, I won't mind. Come on, give it to me."
The girl's sharp nails pierced Qi Liuhai's ear, and a trace of blood oozed out.
The stinging pain aroused Qi Liuhai's desire to survive, and she shouted: "I'll give you another ball! This one, this one is for you!"
She took out a bunch of keys from her pocket. The pendant on the keychain was a cute plush ball.
The girl paused and looked at the plush ball. Then she let go, took Qi Liuhai's keychain and walked away. Qi Liuhai, who thought he had escaped, collapsed to the ground and gasped.
Then she remembered something. Could the thing she had just given to the little girl be considered a 'reward' for her winning the game of hide-and-seek?
Facts have proven that it cannot.
About five minutes later, everyone was caught again and gathered together in the open space where they first saw the Faceless Child, lining up to give away things.
When it was Qi Liuhai's turn, the faceless child stretched out her hand. Although her expression could not be seen due to her lack of facial features, one could guess that she was looking forward to it.
Qi Liuhai took out his spare hair tie.
Having collected a bunch of stuff again, the Faceless Boy was happily rummaging through his spoils. During this time, Reporter Jin and others gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
"We can't go on like this." Reporter Jin said worriedly, "It's like she has a detector installed. She found our hiding place from a long distance, and very quickly."
The young man said, "We have held out for about five minutes. If we try harder..."
The bearded man shook his head. "This is not a game that we can try again and again. Our stamina is limited. We can only play this kind of hide-and-seek five more times before we are exhausted. After the next three times, our condition will be very bad. We may not even be able to last two minutes, let alone five minutes. So we only have two chances left. If we play again, we will lose."
Qi Liuhai was so scared that he burst into tears: "What should we do? We have a lot of stuff now, but if we play indefinitely, we will run out of stuff eventually. Then we will have to give up our eyes and head. I don't want to die yet!"
"Well, let's continue." After picking up the spoils, the faceless boy came over and said with a smile.
Reporter Kim: “Can you wait a moment?”
The smile on the Faceless Boy's face faded.
Reporter Jin took out an empty notebook and handed it to the faceless boy.
The faceless boy immediately took it over happily: "Three minutes. You must continue to play with me after that~"
Seeing Wu Lian Tong smilingly walking to the side to play with the book, Bai Manman whispered: "Sister Jin, you are too brave..."
Reporter Jin: "Although it is weird, she is still a little girl after all. I have a good grasp of her mentality, so the possibility of her falling out is very low."
After saying that, she looked at Qi Liuhai and said, "There was an extra keychain among the spoils that little girl collected just now. It's yours, right? When did you give it to her?"
When talking about the keychain, Qi Liuhai thought of the scene where he almost had his head squeezed off. He shuddered a bit, but still explained the whole process clearly.
Listening to her description, reporter Jin's eyes lit up slightly: "So that's how it is. I have a way to win this game."
Bai Manman: "What can we do?"
"We need your cooperation," Reporter Jin said to the others. "Let's work together. Just like what this big brother said, we only have two chances left. The chances of winning after two rounds of hide-and-seek are very slim, and it's the same as waiting for death. We must seize those two chances of hide-and-seek and win this game."
The two black vests looked at each other, and one of them said, "Tell me about your plan."
Reporter Jin asked back: "I want to ask, who among you is the best at running, I mean on such an uneven mountain road."
Black vest number one said, "I am good at mountaineering. I have twelve years of mountaineering experience. I also exercise regularly, so I can run steadily on mountain trails."
Reporter Jin looked at Black Vest No. 2, who nodded and agreed with his companion's statement.
Apart from these two, the man with a beard and a vest said that he was in good physical condition but not good at mountain roads, while the young man and Qi Liuhai were completely ignored by reporter Jin.
It was obvious at first glance that he was not a regular exerciser, so there was no need to ask. As for himself and Bai Manman, reporter Jin knew what was going on.
"Then you are our last hope," said reporter Jin. "As for the others and me, that's it..."
Several people gathered together and whispered.
The Faceless Child stood far away for a while. After three minutes, he floated in front of a group of people. He was surprised to find that these people opened their schoolbags and stuffed something into their pockets.
Is this a plan that they have discussed?
"Hey, the game begins~~"
As the faceless boy began to count down facing the tree trunk, several people started to move again. But unlike the previous two times when they fled in all directions without any order, this time the seven people were divided into four directions. Except for the black vest number one who acted alone, the others acted in groups of two.
Reporter Jin and Bai Manman, Qi Liuhai and the young man, and Black Vest No. 2 and the bearded man.
The faceless boy, with his back to the others, sensed the direction they were escaping.
The thirty-second countdown ended quickly, and the Faceless Boy turned around and chased in the direction Bai Manman and Reporter Jin left.
【Did anyone see what plans they discussed? 】
[The discussion was too quiet to be heard.]
[Seven people were divided into four groups. Are they going to help each other? ]
【What about the person who was alone? Did he give up?】
[I think it's the opposite. He is the final key. I have roughly guessed the plan.]
[Could it be that the six people who planned to work in pairs restrained the strange girl, and then that person escaped for ten minutes? ]
[That should be the idea. ]
[This method is too crude.]
[Otherwise, is there a better solution? If I don’t win a game soon, I will just keep running on the mountain and consume my energy. After two or three games, I won’t have the energy to stand up. Running on the mountain is much more tiring than running on flat ground.]
[But how can they hold back Weird and warn their companions at the same time? ]
No need to answer, everyone will know the answer soon.
The Faceless Child saw Bai Manman from a distance, and Bai Manman also saw him, and then shouted loudly: "She is here——"
The sound echoed among the mountains.
Then the Faceless Boy discovered that the other three people within his perception range were quickly moving away from him.
Smart approach.
But that's it.
The Faceless Boy ran straight towards Bai Manman with a smile. He didn't care where the others went. He just had to eliminate them one by one according to the previous steps.
"Hey, look here, little girl." Reporter Jin stood on the other side and shouted to the faceless child, "Want to play with the ball?"
ball?
The faceless boy instinctively stopped and looked at reporter Jin.
Reporter Jin was seen kneading a few soft young branches and quickly weaving them into a simple little ball.
"How about we play ball for a while?" said reporter Jin.
The faceless boy immediately understood reporter Jin's intention, which was to delay time.
Although it is a good thing that some people are brave enough to study weirdness, isn't this a bit of an underestimation of weirdness?