CH 39

Chapter 39

Maybe it was because of the lack of oxygen, but Lin Yi’s thoughts, that he usually had to deliberately restrain, were not at all running active at this time. fePw45

His thinking was strangely sluggish and he couldn’t seem to call ‘it’ out.

Lin Yi’s body was curled up uncomfortably in the refrigerator. No matter how he moved, the pressure on his body could not be relieved.

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Fortunately, this discomfort allowed Lin Yi to retain some sanity amidst his dazedness.

It seemed that Qin Zhou had discovered the trigger for ‘it’ to appear and so Qin Zhou hadn’t done him in directly. Qin Zhou’s karate chop to the back of his neck hadn’t made Lin Yi completely faint. Lin Yi was still partially conscious, only that he didn’t have any means of resisting. Xo6uWl

If Qin Zhou had confronted him directly, Lin Yi’s mind would come alive just like last night since his life was hanging by a thread. But Qin Zhou hadn’t. He instead, put him in the refrigerator, depriving his brain of oxygen, using a physical method to suppress ‘it’ from appearing.

“Senior…” Lin Yi slowed down his breathing as much as possible. The limited oxygen didn’t allow for any luxuriously deep breaths. “You’re too strong…”

Qin Zhou was really difficult to deal with. The many Rule Worlds he had dealt with before has now become the 2-6 Monster’s spoils of war.

No wonder that in the 7-7 Rule World, when he said he would take Qin Zhou to win while lying down, Qin Zhou had told him in reply to “shut your crow's mouth“.

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Perhaps Qin Zhou himself knew how much more difficult it would be for the other participants if he were selected by the Monster.

Even when “it” appeared, Qin Zhou easily figured out the rule for “it’s” appearance and even quickly found a way to suppress it.

Lin Yi was sure that it wasn’t a coincidence that he ran into Qin Zhou sharpening chopsticks in the kitchen last night. Qin Zhou was waiting for him to come to the kitchen so he must have already made plans to kill him.

Although Lin Yi still couldn’t recall how he had escaped, one thing that was certain was that Qin Zhou, hearing him mention the ‘dice’ wouldn’t have just sat on the sidelines in the kitchen without making some sort of preparation in the room of the woman in red. Then if so, then how was Ou Ying and Cheng Yang able to successfully steal that photo? CPGndh

This line of thinking forced Lin Yi to come out with a guess.

Although he still had no memory of how he managed to escape last night, he could imagine how. ‘It’ probably came out when his thinking went into overdrive and took over his body. Under that kind of situation, he certainly won’t have any memory of the event.

It clashed with Qin Zhou. Perhaps Qin Zhou’s face accidentally came in contact with the mercury during the fight. This miscalculation produced a fear in Qin Zhou towards Lin Yi. Thus Qin Zhou thought of a way by relying on his rich memory reserve.

The method the Monster came up with was to use the photo to mislead them. Then, it would wait for them to perform the Replay. 83gqfn

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So, last night, Qin Zhou failed when faced with ‘it’, allowing Lin Yi, who was in a ‘state wherein his body didn’t belong to him’ to return to his room safe and sound.

Qin Zhou found that if he wanted to kill Lin Yi, his identity as a human would become an encumbrance since he had no way to deal with ‘it’ as a human. t1IVU5

Only after everyone has gone to him for a Replay with the faulty main line, could the Monster reveal its true form. Without the restriction of “killing people in ways possible for a human to kill”, Qin Zhou could slowly deal a lingering death to the 2-6 Rule World participants.

But before last night, they still knew nothing about the main line, only Lin Yi had a vague outline of one based on the woman in red, the number of people drawn into the world and the structure of the villa.

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So that picture suddenly coming up…

Thinking of this, Lin Yi’s breathing tightened even more. 3Oq0UV

That photo was a smoke bomb and the only use for the clues it presented was to hasten everyone’s death.

He gritted his teeth and pushed against the door of the refrigerator with all his strength, trying to make a noise to attract someone to let him out.

They mustn’t do the Replay! They mustn’t do the Replay!

Don’t do the Replay! DsMRUT

The more anxious he became, the more intense Lin Yi’s dizziness became. His attempt to push open the door was like an ant trying to shake an elephant. The force was so weak it seemed more like he was stroking instead of pushing.

No one noticed him. Even just the footsteps of the woman in red in the kitchen could completely cover the sounds he made.

After several unsuccessful attempts to attract anyone’s attention, Lin Yi lost his strength.

Because of the small space in the refrigerator, his body had curled up into a distorted posture. His head was almost stuck to his thighs. The pressure on his neck and the low temperature in the refrigerator made Lin Yi pass out. But before he passed out, he seemed to hear the woman in red roaring to everyone, nwMV98

“It’s time to begin today’s game!”

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Yi suddenly snapped out of unconsciousness. He heard movement outside the refrigerator again. Has the game started? Or was it over? He didn’t know. But whether it was the beginning or the end of the game, has his continued absence made Ou Ying and Cheng Yang realize that he was in danger?

But who could possibly think that he was locked in the refrigerator? He wasn’t worried about Cheng Yang; it was Ou Ying he was worried about. With Ou Ying’s ability, she would definitely find a way to save him and the best way to do that would be to find Qin Zhou for the Replay, which was exactly what Qin Zhou wanted.

The oxygen in the refrigerator was obviously not and Lin Yi was beginning to find it difficult to breathe, this despite all his efforts to breathe shallowly in order to make the supply last. aFZLj

What to do? What to do?

“Ou Ying Xue Jie, what… what should we do now?”

Cheng Yang’s voice was trembling. The Anke game was over but Lin Yi hadn’t appeared. It confirmed what Ou Ying said — something must have happened to Lin Yi.

Ou Ying’s expression had turned ugly, making her into a total mess. The result of today’s Anke game was the appearance of an even more ferocious ghost. The woman in red said that this ghost would tear everyone apart. 4jn17O

Fortunately, after two years at her post, Ou Ying has learned to keep calm amidst confusion. She took a deep breath and said to Cheng Yang, “We’re now allowed to move freely and we still have the afternoon. You, Li Dang and Su Tianle look for Lin Yi. Chen Jinnan, Zhou Gan and I will go look for Zhou Ge for the Replay.”

Cheng Yang nodded and Ou Ying called over Chen Jinnan and Zhou Gan. Now that she was about to start the Replay, she needed to inform them of the existence of the 2-6 Monster, otherwise, if she went to do the Replay alone, she was worried that Qin Zhou would kill her as soon as she opened her mouth.

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Lin Yi heard footsteps, and he raised his head with difficulty.

“What are you doing?” Lin Yi heard the woman in red ask angrily. 70 TLJ

“No-…nothing, I’m just taking a look.” It was Li Dang’s voice.

The woman in red said, “You’re going to steal from me again! You better not let me catch you or I’ll make you pay!”

Su Tianle said, “Who are you calling a thief!”

Cheng Yang said, “Guys, let’s not waste our time here. Let’s go and look elsewhere.” OgtQYV

Lin Yi immediately grabbed the door, but the sound was covered up again by the woman in red. “You know you stole it! Just you wait!”

After the woman in red’s outburst, Lin Yi heard the footsteps of the three walking away.

Lin Yi gave up this dramatic call for help.

He couldn’t put all his hopes on being found. He has to find a way to save himself and he has to hurry up. Cheng Yang, Li Dang and Su Tianle coming to look for him must mean that Ou Ying was determined to perform the Replay. xQIbPy

He was sure that the woman in red must know that he was in the refrigerator. No matter how faint the noises he made, the refrigerator was right next to her. It was impossible for the woman in red not to have heard.

Moreover, today’s Anke game was over but the woman in red wasn’t angry about his absence from the game. Obviously, the woman knew where he was.

Although it was Qin Zhou who locked Lin Yi into the refrigerator, the woman in red must have wanted him dead. The woman in red wanted everyone dead, it was obvious from the choices of the Anke game.

Lin Yi let out a shaky breath. The only person who could get him out of the refrigerator now was the woman in red. He had to attract the attention of the woman in red but just scratching the door wasn’t going to do it. CfdvTd

In order to keep himself awake, Lin Yi took a deep breath.

That photo may have been deliberately taken out by Qin Zhou to confuse them, but there was one thing Qin Zhou couldn’t change; that was, this photo actually existed within the 2-6 rule world and Qin Zhou, who was still maintaining his human form, couldn’t just materialize this photo out of thin air.

Moreover, Lin Yi had seen that the handwriting on the back of the photo was actually indistinct, giving the sense that they’d been written some time ago. Those birthday wishes were actually on this photo, Qin Zhou hadn’t just added them in.

There had been no way to change the photo itself. There also hadn’t been a way to change the writing on the back of the photo. Then there was only one thing about this photo that Qin Zhou could have manipulated – putting the photo on the bedside table of the woman in red. YSuihK

Indeed, this simple action of Qin Zhou’s was enough to mislead Lin Yi’s speculation about the main line of the 2-6 Rule World.

Generally speaking, people would only put photos of someone they cherished or loved by their bedside so as to be able to see them at a glance.

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This was indeed the case. Lin Yi and Ou Ying’s guesses are based on the fact that the woman in red cherished her friends and then began to diverge. Because the woman in red had no friends so she cherished her newfound friends and the woman in red wanted to share her hobbies with them.

Even if her friends’ status as unbelievers became the reason for the woman in red to kill, in fact, her friends had done nothing wrong. So if the woman in red killed them as punishment for not believing in the supernatural, she could still remember them fondly. KaTCd6

But what if the photo wasn’t on the woman in red’s bedside table? What if it had been locked away? What if it had been in the trash?

If the way the woman in red felt about this photo was different, the main line of the 2-6 Rule World would also change accordingly.

If this photo had been locked or in the trash can, it meant that the woman in red no longer cherished the people in the photo but regarded them with a kind of hatred and disgust.

Hating them all to death, the woman in red still couldn’t let them go. So that the woman in red called everyone drawn into the 2-6 Rule World ‘friends’, but she actually frantically wanted them all to die. Yin 8F

The oxygen in the refrigerator was getting thinner and thinner.

Lin Yi grabbed the door for the last time and voice hoarse, said something to the woman in red.

The woman in red, who was preparing lunch, froze. She then rushed madly to the refrigerator and yanked open the door.