CH 52

For a moment, their breathing was stagnant, and they shivered all over. Wu Qi’s death was too strange. This rule was also too… too strange! Gu Xizhou sat on the bench, shocked. This world was too terrible; Wu Qi merely promised a few children to be ‘it’, and he died!

In the other worlds, he had never seen such a bizarre method of death. By promising to become a ghost you immediately… become a ghost? 

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the children who were singing nursery rhymes with the teacher. The demonic cultivator Gu Xizhou suddenly felt a little flustered. What’s going on?

His breathing grew sluggish, and he couldn’t help but leave the bench to move to Si Yu’s side. Fang Zhi did the same, and the two people synchronously clung to their thick thigh.

One on the left and one on the right, two big strong men sandwiched Si Yu between them, suspiciously glaring at their surroundings.

Fang Zhi was panicking, and the words “I’m scared!” were written all over his face. 

“What are you doing so close to me?” Si Yu didn’t pay any attention to Fang Zhi. Instead, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Xizhou’s hand holding his sleeve. His face was full of disgust.

Gu Xizhou said frankly, “Big Thigh, I’m afraid too!”

“You…” Si Yu looked as if he wanted to say something, but he hesitated, and his face twisted for a moment. “Didn’t you dislike me yesterday?”

Gu Xizhou looked at Si Yu and shook his head like a rattle drum: “You’re talking nonsense! I’m not! I didn’t! I don’t dislike you.  I’d like to sleep with you in handcuffs every day!”

Si Yu: “……”

Gu Xizhou persisted: “Every day, sleep! Day by day, sleep! Every night, sleep!”

Si Yu: “……You’d better shut up.”

The four girls nearby were speechless when they saw Gu Xizhou holding Si Yu with Fang Zhi beside him: You two men are more timid than girls. You’re so strong. Allow us to applaud you: clap clap clap clap…… 

When the four girls saw Si Yu had one person on the left side and one on the right side with no space for them to latch on, they were forced to huddle together to comfort each other.

“Well… what should we do? Can we reject them?”  The short-haired girl clasped her hands together. Her face was pale. Her eyes fell on the children in the classroom, and her voice trembled.

Si Yu shook his head and spat out two words — “You can’t.”

“Even if they only invite one person a day, just one person a day, then seven days later only one of us can get out alive! ” Zhang Miao frowned and asked in a low voice, “Shouldn’t there be a way to crack it?” 

“En, there are only eight of us. Although we’re all veterans, we haven’t experienced many worlds. What’s the difference between this and certain death?” Gu Xizhou hesitated for a moment and said, “I think maybe we can’t refuse to play games with these children, but we can offer to play games other than hide and seek.”

Zhang Miao was silent for a moment, and she hesitated before nodding: “You can give it a try.”

Gu Xizhou noticed Si Yu’s slightly approving glance  beside him. For some reason, he also felt a little proud. Has he made progress?!

Demonic cultivation is not easy! Every day I strive to improve my power of observation.  

At that time, standing at the teacher’s desk, Teacher Zhao’s eyes curved as she said what Gu Xizhou and co. most dreaded—— “Students, class is dismissed! You may move freely during recess.”

The children cheered and ran out. As the group walked out, they whispered together.

“We’ll choose a place they can’t see, so they won’t invite us to play games. There should be no problem.”

“Yes.” 

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“Teacher! Teacher! Play hide and seek with us!” 

More than a dozen children surrounded the four girls, holding their trouser legs with their hands. In the four girls’ eyes, the dozen pairs of chubby little hands looked as if they were dragging them to hell.

Two of the girls turned pale, and their legs softened. One of them even fell to the ground.

“Teacher, you’re so stupid!” Several children pointed to the fallen girl and laughed.

At the beginning, Zhang Miao and the short-haired girl were calm. 

“Hide and seek?” Zhang Miao repeated as her lips turned white. This fun childhood game now gave her a psychological shadow.

A few children nodded like chickens pecking rice. “Yes, teacher, come play…”

Without waiting for the child to finish, Zhang Miao apologetically said to the children, “but I don’t want to play hide and seek! Let’s play another game!”

Child: “……” 

Zhang Miao went on to say: “Fanhua rope, throwing sandbags, kicking shuttlecocks

…Teacher can do it all!”

The two sides looked at each other. The children appeared somewhat moved, but after a moment of hesitation they uniformly shook their heads and spoke in unison: “No way…”

“We only play hide and seek!” 

With this remark, the four girls turned pale in an instant.

“Teachers, which one of you will be “it”?” Several children clung to the trouser legs of the four girls, and their cheeks looked like little goldfish. “There has to be a teacher to play hide and seek with us!”

One of the most beautiful girls craned her neck: “Teacher, hurry up! We’ll only give you ten seconds! I’m going to start counting down! ”

The other children immediately followed the little girl. 

“Ten!”

“Nine!”

……

On the outside, the children clearly looked very cute, but right now they weren’t lovable at all! 

This was too scary!

“Five!”

Zhang Miao, who had always been calm and self-confident, trembled with fear after being explicitly rejected. She looked tearfully toward Gu Xizhou’s group of three men, her mouth open. But in the end, she didn’t say anything. As soon as you agreed to play with the children, you would die. Who would be willing to give their lives for a stranger?

The four girls in the childrens’ grasp looked at each other silently. No one dared to answer the child’s request. The short-haired girl broke down and cried. “I don’t want to die… I don’t want to die yet… Let me go, let me go… ” 

“Three!”

The girls’ eyes were red, and they began to cry in fear.

“Fuck,” Gu Xizhou stared at the children for a long time. He could confirm that the children in front of him were all human beings. He turned to Si Yu and said, “Big Thigh, what happens if you kill an NPC?”

Si Yu glanced at him: “Nothing good. That is to say, it’s similar to killing people.” 

Gu Xizhou: “…In that case, you should think of a way quickly, ba! Four exquisite ladies are going to die!”

In his heart, he added: It’s really gone… I can only forget it.

Si Yu was silent for a moment. Then, he seemed to have an idea.

He stepped forward, crouched in front of the most beautiful little girl, pitched his voice low, and gently asked, “You just said someone must play hide and seek with you?” 

The little girl’s eyes were dazzled by Si “Flash Photography” Yu, and she shyly ducked her head, stopping the countdown of the last two numbers.

“These four female teachers are not well enough to play hide and seek with you.”

“Do you want to play with us?” The little girl grabbed Si Yu’s sleeve and leaned against him.

Si Yu felt somewhat wronged and said in a low voice, “Yes, but the teacher doesn’t like to be “it”. Are you good at being “it”?” 

“Ah -” the little girl was in a bit of a dilemma. Her mouth was pursed, and she was obviously unwilling.

Si Yu: “All right?”

Gu Xizhou watched the NPC girl who was looking at Si Yu. Under the lethality of Si Yu’s face, the little girl seemed to give in. She nodded: “Well, I’ll be “it” this time!”

Gu Xizhou: …… 

That’s alright?!

Animal! Seducing an NPC! Even such a young NPC isn’t let off! Pervert! Pervert!

The four girls sat together on the ground with their weakened legs watching this incredible scene. They profusely expressed their thanks to Si Yu.

“You’re welcome,” Si Yu said in a light voice, accompanying several children to play hide and seek. Before leaving, he told Gu Xizhou: “Watch the little girl who is “it”.” 

Gu Xizhou nodded, “Okay.”

He looked at Si Yu’s back and touched his chin with his hand. While avoiding the four girls, he said in a low voice, “Do you think our thigh has known for a long time, or did he figure it out when I asked him?”

Fang Zhi heard Gu Xizhou’s words, but his face was at a loss: “What?”

Gu Xizhou only glanced at Fang Zhi, and he knew that Fang Zhi didn’t know what he was talking about. 

Fang Zhi’s face read: Eh? Gu Ge, what are you talking about? Why can’t I understand anything?

After participating in the first game of hide and seek, Si Yu was not caught and soon came back to find Gu Xizhou, who was avoiding the sun.

The four girls thanked Si Yu again. Si Yu didn’t speak much because of the heat. He sat down next to Gu Xizhou.

“Water.” 

He grabbed the water from Gu Xizhou and took a mouthful of it. Because he drank it so quickly, the water overflowed from the corner of his mouth, sliding down his throat and falling into the hollow of his neck.

Gu Xizhou noticed that the four girls were staring into Si Yu’s eyes. The four girls’ faces were red. Looking at the man in front of them, the girls wanted to be the bottle of water in Si Yu’s hands.

“Si Ge, you’re so powerful,” Zhang Miao said with a smile. “Why didn’t I think of that! The little girl said, “there has to be a teacher to play hide and seek with us” instead of “there must be a ghost”!

“It seems that as long as you participate in the game, you can beat the game without being a ghost!” 

The short-haired girl was interrupted by Zhang Miao. When Zhang Miao finished, she said: “Thank you, Si Gege. You are a good man! When you spoke up, I was so scared. Thank you so much, wuwuwu. I was scared to death just now, and now my heart is pounding. ”

“Poof…” Gu Xizhou spat out a mouthful of water. “Keke Keke Cough… “

The girl’s address of Si Gege was so sweet that she scared the demonic cultivator!

In contrast with those two wonderful people, the other two girls were much quieter. They only shyly bowed their heads and stole looks at Si Yu’s face out of the corners of their eyes. 

Gu Xizhou saw two girls praise Si Yu one after another, and his whole scalp was numb. This was probably the legendary 'villagers praising the triumphant hero'?

Si Yu casually asked Gu Xizhou, “Is that little girl still there?”

Gu Xizhou glanced at him and pointed to a figure on the playground. On the way to the canteen, Gu Xizhou slowed down with Si Yu and whispered, “Look, they’re looking back at you again!”

Si Yu: “……” 

“Do you know what their eyes are saying? I can translate for them. ” Gu Xizhou winked at Si Yu.

“You?” Si Yu glanced at him and asked.

Gu Xizhou bumped him with his elbow and said, “They’re saying: when someone saves your life and you are unable to return the favor, you should devote your body to them.”

After Si Yu heard him, he pointed his finger at Gu Xizhou several times before he finally put it down and left, annoyed. 

“Be honest.” Gu Xizhou’s lips curled up, “You’re still angry?!”

Si Yu walked only two steps before suddenly turning back. Gu Xizhou saw him coming back and asked, “What? Do you suddenly feel that what I said is very reasonable? ”

“I’ve saved you so many times. Why don’t you repay me with your body?”

Gu Xizhou patted his own ass. “Then, you should be gentle, ah! Later, please take advantage of me, Big Thigh!” 

Si Yu: “……”

Si Yu: “……You are the most shameless person in the whole world.”

Gu “Cheeky”  Xizhou winked at Si Yu: “Thank you for the compliment!”