Volume 1: Breaking the Cage
Escape 11
Legal Hunting
Devil, this woman must be a devil.
Zou Yunfei saw Xin Lan’s smile, and the hair on his back stood on end, feeling a sense of fear.
He will die, he really will die.
Zou Yunfei couldn’t help but step back, showing some shrinking.
It’s not that he wanted to be a coward, he naturally wasn’t one to admit defeat, but the pain in his body told him that if he got beaten up again, the outcome would be very miserable.
How could this be? How could Xin Lan possibly be this formidable.
She was clearly just a girl who would only cry and whimper before.
Xin Lan pressed the chair against Zou Yunfei’s head, thinking about where to start so as not to beat him to death.
There was a sound of air being cut from behind, and without thinking, Xin Lan swung the chair backward while her body swayed, avoiding the attack from behind.
“Not bad, playing sneak attack?”
Xin Lan turned sideways and saw Chu Lu holding a chair.
Chu Lu put down the chair and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
He had a premonition that he was about to receive a severe beating.
Zou Yunfei’s eyes darkened. Originally, he had wanted Chu Lu to knock Xin Lan unconscious, so they could do whatever they wanted with her, but unexpectedly, Xin Lan was so alert that she had dodged even before Chu Lu’s attack could land on her.
Xin Lan was now in the heat of fighting, and with someone delivering themselves to her doorstep, she was naturally happy.
She threw away the chair in her hand, fearing it might cause trouble later.
She approached step by step, and Chu Lu retreated step by step.
“Don’t… sis… can I call you sis… let’s talk this over.”
Chu Lu’s smile was uglier than crying, looking completely hopeless.
He couldn’t even beat Zou Yunfei, how could he possibly defeat Xin Lan? Thinking of Xin Lan’s perverted demeanor of smiling while beating someone to death just now, Chu Lu was on the verge of tears but had no tears to shed.
If heaven could give him another chance, he definitely wouldn’t have raised that chair.
Xin Lan threw a punch, her ponytail swaying in the air.
Chu Lu couldn’t withstand the attack, retreating continuously until his back hit something, causing him to stagger a bit.
Xin Lan seized the opportunity to kick his shin, and when Chu Lu was in pain, she kicked towards the soft parts of his body. Chu Lu couldn’t dodge in time and simply met it head-on.
The fist grazed Xin Lan’s cheek, and she grabbed it in one swift motion, then twisted it viciously.
Chu Lu let out a miserable cry, half-kneeling on the ground, his right hand hanging limply.
“It’s not broken, don’t scream so loudly.”
Xin Lan was startled by Chu Lu’s scream and twitched the corner of her mouth.
She didn’t need to dirty her own hands; these people would die sooner or later anyway.
Although some hadn’t committed unforgivable crimes, misfortune had already befallen them the moment they were dragged into this game.
Xin Lan turned around, looking at Zou Yunfei who was sitting on the ground in complete silence. Zhou Zhou had long been scared by her brutality and didn’t dare to interfere, uneasily shifting a bit to the side.
“If it’s just about teammates, I admit I can’t beat you. Can you leave now?”
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Zou Yunfei was unwilling at heart, but he had no choice.
The current fact is that he was being beaten by Xin Lan while pinned to the ground, completely powerless to fight back. If this continued, he might very well lose his life.
If Xin Lan wanted Shen Shuiyan, that would be fine. After all, the team could be changed again in the future.
If Xin Lan didn’t finish him off here today, she should be prepared for his revenge later.
This was the first time in Zou Yunfei’s life that he had been so miserably defeated, and this humiliation was given by someone he once looked down upon. It was simply an extreme shame and disgrace.
But a true man knows when to bend and when to stand tall. Admitting defeat first wouldn’t hurt.
Xin Lan could clearly see his unwillingness and gave a cold laugh.
“Who said I was leaving? I beat you earlier to prove that I could defeat you, to prove that you’re useless. You just admitted defeat, which means you acknowledge it, right?”
“Xin Lan, don’t go too far!”
“I’m going too far? That’s laughable. Are you saying I can’t state the obvious facts?”
Xin Lan sneered, feeling an incomparable sense of pleasure.
When she was the villain, she had mocked countless protagonists. Although her ending wasn’t great, the verbal sparring was still very satisfying.
Now that she’s the protagonist, she can both engage in verbal sparring and survive till the end, watching these people struggle and eventually die. It’s absolutely fantastic.
She’s starting to enjoy being the protagonist.
“Zou Yunfei, look at yourself, you can’t even beat a woman.”
Seeing the ashen face of her scumbag ex-boyfriend, Xin Lan smiled even more happily.
“We haven’t settled our score yet. What we just settled was about changing teammates. What’s between us, what you owe me, hasn’t been repaid. Let’s leave it for today, seeing as you can’t even get up. If I accidentally beat you to death, there wouldn’t be any fun left for later, would there?”
Xin Lan clapped her hands and dusted herself off.
The original owner’s anger at being played with emotionally and having her death ignored hasn’t been vented yet by Xin Lan.
The next time she vents her anger, it won’t be as simple as just a beating. She’ll also take his clue fragments.
Watching Xin Lan’s figure as she left unhurriedly, Zou Yunfei clenched his fists in anger.
Xin Lan left the boys’ dormitory and saw Shen Shuiyan standing under a tree not far away.
Perhaps due to the cold weather, Shen Shuiyan had wrapped a black scarf around her neck, which made her skin appear even whiter.
“Why are you here?”
Xin Lan was somewhat surprised. Shen Shuiyan was clearly waiting for her, but she hadn’t told her that she would be coming to the boys’ dormitory tonight.
“I saw you walking in this direction, so I knew you must be going to find someone.”
Shen Shuiyan sighed in relief seeing that Xin Lan appeared unharmed, surprised that she had walked out of the boys’ dormitory safely. But on second thought, it made sense; Xin Lan didn’t seem like someone who would be blindly confident and reckless.
Although Shen Shuiyan didn’t quite believe that Xin Lan could beat Zou Yunfei, she vaguely felt it might be true.
“You’re my teammate now.”
“Actually, I could have gone to talk to him. You didn’t need to go through such trouble.”
Shen Shuiyan was hesitant at first. Although she had a good impression of Xin Lan, she hadn’t fully decided to side with her. She had actually considered having Xin Lan directly join her and Zou Yunfei’s team, but thinking about Xin Lan’s personality, she would definitely be unwilling.
“Even if you had talked to him, he would still come to cause me trouble. It’s bound to happen sooner or later, so it’s better to resolve it quickly. Besides, the grudge between him and me isn’t just limited to this.”
For Xin Lan, whether she beat him up sooner or later, it had to be done. Might as well do it earlier, so she could beat him up one more time. It’s a good deal.
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“Let’s go, let’s head back.”
“Are we just going back to the dormitory?”
Shen Shuiyan thought Xin Lan might want to go to the teaching building one more time.
“Mm, let’s go back.”
Xin Lan was sweating all over from exerting herself tonight. Now she just wanted to hurry back and take a shower.
Shen Shuiyan nodded. She had come just to see how Xin Lan was doing, and it was good that she was fine.
Xin Lan and Shen Shuiyan walked along the small path towards the girls’ dormitory, but after walking for two minutes, she stopped. Shen Shuiyan beside her also stopped.
“Something’s not right.”
Xin Lan looked around.
“We’ve been walking for two minutes. I made calculations when I came, and we shouldn’t still be in this place.”
Shen Shuiyan said in a deep voice.
“I suspect we might be encountering the same situation as last time.”
Xin Lan recalled that yesterday when she walked into the forbidden activity area, the path was also like this when returning, infinitely elongated.
Ling Jiu: Host, it is indeed as you think. The spatial dimension has been elongated again, and unidentified spatial fluctuations have been detected. You might enter an alternate space soon.
“But this time we clearly didn’t do anything. This is the allowed activity area. Why would this situation occur? Could it be because girls aren’t allowed to be active near the boys’ dormitory?”
If that’s really the case, then the rules are too perverted. This point wasn’t explicitly stated.
“I don’t know. Let’s keep walking and see. If it’s really as you said, we definitely can’t turn back now. We can only go and see what’s at the end of the path.”
Xin Lan said this, and Shen Shuiyan nodded. There was no other choice.
The small path paved with pebbles, with misty fog on both sides.
After walking for a few minutes, Xin Lan looked back and found that the path behind was also hidden in the fog, hazy and indistinct.
“There’s light ahead.”
Shen Shuiyan looked ahead, but her tone wasn’t joyful.
People generally have a tendency to move towards light. In complete darkness or in situations like this, one would usually be happy to see light. But Shen Shuiyan couldn’t bring herself to be happy because the light wasn’t like that of the dormitory buildings. In such an eerie situation, who knows what the destination might be?
The two walked towards the light and passed through the light gate.
As both of them had anticipated, what lay behind the light gate wasn’t a good place.
An ordinary, dilapidated classroom with two lights on. There were desks and chairs, but they were broken and piled in the corner.
Xin Lan looked back; the light source from earlier had disappeared.
When Xin Lan entered, there were already three people sitting in the classroom, coldly looking at her and Shen Shuiyan beside her.
“The people are all here now. Can the game begin?”
The speaker was a young man wearing a school uniform. Xin Lan glanced at it and noticed it wasn’t from the same school as hers.
“What game? We’re not quite clear about the situation. Can you explain?”
Shen Shuiyan and Xin Lan exchanged a glance before asking the young man who had spoken.
Beautiful people always have privileges, especially when there are two beauties in front. The young man’s expression softened considerably.
“I suppose you’ve also been dragged into a bizarre 400-person game,” the young man paused, seeing Xin Lan and Shen Shuiyan nod, then continued, “The three of us have too, and we’re not in the same place.”
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“Those who have made mistakes must participate in an extra game here. Finding the way out allows you to return to the original game.”
“Made mistakes? Such as?”
“Damaging public property, sleeping in class, and so on.”
As the young man spoke, his expression was quite unpleasant. The expressions of the other two were also indescribable.
Xin Lan remembered the chair that didn’t break when it hit her but broke when she threw it at Zou Yunfei. She looked apologetically at Shen Shuiyan.
Shen Shuiyan looked somewhat confused.
“When I was beating up Zou Yunfei earlier, a chair broke.”
Shen Shuiyan swallowed hard, finding the information a bit overwhelming.
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LP: Re-translated on November 07, 2024