HONGYI 004

Xiao Wentian, Li Zhinu

Editor: Kirishima Ririka

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　　HONGYI/AMUSE/MENT/PARK IV

　　Jiang Xiaoli didn’t let go, she held Li Hongying’s hand and went with her to the cafeteria for breakfast. Li Hongying ordered a bowl of hot dry noodles with soy milk, and added three spoonfuls of chili to the hot dry noodles, Jiang Xiaoli followed her and ordered the same. After hesitating, she added a spoonful of chili.
　　
　　…and then she became sweaty since it’s so spicy.
　　
　　Why do I have tears in my eyes? Because this chili is so damn hot. And that’s where the beautiful iced soy milk comes into play… To neutralize the chili! Jiang Xiaoli ate so much that her lips turned red and the tip of her nose was covered in fine sweat. Jiang Xiaoli thought to herself, “I didn’t used to eat a lot of hot dry noodles, but I didn’t expect this kind of hot dry noodles to have a different taste. Just thinking again that she might only live for six days and wouldn’t have the chance to return to reality for breakfast, her mood dropped again.
　　
　　”Here.” Li Hongying handed over a box of tissue.
　　
　　”Thanks.” Jiang Xiaoli took one and wiped it clean before taking the chopsticks and putting them in the plate recycling area, carrying her bag and walked to the classroom together with Li Hongying. She deliberately took a slow step behind Li Hongying, staring at Li Hongying’s slightly swaying ponytail – even with the word Hongyi on her head, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with Li Hongying. Shre’s slightly withdrawn and introverted, but it wasn’t her own fault, I guess. Jiang Xiaoli thought that Li Hongying could say those words to her because she didn’t want to get herself into trouble, right?
　　
　　…What kind of a setting is in this world? It’s getting hard to understand. Aside from Li Hongying, Jiang Xiaoli didn’t see anyone with words on their head.
　　
　　Ugh. The last six days were also spent as if she was living in a confusion, how come she was somehow entering escape game, ah. It was simply asking her to die. Jiang Xiaoli hadn’t read any escape or murder novels either, not even a reference… Wait, this place had a cell phone and internet too! However, before Jiang Xiaoli could put it into action, she was stunned by today’s class schedule. –She hadn’t read it well yesterday.
　　
　　Language, Physics, Chemistry…Math, English, Biology….
　　
　　Two consecutive classes standard one sheet of paper handed out to do on the spot, morning study is also language, memorize book, reading online, and silently writing. Jiang Xiaoli sat on the seat, the hand holding the book trembled more than. The mandatory memorization of the college entrance exam is a small yellow book, in which all kinds of literature and poetry, Jiang Xiaoli looked twice, and found that she remembered most things right! That’s why she relaxed a little. After all, she’s actually a liberal arts student…
　　
　　…Wait a minute.
　　
　　This class, it’s a science class?
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli looked up sharply at the class schedule, Physics…no politics nor history. Cool.
　　
　　If this escape game was going to kill her, it can simply stab her! What’s the point of messing with her? After all these years, Jiang Xiaoli doesn’t know how to do any physic shit! But there is division of Liberal arts and sciences right? The world hasn’t changed, has it?
　　
　　One or two lessons were spent in language exams, then there was a thirty minute break, and Jiang Xiaoli rubbed her fingertips that were deformed from writing that reminded her to never wanted to write a senior essay again. What essential text, allusions and references, she’s long forgotten, “the resilience of civilization”? She could only make it up as she went along, not knowing if she could get fifty points.
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli was listening to Physic and Chemistry class like listening to a Sutra, she had taken physic and chemistry in junior high school back then, and there was no need to test for biology. With her junior high school knowledge from many years ago to understand the physics and chemistry of senior high school… Jiang Xiaoli wanted to die.
　　
　　And then, she fell asleep.
　　
　　Of course she was punished again because of it.
　　
　　She was punished to stand near the blackboard, she didn’t dare to lean down, standing upright, staring straight ahead, staring at Li Hongying’s white neck.
　　
　　Li Hongying sat upright, from time to time she would take notes on her wrong answers, Jiang Xiaoli found out that Li Hongying actually has a special notebook of wrong answers, they were separated by a distance so Jiang Xiaoli could only see the dense characters in the red, black and blue colors.
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli thought, Li Hongying’s grades should be good, so why was she sitting in the back row?
　　
　　In the afternoon, Li Hongying was also punished for sleeping during the English class.
　　
　She walked slowly.
　　
　　No one was perfect, and it was normal not to be good in a subject.
　　
　　After all, soon the number one in the class would be Jiang Xiaoli. Of course, it was the number one from the last.
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli was following Li Hongying back to their dorm room, and she watched as Li Hongying packed her bag and took out her clothes to go to the bathroom to take a shower, she hesitated for a moment Still, I called out, “That, Li Hongying…”
　　
　　As she was holding her clothes, Li Hongying turned to look at her.
　　
　　”Can you… You know, can you…” Jiang Xiaoli was slightly embarrassed, after all, she thought that Lai Hongying was just a high school student, she has been a salty college graduate for a long time, “Teach me math, science and chemistry…”
　　
　　”I could teach you English, too!” After all, she had taken Grade 4 and 6 English, too!
　　
　　”Good.” Li Hongying nodded, then carried her clothes to the bathroom.
　　
　　Her reply came quick and as cold as ever.
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli scratched her head, looked at the papers on her desk, and resigned herself to sitting down. Let’s do our homework first, and she’ll also take a shower after Li Hongying is finished.
　　
　　While writing an analytic geometry question, Jiang Xiaoli suddenly thought that Li Hongying looked… a bit nice. What would Li Hongying look like if she didn’t wear her black-framed glasses? A contrast beauty in this fiction world?
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli bit down on the lid of the pen, shook her head and continued writing the paper. It’s just that she couldn’t help but feel sad as she thought about it it: ‘I don’t know when I’m going to die, yet I’m still diligently writing my homework here. Love to learn is deeper than love to live…’
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli still had no clue about the game. She studied, asked questions, memorized the books, and went back to her dorm room to receive tutoring from Li Hongying. Li Hongying was really serious, Jiang Xiaoli could understand some knowledge points she didn’t quite understand before just by reading through her notebook of mistakes. Li Hongying’s handwriting was regular, and looked pleasing to the eye. But Jiang Xiaoli felt that her handwriting hid its sharpness, until she happened to see Li Hongying’s sketchbook, the dashing three-character cursive script of “Li Hongying” is completely different from her usual small, regular script.
　　
　　‘Is this her other side?’
　　
　　Soon it was the fourth day. And the fifth day began with an unannounced test, a full day test for two days, then combined with the scores and weekday performance to change seats. Jiang Xiaoli also ran out of time to find out Li Hongying’s true face, until the math test when Li Hongying suddenly rushed out to the bathroom for twenty minutes and hasn’t come back.
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli bit the pen lid and looked at the paper, always felt that Li Hongying had situation, she couldn’t understand the topic, so Jiang Xiaoli also raised her hand to go out to the bathroom, and found Li Hongying inside one of the toilet stall.
　　
　　”…Auntie flow?”
　　
　　”Yes.”
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli couldn’t help but smile outside the door, she handed the tissues she brought, “Wait for me, just a moment.” After instructing her, she went straight to the school convenience store to buy sanitary napkins and went to the bathroom to give them to Li Hongying. After another ten minutes had passed, and there wasn’t much time left when Jiang Xiaoli continued with her exam. It’s a good thing that she has written the first part of the big question, but she can’t do the rest at the moment, so there’s no pity.
　　
　　Except for language and English, mathematics was considered a normal test, and although she didn’t take the science test, she scored one point for one point. It’s a safe bet that she wouldn;t get first place. With two doors pulling the other four? I can’t even get a perfect score in English or Chinese! Besides, she wasn’t cut out for a perfect score.
　　
　　”Thank you.” After the exams students either finished their respective answers or had left the classroom. Li Hongying finished gathering her things and walked over to Jiang Xiaoli and whispered her thanks.
　　
　　”It’s alright.” Jiang Xiaoli smiled and didn’t take this to heart. She asked as she quickly packed her things, “Is that last question in math’s multiple choice a C?”
　　
　　”I chose A.”
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli’s face instantly fell, she didn’t guess correctly again. Didn’t all of them say choosing all Cs were a safe bet. She didn’t hit any correct answer
　　
　　— “Jiang Xiaoli, are you and Li Hongying very close?”
　　
　　The girl at the next table interjected, perhaps simply curious, perhaps she had another idea, and continued: “Are you guys in a relationship?”
　　
　　”How come?” Jiang Xiaoli raised her eyebrows slightly, Li Hongying pursed her lips, Jiang Xiaoli didn’t know if she was unhappy, but if she didn’t make it clear it would probably make it quite awkward. She smiled jokingly, “If this kind of relationship is called dating, then I’m afraid I would have had countless girlfriends since kindergarten.”
　　
　　…If Jiang Xiaoli was given another chance, she would never have said such a thing that she thought was “funny”.
　　
　　It was because those people didn’t understand what Jiang Xiaoli was trying to say.
　　
　　The next day in class, she heard people were muttering, “Jiang Xiaoli has had numerous girlfriends since kindergarten.” At the time, her entire body was devastated.
　　
　　Jiang – Single since birth- Xiaoli felt bitter inside and couldn’t say anything.
　　
　　”Does any of the NPCs in this game have their IQ data uploaded?!”
　　
　　The gossip was about her relationship with Li Hongying as if it was “set in stone”.
　　
　　It’s already the last day of protection, so why can’t they just let her go on her own merry way?
　　
　　Jiang Xiaoli would love to went back yesterday and slap herself two times: “Why are you joking about it! I told you to shut up! Just deny it!”
　　
　　…although her denial might be spread out differently.

　　It’s not like she cared of the gossips since she’s dying. It’s just that she felt sorry for Li Hongying. She was studying honestly, didn’t cause trouble, didn’t talk, trying to reduce her presence in the class, yet the result was she was still pulled into a gossip.
　　
　　……..
　　
　　Recently, Li Hongying has been thinking about what to do next.
　　
　　Seven days were coming to an end, should she open the supernatural field directly, or should she gradually let her classmates “accidentally” reveal that they were all ghosts? Would Jiang Xiaoli be plunged into infinite terror when she finds out that she’s the only living person in this game? Or maybe, keep the act up for fun. Li Hongying pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, she honestly didn’t like wearing glasses very much, she hadn’t worn them for a long time after her death. If it wasn’t for the fact that the toys sent to her this time had a seven-day protection period, and she wanted to play a little game, she wouldn’t have to purposefully disguise herself in this disgusting looks.
　　
　　–What Li Hongying hated with all her heart, is her past self before her death.

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XWT: Btw, the one who fell asleep during English class is really our boss Li Hongying, not Jiang Xiaoli. Haha the teacher’s face when he had to punish the boss lol.

Ririka: Next up would be Summon Survival so we can have both LsiXxiY’s novel back to back.

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