[Cold, trembling…Oh no, that’s wrong. Let’s do it again. Action!]
A strange, deep melody echoed in the darkness.
[Dark, damp, dizzy, weak…]
[When Jingchuan woke up from a severe headache, he was horrified to find himself hanging upside down in the air in a strange posture, like a string of sausages hung up to dry.]
[He tried to struggle, but his hands and feet, bound by ropes, betrayed him first, unable to cooperate with his brain. A damp sensation came from the sparse hair on his head.]
[His brain, which was not very smart to begin with and became even more stupid due to overheating, seemed to be stimulated by the coolness and regained a bit of clarity. Of course, only a bit, it couldn’t possibly be more. This was the upper limit determined by intelligence.]
[He rolled his eyes to look down.]
The music was very cooperative, a sudden stop, like the moment when the protagonist in a horror game suddenly encounters a door kill.
[Ah~ How terrible!]
Jingchuan’s heart skipped a beat.[At this time, the stupid him finally realized that just below his head was a medium-sized indoor swimming pool. From any perspective, the area and depth of the pool were enough to accommodate his entire head, with plenty to spare. In the dark environment, the water surface faintly glowed.]
[And now, his sparse hair had already made intimate contact with the water surface of the pool. Oh, this might have contaminated the pool water to some extent. The person who planned all this felt very sorry.]
[Let’s get back to the point.]
[Even the most stupid person should realize their situation. Of course, Jingchuan was not out of this range.]
[Fear, anger, and more elusive emotions bombarded his brain, and his face turned red due to congestion.]
[After looking around for the culprit to no avail, he finally couldn’t control himself and yelled out loud—]
“Shut up! Shut up! I’m telling you to shut up!”
Jingchuan’s face was distorted, almost losing his composure as he roared.
[Oh, this isn’t very friendly. A qualified protagonist would always cooperate with the narrator’s performance, not destroy the atmosphere. Unfortunately, our protagonist didn’t understand this.]
Jingchuan, who was hanging upside down in mid-air, suddenly dropped a centimeter, his hair completely soaked in the pool.
“Who is it? Who’s playing tricks? Get the hell out here! You’re dead, you know? You’re dead!”
[The sudden change in the dangerous environment greatly stimulated the fear in Jingchuan’s heart, and he chose to cover it up with harsh words. He tried to make himself look like a tiger ready to pounce, rather than a Hello Kitty being manipulated.]
[But we all know what the truth is.]
[Unfortunately, our protagonist seemed unable to accept the blunt truth, and he became even more irritable.]
“Ah ah ah—” Jingchuan was going crazy. These two opposing principles’ strange narration kept drilling into his brain.
“Xu Dongdong, Xu Dongdong, get out here! You think I can’t recognize your voice? You think you can scare me by playing tricks? You wait for me—”
[The height dropped again, and the water surface had reached his forehead.]
[The cold chill made Jingchuan shudder all over.]
[He finally picked up his not-so-smart brain, and for the sake of his cheap life, he temporarily learned to shut up.]
[If he had always been so obedient and sensible, perhaps today’s drama would not have been staged.]
[To avoid the following plot being all about the fool’s shouting or the coward’s silence—this is too boring. The evil villain finally decided to make an appearance.]
The surrounding dull music suddenly became cheerful. It was like ten thousand frogs suddenly dancing together.
The narrator’s voice also became full of power.
[Let’s have some applause! We need a more exciting and interesting plot—]
“Clap clap clap clap clap.”
A series of rhythmic applause sounded, the lights above the ceiling lit up, and the light shone straight down.
A person appeared under the shining light, nonchalantly clapping for his own appearance, and then waved at Jingchuan with a smile. “Yo, Jingchuan!”
“Congratulations, you didn’t recognize the wrong person— I didn’t expect that you could recognize my identity so quickly, such deep affection really leaves me at a loss for words!”
His cheerful and surprised tone was like meeting an old friend in a foreign land after many years. As if he wasn’t the one who hung the other party upside down here facing the threat of death.
Jingchuan’s anger gauge was almost overflowing.
The dark environment, that neurotic cat-and-mouse-like narration, the constant threat of falling into death…The fear and repression that had been built up during this period of time suddenly dissipated a lot when he saw that familiar face, saw the remaining bruises and wounds on the other’s face.
He was like a cat that had finally been scratched by an overconfident mouse. After the shock, a sense of anger and humiliation sprang up in his heart.
Even though this mouse seemed to have the power to kill the cat at this moment, the sense of superiority that had long been used to playing with it as a toy still made him ignore this. He was used to the absolute dominance in front of the other, and didn’t believe that the long-weak person dared to really do something to him.
“Xu Dongdong, are you crazy?! Be careful I’ll kill you! Let me down now—”
Bai Yi completely ignored him, but continued to narrate on his own. “Obviously, in our protagonist’s narrow brain capacity, the smart IQ can’t always occupy the high ground, just a brief moment to give up the throne, dominated by stupidity.”
Jingchuan: “You—”
Bai Yi spoke with a passionate, enthusiastic voice, just like narrating for a superhero blockbuster.
“—He knew nothing about his situation!”
“—But the evil villain will make him understand!”
As he said this, the expression on his face almost made people think that the next moment he would casually shout out a line like “Bara la la energy little fairy transform”. It made the onlookers feel so embarrassed that they couldn’t help but dig out a luxurious villa.
—The last syllable fell, and the gear above the rope that bound Jingchuan’s feet suddenly spun rapidly. His entire body plummeted, and his head “bang” hit the water!
Water splashed everywhere, and the water surface had already submerged his neck!
“Uh…” Jingchuan struggled desperately. Unfortunately, his hands and feet, which were tightly bound, once again betrayed his thoughts.
Thirty seconds later, the gear turned again, and he was lifted up, his forehead reconnected with the water surface.
“Huff…huff…”
Jingchuan was gasping heavily, like a fish out of water.
This time, he couldn’t speak, and he didn’t dare to speak.
At this moment, his eyes were full of fear. Even anger and hatred were hidden.
[The fierce tiger pretending to be calm finally tore off its mask, ah, it turns out he’s just a powerless Hello Kitty!]
[His heart was as weak and powerless as his breath.]
This time, Jingchuan didn’t get angry again, he spoke in a weak voice, his syllables trembling, “You… what… do you want to do…”
A mobile phone lit up in his direction, the familiar screen clearly indicated that it belonged to Jingchuan himself.
Then there were familiar contacts, segments of invitations that had been edited but not yet sent out in his name. Each invitation was unique, almost precisely targeting the personality of each person on it.
—Even Jingchuan himself would doubt whether this familiar tone was content he edited in his dreams.
“I just want to invite everyone to gather, after all, we have been together for so long, and have formed deep friendships. Obviously, using Jingchuan’s name, the call to action is stronger.”
A hateful smile spread out behind the phone, every word the other party spit out sounded so gentle and harmless.
“So, please, Jingchuan, see for yourself, are these reasons enough to move your dear classmates to accept the invitation? If not, please, Jingchuan, use your brain and think again. I think Jingchuan would be happy to help, right?”
“You…” Jingchuan couldn’t help but fall silent.
He knew very well what it meant to agree. But he was even clearer about the consequences of a direct refusal.
The annoying narration sounded again.
[Jingchuan was caught in a fierce inner struggle.]
[It’s really hard to understand, does he still need to struggle between sacrificing himself to save others and sacrificing others to save himself?]
[—Perhaps some people do have the character to sacrifice themselves to save others. But he obviously wasn’t that kind of person.]
[Perhaps, he was still thinking about seeking help from others through implied language? No, if he had self-knowledge about his IQ, he shouldn’t fantasize about such good things.]
[After all, the evil villain just happened to know that he liked someone, happened to know that he would appear at the snack shop to buy soda at this time, happened to “pick up” the hairpin that someone cherished, happened to invite her to meet at this time, and then happened to be seen by our protagonist…]
[It was just a casual attempt, and the protagonist was easily fooled. There was no need to try anything else. The protagonist’s stupidity made the villain lose his sense of accomplishment.]
[—Hooking him was simpler than using dried fish to tease a cat. Even cats are wary of strangers now.]
[Once he recognized this fact, our protagonist should know what choice he should make.]
“Ah ah ah…”Jingchuan’s mentality collapsed again.
“I agree with you, I agree with you, that’s it.”
****
Half an hour later, the first person named arrived, pushing open the door of the rest room of the long-abandoned old campus swimming pool. “Jingchuan, what’s the good news that you’re in such a hurry to call me over, I had to climb out of my house window, if there’s no surprise…”
A strong smell permeated the room, he didn’t have time to say a few more words, and was knocked out on the spot.
Then the next one, and the next, according to the distance of each person’s journey and the timing of the notification, they arrived almost at equal intervals, and were captured one by one.
Even if occasionally there was an unexpected fish that wasn’t knocked out, it also fell under the unexpected brick.
When they gradually woke up, they found that everyone was hanging upside down in a row at the top of the swimming pool, like a string of air-dried sausages. The one called “Fang Yu” forcefully occupied the C position.
Everyone glared at Jingchuan.
“One, two, three, four…a total of eleven. Just enough to form a football team.”
Bai Yi counted from left to right, slowly walked out with a loudspeaker, and everyone was shocked and widened their eyes.
“Xu Dongdong, it’s you—”
“It’s me.” Bai Yi nodded with a smile.
“—To thank you all for the games you’ve brought me to experience over the past two years, I took the liberty of inviting everyone over in Jingchuan’s name, I’m really sorry.”
“I just suddenly found a more interesting and exciting new game, and couldn’t wait to give back to everyone’s deep affection.”
Everyone was both shocked and angry. But before they could say anything, Bai Yi had already waved his hand. “Then, let’s get started.”
“Truth or Dare. Liars or rule breakers will be…”
Bang—
The gear above suddenly turned, all the “sausages” hanging in mid-air dropped rapidly, and their heads were buried in the pool one by one, not being pulled up again until a full thirty seconds later.
Everyone experienced the feeling of suffocation that Jingchuan had experienced before. And Jingchuan was lucky enough to experience it for the second time.
“…be punished like this~”
The cold pool water extinguished everyone’s anger, making this group of people who should have been fierce and evil become obedient one by one. They became the best-behaved children who obeyed the rules.
Bai Yi showed a satisfied smile.
Then, he turned on the flashlight on his phone, a beam of light shone straight on the first person on the left, and the music for the character’s entrance sounded timely. “Then, the first one~”
“What’s your darkest secret?”
“Do you prefer to eat onions or cilantro?”
“Have you ever killed anyone?”
“Do you like to dress in women’s clothing?”
“What’s your biggest weakness?”
“Do you have any habits that are different from ordinary people?”
The light shone on each person one by one, and all kinds of strange questions came out of his mouth, even before people had time to react.
Then, there were successive sounds of falling into the water.
Bang—!
Bang—!
Bang—!
Bang—!
“Liar!”
“Liar!”
“Liar!”
“Liar!”
Until someone cried out in grievance. “I didn’t lie, everything I said was true!”
Bai Yi: “Ah, I’m used to it. It was a slip of the hand.”
He still looked very polite.
But the soaking wet people were already shivering.
Every time they were thrown into the water and then pulled up, their height would drop a bit, which meant they were closer to the water surface.
Now, the most dangerous person among them had been submerged by the water over his eyes, and he could only close his eyes tightly.
If it continued…
They dared not think any further, and shivered deeply.
In the short time before, wailing, cursing, begging, threatening, had all been proven useless.
The Xu Dongdong in front of them was no longer the usual him, he was the incarnation of the devil!
He played with their lives like a cat playing with a ball of yarn, without any psychological burden.
There was another “bang” sound.
“Ah, I forgot to add, if you don’t want to say your own, you can exchange it with someone else’s secret.”
“Similarly, if someone lies, and others choose to expose it, they can directly skip a round of the game and pass the question to the next person.”
Bai Yi, like every evil villain in the story, used a meaningful tone to bewitch everyone. Making people who had no conscience in the first place teeter on the brink, and completely collapse.
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