Legend Of The Escape King Volume 1 Chapter 20

“Sister, save me. . . Sister . . . sister. . . ”

They heard the young boy crying loudly in the house, and then, a fire suddenly burst up from their living place. Heavy smoke soon rose to the sky. The sister ran in immediately to save her brother. However, several men stood in her way. The fire burnt out her hut and the men wanted to take this opportunity to rape her. The sister bit off her tongue to end her own life. Then, a heavy rain suddenly came to visit the two poor souls’ bodies, erasing all evidence of the men’s evil behavior.

“Sisi, why did you stop me from saving them?” Bird asked her, wanting to express compa.s.sion, seeing the men spit at the poor girl’s dead body and leave.

“Bird, everything you have seen was an illusion. But the scenes existed once,” Que Siyu answered him slowly. “Those who can give you the answer have come already. Why not ask them?”

Bird saw the Gao Brothers and Yin Xuelan coming toward them. Then, one of the Gao Brothers spoke to Siyu. “Siyu, your reasoning was correct. There was a murder case in this city ten years ago. The two victims were also a pair consisting of a sister and a brother. The boy died in a hut fire, and the sister on the road. According to the government examiner’s report, the rain was heavy that day, and there was no trace of the girl being raped. She died from falling down on a rainy night when her head hit a sharp stone. As to the hut fire, the report said it was because the boy was cooking his medicine, and the stove was blown over by the wind.”

“Why did you say that this case happened ten years ago? I just saw them being killed. Sisi, what’s wrong with this?” Bird was confused to hear this.

“Bird, you were a player of the Escape Game ten years ago. However, things changed a lot over the past the ten years. The case was like this. . . ”

The Gao Brother continued to explain it to him. Finally Bird understood; he lifted his right hand to burn his spiritual fire to light the sky. A faint green light appeared in the rainy sky. This was the green enchantment that appeared in the governing hall before. Some white human shades were hard to distinguish behind the enchantment; those were the mind masters of the land of Canghun. The enchantment soon became clear and covered the sky over their heads, and then the illusion of the governing hall became their background. With a s.h.i.+ning light pa.s.sing by, the list of player rankings appeared. Two-thirds of the players were cleaned out; only about sixty were left, including Que Siyu, Yin Xuelan, the Gao Brothers, and Bird Three.

“Bird, do you understand now?” Siyu talked to him secretly. “The reason for the girl and her brother was one of the questions of the current Escape Game. If you find the answer, you are qualified for this game. What’s more, this question was the last one of the Xiaoxiang City branch. Those who pa.s.sed this round first will receive some special gifts like money, social status, precious medicines, and even the pills to multiply the spiritual fire more than a hundred thousand times. But the losers will be punished, and they may lose their lives in the worst situation.”

Bird Three’s name was in the last column, which made all the players sigh, for the game required the players to join in as teams. He was the only single player. How did he achieve this? They didn’t know, and they thought that Bird had used his relations.h.i.+p with the Que and Yin Families to bribe. Now, the illusionary image of Ca.s.s appeared on the enchantment to announce some more rules.

“Bird, did you hear me?” Que Siyu was really worried about him. “The time for this round is not decided yet. It might be in two hours, or it could be after several days. You should find your own team members right now.”

“My team?” Bird laughed ironically. Only the White Face would frighten everybody from getting closer to him, let alone building a team. “I myself am enough.”

“If Siyu didn’t bring you into our team just now, you would’ve already lost your life. How can you take part in the game? Bird, go find a team of your own. Don’t drag us down,” Yin Xuelan complained and snorted her discontentment.

“Brother Bird, this is a serious round. If you don’t find suitable teammates, you can ask the organizer of the game to help you. Pay them enough rent, and you can hire some teammates to make up the number. But they can’t do anything for you to pa.s.s the game,” the Gao Brothers said at the same time after thinking on it a while.

“Thanks for your advice. However, before joining the game, I want to go to the highest school of Xiaoxiang City,” Bird answered.

“That would be XiaoXiao City Grand University, which is a sub-branch managed by the Grand University of Qiongyue Kingdom. Go past this street, turn right, go straight for a while, and then turn left. You will find it as the highest building in that block,” the Gao Brothers told him.

Bird ran for the university as quickly as possible. He heard from Que Siyu that the library had abundant collections of rare books. Though he already entered the world of the White Face, those books would not tell him the current changes of this world. There was something he wanted to find the answer to.

Based on the directions given by the Gao Brothers, Bird soon found a crossover at Zuixian Lake. The end of the bridge was lifted up to heaven and disappeared into the far distance. He could see some magnificent solemn buildings hiding behind the clouds and fog, which was where XiaoXiao City Grand University stood.