“Looks like a lot of people have already been caught. Where should we look?” Tang Keke and Bai Yuyou had also reached the garden path. Keke kept glancing around, apparently searching for any sign of someone hiding.
“I feel like Ye Shuang is over here.” Bai Yuyou was looking around too, the cowlick on her head sticking up slightly.
“Did your brother tell you?” Keke asked.
“Just a feeling.”
“But this place is so open. How could anyone hide here? They couldn’t possibly be buried in the dirt, right?” As Tang Keke spoke, she happened to look up and noticed something bright green in a tree.
The moment their eyes met, the figure revealed a mouthful of snow-white teeth.
“What the heck?! What is that?!” Tang Keke exclaimed. The student, dressed in a vivid green ghillie suit, realized he had been spotted and climbed down from the tree.
“Seriously? I hid that well, and you still found me.”
“Just good luck.” Tang Keke grinned and held out her hand. “Hand over your name tag.”
“Give me your contact information and I will.”
“You look like a giant green cockroach. Maybe next time.” Tang Keke tore the number tag from him, then scanned the QR code on it with her phone.
“Students found: 810/999. Guests found: 5/5.”
“Wow, that was fast.” Tang Keke looked a little surprised when she saw the number of students remaining. The game had only just begun, yet a hundred students had already been eliminated. Apparently, even hide-and-seek could not withstand a schoolwide search involving more than ten thousand people.
Bai Yuyou was still looking around, as if searching for something.
“Come on, Yuyou. Let’s check out the laboratories over there,” Keke said. “This place is so open. Finding that guy hiding in the tree was already an unexpected bonus.”
Hearing this, Bai Yuyou nodded lightly and let Keke pull her away.
The area fell silent once more.
Meanwhile, Ye Shuang, who was hiding underground, looked a little surprised. He had not expected the first students to arrive here to be Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke. Of course, they would never have guessed that he was hiding under the soil.
Should he give them a hint?
Ye Shuang held his phone and thought for a few seconds, but eventually abandoned the idea. That would be somewhat against the rules of the game. At most, he could tell them when the game was nearly over.
Time passed little by little.
Elsewhere, Taozi was leaning against a wall and watching students pass by. Every now and then, she lowered her head to type something on her phone.
As the saying went, the most dangerous place was the safest.
Taozi used the wall to conceal the name tag on her body and pretended that she was also searching for the students who were hiding.
The students passing nearby glanced around at the decorations, never imagining that someone would stand there in plain sight while playing on her phone.
I really am ridiculously clever, Taozi thought smugly.
“Hey, Taozi, how many people have you found?” a voice suddenly came from beside her. Taozi’s expression stiffened for a few seconds. She turned her head and saw that it was Zhixia from the Light Music Club, along with Linlin.
“Ah, I haven’t found anyone yet.” Taozi could only force a smile. Her eyes also fell on the four or five name tags in Zhixia’s hand, which meant Zhixia had already found four or five students who had been hiding.
Incidentally, the name tags could be exchanged for points, and the points could be used to buy things in the cafeteria and convenience store. In other words, they were basically vouchers.
“Then let’s search together. Many hands make light work,” Zhixia said with a smile.
“Ah, I ran all the way here and I’m a little tired. I want to stand here and rest for a while.” Taozi immediately came up with an excuse.
“Oh? Is that so? Are there any of Yuyou and the others among the NPCs in your class?”
“No. They’re all classmates you don’t know.”
“I see. Then let’s go, Linlin. We’ll look over there.”
“Okay.”
After watching Zhixia and Linlin leave, Taozi finally let out a sigh of relief. Although this method could fool strangers, it was still easy to get caught out in front of friends and classmates.
After all, she could not leave this spot, and her classmates knew that she was one of the people hiding.
“Oi.”
Another voice came from beside her.
Taozi: OvO!
“Ah, Xiaoyi. What’s up?” The person standing beside her was naturally Anshi Yi. Taozi managed a strained smile. “Where’s Little Yu?”
“We split up to search. Have you seen Brother Ye?” Anshi Yi asked.
“I have no idea where Ye is either.”
“And aren’t you good at finding people, Xiaoyi?” Taozi tried to change the subject and keep Anshi Yi’s attention away from herself.
“Finding him would actually be easy. I could just check the surveillance room, but that wouldn’t be any fun.” As Anshi Yi spoke, she suddenly said, “Hmm... Should I have brought a dog to sniff him out?”
After saying this, Anshi Yi’s gaze fell on Taozi, as if she had noticed something.
“Come to think of it, you’ve been leaning against this spot the whole time. What are you doing?”
“Ah, I’m a little tired, so I’m taking a break.”
“You wouldn’t happen to have a name tag on you, would you?” Anshi Yi asked as she tossed a lollipop into her mouth.
“No.”
“Figures.” Anshi Yi turned around. “Then I’ll look over there.”
“Okay.”
Taozi immediately relaxed. But just as she was about to say something, she suddenly felt a hand slip into the narrow gap between her back and the wall!
Rip!
Anshi Yi held up the name tag.
“Ha! I knew it. You’re really bold, Taozi. You seem like the type who would secretly wear some very risqué lingerie.”
“...”
Waaah.
She really could not fool Anshi Yi after all.
Taozi felt that she had been far too naive.
...
As time passed, two more guests hiding inside a double-door cabinet and in the gap at the corner of a wall were discovered. The broadcast continued to ring out:
“Twenty-seven students remain. Three guests remain. Once the number of students falls to fifteen, the approximate locations of the guests will be provided.”
Luo Xi’s announcement seemed to inject new energy into the students. Some people had been hiding in bathrooms and shouting that someone was inside whenever anyone knocked, but even they could not escape the hunters. One after another, they were caught by the other students.
Several students hiding inside trash cans were also discovered. They had avoided detection at first, but were eventually exposed when someone threw trash into the can and heard them scream.
The numbers dropped rapidly. Once only fifteen students remained, just two guests were still in the game.
One was Ye Shuang, while the other was a guest named Cai Kun.
Ye Shuang was hiding underground, while the other guest was hiding in the ceiling.
“Student count reduced to fifteen. Guest locations will now be revealed.”
“Flower bed. Biology Laboratory 25.”
Once the clues about the guests were announced, a huge crowd of students rushed toward the designated locations!
Even Ye Shuang, who was hiding beneath the soil, could feel the ground trembling.
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