Chapter 81: Chunhuahua Kindergarten (I)
At that time, Song Yanchi was suddenly teleported outside the ceremony hall, and even with props he couldn't open the closed door of the ceremony hall. This door seemed to separate him and Qiao Yuan into two worlds, making him unable to hear any sound from inside.
Needless to say, this was definitely His doing.
Song Yanchi had already begun to regret their recklessness. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and tried hard to break down the door in front of him. However, he did not expect that a black shadow would seep out from the crack in the door after a while, and soon enveloped the entire building, and even had a tendency to spread outward.
Looking out from the window, the sky and the earth were the same color, as if completely enveloped in darkness.
The door was suddenly opened, and countless evil spirits poured out, but they ignored Song Yanchi who was standing in the middle, and passed by him instead. Some had already left the building, and there were screams of surprise from outside the building, obviously they had encountered those evil spirits.
He saw a familiar figure among them——
Yu Ruozhou.
Or maybe it’s not Yu Ruzhou.
After all, although the other person looked familiar, the aura he exuded was definitely not human. In addition, thinking that it was him that Qiao Yuan had arranged to meet today, he almost immediately realized that Yu Ruozhou in front of him was him.
He also noticed Song Yanchi and walked towards him. His delicate face was expressionless, which looked even more weird under the crowd of ghosts: "I can't find her. Do you know where she went?"
"tell me."
Song Yanchi intuitively felt that He was talking about Qiao Yuan, but soon he could no longer think about it.
Endless chill rose from the bottom of his heart as the other party approached. When he met his gaze, his consciousness and soul seemed to be in an endless abyss, and his mind trembled violently. The pain in the other party's words was also very contagious, making Song Yanchi feel as if he had felt his pain and confusion. He could only hear himself subconsciously answer "no".
After hearing Song Yanchi's words, it was He who stepped back.
The other party took a few steps back as if he couldn't accept this answer, and Song Yanchi came back to his senses. According to the other party's words, Qiao Yuan had obviously filled in the answer and left, and he quickly filled in the answer, waiting to leave the copy.
Song Yanchi also discovered that the other party did not stay still as usual, but stood there and said as if talking to herself, "Where else can she go?"
Before He looked over again, Song Yanchi finally managed to escape from the dungeon. He stayed in the dungeon longer than Qiao Yuan, and when he woke up, his agent had already handled everything and was waiting for him to personally post a Weibo post to refute the rumors.
When Song Yanchi heard his agent say that Qiao Yuan had already sent it out, his first reaction was that Qiao Yuan had indeed left the copy first.
He completely relaxed and did not rush to reply to his agent's message, but first sent a message to Qiao Yuan to ask. While waiting for Qiao Yuan's reply, he was browsing Weibo to kill time. Unexpectedly, he saw someone dared to blacken Qiao Yuan, so he started to reply one by one.
The agent knew that he couldn't control him, and after trying to dissuade him, he let him go in despair and became accustomed to it. Song Yanchi's parents had already retired from the entertainment industry, and they also adopted a laissez-faire approach to Song Yanchi, so they always let him do whatever he wanted.
When Qiao Yuan replied, he was still fighting with the people behind the screen. He realized belatedly that he had returned to the real world and no longer needed to maintain the relationship with Qiao Yuan as a brother.
Fortunately, Qiao Yuanren was still as nice as ever and had no intention of severing ties with him.
Song Yanchi had not forgotten what he said at that time. His beast-like intuition made him decide to remind Qiao Yuan. In order to make things clearer, he deliberately chose the forum.
After hearing Song Yanchi's reminder, Qiao Yuan was even more grateful that he had left the copy at that time.
After taking a short break for a few days after coming out of the copy, Qiao Yuan appeared on the hot searches several times in succession.
Once, a well-known heir to a group publicly said that he would give Qiao Yuan 10 million yuan, which attracted the attention of many netizens. They thought it was a scene of a rich kid courting a female star, or a new way of hype. Until everyone found out that the other party just wanted to give money, and after Qiao Yuan publicly stated on Weibo that he didn't need it, he still kept giving it, and even seemed to be about to kneel down and beg, saying that he was willing to accept the loss, and if the other party didn't accept it, he would lose face.
Finally, after Qiao Yuan and Jiang Jie discussed, the other party donated to the Hope Fund in Qiao Yuan's name, and her action naturally attracted the favor of many passers-by. In addition, it was revealed that a celebrity team that was snatched from the hot search a few days ago deliberately spread the news of Qiao Yuan's hype and Song Yanchi's scandal because of anger and unwillingness. With this filter, it is inevitable that more people feel pity for Qiao Yuan.
Everyone is aware that Qiao Yuan has been on a lot of hot searches recently, but because they are all strange and unexpected, they are not annoying. Even when a famous eccentric painter who once refused millions of dollars to paint started a rare live broadcast and wanted to paint for Qiao Yuan for a month, everyone was shocked to the point of being numb.
Qiao Yuan soon returned to his busy and fulfilling life of running between filming and attending variety show announcements.
If the system hadn't reminded him before, Qiao Yuan would have almost forgotten that the day to be forced into the dungeon would soon come.
Song Yanchi is now abroad preparing for a concert, but he chats with Qiao Yuan almost every day. Even if Qiao Yuan only replies two or three sentences a day, it can't dampen his enthusiasm. Because he is always the first to check in on Qiao Yuan's super topic, actively recommending her, he is almost becoming the deputy leader of the fan club and the super topic host.
Song Yanchi’s fans may not be able to see his schedule by opening his Weibo, but they will definitely be able to get the latest news about Qiao Yuan.
Sister Jiang also once told Qiao Yuan that Song Yanchi was suitable for a public relations position. He could be online at any time in the middle of the night and would rush to the Weibo post that published negative information about Qiao Yuan and fight several rounds with the black fans in the comments.
When Song Yanchi heard that Qiao Yuan was going to enter the dungeon again, he naturally wanted to follow him again, but Qiao Yuan's time to enter the dungeon was just when he was having a concert abroad. In the next few days, Qiao Yuan also had no time, so the two had to stagger their time to enter the dungeon this time.
Seeing that he sounded like a puppy that was about to be abandoned and seemed to be about to fly back to China in the next second, Qiao Yuan could only let him give up this idea and then quickly closed the chat box.
The day that Qiao Yuan chose to enter the dungeon was a rare rest day for the group. Because of the filming, she was now temporarily staying in a hotel booked by the crew. Sister Jiang, who lived next door to her, also took advantage of Qiao Yuan's rest to go back to the company to deal with some things.
This was a good time for Qiao Yuan to enter the dungeon, so after dinner, she lay down on the bed.
Before lying down this time, Qiao Yuan checked the trending searches first, and only heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that his name was not on the list. In his ears was the cold voice of the system:
[Extracting a copy...]
[The copy is loading...]
At this moment, there was a knock on her door, and at the same time there was a gentle female voice: "Hello, Miss Qiao."
It was the voice of the hotel staff. The staff had just delivered the takeaway to her an hour ago, so Qiao Yuan still had some impression of it.
It's only been an hour, why is she here again?
The staff member's voice continued: "Someone just sent a box and said you would definitely accept it."
Qiao Yuan:?
Was it given by fans or haters?
She quickly denied this possibility. After all, the hotel was not close to the filming base and was very hidden, making it impossible for fans or anti-fans to investigate.
It seemed unlikely that Song Yanchi would be the one to do it, as the other party should have given an explanation when sending the gift, but she had not received any news either.
But now Qiao Yuan could no longer stand up to see what it was. The darkness was encroaching, as if tearing her soul and pulling her into the copy.
Before she completely lost consciousness, she could only let the other person put her at the door.
When Qiao Yuan opened his eyes again, the scene before him was no longer the familiar hotel, but an unfamiliar room.
The room was decorated in a particularly warm way, with stickers on the wall and picture frames with stick figures hanging on the wall. The floor was covered with a fluffy carpet, scattered with various toys, and the corners of the low table were carefully wrapped.
Qiao Yuan soon realized a problem -
The room was too big, especially the door, which was almost twice her height. She seemed to be able to just touch the door handle, but the furniture was very small.
She had a bad premonition in her heart and quickly turned over and tried to get out of bed. However, the moment she stretched out her hand, Qiao Yuan's pupils could not help but tremble——
Her hands and feet have become smaller!
The originally slender fingers now became a little stubby, and there were two dimple-like pits on the chubby little hands. The originally long legs also shrunk a lot, and they were covered with cartoon socks with a silly puppy sticking out its tongue.
Qiao Yuan had already realized something. After jumping out of bed, he walked directly towards the closet on the carpet.
The size of the wardrobe was about the same as her current size, so Qiao Yuan opened the door easily. As she guessed, there was indeed a full-length mirror embedded in the wardrobe.
Standing in the mirror at this moment was a child who looked about five or six years old, wearing children's pajamas, with long hair hanging down her back. Although she still had baby fat, her facial features were still delicate, and the surprise on her face made her look innocent and cute.
Qiao Yuan:?
How did she become a child?
Faced with this situation, even Qiao Yuan could not hide his astonishment for a moment.
After recovering from the shock, before Qiao Yuan could ask, the system's voice, which was not fluctuating, had already sounded -
【Today is the day you graduate from Chunhuahua Kindergarten. 】
[As a tradition of Chunhuahua Kindergarten, you and your parents will be invited to attend the graduation ceremony and spend the last two days here.]
[Besides you, other children in the kindergarten will also participate, so you are looking forward to it and can't wait to go to kindergarten and spend the last time of kindergarten with your friends and parents.]
【But these last two days seem to be not peaceful. 】
[Copy: Chunhuahua Kindergarten]
[Type: Multiplayer Instance]
[Task: Players must successfully survive in the kindergarten for 48 hours. The timer will start after the graduation ceremony begins. If you succeed, you can leave the dungeon. If you fail, you will die.]
[Players are prohibited from killing each other , violators will be killed. 】
Qiao Yuan: “…”
No wonder the room felt twice as big just now, it turned out to be because she was now from a child’s perspective.
Qiao Yuan communicated with the system in his heart: "...Don't you have a law to protect minors? Do I have to continue participating in dungeons after becoming a child?"
She is just a child now, why treat her like this?
System: [We only look at the actual age. ]
Qiao Yuan: “…”
Qiao Yuan thought of an important question: "Are other players like this too?"
System: [Yes.]
Hearing that other players were in the same state, Qiao Yuan could only accept the fact that he had now become a cub and had not even graduated from kindergarten.
It seems that she and other players can only meet in kindergarten.
As Qiao Yuan was thinking and looking at her shortened arms and legs, she couldn't help but sigh. The child in the mirror also sighed immediately after her, but this mature reaction was really not in line with his age. There was a subtle sense of comedy of a child trying to pretend to be an adult.
Unexpectedly, before he could finish his sigh, there was a knock on the door of the room, and a pleasant but unfamiliar female voice sounded outside: "Yuanyuan, are you awake?"
"Can mommy come in?"
Qiao Yuan was stunned for a moment, then guessed that it should be his mother in this copy, so he said "Come in".
The words came out in a babyish voice, still with some childishness.
If Qiao Yuan wasn't the one involved, he would have thought the voice was cute.
But she soon didn't have time to think about it, because after she heard her say that she was allowed to come in, the door was slowly pushed open.
When he saw who came in, Qiao Yuan was completely stunned.
A woman of unknown age walked in. She had burgundy wavy hair and looked about 50% similar to Qiao Yuan, but her face seemed more mature and charming. The red nightgown she wore made her look even more charming, but her smile at this moment was very gentle.
When her eyes fell on Qiao Yuan, she curled her lips and smiled, then bent down and picked up Qiao Yuan: "You got up without your mother calling you today, which is good, but why don't you even wear slippers?"
She walked towards the bed while holding Qiao Yuan in her arms. She freed one hand to pick up the cartoon slippers that fell on the ground for Qiao Yuan to put on. Then she turned and walked towards the door: "Come on, Dad has already prepared breakfast. Let's go have breakfast."
They walked out of the room with the "Baby" sign, through the corridor, and came to the dining table.
A man in an apron was placing plates with his head down. When he heard footsteps, he immediately looked over. When he saw the two people coming, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he walked over to them and greeted them respectively.
He was a man with an equally outstanding appearance. His hair and eye colors were the purest black. His narrow eyes and thin lips made him look like a romantic nobleman. He also had a teardrop mole under his right eye, which was exactly the same as Qiao Yuan's.
He took Qiao Yuan from the woman's arms and placed her on the baby chair. He pushed a plate with homemade sandwiches and fried eggs in front of Qiao Yuan, as well as a cup of hot milk.
His cooking skills were good, and the food was very tempting both in appearance and taste. Even Qiao Yuan, who had already eaten before entering the dungeon, felt subconsciously hungry when he smelled the food.
But Qiao Yuan did not do anything.
Qiao Yuan originally thought that the parents arranged by the system were characters in the copy, but now it seems that this is not the case -
She had met these two people in the real world.
Or more precisely, it is the photo of these two people——
A photo of her biological parents.
As Qiao Yuan entered the dungeon, the live broadcast started, and many viewers rushed in in an instant -
[Caught up, it’s the fresh and hot live broadcast of Sister Qiao! 】
[After watching Qiao Yuan’s live broadcast, I can no longer watch other people’s live broadcasts]
[Wow, even though I see Sister Qiao on the trending searches every day, I still want to watch Sister Qiao’s live broadcast]
[Sister Qiao! Qiao... hey hey hey, why is it a child?]
The audience's enthusiastic comments came to an abrupt end when they saw the cub appear in the live broadcast room, and then turned into excited feedback:
[She's so cute, I really want to pinch her face]
[My boyfriend and I discussed having a baby and decided to have this]
[You lied to me about giving me a daughter, rub your hands.jpg]
[Although I don’t like children, this baby is really cute]
Of course, some people are aware of the problem.
[This face looks really familiar...]
[You are right.]
[This child really looks like Qiao Yuan. Could it be Qiao Yuan's child in this instance? But where is she?]
It wasn't until the system spoke that everyone finally realized the problem.
[No, this is Sister Qiao, or should I call her Sister Qiao]
[Song Yanchi didn't enter the dungeon or is still a cub somewhere else? Does he know what he missed?]
[So Qiao Yuan became a child in this instance? He looks about five years old.]
【? Kindergarten copy? Let's sing, dance and cut paper together? 】
[How can it be so simple? It doesn’t fit the nature of the game at all.]
[This sounds so familiar. Have you all forgotten the evil god's lesson?]
[xs, how come He has become a negative example here]
[Survived for 48 hours, obviously a survival copy...]
[But is there really any ghost who would be willing to hurt such a cute baby? Mommy loves you woooooooooo]
[From being a wife fan of Zaizai to a mother fan, I will protect Zaizai’s live broadcast room]
[No, her real mother is here]
[Woc, for a moment I didn’t know whether I should look at the cub or the mother]
[Although I know Qiao Yuan is so pretty, her parents must be pretty good looking too, but her facial features are too amazing. I want to know if she has a husband? ]
[My sister scums on me]
【? Suddenly I realized her husband is also very handsome】
【And I can cook】
[They look like Qiao Yuan’s older brother and sister when they stand together. They don’t look like someone who already has a child this big.]
[I want to know what they look like now, why didn’t they enter the entertainment industry]
As far as he can remember, Qiao Yuan has no impression of the existence of his parents, nor has he ever met any relatives of either parent.
The person who was responsible for taking care of her and assuming guardianship responsibilities was a woman who claimed that she had accepted money from her parents to take care of her. She was a teacher and had a child of her own.
But the teacher treated Qiao Yuan very well, almost as if she were her own daughter, so much so that when she was little, Qiao Yuan thought that the teacher was her mother, but she just didn't want to acknowledge her for some reason, after all, that's how it's played out on TV. After being mocked by other kids for not having parents again, Qiao Yuan finally couldn't help but ask the teacher why she couldn't acknowledge her as her mother.
She didn't want to be laughed at by other kids anymore.
The teacher who knew Qiao Yuan's thoughts burst out laughing. After asking her own children to help her drive away the children who laughed at her, she took out a photo from the album and gave it to her, saying that the people in the photo were her parents. They were out of town for something and couldn't accompany her, but they would come back one day.
In the photo, the good-looking young couple is holding a baby in their arms and smiling at the camera.
The teacher said that the baby was Qiao Yuan. This was a family photo of the three of them. On the back were three stick figures holding hands, and three names:
Qiao Buyan, Sang Miao, Qiao Yuan.
When she was a child, Qiao Yuan believed this firmly. She imagined that her parents were police officers or agents carrying out secret missions. They were unable to be with her in order to protect more people. Perhaps they would pass each other on the street one day.
She always takes out the photos and looks at them when she has nothing to do, so that she won’t be unable to recognize them if she meets her parents on the street.
But until she grew up and her old friend died, the photo faded and was lost in a move, and she never saw the two people in the photo again.
The other party never came back to see her.
Later, she took the initiative to look for these two people, but found no clues.
After growing up, Qiao Yuan understood that the teacher's words were probably a white lie. In fact, her parents might have died a long time ago, but the teacher couldn't bear to tell her such a cruel fact, so he lied. After all, this truth is really hard for a child to accept.
Of course, it is also possible that her parents simply did not want to raise her, or had new children somewhere else, so she was abandoned. Otherwise, why did her parents never show up even though she has become a star and often appears on the screen, and even when they saw that she had become rich, they never wanted to ask for money.
The teacher died too suddenly, and with her death, all news about her parents was completely buried.
Qiao Yuan has other more important things in her life, and the truth that her parents didn't come back to find her is no longer so important.
But not to mention that she looks like a combination of the two. Although the photo was lost, the appearance of the two had long been deeply imprinted in her mind, so Qiao Yuan recognized her at the first moment.
If he hadn't asked the system and found out that the players this time were all children, Qiao Yuan would have thought that his parents had also become players.
Qiao Yuan asked in his heart what was going on with the system: "Why do they look exactly like my real parents?"
This time the system answered every question: [In order to make the players feel more involved, the parents of this copy are generated according to the players' parents in the real world. ]
It turns out to be an NPC.
After hearing what the system said, Qiao Yuan also understood what was going on and asked casually, "Are they still alive?"
System: [Not within the scope of the system’s answer. ]
After hearing what the system said, Qiao Yuan was not too disappointed. After all, she had experienced expectations and disappointments when she was a child, and her parents were no longer that important to her.
The most important thing now is to clear the copy in front of you.
But generated according to the real-world parent data...
If her parents died, would the system also replicate the state of their death?
The two people in front of me are most likely ghosts.
