Chapter 100

"Isn’t that one of the kids from the orphanage?"

It wasn’t just the owner of the skeleton dog who saw the scene—other streamers did too—and one of them recognized that the one leading Shi Jian was actually a native ghost.

Her voice carried a hint of confusion.

The skeleton dog’s owner stared at Shi Jian swaggering off into the distance and fell into deep thought: ???

Not a cub-type tracking spirit pet?

Then why were the orphanage kids helping Shi Jian? Just because she’s good-looking?

Well, Shi Jian is indeed beautiful.

Shi Jian caught three more kids—treasure chest shards +3.

She showed off a little and whispered to her stream chat, “Where there are people... or ghosts, there are power dynamics. Don’t underestimate ghost-ial relationships.”

Behind her was a group of kids still fighting and bickering.

What kind of bad intentions could Shi Jian possibly have? Did she stir up conflict between the kids?

She didn’t. All she did was state a fact. The kids filled in the blanks themselves and dragged her to hunt down their enemies.

For some reason, the viewers all suddenly heard the bride ghost’s voice in their heads: “Bad, bad~”

The streamer—what a cunning, sly little thing.

But damn, it was satisfying!

…

Shi Jian had a great haul in a short amount of time, and the five-minute countdown came to an end.

She probably could’ve collected even more treasure chest shards, but as the broadcast declared the end of the round, she had no choice but to stop, a little regretfully.

The kids who had been brawling and making a ruckus just moments before disappeared instantly with the broadcast—giving her no chance to continue the hunt.

Shi Jian had watched them vanish from the area with her own eyes.

“Did they go back to their rooms?”

“Probably. I mean, the game’s over… But five minutes is way too short. I only found one kid. Ugh.”

“Yeah, same here.”

After the kids disappeared, the streamers nearby started chatting amongst themselves.

Shi Jian: If it’s over… does that mean I can go back and sleep for beauty now?

Not happening—because it wasn’t over.

That overly enthusiastic broadcast voice rang out again: “The large-scale game ‘Hide-and-Seek’ will resume in one minute! Volunteers now have one minute to hide. Hurry and find a spot, and don’t let the kids catch you!”

Still a five-minute time limit after hiding—but this round was flipped.

This time, it was the kids’ turn to find the streamers.

Hearing that, Shi Jian shuddered.Right, “Hide-and-Seek” was never necessarily one-sided—if the streamers could look for the children, then the children could just as easily turn around and hunt the streamers.

Only, the feeling of hiding versus being hunted was completely different.

The latter instinctively made people tense up—like they had become the prey.

And there was only one minute to hide!

Far too short.

The streamers, hit by this sudden bad news, all looked grim.

Their instincts and past experience told them that being caught would definitely not end well. And they wouldn’t even drop any treasure shards.

So what would they lose?

But there was no time to think about that now—the only urgent thing was to hide! Hide fast!

The rapid clicking of high heels on the floor snapped the rest of the streamers to attention, and they all began frantically searching for places to hide.

The one running fastest was Shi Jian. Although she had started a little late in the previous round of finding the children, this time she was the first to hide.

After all, Shi Jian didn’t want to be caught.

She was far too good-looking—no place would be suitable to drop her.

…

Compared to the children, streamers had bigger targets, and hiding was much harder.

Shi Jian ran while trying to think of a place where she wouldn’t be easily found.

She was starting to really miss Tang Tian—why hadn’t they been assigned together?

Tang Tian was perfect for a hide-and-seek game. If Tang Tian were here, things would be so much easier for her.

But since her friend wasn’t around, Shi Jian had no choice but to rely on herself. In the end, she dashed straight into the library.

The library was quite spacious. Besides the books, there were various sculptures—two of which were life-size.

One was the Statue of Liberty, and the other the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

Shi Jian stopped right in front of these two statues.

…

One minute passed in a flash, and the children who had vanished earlier now reappeared throughout the orphanage, as if they’d been dropped in from above.

They looked nothing like they had during the day.

Their smiles were unnervingly wide, some stretching all the way to their ears; their eyes sparkled with excitement, and they chanted in eerie voices:

“Big sisters and brothers, are you hidden?”

“We’re coming to find you~”

“Where are you?”

“Hee hee hee—”The children's eerie giggles echoed endlessly through the corridors as their marble-like eyes spun, rushing toward places where they thought streamers might be hiding.

They had no tools, no spirit pets, yet it took them barely any effort to find the streamers.

Right at the start, two streamers were caught in quick succession.

One male streamer was hiding behind a cabinet. He was dragged out by a little boy who smiled and spoke slowly, word by word:

"Found you."

The male streamer was gripped by overwhelming fear. His instincts screamed that something was very wrong.

"Don’t come any closer—what are you trying to do?"

"Ahhhh!"

The next second, a blood-curdling scream rang through the orphanage, making the already tense and chaotic atmosphere even more unsettling.

Streamers didn’t drop treasure shards when caught—but they did drop flesh.

The answer was revealed, announced by the streamer’s own blood and body—

The streamer who was found was immediately bitten by the child.

And the children's teeth had transformed: sharp, razor-like, capable of easily tearing large chunks of flesh straight from a living body.

Raw biting. Raw tearing.

Streamers were being discovered one after another.

In an instant, the orphanage became a living hell—wails and screams of agony rang out nonstop.

As long as a child found a streamer, they’d take a bite, a chunk of flesh. The children now seemed to have some sort of ability buff: their speed was terrifyingly fast, giving the streamers no chance to escape.

Before, the five-minute hide-and-seek felt short.

Now, five minutes felt like a lifetime.

When will this end?

That’s all the streamers could think in anguish.

Their hearts were gripped with terror—any sound of footsteps nearby made their hearts race and palms sweat.

Because in the very next second, a small hand or a shadowy, grinning face could appear.

The twin sisters weren’t interested in the other streamers—they were focused on finding Shi Jian.

Children hold grudges.

But after searching around, the twin sisters didn’t spot Shi Jian anywhere.

“Where is she?”

The twin sisters were furious they couldn’t find her.

Meanwhile, viewers in the other streamers’ personal livestreams also noticed something—Shi Jian seemed to be missing.

A few curious viewers entered Shi Jian’s personal stream—Shi Jian stood between the statues of the Goddess of Victory and the Statue of Liberty, posing as a sculpture herself. The other two statues had handwritten plaques introducing them, and since she was committed to the act, Shi Jian even made a formal-looking sign for herself.

She called it the “Goddess of Repose.”

Originally, Shi Jian had wanted to call herself the Goddess of Beauty, but that felt too narcissistic. So she settled for a previously used title instead.

She struck a pose and stood steadily between the two goddess statues, even wearing a white dress to blend in. At a glance, there was barely any sense of dissonance.

New viewers: ???

Shi Jian’s personal stream chat: The Goddess of Repose returns for round two!

Shi Jian could also hear the wailing and screaming outside, and although she was anxious too, fortunately the kids who passed by didn’t seem very interested in the library.

Two children passed by the library during the round and even talked about it:

“Did you check the library?”

“Think anyone’s hiding in there?”

Some viewers who wanted the kids to catch Shi Jian and teach her a lesson lit up with hope, practically gripping the kids by the shoulders in frustration:

[She’s in there, she’s right in there—go drag her out! It’s obvious! Just take it seriously and you’ll see her!]

But the kid’s companion rejected the idea. “If you wanna go in, go ahead. I’m not going. Not even dogs go into the library.”

The one who brought it up turned away. “I’m not going either.”

When the five-minute hide-and-seek game ended, most of the streamers had already been caught by the kids—only a handful managed to escape.

And those who did mostly had some kind of tool or ability buff.

Shi Jian, who had no such advantage, came to a fresh realization: “This is what happens when you’re uneducated.”

“Just look how much they hate studying.”

If they didn’t hate studying so much, it wouldn’t have been so easy for her to hide.

In the entire round, only one child had entered the library—and of course, they hadn’t found Shi Jian.

When the game officially ended, Shi Jian gracefully stepped out from between the statues and opened her hand. Inside lay three treasure shards.

These three were rewards for successfully evading capture.

Shi Jian had already found seven children during the earlier streamer-seeking round, which meant she had obtained a total of ten shards from the whole game of “Hide and Seek.”

Add the four shards she had milked from the twins, and she now had a whopping fourteen shards.

Shi Jian was now ranked number one among all the streamers in terms of treasure shard count.

…

The thrilling and terrifying game of hide-and-seek had come to an end. Though it lasted only ten minutes, it left many streamers physically and psychologically shaken.

Shi Jian hadn’t seen the streamers being bitten with her own eyes, but just hearing the sounds and seeing the bloodstains on the floor had already made her feel pretty disturbed.

In the end, she had to mentally hypnotize herself: If I don’t sleep now, I’ll get dark circles and dull skin… Only then did she manage to drift off.

It took Shi Jian a full two minutes to fall asleep—when usually she’d be out the moment her head hit the pillow.Fortunately, nothing else weird happened that night. When Shi Jian got up, she found her complexion was still okay—otherwise, she absolutely would’ve had a breakdown.

Tang Tian also experienced something similar and took the chance to call Shi Jian, full of complaints.

“They suddenly held a sports day in the middle of the night—can you believe it?!”

Shi Jian replied, “Utterly ridiculous!”

But when Shi Jian heard that the sports day was at a nursing home, she figured that might be Tang Tian’s strong suit. “That should’ve been easy for you, right?”

Although Tang Tian missed out on the hide-and-seek game, she ended up at the elderly sports event.

Tang Tian paused and gave a bitter laugh. “To be honest, I thought so too at first.”

When the broadcast announced the events, Tang Tian was thrilled. As a former athlete who almost made the national team, how could she lose to elderly grandmas and grandpas?

And then she was nearly crushed.

It wasn’t what she thought at all.

An old grandpa in a wheelchair sped forward with the wind at his back—even though during the day, he’d looked like a rock, unmoving, waiting for Tang Tian to push him around.

A grandma who had been hunched over with a cane and trembling limbs suddenly jumped incredibly high during the pole vaulting event—at a level that could break records at a regular high school sports meet.

Shi Jian and Tang Tian once again passionately cursed the dungeon ten thousand times over.

Luckily, both of them still ended up doing fairly well. Though Tang Tian wasn’t as good at exploiting loopholes as Shi Jian, she still managed to get several treasure shards.

…

The next day at Angel Orphanage, the streamers were once again doing their usual childcare duties.

From the moment Shi Jian saw the twin sisters in the morning, she could feel an even stronger resentment radiating from them.

Yesterday, they had still been pretending to be sweet and calling her "Big Sis." Today, they completely dropped the act and showed their true colors.

They were definitely planning something.

Shi Jian was ready for it.

Sure enough, after fiddling with some building blocks for a while, the older of the twins suddenly stared at Shi Jian’s shoulder and said enthusiastically, “Hi.”

Who was she greeting?

But when Shi Jian turned her head, there was nothing behind her.

Shi Jian choked up a little.

She was starting to feel creeped out.

The chat barrage exploded with exclamation marks again.

【Mom! What the hell was that?!】

【Did the twin sisters see something?! Can you explain a little? This is terrifying in broad daylight.】

【I turned the volume off. I’m too scared to keep watching…】

Shi Jian didn’t ask. According to her horror movie logic—if you don’t ask, maybe nothing will happen.Even though the dungeon’s progression often defied logic.

Shi Jian didn’t ask, but the twins took the initiative to speak.

“There’s a little brother clinging to your back,” they said, tilting their heads as they spoke to Shi Jian.

“He says he hates you the most and wants to eat you up, bite by bite.”

As she spoke, one of them even mimicked a biting motion with her mouth wide open.

Shi Jian: !!!

Viewers: !!!

Whether it was psychological or real, Shi Jian suddenly felt a chill on her shoulder.

Was this "leisure" dungeon really this intense? Not only did it involve creepy children, but now there were also unseen spirits?

Looking at Shi Jian remaining silent, the twin sisters smiled even more brightly. The younger one set down her building blocks and, baring her claws, added, “The little brother wants you to tell us how you can tell the two of us apart. If you don’t, he’ll start biting you right now!”

Shi Jian had originally been getting more and more creeped out from overthinking, but upon hearing this, something didn’t sit right.

She turned to the younger twin and asked, “…Did the little brother also ask where I was hiding yesterday, and tell me I’d better confess honestly?”

The twins had indeed been dying to know where Shi Jian had hidden and how she managed to do it—they hadn’t been able to find her no matter what, which was eating away at them.

So without even thinking, they nodded like crazy.

Then they waited for Shi Jian to confess.

If Shi Jian had only been suspicious before, now she was absolutely sure—they were lying.

She shifted her position slightly, and that chilly feeling on her shoulder disappeared. It turned out the chill was from a caregiver having adjusted the air conditioner, and it had just happened to blow on her shoulder.

Shi Jian raised a trembling finger and pointed behind the twins. Her other hand covered her mouth, and her elegant eyebrows scrunched together.

It looked like she had seen something truly terrifying, and the audience was instantly pulled into the moment.

What’s going on? What did she see?

The twins were even more confused.

They hadn’t gotten their answer about how Shi Jian could tell them apart—instead, Shi Jian pulled something like this. They turned around cautiously.

There was nothing.

“What are you doing?!” the older twin yelled, glancing nervously over her shoulder while screaming at Shi Jian.

Shi Jian stammered, “…Behind you… behind you is a school ghost. The school ghost is carrying a huge pile of textbooks and exam papers. He said he really likes you two and wants to make you study and do drills all day long—and take exams. If your scores are bad, he’ll skewer you with a ruler and turn you into meat kebabs!”

Her tone dropped and grew heavier with the final line.

Shi Jian had drawn from the setting of the Aoyama No.1 High dungeon.

The twins were horrified. Their faces turned pale, and they shrieked in unison, “That’s too scary!”

They were just children—why would anyone treat them so cruelly?

The twin sisters nearly burst into tears as they ran screaming from the room.Hopefully the school ghost would stay far away from them and not come cling to them.

They wanted to scare Shi Jian—but ended up being the ones scared by her.

Shi Jian achieved a new milestone: scaring ghosts.

She was very pleased with her results. Once the twin sisters left, she quickly dropped her fearful expression and let out a snort.

Trying to act in front of her?

That’s like showing off in front of Guan Gong with his own blade.

When it comes to acting—she’s a professional.

……

【Hahahahaha, scaring ghosts—Shi-laoshi, you really outdid yourself. What other surprises are you hiding from us!】

【I literally don’t dare leave the stream for a second—I’m afraid I’ll miss a key moment. This streamer is unreal, it’s nonstop highlights and surprises!】

And Shi Jian still had more surprises up her sleeve.

Just when everyone thought her scaring the twins into fleeing was already peak streamer gameplay, they realized the seemingly duped twin sisters had come back for more.

This time, they relentlessly harassed Shi Jian while she was trying to rest—hyper and noisy, clamoring to play.

It was painfully obvious to everyone that they were taking revenge on Shi Jian, trying to exhaust her. And Shi Jian couldn’t refuse—she was still responsible for watching them.

Watching the two bouncing and shouting around gave Shi Jian a pounding headache. She knew even if she played along now, it wouldn’t be the end.

She had to find a way to end it once and for all.

Shi Jian said, “Play?”

“Sure.”

She agreed readily.

Then she flashed a meaningful smile at the twins, who were already grinning mischievously.

“How about the three of us invite Su Xinxin to join us? Just us isn’t very fun.”

According to the "Angel Kindergarten’s Book of Grudges and Affections" that Shi Jian had pieced together herself based on info pried from the twin sisters, they especially disliked Su Xinxin.

And now Shi Jian was inviting Su Xinxin to play with them.

“……”

The twins, who had been bouncing moments ago, instantly fell silent. They turned away together and started talking to each other like nothing had happened. “Let’s just play house, just the two of us!”

Sorry, we were wrong to bother you.

……

Of course, children are bundles of infinite energy, and the twin sisters weren’t about to give up so easily. They pulled out a particularly strong tactic.

Each of them held up a metal plate and began flaunting them in front of Shi Jian.

Shi Jian noticed the plates right away. You’d have to be blind to miss them.“What’s this?” Shi Jian actually grew a little interested, her gaze falling on the metal plates.

The twin sisters looked proud. “These are badges.”

“The dean said you all need to collect two badges, right?”

“Both our badges are right here.”

The twin sisters: Still dare to make us angry? Still think you don’t have to listen to us?

This move was vicious—straight-up threatening the streamer.

They smugly held the badges closer to Shi Jian’s face, letting her get a better look.

Shi Jian, having been successfully educated, stared at the iron plates right in front of her. “So these are badges, huh?”

They had only been told by the NPCs that they needed to collect badges, but no one said what they looked like. Honestly, they weren’t anything special—white plates with a thumbs-up icon.

In the next instant, the twin sisters felt their hands go empty.

Their badges had been snatched away by Shi Jian, using both hands.

Shi Jian: Badges? Hand ’em over!

She looked at the two stunned children with wide eyes and said, not very sincerely, “Thanks!”

She smiled radiantly.

Look! She got the badges.

They were delivered right to her—how could she not take them?

Shi Jian demonstrated how to get two badges in two simple steps—

Reach out. Grab.

Boom—two badges, right in hand!

The twin sisters couldn’t giggle anymore in the face of this outrageous and lawless robbery.

They couldn’t laugh!

Only evil adults who bully kids could still laugh at a time like this.

The twins collapsed directly to the floor, crying their hearts out—not some ghostly wailing, just normal, ear-splitting kid crying.

When Shi Jian realized what was happening, she quickly dropped her hands from her ears, still a little rattled.

That gave her a real scare!

……

But in the end, Shi Jian did return the badges to the twins.

Reluctantly.

Because a nurse, hearing the noise and rushing over, told Shi Jian that she wasn’t allowed to take the badges directly from the kids—they had to give them willingly.

Once the twins had their badges back, they didn’t dare take them out again. But the nurse’s words gave them just a bit of their courage back.Their faces were still streaked with tears, yet they continued to sob and threaten Shi Jian, “Now… sob sob… you're scared, right… know to show us some respect now, huh?”

Shi Jian replied crisply and without hesitation, “Dream on, kid.”

Even though they were holding two badges, Shi Jian acted completely unfazed.

She raised her brows, her face more dazzling than blooming flowers. Leaning closer to the twin sisters, the sweet yet not cloying scent on her body wafted over. Shi Jian gently waved her slender fingers and parted her red lips.

“You think you’re the only two kids I’ve got?”

The twin sisters stared at Shi Jian, utterly shocked: You actually have other little kids out there?!