My God Raising Game

Chapter 25 Is this still the same inconspicuous person in the class?
Soon, a dozen or so panicked people rushed out of the thick white fog.

Running in the lead were Ke Xinyi, Ning Qian, and Li Yinuo, a trio of girls, followed by several young tourists, and then a few classmates that Lu Jiuling wasn't very familiar with.

Upon seeing Lu Jiuling and the others, Ke Xinyi immediately shouted, "Run! There's a ghost!"

"Is it a female ghost wearing a cheongsam?"

Xu Shaowei quickly pressed for more information.

"Yeah, that thing can grab people!"

Ning Qian gasped for breath: "Its tongue is like that of a hanged ghost, it can stretch out more than ten meters long. I saw with my own eyes a female tourist get her neck wrapped in that thing's tongue and dragged into the thick fog!"

"They're definitely dead!"

Ning Qian's voice was filled with terror.

"Stop talking nonsense, run!"

Li Yinuo urged him on, her steps never faltering, but as she ran past Lu Jiuling, he grabbed her arm.

"What are you doing?"

Li Yinuo got angry and subconsciously grabbed Lu Jiuling's arm, trying to shake off his hand.

Why are you running this way?

Lu Jiuling realized something was wrong: "Want to get out?"

"Nonsense, why don't you go out and wait to die?"

Li Yinuo complained irritably.

"But this is the road into the mansion!"

Xu Shaowei frowned deeply: "The direction you came from is the way out!"

"what?"

Ke Xinyi and Ning Qian were dumbfounded.

"impossible!"

Li Yinuo shook her head: "We ran back the way we came as soon as we bumped into that thing!"

"Then why are you here?"

Xu Shaowei retorted, "Did you run to the wrong place in your panic?"

"joke!"

Li Yinuo insisted, "I'm not directionally challenged!"

"It should be correct, right?"

Ke Xinyi looked at Ning Qian, unsure of what to do.

"Damn, could this be a ghost wall?"

Jia Mingqiao thought of a possibility.

"Can you please stop jinxing me?"

Ning Qian was so frightened that she cried and wiped her tears with the back of her hand.

"Miss, are you sure the direction we came from is the way out?"

A young man in a plaid shirt held his girlfriend's hand and anxiously asked Xu Shaowei.

"I……"

Xu Shaowei was speechless and looked at Jiang Shan. She wasn't sure and wanted to hear the opinion of this top student.

"Sure!"

Jiang Shan kept dialing, trying to call for help, but her phone had no signal at all: "Do you have a signal?"

"no!"

Li Jiayao has also been trying to send WeChat messages.

"Neither do I!"

Feng Xiu was so angry when she saw the message failed to send that she wanted to smash her phone.

"We must have bumped into something dirty!"

Jia Mingqiao is numb.

"Have we really gone the wrong way?"

Ning Qian looked at Li Yinuo, who had been the fastest runner just now, and everyone else had been following her.

"how could I know?"

Li Yinuo snapped back, annoyed, "Are you complaining about me?"

"I did not mean that!"

Ning Qian quickly waved her hand.

"Stop arguing, quickly figure out a way to get out!"

Xu Shaowei displayed great leadership qualities, taking the lead without hesitation: "Xu Shuo, Jia Mingqiao, you two go ahead!"

"Why?"

Jia Mingqiao was unhappy.

"..."

Xu Shuo was both amused and annoyed. At a time like this, you're still taking care of Lu Jiuling?

"Aren't you the class monitor? Shouldn't you serve everyone? Stop dawdling and hurry up!"

Xu Shaowei did indeed have a slight intention to take care of Lu Jiuling, since whoever clears the way is more likely to run into something dirty.

"The class monitor is in charge of school affairs, but this is no longer my responsibility!"

Xu Shuo refused.

Do you think I'm stupid?!

Let alone Xu Shaowei, even if Jiang Shan spoke up, Xu Shuo wouldn't be the one to stick his neck out in this bizarre situation!
"Class activities are none of your business?"

Xu Shaowei never expected Xu Shuo to be so selfish.

Xu Shuo didn't want to argue with Xu Shaowei, so he went directly to Lu Jiuling: "Weren't you very bold this morning, daring to talk back to Zhang Shuai?"

"Don't lose face, go for it!"

"690, you're not going to chicken out, are you?"

Jia Mingqiao used provocation.

"It's over!"

Jiang Shan was depressed.

She knew Xu Shuo was unreliable, but she never expected that she couldn't count on him at all.

It seems we have no choice but to save ourselves.

Just as Jiang Shan was about to bravely set off, she heard Lu Jiuling's steady voice.

"Go this way!"

After observing the surrounding environment, Lu Jiuling started running towards the red ball of light that had risen earlier.

"Brother 69!"

Tang Lei was startled. "Don't act like a big shot, you'll get into trouble."

"Student Lu!"

The baby-faced man was worried and didn't want Lu Jiuling to take any risks.

"..."

Xu Shaowei initially thought Lu Jiuling had been provoked by Xu Shuo and Jia Mingqiao, but upon seeing his face...

Calm, composed, without the slightest emotional fluctuation, as if he had been killing fish at RT-Mart for ten years!
It's already as still as a well!

Even if the cutting board contained a voluptuous and shapely mermaid, Xu Shaowei felt that Lu Jiuling wouldn't hold back and would scrape off all the scales clean. Good heavens!
Why do I feel like he has the aura of a handsome, ascetic guy?

Xu Shaowei's heart began to pound faster.

She experienced the same flutter in her heart that she felt when she first met Lu Jiuling.

"..."

Jiang Shan looked surprised.

She didn't expect Lu Jiuling to take the initiative.

You've got some nerve!
But why run forward?

"690, are you stupid? You're still running forward?"

Xu Shuo started criticizing. He saw that Lu Jiuling had really taken the lead in clearing the way, and he started to feel unhappy again. Wouldn't this make him look cowardly and irresponsible?

“We’ve only been in this mansion for fifteen minutes, and we haven’t gone very far. The terrain isn’t complicated either. How could Li Yinuo and Ning Qian have gotten lost?”

Lu Jiuling explained, "So going back the way we came will most likely not get us out!"

"Could it really be a case of being trapped in a maze of ghosts?"

Feng Xiu was afraid.

"I don't know if it's a ghost wall or not, but if we want to get out of this thick fog, we need to find the right way!"

Lu Jiuling deduced that only by containing the forbidden object that emitted this pollution could they leave the mansion alive.

"Is moving forward the right thing to do?"

Xu Shuo pressed further: "What's the basis for your judgment?"

"My guess!"

Lu Jiuling's words were concise and to the point.

"Are you trying to screw us over?"

Xu Shuo almost choked to death by Lu Jiuling.

"Are you going to the vicinity of that red light?"

Jiang Shan guessed.

She noticed that Lu Jiuling remained calm throughout, pondering ways to break the deadlock, a performance far exceeding that of his peers.

"That's right!"

Lu Jiuling glanced at Jiang Shan: "When the fog thickens, the original lights dim and even go out completely. Instead, these red orbs of light appear. Let's go check them out; maybe we can find a clue to get out!"

"What if that ball of light was created by something evil?"

Jia Mingqiao was worried.

"Then just accept your bad luck!"

Lu Jiuling didn't hesitate at all: "You don't really think you can get out without taking any risks at all, do you?"

"go!"

Jiang Shan, with her baby face, followed closely behind Lu Jiuling.

"Follow up! Keep up!"

Xu Shaowei urged.

One more person means one more bit of strength.

"Yinuo, Qianqian, I suddenly realized that 690 looks so handsome with his aloof expression!"

Ke Xinyi was amazed.

Is this still the same quiet student in the class?
If you had done this earlier, I would definitely have pursued you.

"Xu Shuo usually acts like a class leader, taking charge of this and that, but when it comes to actually doing something, he just throws up a huge mess!"

Li Yinuo complained that she looked down on Xu Shuo.

"call!"

Ning Qian and Feng Xiu both breathed a sigh of relief and were no longer so flustered.

At times like these, someone has to step up. Regardless of whether Lu Jiuling's choice is right or wrong, at least he's at the forefront, shielding everyone from the storm.

The group rushed toward the red orb of light floating in mid-air.

I don't know if this action angered those evil spirits, but the ghostly figures that appear and disappear have increased.

Suddenly, one of the ghostly figures opened its mouth wide, like a frog hunting its prey. A tongue as thick as a baby's arm shot out from its mouth, spanning more than twenty meters, and with a snap, it precisely wrapped around the neck of the young man in the plaid shirt.

Boom!
The young man was pulled down and dragged into the thick fog.

"Help……"

The young man shouted urgently, but his girlfriend didn't even turn her head; she jumped even faster.

Without needing anyone to urge them, everyone quickened their pace, with Xu Shuo and Jia Mingqiao even rushing to catch up with Lu Jiuling.

Soon, everyone ran to the red light.

As they got closer, everyone realized that the ball of light was actually a red lantern with a red '囍' character pasted on it, quietly floating under the eaves.

Surrounded by ghostly figures, the lantern with the character '囍' on it didn't evoke any festive feeling; instead, it felt eerie.

"What should we do now?"

Xu Shaowei saw that more red lights had appeared around her, indicating that more large wedding lanterns had been lit and hung up.

So who did it?

What's the purpose of hanging these lanterns?
Is someone getting married?
The girls looked at Lu Jiuling; his performance just now had made them regard him as their pillar of support.

The group was in an octagonal pavilion, with a small, lush bamboo grove to the right.

Lu Jiuling rushed over, drew his Buddha Intestine Sword, and with a few swift strokes, chopped down several bamboo stalks.

"You want to make a bamboo spear? To stab those filthy things to death?"

Feng Xiu's eyes lit up.

"Who could be killed by such a thin bamboo stick?"

Xu Shuo looked at the bamboo stalks, which were as thick as his index finger, and thought that Lu Jiuling was being delusional.

Lu Jiuling was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt underneath. He tore off a strip of cloth from the hem and tied several one-meter-long pillars together. Then he took out a vocabulary notebook from his backpack: "Jia Mingqiao, can I borrow your lighter?"

"I don't smoke, so where would I get a lighter?"

Jia Mingqiao looked embarrassed, not wanting the girl to know he smoked.

"Stop pretending, hurry up!"

Lu Jiuling urged.

He knew that there were a few smokers in the class.

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Jia Mingqiao took out a lighter and handed it over.

Lu Jiuling lit the vocabulary book, and once the fire was burning, he stretched out the bundled bamboo and tried to light it.

"You want to make a torch?"

Xu Shaowei understood what Lu Jiuling was going to do, so she quickly tied up the other bamboo and made a torch as well.

"Isn't it necessary?"

Xu Shuo thought making torches was unnecessary and that it would be better to run away quickly.

The darkness and thick fog darkened the surroundings, but the rising red lanterns illuminated the mansion, making it easy to see the way.

"Didn't you notice that those dirty things are afraid of firelight?"

Lu Jiuling countered with a question.

"what?"

Xu Shuo was taken aback and turned to observe: "How did you figure that out?"

(End of this chapter)