Doomsday Carnival Chapter 6

T/N: Updated with some corrections and missing scenes.

6th Eight-person roundtable game with Ghosts

Among the eight of them, Lin Yi Ning recognized most of them and wanted to think that they were all neighbors of the same unit.

He sat there, looking at the people around him. Except for the girl who sat opposite to him occasionally sobbing, there are no other sound heard and everyone was quiet.

He is the last to come in and he have no idea what happened before he came, but he can imagine the choices that a group of ordinary people will make in front of such a deadly and ferocious thing. Just like Lin Yi Ning in the subway station, the sense of up and down constantly repeating during the experience.

He can almost imagine that after they had pushed their door open, they found themselves crossing to a strange place with not a chance to leave– the door disappeared– and after that, what kind of mood they would be in. Lin Yi Ning took out his phone and opened the app but found out that it failed.

He found a large shadow on the corner of his eyes. It was like a monster and its immense stature gave him unspeakable fear.

“You can’t say it.” A voice said to him: “You cannot tell these new people about the game, or you will die.”

Lin Yi Ning immediately felt his hair rise in alarm at the voice.

The light in the room suddenly darkened and a cheerful voice of a child said: “Good evening everyone~”

The response to him was an awkward silence.

The child seems not the care and continued: “Let’s get to the point. If you don’t play this game, you will really die. This brother should be very clear.”

He was referring to Lin Yi Ning when he uttered this remark and all eyes turned to him.

The other side won’t let him say but he announced it himself. Lin Yi Ning don’t know what he was thinking.

The child did not find himself saying something wrong. With a smile, he greeted Lin Yi Ning: “I also deliberately found a good voice for the welcome speech. Isn’t it a pleasant surprise?”

Lin Yi Ning bowed his head in front of the doubting and inquiring eyes of the people around him. The child did not care, his voice sank and he said: “Do all of you know the rules of the game? Then let’s start. The first hint, it lives in the thirty three floors. And the first theme is, please introduce yourself and where were you before this?”

No one wants to talk first. After a long silence, a bright light shone from the roof and hit a person’s face.

Its a man that is dressed like a gangster. Lin Yi Ning found that he looked familiar. If he did not remember it wrong, he should be the son of the uncle who lives on the first floor, he seems to know what kind of person he is.

“Why should I tell you?” The man sneered. “Come, if you have the ability to kill.”

He crossed his legs and said: ” This society is ruled by law. We have eight people. Come and kill them, kill me, and see how will you end up.”

The gaze of the gangster shifted to Lin Yi Ning’s face, saying: “You. Do you want to say something?”

Lin Yi Ning looked sullen and said: “You are free.”

“Please refrain from speaking to 8th without permission, and next time you do, you will be convicted of cheating. “The child grinned :”The 1st player finished speaking and others can see the record on the tablet in front of them. Friendly tips, if a player does not speak around the theme, they will be judged to be a negative in the game, and that it is likely to use this method to cover up their differences.”

“You fart! “The man beat the table and stood up:” You let us out! ”

With a bang, a vase that nobody knew where it came from flew towards the gangster and knocked him back to his seat. The pieces of the broken vase was scattered on the ground and its possible to see how big the strength of the vase when it hit him. Then two strips of tape flew and tied up his mouth.

The child announced:”A player attacked the referee and he is banned in this round. You see his guilty appearance. Except him, who else can be the ghost? Just pick and choose him.”

The bound man widened his eyes and screamed twice but nobody can understand him.

The light turned to the second man.

He looked like a honest and cowardly person and obviously will not have the guts to confuse people. “I got home after six o’clock then I was locked in when I opened the door.” He looked around and shouted, “You all know me right? We have at least met once. Don’t choose me, I’m not really the ghost!”

“Times up.” The child said. “You see how efficient it is to just play the game.”

The next speaker basically copied the second person, all with a simple sentence.

“I … I was drinking milk tea with my boyfriend/girlfriend just now. “This is a couple.

“Sending garbage out.”

“I was sending a package order.”

Lin Yi Ning listened as they spoke, and turned up the tablet in front of him.

The style of the tablet is outdated and looks more complicated compared to the current portable folding screen. Each person’s speech is record and turned into text format and each one is recorded in incredible detail.

He swept his eyes and transferred his gaze to the speaker, trying to find clues to them. Soon, it was Lin Yi Ning’s turn. “I just came back from the subway station.”

The child laughed: “The pretty little brother is right.”

Looking at that unknown existence then to Lin Yi Ning again, the people around looked at him differently.

Lin Yi Ning is the last person in the group of eight to have finished speaking and its now time to vote. According to the child, they have three minutes to communicate with each other.

“I … I have a question.” Nobody spoke at first. After a moment of silence, somebody raised his hand: “What would happen to the man who was voted out?”

“The rules are very clear. They will meet the ghost.” Said the child.

“Will they die?”

“Not necessarily,” the child continued, “hmm.. depends on its mood.”

He gestured to the tablet.

“Which one?” The man who asked the question trembled and looked at Lin Yi Ning: “What do you know? Do you the right one? How the hell are we going to get out?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t know anything.” Lin Yi Ning thought for a moment and said.

The girl who first spoke to Lim Yi Ning when he entered started crying, the sobs coming from her became the background music so the atmosphere in the whole room started falling down.

The girl who started talking to Lin Yi Ning was crying, and the low sobs made the background music, which kept the atmosphere of the whole room had been falling.

Then no one spoke, and the room was so suffocating.

Almost everyone can see it, the others reservations in this hame. Taking out the garbage, sending people to work, daily and reasonable reasons which gave no touch of any clues.

Because the have no sense of crisis at all, they still have luck. Yes, the number one is right. Even if this people have magical means, so what? Are they really going to kill people?

Perhaps this is big reality show made by some bored program group, not knowing which corner of the room is hiding the hidden camera or whether this is live stream, and on the page, netizens laughed at their stupidity—

Why should they cooperate with the strange things that suddenly appeared. If they don’t cooperate with them, its just a passive situation. What can these people do to them?

Lin Yi Ning vaguely guessed what these people were thinking, but he did not try to change their mind. What can he do? Say that this is a crazy game created by aliens? What does he have to prove himself? At best, it just proves that he is in cahoots with them–no, he will become the next target.

The core of the game is to choose the different one among the group of people.

And he is obviously different from others, who makes him too conspicuous? The ‘referee’s extra attention to him has already made some people suspicious of him. And Lin Yi Ning certainly does not want anything extra at all.

Not to mention that the time is too short. Rather than spend time to try and convince them in three minutes of this ridiculous thing, he better think of the clue given by the ‘referee’ that it lives on the 33 floors. He lives on the highest unit of this building that is only six stories, what are the 33 floors?

Three minutes passed quickly and entered the voting session. The page on the tablet is turned into a blank page from the conversation log- and the to says ‘please write down who you want to vote for’, but no one has touched it yet.”

Lin Yi Ning is also watching on the sidelines.

Some hesitate, some did not cooperate,. They just stared blankly at the page. The coward and timid middle age man has decided to randomly choose a hapless ghost that he found not pleasing to the eye and write down his number.

Lin Yi Ning was caught of guard when 30 seconds later, the blank page on his tablet appeared a big red X.

“Only two people voted. You think I can’t do anything without your vote?” The child angrily said: “You treat the game like this, I will treat you the same. I will give you something good to see.”

The room darkened. A burnt smell sudden burst out of nowhere, then crash, like something dropped to the ground followed by a friction like sound coming from an unknown texture.

The sound echoed near and far, not letting a person tell where it came from. When it pass across everyone’s side, they can’t help but shiver.

Lin Yi Ning wanted to pull out the bow and arrow from the backpack but failed. The backpack is still invalid.

When the sound neared him, the muscles in his body could not help but tightened.

That thing finally stopped beside Lin Yi Ning.

It climbed the table legs in Lin Yi Ning’s side as it slowly stood up. He even felt it several times and met itself. Fortunately, he manage to confirm that the other party’s goal is not himself.

The sensation disappears after a moment but Lin Yi Ning has firmly remembered it. It’s a bit hard, and the surface has holes and let him think about a few years ago when he got a scratch while playing, the feeling of wound scabbing when he touched it.

The goal of that thing was the banned gangster who was next to him.

The darkness magnifies all senses. The burnt smell surrounds him and he can hear a rustle, the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.

The ghost’s goal is the number one. With his mouth sealed with a tape, he can only make sounds of despairing whimper.

The speed of the ghost is very slow, like its slowly crawling up and the foul smell in the room got stronger.

Lin Yi Ning wanted to summon the bow and arrow but found that he could still not open his backpack.

With a whistling sound, a random light lit up and before Lin Yi Ning can adjust to the light, he heard a shrill scream.

It should be the gangster.

Lin Yi Ning turned his head in an instant and meet the number one’s eyes.