King Crazy Game

"one!"

"two!"

"three!"

"Have you hidden it? I'm coming to find it."

A little boy about six years old put his hands on the trunk of a roadside tree, closed his eyes and asked loudly, while looking for other children hiding behind him.

The hiding children wisely kept quiet and did not respond to him. There was only the sound of the adults chatting and drinking.

The little boy turned around and started looking for it while saying excitedly, "Here I come."

Hearing this, he looked at the little boy who had been looking for someone and smiled: "In the past, our school held a hide-and-seek game on December 31st every year. The cat that didn't find all the mice would receive a special New Year reward, and the cat that found all the mice would also receive a special New Year reward."

"You four never played the game, and many people feel sorry for that."

Hearing this, he smiled with a hint of disappointment, turned around and saw Lin Zicheng staring at the plate of stir-fried shrimps but not touching them. He smiled knowingly, asked the boss for a pair of disposable gloves, and automatically helped him peel the shrimps.

"The outcome is set in stone. It's just a waste of time to participate." Lin Zicheng picked up a piece of peeled shrimp and ate it with great satisfaction.

Hearing this, he chuckled: "The initiator of the game is always the one with the most say among the students. Family background and academic performance are both indispensable. They are like kings holding power, using a game to arbitrarily deal with people they don't like."

"Some participants wanted to protect themselves so that they would not be punished in the next year's game. Some wanted to take this opportunity to attach themselves to the authority. Some were just bored and wanted to kill time because they knew that they would never be the one who was punished. But there was one person who was forced to participate, and that person was the final performer."

"Whether you win or lose, what awaits you is a silent special reward. Now that I think about it, it's normal, the strong prey on the weak. Those students who didn't participate watched coldly, staying out of the matter, enjoying it like a play. In the eyes of the victims, how can the bystanders be innocent?"

Society has its own rules for survival. The ivory tower is only slightly milder than society, but it also has the same rules. The weak and unsociable people will inevitably become the targets of arbitrary bullying in the eyes of the rulers. Even if such people disappear from the world, no one will care. The strong and unsociable people will become the thorns in the eyes of the rulers. They will unite with others to "comply with public opinion" and remove the thorns in their eyes.

"You've been forced to be that cat for a year." Lin Zicheng raised his eyelids and glanced at Wen Yan.

"Well, in the final exam of the first semester, I ranked behind Shen Qingning and took up someone else's place, so they wanted to eliminate me. Unfortunately, I was incompetent and conceited, so that night, I found all the mice and threw them into the trash can one by one."

Hearing this, he smiled meaningfully and lowered his voice, "It was very strenuous. I almost lost half my life. What's worse is that I had to pretend to be unharmed the next day. But as long as someone lifted my clothes, they would see my bloody body."

"Thanks to your school uniform that day, no one found it, and the old principal could justifiably announce that it had nothing to do with me. But I don't have the chance to return it to you. It was stolen later and must have been thrown into a trash can." When he heard the word "throw", his tone unconsciously became heavier and his hand subconsciously clenched the chopsticks.

Lin Zicheng chuckled slightly and didn't respond. He just looked at him gently and said, "No one will dare to throw your student ID into the game box in the second year. Kill a hundred to warn one."

Hearing this, he peeled all the shrimps on the plate, as if he had completed a big project, and looked at Lin Zicheng begging for a reward: "You don't dare to do it openly, but you have made a lot of moves behind the scenes. It's really hard to deal with the bugs buzzing in my ears all the time."

“So I could only be a mad dog that everyone was afraid of. Only by not daring anyone to approach me could I ensure my own safety. That was the only way I could think of to save myself at the time when I had no other abilities.” He sighed after hearing that, without moving his gaze, he still looked at Lin Zicheng who was eating with relish.

The little boy not far from them finally found all the other children, and they excitedly started a new round of games, rock-paper-scissors, and the loser would be the cat.

Lin Zicheng put down his chopsticks, his eyes passed over the words and drifted towards the darkness not far from them: "A new game has begun. Whether we are willing or forced, we all participate in this game. If we just look for mice, it will be too boring. Why don't we make a bet and guess whether the initiator of this game is a powerful person or an invisible ant."

He paused after hearing this, then laughed again: "I thought you were going to bet with me on who can find the mouse first."

"The obvious answer is boring."

"Xu Minmin, Fang Jingzhou, who will be next?"

"Yu Moshu." Lin Zicheng took out an auction ticket from his pocket and handed it to Wen Yan, "Number one, Yu Moshu's family will hold an auction on the XXX cruise ship."

Hearing this, he looked at the admission ticket and said nothing, but a meaningful smile appeared in the corner of his eyes.

Shen Qingning started the car and left until a long time after both of them had left the restaurant, returning to the villa where he had not lived for a long time.

The house is very large, and especially without any lights on, it gives off a cold, dead smell.

Under the moonlight, Shen Qingning did not turn on the lights, but walked all the way to the second floor and opened a door that had not been opened for many years.

The room was empty except for a glass display cabinet, which contained a burnt student ID card. The remaining part clearly had "Shen Qingning" written on it.

Shen Qingning opened the envelope he had just taken out of the mailbox. There was a student ID card that had also been burned, and the name "Xu Simin" was still on it. He put the two student ID cards together, stared at them for a long time, and forced a smile: "Onlooker."

I don't know when it started, but on the last day of every year, a student would initiate a cat-and-mouse game. As long as you put your student ID card into the game box, you would be considered to have agreed to participate. People with good family background and academic performance would draw a number to choose the cat. Lin Zicheng was the first to give up. So a girl from the senior grade was chosen instead. I don't remember her name, but I remember that she was the cat that year.

The tragic scene that year shocked everyone. It was also from that day that Lin Zicheng smiled and told him that he had found a fun toy.

If you go too far in the game, you will end up shooting yourself.

Wen Yan is not a stupid person, he is smarter than anyone else, maybe he knew from the beginning that Lin Zicheng's approach was deliberately done by them. So he used Fang Jingzhou and Wen Sixian to break all the lies and make Lin Zicheng no longer accepted.

Then he used a fire to keep Lin Zicheng by his side forever.

It’s just that there were many more people involved in that fire: bystanders, arsonists, victims, and firefighters.