<h4>Chapter 461: Word Chain 3</h4>
The rainbow light flew to Lin Dajian. For a moment, they were all shocked and confused.
Why?
The wish the genie granted worked, but not the divine dragon?
Gao Yang was the first to figure it out: Zhou Jing’s wish dide true. The game would end, but Zhou Jing hadn’t specified when the game would end! So the game continued regrly, and it would end after three minutes!
<i>That’s a foul move!</i>
With the buff to clear their minds and calm their emotions, the others came to the same conclusion.
“<i>Telescope!</i>” Lin Dajian said the word at thest second, resigned.
“<i>Lens,</i>” Mi Shi followed.
“<i>Moment (pian ke).</i>” Then Edmond.
<i>Ding.</i>
Followed by the notification, the moderator said, “A moment has passed. The game is shortened by 30 seconds.”
<i>You’re a fucking genius, Edmond!</i>
Gao Yang threw the man an admiring nce. Edmond epted the silent praise with a smile.
“Ke...ke...” Ke Yo stuttered, then she said, “<i>Memorable like bones getting cut and heart being stabbed (ke gu ming xin)</i>.”
Gao Yang was surprised. <i>Good job. </i>
Ke Yo had managed toe up with something ending with <i>xin</i>, heart. That meant they would be able to make another wish.
But his joy was premature.
“Aghhhh—”
For a moment, everyone held onto their chest and copsed to the ground in pain.
<i>It hurts.</i>
<i>It hurts so much!</i>
It felt as if every single one of their bones were being gnawed at by worms, and their hearts were cut and sliced by countless des. The great pain robbed them of their ability to think.
The rainbow light jumped to Gao Yang.
“<i>Wish (xin yuan)!</i>” Gao Yang shouted. Fortunately, he had been thinking about repeating the word, so he was able to call it out on instinct without thinking.
“Five, four, three..”
But the moderator hadn’t stopped counting down.
<i>Is it that repeated words aren’t allowed?!</i>
“Two, one...”
At thest second, Gao Yang tamped down the pain and racked his brain for a word. Finally, he thought of something that could relieve them of the torment. “<i>Burst of joy (xin hua nu fang)!</i>”
Instantly, the pain was gone. Kneeling on the floor, Gao Yang felt a strong wave of indescribable joy.
“Haha!”
“Hahaha...”
It was the same for the others. Although they were ying a game for survival, they couldn’t help butugh out loud.
“Five, four, three...”
Vermilion Bird continued the game whileughing. Without even thinking about it, she blurted out, “Haha, <i>fang</i>...haha...<i>herding cattles (fang niu)</i>...”
<i>Moo—</i>
Arge buffalo appeared in the house. On its back was a child herding the buffalo.
“Hahaha...”
“Hahaha...”
Inside the realm, theirughter ovepped.
It was Qiu Qiu’s turn. Heughed in joy. “Hahaha, <i>fucking A (niu bi)</i>...”
“Five, four, three...”
It seemed that swear word didn’t count.
“<i>Milk (niu nai)...</i>haha, hahaha...” Qiu Qiu quickly said another word.
A secondter, a bottle of milk appeared in the room.
“Haha, <i>nai...nai</i> haha...” Can was going to say <i>nai yo</i>, butter, but her uncontrobleughter had left her breathless, and she ended up repeating the same syble, uttering <i>nai nai</i>, grandmother.
<i>Boom!</i>
A pixted old woman appeared on the sofa in the room.
“Haha...”
Gao Yang was stillughing uncontrobly, but two secondster, his eyes reddened.
Although the old woman’s face and body were pixted and thus didn’t have the details, Gao Yang could still recognize at first nce that it was his grandmother.
She had a handful of candies in her hand as she reached out to Gao Yang, smiling kindly at him.
<i>Calm down!</i>
<i>It’s not real! It’s only a projection of my feelings!</i>
Gao Yang continued tough.
Then Zhou Jing said the word after five seconds. “Haha, <i>dairy cow (nai niu)</i>, hahaha...”
<i>Moo—</i>
A dairy cow appeared in the room, further filling up the realm.
<i>Another cow?!</i>
Whileughing, Lin Dajian decided to go with a different kind of word in order to break them out of this strange loop, thinking outside the box. “Haha, <i>bull market (niu shi)</i>.”
Suddenly, the nine of them lifted into the air, drawn by a gravitational pull in the opposite direction.
“Whoa...”
They flew out of the topless house until they hit the ceiling of the realm, leaving a trail of a red arrow.
Gao Yang grumbled inwardly, <i>So it’s a bull market. We’ve be limit-up stocks! At least we’ve finally broken out of the forcedughter. Now we can think calmly.</i>
“<i>Shi...</i>” Mi Shi paused for two seconds. “<i>Mayor (shi zhang)!</i>”
<i>Boom!</i>
A pixted suited middle-aged man appeared beside them, holding a megaphone as he dered, “Li City is our home. Being civilized relies on everyone...”
Five secondster, Edmond said, “<i>Chang...Changjiang</i>[1].”
<i>Ssh.</i>
Arge volume of water rushed into the house through the window, quickly filling the house by half. It was thanks to the nine of them soaring to the top of the realm that they avoided the fate of getting drowned.
But the water continued to rise. Soon, it would fill the entire realm.
Gao Yang had been keeping time though. There were 180 seconds in 3 minutes, and they had been saying a word every 5 seconds. In total, they would need to chain words 35 times.
Thanks to Edmond’s word, moment, they shortened the game by 30 seconds, which meant that they only needed to chain 30 words.
From Edmond’s cigarette to <i>Changjiang</i>, they had chained 26 or 27 words already. Soon, the game would end. They just had to seed four or five more times. They must seed!
“<i>Jiang...jiang...</i>” It was Ke Yo’s turn again. She was going to say<i> jiang he</i>, river, but that would make the water rise faster. If the water filled the space fully, they wouldn’t be able to talk and thus wouldn’t be able to continue the game.
Pressed for time, it seemed that she couldn’t think of a better word, and she ended up blurting out, “<i>Out of ideas (jiangng cai jin)!</i>”
The next second, a limit was imposed on all of them. While they could still think flexibly, they couldn’te up with any words or idioms ending with <i>jin</i>.
The rainbow light jumped to Gao Yang.
“Five, four, three...”
<i>Shit, I’m dead! I can’t think of anything!</i>
<i>You’ve cornered me, Ke Yo!</i>
<i>Oh, I almost forgot. I still have my dear system!</i>
[ess granted.]
[You have acquired...]
—Got it!
[ess ends.]
“<i>Do your best (jin li er wei)!</i>”
Instantly, their condition changed from being at wit’s end to doing their best.
It was now Vermilion Bird’s turn. She quickly said, “<i>Serve as an example like a teacher</i> <i>(wei ren shi biao).</i>”
Their condition changed again. Their vocabry increased once more, bing well-educated.
Five secondster, Qiu Qiu shouted, “<i>The book matches the cover!</i>”
Then Can followed suit, “<i>Godspeed!</i>”
<i>Rumble.</i>
They fell to the floor.
Everything that had been conjured during the game vanished, and the space turned back into the enclosed room they had been in.
“The game ends. The Strange Realm lifted.”
<i>Rumble.</i>
Gao Yang felt his head be suddenly heavy, like he had been hit with a club.
He cked out.
1. The<i> ‘zhang’ </i>of mayor is the same Chinese character as the ‘<i>chang’ </i>for <i>changjiang</i>, the longest river in China ?