Chapter 249: The Memories
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
There was not much time left. This was the last door.
If they could not gather on the third floor within the time limit, everyone would be punished.
Zheng You did not care about this at all. She only wanted Bai Lin to pay the
price.
Bai Lin stared at the eye on the bears chest. She quickly noticed that the eye would flicker every five seconds. That was the best time to defeat the bear.
She focused and aimed at the bleeding eyeball. Using two fingers as a sword, she quickly stabbed it.
However, the eye was extremely smooth to the touch. Bai Lin only felt as if her fingers had brushed past it, but she had not touched any important mechanism.
When she turned around and was ready to attack again, she saw the eyeball split open in the middle. The bear’s body also shrank like a deflated balloon.
Bai Lin even began to doubt herself. She was certain that she was not the one who had triggered the eyeball mechanism. Was it her own misjudgment or did someone else do it?
“Hurry up! Get out first! It’s almost time!” When Zhou Guang saw Bai Lin attack, he automatically a.s.sumed that the teddy bear must have been knocked down by her. He quickly called for the others to leave the stairwell.
Bai Lin saw that there was still a teddy bear the size of an arm in the corner. She quietly picked it up and hugged it in her arms.
Her night vision was good, so she noticed a ring next to the teddy bear.
The ring looked like a man’s ring with patterns carved on the silver band.
Bai Lin looked at Yan Ruo’s back and followed.
Even though the few of them managed to get to the third floor within the time limit, Li Xuan, Zheng You, and Jing Shan had all exceeded the volume limit and had to be punished.
Jing Shan shouted and refused to cooperate with the staff. He was directly dragged into the punishment room by two staff members who were nearly two meters tall.
Now that all the clues were on the table, they only needed to connect the clues to a.n.a.lyze the whole story, solve the mysteries, and win the game.
Bai Lin looked at Yan Ruo’s fingers. Those hands were fair and the joints were distinct. There seemed to be traces of a ring on his index finger.
“Your ring,” Bai Lin said.
Yan Ruo received the ring without any surprise. “Ah, I dropped it. Lucky you picked it up for me.”
He noticed that Bai Lin was holding the scary and tattered bear. “Do you like teddy bears?”
Bai Lin looked down at the bear and pursed her lips as she recalled the past.
When she was eight years old, she was brought back to the Bai Family and could only stay in the guest room, which was very different from the children’s room that Bai Xi and Bai Shao lived in.
However, everything in the room was new and unfamiliar to Bai Lin who had always lived in the village—especially the teddy bear on the bedside table.
It was a brown bear the size of a palm for display purpose.
Before going to bed at night, Bai Xi and Bai Shao both drank the warm milk that Zhao Yuan prepared and were kissed on the cheek before going to sleep. However, Bai Lin did not have those. She could only secretly stroke the teddy bear in the dark, thinking of the old woman who was like her grandmother.
Bai Lin was too young at that time, and Bai Xi soon found out that she liked the teddy bear. Bai Xi was scheming and broke Bai Shao’s toy train, framing
Bai Lin and letting Bai Shao know how much Bai Lin liked the mini teddy bear.
“I didn’t break it.” Bai Lin was not good at refuting and only repeated the fact.
Zhao Yuan, on the other hand, was furious. She had always thought that if Bai Lin was her biological daughter, then she should be well-behaved and pleasant like Bai Xi who would say nice things to please people; even if she did something wrong, she would act coquettishly so that people could not bear to blame her.
“Mom, jiejie definitely didn’t do it on purpose. She also has her own favorite toy. She definitely understands how Bai Shao feels when his toy is broken.” Bai
Xi was already very good at instigating at that time, and Zhao Yuan’s favoritism had never stopped.
Soon, the teddy bear was cut into pieces by a pair of scissors in front of Bai Lin and thrown into the trash can under Zhao Yuan’s indulgence.
“Xiao Lin, are you okay?” Yan Ruo saw Bai Lin frowning slightly and guessed that this question seemed to have brought up a sad matter.
When Bai Lin regained her senses, she saw that Yan Ruo had already placed the ring back on his index finger.
She thought back to the time when she had encountered a pack of wolves in Traveler. That time, it was most likely Yan Ruo who had used small pebbles as bullets to save her.
Despite that, he was often injured, and it seemed that he needed protection. Bai Lin thought about it repeatedly and finally came to a conclusion—this man had skills and was not as simple as he looked at all.