Please Stop Pretending To Be a Cute Newcomer!

t angry after Xue Tong ridiculed him, and smiled calmly.
“I know, I was going to introduce myself as Shen Qi⁹, but that would just make people think of God 7.
That wouldn’t be rubbing heat anymore, that would be rubbing a volcano.”

 

Xue Tong laughed.
The long-haired girl in the white dress covered her mouth to hide a soft smile.
Even the other players, who had been serious and tense from the game began to smile.

 

Only Lu Qi pursed his lips and turned around.
He lifted his suitcase from beside his feet and went upstairs.

 

Gradually, the other players dispersed as well.

 

Shen Qingcheng realized that he still had to choose a room, and he grabbed his suitcase and walked away quickly.
Chen Ge, who had fallen behind in hopes of taking the opportunity to tell him who he was, could only open and close his mouth hopelessly without calling out.

 

Well, they could talk about it later.

 

In the horror game live broadcast room, the homepage recommendation effect was quite extraordinary.
There were more and more viewers in Shen Qingcheng’s broadcast room.

 

【 I heard there was a beauty here? Let me see, let me see! 】

 

【 Wow, I love this little brother’s appearance! 】

 

【 Oh, why did my little brother leave? Where’s he going? He’s headed in the opposite direction, I hope he comes back soon! 】

 

【 Finally an NPC arrived… Control this naughty anchor 2333¹⁰ 】

 

【 Ahhh, my little brother is called Beauty, definitely the name of a peerless god, awsl¹¹ 】

 

【 Come, God 7.
】

 

【 +1, unfortunately, God 7 has already closed his broadcast channel, now we can only rely on editing a collection of clips of him after the copy ends to make ends meet.
】

 

【 My God, God 7 is actually here! 】

 

【 A wild God 7 was really caught! 】

 

【 ? Did God 7 see Beauty just now? 】

 

【 Shen Qi? I’m fucking rolling on the ground laughing, does Beauty know that he narrowly avoided dallying with God 7 in front of God 7 himself! 】

 

【 Beauty is really good at this, I’m learning from him hehehe~ 】

 

【 No wonder I’m still single, it’s because I’m not good at flirting with beautiful women.
My heart is withering.
】

 

【 I started jumping blindly just now.
When the players are close to death, I am afraid, but I also can’t help but want to watch wuwuwu¹².
This scared girl is now online.
】

 

【 You’re a world apart from me, I only dare to watch the copies that God 7 goes through.
】

 

【 Why does Beauty want to change rooms? 】

 

【 Did he find something? 】

 

【 Is someone going to die? I’m ready! 】

 

The barrage slowly became more serious.

 

Shen Qingcheng was standing in front of a man’s room, explaining himself.

 

There were many vacancies in the apartment complex, and Deputy Head Liu Wangyu had generously allocated the third and fourth floors to them, but there was only one best room on each floor.

 

These two rooms were taken by the two players who had chosen to clear by surviving until the end.

 

Shen Qingcheng had previously suffered a lot in order to complete a task that had tangled him up for 20 years, and since he was now free, he really wanted to relax a bit, so he planned to negotiate with these two.

 

He first found the man, and he was currently standing in front of him.
“What do you think, xiansheng? I can compensate you with Mama Rong’s Silver Needle.”

 

The man was very annoyed, and shouted, “Not enough!” before slamming the door with a bang.

 

Shen Qingcheng, who had just had the door shut in his face, touched his nose and turned to the fourth floor instead.
However, the female player’s attitude was even worse than the man just now, slamming the door on him just as he said that he wanted to change rooms.

 

He shook his head and sighed.
The other rooms were all the same, so he randomly chose the empty room across from the woman without any thought.
As he entered the room, he whispered doubtfully to himself, “It can’t be that Mama Rong’s needles are that bad, right?”

 

Back then, they had definitely made Ziwei scream¹³, right?

 

The room was a very ordinary single room with basic furnishings, like a bed, a table, and a closet.
It was much better than the bare personal space.
The only downside was that there was no toilet.

 

There had probably been bathrooms in those two rooms Shen Qingchenghadn’t been able to trade for.

 

He squatted, opening his suitcase, and hanging the simple clothes inside up in the closet.
He then took out his terminal to check his tasks.

 

“Official copy B0072 clearance tasks in progress…

 

“Objectives: 1.
Find the truth hidden in Xingxing¹⁴ Kindergarten.
2.
Live.
Complete either objective to clear the level.
The time limit is 20 days.

 

“Welcome to the horror world.
Happy gaming!”

 

The second objective was easy.

 

Just as Shen Qingcheng though that, he received a message from Chen Ge.

 

Forming a team in advance didn’t let them see through their disguises, but they could use their terminals to contact each other.
Unfortunately, the number of team members in one team were limited.

 

He opened the message.
There was only one sentence in it: “Shen-ge, the one called Wu Hai is me.”

 

What a kind, pure child, Shen Qingcheng thought to himself.
He sent a reply: “How could you have become stupid right after I just praised your cleverness?”

 

Chen Ge, who had been conflicted for a long time and eventually sent a message due to his shame, exclaimed in his heart.

 

How mean!

 

In the summer, the sky brightened early and darkened late, so the sun had not yet set when it was time for dinner.
Shen Qingcheng disliked the heat outside, so he stayed in his room and played games all afternoon.
When he finally came out, he was dizzy.

 

Downstairs, he met Zhou An’an, who had just come back from dinner.
She was the professional woman who had organized the introductions.
Shen Qingcheng greeted, “Good evening.”

 

Zhou An’an was briefly stunned, and said unnaturally, “Good evening.”

 

As Shen Qingcheng passed her, she asked, “When everyone gathered information this afternoon, they found that many places were locked.
Did you find anything interesting?”

 

Shen Qingcheng looked at her blankly and said, “I was playing games in my room.”

 

“Wow, someone wants to be an empty-handed white-eyed wolf¹⁵!” Xue Tong, who had just come up from behind, deliberately said loudly.
Beside him was Bai Yi, who still looked soft and weak in her white dress.

 

When she heard his sarcastic voice, Zhou An’an’s face turned cold, and she left without waiting for Shen Qingcheng to speak.

 

Xue Tong approached and patted him on the shoulder.
“It’s altright, don’t tell her anything if you don’t want to.
She said she wanted to exchange information, but she turned out just to want others to send information to her without doing any of her own work.
Ha, how could such a good thing exist?”

 

Shen Qingcheng shrugged indifferently.
He really had played games all afternoon.
Why was it that no one believed him?

 

Playing his games had made his brain tired, so Shen Qingcheng said goodby to Xue Tong and Bai Yi.
After having dinner, he went back to his room to rest a while, and it didn’t take long before he succumbed to drowsiness.

 

In the middle of the night, Shen Qingchen was awakened by a chill.

 

The weather had definitely been hot.
Before he went to bed, he’d turned on the air conditioner, and he’d slept under only a quilt.
Now, the air conditioner had stopped running, but the room was colder than it had been when it was on.

 

He tightened the quilt around himself and couldn’t help but shiver.

 

There was a rhythmic clicking from outside the door, like someone was walking tirelessly back and forth in the corridor.
The sound echoed in the long corridor, faint and airy.

 

Shen Qingcheng looked out the window.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, the moonlight shining normally.

 

Alas, in the middle of this night, it was questionable if it was possible to sleep peacefully.

 

The owner of the footsteps seemed to know that someone was awake.
The steps stopped in front of Shen Qingcheng’s door.
After a while, they said, “Shen Meiren.”

 

Accompanying the sound was a slow, heavy knock on the door.

 

Boom, boom, boom.

 

His heart beat in time with the knocks, and he couldn’t help but picture a blood-stained hand knocking at the door.

 

“Shen Meiren.”

 

The voice became bitter and cold.
“It’s me, open the door…”

 

“No, I’m going to sleep,” he muttered.

 

As he finished speaking, he took the air conditioning remote control out from under his pillow and turned up the temperature.
He tightened the quilt around himself again, turned over, and fell asleep again.

 

The night passed.

 

The next day, Shen Qingcheng was woken up by the heat.
He felt like he was about to be cooked, dazedly touching his sweaty forehead, before he was startled by a sudden scream.

 

“Ahhhhh! Someone died!”

 

 

The author has something to say:

 

Shen Qingcheng: Wow, this wake-up service is super unique~

 

 

 

TLN:

¹”Heat” is attention.
Basically, drawing heat is using a more famous person's name to elevate yourself, through creating scandals or other schemes.

² Laoshi literally means teacher and is used as a honorific.
I’m leaving this in pinyin since it sounds awkward otherwise.

³ The barrage is a scrolling chat that goes across the whole screen.

⁴ Probably a natural endowment that led to him having the skill ‘Flaming Eyes’.
Yin-Yang eyes let you see spirits/ghosts.

⁵ Fuban (副班) is literally “class deputy”.
Used mostly for the student council VP.
Since this is a kindergarten, this probably refers to the deputy teacher or a similar position.

⁶ Meiren (美人 ) is literally “beautiful person”.

⁷ Alluring Beauty is 美人倾城.
Shen Meiren shares two of the same characters (美人).

⁸ Remember, for all Chen Ge knows, Shen Meiren could be his real name.

⁹ Qi (七) is the number 7.

¹⁰ 2333 sounds like laughter, so it’s textspeak that basically means lol or lmao.

¹¹ awsl stands for 啊我死了, which literally means “ah, I died”.
Actual meaning is “it's so cute”.

¹² Crying onomatopoeia.

¹³ Pretty much what it sounds like.
It seems that at some point Qingcheng tortured this dude with heated needles.
It could be friendly threatening, but I doubt it.

¹⁴ Xingxing (星星) is literally “star”.

¹⁵ A white-eyed wolf is someone ungrateful, or someone who bites the hand that feeds them.

 

You may have noticed that some terms have changed.
The first chapters have been edited to reflect this.
Feel free to let me know if I missed something, especially if it’s in the footnotes (I’ve been messing with them a lot–formatting is hell).

 

By the way, only the A/Ns that have interesting content will be translated.
A lot of them are just the author saying “thank you for the subscriptions”.