Chapter 574: Chapter 573: Its Eyes Turned Toward Us!

Mu Qiu had no idea that Guan Yu and the others had already caught up. She was still in the hotel lobby looking for that peculiar mannequin.

A mannequin that could open its eyes wide and had its head tilted in fear—how rare!

Shu Ran was left speechless by her strange hobby, crossing her arms and waiting in the middle of the lobby, huffing coldly.

"Can’t you do something serious? Aren’t we here to find the archive card? Talking about a time gap, you’re just dragging out the time gap now!"

"Don’t rush, this mannequin is so unique, it might just be a clue."

Mu Qiu crouched down to look for the mannequin, keeping her distance. With her fingers slightly open over her eyes, she peeked through her fingers.

"Whoa, it is kind of scary."

Zhao Yu: "...You’re covering more than half of it, what can you even see?"

"Hey, hey, hey, it really has its eyes open. Those eyes..." Mu Qiu hesitated for a moment, then her expression grew serious, "Those eyes aren’t right."

Han Xizheng rolled up his shirt sleeves a bit more, undid his top button for ventilation, and recalled what he saw earlier, "It does look strange, like the eyeball’s been damaged, and there’s glass in there."

Shu Ran couldn’t handle just listening, covered her ears, and walked a bit further away.

Zhao Yu moved a bit closer to Mu Qiu, the two clinging tightly like kids watching a horror movie under the covers.

"Which film crew did this prop mannequin come from? With this level of realism, I’d add to that show’s view count."

Mu Qiu was staring intently at the mannequin, and without turning her head, she whispered, "A prop like this is used in sci-fi films, or maybe it’s not borrowed at all, but made by the show’s crew themselves."

"Made themselves??? The show crew moonlights in this line of work too?"

"Not just that, they do everything. Sometimes I doubt they’ve taken in a lot of out-of-work immortals. Hey, that mannequin’s head is tilted way too much, could its neck be broken?"

"Let me see, it might be due to the material... Did its eyes move again?!"

Mu Qiu immediately perked up, intently focusing on those eyes.

"Its its its its eyes turned around!!!"

"Damn, a ghost! Run!!!"

The two staggered off towards Shu Ran, and Han Xizheng, standing on the path to Shu Ran, hadn’t reacted before they pushed him aside.

"Don’t you guys..."

Don’t head to Shu Ran, she’s even more scared.

He closed his eyes and sighed, counting silently, and sure enough, he soon heard Shu Ran’s high-pitched scream and angry curses.

"What are you doing?! Why are you running over here?!"

"What do you mean its eyes turned around?!"

"Get away! Don’t come near!"

Cursing and running, she tried hard to avoid Mu Qiu and the others. This time she was wearing sneakers, making it easier to run, and if given a pole, she might climb up it in one go to escape.

Mu Qiu was genuinely trying to be scared, but seeing Shu Ran like that, she couldn’t help but stop running, squatting down as her shoulders shook with laughter.

"Sister Shu Ran, can’t you act properly!? The mannequin’s eyes moved, it’s not like it ran towards you!"

Shu Ran had already reached the door, standing there watching them warily, speaking in a roar.

"Its eyes moved!! How is that any different from it standing up and running?!"

It’s equally terrifying!

Zhao Yu stood between the two on a straight line, patting her chest with lingering fear.

"It really is scary, it turned to stare at us! Tilting its head, staring at us!"

Shu Ran covered her ears: "Stop it, stop it!"

Mu Qiu burst into loud laughter again.

Only Han Xizheng stood there, speechless, watching his three hopeless teammates.

"Can its eyes really move? Let me take a look."

"Don’t look into its eyes!"

Mu Qiu called out a loud reminder.

Han Xizheng turned back, puzzled, and asked her, "Why? Do you know something?"

Zhao Yu sighed in relief, "I was worried you were going to ask if she knows the mannequin."

"Maybe she does," Mu Qiu changed her squat to sitting, leaned back on her hands, and said, "We’re all locals here, knowing the hotel front desk isn’t surprising."

"Whether she knows isn’t important," Han Xizheng found her statement odd, "Why did you say don’t look into its eyes? Do you know something?"

Mu Qiu gave a nod, "It’s because that’s how it’s always portrayed on TV, people with unusual eyes, you shouldn’t look directly at them, what if they have laser eyes?"

Han Xizheng: "..."

Forget it, why did he think everyone was serious around here?

But when he finally went over to inspect the mannequin, he still instinctively avoided looking it in the eye, only side-glancing at it to confirm that its eyes really did move again.

"Its eyes do indeed move."

Mu Qiu tilted her head thinking: "Anything abnormal has a special meaning.

This mannequin is different from others elsewhere, does that mean there’s something special about it or the place it’s at?"

Straight out, that thing probably has an archive card nearby.

They got back on topic, Shu Ran slowly removed her hands from her ears and joined the discussion.

"It could be an archive card. But why have such a special mannequin next to it?

There can’t be a different mannequin beside each archive card like this, can there?"

Then how are we supposed to grab it?! Dive into danger and have intimate contact with the mannequin, frisk it?

Han Xizheng found it quite logical, "Maybe it really is. After all, archive cards aren’t easy to find, with such a special item beside it, it’s also a kind of reminder. Just that taking it is a bit disgusting."

Also kinda scary.

As the two analyzed enthusiastically, Zhao Yu turned to see Mu Qiu deep in thought, poking her and asking, "What do you think?"

Shu Ran and Han Xizheng also turned to her, Mu Qiu got up and stood properly, dusted off, and said:

"I thought of a joke."

"What?"

"You’ve watched fantasy dramas, right? Usually, around the sacred grass or flower everyone fights over, there’s a Guardian Divine Beast. To get those things, you must first deal with the Guardian Divine Beast."

Shu Ran slowly turned to look at the mannequin in the corner, as if her eyes were pricked, and quickly glanced away.

"Are you saying that creepy thing is a, a Guardian Divine Beast?"

What kind of non-mainstream name is this?

"Yes, exactly. If we want to find the archive card beside it, that creepy thing might suddenly spring on us."

Shu Ran immediately tensed up her whole body, looking at Han Xizheng nearby.

"I think the only man in our little search team can take on this task."

Han Xizheng, who was forcibly assigned work: "..."

What a miscalculation, having only one man in the team, severe imbalance of yin and yang.

"Shu Ran, I can’t believe you’ve become like this." He said, looking at her with heartbreak.

"Don’t be hasty," Mu Qiu raised her hand, interrupting their work allocation, "there’s another possibility."