Chapter 576: Chapter 575: Balala Useless Card

Regarding Shu Ran saying she was almost scared to death, Mu Qiu felt it was necessary to clarify.

She described the scene that had just unfolded in an orderly manner, while staying out of Shu Ran’s striking range, trying her best to prove that she was the calmest among the three.

"Sister Shu Ran, I really don’t want to emphasize this fact, but you know, I have always been an honest person who likes to seek the truth. Your statement just now was seriously distorted, and I think it’s necessary to recreate the scene."

Shu Ran: "You can tell it’s a lie from the first sentence, alright, shut up."

Mu Qiu rubbed her nose: "Sigh. People just can’t accept the brutal truth."

Shu Ran didn’t respond and just unbuttoned her cuffs, her hand clenching into a fist and raising it.

Mu Qiu: "...Let’s talk this over nicely; I’ll shut up right away."

As soon as she said this, a comment happened to float past her mouth in the live stream.

[Goodbye everyone, you’re about to lose two seconds of my brilliant remarks]

Other comments followed quickly.

[Shu Ran: My dear, I’ve believed your nonsense]

[Guan Yu hahaha it’s so freaking funny!]

[Yangyang, why haven’t you joined the comedic trio?! Where are you?!]

[Oh dear, Shu Ran has started to change too]

[Changed hahaha I’m laughing so hard I spilled my milk! Does she have a shelf life?]

[I still often revisit the pilot, trying to remember what they were like at first]

[Shu Ran’s soul is almost gone hahaha]

[Watching Han Xizheng poke up, I was startled too]

[Is Han Xizheng alright? In the brief moment he was on camera, he seemed to still be there]

[Are the three outside eavesdropping and peeking also wanting a massage of this caliber?]

[Chu Qiu’s expression mirrors mine hahaha]

[Shu Ran is the scream queen this episode; whenever her close-up appears, I know the screams are coming]

[Guan Yu, why are you so mean]

[Mu Qiu fooled Shu Ran again, hahaha, so sharp]

[Help, I just bought a similar backpack for my niece yesterday, now I can’t stop laughing]

[Is the adult way of dueling to just scream at them? /dog head]

[I was really afraid Mu Qiu would start swinging the detector indiscriminately while screaming]

[Brother Cheng, hurry up, where are you, I miss you]

[Guo Yin, are you taking a course on recognizing fake people with the seniors? Sneak out and join the fun!]

[If Shu Ran had the detector, there would be a bloodbath today]

[Having been fooled for so many episodes, Shu Ran understands Mu Qiu’s tricks and jumps right in more smoothly]

[Today my OTP is also attacking each other]

[May I ask which cult sister ahead is a fellow traveler of?]

[Do I have a problem? Now, whenever Mu Qiu analyzes something, I think it’s definitely like that. Even though some analyses are opposites]

[That fake mannequin is really a bit creepy, sob sob sob sob]

[I’m done for, I made eye contact with it, will the laser eyes shoot out from my computer?]

[I see some brothers and sisters are already delirious]

[Let me spoil it a bit, that fake mannequin is one of the monsters; whoever looks into its eyes will be cursed to go to the bathroom without toilet paper]

[I’ve believed your nonsense]

[Hahaha Han Xizheng originally went on the show to maintain his gentlemanly demeanor, but now he’s speechless almost as often as Brother Huai]

[Brother Huai makes friends relying entirely on the other’s high tolerance and patience /Brother Cheng, can’t help but laugh.jpg]

[Chen Yi: I should have let Lin Banyan come, this person is really annoying]

[I just feel there’s definitely something on this fake mannequin!]

[Dear family members, let’s go with the plot, alright? Stop flooding the screen with Brother, it’s blocking their faces]

[...]

The smacked Guan Yu took a few deep breaths to recover, rubbing her shoulder and gritting her teeth in pain.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no, my hand is broken, you have to take responsibility!"

Shu Ran smiled insincerely: "Then why not break everything first and compensate all together."

"......Cough, what were you guys doing just now?" Guan Yu quickly changed the subject.

Li Yang gave her a sideways glance: "Can’t you tell? You didn’t know what we were doing, so why did you suddenly scare us out of nowhere?"

"Because... meeting a familiar face in a foreign land, emotions surged within, and couldn’t help but spontaneously shout out."

"Listen to your boasting, it’s even more outrageous than Mu Qiu’s."

Mu Qiu silently raised her hand: "May I ask you to avoid mentioning my name in your conversations? I really don’t want frequent screen time."

Guan Yu was about to say that probably wouldn’t be possible, but before she could, Zhao Yu interjected and captured all her attention.

"Hey, where’s Han Xizheng?"

Han Xizheng’s teammate Shu Ran was stunned upon hearing this, looking around in search of him.

"Hmm? Where is he? Wasn’t he just here?"

The three by the door finally had a chance to enter, Shi Yuhuai pointed at the corner by the reception desk with the mannequin, and said, "He just got scared and hid in there."

The reception area is passable on both sides, going right leads to the guest lounge with a screen wall, also accessible on both sides, with the mannequin located at the last corner leading to the lounge.

If Han Xizheng was scared and hid in there, isn’t that equivalent to "sharing a room" with the mannequin?

Shu Ran peeked behind the screen wall and tentatively called his name.

"Han Xizheng?"

Half a minute later, Han Xizheng walked out of the lounge with a face full of grievance.

"You still remember I’m here."

If Zhao Yu hadn’t brought it up, she probably wouldn’t have realized a teammate was missing for a while.

Shu Ran, knowing she was at fault, coughed awkwardly, discreetly glanced at the camera’s position, and asked him:

"Why didn’t you make a sound... wait a minute, did you just touch the mannequin’s body? Keep your distance from me."

Han Xizheng, thinking she’d smooth things over: "...Shu——Ran——"

He skipped the deep breath and eye-rolling routine and directly pulled out a card from his pocket.

"I found something under its clothes."

The others immediately widened their eyes and crowded around.

What kind of card was it?

The colorful drawing on it instantly transported people back to the summer before they turned ten, accompanied by some explanatory text, with a fresh kindergarten vibe wafting over.

Shu Ran flipped it over twice, Mu Qiu followed and looked at it twice, and finally had difficulty defining the card.

"Quite a thick middle school fantasy game card."

Shi Yuhuai frowned like an old man, pulled the card out of Shu Ran’s hand, and looked at it carefully: "Isn’t this Balala the Magic Fairy?"

Guan Yu: "Brother Huai, you actually know Balala the Magic Fairy?! Come on, how many episodes have you secretly watched?"

Shi Yuhuai gave her an indifferent look, continuing to scrutinize the card.

The drawing is quite crude and sloppy, but vaguely discernible as a framed picture shattered into pieces. On the back of the card is a hexagram matrix, with a line of small delicate script below, neatly written:

[Let me see which little fool found this useless Balala card.]