Chapter 577: Chapter 576: Seeing If You’re Pregnant

A group of people stared at that sentence for a long time and then collectively said, "Hmph—".

"What a piece of junk, they even faked it to confuse us!"

"The production team’s twisted humor isn’t just usual; which staff member who watches cartoons every day drew this?"

"Such a sloppy drawing, I almost thought it was some fogged-up car window."

"No wonder it’s so gaudy, turns out it’s useless."

"What’s this about some useless card? Putting a useless card in such a thrilling place, the production team is sinister!"

The most frustrated ones were Han Xizheng and Mu Qiu. Han Xizheng had just finally managed to find this card on that eerily realistic fake corpse, only for it to be completely useless. Mu Qiu had been analyzing away, only to find out it was all for nothing.

Such a disgrace.

Mu Qiu thought over and over again, feeling the need for them to arrange for an even worse control group, so he suggested:

"Come on, let’s put this card back. Later, when Li Yang and his group find this place, let them go through the process too."

The newcomers hesitated: "Isn’t that bad?"

The seasoned Shi Yuhuai and Guan Yu were already raising both hands in agreement. Shu Ran was even more direct, pulling the card out and handing it back to Han Xizheng.

"Go on."

Han Xizheng: "...Can someone else go? I think Brother Huai might be braver."

Shi Yuhuai remained unfazed: "I don’t think we need to put the card back in the original spot. Li Yang probably won’t find it. Let’s just put it next to it, more visible, it’ll be a bit easier for Li Yang."

Besides subtly insulting Li Yang’s intelligence, there were no other issues.

This suggestion was accepted by everyone, and the task of placing the card was given to... fine, still Han Xizheng.

Carefully placing the card between the gap in the fake corpse and the wall behind it, Han Xizheng sighed in relief. The others, who stood at a distance for fear the fake corpse might suddenly lunge at them, also breathed a sigh of relief.

Looks like this fake corpse can only move its eyes, and can’t suddenly leap up.

With that done, the four "uninvited guests" finally started probing Mu Qiu and the others for information.

Chen Yi: "You’re looking for files in here? How are you supposed to find anything in such a big place?"

Chu Qiu: "Mu Qiu, what are you doing with a metal detector? Are the files made of metal?"

Guan Yu’s attention was different from theirs, staring directly at Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu, who were carrying Ultraman and Snow White backpacks.

"Mu Qiu, where’s your face? Where’d you pick up a kindergarten kid’s backpack from?"

Tell her the address, she’ll go get one too.

Mu Qiu was gradually getting used to this kind of embarrassment, shaking the backpack behind him as if it were no big deal: "I know you want one too, but forget it, I’m not telling."

"...Who wants one like that?! Twenty-eight years old and carrying an eight-month-old’s backpack, you’re not afraid you’ll rip the straps, unlike you, I’m someone who values face!"

"Who’s twenty-eight?!" Mu Qiu widened his eyes, "I’m eighteen every year!"

"See, you’ve taken another step on the shameless road."

"..." Mu Qiu waved the detector angrily, "Can’t be bothered to talk to you, anyway, this bag is a limited edition, don’t even think about it."

"Isn’t it just a kindergarten kid’s backpack? I’ll head to that school over there and steal ten or eight, give one to everyone!"

Shi Yuhuai gave her a disdainful look and asked Mu Qiu: "What’s in your bag?"

Mu Qiu hummed and hawed, his tone lazy: "Winter holiday homework."

"...Is it food? I saw a lot of scattered stuff at the supermarket earlier. After you left, all those things were gone."

Guan Yu focused her sharp eyes on her.

Mu Qiu still didn’t change his posture and said:

"How could I, if you really saw that much food last time, why’d you only take two packs of instant noodles? In fact, I suspect you hid a lot of food and only told us about the two packs of instant noodles."

The gleaming eagle eyes turned to Shi Yuhuai.

Shi Yuhuai immediately said: "Impossible, I didn’t hide anything."

"Neither did we. Want to check? A backpack this small can’t even fit two packs of instant noodles."

It’s true it can’t fit, anyone can see that. Shi Yuhuai pressed his lips, looking toward Mu Qiu’s pants.

Mu Qiu was startled.

"Brother Huai, where are you looking?! I know I have a small belly, but not that obvious, right?!"

Shi Yuhuai: "...I wasn’t..."

No time to explain, Shu Ran, as an ally, casually shifted the attention.

"Maybe he’s just checking if you’re pregnant, Brother Huai loves gossip all day long, doesn’t he?"

With that said, several people turned their gaze to her belly.

Guan Yu waggling his eyebrows: "Wearing a crop top while pregnant, wouldn’t you catch a cold?"

"Online rumors say you only have one breath left, running around like this, won’t you run out of breath soon?"

How could she be, even if Cheng Zhirang was pregnant, she wouldn’t be.

Guan Yu paused, glanced at the camera, and naturally brought up a topic everyone was interested in.

"Has it updated to this point online? Sorry about that, I can maintain this one breath for decades."

"There you have it, the rumor about you having one breath left is false, and the pregnancy rumor is false too."

Shu Ran: "Feels like we’re missing one person."

Missing who exactly? The others all made faces at her like it was a joke.

Mu Qiu remained unfazed, pretending not to understand.

She’s already found a way to linguistically defeat Shi Yuhuai, which is to use his simple logic and go around in circles with him.

He didn’t hide anything, fine, she doesn’t argue, just says she didn’t hide anything either, letting him figure out how to counter.

The topic had shifted from food disputes to gossip, Zhao Yu rolled his eyes and made a perfect transition at the right time.

"Is it almost an hour?"

"It should be, do you guys still want to search upstairs?" Chu Qiu asked.

Mu Qiu and Shu Ran exchanged a look and said: "Of course. There’s still a few minutes to ten minutes left, we can still search more. Why, are you trying to snatch the spot?"

"What are you saying," Guan Yu said seriously, "we’re just thinking of cooperating, there are so many rooms in the hotel, you can’t search them all at once, why not divide and conquer?"

The words sounded familiar, Shu Ran glanced at Mu Qiu while crossing her arms.

The two of them have stayed together long enough their lies sound the same.

Mu Qiu didn’t notice her gaze, he pretended to ponder for a moment and said, "If we disagree, you probably won’t just let it go, will you?"

Guan Yu’s smile deepened: "Can’t you tell by looking at Brother Huai?"

If they disagree, just grab it.

"...Alright, let’s search the same floor, we take the odd-numbered rooms, you take the even-numbered ones, how’s that?"

"We take the even numbers."

"Fine, fine, let’s go, starting from the second floor."

Guan Yu turned back and signaled to Chu Qiu and the others: Mu Qiu must be up to something, follow them, do whatever they do.

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ps: Someone’s about to get killed, can you guess who the first victim is?