Chapter 587: Chapter 586: The Second Archive Card Is Activated

Li Yang ultimately surrendered, as expected.

Regardless of whether it’s poisonous or some bizarre monster, he has to eat this richly fragrant red bean bread today, or his stomach will start singing from hunger.

The three of them crouched in the shadowy spot by the roadside, savoring each bite of the small red bean bread.

After finishing one, Li Yang turned to look at the two people on his left. Mu Qiu was eating her second bread, while Zhao Yu was about to reach for the last one in the packaging bag.

As her hand reached into the bag, Zhao Yu felt an intensely scorching gaze upon her. The further she reached, the more intense the gaze became.

She finally understood what it meant to feel like being pierced by a gaze.

"Li Yang, do you still want to eat? How about we each take half?" she asked, turning her head.

Since the show started, she hadn’t voluntarily spoken to this hotshot. After all, he had countless girlfriend fans, and a slip of caution could lead to trouble.

But under these circumstances... the fans couldn’t accuse her of having other intentions, right? At most, they’d share a revolutionary friendship through roadside bread-eating.

Li Yang was moved by this revolutionary camaraderie while eating bread by the roadside, but as a gentlemanly male idol, he swallowed and declined.

"No, after one I’m not too hungry, you eat it yourself."

"Oh, okay."

She reached in to grab the bread, just about to touch it, when that scorching gaze returned.

Li Yang pretended not to care, but in reality, his peripheral vision followed Zhao Yu’s hand movements. Seeing her about to touch the bread, the hunger and anxiety inside him nearly made him "snatch the bread."

Li Yang: I can’t, I’m a polite gentleman idol, this is not right... but I’m really hungry.

Zhao Yu ignored the gaze, quickly grabbed the bread, and handed it to him.

"Take half with your hands, I didn’t touch that side."

"Ah? Is that okay..."

"I say, Li Yang," Mu Qiu had already finished two small breads, took a sheet of paper from the Snow White backpack Zhao Yu was carrying, and elegantly wiped her mouth. "Just eat it, I can’t stand watching you swallow anymore."

"..."

Li Yang angrily broke off half a bread, stuffed it in his mouth, and finished it in one bite, then clapped the crumbs from his hands and stood up.

"Which places have you two searched? More searching..."

Mu Qiu winked at the trailing cameraman and accompanying director.

She had just managed to persuade the director to delay broadcasting world news by two minutes.

Just as she finished her little maneuver, a familiar icy electronic sound echoed over the ruins.

"Beep—"

"Second monster dossier card activated!"

"Second monster dossier card activated!"

"Second monster dossier card activated!"

Li Yang was startled, looking down at the two squatting people. One holding paper, the other holding a small bread, both hands shook a bit.

They looked visibly surprised by the sudden electronic sound.

"Who found the second card?" Mu Qiu widened her eyes, "How do they find the cards so easily?!"

Li Yang: "Could it be because we’re cursed by a bad luck aura? We’ve searched so many places and can’t find anything, while others find it just like that!"

"That’s too unfair! Director, at this point I still want to complain about this rule, constantly pressuring the losers might cause a vicious cycle!"

Li Yang chimed in facing the camera: "Exactly!"

Zhao Yu was sandwiched between them, eating her red bean bread in silence, wary of letting her expression betray her to Li Yang.

Impressive, Mu Qiu is just taking the opportunity to shamelessly train herself on this show. Her acting of feigning innocence is so perfect and flawless it’s admirable.

Mu Qiu stopped the complaints about the show’s rules, strictly adhering to the demeanor of an innocent, unlucky person who searched for ages without finding the dossier cards, starting her next step of persuasion.

"We don’t know what the second monster is, none of us spoke up. We need to find a place to hide and then organize our thoughts."

Li Yang nodded, crouching and looking around, suggesting, "Let’s go to the fast-food restaurant?"

Every round’s self-summary happens in the fast-food restaurant, he instinctively feels it safer than other places.

Mu Qiu doesn’t oppose: "Sure, let’s go. Just the three of us standing by the road now, it creeps me out."

This rhetoric aligns well with Li Yang’s feelings, he even feels a mutual sympathy, eager to join the group of two affluent comrades in hardship.

They jogged to the fast-food restaurant, and instead of sitting properly, they found a corner to crouch, able to view the street through the window.

Li Yang crouched a bit away from the two ladies, looking outside.

"There’s not a soul out there, what does this monster use to kill, could it be sound?"

Mu Qiu lowered her voice answering him: "Then you’re already done."

"... Then what is it? With no clue, maybe we could just wait and still end up killed. Aren’t you worried at all?"

"Does worrying help? Relax, with our reversed luck, soon the monster will actively come find us, then we’ll know what type it is."

"......"

Nerves fraying his insides.

"Are you resigned to fate?"

Mu Qiu responded seriously: "How could I?! Without the fortune to survive, at least there’s hope. That’s my principle of struggle! I see the situation clearly and adapt accordingly."

Zhao Yu: Here she goes again, Mu Qiu is starting.

Li Yang frowned, half-closed eyes watching her, with a face of "you’re definitely not a good person".

"Adapt accordingly? Waiting for the monster to arrive, then understand its traits on the brink of death?"

Mu Qiu smiled at him, eyes bending, then beckoned with her finger.

"I have a perfect idea now, do you want to hear it?"

"No need." He stood up to leave.

At this moment, Mu Qiu’s danger level equates to the outside monster, staying is ninety percent likely to board her pirate ship again.

"Hey hey hey, don’t rush to leave!"

In a hurry, Mu Qiu reached out and tugged at his clothes.

Unable to grab his hand, the school uniform being short-sleeved, she could only tug at the hem, pulling it taut, slightly accentuating the thin muscle curve on his chest.

Mu Qiu glanced, hadn’t done anything yet, Li Yang leaped like a scalded flea, quickly slapping her hand away.

"What are you doing?! It’s inappropriate!"

If web users saw, they’d report!

Mu Qiu speechless: "...What do you think I was going to do? Relax, we’re comrades eating bread on the street, no ulterior motives here."

This build is nowhere near Cheng Zhirang’s perfection.