Chapter 166

A hint of horror appeared in Lin Changqing’s eyes, and he subconsciously took a quick step back, almost retreating into the bathroom.

He saw the woman using both her hands and feet, crawling rapidly on the ground like a spider. Her posture was bizarre yet nimble and light, and her palms made almost no sound as they landed on the corridor’s floor tiles. Moreover, the fruity and floral lure-pheromone emanating from the bloodstains on her body was very familiar to Lin Changqing; it was the same smell of blood he had smelled earlier in the bathroom.

He couldn’t help but think, could Bai Xuechao have been abducted by this thing?

Damn, is the Apocalypse Society really haunted?!

Lin Changqing didn’t dare to look at the woman closely. After just one glance, he had averted his gaze. Now, he planned to muster his courage and circle around her to leave the hallway and find Yuan Lan.

Just as Lin Changqing took the first step to the side, the woman suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, he also stopped vigilantly, feeling a bit nervous, not knowing what this woman would do next.

He couldn’t help but think, if only he had a gun, he would first try shooting this “female ghost” a couple of times…

The woman’s head was still tilted at a ninety-degree angle. One of her hands and legs lifted up and flipped over to the other side, causing her body to change from being on her stomach to her back facing up, which was a normal prone position. But during this process of flipping over on the spot, her head remained tilted at ninety degrees, as if her head was detached from her body.

Lin Changqing’s lips moved silently, the shape of his mouth seeming to say “Holy shit.”

At this moment, the woman’s head also began to move. It twisted back into place, jerk by jerk, like a rusty machine. The hair that had been covering the upper half of her face fell with the movement, completely obscuring her entire face.

At the same time, as Lin Changqing stared at the woman’s turning head, he turned his body sideways and retreated to the wall on the side away from her.

At Yuan Lan’s suggestion, Yu Ruolan had specially used a temporary hair color spray to dye her hair black. Lin Changqing couldn’t see any hint of black-purple. Plus, she had taken an X8 pill today to hide her lure-pheromone, so Lin Changqing couldn’t recognize her as Yu Ruolan at all. He had never paid close attention to Yu Ruolan’s figure, and besides, there were countless people with similar body types.

Therefore, even though Lin Changqing was staring at the woman at this moment, he didn’t recognize her as the extremely unnoticeable Yu Ruolan who was usually shy when she spoke.

Who would believe that a person with social phobia would dress up as a female ghost and crawl on the floor to scare people?

Lin Changqing now genuinely believed that this was an ancient, special species, commonly known as a “ghost.” The kind that, if captured and given to Yuan Lan, would make him so excited with his research that he could get Nobel himself to award him the Nobel Prize.

So what was he waiting for?

He had to go find Yuan Lan and cry, “Boss, help me!”

Seeing that the female ghost seemed to have stopped moving, Lin Changqing lifted his leg to run, preparing to rendezvous with Yuan Lan first and then tell him that Bai Xuechao might have been captured by the female ghost.

Just then, the woman let out a terrifying low roar. With her head bowed, she pounced toward him, crawling on the ground like an animal!

Lin Changqing screamed and, while running out, his hand trembled and he threw his phone. But catching the phone seemed to have become his conditioned reflex. He quickly caught the phone and ran with it.

The woman chased after Lin Changqing, simultaneously letting out a creepy laugh, her voice dry and shrill: “Hehe hahaha…”

Hearing the woman’s laughter from an extremely close distance behind him, Lin Changqing was panicked and his hands trembled. He couldn’t hold his phone steady and dropped it again, and then he subconsciously caught it once more. He felt the woman’s hand graze his calf, which meant he had almost been caught just now. In a panic, he threw the phone again, and then caught it once more.

The phone was like a hot potato, never staying still in Lin Changqing’s hand, being thrown over and over again.

The woman’s sharp and terrifying laughter continued.

Lin Changqing also started to scream, sprinting down the hallway: “Ahhh ahhh ahhh—!”

He ran and screamed at the same time, as if this could boost his courage.

Behind him, Yu Ruolan stopped chasing.

She couldn’t keep up.

At the speed Lin Changqing was sprinting now, she couldn’t catch up even if she were standing, let alone crawling on the ground.

This hallway wasn’t particularly long. At Lin Changqing’s speed, he soon approached the corner that led out of here, the same corner where he had “run into a ghost.”

It was too far before, and Lin Changqing’s attention was focused on the woman, so he didn’t notice a small triangle sticking out from the top of the wall near the corner, with a black circular camera on it—it wasn’t hard to recognize that this was the corner of a phone.

Now that Lin Changqing was close again, he noticed the small triangle and black circle above, instantly recognizing it as a phone and camera.

He stopped directly about a meter before the corner.

Behind the corner, Yuan Lan was using his puppet threads to hold the phone and record, while he and Bai Xuechao stood diagonally to the side, from their angle, they could see the screen of the phone.

Seeing that Lin Changqing had spotted the camera and stopped, Yuan Lan smiled and looked at Bai Xuechao beside him, mouthing: He finally found out.

Bai Xuechao’s beautiful red eyes were slightly curved at this moment, a faint smile in them. He mouthed back: Brilliant.

The part where Lin Changqing repeatedly threw and caught his phone while running was something he could watch over and over again.

On the other side, Lin Changqing, realizing he had been pranked, looked back.

At first, he didn’t see the woman, but as he continued to scan the hallway with his eyes, he “saw” her.

As expected, she had already pushed back the hair that was covering her face. It was Yu Ruolan.

Yu Ruolan was originally walking slowly barefoot, but when she suddenly noticed Lin Changqing staring at her, she even smiled and waved at him.

Memories of what she had just done flooded her mind. Her body stiffened, and she awkwardly waved back at Lin Changqing before quickly covering her face with her hands.

Lin Changqing turned back, walked up to the camera, and poked it with his hand. He was so angry he almost laughed: “Still recording?”

“Surprise~” Yuan Lan bounced out from behind the corner with a big smile on his face, spreading his arms wide and saying enthusiastically, “Wasn’t that fun?”

Lin Changqing gritted his teeth and said, “Fun, my ass…”

When Bai Xuechao walked out carrying the slippers Yu Ruolan had left behind the corner, he saw Lin Changqing with a kind smile on his face, but his arm was wrapped tightly around Yuan Lan’s neck. And Yuan Lan, who was being choked by him, had an even brighter smile, as if the two were competing to see whose smile was more perfect.

Xiao 6 popped up and said, “Haha, I think I see the cross-popping veins on Lin Changqing’s forehead.”

Bai Xuechao looked and replied to it, “You’re not mistaken, his veins are popping.”

Xiao 6 said quietly, “After he’s done with Yuan Lan, will you be next?”

Bai Xuechao let out a “hiss” before saying, “He won’t.”

Xiao 6: You hesitated just now, didn’t you? Didn’t you!

Lin Changqing finally released Yuan Lan’s neck and walked two steps to stand in front of Bai Xuechao, still wearing a kind and gentle smile, but it felt like he was emitting a dark aura.

He was heard asking with a smile, “Is it fun to mess with me?”

Xiao 6 was extremely nervous: “Ahhh, Host, this line doesn’t sound right, is Lin Changqing going to beat you up!”

“It is fun,” Bai Xuechao answered seriously.

Xiao 6 was greatly dismayed: “My dear ancestor, how could you say that! It’s over, it’s over, even if Lin Changqing wasn’t very angry just now, he must be angry now, right? Yuan Lan wouldn’t just stand by and watch you get beaten, would he?”

After a long while, Lin Changqing sighed faintly. He reached out and put his arm over Bai Xuechao’s shoulder, patting him on the back twice.

“Forget it,” Lin Changqing’s gentle voice sounded as he sighed, “As long as you’re okay.”

Xiao 6 instantly switched sides because of this sentence, wiping away non-existent tears with a code-like little handkerchief and exclaiming, “Oh my god, he doesn’t blame you at all! Host! For such a gentle person like Lin Changqing, don’t you feel guilty!!”

Bai Xuechao looked into his long and narrow eyes and asked, “Are you trying to make me feel guilty this way?”

Hearing this, Lin Changqing showed an innocent and somewhat wronged expression: “Absolutely not.”

If he said no, then it was no.

Anyway, Bai Xuechao had no conscience, so he wouldn’t feel hurt.

“A-Qing, why the double standard!” Yuan Lan finally found a legitimate opportunity to wrap his arms around Lin Changqing’s neck from behind. “We pranked you together, but you let Little Xuechao off so easily, while you choked me so hard. I’m angry now, I’m going to choke you back!”

Lin Changqing turned around and started wrestling with Yuan Lan. Neither of them was serious; it was just playful.

During the break in their fight, Bai Xuechao, carrying the slippers, came to Yu Ruolan, who was standing by the wall, and bent down to place the slippers in front of her feet.

“Thank you.” Yu Ruolan smiled shyly, putting on the slippers, looking very happy.

Bai Xuechao’s cold voice sounded: “It was fun, wasn’t it?”

Yu Ruolan nodded vigorously: “Mhm, mhm.”

Bai Xuechao leaned down closer to Yu Ruolan, looked into her upturned violet eyes, and asked softly, “Then, do you want to play with everyone again in the future?”

Not just Yuan Lan.

Her world could have many people.

Yu Ruolan didn’t answer immediately but hesitated for a moment, seeming to still have some concerns. But from the look in her eyes, she really liked this feeling of playing around with everyone.

But before she could figure out her answer and say it, she was interrupted.

Lin Changqing had finished wrestling with Yuan Lan. The two were now standing with their arms around each other’s shoulders. When he saw who Bai Xuechao was talking to, he finally noticed that Yu Ruolan had come over and was standing by the wall: “Oh right, there’s still a fish that escaped the net here.”

This phrase happened to correspond with Yu Ruolan’s surname.

Yu Ruolan lowered her head, her fingers nervously clasped together, and said in a small voice, “I’m sorry for scaring you like that just now.”

“Huh?” Lin Changqing didn’t expect Yu Ruolan to start apologizing to him before he had even said anything. He pointed his other finger at Yuan Lan, who had his arm around his shoulder, and said, “You don’t need to apologize. I’ll only beat up this asshole, the main culprit.”

Yuan Lan said with a wronged expression, “How can A-Qing say that? I’ll be sad!”

After he finished speaking, his other hand, which wasn’t on the shoulder, also came over, hugging Lin Changqing and swaying him back and forth, looking very clingy.

To be honest, Bai Xuechao was a bit stunned. So this was the effect of Yuan Lan hugging a man?

He thought of something and showed a complicated expression.

“Hurry up and take back your words!” Yuan Lan was still hugging Lin Changqing and swaying him, as if he could make him dizzy.

After Yuan Lan hugged Lin Changqing, his back was mostly facing Bai Xuechao, so he couldn’t see Bai Xuechao’s expression, but Lin Changqing could see it perfectly from his angle.

Lin Changqing was speechless and said to Yuan Lan in a low voice, “Let go of me quickly, Bai Xuechao is already making that face.”

“What face?” Yuan Lan let go of Lin Changqing in a second, his eyes sparkling. He looked back with some anticipation and was stunned for a moment, “Little Xuechao, what’s with that expression?”

This question made even Lin Changqing want to roll his eyes.

Couldn’t he tell what kind of expression it was? He should at least be able to get the gist of it!

One second, Bai Xuechao was calmly talking nonsense: “Just take it as an expression of envy for your friendship.”

The next second, he was frantically knocking on Xiao 6 in his mind: “Xiao 6, Xiao 6, tell me, do I usually have this effect with Yuan Lan?”

Yuan Lan walked over and hugged Bai Xuechao, smiling, “This way, you won’t be envious anymore~”

At the same time, Xiao 6 displayed a meme of a cat tapping its chin with its finger and made a thoughtful sound: “Emmmm…”

Bai Xuechao almost closed his eyes: “Alright, you don’t have to say it, I know.”

These kinds of days probably wouldn’t last much longer.

It was almost over.

Lin Changqing brought the topic back to Yu Ruolan: “Speaking of which, Little Yu, just now you were—”

Yu Ruolan immediately became a little nervous, not knowing if Lin Changqing was going to accuse her of going too far or what. Her fingers from both hands were tangled together.

Lin Changqing let out a long sigh: “That was fucking awesome.”

Yu Ruolan was stunned: “Eh?”

She hadn’t expected that not only was he not blaming her, he was even praising her.

Yuan Lan thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: “Yeah, I also think Little Yu is amazing.”

When Yu Ruolan’s gaze shifted over, Bai Xuechao also gave her a thumbs-up.

Seeing that Yu Ruolan still looked bewildered, Lin Changqing gestured with both hands: “It’s your arm, how did you twist it like that! My god, that’s so awesome.”

“This?” Yu Ruolan demonstrated on the spot.

She clasped her two hands together in front of her body, then slowly raised them upwards. When they reached the top of her head, she continued backwards. As they passed the back of her head, the dress she was wearing made it obvious that the bones in her shoulders had twisted, pushing the skin up into a lump. She continued backwards, and backwards… until her clasped hands reached her buttocks.

Her hands never let go throughout the process, completing a rotation of nearly 360 degrees.

Lin Changqing couldn’t help but grimace as he watched, as if he could feel the pain. Before he could say anything, Yu Ruolan started a new round of movements.

Yu Ruolan raised her clasped hands from behind her back to the top of her head. Then, one arm bent, she straightened it, and then bent the other arm in the same way. She raised her hands again, first letting her head pass through the circle formed by one arm, while the other arm was still bent behind her back…

Bai Xuechao knew that some people had flexible bones and could perform many difficult movements, but this was the first time he had seen it in detail.

Lin Changqing hugged his own arms, his brows furrowed together, looking both shocked and pained: “Alright, alright, I’m begging you, stop with your magic!”

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