Chapter 185: The Ones Who Can’t Be Shaken Off (4)
Su Mingxiu saw that the white dot for the milk tea shop had also turned gray. She looked at the semi-transparent map in front of her, seeing the crowds of stuffed bears around, and the shelves displaying beautiful glass cups, various cosmetics, and nail polishes. She knew she was on the second floor of the shopping mall, in a boutique.
Outside the store, Rong Rong was trying her best to deal with Po Er, and she looked a little out of breath.
“Why did you come this way?”
Because of her outfit, which looked like a Disney princess on the run, a lot of people were looking in Po Er’s direction just while they were standing and chatting. They stared at her light golden hair, then looked at her face, as if judging whether she was a real mixed-race person or just pretending.
Rong Rong gave her a smile, “I knew you’d come out to find me. I wanted to have a hot drink, so I took a detour to buy it. Here, this is your cup.”
Po Er looked behind her, as if wanting to find some clues, but quickly looked away as if nothing had happened and took the drink she was handed. “Do you still want to go back and watch the movie?”
“No,” Rong Rong shook her head, thinking about Tang Yiyi, who was still waiting for her in the movie theater, and Wei Shang, who had come out of the next theater with a group of big black dogs, “That’s so boring.”
Before she could continue, Po Er smiled brightly, like a woman who had stepped out of a painting. She affectionately linked her arm with Rong Rong’s. “I think so too. Let’s go play something else. I heard there’s a pretty good escape room on the third floor. Come with me—”
On the way up, Rong Rong had already finished reading the strategy guide that the system had rewarded her with. It showed that Po Er had a costume fetish, but was very considerate to her girlfriend, and that the original owner’s persona for her was [A hard-working part-time worker].
“Maybe next time,” Rong Rong said, looking a bit troubled, “My boss just sent me a task, and I have to go back right away. I have to go work overtime.”
As soon as the words left her mouth, she felt her phone “buzz” again in her pocket.
She didn’t know which demanding ghost it was.
Po Er narrowed her eyes, and after a long pause, said with regret, “Okay, then you can come with me next time. I’ll send you back first.”
“No need…”
“Do you want to keep refusing me?”
Po Er looked at her meaningfully. Just as Rong Rong was considering calling a taxi and having the driver make a detour halfway, she saw the person in front of her sigh lightly, “It’s okay if you don’t want me to take you, but you have to coax me.”
Rong Rong: “?”
Then she was pushed into the shadows of the hallway next to them.
After a little more than half a minute, Rong Rong pulled her collar self-consciously and barely managed to give Po Er a smile as she sent her to the door. She got in the car first and had the driver go to the opposite side of the road. When she saw the other person leave in their car, she hurriedly paid for the short ride and ran back into the mall.
The wind whistled through her hair, revealing the obvious kiss mark on her collarbone. When she got inside the mall, she saw that there were already several missed calls on her phone, three from Tang Yiyi and two from Wei Shang.
The strategy guide showed that because Tang Yiyi herself was extremely controlling, the character for her was [An obedient, poor college student] who wouldn’t refuse any of her requests, and Tang Yiyi had obviously been waiting for her alone in the movie theater until she became impatient.
Not only were there a few missed calls, but she had also sent a message, telling her to return to the movie theater within one minute, or she would bear the consequences.
Rong Rong: “…”
She ran across the escalator, and almost took the wrong turn on the second floor. Fortunately, she was stopped in time. As she was about to thank the person, she turned around and saw the pixelated face.
Whoa!
She opened her eyes wide in shock, and subconsciously said, “Weren’t you…” caught by the system and exchanged for a strategy guide? How was she still here?
Could it be that there were countless pixelated people in this world, each a little bug? If she exchanged them a few more times, wouldn’t she become rich just from reporting them?
Rong Rong looked closely and realized that this pixelated person was a little different from before.
How should she put it? If she had to describe it, it was… it seemed a bit blurrier than before.
“Would you like a scarf? Three for fifty yuan. It’s a special offer in our store.”
It was still the same nice voice, a tone that was unforgettable once you had heard it. It was a strange setting, Rong Rong thought. Why could this person be designed so casually, yet have such a nice voice acting?
When she spoke to her first, Su Mingxiu found that she was still unable to speak freely. In the end, she could only ask this question within the scope allowed by her character. At the same time, her gaze fell on the kiss mark on Rong Rong’s collar.
She had already seen Rong Rong bounce between multiple people in this short amount of time. But a successful sea king wouldn’t let anyone leave marks on themselves at this time—
Unless, she was confident that she would never be caught.
Or, maybe she was a newbie who had accidentally fallen into this situation.
Which one would this protagonist be?
After Su Mingxiu finished reciting the sales pitch that a boutique shop clerk would say, she stared at Rong Rong. The person who was being watched had long since realized that the mark that Po Er had left couldn’t be hidden just by tugging on her collar. That cunning doll was determined to leave a mark on her before she would leave, and she couldn’t stop it.
So, she could only slump her shoulders and tentatively say, “Then I’ll buy… buy one?”
After she said that she didn’t know how to choose, she saw this pixelated person dutifully pick out the scarf that was most suitable for the dress she was wearing, in a serious and methodical manner, asked her to scan the code to pay, and was quite indifferent throughout the whole process, completely unaware that she had just been reported to the system by the person in front of her.
Rong Rong stared at the even blurrier pixels of her, and subconsciously felt that it should be related to her reporting, but she couldn’t figure out whether this pixelated person could randomly wander around like a wild boss, or if they were really everywhere, and the one she had seen at the milk tea shop and the movie theater entrance wasn’t the same person?
While thinking randomly, she paid and realized that she didn’t know how to tie a scarf. She picked up the scarf and said to Su Mingxiu, “Can you help me tie it?”
Tang Yiyi, who had waited through a long segment of the movie, waited and waited, but no one came.
She suddenly remembered that when Rong Rong left earlier, there was also someone who had left from the seat next to her.
Although she didn’t know the other person, Tang Yiyi’s suspicious nature made her unable to resist leaning over to look at the side. Sure enough, the seat was empty.
In the dim light, her angular face was full of coldness. Unable to wait any longer, she got up and strode towards the exit of the movie theater, preparing to personally catch the person who was running around for no reason when she received a call from her.
“President Tang, I was in the theater for so long and the wind was blowing on me, and my stomach feels a little uncomfortable. Can I not watch the movie?”
“Where are you?”
The next second, her location was sent, on the third floor.
Tang Yiyi frowned, not expecting her to be so weak. She immediately walked in that direction. After leaving the movie theater and going down the escalator, she quickly saw the person waiting on the third floor. When she saw the extra scarf on her, she paused her action of taking off her coat.
“What is this?” She raised her hand, wanting to touch the scarf that was tied so beautifully.
Rong Rong raised her hand, looking at her pitifully, “I bought it on the second floor. I was too cold, and this scarf was on sale, three for fifty yuan, so I bought it.”
The person standing in front of Tang Yiyi now had one scarf on her neck, and one wrapped around each of her left and right hands. If she wasn’t short on money, Tang Yiyi suspected that she could wrap herself up from head to toe.
Her suspicious gaze turned into a headache. She simply took off her coat and draped it over her, saying with some helplessness, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to buy clothes. Take off these gaudy things later.”
How could that be allowed?
Rong Rong thought. If she hadn’t had a flash of inspiration earlier and thought of taking two more, based on this person’s control freak personality, the one on her neck would have been exposed by now.
So she took the initiative to hold Tang’s hand, her eyes full of admiration and desire, and said obediently, “I’m not cold when you’re by my side.”
As she spoke, she pretended to look enviously at the escape room next to them, “I’ve never played this before. President Tang, you’re so knowledgeable, do you know what this escape room is? Is it fun?”
Tang Yiyi could of course hear the longing that she was trying to suppress.
Seeing that she had really stopped shivering after putting on her coat, she pursed her lips and said, “Whether it’s fun or not, you’ll know once you go with me.”
At the same time.
Movie Theater 2.
Wei Shang, who had been waiting for a long time and still hadn’t seen Rong Rong return, lazily opened her eyes, no longer looking at the mess on the floor of the theater. She patted the two dogs next to her, “Let’s go, take Mommy to find that little rascal who’s not listening.”
“Woof!”
Su Mingxiu stood expressionlessly at the entrance of the escape room, feeling like she had taken over all the service jobs in this entire mall, but she couldn’t show any clues.
Seeing that the scarf on the little bird-like girl’s neck hadn’t been taken off, and was still tied nicely, she mechanically recited the rules of the escape room, led them inside, and when she turned to leave, she looked at the map. She was still thinking about where to load into to watch Rong Rong’s entire journey when she heard a burst of chaotic barking coming towards her.
Her eyelids twitched as she saw the group of black pit bulls rushing towards her, and other shoppers in the mall were avoiding them.
The one in the lead reached her, opened its mouth to bark, but its nose moved first, and the sound that was about to come out got stuck in its throat.
Wei Shang came in a step later, patted its head, and asked casually, “Oldest, what’s wrong?”
The black dog squatted in front of the server. It was just about to express its confusion through barking, but it found that the scent on the server’s body had changed. It immediately started barking madly, “Woof woof woof woof!”
Wei Shang: “?”
She looked up at the person standing behind the desk who had been startled by the dog’s barking, and tilted her head in confusion. She couldn’t see anything wrong with the person, but still took out her phone and sent a message.
Then, she said to the person who was trembling, “Did a girl wearing a blue dress come in here earlier? Could you please tell me which room she went into?”
Inside the haunted house escape room.
Rong Rong, who heard the barking through the thin walls, was pale in the darkness. Although she wasn’t afraid of these prop ghosts, she knew that if Wei Shang saw her with Tang Yiyi, she would be dead. The most urgent thing was to find a way to get rid of Tang Yiyi.
She looked around and saw a coffin glowing red next to her. While Tang Yiyi was searching for clues to open the next door, she quietly took a few steps back, touched the edge of the coffin lid, and was still looking for a mechanism to open it when white mist suddenly came out of the coffin lid, rolling down and then slowly coming out from inside—
A pixelated person sat up.
Rong Rong: “…”
Thanks, that really scared her to death.
Before she could react, the person who had been popped out of the coffin reached out to her first. Rong Rong thought about it and didn’t refuse. She followed her and laid inside. The coffin lid closed, and suddenly turned. She and the pixelated person simultaneously flipped over and fell into a tunnel, sliding straight down.
After finally stopping, Rong Rong could no longer hear Tang Yiyi’s voice or the barking of dogs. She was lying on top of the pixelated person, and when she saw the badge on her chest that said “Escape Room Employee A”, she finally couldn’t resist poking the other person’s shoulder with one hand: “Hey, are you in love with me? Why else are you always following me?”
Su Mingxiu didn’t speak, mainly because she couldn’t say anything that didn’t fit the character settings.
Just then, she didn’t know what the person lying on top of her was thinking, but she suddenly took off the badge on her clothes, “This prop of yours—”
“What’s your name?”
The nice voice rang out again. When Rong Rong thought she was going to recite some sales pitch again, she asked a very different question.
“Me?”
Rong Rong just stayed lying on top of her, her fingertips playing with the name tag, not knowing what kind of restraint she had released for the other person. “You haven’t told me your name yet.”
“My name is Su Mingxiu.”
“Huh, then why is your name tag ‘Employee A’? Did a bug cause a different program to run?”
“What?” Su Mingxiu rarely asked that question.
Rong Rong, however, thought of something else. So far, every named character she had encountered who was around her wasn’t simple. This pixelated person who was Employee A on the surface but actually had a name, wouldn’t be a boss as well?
Out of caution, she very carefully asked, “D-do we… have some kind of special relationship?”
Su Mingxiu thought about her bouncing between different women earlier, blinked her eyes, and suddenly said, “I’m your ex-girlfriend, don’t you remember?”
Rong Rong…
Rong Rong immediately jumped off of her.
She hadn’t thought that this place was dangerous before, but now she realized that she was like Tang Sanzang who had fallen into the spider demon’s cave. She looked at this fake Employee A from top to bottom, and thought about her identity, and then about how the other person was always chasing her.
Not good!
Rong Rong shouted in her heart.
This time’s pervert seemed to have a cuckold fetish!
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