Chapter 101.2: Xishan Residential Area (21)

  Ruan Qing didn’t dare to move. He just watched the elevator doors closed again.

Then he watched as the elevator continued to ascend.

Inside, Ruan Qing prayed frantically, hoping that the two people would get off on the fourth floor.

However, to Ruan Qing’s disappointment, when the elevator reached the fourth floor, the two of them still stood there, facing each other with hostility, showing no intention of getting off.

The elevator continued to move upwards, clearly indicating that there were residents on the upper floors who needed to descend.

As the floors went higher and higher, Ruan Qing no longer wished for the two to start a fight. Because if a fight broke out now, and the elevator lost control, he would have a hard time surviving.

Unfortunately, it seemed like fate was against Ruan Qing. The two individuals, who had already been acting strangely, exuded an even colder atmosphere, and the tension in the air was palpable, on the verge of eruption.

One person produced a card in his hand, while black threads enveloped the other’s fingertips, radiating a strong sense of pressure all around them.

It was clear that they were about to fight.

Ruan Qing’s eyes widened, and just as he was about to do something to salvage the situation, a cellphone rang inside the elevator.

Everyone’s gaze turned to the pocket of Su Zhen’s black windbreaker.

Su Zhen idly played with the black thread at his fingertips and casually answered the phone, saying, “Hello.”

A male voice came from the other end, laced with suppressed anger. “Mr. Yang, are you coming to pick up your child or not!? This is a kindergarten, not your babysitter!”

However, before Su Zhen could respond, the card in Lu Rufeng’s hand suddenly flew towards Su Zhen, exuding a terrifying sense of danger.

Other players’ eyes widened, not doubting for a moment that if the card attacked them, they wouldn’t even have time to react before losing their heads.

Yet Su Zhen remained calm, not even lifting his head. His slender fingers moved slightly, and the black thread coiled around his fingertips instantly solidified into a blade, emitting a terrifying power as if it could destroy everything.

The card flying towards him changed direction abruptly, as if something had struck it, heading straight towards the corner.

And that corner was where Ruan Qing was standing.

He watched in shock as the card came towards him. The speed of the card was too fast, and with his reflexes, he couldn’t dodge it...

Ruan Qing quickly glanced at the advanced male player.

It’s unclear whether it was due to the influence of hypnosis or not. The advanced male player’s actions followed Ruan Qing’s command step by step. When he saw the cards change direction, he immediately grabbed Ruan Qing, trying to pull him away.

Even though the advanced male player’s reaction was already quite fast, it was still too late.

The advanced male player pulled Ruan Qing towards him, but the cards were even faster, moving at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye.

At this moment, time seemed to slow down.

Ruan Qing looked at the cards that were almost within arm’s reach, his pupils shrinking, and he forcefully turned his head towards the advanced male player to avoid having his head directly severed.

However, this angle would certainly cut into his ear, not fatal, but his wig would definitely be sliced off.

At that point, his disguise would definitely be exposed, but Ruan Qing couldn’t care about that anymore.

Either expose himself or die. He had no choice.

Ruan Qing closed his eyes weakly.

However, the expected pain did not come, and the sound of the cards hitting the elevator did not come either.

Ruan Qing was directly thrown into the arms of the advanced male player.

Because he used too much force, the male player slammed into the elevator wall, causing the elevator to shake violently for a moment.

However, the advanced male player protected Ruan Qing very well, and Ruan Qing was not injured in the slightest.

Ruan Qing lay in the arms of the advanced male player and turned his head. There was a card suspended in front of his previous position.

There were black threads entwined around the card.

Lu Rufeng waved his hand, and the card broke through the entwining black threads and returned to his hand.

The black threads also returned to Su Zhen’s hand.

The advanced male player’s face showed a painful expression from the impact, but he had no time to care about himself and immediately held Ruan Qing up and checked him up and down with a slightly nervous tone. “Are you okay?”

Due to the recent scare, Ruan Qing felt a bit weak and shook his head.

Despite his appearance as a chubby guy, he always gave people a quiet and obedient feeling.

Lu Rufeng found this scene extremely annoying. He looked at the advanced male player’s hand on the chubby guy’s waist and coldly remarked, “In broad daylight, two guys hugging each other. What does that look like?”

Su Zhen felt that this scene was very annoying, even triggering a sense of irritation, wanting to kill the player holding the fat guy.

This inexplicable emotion made Su Zhen furrow his brows and snort. “Shameless.”

The advanced male player was taken aback by his words, but silently released Ruan Qing.

Ruan Qing didn’t say anything either, just stood by the elevator, supporting himself.

The viewers in the livestream room were somewhat surprised.

[This is the first time I’ve seen a top-ranked player proactively interact with other players, even though their tone wasn’t great. Could it be that these two... have a problem with homosexuality?]

[No way, didn’t Lu Rufeng, the Magician, give a love letter to a male NPC in the last instance? Doesn’t seem like he has an issue with it. Could it be that the fat guy is just too ugly for them?]

[I have to say, even though he’s chubby, I don’t think he’s ugly. He actually looks better the more I see him.]

[I agree, if he’s not ugly, he could be quite handsome.]

The barrage was discussing whether the two masters might have an issue with homosexuality and whether the fat guy was good-looking or not.

Only one viewer thought that something was off with the way those two were looking at each other.

It seemed like... jealousy?

Just as the Magician Lu Rufeng’s card was about to hit the fat guy, it was evident that both of them were very concerned. One seemed to immediately control their card to stop, while the other quickly controlled their puppet’s strings to grab the card.

In the past, these people wouldn’t care if someone died in front of them, they wouldn’t bother to save anyone, and the Magician might even intentionally go for the kill.

The viewers were unsure if they had seen it correctly, so one of them slowed down their recording and watched it again.

After confirming that the two of them had indeed simultaneously controlled the card when it was about to hit the fat guy, the viewer hesitated and typed in the chat, [Um... am I the only one who thinks they might be... jealous?]

However, this comment was immediately met with ridicule from the others, and a flood of comments soon drowned it out.

As the viewers who thought that looked at the barrage filling the screen, they also felt that their speculation was quite absurd.

After all, it wasn’t about looks anymore; it just didn’t make sense.

These two masters could have anyone they wanted, so the possibility of them both being interested in...

Simultaneously, controlling the card might not necessarily be about protecting the fat guy; the Magician might have seen an opening and wanted to continue the attack or something.

That Su Zhen, the big shot, naturally had control over the cards, preventing the Magician from continuing the attack.

The viewer also found their previous absurd guesses extremely funny, and after laughing, they immediately tossed the thought aside.

Not to mention that the audience found it absurd, Su Zhen himself also felt especially absurd, and even began to doubt whether he had some potential for being a scumbag.

He was not a fool, of course, and he naturally understood what his inner restlessness meant.

But the problem was, he had already decided to spend his life with Ye Qing.

In less than a day, it seemed like he was falling for another man...

This shouldn’t be happening; he wasn’t that kind of person.

As for Lu Rufeng, he squinted his eyes and stared at Ruan Qing in the corner, seeming to be suspicious of something.

The atmosphere in the elevator became somewhat awkward for a while.

“Ding!” The elevator opened, and without realizing it, they had already reached the twentieth floor.

No one was getting off the elevator, but some residents got on, slightly relieving the awkward atmosphere in the elevator.

The elevator slowly descended, and when it reached the fourth floor again, Su Zhen and Lu Rufeng got off this time.

Before getting off the elevator, both of them discreetly glanced at Ruan Qing in the corner, but in the end, they didn’t say anything and quickly left the elevator.

Seeing the two of them leave, Ruan Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that the physical disguise effect wasn’t very effective, probably due to the preconceived notions. The two of them hadn’t suspected anything in such a short time.

But the longer they spent together, the easier it would be to expose him.

His condition was like a torch in a dark forest, attracting moths to it.

Physical disguise was like wrapping a plastic bag around the torch, it couldn’t block the light at all.

Ruan Qing really hoped he wouldn’t encounter these two again.

The third floor arrived quickly.

The four of them quickly made their way to Room 306 and stopped at the door.

The advanced male player took a step forward, ready to knock on the door to test it, but to their surprise, the door opened from the inside.

The one who opened the door was a player; it was clear that the other group of players had arrived ahead of them.

Seeing this, the four of them immediately entered the room.

At this moment, there were four bodies lying in the living room, and it looked somewhat eerie.

The advanced male player took a step forward, examining the bodies while asking the player who had arrived a step ahead of them, “Any discoveries?”

The player with blond hair nodded and shook his head. “We arrived just a minute ahead of you, and when we got here, they were already dead, seemingly drained of blood by something.”

Ruan Qing used a small knife to cut the skin of the bodies, and there was indeed not a trace of blood.

This didn’t seem like something that humans could do.

Something akin to the existence of vampires?

There weren’t many clues on the bodies. Ruan Qing shifted his gaze to the sofa, where there was an art book.

Just as Ruan Qing was about to walk up to it, a sharp ‘ring, ring, ring’ sound suddenly echoed in the room, very piercing.

All the players looked up at the clock on the living room wall.

...It was midnight.

Whether it was a player’s illusion or not, after the clock on the wall rang, the air suddenly became colder.

The players in the room exchanged glances. Evidently this was very likely not an illusion but a genuine sudden drop in temperature.

Midnight at twelve o’clock was a dangerous time, and it wasn’t just monsters that could suck blood...

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