Chapter 164 : Chapter 164
Chapter 164
Bai Xuechao rarely hesitated, pointing to himself and looking at Lin Changqing with a tilted head.
His expression seemed to ask, "Me?"
Forgive him, he had never accompanied anyone to the toilet before; it felt so strange.
"Mm." Lin Changqing nodded solemnly, his tone serious, but he repeated in a very low voice, "Can you go to the toilet with me?"
Actually, it was useless for him to speak in a low voice. Everyone present had excellent hearing and could hear him. Doing so just gave him some psychological comfort. After all, he was 25 years old and was still so scared of a supernatural incident that he didn't dare to go to the toilet by himself. It was too embarrassing.
Yu Ruolan pretended she hadn't heard anything.
Yuan Lan was eating his noodles while watching the show. It could be said that he was the one who had orchestrated the current scene. Bai Xuechao probably had a faint premonition of it too.
Bai Xuechao directly asked, "Why don't you ask Yuan Lan to go to the toilet with you?"
He didn't deliberately lower his voice. Yu Ruolan subconsciously looked at them.
"Oh my god, I'm begging you, keep your voice down!" Seeing Yu Ruolan's big eyes secretly glancing at them, Lin Changqing put his hands together and bowed to Bai Xuechao with a pained expression, then whispered in his ear, "I don't dare to ask that bad guy to go with me. He'll definitely scare me."
As he spoke, Bai Xuechao was calmly eating his noodles.
Xiao 6 cackled in his mind like a chicken, "Hehehehe, Lin Changqing called Yuan Lan a bad guy, that's hilarious. As expected, only one's own people know oneself best!"
At the same time, after Lin Changqing finished speaking, his gaze happened to pass over Bai Xuechao's elegant profile and landed on Yuan Lan behind him, who had a faint smile on his face.
He immediately started to play dumb, looking east and west, but not at Yuan Lan.
Of course, Lin Changqing knew that Yuan Lan had heard him. He wasn't really stupid; he was just saying it for Yuan Lan to hear.
Only after Bai Xuechao had swallowed this mouthful of noodles did he say, as if enjoying the drama, "Didn't he promise not to scare you?"
"Brother, oh no, little ancestor." Lin Changqing's double-lidded phoenix eyes were full of complex emotions. He lowered his voice and asked Bai Xuechao, "Tell me the truth, do you believe him?"
Xiao 6 once again let out a chicken-like laugh.
"Yuan Lan, he's asking you." Bai Xuechao actually asked Yuan Lan directly, "Do you believe him?"
Lin Changqing almost suffocated on the spot, "!!"
No, big brother, my ancestor, just hinting a few times is enough. Why did you have to ask the person directly!
Yuan Lan was amused by Bai Xuechao's slick move. Seeing Lin Changqing's expression as if he wanted to pinch his own philtrum, he propped his cheek with his left hand and said with a grin, "Hmm... A-Qing's worry is very reasonable. So, please go to the toilet with him, otherwise he's going to wet his pants."
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Lin Changqing slammed the table and stood up, "I bet my dignity as a man, I will not wet my pants!"
Bai Xuechao: "..."
You people from the Apocalypse Society have some really unique bets.
Bai Xuechao said with a straight face, "Oh, then you can hold it in for a while. Wait until I finish eating."
"No, I was wrong, I really can't hold it in anymore." Lin Changqing admitted defeat in a second, sat down and grabbed Bai Xuechao's shoulder. Enduring Yuan Lan's scorching gaze, he moved closer to Bai Xuechao, winked his slightly upturned phoenix eyes like Daji, and said in a gentle, jade-like voice that was slightly lowered, "Let's go now."
Bai Xuechao fell silent.
Alright, you people from the Apocalypse Society all know how to act coquettishly, huh?
Xiao 6's old habit flared up again. Two small heart-shaped balloons slowly floated up on either side of Bai Xuechao's vision, and it said, "Ah, the male Daji of the Apocalypse Society × the cold-faced young master, I won't say who's shipping this! I'm madly substituting this composition, waahhh!"
"Cold-faced? What cold-faced?" Bai Xuechao deliberately said, "Roasted cold noodles? Or Xita's big cold noodles?"
Xiao 6: QAQ You dog Host, I hate that you're such a block of wood.
Bai Xuechao remained unmoved and said to Lin Changqing, "...I'll stop after two more bites. You can wait for me for a minute."
"Okay, okay, okay." Lin Changqing lay down on the table and watched Bai Xuechao eat his noodles.
Bai Xuechao really only ate two more bites before stopping. There were still some mixed noodles left on the plate; he had only eaten about a third of Yuan Lan's large bowl.
"Let's go, let's go!" Lin Changqing grabbed Bai Xuechao's arm and rushed out of the dining room.
Before being pulled out of the dining room, Bai Xuechao looked back at Yuan Lan.
Yuan Lan smiled and nodded at him.
Bai Xuechao pointed at the quietly sitting Yu Ruolan, but before he could see Yuan Lan's response, he was pulled out.
Lin Changqing didn't notice their small movements; his only thought was to get to the bathroom.
Bai Xuechao was pulled by Lin Changqing in a rush, almost race-walking. After passing through the hallway and turning a corner, they reached two separate bathrooms for men and women.
"Don't you dare leave!" Lin Changqing said hastily before entering the bathroom.
As soon as the door closed, the sound of water could be heard.
Bai Xuechao felt a bit awkward. For some reason, it reminded him of what Yuan Lan had once said about girls going to the bathroom together. Could this be what it felt like?
At that moment, he sensed someone approaching. Before he could turn around, he felt something grab his ankle.
He calmly turned around. As expected, it was Yuan Lan.
The puppet thread wrapped around his ankle loosened.
Yuan Lan smiled at him silently, his handsome features wreathed in a smile, his brilliant golden eyes like the radiant sun.
Bai Xuechao extended his hand towards him and beckoned with his fingers, gesturing for him to take out the thing.
Yuan Lan pulled down the dangling, translucent puppet thread from above. On it was tied a cup of "drink," the color as crimson as blood. Due to the sudden descent, the crimson liquid was shaking slightly, the amplitude small, showing a viscous texture.
—Fake blood plasma.
As early as when they were discussing what to have for lunch, Bai Xuechao had said watermelon juice with honey, which was a hint to Yuan Lan.
Watermelon juice is red, and honey is a very common ingredient in making prop blood plasma. Coupled with the magical operation of adding honey to watermelon juice, with Yuan Lan's intelligence, he naturally understood Bai Xuechao's thoughts, especially since Bai Xuechao had also hinted at tomato sauce later.
However, Bai Xuechao hadn't expected Yuan Lan to trick Lin Changqing into coming to the bathroom for a prank at first. He only guessed it when he saw the giant glass of watermelon juice.
Because as everyone knows, watermelon is a diuretic.
The effect of a mutated watermelon was even stronger.
Not to mention that Lin Changqing himself had said he drank a cup of coffee at Mortar's place. Just drinking such a large glass of watermelon juice, even if it was only a small half, it would be strange if he didn't need to go to the toilet.
Bai Xuechao took the cup of fake blood and dipped the fingers of his left hand into it.
At that moment, Lin Changqing's voice came from inside the bathroom, "Bai Xuechao? Are you still there?"
"Here." Bai Xuechao replied while quickly smearing on the mirror in front of the sink, writing a few jumbled words: hatekillmeyou.
Lin Changqing said, "Sorry, you might have to wait for me a little longer."
Bai Xuechao pretended to urge him, "Alright, hurry up."
He also added finger scratch marks between the words he was writing, creating the effect of someone who had written a message in blood and then scratched it in frustration. Then, he washed his hands.
While washing his hands, he mouthed to Yuan Lan next to him: "Where's Little Yu?"
Yuan Lan pointed upstairs and mouthed back: "Changing clothes."
Yu Ruolan had agreed to participate in this prank.
It seemed she also had her moments of being quietly mischievous.
Bai Xuechao's lips curled into a smile. He gave Yuan Lan an "OK" gesture, then took the blood plasma and began to quietly sprinkle it on the floor, creating the appearance of someone who was injured and bleeding as they walked.
Just like that, he left the bathroom.
Yuan Lan also followed behind him. The two of them stood at the corner and saw Yu Ruolan walking over from a distance.
Yu Ruolan had changed into a pure white slip dress. The hair at the back of her head was all combed forward, almost covering her entire face, leaving only a small gap for her eyes to see out, which really had a bit of a scary ghost vibe. Moreover, she had a characteristic of having a low presence; people would only truly "see" her after noticing her, which made her even more suitable for playing a ghost.
Seeing that Bai Xuechao and Yuan Lan were both waiting for her, Yu Ruolan quickly lifted the hair in front of her eyes and tiptoed over quietly.
She opened her mouth as if to ask something, but noticing that both of them were silent, she immediately closed it again.
Bai Xuechao handed her the cup with a little blood plasma left in it, and at the same time leaned in close to her ear, whispering in an almost breathy voice, "Can I sprinkle blood plasma on this dress? I'll compensate you for it."
A faint blush appeared on Yu Ruolan's cheeks. She shook her head and waved her hands repeatedly to indicate that no compensation was needed, and reached out to take the blood plasma.
But Yuan Lan took it one step ahead and also said in a very soft voice, "Let me."
In a few strokes, he splashed blood plasma onto Yu Ruolan's dress. He also used his hands to smear fake blood on the skin of her neck and chin. Finally, he used a puppet thread to twist a small hole in her abdomen, poured the remaining blood plasma on the edge, and took out a black pen to do some simple smudging, creating a wound that looked like a blood hole, as if she had been shot and killed in the end.
And Lin Changqing, because his special ability was not very aggressive, most commonly used various guns.
Of course, the fake wound Yuan Lan made was not very delicate due to limited conditions and time. If Lin Changqing looked closely, he would be able to recognize it as fake, provided he dared to look closely.
"Bai Xuechao?" Lin Changqing called out again.
This time, Bai Xuechao did not respond.
Not only did he not respond, Yuan Lan also used several puppet threads twisted together to whip the bathroom door a few times, causing it to make a clanging sound.
"What the hell is that sound?" Lin Changqing was still shouting, "Bai Xuechao? Are you still there?"
Still no response.
Lin Changqing seemed to have finally realized something was wrong and started to panic a little, "Bai Xuechao? Don't you pull this trick on me too!"
The long silence made Lin Changqing's heart sink.
He thought, could it be that Bai Xuechao had something urgent to do and left? But he didn't say anything to him before he left?
Lin Changqing shouted even louder, "Bai Xuechao!"
In the hallway outside the bathroom, Bai Xuechao and Yuan Lan had both hidden behind the corner, leaving only Yu Ruolan tied up by her limbs with puppet threads, suspended from the ceiling.
The three of them listened to Lin Changqing continuously shouting for Bai Xuechao, but no one made a sound.
After a long time, the faint sound of flushing water came from around the corner of the hallway.
Lin Changqing's voice was getting louder, it sounded like he was approaching the bathroom door, and his words had a hint of being outwardly strong but inwardly weak, "Bai Xuechao, you'd better have really left. If you're hiding somewhere waiting to scare me, I— grass!"