Heartbeat Hide and Seek, Game Over if Discovered

"Hahaha, sorry about that, police officers. Isn't there a concert today? A doctor came earlier, now you're police—I thought you were ticket dodgers!"

At the small gate of Su City Stadium.

After Su Mo had left for some time, following verification, came the apologetic voice of Old Zhang, the security guard over fifty who had called the police.

Hearing an uncle two generations older than himself familiarly patting his shoulder while calling him 'police officer.'

Plainclothes Captain Eagle's eyebrow twitched twice, but looking at the time on his phone, he didn't chat much with the old man.

He called over one of his team members and headed toward the theater interior.

After all, following that little episode, an hour had unknowingly passed, and the 'protection' time for Su Mo, this Hide-and-Seek-loving little girl, was over.

Whether Su Mo had transformed into a 'female doctor' or was still hiding in the restroom, she had nowhere to escape.

Now was the time to end this Hide-and-Seek farce.

...

No stars in the night sky, no flower fields~

Su Mo, having put on the doctor outfit, had just entered through the back door when she heard Zhang Jie's melodious opening song from the stadium's constructed stage.

Su Mo had never been to a live concert from childhood to adulthood, and today was her first time in a concert's backstage area.

Since Su Mo had noticed two sensitive officers seemed to have targeted her at the back door.

Although the security guard had stopped them outside for now, Su Mo felt he could probably only delay them for a short time.

After all, in many TV dramas, police officers were essentially unstoppable existences.

Thinking of this, Su Mo felt somewhat overwhelmed and puzzled.

She had clearly left her phone in the restroom and changed her entire outfit.

How did those police officers suspect her based on what details?

Perhaps sensing Su Mo's confusion, the Challenge System timely provided a response.

[Ding, detecting host confusion. Challenge System warm reminder: Host's current figure, especially the little white rabbits, is special among Su City girls' figures. Only 8% of girls possess C+ level size.]

Hearing this quantified data response, Su Mo silently lowered her head, looking at her proud pair of little white rabbits under the doctor outfit's white coat, her pretty face darkening.

Emmmmmmm it was bad enough being a weakness normally, but now these little guys were causing her to reveal flaws.

Very angrily, she patted them once. The soft, bouncy, wonderful rebound and trembling made Su Mo feel somewhat better and more composed.

After calming down, Su Mo began analyzing the current situation.

The current Hide-and-Seek problem was: the 'chest binding cloth' had exploded, her little rabbits' physical characteristics couldn't be hidden, and suspicious police officers were chasing her from behind.

Besides this, her doctor outfit had already aroused suspicion, so the urgent priority should be changing out of this disguise.

While thinking, Su Mo had unknowingly reached the concert's backstage.

Having experienced filming TV dramas twice, entering the backstage, Su Mo discovered that both backstages were largely the same.

If there was a specific difference, the concert backstage seemed busier with more personnel!

Perhaps because the concert had started and everyone was rushing to rehearse, or perhaps because Su Mo in her doctor outfit appearing backstage was quite normal and harmonious.

Su Mo entering backstage wasn't questioned or asked to show work credentials.

Looking at the busy staff walking around, just as Su Mo was considering whether to go to the dressing room to change back into the JK uniform and blend into the complex audience to try escaping police pursuit.

This idea was quickly dismissed.

After all, infiltrating backstage was one thing, but the audience area required real-name tickets and had security guards patrolling.

If they discovered her ticket dodging, wouldn't she be arrested on the spot?

That wouldn't work!

Just as Su Mo was frowning while pondering how to avoid officer pursuit, a girl with exquisite makeup came to her and spoke softly,

"Doctor, one of our team members twisted her foot and is about to go on stage. Could you help take a look and provide emergency treatment?"

While speaking, the girl gently pulled Su Mo's wrist toward a nearby sofa.

Getting closer, Su Mo discovered a young girl in her prime. She was currently clutching her right leg with a pained expression, looking at Su Mo with hope in her eyes.

"Doctor, could you help treat me briefly? We've rehearsed this performance for a long time. If we're missing one person, there will really be big problems."

The girl's voice carried slight sobbing and trembling, just hearing it made one feel very guilty.

Su Mo instinctively looked at the girl's right ankle.

At this moment, the girl's fair, slender calf showed the ankle with a faint purple-red color, obviously a congestion reaction after twisting.

"Hiss~~~"

When Su Mo instinctively touched it, the girl gritted her silver teeth and groaned in pain.

After the muffled groan, perhaps feeling her body wasn't cooperating, tears began gradually accumulating in the girl's eyes.

Looking at the girl like this, although Su Mo sympathized with her determination to go on stage without dragging down the team,

Through the doctor outfit's diagnostic experience, Su Mo still said,

"I personally don't recommend you dance on stage. Although your bones are fine and it's just soft tissue injury, if you force yourself to dance on stage, it could cause irreversible damage and you might never be able to dance again."

As Su Mo's diagnosis rang out, the girl sitting on the sofa seemed sentenced, and two lines of mist that had accumulated in her eyes became hot, rolling tears that began sliding down.

Seeing the girl so heartbroken.

Su Mo's heart also felt bad.

But thinking that if she was caught by the police officers, her tough guy dream would shatter, the Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② mission would fail, and her body would gain those problematic Seven Deadly Sins marks,

Just thinking about it, Su Mo still felt the urgent priority shouldn't be sentimentality.

Just as Su Mo finished her diagnosis and continued thinking about how to hide,

"Captain, I... if I can't dance, could you find someone to replace me on stage?"

The girl's low whimpering came from beside her ear.

Hearing this question from the girl on the sofa, Su Mo was first stunned, then her eyes flashed with brightness.

Because... if she stayed backstage now, she'd definitely be exposed when the police officers came to arrest her. She couldn't get into the audience area without a ticket.

What if she became a performer on stage?

Thinking of this novel solution…

Looking at the female captain currently scrolling through her phone looking for people, and the girl on the sofa who was self-reproaching and coincidentally had a similar figure to herself.

Su Mo cleared her throat twice. After drawing everyone's attention, she continued.

"Is the dance difficult? I have some dance foundation."

After Su Mo spoke, everyone sitting around the sofa was slightly stunned.

After all, in their view, doctor and dancer were too different as professions—quite a leap.

Facing everyone's doubts, Su Mo didn't say much but directly performed a light dance segment.

Under the ten transformations of Heartbeat Hide and Seek ① and recent physical enhancements from the school swimsuit, Su Mo's current body flexibility and dance level were quite high.

Although she was still far from the level of dancing in the Yowane Haku outfit,

With various ability enhancements, if not excellent, she definitely passed the baseline.

After lightly dancing a bit and demonstrating dance ability and body flexibility, facing everyone's amazed gazes, Su Mo thought and continued,

"Dancing is my little hobby. If someone is in front of me as reference, I should be able to dance well—at least not mess up. But..."

Hearing the transition in Su Mo's words and watching Su Mo point at her white coat, the dance team members were first stunned.

The team captain reacted fastest, quickly saying,

"Doctor, you're worried about others discovering you're not at your post and docking your pay, right? Don't worry, if anyone asks about you, we'll cover for you."

Hearing the captain's words, the big stone in Su Mo's heart finally dropped.

After changing into performance clothes in the dressing room and applying matching star makeup for the performance,

Just as Su Mo thought this disguise was perfect, when she reached the corner, she heard low, hoarse conversation.

"Chief, you said that doctor earlier was Su Mo in disguise. I don't think so."

"I don't want what you think. Stop talking nonsense and find her quickly. The hour is up now—time to close the net. Catch her early, go home early. We've suffered plenty because of this little girl these past few days."

"Chief, though it's been busy, didn't we catch several big fish through the masses because of Su Mo these past few days? Besides, I think we shouldn't rush. Su City Stadium is already under our control—over twenty brothers plus cameras. As long as Su Mo enters the stadium, she can't escape unless she can shed her shell like a cicada... We could secretly watch the concert too. Blah blah blah..."

Of these two plainclothes officers, one might have been a recent college graduate and was quite talkative.

Hearing their relaxed conversation, Su Mo felt cold sweat appear on her forehead.

Because as the young officer had said, every corner of the stadium was already covered by surveillance.

Although she had now disguised herself as a performer with people covering for her.

The problem was if the police officers outside couldn't find her and accessed the surveillance.

Wouldn't she still be exposed?

Just as Su Mo realized this new crisis and was at a complete loss, a familiar voice rang in her mind.

[Ding, detecting host is currently in a state of being pursued for arrest. Detecting key idiom 'shedding the shell like a cicada.' Now triggering emergency mission—Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell]

[Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell: Please have the host reveal their true identity during the concert under everyone's gaze and deliver a speech, performing an amazing, incredible escape show.]

[Mission Reward: Successfully escaping the stadium rewards 10,000 Challenge Coins Failure Penalty: Being caught on the spot counts as failure. Intelligence level drops to 5 years old, verbal attack ability increases 500%, effect lasts three days—become a dumb loli!]

Faced with this suddenly activated emergency mission, Su Mo was first stunned.

Then instinctively thought this was definitely an impossible mission.

After all, if she exposed herself in front of everyone,

Although the exposure condition for Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② was being caught to count, revealing her identity was fine,

But facing nearly ten thousand audience members and police officers surrounding her, Su Mo felt that with her weak constitution, she definitely couldn't escape.

"Little Su? Have you finished changing? Let's rehearse once first."

Just as Su Mo heard the captain's call from outside and was about to press the give-up option in her mind while looking at the dumb loli penalty,

As her left hand touched the door handle, looking at the silver 'Time-Stop Ring' on her hand,

Su Mo's peach blossom eyes suddenly flashed with light, her crimson lips curved up slightly, and two cute dimples appeared on her pretty face.

This mission... might not be impossible to complete?

[Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully accepting the emergency mission Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell. Please begin your performance!]