Chapter 260: Polar Reversal, a Pile-up of Coincidences, the Vole Goes Mad
"The beautiful lady is always so lucky!"
"Learned your lesson yet?"
"We’ve caught you three times now. It’s about time you came with us."
Xiao Jiu brandished her little hammer, looking like she wanted to smash the vole flat in one blow.
Li Ruxue glanced at Yun Zhenyue in surprise.
Catching the vole with precision three times in a row.
She refused to believe it was just so-called luck.
’Someone who could become a 5-star deputy manager so quickly couldn’t possibly be that simple!’
’Could it be that Yun Zhenyue saw through this Bewitching Array from the very start?’
’Maybe she was just playing along when they first came in and didn’t feel like catching the vole. But after getting tricked three times, she got genuinely mad and decided to get serious?’
’In that case, the vole totally had it coming!’
Xiao Ba also looked at Yun Zhenyue in astonishment.
"Hmph~"
"As if I’d go with you!"
"Not unless you catch me three more times!"
"I’m turning up the difficulty now, you know. It’s not just a choice between two anymore..."
Hearing this, the vole immediately put her hands on her hips and spoke, annoyed.
As her voice fell, she scrutinized Yun Zhenyue.
She still couldn’t find anything special about her.
’Looks like it really was just good luck.’
BANG!
The vole’s figure vanished again.
Yun Zhenyue calmed herself down.
As she watched the vole’s figure disappear in a flash, her anger subsided.
’My ultimate goal isn’t to catch the vole!’
’I was just too furious and wanted to teach that little mouse a lesson!’
The moment she realized this, Yun Zhenyue’s magical feeling disappeared.
However, the lingering impulse from before hadn’t faded.
High above, the Abyssal Eye was still staring down.
Its focus had merely shifted to ’letting the vole have a taste of her own medicine!’
Looking at the four alleys that appeared before them, Xiao Jiu was stumped.
’I’m getting decision paralysis!’
She looked up at Yun Zhenyue and asked, "What do you think, beautiful lady? Which way do we go now?"
"Umm..."
Yun Zhenyue looked at her three little followers.
She was also having a hard time choosing.
So she casually pointed to the third alley.
"Let’s go with this one!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Jiu was eager to charge in.
Yun Zhenyue stopped her. She didn’t have that feeling anymore and might have guessed wrong.
"Wait, we need to be more careful this time."
"I had a sudden intuition just now, but now that there are more alleys, that feeling is gone."
"This alley might have even more traps."
Yun Zhenyue said gravely.
Xiao Ba nodded faintly. "Given that little mouse’s personality, she probably won’t take this lying down and will set even more traps."
"Huh?" Xiao Jiu sighed. "That’s a shame."
"So how do you get that intuition back?"
Yun Zhenyue shook her head. "I don’t know either. Maybe because I got tricked so many times, I developed an intuition for catching the vole."
...
Little did they know, while the group was deliberating, the vole hiding in the third alley was completely dumbfounded.
’She guessed right again?’
--Exactly right!
’How can such an absurd ability exist!’
’Getting tricked a lot gives you intuition?’
’This intuition is even more accurate than my own premonitions!’
The vole was a little indignant.
Her plan to let Yun Zhenyue and the others go vanished into thin air.
"So you think you can guess right, huh!"
"I’ll just swap them and screw you over!"
The vole controlled the Bewitching Array.
She swapped the second alley with the third one she was in!
Now, Yun Zhenyue and her group would stumble right into a punishment.
Xiao Ba was right.
She really had upgraded the traps!
It wasn’t just honey and ice water anymore~
Underneath the black cloak, the vole’s eyes glinted with cunning.
But just then!
A cold wind blew from out of nowhere.
"—ACHOO!!"
The vole’s nose tickled, and she sneezed involuntarily.
Her body accidentally took a step forward.
Normally, she would be extra careful to avoid falling into her own traps.
But at this very moment, waiting to watch the show, she didn’t notice a soda can rolling under her foot.
"What the hell?"
The timing of this soda can was too perfect!
The vole blankly stepped on the can.
It didn’t even crush!
The soda can was full!
Before she could even react, her foot suddenly slipped!
WHOOSH—she slid into the adjacent alley.
The very one she had just swapped!
And she kept sliding forward!
"Holy shit!"
The vole’s eyes widened. She’d never been this unlucky.
’This alley is trapped!’
’What kind of cursed wind was that?!’
The instant before she stepped on her own trap, the vole used all her strength and managed to stop herself, just a centimeter away!
A drop of cold sweat trickled down her temple.
Her body froze.
"Phew~"
"That was close, that was close. Just a little bit more."
"If I’d fallen into my own trap, I’d have been laughed to death."
The vole muttered to herself.
But at that moment!
A single leaf came fluttering down.
Its target was the vole below.
Seeing this, the vole looked away disdainfully.
’Again?’
’It’s just a leaf.’
’It’s not like it’s a...’
"Caterpillar?!!"
The vole looked up and saw a caterpillar clinging to the back of the falling leaf.
She was terrified of bugs!
Talk about facing your worst fears!
She couldn’t help but frantically dodge to the side!
In that instant, she forgot about the trap in front of her and, with a PLAP, stepped right into it.
She had barely managed to dodge the caterpillar, only to remember what a stupid thing she’d just done.
"I’m doomed!"
The vole cried out in alarm.
"How can I be this unlucky!!!"
—SPLAT!!!
The moment Yun Zhenyue and the others entered the alley, they saw the vole’s panicked expression.
And the ground of the alley was suddenly coated in an extremely slippery oil!
This was originally a trap set by the vole.
The oil was specially made!
It was designed to make anyone who entered the alley get covered in grease and fall.
But now, it was being used on her!
Everyone saw the vole completely unable to keep her footing, like a mouse that had accidentally fallen into a pot of oil. Her normally puffy cloak was stuck to her hair, and her entire body was covered in the greasy stuff.
"Hel... Help—" The vole couldn’t even finish her sentence!
BANG!!!
She slammed into a wall, seeing stars.
’Trying to get up?’
But her feet were covered in oil.
It was too slippery!!
She immediately slid toward a nearby trash can!
Just as she managed to pull her head out of the trash can, the oil under her feet did its work again.
BANG—she fell flat on her back!
The alley had become the vole’s personal playground.
All they could hear was the THUMP, THUMP, THUMP of her falling.
No one knew what the oil was made of to make even an Evil Star fall so miserably.
Everyone looked at the vole’s backside with pity.
It was probably getting flattened by now.
"*Hiss*!"
"I can’t believe someone could be so stupid as to get caught in their own trap."
Xiao Jiu gasped in astonishment.
Xiao Ba’s eyes were wide with surprise. "Indeed. That’s just too idiotic."
Just as the group was enjoying the show, the vole started sliding forward!
Towards the new alley she had just set up!
It looked like she was trying to escape!
But whether she was really trying to escape, only the vole herself knew.
She was flailing helplessly, about to lose her mind!
’She knew the traps in the next section were even more terrifying!’
’My butt...’
’My butt’s going to be black and blue!’
