Chapter 1563 - 1458: Accept the Wager and Face the Consequences
The moment the voice rang out, all four people present were completely dumbfounded.
How the hell is there someone on top of the stone lion!
And why is that person Chu Xi!
Huang Cuicui was the first to change expression, covering her mouth in disbelief: "That idiot, why on earth would he show up here!"
Luo Yong slapped himself hard across the face. "Am I hallucinating!"
Only Lei Xiuzhu’s face looked extremely nasty as she asked in a deep voice, "Chu the Fool, when exactly did you get here!"
Chu Xi, also known as Qin Hao, yawned and said, "I’ve been here for ages already. Why did you guys only just arrive?"
"Been here for ages??"
All four of them wore looks of disbelief, staring at Qin Hao like they were looking at a freak.
"You really got here long ago?"
"You talking nonsense to fool ghosts?"
Of course they still didn’t believe him.
Facing their doubts, Qin Hao didn’t say much. After stretching, he leapt down from the stone lion in one bound.
Bang!
He landed steadily on the ground, and the whole floor seemed to tremble.
The four of them subconsciously stepped back, still shaken.
Huang Cuicui snapped in shame and anger, "Chu the Fool, we’re asking you a question! What are you pretending to be all deep for!"
Qin Hao pushed his hair back and smiled faintly. "I’m telling the truth and you don’t believe me. What do you expect me to do?"
Silence.
Another bout of silence.
Luo Yong and Huang Cuicui of course still didn’t believe him, but Ma Ji and Lei Xiuzhu were a little different.
After a long while, Lei Xiuzhu finally spoke with an ugly expression, "You really got here long ago?"
Although their mouths said they didn’t believe it, in their hearts they already did.
If Qin Hao arrived later than them, how could they not have noticed?
So Qin Hao definitely arrived earlier than they did.
As for how much earlier.
Each of them looked at the sleepy-eyed Qin Hao, muttering in their hearts, "Looks like he even took a nap... Doesn’t that mean he’s been here for a long time..."
Qin Hao kept yawning, scratching his hair as he said, "I’ve been here about two hours. Just barely slept my fill."
"Two hours..."
The moment those words came out, everyone was completely stunned.
Huang Cuicui shook her head, lost in spirit, muttering, "Impossible! You’re absolutely lying! Two hours earlier... wouldn’t that mean you were one and a half hours faster than Senior Sister Lei?"
"Yeah! Chu the Fool, spouting stupid crap like that! You’ve got no shame!" Luo Yong also harshly accused, fierce on the outside and weak inside.
Only Ma Ji and Lei Xiuzhu kept their mouths shut.
Ma Ji’s eyes darted quickly as he carefully sized up Qin Hao, trying to see if he was lying.
Lei Xiuzhu’s face went slightly pale as she said, "That Tornado just now... was that you?"
"Yeah." Qin Hao replied casually, perfectly calm.
Huang Cuicui and Luo Yong were dumbstruck.
But very quickly, the two both raised objections.
"That person was you? Chu the Fool, we misjudged you, huh—turns out you’re just a scheming liar who loves to make things up!"
"Yeah! Chu the Fool, a person shouldn’t be that shameless!"
Qin Hao said helplessly, "If you don’t believe me there’s nothing I can do..."
"I believe..."
At this moment, Lei Xiuzhu spoke. Her expression was tangled and pained to the extreme, yet her heart was very clear.
Earlier, when the Tornado brushed past her, she’d sensed something, feeling that the person inside seemed familiar.
Now it seemed that person ought to be Qin Hao, which is why she had that feeling.
"Senior Sister Lei, you actually believe this idiot?"
"Senior Sister Lei, he’s clearly just bragging!"
Being the two who looked down on Qin Hao the most, Huang Cuicui and Luo Yong were both indignant.
"It’s him." Lei Xiuzhu shook her head coldly. "And even if it wasn’t him, so what? He still arrived earlier than we did... This race, we lost."
At that point her heart spasmed hard, her chest filled with the blow.
A Tornado could only be described as blisteringly fast.
That’s Elder Level speed!
And that idiot actually had such speed? That’s a miracle of the world!
Also, why is this idiot so damn strong?
"Got here earlier than we did..."
Huang Cuicui and Luo Yong didn’t catch the rest of what she said; only that one sentence stuck in their hearts, turning their faces pale.
Suddenly they remembered—wasn’t there a wager involved earlier?
Whoever arrived first would have the higher seniority?
If they remembered right, they were the ones who lost now. From now on, wouldn’t everyone have to call Chu the Fool "Uncle"?
Fuck!
In that instant, Huang Cuicui and Luo Yong’s faces collapsed, like they wanted to die on the spot.
"Heh heh heh. Since Senior Sister Lei has admitted I was the first to arrive, shouldn’t you guys be calling me Uncle now?"
Qin Hao put on an extremely lewd grin, purely bringing up exactly what they didn’t want to hear.
Other than Ma Ji, the three of them all looked tangled and conflicted.
Luo Yong was the first to snap out of it, switching to an angry look. "Chu the Fool, you want me to call you Uncle? In your dreams! I’m just not gonna say it, what can you do to me? Beat me up?"
He was straight-up playing the rascal now, and Huang Cuicui was secretly delighted, loudly adding, "This bet doesn’t count at all! Chu the Fool, you cheated!"
"I cheated? How did I cheat?" Qin Hao put on a confused look, acting totally innocent.
"I don’t care! You just cheated!" Huang Cuicui pointed at Qin Hao, like an aggressive hen ready for a fight. She was dead set on welching and couldn’t even be bothered to come up with an excuse.
Qin Hao was helpless and could only shake his head. These two were way too shameless—probably not much better than him.
Lei Xiuzhu, however, couldn’t stand it anymore and couldn’t help but shout, "Enough! Lost means lost. If you wager, you accept the result! Saying all this crap, what happened to the bearing of proper sect disciples? What a disgrace!"
As she spoke, her expression shifted dark and light, and in the end she lowered her head in agony and said, "Uncle."
"Huh? You talking to me?" Qin Hao’s face was full of question marks.
"..." Lei Xiuzhu’s delicate body trembled as she looked at the dumb Qin Hao, wanting to strangle him with her bare hands.
If she could, Lei Xiuzhu would of course prefer to default.
But while she had a temper, she cared a lot about her word; she’d never gone back on anything she said.
To make her break her promise would be harder than killing her.
So, even under humiliation, she still had to accept the result of the bet.
"Unc... Uncle..." Forcing down the urge to faint from rage, Lei Xiuzhu’s voice trembled as she called out, her face reddening a little more with each syllable.
"Ah, my good niece!" Qin Hao nodded with deliberate solemnity, smiling brilliantly, his teeth flashing.
"Ah!"
Seeing Qin Hao’s expression, Lei Xiuzhu was so furious she slapped the stone lion.
Bang!
The spot her palm struck actually started to crack.
If she’d used a bit more force, that lion would probably have collapsed.
"Alright, your turn now!" Qin Hao was far from polite, grinning as he looked at Huang Cuicui and Luo Yong.
"You..." Seeing Qin Hao’s obnoxious grin, the two almost fainted from anger.
But with Lei Xiuzhu right there, what could they do?
