Chapter 744 - 741: People Scaring People
Liu Xueyi wanted to turn around and run, but her legs were weak, and it was difficult even to stand up.
So she tugged at Shen Shiyun’s sleeve beside her, with a slight sob in her voice, and said, "Shiyun, let’s... let’s go back to the hotel."
"Go back to the hotel? Didn’t we just come out?" Shen Shiyun turned her head, somewhat surprised, looking at her companion.
"I... I feel a bit uncomfortable," Liu Xueyi stammered.
"Did you get sunstroke?"
Shen Shiyun looked up at the sky.
Although the weather was nice today, with the sun shining brightly, the temperature wasn’t high.
But she didn’t ask much more, she just got up and helped Liu Xueyi up.
As they were leaving, she waved at the two little ones and said, "Goodbye, little sisters."
"Goodbye," said Dou Dou.
Duoduo waved at them.
Watching them leave, Duoduo turned to Dou Dou and said, "We seem to have scared them."
"Scared them? Do I look like a little monster?" Dou Dou giggled.
Then, like a crab, she sidestepped a few steps over to Duoduo, "Why don’t you transform into something?"
Dou Dou could only transform into a human, but Duoduo could transform freely, which was something Dou Dou was always very envious of.
"I didn’t mean that, just now that sister was holding a phone, she was filming us, I think she caught us on camera."
Although Duoduo didn’t speak all the time, she was very attentive, and she noticed the change in Liu Xueyi’s expression.
"Did she film me looking ugly? She didn’t turn on the beauty filter, mom taught me, no beauty filter, no photos," Dou Dou said, wide-eyed.
Duoduo wordlessly reached out to pinch her little face.
Seeing Duoduo’s sandy hand reaching over, Dou Dou quickly dodged back.
"Oh, I was just joking, if they’re scared, they’re scared, it’s no big deal, I often scare people for fun..."
"Hmm?" Duoduo’s gaze swept over swiftly.
"Hehehe, I was kidding, do you believe me?" Dou Dou said with a guilty conscience.
"I’m going to tell Potato," Duoduo threw down the plastic shovel in her hand and got up happily.
"Nooo," Dou Dou directly lunged forward, hugging Duoduo’s leg.
"If you tell Potato, I’m doomed, he’ll definitely beat me to death, I’ll be so pitiful, please pity me..."
Dou Dou looked up, with a weak appearance, teary-eyed, looking really convincing.
"Don’t worry, he won’t," Duoduo said.
"You’re not going to tell Potato?" Dou Dou was delighted.
"You’re so nice, I love you."
"I mean, brother won’t beat you to death because you’re already dead," Duoduo said.
Dou Dou froze at her words.
"He... he’ll lock me in a pitch-black room, give me no food, no water, drown me, burn me, strike me with lightning, by then I’ll be miserable..." Dou Dou said, teary-eyed.
"Do you think you’re the Sun Monkey?" Duoduo said irritably.
"Aren’t I?" Dou Dou asked, puzzled.
Duoduo kicked her butt angrily, "You haven’t got a single hair, how can you be the Sun Monkey?"
"I do have hair."
Dou Dou lowered her head, diligently searching for hair on her own arm.
Duoduo: ...
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With Shen Shiyun’s support, Liu Xueyi made it to the roadside. By then, Liu Xueyi had also somewhat recovered, and she broke away from Shen Shiyun’s support.
"What are you doing? Are you okay now?" Shen Shiyun asked, somewhat surprised.
Liu Xueyi nodded. Now that she was calm, she felt both scared and curious, wanting to look back but too afraid, her heart torn with indecision.
Seeing that Liu Xueyi didn’t seem to be in any trouble, Shen Shiyun began to become suspicious.
"You’re not lying to me, are you? Tell me, what do you want to do back at the hotel so early?" Shen Shiyun inquired.
At this moment, a sudden breeze blew, and a twenty-yuan note appeared out of nowhere, falling directly into Shen Shiyun’s arms.
"Ha, I’m so lucky, a windfall from the sky," Shen Shiyun said joyfully.
But Liu Xueyi seemed to think of something, her face suddenly turning pale as she snatched the twenty yuan from her hand and threw it aside.
"We can’t take this money, it’s... it’s money to buy life."
She sounded like she believed it herself, her voice tinged with a sob.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Shen Shiyun was somewhat speechless, bending down to pick it up, but Liu Xueyi grabbed her arm.
"Don’t pick it up, don’t pick it up, really don’t pick it up..."
Seeing her pale face, frantic expression, almost on the verge of tears, Shen Shiyun quickly said, "I won’t pick it up, okay? What’s wrong with you, really?"
Liu Xueyi didn’t answer but just dragged her forward in haste, avoiding the twenty yuan on the ground like it was a snake or scorpion.
"Eh?" Shen Shiyun looked back at the twenty yuan on the ground, full of regret.
Lately, her luck had been very good, often finding small sums like ten or eight yuan on the street, always getting green lights when crossing the road, or being first in queue as the person before her always left for some reason. These little bits of luck kept happening.
So Shen Shiyun was not surprised by today’s windfall from the sky, but Liu Xueyi’s extreme reaction left her astonished.
"What’s wrong with you? You can’t leave me in the dark today, you’ve been acting strange since earlier," Shen Shiyun said.
Liu Xueyi glanced back, then whispered to Shen Shiyun, "Those two little girls just now, they’re not human."
"What do you mean?" Shen Shiyun was a bit confused by what she heard.
"Didn’t you notice they didn’t have shadows?"
Shen Shiyun thought about it, she really hadn’t noticed, but she was more inclined to believe that Liu Xueyi had some kind of mental issue.
"Are you all right?" she asked, a bit worried.
Seeing that the other didn’t believe her, Liu Xueyi handed over her phone.
"See for yourself."
"See what?"
"See the video I just recorded," Liu Xueyi said.
Shen Shiyun found her demeanor amusing, but she opened her phone’s gallery anyway.
Since both of them were in the habit of posting on TikTok, their gallery was full of video clips.
"Which one?"
"The last one."
Shen Shiyun clicked it open, and Liu Xueyi’s face appeared in the camera, making scissors gestures, sticking out her tongue, all sorts of silly poses.
"Watch until the end," Liu Xueyi reminded.
Shen Shiyun dragged the progress bar to the end, and her face turned pale too.
Because in the video, she was talking to the air, and what was even eerier, two plastic shovels were digging a sandpit on their own.
"So... the reason my luck has been so good lately is because... because..." Shen Shiyun struggled with her words.
"Yes, we must be their substitutes, that’s why we’ve been so lucky, all that money is buying our lives," Liu Xueyi said.
At this point, she had calmed down and was instead comforting Shen Shiyun.
But soon, the two of them were holding each other crying, wiping their tears as they hurried back to the hotel, intending to go home quickly, perhaps to inform their families about their final affairs.
Of course, maybe the elders at home had other ways to save them.