Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Haunted House Escape Room

“Hiss-”

In the back seat of the Lamborghini, Zhou Ran winced as he stared at his swollen, red cheek.

He kept muttering, “It really hurts.”

Su Qian glanced at Zhou Ran through the rearview mirror and could not help teasing with a smile. “Didn’t you say it didn’t hurt?”

“Tsk, that was just so I could act like a tough guy in front of girls. How could I actually say it hurt?”

That broom was huge when it came flying at him.

It smacked him straight in the face. Saying it didn’t hurt would have been a lie.

“Quit putting on an act.” Su Qian curled her lip.

“You just don’t get it. What man would show weakness in front of girls?”

Zhou Ran refused to back down. “Brother Lu Yao, if you got hurt, would you say it hurts in front of girls?”

Lu Yao in the passenger seat paused.

Then he smiled lightly. “I won’t get hurt in front of a lady.”

Su Qian turned her head and shot Lu Yao a look.

She had almost said, “You’re putting on an act too.”

But the words stopped at her lips. Thinking of Lu Yao’s identity, he really was not acting.

He was an ancient divine dragon. Who could hurt him?

Let alone hurt him in front of girls.

“Haha, Brother Lu Yao, you’re even better at acting tough than I am.” Zhou Ran laughed loudly.

Of course, he assumed Lu Yao was just bragging.

“Tsk, no wonder you told me this morning the spot between my eyebrows looked dark. So you were waiting for this, huh.”

As soon as he spoke, his cheek hurt again, and Zhou Ran sucked in a sharp breath.

Hearing him say that, Su Qian remembered the faint thread of black aura tangled around his brow.

“You really haven’t touched anything strange lately, or gone anywhere weird?”

Su Qian still felt uneasy.

As a business partner, and even more as a friend, she of course did not want Zhou Ran to have an accident.

“Tsk, you’re caring about me this much. Brother Lu Yao is going to misunderstand.”

Zhou Ran joked like that, but inside he felt warm. Su Qian’s concern was sincere.

“Get lost!” Su Qian rolled her eyes at him.

What a waste of her concern.

“But now that you ask, I really did think of something.”

Zhou Ran put away the joking and thought carefully. “A few days ago, I went with friends to a haunted house escape room. Back then I already felt like the place was creepy.”

“The setup was super realistic. All kinds of scary props and sound effects. My friends were screaming their heads off.”

“Do you think I might have picked up something unclean in there?”

A haunted house escape room?

Su Qian’s mouth twitched.

“You’ve got some nerve.”

Even if you paid her, Su Qian would not dare go to a place like that.

It was gloomy and terrifying, with an eerie atmosphere. If one day something truly evil slipped in and joined the game, what then?

You wouldn’t even have a way out.

Just thinking about it made Su Qian’s back go cold.

Zhou Ran pulled a miserable face. “I’m scared too. I only went because they dragged me there.”

“A haunted house.” Lu Yao, who had not said much, finally spoke. “If you can avoid places like that, then avoid them. How do you know whether the ‘things’ inside are real or not?”

“Holy crap! Brother Lu Yao, don’t scare me!”

Zhou Ran’s nerves had already been a mess. After Lu Yao said that, his face turned even paler.

“I’m kidding.”

Lu Yao looked at Zhou Ran’s panicked expression and smiled softly.

Zhou Ran finally relaxed a little, but he still complained, “Tsk, Brother Lu Yao, I was already freaking out. You almost scared me into jumping out of my skin.”

By the time they returned to Yun Jin Villa, it was almost dark.

“I’ve been running around with you all day. I’m dead tired.”

Zhou Ran got out of the car, stretching as he kept grumbling.

“Meow…”

At that moment, Ning Meng darted out of the house and circled Su Qian, meowing excitedly.

“Huh? When did you start raising a cat this big?”

Seeing Ning Meng, Zhou Ran stopped stretching and looked at Su Qian with curiosity.

Ning Meng was more than three times bigger than before.

It was already about the size of a small dog.

Su Qian’s mouth twitched awkwardly.

“It’s Ning Meng.”

“What the heck?”

Zhou Ran looked confused, eyes wide. “Th-this is really Ning Meng? Su Qian, what did you feed it? How did it get so huge?”

Zhou Ran held Ning Meng in his arms, still staring at Su Qian in shock.

Back when they rescued Lin Qin from her birth family, Zhou Ran had stayed with Ning Meng for a few days.

Back then, Ning Meng had been a tiny kitten, skinny and weak.

Su Qian smiled helplessly.

At this growth rate, it might end up as big as a Tibetan mastiff later.

“It ate a lot, so it got fat,” Lu Yao said with a smile.

Zhou Ran’s expression went blank.

“You raised it well.” Zhou Ran chuckled, rubbed his still-swollen cheek, and said, “Alright, I’m heading out first.”

After that, he strode over to his Bugatti Veyron supercar, started the engine, and sped away.

Su Qian and Lu Yao headed inside together.

“You can read faces?” Lu Yao asked as they walked, turning his head to look at Su Qian with a hint of curiosity.

Su Qian’s face flashed with awkwardness.

She could not exactly say she learned it from the [five-element ghost-taming art] Yama King gave her.

“I saw it online and learned it for fun,” Su Qian said smoothly, not even blinking.

“Oh?” Lu Yao raised an eyebrow slightly, a hard-to-read smile in his eyes. “Didn’t expect you to be so eager to learn.”

Su Qian felt a prickling chill under his gaze, but she kept her composure.

“Ahem…” Su Qian cleared her throat. “Of course. Skills never hurt.”

The corners of Lu Yao’s lips lifted.

“Well, I’m tired from today, so I’m going back to rest first.”

Worried Lu Yao would keep pressing, Su Qian bolted off.

While Lu Yao was not paying attention, she went straight to the underground garage.

But how could Su Qian’s little plan possibly fool Lu Yao?

“She says she’s going to rest, but she can’t sit still for a second.” Lu Yao stood where he was, watching Su Qian hurry away. The faint smile at his lips deepened.

He shook his head slightly. He knew exactly what she was up to.

…

Su Qian arrived at the underground garage.

The floor was piled with spirit herb and spirit plant seedlings.

Xia Meng Meng had sent them over from the cultivation realm a few days ago.

Su Qian sorted everything and put it all into the Group Storage Space.

“This new feature is actually useful.”

Su Qian felt very satisfied.

She opened the Chat Group panel.

Sure enough, everything she stored was inside the space.

The group still had 99+ messages every day.

After a few days of getting along, the new member Li Yi had already blended in with everyone.

Su Qian suddenly thought of something and asked in the group, “Brother Li, do you think a haunted house could really have ‘that kind’ of thing inside?”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “Haha, Su Qian girl, who can say for sure?”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “Huh? Sister Qian Qian is that timid, and you still dared go into a haunted house?”

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “Not bad, Su Qian. You actually dared challenge a haunted house. That’s some guts.”