A coquettish laugh rang out.
Su Mengmeng did not think Tong Muxuan was breaking character at all. She simply found him witty and humorous.
Watching Tong Muxuan and Su Mengmeng hit it off more and more, Lu Zheng's thoughts began to wander again.
This was different from what web novels and online jokes wrote about. Shouldn't there have been all sorts of nitpicking and looking down on each other?
The woman should demand that the man have a car, a house, and an annual salary of a million, while the man should demand that the woman be virtuous and gentle, young and beautiful.
Then they should part on bad terms, with both sides turning the other into online jokes and giving the peanut gallery something else to laugh about.
And yet, it worked out in one go?
How boring...
Not a single twist or turn. How was the author supposed to pad out the word count like this?...
Tong Muxuan and Su Mengmeng's conversation came to a pause, and only then did they realize they had somewhat neglected Lu Zheng and Luo Yun beside them.
"Lu Zheng, do you have a girlfriend?"
"No!" Lu Zheng shook his head. "After seeing Lao Tong's performance, I realized I'm still a long way from being qualified to have a girlfriend."
"Hehe!" Su Mengmeng could not hold back her laughter, then could not help saying, "Yun Yun doesn't have a boyfriend either. Want to give it a try?"
"Where is Lu Zheng from?" Luo Yun immediately cooperated, asking with a perfectly serious expression.
"Qin Province."
Luo Yun pretended to sigh. "What a pity. My parents won't let me find someone from out of town."
Lu Zheng nodded in understanding and praised, "You're clear-headed. If it were me, I wouldn't want to either!"
And just like that, the matter passed.
An offhand rejection delivered through a joke—Luo Yun's emotional intelligence was not low.
Everyone understood without saying so, and no one brought up the subject again.
Lu Zheng slapped his forehead. He wanted to show off and slap faces, but they would not even give him the chance.
He could not possibly fly into a rage himself... and say something like, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Do not bully the poor young man," then claim that he did not even put their family's tens of millions in real estate in his eyes.
That was way too low-class. Did he think this was a novel?
"What are we doing this afternoon?" Su Mengmeng smiled as she linked arms with Luo Yun. "Neither of us has anything else planned today."
The first step of the blind date had gone well, so of course there were no other plans for the afternoon. If they had not liked each other, there would definitely have been something they absolutely had to do that afternoon.
"How about Murder Mystery?" Tong Muxuan immediately suggested. "There are several shops upstairs in the building next door, and some of their scripts have really good reviews."
Playing Murder Mystery was a very natural way to bring people closer together. Tong Muxuan had clearly put some thought into it.
Murder Mystery was a game that had become popular over the past year or two. Its origins could be traced to Werewolf, but it had long since risen several levels above that.
For high-end Murder Mystery games, the scripts were top-notch, the settings fully equipped, players changed costumes, and experienced hosts set the pace. It was a proper immersive experience; after playing for four or five hours, it was said that one could experience another life.
That last sentence was naturally a bit exaggerated, but it still showed just how good the experience was.
Sea City was a major city in Hua Country, so there were naturally plenty of high-end Murder Mystery venues. More than a dozen shops were gathered in the building next door, and half of them had high review scores.
"Okay, okay, Murder Mystery!" Su Mengmeng clapped and laughed, clearly a player herself.
Since Su Mengmeng was the protagonist today, Luo Yun and Lu Zheng had no objections either.
After choosing a well-rated mystery club online where they could join other players and start a game, the group headed over together.
"Hello, do you have a reservation? What kind of script would you like to play?" the owner asked eagerly.
"We just joined a group online—the horror script!" Su Mengmeng's eyes lit up.
"It's 'The Crying of Apartment No. 5,'" the owner immediately realized.
"Yes, yes, yes! Have the others arrived?" Su Mengmeng nodded repeatedly.
"They have, they have. They're resting over there."
Following the owner's gesture, they saw two women sitting on the sofas in the lounge, looking over at them as they waited.
"Wow, pretty ladies!" Su Mengmeng cried softly.
The two women both had good figures. One had an ordinary appearance, while the other could indeed be called a beauty.
She was over 1.7 meters tall, with shoulder-length medium hair and lightly wheat-colored skin that looked incredibly healthy. Her shorts were not particularly short, but they still exposed a pair of toned, athletic long legs.
"Hello!"
After both sides exchanged greetings, they followed the owner to the story room.
'The Crying of Apartment No. 5' was a modern script, so no one needed to change clothes. They merely listened to the host explain the story background before taking their character scripts and reading them.
The plot was roughly that, many years ago, a woman had been murdered in this apartment. Ever since, crying could be heard from the apartment at night throughout the year.
There were no ghosts in the world, of course, so someone must have been playing tricks and pretending to be supernatural.
They were all neighbors in this apartment. Each of them had crossed paths with that girl, and each held secrets about the others that no one else knew.
Thus, they suspected one another, accused one another, and each believed the other to be the murderer.
And so the story unfolded...
It had to be said that the host kept an excellent pace, and everyone became deeply immersed in the game.
Lu Zheng performed rather ordinarily, while Su Mengmeng perfectly demonstrated what it meant to be bad at something yet hopelessly addicted to it.
Luo Yun and Tong Muxuan both tried hard, but their ceiling was not very high.
The truly astonishing ones were those two women. The eerie and horrifying setting and plot did not frighten them in the slightest. Instead, their calm deductions nearly made the host cry.
The clues had not even been revealed yet—how had they already deduced this far?...
Four hours later, the game ended.
"You two are amazing! I feel like even professional detectives wouldn't be any better," Su Mengmeng said as she familiarly stepped forward to strike up a conversation.
"Not really. The clues weren't hidden very well. They weren't hard to spot."
"You're amazing. How about we add each other? We can play together in the future."
Noobs loved having experts lead them. Tong Muxuan had performed fairly well, but comparison was unavoidable. Fortunately, these two were women.
"No, thank you. We're quite busy, and we don't play very often," the healthy-looking beauty declined.
Still, they left the building together and walked to the street corner.
Just as they were about to say goodbye, Lu Zheng saw the green light across the intersection turn yellow. An elderly woman pushing a baby stroller on the opposite side could not wait any longer and directly started crossing the road.
But from the other side, a Ferrari was accelerating toward them, clearly intending to rush through before the yellow light turned red.
"Fuck!"
Lu Zheng was not the only one who saw it. Many others saw it too.
Cries of alarm rose one after another.
A shadow flashed past the corner of Lu Zheng's eye. The healthy-looking beauty had already rushed forward.
But Lu Zheng, strengthened by the Light of Luck, could tell at a glance that she would not make it in time. She might even be struck together with the elderly woman.
Screech!
The Ferrari was braking hard, but it was clearly already too late.
Whoosh!
Lu Zheng took a single stride onto the road, instantly overtaking the healthy-looking beauty and casually shoving her backward.
At the same time, he borrowed the force and almost turned into an afterimage, rushing to the elderly woman before the Ferrari arrived. He wrapped one arm around her, lifted the stroller with the other, and dashed onto the opposite sidewalk.
The Ferrari sped past Lu Zheng's side, then stopped by the roadside with a screech.
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