"Actually..." The little girl looked at Jiang Chen and said quietly, "I live on the sixth floor!"
After saying that, she stared at Jiang Chen, waiting for a strong reaction.
Jiang Chen, meanwhile, was waiting for Su Ling to say something else.
Their eyes met, and a strange silence lasted for more than ten seconds.
"Living on the sixth floor is your biggest secret?"
"Are you trying to say you've got great stamina and can climb six floors every day without even getting winded?"
Jiang Chen could not help speaking up.
"You don't know what that means?" Su Ling asked in surprise.
She stared at Jiang Chen and said in a very serious tone, "Of the three buildings in the complex that still have residents, the higher the floor, the more terrifying the residents."
"And there's usually only one household on the sixth floor. They're also the most terrifying presence in the entire building!"
At those words, Jiang Chen's expression finally changed.
"Really?!"
"The higher you go, the more terrifying the residents? That's such a great design. Every floor offers a whole new level of difficulty and challenge, so it won't get too boring..."
At first, seeing his expression change, Su Ling had breathed a sigh of relief.
The man before her had finally shown a somewhat normal reaction.
But after hearing him mutter to himself...
Her little face flushed red as she struggled to speak.
She could not get a single word out.
The terrifying account she had been preparing seemed to have lost its force before this man.
"But since you live on the sixth floor, what are you doing down here so late at night?" Jiang Chen asked again.
Some complicated emotions entered Su Ling's eyes. "It's precisely because it's nighttime that I have to leave home.