Meng Chichi hadn't expected to be put in the same group as Su Li.
She was very annoyed. Anyone else would have been fine, so why did it have to be Su Li? He had no popularity or audience draw at all. Wouldn't he just drag her down?
With the livestream cameras on her, she couldn't show her displeasure. She could only force a smile and tell Su Li, "Looking forward to working with you."
Su Li looked at the emotions surrounding her and smiled. "Sure, Chichi."
Who are you calling Chichi? Meng Chichi rolled her eyes inwardly.
The two arrived on the third floor, where the butler opened the café door for them. "Please come in."
The café wasn't small, but its furnishings and décor were rather dated. What made it horrifying was that the tables and chairs were spattered with blood, dried brown bloodstains covered the floor, and the display shelves held human anatomical models instead of ornaments.
[Holy crap, what kind of café from hell is this?]
[A café? A slaughterhouse!!]
[This episode is even more brutal than the last two.]
Meng Chichi was already too scared to go inside. The scene was far too terrifying, while Su Li had already walked into the café on his own.
Can't he even comfort me a little? He's seriously... not a gentleman at all. No wonder he isn't famous. Meng Chichi secretly gritted her teeth.
Su Li surveyed the entire café and discovered a ghost hiding under a table, secretly watching them.
Just then, a pale-faced man in a red waiter's uniform approached them with an eerie smile. "Hello, I'm the barista here. Please follow me."
He was just an NPC played by a staff member.
He brought the two of them to a relatively clean table. "Please wait a moment. Your coffee will be here shortly."
[Seriously, who could stomach coffee in a place like this?]
[Poor Chichi, drawing a place like this.]
Meng Chichi looked at the tabletop, then suddenly screamed and sprang to her feet.
There was a transparent box on the table containing things that looked like human fingers.
Su Li picked it up and sniffed it. "Smells like cream. They're cookies!" He took one out and started eating, then offered one to Meng Chichi. "Want one, Chichi?"
Meng Chichi froze. Looking at the thing that closely resembled a human finger, she waved her hands repeatedly. "No, no thanks." A wave of nausea churned inside her.
The chat exploded:
[Holy shit, what is he doing?]
[Can you really eat something like that??]
[Is he actually brave or just pretending? That's way too gutsy.]
[Su Li, act normal. You're scaring me!!]
After a while, the barista brought over two steaming cups of coffee.
Looking at the bloodstains around her, Meng Chichi grew even more frightened. She frowned and told Su Li, "Let's hurry up and find the key, then leave. This place feels dangerous."
"Relax, it's not human blood. There's nothing to be scared of." He elegantly lifted his coffee and took a sip. It tasted good. It was a latte.
[?????]
[How dare you talk to our Chichi like that?]
[Chichi's this scared, and you're still in the mood for coffee?]
[Of course a nobody like him only knows how to put on an act.]
[Come on, the storyline obviously hasn't even started yet. Do you think quest items are that easy to find?]
If they hadn't still been livestreaming, Meng Chichi would have gotten up and left long ago. How dare a bottom-tier celebrity talk to her like that? Once filming ended, she would contact her team and have him hounded out of the entertainment industry!
Su Li enjoyed the steady stream of emotional energy pouring in as he drank his coffee. He thought this show was pretty good, and the Manor was a real treasure of a place, too. He would see whether he had a chance to buy it in the future.
The barista came over and addressed them. "Guests, I know what you're looking for. If you help me with one thing, I'll give it to you."
"You people here sure have a lot of problems. Every one of you needs help. Good thing we're helpful people," Su Li said as he drank his coffee.
The staff member playing the barista stiffened for a moment, but his professionalism kept him reciting his lines:
"My wife is a servant at this Manor. She's missing. She clearly told me she would wait for me in this café, and I can feel that she's here, but I just can't find her. Could you help me look for her?"
"Sure." Su Li agreed readily.
"Where are we supposed to look? We don't have a single lead. It's easy for you to agree, but if we can't find her, we won't get the key." Meng Chichi was on the verge of tears.
[Poor Chichi, getting grouped with someone like this.]
[Chichi's so unlucky, being assigned dead weight.]
[Wow, Meng the fake innocent's fans really are blind.]
[Who's the dead weight here? This fake innocent has been ridiculously precious ever since she came in, and now she's about to cry again.]
[All she knows how to do is cry. Why come on a show like this if she's that scared?]
Su Li had already gained quite a few fans by now, and naturally, they couldn't stand Meng Chichi's fans shifting the blame. The chat was extremely lively.
"It's simple. We just need to find two legs, two arms, a torso, and a head."
[?????]
[Just pulling that out of thin air? Where's the evidence?]
"W-why?" Meng Chichi asked.
"There are too many things related to the number six in this café. We're sitting at table six, there are six finger cookies in the box, the clock on the wall points to six, and even the rug and picture frames are hexagonal."
"Combined with what he said and the anatomical models on the shelves, it's easy to see that six corresponds to a person's four limbs, torso, and head."
As he spoke, Su Li walked to the side of the shelf holding the anatomical models, reached inside, and pulled out an arm!
[Holy shit, Su Li is so smart.]
[This has to be scripted. I don't believe some obscure nobody is this capable.]
[Scripted, my ass. If Director Wang's variety shows were scripted, would every episode get this much buzz?]
[Some bitter losers just refuse to admit other people are capable, huh?]
[My Li Bao looks so hot when he's figuring things out, sob.]
[What, he already has a nickname?]
The number of chat messages increased, and Su Li's Weibo follower count kept climbing as well.
"Five more to go. Chichi, let's hurry up and find them."
"I... I have to look too?" Meng Chichi couldn't believe it. She was a girl, and he was actually making her look for these things in such a terrifying place??
"Yes. I believe in you, Chichi!" Su Li said with a smile.
Meng Chichi was speechless. Resentment filled her heart. Su Li was actually showing her this little respect. She would definitely make him pay later. For now, she had no choice but to stand up angrily and search the nearby area with great caution.
[What kind of person is Su Li, making a girl look?]
[Why should Chichi have to look?]
[Su Li bullies girls. He doesn't deserve to be in the entertainment industry, okay?]
[Bullies, my ass. You want Li Bao to do everything?]
[While our Li Bao was using his brain, your fake innocent only knew how to cry. What a jinx.]
[If she can't even look for something, what use is she?]
By then, Su Li had already found two more pieces, making three with the earlier one, while Meng Chichi was still going around in circles.
Only the head and right arm remained. Su Li walked straight to the café's refrigerator, opened it, and found a head inside.
Su Li had to marvel at how realistic the prop was. It even felt soft.
[Holy shit, that's scary.]
[Aaah, that head looks way too real! It scared me to death.]
[A game can be down-to-earth, but not down-to-the-underworld!]
[Is the production team really going this far?]
With Yuan's hints, he knew where all the props were. The last right arm was under the table with the ghost, but he wanted Meng Chichi to pick it up.
That was because he had suddenly discovered that the fear and other emotions Meng Chichi had felt upon entering the café had actually been absorbed by the Eye of Emotion as well.
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