Chapter 240: The Masked Man
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The director team could not afford to offend Yan Ruo, so they quicldy stopped the punishment process.
The moment the mechanism stopped, Li Xuan came out from behind the door, a hand over his nose and looking at Yan Ruo with resentment.
“Sorry, I didn’t know you were behind the door.” Yan Ruo was indeed
apologetic to Li Xuan, but the latter could not bear his apology. He hurriedly waved his hand and stood to the side, rubbing his nose.
“Why are you here? You kicked the door open?” Bai Lin walked out of the dark meeting room and sized up Yan Ruo.
She did not know what level this guy’s martial arts skills was at. Could this kick have broken his leg?
Yan Ruo started to spout nonsense without even blushing. “I heard shouting from your side. I was worried that something might happen to you, but I couldn’t open the door. I didn’t expect it to be so easy to kick it open. It’s probably because the school the production team chose is too old and has been in disrepair for a long time.”
Bai Lin wondered if she looked that gullible…
“I’m fine. How’s your leg?” Bai Lin did not believe him, but she still asked. Yan Ruo pursed his lips and said softly, “It hurts a little, but it’s not serious.” [Oh my G.o.d, what is Best Actor Yan doing? He’s acting coquettishly to Lin-jie…]
[Please use your acting skills well) Best Actor Yan! You were so fierce just now that you looked like you wanted to eat someone up. How did you turn into a poor little lamb with a pained foot now?]
[Lin-jie actually cares about him? Lin-jie! Don’t be blinded by his beauty!]
Seeing that Bai Lin and Li Xuan were completely uninjured) and the only one hurt being Li Xuan’s nose that was. .h.i.t by the door, Yan Ruo felt a lot more at ease. He once again returned to his fragile and weak celebrity facade in front of Bai Lin.
The conversation between the two of them was like a young couple asking about each other’s well-being. Zhou Guang was pulled to the side by Li Xuan as the latter explained what had happened. When he returned, this was the scene he saw.
He felt that the two of them looked very compatible, but he could not bear to see his sister being taken away by someone else. He was caught in a plight.
Xiao Lin was his younger sister, so he could not say anything to her; Yan Ruo was his future brother-in-law, he could not nag him either.
Zhou Guang looked around and immediately aimed his gun at Zheng You and Jing Shan.
“You locked Xiao Lin in alone to receive the punishment? Is this how you behave on a variety show, Miss Zheng?”
Li Xuan inwardly cried, ‘There’s me too! I was in there too!’
“Zhou Guang, I think there’s a misunderstanding here.” Zheng You was afraid of Yan Ruo but not Zhou Guang. With the Zheng Family’s background, she was not afraid of anyone here except Yan Ruo.
What she did not know was that the Zheng Family background could no longer be her support.
“Misunderstanding?” Zhou Guang sneered, “I hope you can explain to me what kind of misunderstanding it is, Miss Zheng.”
The new round of argument was interrupted by the announcement. “Dear guests, please find the clue card hidden in the corridor of the fifth floor without being caught by the masked man. Guests who are caught will be regarded as a failure of the mission and will be punished. If you fail to find the clue card within the stipulated time, all of you will be punished. The time limit is 20 minutes. The time starts now!”
The masked man? Capture? What did that mean?
A beam of light suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor.
Everyone looked over. It was a man wearing a large white robe and a mask holding a flashlight in his hand.
The light from the flashlight hit Ye Xing, and the masked man said) “Target found.”
Then, he charged straight toward Ye Xing.
Ye Xing jumped in fright and did not know where to hide. However, when she hid to the side of the wall where the flashlight did not reach) the masked man immediately returned to his normal walking speed.
“Don’t tell me that we’ll get caught if we get shone by the light, and we won’t get caught if we don’t get shone by it?” Zhou Guang was puzzled. “Yan Ruo, go try it out.”
He originally wanted to order Li Xuan around, but when he thought about how Yan Ruo was going to become his brother-in-law, he felt awkward. When the words reached his mouth, it became an order for Yan Ruo.
Yan Ruo had long seen through Zhou Guang’s thoughts and directly extended his hand into the area lit by the flashlight.
“Target found,” A mechanical voice immediately sounded.
Yan Ruo’s reaction was very fast. The moment the mechanical voice sounded, he immediately retracted his hand.
“It looks fun.” Bai Lin did not feel nervous at all. Instead, she was smiling.
The corridor was straight, and the masked men’s path was also a straight line, which meant that they could not freely search the corridor.
The way the masked man used the flashlight as a judgement to search for his target gave Bai Lin a familiar feeling..