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Lin Huai: ……
“Alright, I’ll stop.” Chu Tian said, spreading his hands, “Let’s go to eat.”
Lin Huai: “I’m a bit angry.”
With that said, he looked up at Chu Tian again with angry red eyes.
“Hei, Chu Tian! Lin Huai! Are you guys still upstairs?” Ye Xian’s voice rang out from downstairs, “Are you guys still alive? Say something!”
“Yep, still alive.” Chu Tian leaned on the and replied nonchalantly. Lin Huai stood beside him, still pouting angrily.
He didn’t know why, but he felt like this guy had figured out something. Just now, he was speaking nonsense and going around in circles, just to trick him into letting down his guard…… But why? Could it be……
Could it be that he is a skin care product salesman in real life? Lin Huai looked at Chu Tian’s back and couldn’t help but think of a man with great charm.
There’s also those three weird experiments….. What are they for? Testing people’s cheeks? Why……
“Wei, Lin Huai.” He1Lin Huai suddenly heard him2Chu Tian call him, “Tell me, why does the crow look like a desk?”
Lin Huai: “Ah? What did you say?”
“Nothing.” Chu Tian said, “Haa3A sigh…… Never mind.”
He suddenly looked like he was really bored and uninterested, he even started to be on his phone. Lin Huai noticed with sharp eyes that his phone screen was pitch black.
Chu Tian didn’t speak for a long time. He seemed to have suddenly lost all interest in Lin Huai, and even in this instance. Lin Huai then asked him: “What are you doing?”
“Playing.” Chu Tian answered briefly. He leaned on the railing and yawned without even batting an eye at Lin Huai.
…… Lin Huai felt a bit uncomfortable for some reason. It’s as if this guy had suddenly lost all interest in him. He no longer looked energetic and fun, even becoming cold and distant.
……Forget it, I don’t know him much anyway. At best, we can be regarded as teammates who met for the first time, living together and sleeping together in the same bed for mutual benefits. Lin Huai thought as he decided to go downstairs, but suddenly, he noticed a strange pattern on Chu Tian’s waist that was showing under his loose shirt.
He stared at the pattern for a while and asked: “Is that a tattoo on your waist?”
“En.”
……Another perfunctory response, never mind, I’m not gonna care anymore. Lin Huai wrote it down in his heart silently4Remembered it to take revenge later, and said: “It looks like a penguin who stepped on a polar bear, then it slipped and rolled for a hundred meters, hm….”
The next moment, Chu Tian suddenly turned his head really fast towards him with a weird expression and asked: “Why did you say that, no, I mean why do you think it looks like that? Why did you…… Why did you describe it like that?”
“Uh…” Lin Huai felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him.
“Have you seen this pattern anywhere? No……That’s not possible……” He5Lin Huai silently watched as Chu Tian seemed to be talking to himself, “You……”
“Because it really does look like that…… No but what’s up with that questioning tone?” Lin Huai complained, “Why are you looking at me as if looking at an enemy who killed your father and later on stole your girlfriend……”
“Oi, what are you guys doing?” Ye Xian’s voice once again rang out from downstairs, “If y’all are not coming then……”
“Wait.” Chu Tian continued to talk to himself, “There’s still some stuff I need to confirm.”
He stood up and started to run through the corridor without looking back. Lin Huai looked at the guy who seemed to have suddenly regained life and asked: “What are you doing?”
Lin Huai didn’t expect the guy who was as quiet as if he died to answer him, but surprisingly, he did answer.
Chu Tian said: “Looking for the time machine.”
Lin Huai: “……Speak human language.”
“Actually,” Chu Tian squinted, “Just now when we were talking, a bolt of lightning flashed through my brain. In other words… I found new clues to this murder case.”
Although this man had the face of a dumb6In the raws it said autistic but uhh… To avoid triggering someone I’ll be using this child a moment ago, at this moment he makes people think that he is extremely reliable. His eyes looked determined, as if… he had discovered the key clue to the case.
Lin Huai asked cooperatively: “So… What’s the clue?”
“Shhh.” Chu Tian turned his head, “It won’t work if I say it.”
Lin Huai: Do you think you’re making a wish……
This guy’s reaction…… Did he discover something again? He wanted to test him, Lin Huai slightly lowered his head to let his bangs cover his slightly red eye.
Bright red patterns resembling veins slowly climbed up his fingers, in the next moment, a hand suddenly held his shoulder.
“I almost forgot.” Chu Tian smiled, “I left something in front of the bathroom.”
As he spoke, he raised the wrench with his right hand. The wrench looked icy cold, with silver light flowing on it.
Lin Huai stared at it for a while and slowly showed a smile.
“This wrench of yours looks quite extraordinary.”
“I won this in the game, I guess it counts as a reward.” Chu Tian waved it a bit, “Let’s go to eat.”
Lin Huai followed him and silently retracted those red patterns.
He stared at Chu Tian’s back and the corner of his mouth slowly raised up.
“Interesting……” He mumbled.
When Lin Huai arrived at the lunch hall, everyone else had already finished eating. The game was quite generous when it came to food and accommodations. Before everyone had gotten up from bed, the game had already prepared the steaming hot food on the table. But it’s a pity that no one has the appetite to eat after something like that happened, and the game’s charm was as if thrown to a blind man7No effects because a blind man can’t see a person’s charm yk.. Lin Huai thought and felt a little regretful.
The only exception was Chu Tian, who was a moment ago hovering between life and death. After he came down thirty minutes ago, he had finished enough food for two people all by himself. He was also asking Ye Xian questions as he ate: “If you’re not gonna eat the buns can I have them?”
Ye Xian looked at the bun’s stuffing and was about to vomit: “For the time being I don’t want to see any meat sauce……”
As he stared at the bun, he was mentally encouraging himself to drink the milk. Nowadays, any liquids, fluids, or other flowing things always remind him of things that are not suitable for appearing in Jinjiang Literature City.
Lin Huai looked at Chu Tian who suddenly became extremely lively, and thought to himself that this person is really…
Perhaps because he noticed Lin Huai’s gaze, he looked up and looked back at him: “Are you not full?”
Lin Huai: “……I’m full.”
Just when Chu Tian was about to attack8Devour the other bun, Ye Keke, who was wearing black came down the stairs: “Zhang Lu woke up.”
“I don’t know what happened.”Zhang Lu sat on the bed with a pale face, “It was Peng Xuan who woke me up, and Yao Yao was no longer in the bed when I woke up…… When I opened the toilet door, I saw her…… her head was still floating intact on top of the water, but the rest of her body……”
As she reached this part of the story, she covered her mouth and looked like she was about to vomit. Peng Xuan patted her shoulder comfortingly, then the two hugged each other and started sobbing.
“Does she have the habit of getting up at night?”Tang Wen asked.
Zhang Lu shook her head
“How are you so sure?”
“Me and Yao Yao grew up together. We have had many sleepovers ever since we were small. I sleep really lightly when I don’t take any sleeping pills and I have never heard sounds of her getting up.”Zhang Lu’s eyes reddened again,” I didn’t expect……”
As she said this, she seemed to be on the verge of crying again.
Although death is a common occurrence in games, losing friends who can support each other is unbearable. But Chu Tian suddenly asked her: “You said you sleep really lightly?”
Zhang Lu nodded: “I don’t have a good spirit so I rely on eating melatonin to sleep when I’m at home and I gradually became dependent on it. This time I left in a hurry and brought an almost empty bottle……The ones last night were my last two.”
After she said this, she pointed at the empty melatonin bottle next to her bed. She doesn’t seem to be lying.
“If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have taken them. If I was awake, she might not……”
Chu Tian frowned slightly and rubbed his chin: “Speaking of which, have you bought anything?”
“Ah, ah! I haven’t bought anything yet!” Zhang Lu then remembered about the game. She subconsciously reached for her pillow, but didn’t find her phone. Then she looked up and found it next to her bed and breathed a sigh of relief.
”The shopping app opens at eight o’clock every morning, and everyone else has already bought something when they were downstairs. It was already nine right now. Taking the chance, Huang Lu said: “Perfect, let’s match each other’s order information.”
She took out her phone and stared straight at Lin Huai. Lin Huai shrugged and also dug out his phone.
Since it was the first day, everyone agreed to buy only one item from the safe shelf, and the amount of money used ranged between 180 yuan to 250 yuan. When it was Lin Huai’s turn, Huang Lu asked: “Can I see your phone?”
She was still looking at Lin Huai suspiciously. Lin Huai shrugged: “Go ahead, feel free to do so.”
There were two products in the shopping history.
Order 1: Korea’s popular soft pajamas that won’t shrink in water.
Order 2: chic cultural T-shirts with no discounts9Something like this: click me .
Huang Lu: ……
After she made sure that the shopping history wasn’t photoshopped, she could only reluctantly move on to the next person. Lin Huai took back his phone and continued to look at the sky.
Yesterday he discovered that no matter what item he purchased, when it appeared in the shopping history, it would only appear harmless.
It’s no wonder, otherwise, the difficulty of the game is reduced again.
After the round of checking, Huang Lu didn’t find anything wrong. Then Zhang Lu also placed her order. She ranked the prices of the items from high to low and finally chose the most expensive one.
The entire purchase process was smooth, they filled in the address, name, contact number, and even a checkbox for freight insurance. Finally, payment is made through the money already saved in the app.
After submitting the order, the system pops up a new message: “The hair dryer you purchased has been ordered and is expected to be delivered at 20:00 tonight. Zhongtong Express is happy to work for you.”
Everyone: ……
“So… How did Feng Yao die?” Ni Xiao asked, “If it’s because she got up in the night……But first of all, the bathroom was also in the room, so there was no possibility of being killed for leaving the room. Secondly, Zhang Lu also said that Feng Yao has no habit of getting up at night.”
So, there must have been something she did that caused her to break the rules and result in her being killed. Plus it must have been something she had to do in the toilet.”
“So what she needed to do is- ” Chu Tian interrupted.
“No matter what it is, it can’t be using phones in the toilet.” Huang Lu quickly cut Chu Tian off, “I think……”
As she reached this part, she got stuck. So what is it that Feng Yao had to do that must be done in the toilet?
……And it’s also related to the phone.
While she was thinking hard, a chuckle came from behind her.
“Speaking of which, there are indeed many things that need to be done in the toilet, such as shaving, going to the toilet, washing your face…”Lin Huai counted with his fingers, “But there are many things that can’t be done in the bedroom right? For many people, the bathroom is a very safe place. For example: when an earthquake occurs, many people will hide in the toilet, after being scolded by the teacher, some people will hide in the toilet and cry, and those drowned water ghosts also like to hide their heads in the toilet……”
“How did the last one get in…”
“When someone wants to hide something, the most common thing to do is to hide it somewhere where they think no one else knows right?” Lin Huai said, “Speaking of which, even phone lock screen passwords and payment passwords can be shared as long as they are good friends, isn’t it?”
As he spoke, Lin Huai walked step by step towards Chu Tian who was looking at the melatonin bottle on the bedside table, his10Lin Huai’s beautiful peach blossom eyes flashing like a deep lake.
“……So, Mr programmer.” He leaned close to the other person’s ear, “Based on your expression and your IQ, did you find any hints?”
After saying this, he took a step back and tilted his head slightly, waiting for Chu Tian’s answer.
Chu Tian stared at the melatonin bottle and said calmly: “Actually, I have been thinking…”
“Is this melatonin bottle recyclable?”
Lin Huai: ???
The author has something to say:
Taobao: a software that kills time and kills life. As the saying goes, time is money and money is life, so Taobao must be the chief culprit for the destruction of mankind.
The translator has something to say:
Y’all. I’m so sorry if there is some broken grammar QAQ. I usually translate stuff at 9pm – 11pm and I’m sometimes half asleep so uhh… if there’s something that sounds wrong or is wrong, please DM me or @ me in the discord server…
2 thoughts on “Chapter 9 – So… Are bottles unrecyclable or…?”
I can’t keep up with Chu Tian’s brainwaves, he changes temperaments and thoughts so quickly (ﾉД`)
Thank you for the chapter!