Chapter 62: This plot... isn't quite right?

“…Chen Sibai?”

Xia Linxing was startled when he saw someone suddenly rushing in.

After seeing clearly that the person rushing in front of him was Shen Sibai, he came back to his senses in a daze, and his face was full of confusion about "Why is Shen Sibai so excited?"

At first, he thought Shen Sibai rushed so fast to get back at him for pushing him away. After all, because the situation was urgent, Xia Linxing knew he hadn't held back when pushing Shen Sibai away. So even if it was with good intentions, Shen Sibai would have been badly hurt. Furthermore, Shen Sibai might not have known that he had pushed to save him.

But after seeing the expression on Shen Sibai's face, Xia Linxing gave up his guess——

Because Shen Sibai's face was full of concern, and as soon as he entered the room, he walked around him and started checking him up and down.

"How are you? Are you hurt when you fell out earlier?"

"Thank you so much for saving me. If it weren't for you, I would have been hit by the door..."

"I've already made it clear to everyone else and the livestream audience. You pushed me away to save me. Everyone knows the truth now..."

A lot of words came at him, making Xia Linxing's brain freeze: "...Ah?" He felt that he could not keep up with the current pace.

He thought, "Ah, so Chen Sibai knew the real reason why he pushed him away...", and then thought, "What? He hasn't done anything yet, and Chen Sibai has explained everything to him?" In the end, it was Xie Tinglan who slowly walked into the room and rescued the dizzy Xia Linxing.

"Put these aside for now..."

Xie Tinglan walked over to the two of them and said, "Xia Linxing was locked up in this room alone before. He might not have recovered yet. Let him relax first..."

"What?" Shen Sibai opened his eyes wide: "You have been locked up in this room alone?!"

Chen Sibai knew how afraid Xia Linxing was of haunted houses, otherwise he wouldn't have hung it behind him as a pendant as soon as he entered the haunted house. As a result, Xie Tinglan said that Xia Linxing was actually locked up in such a scary room for so long. How scared must Xia Linxing be at that time!

"Teacher Xie..." Chen Sibai knew that he was a little angry at the moment, but relying on the fact that the live broadcast staff did not catch up and there were no cameras around, he still couldn't help but question Xie Tinglan: "Teacher Xie, didn't you chase Xia Linxing out from the beginning?" Why did you let Xia Linxing be trapped alone for so long?

"Ah... this..." Xia Linxing stood between the two of them, looking at Xie Tinglan on the left and Shen Sibai on the right, and felt that the atmosphere seemed a little wrong.

"999..." Xia Linxing asked System 999 with an uneasy look on her face: "Why do I feel like...the two of them are about to start arguing..."

System 999 was also a little nervous: "Shouldn't, shouldn't it be..."

Isn't this the beginning of their relationship? Why does it feel like there's tension between them?

Could it be that this official CP is actually going for the route of a pair of bickering lovers?

Xie Tinglan spoke up: "I followed Xia Linxing out from the beginning..."

Xie Tinglan's reaction was the fastest among all the people present at the time. It was so fast that before the staff responsible for the live broadcast could react, he chased after him alone.

It's just that Xia Linxing rolled all the way out, and his initial speed was faster than Xie Tinglan's walking speed. In addition, in order to create a gloomy and terrifying effect, the haunted house had almost no lighting, so when Xie Tinglan chased him out, he had to devote half of his energy to carefully finding Xia Linxing's location.

But even so, after Xia Linxing rolled into a dark shadow, he suddenly disappeared.

Xie Tinglan guessed: "Xia Linxing must have hit a mechanism that only allowed him to enter but not exit, and fell into this room."

Xie Tinglan also tried to find the entrance where Xia Linxing disappeared, but he didn't know whether he was looking in the wrong place or using the wrong method, so he could only note the general direction and began to search for it by tapping the walls around him.

As a result, when he finally found Xia Linxing, Shen Sibai suddenly appeared.

"But you..." Xie Tinglan looked at Chen Sibai, "How did you know Xia Linxing was here?" He had been knocking on doors and walls all the way here, but Chen Sibai seemed to be heading straight for his destination with a clear goal.

"I asked the NPC in the haunted house..." Shen Sibai was not panicked at all: "I asked him if he saw which direction Xia Linxing left and where he might appear."

Then he followed the locations given by the haunted house staff and walked over little by little. Because he was in a hurry and walked too fast, he left behind other trainees and program staff.

"Really..." Xie Tinglan didn't comment on Shen Sibai's statement, but said in an ambiguous tone: "Then you are really lucky..."

"I'm not as lucky as Teacher Xie. I found Xia Linxing before me..."

"You're really lucky. I just got the key back and you arrived..."

"that……"

Xia Linxing was sandwiched between the two of them, looking left and right, and finally spoke with a pitiful, childish and helpless look: "Teacher Xie, Chen Sibai, you, you guys should stop quarreling..."

But the two men who were at loggerheads above him seemed not to hear it.

Xia Linxing was a little depressed. He lowered his head and stretched his feet which were a little tired from standing on tiptoe.

"What happened to your foot?"

As soon as Xia Linxing moved, Xie Tinglan looked down. He looked at Xia Linxing's half foot hanging in the air and frowned slowly: "Are you hurt?"

Xia Linxing nodded slightly, and said "hmm" a little embarrassedly: "I accidentally twisted it when I fell down before."

"Let me see..." Xie Tinglan squatted down after saying that, and without giving Xia Linxing any chance, he rolled up Xia Linxing's trouser legs.

Although the light in the room was dim, it was difficult to see the color of the skin on Xia Linxing's ankles, and it was impossible to tell whether there was bruising or redness, but it was obvious that Xia Linxing's ankles had become thicker.

"My ankle is swollen." Xie Tinglan gently touched the protruding skin. He didn't use any force at all, but Xia Linxing still made a small hissing sound.

"It seems a bit serious."

Xie Tinglan stood up again and looked down at Xia Linxing, "Can you still walk by yourself?"

Xia Linxing shook his head honestly: "No... I can only walk by holding on to the wall."

Xie Tinglan nodded, but before he could say anything, he saw Shen Sibai suddenly squatting in front of Xia Linxing, turning his head and saying to Xia Linxing, "Come on, Xia Linxing, I'll carry you out..."

Xie Tinglan, who was once again overtaken, said: "..."

He slowly reached out and held down Xia Linxing, who was about to lie down, and said, "No need to trouble you..."

"I'm your team leader today. Now that Xia Linxing is injured, I should be responsible. You can continue to record the program with the others. I will take Xia Linxing to the hospital..."

"It's okay, Teacher Xie. Many of the audience members today came here just for you. If you leave and don't record, the audience will be very disappointed. So I'll take Xia Linxing with me..."

"Don't underestimate yourself, Shen Sibai. Many viewers came here for you. You trainees are the center of today's show..."

"But Xia Linxing was injured while trying to save me... Xia Linxing couldn't record the show, but I stayed to continue. I can't justify it..."

…

In front of Xia Linxing, Xie Tinglan and Shen Sibai started arguing again about "who should take Xia Linxing to the hospital".

Xia Linxing looked left and right, his face confused.

“999…”

He finally decided to ask his close friend: "Do you feel..."

"This plot...something seems wrong..."