The distant headlights and the familiar horn sound told me, Wuhu, that our reinforcements had arrived!

A surge of joy welled up inside me, and I quickly grabbed the girl and ran over, while Lei Jijian followed closely behind.

At this moment, we were all in high spirits.

When I saw that the car was indeed Liu Guopeng's, I was overjoyed.

"Old Liu! Master Liu!"

I shouted from outside.

At that moment, the headlights flashed twice, and then the car window slowly rolled down. The fog here was much thicker than before, and the visibility was much better.

Old Liu's car happened to be parked in the thickest fog, and looking out from there, everything was clear.

I couldn't help but marvel that we hadn't touched anything in all this fog!

This is probably a special case of Murphy's Law.

At first, we didn't know anything and just wandered around the house aimlessly. As a result, we encountered a fake corpse and so many other things.

But now that Old Liu has arrived, we're free of all trouble. We just walked in the fog for a while and then easily reached the outside of the fog.

It could be said that this was an unexpected and positive outcome.

Old Liu's car window slowly rolled down, revealing his familiar face, and I immediately smiled.

"What, you want me to risk my life with you guys?!"

I'm telling you, I'm not going to poop anymore!

Old Liu suppressed a laugh as he spoke, then pouted and gestured for me to take a cigarette.

Judging from his appearance, he's quite the master of irony!

If he really didn't want to give us a ride, he wouldn't have driven into this thick fog!

I felt a surge of joy, and Yiyi beside me also understood the unspoken meaning behind Old Liu's words.

Without hesitation, I took out a brand new pack of cigarettes from my backpack, unwrapped it, and lit it for Lao Liu.

Old Liu also craned his neck to go outside and catch it with his mouth.

"He survived! He survived!"

"Stop talking nonsense, buddy. How did you figure out that our fog concentration is so low?"

I didn't bring up the issue of taking a car again; instead, I went straight to the point and asked him that question.

"Silly boy! You're really something!"

I can sense the things I give you, including the beam of light I saw from a great distance when you were shining your flashlights in that room!

"You guys actually survived, and you're all alright, aren't you?"

Old Liu's tone was full of amazement; although his face was heavily wrinkled, it couldn't hide his disbelief.

To be honest, when he first said goodbye to us, his expression suggested that he might never leave us again in this lifetime.

But now that the two of us are standing right in front of him, he's starting to get quite uneasy.

I even felt that the way he looked at us was like he was looking at ghosts.

If we hadn't been holding this flashlight, I don't think Old Liu would have stopped.

Then, I told Old Liu about how we entered the hotel, met Fatty Zhou and Boss He, and how we finally obtained the sea marrow.

After hearing this, Lao Liu felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

I was starting to blame Lei Jijian for accidentally making that move.

Lei Jijian spoke first.

"Master, this isn't my fault! I didn't lift a finger. Look at him, he's clearly suffering from dementia!"

I ignored him. At this moment, Lao Liu was completely stunned, and it took him almost ten seconds to slowly utter a few words.

"You...you mean you not only met the boss, but he didn't even lay a hand on you!"

I nodded.

"I don't know where you got this good fortune from, but I know that the boss is fat. I only heard it from other people."

But he was extremely vicious; his hands could grow longer or shorter at will, he was practically inhuman.

Many customers who went to him to complain never returned.

Some were even just skeletons, which he threw out of the window.

Hearing Lao Liu's words, I was a little puzzled.

Why isn't the fat Zhou we met so fierce?

"It's not that our master wasn't fierce enough; it's just that Fatty Zhou needs our help!"

Lei Jijian seemed to sense my confusion and transmitted a message to me in my mind.

I glanced at the girl beside me; she was explaining things to me, or perhaps talking to Old Liu.

"We probably didn't see the full picture of Mr. Zhou."

The girl's tone was very calm.

After careful consideration, I realized that what they said made sense.

If this fat guy wanted to kill us, he probably would have done so directly. After all, we were on his turf, and whatever we did was at his mercy.

However, when we mentioned Blue Armor, he probably only then had a glimmer of hope for us, since he genuinely wanted to obtain some sea marrow to save his son.

In other words, we don't even belong to the category of ordinary guests.

Some of those ordinary people were quite malicious, while others were specifically after the resources in his hotel.

As for the two possibilities of him never returning, one is that he was left inside by Fatty Zhou and turned into food, and the other is that he successfully checked in.

The shadow guest, for example, had already checked into the hotel when Boss He was still the owner, and even now that Fatty Zhou has become a shadow guest, he still lives there.

Although there were some frictions, nothing major happened.

I simply repeated these words to Lao Liu, but he still clicked his tongue and shook his head repeatedly.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! I gave you the pocket watch, no such thing can accurately tell time!"

"By the way, weren't you two caught up in that agreement? How are things now?"

He was asking questions very anxiously.

"Of course, no problem. Otherwise, how could the two of us stand in front of you!"

The problem is, we don't know what the person who drafted this contract for us really meant, so we're planning to go and ask him..."

As I spoke, I had the girl take out the pocket watch she had put away and show it to Old Liu.

When Lao Liu saw this, he was completely astonished.

The second hand on the screen was still spinning at an unusually high speed.

After a long silence, Old Liu slowly uttered a few words.

"You! You get on the bus first!"

Hearing his words, we couldn't wait to get on.

The girl from Xi'an, and then I, Lei Jijian, squeezed in last, and we all sat down in the back row.

At this moment, Old Liu took another closer look at the pocket watch, and his eyebrows furrowed even more.

"It's one thing for your pocket watches to be fast outside, but how come they're still so fast after you come in!"

I noticed that the pocket watch Lao Liu was holding did slow down a bit before and after we got on the bus, but it was still much faster than usual.