Chapter 29 Congratulations to Xia Mian for completing the additional mission!

Upon hearing his words, Qian Qian and Zhang Yuno's scalps nearly exploded!

"What should I do?" Zhang Yuno was terrified and completely at a loss.

Summer Sleep: "Run!"

Qian Qian: "Where are you running to?"

The program didn't provide any hints about which area was safest. Xia Mian thought for a moment: "The basement, the prison."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took off running. Qian Qian followed closely behind, while Zhang Yuno, a beat slower, trailed behind.

The fog grew thicker and thicker, and the lights flickered on and off, making it look more like a scene from a horror movie than any other.

When she reached the stairwell, the fog had already reached her chest, making it difficult for Xia Mian to see the path. She reached out to hold onto the railing.

But it was caught by a pair of icy claws.

"What the hell! Damn it!" Xia Mian jumped up in fright and couldn't help but swear.

"Look beyond the surface to see the essence. This is a variety show, not a real ghost story. Amitabha, Amitabha," he murmured.

Hahaha, I was really startled!

[What happened to seeing through appearances to the essence? It's turned into metaphysics. A combination of materialism and idealism?]

Regardless of what others thought, he calmed down after repeating it twice. Mustering his courage, he squinted at the spot where he had been grabbed and, sure enough, saw an extra dressed in all black and wearing a black facekini.

People are easier to deal with. Adhering to the principle of not hurting extras, Xia Mian twisted her body, and the extra felt pain and subconsciously let go.

Then, he skillfully avoided several obstacles and successfully descended to the first floor, standing by the landing, intending to wait for his teammates.

Qian Qian is a veteran in the entertainment industry. He looks scared on the surface, but it's all an act. He arrived at the first floor almost at the same time as Qian Qian.

Zhang Yuno, on the other hand, was much thinner than Qian Qian, yet he was stopped at the stairwell.

"Yu Nuo, hurry up!" Qian Qian called to her.

Xia Mian turned her head and saw that her face was deathly pale. It shouldn't be that she ran too slowly, but that she was caught by the ghost claw and was too scared to move.

Remembering how Zhang Yuno had hidden behind him earlier, Xia Mian frowned, suddenly turned around, and went back up the stairs.

He took three steps at a time and rushed to Zhang Yuno in an instant, reaching out his hand to her: "Come here."

Zhang Yuno was stunned. Her gaze lingered on him for two seconds before she regained focus.

Upon recognizing the other person, he exclaimed in surprise, "Xia Mian?"

"It's me. It's alright, let's go."

Zhang Yuno stared at his hand—why, why him of all people, this person covered in scandals, the one Zhu Ziqi described as utterly worthless?

Xia Mian noticed her hesitation and roughly knew why she hesitated, but he couldn't turn a blind eye when his teammates were in danger, so he urged in a low voice, "Hurry up."

Zhang Yuno's expression was complex. Finally, she gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and grasped his hand.

The boy's hands were slender and long, not very broad, but warm and delicate. He cleared away all obstacles for her and led her forward at breakneck speed.

By the time Zhang Yuno regained his senses, the three of them had already run to the basement level and rushed into the prison.

The jailer felt a whirlwind pass by him, almost knocking him over. After seeing who it was, his eyes were filled with helplessness: "Who are you? Why are you trespassing on the prison?"

Xia Mian: "We didn't trespass, we've come to turn ourselves in!"

Jailer: "...Aren't you a sailor? What crime have you committed?"

Xia Mian: "Sailor? Where did this sailor come from? I'm the croupier, and he's a slave. We just escaped from prison a few days ago."

jailer:"......."

The jailer was on the verge of tears: Director, what on earth did you bring here?

The director said he was powerless to do anything about it and decided to let him do it once again.

“You can turn yourselves in, but she can’t,” the jailer pointed at Zhang Yuno. “She’s innocent and can’t go to jail!”

Looks like I guessed right!

Xia Mian breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Zhang Yuno's arm and handed him money. Qian Qian immediately understood and very cooperatively tilted his head back, pretending to spit out blood.

"She...she hit me! I'm going to sue her for intentional assault!" Qian Qian cried.

The jailer: "........." Absolutely incredible.

While they were arguing with the jailers, the smoke had spread to the basement level.

A beam of light shone down from afar, and just as the jailer was thinking about how to get rid of the person, a girl suddenly floated over from behind.

She wore traditional Pala attire, a short jacket with a diagonal opening and tattered trousers. Her skin was a healthy wheat color, and her long black hair was tied up in a bun on top of her head, adorned with two pear wood hairpins.

Because they were far away, and because she was looking down, no one could see her face clearly.

As it drifted closer, she suddenly looked up.

The girl's eyes were filled with only the whites, not the pupils. Her nose had also been cut off, and several cuts ran through her entire face, making it look as if it had been chopped into pieces and then forcibly pieced back together. It sent chills down the spine of anyone who saw it.

aestivation:"......"

The makeup done by the production team is so realistic!

Zhang Yuno fell into a daze again, and Qian Qian was also a bit intimidated this time, constantly raising his hand to wipe his sweat.

Before, Xia Mian had plenty of free time, and she and her friends played almost every escape room and murder mystery game imaginable. At their most addictive, they played city-specific games all over the country. After countless trials and tribulations, she was the first to react.

He said bluntly, "You're here to strip me bare, aren't you?"

"Since you've already guessed it," the female ghost laughed sinisterly, "then obediently prepare to die!"

Xia Mian: "Don't try to scare me, you can't get in."

The female ghost paused, then asked, "How did you know?"

"I wasn't sure before, but I'm sure now."

The female ghost: "......"

The female ghost said, "You do have some cleverness, but you can't escape my grasp. What a perfect face! Once I get it, I can have a complete body!"

Xia Mian: "But we weren't the ones who hurt you, so why did you want to kill me?"

These words struck a nerve with the female ghost: "How could it not be, you greedy and hypocritical humans!"

Xia Mian keenly grasped the meaning of "greed and hypocrisy," and finally confirmed his idea.

“In the last century, you married a man from Europe. Because of your large dowry, the king specially sent a guard to escort you. At that time, war was rampant and people were suffering. You never expected that the captain of the guard would collude with the captain and set his sights on you.”

"They not only coveted your dowry, but also your beauty. According to the captain, you didn't like leaving your room and stayed with the guards 24 hours a day. Weren't you already under their control then?"

"They insulted you, and before we reached the shore, to prove you had disembarked safely, they forcibly took a picture of you, and your smile looked very forced. Then they brutally murdered you and dismembered you, and the body parts were taken off the ship by the captain of the guard."

“Princess, I know you are sad and in pain, but you have been haunting this sinful ship for so long, your spirit lingering here every day,” Xia Mian said with a look of pity. “Are you really happy?”

"I never expected this, never expected this," the female ghost lamented, "that someone would actually ask me if I was happy. My happiness was lost forever the day I boarded the ship! The Carnival... whose carnival is it, really?"

Xia Mian opened his mouth, and everyone thought he wanted to continue to reason with her and persuade the female ghost to leave with his silver tongue.

But he shook his head: "Since all that's missing is a face, I'll just finish it for you."

As he spoke, he grabbed the baron who had been in prison: "Make sure you know who he is. Every wrong has its perpetrator, so go and settle your score with him!"

He had barely finished speaking when he shoved the baron away!

The female ghost made a gesture as if she were being skinned alive, accompanied by a scream. Then, the lights in the room were turned on one by one, and the director led the rest of the film crew out of the small house across the street.

The dungeon lasts seven days, but Xia Mian solved the mystery ahead of time, ending the storyline and making further recording unnecessary.

"Congratulations to the three of you who survived to the end. Each of you will receive 70 points."

"Congratulations to Xia Mian for completing the additional task. You have earned another forty points and are currently ranked first on the overall points leaderboard!"