Chapter 62, Forced to Stay
Where are we going now?
If someone is wearing another person's appearance, that person could be strange, and Fu Yuchen felt very unsafe.
"I can go to Hanmo's place to attend the banquet tonight. You don't have an invitation, so I don't know if you can attend the banquet."
"Alright, now that I, the leading man, have run away, will this banquet even continue?"
Fu Yuchen's sharp words left Zhong Bingxuan speechless, and she helplessly pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Don't you think it's strange that a guest who knows nothing about the banquet would leave the Wen family instead?"
Since things have progressed to this point and none of the mysterious figures know their true identities, they naturally need to continue the pretense.
Zhong Bingxuan didn't want a repeat of the ghostly old house scenario in this instance, where the Wen family servants collectively turned into monsters and frantically chased after her.
"Then I'll go get an invitation."
His teammates only entered the Wen family's dangerous place to save him. Fu Yuchen couldn't bring himself to do it and fled the Wen family, leaving his teammates to suffer here.
"Okay, let me tell you about the different rules for the two types of invitations."
To prevent Fu Yucheng from wasting too much time looking for other clues, Zhong Bingxuan simply told him the rules she already knew.
"In other words, if you want to be safer, you can choose a guest invitation, but your personal freedom will be restricted. If you don't want too much restriction on your personal freedom, you need a VIP invitation, but the risk level will be greatly increased."
"Yes, and there aren't many VIPs. The chances of the head of the Wen family knowing them are too high, making it even more difficult for you to disguise yourself."
Zhong Bingxuan then pointed out a disadvantage of pretending to be a VIP.
"Okay, then I'll go get a guest invitation."
"Yes, but you need to pay special attention to two things. One is to run away quickly when you encounter a red lantern, or avoid the range of the red lantern's light. When you encounter a white candle, you need to stop and not move. Or, if you encounter something strange and the situation is urgent, blow out the white candle and gamble that the white candle will turn into a red candle, thus escaping the preconditions of the death rule."
"As for the second point, the wedding banquet is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and end at 11 p.m. This time frame should be correct, because the most dangerous VIPs will not start until after 11 p.m., and our safety can still be guaranteed before that."
"OK, I'll write it down."
Fu Yucheng nodded, acknowledging Zhong Bingxuan's kindness. He didn't waste any more words, planning to repay her for saving him once they got back on the train.
After saying goodbye to Fu Yuchen, Zhong Bingxuan changed into the appearance of an ordinary woman and hurried towards the hall.
Her face is closely related to Li Hanmo, and she could easily be implicated by Li Hanmo's VIP status, putting her in a passive position. It would be safer for her to act with her ordinary face.
Li Hanmo recognized Zhong Bingxuan's face. The moment Zhong Bingxuan entered the hall, he spotted her and sent her a message asking how she was doing.
[Undeterred by Wind and Rain (Captain Zhong Bingxuan)]: OK, mission complete. Find a chance to leave here.
[Undeterred by Wind and Rain (Deputy Captain Li Hanmo)]: This might be a bit difficult. Ah Xuan, you weren't here just now, so you didn't know that Master Wen said something was missing from the mansion and everyone needs to stay and cooperate with the investigation. Only after the missing items are found can the other innocent people leave.
[Undeterred by Rain or Shine (Captain Zhong Bingxuan)]: Was it not long ago?
[Undeterred by Wind and Rain (Deputy Captain Li Hanmo)]: Yes, Master Wen also said that anyone who disobeys him and leaves on their own will be treated like a thief.
When Zhong Bingxuan saw the message from Li Hanmo, she couldn't help but feel glad that she had been cautious and hadn't left the Wen family with Fu Yuchen directly, thus avoiding being targeted by the Wen family patriarch.
[Undeterred by Wind and Rain (Captain Zhong Bingxuan)]: Wait, does that mean I need to switch back to my original identity?
Zhong Bingxuan almost forgot that she was wearing someone else's appearance. This way, even if Master Wen called her name, she would be considered absent and would be hunted down as an accomplice who let Fu Yuchen go.
[Undeterred by Wind and Rain (Deputy Captain Li Hanmo)]: There's no other way. Be careful and leave here as soon as possible.
Zhong Bingxuan felt this was very difficult. Given Master Wen's reckless attitude, he might directly violate the death rules and stay after 11 o'clock. Thinking of this, she posted in the team channel, asking Fu Yuchen to find a VIP and take the invitation from him.
While being a guest is generally safer than being a VIP, during specific times, VIP status offers greater protection.
As for Zhong Bingxuan, she can just go and get Li Hanmo's invitation. Everyone knows that she and Li Hanmo are a couple, so there's no need to keep pretending.
[Undeterred by Rain or Shine (Core Member Fu Yucheng)]: Okay, you guys. Be careful, I'll be there in a bit.
Fu Yuchen knew that Zhong Bingxuan was not one to lie, and that lying to him would not benefit her at all. He didn't care that they had discussed that it would be safer to pretend to be guests, and that it would be better to accept the guest invitations.
"Are you worried that this banquet will force everyone to stay until after 11 o'clock?"
"I would say, barring any unforeseen circumstances."
Knowing Zhong Bingxuan's decision, Li Hanmo didn't pretend not to know her. When Zhong Bingxuan found an opportunity to avoid other people's sight and changed back to her original appearance, he walked over to her location and chatted with her in a low voice.
"There are quite a few VIPs here. Isn't the Wen family worried about offending anyone by doing this?"
In Li Hanmo's view, the Wen family would not force everyone to stay if they did not want to clash with all the upper class.
"If I cared, I wouldn't have said that no one is allowed to leave."
If you were to offend someone, forcibly keeping them in that situation would have been offensive. At that time, it would only have increased the animosity, but it wouldn't have caused any real harm to the Wen family.
"Moreover, I'm worried that the VIPs here might be of a higher-class, more eerie type. After 11 o'clock, most people don't give way to others, which only pleases those high-class, eerie people. The Wen family not only didn't offend those upper-class people, but also pleased them."
Zhong Bingxuan's idea is not impossible. We'll see what happens when Fu Yuchen arrives and he snatches the VIP invitation. For now, the only option is to deal with each move as it comes.
As darkness gradually fell and the time approached 10:50, the Wen family still showed no intention of letting them leave.
"What's going on? I have things to do at my company. How long does the Wen family plan to keep us here? They're delaying my business. Will they compensate me for the losses?"
"That's right, I didn't steal the stuff, so why are we being locked up here like criminals? I want to go home; my kids are waiting for me to come back and cook."
"Perhaps the Wen family has ulterior motives. They may not have lost anything at all, and they just want to keep us here to be used as stepping stones for them."
"The Wen family has gone mad. There are so many people attending the wedding banquet. If he really dares to kill everyone... wouldn't he be arrested and executed by the police?"
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