Chapter 77 Hey, I have a wicked idea
The head chef's expression turned serious. Yue Yiyue stood there, looking down at the beautiful strawberries.
Some people nearby were already terrified.
Apart from Yue Yiyue, who didn't understand the meaning of betrayal, everyone present had an exceptionally solemn expression.
"...Ugh, this is a really crazy job." Someone in the corner muttered under their breath, "Hurry up and lock the door before they come."
It seems that simply sending the items out won't solve the problem.
"Will we die?" Yue Yiyue looked at the people around him who all looked utterly despondent. "If so, think of a way to destroy it, or move these strawberries before they are discovered."
The brain raced, offering two immediate actions: "It seems that simply discarding it would also be considered a betrayal."
The people inside the room did not speak.
“They just wanted an excuse to kill us.” One of them threw the piping bag in his hand aside and let it fall to the ground: “I told them I’d rather die outside than come here, but if I didn’t come, they would try to drag my sister here.”
As she finished speaking, large tears streamed down her face, and the atmosphere in the room grew even heavier.
“It’s not time yet,” Yue Yiyue said, breaking the somewhat somber atmosphere.
“What do you know?” one of them said angrily. “You don’t know what happened, yet you stand here and talk without any understanding of the situation.”
"We're the ones who are dying now!"
Yue Yiyue ignored him: "Are there many strawberries here?"
"Throw all the strawberries down there, or let me drag them out and throw them away."
After a long pause, the head chef shook his head: "But that way they'll catch you."
"If you betray us, the people here will catch you and execute you on the spot." The head chef explained to Yue Yiyue as calmly as possible, "We are employees here, and our rules are different from yours."
“That makes things easier.” Yue Yiyue’s mind raced, and she quickly found a loophole in the rules in the other party’s words. She shrugged: “That means the rule restricts you to strangling any strawberries that appear. For me, it means just throwing things away.”
Anyway, Director Qiu is behind it all.
We'll say she brought it in later.
Hmm, Yue Yiyue thought for a moment, she still wanted to tell Gu Nanqiu that she was about to bring her a little trouble.
To be precise, it was for Director Qiu.
Let her prepare herself mentally.
"Hello, can Gu Nanqiu hear this?" Yue Yiyue tapped his earpiece, and with a ding, the connection was confirmed.
A scratching sound came from the headphones, and soon Gu Nanqiu's voice came through the microphone.
After only a few hours apart, Yue Yiyue inexplicably missed that voice, but now was not the time for reminiscing. She said seriously, "Nan Qiu, I'm about to cause a not-too-big problem."
Yue Yiyue looked around. They were all staring at him curiously, thinking that he was shaking some very powerful person.
She was embarrassed to say that she just wanted to get someone's attention so that she could give a coherent story if someone caused her trouble later.
Yue Yiyue turned his back: "It's us who came to participate in this..."
After reiterating the existing rules, Yue Yiyue emphasized again: "If they try to arrest me, I will quickly say that I deliberately framed Director Qiu."
"Then beat them up and run away."
A soft laugh came from the other end of the headset. In that instant, Yue Yiyue felt a tingling sensation in his ear, as if he had been slightly shocked by a tiny electric current.
"Go ahead and do what you want to do. We'll help you. You can use this to get them out of their current positions." Gu Nanqiu's encouraging voice made Yue Yiyue realize that his problem wasn't particularly serious for them.
"Besides, you're doing a good deed. You're going to save a whole house of chefs. I'm really proud of you."
After being praised a few more times by Gu Nanqiu, Yue Yiyue's face turned slightly red, but his eyes became even more determined.
"Pack the strawberries, I'll go try it out." After negotiating with Gu Nanqiu, Yue Yiyue arranged for everyone to start working in an orderly manner.
At the same time, a bold idea popped into my head.
Everyone in the kitchen got busy, some continuing to cook, while a few meticulous people stayed behind to clean the strawberries.
Yue Yiyue glanced around the kitchen and saw a suspicious person in the corner, holding something in their arms and about to leave.
He went over and dragged the man inside: "Do you have a rope? Tie him up and keep an eye on him."
"Keep doing your work. If even one of you exposes this, you'll all die."
The people in the kitchen fell even more silent.
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Pushing the cart outside, Yue Yiyue found the guard closest to the room where the sculpture was hidden.
She stood there like a valiant knight, diligently and attentively.
It wasn't until Yue Yiyue walked right up to her that she raised an eyebrow, looking at the pitiful little guy who looked rather disheveled.
Yue Yiyue cleared his throat: "Are you going to arrest someone named Yue Yiyue tonight?"
After saying that, she nervously glanced behind her and then showed the sign in her hand to the other person: "I ran into her when I came over just now. She stuffed a big bag into it and ran away."
“I was afraid there was something inside that was not good for our great President Mu, so I could only suppress my fear and push the thing over.”
She pointed to the trolley in her hand: "She ran that way, it seems to be the main hall of the banquet. I heard she was trying to steal something..."
Upon hearing this, the guard's expression changed. She lifted the lid of the cart, and the bright red strawberries rolled with her movements, finally landing at the guard's feet.
"Sure enough, Yue Yiyue heard the keyword 'strawberry'." She muttered under her breath as she took out her walkie-talkie and spoke a few words into it.
"Which way did you say you went?" The guard confirmed that the sign in Yue Yiyue's hand meant that this person had seen Yue Yiyue's photo.
She took out her phone again to verify Yue Yiyue's identity.
A lowly odd-job worker.
Ha, if she shared the information with someone else, she might even get a chance to get promoted.
But unfortunately, she happens to know a place that's perfect for locking people up.
“It’s not very safe for you to be here alone. Come on, come with me. Otherwise, you might get caught by Yue Yiyue and die at her hands without even knowing it.” The guard pointed to the door next to him: “She’s a ruthless killer. You just saw what she looks like. She might come back and kill you later.”
The guard opened the door to the side and said, "Go in, it's perfectly safe here. I'll come find you in a bit."
Yue Yiyue looked at the room filled with sculptures...
Wow, it came so easily!
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The room was a bit cold. Yue Yiyue had thought she would be fighting some monsters or going through some kind of chase.
But it seems that Director Qiu has set up a very meticulous plan.
At least in this situation, she had been placed in a very safe position before.
Even if something happens inexplicably now, Yue Yiyue will only think it's his own problem.
To be honest, in those occasional fragmented memories that flash through my mind, I'm always the one in dire straits, but most of the time it's because of me... um...
Don't ask where this water and fire came from; asking for it yourself is actually a skill in itself.
Yue Yiyue remained where he was, not immediately getting involved in finding the sculpture.
With forty-five minutes left in the auction, she needed to be careful, lest something malicious was brewing inside.
After confirming that the platform next to him was solid and contained nothing strange, Yue Yiyue stepped onto it.
I saw the entire room.
The room looks to be 200 square meters, quite large, and contains many sculptures, just like the one in the photo posted on Baidu Baike.
The surroundings were exceptionally clean, and Yue Yiyue had no doubt that the sculptures here were just moved here by Mu Hongcai a few days ago.
After a cursory glance, Yue Yiyue did not see the unique sculpture; it was just like the one in the picture, with missing eyes.
A strange sense of unease crept into Yue Yiyue's heart. It felt like this place was a trap set specifically for her.
During this time, Yue Yiyue and the watch have become quite compatible, and he has also learned that the watch can be equipped with some tools, but most of them are left over from before.
She tried, but could only fit it into the watch that was already there.
I tapped on the watch, selected a bouncy ball, and tossed it inside.
There was no reaction.
Yue Yiyue then switched to a larger basketball and tried to roll it without knocking over the sculpture.
A buzzing sound filled the room, and the basketball on the floor was split in two.
Yue Yiyue looked up and saw a computer-generated image standing there, looking down at the basketball on the ground.
Then he turned his head and looked at Yue Yiyue, who was half-squatting at the door.
...So there was a monster locked inside.
Yue Yiyue slid over and knocked the computer head over. A slight thud was heard in the room, the sound of Yue Yiyue smashing the monitor.
Seeing the blue screen constantly displaying "error," Yue Yiyue looked down at his vibrating phone. It was a new message from Yu An.
"The aura of monsters around you is very strong, it seems to be my former boss. Be careful, he's a fun guy. If it really doesn't work, just give up and run."
"Nothing is more important than your life."
"I don't want to be wiped out here along with City A, thank you."
Three text messages flashed by, and before Yue Yiyue could sort out his thoughts, he heard a sharp, slightly jarring sound coming from not far away.
The lights in the room were quickly turned off, and eight spotlights spun wildly around the room, almost blinding Yue Yiyue several times, forcing her to put on sunglasses.
"Wow, look at you, you're really well-equipped—" Finally, the spotlight fell on the very center of the room, where a person with a bun hairstyle was sitting, wearing a mask with a blue face and fangs.
The oversized hoodie concealed her figure, and she wore ripped jeans. She looked young, but gave Yue Yiyue a dangerous feeling.
"Don't worry too much. At least I don't want you to die so soon right now."
"I want to play a game with you." The boy's clear voice rang out: "If we have fun, I'll throw Mu Hongcai away."
"After all, her ambitions are nothing more than this." She said this as if it were just about changing a toy, with a touch of naive cruelty.
“Unlike you.” Beneath the blue-faced, fanged mask, the boy revealed a somewhat manic smile: “You’re so audacious that you actually want to possess a god.”
"This is so interesting—"
"I want to dissect you piece by piece, to see what's inside your head that brings me pleasure, you insignificant person—"
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