Jiang Ran returned to the first floor and went back to the room where she started, following the direction she came from. As soon as she climbed down the iron ladder, she felt something was wrong.
"This is...water?"
After descending about five meters into the passage, the water had already reached Jiang Ran's ankles!
The raccoon leader destroyed the underground passage! He must have first damaged the passage to the point of breaking down, and after he escaped, the passage, which was about to collapse, finally succumbed to the water pressure and burst, causing the lake water to flood the entire underground passage.
"Sigh, I should have shot him first." Jiang Ran sighed softly. "He got away, so what? I didn't intend to kill him in the first place, so why did he have to provoke me?"
With the only underground passage cut off and the island surrounded by an artificial lake, it seemed that all their escape routes had indeed been cut off, and having an invitation was useless.
"Jiang Ran, what do we do? Should we just swim across?"
A lake full of piranhas is nothing to Gwen, but it's difficult for Jiang Ran to exert his strength in the water.
"It's alright, just come with me!"
Jiang Ran returned to the second floor, opened the window, climbed up the wall, and soon arrived at the roof of the haunted house.
“I’ve calculated that the amusement park airship will move in a continuous circular path, and the haunted house is right above it, within that flight path.” Jiang Ran looked up into the distance; in the light rain, a dark shadow was gradually approaching. “Given the airship’s flight altitude, and considering the haunted house’s altitude, if we do this—”
As the amusement park airship swept over the haunted house, Jiang Ran leaped high into the air with Gwen in one arm, accurately grabbing the horizontal bar below the airship!
"ah--"
The howling wind lashed their faces, and raindrops pelted them. Gwen snuggled even closer into Jiang Ran's arms.
"What, you feel cold too?"
"Rain hitting my face is really uncomfortable! Humph!"
Gwen pouted and asked Jiang Ran again, "Did you plan all of these things from the beginning?"
"I just paid more attention to the available routes. If I had to say something, I couldn't have decided to board the airship from the beginning."
"I just think... sometimes, you're really scary."
"Scared?" Jiang Ran smiled gently. "Don't worry, I'm absolutely safe for you~"
"Hmph! I wonder who was it that initially wanted to invite me to eat a bullet!"
"Alright—now it's freefall time!"
"Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Ran let go, and the two landed accurately on the trampoline!
"OK! Safe landing!" Jiang Ran pulled out his pistol. "Now, it's time to settle the score!"
After escaping from the underground passage, the Tanuki leader was both terrified and incredibly excited!
In the end... I was still the better one!
After a burst of laughter, he suppressed his barely concealed emotions.
His situation wasn't good; he only had 2900 Paradise Coins! Luckily, Jiang Ran hadn't immediately taken away the promised 2000 Paradise Coins, but even 2900 wasn't enough! He was way short!
Aside from those who are hiding, who among the surviving leaders doesn't have a few lives on their hands? They probably wouldn't dare to come out without Paradise Coins! If they encounter anyone else, they're almost certainly doomed!
After hiding in fear for several minutes, the raccoon leader made a snap decision: he had to go out and hunt down those who had fewer Paradise Coins than him! Those who were hiding! Only then would he have a chance to turn the tables!
"Please, I can't die here!"
The raccoon leader tiptoed out of his hiding place.
"hello!"
The dark muzzle of a gun was pointed at him!
"You! How could you leave...?"
The raccoon leader looked as if he had seen a ghost; he even forgot to beg for mercy and forget to run away!
"Go ask your colleagues!"
Bang!
Finally, this hidden threat was resolved, and Jiang Ran's Paradise Coins reached that number, bringing him one step closer to achieving it.
As long as a few more people in charge are dealt with, the numbers won't be hard to come up with. Jiang Ran turned around, and a figure walked out from the rain.
"Jiang Ran? What a coincidence, I've wiped out all the people in charge around here."
The visitor was Bates, an SSS-rank ghost storyteller from the Ironblood Nation.
Jiang Ran quickly received Lin Changqing's second notification. Bates had done many unreasonable yet correct things many times without any prior knowledge. He was like a prophet, and even when searching for a certain location, he would go there directly without any information, as if he knew the location!
Therefore, Lin Changqing guessed that Bates' talent might allow him to know the overall situation or directly obtain information about other ghost storytellers.
It's very likely that Bates already knows Jiang Ran has the invitation. Even if he can't find out, the Ironblood Nation's observers must have alerted him!
If Bates wants to pass the level, he must obtain the invitation letter from Jiang Ran!
Bates made no attempt to hide the numbers on his wrist.
“Jiang Ran, it’s too much trouble to find other people in charge.” Bates slowly approached, a signature fake smile on his face. “How about we cooperate? You give me the invitation, then transfer some Paradise Coins to me. After I clear the game, I’ll give you half of the rewards from Dragon Kingdom.”
Huh?! Almost no one took Bates's words seriously; they all thought he was just joking.
Jiang Ran has the advantage in both the number of props and the number of Paradise Coins. Even if they were to cooperate, Bates would have to obediently transfer the money. Moreover, with only a little over 10,000 Paradise Coins, Jiang Ran doesn't need to cooperate with Bates at all. Even if he can't find another person in charge, he still has Wips.
"good......"
Wait a minute?! What did they just hear?!
Jiang Ran slowly walked towards Bates.
Lin Changqing had a bad feeling! Some of the ghost story tellers had inexplicably become much smarter in certain situations, and upon closer observation, it could be seen that Bates was not far from them at the time!
If this is also one of the abilities that Bates possesses, then conversely, could it lower people's IQ?
Jiang Ran walked up to Bates, and then... gave him a solid punch!
"I'm so annoyed by people doing things to my brain..."
Bates took a few steps back, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth: "Should I thank you for going easy on me?"
"Don't flatter yourself, I just don't want to be kicked out of this world."
"Sigh, it's not that simple after all—" Bates threw down his submachine gun and stretched. "Even if smart people are weakened, they're still not stupid enough. No fun. I wanted to see you drooling like an idiot."
Jiang Ran's face darkened, and Bates suddenly leaned close to Jiang Ran's ear, speaking in a voice only the two of them could hear: "Fine, we've played enough. As a reward for beating me, I'll reveal a little something to you—"
Do you even know what 'talent' really is?
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