"Click—"
The door to suite number three was suddenly opened from the outside.
Shi Jing, who was twisting and turning under the bed trying to find a lying position, suddenly froze and dared not move for a moment.
"You actually came to our room first, Shi Jing, stop moving around!" Zhu Jinzhao warned Shi Jing in a low voice. Shi Jing didn't dare to speak, so he could only carefully pick up his phone and send Zhu Jinzhao a WeChat message.
—Yes, Grand Strategist!
Just like the first time they searched the room, Ning Shi and Fang Lei searched Zhu Jinzhao's room together.
The two of them went to the same old place again, so they left empty-handed once more.
"There's no one in the room today." After meeting up with Li Weiwan in the living room, Ning Shi succinctly reported the results of her search.
Li Weiwan sighed and shrugged helplessly: "There's no one in Shi Jing's room either. It seems we were both wrong."
“We were all wrong…” Fang Lei put one hand on his hip and the other on his forehead, his brows furrowed in worry. “We searched the entire villa, but we couldn’t find any trace of Jinzhao’s group. Where did they hide?”
Ning Shi pondered for a moment, then pointed upstairs: "If it's not on the third floor, then could it be on the fourth floor? When we searched the fourth floor just now, the three of us weren't very thorough, so there might be some places we missed without realizing it?"
Fang Lei nodded with a stern face: "Then shall we go to the fourth floor and take another look?"
Li Weiwan agreed: "Okay."
Once the decision was made, the three of them immediately left Suite 1.
"Click—"
The sound of the door lock clicking shut rang out crisply in the quiet room, finally giving Shi Jing's tense body a chance to relax after more than ten minutes of tension.
"Phew...that was close."
[Hahaha, we've dodged another search! Looks like Fang Lei and his team will never find this spot under the bed!]
[First! We must be number one today! If we're not number one, I'll eat shit tonight!]
【Hmm? Why are you eating at night? Did you not have an appetite in the afternoon?】
Hey, being number one too often can get a bit boring...
Zhu Jinzhao opened his phone, opened Zhu Mingyue's WeChat, and tapped rhythmically on the edge of the phone with his fingers.
"Shi Jing, do you think Ming Yue might be hiding on the fourth floor?"
Shi Jing thought for a moment and honestly said, "I don't know. Zhu Mingyue is very clever; I can't deduce which floor she might be hiding on."
Zhu Jinzhao: "Shall we take a gamble? Bet she's on the fourth floor right now?"
“Okay.” Shi Jing was very supportive. “Anyway, taking a gamble won’t cost us anything, so there’s no reason not to give it a try.”
This makes a lot of sense, so Zhu Jinzhao immediately took action.
She exited the chat with Zhu Mingyue and instead opened Shi Jing's WeChat. She quickly typed a few lines in the chat box and sent him the hellish joke she had carefully prepared.
Shi Jing: "???"
Looking at the increasingly abstract jokes on his phone screen, Shi Jing's lips twitched from trying so hard to suppress his laughter.
"Where did you find so many ridiculous jokes?" he asked through gritted teeth, his voice trembling.
"Ahem..." Zhu Jinzhao cleared his throat, trying to maintain his composure. "I just saw it when I was scrolling through short videos. What, you haven't seen these before?"
Shi Jing: "Absolutely not."
Zhu Jinzhao: "Oh, maybe it's because you're not funny enough... Don't worry about that, just send these jokes to Mingyue."
"Why am I the one who sent it?" Shi Jing bent her knuckles and tapped the phone screen twice. "Why doesn't Grand Strategist Chaochao send it himself?"
Zhu Jinzhao honestly and timidly replied, "I dare not offend her."
“…Alright.” Although Shi Jing was inexplicably intimidated by Zhu Mingyue, since Zhu Jinzhao didn't want to be intimidated, then let him be the villain who offends people…
"Um?"
Zhu Mingyue was hiding peacefully in the storage room when suddenly her phone screen lit up.
The lock screen showed that Shi Jing had sent her a WeChat message.
She frowned warily, hesitated for a few seconds, and then clicked on the message.
Doctor: Luckily you arrived in time! The injured person lost too much blood; any later and they would have died outside! Family member: How is the situation now? Doctor: They're dead inside now.
A human trafficker who abducted 33 babies was sentenced to death and cried in court: "What will happen to my three children?" Netizens commented: "Sell them to other traffickers at a low price."
Doctor: Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Patient: It hurts a lot every time I do this. Doctor: Then don't do it like that.
Caught off guard, Zhu Mingyue saw that the message contained a long paragraph of text and subconsciously read it from the beginning.
By the time she belatedly realized something was wrong, her laughter had already uncontrollably spilled out of her throat.
"puff……"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Although she quickly covered her mouth with her hand, her not-so-quiet laughter still caught Li Weiwan's attention.
"who?!"
Li Weiwan suddenly turned around, her sharp gaze quickly sweeping in the direction from which the laughter came.
There was nothing to hide in that direction except for an old, dusty red bucket standing there.
Having found Xiao Chen before, Li Weiwan knew what was going on almost instantly.
He smiled with satisfaction, walked straight to the big red bucket, and pulled out Zhu Mingyue, who was hiding behind it and pretending to be a feed bag.
"Mingyue, you're out."
"...Ah!" Zhu Mingyue was slightly angry and angrily punched the air while holding her phone.
"I'm really fed up. I've fallen for Zhu Jinzhao's tricks three times now!"
"Hey, Brother Li found Mingyue!" Hearing a voice coming from the storage room, Fang Lei and Ning Shi quickly ran in from the corridor, only to see Zhu Mingyue throwing a tantrum.
"What's wrong, Mingyue?" Ning Shi walked up to Zhu Mingyue with her hands behind her back and a smug look on her face. "You got tricked by Jinzhao again?"
Zhu Mingyue angrily grabbed a handful of her hair and answered loudly, "Hmm!"
"How did she scheme against you?" Fang Lei asked curiously.
Zhu Mingyue remained silent, but instead presented the WeChat message sent by Shi Jing to the three of them.
"..."
After an eerie silence, all three burst into laughter.
Hahahahahaha!!!
Hahahaha!
"I really admire Jinzhao's brain; how did she come up with such a bizarre joke?!"
"..." Zhu Mingyue remained expressionless, unable to smile at all.
[Hahaha!! Did you somehow recycle your brain on Zhuanzhuan (a Chinese online shopping platform)?! It's making me laugh so hard I'm scrambling to use Pinduoduo's 10 billion yuan subsidy program.]
[Seriously, how can someone be this clever? They resort to sending jokes when they can't get through on the phone? I'm speechless!]
Zhu Mingyue's fans were speechless, only leaving a string of "Awesome" in the live stream chat...
With Zhu Mingyue's elimination, Su Ying's team was completely wiped out.
However, none of Zhu Jinzhao, Shi Jing, or Xiao Li were exposed.
Fang Lei and his men searched the villa from top to bottom, but they couldn't find a single hair on Zhu Jinzhao's head.
Seeing that they seemed to have reached a dead end, the assistant director offered them a cruel choice.
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