Chapter 104 It’s You I Don’t Believe In
The Masked Fool who appeared out of nowhere was very close to Lu Qi, almost pressing his entire body on her back.
The person who came had a strange floral fragrance on him, mixed with a hint of gunpowder smoke.
Did you come back from doing something bad?
Lu Qi calmly pulled her hand down.
"It's Sambo, isn't it?"
The person behind him chuckled.
"How did Little White Dragon learn to lie? You clearly guessed it," the lively and adorable Masked Fool rested his chin on Lu Qi's neck, his warm breath touching the tip of her ear. "You guessed wrong. Let Lady Hanabi think carefully about how to punish you."
Lu Qi didn't know Sangbo at all, but she had heard the name in March Seven's angry accusations and used it temporarily.
She did guess it was Hanabi, having said the wrong name on purpose.
As expected, Hanabi didn't care at all from beginning to end and still looked happy.
Lu Qi turned his head and saw the smiling black-haired girl with twin ponytails, holding up the Dream Crisp Cone she had just bought.
"Want to eat?"
The little rascal's eyes rolled around, as if he was planning something bad. She blinked and moved closer, and the two red moles on her cheeks exuded the scent of floral ink.
"Not eating?"
The black-haired girl with twintails opened her mouth and took bites evenly from three ice cream balls.
"It's not tasty. I don't want it." She said capriciously, and her gesture of wasting food was very deliberate.
After saying that, he looked at Lu Qi expectantly, wanting to see if she would be angry.
Lu Qi thought for a second and looked at the ice cream in her hand.
Well... isn't this the case that she doesn't want to eat something that doesn't taste good, but the people around her are her friends, so it doesn't matter if she exploits them a little.
Her relationship with Hanabi, the Masked Fool, wasn't good enough for her to deal with the food she had eaten, right?
What's more, it looked like the little bastard was doing it on purpose.
"You want to see me angry?"
"Um, no?" Hanabi narrowed her eyes and put her hands behind her back, "How could you think that? I would be very sad."
The Masked Fool's words were half true, half false, and Lu Qi didn't bother to tell the difference. She glanced at Hua Huo again, and the dragon's tail, which hadn't appeared behind her, quickly wrapped around the Masked Fool's body.
The slender white dragon tail pulled Hua Huo in front of Lu Qi. She stretched out her hand without hesitation, held Hua Huo's chin and fed her ice cream.
The masked fool pretending to be pitiful could only finish eating the Dream Crisp Cone that was born. After eating it, he accused Lu Qi of being cold-blooded and ruthless without hesitation.
"Wow, Haku-chan bullied Lady Hanabi," she sobbed exaggeratedly, "I was so kind as to bring you information, and you turned your kindness against me!"
"The opening ceremony of the Harmonious Music Festival is about to begin. What information do you want to bring me that you want to tell me at this time?" Lu Qi asked her jokingly, "Why, did you set off a bomb on the Hibiscus?"
Hanabi, who was originally giggling, stopped giggling and leaned back in shock.
"How do you know?!"
After covering her lips pretentiously, the girl, whose acting spirit was written all over her body, began to act sadly.
"No wonder you're so dismissive of Hanabi-sama. It turns out you've already guessed what Hanabi-sama is planning..." After finishing her performance, Hanabi approached again, "Are you secretly in love with me?"
Lu Qi ignored her trash talk and thought of the large button that Hua Huo had given him before.
It was probably a bomb launcher. Judging from the design, they probably made a lot of the same ones. If Hua Huo hadn't suddenly appeared, Lu Qi would have forgotten about this gift...
She searched hard in her backpack and took out the exquisitely wrapped button.
"Is this it?" Lu Qi was still eating some Colorful Dream assorted candies. Several different flavors exploded on her tongue: sweet, spicy, bitter... all at once. The taste was so strange that she frowned. "These candies really can't be eaten together... They taste so weird."
"What? Let me try it too?"
"It's all in my mouth," Lu Qi opened her mouth, revealing the candy fragments she had bitten. "If you want to eat it, you have to buy it yourself."
"Hey, Xiaobailong, why are you so stingy?"
"Let's talk about the bomb. What do you want me to do by sending you this intelligence?"
"Ms. Hanabi wants excitement!" said the girl with a mask hanging on the side of her head cheerfully. "You defeated the chicken wing boy and successfully saved Pinocchio. It's traditional, just, and perfect—but oh, this ending is so boring."
The black-haired girl sighed exaggeratedly and shook her head.
"Hanabi-sama decided to help you and make it even more beautiful—how about that reason?"
"Ah...you're planning on setting off fireworks for us to celebrate?"
Her final thought was exposed in an instant, and Hanabi took a breath.
It is a pleasant thing to deal with smart people, but if they are too smart, her performance will not be exciting enough.
"Why?" Hanabi complained angrily, "That little gray-haired fellow, your fellow Star Core Spirits clearly believed what I said... Why are you different from them?"
"Well... maybe it's because you gave me a gift?" Lu Qi said casually.
In fact, there is no such romantic reason. It is very simple for Lu Qi to guess. Her nose is more sensitive than a dog's nose. Coupled with the power of destiny in her body, she can distinguish the subtle differences in the ingredients contaminated on this button.
Indeed, the composition of bombs and fireworks is quite similar, but there are significant differences in dosage.
The Masked Fools do enjoy watching the show, but they're not stupid. At least they won't make enemies everywhere like the Legion of Destruction—unless Hanabi doesn't want to live anymore.
Pinocchio has a traffic flow of tens of billions of people, and many forces are still staying at the Daydream Hotel, waiting for the opening ceremony of the "Harmony Festival".
Although he wouldn't die in his dream, after all this commotion, at least his "family" and company would cause trouble for the Masked Fool.
Of course... it's not impossible that the Masked Fools collectively go crazy and give the Joyful Star God Aha a grand and hilarious last dance.
"Want to play with me again?"
"No," Hanabi puffed up her face angrily, "You don't cooperate with me, Haku, you're bad."
"Then I'm leaving?"
"Let's go," Hanabi turned her back to her, "I'm going to find someone else to play with!"
The cheerful fool, with his changeable face, vanished as hastily as he had come.
Lu Qi packed up the things he had bought and took them away while complaining about the ill-fated fate of these snacks.
It seems that it is also doomed to be sent out by her.
She had just walked near the stern swimming pool when Qiong came towards her in a hurry.
The gray-haired raccoon frowned gloomily, holding a simple hand-drawn map in his hand.
It seems that he was just teased by the fireworks.
"Lu Qi, you're here just in time!" Qiong trotted over and described Hua Huo's prank in the simplest terms, seeking a solution.
"What does a bomb look like?"
"She stuffed it into a doll," Qiong said as she created a small group chat on her phone and invited everyone she knew on the boat to join. "I'll take a picture and show everyone."
He shared the map and the appearance of the bomb dolls in his hand, asking others to help collect them.
According to Hanabi, she hid a total of 999 Hanabi dolls on the boat, and pressed the buttons one by one to activate the timed explosion function.
If it is not found in time, the firework doll in the Huichangshi will explode in 10 minutes, blowing everyone on the ship into the sky.
The group chat was buzzing with discussion, frantically trying to come up with a solution. Ten minutes was a very short timeframe, and the task needed to be completed without alerting the regular guests.
They don't have enough people, but there are many people on the Hui Changshi.
Reborn One (Lu Qi): Since we're preparing an opening ceremony on the ship, there must be a ship-wide broadcast, right? Miss Mockingbird has prepared a projection of firework dolls and announced to everyone on board that collecting a certain number of dolls will earn them a reward. The event ends in 10 minutes... As for the reward, the family wouldn't be so generous as to not even give a little bit, right?
Lu Qi's method is much simpler than just searching everywhere. As for where to exchange these dolls after collecting them, where could be more suitable than the stern swimming pool deck of the opening ceremony venue?
As for people... just let the robin sit there and warm up.
"10 minutes...is that enough time?"
"Of course," Lu Qi held up his chin. "There were only 999 dolls, and Hua Huo was able to place them all by herself without making a sound. She even marked them on the map for you. She didn't think she would win this game at all."
"...Then why did she do that?"
Qiong was puzzled.
The gray-haired raccoon was still too young to know that some people had such bad tastes, especially the Masked Fool who believed in the God of Joy.
This group of people likes to watch interesting plays. The whole world is a wonderful stage. As long as it can bring people joy and surprises, any play is interesting.
For Hanabi, it was also a joy to watch the people on the "stage" busying around with the arrangements she had come up with on a whim.
It doesn't matter to her whether she plays a villain or a supporting role.
After all... the protagonist has to perform the play step by step, while the supporting role can give a sudden surprise at the end of the play.
For example, setting off an unprecedented fireworks display at Pinocchio and using pranks to cause chaos among them.
"To have fun," Lu Qi said, "the more panicked you are, the happier she will be... Well, if you're worried that what she said is true, you can come along and look for her, but I won't help, okay?"
Qiong couldn't sit still and joined in the frenzy of searching for the fireworks dolls. Such a spectacular act would surely bring even greater delight to the Masked Fool, who was watching from the shadows.
The snacks Lu Qi bought were indeed not used. No one was in the mood to eat, so she could only give the snacks away.
There were quite a few children on the boat, and the Pipisi people were able to blend in perfectly with the children.
She treated all the dwarfs equally, as if they were children, and distributed snacks to them without hesitation.
After sending it, she sat back down on the lounge chair by the pool. The elusive Masked Fool came again.
The black-haired girl liked to appear from behind Lu Qi, and even crossed her arms around her neck.
"You gave too many hints," Hua Huo said with a smile, her black hair falling from Lu Qi's head and blending into her white hair, "It's a pity... Little Gray Hair still doesn't believe it."
"It's not that he doesn't believe you," Lu Qi pondered. "He just doesn't dare to gamble on the possibilities in your human nature... Of course I won't stop him."
"Eh...even you don't believe me?"
A cheerful smile appeared on her pretty face as she looked into Lu Qi's eyes.
"No," Lu Qi pried her hand away, "I believe in fireworks... but I don't believe in you."
"Happy Star God, Aha."
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