"What’s happening?! I’ve closed my eyes!"
Mu Qiu’s heart jumped. She lowered her voice, cautiously instructing, "Just keep your eyes closed and follow my instructions to touch that card. Whatever you do, don’t look at it, and once you’ve felt it, don’t open your eyes."
Zhao Yu nodded and agreed, nervously mumbling, "Goodness, you scared half to death. What kind of terrifying creature is this? Am I touching the right spot?"
Mu Qiu stepped back until she could only see the hint of golden color, ensuring she couldn’t see the pattern on the card. Then she spoke, "A bit more to the left, a bit more to the left, and absolutely do not open your eyes."
"Got it, still closed. Hey, hey, hey, I touched it!"
"Don’t open your eyes! Cover it with your palm and use your thirty years of mahjong skills to feel the patterns on both sides."
Zhao Yu, ard with thirty years of mahjong skills: "...Thanks for spreading my reputation. If I don’t win a few hundred bucks from you this New Year, it would be a waste of such praise."
Despite her heavy complaining, she obediently placed the card in her palm and, in the standard mahjong-touching pose, rubbed her fingers over the engraved patterns on both sides of the card.
After a mont, she gave up in frustration: "These patterns are so complicated; I’d be a ghost if I could feel them!"
"Don’t rush, take your ti." Mu Qiu cautiously approached, wrapping her hands around Zhao Yu’s, adding another "layer of protection" to the card.
"Co on, let’s move to that corner and feel it slowly."
...The words carried a strange connotation, leaving Zhao Yu slightly speechless.
Step by step, they moved to the corner, where Mu Qiu said, "Okay, you can try feeling it again. If it’s really difficult, try feeling the top of the card first to see if you can work out its na."
While maneuvering the card, Zhao Yu disdainfully remarked, "If my skills were really that good, and I could feel its na, would I still be here running around with you? I’d already be back at the card table, reigning supre!"
Mu Qiu was only focused on the card in her hand, paying no mind to the ridiculing words, and answered dismissively nine out of ten tis.
"Oh, just hurry and feel the card."
She didn’t bother lifting her head, her eyes still glued to her palm.
She had an expression like a "lord caring only about gold".
"What’s the rush... I got it, I got it!"
Mu Qiu’s eyes lit up as she covered Zhao Yu’s hand, almost moved to tears, as if what ca out wasn’t the truth of the card, but a precious newborn.
Suppressing her excitent, after spinning in place twice, she still felt unsure. So, she had Zhao Yu give her another feel of it.
The two of them pretended to be blindfolded, cradling a card in their hands, feeling it everywhere, unable to suppress their smiles while doing so.
"The number is three, not four, I felt it."
A sense of joy like a solitary old man suddenly becoming a grandparent.
Zhao Yu: "What does three numbers an? Although I haven’t opened my eyes, I bet you’re grinning right now."
"What about laughing? This occasion deserves a laugh. Alright, put it away, you can open your eyes now," Mu Qiu slipped the card back into her hand, her expression mysterious, then added:
"Just as I thought, it’s an exceptionally powerful card."
The card was placed into a work pant’s pocket, and Zhao Yu could finally open her eyes.
She reached into the pocket again, questioning a nagging doubt.
"Is this card an extra? Or did soone intentionally place it there?"
"Soone definitely placed it there. This is the fifth card, but it’s quite special. Once activated, whoever sees the monster pattern on it will die. When you felt it earlier, was it face-up?"
Zhao Yu: "Not really."
Mu Qiu paused: "...Well, that makes sense too! The person placed this card here, face-down, probably hoping we’d get excited and pick it up to look, sealing our demise, playing right into their hands! How cunning!"
"Oh—" Zhao Yu matched her with a perfunctory expression of agreent, "What a grand sche. Who could be so clueless?"
"It could be anyone, and often the least likely person turns out to be the culprit."
Mu Qiu analyzed profoundly, straightening her back, brimming with confidence: "Now we can go seeking death willingly."
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Cheng Zhirang finished reading the last sentence on the 813 card, looking up at the cara, furrowing his brows: "How long exactly does this card take to beco effective? Does it have to wait until the end like the 902 countdown?"
If so, this card is as useless as the countdown card then?
The photographer and the cara couldn’t answer him. He sighed, sitting in the museum’s corner, leaning against the wall with his knees bent.
He twirled the card between his fingers, not looking, just staring blankly at the cara.
The photographer held his breath and positioned the cara steadily, ensuring this face was captured perfectly in the fra.
Predictably, the chat exploded with comnts.
[Sudden freeze-fra beauty, oh my god]
[Cara guy, zoom in! Zoom in a bit more!]
[Wow, I ca back after having a al, and boom, beauty’s attack!]
[Brother Cheng!!! Brother Cheng!! / Screaming for my brother.jpg]
[Brother, why do you look at the cara? Hungry?]
[Soone quickly help him solve the problem; I can’t bear it anymore]
[Brother is looking at ! Waaa, it’s mutual!]
[Hair damp with sweat, Brother Cheng, take a rest]
[Screenshot! Screenshot! Everyone drooling, quickly screenshot]
[Brother’s so handso; I’m in love. Beautiful brother, do you love too?]
[I know what the fifth card is!]
[Why hasn’t Shu Ran’s creature appeared?]
[This episode, Sister Ran is amazing, managed to survive till nearly the end]
[Even resurrected, that’s sothing, Shu Ran nearly got infuriated]
[Brother Cheng, you survived with a beauty trick, better stay alive till the end]
[Feeling heartache for my Yangyang]
[Bad luck aura didn’t affect Mu Qiu at all]
[Both fate-bearers were knocked out together /dog head]
[I feel like Shu Ran is doing so secret grand arrangent]
[Under Cheng Zhi, it’s all aaaaah]
[This card was placed by Chu Qiu, definitely! Hahahahaha]
[No ti to eat, quickly screen by fra screenshot]
[Brother, if you tilt your head up a bit and make a sound, it’d be perfect]
[They’re just sitting there properly resting, and you guys imagine so much]
[So, where’s the sponsor’s product this episode? I’ve waited so long and haven’t seen it]
[So folks treat this program as a tech product comrcial, right?]
[HahahahahahahI’ll die laughing from the chat comnts eventually]
[Brother Cheng finally learned to use beauty. Told you surviving long enough, anything can happen]
[My Brother Cheng is the A-est man!]
[I swear, so casually holding up Mu Qiu like that, so effortlessly, I’ll mistakenly think all n are this manly]
[Lifting 140 pounds of shouldn’t be that hard right?]
[The one in front, your boyfriend is in trouble]
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