This tone is really obnoxious, Bai Shu couldn’t stand it, and turned around to grab him.
Her hand touched the Sailor Moon bed mat, and Li Yang was startled, doing a 360-degree spin to escape.
"...Can this even happen?!"
Spinning and leaping away, the fleeing posture was quite enchanting.
Li Yang was very agile, as if carrying a bed mat didn’t affect him at all.
"Bai Shu, you guys are really cruel, just moments ago loving allies, and now you’re directly attacking. Was it you who captured Mu Qiu?"
Bai Shu, while watching him and running, shook her head and said, "It was Brother Cheng."
"Brother Cheng?"
Li Yang ran off in a flash, shouting loudly to Mu Qiu, "Mu Qiu, be honest! Did you sacrifice yourself for love?! Getting caught at the start, I don’t believe that’s all your skill!"
Bai Shu stopped, panting, vaguely hearing Mu Qiu’s stumbling reply, with pauses and trembling voice, feeling like Lin Lian was dragging her across a gravel path.
"How the heck did he find me right away?! With only ten seconds, how far could I run?!"
"So it’s still the short legs’ fault."
Mu Qiu: "...Shut up!"
The stumbling voice faded away, and she couldn’t catch up.
Bai Shu gave up the chase, waiting for Cheng Zhirang and Xu Cheng to return.
On the other side.
Dragged away, Mu Qiu had calmed down, even contemplating lying on the bed mat and being dragged through the entire show, seeing all the beautiful scenery.
Then the bed mat stopped.
Lin Lian sat on the ground, panting heavily, and politely touched her arm, saying to the staff, "I’ve rescued Sister Mu Qiu."
The delicate boy, panting, was even more charming, and the girl responsible for scoring couldn’t hide the green glow in her eyes.
Mu Qiu lay on the bed mat, glancing around, noticing Lin Lian’s sweat-drenched hair, and suddenly thought of Su Yan.
She couldn’t believe no netizen noticed that, compared to Cheng Zhirang, Lin Lian was more on par with Su Yan.
They both were delicately handsome, with similar ages, and had almost the same cold temperament, suggesting Lin Lian might also become an idol.
Compared with them, Cheng Zhirang, aside from being equally good-looking, had nothing else in common and didn’t need comparison.
In her eyes, only Cheng Zhirang was stunningly beautiful.
Then she said gloomily—
"It seems better to be a captor now; if I get caught later and become a captor, I’d just target Brother Cheng."
Even the gorgeous need to be caught.
Li Yang also came running over and sat beside her, saying:
"I don’t think so, if you become a captor and can’t catch anyone, should he just wait at Kite Road to play? Look, didn’t you just trigger an unexplained Freezing Skill rule?"
She sighed heavily, arduously getting up, and looked at Li Yang: "Are you deciding to form an alliance with us? This time it’s a kill-all alliance."
"Don’t talk nonsense; your alliance names are all traps. It’s not an alliance, it’s mutual aid. I help you once, and later while I’m in hibernation you help me once."
"..." Good grief, this naive sweetheart has wised up, "Alright then, it’s like you’re buying a one-time life insurance, I get it, I get it."
A hidden small speaker beside them played an electronic voice.
"Mu Qiu has been rescued, the prescribed walking posture for the freezing time is—spinning and leaping."
A big question mark rose above Mu Qiu’s head.
"...What walking posture?"
Lin Lian paused and repeated, "Spinning and leaping."
"..." Damn, why not ask her to perform Swan Lake while walking?!
She was so frustrated that her limbs went stiff, unwilling to move.
Li Yang was still beside her, inciting, laughing like an idiot: "Hurry up, spinning and leaping! We don’t have much time, what if Brother Cheng catches up later? Hurry!"
She remained still.
She felt her dignity was being challenged. This complex feeling made her somewhat understand Shu Ran’s prior feelings, sitting in a donkey cart wearing a qipao, with a face turning iron-blue and stiff.
Very complicated, very bitter, wanting to close her eyes and faint.
But ultimately, the phrase "the greater good" prevailed. Bearing the embarrassment and humiliation, she tried to maintain a deadpan, saltfish expression, stretching her arms to start.
Tightening her left leg slightly lifted, her right leg leapt forward, then landed and swung to the left with her body spinning a not-so-standard circle, with the bed mat behind her like a wall following the spin.
Spin, leap, I closed my eyes, so I cannot see.
Maintaining the connection between the two actions, she "lightly" leapt toward the distance.
A moment later, the birds and flying insects in these bushes were frightened away by bursts of laughter.
"Hahahahahaha save me! I’m almost forgetting how to spell spinning and leaping, hahahahahaha!"
Lin Lian turned away, trying hard to hold back laughter, covering the corners of his mouth but unable to hide the laughter spilling out.
Li Yang continued to hurl mockery.
"Don’t tell me that’s a ballet pose, I won’t believe it!"
"I’ve never seen a moth spinning and leaping with a bed mat, hahahahaha! Extraordinary sight!"
"You think you’re chasing the moon with that pose? So hilarious, oh my gosh hahahahaha laughing till I’m weak!"
Mu Qiu’s face looked like a dried-up white bun for two days, even while spinning and leaping, she didn’t forget to glare at him.
"Laugh, laugh, laugh! Laugh your ass off! You better shut up right now, or you’ll see my cruel methods later! And you’re still laughing!"
One was laughing hard, while the other spun and leaped around Li Yang, constantly threatening him.
Lin Lian felt he might be the most mature one among the three of them.
The long and shameful two minutes passed, and Mu Qiu rushed over, hitting Li Yang until satisfied, then sat down on the ground.
"Thankfully no one was around. Or my reputation would be ruined. Whose idea was this damn pose?! Was it Bai Shu? I’m going to let her witness more graceful walking styles than spinning and leaping later!"
"Actually..." Lin Lian comforted her, though the pause made it seem forced,
"Actually, the pose wasn’t too bad, it kind of has a story feeling like ancient self-made Divine Artifacts chasing the moon, the artistic conception... wasn’t bad either."
Mu Qiu was shocked: "You can even make up lies like that, did you stay back in kindergarten for a few extra years?"
Lin Lian: "..."
He looked to the side at Li Yang, who was rolling on the ground with laughter, feeling somewhat exhausted.
Just then, a small speaker disguised as a stone delivered new global news.
"Zhang Li was caught and replaced Cheng Zhirang as the captor, entering a ten-second countdown!"
The three of them exchanged glances and decided to focus on the bigger picture, arranging their thoughts to discuss something normal.
Lin Lian frowned and asked, "So now people from different groups are mixed in as captors?"
Li Yang also stopped laughing, wiping away the tears of laughter, saying, "Brother Cheng’s move was truly exceptional, Zhang Li was quite fast too."
Mu Qiu thought even more, frowning and asking:
"Doesn’t that mean Brother Cheng infiltrated our team as a spy for Bai Shu and Xu Cheng? Capturing someone and handing them over while some naive sweethearts in our team haven’t realized?"
Li Yang was alarmed: "Huh? So this game will have more and more spies as it goes on?"
"Overall, it will become messier," Lin Lian followed this line of thought,
"For example, if Brother Cheng sneaks in and captures Jiang Zhu to deliver to Bai Shu and the others, then Brother Huai might form an alliance to hand Brother Cheng over to the now captor Jiang Zhu."
"This is brewing internal conflict."