I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!

Chapter 654 - 653: There’s Definitely Something Off with the Assignment

Chu Qiu was speechless. His teammates, after being laid off, had become the lackeys responsible for "dragging his corpse out for burial." Just thinking about it made him admire the program team’s design.

The ones paving the way for 049 and the two tall zombies were the very people who had previously dragged away Shu Ran.

Guan Yu, Li Yang, Guo Yin, Han Xizheng, Shen Zhousong.

Apart from Shu Ran, who was still in training after being laid off, everyone else was here.

Guan Yu stood to the side, allowing 049 to cover Chu Qiu’s face, even tiptoeing to watch the whole process as if it were a spectacle.

"What’s wrong with having a wide business scope? This is the reality for those of us who love our work—we can do anything and fight to do everything. Now close your eyes, it’s your turn to go."

"......" Chu Qiu hurriedly blocked 049’s hand from covering his mouth, "Let me say one more thing. Just one more sentence!"

Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu, who were huddled silently at the side, momentarily tensed up.

Then they heard him shout at Guan Yu, "Do you still remember we are teammates?! Why are you so happy that I’m going out?!"

Oh, so the last words weren’t to expose them.

They relaxed again.

Guan Yu replied to him disdainfully, "What teammates? I’m now a cleaner at the corpse containment site, the kind with social insurance. We are in different realms now, alright?"

"......

He had no more chance to speak after this; the imposing staff playing 049 covered his mouth, draped a black robe over him, and dragged him out.

In this scenario, only 049 was genuinely harvesting exiters’ lives while the others were just set dressing, with no substantial role.

But that didn’t stop them from seizing the spotlight.

The group came in a rush and left in a hurry. Before leaving, Shi Yuhuai, playing a zombie with no lines or actions the whole time, played a prank.

While everyone’s attention was on Chu Qiu and 049, he unexpectedly turned back and snarled at Mu Qiu and the others.

Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu were startled by the sudden zombie howl, their eyes widened in bewilderment as they stared at him.

"... What are you doing?!"

Shi Yuhuai said nothing, satisfied with scaring them, wore a pleased smile on his face, and turned to leave with the group out of the shot.

The remaining three: "..."

Mu Qiu: This guy definitely has some incurable issues.

The guys who’d stepped out of the fast-food joint laughed wildly.

"Brother Huai was the first to be stuffed into the reemployment training class, see this; he’s nearly gone crazy."

"Hahahahahaha scared them good!"

"Now there are only three left, we should be able to have our meal soon."

"Fight, fight, fight! Hope to see you all again soon, and don’t come one by one next time, just all three at once, we work hard on our tasks!"

Mu Qiu, feeling the stress build up, stormed over to push them.

"Go, go, go! Get out of here! Just seeing you gives me a headache!"

Cheng Zhirang, sitting in the chair watching her, chuckled softly, his beautiful eyes seemingly filled with fragmented glimmers, tailing into a single line, subtly curling upwards as he smiled.

Really kind of handsome.

But now was not the time to be craving him.

Zhao Yu had already stood up, moving step by step to her side, the three forming a triangular stand-off.

"Alright, we have already dealt with one. Time for the next one."

Mu Qiu dusted off her hands as if clearing out dirt and, with Zhao Yu, simultaneously focused their gaze on Cheng Zhirang.

Cheng Zhirang remained sitting calmly, even with a smile on his lips, he asked them, "You want to deal with me? What, do you have the fifth card?"

They were found out.

But Mu Qiu wasn’t flustered; even though Chu Qiu didn’t expose them before leaving, just the fact that he desperately covered Chu Qiu’s mouth was already obvious enough.

They weren’t traitors, unable to deal with him with monsters. So reasoning through, being able to calmly consider contending for first place meant they had some kind of weapon, and that weapon must be something both Purifiers and civilians could use.

Apart from the unseen fifth card, there’s nothing else.

This simple analysis, if she could think of it, Cheng Zhirang could certainly think of it too; it wasn’t hard to guess.

She nodded bluntly: "It’s on us. But not on me."

Zhao Yu immediately got the game and shrugged, saying, "It’s not on me either."

Brazenly lying, but he truly didn’t know who held the card.

Cheng Zhirang didn’t spend much time looking at Zhao Yu, his gaze mostly fixed on Mu Qiu.

He asked, "Used my hand to get rid of Chu Qiu and then planned to use his card on me, good idea, fooled by you guys. He gave you that card?"

No, Chu Qiu wasn’t one to sacrifice himself just for revenge.

"Can’t be, why would Brother Chu Qiu give us a card for no reason."

Mu Qiu said as she took off the metal detector and the Ultraman backpack she had been carrying, tossing them aside.

Zhao Yu did the same.

It seemed they were ready for a showdown.

"Hold on."

Cheng Zhirang stood up, contemplating a guess.

"Is the trigger mechanism of this monster special? Just seeing that card gets you out?"

Mu Qiu mentally cursed.

It must have been from their earlier alliance, with Chu Qiu saying something like just holding the card up to Shu Ran could slaughter her, which stuck with him. Analyzing it with other clues, deducing that the fifth card was a monster that eliminated you at a glance wasn’t too difficult.

But this was just a small matter.

She calmly and coolly responded, "Oh."

"What, Brother Cheng even knows SCP—001 Medusa?"

"Medusa?" Cheng Zhirang pondered, the Medusa from mythology could indeed kill a person with a glance, matching the trait Chu Qiu mentioned.

"But how did you survive the slaughter of this card? Chu Qiu should be its first discoverer."

Mu Qiu: "Very simple. You don’t understand the SCP Foundation, so you don’t know, while there are many monsters within the Foundation, a few star monsters are the most famous.

If the program team were using creatures from the Foundation, there’s an eighty percent chance they would pick those few star monsters. Following the principle of each monster being more formidable than the last, after 173, there are only two possibilities.

And between these two possible monsters, I leaned towards Medusa, so when I picked up the card, I deliberately didn’t look, just picked it up directly."

Guess alone?

Cheng Zhirang couldn’t agree: "You assumed it to be Medusa without looking, what if you guessed wrong?"

"Wouldn’t be wrong."

She gestured towards Zhao Yu opposite her.

"Even though I didn’t look, this was something our Zhao Yu, with years of mahjong experience, sensed from touch. Absolutely not wrong."

Cheng Zhirang’s eyebrow twitched, looking at Zhao Yu.

"Turns out he’s a mahjong master, my apologies."

Zhao Yu chuckled awkwardly, waving his hands frantically.

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Brother Cheng: SCP—001 Medusa, named 001, obviously has a strong instant-kill ability.

Qiuqiu: I just made it up, don’t anyone believe it except Brother Cheng.

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