Chapter 23 The Spotlight "My brother can shoot 10 arrows."...
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Chapter 23 The Spotlight "My brother can shoot 10 arrows."...
The moment Maze's ID was refreshed, the viewers in the live stream were stunned.
The normal end time for the live broadcast of "Classmates Are Here" is 10 PM, but Su Yi'ang has his own live broadcast time requirements from the platform. After asking Ye Hantao and the other two in advance, he started the live broadcast using the equipment in the room.
The word spread quickly among the audience.
After hearing that he had teamed up to crash into Maze's team, people came in droves to watch the spectacle.
The live stream's popularity surged dramatically in just a few dozen seconds, instantly topping the gaming section's live stream charts.
[Aaaaaaah, is this the perk of staying up all night to watch the live stream?!!!!]
[Maze! I haven't seen you for six years!!!]
[I heard Maze is here? I rushed over right away.]
Some viewers who don't follow the esports scene kept typing "?", asking, "When did the big boss of an esports base start having fans?"
[Hahaha, Maze, hurry up and appear on camera! You'll be forgotten if you don't!]
[I searched Maze, and wow, they already had over 100 million followers six years ago? Over 100 million? Is that the kind of follower count an esports player can have???]
[I haven't heard of him before. Is he handsome? Does he gain fans based on his looks?]
Not handsome.
[Dark skin, black-rimmed glasses, and messy hair—I can't find anything about him that's handsome :)]
Ye Hantao rarely pays attention to e-sports. Only in the last two years, after she started playing games, would she pause for a few seconds if she saw a team winning a championship online, but she didn't remember the names of many e-sports players.
Judging from Angang's appearance, this big boss must be both fierce and powerful.
While the teams were choosing their heroes, Ye Hantao went online to search for Maze.
His profile popped up instantly on the webpage, featuring a photo of a young man with white hair and dark skin. He must be a young man.
He wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses that covered most of his face, and his hair in front of his forehead obscured his eyes, making it impossible to guess his exact age.
For a moment, Ye Hantao found him particularly pleasing to the eye, especially his chin and lips.
Ye Hantao tilted her head and thought for a moment, then noticed that she and her father and brother had the same chin and lip shape.
Liao Jiayue also leaned over to see what Maze looked like, while recalling the story of Maze in her mind.
However, no matter how much I try to recall, it's almost all gone.
In the original novel, Maze is occasionally mentioned by Su Yi'ang in variety shows, followed by a narration-like introduction.
He debuted at the age of eighteen and immediately became a starter. He advanced from the group stage with an absolute advantage of 6:0, and won the domestic championship, the global team championship, and the global solo championship.
The problem is, the original novel didn't include the scene where Su Yi'ang crashes into Maze while playing a game.
Thinking of this, Liao Jiayue's probing gaze fell on Ye Hantao.
In the original story, she invited her high school classmate.
Su Yi'ang had not invited them to play games, so Ye Hantao was the reason they crashed into Maz.
Liao Jiayue's mind stirred slightly; this was indeed an opportunity.
Maze must be quite wealthy to become the owner of the base, and she has a lot of fans. She can take this opportunity to create a CP (couple pairing) with Maze in the game.
This is the kind of treatment a time-traveling heroine should get. Liao Jiayue raised her hand to her lips to hide the smile that was about to escape.
If you really wanted to invite your high school classmates to participate in a variety show like the female lead in the original novel, you'd never have that opportunity.
Ye Hantao had read the original novel from Tong Ge, and as she browsed more and more information about Maze online, the plot she had read before vaguely flashed before her eyes.
The article describes Maze as an undefeated legend and a pioneering emperor in the esports world.
During a chat session about career choices, Su Yi'ang said he was determined to become a professional gamer, specifically because of Maze.
Unfortunately, Maze announced his retirement the year after winning the championship.
Su Yi'ang said that Maze led the newly formed team all the way up from the second division, and even swept away the dominance of strong teams such as H country in the international arena. Moreover, they were keen to defeat the opponents using the strategies that the opponents were best at.
Maze is a legend among domestic esports players, but a demon king among foreign players.
But when she first read the plot, she didn't know that Maze actually looked like this.
"Hey, is your boss African?"
[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.]
I said back then that they'd snagged an African guy as their starting player.
"He's a genuine Chinese! I heard he got tanned back then, but now he's incredibly fair-skinned."
When Su Yi'ang joined the team, Maze had already retired and become a coach. He never appeared online again, and he never even attended a post-match coach interview.
The audience didn't believe him when he said Maze was incredibly fair-skinned.
Su Yi'ang said mysteriously, "Once when I was on vacation and went back to the base, I happened to run into the big boss coming out of the dormitory. The big boss wasn't wearing his glasses!"
Ye Hantao asked curiously, "Did you see the fiery red eyes behind his glasses?"
"What red eyes? The big boss's eyes are black." Su Yi'ang gave a thumbs up. "His face is breathtakingly handsome! Devastatingly handsome! The universe is dark!"
【We at Maze have the capability; we don't need empty promises!】
[Hilarious! You're just afraid of getting beaten up by Maze, so you're praising her on the spot.]
Not only did the audience not believe it, but Liao Jiayue, who was present, also did not believe it.
If such a handsome man truly existed in the original work, it's impossible that he would only have a few sentences describing him and never actually appear on screen, existing only in other people's words.
Liao Jiayue looked at Maze's photo in the file, repeatedly deleting and retyping the content she had typed in the chat box.
If Maze's real appearance is ever revealed online and he turns out to be an ugly man, wouldn't her in-game partner also be embarrassed?
After much deliberation, Liao Jiayue decided to speak with her agent and [guide the discussion in the live chat about pairing me and Maze].
Wu Xia calmly stated, "30 seconds left in the countdown."
"They're here, they're here."
Su Yi'ang quickly scanned the configuration of the other side.
Maze is the big boss, Lao Zhu is their starting top laner, and the other three are all kids from the youth training team.
Looking at his own team's class, Su Yi'ang was surprised, "Tao Tao, why did you choose the Gold Archer position? He's so fragile."
Zhou Mingsheng's gaze lingered on the character in the ID "Taking a Bite of a Peach," a tall, muscular man with short, blond hair, carrying a golden bow and arrow.
Although it is fragile and weak in the early game, it can survive until the late game and develop, and its damage output is explosive.
Ye Hantao crossed her legs on the edge of the bed. "My brother taught me. He said he's only good enough to fight the Golden Bow Guards."
Su Yi'ang pondered the words "appealing to the eye".
As a man himself, he knew all too well the little quirks of men.
Men tend to add a touch of artistic flair to things they excel at.
Even after processing, Tao Tao's older brother's work is only passable, indicating that his actual skill level is quite average.
“I like using him too! He’s strong! The official setting says this bow weighs 300 jin.” Ye Hantao hadn’t played games for a while, so she quickly reviewed the skills and controls in her mind. “He’s also as tall as an iron tower, and he seems to be full of energy.”
She had poor health since childhood and liked characters like the Golden Bow Guard who looked very strong.
This is the first time I've heard this reason.
[Hahaha, if Jin Gongwei were even more handsome, I'd use him.]
Here, the family of three sat in a row in the living room, soaking their feet as usual.
When Ye Weizheng took the foot bath tubs out of the bathroom, he habitually took four. Tao Tao's blue foot bath tub was also filled with warm water, but there were no medicine packets inside.
The tablet on the coffee table was set to display Su Yi'ang's live stream.
Zhou Ti and Ye Weizheng sat side by side on the sofa, soaking their feet, watching Tao Tao in the live stream and Tao Tao's character on Zhou Mingsheng's phone at the same time.
Zhou Mingsheng did not speak during the group chat.
Zhou Ti glanced at her eldest son's profile and said, "Ming Sheng, Su Yi'ang said he's seen you before, without your glasses."
Zhou Mingsheng frowned.
From the moment Su Yi'ang mentioned that he wasn't wearing glasses, he was searching his memory, his expression still as cold and stern as ever, and he said succinctly, "I have no recollection."
“This kid is quite lively.” Ye Weizheng forked a piece of mango and fed it to Zhou Ti. “He probably just said it offhand.”
“Strange,” Su Yi’ang suddenly muttered.
Ye Hantao twitched her ears. "What's strange about it?"
“I’m not saying it’s strange that you’re playing Golden Bow Guard, I’m saying it’s strange that we’re matched with them,” Su Yi’ang said patiently. “The game’s mechanics match teams based on their competitive scores. The five of them, including the big boss, all have pretty high competitive scores, so how could we possibly be matched with them?”
He opened his personal panel and saw, "Jia Yue has 3000 points, and Tao Tao has 2800 points. Neither of you has a high competitive score."
Zhou Mingsheng picked up his water glass and took a sip of warm water.
He had previously logged into TaoTao's account to play ranked matches. The 2800-point rating didn't seem high, but he had climbed up through a winning streak.
Given Su Yi'ang and his teammates' high scores, it's not surprising that they were matched with them.
In the live stream, Ye Hantao also replied, "I only reached 2200 myself, while my brother logged in and reached 2800."
Hearing this, Su Yi'ang became even more certain that Brother Tao's actual skill level was quite average. Among ordinary people, even slightly skilled ones could score around 3000 points. If Brother Tao didn't score 3000 points, could it be because he didn't want to play?
[Why did the cameramen on set leave? I want to see the in-game stream!]
[Old Zhu, who's in a group with Maze, is live streaming!]
Sisters, let's go!
[Angang, I'm going now, I'll come back to see you later, muah!]
Su Yi'ang watched helplessly as the popularity of his live stream plummeted, and his teammate Lao Zhu overtook him and snatched the No. 1 spot.
He was indignant, "Old Zhu really benefited from this hype!"
Why did the big boss suddenly form a team and even allow Lao Zhu to do a live stream today?
[Countdown 3-2-1!]
[Battle begins!]
Su Yi'ang's smile vanished instantly, and he became serious. "Jia Yue, come over and scout the vision. Marksman, focus on farming. Tao Tao, prepare to provide support in the mid lane. I'll give you a signal later."
He issued a series of precise and efficient commands, completely different from the man he was just a moment ago.
The marksman in the team was a starting teammate called in by Su Yi'ang. Wu Xia is calm and composed, plays the top lane, and has played ranked matches with Su Yi'ang before, so Su Yi'ang doesn't need to give him any further instructions.
"Tao Tao, the Golden Archer is too fragile, don't leave the tower, I'll bring a support in a bit—"
Before Su Yi'ang could finish speaking, the game's kill notification sound rang out.
[System Announcement: Maze has killed "Don't Catch Me!" and secured First Blood!!!]
"Jia Yue? You died right at the beginning?"
While Su Yi'ang was distracted, he was almost caught by the opponent. He hurriedly used Flash to escape, and even took the time to ask, "Where's your ultimate? I didn't see the buff."
The screen turns gray, and the character lies in his hometown.
A flush of embarrassment rose to her face, and Liao Jiayue pursed her lips tightly, "I didn't have time to hand it in."
[It's not Yueyue's fault, Maze played too aggressively.]
[First, a burst of damage hit, taking away almost half of Liao Jiayue's health. Then, she was controlled at close range, followed by another burst of damage, sending her straight back to base...]
Su Yi'ang was well aware of the big boss's strength. "It's alright, it's alright. I didn't take care of you. Just stay close to me when we're reviving."
Liao Jiayue said okay, and after the revival, she quickly went to find Su Yi'ang.
She followed Su Yi'ang forward, and along the way, she glanced at Ye Hantao, who was hiding under the tower and ignored by Su Yi'ang. She couldn't help but smile and slowly tapped the screen a few times.
Suddenly, a silver light flashed before my eyes!
[System Announcement: Maze killed me, don't catch me!]
The berserker's voice followed closely, cold and sarcastic, "You mere trash, you dare to charge in my face?"
Liao Jiayue: "..."
[The Berserker's shout after killing a character twice in a row was really sarcastic, hahaha.]
[Back in the day, Maze took down a bunch of scum, lol.]
[Maze usually kills the marksman and jungler first, but this is the first time I've seen him kill the support first!]
Family, I'm a little overwhelmed.
[...Maze returns after six years, still bound by bonds.]
[Bundling? Who's bundling whom?! Yueyue's latest Weibo post has been retweeted over a million times!]
[Haha, Maze got over 100 million likes when she retired, would your sister get that much attention if she retired?]
[Some people are shameless; they never show up early or late, but they showed up when Yueyue was invited to play games, and they even bought trending topics on social media. They're desperate for fame!]
Maze's fans: "???"
They switched out of the live stream and saw, wow, the number one trending topic was: #LiaoJiayueMaze#
"..."
Ugh! What bad luck!
The fans stormed over, hurling insults at everyone they met in the comments section.
In less than two minutes, the hashtag #LiaoJiayueMaze# was silently removed from the list.
Although Maze fans were too assertive and the team took timely action, Liao Jiayue's agent genuinely didn't want to buy any more trending topics.
after all--
Liao Jiayue has been killed yet again.
Even if Maze didn't get those two kills, it's still hard to keep the two of them being promoted as a couple.
Within the first ten minutes, their team lost fifteen kills, eight of which were all by Liao Jiayue alone.
Su Yi'ang sighed secretly. He could blame Maze for being too aggressive in the first few games, but in the later games, it was really due to his inattention and poor skills.
His reaction speed and operational awareness are not what one would expect from someone with a score of 3000.
But he never expected Jia Yue and Tao Tao to have any extraordinary skills.
If it weren't for Maze and his team, he and his teammates could have easily swept through the Rift with any random random team.
"Their marksman's perspective is gone, Peach, be careful."
"Holy crap?!"
McCree, whose starting teammate looked like he'd been bitten on the butt by a mouse, suddenly let out a shrill howl, "Mid laner, you kicked the jungler out!"
Middle lane?
Su Yi'ang was surprised. Wasn't Tao Tao in the mid lane?!
He rushed to the target point and helped Tao Tao and her starting teammates secure the kill on the enemy marksman.
"Tao Tao, how did you see where he was?"
Although this jungler is just a trainee, his skills are not bad, and at least he shouldn't have made mistakes that a layman like TaoTao could have noticed.
Under the cover of her teammates, Ye Hantao quickly returned to the tower to farm safely. "I didn't see it. My brother likes to kick the artificial hill when we play games, and I copied him."
Su Yi'ang: "???"
【？？？？】
Well, luckily, it was a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse.
[Maze used to love kicking too! And she always landed a perfect kick, hahaha.]
[I remember, haha, back then every time we played this map, a bunch of mid laners would imitate him kicking the artificial mountain. Later, the H country coach even implied that it was Maze's conspiracy.]
[Nonsense! This is clearly a calculated move! He's already surrounded and attacked the central route where the artificial hill was being kicked several times.]
So... why didn't he come to gang up on Ye Hantao today?
Audience: ...That's a good question.
[Having been away from competitive play for several years, Maze's skills must have become rusty.]
[System Announcement: Maze has killed Flash.]
Su Yi'ang: "I'm dead."
[System Announcement: Maze has killed SKY.]
McGee's starting teammate: "I'm dead too."
[System Announcement: Maze has activated Harvest Mode, Double Kill!]
The starting teammate hissed, "As long as Maze plays seriously, he can still beat us to a pulp."
In the remaining ten minutes or so, Su Yi'ang, his starting teammates, and Liao Jiayue on the team died and came back to life repeatedly.
Liao Jiayue, as a support player, set a record for having the most kills taken. In the second half of the game, she became so negative that she didn't want to leave her hometown. She couldn't even control her facial expressions in front of the camera.
"Maze did this on purpose!" Su Yi'ang was extremely frustrated after being ganged up on by three people. "They could have easily taken down the crystal, but they had to torture us!"
Wu Xia: "It's alright." He only died once.
Ye Hantao: "I have three divine pieces of equipment!"
As soon as Su Yi'ang came back to life, he saw the Golden Bow Guard with the ID "Taking a Bite of a Peach" leap into the air.
"TaoTao! The marksman is low on health!" His mind raced, and he immediately coordinated with his starting teammates to help TaoTao block the enemy's line of sight.
Ye Hantao set up her golden bow, found the right position, pressed the skill button with her fingertip, and decisively fired the first arrow.
The arrow, carrying a golden glint, struck the archer directly!
The moment the opposing marksman retaliated, Ye Hantao dodged with incredible movement and switched to rapid-fire mode.
Su Yi'ang's eyes lit up, "Beautiful!"
Ye Hantao's hands moved with lightning speed, controlling the Golden Bow Guard to fire two arrows simultaneously. In an instant, golden light shone brightly, covering the entire canyon.
The arrows, imbued with immense power, struck the archer, who was left with only a sliver of health, and the jungler, who was locked down by Su Yi'ang, with a series of thuds.
[System Announcement: Taking a bite of the peach killed Ying]
[System Announcement: Biting into a Peach Killed QiaoYa]
[System Announcement: Taking a bite of the peach activates harvest mode, Double kill!]
【！！！！！！】
[Is that much golden light enough to indicate five arrows were fired in quick succession?]
[Holy crap! Ye Hantao is a real hidden gem!!!]
Zhou Mingsheng finally waited until Tao Tao finished using the Golden Bow Guard's ultimate skill. A slight smile played on his lips as he typed in the team chat: "[Initiate a team fight, send them home.]"
Soon, all five members of the team, including Ye Hantao, were sent back to their hometown.
The match was lost.
"Coach, why did we wait until now to send them home?" a trainee asked the team, puzzled.
Zhou Mingsheng: [You guys are getting too cocky.]
Youth trainee: "..."
Two trainees, skewered like barbecue skewers by Ye Hantao, hugged each other in the training room, sniffing deeply.
The captain of the youth training team patted them on the shoulder, saying, "The big boss has put a lot of thought into this."
"Even if we could have ended the game sooner, dragging it out until now has made you realize how high the price is for slacking off during the game."
"We know." The trainee, whose feet were locked in the game, lowered his head and admitted his mistake. "I underestimated Pan Tao. I didn't expect her to be able to shoot five arrows."
If he had missed even one arrow, he wouldn't have been killed.
Five Arrows is the entry-level skill for professional players, but it is also a height that many ordinary players can only dream of.
Su Yi'ang jumped up from the floor excitedly, "Tao Tao, you're awesome!!! You just fired five arrows in a row!!!"
The Golden Archer is rarely chosen by players in competitive play. Firstly, he is a late-game powerhouse; without the right equipment, his damage output is insufficient. Secondly, he requires a high level of skill to play effectively.
For example, the current top mid-lane Swain in the Chinese server can fire ten arrows on PC, but only eight on mobile.
Ye Hantao flexed her fingers. "My brother can shoot ten arrows."
[Disease progression: 89.6%]
Is this considered a character design? Ye Hantao wondered, did the audience think she was trying to compete with her older brother?
[It's a shame Ye Hantao isn't a screenwriter; she's a master liar...]
[The crow only shoots eight arrows on the mobile app, and your brother shoots ten? Do you think your brother is Maze?]
[Ye Hantao's success just now was purely by chance; if she were given another chance, she definitely wouldn't be able to shoot five arrows.]
[Which sewer wasn't properly covered, allowing you to climb out?]
The audience: "???"
Upon closer inspection, this comment didn't have any golden light, so it's just one of Ye Hantao's dogs running around biting people again!
Those who say it was just a coincidence are probably just casual gamers, right? If you'd played even a few games, you wouldn't have said such idiotic things!
Ye Hantao's Golden Archer Guard didn't lose a single kill throughout the entire match; that's true talent!
No one expected that Ye Hantao would receive preferential treatment from esports viewers based on her skills in just one game.
Ye Hantao didn't quite understand the definition of "how many" in the archery circle. When she was learning archery from Jin Gongwei, her brother said that as long as you had hands, you could do it.
She could only emphasize, "My brother can really shoot 10 arrows."
Su Yi'ang laughed heartily, "Tao Tao, you're a brother complex, aren't you?"
In the entire world, among mid-laners, he dares to say there's only one player, Maze, who can shoot 10 arrows with a mobile phone.
If anyone else could shoot like that, they would have been famous in the Chinese server by now.
Liao Jiayue stared coldly at the number of kills on the screen, and the glorious scene of Ye Hantao getting a double kill flashed before her eyes again.
“Tao Tao, didn’t you want to call your brother to play a match with us?” she said gently. “I also want to see the Golden Bow Guard shoot 10 arrows.”
The person being mocked tonight must not be her, it must be Ye Hantao!
Ye Hantao: "I'll ask my brother."
Zhou Mingsheng, who had just left the team, was immediately tagged by Tao Tao in the family group chat: "[Bro, can you ditch the game and play a couple of rounds with us?]"
Zhou Mingsheng couldn't bear to disappoint his sister, but he also couldn't bring himself to use Tao Tao's identity to reveal his true strength to Su Yi'ang.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have needed to queue up at the exact time to gamble on running into Tao Tao and the others.
Since we're on the same map, I guess you could say we're just playing along?
[Supplier: The boss is coming to inspect; no slacking off tonight.]
"My boss is coming to inspect, so he can't slack off and play games with us anymore," Ye Hantao complained. "Capitalists are truly despicable!"
Liao Jiayue smiled sarcastically, "What a flimsy excuse."
[Is it that they can't slack off, or that they're too scared to come? Hahaha.]
[Wouldn't it be incredibly shameful to arrive and fail to shoot ten arrows?]
“Ming Sheng, look at this.” Ye Weizheng pointed at the comments, “You’ve made Tao Tao misunderstand as lying.”
Zhou Mingsheng remained expressionless. "Wouldn't it be more troublesome if I actually shot 10 arrows?"
Su Yi'ang is the type who won't let go of anything he sees. If you really get entangled with him, you'll run into trouble sooner or later.
"Then you should show some strength in front of Tao Tao."
"..."
Zhou Mingsheng couldn't explain to his parents that shooting 10 arrows was just his instinctive reaction.
Besides, when he shot 10 arrows at once, Tao Tao's eyes lit up as she praised her brother for being so amazing. Who could resist that?
The clock hand pointed to 10:30.
When his starting teammates left to play practice matches with the rest of the team, Su Yi'ang selected his players from the roster.
He said he had something to do and would be back in five minutes.
Ye Hantao glanced at the time and said, "I want to go back to my room and get a foot bath tub."
What kind of bucket?
"Foot bath tub." Ye Hantao stood up from the bed. "I don't sleep very well, so I'm used to soaking my feet before bed."
Su Yi'ang chuckled, "Wu Xia, hurry up and bring out your foot bath tub too, stop hiding in the bathroom soaking your feet!"
Wu Xia silently picked up his thermos and drank several large gulps of goji berry water.
"Wu Xia, you soak your feet tonight too?" Ye Hantao asked happily. "We can do it together!"
Wu Xia: "..."
He really planned to secretly soak his feet in the bathroom before going to bed, because he felt embarrassed to do it in the live broadcast room.
Ye Hantao had already run out of the house, her voice drifting down the corridor with the sound of rain, "I'll be back soon."
Suddenly, Su Yi'ang noticed two beams of light shining through the rain. He knelt on the bed and peered out the window.
"Wu Xia, Jia Yue, come quick!" Su Yi'ang waved. "It looks like a car is coming in."
Liao Jiayue paused in her act of getting up.
Who would come in the middle of the night? In the story, Chen Xiaofeng didn't arrive until the next morning.
When Ye Hantao returned to the room, she bumped into Jin Shiyue doing bedtime yoga. "Sister Shiyue, I came back to get the foot bath tub."
"You're going to soak your feet in Su Yi'ang's room?" Jin Shiyue asked incredulously. "Did he turn off the live stream?"
Ye Hantao walked out of the bathroom carrying a folding bucket, with a foot bath medicine packet prepared by her great-aunt in her pocket. "It's not closed. I want to play games while soaking my feet."
Jin Shiyue watched Ye Hantao's figure disappear through the door with a strange expression, and after a long while, she withdrew her gaze.
"What an ignorant amateur," Jin Shiyue muttered under her breath. "Isn't she afraid of being ridiculed for being inelegant?"
The corridor was dimly lit, unaffected by the fierce wind and rain outside.
Ye Hantao hummed a song as she went downstairs, and jumped down as she stepped on the last step.
Ding!
Suddenly, the view turned dark, and the night enveloped us like a tidal wave.
Ye Hantao's heart clenched suddenly, and she even stopped breathing for a beat.
"Thump, thump!"
She stomped her feet heavily on the floor twice.
It was still completely dark around us, and the lights in the corridor weren't motion-activated.
Ye Hantao secretly adjusted her breathing, holding the folding bucket in one hand and the stair railing with the other, and walked around the corner.
"Jiayue! Angang! Wuxia?!"
"Aa ...
It was Ang Ang's cry! Why was he shouting in such terror?!
Ye Hantao was already terrible with directions and couldn't remember the way, and now that she was completely in the dark, she was even more lost.
I wanted to use my phone to turn on the flashlight, but my pockets were empty. Then I remembered that I had left my phone in Ang'ang and Wu Xia's bedroom.
Just then, a series of footsteps, neither too light nor too heavy, approached from afar.
"..."
The supernatural stories I had read in the past rushed into my mind.
For a moment, Ye Hantao couldn't help but wonder if it was footsteps, or the sound of someone falling and hitting the ground with their head...
Aa ...
Stop using your brain! Stop using your brain!!!
A silver lightning bolt pierced the sky, suddenly revealing a dark shadow.
"Ah—! Mom—Mom—!!!"
Ye Hantao swung the folding bucket at the dark figure with her backhand, then turned and ran upstairs without even checking the direction.
In her panic, she tripped on the edge of the step with her right foot and stumbled, losing her balance and falling forward.
Just when Ye Hantao thought she was going to fall down the stairs, a warm force suddenly wrapped around her waist and supported her steadily.
Ye Hantao subconsciously closed her eyes, focusing all her senses on the embrace she was being pulled into, filled with the crisp scent of rain.
A man's voice came from above, "Did I scare you?"
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Author's Note: Brother: The one who should get the kills is right here! [Angry]