My Sister Never Said She Was a Creepy Tale - Chapter 77

The Head Chef’s expression became solemn. Yue Yiyue stood there, looking down at the beautiful strawberries.

Someone nearby was already paralyzed with fear.

Except for Yue Yiyue, who didn’t understand the meaning of “betrayal,” everyone else in the room looked especially grave.

“…Ah, this is truly a job for the insane,” someone in the corner muttered under their breath: “Quick, lock the door, before they come.”

It looked like simply taking the items out wouldn’t solve the problem.

“Will we die?” Yue Yiyue looked at the surrounding people, who all seemed utterly disheartened: “If so, think about how to destroy these strawberries or move them before they are discovered.”

Her brain raced, offering two immediate solutions: “It looks like simply discarding the items will also be considered betrayal.”

The people in the room did not speak.

“They just want an excuse to kill us,” one of them threw the piping bag aside and slumped onto the floor: “I said I’d rather die outside than come here, but if I didn’t come, they were going to drag my little sister here.”

At the end of the sentence, large drops of tears fell, making the atmosphere in the room even heavier.

“It’s not that time yet,” Yue Yiyue said aloud, breaking the somewhat heavy silence.

“What do you know?” one person said angrily: “You don’t know what happened, standing here talking so lightly.”

“We are the ones about to die now!”

Yue Yiyue ignored them: “Are there a lot of strawberries here?”

“Throw all the strawberries away, or let me drag them out and dump them.”

After a long pause, the Head Chef shook her head: “But then they will catch you.”

“Betrayal will lead to being captured and immediately executed by the people here.” The Head Chef explained to Yue Yiyue as calmly as possible: “We are employees here, and the rules are different for us than for you.”

“Then that makes things easier.” Yue Yiyue’s mind worked quickly, and she soon found a loophole in the rules explained by the other party. She shrugged: “That means the rule limits you from being executed if strawberries appear, but for me, the rule is just to discard the item.”

In any case, I have Curator Qiu backing me.

I’ll just say she brought them in.

Hmm, Yue Yiyue thought, she should still give Gu Nanqiu a heads-up that she was about to cause her a bit of trouble.

More accurately, for Curator Qiu.

Just to prepare her mentally.

“Hey, can Gu Nanqiu hear what’s going on here?” Yue Yiyue tapped the earpiece. A crisp ‘ding-dong’ confirmed the connection.

A static sound came from the headset, and soon Gu Nanqiu’s voice sounded through the mic.

After only a few hours of separation, Yue Yiyue inexplicably missed that voice, but now was not the time for nostalgia. She said seriously: “Nanqiu, I’m about to cause a not-too-significant amount of trouble.”

Yue Yiyue looked around. They were all looking at Yue Yiyue curiously, thinking she was calling someone important and powerful.

She felt awkward admitting she just wanted to ensure a certain person would match her story if someone came looking for trouble.

Yue Yiyue turned her back: “It’s about the… thing we came to attend…”

After explaining the original rule, Yue Yiyue emphasized: “If they come to catch me later, I will quickly say that I deliberately framed Curator Qiu.”

“Then I’ll beat them up and run.”

Gu Nanqiu’s light chuckle came through the earpiece. For a moment, Yue Yiyue felt a tingling sensation near her ear, as if a small current had gently shocked her.

“Go ahead and do whatever you want. We will help you. This is a perfect opportunity for you to use this to get them to leave their original positions,” Gu Nanqiu’s encouraging voice made Yue Yiyue realize that her trouble was not particularly serious for them.

“Besides, Yiyue is doing a good deed. You’re about to save an entire room full of chefs. I’m truly proud of you.”

After being praised by Gu Nanqiu a few more times, Yue Yiyue’s face was slightly flushed, but her eyes became more determined.

“Load the strawberries. I’ll give it a try.” After negotiating with Gu Nanqiu, Yue Yiyue organized everyone to start working in an orderly fashion.

At the same time, a bold idea popped into her head.

The people in the kitchen busied themselves. Those who needed to continue cooking did so, leaving a few meticulous people to clean the strawberries.

Yue Yiyue’s peripheral vision scanned the entire kitchen. A person in the corner was acting suspiciously, holding something in their arms, ready to slip out.

Yue Yiyue walked over and pulled the person back: “Do we have rope? Tie him up and keep an eye on him.”

“Continue with your work. If anyone exposes this, you will all die.”

The people in the kitchen grew even quieter.

Pushing the cart outside, Yue Yiyue found the guard closest to the room where the sculpture was hidden.

The guard was standing diligently in place, like a brave knight.

It wasn’t until Yue Yiyue stood in front of her that she raised an eyebrow, looking at the somewhat disheveled little pitiable figure.

Yue Yiyue cleared her throat: “Are you supposed to be catching someone named Yue Yiyue tonight?”

After speaking, she nervously glanced behind her, then showed the card in her hand to the guard: “I ran into her when I was coming over. She threw a big bag inside and ran away.”

“I was afraid there was something in it that was hostile to our great CEO Mu, so I forced myself to endure my fear and pushed the stuff over here.”

As she spoke, she pointed to the trolley in her hand: “She ran that way, toward the main hall, I think. I heard she might be trying to steal something…”

Hearing this, the guard’s expression changed. She lifted the cover on the trolley, and bright red strawberries rolled out with her movement, finally falling at her feet.

“Sure enough, that Yue Yiyue heard the keyword ‘strawberry.'” She swore under her breath and spoke a few words into her walkie-talkie.

“Which way did you say she ran?” The guard re-confirmed that the badge in Yue Yiyue’s hand meant this person had seen Yue Yiyue’s photo.

She took out her phone again to verify Yue Yiyue’s identity.

A lowly handyman.

Heh. If she provided the information to someone else, she might get a chance for a promotion.

But unfortunately, she happened to know a very suitable place to hold people.

“You’re not particularly safe here by yourself. Come, follow me. Don’t let that Yue Yiyue catch you and kill you without you knowing.” The guard pointed to a nearby door: “She’s a cold-blooded killer. You just saw what she looks like; she might turn back and kill you in a moment.”

With that, the guard opened the nearby door: “Go inside. This place is absolutely safe. I’ll come back for you shortly.”

Yue Yiyue looked at the room filled with sculptures…

Wow, that was easy.

The room was somewhat cold. Yue Yiyue had expected to fight some monsters or have to endure some pursuit.

But it seemed Curator Qiu had set up a very detailed scheme.

At least in this scheme, she had been placed in a very safe position before this.

Even if something unexpected happened now, Yue Yiyue would only think it was her own problem.

Honestly, in the scattered memories that occasionally flashed in her mind, she was always the one being placed in jeopardy, but most of the time it was because of her own actions… Hmm…

Don’t ask where the jeopardy came from. Self-infliction is also a skill.

Yue Yiyue stayed put and didn’t immediately rush into finding the sculpture.

There were still forty-five minutes until the auction ended. She had to be careful, in case there was some trap hidden here.

Confirming that a nearby platform was solid and didn’t contain anything strange, Yue Yiyue stepped onto it.

She saw the full layout of the room.

The room was about two hundred square meters, quite large, with many sculptures erected inside, just like the photo posted on Baidu Baike.

The surroundings were exceptionally clean. Yue Yiyue didn’t doubt that Mu Hongcai had just moved these sculptures in a few days ago.

Roughly scanning the room, Yue Yiyue didn’t see the unique sculpture. Like the one in the photo, the eyes of all the sculptures were incomplete.

A sense of inexplicable unease permeated Yue Yiyue’s heart. This place felt like a meticulously arranged trap just for her.

Yue Yiyue was now well-acquainted with the watch and knew that it could store some tools, though most of them were remnants from before.

She tried, but she could only put items that were originally inside the watch back in.

Tapping the watch interface, she selected a small bouncy ball and threw it into the room.

No reaction.

Yue Yiyue switched to a slightly larger basketball, rolling it carefully so as not to knock over the sculptures.

A buzzing sound echoed in the room, and the basketball on the floor was split in half.

Yue Yiyue looked up and saw a computer-headed figure standing there, looking down at the basketball on the floor.

Then, It turned its head and stared at Yue Yiyue, who was half-crouching by the door.

…So, there’s a monster locked in here.

Yue Yiyue slid across the floor, knocking the computer head down. A slight collision sound echoed in the room—the sound of Yue Yiyue smashing the monitor.

Seeing the blue screen constantly flashing “Error,” Yue Yiyue looked down at her vibrating phone. It was a new message from Yu An.

“The monster aura around you is very strong. It seems to be my former boss. Be careful. It’s a fun-seeker. If things get too bad, just give up and run.”

“Nothing is more important than your life.”

“I don’t want to perish here along with A City, thanks.”

As the three text messages flashed by, Yue Yiyue hadn’t fully grasped the situation when she heard a sharp, slightly piercing noise coming from not far away.

The lights in the room quickly shut off. Eight spotlights frantically spun around the room, nearly flashing into Yue Yiyue’s eyes several times, forcing her to put on a pair of sunglasses.

“Wow, look, your gear is quite complete—” The spotlight finally settled on the center of the room, where a person with a bun hairstyle sat, wearing a green-faced mask with tusks.

A large hoodie obscured her figure. She wore ripped jeans and gave Yue Yiyue a sense of danger despite her seemingly young age.

“Don’t worry too much. At least right now, I don’t want you to die that fast.”

“I want to play a game with you.” The young, clear voice rang out: “If I have fun, then I’ll just discard Mu Hongcai.”

“After all, her ambition is nothing special.” She said this as simply as changing a toy, with a kind of innocent cruelty.

“Unlike you.” Beneath the green-faced mask, the youth flashed a somewhat maniacal smile: “You have the audacity to try to possess a God.”

“How utterly fascinating—”

“I want to take you apart little by little and see what kind of pleasing things are inside your head, you small human—”