Chapter 200: The Nine-Tailed Fox’s Little Dan Spirit Is Super Good at Compliments (4)

Chapter 200: The Nine-Tailed Fox's Little Dan Spirit Is Super Good at Compliments (4)

Hu Jiutian leisurely glanced at Song Chuyi, neither agreeing with his words nor refuting them.

The newly born Dan Spirit always had beautiful fantasies about this world.

Perhaps because the young man had taken human form right after his birth, he faced less malice from humans.

Hu Jiutian thought to himself, his claws idly playing with the small ball he had taken out from the rental apartment.

Seeing that Hu Jiutian was having fun, Song Chuyi didn’t disturb him.

He planned to set up the haunted escape room.

Since he intended to make money, it had to be different from other haunted escape rooms.

Song Chuyi had already figured out the layout. He used his spiritual energy to arrange the scattered props.

The once-dusty room quickly became clean and tidy.

Hu Jiutian lay in the middle, playing with the small ball using his front paws, his tail resting on the ground. For a moment, he found this place better than the rental apartment.

After organizing the twenty-square-meter escape room, Song Chuyi floated to Hu Jiutian’s side and squatted down.

“Now, let me explain the story background of our haunted escape room.”

Hu Jiutian’s claws playing with the small ball paused.

“Story background?”

“Yes!” Song Chuyi declared confidently, “It’s not enough to just scare them. We need to make them have the desire to explore.”

Hu Jiutian looked at him, “What do you plan to do?”

Song Chuyi grinned and leaned in to whisper in his ear.

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The night gradually deepened, but the Infinite Amusement Park was still brightly lit.

Humans who had worked for a day liked to seek some excitement at night, and the escape rooms in this amusement park were a great destination.

Perhaps because of the resurgence of spiritual energy, humans now had less need for sleep.

As long as they had three hours of sleep per day, they had ample energy.

The stronger the human, the more energetic they were. Places like the Infinite Amusement Park were ideal for humans to burn off excess energy.

Fear, despair, or excitement—these intense emotions that stirred human reactions became what humans sought after.

The Infinite Amusement Park was bustling. Some people were lining up in front of popular escape rooms as usual.

There were also those who didn’t want to line up and specifically chose newly opened escape rooms to play in.

Xu Qing was one of those who didn’t want to line up.

He searched for newly opened escape rooms in the Infinite Amusement Park. Even though this behavior seemed foolish.

After all, a newly opened escape room often meant the owner was a newbie, and newbies often lacked a thorough understanding of escape rooms, particularly haunted ones.

It often fails to excite or scare people.

Of course, there are exceptions, so there is a group of people who like new escape rooms.

Some people jokingly call those who specifically pick new escape rooms to play "panning for gold in the mud."

Xu Qing was now one of those people trying to pan for gold in the mud.

He searched and searched, and finally found a new haunted escape room in the corner.

Xu Qing glanced at the ticket: 100 yuan per person.

Not pricey, but certainly not a bargain for a new escape room.

Xu Qing lightly clicked his tongue, paid the money, and walked in.

He expected the haunted escape room to be dark, but instead, he was greeted by warm lighting.

The room was spotless, more like a puzzle room than a haunted one.

A flicker of doubt crossed Xu Qing's mind. Was the label wrong?

No, that kind of mistake hardly ever happens.

Xu Qing moved forward as the door behind him quietly shut.

He reached the table in the middle, on which there was a diary.

He picked it up and opened it.

"February 2: I fell in love with someone."

"February 3: He is really handsome."

"February 4: He is avoiding me."

Xu Qing continued to flip through.

"February 15: He died."

"February 16: I am going to marry him."

Reading this, Xu Qing’s heart skipped a beat.

The warm lights overhead contrasted sharply with the sudden chill he felt.

Something light brushed against his hand.

Xu Qing felt his hair stand on end, only then realizing that there was a red wedding invitation next to the diary.

The red "double happiness" symbol seemed unnervingly bright.

A deep, inexplicable fear welled up inside him.

Dizzy, he snapped back to reality, realizing he had just spent a thousand yuan to flee the room.

The cold night wind blew, and when he looked down, he saw that he was tightly gripping the red wedding invitation.

Xu Qing's pupils shrank, letting out a sharp scream.

"Ah!"

Inside the secret room, Song Chuyi rubbed his chin and said to Hu Jiutian, who was crouching in the corner, "This guy's got some serious nerves of jelly."

Hu Jiutian: ...

Who wouldn't be freaked out being invited to a dead person's wedding?

"But he's really rich," Song Chuyi said with a smile.

"He actually spent a thousand bucks to leave directly from here."

After all, the Infinite Amusement Park is a business, so they offer an easy way out without solving the puzzle room. The method is very simple and crude—just pay, usually double the ticket price.

But Song Chuyi jacked up the price to ten times the ticket cost.

He figured people with revived spiritual energy would be braver, so he set a price that almost no one would be willing to pay to leave directly.

Turns out, the very first customer today just forked over the cash and left.

Song Chuyi was extremely happy, "Now we have eleven hundred bucks, oh."

Hu Jiutian toyed with the small ball and gave a noncommittal "Hmm."

He felt a little regretful in his heart.

That human's nerves were indeed small, which meant he didn't get a chance to be of use.

That eleven hundred bucks... I doubt he'll see any of it.

Song Chuyi floated over to Hu Jiutian's side and grinned.

"Since we've got some cash now, haven't you eaten dinner yet?"

"How about we grab some dinner first, then head back to crash?"

Hu Jiutian looked up, surprised, "Dinner?"

"Together?"

"Of course!" Song Chuyi said confidently, "This money is half yours."

Hu Jiutian's expression became complicated, "I didn't do anything."

He didn't get a chance to be of service.

"You kept me company," Song Chuyi said with a smile, "That's enough."

"And that person had such small nerves, it's his fault for not holding on until you appeared."

"It's on him."

Hu Jiutian was slightly stunned.

Blame the tourist? Especially since that tourist was just a regular human.

This subtly overturned Hu Jiutian's understanding.

"He is a human." Hu Jiutian spoke slowly, "He hasn't done anything wrong."

"He is a human, so what?" Song Chuyi retorted, "He was such a coward that he couldn’t even wait for my beautiful Tiantian to show up. Can't I blame him for that?"

"What kind of logic is that?"

"It's his fault!"

Hu Jiutian felt something was off.

The young man defending him seemed somewhat unreasonable.

But... he kind of liked it.