Chapter 301: Chapter 301: Beating the Grass to Startle the Snake_1
"Chase!"
Qin Feng shouted, then followed by jumping out of the window.
Yu Keqing was dumbfounded. She was holding a candle and called out to Qin Feng, "What should I do?"
"Jump down!"
"But this is the third floor, what if I fall to my death?"
"Don’t you trust me? I’ll catch you."
"Trust you, my big fat head!" Yu Keqing cursed, but her body was honest as she leaped down without hesitation.
As Yu Keqing was about to reach the second floor, Qin Feng jumped up with a mighty leap and caught her in a princess hold.
Then, while spinning several times in the air, they finally landed steadily on the ground.
The feeling was too romantic, too wonderful.
Yu Keqing closed her eyes, savoring the moment.
However, Qin Feng set her down on the ground abruptly and said, "Wake up, stop dreaming. The Headless Dead Spirit has gotten far away. We have to catch up quickly."
Once out of the villa area, the two followed a path into the mountains behind it.
Seeing Qin Feng walking and sniffing like a small dog along the way, and even at times squatting down to smell the scent of the wild grasses by the roadside, Yu Keqing couldn’t help but tease, "Were you born in the year of the dog?"
Qin Feng: ...
He couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to this woman, as ahead of them appeared a mansion.
The mansion looked gloomy and sinister, its walls overgrown with vines, and even the lintels were crowded with moss. Between the cracks of the stone slabs at the entrance, wild grasses had sprouted.
The appearance of the mansion suggested it was abandoned, yet a lamp was lit inside.
"Do you know this mansion?" Qin Feng asked Yu Keqing.
Yu Keqing recalled for a moment and said, "I’ve heard about this place. Ten years ago, a company from Sakura Country came here and built a resort. Then there was a fatal incident and it stopped operating, leaving the place unused."
"A fatal incident? Do you know which company from Sakura Country it was?" Qin Feng asked.
"I think it was called Yoshida Company."
"Yoshida Company? Are you talking about the same Yoshida Company as Yoshida Hospital?"
"I’m not too clear on the specifics, but the name should be the same."
Carefully pushing open the door, Qin Feng led Yu Keqing inside.
"Did that Headless Dead Spirit run in here?" asked Yu Keqing curiously.
"Look," Qin Feng pointed at the large pine tree ahead of them.
On the tree hung several white bags, puffed up roundly, as though something spherical was stuffed inside.
Yu Keqing showed a face full of curiosity and asked, pointing at the white bags, "What’s that?"
"Why not take one down and see?"
With that, Qin Feng reached out and plucked one down. Instead of opening it himself, he handed it to Yu Keqing.
Yu Keqing, completely unguarded, accepted it and then opened it just as carelessly.
"Ahh... ah ah..."
Yu Keqing screamed at the top of her lungs. Her face turned ashen, her hands trembled violently, and she dropped the white bag to the ground.
"It’s just a skull, is it really something to be so frightened about?" Qin Feng said cheerfully.
"You... you bastard! Did you know all along? Did you deliberately scare me?" Enraged, Yu Keqing grabbed Qin Feng and pummeled him wildly.
"That Wizard must be hiding in this mansion, so I just wanted you to yell, to startle the snake and see if we could flush him out," he explained.
"You... you jerk!"
Fuming, Yu Keqing pinched Qin Feng’s arm fiercely, and it wasn’t until Qin Feng grimaced in pain, howling for mercy, that she let up.
"If you dare to tease me again, see if I don’t twist you to death?"
"First, there has to be an ’afterward’!"
"You... you dare to flirt with me? To take advantage of me? Would you believe it if I recorded your sleazy words and played them to your wife?"
"I don’t believe it."
Yu Keqing: ...
The light in the house remained on, but the Wizard that Qin Feng mentioned did not appear.
Yu Keqing gave him a white look and said, "Looks like your plan to startle the snake didn’t work, huh?"
"You yelled so loud and he didn’t come out, it only means that the Wizard has prepared a welcome gift for us inside the house. Why don’t we go in and check it out?"
"What kind of welcome gift?"
"The kind that wants my life, wants your body."
"Then let’s go check it out! You’re not scared for your life, why should I be scared for my body?"
"Aren’t you afraid that the Wizard will... you know, do something to you?"
"As long as you’re not dead, you’ll definitely protect me. If you die, there’s no meaning for me to live anyway. Worst case, I’ll just bite my tongue and commit suicide!"
Yu Keqing’s words shocked Qin Feng. Could this woman have fallen for him? But he was a married man!
To defuse the awkward atmosphere, Qin Feng quickly joked, "You’ll commit suicide by biting your tongue? Even then, you’d be a beautiful corpse! It’s still possible to... you know!"
"You... how disgusting can you be! If I die and am still... you know what happens next, as a ghost, I will not let you go. I... I’ll scratch you to death!"
Just the thought of being touched by someone else, even after death, made Yu Keqing’s skin crawl with discomfort, disgust, and nausea.
