Chapter 58 (1/2)

“Filming?”

“Yes, filming.” Wang Shuishui said, “We intend to film a series of short videos similar to True Accounts of Haunted Houses and the like, except that the victims aren’t aware that they are in the haunted house. Once it’s successful, it’ll go viral for sure.”

In the age of the Internet, one could film whatever they wanted. Even pouring a bottle of alcohol over one’s head could lead to an entire series of videos.

In comparison, what Wang Shuishui and the rest of the group wanted to do could be considered a huge investment and a big project.

“So all of you aren’t college students either?” asked Tang Luo.

“We are! Or once were… I’m a Li Hua University graduate. Some of the others are existing students,” replied Wang Shuishui.

“Oh.” Tang Luo nodded.

‘Kid, Papa is so disappointed in all of you.’

Why wasn’t there any of those proper adventurers out to dig their own grave?

As for these people, if they weren’t networking, then they were filming videos.

Couldn’t they just seriously dig their own graves for once?

Were they looking for an opportunity to go abroad?

After all, there was a reason why there weren’t a lot of people outside the country.

“Sorry about that.” Wang Shuishui apologized.

“In this case, all of you can actually be considered scammers, right?”

She heard Master Xuanzang ask.

Upon raising her head, she saw him rubbing his chin with one hand. His eyes were mildly shining.

It made chills run down her spine a little.

‘If they are considered scammers, would it be also considered an act of merit if I give them a thrashing and then turn them over to the police?’ Tang Luo discovered a new perspective and a new way of thinking. ‘After all, they are harboring ill intentions of scaring people and even filming them. If they run into someone with a heart condition, isn’t the victim going to die from pure fright? Thinking of it this way, wouldn’t this be considered murder and a crime then!?’

Rounding up the numbers made it a hundred million[1] after all.

‘Alright, that should work.’ He felt like he could punish evil and advocate good now.

Tang Luo sighed in admiration at his own resourcefulness.

If he hadn’t thought of this, wouldn’t he have missed out on a hundred million tonight?

“Err… Master Xuanzang, we’ll pay you for sure,” said Wang Shuishui upon sensing a dangerous aura radiating from the man before her. “Also, if we succeed, you’ll definitely be famous.”

Tang Luo gave a small laugh. “I don’t lack money. I only want to beat up all of you and then turn all of you over to the police.”

‘Sorry, but I’m a good man who punishes evil and advocates good.’

“Hey, you don’t have to do that, right?” Wang Shuishui’s smile was crumbling.

“Don’t worry, female benefactor. It won’t hurt that much,” replied Tang Luo. “If all of you repent, you can even skip this whole process. But according to my many years of experience, 99% of the time, the possibility of people repenting sincerely only comes after they’ve been given a thorough beating.”

Beat them up first and reason with them later—this was Master Xuanzang’s conclusion from his many years of experience.

Wang Shuishui’s smile looked even more awful now.

Right at that point, the crackle of noise came from the intercom in her hand.

Her companions in hiding had finally responded. “Big Sister Shuishui, something feels a little off—”

The voice stopped abruptly. A burst of sharp and piercing noise later, the transmission was cut off.

Wang Shuishui’s expression changed drastically. Unable to spare any more attention on Tang Luo, she pressed on the intercom button and called out, “Hey! Hey! What do you mean? Where are you guys?”

No response came from the other side after she let go of the button.

Wang Shuishui adjusted and troubleshot it a little. After verifying that her intercom was working just fine, she repeated her questions.

However, she still didn’t get any response.

After shoving the flashlight and the camera into an outer pocket of her backpack, Wang Shuishui took out her cell phone. She even dropped it in her panic.

Fortunately, the cell phone wasn’t damaged by the drop. She made a call.

In the silence of the night, one could hear the long ‘trrr… trrr… trrr’ of the ringing tone from the other end of the line.

There wasn’t any horrible customized ringing tone.

“C’mon, pick up.” Wang Shuishui had an awful look on her face.

Unfortunately, even until the call was automatically disconnected, no one picked up.

Wang Shuishui dialed another person’s number. Just like before, no one picked up.

There was only a voice going, “Sorry…”

“Don’t bother anymore. Where are they?” Tang Luo stepped up to Wang Shuishui.

She lifted her head, her eyes turning red. “They are upstairs.”

“Alright.”

Without another word, Tang Luo turned and walked off.

“Wait, where are you going?”

Wang Shuishui hurried after him.

“To save people.”

For a moment there, Tang Luo looked incredibly tall, big, and imposing. He was going to save this group of people first, then give them a thrashing, and turn them over to the police.

Double power of virtuous merits, double happiness!

The moment Tang Luo sped up, how could Wang Shuishui possibly keep up? She practically watched in vain as Xuanzang, the disciple of Buddha, ran up the stairs to the third floor.

“Slow down!”

Tang Luo slowed down a little when he heard Wang Shuishui shouting from the second floor’s stairway.

He mustn’t be lured away from his base by the enemy.

The renovation works on the third floor were more complete than the second floor’s.

Underneath his feet were wooden planks.

Tang Luo noticed someone lying on the floor in the passageway.

When he shone the flashlight on the person, he could see that she was covered in blood. Her head was turned to face the other side, and her black hair completely covered her face. He couldn’t see what she looked like at all.

However, her figure was curvy in all the right places and completely trashed Wang Shuishui’s. The most important thing here was that there was also a blurry white shadow on the window at the end of the passageway.

It looked extremely similar to the one they saw on the second floor.

Whoosh!

Wang Shuishui, who had just run up to the third floor, almost fell back down. “That was—”

“All these tricks that they play.”

Tang Luo picked up the rock next to his feet and flung it right at the window. The window broke, and the shadow disappeared.

“We didn’t set up anything here!” screamed Wang Shuishui.

Tang Luo didn’t bother with her. He walked over to the person lying on the floor, knelt down, and reached toward her chest.

“What are you doing?”

Wang Shuishui, who had followed him, grabbed his arm.

“Checking if she’s dead and where her wound is. If she’s still alive, I can bless her and save her life,” replied Tang Luo.

“Won’t it do to just check if she’s breathing?” asked Wang Shuishui asked.

Didn’t normal people check a person’s breathing if they wanted to verify if they were dead or alive?