Chapter 274
Chapter 274
Nothing decent ever came out of Zhang Bei’s mouth.
One short remark was enough to fill Heizi with rage.
Still, Boss Zhang never made accusations without some basis.
Heizi had a black eye, and several bloody scratches from fingernails marked his face.
The only explanation Zhang Bei could think of was a failed attempt to force himself on someone.
Heizi took a deep breath. “It’s complicated, but yes, a woman did this.”
“Let’s hear it.”
“Absolutely not!”
Heizi knew Boss Zhang’s true nature all too well. There were some things this bastard must never find out.
Zhang Bei fell silent for a moment. “Are you going to tell me or not?”
His dangerous gaze traveled over Heizi, promising dire consequences.
Heizi shuddered under that look.
“I’ll tell you!”
“Get on with it!”
“I went home yesterday. A friend of my dad’s came over with his daughter.”
“A blind date?”
Heizi shook his head. “No. She already has a kid.”
“I’m guessing she was very pretty.”
Heizi’s eyes went wide. “How did you know?”
“What else would make you get ideas?”
“I didn’t!”
“Really?”
Faced with Zhang Bei’s deeply suspicious look, Heizi gave a bitter laugh.
“We really did just chat. When they were leaving, I gave her kid a stuffed toy.”
“What kind?”
“And that’s the problem. I gave the kid an alpaca.”
Silence hung in the air for a moment. Then Zhang Bei burst out laughing.
“Hahahaha! Sorry, I couldn’t help it! Hahahaha!”
Heizi sighed. “I really did just grab one at random!”
Zhang Bei laughed without restraint for a full two minutes before turning his attention to the young woman beside Heizi.
“New girlfriend?”
Heizi’s face darkened. “What are you talking about? I haven’t even had that many girlfriends!”
He glossed over the important part, doing his best to steer the conversation away from that subject.
He had bought that bottle of Moutai, but it had come with a major headache.
He Luxue still had no idea that Heizi had no romantic interest in her whatsoever.
But he had no way to explain a thing like that. All he could do was put it off for another day.
Zhang Bei gave Heizi a thoroughly skeptical look, then returned his attention to the surveillance feeds.
The smile tugging at his lips, however, betrayed his mood.
Heizi glanced at the two little ones by the sea and walked over with He Luxue.
If he stayed around this bastard much longer, he was afraid he might do something he would regret for the rest of his life.
After several hours of struggle, the adventure in Zootopia was drawing to a close.
The remaining seventeen people were approaching the exit.
But Zhang Bei had placed only three Pass Cards inside.
Who would make it out?
That would depend on who was the most ruthless!
A mechanical gate stood at the exit, with a slot just large enough to hold a card.
Here, the seventeen visitors had split into five teams, each keeping a wary eye on the others.
Boss Zhang understood human nature all too well.
Knowing exactly how his visitors thought, he had even installed a large iron cage beside the exit.
Inside was an extraordinarily powerful saber-toothed tiger.
Above it was a countdown timer.
Clearly, once the countdown ended, the ravenous tiger would show these people no mercy.
The two teams without Pass Cards gathered around the cage.
“I’m not getting out anyway. I might as well let this thing loose so we can all die together!”
“Don’t! We can talk this over!”
Li Yang had gone rather pale. After the past few hours, practically everyone had exhausted their strength.
They were so close to clearing the attraction. The last thing they needed now was more trouble.
“We’ve got three spaces left.”
“We’ve got two.”
“We’ve got three as well.”
Eight spaces in total, but ten people stood around the cage.
The tension was stifling. One wrong move could end in tragedy.
But Boss Zhang never let his visitors get comfortable.
A scene like this naturally needed a little outside pressure to move things along.
So Zhang Bei tapped casually on his tablet a few times.
The entire jungle changed at once.
Wolf howls rang out all around them, accompanied by faint rustling in the bushes.
The teams with Pass Cards immediately grew frantic.
“Fuck, hurry up! Decide who’s coming with us!”
“Exactly! Keep waiting and we’ll all get wiped out!”
But faced with such a choice, who would willingly accept being left behind?
Chuunibyou was an exception. People willing to sacrifice themselves for others were few and far between.
“No way! I’ve been scouting the whole time. Whatever else happens, I deserve to get out!”
“Fuck that! I found all the fruit! Why shouldn’t I get out?”
Boss Zhang’s scheme was plain for everyone to see, yet the group began to fall apart all the same.
The argument grew fiercer and more heated by the second.
Li Yang’s brow twitched furiously as his unease grew stronger.
He shot You Bai a meaningful look.
They had worked together for so long, all that time under Boss Zhang.
You Bai understood almost instantly.
The two quietly peeled away from the group and approached the mechanical gate.
Li Yang carefully slipped the card into the slot.
He was terrified of drawing everyone’s attention.
But how could anything designed by Boss Zhang let people clear it so easily?
The mechanical gate gave a loud click.
An emotionless voice rang out.
“Pass Card detected. The gate will open in ten seconds.”
Li Yang clenched his teeth and turned around.
More than a dozen pairs of resentful eyes stared back at him.
“Uh, I was just testing it!”
As the king of troublemakers, Li Yang had never let Zhang Bei down.
“Fuck! If you won’t let us get out of this, nobody’s getting out alive!”
Everyone’s expression changed at the hot-tempered man’s shout.
Without the slightest hesitation, he removed the large lock hanging on the cage.
The ravenous saber-toothed tiger let out a long roar and leaped out.
Confronted with this creature from prehistory, everyone had no choice but to run for their lives.
But by then, it was already too late to escape.
White wolves packed the surrounding area, cutting them off completely. Only one route to survival remained.
The mechanical gate!
If they could get through it, at least they could stay alive!
But there were only five places.
And two of those were already taken by Li Yang and You Bai, waiting right beside the gate.
As for inserting another Pass Card?
They would have to ask the saber-toothed tiger whether it would allow that!
At that moment, a feral gleam lit up everyone’s eyes.
They looked every bit as dangerous as the tiger eyeing its prey.
The ten seconds passed in what felt like the blink of an eye.
Li Yang and You Bai went through first. Three places remained on that Pass Card!
A girl around five foot three used her small, slender frame to squeeze ahead of everyone else.
Places remaining: two!
In the face of mortal danger, human nature was laid bare.
A teenage boy rushed toward the gate. He was just about to make it through.
Then, without warning, a hand caught his trousers, cutting off his only chance of survival.