Chapter 238: Are You Looking for Me?

Chapter 238: Chapter 238: Are You Looking for Me?

There’s no escape.

Haruko hid in a bush next to the pavilion. The scarecrow’s two small legs were perched on a tree branch, with only its head peeking out from the leaves, watching Chu Lingfeng approach step by step from a distance.

She could tell that the other party was deliberately toying with her, and might have even called others to surround the area.

It might be a little dangerous.

But this was also an opportunity to deal with Chu Lingfeng right here!

Let’s gamble!

Otherwise, she still had over ten days until she could revive, and it was impossible to follow Ichiko all the time. What if, under the world will’s interference, this Chu Lingfeng pulled another trick?

He was already trying every possible way to get close to Ichiko!

Watching the other party approach the pavilion, Haruko hid herself and said in her mind, "Kai, you must be strong and give me the Blackening skill. Don’t be like when we faced Sento, where neither Blackening nor acting worked."

[Uh...]

The System hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping.

[Don’t worry, Host, I’ll do my best this time!]

With the System backing her up, Haruko was full of confidence.

But before showing herself, perhaps she could first harvest a wave of this male lead’s emotional value.

As she prepared, Chu Lingfeng had already stepped into the pavilion, his fists lightly clenched, assuming a fighting stance.

"Come out, you guy who’s playing tricks!"

He called out indifferently. After doing his psychological homework along the way, his emotions were relatively calm.

Haruko glanced at the emotional value, which was almost depleted, and simply stepped onto the bush. The somewhat cute and strange scarecrow opened and closed its cracked lips, "Are... you looking for me?"

She deliberately used the pseudo-voice skill to further cosplay the voice of Fiddlesticks from League of Legends.

Chu Lingfeng looked in the direction of the sound, meeting those crimson eyes, and his heart immediately tightened.

The fear transmitted by the cat-like eyes had already begun to affect his heart.

But Chu Lingfeng still maintained his composure, "What, you only dare to manipulate something like this to talk while hiding behind? I don’t think I have any grudges with Your Excellency, do I?"

"Does a ghost need a reason to look for someone?"

Chu Lingfeng scoffed, "Ghost? Since you’re a ghost, then come out!"

He didn’t believe that there were really ghosts in this world!

While saying that, his body was very honestly defending itself.

However, the terrifying scene he imagined didn’t appear. The scarecrow on the bush suddenly stopped moving, only those eyes emitting a red glow were still staring at him.

The villa manor was brightly lit, and even here there was faint light.

But the birthday banquet was about to begin, and everyone had gathered in the front hall. There was no one here, and the cold winter wind blew, rustling the bushes.

Besides that, there were also chirping insects.

In horror movies, besides music, the environment created is also the most important point for scaring people.

After a while, Haruko’s mind heard the System’s prompt.

[Male lead Chu Lingfeng has generated nervous and palpitating emotions because of the Host]

[Emotional value +34...]

A new character is indeed a new character. Since Ichiko had broken down a few times, no matter how much she pressured him, the emotional value provided was only in single digits.

This was just a little ordinary emotion, and it added 34 points.

It made Haruko feel inexplicably good.

And besides the wind, nothing happened for a long time. The tense Chu Lingfeng subconsciously relaxed for a moment.

Could it be just a bluff?

Just as he thought this, his pupils suddenly contracted.

The scarecrow that was originally sitting motionless on the bush suddenly grew taller, transforming into a terrifying large mouth, and pounced directly towards him!

Chu Lingfeng’s legs trembled, and he instinctively threw himself onto the floor beside him.

But this large mouth disappeared the moment he pounced out.

The Illusion skill consumes a lot of emotional value. Such a scare is enough for just a moment.

[Male lead Chu Lingfeng has generated panic emotions because of the Host]

[Emotional value +21...]

[Emotional value +17...]

[Emotional value +33...]

Unlike the emotional value added all at once just now, Chu Lingfeng had fallen into continuous panic.

The constantly sounding prompts made Haruko feel incredibly satisfied.

But the scare wasn’t over yet.

Besides such large mouths, various ghosts and monsters from horror movies materialized before his eyes. Each time Chu Lingfeng felt fear, the ghosts and monsters quickly disappeared.

Even if Chu Lingfeng was dull, after being scared more than ten times, he understood the situation.

These were all illusions, the things that suddenly appeared were fake!

By the time he belatedly reacted, Haruko had already earned a blood profit of 300 points in emotional value.

Sitting on the bush, she stared at Chu Lingfeng with a half-smile.

Her demonic eyes were so happy.

However, the male lead who was being played with was not happy. His face was grim, and for the first time, he directly rushed towards Haruko, reaching out to capture this doll!

Haruko was already prepared. She leaped behind the bush beside her, instantly disappearing from Chu Lingfeng’s sight.

The originally stylish male lead was now covered in sweat, his face extremely pale.

He stepped heavily into the bush with one foot and shouted loudly, "Come out!"

Each time he shouted loudly, a response would come from his ear, "Are you looking for me?"

Along with this response, there was another illusion.

This time, a man appeared out of thin air in front of him, holding a cleaver and hacking heavily at him.

Even knowing it was fake, Chu Lingfeng still felt a sense of fear and palpitation.

It wasn’t until the cleaver passed through his arm without causing any injury that he breathed a sigh of relief.

The repeated teasing made Chu Lingfeng’s spirit increasingly weary.

He became more and more numb to the illusions.

The emotional value consumed by using skills was gradually unable to be earned back from Chu Lingfeng.

500 points, she had already made a fortune.

Moreover, the illusions Haruko materialized later were all real people holding knives and hacking at him.

In the end, he was too lazy to even dodge.

The story of the boy who cried wolf was nothing more than this.

Facing this male lead, Haruko became twelve times more serious.

And it was while Chu Lingfeng was weakly leaning against the edge of the pavilion that another voice entered his ears.

"Why aren’t you looking for me anymore?"

The voice that came was no longer Fiddlesticks’ hoarse and fearful tone, but a soft, even somewhat cute voice.

Behind him, a little girl wearing a hood and with twin ponytails had appeared at some point.

The little girl held a small utility knife, her crimson eyes identical to those of the scarecrow doll.

She let out a cute yet unsettling smile, "If you don’t come looking for me, I’ll come looking for you~"

Blackening!

The precise Surgical Knife skill was activated!

In a flash, the blade struck with lethal precision, aiming directly for Chu Lingfeng’s neck!

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