77: Chapter 77 Everyone's trying to trick the other—is this how social interaction works?

Prompted by the staff, Shen Qingxue reacted immediately, quickly pulling her hand back as if she had been electrocuted.

But Lu Li noticed that the flush on the tips of her ears had not completely faded away yet.

"Ahem."

Lu Li gave a cough, looking away to conceal his own awkwardness.

After all, to be honest, he still couldn't figure out why Shen Qingxue had suddenly pressed her hand over earlier.

Weren't you the one who didn't know how to pose earlier? You even flashed a peace sign and an OK sign, acting like you'd rather die than cooperate.

Yet suddenly, she slapped his hand down and pressed hers against it to complete the heart shape.

What kind of move was that?

Lu Li scratched his head, thought for two seconds, couldn't figure it out, and simply stopped thinking about it.

Whatever, a woman's heart is as deep as the ocean, she really is a stubborn tsundere; thinking about it too much just gives you a headache.

"Let's go, the second one."

Lu Li unfolded the second clue and read it out.

"I am weathered by wind and rain all year round, yet I still stand tall, and people always lower their heads when they pass by me."

He handed the slip of paper to Shen Qingxue, letting her take a look as well.

The two of them stood in the shadow of a coconut tree, pondering over this clue.

Shen Qingxue softly repeated it, her brows slightly furrowing.

"People always lower their heads when passing by..."

Lu Li also read it along once, his mind starting to search for things he had seen on the island over the past two days.

"A stone?" he tentatively suggested.

Shen Qingxue shook her head and said, "A stone wouldn't make people lower their heads."

"Then... a threshold? People lower their heads when stepping over a threshold too, but can that thing be called being weathered by wind and rain all year round? That's not right either."

Shen Qingxue didn't reply, appearing to be deep in thought.

But at this moment, Lu Li's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stuck out an index finger and said.

"You say... is there a possibility that this thing is a trash can?!"

Shen Qingxue turned her head to look at him.

"A trash can? Are you serious?"

"Right, just that kind of public trash can. Don't you have to lower your head when throwing away trash? Besides, it's placed outside and exposed to the sun and wind every day."

Shen Qingxue thought about it, seemingly feeling it made some sense.

But thinking that the so-called challenge card might be hidden inside a trash can, she felt a bit nauseous.

But Lu Li didn't feel that way; there wasn't a trace of disgust toward the trash can in his eyes, only a yearning for the challenge card.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, let's look for it first."

Soon, the two started searching along the path.

However, the atmosphere between the two along the way appeared unusually quiet; even the netizens in the livestream noticed something was wrong.

[Why have these two stopped talking?]

[That heart-making moment just now probably made both of them awkward, hahahahaha]

[I'm dying of laughter, is this the legendary pretending nothing happened?]

[Today's old routine: still slaughtering the Lu dog! Snatching Qingxue!]

The bullet comments flew by rapidly, but the two had already walked out of the path and arrived at an open area.

Coincidentally, there was a public trash can nearby, and Lu Li subconsciously exchanged a glance with Shen Qingxue.

"I'll go?"

"Mhm."

Shen Qingxue agreed very readily.

Lu Li was dumbfounded.

No, he was using a questioning tone! Why did you agree and push it onto him directly??? What kind of ghost operation is this?

[What are you looking at? Go on, could it be you expect the Goddess to accompany you rummaging through a trash can?]

[Lu Li probably didn't expect there would be this move, right?]

[Hahahahaha I'm laughing to death, the Lu dog is completely wrapped around her finger.]

[Lu Li specializes in subduing Zhou Yichen, and the Goddess specializes in subduing Lu Li; it's truly a case of one thing conquering another!]

At the scene.

Looking at Shen Qingxue's nonchalant expression, Lu Li reached out his finger and pointed at her in exasperation.

"Fine, you've got guts! If I go, I go!"

Finishing his words, Lu Li quickly walked toward that trash can.

The good news was: the trash can was clean. And the bad news was: the trash can was also clean.

"It's not here."

Lu Li called out irritably to Shen Qingxue.

Shen Qingxue nodded.

"Then let's go look somewhere else."

Before long, the two chose a path in another direction.

Until passing by a three-way intersection, Lu Li suddenly slowed down his pace.

He heard the sound of people talking.

And that voice sounded a bit familiar.

Lu Li turned his head to look in the direction the voice came from, faintly making out a few figures through a grove of coconut trees.

"It looks like Zhou Yichen and the others." Shen Qingxue also noticed it.

Lu Li raised an eyebrow, suddenly a playful idea arising in his heart, and the corners of his mouth immediately curled up slightly on their own accord.

Interesting.

[Oh no, seeing Lu Li smile like that, I know someone is about to have bad luck]

[Quickly go to the other screens to see who is closest to Lu Li]

[Found them! It's Zhou Yichen and the others]

[All right then, another candidate for the victim has been added]

Lu Li and Shen Qingxue soon turned a corner and indeed saw Zhou Yichen and Su Qing.

They were standing under a coconut tree; Su Qing was tilting her head up to look at something, while Zhou Yichen stood beside her with his hands in his pockets, wearing a cocky expression.

Hearing the commotion, Su Qing turned back around, saw Lu Li and Shen Qingxue as well, and was visibly stunned for a moment.

"You guys found your way here too?"

Lu Li nodded, his gaze sweeping over that coconut tree; there was nothing on the trunk, and nothing special could be made out.

"What are you looking for? Need any help?"

Before Su Qing had time to open her mouth, Zhou Yichen spoke first.

"No need."

Two words, crisp and neat.

Su Qing glanced at him, and then flashed a smile toward Lu Li and the other.

"Sorry, we don't need help for the time being."

Lu Li didn't mind either and shrugged.

"That's fine too. By the way, would it be convenient to ask, how many challenge cards have you guys found by now? Shen Qingxue and I are still at zero so far."

Zhou Yichen chuckled, his attitude improving slightly.

"No help for it, these cards are too hard to find. Up until now, we're just like you guys, both at zero."

The expressions of the four people present didn't change much, but instead, the netizens in the livestream were stunned by this scene.

[What's going on? Didn't Zhou Yichen and the others just complete a challenge earlier?]

[What do you guys know, this is called social tactics]

[The two of them together must have eight hundred tricks up their sleeves]

[Indeed, shaking hands with straight faces on the surface, but both hiding a knife behind their backs]

[Are they both thinking of screwing each other over?]

Netizens gave all sorts of opinions, but Lu Li and the others had no idea at all that they were each plotting to screw the other over.

Especially when Zhou Yichen and Lu Li started putting their arms around each other's shoulders and laughing and chatting, everyone admired these two from the bottom of their hearts.

They really are one more shady than the other.

"Right, I still have an unused clue here, but we won't be needing it anytime soon. Why don't we give it to you, and you can just return a challenge card to us later."

With a grinning face, Lu Li took out that used clue card and placed it into Zhou Yichen's hands.

The corners of Zhou Yichen's mouth subconsciously twitched.

He couldn't quite figure Lu Li out; did he really take him for a three-year-old kid to fool? Could he be that kind-hearted?

Anyway, he didn't believe it.

However, business is business, Zhou Yichen still acted very properly on the surface, smilingly putting that card away.

"Brother Lu."

"Brother Zhou."

"It seems we were destined to become friends through fights after all, we truly met too late in life!!!"

Lu Li and Zhou Yichen had their arms around each other's shoulders, even laughing and chatting.

Not to mention Shen Qingxue and Su Qing being struck into silence, even the netizens fell silent, and even Director Zhou, serving as the chief director, stopped talking.

Why hadn't they noticed before that these two were so capable of making things happen?