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Chapter 186 Was the date enjoyable?
Gu Mian walked up to the green house.

A few players passed by in the distance from time to time, and most people gathered in groups, as if they felt that the more people there were, the safer they would be.

A few people were parked not far from the entrance of the Green House.

At first glance, it's clear that they are mostly girls, with a few boys interspersed among them. They all seem to be students, and they all look very nervous.

Upon seeing Gu Mian and her group approach, one of the boys timidly tried to come closer and say something.

But just as his gaze fell upon the fat man following closely behind Gu Mian, he withdrew his half-extended leg.

The fat man noticed what was happening and thoughtfully touched his face: "Do I look ferocious?"

Logically speaking, the doctor should have looked more ferocious than me.

The fat man was still thinking when he saw a boy with a hesitant look on his face, as if he had been struggling with something for a while, before he walked towards them with his dyed hair.

They were heading towards Chu Changge. At this moment, Mr. Green and the female ghost, two creatures with extremely unpleasant appearances, were not around, so the three of them still looked like normal people.

The male student first approached Chu Changge, who seemed more approachable.

Chu Changge's tone was unusually gentle: "Is there something you need?"

The fat man had never heard Chu Changge speak in this tone before, and he couldn't help but be very curious.

'So gentle, there must be a conspiracy,' he thought to himself.

The boy who came over saw that Chu Changge seemed easy to talk to, and his tense expression relaxed. He then took a deep breath and said, "You guys saw that riddle too, right? The riddle about the braided girl."

Hearing this, the fat man became curious: "What, are you here to answer that riddle too?"

For a moment, the fat man felt a sense of crisis. What if the students answered the riddle first? But then he remembered something.

The lantern is still in their hands; even if these students find the answer, they won't be able to find the lantern anymore.

The fat man relaxed as he thought about it.

The boy frowned at the somewhat ferocious-looking fat man next to him, as if he wanted to get angry, but then he relaxed, as if he had thought of something funny, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

'This person is unpredictable and definitely not someone to mess with!' The boy quickly looked away, then looked at the seemingly harmless Chu Changge in front of him: 'We did come here to answer this riddle... Actually, we've been here for a while now...'

Chu Changge frowned slightly: "You didn't do what the riddle said?"

"No," the boy shook his head, "We did as instructed, but we didn't get an answer..."

"Didn't get an answer?" Gu Mian stroked her chin.

The boy mustered his courage and glanced at Gu Mian. Seeing that the doctor seemed quite gentle, he nodded: "Someone went in... but didn't come out."

He swallowed hard and continued, "Initially, four of us classmates wanted to answer this riddle—two boys and two girls. The two boys went in together, leaving the girls to wait outside..."

Normally, it would be more appropriate for a girl to do the job of tying a little girl's hair.

But this is a special case, and we absolutely cannot let a girl handle it.

The male student in front of them continued, "After they went in, there was no sound. Then our two female classmates got anxious and called out to them from outside, but there was no sound from inside." They waited for a long time, during which there was a ghost tide, but the two male classmates inside still did not make a sound.

"We happened to be passing by then, and we recognized the two male students who went in... So we sent three people in to look for them too..."

Even without being told what happened next, Gu Mian could guess.

"Those three people didn't come out either?" Chu Changge pushed up his glasses.

The boy nodded, his face pale: "And there wasn't a sound at all. We called out from outside but no one answered... We didn't dare go in."

Chu Changge then asked, "How long have you been inside?"

"The first two people have been inside for about half an hour, and the next three have been inside for about ten minutes..." The boy looked up: "You guys want to go in too, right?"

Gu Mian nodded solemnly.

We went through so much trouble to bring the lantern down, it would be a shame not to go in.

The boy looked somewhat frightened: "The things inside must be terrifying, you guys have to be careful... Also... could I ask you for a favor?"

Although he said "please," there was no expectant expression on his face, as if he felt that the request was unlikely to succeed, but he was unwilling to let go of any opportunity.

"If you go in, could you please check on our friends?" The boy looked up at Gu Mian and the others earnestly.

That's not a difficult thing.

The boy in front of them lowered his head again: "We're about to give up too. If you don't come out in twenty minutes, we'll have to leave. We can't just keep waiting here."

The fat man looked at Gu Mian, then at Chu Changge, and patted his fleshy chest: "No problem, you guys just wait here."

The boy seemed surprised that the somewhat ferocious-looking fat man would be so enthusiastic.

Actually, the fat man was also feeling uneasy. The riddle said there was a little girl here, but five people who went in before and after him all mysteriously disappeared without a sound, which showed that the thing in the house was very scary.

As he stepped into the green house, the fat man glanced back at the group of students behind him.

The boy in the lead sat forlornly on the steps, leaving them with only his lonely back view.

His demeanor was exactly like that of a young person visiting their parents' graves during the Qingming Festival, filled with sorrow and despondency.

He seemed to have given up all hope and didn't expect Gu Mian and the others to come out alive.

He was waiting there, probably because he wanted to find an excuse to leave with a clear conscience.

And they can leave after twenty minutes.

Only single people are still writing now.

Only single people are still reading books now.

Thank you... Ah, the author is so sad, I don't want to thank anyone today, I'll gather them all together tomorrow...

(Crying in a corner)
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(End of this chapter)