Baili Xin followed the charitable couple into the hall.
Inside the hall, Mr. Oude was lying on the floor with his head up, his eyes closed, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.
The charitable couple stood nearby with some fear, not daring to get close.
Baili Xin fixed Gar's wheelchair aside, calmly avoided the charitable couple, and came to the front through the gap in the middle.
He first tested his neck, and after feeling a slight pulse, he said calmly to the people surrounding him from behind, "He's still alive."
"Oh, he's still alive, how wonderful," Mrs. Charity relaxed her grim expression, leaning against her husband nervously, "Thank God, can someone call a doctor for this poor old man?"
Richard shrank back and when he heard Mrs. Charity's question, he quickly said, "I'll go, wait a minute!"
The hurried footsteps gradually faded away.
Mr. O'Dea's face was flushed, and his pulse was feeble.
He was lying on it in a well-tailored tuxedo, and the black bow tie was tightly around his neck, leaving a shallow mark.
It seems to be respiratory congestion.
Baili Xin gently pulled the tie loose and unbuttoned a few buttons to make his nasal breathing tract more unobstructed.
Mrs. Charity bent down and said, "Poor old Ode, he's lying on the ground freezing cold. Shall we carry him to the bed?"
Then she shouted to the back: "Is there any kind person who can help?"
Seeing that Lady Charity was about to take action, Baili Xin quickly stopped her, "Wait a minute, touch him."
Madam Charity paused her finger in mid-air, her pupils slightly widened in surprise: "Why? He is so pitiful."
Baili Xin glanced at the noisy woman with some annoyance, and said patiently: "Falling to the ground is likely to cause cerebral hemorrhage. He is also suffering from vasoconstriction and dyspnea. Maybe it is hidden in his clothes."
"Didn't Richard go to call the doctor? It's better to wait for the doctor to come."
"Don't crowd around behind us. Give Mr. Ou De some breathing space."
Mrs. Charity's face changed color. She glanced at the red-faced old Ou De, then looked at Bai Li Xin, and after rolling her eyes, she said, "Then give him artificial respiration. Poor Ou De is almost out of breath. We have to help him quickly."
Baili Xin opened Mr. Ou De's mouth and looked at it, then slowly closed it, "No."
Mrs. Charity's expression suddenly became arrogant. She raised her chin and looked down at Baili Xin, "Why not? Is it because you dislike Mr. Ou De because he is old and ugly? Is a human life not as important as your aesthetic taste? Poor Mr. Ou De, this old gentleman would be sad if he knew that he was disliked."
"Hiss, you're so annoying." Baili Xin glanced at her sideways and was about to put a hat on her, but Mrs. Charity immediately felt a chill on her back and fell silent.
Baili Xin felt that he had used up all his patience. "I just took a look and vaguely saw some food in his mouth and throat. If we rashly perform artificial respiration, the food may be sent into the trachea and lungs, making the condition worse. Besides, we are not professional doctors. The health of the elderly needs to be taken care of. If artificial respiration is not performed properly, Mr. Ou De's ribs may be broken."
"Although Mr. Ode has some difficulty breathing, he is still able to maintain vital signs. In this case, just maintain the status quo. Unless he is completely unable to breathe, it is better not to use artificial respiration casually."
"Ma'am, if you really insist on giving warmth, you can do artificial respiration for Mr. Ode yourself."
Madam Charity's expression changed slightly. She avoided his gaze and covered half of her face with a peacock feather fan. She said awkwardly, "There are both men and women. Besides, there are so many men here. I, a lady, shouldn't be needed, right?"
Baili Xin lost his patience and said, "Since you can't help, just step back. Also, don't you know that feather velvet can easily float into the patient's nose and cause breathing obstruction? For the safety of dear old Ode, please stay away from him."
The people watching the show at the back all raised their necks, their calm faces unable to hide their excitement.
Mrs. Charity was speechless, her face flushed, and she pulled her husband aside and moved back angrily.
His ears finally quieted down, Baili Xin relaxed his brows slightly, and seemed to be observing his surroundings carefully.
Hongyue came up and said, "Mr. Ou De hasn't been seen for a day, but he is dressed up and obviously planning to go out. But the food has been delivered to the room, so we can rule out that he is going to the restaurant downstairs for dinner."
Baili Xin: "Not necessarily. She may be dressed up because she is planning to go out, or she may have just come from outside and didn't have time to change her clothes."
Hongyue: "There is only Mr. Ou De here, what about Mrs. Ou De?"
"I've searched this room, but I don't see Mrs. Ode. There's only Mr. Ode in this room." Emile's voice suddenly came from not far away. He pushed through the crowded crowd and came to the front.
Because he unbuttoned his tie and shirt, Mr. Oude's complexion improved a lot after a while, and his face was not so red anymore.
Baili Xin calmly scanned every corner of Mr. Oude's room, and finally, his eyes first fixed on Mr. Oude's hand.
He approached and lifted Mr. O'De's arm, and found that there were spots of golden powder between the fingernails of his right finger.
Next to the coffee table in the hall, servants were pushing food.
The food was covered with a square metal lid. Baili Xin opened it and took a look. The food was intact.
"Here is a bottle of medicine," Emil easily hooked out a bottle of medicine from under the sofa with a thin silk thread.
The medicine bottle was open, and besides the medicine bottle, there were scattered pills under the sofa.
Most of the pills were scattered under the sofa, with only a few left in the medicine bottle.
After picking up the medicine bottle and examining it for a moment, Emil said, "It's medicine for treating heart disease."
Mrs. Charity covered her mouth and said, "Oh my God, poor old Ode, he has a dirty disease, so pitiful."
"So he had a heart attack just now, and was planning to take medicine, but the medicine bottle suddenly rolled under the sofa. And it happened that his illness had occurred, and he fainted."
"Poor Ode, his wife has gone somewhere. If we weren't still thinking about him, he would have been suffering on the floor for a long time."
Mr. Charity patted his wife's back gently and comforted her: "Thanks to you, it was you who suggested to come and see them, and thus a disaster was avoided. Honey, you are so outstanding, and you have saved a precious life with your kindness."
"I immediately found the local newspaper and published the story."
Mrs. Charity smiled shyly, "Even you have to say this, you know, I don't care about these false reputations."
"The doctor is here, please make way!" Richard's voice suddenly sounded from outside, followed by two hurried figures walking in from outside.
Doctor Ting, wearing a gown and carrying a medicine box with a red cross mark on it, hurried to the front. Seeing this, Baili Xin and others stood up and made way.
After a quick check for a few minutes, the doctor said calmly, "This patient is not in danger of death for now, but because he is too old and has osteoporosis, his arm was fractured when he fell, and his head was slightly concussed. I saw you unbuttoned his collar, which was the right treatment. What else did you do? Did you move the patient? Who treated him?"
Baili Xin: "It was me. I just unbuttoned the clothes to allow air circulation and ease breathing. The patient did not move his body."
The doctor glanced at Baili Xin and nodded with satisfaction: "Fortunately you didn't do anything."
He pointed at Baili Xin and then at Richard, who had just called out, "You two, come here and listen to my instructions and help me. I just saw something in his throat. It looks like food, but it could also be vomit. I need to help him clear it out first, otherwise the patient might bring it into his respiratory tract and lungs when he coughs."
The doctor's words echoed in the hall. After hearing the young man's words come true, everyone looked at Mrs. Ashley again with ill intentions. Ashley's cheeks flushed and she felt hot. She had never been so embarrassed in her life.
After the doctor's brief explanation, the two quickly knew what to do. Baili Xin helped to pry open his mouth and straighten his head to prevent Mr. Ou De from suddenly waking up in the middle or causing rejection due to physiological twisting.
Richard helped the doctor hold Mr. O'Dea's arm.
The doctor took out a long thin tube from the first aid kit. One end of the tube was connected to a rubber nozzle. He carefully inserted the tube into the throat, manipulated the rubber nozzle a few times, and sucked out the things in the throat.
Others felt inexplicably disgusted and looked away.
Only Baili Xin stared expressionlessly at the thing being pulled out of the tube, observing silently.
The red and white fragments look gritty, but also soft and sticky.
Hongyue frowned slightly: "What is this? It feels like something I just ate and haven't digested yet."
Doctor: "Maybe it's the food you eat at night."
Baili Xin: "The resort sent food to the room but he didn't touch it."
Doctor: "It could also be that he had some fruit or something before dinner."
Emil: "That's unlikely. I just walked around the room. If it was fruit, there should be a core or a handle. If it was bread, there should be packaging. But the trash can was clean, nothing there. Could he have choked and suddenly had difficulty breathing and passed out?"
The doctor was stunned for a moment, frowning as he looked at the person approaching him. "Well, that's possible. Okay, follow my instructions and help me lift him onto the bed. I need to do a simple job on his arm."
Are you sure you're not messing up the place
Seeing that Old Ou De was fine, the people who had come to watch the fun became bored and left.
Nick I and the four-member cast left early.
By the time Baili Xin and his companions carried old Ode to the bed, they, the charity couple, and Richard Garr were the only ones left in the room.
Richard kept looking at the door, looking like he wanted to leave but was hesitant to do so.
The charitable couple stood by, and the charitable husband even took out a small notebook from his bag and wrote something in it while watching their movements.
Gal leaned against the wall silently, looked up leisurely, and followed Baili Xin's figure through the veil. His eyes kept flashing strange light in the darkness.
Hongyue: "Doctor, is he okay?"
Doctor: "Thanks to you, it's nothing serious. He should wake up soon."
He was probably the only person in the room who gave the doctor face. Before the doctor's words faded from their ears, they heard old Ode groaning and opening his cloudy eyes with difficulty.
Seeing old Ode wake up, the charitable couple who had been watching from behind quickly came to the front.
Mrs. Charity held old Ode's hand with concern and said in surprise: "Dear Ode, you finally woke up. Do you know how worried I am about you?!"
In just a few words, Mrs. Charity's eyes were already filled with tears.
A "click, click" sound suddenly rang out, accompanied by the unique light of a spotlight.
Everyone frowned and looked over, only to find that the kind-hearted husband took out a mini camera from his handbag, squatted slightly and took a serious photo of his wife.
Mrs. Charity was standing opposite the other people, and the camera was directed at Mrs. Charity. Judging from the angle, only old Mrs. Oude Charity was in the frame.
The spotlight flashed for more than ten times before it finally stopped. Mrs. Charity then gently put down old Ode's hand, gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and asked again: "How do you feel, dear Ode."
Old Ode had just woken up and was still confused about the situation. He looked at Mrs. Lai Cixin blankly and said weakly, "I feel fine, but I don't know why my arm hurt when you grabbed me just now."
The doctor said unhappily, "It's a broken bone, how can it not hurt? Just now when I saw you guys patting it so hard, I thought you had some kind of 'painlessness' disease that I didn't know about."
Everyone: “…”
A doctor's words are deadly.
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Good medicine is bitter, honest advice is unpleasant to the ear. I can already feel the doctor's anger.
It's so funny. Doctors either don't argue with people or they won't talk about everything from colds to ALS.
This charity couple is also drunk, I can see it, isn't this just a show? The doctor just said that his arm was broken, and the charity wife grabbed his arm. Didn't she listen to the doctor at all
Maybe I listened to it, but I did it on purpose for the photo effect.
I already have a feeling about how this article is going to be written. "The angel once again releases kindness and saves the old gentleman from the brink of death." Let's just say that I now have sufficient reason to doubt that her charitable persona is really too exaggerated.
… Uh, man, are you serious? Did you just see that
Have you discovered it a long time ago
Cover your face and laugh.jpg, I thought your previous actions were obvious, but I didn't expect you to be so serious. I was stunned. You are so cute, man.
… (╯‵□′)╯︵
Ha ha ha ha
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"Mr. Ode," said Perisin, walking out from behind the doctor, "where is your wife?"
Old Ode was stunned: "My wife? Why are you asking me that?"
Baili Xin: "We don't know. We just knocked on the room opposite, but the door was locked and no one answered. That should be your wife's room, right?"
Old Ode glanced at everyone a little dully and said, "My wife and I have a room. We have always lived together and are not used to being apart. I asked her to come to my room and sleep last night."
Emil: "There are indeed women's sex products in the bedroom and the bathroom."
Old Ode was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "That's right, you asked me that just now, didn't you see my wife?"
He strained his neck to look around, "My wife isn't here?"
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and his expression suddenly became serious: "Oh no, please help me go to the entrance and see if there is a key to Room 305 hanging there!"
Baili Xin stood up and walked to the entrance, and looked carefully at the hanging rack. There was nothing else except the key 306.
When he turned and walked towards the hall, he looked back at the entrance, and then he came to Old Ode's bedside: "There is only the key to 306."
Old Ode's expression finally changed from serious to horrified: "It's over, she must have taken the key to the golden room."
Everyone's eyes changed when they heard this.
"To be honest, you can see that our room is two doors closer to the golden room. As soon as we open the door, we can see the golden door."
"We also heard the tour guide's warning not to get close to the golden room. But whenever we looked outside through the peephole, we always saw the golden room first, and it seemed to have some magic. We knew we couldn't enter the golden room, but the more we knew, the more we wanted to get close and open it to take a look."
"We both stayed up all night struggling with this. I wanted to go, and she wanted to go too."
Old Ode paused, "We two should encourage each other and supervise each other, and no one should think about the golden room. Because we didn't sleep well last night, we don't have much energy to visit the resort today, so we just rested in the room for a day."
"Although my wife kept complaining that she couldn't help herself, fortunately the process gradually improved. In the afternoon, she seemed to have overcome it and didn't say a word about wanting to see it."
"And so we got to dinner in peace."
"I suddenly fainted and lost consciousness. I don't know what happened after that. Then you saw what happened."
Mrs. Ashley wiped her eyes and said, "Then why are you dressed so well?"
Old Ode: "Well, my wife said she wanted to have a candlelight dinner with me, so I took out a nice set of clothes to change into."
"Oh, I see." Ashley glanced at Baili Xin secretly, "I said that a gentleman must have his reasons for doing things, and he would never do something immoral."
Hongyue frowned: "What about your food? What about the gold powder on your hands? What are they?"
Old Ou De was a little stunned. He looked at the gold powder on his fingers suspiciously, with doubt in his eyes: "What is this? Did I get it by accident somewhere? I have no impression at all."
"As for what I eat, it's an apple that I peel and cut into small pieces and stuffed into small pieces for me to eat, and some leftover fruit from lunch."
"But this gold powder..." Old Oude frowned slightly and lowered his eyelids to cover his puzzled look, "I really don't know what's going on."
"Well..." Emile was about to start, but was interrupted by Mrs. Charity in a stern voice: "I say, are there enough of you?"
"Mr. O'Dea is an old gentleman, not a prisoner. Besides, even if he is not a gentleman, he is a patient who just came back from the gates of hell. As soon as he woke up, you interrogated him like a prisoner. His wife is missing, and he is the one who is in trouble. Not only did you not help, but you also added fuel to the fire. You are going too far."
"You don't care about the patients' feelings at all, please get out!"
Emil glanced at Mrs. Charity and threw the East in his hand onto the bed. "I just said that I want to return this 'medicine' to Mr. Ode, Mrs. Aisley."
Baili Xin walked to Jiaer, who had been serving as a background, and said, "Miss, Master, it is getting late. Since Mr. Ou De has woken up, we should leave and let the patient rest."
When Richard saw that several people were about to leave, he did not linger and quickly followed them.
When they were almost at the entrance, Baili Xin suddenly turned his head and looked over here, and old Ou De's eyes met.
Old Ode probably didn't expect this, and he looked away in panic the next second.
Seeing Old Ou De's somewhat flustered expression, Bai Li Xin smiled mysteriously: "Mr. Ou De, it seems that you are really a gentleman."
Old Ode looked up blankly.
Baili Xin: "I've always heard from my master that calmness and restraint are the great virtues of a gentleman, and wisdom and intelligence are the shining points of a gentleman. It's still uncertain whether your wife is missing, but you can conclude that your wife entered the golden room based on the disappearing key. You are really wise. And you can be so calm and composed when facing the disappearance of your wife who has been with you through thick and thin. You are also very calm and restrained."
"I really hope that our young master can become a gentleman like you soon."
When Old Ode heard this, his body stiffened instantly, and his face turned grim the next second.
Without any further delay, several people slowly left the room.
In the corridor, several people turned their heads to look at the golden room behind them. Under the light of the dark red carpet, the unique door was shining with golden light. It was just a dead door, but everyone felt that it was waving at them.
Richard swallowed his saliva: "Did Mrs. O'Dea really go into that room?"
Baili Xin shook his head: "I don't know, but it's very likely. I'll go down and ask someone to open room 305. Maybe our tour guide Thomas knows if anyone has entered that room."
Hongyue frowned: "The tour guide left after we finished dinner."
Emil: "Then I'll ask tomorrow. First, pry open room 305. I live in room 304, and I don't want a sleeping female corpse to live in the room next to me without knowing it. If room 305 is not opened tonight, I won't sleep!"
"Baili Xin, you..." Emile was about to give an order when he suddenly felt a cold gaze from the wheelchair. The words on his lips took a 180-degree turn, "It's inconvenient for you to push Ms. Gal. I'll go... Shit, I got a young master experience card. Have you ever seen a young master who does everything by himself?!
Emile ran away in a flash, and Richard left the room, leaving only Baili Xin and the Red Moon Garr man on the stairs.
Hongyue: "I feel like that old man isn't telling the truth."
Baili Xin: "I don't know, but there is one thing he did lie about. His shoes were placed at the entrance, and there was fine dust on his leather shoes. His leather shoes had been worn before."
Hongyue: "So saying that I wore a tuxedo for a candlelight dinner might be a lie."
"There is another point," Prisin continued, "what the doctor sucked out of his mouth was red and white, and he just said that what he ate was peeled apple flesh cut into pieces. Apple flesh is red, but there is no red."
Hongyue: "You mean he eats apples with the skin on?"
Baili Xin: "Very similar, but it is also possible that the red color is another substance. Or even the color is not an apple."
Hongyue glanced towards the golden room with a serious expression.
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So the old man was lying.
He must be hiding a secret. He doesn't act in a group and sneaks out. He doesn't even worry when his wife disappears.
So the question is, who did he go out to meet
This... Why don't you ask the south wall? It should give you the answer.
So where did Mrs. O'Dea go
Don't worry, take your time, time will give us the answer.
This is so funny, come on, it's God Xin who will give us the answer. You fake fan.
I am not, you are talking nonsense. I am not a fake fan, I am a fan of Jia, a fan of Miss Jiaer.
Tsk tsk tsk, another athlete defeated by beauty.
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While the two were talking, Emile came up with a man in golden clothes.
He walked up the stairs quickly, put his hands on his waist, grinned and panted, "I've got someone here. If they can't open it, I'll just kick the door open. Anyway, I won't know what strange room there is if I don't sleep next to it."
His tone is arrogant and ostentatious, he is truly a landlord's fool.
If it weren't for the flexible tricks of playing cards and the transparent thread, Baili Xin would have believed in Emil's fraud.
Thinking about it carefully, when he was on the 50th floor, Emil also seemed to be provoking him with an arrogant look. Whether it was his eyes or his expression, the person in front of him was exactly the same.
Is it a true-to-life performance
Or...was it just a disguise before
If the previous stupid and ignorant image was just a disguise, then Emile really has something.
He was not familiar with Emil. The only two times they met were in the game hall on the 50th floor. Emil provoked him to play with him and then deliberately cheated and was punished by the system.
The other time was at the Red Apple. They didn't work on the mission together for long that time, and Emil's performance was average from beginning to end. He wasn't excellent, but he wasn't a drag either.
The whole game was completed with proper timing.
He didn't have any suspicion at the time. The opponent on the 50th floor had a preconceived impact on his character, and that game had little presence.
It was not until this copy that he realized that he seemed to have made a mistake.
Emil was not stupid. He saw through the suggestive dream without being reminded, and quickly responded with a disguise. Just now, when I was checking Mr. Oude's body, he also took the opportunity to quickly check other places.
Emile, most likely he was playing a fool.
Baili Xin looked at Emil thoughtfully. As if Emil felt Baili Xin's gaze, he snorted and rushed to 305 with big strides.
The servant who was dragged up was holding a bunch of keys in his hand. He first knocked on the door and asked for a long time. After making sure that no one answered, he quickly and skillfully found the key to room 305 from the bunch of keys.
There was a slight "click" sound and the door of the room opened immediately.
Before the servant could hand over the key, Emile pushed the servant away, pulled out the key chain and rushed in while shouting.
"Mrs. Ode! Are you there?" Emile was looking around the room anxiously with a key chain in his hand.
Seeing this, the attendant immediately said, "Sir, please don't do this. You can search quietly and don't be so anxious. This will be good for everyone."
"Also, could you please return the keychain in your hand to me? It is not something that you guests can own."
Emile turned a deaf ear to him and continued shaking the keys in his hand impatiently. His slender fingers moved quickly on the keys, and the key chain made a crisp metallic jingling sound, which was very abrupt in this room.
The servant wanted to grab the key, Baili Xin and Hongyue looked at each other, then walked up to the servant tacitly and blocked his way.
Ten seconds later, the servant walked up to Emile and snatched the key.
Emil snorted coldly, "What are you trying to rob? Didn't the tour guide say that the customer is God? I am not God anymore?"
The servant stood there awkwardly. "I'm sorry, sir. I'm so nervous because the master said that there is a very important key in this keychain that must not be lost. I don't mean to neglect you at all, please don't misunderstand me."
Emir raised his chin and glared at the servant like a bully: "Enough, enough. If people see me, they will think I am bullying you. I have a very good temper. You are doing this to me. If you don't believe me, ask my servant Baili Xin. He is my servant, but I am so kind that I treat him as my brother. There is no other master as kind as me in the world."
"Dear Priscilla, you are so lucky. You should really kneel down and lick my shoes."
Baili Xin: "..."
Which bandit's den did this bandit come from
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Emil gradually lost me in the role-playing.
A real bandit leader.
This should be considered a true performance, isn't Emil usually like this? He doesn't have much ability, but he thinks he's amazing. I've seen him in several copies, and he was always a slacker in them, always getting low scores. He always gets high scores like Xin Shen. I don't know where he got the information from, and he dared to let Xin Shen lick his shoes? No, people, my stomach is about to explode.
However, don't you think that it's great to always play at a low level? Who hasn't performed well in one of the dungeons after climbing to 400+? Has he? Anyone
Um, it seems not.
I haven't seen him either. Mainly because although he is a blonde beauty, his personality is so bad that I don't want to see him at all.
Yes, I don't want to see him either. Every time I see him, I swipe away. If it weren't for his team-up with God this time, I wouldn't even look at him.
It turns out that most people hate Emile, I thought I was the only one.
But it's amazing, most people hate him. But even if they hate him, he can still leave the dungeon victorious every time. This is also a skill.
I can only say that although his personality is annoying, he does have the ability, plus a bit of luck. But compared to the others on the same floor, his ability is definitely not as good.
However, if he always takes the low gear, then his climbing speed must be very slow. A person may need 100 levels to climb to the 400th floor, but he may need 150 or even 200 levels. With so many levels of experience, does it mean he is really not capable
… I've thought about it so much. He is just born dumb and lucky. You have to believe in the diversity of species. If the forest is big, there will be all kinds of birds.
Hiss, okay then.
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Baili Xin looked around the room. The room was empty. Every corner looked like it was occupied, with no signs of anyone living there.
There was no one in the room, and Mrs. O'Dea was certainly not in it.
Mrs. O'Dea really disappeared out of thin air.
"Someone is missing here," Baili Xin looked at the attendant, "This is a matter of life and death, call the police."
The attendant nodded respectfully: "Okay, sir. I will go down and call the police. Please let us go. Our resort is absolutely safe and there are no wild animals around. It is possible that this guest just lost his way while out for fun. We have encountered this kind of situation before. We also called the police in a panic. When the police arrived, the guest came back from outside in high spirits."
The attendant curled his lips in a half-smile. He must have wanted to tell a joke, but the monotonous syllables that came out one by one made the joke in this lively atmosphere particularly weird: "At that time, the police scolded all of us, saying that if such a false alarm happened again, the person who called the police would be locked up and spanked, hehe."
Everyone: “…”
Hehe
Do you think you are funny
Waiter: "After listening to what I have said, do you still plan to call the police? Dear guests."
His eyebrows were lowered, seemingly respectful, but a sly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Emile Red Moon looked at Baili Xin at the same time.
Baili Xin coughed lightly and said, "Of course I called the police."
"It's you who made the call, not us. If I catch you and spank you, it's you who will be spanked."
Servant: “?”
You are so noble, you let people go missing while you let me be beaten?!
Isn't it good to be a human being