readsfreenovel Chapter 378 Master Gao's Pampering
Chapter 378 Master Gao's Pampering
“…Oh my god…” Gao Wen squatted down next to Yan Xun, looking down at the Polaroid photo in his hand.
"What's going on?!"
Yan Xun held the Polaroid photo without saying a word; the date was written on the back of the photo.
2025 3 Month 2 Day.
If today is May 2nd, then this Polaroid photo must have been taken two months ago.
In the Polaroid photo, Gu Jia is holding a half-eaten hot dog, and Yan Xun is holding a half-drunk drink. None of the four people in the photo seem very willing to take a picture, and it's unclear under what circumstances they took this photo.
"Are you at an amusement park?" Gao Wen asked after examining the photo for a while.
He pointed to a corner of the building visible in the Polaroid photo, "Is that a Ferris wheel?"
Yan Xun glanced in the direction Gao Wen pointed. Although the background in the group photo was blurred, the outline of the Ferris wheel could still be seen upon close inspection.
That's strange, Yan Xun thought.
Why did the four of them go to the amusement park together?
Who was the person who took the photo?
"Could we have traveled through time?" Gawain muttered to himself. "This place doesn't look like 2025 at all."
“There are seven players in this instance right now.” Yan Xun pointed to himself, then to Gao Wen, “Besides the four of us in the photo, there’s you, Sun Zhao, and Chi Yuan.”
"Looking at this photo, the four of us should know each other."
"Was the photo taken by one of the three of you, or by a staff member of this amusement park?" Yan Xun asked.
“I think…” Gao Wen squatted down next to Yan Xun and analyzed, “I have a guess.”
"The person who took the photo might not be us." He was referring to the three people who weren't in the photo, "They were probably amusement park staff."
"Brother, do you not go to amusement parks often...?" Gao Wen asked.
Yan Xun wasn't sure if he went to amusement parks often... so he didn't say anything, and Gao Wen took his silence as tacit agreement.
“Look at the four of you, you all look so forced.” He pointed to Yan Xun in the photo. “You look so impatient.”
"Gu Jia is avoiding the camera."
The remaining four, Li Wu and Lou Yanchuan, looked reluctant and absent-minded... No matter how you looked at it, none of them seemed to have asked for a group photo on their own initiative.
“I guess it might be an event at the amusement park,” Gao Wen said to Yan Xun. “They might give you a prize for taking a group photo, or maybe it’s a free admission for three people.”
Yan Xun looked at the black screen of the phone in his hand. "The owner of this phone is someone else in the group photo."
"Or it's the person who took this photo."
Ideally, it should be someone in the group photo; even if you don't know the password, their face can unlock the phone and reveal more clues.
If it was the person who took the photo...
Whether it's Gao Wen, Sun Zhao, or Chi Yuan, the result is the same: they can all find clues.
If it wasn't any of the seven of them, it can only mean one thing: the person taking the photo was probably the key to getting them into this situation.
Thinking of this, Yan Xun immediately turned on his phone, and soon the lock screen appeared.
“…Brother Yan, this is your phone!” Gao Wen said, looking at Yan Xun’s name on the lock screen.
The photo of Yan Xun on the lock screen is probably of him playing basketball. He is wearing a basketball jersey, and beads of sweat are streaming down his face. The photo was taken on cue. The sweat that fell during the intense exercise was captured by the camera.
In the photo, Yan Xun is not looking at the camera; he seems completely unaware of its existence.
This subtle feeling of being spied on sent shivers down Yan Xun's spine. He tried to unlock his phone, and sure enough, he got a message saying it failed to unlock.
He is not the owner of the phone.
Gao Wen was initially excited when he saw the lock screen, but after seeing that Yan Xun failed to unlock it, and looking at the lock screen wallpaper... he also sensed that something was wrong.
When he looked at the carefully photographed lock screen wallpaper again, he felt an unpleasant, sticky sensation, as if slugs were crawling across his skin.
Gao Wen hesitated, wanting to ask Yan Xun if he had encountered a pervert, but then realized that this was a dungeon—even if there was a pervert, it should just be a dungeon character.
"It seems the phone doesn't belong to me." Yan Xun looked at the phone in his hand.
"Why do you think the phone is here?" he asked Gao Wen.
"What do you mean?"
"If we all brought our phones," Yan Xun still didn't understand how this scenario worked, and could only assume they had traveled through time, "why would we have left our phones in his yard?"
If we're talking about hiding things, then your own room is definitely the most convenient.
As the seventh concubine, Yan Xun had only arrived at the Gao family in the last couple of days, so it was normal that she hadn't had a chance to hide anything.
But when the dungeon started, the other six people besides him had already been staying at the Gao family's house for a while... Why didn't they hide their phones in their own rooms?
"Or do I have to leave my phone here?" Yan Xun looked at the phone and Polaroid camera in her hand, a little uncertain.
After thinking about it, he decided to put the phone back in its original place, along with the phone that Gao Wen had found in the stove.
—If they were the ones who hid the phones before, then they must have had a reason to do so.
“There are only 7 of us,” Gao Wen pondered. “We found two cell phones.”
“The phone doesn’t belong to either of us.” He pointed to himself and Yan Xun. “It must belong to one of the five of them.”
"How about we secretly notify them and let them try the password?"
Yan Xun glanced at the phone that had been pushed deep into the stove. "We can't come here too often, or we'll get noticed."
"I'll try to climb over the wall and leave the Gao family's house." He hadn't forgotten their original goal, which was to try and see if they could leave the Gao family's house by climbing over the wall.
Gao Wen already had a record of escaping once, and Yan Xun felt that this instance probably wouldn't give him a second chance.
And having just entered the Gao family, he was already quite favored by... Master Gao...
Heh, Yan Xun sneered inwardly. He figured that if he escaped by climbing over the wall, he would most likely not trigger the death flag.