I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!

Chapter 627 - 626: SCP-902 Final Countdown

Although the process was winding and his emotions were turbulent, Li Yang was still quite happy to get that card.

He guessed right; the card that got swallowed by the ATM was indeed a Monster Card, golden and glimmering, with mysterious patterns and some explanatory small text engraved on it.

"SCP-902, The Final Countdown."

He held the card between his fingers to show the camera, then sat on the ground with his back against the wall, legs stretched out freely, his whole body long and proportionate.

"Look, I also have a Monster Card, let me read it to you.

SCP-902, The Final Countdown. It’s a lead-made empty box that continuously emits a ticking sound. Everyone who hears this countdown will unanimously believe that it’s an extremely terrifying object.

Once the countdown ends, except for the cardholder, everyone else will be ejected. Usage: once activated, it automatically affects everyone else."

After reading it, he quickly scanned it again and finally shouted passionately at the camera, "I picked up a king card!!!"

Boohoo, all the effort before was not in vain, he finally became someone with a monster, and this one is so badass!

With this card, he can finally stop living humbly and can go out and dominate the world... No, his ultimate mission now is to live humbly!

To lie low till the end of time, until the rivers run dry, and that’s when he will seize victory!

The long-lost joy of waiting for victory almost overwhelmed his brain, making him so excited that he turned in circles on the spot.

"Finally! Finally! It’s my turn!"

So what if Cheng Zhirang forced him to parasitize monsters, so what if Mu Qiu tricked him into risking his life and killing each other, and even if all his teammates were out?! The ultimate victory is his!!!

No one understands the bittersweet feeling of enjoying the fruits after hard labor, Li Yang caressed that golden card, almost bursting into tears.

"Enough, stop acting, it’s hurting my eyes."

Shu Ran leaned against the door with her arms crossed, mercilessly interrupting his well-prepared emotions.

She then added, "It’s exactly like Mu Qiu and Guan Yu’s exaggerated performance, your manager sent you in to learn acting, not to give up your acting career entirely."

"......"

Li Yang didn’t expect her to appear here at this moment. He pressed himself tightly against the wall, staring at her warily, and slowly stood up.

"Sister Shu Ran, what are you doing here? What a coincidence hahaha."

"Please first take a good look at my outfit, I am a bank employee, isn’t it normal for me to be here? But you, you came here to steal my file card."

She’s always like this, with others she appears pure and innocent, but with them, she’s sharp-tongued and blunt, a statement that could be said politely comes out of her mouth like a criticism.

Li Yang already got used to it, hiding the 902 card behind him: "You saw it all? When did you get in?"

"I’m not blind. With so many people hovering around the bank entrance, how could I not see? Thankfully, I was the only one on the road."

"So you saw it from the beginning? Where were you hiding, Sister Shu Ran?! So many of you!"

"As long as there’s intent, you can hide anywhere. Aren’t you going to share the card you found?"

"Uh, about that..."

Li Yang’s lips curled into a sunny, bright smile, with a hint of boasting.

"I’m afraid I can’t help you with that, didn’t you just hear me read it? As long as this card is activated, it automatically affects everyone, I can’t control it."

Shu Ran, irritated by his pretentious tone, shivered and rubbed the goosebumps off her arm, saying, "But you haven’t activated it yet."

"I’ll activate it immediately."

After saying that, he told the staff to activate it. The director was watching the live broadcast in real-time, the alert sound was created by an engineer sitting next to the director. As long as he said activate here, it could be activated immediately.

Sure enough, just as Shu Ran opened her mouth to stop him, a cold electronic voice rang out over the ruins.

"The third Monster Card has been activated!"

After repeating it three times, the entire ruins began to resonate with the ticking countdown sound.

Li Yang stuffed the card into his pocket, shrugged, and leaned his bent leg against the wall: "Sister Shu Ran, the ejection countdown has started, are you sure you don’t want to run around and struggle a bit?"

Unexpectedly, Shu Ran remained calm, contemplating for a while, and then looked into his eyes, saying, "I can use Plague Doctor to kill you."

"It’s useless. Once the monster is activated, it continues to take effect. I can’t stop it even if I’m killed. And it’s just the two of us, you’re not necessarily able to kill me."

Sure enough, she hesitated a bit.

Taking the opportunity, Li Yang suggested, "Look, Sister Shu Ran, now we’re the only two single-player teams left, you have leverage over me, and I have the life-and-death card over you, why don’t we form an alliance?"

Shu Ran tilted her head in disdain: "When did you become as cunning as Mu Qiu?"

"......"

Not sure if Mu Qiu’s reputation was tarnished or if his character was insulted.

"I’m sincerely inviting you to form an alliance. Want to think about it?"

"Not considering." Shu Ran rejected without a second thought.

"You have a card that directly makes me one of those who are about to be eliminated. I have nothing and can only be passive, it’s unbalanced for both parties, there must be a motive in the alliance."

???

Shu Ran had changed, she became so rational, her straightforward analysis was structured and organized.

"No, Sister Shu Ran, weren’t you always acting impulsively? Analyzing before actions isn’t your style!"

"Are you saying I’m brainless?"

"... No, not at all...

"Good," Shu Ran fake-smiled, "Otherwise, I would physically retaliate against you without eliminating you."

Li Yang: I’m so scared.

"Well, Sister Shu Ran, calm down."

He tried to inch closer, but as soon as he moved, Shu Ran immediately alertly stepped back a few steps, warning him: "Stay where you are."

"... Okay. Please calm down, I’m serious, anyway, this card is activated now, we don’t know how long the countdown is, as long as it ends, you all have to be eliminated, the final victory is almost certainly mine.

Now, like an empty-nester without any worldly desires, I even have a bit of a desire to benefit all humanity.

So we can form an alliance, on my road to victory, I can help you secure a top three position. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not specifically helping you, it just happens to be you."

Shu Ran: "How many Mu Qiu have you swallowed to say something like that?"

Especially the last sentence, it made her feel a wave of nausea rising from her soles to her throat.

She could barely stomach male actors saying these lines during acting, and it was even more intolerable coming from Li Yang now.

Words like this were only fit to come out of Mu Qiu and Guan Yu’s mouths.