Chapter 261 — Shen Yushu Catches a Ghost, Part Two
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All that earlier business, well, that could be forgiven. But this zombie was calling out her name as it came at her—how could Gu Mengyao not be frightened?
"Huh?" Shen Yushu was puzzled. "Sister Yaoyao, this zombie's got smarts? It knows your name?"
"How would I know... Xiaoshu, I'm a little scared now," Gu Mengyao said. Something about this really did feel uncanny—how could the zombie possibly know her name?
"Maybe one of the park staff recognized you as Uncle Chu's daughter and tweaked the program on the spot to butter you up?" Shen Yushu thought it over, and that was the only possibility she could come up with. She couldn't guess at any other, since no names had been required when they bought their tickets.
"Xiaoshu, I'm getting scared. Let's just hurry out of here, all right?" Gu Mengyao did not want to stay a moment longer. Something about this place made her deeply uncomfortable.
"It's fine, Sister Yaoyao—let me take care of this zombie for you!" Shen Yushu, however, charged at the zombie in high spirits. "La la la, I'm an expert at catching ghosts..."
Shen Yushu rushed up beside the zombie and stamped down hard, her foot landing on the back of its foot. Zhang Yuzhou let out a miserable howl and went hopping off to one side on his tiptoes, much faster than before...
"Yay, Sister Yaoyao, look—I chased the zombie off!" Shen Yushu beamed with triumph at the zombie she had sent fleeing with a stomp. "This program's really well designed—Uncle Chu ought to give whoever made it a commendation. Step on this zombie and it even runs away!"
By now Gu Mengyao had been won over by Shen Yushu's antics too, and she was ready to believe her earlier guess: someone must have recognized her as the young Miss Chu and specially altered the haunted house's computer program on the spot, all to curry favor with her!
After Shen Yushu's little performance, Gu Mengyao was no longer quite so afraid. Watching the zombie run faster than a rabbit, she ordered Wei Zhao, "Wei Zhao, go catch that zombie and bring it back to me."
"Okay." Wei Zhao nodded.
Zhang Yuzhou silently cried disaster. Surely the little miss wasn't cooking up some other nasty trick to torment him? He was just about to quicken his hopping and get away from this cursed place when he felt a hand seize him by the scruff of the neck. Then he was weightless, flying through the air, and came down hard at the feet of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
"Ha, the zombie's back! Sister Yaoyao, let's keep playing with the zombie!" With that, Shen Yushu leapt up from the ground and came down with both feet square on the zombie's belly—that is, on Zhang Yuzhou's—stomping and kicking away...
Zhang Yuzhou let out a shriek, certain his guts were about to be stomped right out of him. The pain rolled his eyes back and he passed out cold...
"Boring..." After a few more stomps, Shen Yushu found the zombie had stopped howling and hopped down, interest flagging. "The quality of this zombie is terrible. Two stomps and it's broken already. I wonder which company made it? Uncle Chu should go file a complaint!"
"Heh..." Gu Mengyao found it rather funny—those were the haunted house's prop models, after all. Stomp on them directly like that, and of course they'd break!
Jin Maosheng stared at Zhang Yuzhou, stomped half to death, and a black line slid down his forehead. How was this girl called Shen Yushu fiercer than that guard named Wei Zhao?
Shen Yushu had essentially wrecked the whole plan. There was no point in trying to frighten Gu Mengyao now—she would not be scared anymore!
Jin Maosheng was furious. Gu Mengyao was plainly terrified of ghosts; when Xiao Ma patted her earlier, she had already been badly frightened. If Zhang Yuzhou and he had coordinated in time, there was no doubt they could have scared the wits out of her!