Chapter 648: Assistant Inspector

Fu Miaoxue extended her hand to him: “Don’t worry about it, just lend me 10 walnuts for now, I will pay you back 200 later!”

Pan Xiaoxin: “…”

He had never before seen anybody so assertively asking for something on loan.

However, he still managed to scramble up ten from the bottom of his pile of leaves, with a mindset to keep the peace, he handed over the walnuts to Fu Miaoxue.

Fu Miaoxue dropped her bamboo basket, held the walnuts in her skirt, and skulked away.

Pan Xiaoxin was puzzled.

…

In one corner of the forest, there was an open area with a small wooden house.

Fu Miaoxue didn’t see the Inspector.

When they had first entered the game, a Puppet Master Inspector who explained the game rules to them was outside the wooden house, but now the door of the house was shut, presumably, the Inspector would only appear towards the end of the game.

Fu Miaoxue, with walnuts bundled up in her skirt, made her way around the back of the wooden house, removed her veil and ditched her black dress.

Under her black dress was a pale pink petticoat.

She tied three or four walnuts together, then hung them around her neck, wrists and waist, put up her hair high, and placed a walnut leaf on each side of her bun –

Then, a cold smirk crawled up her face, she strutted out from behind the house, looking completely different than her initial masked black clothed figure when they had begun the game!

Now she looked like a real walnut puppet!

“Dare to steal my walnuts … Hmph, I’m going to take them all back!” Fu Miaoxue cast a menacing glance towards the forest, then dragged two large bamboo baskets in front of herself, and then, she stood still.

Yes, she stood still.

…

As time passed, with the end of the game nearing, more and more game-players accumulated in front of the house.

When they saw the “walnut puppet” in front of the house, they were very puzzled. Beside the puppet were bamboo baskets, which seemed to be there for the purpose of collecting walnuts.

“What’s going on? Can we submit the walnuts now?”

“We should be able to submit them, right? Only ten minutes left until the end.”

“Hey! Do they want us to submit early?”

Fu Miaoxue looked at them with a radiant smile, “Welcome everybody to this game, I’m the Inspector’s assistant. To avoid any disputes at the time of game settlement, you can do the calculation here in advance. Once settled, the number of walnuts will not change.”n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“The Inspector’s assistant?” Someone said suspiciously, “This is the first time I heard the Inspector has an assistant…”

But since Fu Miaoxue herself looked like a puppet, it was very deceiving. They could never imagine that a puppet could actually be a player. Even though they felt it was strange, they did not doubt Fu Miaoxue and poured all the walnuts they had collected into the two bamboo baskets beside her.

Other players who reached the house saw this scene and naturally considered it as part of the game. Without giving it too much thought, they followed the crowd and poured the walnuts into the baskets.

The two baskets were soon filled to the brim.

“Can we announce the results now?” a game-player asked.

Without giving anything away, Fu Miaoxue responded with her puppet-like, monotone voice, “Once everyone has settled, the results of this game can be announced.”

“Who has not yet settled?” a burly, impatient man looked around and prodded, “Hey! Whoever hasn’t settled yet, hurry up! Don’t waste everyone’s time! You guys hiding a few walnuts here and there won’t lead to a win!”

This burly man was the first to form a team at the beginning of the game. His five-man squad specialized in stealing other people’s walnuts! As a result, the team had the highest number of walnuts among all the players, barring any mishaps, the winners of the game would undoubtedly be these five people.

Perhaps because victory was within grasp, the burly man was being especially arrogant, shouting and hollering, until finally, the very last player showed up –

The last person to arrive at the house was Pan Xiaoxin.