But at this critical juncture, no amount of explanation will help.
You can't exactly say that he smeared mud all over Lu Qingyuan's face, and that Lu Qingyuan made him eat a mouthful of dirt, can you?
Does that mean his mind isn't working properly?
After seeing Zhao Yuqing off, Yu Tang turned around and saw Lu Qingyuan wiping the mud off his face with a handkerchief.
She met his gaze, smiled, and asked him, "My dear Yu-ge, is the soil tasty?"
Yu Tang was speechless. He walked up to Lu Qingyuan and used his dirty hands to smear the face that Lu Qingyuan had just cleaned, saying, "I can't be bothered to argue with you."
Lu Qingyuan grabbed his hand: "I can't be bothered to argue with you, and you even smeared dirt all over my face? You're so childish."
Yu Tang chose to skip the topic and said, "You deliberately didn't dig for explosives, not just to spite me, right?"
He speculated, "Is there something wrong with Chen Shu's plan? Or did you not plant the explosives here at all? Was it all just a decoy?"
Lu Qingyuan drooped his eyelids, looking disdainfully at the man who had an expectant expression.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "So far, what do you think of Chen Shu?"
“He…” Upon hearing Lu Qingyuan mention this, Yu Tang paused for a moment, thought carefully, and said, “I think he’s a bit strange.”
Lu Qingyuan's lips curled slightly as he continued, "Tell me, what's strange about it?"
"When he first came to the game, he was very irritable, like his IQ was offline."
However, he is also a top student in the Physics Department of University A.
Upon arriving at this hellish place, he seemed to instantly regain his composure. His beating of Wang Zhibin, his defense of Jiang Yuan, his rebuttal of my opinions, and his subsequent plans all became reasonable and logical, changing everyone's impression of him.
Yu Tang said, "Especially the three girls present must have developed quite a bit of a liking for him."
“Even I,” Yu Tang said, “having seen everything that has happened so far, I also think he’s a good guy. But that’s the strange thing…”
Lu Qingyuan asked, "So, you think he's acting?"
“It’s a bit harsh to say it’s acting,” Yu Tang replied, “but I just feel it’s not quite normal.”
"Have you ever heard the saying?" Lu Qingyuan raised the corners of his lips and said, "There's only a fine line between genius and madness."
He made no reservations in his assessment of Chen Shu, saying, "Chen Shu is a genius."
"What genius?" Yu Tang felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this, and asked, "You mean he might do bad things?"
"I didn't say that." Seeing his anxiety, Lu Qingyuan's smile became even more mischievous.
"I was just praising him as a genius."
"After all, isn't he a top student in the physics department of University A, which is ranked among the best in the world? Calling him a genius wouldn't be an exaggeration, would it?"
Yu Tang was so angry that he ground his teeth.
Lu Qingyuan was clearly toying with him, but he was powerless to do anything about it.
We can only guess along this line of thought.
The line between genius and madness is very thin...
Chen Shu's rapid change in behavior is certainly related to his personality and personal experiences.
It seems that in the next few dozen hours, in addition to figuring out a way to get these people out of hell, he will also have to try to understand their past.
Used to avoid unnecessary complications.
Chen Shu was the first to dig up the bomb, followed by Zhao Yuqing and Wang Zhibin. Yu Tang, due to Lu Qingyuan's interference, didn't dig up any.
This process took two hours.
Chen Shu glanced at the three bombs, took one out, observed it for about five minutes, asked Zhao Yuqing for a set of keys, and straightened the thin iron ring used to hold the keys.
Then he began to demonstrate how to defuse explosives with his bare hands.
From the moment Chen Shu started dismantling the device until the timing device was completely dismantled and broken down into smaller parts, the entire process took less than fifteen minutes.
Everyone was stunned.
Su An couldn't help but ask, "Senior Chen Shu, are you a genius?"
Jiang Yuan rubbed her reddened eyes, her gaze towards Chen Shu filled with disbelief. She even suddenly felt that the men she had encountered before were utterly insignificant compared to Chen Shu.
This guy is really outstanding.
She was so outstanding that it seemed unreal.
"It's alright..." Chen Shu seemed shy about the girl's gaze and coughed, "After all, this is my major, I can't let it down."
Yu Tang's eyes darkened slightly, and he felt that something was wrong with Chen Shu even more.
Because what Chen Shu is doing now is not a matter of professionalism or unprofessionalism at all.
After all, no matter how broad the physics curriculum is at a reputable university, it won't directly teach students how to defuse bombs.
Chen Shu's skill in defusing the bomb and the time it took him proved that he had a very deep understanding of it.
"I believe there are definitely more than three time bombs planted here."
Therefore, to make the search easier, we need to make several detectors.
Chen Shu stretched out his hand: "Please let me use your phones for a moment. I will use the available materials to do my best to make the detector as quickly as possible."
Wang Zhibin is a businessman, and perhaps he harbors resentment towards Chen Shu, feeling that the other party is meddling in his affairs and has made him lose face in front of everyone.
But rationally, he saw the ability Chen Shu had demonstrated, which meant he saw hope in leaving this place.
So even though he was reluctant, he eventually handed over his phone with a grim face along with everyone else.
Modifying the detector will take a considerable amount of time.
About three hours later, the mechanical voice sounded again.
At the same time, the underground soil was opened, and a metal box containing food for seven people was brought up.
It mainly consists of fast food and snacks, provided only once, enough to last them for three days.
Each person received a bag with their name written on it.
Everyone else was dressed in white, except for Yu Tang, whose dress was pink and decorated with countless little hearts.
So much so that when Yu Tang took the package of food out of the box, he didn't dare to look at the people around him, his face burning with embarrassment.
Pulling Lu Qingyuan to the other side of the mat, he picked up the bag and asked the young man, "Why did you give me a bag like this? Are you deliberately messing with me?"
"Who said it was to mess with you?" Lu Qingyuan suppressed a laugh, put his arm around the man's shoulder, and whispered in his ear, "I'm doing this because I love you..."
Chapter 30
Died for the villain for the fifth time (30)
Caught off guard by the sudden confession, Yu Tang paused for a moment, then glanced at the irresponsible Lu Qingyuan before choosing to ignore it.
He slapped the young man's hand away and looked down to check the contents of the bag.
I discovered that the bread, drinks, and even the sausages inside were all packaged in heart shapes...
Further inside, there was a beautifully packaged rose, shivering among a pile of heart-shaped foods.
Yu Tang finally broke down, laughing and sighing.
"How is it? Do you like it? If not, I have more here..." Lu Qingyuan waited for Yu Tang to look at him, then made a heart shape with his hands above his head and said to Yu Tang, "Here's a heart for you..."
The handsome devil's smile was genuinely sincere, and Yu Tang was amused by him, which made her laugh and lessen her anger towards Lu Qingyuan.
She couldn't help but reach out and flick Lu Qingyuan on the forehead.
He laughed and said, "Alright, stop fooling around."
After everyone finished eating, Chen Shu had already installed a modified small detector on each person's phone. Returning the phones to them made the search for the bomb much faster.
By 10 p.m., all the bombs had been dug out from underground.
There are a total of eighteen, just like the saying "eighteen levels of hell".
Almost ten hours had passed, and everyone was exhausted.
After finding all the bombs, Chen Shu told Yu Tang and the others to rest on the mats, while he himself had to dismantle all the bombs as quickly as possible.
There are toilets and bathrooms underground.
Men have one room, and women have one room.
After the girls took a shower, they went to sleep, while Wang Zhibin lay on the edge of the mat near Chen Shu, keeping a close eye on Chen Shu's every move.
He was afraid that the young man would take advantage of everyone being asleep and escape by taking the elevator.
But after watching for a while, he realized he was wrong.
Chen Shu had absolutely no intention of taking that elevator.
Compared to the elevator that offered an escape route, the time bomb in his hand attracted his attention more.
Under the lamplight, a flame seemed to burn in the young man's eyes—a startling focus and excitement.
Yu Tang was thinking of trying to get some information out of Chen Shu, but just as she was about to get up, Lu Qingyuan pushed her back down onto the mat.
The demon lay on top of him, kissed the man's chin, and lazily asked, "Where are we going?"
Yu Tang answered truthfully, "I'll go see Chen Shu."
Lu Qingyuan snorted through his nose: "You already have me, yet you're still thinking about other men."
He asked, "What? Is it that I can't satisfy you?"
Yu Tang was full of questions, and his greasy tone gave him goosebumps all over.
"Saying you have something wrong with your head is an understatement."
Rubbing his arms, Yu Tang ruthlessly flipped Lu Qingyuan aside, jumped off the mat, and walked towards Chen Shu.
Lu Qingyuan raised an eyebrow and followed Yu Tang's steps: "What do you want to see Chen Shu for?"
Should we expose his pretense to his face?
Yu Tang paused for a moment: "I'm not sure if his behavior is just an act yet, so we can't jump to conclusions about him too soon."
Although he found Chen Shu's behavior somewhat strange, he did not think Chen Shu was a bad person.