Unconventional blind dates

Chapter 146 The Mysterious Shadows of Shanghai in 1921

Although Shanghai in 1921 was known as the "Pearl of the Orient," it was not as prosperous as "Little Mumbai of China" a century later.

Inside a small villa, Pan Shuai, dressed smartly in a suit, felt like he was still dreaming. "Old Lu, have we really time-traveled?"

Lu Li slapped him. "Does it hurt?"

"pain."

"That means we traveled through time."

"."

Pan Shuai, covering his face, suddenly realized what was happening, rushed forward, and grabbed Lu Li by the collar. "You just want to hit me, don't you?!"

Lu Li smiled and said, "I don't hit idiots."

Pan Shuai: "."

He was suffocating!

How should I respond to that?

Admit you're not stupid?

So you mean Lu Li played well?

But if you don't admit it

So, does that mean I, Pan Shuai, am an idiot?

wrong!

No matter how I answer, I'll sound like a fool!

The only option is to say nothing and then punch back!

Unfortunately, they couldn't win.

Although Pan Shuai knew that if he really punched Lu Li, Lu Li probably wouldn't fight back.

But there's no need for that.

He loosened Lu Li's collar.

Lu Li straightened his collar and smiled, "How are you feeling now?"

Pan Shuai chuckled, then punched Lu Li on the shoulder, "You're really something."

"Old Lu, sometimes I don't know why you have such a good mental fortitude. You've transmigrated, after all. To be honest, my parents are alive and well, and we have a harmonious life. If you hadn't also transmigrated here, I really don't know if I could have survived."

"Time is the best healer; in the end, everyone survives."

Lu Li didn't say much about this topic.

What could he say?

They said my parents might have died a long time ago but I didn't know?

I've experienced too many things like this in the past few months, but my worldview changed before, and now I've been transported to another time?

Isn't this nonsense?

Lu Li turned to look at Fang Yuebai, "Bai Bai, are you alright?"

The men were also feeling very bad.

But the one who must be suffering the most is probably Fang Yuebai.

Although Lu Li kept calling her a pay thief, Fang Yuebai was actually the one who was doing the best among them.

She is a civil servant, an only child, and her parents are retired civil servants. She is beautiful, has a good figure, and has no bad habits.

She's practically a role model for a successful life.

If we were to ask who among these people least wanted to time travel, it would definitely be Fang Yuebai.

"I'm fine." Fang Yuebai acted nonchalantly. "My parents both have pensions, and our arrival was rather absurd. If we can go back later, then nothing will happen."

"..." Lu Li was impressed. "You're really thick-skinned."

"Let's not talk about that now." Although Fang Yuebai was a pay thief, she was still considered the smartest among them. She asked a question, "This should be Shanghai, right? But when I was chatting with the rich lady next door, she said it's called the Magic City. Is this some kind of parallel world?"

She has a Shanghai household registration, but she moved here because she took the civil service exam and is now living in Los Angeles.

Her parents didn't come.

Of course, when Lu Li asked her, she said she missed Lu Li.

Lu Li immediately retorted, "Then why don't we go get a marriage certificate?"

Then the girl chickened out.

Therefore, she speaks the local dialect quite fluently.

"Hmm, this world has a lot of problems." Lu Li's expression was slightly grave. "Have you found out anything else?"

Upon arriving in this world, Lu Li sensed that something posed a threat to him.

But all I could feel was a threat, and I couldn't tell what it was that posed that threat.

So the first thing to do was to use the gold that Xing Tian had offered to buy this little house.

The villa is not in a remote location, but it is not in the city center either.

This way, it wouldn't be as conspicuous as a mansion, but it also wouldn't lead to danger by mingling in the slums.

After all, Fang Yuebai is an ordinary person.

That's right, Pan Shuai and his team have indeed inherited the power levels from previous modern martial arts films.

Okay, all of the above is nonsense.

The real reason I bought this house was because it had a flush toilet.

At least Lu Li no longer has to use dry toilets or public toilets.

But Fang Yuebai still needs to get some information out of him.

If you're a local, you should know at least a little bit about it.

"There is indeed some very strange information."

Fang Yuebai's words perked up Lu Li. "What information?"

Fang Yuebai hesitated for a moment, "That Mrs. Li said not to go out at night. She said that recently, people who wander outside at night have been going missing, and even Nanjing Road and the Bund are not very popular."

Nanjing Road was one of the most prosperous areas in Shanghai at that time.

Needless to say, the Bund is another story.

The so-called "bustling Shanghai at night" refers to this area.

Not every place in Shanghai was as prosperous a hundred years ago.

But both places become deserted at night?

Lu Li asked, "Did they say why you disappeared?"

"She doesn't know either." Fang Yuebai shook his head. "But Mrs. Li said that the police and patrol officers told them this. After all, the family in front of our building went out to dinner one night and all eight of them disappeared, so they sold it to us at a low price."

"No wonder they sold it to us so quickly. Let's not go out for now."

Lu Li thought for a moment and then instructed, "Tonight is our first night after we transmigrated, so everyone should stay home. I happen to have a lot of food here, so we can make do with some instant noodles for now."

As he spoke, he took out five buckets of instant noodles from his Mustard Seed Sumeru Pouch and handed them to Fang Yuebai. "Oh, right, there's one more thing."

Then he took out a few eggs and some sausages and handed them over, "Could you please add two poached eggs, runny yolks, and one sausage as well? Thank you."

Fang Yuebai stood there dumbfounded, holding the huge pile of food.

Lu Li said matter-of-factly, "I've already brought out food, do you expect me to cook noodles myself?"

"Tsk."

After rolling her eyes, Fang Yuebai turned and left—referring to cooking instant noodles.

Pan Shuai clicked his tongue. "Old Lu, isn't it a bit much to make a girl cook instant noodles?"

"Then you go?"

"Actually, it's pretty good, it's about gender equality."

Anyway, Pan Shuai is determined not to go.

"But now that you mention it, we actually got back quite in time, it's almost dark now."

Pan Shuai smacked his lips, "I still want to see just how bustling this 'Night Shanghai' really is."

"They're all just fake bourgeois; they're disgusting to look at."

Lu Li scoffed.

He wouldn't have been so direct in the past.

But after killing people before, he felt that he had opened the door to a new world.

Or perhaps a switch inside the body has been flipped.

Perhaps it's the exhilarating feeling after crossing one's own legal boundaries?

He started to become somewhat reckless.

It's roughly like the feeling of "I don't care about anything anymore".

But we still need to find a way to bring Pan Shuai and the others back.

Seeing the atmosphere getting a bit cold, Pan Shuai added, "If this family really has disappeared, wouldn't this be a haunted house? I often see these kinds of haunted houses from the Republican era in third-rate domestic horror movies."

"Indeed." Lu Li nodded, pointing behind Pan Shuai, "For example, there's a ghostly figure on the window behind you right now."

(End of this chapter)