Peninsula: I can steal the luck of disgraced celebrities

Chapter 104 Running Man Ends (Three-in-One)

Lin Zhixun pulled Xiuzhi into the teaching building and went up the stairs to the second floor.

The door to the teachers' office at the end of the corridor was unlocked. Pushing the door open, you'd find two windows, one facing the playground and the other facing the open space behind it.

Lin Chih-hsun sat down at his desk and drew the curtains, leaving only a crack.

Suzy also came over and squatted down by the wall.

A scream came from the direction of the playground.

"Someone got torn apart." Suzy perked up her ears.

Lin Chih-hsun looked out through the gap in the curtains.

On the horizontal bar area by the playground, Kim Jong-kook was pinning Lee Kwang-soo to the ground, and half of Lee Kwang-soo's name tag had already been torn off.

Lee Soon-kyu was cheering him on from the side.

"Kwang-soo is out," Lim Ji-hoon said.

Suzy leaned over and took a look.

Kim Jong-kook threw Lee Kwang-soo's name tag on the ground, clapped his hands, and stood up. Lee Kwang-soo lay down for a while, then got up and walked towards the elimination zone.

Not long after, a second scream came from the direction of the stadium.

This time it's Jisu Town.

He was chased by Gary for half a lap before finally being cornered under the basketball hoop.

Song Ji-hyo stood by without intervening, watching as Gary tore off the name tag.

"Senior Ji Suk-jin is out too."

Suzy widened the gap in the curtains a little.

The two bachelors are gone, leaving only Haha and Song Joong-ki.

But the situation is not good.

Lin Zhixun noticed that Haha and Song Joong-ki were also gathering in the center of the playground, and Yoo Jae-suk had also arrived there at some point.

"They seem to have teamed up," Lin Zhixun frowned.

Haha and Song Joong-ki are left out, but if they want to team up, they should team up with Ji Suk-jin and Lee Kwang-soo, who are also single.

However, Ji Suk-jin and Lee Kwang-soo have already been eliminated.

So they approached Yoo Jae-suk and Im Yoon-ah to collaborate with them.

"Are they trying to team up against Jong Kook?" Suzy asked.

"Possibly. Kim Jong-kook poses the biggest threat. Let's take out the strongest one first, and deal with the rest slowly."

Suzy thought for a moment, then asked, "So what do we do?"

"Keep waiting."

On the playground, several people huddled together, talking about something.

Kim Jong-kook and Lee Soon-kyu stood at one end, while Gary and Song Ji-hyo were on the other side of the soccer goalpost, with each of the three groups occupying a corner.

Lin Zhixun stared at it for a while and figured it out.

The gathering of Haha and Yoo Jae-suk's group wasn't just a simple chat; they were setting up a scheme.

HAHA deliberately stood in the middle of the playground, with no cover around him, like a live target.

Kim Jong-kook took the bait.

He stepped out from the corner and moved towards HAHA.

Lee Soon-kyu followed behind, holding a relay baton he had borrowed from the props department.

"Jong-kook is about to make his move," Suzy whispered.

Kim Jong-kook walked slowly, leaning slightly forward with his arms hanging naturally at his sides.

A standard hunting posture.

He was still ten meters away from HAHA.

HAHA had her back to him and seemed not to notice.

eight meters.

six meters.

Haha suddenly turned around and ran towards the direction Yoo Jae-suk was standing.

Kim Jong-kook chased after him.

Just as he passed by the flagpole, Song Joong-ki rushed out from behind it.

He hugged Kim Jong-kook from the side, hanging his whole body on Kim Jong-kook.

Kim Jong-kook paused for a moment, his center of gravity shifted slightly, but he didn't fall.

He grabbed Song Joong-ki's clothes with one hand and tried to pull off the name tag on the back with the other.

Lee Soon-kyu rushed forward to tear off Song Joong-ki's name tag, but was stopped by Im Yoon-ah who suddenly appeared.

Just then, Yoo Jae-suk also made a move.

Instead of helping Haha, he went around behind Kim Jong-kook and reached for the name tag.

Three people simultaneously entangled Kim Jong-kook.

Lin Zhixun understood.

This whole scheme was set up for Kim Jong-kook from the very beginning.

Haha was the bait, Song Joong-ki was the first wave of attackers, Yoo Jae-suk was the assassin, and even Im Yoon-ah stood by to interfere with Lee Soon-kyu.

"They need to take down the strongest one first," Suzy said.

Even if Kim Jong-kook is strong, he can't withstand three people attacking at the same time.

"Kim Jong-kook, OUT!"

The loudspeaker came on.

Kim Jong-kook's name tag was torn off and he was a little annoyed, but he wasn't really angry.

He gave Yoo Jae-suk a thumbs-up and turned to walk towards the elimination zone.

Lee Soon-kyu stood to the side, paused for two seconds, and then glared at Lim Yoon-a.

That look in her eyes clearly said: I never expected my best friend to betray me first.

Kim Jong-kook and Lee Soon-kyu were eliminated.

The situation on the playground changed instantly.

Of the original four couples, only Yoo Jae-suk & Im Yoon-ah, Gary & Song Ji-hyo, and Lim Ji-hoon & Suzy remain alive.

Although Haha and Song Joong-ki are single, they teamed up. While they didn't have any couple combo skills, there was no rule that if one of them died, the other would be eliminated.

"They're looking for us," Suzy said.

On the playground, HAHA pointed towards the teaching building, and several people turned to look at him at the same time.

"It's time to leave."

Lin Zhixun pulled Xiuzhi out of the back door of the teachers' office and ran along the corridor toward the stairwell.

As I approached the stairs, I heard footsteps ahead.

Lin Zhixun suddenly stopped and shielded Xiuzhi behind him.

Song Joong-ki emerged from around the corner.

"Brother, you're here." Song Joong-ki smiled.

Lin Zhixun also smiled.

"Song-ki, we're such good friends, why are you going to tear me apart?"

Song Joong-ki took a step forward.

"Brother, do you remember when we were on the set of 'Snowfall' you promised to send me flowers after filming wrapped?"

Lin Zhixun thought for a moment and realized that he seemed to have really forgotten, "A person with a good memory won't be happy."

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HAHA appeared behind him.

"What are you babbling about? Valentine's Day, of course we should kill all you couples first!" HAHA's words sounded like those of a social terrorist.

It's blocked.

There are two people in front of you, and a dead end behind you.

Suzy tugged at Lim Ji-hoon's sleeve. "Let's use a combined technique."

Lin Zhixun took an envelope out of his pocket.

Before the competition, the PD gave each couple a sealed envelope, saying that it could only be opened when they decided to use a combination move.

He tore it all the way to the bottom and pulled out the card.

Two lines of text.

【Couple's Combo Skill: Princess Carry】

[Partner A lifts Partner B into a princess carry; both are immune to this position for 20 seconds.]

Lin Zhixun turned it over and looked at the back.

blank.

He flipped it back to the front.

It does indeed say "princess carry".

"What kind of combined technique? Let me see." Suzy reached out her hand.

Suzy snatched it away.

She looked at Lin Zhixun with a puzzled expression.

That look clearly said, "What's there to hesitate about?"

Song Joong-ki had already walked four meters away, tilting his head to look at them: "Hyung, are you guys passing notes?"

HAHA urged from behind, "Surrender, surrender, don't do anything pointless." Suzy crumpled the card into a ball and stuffed it back into Lim Ji-hoon's hand.

"quick."

Lin Chih-hsun bent down, put his left hand behind her waist, and supported her knee with his right hand, then exerted force.

Suzy exclaimed "Ah—" and reflexively hugged his neck.

The entire teaching building fell silent for half a second.

The photographer almost slammed the camera against the wall.

HAHA's face behind the camera was absolutely hilarious—his mouth was agape in an "O" shape, and his hands were dangling in mid-air.

The PD's walkie-talkie crackled to life: "Couple's Combo Move—Princess Carry, confirmed! Immunity for twenty seconds, start timer!"

"A... a princess carry?" Haha's voice cracked. "This counts as a combined technique?!"

Lin Zhixun carried the person and rushed towards Song Joong-ki.

Song Joong-ki was able to reach the name tag on his back—

"Immune! Ineffective!" The PD on camera raised a small flag.

Song Joong-ki's hand froze in mid-air, and he awkwardly took a half-step back.

Lin Chih-hsun squeezed past and ran as fast as he could along the corridor toward the stairwell.

The person in his arms had their arms around his neck, and their hair was brushing against his chin, making him feel incredibly itchy.

"Can you run a little faster?" Suzy's voice was right next to his ear.

"Loosen your grip, your neck is going to break."

"Do you think I'm too heavy?"

"I'm really suffocating."

Suzy's arm relaxed slightly.

There was a moment of silence.

"Is it heavy or not?"

"Suzy, can we please not talk about this during the 20-second countdown?"

"Just say one word."

"It's not heavy!"

"snort."

At the corner of the stairs, I jumped down the steps to the first-floor corridor and pushed open the side door.

The PD was counting down on the walkie-talkie: "Seven, six, five—"

'

Lin Zhixun carried the person around the flower bed and kicked open the door of the storage room next to the sports equipment room.

While letting go of Suzy—

"II.1—Immunization complete!"

Passed by just barely making the cut.

The two people squatted behind the vaulting box, panting.

Lin Chih-hsun shook his arms; his forearms were sore and swollen.

He carried her for nearly 6,000 meters, thankfully Suzy isn't heavy. If it were Kim Jong-kook, he would have collapsed before even reaching 6,000 meters.

Soo-ji leaned against the wall, fidgeting with the loose thread on her sleeve, refusing to look at him.

It was quiet for a long time.

"You ran pretty fast just now," she said first.

"It will be torn up soon."

"So you can run this fast all the time?"

"No one usually pursues me."

There was another moment of silence.

"A princess carry like this—" Suzy muttered, "Are you really that resistant to me?"

"This is not about taking your opinion into consideration."

"Don't you know what I'm thinking?"

Lin Zhixun fell silent for a moment.

He still remembers that forceful kiss from that day.

How could he not know such a straightforward expression of love from a girl?

but----

Lin Zhixun sighed, "You're still young, you don't understand what liking or love is yet. Let's talk about this again a year from now, if you still like me."

Bae Suzy did not respond.

I don't know if it's a yes or a no.

The window was small, and the view just covered a corner of the playground.

Haha and Song Joong-ki stood next to the flagpole, but Yoo Jae-suk and Im Yoon-ah were not present.

Strangely, the two men were facing the other end of the football field.

Gary and Song Ji-hyo were active in that area before.

"Come and take a look."

Suzy crouched down next to him, standing on tiptoe to look outside. The two of them were squeezed together, shoulder to shoulder.

Haha made a gesture, and Song Joong-ki nodded. The two then went their separate ways, one heading towards the soccer goalpost and the other towards the stands.

A typical flanking maneuver.

"They're fishing," Suzy said.

Lin Zhixun figured it out.

HAHA went behind the soccer goalpost, squatted down, deliberately showing most of his name tag, and faced away from where he came from, like a live target.

The tactics used to hunt down Kim Jong-kook were exactly the same: bait and a sneak attack.

Suzy continued her analysis, "They were initially targeting Jong Kook, but with Jong Kook out, the alliance is no longer necessary."

"Now Haha and Joong-ki are continuing their fishing, planning to harvest couples one by one."

On the playground, a fish took the bait.

Gary and Song Ji-hyo walked over from the other side of the soccer field and saw Haha alone. Gary bent down and reached behind the goal frame.

Song Ji-hyo followed behind.

Three meters, two meters.

The moment Gary reached out, Song Joong-ki flipped out from the last row of the audience.

Song Ji-hyo called out.

That's too late.

Song Joong-ki pressed against him from behind, pressing down on his shoulder with his left hand and pulling him with his right.

Clean and neat.

"Gary, OUT!"

The broadcast echoed throughout the campus.

Gary remained frozen in the outstretched hand position for three seconds, like an awkward statue.

HAHA stood up from behind the door frame, dusted himself off, and made an "excuse me" gesture to Gary.

Song Ji-hyo stood a few steps away, then turned and walked away.

Gary chased after her: "Ji-hyo—"

"I don't want to talk."

"I was ambushed."

"Shut up."

Gary shrank back and followed, not daring to utter another word.

In the storage room, Soo-ji was suppressing a laugh, her shoulders shaking slightly.

"Alright, stop watching the show." Lin Zhixun sewed the curtains back up.

The current situation is clear—

The two couples are: myself and Suzy, and Yoo Jae-suk and Im Yoon-ah.

Two people working alone: ​​Haha and Song Joong-ki.

The teams consist of four against two, but the fatal flaw of the couples is that they are eliminated through teamwork.

Haha and Song Joong-ki only need to keep an eye on Suzy or Im Yoon-ah, and they can take down one and then harvest the rest.

"We need to rendezvous with Jae-seok," Lim Ji-hoon concluded. "The two couples should stick together and cover for each other, so they can't find an opportunity to attack you or Yoona individually."

The two of them stayed close to the wall, bypassed the equipment room, and walked through the connecting corridor without encountering anyone along the way.

Haha and Song Joong-ki just scored on the football field, so they won't be coming over here anytime soon.

The music classroom on the third floor had its door ajar.

Push the door open and go inside.

Yoo Jae-suk sat on the piano bench, while Im Yoon-ah stood by the window drinking water.

"You guys ran away too?" Yoo Jae-suk relaxed a little when he saw them.

"I almost managed to escape," Lin Zhixun explained the current situation.

Gary is out, and Haha and Song Joong-ki are turning against him and reaping the benefits.

"Did you use a combined technique?"

"I used it."

"What kind of combined technique?"

Lin Zhixun hesitated for half a second.

"—Princess carry."

Yoona turned her head to look at them, glanced at them again, and then covered her mouth and laughed.

Yoo Jae-suk slapped his thigh, "No wonder it's a Valentine's Day special."

"Seniors, what about yours?"

Yoo Jae-suk pulled an unopened envelope from his pocket. "Useless. I'm keeping it."

"Don't dismantle it yet." Lin Zhixun looked around the classroom and walked to the podium.

The blackboard was completely blank, so he picked up the chalk.

"Haha and the other two have already taken down Kim Jong-kook and Gary's groups, and now they're definitely looking for us."

He drew a horizontal line on the blackboard.

"The third floor of this building has a straight corridor with a staircase on each side. This is the most likely place they'd search."

Haha's voice came from downstairs: "Mori-dong—Emi—are you guys in this building?"

All four people froze at the same time.

coming.

"Don't rush." ​​Yoo Jae-suk stood up from the piano bench, his voice very low.

Lin Chih-hsun put down the chalk and pricked up his ears.

The footsteps downstairs were still echoing on the first floor; they hadn't come up.

"This building has three exits: the front door, the back door, and the fire escape on the side of the first floor. Two people can't block all three." Yoo Jae-suk quickly assessed the terrain and looked at Lim Ji-hoon, "What are your thoughts?"

Lin Zhixun added a few strokes to the blackboard he had just half-drawn—the location of the east staircase, the west staircase, and the music classroom.

"Let them come up."

"Come up?"

"Haha and Songki just called out the direction of the music classroom, which means they guessed that we were at the far west end. After confirming the target location, they will take the nearest east staircase to the third floor."

"Then?"

"I stayed in the music room as bait, while Suzy hid in the next classroom, closing the door and remaining silent."

Suzy frowned but didn't say anything.

"Senior Jae-seok and Yoona went down the west staircase, circled around to the east entrance on the first floor, and squatted down until they both went up to the third floor."

Lin Zhixun drew two arrows on the blackboard, one from west to east and the other from east to west.

"Surrounded from both sides, the corridor is forty meters long with no side paths in the middle; there's no way to escape."

Yoo Jae-suk stared at the arrow on the blackboard and slowly nodded.

"Sure, but there's a problem: they might not both come up together."

"So we need to create noise to keep their attention focused on this classroom." Lin Zhixun reached out and patted the upright piano. "If the two of them have confirmed that their prey is in the same spot, there's no reason for them to split up and take a longer route."

Yoona, who had been listening intently, finally spoke up: "When are we going to use Jae-seok's combination technique?"

"When the two people are trapped in the middle of the corridor," Lin Zhixun replied, "there will be enough time to open the envelope."

"Let's take the west staircase." Yoo Jae-suk pulled Im Yoon-ah along, and the two quickly left the classroom, their footsteps disappearing at the west end of the corridor.

Suzy walked towards classroom 201 next door, and paused when she put her hand on the doorknob.

"Can you manage on your own?"

"I should be asking you that. Stay hidden and don't make a sound."

Suzy snorted and pushed the door open to go inside. The moment the door closed, only Lim Ji-hoon remained in the corridor.

He walked back to the music room and left the door open.

I sat down at the piano.

I took a deep breath, extended my index finger, and pressed a button.

"bite"

The key of C major, with its crisp sound, was played several times in the empty corridor.

I waited for five seconds.

Press one more.

"bite-"

The sound of the piano drifted out of the third-floor window and carried far across the campus in the evening.

The footsteps downstairs stopped.

Then, we started to go up.

Lin Zhixun stood up from the piano bench and retreated to a blind spot next to the door. From this position, he could see the staircase at the end of the corridor on the east side.

Footsteps echoed in the stairwell.

First floor.

The second floor.

Third floor.

Two figures appeared at the end of the corridor.

Haha came up first, followed by Song Joong-ki.

HAHA peeked into the corridor and saw that the music classroom door was wide open. He turned around and exchanged a "it's inside" look with Song Joong-ki.

The two walked side by side this way.

Fifteen meters.

ten meters.

Lin Zhixun heard it.

At the other end of the corridor, another set of footsteps came from the east stairwell; they were very soft, but clear enough in the quiet corridor.

Yoo Jae-suk and Im Yoon-ah have arrived.

HAHA walked to the door of the music classroom and peeked inside.

The piano bench was empty; the classroom was deserted.

"Strange, just now..."

Lin Zhixun emerged from behind the door.

"Ah—!" Haha screamed, bouncing backward and bumping into Song Joong-ki behind him.

The two stumbled half a step before managing to regain their balance.

Song Joong-ki's first reaction was to turn and run.

He stopped after running less than five steps.

At the other end of the corridor, Yoo Jae-suk and Im Yoon-ah stood side by side.

Interlocking fingers.

"What—" Song Joong-ki looked down at their clasped hands.

Yoo Jae-suk's expression was unusually calm.

The PD, holding a walkie-talkie, confirmed: "Couple's Combo Attack—Chain of Love, confirmed! Any opponent touched by both of you simultaneously within 30 seconds will be automatically eliminated!"

Haha and Song Joong-ki took two steps back.

But it was too late.

In front of them was Lin Chih-hsun coming out of the music classroom, and behind him was the "Elimination Chains" group holding hands.

The corridor is forty meters long and has no forks in the road.

To the left is the classroom wall, and to the right is a window, a window on the third floor.

"Haha, how about we jump out the window?" Lin Zhixun took a step forward.

"You want me to jump from the third floor!"

"Even Jackie Chan dares to jump."

"You said it yourself, that's Jackie Chan!"

HAHA turned around and glanced at it.

Yoo Jae-suk and Im Yoon-ah were running over hand in hand.

The two of them spread their arms wide, like an impenetrable fishing net.

HAHA chose not to lane against this group.

He shifted his body slightly, trying to slip away from Lin Zhixun.

Song Joong-ki shared the same thought.

The two collided, giving Yoo Jae-suk's team a half-second chance.

Im Yoon-a patted Song Joong-ki's shoulder.

"Song Joong-ki, OUT!"

Taking advantage of the chaos, HAHA squeezed through the gap and ran wildly westward.

"Chase!" Lin Zhixun shouted, following from behind.

HAHA had only run a few steps when he pushed open the door to classroom 201.

Suzy was squatting behind her desk, still clutching her phone in her hand.

Four eyes met.

HAHA's eyes lit up. "There's an old Chinese saying, 'A loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.'"

Suzy, however, remained completely unfazed, instead flashing her professional fake smile, "Senior, you have someone behind you."

HAHA chuckled strangely, "You think such a fake lie is true—"

"Haha, OUT!"

Lin Zhixun is holding a HAHA name tag in his hand.

There was a two-second silence.

Haha turned her head away helplessly, "How did you find it so fast!"

Lin Zhixun shrugged, "I turned around and couldn't see you, so I went to check on Xiuzhi's room. I didn't expect to find something like this."

"Why."

HAHA sighed helplessly and was carried away by the crew.

"Two couples remain in the competition—Yoo Jae-suk & Im Yoon-a vs. Lim Ji-hoon & Bae Suzy! The final showdown is about to begin!"

The atmosphere in the teaching building changed as soon as the announcement came on.

We were allies just a moment ago, but now we can only face each other.

Yoo Jae-suk's voice came from the corridor not far behind him.

"Shixun-xi, let's have a man's duel, let's have a one-on-one fight."

Lin Zhixun turned around.

Four people were standing in the third-floor corridor, with the two groups of people less than ten meters apart.

"Of course!" Lin Zhixun said with a smile.

Lin Zhixun went to meet him.

The girls on both sides didn't move.

Suzy stood still, her hands in her hoodie pockets.

Im Yoon-ah stood not far behind Yoo Jae-suk, watching.

Yoo Jae-suk made the first move.

The speed wasn't fast, but the route was tricky. Instead of reaching for the brand name directly, he patted Lin Zhixun's shoulder with his left hand and dodged in the opposite direction.

Feint.

Lin Zhixun reacted, leaned back half a step, and turned around. Liu Zaishi's right hand was already about 30 centimeters behind him.

Almost.

Lin Zhixun lunged forward, creating distance between them.

"Senior, you've been doing variety shows for so many years, your movements are quite agile."

Yoo Jae-suk took a breath. "You think I've been on Running Man for nothing?"

In the second round, Lin Chih-hsun took the initiative.

He lowered his center of gravity and approached head-on.

Yoo Jae-suk took two steps back and tripped.

wrong.

There was nothing under his feet.

It's an act.

Lin Zhixun was tricked.

But youth has its advantages, and Lin Zhixun reacted quickly, dodging yet another trap.

Yoo Jae-suk is experienced, and Lim Ji-hoon is physically fit.

The two became entangled in this way.

For a moment, Yoona was so engrossed in watching that she didn't even notice that Suzy had disappeared.

And where is Suzy?

Suzy was already standing directly behind Yoona.

It turned out that Suzy had taken advantage of the fact that the two people opposite her were not paying attention to her, and secretly slipped away, circled around and came up behind Im Yoona.

"Yoona sunbaenim, I'm sorry."

Upon hearing the sound, Lin Yoona reacted as if she had encountered a ghost and was about to turn around.

Suzy then took action.

His right hand touched the edge of the name tag, and with a flick of his fingertips, he ripped it open!

"Lim Yoona, OUT!"

The second announcement came on the same second the broadcast started.

"Yoo Jae-suk, your partner is out, and you're eliminated along with him—OUT!"

"Finally victorious—Lim Ji-hoon & Bae Suzy!"