Chapter 16

“That’s it.”

As she spoke, Bai Jing pointed to the open space.

Looking at the empty space where a husky was lying, Han An asked, “The basement?”

“No,” Bai Jing explained, “the truck used to be parked here, but now it’s gone.”

“Truck? I don’t understand what you’re talking about at all.”

“They converted trucks into secret rooms and then let the bravest people go inside.”

“Converting a truck into a secret room?!”

“Yes,” Bai Jing said, “I thought they would stay here for several days, but I didn’t expect they were no longer here.”

Hearing his wife’s words, Han An became somewhat angry.

When his wife claimed the marks on her wrists were from an escape room game and that she would be taking him there that day, Han An wondered how she would manage to lie. After all, if there really were escape rooms, a simple question would easily confirm she was lying. Han An had always believed the marks on his wife’s wrists were from when her lover had tied her up.

Unexpectedly, his wife said that the escape room was actually conducted inside a truck!

That’s a really ruthless move!

After calming down, Han An asked, “How can we escape from a locked room in a truck with such a small space?”

“That’s enough,” Bai Jing said. “Many escape room games take place in rooms, and isn’t the overall space of a truck almost the same as a room?”

Are you sure you’re telling the truth?

“Honey, have I ever lied to you?”

Han An felt a bit disgusted when he heard his wife’s words.

After lighting a cigarette, Han An said, “I’ll ask you one more time, is your so-called escape room in the truck really true?”

“certainly.”

“Alright, you stay here, I’ll go ask around!”

“Where can I ask? They’re all gone.”

“With so many shops around, someone will surely be able to give me the right answer,” Han An said. “If I find out you’re lying to me again, just you wait and see!”

After saying that, Han An walked towards the nearest women’s clothing store.

When Han An walked into the women’s clothing store, the sales assistant who had been in a daze immediately perked up.

“Handsome, are you going to pick out clothes for your wife?”

“I have a question.”

“oh?”

Was there an escape room in that open space next door a couple of days ago?

“You mean that?” the saleswoman said with a particularly bright smile. “Let me tell you, I tried it out the other day when I had some free time, but I gave up after ten minutes, which made me waste two hundred yuan. There are quite a few people like me who try it out but end up paying for it, so that thing is really easy to make money. You get a truck, decorate the inside, put a chair in the truck, and then put some things that might be related to escape, and you’re all set.”

Han An was quite surprised to hear what the sales assistant said.

He thought his wife was lying to him, but it turned out to be true.

Could it be that his wife really did play escape room games, which is why she has marks on her wrists?

At this moment, Han An noticed that there were no marks on the sales assistant’s wrists.

Noticing this, Han An asked, “Aren’t you tied up?”

“Yes, I have!”

“Then you should have marks on your hands, right?”

“Traces?” the sales assistant asked, seemingly puzzled. “Why would there be those?”

“With your wrists tightly bound by rope, it will put pressure on them, and there should be marks on them, more or less?”

“They are handcuffs.”

“Not a rope?”

“Of course not.”

“When you were handcuffed, were your hands in front or behind?”

“It’s up ahead,” the sales assistant said. “Anyway, both my hands are handcuffed, and then I have to find the key. The key is hidden somewhere in the carriage, but I can’t find it no matter what I do. I wanted to hold out a little longer, but I was afraid the boss would get angry, so I had to give up.”

“Besides handcuffs, is it also an option to tie them up with rope?”

“I don’t think so, I don’t remember clearly.”

“Think about it again carefully.”

“All I remember are handcuffs,” the sales assistant asked, frowning slightly. “Why are you asking about that?”

“It’s alright, thank you.”

“oh.”

After smiling at the sales assistant, Han An walked out of the women’s clothing store.

Looking at his wife standing ten meters away, Han An realized that this woman was becoming more and more unpredictable to him.

A completely false lie is not scary; what is scary is a lie that is half true and half false.

For example, his wife had passed by this area a couple of days ago and saw a truck specifically used for escape rooms. So when she realized he had seen the ligature marks on her wrist, she said she got them while playing in an escape room. Since escape rooms have indeed been used here, and the truck that operated them is now nowhere to be found, this half-truth and half-lies are hard to expose.

Even if he asked the nearby shopkeepers, they all said that the hands were bound by handcuffs, what was the point?

After all, his wife would say there were ropes in the truck too.

Therefore, in Han An’s view, the marks on his wife’s wrists might remain an unsolvable mystery.

An unsolvable mystery?

fart!

What if that man tied up his wife in the Flower Bamboo Inn!

Then he’ll definitely be able to find that man!

Once the man is found, it will be clear whether his wife was willing or not!

The most disgusting truth is that his wife came to Lijiang to see her lover, and then played sexual malaria games with him while her hands were tied up.

As for the scratches on the inner thighs, they were obviously caused while playing the game.

This is the most disgusting truth. So what is the best truth?

It seems that no matter what the truth is, it will certainly not be able to comfort Han An.

“Honey, why were you so angry just now?” Bai Jing asked, looking somewhat bewildered. “You rarely get angry in front of me, which makes me wonder if I did something wrong.”

“I thought there had never been any escape room games here.”

“So that’s why you’re angry?”

“Um.”

“Okay,” Bai Jing smiled and said, “Actually, it’s normal for you to be angry, honey. After all, who would believe that an escape room is played in a truck? And I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, if these marks on my body weren’t from playing an escape room, then what kind of situation would have caused them? You might think I was kidnapped, but that never happened.”

“I was chatting with your mother last night, and we ended up talking about the car accident she had years ago. She said that if you hadn’t given her more than 500,000 yuan, she would never have been able to walk in her life.”

“It’s a pity that the driver who caused the accident was not caught, otherwise there would have been no need to withdraw all the savings.”

“You earned all of that when you were a tour guide?”

“A small portion are, but most are not.”

“Where did it come from? Did you find it?”

“Um.”

Hearing his wife’s remarkably fluent answer, Han An asked in surprise, “Where did you find those hundreds of thousands?”