Empress’ Game: Make-up Master Chapter 58 - The Big Puppets Were Appreciated

Wu Sheyue cautiously shifted toward the window and sharply demanded, “Who exactly are you? Is our miss someone you can meet whenever you say you want to?”

The white-clad beauty looked even colder and prouder than Wu Liuyun. He paid no attention to Wu Sheyue’s small movements and simply held the bluish-purple head, asking coolly, “You really aren’t Wu Sheyue?”

Wu Sheyue immediately shook her head. “I’m not!”

This cold person probably only wanted to see Wu Sheyue. Hearing her say she was not, he stepped forward, intending to go straight in through the window to find her.

Wu Sheyue feared his martial arts. His action chilled her back, and she hastily slapped the window shutter with her palm.

Seeing such a strange movement, the white-clad beauty indeed stopped cautiously.

At that moment, several whooshing sounds rang out. Three black shadows suddenly flew down from the roof.

The shadows were wrapped in black gauze, arms spread wide, billowing like a vast sheet falling from the sky. The gauze was thin enough that the forms beneath could be seen: long arms, long legs, and extremely strange proportions.

If ordinary people saw such horrifying things at night, every hair on their body would stand on end. However, this white-clad beauty merely lifted his head and looked upward. The curve of his neck was elegant, and Wu Sheyue also saw his Adam’s apple.

The beauty’s gaze sharpened. His brows drew together. Facing the three black shadows rushing toward him, he suddenly threw the ghost head he had been holding.

The head carried internal force and slammed into the shadow in the middle with a boom. The middle shadow was knocked down at once.

“Hey—” Wu Sheyue was directly below and was caught off guard as two of her own creations smashed into her.

The other two black shadows continued rushing toward the white-clad beauty from the left and right. He could not determine what they were and did not want to touch them recklessly. He grabbed the railing beside him and leapt down into the crabapple flowerbed below.

After landing, he looked again and discovered that the two ghostly shadows had not turned to chase him. After flying down from the roof on one side, they swept around, hit nothing, and followed their momentum up onto the roof on the other side.

At first, the white-clad man had been somewhat doubtful and wary of these strange things. But after seeing the path the black shadows took, he seemed to understand something. A faint smile appeared at the corners of his eyes and brows.

Wu Sheyue finally shoved aside the “big puppet” pressing down on her. This Third Miss’s body still had not been nursed back to health and remained weak.

She was burning with hatred. Who knew which kind-hearted sister had invited this troublemaker as reinforcement? Thinking of this, she got up and jumped into the crabapple flowerbed as well.

When the white-clad man saw her jump down too, he immediately stepped back to avoid being pounced on.

But the instant Wu Sheyue landed in the flowerbed, she bent and touched the ground. Four more black shadows suddenly sprang up from the soil around them.

The man looked around and saw that under the moonlight, those shadows were extremely strange. Dirt and petals fell from their bodies. Looking closely, he realized they were four severely rotted corpses covered in earth.

A trace of surprise and curiosity appeared in the white-clad man’s eyes.

Under the moonlight, the corpses emitted a moldy green glow. Beneath rotten flesh, eerie white bone showed through. Earthworms and ants crawled across them, and the smell of soil rushed toward him.

Faced with such a terrifying and disgusting scene, the white-clad man’s expression finally changed a little. “You…”

He could tell that these strange things, whatever they were, might not be very lethal. But they were certainly more disgusting than the last.

Wu Sheyue secretly swept her hand through the flowerbed, and the four zombies suddenly began to move. They stiffly waved their arms, and the clicking sound of joints and bones was especially chilling.

The man seemed temporarily unable to distinguish how these corpses were moving, so he did not act rashly. It looked as if he were asking himself in his heart: why had he come here without bringing a weapon?

Wu Sheyue said darkly, “Little beauty, do you want to keep going? There are enough things in my courtyard to play with you until dawn.”

In truth, her heart was pounding as she said this. She had not done much work recently and had been studying the Old Madam’s birthday gift, so she had already pulled out everything she had hidden in the courtyard. If this person really had no hesitation and tore everything apart by hand, there was nothing she could do. She could not beat him anyway.

Wu Sheyue was making a bet. She was betting that people in ancient times did not understand the mechanics behind this, and that this world had never seen such realistic fakes. Even in modern times, she did not believe anyone could immediately distinguish props from real objects in such darkness.

After moving their joints a bit, the corpses stopped. But all their heads turned toward the man, their empty eye sockets seeming to stare at him, ready to attack at any moment.

The man looked at the zombies, seemingly considering why such a scene was possible. After pondering for a moment, he suddenly let out a light laugh.

His voice was as warm and clear as jade, and he himself was like a graceful immortal. Yet when he laughed like that, Wu Sheyue felt he was more unsettling than the zombies.

“I don’t really want to touch corpses, but those flying big puppets of yours are rather interesting,” he suddenly said.

Having been seen through, Wu Sheyue’s expression grew even darker. She stared at him without speaking.

The man glanced behind Wu Sheyue, then suddenly turned and walked away. When he passed between two of the zombies, he neither slowed nor quickened his steps. It did not look as if Wu Sheyue had frightened him away. It looked more like he was merely taking a stroll and passing by.

No matter what attitude he had, at least she was no longer in danger. Wu Sheyue relaxed slightly and nearly sat down on the ground. Thank goodness. At least the last few zombie models she had made had truly bluffed him.

A wave of fear swept through Wu Sheyue’s heart. That man was truly difficult to deal with. It was not just the gap in martial strength. Xin Zhi and Wu Hantian were also highly skilled, yet she had not felt they were so difficult. The important thing was that throughout their confrontation, Wu Sheyue had not seen any emotion like panic, terror, or fear on that man’s face.

He had even directly called her creations “big puppets.” If she could not deceive someone’s eyes, then her special-effect props were basically a total defeat.

Wu Sheyue slowly crouched in the flowerbed. She covered her face with both hands for a long time before slowly raising her head to look at the mess in the courtyard.

After a while, she cursed under her breath. “Damn it…”

Wu Sheyue was miserable. These bastards were too disgusting. If they could not beat her themselves, they actually called for outside help. Was she supposed to clean this up until dawn?

In her heart, she swore that she had to train Ning’er. It was not just that she had not dared call anyone today. The main problem was that there would definitely be more night attacks in the future. If she had to deal with every one of them and clean up afterward herself, wouldn’t that kill her?

Wu Sheyue angrily stood up, went over to the nearest zombie, grabbed it, and shoved it back into its pit while cursing, “If I see you again, I’ll flay you alive!”