Little Taotie didn’t say much more to Hua Jinyan and bolted straight for the simulation room.

Hua Jinyan, who had been trailing behind Little Taotie the whole time, only now realized there was a simulation room like this.

His interest was piqued and he was about to follow her in, but Little Taotie shut the door right in his face.

Hua Jinyan froze for a moment, a rare trace of confusion appearing on his handsome young face.

He reached out and knocked on the door, puzzled. "Why won’t you let me in?"

Little Taotie’s milky little voice carried a sour note, like yogurt left out overnight. "It’s so hard for me to finally find something I can beat you at, so don’t come and stir things up! If you learn to fly a plane too, I’ll get outclassed by you again!"

"But... I feel like this is a skill I should have too."

"No no no!" Little Taotie’s baby voice was anxious now. "You don’t need to have it. From now on I’ll be in charge of flying planes, you just have to sit in the planes I fly! Okay, that’s settled then! You’re not allowed to learn how to fly!"

Hua Jinyan: "..."

Shen Cang, who had followed them all the way here, curled his lips up and laughed inappropriately.

Hua Jinyan frowned at him and asked, "Are there any other simulation rooms?"

He felt Shen Cang was like a tube of toothpaste you could never finish squeezing.

But this time Shen Cang let him down. Shen Cang shook his head. "There’s only this one pilot simulator."

Just as Hua Jinyan lowered his gaze, looking a bit dejected, he heard Shen Cang continue cheerfully, "The tank, fighter jet, and aircraft carrier simulators are downstairs. Want to give them a try?"

Hua Jinyan snapped his head up. "You’re doing this on purpose!"

Hua Jinyan could already picture how mad and sulky Little Taotie would be if she found out he went to those other simulators on his own!

She might ignore him for days!

Shen Cang kept a straight face. "So, are you going to learn or not?"

Hua Jinyan hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. "I’m not learning." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Shen Cang looked surprised, one brow lifting slightly. "Didn’t expect it, you’re henpecked."

Hua Jinyan shot him a sideways look. "Little Taotie said I’m only allowed to ride in the planes she flies!"

"That’s not what she meant." Shen Cang shrugged. "When she learns to fly, I’m going to be her first passenger." He also gave Hua Jinyan a sideways glance and said disdainfully, "You’ll have to get in line."

Hua Jinyan was so mad his teeth itched. He turned his face away and ignored him.

"Tsk, not cute at all. You should at least snort loudly. If it were Little Taotie, she’d probably already be huffing and calling me a bad Head Grandpa!"

Hua Jinyan said nothing.

Seeing that teasing this little guy wasn’t any fun and that he wouldn’t take the bait, Shen Cang could only turn around and leave.

He had to go back and properly grill those five Ghosts to find out where exactly that ancient tomb was and what kind of great horror was inside.

When Yuanyuan and Jiang Si got back, Little Taotie had already come out of the flight simulator. The little girl’s head was drooping, she looked totally deflated, and the light in her big eyes had gone dim.

Hua Jinyan had been waiting for her outside the door the whole time. Seeing her expression, he didn’t ask much, just popped a piece of chocolate into her mouth.

The rich aroma and sweetness of the chocolate made her mood lift along with it; no matter how dispirited or depressed you were, it slowly eased you back up.

Little Taotie looked up at Hua Jinyan pitifully, her big eyes full of fear. She bit her lip and forced the words out. "I... I died thirty-three times."

Yuanyuan and Jiang Si, who had rushed back, just happened to hear this. Yuanyuan tried hard to hold back her laughter, her face twisting out of shape.

Jiang Si comforted her with a straight face. "It’s okay, you’ll get used to dying if you do it enough. I died over three hundred times in the simulator before I learned."

Yuanyuan kicked him. "You call that comforting? You’re pouring fuel on the fire!"