The moment he opened his eyes, the unlucky lawyer An Rao was dragged into an amusement park.
Bad news: There's a penalty for losing the game—the kind where you lose your life.
Goo...
Chapter 40 Happy Plaza-2 In front of Baichuan are many girlish things...
"Hello." Baichuan stopped eating and looked up at the three people walking towards him.
"No, Brother Baichuan, why are you eating all this?!" Su Ming's voice revealed disbelief, and even An Rao who was standing behind him had a puzzled look on his face.
In front of the cool and handsome guy Baichuan in black was a table filled with macarons in the color of Morandi, which appealed to young girls, pink donuts dotted with beautiful sugar grains, pink cakes covered with strawberry slices, and even a cup of pink berry drink.
"Are these inedible?" Bai Chuan looked at Su Ming with some confusion. The fork that was reaching for the bunny-shaped cake stopped in mid-air. "It is in accordance with the rules to eat in the food court. In theory, everything they sell is edible."
"No, that's not what I meant," Su Ming waved his hands quickly, "I just, I just felt..."
"He just thinks your temperament doesn't match the food in front of you." An Rao added with a smile.
"What does temperament have to do with food?" Baichuan showed a rare confused expression.
"Yeah, what does temperament have to do with food? Iron Man also likes cheeseburgers!" An Rao tapped Su Ming on the forehead and said, "Let's go pick some food."
"Oh... I just think my brother Baichuan and self-disciplined white people are a good match," Su Ming scratched his head in frustration, but was immediately tripped by the cute food on Baichuan's table and could not move his feet. "So, brother Baichuan, can you finish so much food by yourself?"
"I'm full. These foods were given to me by others," Baichuan said frankly.
"Ah! We can't waste it. Points are so valuable. There are people who are willing to spend their points to buy food for others!" Su Ming sat down at the table smoothly, picked up a strawberry pink macaron and put it into his mouth, "Wow! It's delicious!"
An Rao: “…”
Shi Yirou: “…”
"Thank you so much for before." An Rao, who had to stop at the table to socialize because of his foodie younger brother, began to greet him.
"How's your hand?"
"It's OK," An Rao shook his hand that was wrapped like a bun with bandages, "The injuries I got in the game will be less severe after I leave the game. It's just a minor skin injury after I leave. It won't be a big deal."
"Yeah." Bai Chuan nodded and said nothing more. The two of them looked at Su Ming, who was just concentrating on eating, in tacit understanding.
"Su Ming is just a middle-aged senior high school student, very smart. His biggest worries in life should be which university to choose for admission and whether the girl he likes likes him or not," An Rao's eyes darkened, "He shouldn't have to go through this."
Baichuan didn't say anything, but just lowered his eyes and watched Su Ming eating happily.
"How did you get into this amusement park?" An Rao asked. "I fell when I resigned, and when I opened my eyes I was already in the pirate ship team. Su Ming saw the promotional poster on the road and came in by himself. What about you?"
"I was probably like you. I encountered something and when I opened my eyes, I was already in the queue for the pirate ship," Kashiwa frowned slightly. "As for the rest, I don't have any recollection."
"Have you forgotten all your memories before entering the amusement park?" An Rao was playing with a pure silver dessert fork in his hand, staring closely at the man in front of him. He had deep features and light eyes. This was a face that would never be forgotten no matter where you saw it. But she had no impression of this person. What relationship could he have with her? Could he solve the mystery of why she was inexplicably dragged to this unlucky amusement park?
For a moment, An Rao had an urge to tell Bai Chuan that she was An Rao, but fortunately, reason held her back. So what if it was, and so what if it wasn't? No one could tell whether this was another trap to play tricks on her.
"No." Baichuan shook his head.
"No, how can you just tell others about your amnesia?" An Rao suddenly became unhappy, "This is very dangerous!"
"What's the danger?" Baichuan was a little confused.
"Like what if someone says you owe him a lot of money?"
"I didn't have any money to pay him back at the amusement park."
"What if someone pretends to be your good friend and asks you to guide him through the level?"
"In this game, life and death are a matter of a thought. I will save those who can be saved, and I can't help those who can't be saved. I will also not promise others things that I can't do."
An Rao: “…”
"What if," An Rao paused, "if someone stood in front of you right now and said that he was An Rao?"
This time, Baichuan did not respond fluently. The small silver fork in Anrao's hand fell on the table, and the two of them sat in silence at the two ends of the round table. There was a hustle and bustle around them, and the aroma of various delicacies wafted in the air, but none of them could attract the attention of the two people at the table for a moment.
Baichuan never thought about how he would face it if he really found Anrao. It was as if "finding Anrao" was an instruction deeply rooted in his mind and his only belief. Everything he did in the amusement park was to find him, and he must find him.
But what happens after I find him? Can that person named An Rao really answer my questions? Can he really tell me everything?
Baichuan felt very bad that he didn't have the decision-making power in his own hands.
"Crack!" An innocent fork broke into two pieces in Baichuan's hand.
An Rao: “…” I will never tell him who I am even if I die!
After dinner, An Rao, Su Ming and Shi Yirou returned to An Rao's room and began to discuss the next amusement project.
"Zhang and I..." Shi Yirou's eyes dimmed, but she quickly cheered up and said, "Zhang Yong and I have played three games together, namely, Heroes of Heaven and Earth, Space Walk and Riding the Wind and Waves." Shi Yirou took out her map and unfolded it in front of An Rao and Su Ming. She saw that three stamps had been stamped on Miss Shi's map. The first one was two circles of amusement seats, one high and one low, on two tall pillars. The third one was a rocket wandering in the wave line representing the seabed. The second one was a maze stamp like the one for An Rao and Su Ming.
"Originally, the second stamp was an astronaut-shaped stamp, but this time, after I passed the game in the second attraction section, my second stamp became a maze."
"It means that each map has its own pool of recreational items. No matter how many times you have played the game, as long as you are still within the sphere of influence of that map, it will only be counted as the results of that map," An Rao looked at the six recreational facility maps arranged in a fan shape around the Happy Plaza in front of him, "How smart."
"I think so too. Playing games in the amusement park allows you to play games, but playing games does not mean moving forward." Shi Yirou looked at the maze icons and stamps that covered the original icons. Next, she might go through the amusement projects in the third map again with An Rao and Su Ming. The experiences she and Zhang Yong had together would be replaced bit by bit until they were reduced to zero.
"So, are the rides different in difficulty?" Su Ming asked, "Just like the games in this amusement park are divided into six levels from easy to difficult, and the games of the same difficulty are placed in the same level game pool?"
Shi Yirou thought for a moment and said, "Maybe. The third one I passed was called Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves. I believe you must have played this ride in amusement parks in the real world. You need to wear a raincoat and sit in a tall boat and dive down."
"Yeah, that's super exciting, I like it so much!" Su Ming nodded vigorously.
Shi Yirou looked at Su Ming tenderly and said, "But the water in this amusement park's Wind and Wave Ride is toxic or corrosive, and there are many different slopes for the dive. The requirements for each section of the game are also different. Only when you find the right objects required by the game can you obtain the water-proof barrier. Otherwise, you can only be tied to your seat with a seat belt and wait for death."
"Well, it turns out that all the rides in this amusement park are perverted." Su Ming pursed his lips.
"That is to say, the game in the third map has increased the speed difficulty," An Rao said after thinking for a while, "but no one has tried to summarize the difficulties of the amusement projects encountered by everyone and find a way to break it?"
"We thought about this before. I even tried to stand at the exit and ask those who passed the game successfully, and then recorded the key information." Shi Yirou shook her head, "But unfortunately, everyone has experienced a variety of games. This amusement park seems to only require players to pass six rides, but each ride map actually covers a large number of specific games. It is impossible to find any rules or summarize any experience that is meaningful for reference."
After Shi Yirou finished speaking, the three people in the room fell silent. The endless and non-repetitive question bank is the nightmare of every test taker, not to mention that some of the questions in it could kill people if they were not careful!
In order to prevent people from having any chance of finding shortcuts, the amusement park does not even reuse rides. If the difficulty of the rides increases, what is the point of completely isolating the six ride areas with thick fog?
"Could Yirou please tell me about the other two games you played?" An Rao lowered his eyes in thought. There were too many unreasonable things in this amusement park, including huge wealth, horrible games, divided territories, and unimaginable operating costs.
"My first project is the Twin Heroes of Heaven and Earth. If this project is placed in an ordinary amusement park, it would be a double-column bungee jumping machine, but the Twin Heroes of Heaven and Earth here," Shi Yirou paused, "whether you go up to die or land safely depends entirely on the number of people on the opposite bungee jumping machine column. Only when the number of people on my side is greater than that on the opposite side, my side can land."
“So…” Shi Yirou’s expression turned a little ugly.
"So you have to do everything you can to kill each other," An Rao said, patting Shi Yirou on the shoulder. "You have no way to resist. Survival is human instinct."
Shi Yirou nodded with difficulty and forced a smile at An Rao, then continued, "The second game is Space Walk. In the game, you kill people by depriving them of their hearing, smell, touch, and sense of weightlessness and coldness."
"Hiss... It sounds more difficult than the games we played..." Su Ming was frightened and shuddered, hugging his weak and pitiful self tightly.
"You met Doctor Lin," Shi Yirou forced a smile, "In the maze game just now, if Doctor Lin didn't know the rules of restoring the Rubik's Cube, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to escape so easily.
"After playing four amusement projects, if I have to summarize some experience, it is the rules," Shi Yirou continued, "the rules of play before entering each amusement project, the game logic rules of the amusement project itself, and the amusement park guide.
"For example, if you can't find the game logic of the attractions, such as Heroes of Heaven and Earth, Space Walk, and Rapids, you are doomed to die. But once you understand the game logic, you can have a chance of survival. This is especially evident in the maze game just now."
"In that case, let's think about what game we should choose for the next game." An Rao held his chin with one hand, tilted his head and lowered his eyes in thought, the fingers of his left hand tapping casually on the coffee table, knock, knock, knock, knock... It was a habitual action that he could not change.
The first pirate ship has a hidden boss and a complete story line. The second maze is more difficult than the pirate ship. In addition to the easter egg-like story line and hidden boss, there are also absolutely standard game rules. So what about the third one?
What else will be added to the third map?
"I feel that the rides here always add unexpected horror elements and challenges that are not very relevant to what you think are ordinary rides. This will make players lose their composure and unable to cope because of the unexpected. In this case, why don't we do the opposite?" Shi Yirou suggested.
"Yiro's suggestion is very good. Since we will be scared by this horror amusement park anyway, why don't we choose a game that specializes in horror and let it scare people openly?" An Rao agreed.
"No," Su Ming trembled even more, "Boss, you...you don't want to choose a haunted house, do you? Last time you said that you wouldn't choose a haunted house if you weren't a self-abusing money-grubber!"
"Do you think it's more reasonable for a bloody ghost to suddenly appear on a carousel or in a haunted house?"
Su Ming: “…” I think neither one is reasonable!
"Su Ming is right. We have to face those dirty things in the first place. Obviously, instead of facing them in other sweet and lovely amusement projects, it is better to summon ghosts in a haunted house. Everyone's psychological acceptance threshold will be much higher." Shi Yirou fanned the flames.
"Oh no way!" Su Ming screamed.
"Okay, then it's settled. Have a good rest today and we'll set off tomorrow," An Rao said, turning back to Shi Yirou, "You've already passed the third level, so just wait for us here, and then we can go to the fourth attraction together."
"No need," Miss Shi shook her head. "Now that I've joined you, we're a team. Playing games together will help us get to know each other better. If the game really gets harder level by level, it will definitely be beneficial for us to develop a tacit understanding in the lower-difficulty games when we play together in the future."
Shi Yirou looks refreshing and neat in the light. She is a strong and beautiful girl. Such a girl should be a senior student who is decisive and admired by her younger classmates in college, the best debater who no one can convince in a debate, and the most capable potential employee in the internship unit. She should dare to enter a haunted house with a lollipop in her mouth and walk off the roller coaster laughing amid the howling of ghosts and wolves. She should enjoy her own life to the fullest instead of struggling here.
This damn devil's den.
"Okay, see you tomorrow then." An Rao smiled and walked everyone to the door.
"Wow!" In the warm yellow light, hot water poured down from the shower head, hitting An Rao's thin back, splashing a layer of fine water on his pale skin. I don't know what method the amusement park used, the water here can meet the needs of washing, but the taste of the water is bitter and unbearable, and it is completely inedible, which directly puts an end to everyone's idea of drinking bath water to save points.
The thin stream of water gathered into a small crystal pool in the hollow of An Rao's neck, and then flowed out from the straight and beautiful collarbone. An Rao wiped his face, and the water flowed down along the thin and beautiful butterfly bones, sliding over the white and narrow waist with two small dimples, without any trace of tattoos on it.
"Haunted house..." An Rao stood under the shower head with his eyes closed, letting the water droplets hit his face in a mess, "If you want to be scared, then be scared enough."
An Rao threw himself onto the soft big bed in a snow-white nightgown, his eyes staring aimlessly at the light on the ceiling, his brain working rapidly, pondering and weighing whether this option was feasible. After all, every choice now concerned the lives of three people, not just his own.
Take the haunted house for example. It’s pretty good. There are ghosts in the first two rides, so seeing ghosts in a haunted house is much better than seeing them in other places. The psychological expectations are already so low, so how bad can the situation get?
His thoughts were becoming more and more confused. All the memories of the amusement park in reality were broken into pieces and mixed together. One moment it was the boss's roar, the next moment it was the ghost howling on the boat, the look of Su Ming seriously fooling the captain, and the next moment it was Bai Chuan, with his unjustly handsome face, gritting his teeth and saying that he must catch An Rao. The world was spinning, and he was drowsy and sleepy. He dreamed of a white bird resting peacefully in a person's arms with its eyes closed, and a slender hand with distinct joints was gently combing its soft feathers to let it sleep.
"Go to sleep, have a good sleep, dear."
"Bang." A new resident arrived in the room next to Room 1429 where An Rao lived. The sound of the door closing startled An Rao, who had fallen asleep but was still a little alert.
"Go to sleep, dear. I will always be by your side."
The sudden sense of peace of mind extinguished that trace of vigilance, and An Rao finally fell completely into the dark dreamland.
The new owner of Room 1430, Mr. Baichuan, turned on the bedroom light which was separated from Anrao's bedroom by a wall.