Chapter 103 The Eight-Person Sedan Chair Descends, Revealing the Divine Radiance of the Illusion
The giant ship, over two hundred meters tall, began to move slowly, the cold light of the green cabin casting afterimages in the players' vision.
Eerie yet magnificent.
"What happened?"
Gang Ge squeezed out from the restless crowd.
By the light of the mountaintop, you could see that his exposed skin was covered in sweat.
After scanning the surroundings, Gang Ge decisively fixed his gaze on Liang Jun, who was hidden among the tree branches.
"You are Liang Jun?"
Gang Ge keenly extracted the key information from the mechanical voice just now, his eyes extremely sharp, "What did you do?"
Other players gradually realized something was wrong. Those with teammates were dragged to a safe area by the opposing team; those without teammates clung to someone else's leg and curled up behind them.
The other members of the "army of strong men" also looked fierce and surrounded Gang Ge without saying a word, occupying the space that had just been cleared.
Seeing this scene, Xin Sang and his group were naturally unwilling to be outdone.
She exchanged a glance with Ge Lin, as if they were meeting for the first time at the tent camp, and stepped in front of everyone.
The two remaining male members of the team were equally impressive, with Luo Chuange and Lao Ren standing like a fortress around their teammates, providing support.
Although they were much smaller than the "army of strong men" opposite them, their spirit was in no way inferior.
Before Liang Xun, who was being protected inside, could even respond to Gang Ge, her overly sensitive hearing picked up on the faint sound again—
Even Gu Keke, who was right next to her, didn't notice.
"Click".
It sounded like a latch opening and closing.
Liang Jun temporarily put the crowd's disputes aside.
She leaned forward slightly, crouched down and approached the outermost edge of the guardrail not far away. She placed her hands on the silvery iron bars and gave a gentle push. The previously immovable facility was then pushed into a space that could only accommodate one person at a time.
Beyond the railings lies the Ferris wheel that all players dream of.
Gang Ge's suspicious gaze turned to shock as he stared dumbfounded as Liang Jun stepped into another area.
"You...you..."
He became unusually incoherent, asking, "How did you get in?"
"I found the hidden mechanism and triggered the player passage," Liang Jun replied truthfully.
She had her back to the Ferris wheel and was facing the crowd.
The cold, metallic railings lay before her, while the Ferris wheel, rotating at a steady pace, seemed to emanate a halo from her shoulder blades, bestowing upon her a divine radiance from a dreamlike realm.
Liang Jun glanced at Gang Ge, then turned her gaze back to her own people.
She called out from nearby, "Coco, Ling'er, hurry up and come in."
As everyone pushed and shoved each other, Jiang Zhiling was pushed to the front.
The gap in the guardrail was right in front of her. Just as she was about to step in, a sharp pain shot through her calf as she crossed the guardrail.
"hiss--"
She cried out in pain and pulled her leg back, almost falling to the ground and getting trampled by the players behind her.
"Are you alright, baby?"
Xin Sang quickly helped her up, while Ge Lin followed behind them, pushing aside those who were still trying to push their way up.
Jiang Zhiling shook her head, but the tears in her eyes confirmed the real pain.
"I don't know why, but I can't get in..."
Liang Jun, who had witnessed everything, also came forward and pointed to the black support whose top cover she had lifted.
"Put your finger on it!" Amidst the noise, she could only shout, "It's a fingerprint scanner; every player should have to authenticate!"
The night breeze dried the tears in her eyes. Jiang Zhiling sniffed and, following Liang Xuan's instructions, unhesitatingly pressed her index finger against the surface.
Name: Jiang Zhiling.
Current progress: 6/7.
"Project activation conditions met, trigger successful—"
The almost identical electronic announcement sounded again.
This time, however, there was no panic about the unknown; instead, everyone's eyes were filled with excitement.
"Great, great, we can finally end all this..."
Someone stood at the very back of the crowd, speaking in a light, airy voice, uttering these weighty words.
The entrance was conveniently located near the edge of the area they were stationed in.
Therefore, having the advantage of distance, they were naturally among the first groups to fully enter the Ferris wheel area.
The Ferris wheel, glowing with a bluish-green light, rotated behind us. The fluorescent vines still spread across the support arms, but they kept their distance from the brand-new gondolas.
The Ferris wheel riding instructions were written on a small wooden board, which stood directly behind Green.
He skimmed through it quickly, but did not trigger any of the system's known rules for this project.
Ge Lin was puzzled, so he beckoned to Jiang Zhiling, who was also wandering around.
"Can you take a look at this for me?"
Unlike him, Jiang Zhiling read every word on the wooden board aloud.
After she finished reading the last word, Ge Lin asked anxiously, "How is it? Did it trigger the system notification?"
Jiang Zhiling was also puzzled, "No..."
Before the doubts in front of them could be fully resolved, a fierce fighting suddenly broke out behind them.
Not only Ge Lin and Jiang Zhiling, but all the players in the Ferris wheel area subconsciously searched for the source of the sound.
It was clear that the entrance, which could only accommodate one person at a time, was now packed with layers upon layers of people.
Three or four people were crowding the narrow passageway, each wanting to be the first to enter, and no one was willing to give in; the players behind them were also extremely impatient, constantly pushing and shoving forward.
It started as individual pushing and shoving, then became an argument between teams, and now it has escalated to the point of physical violence—some even tried to take over other people's passage and isolate them from the area.
The situation seemed to have escalated to an unimaginable level, and Liang Jun, who had been standing at the door waiting for her teammates, chose to speed up.
While waiting for the last team member, Liang Jun turned around and shouted to the teammate closest to the Ferris wheel, "Quick, find the gondola! Get ready to get in!"
Ge Lin was the first to obey orders.
Instead of stepping onto the carriage in front of him, he turned and ran towards the carriage that was about to land.
Ge Lin observed that the time from when the elevator car landed to when it rose again was not long. If everyone wanted to be put in the same elevator car, someone would have to climb up while the car was suspended in the air.
Ge Lin took a running start and jumped, gripping the bottom edge of the floor tightly with both hands.
Fortunately, he still had some basic pull-up skills from his high school cramming session. He gritted his teeth, tightened his core, and only breathed a sigh of relief when his left foot hooked onto the car door frame.
The rest of the process went relatively smoothly.
When Ge Lin scrambled inside, the sedan chair hadn't completely landed yet. He didn't rush to sit down, but quickly half-squatted at the doorway, stretching his hand outwards.
"Jiang Zhiling! Jump up!"
"I'll hold you!" Ge Lin shouted, as the blue-haired man swayed in the wind stirred up by the Ferris wheel's rotation.
Just before reaching out her hand, Jiang Zhiling didn't forget to report the information to Liang Xuan.
"Sister Nan! The elevator car can hold eight people, so we can all fit in the same car!"
After she finished speaking, she suddenly jumped up.
Jiang Zhiling's core strength wasn't very good, but before she could even exert any effort, her legs had already been lifted up by Xin Sang and Lao Ren.
Xin Sang tightly grasped Jiang Zhiling's ankle and placed it on Lao Ren's shoulder. Lao Ren, who was ready, stood up, and Ge Lin, who was inside the sedan chair, held Jiang Zhiling's hand tightly, and she smoothly entered the sedan chair.
While waiting for the elevator to land, Gu Keke and Xin Sang also resolved Qi Zhixia's problem.
They helped Qi Zhixia up early and waited at the location where the sedan chair was expected to land for the first time.
For most of the time the elevator car glided smoothly on the ground, Xin Sang and Gu Keke helped Qi Zhixia board the car.
As the sedan chair began to show signs of lifting off, Lao Ren took a large step and effortlessly sat inside.
At this point, only Liang Jun and Luo Chuange remained to enter.
There was already some distance between Luo Chuange and the entrance to the passage. When the crowd stirred, he was unable to gain a favorable position immediately, and was constantly being swept away by the tide of players.
Liang Xun could only stay at the doorway, ready at any moment. If Luo Chuange reached out his hand to her, she would have to grab him.
The elevator car carrying six people had begun to slowly ascend. Gu Keke, sitting on the outermost side, looked worried and could only cling to the door frame, shouting loudly, "Sister-in-law! Programmer! Come quick!"
Fortunately, after countless attempts, Luo Chuange finally managed to squeeze to the front of the crowd and reach out his hand to Liang Xuan.
Liang Jun reacted quickly and grabbed him.
The long wait and the tension had caused her palms to be covered in a layer of sweat, making them a little slippery, but this did not affect her performance.
Liang Jun pulled him out of the crowd of players with a forceful backward thrust, like a spring up from dry land.
Ignoring the excruciating pain from his dislocated arm, Luo Chuange hurriedly pulled Liang Jun, who had fallen to the ground, to her feet and then pushed her forward.
"Run!"
At this critical juncture, Liang Jun had no time to hesitate.
She ignored everything else and her legs moved like crazy, finally managing to grab the hands that Lao Ren and Ge Lin offered before the elevator car left her reachable height.
By the time she pulled her legs up, the sedan chair had already risen a certain distance.
This is an extremely challenging height for Luo Chuange.
He can choose to ride in the empty carriage at the back.
But this also means that he either has to endure all the possible disasters that may occur when the Ferris wheel is running alone, or he has to share a ride with other teams, but if there is a segment that requires players to be sacrificed, he will inevitably be the lamb tied up and put on the experimental table.
The sound of the Ferris wheel turning whistling past my ears.
Luo Chuange gritted his teeth, reached out and jumped—
The hope he threw out in a desperate gamble was caught intact by someone else.
Ge Lin and Lao Ren lay on the floor of the sedan chair, each tightly gripping Luo Chuange's left and right hands.
Gu Keke and Xin Sang, who were sitting on the outer side, tried their best to hold onto Luo Chuange's clothes, and then tried to grab his ankles when he was able to lift his legs slightly.
Luo Chuange was suspended several meters in the air.
According to Lao Ren, he was like a pig without any dignity, dragged into the slaughterhouse by human hands.
Having survived the ordeal, Luo Chuange sat on the floor of the sedan chair, calming his breathing over and over again.
Hearing Lao Ren's joking comments about him, he chuckled and sighed.
"But unlike the pigs, I survived."
Xin Sang and Gu Keke didn't dare to waste any time. As soon as all the members successfully entered the elevator car, they worked together to close the non-automatic elevator car door tightly.
The moment the sealing strip closed, the continuous noise from the crowd outside was shut out.
Gu Keke slumped into her seat.
"Thank goodness, there's hope..."
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Author's Note: Ge Tou: Why am I always the one who gets hurt...?
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