"I say, are you sure you've got the MOF here?"
Standing at the gate of the other world, Song Song Pancake frowned as he looked at the facilities inside which were still shabby and seemed to have not changed at all. In his opinion, this place was still the same as before, a large garbage collection area, and there was no change at all.
However, Fang Zheng seemed very calm.
"It's done. Are you planning on being tourists? Or are you going to go backstage with me?"
"Of course..."
Song Songbing wanted to say "I want to go in and take a look", but then he changed his mind. As the saying goes, a friend dies, but I am not the one who deserves death. Fang Zheng was so calm. Who knows what they were doing in there? He is the foreman of the actors, and he is also a top figure. If he loses face in front of the employees, especially those two bastards, Macaron and Tiramisu, they will definitely laugh at him for the rest of his life!
It won't be fooled!
"Go backstage MOF!"
"It doesn't matter, let's just follow the original plan."
Fang Zheng really didn't care. He just shrugged his shoulders and looked at the four elemental elf girls around him.
"Well, get ready and go over there and change your clothes."
"Would you like to change clothes?"
Muse felt a little uneasy when she heard Fang Zheng's words, and Fang Zheng nodded.
"That's right, because this next amusement ride is different from other places...changing clothes will make it more immersive."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng took a look at the Muse in front of him. The water elf girl was currently wearing an outfit that looked like a blue bikini, which paired with her graceful figure was quite eye-catching. To be honest, Fang Zheng felt that these four elves really shouldn't be placed in the Elemental Museum to perform a play for children, but should be formed into an idol group to debut, which would definitely bring more popularity to the amusement park.
But then again, if we really look at it as an idol group, then Muse is quite like the protagonist of an idol animation. Although she is a newcomer, she is hardworking and serious, and very well-behaved and obedient. Aren’t the protagonists of general idol animations generally set up like this?
"And Salaman."
At this point, Fang Zheng looked at the fire elf Salaman among the four elemental elves. She was a girl wearing a red dress and had bright red hair.
Although most people think of fire as enthusiastic and lively, Fang Zheng could not see any such shadow in this fire spirit. She gave Fang Zheng the feeling of a larger version of Gabriel, who looked half-dead all day long, and only had a little excitement when she was browsing the Internet on her phone.
But if you think about it carefully, many internet geeks are like this. They are so lively online as if they had taken stimulants, but when they see others in real life, they don't say a word... This is also a drawback of the information society.
"Install a live streaming app on your phone later. I've left the address in the locker room... You know something about live streaming, right?"
“I uploaded the video.”
"There's no point in uploading a video. Anyway, you can open this live broadcast app later and broadcast the entire history of your adventure to others... Okay, go change your clothes first."
The four elves also walked into the dressing room obediently, and then came out after changing their clothes. However, when they appeared in front of everyone again, they were no longer wearing the costumes they usually wore when performing in the indoor theater, but four very plain sailor suits.
"Excuse me, this is..."
Muse looked at the sailor suit she was wearing with confusion, while Fang Zheng walked up to them, coughed, and then spoke with a smile.
"Dear visitors, welcome to Gancheng Guanghui Amusement Park. Next, you will enter the Tianshen Paradise area..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng handed four student ID cards to Muse and others in front of him.
"You are students from East City Private High School. You are here to participate in an investigation into supernatural events that occurred in the school."
"???"
After hearing Fang Zheng's words, the four people looked at each other, and Latifa next to them also asked curiously.
"Excuse me, Master Fang Zheng, what does this mean?"
"role play."
As Fang Zheng spoke, he handed the student ID and map in his hand to the other party.
"I think you can see that this is a haunted house entertainment facility, but the renovated haunted house is different from the previous one. I don't want you to go in, get scared all the way, and then come out. That's meaningless. Moreover, this park is so big that it would be a waste to only have one route. So I adopted this method. Before tourists enter the park, I can give them some clues and goals, let them enter, and use their wisdom to explore and dig out the secrets... It's like taking the initiative to enter a horror movie and become the protagonist."
"That sounds like fun."
At this moment, Latifa's eyes were shining, and even Muffuletta gasped and looked at Isuzu next to her. They were all veteran employees of the amusement park and naturally knew how to attract customers. And Fang Zheng's idea...even if they hadn't experienced it themselves, they found it very interesting just by listening to it!
Compared to the routine of ordinary haunted houses where you just go in and wait to be scared, this game style that allows guests to actively explore does seem to be more interesting!
Fang Zheng actually read this from an online novel. After all, he never went to an amusement park after he grew up. He only saw some videos online, saying that the haunted houses in amusement parks nowadays seem to be different from before... Well, Fang Zheng still remembers that the so-called haunted houses he visited when he was a child had no ghosts at all. After entering those haunted houses, apart from the strange shapes inside, there were some machines that glowed and made sounds, which looked like ghosts.
As for the haunted house operations described in novels, Fang Zheng didn't know whether they were true or not, but it would not be a problem to use them.
"Salaman, you can turn on the live broadcast, and then all the staff of the amusement park can see your adventure."
Fang Zheng said this, then clapped his hands.
"Okay, you can go in now!"
“…”
Hearing this, the four elemental elves looked at each other, and then the wind elf Sylphy waved happily.
"Let's go!"
As she spoke, Sylphy jumped and skipped towards the gate, and the other three couldn't wait to follow her. After all, this kind of amusement mode was the first time they encountered it, and they wanted to experience it for themselves to see the effect.
"alright."
Watching the four people leave, Fang Zheng curled up the corner of his mouth into a smile, then turned his head and looked at Chito Isuzu and Latifa beside him.
"Well, let's go to the monitoring room."
The monitoring room of the Guanghui Amusement Park in Gancheng is different from other places. There are no cameras or anything like that here, but on the screen in front of you, you can easily check the situation of each park, and even the distance and angle of the picture can be changed as you want.
As for why, don’t ask, the answer is magic!
At this moment, Fang Zheng, Qiong, Latifa, Isuzu, Song Songbing and others came to the monitoring room, immediately moved their chairs and sat down, and then began to watch the monitoring screen excitedly.
At this moment, in the picture, four elemental elves have arrived at the gate.
“Squeak…”
The rusty door was not locked, and Muse opened it with a light push, making a harsh sound. This immediately made Muse tremble all over, while the earth elf Keberly next to her looked around, looking at the scenery in front of her that seemed like an abandoned park, and asked in confusion.
“What do we do next?”
"Let me see..."
Muse also hurriedly opened the map in her hand and began to read it carefully. As an employee of the amusement park, she certainly knew the layout of the place, but the map in her hand looked a bit old, and there were marks on several places. There were also some unclear words written on it, such as "the location where event A occurred"... "the location where event B occurred"... and so on.
"What's this?"
Looking at the words and marks on the amusement park map in front of them, Muse and the others were all confused, but this also aroused their interest. They felt that this was just like treasure hunting, which seemed quite interesting.
"Why don't we go to the point where incident A occurred first."
Muse thought for a moment, then pointed to one of the target points on the map.
"Here are A, B, C... maybe they are arranged in order. If we look for them one by one in order, maybe we can find the secret?"
Muse made the decision, and the others did not object, so the group of four followed the map and walked toward the interior of the park.
Gradually, the sky began to darken, and more importantly, the diffuse fog gradually dissipated.
"Wow...why do I feel so uneasy?"
Looking at the fog around her, Muse swallowed uneasily. As an employee, she had been to this park before. But at that time, it felt desolate and empty. But now, even though it was just some fog, Muse felt a little terrified...
“Da…da…da…”
The sound of lonely footsteps echoed in my ears, and in front of me was a faint mist, giving me a feeling of seeing flowers in the fog. It was strange to say that these things that Muse was used to seeing on weekdays, now under the cover of the mist, presented an indescribable weirdness...
Even Sylphy, who was usually cheerful and carefree, stopped talking at this moment. The other three people instinctively moved closer to each other. Salaman was also holding his cell phone tightly, looking around anxiously.
But to others, this is a bit boring.
"Nothing, kid."
Looking at the surveillance footage in front of him, Song Song Pancake seemed very bored. After all, from where he was, he could only see four elemental spirits walking forward in the mist. They looked neither scary nor horrible. He originally thought that some staff dressed as ghosts would come out to scare people, but in the end, there was nothing. It was deserted all the way.
"You don't look scary, MOF."
"If you don't think it's scary, you can go and try it. I won't stop you."
Hearing Songsongmuffin's complaint, Fang Zheng glanced at him and smiled. Just kidding, that kind of method of suddenly appearing and scaring people was too childish in Fang Zheng's opinion. It was just like those low-grade plasma films in the United States, as disgusting as they could be, but it was not particularly scary.
The real terror comes from deep within. Even if there is nothing at all, one can still scare oneself...
You know, it's the same in Tianshen Primary School. According to the standards of American horror movies, Tianshen Primary School is not scary at all. Although there are corpses inside, they are either newly dead or have long been reduced to bones. And it's rare that something suddenly appears to scare others, but people in Tianshen Primary School can't hold on for long before they have a mental breakdown.
Of course, this was an amusement ride, and Fang Zheng didn't really intend to scare the tourists into a mental breakdown. After all, most of the tourists were little girls from the Tiandao Palace, and if they were really scared into having any problems, he would be the one who would suffer.
However, using this method to train the psychological endurance of those little girls is still a good choice.
As for the four elemental elves in front of us... just treat them as experimental subjects.
“…”
Seeing Fang Zheng's fearless look, Song Songbing was silent for a moment, but ultimately did not respond to the conversation.
It's not an idiot, is it?
Let’s first see the results of Muse and the others.
The four unlucky girls, who had no idea that they had been sold out by their boss, walked and stopped in the fog, and finally arrived at point A on the map.
"Huh...why do I feel so tired..."
Looking at the map in front of her, Muse reached out and wiped the cold sweat off her forehead. It was strange to say that this area was not actually that big, but she felt as if she had been walking in the fog for several hours. Not only was she physically exhausted, but she also felt quite tired mentally.
"This seems to be location A."
Holding the map, he compared it with the dining car in front of him and confirmed that he was not in the wrong place. Then Muse walked to the dining car and looked at it curiously.
The food truck in front of him was just the most common cart selling ice cream and cold drinks in the amusement park, with some cartoon patterns painted on the body. However, this food truck had obviously been abandoned long ago, with nothing left inside, and naturally no snacks.
"And then? What should we do?"
"Maybe there's something in the dining car..."
While the other three were still studying, Sylphy, the craziest elemental elf, had already run in. She then curiously reached into the cabinet and took out a newspaper.
"Ah, look, here's a newspaper!"
"newspaper?"
Muse took the newspaper and just glanced at it, and the next moment, her eyes suddenly widened.
I saw a few big words on the front page of the newspaper...
"Mysterious disappearances at the amusement park!"
The text below said that a food truck worker in the amusement park mysteriously disappeared during work. No one knew where he went, and no one saw him leave his work station, but he just disappeared like that...
The main text consists of only a few short sentences and ends with "Police are searching", making it seem like just an ordinary report.
But seeing this, Muse's heart suddenly started beating violently.
Could it be that... the dining car of the missing staff is the one in front of us?