Chapter 251 Game Medley
The life-saving mat trembled gently like a sea of flowers. Chen Xiao'er took a deep breath, slightly relaxed her clenched palms, and slowly reached down along the rope.
Thanks to the muscles she'd built in gym class! Her feet firmly planted against the wall. Aside from the burning pain in her palms, her joints and other parts of her body were in good working order, allowing her to slide down even further.
The cold wind blew the sweat on the bridge of the nose, making the cheeks itchy.
Chen Xiao'er took a deep breath, emptied her mind, and let her trained muscle memory carry her down step by step.
After an unknown amount of time, when her wrists and ankles felt numb, her toes finally touched the soft inflatable cushion.
"Huh~" She loosened her hands and the back of her head suddenly sank into the soft clouds.
The colorful decorative ribbons and small bells reflected the sunlight and blinked at her like a pair of friendly little eyes.
Phew~ I'm safe... She slowly closed her eyes, the adrenaline quickly subsided, and her whole body slumped lazily. She really wanted to sleep.
With a rustling sound, the cushion next to her sank, and her silver-white hair brushed against her earlobe.
"Xiao Ai, let's take a break and then go for a walk nearby, shall we?"
If I have the chance, I want to take you away.
Zero stared at the fake sky in silence. His lover, lying beside him, stretched out like a kitten and said briskly, "Okay~"
They lay on the air cushion for a while, then rolled down before the staff could pump air into it.
There are a lot of people in the square, but there are not many people standing in front of each stall.
The people of Chixing prefer picnics, so most tourists and students do not wander around the shops. Instead, they spread out a picnic blanket and sit on the football field to eat or just stare blankly.
Chen Xiao'er quickly withdrew her gaze from the lawn and cast her eyes towards the rows of white houses on the roadside: We can have a picnic anytime, and the school has finally held a school festival, so of course we have to have fun to the fullest.
She walked from the first shop with Ling on her arm.
The first few shops were managed by students from various classes, and she had already tried the snacks they sold. Although they also sold freshly baked handmade cookies, the prices were still not as good as those in the cake shops.
Next is the souvenir shop. It is difficult to tell the inside and outside of the school just by looking at the shop owner’s appearance, but the goods inside are very different.
The school store has a limited variety of souvenirs and sundries, and sometimes a whole display cabinet can be filled with hairpins of the same brand alone.
In stores opened by people outside the school, there are almost no two items that are exactly the same, and there is a wide variety of small commodities.
Chen Xiao'er randomly picked out a few cheap small pendants.
She secretly glanced at the senior student next to her: Zero's eyes were a little blank, and she was obviously not very interested.
Chen Xiao'er calmly took the packaged pendant, then grabbed Ling's wrist and ran out. She shook the plastic bag as she ran and said, "Look over there! Someone's playing goldfish scoop!"
In fact, she was not very interested in catching goldfish. After all, she had to perform later, and if she caught a goldfish, she would have to ask her classmates to help her hold it.
But when they got closer, Chen Xiao'er actually became interested.
Because the little goldfish in the pond are not real goldfish, but fake fish made of plastic and metal.
These fake goldfish swim nimbly in the water waves. The metal scales of the fish are coated with different colors, and layers of gold will appear when they swing their tails.
The prizes are so exquisite that many people like them.
Most of the people around other stalls were just watching, but the customers at this stall squatted down in groups of three or five, each holding a small fishing rod and trying their best to catch goldfish.
"Damn it—take the bait!" The girl squatting next to Chen Xiao'er was almost in tears.
She seemed to really want the red tropical fish in the corner, and the small magnetic fishing rod was dangling around the tropical fish's mouth.
But she didn't know if it was a problem with the magnetism or the mechanical settings, but no matter how many times she cast the hook towards the little fish's face, she couldn't hook it.
Chen Xiao'er watched from the side for a few minutes and felt that the problem was more with the technique. This student simply couldn't grasp the moment when the fish opened its mouth.
"Let me try." She gently grasped the girl's fishing rod and tentatively pulled it back.
"Huh?!" The girl's face turned ferocious for a moment, but she immediately let go of the fishing rod after seeing Chen Xiao'er's face clearly.
The girl swallowed her saliva and said hopefully, "Then, why don't you give it a try? Be careful, those fish are easy to break!"
"Then why don't you give it a try? Be careful, that fish was transformed by my classmate."
"Okay," Chen Xiao'er agreed. It looked like the fish's metal scales weren't sticking securely, but if I could just hit the magnet in the fish's mouth with the magnet on the boom, it would be fine, right?
In her eyes, these mechanical fish did not open their mouths very quickly.
Chen Xiao'er concentrated on moving the boom and moved the small magnet on the fishing rod closer to the fish's mouth...click.
The tropical fish opened its mouth and stuck firmly to the boom.
Yay, it worked!
Chen Xiao'er happily picked up the tropical fish and put it into the girl's arms: "I caught it. Here."
"Thank you, thank you, I can finally leave here." The girl quickly picked up the plastic bag and put the fish in it, thanking him repeatedly. Her legs were shaking when she stood up. She didn't know how long she had spent here for this tropical fish.
As soon as she left, the other people who were fishing rushed over with their fishing rods and surrounded her.
"Please help me too!"
"Yes, yes, and me too!"
"Okay..." Chen Xiao'er didn't notice and when she lowered her head again, she found more than a dozen small fishing rods stuffed in her arms.
It’s a headache. Do I have to catch so many fish?
But the students next to her were almost in tears, and she was too embarrassed to refuse.
Chen Xiao'er habitually looked to the side, and Ling nodded at her: "I want to fish too, this game is quite interesting."
"We'll try our best to save them. There are at least twenty fellow church members inside."
"Then let's have a competition to see who can catch more goldfish." Chen Xiao'er handed her a fishing rod and picked up a brightly colored one in her hand.
"Okay." Ling nodded slightly and squatted down by the pool with her.
Snap, snap, snap.
They threw the magnets in their hands into the fish's mouths again and again. Because it was a competition, Chen Xiao'er would look towards Ling from time to time.
She noticed that there was something wrong with Zero's technique. Although he swung the rod very quickly, every time he swung it, the rod would subtly brush past the fish's mouth and fall outside.
Her movements were much less agile than those in physical education class, and she even let the water flow into the sea!
Fortunately, Ling's arms were much steadier than that of the girl just now, and he could land in the fish's mouth at least eight times out of ten.
But at this time the magnet broke down again.
She always caught fish when she tried, while Zero could only catch one fish out of five at most. The same was true when she changed the fishing rod.
"Here, fish this!"
"I want this one."
The classmates next to her pointed at the fish in the pond with their hands. Chen Xiao'er quickly came to her senses and started fishing according to their gestures. She soon caught all the designated ten fish.
Ten minutes later, she had more than twenty metal fish, while Zero had only sucked up five.
"How about we stop here?" Chen Xiao'er observed Ling's expression out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that she had gone from eager to try to a little absent-minded, she quickly took the initiative to end the game.
Ling nodded, returned the fishing rod to the boss, and asked him to pack up the goldfish he caught.
Chen Xiao'er distributed all the small fish that her classmates wanted, and packed up the remaining ten, preparing to find an opportunity to give them to Sister Lan.
After finishing, the two of them walked away hand in hand, with the boss looking as sad as if he had lost his parents.
......
There were many kinds of game stalls. Chen Xiao'er took Ling to play ring toss, claw machine and guessing box games from the inside out, all the way to the white house near the shops.
Chen Xiao'er saw the female cake seller again, but she was not selling cakes now. Instead, she was standing under a parasol holding a plate of cupcakes and watching the fun.
What's the big deal with so many people gathered here?
Chen Xiao'er pulled Ling's hand and said excitedly, "There seems to be something interesting over there. Let's go check it out."
"Yeah." Ling nodded carefully, and walked one body length ahead of Xiao'er, blocking the space around her.
That vacant lot was the venue for the scheduled performance of "Act 2" and was an important location for the power ceremony, making it easy for abnormal derivatives to breed.
Things happened just as she expected. A thin layer of black mist was rising in the space, and because of Chen Xiao'er's presence, it turned into a transparent substance.
After the power ceremony began, the people of the Chaos God Sect were dressed very similarly to the church members, but Zero immediately smelled the pickled "odor" when he approached.
The souls and spirits of those people were infected with too much power from the creatures of the abyss, and they were so smelly that it was disgusting.
The twisted bodies of the anomalies tangled with the shadows of the cultists, forming a mass of sticky filth. Even the highest-level protective suits only fully protected against static radiation, easily ripped open in the surging battle.
The cultists and deviants will never miss any opportunity. They will unite to strangle the church's team, starting from the weakest link.
If there is no suppression to zero, there will definitely be a large pool of minced meat flying in your face.
Rustling.
The surging force suddenly slowed, and the wounds on their bodies, festering like smashed tomatoes, suddenly healed. Those fighting turned around as if awakened from a dream, only to see a young girl walking towards them through the mist.
The mist dissipated as she moved forward, and the strange objects forced to activate in the ritual array dimmed one by one, leaving only the gems on her skirt shining brightly.
......
It's so weird. You guys became quiet as soon as I got close to you?
As soon as Chen Xiao'er stood still, she noticed something was wrong around her, and her heart started pounding: Oh no, I'm not a professional mediator, will getting involved make things worse?
But it's too late to leave now.
Moreover, the commotion before was worse than she had imagined. She actually saw tourists outside slapping cakes on the faces of coffee shop staff because of a minor dispute.
She took this opportunity to look around and found that although she couldn't remember the names of the students around her, their faces seemed familiar. They must have taken classes on the same floor before.
Everyone looked in a state of disarray now, even their uniforms were torn to shreds, and it looked like they would not be able to participate in the afternoon activities.
This is outrageous! The students didn't receive a penny; they were all volunteers. Even if they were paid workers, was there any need to humiliate people in front of the store just for a giveaway?
Chen Xiao'er frowned and wanted to argue.
But she was neither a member of the student union nor a disciplinary committee member, and had no right to expel tourists or dispatch security, and had no deterrent power at all.
How about letting my senior sister tell me...
While Chen Xiao'er was hesitating, the scene suddenly became chaotic again.
If you wear special lenses and look down from a high altitude, you can see that the ritual formation is like a huge crystal ball, with transparent golden threads hanging down from the filled clouds like lotus root silk, once again connecting humans and anomalies.
Rustle, rustle.
Some anomalies that were unwilling to be assimilated by the ritual site were struggling desperately, but they had been shrouded in zero for too long and no longer had the right to choose.
Different types of costumes are nourished by their flesh and blood and shine through their bodies, forming a more human shell on their surface.
Come on, please your brand new master.
The core of the abyss creature was grasped in the palm of its hand by some force, and it instinctively erupted with a strong desire to obey.
So the "crowd" became agitated, with more and more people in costumes appearing, and the pressure was compressed to the extreme.
A newcomer burst out with a strong desire to survive in the intense despair, and this desire temporarily suppressed the deterrence of another great existence.
It squirmed, using its human legs to wriggle through the crowd, raised its arms and shouted loudly: "Her Majesty the Queen—"
[“Master, save me—”]
......
? !
The shrill wail frightened Chen Xiao'er so much that she trembled for a moment. However, when she looked up, she found that both her classmates and the tourists had taken a step back at the same time.
They looked at her intently, with no expression of laughter or indifference on their faces, but instead a strange expectation and trance.
Why? It's just acting... Yeah, acting.
The best performances are those that allow the audience to be completely immersed in the story.
Today is a special day, and since everyone wants to have a magical day, I should - do my best to cooperate with everyone's ideas!
Even though it seems embarrassing now, time flies, and maybe many years later when you think about it again, you will think it is a very interesting scene.
Snap!
The hem of her skirt swung forward and then stopped.
The girl gradually stretched her shoulders, and her fragile shell was suddenly shattered by the powerful wave.
There was a hint of sharpness in Chen Xiao'er's clear eyes. At this moment, strands of golden lines converged on the scepter she raised.
"You rude people, what are you doing to my waiter?"
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