Lu Ban pushed the door and walked into the store. There were wooden heads and broken limbs placed in the store. Only the teddy bear was spotless and cute. It gave people a perverse and distorted feeling.
Because the Time Worm replaced the teddy bear, Guiyi did not take the teddy bear away, but only placed the corpses next to it.
Most of these corpses have decayed, shriveled, and dried up, while a few still have traces of smelly rotten flesh and blood.
The stench filled the souvenir shops, making people cover their noses.
But there was no similar smell outside the souvenir shop. Perhaps there is some cognitive impairment here that prevents ordinary people from smelling the odor and seeing the corpses.
Lu Ban glanced at the amusement park employee in red clothes.
The man looked ordinary, just like any other person you would see on the street.
"Would you like to buy a souvenir to take back?"
The employee gave a business smile, which looked strange and terrifying amid the sea of corpses and blood.
“I want to buy this.”
Lu Ban thought about it and picked up the teddy bear.
The staff did not make things difficult for Lu Ban. After scanning the code and paying, Lu Ban walked out of the souvenir shop.
He should have completed all the projects by now.
When he arrived at the entrance of the amusement park, he once again saw the staff in red clothes.
"Hello, are you leaving the amusement park now?"
The staff member said with a smile.
"Yes, I'm leaving now."
"It seems you had a great time at our amusement park. I hope you can come again."
The staff waved their hands and had no intention of stopping Lu Ban.
He continued to move forward, and soon, there was only pure white mist around him.
Lu Ban did not stop. He walked for another minute. A cold wind blew and the cold moonlight fell. He raised his head and saw the water of Lingjiang River flowing quietly.
Looking back, the dilapidated amusement park was still standing there, looking dilapidated, rusty and completely unable to function.
“Indeed, we can leave now.”
Lu Ban had no idea what day it was. He took out his cell phone and checked the time. It was late at night on the 6th. He had spent a whole day in the amusement park, but from his perspective, it felt like only a few hours had passed.
At this moment, the cell phone suddenly vibrated. Lu Ban received several messages and missed calls. It was like he was originally in a place with no signal, but now he suddenly received a signal.
He briefly replied to a few important messages, including Li Zijian's inquiry, then put away his phone and wrote the last rule on a note.
[Rule 9: Please be sure to go to the souvenir shop to buy souvenirs before leaving the amusement park. Teddy bear dolls are your best choice. If you can't tell which one is the teddy bear, please find the staff in yellow clothes for help]
After writing, Lu Ban turned around and walked into the amusement park again.
…
Jenny from Uptown No. 3 High School found it unbelievable.
She and her classmates were originally going to the amusement park for a spring outing, but suddenly three people broke into the park with a dog. They didn't let anyone leave the park and even knocked someone unconscious.
It was not until the evening that one of the men left the amusement park and came back, ordering all the tourists present to go to the souvenir shop to buy things and to play all the rides before leaving.
Oh my god, all the rides, even the carousel, which is only for little girls?
Well, let's be honest, Jenny has always wanted to ride a unicorn on a carousel. When she was in elementary school, this was a treatment only for the most popular girls in the class, and she usually could only ride on the back of a bear.
After riding the carousel and trying all the attractions, Jenny and her friend walked into the souvenir shop.
There are a wide variety of goods inside, including dolls, transformers, magic wands and the like. There is everything that boys and men, little girls and big girls like.
Jenny looked around and set her eyes on a pink fox doll.
Although she usually doesn't like to buy such souvenirs and thinks it is a kind of IQ tax, since the violent woman outside asked her to buy souvenirs, she had to buy it.
"You can't buy this. According to the rules, you have to buy this."
At this time, the handsome guy who stopped them from leaving the amusement park picked up a doll and handed it to Jenny. At the same time, he took the pink fox from her hand and put it on the shelf.
"What's this?"
Jenny glanced at the doll in her hand. It had round ears, was brown and furry, and looked like a cat's face, but more honest.
“It’s a teddy bear.”
The handsome guy said, letting Jenny go to pay the bill.
"Teddy bear? How is that possible?"
Jenny found it a little funny. She had clearly seen teddy bears before, but this didn't look like a teddy bear at all. Why did she insist on calling it a teddy bear?
But it's also quite cute. Jenny bought the doll and found that every tourist outside was holding one.
Could it be that this person is a distributor of these dolls and is here for sales?
Jenny didn't quite understand. It was already late, and she and her companions walked towards the exit of the amusement park. There were many people like them, with confusion on their faces.
It felt like after playing in the amusement park for a day, the weather outside seemed to have changed.
Also, it’s so cold.
Jenny felt very cold. She remembered that it should be early summer and the weather was hot. Why was it so cold at night? It even made her feel like it was winter!
Arriving at the door, Jenny saw a staff member in red clothes.
"Hello, are you leaving the amusement park?"
The staff member asked kindly with a business smile.
"Yes, that's right."
Jenny replied, and she showed the staff the teddy bear doll in her hand as the handsome guy said.
"You have played all our projects. I hope you are satisfied. Welcome to visit us next time."
The staff took a half step back and made way.
Jenny continued to walk forward with her friend, not quite understanding what was going on. There was thick fog all around them. She felt the bone-chilling cold and the damp night wind, and heard the sound of flowing water. It seemed as if this place was next to a river.
Suddenly, a strong light penetrated the thick fog and illuminated the space around Jenny.
The girl quickly covered her eyes, and through the gaps between her fingers she saw some people wearing windbreakers, like search and rescue team members.
At the same time, Jenny’s phone suddenly began to vibrate violently.
She hurriedly took out her cell phone to check and found messages and missed calls from her parents, school, and some people she knew or didn't know.
There are thousands of them!
"What's going on?"
Jenny felt a little unbelievable. At this moment, she heard the voices of the search and rescue team members in English.
"Please don't panic, just stand still, you are safe."
"Is it safe?"
Jenny and her friend looked at each other and turned back to look at the amusement park they had just walked out of.
There was a state of decay and only abandoned scenery.
At this time, Jenny's phone rang again, and she saw the push notification, which was news from the beginning of this year.
“January…January!??”
I clearly went to the amusement park in May, but now it’s already the next year???
Where did the intervening months go???
Jenny felt her mind was in a mess. Reality hit her brain and made her unable to think. She began to cry, collapse, feel incomprehensible, and collapsed to the ground.
At this moment, Jenny saw the teddy bear in her arms.
The cute teddy bear gives people a sense of security.
Jenny hugged her teddy bear to ease her emotions.
She suddenly thought, this is indeed a teddy bear, why did she think it was not a teddy bear just now?
If this is a teddy bear, then the teddy bear I saw before...
Jenny's brain stopped thinking.