Chapter 17 Tourist Upgrade
At 8 a.m. on Sunday, Xiao Zhou and his friends took three buses to 88 Taoyuan Street in Xinghu District, carrying professional photography equipment. He was the netizen who had commented on the "Snack Town" video yesterday, saying he would visit the park for others.
Since yesterday afternoon, many people in the local circle of friends have been crazy about the Legend Fantasy Park video. Xiao Zhou himself has seen two or three of them in his circle of friends. He also talked with his colleagues in a small group about this small park that has become famous in the local area within less than two days of its opening. Unexpectedly, the up-host he followed came out and posted a video in the evening.
The deserted and dilapidated park in the video still vaguely shows the shadow of the former Tongxin Amusement Park. The screaming tourists running around make people laugh. Humans have such bad nature that they can't help but feel happy when they see their fellow human beings making a fool of themselves. However, the monster chasing the tourists is shocking.
Xiao Zhou still remembers the feeling when he first saw the video. When the monster with a tail as long as twice its body pounced towards the camera, the deterrent power was something he had never experienced before. Not even the world's top special effects movies could give him this feeling. He even broke out in a cold sweat after watching the video. He felt a fear that the monster was going to rush out of the video and swallow him. Since he became an adult, Xiao Zhou has never experienced this kind of fear that would scar him to death just by watching a video.
Fortunately, the ferocious monster was eventually destroyed by the tourists. Xiao Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and felt that he was alive again.
So, while his friends on WeChat were all praising the special effects, Xiao Zhou was the only one who had a vague feeling that this might be a true hologram. But could holograms be so effective, could they truly scare people through the screen? Xiao Zhou didn't consider himself timid, but he was genuinely frightened.
When the bus arrived at the station, Xiao Zhou and his friend got off the bus and saw a long queue in front of them. While waiting in line, he and his friend turned on the live camera. In order to let the audience see the tour process of the fantasy park more intuitively, Xiao Zhou appeared in full body this time and his friend followed him to shoot.
Xiao Zhou himself is also an up-host with a certain amount of traffic. After he posted the news of live broadcasting of the Fantasy Park yesterday, many people were waiting. Although it was early in the morning, many people came to watch after the live broadcast started.
At this time, some viewers were observing this place through Xiao Zhou's lens.
Barrage: "There are quite a lot of people queuing up!"
"Is this the Fantasy Park? The gate is so small."
"Welcome to Fantasy Paradise, giving you the most realistic monster-killing experience... This slogan, emmm, let's observe it first!"
"I noticed there weren't any children in the queue. Is this really an adult-only park?"
"It seems so. Didn't 'Snack Town' say in the video yesterday that the monsters they created are rather scary and not suitable for children to visit."
"Speaking of which, if this park's technology is so impressive, why don't they just make something that appeals to everyone? Handsome men and beautiful women, magical beasts, fantasy castles, etc... Suitable for families, young and old, to come together and play. They'd make more money."
"Why else? Because holography is just a gimmick. Now they just want to build momentum and then run away after making some money."
In the comments, there are those who are expectant, curious, and also those who are sarcastic and waiting to see the joke.
Xiao Zhou didn't care because it was his turn to buy a ticket.
The man in the ticket office was in his twenties. Xiao Zhou recognized his voice and said excitedly, "Are you from Snack Town? I'm your fan."
Chi Yizhen glanced at their phones and devices and said with a smile, "You're here to do a live broadcast, right? Welcome! But the live camera needs to be covered with a layer of our holographic lens in order to record the scene."
Xiao Zhou didn't know this. After asking for the details, he spent an extra cent and bought a lens to stick on the live camera.
Commentary: "Haha, they say they're not trying to scam people, but they're even charging for mobile phone cameras."
"Look, right now, a ticket to a children's inflatable ball park in a shopping mall costs dozens of yuan, but the Fantasy Park is only ten yuan. Is this also called cutting leeks?"
"It's urgent, the navy is anxious..."
Amid the noisy comments in the comments, Xiao Zhou and his friend walked into the fantasy paradise.
To his surprise, the park was incredibly small. The only things available were the abandoned park and the viewing corridor.
My friend said, "No wonder the tickets are so cheap, this park is really small!"
They arrived early and grabbed the first batch of tickets to enter the deserted park. After inserting the tickets into the automatic ticket machine at the entrance of the deserted park, there was a ding sound, and the ticket machine spit out a stick like a vending machine.
Xiao Zhou took the stick and walked into the deserted park. As soon as he entered, the noise outside disappeared, as if he had entered a completely quiet space. Then, a delicate voice of a young girl sounded in the sky, "Warriors, monsters have begun to invade our park again. Please help us defeat them!"
Among the 20 people who came in, some of the more experienced ones immediately gripped their sticks, showing vigilance, but the vast majority, like Xiao Zhou, looked around blankly with their sticks, even holding them loosely. Xiao Zhou's feelings at the scene weren't as strong, but everything in the camera was magnified, and the audience watching these tourists through the camera quickly noticed this.
Barrage: "Why, I feel like something is wrong."
"Indeed, it seems too quiet. This deserted park is like it's completely isolated from the outside world. I can't hear any sounds from outside."
"Have you noticed that there are a few people who are different? Their postures and expressions are completely alert and tense, as if they are ready to fight at any time."
"I've noticed the ones in front of me too. They look completely different from ordinary tourists. They give off a hunter vibe, and they seem to be in the best shape of the group."
"I suddenly began to suspect that there was no paradise, no holograms, but real monsters, and the tourists were just guinea pigs thrown into this monster game without knowing anything."
"The one in front, do you think this is an infinite flow novel?"
"Fuck, up master, behind, behind!"
"Oh my god, what's that thing behind there!"
Amid the stunned exclamations of the audience, a strange creature with two sheep heads, three ring-shaped snake tails and a layer of light black mist wrapped around its body quietly approached an unsuspecting tourist beside Xiao Zhou. When everyone was caught off guard, the tourist was knocked to the ground by the monster, but he had not yet reacted, thinking that it was another tourist who bumped into him. He looked up and was about to curse, but the next moment he was stunned.
The monster's saliva dripped down, and the fishy black saliva dripped all over his body, dyeing the white clothes black.
Barrage: "Fuck, fuck..."
At the scene: "Fuck, fuck..."
At this moment, human language was astonishingly synchronized, and the live camera began to shake. Amid the horror of the audience, those tourists who seemed to have been prepared picked up sticks and rushed forward. They were faster than each other, and the sticks hit the monster again and again, making a dull sound of hitting a real object.
But what was disturbing was that there was more than one monster at the scene. Just when everyone reacted and surrounded the two monsters to beat them, a giant winged python quietly approached Xiao Zhou from behind.
[Warriors, get out of the way! The Black Feathered Serpent is coming!]
Xiao Zhou had a premonition that came from nowhere. He twisted his body just before the black-feathered snake got close to him. The next second after he saw the monster clearly, his pupils shrank, and fear shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. In an instant, he remembered nothing. He didn't remember the park, the live broadcast, the audience, or himself. He only knew that he had to kill the black-feathered snake. He had to kill it! Otherwise, something terrible would happen!
Driven by this crazy instinct, Xiao Zhou suddenly jumped up, and with strength coming from nowhere, he hit the black-feathered snake on the head with a fierce blow. The black-feathered snake was hit so hard that its head tilted and it kept hissing. It was enraged, and it swept its tail over and wrapped Xiao Zhou directly, wanting to use its snake nature to wrap the other party up to suffocate, and wrap all his organs to rupture... This was originally feasible, but under the protection of the park rules, the bodies of tourists were not harmed by monsters, so the big snake was left alone, and was instead hit wildly with a stick by the terrified Xiao Zhou.
No matter how powerful the monster is, it cannot last long under this rule where it can only be beaten. Just when Xiao Zhou's arms were sore from being beaten but he didn't even notice, the black-feathered snake in front of him suddenly twisted and disintegrated, and then a burst of light fell from the sky, and at the same time the announcement of the paradise sounded.
[Congratulations to the warrior for defeating the Level 2 monster Black Feathered Serpent, gaining a Merit Point of 20 and obtaining the Abandoned Park hidden item, the Mountain Splitting Axe.]
In full view of everyone, a black axe fell from the sky along with a beam of light and hovered in front of Xiao Zhou. Xiao Zhou took the axe in a daze. It felt solid and heavy in his hand, at least ten pounds.
The park's announcement continued, "Warriors, please note that the Axe is a prop and can only be used in the deserted park. When the warrior leaves the park, the Axe will disappear into data until the warrior summons it again."
Xiao Zhou stared blankly for a long time, then tentatively said, "Disappear."
The axe is missing.
Xiao Zhou: "Come out."
The axe appeared out of thin air and fell into his hand.
Other tourists watching: ...
Audience in the live broadcast room: ...
After about a few minutes, someone in the live broadcast room finally reacted and posted a comment: "Look carefully, the person next to Xiao Zhou is what I look like now."
The tourist next to Xiao Zhou was an experienced veteran from the beginning, and he was staring at Xiao Zhou with an expression of envy and jealousy.
Other audience members: ...
It was me, no doubt about it.
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[Ding, players, please note that the item you set up in advance, the Mountain Splitting Axe, has been claimed.]
Chi Yizhen was stunned.
The last time he renovated the abandoned park, he cleared out a lot of garbage. The game said that the garbage could be turned into treasure and converted into props, and the axe was one of them.
As for games, it is really hard to keep playing if there are no obvious rewards.
So he put these props into the reward column of the Abandoned Park. He didn't expect that someone would get the props so soon. He originally thought it was a veteran who had been to the Abandoned Park many times. When he opened the tourist information column, he was surprised to find that it was a first-time tourist.
"It seems that there are still people in this world who are born with extraordinary talents, but they never had the opportunity to develop them before. Now that they have encountered monsters, their potential has exploded."
In the tourist information column, the tourist named Xiao Zhou was listed as Level 1. This was a sign of someone becoming a Transcendent.
But he didn't have time to pay attention to this because he was being interviewed by a TV station at the moment.
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