Chapter 62 Hot Springs 1
On the morning of August 20, Lin Lanlan came to the Fantasy Park again. This time her parents did not accompany her, and this was also her second time to come to the Fantasy Park alone.
The first time she came here, she was a poor little girl who was sent to the city to work by her parents who favored boys over girls. She was so scared and guilty that she even had to buy a fifty-yuan ticket. But this time, she came in with an annual pass to the theme park in her hand, her clothes were new, her cheeks had more flesh, and her hair was black and shiny. It was obvious that she was well taken care of.
Fantasyland was still bustling with activity. She could hear the tourists around her discussing the park's newly opened hot springs. She could hear children clamoring to see their parents in the restaurant. She could hear talkative adults chatting about the new bus stop at the park's entrance. She could hear young couples talking about going to March's room in the haunted house.
Lin Lanlan walked skillfully to the merit list, looked at her own ranking, and found that she was ranked over 5,000. So she went to the abandoned park, then to Jasmine Town, and then to the Fantasy Haunted House. After completing this process, her merit value increased by ten points, and she successfully broke into the top 5,000 and obtained the half-price qualification for the hot spring center.
Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes met with a girl who was also looking at the merit list. The girl exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, it's Lanlan! What a coincidence!"
After Lin Lanlan found her biological parents, she tried many things that she had longed for since childhood but had never been able to achieve, such as learning music. When she was a child, she saw a girl of her age sitting on the stage and playing the guzheng gracefully on TV, and she kept the envy in her heart. Her biological parents saw her thoughts and enrolled her in a music class in Jinan City. The girl in front of her was named Meng Linlin, a native of Jinan, and they were classmates in the guzheng class.
Unlike Lin Lanlan's shy nature, Meng Linlin was very outgoing and optimistic. Even if Lin Lanlan didn't initiate a conversation, she would chirp non-stop, like a restless little bird. "Lanlan, you're here to see the merit list too? Which ID is yours?"
Lin Lanlan pointed to the one ranked 4906. Meng Linlin looked closely and found that the ID name was: Lanlan!
Meng Linlin burst out laughing, "There are actually people who use their own names as their IDs! We get along so well!" She pointed to her own ID - Meng Jia Linlin.
Their rankings were very close, with Meng Linlin only three places higher than her.
Meng Linlin said, "Let's go fight monsters together! Otherwise, there won't be any discounts at the hot springs this afternoon!"
Lin Lanlan was stunned for a moment, "Didn't we already get the discount?"
Meng Linlin shook her head. "The discounts you get from your Merit Ranking are only available this afternoon when you buy tickets at the hot springs. But the Merit Ranking is changing so quickly today! Everyone wants to get the discounts and spend less. If we just sit around and do nothing, we'll quickly drop down the rankings!"
Lin Lanlan couldn't quite believe it until she saw with Meng Linlin that her ranking had dropped from 4,906 to 4,908. Her heart immediately raced. It had only been less than ten minutes, and she'd already dropped a rank. If Meng Linlin hadn't warned her, she would have spent 500 yuan on the hot springs that afternoon!
Although she had reunited with her wealthy parents, Lin Lanlan's worldview had been largely shaped over the past decade. She wouldn't resort to extravagant spending based on her parents' wealth. She preferred to spend as little as possible. As for the 250 yuan discount offered to those over 5,000, she didn't care at all. She didn't believe a number with a derogatory connotation could be a hindrance. If she were to buy a house, she'd be the kind of person who would easily accept numbers like 444 or 414 just for the sake of a bargain.
Meng Linlin stood on tiptoe and swiped across the smart touch screen of the Merit List. She said to Lin Lanlan, "Although my ranking is higher than yours, it's also very dangerous. If the two of us don't take action, we will soon drop to 6,000 or 7,000."
Without waiting for Lin Lanlan to react, she had already talked to her and pulled her into being a teammate.
Lin Lanlan glanced at the long queue at the nearby Abandoned Park and said, "But both Abandoned Park and Jasmine Town only allow one batch of people in every half an hour."
Although the Deserted Park and Jasmine Town have been expanded several times, until now, the maximum number of people who can enter these two copies at a time does not exceed fifty.
Meng Linlin said, "Are you stupid? Only those young people who have only been here a few times would focus on the abandoned park and Jasmine Town. Experienced warriors like us should go to the Fantasy Haunted House."
Meng Linlin told her a method. "After many experiments, I found a relatively short, unpopular room. After entering it, we'll encounter monsters after a few days. We can quickly kill the monsters together, then click back to the beginning to watch again. Then, if we drag the progress bar, another monster will spawn quickly. At this rate, we can kill one monster every fifteen minutes, and two in half an hour. The benefits are much greater than those of the abandoned park."
Lin Lanlan thought about it and realized it made sense. There were a lot of newcomers to the abandoned park, and they usually went in in groups of 40, sharing one or two monsters. These newcomers were particularly weak, often holding her back. After the battles, the merit points had to be divided among the others, so she didn't get much. She had never thoroughly explored the fantasy haunted house before, nor did she know how to search for guides online. She had no idea there were such quick-pass rooms. Meng Linlin's explanation immediately shocked her.
The two of them immediately went to the Fantasy Haunted House together. There were obviously many tourists who had the same idea as them. There was still a long queue at the door of the Fantasy Haunted House. Fortunately, the environment in the Fantasy Park was very good and cool, otherwise, with so many tourists crowded together in August, they would definitely be sweating from the heat.
The Fantasy Haunted House is not like the Deserted Park and Jasmine Town. It does not admit people in batches. Instead, a few people can line up and enter. The line moves forward very quickly. Moreover, the Fantasy Haunted House has entry restrictions like the Jasmine Town. If people with insufficient merit points force their way in, they will be trapped inside because they are too weak to defeat the monsters. In the end, they have to ask the staff for rescue. Most tourists do not want to experience such a shameful thing. Therefore, although there are many people queuing in the haunted house, it is not outrageous. The two quickly entered the haunted house and found the room that Meng Linlin mentioned.
There was a picture of a baby hanging in the room, without a name.
After entering, they saw an ordinary small town family, and Lin Lanlan and Meng Linlin became sisters in this family. They quickly forgot the fact that they were here to fight monsters, and helped their pregnant mother with housework every day, and then waited for their father who went out to sell vegetables to come back for dinner together.
The small house had almost no sound insulation. On the fourth night, Lin Lanlan and Meng Linlin heard their parents talking in the house.
The young father who is about to have his third child said that a strange doctor came to the city and said that he could perform sterilization surgery on men without affecting their married life. In order to save his wife from the pain of giving birth one child after another, he decided to go to the doctor for sterilization tomorrow.
The wife also said that frequent childbirth would affect her work too much. If she could be sterilized successfully, she would no longer get pregnant and could go out to work to reduce her husband's burden. She could also earn more money to give her child a better life.
The two chatted until very late, and Lin Lanlan and Meng Linlin were also talking in a low voice. They thought to themselves that this couple had a great relationship and was very responsible. They were really lucky to have traveled through time and space into this family.
The next day, not long after her husband left, her mother went into labor. However, Lin Lanlan and Meng Linlin never waited for the father of the family to arrive. As the child was about to be born, a demon emerged from the ground and rushed into the small family...
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After repeatedly beating the monster to death more than a dozen times and making sure the time was almost up, the two walked out of the room.
The strange thing was that when they were inside, they felt very sad and angry, and sad for the harmonious family and the unborn child, but when they walked out of the room, that emotion quickly faded away, just like having a bad dream, or watching a tragic movie, and only hatred for the monster remained in their hearts.
"Monsters are so abominable. We need to fight more monsters next time!"
The two girls nodded, and realizing it was already two o'clock, they immediately rushed to the hot springs.
Lin Lanlan had a hard life since she was abducted by a trafficked family. She suffered from malnutrition, anemia and thinness. According to the doctor, it would take several years for her to recover. But for some reason, her physical fitness has been getting better and better since she entered the amusement park to fight monsters. In the past, she would have been dizzy and unable to walk after so much strenuous exercise and not having eaten lunch. But now, she can even run to the hot springs with Meng Linlin.
When they ran to the hot spring, it was already very lively.
Even though they had seen the photos online before, the two girls still exclaimed in surprise.
“The landscaping is so beautiful!”
“So many flowers!”
"And there's a stone bridge!"
In front of the five-story building of the hot spring center, there is a garden-like landscape.
A wide stone path bisects the smooth lawn, extending all the way to the central hot springs entrance. Besides this straight stone path, which provides the quickest access, there are curved stone bridges on either side. In the stream beneath the bridges, koi carp chase food, occasionally leaping out of the water and creating tiny splashes of water.
There are fountains and flower beds not far away. Various flowers that cannot be named are in full bloom. Next to them are elegant willow trees with branches hanging down in a myriad of ways, which occasionally brush the cheeks of passers-by playfully. Next to the stone benches for people to rest, there are free drinks and candies for tourists who are thirsty or have low blood sugar. The machine containing drinks and candies is not known how to identify. No matter how the tourists who deliberately take advantage touch the machine, the drinks and candies cannot be ejected. The tourists with bad complexions and obviously low blood sugar will be reminded as soon as they approach, attracting many people to gather around in amazement and sigh at the power of technology to change their lives. Further away is a tall pavilion, and next to the pavilion is a rockery waterfall. The water there flows all the way down, almost passing through all the artificial streams that can be seen by the human eye.
From time to time, the sound of tourists snapping photos could be heard nearby. Lin Lanlan heard a stranger next to her say, "It must have cost a lot of money just to see this view! This trip was worth it!"
"It's a pity that my ranking was too low and I didn't get the half-price discount!"
"Hahaha, I have a 40% discount!"
Then Lin Lanlan watched helplessly as the man claiming to have a 70% discount swiped his ticket. A voice came from the ticket machine, "Hello, your ranking is 2,106, which means you can get a 50% discount!"
The man exclaimed, "How is that possible! This morning I was ranked over a thousand!"
The surrounding tourists burst into good-natured laughter, and someone shouted, "50% off isn't bad, hurry in! Otherwise, if you wait any longer, even the 50% discount will be gone!"
The tourist thought the same and quickly paid the fee to enter the hot spring hall. Seeing this, other tourists also hurried up to check their tickets, fearing that if they were a step slower, their ranking on the merit list would change again!
Lin Lanlan and Meng Linlin followed closely behind.
As soon as they entered the hot spring, they were startled by the bustling crowd inside.
The announcement above echoed over and over again: [Visitors entering, please proceed to the front desk to register in an orderly manner. Visitors who have not had time to eat lunch, please go to the front desk to collect the ticket for the buffet area. Each visitor is limited to two entries into the buffet area...]
Meng Linlin exclaimed, "We can go in twice! And the hot springs don't close until nine in the evening. Let's go now, have lunch, play around, and then have dinner! This money is well spent!"
Lin Lanlan nodded, feeling a little excited. After all, the food in the Dwarf Elf Restaurant was delicious, and their buffet must be good too!
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