Chapter 79 Extremely Shameful
Today is Saturday, the last Saturday and Sunday before school starts. It seems like many students are reluctant to go to bed for this last carnival. After all, they have to go to bed early on Sunday night, otherwise they will not be able to go to school on Monday. So of course they choose to stay up late on Saturday!
He Mingming is one of those staying up late, but she's not staying up late to watch TV shows or read novels. Instead, she's been browsing pictures and videos on the Fantasy Paradise forum. For the past two months, Fantasy Paradise has been trending every few days, and each time, it's clearly a genuine success story, attracting a large number of casual visitors, including He Mingming.
Every time she sees others posting photos of their tickets to the Fantasy Park and various new and interesting things in the park, she would frantically save a bunch of pictures.
This monster looks so abstract, hahaha. I’ve collected it!
Wow, this fluffy creature chasing butterflies in the garden is so cute! Saved!
Wow, this tree spirit sister/brother is so beautiful! I saved it as my avatar!
He Mingming was lying in bed, tapping the screen of his mobile phone frantically. Suddenly, a red dot appeared on the icon in the upper left corner. It was a special message reminder, indicating that a blogger He Mingming followed had posted an update.
He Mingming's recent focus has been on the big Vs who live-streamed the fantasy park. Seeing this, he immediately clicked on it and his eyes lit up. It turned out to be Xiao Zhou who posted an update!
Xiao Zhou was the first blogger to live-stream Fantasy Park. Through his lens, He Mingming witnessed the growth and changes of Fantasy Park, and also witnessed how Xiao Zhou went from a blogger with only a few thousand fans to a big V with hundreds of thousands of fans. The process of this park and Xiao Zhou growing together made He Mingming feel proud, as if he had grown up with it.
This evening, Xiao Zhou had already posted an update and recorded a short video introducing his accommodation conditions at the hot spring resort. Today was the first time the hot spring resort opened for overnight stays, and Xiao Zhou certainly wouldn't miss it. He Mingming still remembered that Xiao Zhou said in the video that he would live broadcast his morning run at the Purple Lake tomorrow.
It’s almost midnight now. Xiao Zhou never stayed up late before!
He Mingming was a little confused, but he clicked on the video posted by Xiao Zhou without hesitation.
The video shows the room Xiao Zhou booked in the hot spring resort. Since he was staying alone, he lived in a standard room without a small living room. After entering the door, there was a regular shoe cabinet and wardrobe in the entrance hall. Further in was the bathroom and a big bed. There were uniquely shaped tables and chairs beside the bed, and a smart TV was hung on the wall opposite the big bed.
Because the lighting was well rendered, this ordinary standard room also looked very high-end. And she didn’t know if it was He Mingming’s illusion, but she felt that Xiao Zhou bathed in the light looked more handsome than before.
In the video, Xiao Zhou seemed more excited than before. He tried to calm his voice and said, "In my last video, I introduced several room types in the hot spring resort, but I forgot to mention the smart TV."
He Mingming nodded in his heart. Yes, but what's so good about smart TVs? Do the TVs in the hot spring resort have more channels than other TVs?
Xiao Zhou: "But when I turned on the TV tonight, I discovered that the TV in the hot springs center had two extra channels, and they were the park's own internal channels!"
He Mingming:!!!
Xiao Zhou turned on the TV very quickly and introduced: "There are only two channels at present, one is the dwarf elf channel, and the other is the tree spirit channel. They mainly broadcast the daily lives of the dwarf elves and tree spirits. The filming is very delicate and vivid, similar to the form of documentaries." He turned on each channel and watched for a minute, but before He Mingming could enjoy it, he switched it again.
He Mingming: ???
Xiao Zhou then said, "Of course, that's not the point! Tonight, when I was watching the Dwarf Channel, the TV screen suddenly went haywire, and then this makeshift special program came on: 'Three Idiot Thieves Invade Paradise.' It's a hilarious horror short film set in a fantasy paradise. You'll see after you watch it, it's fantastic!"
Then Xiao Zhou disappeared, and the video content was all "Three Stupid Thieves in Paradise".
The short film, less than an hour long, describes three foreigners who attempted to steal the secrets of Fantasy Park. After entering the park, they pointed fingers at the environment here, causing dissatisfaction among the online tourists who loved the park. Then they were seen tearing up the house rules and throwing them into the trash can. The sight of the crumpled house rules rolling in the trash can made He Mingming inexplicably have a bad feeling.
Facts proved that her premonition was correct. In the dead of night, when everything was quiet, the three stupid thieves sneaked into a place that was strictly prohibited by the rules, and were then hit hard by the "monsters" in the park!
When He Mingming saw Lauren struggling to unlock the combination lock, only to discover it was just a decoration, she couldn't help but laugh. Then, when she saw Lauren being hit by the mechanism behind the combination lock, He Mingming burst out laughing again. Before she could recover, Lauren was caught up by the monster and got bitten on the butt! She then asked Tom for help, but Tom called her a bitch and kicked her away!
He Mingming was so amused, "Oh my god, this is so full of laughs!"
After reading it, she immediately forwarded it and commented on it. After forwarding it, she found that there were already many forwarding and comments in the comment section.
——Hahahaha, I laughed from beginning to end. This short film is so wonderful! The atmosphere is well rendered, scary and funny at the same time!
——The ending was a bit abrupt, it felt like it ended abruptly. I thought that in the end we would see the righteous principal come out to uphold justice.
——Hahaha, the righteous principal made me laugh to death. In this short film, isn’t the principal the villain behind the strange stories in this park?
Ahhhh! I was stunned by this short clip. I've always loved horror novels, but there's never been any domestic TV or film of this kind. And today, I actually saw it in a promotional video for a theme park! Especially the part about the rules of admission! It's so reminiscent of that!
— Was the person who mentioned the promotional video serious? It seems like this is just back-propaganda!
—I've never been to Fantasyland. Is this evidence of a dark secret? Are the three men in the video in grave danger? (Doghead jpg).
--Fantasy Paradise should switch to filming TV dramas to benefit the domestic entertainment industry! Really, the actors and technology are really amazing. The last time, the Jasmine Town clip was transformed by a famous director, and this short film is even more amazing, both scary and funny. If it is released in theaters, it will definitely make a lot of money at the box office.
—Help! I've taken my kids to the children's area so many times. The tree spirits are so beautiful and gentle. But when I saw John's hands getting more and more aggressive, I was furious. I thought, "Why are you touching my beautiful tree spirit? A key costs three yuan, do you deserve it?" Then the tree spirit swallowed him up, swallowed him up, swallowed him up... Amazingly, my kids weren't scared. They were happy and called John a jerk.
——Hahaha, me too. I feel like this short film has a lot of tropes from foreign films. I thought there would be some passionate scenes mixed in, but... you're worthy of being Yuanyuanzi.
——Hahaha, it feels so good to see Tom’s face swollen after being beaten. Let you bully the cute furry ones!
—Wow, am I the only one who envy the residents of the hot spring resort? This is too good to be true! Not only can they soak in the hot springs, pet the furry companions, and eat a delicious buffet, but they also get to watch special programs on the internal channels at night… I'm so envious I'm going crazy.
— Based on personal experiences from guests at the hot spring resort, I suspect that Fantasyland uses particularly expensive sound equipment, or perhaps they're incredibly skilled in this area. Because when my family and I were watching, we had sound not only from the TV but also from the outside world.
—It's true! I live on the third floor. When John knocked on the door at the end, my window was half open, and I could actually hear the knocking and shouting outside! The sound effects and technology are amazing!
—Has no one praised those three actors? I wonder where Paradise found them; their acting is so natural! Everyone knows that joy, anger, sadness, and happiness are easy to portray, but fear is the hardest. Those with slightly less developed acting skills tend to look awkwardly falsifying fear, but these three don't have that at all. Lauren's scream when she got her butt chewed was blood-curdling, and Tom's expression and eyes when he was swallowed whole by the tree spirit were incredible. I even wondered if they were actually killed by the Paradise monsters.
——Hahaha, how could he really be killed? The above person has such a good imagination. The acting is indeed great, but I have a doubt. I am a local of Jinan and have been to the park almost every day for the past month. I have never heard of any filming in the park. And looking at the background, it is obvious that this was filmed after the visitor center was built, but the visitor center just opened today!
——You’re overthinking it. It’s not just opened today, it was built today. They must have started secretly filming a long time ago!
He Mingming kept reading the comments and was so amused that when he came to his senses he realized it was almost one in the morning.
She sighed. She was a high school student in northern China, from an average family—not poor, but not wealthy either. The pocket money her parents gave her could be used for food, household items, and books, but she couldn't save enough for travel. She'd considered secretly traveling without telling her parents, but the distance was too far. Jin'an City, whether by high-speed rail or plane, would cost at least two thousand yuan round-trip. Furthermore, Fantasy Park had become incredibly popular recently, and airfares to Jin'an had increased. High-speed rail tickets weren't cheap, either, and were often sold out. It was simply out of her reach.
I can only wait until the college entrance examination and choose a school in the south.
“I really want to go to the park!”
With this longing in mind, she gradually fell asleep.
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The next day, when Li Chenggong and his family got up and checked their phones, they found that the show they watched last night had become a hot topic. The entry was particularly shocking, called "The Dark Truth of Fantasy Park Revealed."
When many netizens who did not know the truth saw this entry, they were frightened and thought that some negative news had been revealed about the Fantasy Park. When they clicked in, they found out that they had been deceived. They wailed and were forced to be cloud tourists for another day.
Li Chenggong and his family just glanced at each other and laughed while eating, and then they talked about the three foreigners who lived next door yesterday at the dinner table.
After watching the show last night, they were so impressed by the three foreigners sitting next door that they wanted to get their autographs and take a photo, but it was too late. They woke up early today to visit, but after knocking on the door, no one opened it. After asking the waiter, they learned that they had checked out in the early hours. The family was a little disappointed, but it didn't affect their trip.
What they didn't know was that the short film "Three Stupid Thieves in Paradise" had been spread to the outside world very quickly under the impetus of certain forces, attracting a lot of attention.
Some pointed out that the three were mid-level managers of the overseas MT Technology Group, with Lauren being one of the executives. So how could they have ended up filming in Zhongzhou? Not only were the characters themselves vulgar and obscene, but they were also cast under their real names. By doing this, weren't these three mid-level managers essentially trampling their company's image into the mud to create a fantasy paradise?
Foreign netizens were outraged, thinking that MT Group, as a top international technology company, was so fawning to Fantasy Park. They must be unable to compete with them in technology, so they resorted to such a low-brow method to submit, which was a disgrace to their country!
Those three managers had no bottom line at all. Their ugly postures of crying and begging for mercy in the movie simply brought shame to their superior race in front of the whole world!
MT Group: …
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