Chapter 115
Among the black and red buildings, the river in front of us is extremely conspicuous.
As the tourists got closer, the water of the Yellow River began to boil for no reason, the gurgling sound of bubbling reached their ears, and they could vaguely see something in the river water.
Zhou Siling's eyes widened. She gasped and pointed at the river surface, "Are those humans?"
"No, it's the ghost of a dead human being." Nuwa corrected her.
Zhou Siling was so shocked that she was speechless.
Countless ghosts were wailing in pain in the river, their faces were hideous, some ghosts' bodies became increasingly transparent, and some had lost half of their bodies in the river.
They wailed, but continued to walk towards the other side without stopping. Only a few ghosts were not affected at all in the river and were looking at the others in confusion.
The tourists felt a chill down their spines. They all wrapped their clothes tightly around them and bravely asked, "What is this?"
"This is the Forgetful River, the dividing line between the human world and the underworld. The bridge over it is called the Naihe Bridge. Beside the bridge stands an old woman named Meng Po. Before reincarnation, we must drink Meng Po's soup to forget our past lives before we can be reborn as a human again."
Some people couldn't help but ask: "What would happen if you didn't drink it?"
Nuwa's smile remained unchanged. "If you don't drink it, you'll be like the ghosts on the Forgotten River. If humans even touch it, they'll be reduced to ashes."
Everyone was frightened by her words and shrank their heads back.
Nuwa led them over to the bridgehead. At the bridgehead, an old lady in a coarse cloth shirt and leaning on a cane was putting her cane into the large medicine furnace in front of her and stirring it.
Wisps of black smoke rose from above the dark purple medicine furnace.
"Meng Po, could you please give us some leniency? We want to see the King of Hell return to the human world." Nuwa said.
The stirring action slowly stopped and the old lady raised her head. Unlike her gray hair and hunched back, her facial features and skin were as white and tender as a baby's, without a trace of wrinkles.
"hiss--"
The tourists who saw this scene silently took a few steps back.
Meng Po glanced at the tourists' actions without any emotion, then retracted her gaze and bowed deeply in front of Nuwa.
"It is truly a blessing for Meng Po to have the honor of meeting Nuwa. Since it is Nuwa's request, Meng Po dare not refuse."
After she finished speaking, she slowly walked to the edge of the bridge, leaving space at the bridge entrance for passage.
"Thank you." Nuwa smiled and waved her sleeves. A stream of transparent colorless liquid floated out from the medicine furnace, forming a thin stream, which slowly gathered into water droplets and fell in front of each tourist.
Does this mean you want to drink?
Zhou Siling held her breath and opened her mouth slightly, and the drop of water automatically entered her mouth.
A sweet taste suddenly filled my mouth.
It's not overly sweet, and even has a light fragrance.
I didn’t expect Mengpo soup to be so delicious.
She was shocked.
But she is a rare case after all.
Many people followed her example, and some of them immediately screamed in pain after drinking it.
"Why is it so bitter? It's so hard to drink." A male tourist jumped up because of the bitterness and kept blowing out air with his tongue, as if he could spit out the Meng Po soup he had just drunk.
"This is so spicy, it's killing me." Another tourist had a distorted face, and his originally normal complexion was now as red as a cooked lobster.
"Mine is salty."
"How could this happen? My Mengpo soup smells like sour water."
"Why does this Mengpo soup taste different to everyone? Mine tastes like candy, and it's quite delicious."
…
Everyone shared what they had tasted. Some people were careless and couldn't taste anything after taking a sip, so they begged Nuwa to drink some more.
"I've given you enough Mengpo soup. You're still alive after all. If you drink too much, you might forget the way home and end up staying in the underworld."
Nuwa only left this sentence and turned to walk onto the bridge. The tourists looked at each other and followed her without hesitation.
Before standing on it, the Naihe Bridge was shrouded in fog, and everyone thought it was just fog on the Wangchuan River. But when they stood on it, everything became clear.
The fog seemed to automatically fade away to both sides as if by interest, revealing the buildings in the distance.
The city wall is black, and inside is a tower as tall as a mountain. White ghosts are floating in it, and they are walking as if they are in the real world.
The gloomy underworld suddenly had a hint of human life.
The rest of the journey was smooth. After walking down the Naihe Bridge, Nuwa took them to meet the real master of the underworld, the King of Hell.
He has a serious face, controls life and death, and decides good and evil.
Seeing Nuwa, the King of Hell was a little surprised. He quickly stood up and bowed to her, "What brings you here, my lady?"
Nuwa smiled and leaned sideways, revealing Zhou Siling hiding behind her. She patted her head gently.
"This child and I have a deep connection, so I came here to protect her. They are both immortals, and it is simply unreasonable for them to live in the underworld."
"This..." The King of Hell hesitated.
Nuwa's expression remained unchanged. She just looked at him, her tone gentle but unquestionable. "Why, is there a problem?"
The King of Hell was silent for a moment.
The person standing in front of him was an ancient immortal. The underworld was established later. Logically speaking, there was no need for him to stop it.
But facing the full power of Nuwa, the King of Hell only leaned forward slightly, but kept his back very straight.
He raised his hand and said, "If a living soul accidentally enters the underworld, they must follow the rules here."
Nuwa: "Speak directly."
"Then I said, they need to go through the eighteen levels of hell, so that they can return to the human world."
A huge bead of sweat slid down the King of Hell's forehead. He quietly raised his head and observed Nuwa's reaction.
The expected anger did not appear. Nuwa just raised an eyebrow and said, "Is that all?"
Yan Wang was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "That's all."
"That's easy." Nuwa clapped her hands lightly, and divine power entered the bodies of the tourists in various forms.
She curled her lips slightly, "Since the underworld is following the rules, as Nuwa, the mother of mankind, I should naturally take care of them. I'm sure you don't have any objections, right?"
Yama: “…No.”
"That's good." Nuwa nodded with satisfaction.
The tourists standing behind and watching everything: Well done, Nuwa.
As for Zhou Siling, who was patted on the head, she looked up at Nuwa with admiration.
As expected, she is the goddess Nuwa who created us humans. She gives us a strong sense of security.
She stretched out her hand and touched the virtual panel in front of her.
[Receive Nuwa's blessing and become immune to all damage for 4 hours.]
She was happy and was no longer afraid of the ghosts wandering around her.
She walked towards the test with great courage and confidence, fearing that if she went any later, she would regret and back off.
While this group of lucky tourists were passing through the underworld, Zheng Yi, who had not been seen for a long time, overslept this time and only came to the park in the afternoon to prepare to play the new attractions.
Zheng Yi hasn't been to China Paradise for a while, or to be more precise, he hasn't done a live broadcast for a long time.
The reason, ahem, is that he is in love.
So he has been chasing him all this time. As soon as he caught up with him, he started a live broadcast to tell his fans the good news, and then he was welcomed with shock and blessings from his fans.
[Hey, Xiaolu, how old are you? You haven't graduated for long, right? Why are you already in a relationship? ]
[Single guys are so jealous! How come I'm in my 30s and still single, but you, Xiaolu, are already single? Damn it!]
[Okay, okay, this is why you haven't been live streaming for so long. We've been waiting impatiently for your absence (cat tears).]
…
Because he started the live broadcast a long time ago, the live broadcast room is very popular and the barrage of comments is so dense that it is dizzying.
Fortunately, he is not a good-looking anchor, and his main focus on theme park strategies is usually on theme park guides, so he doesn't have to worry about losing fans after announcing his relationship.
After all, he relies on his own ability to make strategies.
He used today's ticket happily and felt the unique atmosphere as soon as he entered.
"This event is actually horror-themed?"
This was the first time that Huaxia Paradise decorated the park with a horror theme, which aroused a little interest in Zheng Yi.
But his goal today is not just this theme event.
He planned to try out all the projects he hadn't tried before.
The first is mushroom picking and seafood catching that appeared in the previous New Year activities.
In fact, these two projects are not available all the time.
In order to be realistic, the mushroom pickers will only reappear in the park on rainy days. If it is not raining, sorry, you can only come back next time.
As luck would have it, the park was sunny today with no rain at all, so the only thing we could experience was sea catching.
Zheng Yi hurried to the beach and found that there were many people on the beach, and everyone was concentrating on catching seafood.
There was no time to say more. He quickly picked up his tools, found a small hole with sharp skills, sprinkled salt on it, and soon successfully harvested a large bamboo clam.
"It's quite interesting," Zheng Yi said with a smile, "but I didn't come here just to experience the sea-hunting."
It's rare to see him playing tricks, but the fans in the live broadcast room guessed the reason why he came after just a little thought.
[If I'm guessing correctly, it should be to reach 200 points and then unlock the Doomsday Treasure Chest project, right?]
[What? Apocalypse treasure chest? Isn't that what you'd open to fish for treasure chests at sea? What the hell is apocalypse?]
[You might not know what I mentioned above, but this time Sister Ling has combined the apocalypse with treasure chests. You start with a small, broken wooden plank, then try to survive at sea by fishing for treasure chests. It sounds really interesting, and quite a few streamers have already tried it this morning. Many are so addicted that almost no one has left.]
[This is so fun? Why do I find it hard to believe?]
【You’ll know after you play it. 】
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Someone in the comments had already guessed his intention, and Zheng Yi didn't hide it and simply nodded.
"You guessed it right, I do want to try out new projects."
To be honest, when he heard the word "apocalypse", he had already put this new project at the top of his expectations.
I hope I won't disappoint his expectations.
Zheng Yi acted quickly. After searching for only about 20 minutes, the seafood he caught had already exceeded 200 points. Soon, a tornado appeared on the calm sea.
The tornado was very strong and he didn't hide at all, allowing the tornado to sweep him into the sea.
It was pitch black in front of me.
When he opened his eyes again, he was lying on a broken wooden board, with the sea water lapping against his body, feeling icy cold.
He quickly got up and a virtual panel popped up out of thin air.
Welcome to the "Open a Small Plank: Survival at Sea" project. You need to survive successfully within 30 days. Please start your journey of survival!
The project introduction was very brief. After Zheng Yi quickly read it, he picked up the fishing rod at hand, threw it hard, and waited quietly for the fishing line to turn.
Perhaps because he was a rookie, he quickly caught a golden treasure chest.
He always knew that he was very dark, so he raised his eyebrows in surprise and then opened it.
[Congratulations on receiving 200g of salmon and ten wooden planks.]
[The wooden planks you have have met the upgrade requirements. Do you want to upgrade? ]
Two voices sounded at the same time, and Zheng Yi pressed the upgrade confirmation button without hesitation.
The next second, the scattered wooden boards next to the treasure chest disappeared, and the small wooden board under his feet was upgraded to a small wooden boat. The area was still only large enough for one person to stand, but at least the sea water could not get in.
Zheng Yi breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes full of interest.
"Come again!" He continued to cast the rod.
There are more updates this time. Fans of the park have discovered that most of the things that Song Yuxing had promised to update before were reflected in this event.
There are countless peripheral products related to those cute mushrooms in the park’s peripheral stores, and there are even many mushroom and park cards.
For example, one of the most popular card-opening anchors in recent live broadcasts, after obtaining authorization from Song Yuxing, got the cards produced by China Paradise in advance, and is currently opening cards for his boss in the live broadcast room.
Card opening is a very niche circle. In the past, the maximum popularity of the live broadcast room was around 100,000. But this time it was different. Many fans of the park who were attracted by the four words "China Paradise" placed orders enthusiastically after learning about the rules of card opening.
Of the 300 boxes of inventory originally prepared, 20 were sold almost instantly.
If the team had not placed the order because they were afraid that it would take too long to unpack the cards, these 300 boxes would probably not have been kept at all.
The host who was opening the cards had a bright smile on his face and immediately opened the box bought by the first fan, revealing the cards inside.
"Congratulations, boss! I've obtained one of only 12 autographs from Huaxia Paradise owner Miss Song Yuxing. The autograph is numbered 06/12, the sixth of the 12."
It was a success right after the box was opened, and the host was so happy that his mouth was grinning from ear to ear.
She continued to dismantle it.
"Congratulations, boss, for winning a Paradise Baji."
"It's a shame this box didn't contain any rare numbers, but it does have a Baji and a card booklet. The boss must be very lucky."
"Congratulations, boss! You've won one of only 30 embroidery pieces from Huaxia Paradise, numbered 28/30."
"Congratulations on obtaining the Mushroom Color Card, number 162/300."
"Congratulations on receiving a Moon Palace Hotel special card, number 49/300."
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There were constant exclamations from the card-opening live broadcast room, and the popularity even rushed to the top ten of the card list, causing other live broadcast rooms that had not introduced the China Paradise cards to be extremely jealous, and they secretly made up their minds to quickly order the China Paradise cards.
The carnival in the park lasted until the evening. Because the event was related to horror themes, tourists were cautious and did not go too far.
Zhou Siling finally made it through the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld, and she was the first one to come out. The King of Hell was very satisfied and even wanted to hire her as a civil servant in the local government.
She wanted to refuse, but when she heard the King of Hell say that if she agreed, she could ride in the ghost car of the underworld to leave, she agreed without hesitation.
This is a ghost car, who wouldn’t want to ride in it?
In fact, the ghost carriage was just as she expected. The nine-headed He Luo fish stood in the front, and behind it was a black frame with gold edges. Behind the ghost carriage, countless ghosts stood with their heads lowered.
This scene seems to be as large as a float parade, except that the floats have been replaced with ghost cars.
"Why are there so many people? No, why are there so many ghosts?" she asked in confusion.
Nuwa answered before the King of Hell could: "Today is Qingming Festival. The gates of the underworld are wide open, and all ghosts can return to the human world to meet their relatives. That's why the scale is a bit large."
"Tomb-Sweeping Day?" a tourist asked in confusion.
"This is a traditional Chinese festival. Every year during the Qingming Festival, many Chinese people go to worship their ancestors. This festival was originally just a solar term, but later it naturally evolved into a traditional festival."
A tourist in the crowd patiently explained, and everyone nodded vigorously as they listened.
Suddenly, someone pointed at the person who had just spoken and said excitedly, "Professor Chen Xia? You're here to play too?"
The name Chen Xia is known to everyone who is a fan of China Paradise.
Even Zhou Siling, a fan who has only been a fan for a few months, knows her.
After hearing her explanation, everyone began to understand why Song Yuxing chose the ghost theme and activities this time.
It turns out it’s related to Qingming Festival.
Tourists got on the carriage one after another, and it started slowly. The moment they left the gate of the underworld, their vision spun around, and the next second, they arrived at a place that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
"Isn't this... Chang'an City?" Zhou Siling said the last few words hesitantly because she was not sure whether this was really Chang'an City.
In her impression, Chang'an City is prosperous, beautiful, grand and solemn. Even at night, it is still extremely prosperous.
So when she saw Chang'an City for the first time, she was shocked.
Darkness covered the city walls, and light was faintly visible under the red lanterns. The streets seemed empty, but in fact, countless ghosts were crowded on them.
On both sides of the street, other tourists were also watching all this in amazement.
Just at this moment, a prompt sound rang.
【Open the One Hundred Demons Night Parade event, please choose your camp. 】
[1. Ghost camp; 2. Human camp.]
Until this moment, Zhou Siling once again deeply felt why China Paradise was so popular.
There are activities that start as soon as you enter the park, which are in line with the theme of the festival, and there are endlessly updated peripherals.
No matter from which aspect, she felt Song Yuxing's intentions for the paradise.
This is China Paradise!
At this moment, Zhou Siling completely became a die-hard fan of China Paradise.
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The ghost event updated by Song Yuxing this time received crazy likes from tourists.
However, tourists are never satisfied. Not long after the event ended, someone left a message on her homepage urging her to quickly set up an offline entity.
Song Yuxing always keeps her word. At the end of this year, she did buy a planet for the physical construction of Huaxia Paradise.
However, because she was too busy, she finally handed the planet over to Lu Zhi.
Anyway, he's my boyfriend, so why not use him?
During the New Year of the following year, Chang'an City was successfully reproduced in reality, and she also invited her relatives, friends and loyal fans to celebrate the New Year together.
In the third year, Huaxia Paradise was officially awarded the most popular theme park award. In order to promote Chinese civilization, it has successively cooperated with the official, published related cartoon films, etc., and successfully turned Chinese civilization into the childhood of the new generation of children in the world.
Time flies.
Five years, six years, seven years...
As the children grew up, many of them chose to work in industries related to Chinese civilization. Gradually, Chinese civilization was completely integrated into this world.
Everyone is already familiar with the existence of China Paradise.
Several years later, Hua Xia Paradise was preserved after the death of the owner of the park and became a must-visit paradise for generations.
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