Chapter 97 Happy Amusement Park 8
At this moment, Murphy's face was stiff, and he forced a smile: "Sister, everyone should feel this way."
“When I was little and watched TV, I always imagined myself becoming the hero of the world when I grew up.”
"When you reach puberty, you're not going to be a teenager anymore."
Luo Qing glanced at him sideways and smiled, "Yeah, you're right. Everyone has times when they feel they're different."
Mo Fei felt a chill all over his body at this moment. He was trying to fool her, but Luo Qing obviously knew it.
Her smile always seemed to hold something profound and meaningful.
At this moment, the indigenous tourists who were waiting outside also entered the performance venue. Groups of people came in from different entrances and rushed to their seats.
Murphy tried his best to stop his mind and focus on memorizing the performance instructions in his hand.
【Notice for viewing performances at Happy Theatre】
1. During the performance at Happy Theatre, please turn off your mobile phone or set it to silent mode. Please refrain from making or receiving calls, moving around, making noise, engaging in inappropriate intimate behavior, or any other behavior that may disturb other audience members. During the performance, any photography, videotaping, or recording, as it infringes upon the copyright of the program or the artist's portrait rights, is strictly prohibited.
2. Please arrive early to avoid disrupting the performance for other audience members. If you are late, please be escorted to your seat by a staff member in black uniforms during the intermission.
【3. If you violate the above regulations, please voluntarily leave the venue under the guidance of staff in black uniforms.】
[4. During this performance, there will be interactive sessions with artists. Audience members may be randomly selected by the artists for interaction. Audience members have the right to refuse such interaction.]
[5. Happy Theater does not require the audience to applaud, but encourages the audience to give warm applause to the artists who give wonderful performances.]
6. Remember, this is just a performance.
There is not much content in the instructions for watching the performance. According to Murphy's experience of attending theaters in real life, the first two are general and routine terms, and the last three are what need to be carefully considered.
The most obvious of these was the artist interaction segment in Section 4. Given that these players were currently sitting in the VIP seats, it would be a miracle if they weren't the chosen audience members.
Murphy summed up three key points in his mind: observe theater etiquette, interact, and applaud.
As for Article 6, the information contained in this article is still a bit vague.
He bit his lower lip unconsciously, and felt a little regretful about the answer he had just given to Luo Qing.
Shouldn't he play dumb?
Should I tell the truth?
If he told the truth, what would Luo Qing say next? But his previous answer directly blocked this path.
Regret, panic, confusion...The biggest secret in his heart was suddenly exposed, and Murphy was now at a loss.
The performance had not yet begun, but the hall was a little noisy due to the large number of audience members entering. The players took the opportunity to whisper to each other, study the rules, and secretly speculate about the performance program later.
Mo Fei didn't dare turn around and look at Luo Qing. He just tried to glance at her out of the corner of his eyes.
At this moment, Luo Qing seemed to be looking up something on his cell phone.
"Dear audience, please take your seats as soon as possible and check again whether your mobile phones are in silent or turned off mode... Our performance is about to begin, please be ready." The broadcast in the venue made a quick announcement, and the players immediately began to sit down, either with their hands crossed or holding their bags, looking up and facing straight ahead.
At the four corners of the performance hall, you can see staff members in black uniforms holding up a reminder screen with red letters on a black background, on which the audience instructions are played in a loop.
The performance was about to begin, and Luo Qing also put down his phone.
Aunt Tian Fang just sent her a long list of shopping bills and sorted pictures. Luo Qing didn't even look at it carefully and just gave a thumbs up. She returned the remaining purchase money that had been transferred to her and let Tian Fang use it as backup funds.
The Sasa hypermarket doesn't open until after nine o'clock, but Aunt Tian Fang somehow found a wholesale market for daily necessities and went there to pick and buy before the hypermarket opened.
Luo Qing was stunned when he saw the news. Wasn't it Tian Fang's second day here? How did she find out about the wholesale market?
She knew there was a daily necessities market, but it was not very close to Ping'an Home. When shopping for her family, the closer to home the better. Or she could place an order online and wait for the express delivery. She was too lazy to travel so far.
All I can say is that the elderly have their own wisdom in life. Tian Fang even got wholesale prices for different supplies.
Luo Qing praised repeatedly and sent several thumbs up in reply.
Taking advantage of this break, Luo Qing also poked at several tenants. Xiao Cui and others, who had met at Sister Yinuo's wedding banquet and later came to rent a house, were all accepted by Happy Amusement Park as part-time performers.
Luo Qing was not sure what program they were responsible for now, whether it was a parade or just an internship.
However, she knew that as part-time actors, they would definitely not be able to participate in the acrobatic show.
Xiao Cui replied to her that they were all newcomers for the time being and were being arranged to practice smiling and greeting people, and some simple dance moves.
The huge curtain in the performance hall suddenly opened. Luo Qing put down his mobile phone and focused on the stage in front of him.
The lights in the venue suddenly dimmed, leaving only light on the stage. The players looked tense as they watched the actors appear.
The first person to appear on stage was an actress in a light blue dance costume, but her steps were a little heavy, her whole posture was staggering, and she looked around in panic, as if she had mistakenly entered somewhere unknown.
The dancer in green walked quickly on the stage, jogging, doing several somersaults, and then jumped up and did splits in the air. She looked very light.
The players present were a little confused. Wasn't the performance Luo Qing mentioned earlier an acrobatic performance? Now, this looked more like a ballet.
Soon, their questions were answered.
The moment the new "starring actor" appeared on the stage, the players sitting in their seats almost stood up and ran away.
Weird, something weird appeared on the stage!
Li Gaoyuan opened his mouth wide, Ge Huiru held on to the armrest of the seat tightly, and other veteran players also supported their bodies, not letting their buttocks leave the seat, and used strong willpower to control themselves to sit firmly.
That thing, that strange thing seemed to appear on the stage suddenly, like a mass of hair, seaweed, and various mixtures, with no facial features and no sound.
The black and gray tentacles were like chains, suddenly attacking the dancer in green. The dancer immediately did a backflip to avoid them. At the same time, a forest appeared on the stage.
The dancer in green jumped up on the spot, instantly hooked onto the branch of the sculpted tree, and climbed up the tree quickly.
The branches of the sculpted tree are limited, but there are also rings and horizontal pipes on the top, and the on-site music becomes more intense and tense.
The strange tentacles spread out and moved up along the tree. The dancer in green moved very quickly. She grabbed the horizontal pipe with both hands. As the strange tentacles below attacked, her body either bent or hooked up, performing one difficult move after another.
As more and more tentacles stretched out strangely from below, alternating back and forth, the audience at the scene all looked up, watching the dancer in green move back and forth between the rings and the horizontal steel pipe.
Sometimes she grabbed the rings with one hand and stood upside down, sometimes she did a somersault in the air, jumped directly from the horizontal bar to the rings, and did splits in the air to avoid the strange attacks from below.
Murphy understood it, so this performance was not just acrobatics, it could be seen as an acrobatic drama that included a bit of plot.
However, he felt a bit complicated, and so did the other players.
As human beings, they naturally put themselves in the shoes of the green-clothed dancer who was constantly dodging strange attacks.
What about the indigenous tourists present? Were they watching the dancer, or the weirdness?
The accompanying drumbeats suddenly became intense, and the creature seemed a little annoyed. It extended its tentacles again and chased the green-clothed dancer with all its might.
Tentacles, those tentacles that looked like they had barbs, rolled towards the feet of the green-clothed dancer. Even though they knew it was a performance, the players became nervous.
They don't know which side will be the "surviving winner" in this acrobatic show.
The dancer in green was exerting all her strength at this moment, and her hand holding the steel pipe suddenly loosened because the tentacles touched her feet.
Her hands loosened and she was about to fall into the arms of the strange tentacles. She suddenly rolled upwards again, grabbed the zipline above, and flew from above the stage towards the audience area.
"Wow--"
At this moment, there was a burst of admiration at the scene, and all the audience looked up.
The zipline seemed to be only a short distance away. The dancer in green jumped off the zipline and landed directly on the wire in the air and began to walk on the tightrope.
Over the viewing area, dim lights had been quietly turned on at some point. The players squinted their eyes and stared upwards, noticing that the entire audience area was crisscrossed with steel wires that almost blended in with the theater background.
The dancer in green was seen moving around on the tightrope. The strange thing on the stage disappeared at some point, and suddenly appeared on the ceiling of the theater. The thick black tentacles that stretched out looked like a whole root, or like an aggregate of hair or even ashes, and attacked the female dancer with its fangs and claws.
Another chase unfolded before their eyes, with all the audience's heads tilted upwards, following the green-clad dancer's leaps and spins on the tightrope.
Forward flips, backward bends... movements that Murphy couldn't even name were performed on the wire by the dancer in green.
She was running, she was even running on this tightrope! A hasty, rapid escape!
"Is there anyone? Can anyone save me?"
The sound of the green-clothed woman gasping and panting could be heard from above, and all the players got ready.
There was no sound before, but now at this stage, is there going to be some interaction?
She had already run towards the VIP seats where the players were, under the strange pursuit from above.
With a "swish", the woman in green seemed to have lost her footing and was about to slip on the wire.
She hooked one foot on the wire, fell backward, and stretched out her hand as if trying to grab something.
She is currently located right above the VIP seats!
Interaction is coming!
The viewing instructions state that players have the right to refuse interaction.
The two newcomers didn't dare to move, and at this moment, Mo Fei clearly noticed Luo Qing's gaze towards him.
Was she hinting at him? Wanting to interact?
The rules didn't specify whether the interaction would guarantee the safety of the audience. Murphy watched as the woman in green stretched out her hand towards him.
He made up his mind, thinking that this should be a plus point in the copy, so he immediately threw his bag on the seat, reached out and held the hand of the woman in green.
Gu Tongtong, who was sitting next to Luo Qing, also took action at the same time as Mo Fei.
At this moment, the woman in green had only one foot hooked on the steel cable, but she stretched out her two hands, one on each side, pulling Mo Fei and Gu Tongtong, lifting them up and somersaulting them, and throwing them onto different steel cables.
"Fuck!" Murphy shouted in his heart. This woman in green was too strong.
When his hand rested on hers, the green-clothed woman's hand was like a pair of pliers, tightly grasping him, unable to separate at all, and directly pulled him up.
Mo Fei and Gu Tongtong were stepping on the tightrope with difficulty. It was their first time to do this thing, so they immediately put their feet together and tried to maintain their balance.
Murphy was about to fall down with one kick, but he quickly grabbed it with one hand, exerted strength with his waist and legs, and turned over and returned to the cable.
At this moment, the applause below was thunderous.
Murphy: ???
He even saw Luo Qing smiling and nodding with an expression that looked very admiring.
He soon discovered the trick to the tightrope, which was that he couldn't just stand there, he had to move, either walk, run, or do some activities to get his feet moving, so that he could constantly find and maintain balance. He couldn't just stand there.
He had no choice but to jog, and at the same time, two more players were pulled onto the tightrope.
Except for Ge Huiru and Li Gaoyuan, the bodies of other veteran players had basically been transformed and improved in the dungeon. Those who reacted quickly saw Gu Tongtong and Mo Fei moving around, and also found tricks after the initial panic.
In the end, a total of six players were thrown onto the tightrope. Together with the woman in green, they began to jump one by one to avoid the strange chase.
"Xiao Mo, I'm about to jump over, please get out of the way!" Sister Tang Suxia shouted.
"Sister, sister, where should I go?" Mo Fei had no choice but to shout to Gu Tongtong who was on the tightrope next to him.
"Tongtong, hold on tight and let me roll over."
Ever since these six players got on the tightrope, more strange and aggressive tentacles extended from the ceiling of the theater. Seven or eight tentacles moved at the same time, attacking the women in green and the players on different tightrope.
The players struggled to maintain their balance while running around on the crisscrossing tightrope. The dancer in green was still there, occasionally shuttling between them, sometimes pulling a player to do a double acrobatics, and sometimes flipping over the player's head.
The audience below applauded one after another, like a continuous tide.
Ge Huiru and Li Gaoyuan were stunned. They felt it was scary, exciting, and at the same time, they thought the scene was a little weird and funny.
It turns out that "interaction" is such an interactive method, in which the audience participating in the interaction and the performing artists together constitute an integral part of the performance.
Murphy and his companions were running and jumping on different steel cables in a hurry. The strange tentacles were slippery, sometimes going up, sometimes down, sometimes left and sometimes right to make sneak attacks. It was really exhausting to try to avoid them.
They also realized that this thing was more of a performance, as if toying with them. Well, it was just for fun! It kept tossing them around on the tightrope, doing some fancy moves.
But players cannot attack because the sixth item in the viewing instructions says - please remember, this is just a performance!
Because this is a performance, it is even less likely for them to use their own props to attack or do anything. They can only cooperate with the performance and cannot turn a blind eye!
The rules didn't specify how long the interaction would last. Most importantly, where would the acrobatic show go from here? Were they going to keep chasing each other?
While the players were jumping around on the tightrope, the background music was cheerful and lively with a fast pace.
When Murphy once again tried to avoid the tentacles, he used the middle wire as a springboard and jumped to the unmanned wire in the distance. He bent his legs and was about to slide down, but at this moment, the dancer in green appeared holding the zipline and helped him to stabilize his body. She moved gracefully, stretched out a muscular arm to signal, and pointed downwards.
Murphy understood that this allowed him to go back.
The audience interaction session is over!
The VIP seats are on the central axis. They sit in the first row of the central axis, separated from the ordinary seats in front. There is an open space in front of the seats where they can jump down.
Murphy was the first to jump off the tightrope. He never thought in his life that one day he would be an acrobat and even learned how to walk on a tightrope.
At the same time, the background music became majestic and grand, as if it was about to enter the eve of the decisive battle.
The dancer in green slid on the zipline and led the strange monster back to the stage like a kite.
Seeing Murphy return to his position, the other five players followed suit and jumped down one after another.
Returning to their seats, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Listening to the music playing, they knew the performance was coming to an end.
Murphy glanced at his watch. It was half past ten. How long had they been teetering on the tightrope? Ten minutes? Fifteen?
The music in the venue became more exciting. Murphy looked up and found that different dancers of different ages, both men and women, appeared on the stage.
They gathered around the green-clothed dancer, accompanied by various performance props. One by one, they were entangled by the strange tentacles. Some held long wooden cans, some held sticks, and stood on the strange tentacles. Some jumped from a height and directly attacked the strange thing. Some were two or three stacked together, performing different acrobatics, and then they took turns to rotate positions. You beat me and I will come up. The props danced vigorously. Special effects continued on the stage for a while, huge flames ignited, and explosions roared.
The artist who passed through the fire ring in the air seemed to have turned into Nezha, throwing two fire rings towards the weirdness. After a barrage of various live special effects, these people were seen with wounds all over their bodies, and some had already fallen down.
At the same time, the huge monster seemed to be dead, its tentacles could no longer be lifted, and it remained motionless.
“Pah pah pah pah——”
The audience applauded so loudly that it hurt people's ears. The players also applauded, and they looked at the ending in a daze.
The plot of this acrobatic show seems to be easy to understand. It starts with a female dancer in blue encountering a monster, followed by a chase, and then players going up on the tightrope to interact, and finally a group of people coming out to help kill the monster.
In theory, this is a standard team-building monster-killing game with a happy ending!
But from the players' perspective, this feels a bit strange. Oh no, the scenario you arranged in Ghost City is about humans defeating the weird?
At this moment, it was obvious that the acrobatic show had ended, and the actors on the scene, along with the weird creature, bowed to take their leave.
The players and the audience clapped together again and again, watching the actors on stage make their final encore and bow, followed by a series of beautiful somersaults or dance moves, which were performed one after another amid the cheers of the audience.
"It's over, everyone get ready to leave." Luo Qing spoke at this moment.
The curtain on the stage fell again, and this time, the actors did not appear again.
The indigenous tourists were all getting up and leaving, the scene became noisy, and there was a huge crowd of people.
"Everyone should follow the people in our group closely and don't get separated. After we reach the exit, turn right." Luo Qing reminded.
The acrobatic show lasted 45 minutes, including the encore and curtain call. By the time the players had completely walked out of the Happy Theater and gathered nearby, it was already 11 o'clock in the morning.
"We are currently carrying out two projects and a performance. There will be a new performance project around twelve o'clock. However, twelve o'clock is also the peak time for restaurants to prepare for dinner. Do you want to go to dinner early now, or do you plan to continue with the project first?" Luo Qing looked at everyone.
"I'm actually a little hungry." Huo Min said a little embarrassedly.
She was also one of the six players on the tightrope. Not to mention the energy consumed from jumping off the building, jumping back and forth on the tightrope consumed both mental and physical energy. She was really a little hungry now.
"Then let's eat first? It's better to avoid the peak hours with other tourists." Xin Guirong said.
"Okay, let's eat together."
The players all agreed, and Luo Qing took them to find the nearest restaurant.
She walked in front, and the players followed behind, talking in low voices.
"The plot of the performance just now was about humans fighting against monsters, and humans won in the end. Do you think it will be affected by our interaction? The more people we go up, the more people will go to help the protagonist." Liang Shuang guessed.
"That makes sense. The interaction is definitely meaningful, not just to scare us. If there weren't so many of us going up, it might have become a case of the weird defeating the humans. I wonder if we will be punished." Zhou Keqin said.
"That weird thing... is it the controlled kind, controlled by the indigenous people? Or is it a prop?" Ge Huiru asked cautiously.
After she said this, the players were silent. They didn't know either.
This brings up a question. If the weirdness that appears on the stage is real, it means that the natives of Ghost City have the ability to control weirdness.
If you think about it more deeply...it will make you feel hatred and anger and you won't be able to think about it anymore.
Luo Qing brought the group members to the Happy Restaurant located next to the artificial lake in Happy Amusement Park.
"This restaurant has less traffic and offers a lake view. The Eye of the Ghostly City Ferris wheel is right next to it, so it's a great option to go riding it after lunch."
Players looked around and said, "This Ferris wheel is quite big, almost as big as the Eye of Tianjin."
“There’s also an artificial lake, and the view from the window is really beautiful.”
Luo Qing led the eleven players into the restaurant. She waved her hand and said, "You guys take your seats first and decide what to order. I'm going to go out and make a phone call."
The restaurant's window seats, overlooking the lake, were equipped with facing sofas that could seat four to six people. The players quickly split into three groups, with Ge Huiru and Li Gaoyuan closely following Mo Fei.
The dining instructions were placed on the dining table, and the players were taking the time to read them, but Murphy was uneasy at the moment.
"The set meals at this amusement park are not cheap either. They're just like in real life, costing around forty or fifty yuan each." Ge Huiru muttered.
She and Li Gaoyuan were newcomers, and they didn't have a single cent of ghost coins on them, so they had to owe them to Brother Mo Fei again.
Murphy looked at the dining instructions and restaurant menu in front of him, but his mind couldn't concentrate. He looked out the window and could only catch a glimpse of Luo Qing's silhouette making a phone call at the door.
"Hello, hello? Husband?" Luo Qing frowned. She was not in the service area.
Yesterday, after my husband cleaned up Xiao Xiang’s ceiling garbage, he packed his luggage and went on a business trip. This time he was going to the farms and ranches under the 404 Group. It was a bit remote, but we almost arrived there last night.
"Which remote ranch did he go to?" she muttered, hung up the unreachable call, and switched back to the chat interface.
Luo Qing sent two messages to her husband. After confirming that she had sent them, she checked the message that Uncle Wan had sent her.
[Free consultation not provided]: Found it. On May 18, 2037, Defect No. 2207, [M·Alien·Dice], stored in the Defect Vault in Ghost City's underground defect storage, automatically vanished.
[Free consultation not provided]: Same entry time as Murphy's.
[Free consultation not provided]: Judging from the photo you sent, although it doesn't look like the child, I think it is that child.
[No free consultation]: Keep it with you? Or send it to us? Actually, there is no difference.
Luo Qing glanced at the restaurant window and met the eyes of Mo Fei who was peeking.
【Qing】: Let me think about it.
[Qing]: This kid used to work in Internet operations. It depends on his ideas. However, he can be said to be bold and timid at the same time, but he is quite kind.
[Free consultation not provided]: You call him a kid? If you think carefully, he's older than you! Don't act so old-fashioned at such a young age.
[Free consultation not provided]: Qing'er, you are children too.
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