Chapter 47 Chapter 47 Temple Fair in Progress 1
Dear visitors, welcome inside!
[In late spring and early summer, Ghost City's annual citizen event begins! ]
The first event of this Citizen Activity Week is a grand three-day community fire temple fair held in the old factory park. Come and eat, drink, play, and check in!
The Shehuo Temple Fair offers a variety of activities, including exciting performances, a chain market, and a 99-circle snack street! Hours are 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
As a qualified tourist, please watch at least (0/1) performances, personally participate in at least (0/1) activities, and try at least (0/3) snacks. There are many benefits and excitements. Come and experience it! 】
Miao Ling was teleported into the dungeon. The moment she saw the dungeon notification, she quickly searched for her compatriots. Then, she was stunned.
There are so many people.
To be more precise, it wasn't just a "human," but a strange child with a large head and a small body. It stretched out its two long arms, held onto its parents, looked around, and shouted, "Sugar man, sugar man, I want to eat sugar man!"
When the old man, whose upper body was intact and whose lower body was wriggling, passed by, other tourists around him immediately made way for him.
The young couple held a colorful map in their hands and whispered to each other:
"There's a stilt walker show? Where is it? Are the performance areas all together?"
Miao Ling rubbed her eyes. Oh my god, this is so weird. People, NPCs, and players are all mixed together at this moment. I don’t know how many players there are in this copy. Could they all be dispersed?
However, in this temple fair copy, it may not be useful for players to gather together. Without companions, they always feel empty in their hearts.
Fortunately, now in this scene, even though those weird things looked very strange, they didn't seem to be interested in causing trouble for her. Miao Ling quickly screened through the crowd and took the initiative to walk to the couple.
It was obvious that this person was an NPC. She knew nothing about the environment of this temple fair, so she had to ask around.
"Excuse me, beautiful lady, handsome guy, where did you get this map?" Miao Ling smiled friendly, hoping not to be rejected by the NPC.
"It's over there, it was there when we came in." The beauty pointed in the direction behind.
"I guess I was squeezed by others and didn't notice it. Thank you." Miao Ling hurriedly thanked him.
While observing the surrounding environment and the tourists in the copy, she quickly found the place to get the map, a foldable temple fair map, and even a stamp check-in station. There was also a stall next to it where people could get souvenirs by posting their location and sharing it online.
Miao Ling was amazed. The weird copy really kept pace with the times. No, no, no, it should be said that the development of this weird world was almost the same as the reality.
She was not a native here, so she naturally couldn't post a message to check in and receive souvenirs. Miao Ling waved her hand, disguised herself as a socially anxious person, and just took the map to the side to read it.
The task of this copy required her to remember clearly one performance, one experience, and to taste at least three snacks.
However, Miao Ling also noticed a key point.
The above requirements are for a "qualified" tourist. In other words, checking in and completing these is only a minimum pass. If she wants to get a higher pass rating, she needs to do more and participate in and experience more projects in this temple fair.
Miao Ling decided to do what she could, securing her bottom line first and then worrying about other things. After all, she could only see basic information on the map, and it was still unknown whether each project was dangerous or not, and how dangerous it was.
After receiving the map, she walked to the empty area next to it and looked at it slowly so as not to block other tourists.
"Luo'er, this temple fair is quite big. We'll have to spend most of the day here. The performances are scheduled until the evening." Shang Qingyun said.
"That's right, it's on such a big scale. I saw it was some kind of citizen activity. I didn't know about it two years ago. I don't know how many good things I missed." Luo Qing sighed.
"So shall we watch the show first? Are you hungry?" Luo Qing looked at Shang Qingyun.
Shang Qingyun looks like a petite girl, only about 1.6 meters tall, with short hair that reaches her ears all year round. She works in the hotel in high heels, dealing with various customer complaints, employee disputes and difficult guests.
Because "Qingyun" is pronounced the same as "qing", the two were once jokingly called the "qingqing sisters", and later became the "qinqin sisters".
"I'm not hungry. I ate a lot this morning. I finally made it back to the city and found a pancake stall selling pancakes early in the morning. They taste better than the hotel breakfast."
Luo Qing was amused by her: "You must be tired of eating hotel meals. Try someone else and see if they would rather eat nutritious hotel meals or pancakes every day."
Miao Ling was looking at the map while listening to the conversation between the two indigenous people. She secretly glanced at the two beauties. One had long hair draped over her shoulders, a loose white shirt scattered outside her skirt, and a pearl corset that just outlined her waistline, showing a perfect proportion. Even without makeup, she was still a beauty.
The other short-haired beauty was dressed more casually, wearing a silhouette-cut shirt dress. The asymmetrical design would easily look disastrous on an ordinary person, and the color was also old. She carried a half-moon bag across her shoulder, but on this person, it looked both individual and fashionable.
Miao Ling couldn't help but mentally assess them. She'd always loved dressing up, but she'd stopped caring so much about it when entering dungeons. The reason she'd noticed these two beauties was because some of the weird tourists were so eye-catching, she was afraid she couldn't keep her composure, so she decided to just look at the beauties to refresh her eyes.
"It seems like the shadow play is about to begin. Let's watch this first? It seems like we can even try it ourselves." Shang Qingyun suggested.
"Okay, okay. I've only seen shadow puppets in museums and on TV before." Luo Qing agreed immediately.
After hearing what the two beautiful aboriginal women said, Miao Ling had an idea. Since they were going to watch shadow puppetry, she could go along and join in the fun. Just watching the performance shouldn't be too dangerous.
The two of them had already set off, and Miao Ling followed them immediately. Fortunately, there were many tourists here, and if they were following her, it would be someone else. They would just think they were going in the same direction, not someone with ulterior motives following them.
"The layout here is quite interesting." Luo Qing shook the map in his hand, folded it and held it in his hand.
The layout of the entire community fire temple fair is based on this venue and can be seen as a huge rectangle.
The main performance venue is set up in the center of the rectangle, which is the place for large-scale performances.
The four outermost sides of the rectangle are food and snack stalls and market stalls, while other areas outside the central stage contain small performance venues and some experience activities.
「Food stalls - market stalls」
↑Different performance areas————Different performance areas↑
Food - center stage - food
↓Various experience areas————Various performance areas↓
「Food stalls - market stalls」
In this way, tourists can buy food from various stalls and then come in to watch the performance while eating.
Luo Qing and Shang Qingyun found the shadow play performance area according to the map. They discovered that the place was not big and the audience needed to enter the dark tent. Seeing that the performance was about to begin, they hurried in.
Miao Ling followed behind the two of them. She hesitated for a moment, thinking it was a performance in a confined space... but she made up her mind and hurried in.
After Luo Qing and Shang Qingyun came in, they discovered that there were not many tourists watching the shadow play, and there were relatively few seats. The first row had small low stools, and the second row had high stools. Although they came late, some tourists had special body parts and it was inconvenient for them to squat and sit on the low stools, but there were still seats in the first row!
"Okay, everyone, our shadow play performance is about to begin. Please mute your phones and remain quiet during the performance."
Miao Ling had just sat down with the two of them, right next to them, when she heard the shadow puppeteer in the tent begin to speak. She immediately became serious, nervously crossed her arms, and sat obediently on the small stool.
"Everyone, please get into the show—"
Behind the light box, the shadow puppet show master, who was unknown whether he was a man or a woman, sang in a strange voice. The accompaniment sounded, and Miao Ling watched the shadow puppet figures with classical aesthetics appear one by one.
The shadow puppets were beautiful and unique, reminding her of opera costumes and the artistic style of the animation "The Magic Book" that she had seen before.
The shadow play before her was, surprisingly, "The Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon," complete with lifelike rock and tree shadow puppets as the backdrop! The White Bone Demon transformed into a village girl, an old woman, and an old man. On the screen, the largest shadow puppet was none other than Sun Wukong, wielding his golden cudgel and "beating" the demon. Miao Ling was unknowingly immersed in the play.
When the performance was over and all the shadow puppets left the stage, Miao Ling hadn't reacted until the copy prompt appeared.
[Player Miao Ling has watched the temple fair performance - Shadow Play (1/1)]
The mission to watch the performance was completed! She was delighted and was about to leave when she heard the shadow puppet owner sitting behind the light box speak.
"The first shadow play performance of 'Three Strike the White Bone Demon' has ended. Visitors who want to experience it in person are welcome to raise their hands and sign up. Each shadow play experience is only available after the performance."
Miao Ling immediately looked around. The two beauties didn't raise their hands as if they were still discussing something, but other tourists raised their hands. Did she want to complete the experience activity here?
Shadow puppetry... shouldn't be a big deal, right?
Miao Ling made up her mind to do one thing at a time and raised her hand.
"Okay, only three friends want to experience it? That's a bit too few." The shadow puppet owner sighed, and a beam of light shot towards the tourists who raised their hands, and then went out.
There were only three in total. Because the shed was dark with only the light box on, Miao Ling didn't know whether the other two who registered were players or indigenous tourists.
"Now, the impromptu shadow puppet experience begins!" The shadow puppet show host shouted, and Miao Ling was stunned.
Wait, now? They didn't even go behind the lightbox.
Stop, stop, why, I seem to be unable to move now.
The brain, the mind, is getting slower and slower...
Miao Ling watched as the silhouette of a girl with a bun hair appeared on the light box. It was her, it was her!
No, no, no, no, no. Miao Ling could feel that her brain was still able to think at a snail's pace, but her body had entered a suspended state. She could not move at all and could only watch stiffly as three little men appeared on the light box.
The experience of shadow puppetry is not about controlling the shadow puppet yourself, but about the player becoming the shadow puppet!
The shadow puppet show host sang a strange ballad, "Ya-ya, ya-ya, three distinguished guests have come from afar. Ladies and gentlemen, what are they going to do?"
"Fight, fight—"
“Go travel, go eat.”
There were responses from the audience, and Miao Ling felt like she couldn't breathe.
"Three immortals fell from the sky, one man and two women came here. I don't know why, you punch me and I hit you, hey hey hey, let's fight~"
The three little men on the light box really started fighting. Miao Ling felt like she was going to vomit blood. At this moment, her brain seemed to be suspended in the air, her soul was out of her body, she was thinking independently, but her movements were very slow, her body was sitting motionless in the seat, but she could really feel the feeling of fists and kicks flying and punches hitting flesh.
This is a fucking ghost shadow play!
"Oh my, oh my, what is the reason for all this fighting?" the shadow play master continued to sing.
"Beating the mistress when she cheats!"
"Financial dispute!"
"This plot is too cliché. Let's try something new. Let's start the fight with swords and guns. It's boring without weapons!"
Miao Ling felt like she was about to vomit blood. What were these audiences shouting about? If they really used knives and guns, would she die in this segment?
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