Chapter 140
Chapter 140
The man stared at those hands, then reached out and took them in his own.
“My surname is Long. I’m an extreme sports enthusiast and a professional photographer.”
If any of you sharp-eyed readers have already guessed it, yes, this was Brother Long, the guy Qingqing once dragged over!
After all this time, Brother Long had finally completed his wingsuit flying challenge.
With nothing better to do, he naturally came to the Amusement Park to try it out.
Ji Wei felt the warmth from his palm and instantly blushed. She hurriedly pulled her hand free.
“Ji Wei. Professional mortician.”
“Want to have some fun together?”
In all her years, Ji Wei had never experienced such warmth from a stranger before.
After a moment of hesitation, she nodded. “Sure!”
The corners of Brother Long’s mouth lifted into a smile. “Want to ride the Ferris Wheel together?”
“I’ll follow your lead!”
After more than twenty years of being single since birth, this was the first time Brother Long had ever been this close to a girl.
Silently, he tucked a little booklet inside his clothes even more securely.
How to Strike Up a Conversation with Girls!
The book was seventy-three pages long. In order to change his status as a lifelong single man, Brother Long had actually memorized the entire thing.
As they chatted, the Ferris Wheel slowly started moving.
Brother Long’s gaze never once left Ji Wei’s face.
That face, usually tinged with coldness, was now covered in a blush.
Sensing the burning gaze beside her, Ji Wei kept her eyes fixed straight ahead, staring at the scenery.
Never mind that she always wore an icy expression. In more than twenty years, today was the first time she had ever held hands with a man.
Most people ran away the moment they heard what she did for a living.
All this time, Brother Long was the first!
The atmosphere did not last long. The Ferris Wheel had been running for five minutes.
With a series of clacking sounds, the ground visibly tilted in their line of sight.
The entire Ferris Wheel had finally entered its second phase.
The Random Collision, nicknamed “stir-fried peanuts” by visitors, had arrived.
Ji Wei’s eyes widened as she watched a couple come rushing straight toward them.
“No, we’re going to crash!”
Brother Long reached out and steadied Ji Wei. “If you’re scared, close your eyes.”
That sudden concern made Ji Wei temporarily forget her fear.
After challenging wingsuit flying, our Brother Long was like a fish in water on the Ferris Wheel.
Unlike a few months ago, the current Brother Long had truly reached the point where Mount Tai could collapse in front of him without his expression changing.
Soon, the Random Collision ended, and the seats carrying the two of them returned to the Ferris Wheel.
Ji Wei sniffed back the mucus that had almost run out of her nose.
You call this an amusement park?
You call this a Ferris Wheel?
Before she could even thank Brother Long, a tremendous force came from beneath the seat, and the two of them shot straight into the sky.
Her brain had no time to think before a wave of centrifugal force hit her instantly.
Under the high-speed circular motion, Ji Wei’s entire body began to tremble.
Even after seeing countless corpses, she had no resistance whatsoever against this kind of movement.
Although Brother Long could not completely suppress the fear in his heart either, he still barely managed to reach out and shield Ji Wei on the inner side of his body.
With someone blocking the wind resistance for her, Ji Wei’s pale complexion finally improved a little.
Looking at that sturdy arm, a faint blush spread across her face.
The ten-minute Ferris Wheel experience ended, and the two of them returned to the glass cabin.
Brother Long rubbed his weakened legs, then turned to look at Ji Wei.
“How did it feel?”
“It was really fun, and really exciting!”
Their eyes met, and both of them could not help smiling.
Ji Wei looked at the cabin door the staff had opened. “I heard there’s also an Underground Maze here?”
Brother Long nodded. “Want to give it a try?”
“Sure!”
After resting on the bench for a while, the two of them headed into the Underground Maze.
Although Brother Long had only been to the Amusement Park a few times, he often heard Qingqing talk about it.
Naturally, he knew about the passage mechanisms.
“Let’s choose two passages close to each other. If there’s a mechanism, we can clear it together!”
“Good luck!”
Ji Wei smiled and walked into one of the passages.
The moment she stepped inside, a cold, gloomy wind blew over her.
“Horror theme?”
Her quiet murmur echoed through the passage.
The dim lighting did nothing to slow Ji Wei down.
Just after she rounded a corner, she saw a human figure lying on the ground, both legs missing.
Not far away lay the severed legs.
A pair of eyes that had died with a lingering grievance stared fixedly at Ji Wei.
But she was an embalmer.
Her gaze swept over it from head to toe.
Chopped off?
That kind of wound would be troublesome to handle. It would need iron nails to hold it in place before it could be stitched up.
And if there was missing flesh, filling it in would be a huge job too!
Zhang Bei had just finished writing out a string of complicated formulas. When he looked up, he saw on the surveillance feed this girl standing there critiquing the corpse.
Was this girl mentally okay?
That was a corpse!
Wouldn’t normal people run the other way the moment they saw it?
Why were you acting like you’d come home?!
Ji Wei did not linger for long. She stepped directly over the corpse and continued forward.
She had only taken two steps when she sensed a gaze watching her from behind and immediately turned around.
She was certain that the corpse had not been facing her just now!
Even its distance from her seemed to have closed slightly.
Ji Wei stood there and thought for a moment, then made a decision no one had expected.
She picked up the legs lying on the ground with both hands and walked straight back to the corpse.
The moment she crouched down, the corpse’s hands shot out and grabbed Ji Wei’s arms.
But the girl showed no sign of fear. She pried apart the hands clutching her.
Then she placed the pair of legs beneath the corpse. After a series of complicated adjustments, the corpse no longer looked incomplete from the outside.
And once the corpse had gotten its legs back, it closed its eyes on the spot.
Zhang Bei looked at the surveillance feed and fell into a brief silence.
What a waste that this girl wasn’t an employee!
Tens of thousands of people had challenged the Underground Maze by now, and she had found the solution on her very first try!
That was right. Though the entire Underground Maze contained over ten thousand dolls that were either vicious ghosts or corpses, there were actually ways to solve them.
It was just like the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons that Qingqing had once encountered.
As long as you played a round of mahjong with the ghosts in that room, they would open a passage.
That passage guaranteed absolute safety, and it even led close to the edge of the exit.
As for this legless corpse, as long as you aligned the two legs and placed them back on it, the puzzle counted as solved.
An opening appeared in the wall beside her, revealing an even darker passage.
Ji Wei hesitated for a moment, but still walked in.
Meanwhile, in the neighboring passage, Brother Long was nearly crying.
Behind him was a giant spider with human faces growing all over its back.
To his left, a Qing dynasty zombie was hopping toward him.
To his right, there was a figure whose entire body had been flayed.
“Holy fuck, stay the hell away from me!”
At this point, Brother Long had no attention to spare for any mechanisms. He wished he could rip off the spider’s legs behind him and attach them to himself.
“Stop chasing me! Holy fuck, I can’t run anymore!”