Chapter 306
Chapter 306
At that eager look, Nangong Zhi nearly swore.
What the fuck was there to look forward to?
Was the front row any place for a normal human being?
But if he refused to sit with Xu Ju now, the young man might grow suspicious.
After a moment’s silence, Nangong Zhi swallowed his anguish.
“Come on, then. Together.”
“Sure, Boss!”
Normally, anyone with a little experience of the world would have sensed at least a hint of danger.
Besides, the hesitation in their captain’s eyes was obvious to anyone who paid the slightest attention.
Xu Ju noticed nothing. He was simply excited by such an unusual team outing.
He was also basking in the joys of life after military service.
Broadly speaking, people like him were known as clueless hotheads.
In one part of Huaxia, there was a more specific term: a bumpkin. A great big bumpkin!
The first batch of visitors soon filled the entire Roller Coaster.
Nangong Zhi gripped his safety harness without a word.
Xu Ju gave him a puzzled look. “Captain, are you afraid of heights?”
“Yeah. Give me a moment. You enjoy yourself.”
“It’s all right, Captain. A few more looks and you’ll be fine. Come on, open your eyes.”
Nangong Zhi stared at him in disbelief.
What was wrong with this guy?
Was he really an idiot, or was he messing with him?
Why did it feel as if the script had gone wrong?
To the strains of eerie music, the Roller Coaster began to move.
Nangong Zhi ducked his head and prayed fervently.
Holy fucking mantis shrimp. He was putting everything on the line today.
Unless he made this brat suffer properly, he’d never get over it.
Soon, the leisurely moving coaster approached the hundred-meter climb.
Where other people might think two steps ahead, a bumpkin thought only one – or didn’t think at all.
Xu Ju undoubtedly fell into that category.
Any normal person who saw this slope would have imagined what came next.
Not Xu Ju. He was simply thrilled to visit such an exciting Amusement Park so soon after leaving the military.
At last, they reached the top of the hundred-meter incline, and despair spread through the train.
Only now did Xu Ju realize. “Holy shit! This is going to kill us!”
Although Nangong Zhi was pale beside him, a smile still crept onto his face.
Now, young man, experience pain!
Xu Ju certainly felt his captain’s loving care.
The train plunged down the towering slope, fierce wind lashing his face.
His fear swelled without limit, and a broken stretch of track came into view, ending in a sheer drop.
“Oh, fuck! It’s broken! The track’s broken!”
“No! Fuck! Don’t!”
His miserable screams did nothing to slow the Roller Coaster.
In mere moments, it reached the break in the rails.
The overwhelming shock sent waves of dizziness through his head.
“Please! Don’t fall! I’m begging you!”
Nangong Zhi squinted and hunched into himself so tightly that he’d acquired a double chin.
Having ridden this many times, he knew all too well that this was where it truly began.
Everything before had been Boss Zhang’s mercy – a little time for visitors to adjust.
Once they passed the hundred-meter slope, only endless torment remained.
Xu Ju, too, felt the full depth of Boss Zhang’s affection.
The front half of the train dangled shakily in midair.
Behind it, gravity kept pressing the rear half forward.
“Don’t break! Please! Don’t break!”
“Captain, save me!”
Nangong Zhi cracked his tightly shut eyes open.
One look at their situation, and he instantly closed them again.
Couldn’t take it. Absolutely couldn’t.
The brat could enjoy this wretched contraption on his own for a while.
Click. Click.
Two crisp sounds rang in their ears.
To anyone else, they might have been no more than the clear clicks of machinery.
To Xu Ju, sitting in the front row at a ninety-degree angle to the ground, they were the whispers of a devil.
Slow as he was, even he understood what they meant.
“You rotten owner! Fuck your bleep! You bleeping bleep!”
His affectionate sentiments echoed through the sky.
Most of the passengers went deathly pale.
“Fuck! Could you keep your voice down?”
“We’re done for. I should never have gotten on.”
“He’s speaking for himself! Nothing to do with us!”
Zhang Bei received this sort of affection every day. He was used to it.
It didn’t spoil his good mood in the slightest. If anything, he felt like laughing.
But he was Boss Zhang. Having heard it, how could he fail to respond?
“Increase the Roller Coaster’s speed by ten percent. Burn off some of that energy.”
Naturally, Xu Ju didn’t last long. Before the ride was even halfway through, he had slumped in his seat.
That was men for you. It could take only a few minutes to go from hard as iron to utterly limp.
Nangong Zhi peered at the limp Xu Ju and gave him a disdainful look.
That was all he had?
After eighty-one trials and tribulations, the Roller Coaster returned to its starting point.
It looked almost exactly as it had before.
Except that more than half its passengers had passed out.
Whistling, Professor Yao pushed a small cart up to the Roller Coaster with a spring in his step.
At the sight of all those limp bodies, an irrepressible smile spread across his face.
Tsk. This batch of visitors wasn’t up to much!
He checked their heart-rate charts and slipped heart pills into their mouths one by one.
When a case was unclear, he took the patient’s pulse as well.
Like the young woman in front of him now.
“You three, come here. Look at this heart-rate chart.”
The medical students on this internship rotation hurried over and gathered around the tablet.
“Huh. These fluctuations…?”
“They are strange. It shouldn’t be jumping around that much, should it?”
“There must be an underlying cause. The variation is too large.”
Professor Yao nodded. “At least your studies haven’t been wasted. I’ve given her a heart pill. When she wakes up, tell her to get checked at a hospital.”
“Yes, Professor!”
He loaded the visitors onto the cart, then handed it over to the interns.
There were only three of them, but they had already cut his workload by well over half.
Most of his time was now spent examining visitors and answering the three students’ questions along the way.
Five minutes later, most of the unconscious visitors had come around.
Xu Ju was naturally among them.
However, the Morgue now offered an additional service.
And that service had left everyone speechless.
“Incense newly kindled, its fragrance pervades the Dharma realm…”
Most rites for the dead involved the Diamond Sutra.
But as a monk who got along with Boss Zhang, this old fellow was equally adept at stirring up trouble.
The Ksitigarbha Sutra could also be used for such rites, though few people recited it.
Not just because of its length. More because it sounded positively eerie when chanted.
Add the wooden fish he was striking, and it rather gave the impression that everyone was already cold and dead.
Nangong Zhi stared at the old monk tapping his wooden fish nearby for a long time.
“I feel like I might still be worth trying to resuscitate?”
“C-Captain, have we gone to the Western Paradise?”