Chapter 168
Chapter 168
When the female college student spoke, her eyes never once drifted toward Jiang Li’s shoulder.
Jiang Li concluded that they couldn’t see Red Infant.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Li nodded in agreement. “Sure. Let’s go together, then.”
“Then let’s just make friends! That way we can get to know each other too!”
The female college student sounded excited. “My name is Liang Chen. People usually call me Chenchen. My friend’s nickname is Da Yao, and her full name is Zhao Siyao.”
After introducing herself, the female college student patted her best friend’s shoulder and introduced her to Jiang Li.
Zhao Siyao’s gaze was much shyer.
After helping Jiang Li up, she immediately retreated, hiding half her body behind Liang Chen.
This Zhao Siyao was probably the socially anxious type.
Jiang Li looked at the two of them and replied with a smile, “I’m Jiang Li. Jiang as in river, Li as in colored glaze.”
The moment she heard the words “Jiang Li,” Liang Chen’s pupils widened.
Her delicate brows shot up, and she froze in shock for two full seconds.
“Y-y-y-you’re not that… are you?”
“I am.”
Liang Chen covered her mouth and sucked in another sharp breath.
She and Zhao Siyao turned their heads in perfect sync and exchanged a look.
They looked at Jiang Li, then at themselves, and suddenly, it was as if enlightenment had struck.
“No wonder our phones have had no signal all day… So we really ended up in the Aberration World, Da Yao?!” Liang Chen exclaimed again.
“Should we run, Chenchen?” Zhao Siyao nudged Liang Chen. “Why do I feel like… if we keep riding the Ferris wheel, we’ll die really easily?”
Zhao Siyao glanced fearfully at Jiang Li.
It was as though wherever Jiang Li was, danger lurked in the shadows.
Liang Chen thought for a moment, then tilted her head and asked Jiang Li, “Um… Jiang Li, is it still not too late for me and Da Yao to run away?”
Jiang Li’s lips curved into a smile. “If you run right now, then it’s definitely too late.”
“You can choose to go claim a Park Map, clear four attractions, get the Park Map stamped with the steel seal, and leave this place.
Or you can choose to stay put inside the park and wait until I finish clearing it, then have them let you go back.”
“Then… is there any rule Note in the park?” Liang Chen asked Jiang Li.
Jiang Li took out the map, flipped it over to the back, and showed them. “These.”
“There are so many. Who could remember all that?” Liang Chen scratched her head.
“Da Yao, why don’t we just stick with Jiang Li? If we move around on our own, I feel like we’ll die even more easily…”
After discussing it, the two of them decided to follow Jiang Li for the time being.
The three chatted idly for a little longer.
Only after the previous round of visitors finished the game and came out of the Ferris wheel cabins were Jiang Li and the others allowed inside.
However, Jiang Li paid close attention to the Health Points of the group leaving the Ferris wheel.
All of their Health Points had changed from the initial 100 to 0.
Jiang Li watched as, after those people went through an electronic device inspection, a staff member led them all toward the amusement park’s “West Gate.”
And when the final visitor left, Jiang Li also silently memorized the number shown during that body scan-“33.”
Before that visitor entered the Ferris wheel cabin, the value had been “150.”
Now that the Ferris Wheel Game had ended, the visitor’s scanned value had also dropped from “150” to “33.”
Why would the measured value drop so much after taking part in the Ferris wheel attraction?
What did the scanned value represent?
And did the change in that value… hold some special meaning?
To Jiang Li, this Ferris wheel was truly riddled with mysteries…
“Miss, please come with me for inspection.”
The staff member’s words broke Jiang Li out of her thoughts.
The staff member raised a hand in invitation, gesturing for Jiang Li to step onto the electronic device.
After completing the physical examination and the check for dangerous items, Jiang Li smoothly entered the first cabin.
She took a seat on one side.
Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao followed right behind her, sitting down opposite Jiang Li.
Two park employees stepped forward and worked together to pull the cabin door shut.
Then they took out a key and locked the door.
And in the very instant the cabin door was locked, the Space around Jiang Li and the other two changed with a thunderous shift!
Sheet metal… The walls on all sides had turned into silver sheet metal.
Jiang Li, Liang Chen, and Zhao Siyao were now enclosed inside a square metal box.
They had entered the Ferris Wheel Game’s “preparation state.”
In one corner of the metal ceiling, something that looked like a camera was staring fixedly at them.
But inside this metal Space, the Red Infant on Jiang Li’s shoulder had not followed her in.
Jiang Li made a preliminary guess that this layer of metal Space might only affect the living.
“What’s going on?!”
The very next second after the Space changed, Liang Chen shot up from her seat.
She reached out and pounded hard on the metal cabin door, trying to shout for help outside.
“Is anyone there? Is there some kind of malfunction? Can someone open the door?!”
“It’s no use. They won’t let us out,” Jiang Li said.
The amusement park’s attractions were riddled with danger.
But even if the visitors realized that and chose not to participate in a single attraction, there was no way they could escape this place alive.
The Ghost Face Organization would not spare anyone who came here.
“The Ferris Wheel Game lasts fifteen minutes,” Jiang Li said, glancing at her watch. “It hasn’t started yet, but it should be soon.”
During the wait that followed, the cabins for the new round of the Ferris wheel filled up one after another.
Then the Ferris wheel’s brake valve was pulled down.
Inside the metal box, the staff broadcast sounded.
[The “Blazing Star” Ferris wheel is about to begin. We wish you a pleasant game!]
The moment the announcement ended, something outside the metal box seemed to be switched on manually.
That tremendous rumbling sound was very much like… fire being blasted out.
In less than thirty seconds, the temperature inside the metal box had already risen.
With the heat conducted through the sheet metal, the entire cramped metal room had become a giant oven.
“W-what are they trying to do? It’s getting hotter and hotter…”
There was a faint tremor in Liang Chen’s voice.
She looked up at the sheet metal covering every wall, listened to the sound of burning outside, and seemed to have guessed something.
Zhao Siyao also looked anxiously at Liang Chen and Jiang Li.
As the temperature inside the metal box rose, their skin grew hot, their lips grew dry, and their Health Points started dropping from 100.
Jiang Li lifted her eyes and checked.
Her Health Points, along with Liang Chen’s and Zhao Siyao’s, had now fallen from 100 to 99.
The condition for clearing the Ferris wheel was to have Health Points higher than 50 before the game ended.
So Jiang Li had to escape this fire-roasted metal cabin before her Health Points dropped below 50!
Just then, a notification sounded inside the metal box.
[Attention, all players. Attention, all players!]
[A Thermal Protective Suit has been prepared beneath each cabin seat. Please take it out as soon as possible and put it on in time!]