Chapter 182
Chapter 182
The staff member’s tone was vicious.
He glared at Zhao Qingqing with an ugly expression, his eyes filled with thick disdain for someone “this old.”
Zhao Qingqing had already expected him to say that.
She stepped directly onto the Children’s Age Measuring Device beside them.
“Beep-”
“One 230-month-old Baby~ Please enter!”
The device’s mechanical voice rang out.
The staff member was completely dumbfounded. His eyeballs nearly fell out on the spot.
This was the first time the staff member had ever run into something like this.
Logically speaking, the Children’s Age Measuring Device had been designed for children.
Its purpose was to record children’s age information and monitor all kinds of physical data.
In the past, all he had to do was stop the parents and tell them there were dedicated staff inside to look after the children. Those parents would naturally step aside and leave, instead of going anywhere near the machine.
But he had not expected to run into someone so stubborn today.
After Zhao Qingqing finished being measured, the others stepped onto it one by one.
“Beep-One 216-month-old Baby~ Please enter!”
“Beep-One 245-month-old Baby~ Please enter!”
“Beep…”
All five of Jiang Li’s group took turns stepping on the device.
Their information was all entered into the Children’s Paradise Visitor System.
The staff member standing to the side gaped, frozen in shock. “…”
Zhao Qingqing smiled beside him.
“Our information has all been entered. If there are no records of us going in, the head count won’t match. You won’t be able to report back either, right?”
The staff member, dressed in a childlike knight costume, collected himself, coughed, and stepped aside to open the way. “Children, please enter. I hope you… have a wonderful time~”
For the second half of his sentence, the staff member used the tone one would use to coax a child.
He had to treat these five 200-plus-month-old Babies in front of him like children.
Zhao Qingqing quickly led the others into Children’s Paradise.
“Oh my god, that was terrifying!” Liang Chen grabbed Zhao Qingqing’s arm. “Qingqing, you’re so brave! Weren’t you afraid he’d get mad and give you an injection?”
Liang Chen had seen with her own eyes how terrifying the Ferris wheel staff could be.
If someone told her they could swallow a visitor whole in one bite, Liang Chen would believe it.
Zhao Qingqing patted the back of Liang Chen’s hand and laughed. “Don’t worry.
Old Xu, Zhang Jiang, and I all observed them.
The staff at Children’s Paradise aren’t fierce.
They’re only responsible for one thing: stopping the parents of children who want to enter.
But we aren’t the children’s parents. We are the children.
As long as we have no shame, he can’t stop us!”
Zhao Qingqing spoke with sparkling enthusiasm, while Liang Chen listened in a daze.
After the five of them entered Children’s Paradise,
they were led by a designated staff member to a luxuriously decorated waiting hall.
There were already twenty or thirty children inside.
Everyone was holding all kinds of toy weapons, playing and roughhousing happily in the hall.
Aside from Jiang Li’s group of five, the oldest child here was no more than ten.
“Hello, five little friends. Come over here~”
A gentle, sweet female voice called out to them from up ahead.
Everyone looked up and saw a staff member dressed as a maid waving at Jiang Li and the others with a warm smile.
The maid was extremely professional.
She did not treat Jiang Li’s group any differently just because they looked mature.
The five of them exchanged glances. All of them carried a hint of wariness as they walked around the children and over to the maid.
The maid stood behind a vintage dark-brown round counter.
From the cabinet behind her, she took out five chocolate balls and handed one to each of Jiang Li’s group with a smile.
“Please wait a moment, everyone. The game will begin when the next round starts~”
After receiving the chocolates, not a single one of them ate it.
They stuffed the chocolates into their pockets, found several colorful plastic children’s chairs, and sat in a row among the rowdy children, looking extremely out of place.
“Zihan?” Zhao Qingqing suddenly called in one direction. “Meng Zihan!”
Jiang Li looked in that direction.
That Little Girl’s face looked somewhat familiar, but compared with the one in her memory, it was also a little different.
It was the lively Little Girl wearing 3D Glasses whom Jiang Li had met while taking shelter from the rain.
The Little Girl before her had changed greatly in the face.
She might have been drenched by the Red Rain. Her facial skin was mottled with spots, and tiny grayish-white fuzz had emerged.
Was it… rats?
Jiang Li could not tell for the time being.
“Meng Zihan, are you here by yourself?” Zhao Qingqing thought for a moment, then called over the staff member behind her. “Can you send her out?”
The staff member stepped forward and nodded. “Yes. A child’s parent can take the child out.”
The staff member knew Zhao Qingqing and the others were pretending to be children.
If he could smoothly expel Zhao Qingqing, that would count as catching an opportunity to earn credit.
Surprise and delight flashed in the staff member’s eyes. “May I ask if you are the child’s parent?”
That one question stumped Zhao Qingqing.
Zhao Qingqing had a rough understanding of the staff member’s rules: expel the children’s parents.
The staff member was trying to trap her.
Zhao Qingqing was silent for two seconds, then shook her head. “No.”
“Then I’m sorry, but I can’t send her out.” The staff member looked disappointed for a second before returning to his spot.
From the four corners of the waiting hall, the female voice of the broadcast, filled with crackling static, repeatedly played the park rules.
“The next round of the game will begin at: 10:00 sharp.
Attention, before all children enter the game, please be sure to eat the chocolate candy. Otherwise, the start of the game will be delayed.
Before the game begins, please select your preferred Character Props. This will determine your character role.
If you do not choose a prop, or if you choose multiple Character Props, the System will randomly assign you a role.
Before the game begins, please keep the following general rules in mind:
[Children’s Paradise Survival Rules]
[1. Children are innocent. All children who enter the fairy tale must absolutely never lie.]