Chapter 93: The Roller Coaster—Where Is the Car?

His eyesight seemed to have sharpened. Just now, from within the amusement park zone, he had even been able to make out the ski area in the distance.

It was not very clear, but the range was terrifying. After all, the two areas were separated by several kilometers.

The same had been true when he looked into the cave earlier. The cave was short, but even while passing through it, it had been very dim, yet he had still seen what was on the ceiling.

Xiyan thought to himself that it must have something to do with whatever character attribute he had gained later on.

“Exciting! So fun!”

The roller coaster came to a stop, and Lin Shuang and Qingyan spoke in high spirits, startling Xiyan, who was in the middle of unfastening his buckles.

Xiyan had a feeling that Qingyan and Lin Shuang had not seen the person hanging from the cave ceiling. Otherwise, the two of them should have calmed down and discussed it with him, instead of being so happy.

After undoing the last safety buckle in his hands, Xiyan reached the exit. Qingyan and Lin Shuang were much faster than he was and had already finished unfastening theirs.

Qingyan and Lin Shuang suddenly grabbed Xiyan’s arms from the left and right. Xiyan looked from one to the other, completely unable to understand what they wanted.

“Let’s try something else.”

They spoke at the same time, their eyes full of anticipation as they looked at him.

Xiyan felt awkward refusing them, so he agreed. He was simply very curious as to why Qingyan and Lin Shuang had suddenly become so interested in roller coasters.

They had not seemed the least bit interested in these things before coming here.

And that person hanging from the cave ceiling—what was that about...

“This one, this one!”

Qingyan and Lin Shuang dragged Xiyan to the next coaster, one with shoulder restraints and legs left hanging in the air.

Xiyan had ridden this kind of coaster before, but he disliked it very much, because the fear it inspired was even more intense.

Back when he played it, he would always worry that his buckle had not been fastened properly and that he would fall.

...

“Let’s try this one too...”

...

“This one! This one! We have to try this one too!”

...

“Can this one work? Please...”

“This one... I’m a little scared. Why don’t you two go on without me?”

Xiyan did not ride with them again. Though their eyes were pitiful and full of pleading, he still cruelly refused, because he was truly afraid.

The coasters here were becoming stranger and stranger, and more and more dangerous.

“Xiyan, you really aren’t going?”

Qingyan looked at him tearfully. Xiyan frowned and still refused her.

“You... you two go then. Or better yet, don’t ride it at all. This one looks pretty dangerous...”

What Qingyan and Lin Shuang wanted to ride now was a coaster that only strapped down the feet, leaving the entire ride upside down, head down and blood rushing to the face.

And there were several sharp turns in the middle. Xiyan felt that people would probably be flung to their deaths on the curves...

“All right, since you’re not riding, we will.”

Qingyan quickly regained her cheerfulness and went with Lin Shuang toward the coaster entrance.

But the uneasiness in Xiyan’s heart grew stronger and stronger. By the time he tried to stop them, it was already too late—the coaster had already set off.

Xiyan stood outside the entrance to the ride, unable to understand why Qingyan and Lin Shuang had suddenly become so obsessed with roller coasters.

And Qingyan’s attitude was completely different from before as well. The coldness and tsundere pride were gone, replaced only by cuteness and spoiled coaxing.

There was no longer any frightening killing intent about her either, only the liveliness and brightness of an ordinary girl.

Something was wrong. Very wrong. Qingyan could not possibly have changed all of a sudden. No matter how much she and Lin Shuang liked roller coasters, it should not have been like this.

This park really was strange. It seemed to draw people in and make them ride these things as if possessed.

Xiyan came to the exit of the coaster and waited anxiously for the two of them to emerge.

From here, he could see part of the track. Just now, while going through a curve, Lin Shuang and Qingyan had almost been thrown onto the rails. They had nearly met with disaster.

Fortunately, neither of them had been hurt. When Qingyan and Lin Shuang walked out of the exit, Xiyan saw no fear on their faces at all. On the contrary, they looked even more excited.

The fanaticism on their faces had become even more abnormal.

Xiyan walked up to them and raised a hand to block the path they were about to take.

“Qingyan, Lin Shuang, you should rest for a while.”

“No... play... roller coasters, more roller coasters, play all the roller coasters... points, get points...”

“Continue... continue...”

The two of them had already lost all logic. Their minds held nothing but roller coasters.

With no other choice, Xiyan could only knock them out for the time being.

Because they were so obsessed with roller coasters at the moment, they had lost their usual caution and vigilance. Xiyan easily knocked them unconscious, then carried them to a small pavilion not far away.

That little pavilion was clearly meant as a resting place, yet it was covered in dust. By contrast, the increasingly terrifying roller coasters were spotless, as though someone rode them every day.

Xiyan roughly cleaned the pavilion, then carried Qingyan and Lin Shuang there one by one.

Looking at the two of them, still unconscious yet already wearing enamored smiles, Xiyan’s brow furrowed even more deeply.

“How could something like this happen...”

“Hahahaha! This is way too fun! Hahaha!”

Just as Xiyan was thinking, laughter rang out from the coaster nearest to him. He turned toward the sound and found that the person riding it had only been fastened in place by a single rope.

Was that even a roller coaster? Where was the car?

With a heavy thud, the person smashed onto the curved section of track and died on the spot. Bright red blood sprayed out from his body, then he fell into the pool beneath the coaster.

The man sank straight to the bottom. Xiyan rolled his eyes, as if struck by some idea, and suddenly stood up and went to the edge of the pool.

Calling it a pool was not entirely accurate, because it was very large.

After the man fell in, a patch of red slowly spread across the water’s surface, but it quickly vanished. The pool became clear again. From the edge, only small stones could be seen below the water, with nothing else at all.

Xiyan stood by the pool and looked carefully, but in the end he still could not see anything. The person who had fallen in seemed to have disappeared.

“How could this be...”

Xiyan did not linger for long. He turned and went back to the small pavilion. Lin Shuang was still unconscious, while Qingyan was already showing signs of waking.

This made Xiyan anxious. He began pacing back and forth inside the pavilion.

“If Qingyan wakes up, she’ll definitely go back again. There must be something here that keeps drawing people to ride the roller coasters over and over again, but why doesn’t it affect me?”

“Is it only attracting women? No... the person who fell just now was a man, too. Then what is it because of...”

Xiyan was thrown into frantic thought. With Qingyan about to wake, his mind grew so tangled and chaotic that he could hardly think straight.

“Mm...”