Chapter 94: Qingyan Awakens, Yet Knows Nothing

Qingyan slowly opened her eyes. She rubbed her temples, shook her head, and sat up. When she saw Xiyan, she said, “What happened to me? My head hurts so much...”

“You...” Xiyan felt that Qingyan seemed to have returned to normal at this moment, but he was still not entirely sure.

“What happened to me? What happened to Lin Shuang?”

Qingyan suddenly noticed that the person lying on the chair behind Xiyan was Lin Shuang.

Xiyan awkwardly blocked her view and replied, “Nothing. Don’t worry about it. But... do you not remember what happened before?”

“What happened before?” Qingyan frowned and tried to think back carefully, but in the end she could only shake her head helplessly. She asked Xiyan, “What is it? I remember we were walking in the park, just about to leave.”

Her words left Xiyan stunned.

She does not remember. How could that be? Not much time had even passed. Could it be...

Xiyan suddenly turned and stepped out of the little pavilion. Then he realized what was wrong.

Although this small pavilion was within the roller-coaster area, it was very close to the park road, separated from it by only a wall.

Could it be because of the location? Otherwise, why would Qingyan not remember what had happened earlier?

Xiyan returned to the pavilion and told Qingyan everything that had happened, including the moment he had knocked both Qingyan and Lin Shuang unconscious.

Qingyan was still sensible about what mattered. She did not dwell on the fact that Xiyan had knocked her out; her focus was on the fact that she had gone mad over the roller coaster before.

Qingyan did not like roller coasters, let alone be obsessed with them. And according to Qingyan’s memory, Lin Shuang disliked that kind of thing too.

Now fully awake, Qingyan began analyzing the situation with Xiyan.

“You guessed right. It really might be because of the location. Like this: I’ll go walk around near the roller coaster, and you follow me. If I start acting the same way again, knock me out immediately.”

“This... I might be wrong, though. After all, I’m the one who was fine.” Xiyan hesitated. He had no choice but to knock Qingyan out back then, and now asking him to do it again still put a knot in his heart.

“It could also be that only you are unaffected. Look...”

Xiyan had been standing in the pavilion with his back to the roller coaster, while Qingyan was facing it directly.

He saw Qingyan extend her hand and point behind him, so he turned around to look.

To his shock, three people riding the roller coaster had died midway through the ride. They were the same three people who had only a single strap holding them in place, with no other protective measures at all.

“This...”

“Anyone who comes here probably ends up like this. If you hadn’t stopped me and Lin Shuang, I’m afraid the two of us would have met the same fate as those three by now.” Qingyan felt a chill of lingering fear.

She had always believed that with her abilities and level, she would not stumble in a place like this. But reality had slapped her hard across the face.

Good thing she had not confidently said so earlier, or she would have been thoroughly humiliated now.

“So we need to test whether our guess is right.”

Qingyan was very serious, and Xiyan no longer felt comfortable being stubborn about it.

Since even Qingyan, the one who had been knocked unconscious, did not mind, then what was he making such a fuss about?

“Alright, then let’s go. Lin Shuang should not wake up.”

“Mm. I’ll leave Xiaojin here to take care of Lin Shuang.”

With that, Qingyan was about to summon Xiaojin, but Xiyan suddenly stopped her.

“Don’t bring Xiaojin out. It won’t help. When you fell under that spell earlier, Xiaojin disappeared immediately. How about this: I’ll have A Yuan help take care of Lin Shuang for a while,” Xiyan suggested.

“Okay.”

...

The instant A Yuan appeared, she rushed toward Xiyan and clung to him, sniffling as she cried, “Waaah... Brother, do you not want me anymore? Why haven’t you paid attention to me? A Yuan will be good, I promise.”

Xiyan did not know whether to laugh or cry. He patted A Yuan’s head affectionately and said, “No, it’s just that I ran into danger earlier, so I didn’t call you...”

“If you ran into danger, Brother, then you should have called me!” A Yuan interrupted him.

“Before, when you were dealing with Xu Jing, you were badly injured and had to go into cooldown. I wanted you to rest properly...” Xiyan felt that his explanation sounded rather weak in front of A Yuan.

After all, what A Yuan cared about was not that at all.

“Brother, I’m fine! Really, once the cooldown is over, I can act again!” A Yuan blinked her big, adorable eyes.

Who could possibly resist a little thing like her?

Xiyan noticed that A Yuan had changed outfits again. This time she wore a pale blue little dress, with two buns tied on her head, making her look even cuter.

“A Yuan, I need you to stay here and help me take care of Lin Shuang for a while. Qingyan and I are going to test something.”

“Alright, Brother. But Brother, this place is dangerous. The danger here is no less than that of an S-rank instance.” A Yuan’s expression turned grave.

Her eyes darted around before she continued, “The place we’re in now is the safest spot. What are you going to verify? I can help you.”

“It’s fine. No need. But you just said this place is dangerous?”

“Yes. But I don’t know what the danger is. Brother, you must be careful.”

Xiyan nodded, exchanged a look with Qingyan, and left the pavilion.

He trusted A Yuan’s words. A Yuan had an exceptionally sharp instinct for danger in the Land of Survival. If she said this place was dangerous, then it definitely was.

“The fact that the danger here can even be compared to an S-rank instance... this is probably not simple at all,” Qingyan said, worry clouding her face.

A delicate little doll-like beauty like her actually looked worried, which was especially out of keeping with her usual temperament.

“Qingyan, could it be that it’s not the location...”

“Wow! A roller coaster! Xiyan, Xiyan! Let’s hurry over. This looks so fun!”

The Qingyan who had been speaking so seriously with Xiyan a moment ago suddenly turned into a fanatic for roller coasters the next.

And as she spoke, she started walking toward it. Xiyan hurriedly grabbed her arm. Because Qingyan had not been paying attention, that pull sent her tumbling straight into his arms.

Xiyan’s face immediately turned red. Yet Qingyan, as if nothing had happened, poked her head out of his embrace and asked in confusion, “What’s wrong? Don’t you want to play with me?”

“I...”

Thinking of the other matters still at hand, Xiyan quickly forced himself to calm down and said to Qingyan, “No, I was just thinking... are you hungry? Let’s go buy something to eat.”

Qingyan turned away and left Xiyan’s embrace, without answering him. She headed straight for the roller coaster.

“Qingyan! Qingyan!”

No matter how Xiyan called after her, it was useless. Qingyan had her heart set on riding that roller coaster.

At that moment, Xiyan suddenly thought of a more effective way to verify whether the cause really lay in the location.