Chapter 26: Very Harsh Verbal Skills (Please Follow!!!)

"No." Zhou Yuan thought of something and slowly put the kitchen knife back.

"We can't kill them."

The amusement park cares a lot about positive emotions like "happiness," "joy," and "blessedness," and murder is an extremely evil negative act, clearly not the way to pass the test of the heart.

"So what should I do? Forgive them magnanimously and then have a happy family making dumplings together?

But given the character of those two, the rolling pin would more likely be used on me rather than the dumplings."

Zhou Yuan was somewhat vexed, while the banging on the door from outside had become louder, shaking the entire house as if there were an earthquake.

"Damn it, open the door! Zhou Yuan, did you hear me! Open the goddamn door!!!"

"What's going on?" A woman's voice chimed in at this moment.

"The little brat just won't open the door, the bastard!" The man said and kicked heavily against the door.

"Zhou Yuan! Open the door!"

The woman screamed sharply a few times, and when it had no effect, she began banging on the door, her tone turning irritable. "Hurry up and open the door! Did you hear me!"

"Alright, alright, so you won't open the door, huh? Just wait till I get in there!" The man continued to kick the door in fury.

Finally, the neighbors, unable to endure the noise any longer, opened their doors and asked them to keep it down, but the enraged couple paid no heed and even shouted back at them to get lost. Consequently, the quarreling escalated, and the corridor echoed with even more intense arguments.

As a child, Zhou Yuan would have been scared to death by such a commotion because he knew it meant he would be brutally beaten tonight, but now, he just made a snide comment that this was some kind of taboo hell symphony.

Just dragging this out wasn't going to solve anything, he needed to think of a solution fast…

Zhou Yuan thought about calling the police, but he didn't have a cell phone at this time, and the hallucination didn't allow access to the Player System, so he couldn't use any other items either.

He ran to the window and looked out; outside was the scene of his residential complex, exactly like in reality. The simulation was indeed quite lifelike.

There were quite a few pedestrians below and on the nearby streets. Zhou Yuan's eyes darted around, and he immediately got an idea, opened the window, took a deep breath, and screamed at the top of his lungs: "Help meeeeeeeeeee!!!"

Pedestrians stopped in their tracks and looked up.

"Call the police!! Save me! I've been kidnapped by human traffickers!!! They're sniffing some strange powder!!! They're also forcing Little Red and other uncles to sleep together!!!"

Having heard Zhou Yuan's specially crafted narrative, the expressions of the pedestrians below turned serious, and they promptly took out their phones to call the police. Some even ran straight towards his building.

Five or six minutes later, the annoying banging and arguing outside had all vanished, replaced by the stern admonishment of the police.

The next moment, the scene before Zhou Yuan's eyes suddenly twisted and shifted.

When he opened his eyes again, Zhou Yuan saw the incandescent lights of the hospital, and then immediately felt a heart-wrenching pain all over his body.

He was in the ICU.

It wasn't over yet...

Zhou Yuan felt helpless in his heart and shakily raised his hand to tug at the doctor's coat, as if he might breathe his last at any moment: "They're... sniffing some strange powder..."

The doctor's eyes widened, he said a few words to his colleague, and then rushed off.

Before long, Zhou Yuan heard a commotion from outside.

"What are you doing?"

"Don't move! Hands on your head and squat down!"

"..."

Zhou Yuan couldn't help but sigh internally.

Damn, if only I had been this clever before, maybe I could have suffered less over the years.

Click.

A crisp cracking sound echoed, and the simulation abruptly halted. The entire world silently faded in color, grew dim and drifted away, like a program experiencing some unexpected bug.

After a moment of dizziness, Zhou Yuan found himself back in the Ferris wheel cabin, facing a high school student brimming with confusion.

"He appears in the illusion to offer help when you need it most, but since you cheated, he didn't get the chance to make a move. He's now wondering if there's something wrong with his judgment, thinking that you don't seem like someone who could easily overcome a spiritual trial."

His gaze returned to the cabin:

"Your unconventional moves made the story deviate from its intended path, and since you didn't generate any negative emotions, the Ferris wheel started doubting itself, thus hastily ending this trial."

This...

Zhou Yuan couldn't help but scratch his head. Is this even possible?

A moment later, the cabin reached the ground, and he opened the door and jumped out.

Looking back, the high school student didn't follow. He only smiled and nodded at him, and then his figure became ethereal and dissipated into the air.

"Holy shit, we did it!" Chen Guangxi cheered.

Zhou Yuan felt around his body for a moment and took the last piece of the key fragment out of his pocket, handing it to Chen Guangxi.

All the key fragments were managed by Chen Guangxi, who immediately took them all out and started carefully putting them together.

As the last fragment fell into place, a flash of light occurred, and a complete key appeared before everyone.

"Send the signal. We're heading to the park director's office!" Chen Guangxi's golden eyes seemed to burn with flames.

Damn, we can finally leave this hellhole!

Whoosh!

A dazzling red flare shot into the sky, piercing the clouds and blossoming into a brilliant radiance against the night sky.

Gathering signal!

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In front of the park director's office, the group converged.

"Did it succeed?" The investigators in charge of drawing the monsters couldn't believe it, really did it?

Chen Guangxi chuckled, showing them the intact key.

"We nailed it, brothers!"

"Very good, Snow Leopard, I knew I wasn't wrong about you!" Bai Xiao slapped Zhou Yuan's shoulder excitedly.

"My name is Wang Zhen, thank you." Zhou Yuan corrected.

"Okay Ding Zhen, okay Snow Leopard."

"Come on, can't you guys stop popping champagne mid-game?" Jiang Wuming said with annoyance; it wasn't a good habit.

"Let's open the door first." Gu Honggao remained composed and calm, but one could see he was significantly more relaxed.

Chen Guangxi stepped forward, inserted the key into the lock, and twisted it.

Click.

The lock opened.

She turned the handle and pushed the door open.

It was an old office, and in front of the desk stood a person wearing a rat mascot suit.

The rat's image was very iconic—black and white coloring, two large ears, only its smile was exceptionally eerie and forbidding, which was quite unsettling.

"—I sincerely congratulate you all for passing all the attractions of the Happy Castle Amusement Park. Congratulations to everyone," the Ratman deeply bowed to the group.

Chen Guangxi was stunned for a while, then asked subconsciously, "Aren't you afraid of getting sued by Disney for copyright infringement dressed like that?"

"Hehehe, the original design of this mascot has long since passed its copyright term, so I'm not worried about the legal department coming after me," the Ratman chuckled.