Chapter 23 I Won the Revival Match (4k)

In the stronghold, the investigators once again entered a state of meditation akin to "feigned death."

They had been trapped here for over a week and had already searched every possible area, leaving nothing to do during the day, so they resorted to this method to pass the time and simultaneously reduce their physical energy consumption.

Around ten o'clock, Zhou Yuan finally became restless. He did not know the kind of secret technique similar to the Tortoise Breathing Skill, and simply waiting here pure torture.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally sneaked out his opple smartphone.

The signal icon in the top right corner of the screen was full, and it had even automatically connected to the amusement park's free WiFi.

The next second, a page suddenly popped up.

Zhou Yuan was immediately startled, his heart giving a fierce tug.

Does it have to be so fast? Just pulling it out and they've found me?

He thought his phone had established a connection with some horrifying entity and hurriedly tried to put it away.

Just then, the content of the web page loaded.

The text was in Japanese, which Zhou Yuan could not understand, but the accompanying illustration was clearly of the Happy Castle Amusement Park!

[This is a promotional advertisement, but it's not meant for human eyes. All I can tell you is—this place has long ceased to be a playground exclusive to humans.]

Zhou Yuan's movement froze abruptly, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, and he quickly turned on the web page's translation feature to read.

The advertisement talked about the grand opening of the Happy Castle Amusement Park, inviting everyone to visit, with free entry tickets for first-time visitors and beautiful gifts being given away. It also introduced the amusement attractions one by one.

"Grand opening?"

Zhou Yuan stared puzzledly at these words; the Happy Castle Amusement Park had been open for many years and the description was obviously not correct.

But if combined with the hint from the Eyes of Identification, these words became exceedingly sinister.

Zhou Yuan read the advertisement again carefully and discovered two key pieces of information.

The first was the date, the grand opening date mentioned in the advertisement was May 27, 10 PM.

Which was tomorrow.

The second was the picture. All the images of the amusement park were nighttime scenes with not a single daytime scene.

And at night...

The amusement park belonged to the ghosts.

"So does this grand opening refer to the 'Ghost Amusement Park' having a grand opening? And it's tomorrow night at ten?"

Zhou Yuan's mind jolted.

His mission this time was to survive for three days, yesterday was the first day, today the second, and tomorrow would be the last.

The ghostly activity at the amusement park was from midnight till 6 AM. In normal circumstances, he would only have to endure two abnormal periods over the three days because once it was midnight on the third day, the mission would be complete, and he could be transported back home.

But now, it seemed things were different.

This advertisement clearly stated that tomorrow night, the amusement park would be open for business at ten sharp.

The ghosts' active period had been brought forward by a full two hours.

The rules had changed.

Zhou Yuan's expression turned grim, which was not a good sign.

After a moment of hesitation, he immediately got up and found Gu Honggao to inform him about it.

This was not just a simple shifting forward of the midnight show but the official opening of the 'Ghost Amusement Park'!

When the time came, there would likely be a large influx of new "visitors". If among them were ghosts capable of seeing through the Barrier, then everyone's lives would be in grave danger.

Gu Honggao looked at the promotional advertisement and, upon hearing Zhou Yuan's explanation, even his usually calm and collected expression changed as he furrowed his brows:

"Yingzhou is rife with urban legends and countless demons and ghosts. If this amusement park really attracts more ghosts, and among them are those that could see through the Barrier, then we are in danger.

On the other hand, if not, we might still find a glimmer of hope.

Ghosts are like guests; if they can come in, they should be able to leave too, hence we could try to blend in with the ghosts and escape from here."

"Why do I feel like the odds of us dying here just got higher?"

Chen Guangxi clutched his head and howled skywards, "Ah, I'm only 300 years old, I'm still young and I don't want to die, Gu you need to think of something, ahh!"

"You've lived for 300 years and yet you're still so ungrateful," Bai Xiao suddenly couldn't help but burst out. Three lifetimes would have been enough for an ordinary person.

"Damn it, I've only been out for five or six years, you know. The previous 295 years were pretty much wasted, I didn't even get to play Genshin Impact. Without Genshin Impact, it's basically a failed dragon life. A dragon life without Genshin Impact is utterly meaningless; do you call that living?" Chen Guangxi retorted.

Everyone couldn't help but burst out:

"What time is it and you're still in the mood to throw around tired old jokes."

"I knew it was a mistake to buy you that phone and let you download that damn Genshin Impact."

"Blame it on playing too much Genshin Impact."

Zhou Yuan was dumbfounded; how could all these people be so absurdly off-topic?

"Enough."

Gu Honggao, annoyed and distressed by the noise, signaled for everyone to quiet down and rubbed his temples with a headache: "Go and prepare; we will try our best to conquer the remaining three attractions tonight. Although the chances are slim, I have an intuition that this might be our last chance."

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Time swiftly moved on to late at night.

This time, the party drawing the monsters consisted of a full nine investigators, including Gu Honggao, giving Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi more operating time.

"Captain, is that wild extraordinary person really trustworthy?" someone couldn't help but ask.

Right before leaving, Gu Honggao specifically instructed the remaining investigators to follow Zhou Yuan's commands as much as possible, which was a shocking order.