Chapter 292 [High-Altitude Swing]

The girls were busy working.

Unknowingly, the pattering raindrops on the roof had turned into a fine drizzle at some point, weaving diagonally across the windshield as the wipers made a rustling sound.

"Eh?"

Deng Yuxin pressed her face against the car window, flattening the tip of her nose. "The rain seems to have let up? Am I seeing things?"

"You're not seeing things, it really has let up."

Zhang Wanyue nodded. "According to this rainfall trend, it's about to stop."

"Wow, Class Monitor, you can even calculate that?"

Deng Yuxin exclaimed.

Zhang Wanyue coughed, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Of course I didn't calculate it..."

Deng Yuxin asked in confusion, "Then how did you tell?"

Zhang Wanyue explained, "Look at the water streaks on the window. Before, each wipe would clear away half a layer of water, but now there's only a thin film left. If you observe closely, you can see it too."

She didn't know what was going on either.

Ever since the apocalypse, her focus had become highly concentrated, making her observation skills much sharper than before.

After a while,

Lu Xiaoyu also leaned close to the window. "It really seems to be stopping. Are we almost there?"

"We're here—"

Yang Kexin called out while driving.

Everyone looked out the window together.

The heavy rain had just stopped, and the sky was exceptionally, purely black.

The headlights of the Baby Bus cut out a small, warm yellow field of light ahead.

As the wheels rolled past the final bend, the view ahead suddenly opened up...

It was the main gate of a massive amusement park!

The perimeter wall was made of iron railings, so rusted that their original color was unrecognizable. Wall lamps hung on the railing posts at regular intervals; most were already dead, with only a scattered few still struggling, flickering on and off!

In the damp night wind, they made an extremely faint, piercing electrical buzzing sound...

Which could occasionally be heard even from inside the bus!

Across the top of the main gate hung a massive neon sign:

Midnight Carnival!

But now, most of the characters were missing.

The character 'Wu' only had a stroke or two left,

the radical of the character 'Ye' was unlit,

and only the three characters for 'Carnival' were still alive, flashing on and off, dyeing the wet ground in front of the gate a creepy, alternating red and green!

Wang Mengmeng's expression changed. "Can... can I back out?"

Chen Yu nodded. "Sure, then..."

Wang Mengmeng immediately interrupted: "I won't back out!"

She took a deep breath, steeling her courage. "I can definitely do it! Brother Chen Yu! I can do it!"

Chen Yu said helplessly, "If you can do it, just say it to yourself..."

Wang Mengmeng blanked for a moment, then muttered softly to herself, "I can do it, I can do it, I can..."

At the same time...

Lu Xiaoyu had already shrunk into the innermost corner of the bus.

Looking at the abandoned amusement park, the other girls also felt a chill run down their spines.

The Baby Bus drove slowly along the perimeter of the park.

Parking Space No. 7 appeared ahead, with a long-faded arrow painted next to it.

Yang Kexin slowly straightened the steering wheel,

steering the Baby Bus steadily into the marked area of Parking Space No. 7, and turned off the engine.

Click.

As the bus's engine died, everything fell into silence.

Making the amusement park seem even more eerie.

Seeing this scene, Chen Yu began to wonder if he should invest some points into spirit?

This crappy amusement park looked haunted no matter how you sliced it.

Especially the haunted house among the attractions; that one practically wore its horrors on its sleeve.

"One minute left."

"Let's get off."

Chen Yu urged, stepping off the bus first.

Behind him,

came the voices of the girls:

"Brother Chen Yu! Be careful, we'll wait for you to come back on the bus!"

"Mmhmm, Brother Chen Yu, if you're tired, just make Mengmeng give you a massage!"

"Stay safe, Zuo Shi, Kexin, Mengmeng!"

The three girls followed closely behind, nodding to the others before closing the bus door.

For a moment,

only four people remained at the entrance of the amusement park.

[Whoosh]

[Music]

[Music from a long, long time ago]

[Seeping out of the speakers]

[Like honey, like glue, like melted sugar]

[Sticking to the ears]

[Unable to be shaken off]

[The carousel is spinning, the Ferris wheel is turning, the bumper cars are driving]

[One round, and another]

[Someone is laughing]

[Laughing at the highest point]

[Someone is running]

[Running in the mirror]

[Someone is swimming]

[The water is very cold]

[Someone is climbing]

[Very high]

[And there]

[There is no one there, remember, there is no one there]

Buzz—

A terrifying first-person description came to an end.

Chen Yu was used to it.

But the three girls beside him clearly were not.

They all instinctively drew a bit closer to Chen Yu.

"So scary..."

Yang Kexin shuddered and suddenly clung to Chen Yu's arm.

And Wang Mengmeng didn't let the other arm go either.

Only Zuo Shi walked ahead of the three. She swallowed hard and said, "Let's go, let's head inside first. Time's up."

The four of them walked forward, stepping over the turnstile that had long since lost its function.

Clatter!

The moment they truly stepped inside the amusement park,

the first thing that caught their eyes was an iron pillar piercing straight from the ground into the night sky.

It stood directly in front of the entrance, rising over a hundred meters high.

Suspended at the top was a massive circular cantilever, from which hung dozens of rusted iron chains. At the end of each chain hung an empty metal seat.

Those seats were slowly spinning on their own in the windless midnight air.

In front of the iron pillar stood a sign.

Only when they drew closer could they see the writing on it.

[high-altitude swing]

[Adult Ticket: 30 Yuan, Child Ticket: 20 Yuan]

[Children under 1.4 meters must be accompanied by a parent; individuals with heart disease, hypertension, and pregnant women are prohibited from riding; heart disease, hypertension...]

Everything seemed normal, like a regular amusement park.

Except for the height of this iron pillar.

In the real world, there probably weren't high-altitude swings this high, right?

Chen Yu wasn't sure either, but even if there were, they would be extremely rare.

Rustle, rustle...

Just as Chen Yu and the others were studying their next route,

the sound of footsteps echoed.

Four people walked over from ahead. They were four young men who looked like students, all wearing glasses.

Chen Yu guessed they were probably college students.

These students spotted Chen Yu and the beautiful girls behind him at first glance.

"Um, classmates, did you guys just arrive too?"

The leading guy, wearing a plaid shirt, was quite polite: "We're from Haicheng Posts and Telecommunications. These are my teammates. My last name is Bai, Bai He..."

"We saw a lot of people already here when we came in, and some of them look pretty tough to deal with. We wanted to find some people to team up with so we can look out for each other."

Chen Yu glanced at him and said simply and directly, "We don't need to team up."