"Shen Jie, wake up."
"Wake up."
In the pitch darkness, Shen Jie vaguely felt someone calling him.
He slowly opened his eyes and saw something dark standing in front of him in the dark room.
Looking down at him.
"Waaahhhhhh—"
Shen Jie scrambled backward several meters.
"Don't come over here, don't come over!"
He looked around for a suitable weapon, but finding none, he raised his voice,
trying to scare the other party away.
"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"
"..."
In the darkness, Jiang Lin watched his performance silently.
After he finished shouting, he slowly said, "I'm Jiang Lin."
Shen Jie blurted out, "The streamer?"
Then he realized, "You're Brother Jiang? Is this a haunted house?"
"Then just now..."
Jiang Lin interjected, "You hit your head on the cabinet and fainted."
Shen Jie was still a bit groggy, "Just now I saw this place turn into a disco... there were ghosts all around, even you, Brother Jiang..."
Jiang Lin's expression was calm, and he recounted a fact without batting an eye:
"This is a haunted house. Even if there are ghosts, they're played by staff."
Shen Jie scratched his head, "That's true... I must have been dreaming when I fainted."
He got up, muttering, "How could Brother Jiang be a ghost?"
This dream was too strange.
Jiang Lin: "..."
He opened the door and walked out first, "Let's go to the next room."
"Okay, Brother Jiang."
Shen Jie quickly followed.
He was still wondering how he had fainted from just a bump?
Could it be that he was so lacking in exercise that his physique had weakened this much?
...
Afterward, the two of them searched for clues while dodging ghosts.
After an unknown amount of time, they finally emerged from the haunted house.
Outside,
Fang Mu, Zhou Yan, and two others had been waiting for a while.
Not far away, the young couple who had entered with Jiang Lin and the others were also there.
Those two were probably reunited just now, with the man still coaxing the woman.
"Baby, I really didn't mean to just now, I don't even know what happened."
"The person next to me was clearly you, and I pulled you, so how did it turn into a staff member?"
The girl turned her head away from him, crossing her arms, "Don't you even know who you pulled?"
The man thought to himself that in that situation, who would even look at who.
But he said, "Baby, I really didn't mean to, I promise it won't happen again."
"Can't you feel the difference between his hand and my hand?"
The girl was still angry, "In such a dangerous and dark place, you didn't even know I was lost!"
As they walked further away, their conversation gradually became quieter.
Meanwhile, Shen Jie and the others were also discussing their experiences in the haunted house.
"Hahaha, the group we encountered just now was also weird, they directly carried away the female ghost."
"When passing through a passage, Fang Mu almost got stuck and couldn't get out."
Listening to their experiences, Shen Jie laughed:
"Your part sounds quite fun. We had barely started, and people were already scattered."
As they chatted, the group strolled around the amusement park.
They also bought some drinks and snacks by the roadside to rest.
Although the haunted house wasn't large, it was full of twists and turns.
They had run quite a bit inside, and inevitably bumped into things.
Shen Jie's colleague had a bruised arm.
He said he accidentally hit a table corner while escaping.
...
"Uncle, one strawberry candied hawthorn."
By the roadside,
between the cotton candy stall and the balloon seller, there was a candied hawthorn cart.
The owner wore a colorful afro wig and a small clown red nose.
He was very popular with the children in the park.
A group of children surrounded him, drooling.
"Uncle, I want the hawthorn flavor."
"Uncle, Uncle, I want the mixed fruit flavor."
Soon, the children who received their candied hawthorns left happily.
Only a little girl, about a meter tall, remained.
The girl had shoulder-length black hair, wore a white sweater with black dots, paired with a brown wide-strap dress.
Below were brown mid-calf socks and a pair of black British-style flat shoes.
She looked at Jiang Lin and the others not far away, lost in thought.
"Little sister, do you want candied hawthorn?" the candied hawthorn seller called out.
The girl didn't react, as if she hadn't heard.
After a while, a woman's voice came from a distance: "Qing Qing, have you bought it?"
"Coming—"
The girl finally came back to her senses, quickly responded, and then turned to the seller:
"Uncle, one hawthorn flavored candied hawthorn."
"Three yuan," the seller said as he took down the candied hawthorn.
The little girl in front of him had fair, tender skin with a hint of baby fat.
Her eyes were like purple grapes, big and bright.
If she were a child star, people would probably believe it.
The girl took the candied hawthorn and placed the money on the seller's stall.
Then she turned and ran towards the couple not far away.
...
The laughter and joy of the amusement park continued until nightfall.
As dusk settled, the lights came on.
The amusement park's circuits were activated, and the various rides seemed to come alive.
They flashed with a dreamlike glow, and light, melodious music echoed through the park.
The roller coaster soared past with people's screams, and in the distance, the giant Ferris wheel, in a dreamy purple, slowly began to turn.
Faintly, the silhouettes of couples leaning against each other could be seen in the cabins.
After dinner, Jiang Lin, Shen Jie, and their three friends each went home.
They made plans to meet again when they had time.
Meanwhile—
In a room filled with杂物 in the haunted house.
Suo Da slowly woke up from the darkness, listening to the amusement park music outside.
He was still a bit dazed.
As soon as he stood up, his body swayed, and his steps were a bit unsteady.
"Where is this?"
He walked forward while taking out his phone.
After taking a step, he kicked something heavy yet soft.
At that moment, his phone lit up, and the faint light illuminated the room.
He saw a white human-shaped silhouette lying at his feet, unconscious.
Suo Da's pupils contracted: "!!!"