The rest of the people were already numb to the deaths of others. After all, death was the most common thing in the mission world.
"The Ferris wheel." Gu Xizhou looked up at the huge wheel in front of him. He and Si Yu looked at each other in tacit understanding. "This Ferris wheel is the last amusement park ride that the little boy took."
They didn't rush to board the Ferris wheel to look for clues. Instead, they observed from below.
The Ferris wheel was densely packed with ghosts. There were more ghosts than any other amusement park ride.
The wheel was about 120 meters high and there were 60 pods in total. Each pod could seat two people. Many people were queuing up in front of the Ferris wheel.
"What should we do? The hint is the Ferris wheel. Is the clue on it? "
"But the ticket doesn't allow us to take the Ferris wheel. Let's not go, shall we?"
It was fine that the ticket allowed them to take these murderous amusement park rides. However, there were some people who were unwilling to take the ride of their own accord.
Ma Qi said, "If we don't find the clue, we can't leave here. So many people have died. The only hint we got was the Ferris wheel … Even if we don't go on it, we should at least take a look, right?"
"No way … Do you really want to go on it? There's no rule that says we have to sit on it. What if the Ferris wheel falls down after we get on it? If it falls, we'll all die! "The tall man who had accepted Si Yu's ticket was trembling in fear.
His body trembled involuntarily as he spoke. Obviously, the previous three rides and the question of death had caused him to break down emotionally. He stood in place and said, "I won't go on it. I definitely won't go on it …"
Ye Shu said softly, "This Ferris wheel shouldn't be too dangerous. The ghosts on the Ferris wheel are all safe. It shouldn't be a problem for us to go on it."
"I won't go. I won't sit on it!"
"Whatever." Si Yu glanced at the man lazily. "If you want to wait until 8 o 'clock to die, go ahead."
After saying this coldly, he turned to the others and said, "Come with me."
Hearing this, the few of them quickly followed Si Yu's footsteps. The tall man looked left and right, but still chose to follow. They walked to the front of the staff's office. Unexpectedly, there were no staff members in the office below the Ferris wheel. They wanted to get on the Ferris wheel, but there were no staff members to help them cut the queue.
"What should we do? If there's no administrator, do we have to line up? How long do we have to wait in line? " Ma Qi glanced at the three layers of ghosts around him and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand.
Si Yu said, "Even without an administrator, you can still cut the queue."
Gu Xizhou scratched his head. "You found something?"
"Come with me."
Gu Xizhou saw with his own eyes that Si Yu took out a coin from his trouser pocket and bribed a ghost in the front row to cut the queue successfully. He was deeply troubled.
After successfully boarding the Ferris wheel, Gu Xizhou heard a click outside the pod as soon as he sat down. Their pod was locked from the outside. Gu Xizhou slapped the pod with all his strength, but it didn't budge at all.
Gu Xizhou said gloomily, "There's clearly no one outside. Who locked it from the outside?"
Si Yu said, "It's that little boy."
"The one who heard the sound of chains on his body?"
Si Yu nodded. "If I'm not wrong, after he entered the amusement park, he tried the first three rides before lining up to get on the Ferris wheel. However, due to the negligence of the staff, the Ferris wheel's cabin door wasn't locked, so the Ferris wheel fell."
Gu Xizhou said, "That's why the tourists can die, but the staff can't."
After the two of them finished talking, Gu Xizhou rummaged through the pod, but there was nothing in it. There were only two chairs facing each other. "There's nothing up here."
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows. Si Yu spread his hands. "Let's talk about it after we finish one round."
"Okay." Gu Xizhou felt that this made sense. Perhaps it was because they hadn't finished one round, so they hadn't completed their mission. The Ferris wheel moved like an old machine. Gu Xizhou leaned against the glass and looked at it for a while. He estimated that it would take at least 20 minutes to finish one round of the Ferris wheel.
Ma Qi, who was in the next pod, was sweating profusely. He rummaged through the pod, but couldn't find anything. He sat down on a chair and rolled his eyes at Ye Shu. "Are you just going to sit there? Aren't you going to help us look for it? "
Ye Shu sneered. "This place is only so big. Do you think there's any place to hide anything? Why don't we finish this round first? "
Ma Qi rubbed between his eyebrows and suddenly looked at Ye Shu. This woman was unbelievably calm. "Did you think of something?"
Ye Shu smiled. "Why do you say that?"
Ma Qi: "When we were on the merry-go-round, you reminded everyone to choose the merry-go-round. When we were on the bumper car, you said that you panicked and drove the wrong way. I believed you. But when we were at the haunted house for the third time, you kept holding on to me and wouldn't let me be separated from you. I feel like you're just like Si Yaoxing. You're very smart. You've figured out the rules."
Ye Shu: "Is this your intuition as a police officer?"
Ma Qi: "Kind of. I think you're very smart. Even without Gu Xizhou, you could have gotten out of here alive. Why did you go to the police station to find Gu Xizhou and force him to come here?"
Ye Shu didn't answer Ma Qi's question. She took out a pencil from her bag and played with it in her hand. She thought to herself, I don't know why I'm looking for him either.
After one round of the Ferris wheel, Gu Xizhou hurriedly looked for clues in the pod, but found nothing.
"F * ck, is that kid playing with us?" Gu Xizhou cursed. He looked at the time on the clock outside. There were only forty minutes left to eight o 'clock, and the pod door was tightly locked. There was no way out.
"No." Si Yu sat opposite Gu Xizhou and looked at the Ferris wheel that had already lit up. "He's not playing with us. The Ferris wheel is the only way to leave this place."
Gu Xizhou: "The Ferris wheel is the way to leave this world?"
Si Yu: "Do you still remember the third entry of that kid's diary?"
Gu Xizhou nodded. "Yes."
Si Yu: "He said that the amusement park can help him fulfill his wish."
Gu Xizhou was confused. What the hell?
Si Yu explained, "A kid's imagination is unlimited. Have you heard of the legend of the Ferris wheel?"
Gu Xizhou: "What?"
Si Yu: "When the Ferris wheel climbs to the highest point, the wish will come true."
"In his diary, he said that he hoped that his parents could accompany him more. This wish seems quite simple." Gu Xizhou thought for a while. "But he's dead. The wish should have changed, right?"
Si Yu looked at him and nodded. "Yes."
Seeing that their pod was about to pass the highest point … Gu Xizhou suddenly slapped his head. "If it's really a wish, I know how to make it!"
As time passed, there were still 32 minutes before 8: 00 pm. Gu Xizhou's pod had reached the highest point. Gu Xizhou closed his eyes and put his hands together to make a wish.
"I'm not sure if his wish has changed." Gu Xizhou blinked at Si Yu as if he was looking for praise. "Just now, I made a wish to 'fulfill Tong Tong's wish'. Regardless of whether his wish has changed or not, it's still true."
Si Yu smiled and nodded softly.
After Gu Xizhou made his wish, the two keenly noticed that the music on the Ferris wheel had changed.
The Ferris wheel spun and brought Gu Xizhou's pod to the lowest point. After Gu Xizhou's pod left the Ferris wheel, the entire amusement park suddenly collapsed. All the malicious spirits dissipated at the same time, and the entire amusement park turned into ruins.
A little boy holding a balloon stood in the middle of the ruins. He opened his mouth and mouthed, "Thank you."
Then the little boy's body disappeared. A wooden door appeared in the middle of the ruins. A white balloon hung from the door handle.
"It's over?" The tall man looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. His body was covered in cold sweat. When he was locked in the pod, he was already thinking about how he was going to die. He did not expect everything to end so quickly. There was also a girl whose legs turned to jelly. She sat on the ground and started to cry.
The people who were still alive left one after another. Only Gu Xizhou, Ma Qi, Si Yu, and Ye Shu remained.
Gu Xizhou's gaze fell on Ye Shu. In Gu Xizhou's words, Ye Shu very consciously walked to stand in front of Gu Xizhou. She took out a pencil. The pencil was very short, only the length of Gu Xizhou's pinky finger. She also took out a notebook. It should be something that Ye Shu always carried with him.
"Give me your hand," Ye Shu said to Gu Xizhou.
Gu Xizhou nodded and stretched out his hand. He and Ye Shu intertwined their hands, holding the pencil between them.
"Let go of your hand, but you have to hold the pencil gently. Say in your heart, 'Pen Spirit, Pen Spirit, I am your spirit in this life. If you want to continue your fate with me, please draw a circle on the paper.'"
Gu Xizhou followed Ye Shu's instructions step by step. Suddenly, he felt the shaft of the pencil move slightly. He heard Ye Shu say to him, "What do you want to ask? Just say it in your heart."
Gu Xizhou said in his heart, 'Why was I resurrected?'
After doing all this, Gu Xizhou stared at the notebook in his hand and raised his eyebrows. Was this Pen Spirit teasing him?
What kind of bullsh * t answer was "fate"?
Was it because fate itself had been resurrected? What was the difference between this and not answering at all?
Gu Xizhou looked at Ye Shu. He was a little angry. "Is this thing of yours accurate or not?"
Ye Shu said, "It's your business whether you believe it or not. It has already answered."
When Ma Qi saw the answer Gu Xizhou received, he asked curiously, "Xizhou, what exactly did you ask? The answer is actually this? "
"It asked us why we entered the mission world," Gu Xizhou said casually.
Then, he knocked on the wooden door in the middle of the ruins. After the same dizziness, Gu Xizhou heard a gentle voice ring in his ear.
"Why is my son sleeping here?!" The woman opened the door and saw her son sitting on the floor in front of the door, leaning against the shoe cabinet, asleep.
The woman gently patted the little boy's face and woke him up. She looked a little haggard, and there were dark circles under her eyes. It was obvious that she did not rest well yesterday.
After the little boy was patted awake, he rubbed his sleepy eyes with his chubby little hands and replied, "I was waiting for you to come home, Mommy."
When the woman heard this, she immediately became gentle. She took the child's hand and led him inside. Then, she asked, "Where's your father?"
The little boy shook his head. "I don't know."
When the woman heard this, she raised her eyebrows. When she was about to take out her phone, she suddenly heard a rumbling sound. The woman lowered her head and looked at her son who was holding his stomach. Her expression changed. "You haven't eaten yet?"
The little boy shook his head. Soon, he nodded under the woman's stern gaze.
The woman was so angry that her expression changed. She took out her phone and dialed a number. After a short dial tone, a hoarse male voice came from the other end of the line.
"Why are you calling me at this time? I'm busy! "
The woman's shrill voice seemed to be able to pierce through people's eardrums. "What kind of father are you? Tong Tong hasn't eaten yet, and you're going out? What the hell are you thinking? "
"Is your son so unimportant to you? Do you not need to care about the rest of us if you eat alone? "
The man explained in boredom, "I have work to do. I can't just ignore work, can I?"
"Work? What work do you have? Work on the mahjong table? Hmm? " The woman said directly without mercy, "I'm telling you, if you don't come back in half an hour, you can forget about ever coming back! This family doesn't have much with you or without you! "
As she spoke, the woman angrily threw the phone on the floor. Crying, she ran into the kitchen and used the simplest eggs and leftover rice. The woman wiped her tears as she cooked.
On the other side, the little boy was heartbreakingly sensible. He tugged at his mother's trousers. "Mom, I'm not hungry. Don't quarrel because of me."
The woman squatted down and hugged her son. "Mom and Dad aren't quarreling because of you. Don't cry. Wait for Mom to cook you some fried rice."
After pushing her son out of the kitchen, the woman cried as she cooked.
The little boy hurriedly picked up his mother's phone, turned it on again, and called his father.
"Dad, come back quickly. Mom is crying. Don't play mahjong anymore, okay?"
The man on the other end of the phone heard his son's voice. After a long silence, he said, "Okay, Tong Tong. Dad will come back soon."
As time went by, such scenes would appear once in a while. For Tong Tong's mother, this was a typical example of losing her son.
For a period of time, Gu Xizhou saw Tong Tong write his first essay, "My Mom." A day later, he wrote his second essay, "My Dad."
When he wrote the second essay, it was just as he had expected. The little boy, Tong Tong, had revised the essay many times. In the end, he submitted the version that Gu Xizhou and the others had seen.
When Tong Tong wrote his third essay, "Where to Play on the Weekend," Gu Xizhou received an important piece of information. The day they went to the amusement park was Tong Tong's birthday. Therefore, he asked his parents to accompany him to the amusement park.
The little boy walked between his parents, eating the ice cream in his hand. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the amusement park, he excitedly pointed at the facilities inside.
Tong Tong's mother and father were not in the right mood. However, seeing their son so happy, they did not turn against him immediately. Instead, they took Tong Tong to the nearest merry-go-round, then the bumper cars, and the haunted house.
However, the good times did not last long. The argument between Tong Tong's parents broke out. They left each other because of their anger, leaving Tong Tong alone. Tong Tong cried helplessly. He cried for a long time, but his parents did not come back.
Tong Tong remembered that his friends in class told him that when the Ferris wheel passed the highest point of the amusement park, the wish would come true …
Tong Tong, who had been crying, lined up in front of the Ferris wheel. After a long time, he got on the Ferris wheel. At this time, his parents calmed down. They rushed back to look for Tong Tong, but found that the child was gone.
When they arrived at the radio station and asked for the search, an accident happened.
Tong Tong's car rose to the highest point. He stood up and wanted to lean on the door to get a better look. However, no one knew that … the car door was not closed.
"Ah!" Tong Tong, who was leaning on the door, did not expect the door to open so easily. He lost his footing and fell down.
Tong Tong's body fell from the sky and landed on the roller in the middle of the Ferris wheel. His body seemed to have been thrown into a large meat grinder. Blood flowed out of the Ferris wheel's supporting pillars like a stream.
The couple at the radio station saw this scene with their own eyes. They broke down instantly. When they arrived, Tong Tong was already dead. The two blamed themselves and blamed each other for their child's death. They beat each other up …
The once loving couple turned from lovers to enemies. They fell into endless self-blame and pain.
After his death, Tong Tong stood aside with a balloon in his hand. He silently watched his parents beat each other up with tears streaming down their faces. Then, Gu Xizhou saw Tong Tong standing beside his parents, watching his parents hurt each other endlessly. They punished themselves over and over again for his death.
After Tong Tong's death, they blamed each other and used the most vicious words to hurt each other.
The dead Tong Tong stood aside and cried. He hoped that his parents would not quarrel with each other. However, it was all in vain.
As the chain broke, Gu Xizhou heard Tong Tong's wish: I hope that my parents did not give birth to Tong Tong. That way, they would not quarrel with each other over Tong Tong.
The next moment, Gu Xizhou returned to reality, panting heavily. Ma Qi and Ye Shu were standing beside him. Ye Shu looked at Gu Xizhou with a complicated expression. Suddenly, he took his things and walked out.
Xiang Yuan, who came to watch the show, heard his colleagues gossiping about Gu Xizhou. He had a pained expression on his face. "Are they talking about the woman who just walked out? Old Gu, you're really something. "
"How did you get such a beautiful woman without saying anything?"
Ye Shu walked out of the police station. His face was pale. He opened his palm and there was a piece of paper in his palm. He unfolded the note. There were some messy handwriting on it. He could barely make out the words written on it — Si.
Ye Shu stood there. She had actually lied to Gu Xizhou. The Pen Spirit could be used in any world, and it could be used many times.
She thought of the two questions she had asked the Pen Spirit just now.
'I can deal with this world without Gu Xizhou. I can guess the rules of the game. Even if I have to make a wish before I can leave, I can do it as long as you give me a hint. Why do you want me to find him?'
The answer the Pen Spirit gave her was — No, he must die.
'Why must he die?'
The Pen Spirit gave her another answer. There was only one word on the answer — Si.
In the police station —
"I don't know her at all." Gu Xizhou explained to Xiang Yuan, who was smiling strangely. Just as he was arguing with Xiang Yuan, his phone rang.
Si Yu: Can you tell me … what question did you ask the Pen Spirit?
Gu Xizhou hesitated when he saw this question. He replied: I asked it why I was pulled into the mission world.
Si Yu: What answer did it give you?
Gu Xizhou: Fate.
Si Yu, who was at home, looked down and saw Gu Xizhou's message. Si Yu paused for a moment. After a while, she typed a message to Gu Xizhou: Actually, its answer wasn't wrong.
Gu Xizhou: Every question can be answered with the word 'fate', but what's the difference between its answer and its playing with me …?
Si Yu: Hmm … Oh, right. I have a question for you.
Gu Xizhou: What is it?
Si Yu: Was that really your first kiss? Your reaction was very … hmm … jerky.
Gu Xizhou: …
Si Yu: Hmm?
Gu Xizhou: You're an old hand. What's the big deal?
Si Yu: I'm not.
Gu Xizhou: Do you think I'll believe you?
Si Yu: I'm really not.
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