Chapter 1 The Pirate Ship Queue

Forty minutes ago, at the Pirate Ship queue.

"Oh! You guys have sharp eyes~"

Mandison didn't expect that he had just been abandoned by his CP-shipping sisters. Turning around, he actually ran into Lou Jia and Julian, who were also queuing for the pirate ship.

"Same to you, just lucky to run into you. But... just you?"

Although Julian and Mandison were both from the Federation, they weren't close. They didn't get any closer in the game either.

Julian remembered that Mandison had been hanging out with several girls from the Empire side. How come he was all alone now?

"Yeah, they're over there." As he spoke, Mandison pointed with his mouth toward the two-story carousel next to the pirate ship, which amused Julian and Lou Jia.

"So girly~"

Lou Jia's comment made Mandison take another look. He had to admit, it was quite dreamy, with its pink and white colors and the melodious music playing as the carousel turned. No wonder it was so popular.

Although Mandison thought so too, he couldn't help but think of how Lu Xiaoyao had run into them not long ago, and they hadn't minded bringing her along. But now, Lu Xiaoyao had turned around and dragged Wang Wenfei away, leaving him a lonely man.

So, he said with a resentful tone, "Does being girly mean you don't have to queue? It's a total waste to wait in a long line for a carousel."

The other two didn't deny it, but Julian couldn't help but smile at Mandison's unhappy and incomprehending expression. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "You'll never find a girlfriend like that."

"And you can? I heard a girl from the film academy next door has been confessing to you every day recently! But you're still single, aren't you?"

The gentle expression on Julian's face almost cracked!

What was going on?!

He thought it was bad enough that gossip spread around his own school, but now even other schools knew about it?

"Huh? Really?"

Lou Jia looked surprised. He glanced at Julian in shock. He didn't expect this guy to be so famous.

Oh, so he had a reputation!

Lou Jia asked with a hint of gossip, "Was the girl ugly?"

"No..."

"Then why?"

"Hey! Aren't we supposed to be queuing for the pirate ship? Why aren't we queuing and instead gossiping?"

Julian glared at the two of them, feeling annoyed. He turned around and went to queue up. Really, did he have to say yes just because a girl confessed to him?

He had been very gentle when he rejected her! He definitely didn't make her cry, but why did it sound like he was a terrible person?

Julian felt that his love life was very rough this year.

He had been rejected when he pursued someone before, and then he met a crazy woman who pursued him. He rejected her and spent a lot of time giving her psychological counseling ＿(：3」∠)_

Thinking this, Julian stared at the pirate ship in front of him, feeling a little irritable.

But what made him even more annoyed was that the pirate ship line looked short, but because the ship didn't hold many people at once, it took a long time.

It took them more than half an hour to get to the front.

"Honey, make sure you hold me tight if I get scared~"

"Okay~"

A couple in front of them were being affectionate, and the sound floated into the ears of the three bachelors behind them, causing each of them to have different thoughts.

Julian: I love the Federation, and the Federation loves me. I'm not jealous!

Lou Jia: That junior who confessed last time seemed nice to talk to. Should I ask her out on a date next time I'm on leave to get to know her better?

Mandison: Eww, how gross!

The three of them had different thoughts, which couldn't be seen from their wooden faces. But it frightened the couple who had inadvertently looked back and caused them to shut up.

But the cold, cool appearance of these three also quickly disappeared.

Not because the pirate ship was exciting and changed their expressions. When the pirate ship rushed down from the highest point, a not-so-small "clunk" sound broke through the screams and reached their ears!

Julian and the others felt a sense of unease instantly sweep over them, and then someone shouted, "The ship's flying out!"

Mandison & Julian & Lou Jia: 0.0!

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The next second, they realized that the pirate ship they were sitting on had actually rushed out of the track and flew towards the carousel next door...

Five minutes ago, at the carousel.

"Okay, I got it."

Mingmei looked at Mu Chen sitting on the wooden horse next to her, listening to him saying that if anything happened, she must jump off the horse immediately. She nodded perfunctorily.

But, perhaps because Mu Chen had said it too many times, Mingmei, who hadn't cared much at first, became nervous when she met his still serious eyes.

"Lu Xiaoyao and the others didn't play a third time today..."

Mingmei remembered Lu Xiaoyao's death-seeking behavior yesterday. Today, she had paid special attention to it in the live broadcast room. They all said that this was Lu Xiaoyao's first time today.

"We should be okay, right?"

"I know, but I also said that the word 'three' may not be that simple."

Mu Chen whispered in Mingmei's ear, "Don't you think there are more NPCs in the amusement park today? There weren't this many at this time yesterday. Almost every project has a long line."

"Yeah..."

Mingmei couldn't deny this point.

"If everyone wants to reduce their stress value, what will they do?"

"Find places with fewer people, or places with higher scores... or best of all, places with high scores and few people."

After Mingmei finished speaking, she remembered that when they entered the amusement park today, there were indeed some projects that didn't have many people, and the scores weren't low either.

If everyone avoided playing three times, then her uncle might indeed make a fuss about the number of players participating in a single project.

"So, can we leave now?"

Mingmei finally understood why Mu Chen had been disgusted with Lu Xiaoyao and the others when they were queuing. He was really afraid that they would get screwed over again if they came!

"There's no way. Now we can only hope that it's not what I think it is."

"Then you still want to play this?" Regardless of whether Mu Chen's guess was correct or not, Mingmei felt that if they could avoid it, they should avoid it. "Or, we can play another round?"

But as soon as Mingmei finished speaking, the carousel's starting music began to play. Mingmei couldn't hear clearly as Mu Chen's mouth opened and closed. She didn't hear what Mu Chen said.

But, at this moment, Mingmei couldn't help but look up and saw irregular cracks appearing in the top, and the scalp-numbing cracking sound was now ringing out!

"Danger!"

Mingmei shouted, and Lu Xiaoyao and the others saw Mingmei suddenly "dismount," while Mu Chen, a second earlier than Mingmei, jumped down and caught Mingmei.

"Uwa~~~" Lu

Xiaoyao was shipping them in the previous second and cried out in the next, then her body staggered. Her body seemed to be pulled down by water, and she fell directly.

When she came back to her senses, she saw Wang Wenfei next to her pulling her clothes in horror and running out.

At this moment, Lu Xiaoyao realized that the ground she was stepping on was also beginning to collapse, and a thick steel frame suddenly smashed down on her head.

"Let's go!"

Wang Wenfei grabbed Lu Xiaoyao and ran out, a burning pain coming from her cheek as it brushed against the falling steel frame.

If someone were to look from the outside at this moment, they would see the two-story carousel disintegrating, collapsing, and crumbling bit by bit from the top, and the people inside were also fleeing.

Over there, Mu Chen hugged Mingmei and jumped directly onto a cooling canopy next to the carousel, but obviously, this canopy was not very good. It cracked the next second.

Mu Chen held Mingmei in his arms, protecting her head with his hands, and rolled a few times on the ground before stopping.

"Is it safe?"

The first thing Mingmei said when she came back to her senses was to confirm that they were safe.

"Two times, there's still one more time, I don't know where..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mingmei felt Mu Chen's arms around her tighten again. The two immediately rolled away from the spot, and then two loud thuds came from beside them. Mingmei and Mu Chen turned their heads and saw Wang Wenfei and Lu Xiaoyao, who had jumped down and were grimacing in pain from the fall.

It didn't look like they had died from the fall.

"We... we're saved?"

Lu Xiaoyao only felt pain all over her body. When she opened her eyes, she saw Mingmei and Mu Chen not far away. She smiled brightly at them, revealing her bright white teeth with a cheer of surviving a disaster: "Yay!"

But the next second, a sudden tremor shook the ground, and screams rang out again. A huge shadow suddenly appeared above their heads and enveloped them.

Mingmei only had time to take a glance and saw that it was a "runaway pirate ship" from the amusement park. Before she could shout "Holy sh*t" out of her subconscious, she was ejected from the game...