WTNL Chapter 85.2

Fantasy Amusement Park
Chapter 85.2: Falling into the Abyss-themed roller coaster

Wen Jianyan turned his head and shouted at the top of his lungs: “Hurry up and check! How many corpses are there among all the wooden dolls near you!”

“I have a corpse here!”

“This one on my side is also a corpse!”

“The one next to me is a real wooden doll!”

The wind pressure gradually increased, and the downward drop was right before their eyes.

Wen Jianyan’s gaze was dead fixed on the top of the track in the distance. All his attention was focused on the reports of everyone behind him. As he listened, his mind calculated rapidly—

There were seven of them in total.

Among the ten wooden dolls, five were the corpses of previous challengers.

That is to say, he guessed right. The reason they entered the [Plunge into the Abyss] theme instead of the [Journey Through the Jungle] theme this time was precisely because of the number of people.

Obviously, because there were more passengers on the roller coaster, their number was judged by the instance to be 6 and a multiple of 6.

But the question was…

Were the five corpses judged as passengers, or were the five wooden dolls judged as passengers?

The other streamers quickly realized this as well.

Logically, the corpses of the previous challengers were no longer living creatures, which meant that the other five wooden dolls were the true culprits that landed them in this situation.

But…

Rule 5 of the roller coaster: Please do not damage the decorations on the coaster, especially the humanoid wooden decorations.

Throwing a wooden doll off the roller coaster couldn’t possibly not count as damaging a decoration.

“…Damn it.”

Wen Ya turned to look at the smiling wooden doll not far from her, finally realizing how insidious this attraction was, and couldn’t help but curse under her breath.

The designer of this attraction was truly disgustingly vile.

Damaging the wooden dolls wasn’t allowed, but they couldn’t keep the number of people at 12 either. This meant that someone had to sacrifice themselves—either by jumping off the roller coaster or by pushing a wooden doll off. Judging from the consequences of breaking rules shown in this attraction, the person who pushed the wooden doll off would probably end up in a state similar to jumping off the roller coaster anyway.

Right at this moment, a soft “click” came from the front, like the sound of a safety bar being released and raised.

Several streamers sitting in the back rows raised their eyes in astonishment and looked towards the source of the sound.

The next second, they saw Wen Jianyan leave his seat, grab the corpse from the seat in front of him with one hand, and slide down along the angle of the roller coaster’s incline—

“What are you doing?”

Wen Ya, who was closest to him, widened her eyes in shock and asked.

Wen Jianyan grinned at her: “Damaging a wooden doll.”

…What?

Wen Ya couldn’t quite process it.

Could it be… this guy was planning to sacrifice himself and throw the wooden doll off the roller coaster?

How is that possible?

The roller coaster slowly climbed upwards. Seeing that the sudden drop point was imminent, the cars of the roller coaster were nearly vertical, giving a near-suffocating feeling.

The young man struggled to grab onto one of the seats, still firmly holding the corpse in his arms. His body hung precariously in mid-air, looking like he could fall at any moment.

His slender arms were taut, veins bulging from his overexerted muscles.

The gazes of all the streamers were focused on him. They subconsciously held their breath, their heartstrings pulling tight in tandem.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, looked down and aimed at the lowest seat, then mustered all his strength and dragged the corpse towards the back of the chair beside him.

He seemed to have used some kind of item.

The corpse disguised as a wooden doll was firmly stuck to the back of one of the chairs.

And right below the corpse, facing the chair separated from Wen Ya by just an aisle, sat a smiling wooden doll on the seat above.

Wen Ya inhaled sharply.

She knew what this guy wanted to do!

This was a C-rank item, “Adhesive Sticker.” Each streamer could only purchase it once. It could firmly stick any object to a surface for 30 seconds. It was often used as a control-type item on monsters to fix them in place, rendering them unable to continue chasing streamers.

She didn’t expect… the other party would use it like this!

The roller coaster was currently climbing. Once it reached the top, it would rapidly plunge vertically. By that time, the Adhesive Sticker would expire, and the corpse that was stuck to the back of the chair would crash into the wooden doll at an extremely high speed!

The young man raised those amber eyes. His gaze was extremely focused, looking deeply at Wen Ya, and he smiled at her.

Amidst the howling wind, his voice sounded so clear and bright, even carrying a hint of soft laughter:

“Remember to pull me back later.”

The next second, the roller coaster reached the top.

After a brief, almost scalp-numbing pause, the entire coaster abruptly tilted and plummeted straight down into the abyss!!

“Ahhhhhhhhhh—”

The howling wind tore apart the screams that subconsciously burst from their throats. Intense G-force brutally pressed against their chests, and the rapid descent brought a strong sense of weightlessness. Adrenaline spiked in their bodies, forcefully pushing them to the brink of death.

Under this sudden shift in gravity, the young man’s body was abruptly inverted, and he plunged towards the abyss!

At that moment, Wen Ya felt her heart leap into her throat. She barely had time to think, nor did she have time to reminisce. There were no thoughts in her blank mind, and all her actions relied entirely on instinct!

Item activated.

A rope appeared out of thin air, bypassed the chair, and reached towards Wen Jianyan with extreme purpose.

Wen Ya’s heart pounded wildly, and cold sweat broke out layer after layer on her body. Under the suppression of the intense G-force, she struggled to stick her head out of the safety restraint. Her ears were filled with the howling wind, and braving the pressure that felt like it would snap her neck, she looked behind the chair—

Wen Jianyan hung at the end of the rope, his slender hands gripping the end of the rope in a death grip, dangling precariously like a kite at the end of a string.

The fierce wind whipped his hair, making it flutter wildly like a soft flag.

The young man raised his head and looked in this direction. Across the chaos, the distance, the wind, the screams, the shaking, and the dizziness, those amber eyes appeared incredibly clear.

He smiled, his lips moving:

Thank you.

For no reason at all, Wen Ya felt her heart twist viciously, as if someone had punched her heavily in the chest. Unsure if it was because she was being held down by the wind pressure, she was actually breathless for a moment.

In just that brief moment of distraction, the 30-second time limit for the Adhesive Sticker expired.

The item lost its effect.

The next second, the heavy corpse detached from the sticky chair back. Under the intense acceleration of gravity, it crashed brutally into the wooden doll at the very bottom!

“Crack!”

The wooden doll on the seat was struck violently by the massive impact. Wood splinters flew wildly, limbs snapped, and the entire thing shattered apart!

Scarlet blood and fragments of internal organs instantly splattered, like an exceptionally cruel rain of blood!

No one destroyed the wooden doll.

The real culprit was the rapidly plummeting roller coaster. Its speed was too fast, causing the wooden doll on the car to violently crash into the unsecured corpse, and then both simply turned into pieces together.

This way, whether the corpse was judged as a “passenger” or the wooden doll was judged as a “passenger”, it didn’t matter anymore.

The number decreased by two.

The number of people would absolutely not be a multiple of 6 anymore.

“Ahhhhhhhhhh—”

The roller coaster’s speed was still increasing. Wheels sparked against the track, everything spun and accelerated. An intense urge to vomit struck every streamer’s heart, and screams were forced from the depths of their throats almost uncontrollably.

However, the panic-inducing, boundless darkness around them was dissipating.

Across the miserable screams, pleasant music could faintly be heard playing—”Ho ho ho! Welcome everyone to the Journey Through the Jungle Themed Roller Coaster! I am your Captain, and next, I will lead everyone on a brand new fantasy journey!”

After an unknown amount of time, the roller coaster slowly decelerated.

Finally, the car stopped.

“Hiss—”

The car doors automatically opened, and the safety restraints buckled over everyone’s shoulders also automatically unlocked and slowly rose.

Streamers stumbled out of the roller coaster:

“—Urgh!”

The sounds of vomiting rose and fell.

“Cough… cough, cough, cough…”

Wen Jianyan coughed, struggling to climb up from the ground.

He felt pain all over his body. Although he was pulled by the rope, he had still inevitably crashed into the ground and the chairs around him when the roller coaster fell. Even though he had consciously protected his vital parts, his body was still bruised black and blue.

His internal organs were churning.

The place on his waist where he was bound by the rope hurt so much it made him bare his teeth. It probably wasn’t just simple bruising; his skin was likely rubbed raw.

Within his dizzy field of vision, he saw a pair of feet stop in front of him.

“Hey.”

A female voice, suppressing her emotions, rang out from above.

Wen Jianyan raised his head and looked towards the source of the sound.

He saw Wen Ya standing before him, looking down at him. Her face was expressionless, yet the emotions hidden in her eyes were complex and hard to distinguish: “Are you… okay?”

Wen Jianyan smiled, but it pulled at his wounds, so he smiled bitterly and grimaced:

“Thanks to you, I’m okay.”

“You—”

Wen Ya looked at him, confused, bewildered, and almost in disbelief. She opened her mouth, but in the end, only a garbled syllable came out.

She wanted to ask many things, but for some reason, she didn’t know where to start.

Right at this moment, a voice, suppressing shock, came from not far away:

“Hey, you guys, come look at this!”

“What’s wrong?”

Piqiu, standing at the exit, raised his head and stared at the smooth wall in front of him. He swallowed hard and said in a slightly trembling voice:

“The exit… is gone.”

“…”

Wen Ya, who had remained in the roller coaster, heard the noisy sounds from not far away. She frowned, turned to look where the commotion came from, and asked in confusion, “What happened? Shouldn’t this attraction be over?”

Right at this moment, the young man in front of her hissed, pulling her back from her thoughts.

Wen Ya turned to look.

She saw the other party half-kneeling on the ground, seemingly having just tried to stand up but failed. He raised his eyes somewhat shyly, his amber eyes looking up from beneath long, soft eyelashes. He pursed his lips, seemingly a bit embarrassed as he whispered:

“Um… could you give me a hand?”

Wen Ya: “…”

Her eyes flickered. With a cold face, she somewhat reluctantly reached out and yanked the young man up from the ground, saying stiffly: “If you’re injured… then sit and rest for a bit.”

“—I’ll go check the situation.”

After saying that, she quickly turned around and fled the roller coaster as if escaping.

Wen Jianyan sat down on one of the chairs, lazily narrowing his eyes slightly. He rolled his sore, numb wrists, and lightly glanced back at the spot where he had just fallen.

The thin, spider-web-like item had reached its time limit and automatically disappeared.

Wen Jianyan withdrew his gaze, a hint of a smile flashing across his lips.

Naturally, he couldn’t possibly entrust his life or death to whether others would extend a helping hand or not.

As early as when he had decided on his action strategy, he had already found an escape route for himself—at the end of his body’s fall, an invisible spider web unfolded, sufficient to catch him.

However, this didn’t mean he couldn’t exploit his own vulnerability.

A savior complex is hidden in everyone’s heart.

Everyone loves the feeling of being unconditionally trusted. When a person is willing to hand over their life unconditionally, the emotional bond created in that instant cannot be replicated by any other situation.

The Eternal Day Guild would still be useful later.

In this instance, he needed teammates, not enemies.

Once the worst impression had already been left, no matter how hard one tried to do anything, it would be useless, and might even have a counterproductive effect. How could he reverse the impression and draw their relationship closer at top speed?

Wen Jianyan lowered his eyes with a pleasant expression.

By letting himself be saved by the other party, of course.

Lilith looked at Wen Ya walking over and nervously went up to meet her: “I saw you seeming to chat with that streamer who scammed you just now? What’s going on? What happened?”

“Is that guy plotting some bad idea again?”

Chuanze narrowed his eyes vigilantly.

Wen Ya: “…”

She pursed her lips, and rarely for her, didn’t reply directly, but turned her head to look towards the entrance, bluntly changing the subject: “Did something happen?”

???

Lilith and Chuanze exchanged a surprised glance.

Wait… Why was Wen Ya’s attitude a bit weird?

Didn’t she hate that guy the most!

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Author’s Note:

Lilith and Chuanze: ???

Sister? Weren’t you the one who told us to be wary of this scammer!

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