Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1753: Chapter 921: Happy Times in the Amusement Park (Part 2)

At this moment, he felt his cognitive dissonance was worsening, and he needed to quickly clear the level and leave here, to use the injector.

In the next moment, Qing Chen lifted Buddha and walked toward the exit, preparing to enter the next stage.

Gou Wa was stunned for a moment: ”Why are you taking him? Is it useful?”

”Of course it’s useful,” Qing Chen said. ”The clearance information already reminded us... Hopefully, the previous competition allowed us to gain something from our opponents.”

Qing Chen lifted Buddha with ease: ”This is also a gain.”

Gou Wa: ”???”

He suddenly felt unwell, calling this a gain?!

This is called capture!

The amusement park lets you pick a Blessing Card, and you end up taking the whole opponent instead?

Earlier, Gou Wa thought he also understood the information on clearance rewards this time.

But now he realized, his thinking was not as broad as Qing Chen’s!

Qing Chen instructed: ”Keep towing the kayak, holding the paddle.”

Gou Wa: ”...Still dragging it?”

”Mm, it’s useful.”

Gou Wa paused for a moment, Qing Chen clearly realized the kayak could still be useful, but he couldn’t figure it out.

At the turnstile, Qing Chen said to Gou Wa: ”Leave one person behind, the one with the most severe cognitive dissonance; he can’t continue forward anymore.”

Among the team, three people killed someone at the Trojan Horse checkpoint. They left one murderer in the drifting area, a second murderer at the bumper car, and now the third murderer.

Starting from the drifting area, these three were already haunted by Water Ghosts, walking rigidly. Qing Chen had only two Ghosts attached to him, while they were covered in them, unable to turn their heads...

The man left behind pleaded bitterly with Gou Wa to take him along, but Gou Wa remained unmoved.

The man threatened fiercely: ”If you don’t take me, I’ll follow you into the fifth stage later. Then, I’ll trigger the rules, and we’ll all die together!”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Gou Wa grabbed his throat and brutally blinded him: ”Threatening us? Without eyes, you can’t pass the turnstile.”

Qing Chen silently watched this scene. In moments of crisis, ruthless people like Gou Wa would reveal their true nature.

These people are wolves, always ready to turn on their master.

Gou Wa didn’t kill him, but threw the blinded subordinate to the ground.

The remaining 20 people arrived at the turnstile. Qing Chen pried open the unconscious Buddha’s eyelids, scanning the iris for entry.

Gou Wa hesitated: ”Will taking Buddha in lead us to violate the rule of needing one less person to clear the level?”

Qing Chen replied nonchalantly: ”No, the amusement park has already recognized him as part of another team and won’t affect us. If it did, we would have already violated the rule in the drifting area. So our team still complies with the rules, while Buddha violates their team’s rule for entering the next stage.”

Currently, this Buddha first killed someone, then violated the rule to enter the next stage, stacking up all the negative buffs...

His cognitive dissonance must be extremely severe now.

But that doesn’t concern Qing Chen, as long as Qing Chen is happy.

Walking along the road.

Gou Wa hesitated for a long time before saying to Qing Chen: ”Can I follow you in the future?”

For people like Gou Wa, Qing Chen, as the Family Head of a conglomerate, is an extraordinary figure, one of the five most powerful individuals in the Federation.

Such a connection, some people may never encounter in a lifetime.

Qing Chen looked at him: ”Although I can deceive you, I must be honest. We are not the same type of people; after leaving the amusement park, we will part ways.”

Gou Wa was stunned for a moment; was Qing Chen looking down on him?

In fact, Qing Chen knew well how much evil these people had done in the town, how many lives they had taken. The organs they carved out from the town residents supported 10% of Central Plains Five Cities’ organ supply.

In terms of sins, Gou Wa, Boss Wang, and Er Hu deserve thousands of years of torment in Hell to redeem themselves.

He wouldn’t recruit such people under his command; principles wouldn’t allow it.

Just the day before, Gou Wa and others had cruelly harmed three innocent tourists in front of him.

Gou Wa kept silent, quietly following behind Qing Chen.

At the new checkpoint, everyone looked blankly at the towering Big Pendulum column and the quietly resting Big Pendulum on the ground...

If someone randomly got thrown out from above, they’d surely die!

What if the person thrown out was you?

The circular Big Pendulum has 188 seats, each marked with a number.

On each seat’s armrest was a calculator-like keyboard with digits 0 to 9 and a pound key.

Gou Wa’s lips turned a bit purple: ”How do we pass this stage?”

Then, the Big Pendulum said: ”Please be seated, when the Big Pendulum ascends to the sky, each tourist must use the voting device on the right to choose a lucky tourist! Enter a number, then the pound key to finish. If you fail to vote within the specified time, it will be considered a violation of amusement park rules. The game has only one round; if no one clears the round, everyone will be thrown from their seats.”

Gou Wa silently looked towards Qing Chen.

Qing Chen was fastening the seatbelt for the unconscious Buddha...

Number 1, that was Buddha’s seat number.

Gou Wa: ”...Amazing, did you hear earlier that the Big Pendulum would randomly throw out a tourist, so you brought Buddha along?”

Gou Wa realized that this stage’s game mechanism was hinting at hidden intrigues.

You could vote for anyone, and they could also vote for you. The key is convincing others not to vote for you but to vote for someone else instead.

However, this ruthless Family Head of Qing’s Clan chose an alternative clearance method: to vote Buddha out...

Praise Buddha, thank nature’s gift.

But just as everyone was preparing to sit down, Qing Chen suddenly stood still.

No!

This matter wasn’t that simple!

Another trap!

First, the bumper car checkpoint hinted that a tourist might randomly be thrown out.

However, the voice in the Big Pendulum said to choose a lucky tourist!

No mention of the word ’lucky’ in the previous sentence!

Qing Chen once said, every word here must be analyzed; however pedantic, is not excessive!

Here, a series of misleadings:

First, the previous checkpoint was a team competition, deliberately setting opponents. Then, saying that the Big Pendulum would randomly throw someone out easily mislead you to capture an opponent to complete the level.

But if you did so, every voter would be an accomplice to murder. The remaining could continue exploring the park, yet everyone’s mental contamination would deepen.

Secondly, the Big Pendulum’s wording was intricate; it didn’t state only one could be chosen as the lucky tourist, nor did it say it had to be the highest voted person. So everyone could become the lucky tourist.

Therefore, the true method to clear this stage is for everyone to vote for themselves, making themselves the lucky tourist, without being thrown out!

After Qing Chen lowly explained the precautions to everyone, they all sat in their respective seats, fastening their safety belts.

The Big Pendulum slowly began moving, the circular wheel taking everyone into the sky, starting a frenzied spin.

As it swung, Qing Chen saw the two Water Ghosts attached to him being swung off. He promptly reached out to grab them, attaching them back onto himself.

Qing Chen’s mental contamination was getting severe, but he found it hard to realize... Just like how those with mental illness generally don’t believe they are mentally ill.

Seeing Qing Chen’s actions, Gou Wa instinctively understood what the Family Head of Qing’s Clan was doing, but he was bewildered; who would normally save the Water Ghosts attached to themselves for no reason?

At that moment, Qing Chen turned his head and suddenly saw Buddha’s eyelids twitching wildly... he woke up.

At the same time, the voice in the Big Pendulum said: ”Start voting! Countdown 10, 9, 8...”

Qing Chen shouted: ”Vote!”

Everyone simultaneously pressed the vote button, all voted for themselves, selecting themselves as lucky tourists to avoid being thrown out by the Big Pendulum.

However, Qing Chen’s clearance method might not necessarily be correct, Gou Wa and others waited anxiously, fearing Qing Chen’s idea was wrong.

If truly wrong, all those who voted for themselves would die.

Next moment, with a click, Buddha’s seatbelt unbuckled, and he was thrown high into the sky by the Big Pendulum, screaming in a parabolic fall...

Although the process changed, the result remained the same: still only Buddha was thrown out.