Chapter 84: Let's Play Something Exciting

While pondering, Xu Yunzhou's sight swept over the brilliantly lit, slowly rotating Edo Dome City Ferris Wheel under the distant night sky.

The huge wheel outlined a dreamy halo in the night, forming a picture scroll full of vitality with the clamor and revelry of the amusement park below.

A thought flashed by.

"Hey, Ah Nuo."

Xu Yunzhou's voice rarely shed a few points of teasing, taking on a bit of gentleness.

"Mhm?"

Xu Nuo didn't even raise her head, her consciousness subconsciously calculating the most money-saving train route and time for the return trip.

"You..."

Xu Yunzhou's voice paused,

"How long has it been since you played purely and unbridledly like a normal girl?"

"Play?"

Xu Nuo repeated this word in her head.

Her eyes showed a momentary blankness and dimness, as if this was an unfamiliar and distant vocabulary that had long been removed from her life dictionary.

"Forgot."

She finally answered dryly, no emotion discernible in her tone.

"No way! I can't stand watching this anymore! Studying also requires sustainable development, if the string is stretched too tight it will break! Geniuses also need to relax! Objective temporarily changed—"

Xu Yunzhou instantly transformed into a bossy System,

"Take me to the amusement park, immediately, execute right now! Otherwise, high-voltage electricity awaits!"

Xu Nuo abruptly stopped her footsteps, subconsciously raising her head to look at that Ferris wheel with flowing light.

Her eyes were somewhat entranced, as if seeing through him to a long, long time ago, when a certain gentle figure also bent down like this and said to her:

"Nuo-nuo, no practicing piano today. Mom will take you to the amusement park to ride the carousel, okay..."

That image flashed by fleetingly, too fast to catch.

And so, they stood in front of this brilliantly lit dreamy kingdom in Odaiba, Nihon.

The colored lights of the Ferris wheel dotted the night sky like gems, the roller coaster tracks drew thrilling arcs, and the sweet aroma of takoyaki and crepes floated in the air.

There were also young girls wearing various JK uniforms and yukatas giggling and shuttling through it, full of the atmosphere of a Nihon manga-style youth story.

Xu Yunzhou waved his large hand, his heroic spirit reaching the clouds:

"Today, let's experience the daily life of a Nihon high school student!"

It was just that he quickly felt deep regret for this decision "full of humanistic care"—he finally personally experienced what the terrifying aspect of the [Limitless Will] talent was!

The picture he anticipated was Xu Nuo sitting in the slowly ascending Ferris wheel cabin, looking out the window at the night view spread out like a river of stars, being infected by this romantic atmosphere, and revealing a pure and yearning smile belonging to a sixteen-year-old girl...

The reality was:

Xu Nuo sat in the slowly ascending cabin, looking at the brilliant sea of lights outside the window.

She was quiet for a few seconds, then tilted her head, as if discovering some interesting phenomenon, and analyzed calmly:

"So looking from a height, the city's network topology is like this... The distribution density of signal base stations and the coupling degree of main traffic nodes are unexpectedly high."

"Mhm, this field of view and height is actually very suitable for thinking about the architecture problems of distributed system disaster recovery backups."

Xu Yunzhou complained crazily:

"??? Chotto matte! We are here to relax, not to work overtime, hey!"

(TL: "Chotto matte" is Japanese for "wait a minute".)

Xu Nuo blinked, her tone flat:

"Oh, then let's play something exciting."

Xu Yunzhou spoke stubbornly:

"Okay!"

Then, he saw Xu Nuo silently walk toward the super pirate ship attraction known as the "King of Centrifugal Force."

On the other end of the screen, Xu Yunzhou swayed violently along with the footage, feeling like a cat thrown into a tumbling washing machine, his soul shaking.

Next were the even more insane "Scream Flying Machine," "Vertical Drop to Hell," "Torrent Volcano Coaster"...

Playing through attraction after attraction, not only did Xu Nuo's face not change color, the corners of her mouth even occasionally curled into an extremely faint arc as if saying: "just this?".

When the drop tower plummeted at top speed carrying a terrifying whistling sound, the strong wind blew all the bangs on her forehead to the back of her head, yet she analyzed clearly in the wind:

"This G-value of the drop, plus the irregular tremors brought by wind resistance... mhm, very much like the cliff-like plunge shape of the monitoring curve when a server is under DDOS attack."

And outside the screen, experiencing all this from a first-person perspective, Xu Yunzhou was almost about to throw up the beef he just ate.

He felt like a noob playing a 3D game for the first time, only wanting to hug the trash can and sing "Conquer."

(TL: "Conquer" is a famous Chinese song by Na Ying, often used as a joke for admitting defeat or surrendering.)

"Stop! Yamete! Stop for a bit!"

Xu Yunzhou felt his soul was about to be flung out of the Earth,

"Ah Nuo ah, can we play some items fitting for your age? Like the carousel? Look how happily those kawaii girls wearing JK are playing!"

(TL: "Kawaii" is Japanese for cute.)

Xu Nuo lightly jumped down from the roller coaster that just stopped, which was known as the most thrilling in all of Nihon.

Casually smoothing her ponytail that was blown somewhat messy by the wind, she glanced at him with a look of "you're really a noob":

"No, you're already a ghost, without a physical body, and you're still afraid of these? Fine, seeing as you're so weak, we'll play at a gentler attraction for last."

Weak? Xu Yunzhou's brain couldn't turn the corner for a moment.

And so, near midnight, before the amusement park was about to close, Xu Nuo walked into that illustrious haunted house themed around "Hospital Vengeful Spirits," known to be able to scare people's guts out.

Five minutes later.

Xu Nuo expressionlessly walked past a staff member playing a Kuchisake-onna who pounced and screamed, and even kindly reminded:

"The viscosity of your fake blood isn't right, and the color shade is too bright. Real oxidized blood doesn't have this color and texture. Suggest adjusting the ratio of glycerin and pigment."

She turned her head to glance at Xu Yunzhou shivering behind her, who basically kept his eyes closed the whole time, and couldn't help but issue a soul-searching interrogation:

"No, you, a real ghost from Great Xia, are actually scared of these shoddily made fake ghosts of Nihon so much you don't dare to open your eyes?"

Xu Yunzhou:

"..."

You're the fucking ghost!

To me, this is simply like watching a 100% immersive 4DMAX panoramic-sound horror movie! What good person can stand this!

Also, are the nerves of you little brat made of vibranium mixed with titanium alloy? A haunted house was forcibly turned into an on-site product quality inspection by you!

He paused, his voice carrying a trace of indulgence and helplessness even he hadn't noticed:

"Forget it, forget it, I won't argue with you little monster. Tell me, what else do you want to play? Something normal!"

Xu Nuo's footsteps stopped beside a wooden rack hung full of prayer ema.

She looked up at that cold moon in the night sky. The moonlight was like water, spilling onto her overly fair face, outlining a fragile beauty.

She clearly spat out one word:

"Guns."

Pausing, she added, her tone carrying a seriousness and decisiveness beyond her age, her eyes shining astonishingly in the moonlight,

"Real guns. I want to learn how to shoot, want to learn how to assemble, want to learn maintenance. Teacher, can you teach me?"