Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle

Chapter 1362: Theme Park Extra (1) [Murder Mystery Crossover]

On Luo Jun’s 10th birthday, Chen Huihong proposed that all the spirits unanimously vote to celebrate Luo Jun’s birthday with a group outing to the Galaxy Script Theme Park in Xun City.

Luo Jun responded: You just want to visit the amusement park, so why use my birthday as an excuse? Don’t you know elementary school students also have homework to do? If I take two days off for the amusement park, who will do my homework?

Then Chen Huixi, with great loyalty, patted her chest and said she’d help Luo Jun with his homework. But in the end, because Chen Huixi couldn’t imitate his handwriting, Luo Jun still had to do the homework himself.

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Firstly, let’s take a look at the list of attendees for this visit to the amusement park for Luo Jun’s birthday party (sorted from spirits to humans):

Qin Huai, Luo Jun, Qu Jing, Chen Huihong, Zhao Cheng’an (Zhao Cheng’an persuaded Master Zhou through emotion, reason, crying, and beseeching to secure this extra leave), Shi Dadan, Cheng Gong, An Youyou, Chen Huixi, Ouyang, Qin Luo, and Mr. Xu.

The number of people isn’t that many. Gong Liang’s factory had issues, so he couldn’t come. Zhou Hu hadn’t woken up yet, so it was inconvenient to drag him along for Luo Jun’s birthday party. Wang Gen Sheng wasn’t interested in amusement parks and couldn’t make it because Luo Jun’s birthday is only two days apart from his granddaughter’s, which he couldn’t miss, so he regrettably was absent.

Upon seeing this lineup, Zhao Cheng’an expressed to Qin Huai his regret that Xia Mubing had passed away a few years earlier; otherwise, if she joined this wonderful team-building, she might have lived a bit longer.

Qin Huai held a skeptical attitude toward this.

It’s well known that Qin Huai’s powers aren’t under his own control. As Feifei, Qin Huai isn’t particularly aware of his abilities, let alone the somewhat variant abilities distributed among others.

Over the years, Qin Huai always thought Jiang Qi’s abilities were far superior to Jiang Feng’s. If Jiang Feng’s system was the Chef King Nourishing God System, then Jiang Qi’s system was undoubtedly the Communication with All Realms System, drawing characters from various worlds: humans, ghosts, spirits, mages, goblins, and even enabling shopping in highly advanced cyberpunk worlds.

Different worlds with the ability to use currency for payment — how is this currency converted?

Did the author not consider this when writing the story?

Though Jiang Qi’s system was somewhat absurdly powerful, the advantages were evident.

Qin Huai and others had excellent team-building locations. Initially, Qin Huai wanted to observe Jiang Qi’s abilities, visiting him annually for a cameo as a stalker. Once the Galaxy Script Theme Park opened, Qin Huai turned into a regular visitor for new experiences each year.

Whenever the amusement park added new attractions or underwent epic updates, everyone had a collective reason to participate in team-building.

This time, ostensibly to celebrate Luo Jun’s birthday, the real reason was due to the park’s previously unpopular train-themed hotel, now welcoming an epic update. Formerly stationary with only a few carriages, it’s expanded to a train-themed hotel with 12 carriages covering the entire park. From 9 AM to 9 PM, it traverses the park, interacts with toy performances on stage, and is expected to have deep integration with the Wizard Kaka area still under construction.

All this information was released on the Galaxy Script Theme Park’s official account.

Upon release, tickets for the train DahDah quickly became nearly impossible to get, even harder than tickets for Xue Village.

Previously, even without a new grand stage, the toy theater was already the park’s leading attraction. Any child who hasn’t seen the toy play feels embarrassed to say they’ve been to the Galaxy Script Theme Park. Since the amusement park launched a new mode two years ago, built a giant open-air stage for concerts, held former star toys’ graduation performances, and picked young owners, the toy drama performances moved to this open-air stage, becoming the park’s undisputed favorite attraction.

Now, the unpopular train DahDah will collaborate with the most popular attractions, and its popularity is predictable.

Initially harboring all Luo Jun’s inheritance, Qin Huai only wanted to be an ordinary rich person, using superpowers to buy all tickets for compartments inside the train DahDah for accommodation. Yet tickets were impossible to snag, even when trying through proxies.

After returning from studying in Germany, Qin Luo attempted using high-tech means and cheating software to snatch tickets but got banned.

Ultimately, Cheng Gong leveraged connections with Han Guishan, who directly called Jiang Qi for 4 carriage tickets. These 4 were all first-class carriages, with a compartment occupying half a carriage. The ticket price reached 5-digit figures, even surpassing Xue Village’s cottage prices, marking full experience and prestige.

This incident clearly showed that neither cash nor black technology, nor spirits nor humans, matched social connections.

This time, under the guise of celebrating Luo Jun’s birthday, Chen Huihong used her persuasive skills with Luo Jun’s parents and Zhang Shumei to secure a full three-day leave for Luo Jun, who is still a primary school student. At the same time, acting as a stumbling block on her daughter’s academic path, she secured three days off for Huixi, who’s already in high school, plus the weekend — four days total, with everyone planning to thoroughly enjoy the park.

They planned one day at the train DahDah, two days at Xue Village, and one day at the Magic Castle.

Apart from Xue Village, where Qin Huai relied on his superpowers to get tickets, the other two were arranged through Han Guishan’s help.

It goes without saying, President Han’s connections are seriously formidable.

Jiang Qi’s system originated from Qin Huai, yet Qin Huai never uttered a word to Jiang Qi till now.

This lifetime, Luo Jun’s birthday was on May 25th. On the evening of May 24th, Qin Huai and company departed from Shan City to Xun City by plane.

On the plane, Qin Luo kept flipping through saved screenshots of Wang Xinghua’s reviews on Little ○ Book.

They included detailed assessments and guides of various amusement park facilities, even mentioned which souvenirs were must-buys, recommended buys, or purchases only for the wealthy. Moreover, Wang Xinghua’s reviews had the personal bias of ranking the theater as the most worthy attraction, even above the toy performance stage.

Qin Huai knew a bit about Wang Xinghua. After analysis by Qin Huai and many spirits, Wang Xinghua was likely a Half Ghost King drawn from one of Jiang Qi’s earlier purchased scripts, but now evidently human. Previously, she performed as a ghost in haunted houses, and lately she focused on literature creation, being responsible for promotional copy and script writing in the park. She wrote numerous Kunqu opera scripts with handsome royalties — an exceptionally cultured ghost.

In terms of writing skills, Wang Xinghua’s writing was absolutely impeccable.

Qin Luo was on the plane, her eyes wide open, unable to believe that such a wonderful amusement park existed in this world.

"Bro, is everything written here true?" Looking at Qin Luo’s expression, she deeply felt that four days of playtime was way too short; she should play in the amusement park for 40 days.

"The theater performances all feature famous actors, and Little Bailing’s touring performances abroad are hard to get tickets for, but here they perform every day."

"The Galaxy Theme Park has large real-life interactive script shows daily, and there’s an app-based mini-game that can be connected to play together. The adventure on desolate stars can involve digging through trash for a whole day, with over 100 different endings in the Federation Redemption, and the spaceship experience offers an immersive outer space journey."

"The terrifying Doll House offers an immersive ghost house experience, capable of scaring anyone to tears with its highest difficulty level."

"The Toy Stage has uninterrupted drama performances featuring various toys, with the script updated every week."

"The Magic Castle truly has an entire castle, full of interactive gadgets and props. There are various magic classes, each with a different schedule from Monday to Sunday, and the hidden surprises haven’t been completely explored yet. There are often time-limited plots and time-limited challenges."

"The amusement park even has top lecturers for graduate-level advanced math, with a recommendation rating of five stars. Many fresh graduates want to catch some fairy charm and choose to rent houses near the amusement park for exam prep ???"

"In the Magic Academy, the instructor for Fire Magic classes will throw fireballs, and the fireballs will explode?! Bro, is this true?"

"The second most terrifying ghost house in the park is the art gallery, a mechanical ghost house with many devices and very few NPCs. What’s so scary about a mechanical ghost house with few NPCs?"

"Even the trash bin is a must-see item, allowing visitors to experience the post-modern art style of trash cans. Why isn’t there an accompanying picture?"

While looking, Qin Luo muttered softly, sounding like complaints, but her eyes were practically glued to the phone screen.

"These evaluations aren’t worth watching; they’re easy spoilers. We’ve played all the items, and every new project at the Galaxy Script Theme Park, we go and play once. Luoluo, if there’s anything you particularly want to play or don’t understand, let us take you; that’s much more useful than reading evaluations." Qin Huai said kindly.

Qin Luo looked up at Qin Huai: "Bro, why have you never taken me to play over the years?"

Qin Huai: ...

"You’ve been in undergrad for so many years, and haven’t returned home in years. How could we take you?"

Qin Luo: ...

Finally graduating, Qin Luo didn’t know how many snacks she had missed these years, always comforting herself inside that graduating is succeeding, and the hardships she bore will pay off. Yet, unregretful, Qin Luo left tears of regret in her heart.

"Bro, looking at this mini-blogger’s reviews, I feel this amusement park is enormous with many projects, and most are interactive with plot. Can we play them all in four days?" Qin Luo asked again.

"Under normal circumstances, it’s definitely impossible to play them all. Just trying to experience everything in the Magic Academy would take seven days, as its class content differs from Monday to Sunday."

"The Galaxy Theme Park has many immersive projects, with numerous performances daily. Each project has dozens to hundreds of different endings; it couldn’t be completed in a month."

"Near the amusement park, a resort is being built, and the first phase was completed last year. I heard people are buying houses in the resort to play for two to three months, and even after playing two to three months, they can still find new plots in certain projects."

"Four days will just cover the surface."

Qin Luo: QAQ

"Why are we only playing for four days this time?"

"Because Chen Jun and Huihui have to go to school."

"Bro, can I stay and play for a few months while you all go back first?"

Qin Huai smiled slightly: "No."

"Why not?"

"You forgot, when you graduated and came back, you patted your chest and made grand promises to your parents that you’d come back from Germany, determined to make a career, never to become a freeloading rich younger sister."

"The gym you co-founded with Ouyang is opening next month, and you haven’t started the planning for the next quarter of Qin’s Steamed Bun Shop. Where’s the time to play for months at the amusement park?"

Qin Luo: =͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇)

Once again, Qin Luo left tears of regret in her heart, regretting why she had a sudden urge to strive hard when she returned to the country instead of becoming a freeloading pampered daughter. Clearly, the family could afford that life.

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