The morning was not the peak time for the amusement park, so Lin Yan went to the secret room first and predicted a player's bad luck before taking the subway to the amusement park.
When they arrived at the amusement park, Lin Yan called Tang Mingxu's friend. About fifteen minutes later, a young man with a heroic appearance and a very different temperament from Tang Mingxu came out.
When she saw the person coming, Lin Xi's eyes lit up.
"I'm not Tang Mingxu's boyfriend." The other party seemed to know what Lin Xi's suddenly shining eyes meant, and explained quickly.
"Oh." Lin Xi immediately showed a look of regret.
"Why are girls nowadays so lesbian?" the man looked helpless.
"I'm just gossiping. I'm sorry. Please don't mind it." Lin Xi apologized quickly. Being mistaken for a gay must be quite upsetting for an ordinary straight man.
"It's okay, my name is Yang Dong." The man introduced himself.
"Hello, Brother Dong, my name is Lin Yan." Lin Yan also introduced herself.
"Put on this work badge and follow me in." Yang Dong handed Lin Yan a work badge, then greeted the security guard at the entrance of the amusement park, and took Lin Yan in through the side door. As they walked, Yang Dong explained the situation to Lin Yan, "The employees in the amusement park can come in directly from the side door, but they must report to the amusement park. Your job is considered a part-time job, so I didn't report it. When you come in next time, just call me in advance like today, and I'll pick you up."
"Thank you, it's so troublesome for you." Lin Xi thanked her repeatedly.
"It's just a small matter." Yang Dong took Lin Yan to move around the amusement park skillfully, passing by the roller coaster, passing the pirate ship, turning around the rapids and arriving at a rockery.
"This is the haunted house." Yang Dong pointed at the rockery.
Lin looked carefully and found that the rockery was not a real rockery, but a house made to look like a rock. The space was not big, only about 200 square meters. There was a dark door in front of the rockery, and there was an old plaque on the door with the words "haunted house" written in red paint. Perhaps to create a scary atmosphere, the words "haunted house" looked bloody, and with the dim environment, it was eerie. Next to the door stood a sign with the ticket price written in green fluorescent pen: 30 yuan/person.
"I never realized that there was a haunted house here before." Lin Yan went to college in Jin City for four years and had naturally been to the amusement park, but she had never realized that there was such a haunted house in the amusement park.
"I only took over the contract for this place last fall, and it was just renovated at the beginning of this year. I originally wanted to build a secret room like Tang Mingxu, but there were too many requirements for the amusement park, so I didn't succeed in the end, so I simply changed it into a haunted house." Yang Dong explained.
It turned out that it was just renovated this year. No wonder she didn't know about it. Lin Yan looked inside curiously: "Is it scary?"
"Do you want to go in and experience it?" Yang Dong asked.
"No, no." Lin Xi waved her hands repeatedly.
"I won't charge you any money."
"It's not about the money. I don't dare go in alone."
"You are an NPC in a secret room, and you are afraid of ghosts? If I remember correctly, there is a copy of the secret room where Tang Mingxu lives, which is a coffin shop." Yang Dong looked at Lin Yan in surprise.
“There is a difference between scaring others and being scared by others.” Scaring others is exciting and fun, but being scared by others brings excitement and fun to others.
"Okay." Yang Dong smiled and didn't force it. He pointed to a table next to the door and said, "Tang Mingxu told me to just prepare a table for you, so I prepared this for you. If you need anything else, I'll help you get it."
"It's OK. It's very good." Since she was asking others for help, Lin Xi didn't dare to make any more requests.
"Okay, then you stay here. I'll be busy inside first. If you have anything, just come in and find me."
"Well, can I borrow your dressing room to change clothes?" Lin Xi said embarrassedly.
"Of course, I'll take you there." Yang Dong took Lin Xi to the dressing room and left to do his own thing.
The dressing room in the haunted house was much scarier than the secret room. It was full of white bones, ghost masks, human internal organs and the like. Lin Yan was so scared that she changed her clothes as quickly as possible and ran out. After coming out, Lin Yan took out the big-character poster she had made overnight from her schoolbag, unfolded it, and pasted it on the side of her divination table. Then she took out the prop crystal ball and the cup she used for drinking water from her schoolbag and placed them on the table. The preparations were completed.
In the first half hour, Lin Xi was waiting for customers to come with great interest. However, after waiting for half an hour, no one came to tell fortunes. Lin Xi became a little bored and took out her mobile phone to surf the Internet.
It was unknown how long it had been before Lin Xi heard someone reading the big-character poster she had written.
"The witch is telling fortunes, only for bad luck. Ten dollars per time. If you are not unlucky, it's free. PS, lucky people should not come."
Lin looked up when she heard the voice and saw a sunny-looking boy who looked like a high school student. Lin smiled at him and continued to play with her phone.
"Hey, you don't want to do business?" Seeing that the witch ignored him and didn't seem to want to do business at all, the boy couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Yes." Lin replied.
"Why don't you say something and let me do your divination?" the young man asked.
Lin pointed to the big-character poster she had posted and asked, "What did I write on it?"
"It's a witch's divination."
"The second sentence."
"Just bad luck..." The boy paused and asked, "You don't mean to say that I am unlucky, do you?"
"If you are unlucky, you will be my client. I ignored you, which proves that you will not be unlucky." The young man was standing in front of her at this time. If he was unlucky, the lottery box would have been shaking long ago.
"So I am a lucky man?" The boy immediately became happy when he heard it.
"At least you won't be unlucky today." Lin Xi said affirmatively.
"Your promotional words are quite interesting." The boy suddenly became interested. "You said at the beginning that you only predict bad luck, and you also said that you don't want to pay if you are not unlucky. It's obvious that you don't want to do business. After all, who wants to spend money to get unlucky? But you wrote later that lucky people should not come, which makes people want to come and try. Your marketing method is very similar to the one on TikTok who sells watermelons by playing rock-paper-scissors. It looks like you are giving away watermelons, but you are actually making a lot of money."
At least he was very happy when he was judged to be lucky just now. This witch is very good at playing psychology.
Lin Yan didn't know how the big-character poster she wrote truthfully became a watermelon seller on Douyin. She didn't explain, but just said: "My lucky classmate, you are here to play in the haunted house, right? Go in quickly, it's really fun inside."
Lin Xi didn’t know whether the haunted house was fun or not, but since she had borrowed someone else’s place, she naturally had to brag about it.
"I'm waiting for my classmates..." As he said this, the boy suddenly heard someone calling his name. He turned around and saw five youthful boys and girls walking towards him, one of whom was a blond foreign boy.
"Ajie, what are you doing here? Have you bought the tickets?" As he spoke, five people had already come closer.
[Zhuo Lingxue, female, 17 years old, sprained her ankle because she ran too fast.]
[Corey, male, 16 years old, please see the crystal ball for details. ]
Um
What the hell is a crystal ball? Isn't system divination always fortune-telling
"You're so pedantic. I'm a divination system, not a fortune-telling system." There was a hint of arrogance in the system's cold voice.
But I have been using it for so long, and you have been telling fortunes all the time.
"This is the choice made by the system after combining the cultural background of the host's region. In the host's environment, the most popular way of divination is fortune-telling." said the system.
Lin Xi understood. What the system meant was that it could complete divination in any form. However, in China, people would habitually think of fortune-telling when they mentioned divination, so the system adopted the fortune-telling mode.
Then why did a crystal ball suddenly appear today
"Because of the second divination object, the most popular divination method in his environment is the crystal ball." System.
Didn't they say that they choose according to the environment the host is in? Did you immediately slap yourself in the face for what you just said
"I see you like the witch's outfit very much, so I'll cooperate with you." said the system.
Lin Yan was speechless. Well, she really liked the witch's outfit. It looked better and more mysterious than the Taoist robe. And more importantly, the witch's outfit was ready-made and could be used right away without having to spend money to buy it.
"It's so interesting. Let me give it a try. Sister Witch, do you think I'm unlucky today?" A lively female voice sounded above Lin Xi's head.
Lin Xi looked up and found that six high school students had surrounded her table tightly. The one talking to her was a playful girl with short hair. She was full of energy and made people feel happy just by looking at her.
"Want to tell fortunes?" Lin asked.
"Um."
"Have you read the instructions?"
"I've seen it. It only predicts bad luck. That means everyone you predict will be unlucky. I want to do it." said the girl.
"What if you are tricked? Don't you think it's unlucky?" Lin Xi felt that some things should be said in advance, otherwise if these six boys and girls suddenly come to trouble her, she really can't bear it.
"No, if the divination shows bad luck, then I can find a way to avoid it. And if the divination doesn't show bad luck, then it means I'm lucky today. It's a good thing no matter how you think about it, how can it be unlucky?" said the girl.
"Little girl, you are very smart at such a young age." Lin Yan admired this kind of optimistic and smart customer who could understand the inner meaning of her big-character poster. "Come, sit down, let this witch see if you are lucky today."
The girl grinned, immediately squeezed away the curious classmates, and sat on the chair: "Ten yuan, right? Where do you want to scan?"
The girl put it on as she was told and asked curiously, "What's next?"
The classmates behind her, including the boy from before, were also staring at the crystal ball curiously.
"Tell me your name." Everything Lin Xi did before was just a show, the only purpose was to ask for the name.
"Zhang Tian, Zhang the bow is long, and the sweetness of donuts." said the girl.
"Zhang Tian?" Since she was not a target customer, Lin Yan pretended to observe the crystal ball for about five seconds, and then happily announced to the girl, "Congratulations, you are a lucky girl."
Zhang Tian was delighted at first, then she was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is this the end?"
"Yes, you are very lucky and have no bad luck. You can go and you don't have to pay." Lin Xi firmly adhered to the principle of not asking for money as long as you are unlucky.
"You really don't charge any money?" Zhang Tian confirmed.
"I don't charge any money. Isn't it written all over it? I won't charge any money unless you bring me bad luck." Lin An was a little tired from explaining.
"It's really free, then I'll try it too." A cool girl pulled Zhang Tian up and sat on it herself, "Sister Witch, I want to have my fortune told, too."
"Put your hand on it and tell me your name." Lin Xi did it again.
"Zhuo Lingxue."
Lin Xi's eyes lit up, thinking that she was waiting for you, but she didn't show it on her face. She still pretended to observe the crystal ball for a while, and then she said mysteriously: "I saw it."
"What did you see?" Zhuo Lingxue became nervous, and the classmates behind her also became nervous.
"I saw you running fast... and then..."
"And then what happened?"
"I sprained my ankle." Lin Nan said.
"Ah? I just sprained my ankle." Zhuo Lingxue looked disappointed. Not only her, but the classmates behind her also looked bored.
Lin Yan silently rolled her eyes in her heart and asked back, "Spraining your ankle is not bad luck, do you want to be unlucky and break a bone or something?"
She had encountered this situation before in the secret room. It was okay at first, but later more and more people came to curse. Every time the NPC came out of the coffin to curse, those players would always show a disappointed expression. They looked like they wished they would suffer a great misfortune. They were courting death.
"Not really, it's just not exciting enough." Zhuo Lingxue explained.
"Yes, I thought I could predict something particularly mysterious." Zhang Tian also said.
"Ten dollars, thank you." Lin Xi was too lazy to explain to these suicidal teenagers, so she opened the payment code and handed over her mobile phone.
"You've earned ten dollars, that's so easy." Someone said from behind. Lin Xi didn't explain. She had guessed that some people would think she was cheating, but she made a living by her own ability, so she stood firm and let them say whatever they wanted.
Fortunately, ten yuan was not a lot of money, and Zhuo Lingxue did not bargain. He scanned the code and paid ten yuan on the spot.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the divination task. You will be rewarded with some merit points and ten yuan in divination fee." The system prompt sounded immediately.
The betting fee is ten yuan! Although it is only ten yuan, it sounds much better than zero yuan.
"Let's go, let's go to the haunted house. Take Corey to see the underworld of our China, the world of the dead." Someone shouted, wanting to enter the haunted house.
Corey? Lin Xi's eyes fell precisely on the blond foreign boy and she called out to them.
"My foreign friend, don't you want to have your fortune told?" The unlucky guy, no, the merit points, couldn't be allowed to escape. Moreover, she had never seen how the crystal ball could tell fortunes, and she was curious about it.
The young man looked at Lin Yan and said, "What? Do you still want to make money from us?"
"Money or not is a small matter. I see that his forehead is black, so he must be having bad luck. Why not do some divination?" Lin Xi said.
"Corey is white, how is he black?" Zhang Tian couldn't help but ask.
Girl, I was just praising your wisdom, why are you so foolish now? The forehead is dark, not the skin.
"Stop fortune-telling. I think she just wants to cheat people out of their money." Someone said to the young man.
"How about this, I've been fortune-telling for a long time and I haven't done it for a foreign friend yet, how about doing it for free?" The divination fee was originally written for fun, it didn't matter whether it was charged or not. But if it was written as free divination, there would be a lot of people joining in the fun, and Lin was afraid of exhausting herself. So after thinking about it, she wrote ten yuan.
As the saying goes, if you don't take advantage of an opportunity, you are a fool. After some explanation from her friend, the foreign friend understood what Lin An meant. She also showed great interest and took the initiative to sit down in front of Lin An.
"Tell me your name." Lin Xi asked as usual.
"What's your name?" Zhang Tian translated.
Lin Yan glanced at her and suddenly felt a little contempt. These high school students didn't think that a witch like her couldn't even speak such daily English.
“Corey￥%#￥… #” The foreign boy said a long string of English words, and Lin Xi only understood the first one, Corey.
Lin Xi nodded and pretended that she understood.
"Sister Witch, you must have understood Corey's full name. Do you want me to translate it for you?" Zhang Tian asked with a smile.
"I'm doing divination, don't interrupt me." Lin Xi rolled her eyes at her unhappily.
“Hahahaha…” Everyone saw that Lin Xi was feeling guilty and couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
At this time, Lin Xi was concentrating on watching a video and had no time to pay attention to the laughter of several people.
The moment Corey put his hand on the crystal ball, the black and gold sign tube in the system suddenly changed into a crystal ball. After a soft white light, the crystal ball showed a video. In the video, Corey was standing alone on the side of the road, holding a Chinese dragon-shaped candy man in his hand. He seemed to like the candy man very much and kept looking at it. At this time, a chubby little boy ran over, stepped on his right foot with his left foot, and fell down with a "click". The ball in his hand rolled out. The little boy cried loudly. Seeing this, Corey quickly picked up the child and went to the middle of the road to pick up the ball. At this time, a dilapidated van drove over and stopped right between the little boy and Corey. Then the door opened, and two burly men rushed down from it, covered Corey's mouth, and forcibly dragged him into the car. In just five seconds, the car drove away again. At the end of the scene, there is only a crying little boy on the road, the ball rolling back into the middle of the road, and a candy man that has been smashed to pieces.
Lin Yan was confused. What was going on? Was she kidnapped?!
There was a lot of information on the screen, but Lin Xi was a little confused. What kind of a crystal ball was this? It might as well be fortune-telling. At least the fortune would tell her directly what had happened.
"What did you see?" Seeing that Lin Yan was acting out of character this time and said nothing for a long time with an increasingly serious expression, everyone also became nervous.
Lin Yan thought about it and decided to tell the scene she saw in the video truthfully: "I saw you standing on the side of the road, holding a candy man in your hand, and then... you were dragged into the car. I suspect you were kidnapped. Please be careful."
Lin Xi really wanted to help, but she had not divined the time and place of the kidnapping. She only knew this fact, so she could only tell the other party the truth.
After Lin Xi finished her description, the scene suddenly became quiet.
"Well, actually we can give you money. You don't have to describe it in such an exaggerated way." Zhang Tian suspected that Lin Yan was exaggerating on purpose.
"Anyway, I've finished my divination. It's up to you whether you believe it or not. Go on to the haunted house and don't delay my business." Lin Yan was too lazy to explain, and couldn't explain clearly. She waved her hand and drove the high school students away.
Corey didn't understand Chinese, so he stood up and asked his companions curiously. Zhang Tian then translated Lin Xi's divination. When she finished translating, the prompt indicating that the divination was completed sounded.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the divination task. I will reward you with a little merit and 0 yuan for divination."
At the same time, the sound of several people discussing could be heard from afar.
“Is divination real?”
"It can't be true. She had to give a name when she was fortune-telling, but she couldn't even understand Corey's full name."
"Don't worry. Xiaoxue has also had a fortune-teller. We can tell whether she has sprained her ankle or not. If she has, we will go back immediately."
Lin Xi was relieved when she heard this. At least someone took the divination result seriously. Lin Xi did not rush to tell people to pay attention. My divination will definitely work. You must believe me. The more nervous you are about this kind of thing, the less people will believe it. Besides, she is not a savior. She has done her best to remind them.
Lin Xi quickly put the matter aside and continued to do divination. Although it was only the first day of business, the amusement park had a lot of customers. In just one day, Lin Xi had already divined for 30 unlucky people, half of whom avoided bad luck because of her divination, which also earned her 150 points of merit. Adding the 15 basic merit points, she almost earned enough merit points to repair the ruler in one day.
Lin Xi was extremely excited, but she did not repair the ruler immediately. To be on the safe side, she wanted to earn more merit points before repairing the ruler. She did not want to accidentally trigger the car accident mechanism again.
While Lin Xi was earning merits diligently, the boys and girls who had played in the amusement park all day and nothing happened had already forgotten Lin Xi's divination. After they came out of the amusement park, they were still not satisfied and planned to go to the night market together.
Corey saw the sugar figurine stall at the night market and was immediately attracted to it.
(End of this chapter)