Under normal circumstances, hiding in a corner is very unsafe. If someone bumps into you, you can only defend passively, with no room to dodge.
But Mu Anqi observed for a moment and saw that there were no other players participating in this round.
That meant these ghosts didn't have any strange or unusual items, weapons, or abilities! In that case, if they huddled together in the corner, they could attack from a distance as much as they wanted!
"Do you have any long-range attack items?" Si Suying took out a handful of crudely made clay hand grenades from her backpack. "I made these myself, the stability is decent."
"?! You can actually make items yourself?" Mu Anqi was shocked.
"When I drew an item, I got The Basic Method for Making Clay Hand Grenades. After reading it, the training field activated a crafting tutorial," Si Suying said. "Although the craftsmanship is crude, the cost-performance ratio is pretty good." If she bought the materials in Nirvana Paradise, 5 points could make 10 grenades. But because her skill level wasn't high, her success rate was only 80%, though it was still worth it.
When her grenade-making level improved in the future, or when she unlocked other skill books and accumulated enough points, Si Suying also planned to rent a stall to sell her goods.
"…When the game's over, add me as a friend!" Mu Anqi said sincerely. "I'll be your loyal customer!"
"…," Si Suying nodded, which counted as agreeing. "Want some now? Special price, one point each."
Mu Anqi readily reported her trade serial number and spent 10 points to buy 10 clay grenades. On the other side, Zhao Guogu gritted her teeth and temporarily bought 5.
With the music playing, the game officially began!
Mu Anqi didn't even control her bumper car. With her left hand, she used the candy cane's hot syrup to block others' vision and disrupt their movement paths, while her right hand rapidly fired shots at the undercarriage of the bumper car closest to her. She was using regular bullets. After five gunshots, before the ghost driving the bumper car could even clean the syrup off its face, the car went "bang" and exploded into fireworks.
The ghost in charge of the bumper car ride was dumbfounded—this was… way too fast.
While Mu Anqi was shooting, Zhao Guogu and Si Suying quickly pulled the pins from the grenades in their hands and threw them out. After a short countdown, a series of violent explosions erupted across the bumper car arena! Si Suying didn't even know whose throw had taken out which car.
…But Zhao Guogu knew—because she was blessed by incredible luck.
The ghosts here were all driven mad with rage from the explosions. They united and began charging toward Mu Anqi and the others' corner, but their anger made them completely incapable of coordinated attacks. Two ghosts' bumper cars collided with each other, and with a loud "bang," they exploded into fireworks at the same time.
As for those who had managed to get just a little closer to Mu Anqi—close enough to press the attack button and pop out their spike attack… that tiny bit of distance still became an unbridgeable chasm. Mu Anqi sweetly spoke out a perfectly sincere blessing, and the ghost, watching his near-at-hand opportunity slip away, suddenly and involuntarily stood up inside his bumper car and gave Mu Anqi a 90° bow.
Mu Anqi returned his smile, then casually fired a bullet over her shoulder, blowing up his car and taking his token.
In this large bumper car arena, each round of the game would have 20 bumper cars in play. The ghosts' favorite sight was seeing players chased into a pitiful mess, finally surrounded and blown up into fireworks with hatred still in their hearts! However, in this round, everything had changed.
Outside the bumper car arena, the tourist ghosts who had been craning their necks and standing on tiptoe with expectant smiles slowly froze in expression. The ghost in charge at the gate watched one firework explosion after another and turned to request backup from the repair crew. As for the few ghosts who had almost squeezed into this bumper car round, they now wore relieved smiles for having narrowly escaped disaster.
Those smiles stayed on their faces until the game ended—right up until they realized that the three players had no intention of getting out of their cars.
The ghost in charge said, "…Um, this round is over, you should get off and collect your tokens now." He looked at the seventeen bumper cars that had been scrapped normally, then at the three motionless players, and a bad feeling crept over him.
"This game is really fun, we'd like to play a few more rounds," Mu Anqi said with a smile. "Please help us collect the tokens for now, and we'll take them all together when we're done later."
The ghosts who had just been looking relieved suddenly cracked.
"But… if you want to continue, you'll have to wait a moment. We need to repair the bumper cars," the ghost in charge said with difficulty. Because this was a normal scrapping under the bumper car game rules, players didn't need to pay any extra service fee. But with seventeen cars… they'd have to call in extra staff to handle the repairs.
"That's fine, we can wait!" Mu Anqi said, shooting a bell-shaped hard candy from her candy cane into her mouth, then asking Zhao Guogu and Si Suying before giving them each some soft candy and cotton candy.
The ghosts waiting at the entrance suddenly began loudly chatting among themselves: "Huh? You're going to the bathroom? Perfect, I need to go too! Let's go together!"
"You're hungry? Me too! There's a burger place at the west restaurant that's super good, let's go!"
"Want some milk tea? My treat!"
Some of the ghosts were strangers one second, and the next they were chatting warmly with arms over each other's shoulders, tacitly quickening their pace to leave the bumper car queue area.
In just the short repair time, the bumper car queue area was completely cleared of ghosts.
Seeing this, the ghost in charge felt an indescribable bitterness in his heart. If it were other players being so domineering, he definitely wouldn't be able to swallow it and would call for stronger ghosts to come take back the venue. Of course, he couldn't go too far either.
…But this—this player carried General Ji's aura. Clearly, she was the "little money tree" General Ji had recently recruited.
The ghost in charge silently wept in his heart, yet couldn't help but admire her: As expected of General Ji's money tree—she was completely different from the usual kind of money tree!
After the bumper car area had been cleared once, the ghosts who had witnessed these bizarre players slipped away. But the amusement park had a huge flow of ghosts, and those coming from other attractions saw that there was actually no one in line for the bumper cars? Looking again, the bumper cars were already repaired, with no sign of what had happened earlier.
Whoa! There were actually three players already waiting in this attraction?! Wasn't this like a VIP experience falling straight from the sky!
—A wave of naïve ghosts, overly excited, rushed into the queue area, afraid that if they were late, they wouldn't be able to earn this heaven-sent extra income of emotional value. The ghosts who were a step too late stomped their feet in frustration in the queue area, and one ghost even accidentally shook its head right off.
Zhao Guogu once again bought 5 grenades from Si Suying. Si Suying wondered why Zhao Guogu didn't buy more. Zhao Guogu gave a shy smile. "I'm embarrassed to eliminate too many ghosts." She was afraid Si Suying might get upset, and then she wouldn't be able to leave the bumper car arena alive.
"?" For the first time, an indescribable doubt appeared on Si Suying's usually cold expression. She looked at Zhao Guogu, her face practically spelling out "Is something wrong with you?" But she didn't say it aloud. After that glance, she quietly looked away, politely keeping silent.
The second round of bumper cars once again became the ghosts' nightmare. Most of the ghosts in the amusement park were low-level underworld spirits, and most of them hadn't yet mastered any special abilities. As for manipulating yin energy for ranged attacks… they could, but it wasn't as fast as bullets. In the bumper car game, abilities like phasing through walls or stealth were useless—they couldn't leave the bumper cars.
And so they became moving targets.
The ghosts were utterly devastated. They couldn't figure out why these players had guns, why the gun-wielding player had so many bullets, and why the player in the back had an endless supply of grenades!
Were they really playing bumper cars, and not some kind of "extreme firepower dodge" game?
The ghosts, who had always ganged up on and frightened players in the amusement park, squeezing every last drop of emotional value out of them, finally experienced the crushing feeling those players once had.
When the second round ended, the ghosts fled in despair. The bumper car arena was once again cleared out.
The ghost in charge glanced at the three players sitting steady and unmoving in their bumper cars, wanting to say something but stopping, and finally let out a useless sigh. Fortunately, the repair staff who had been called earlier hadn't left yet, so they could just continue repairs.
After these two rounds of ghost abuse, even the other ghosts who had no idea what was going on were given a "friendly" reminder by some "kind-hearted" ghosts. And so, Mu Anqi and the others waited half an hour, but the bumper car queue area remained completely empty.
With a sigh, Mu Anqi and the others finally left the bumper cars and went to the ghost in charge to collect their respective tokens.
They had eliminated a total of 34 ghosts. Among them, Mu Anqi eliminated 19, Zhao Guogu eliminated 8, and Si Suying eliminated 7.
This result left Si Suying utterly shocked. Zhao Guogu had clearly only thrown five grenades each time—so how did she manage to take out 8 ghosts?!
And among those 8 ghosts, there was even one who had five tokens!
"Uh, I think I mentioned before that my ability is innate fortune, right?" Zhao Guogu gave a shy smile, raised her hand to take the 30 tokens, and then took out three to return to Mu Anqi. "Interest!"
Si Suying: "…" She took a deep breath, finally understanding why Zhao Guogu only ever needed five grenades. With that terrifying 80% chance of stealing kills… if she asked for more grenades, Si Suying felt she might as well have come here for nothing.
Si Suying received 18 tokens and also picked out three to give back to Mu Anqi.
Mu Anqi, who had eliminated 19 ghosts, looked at the list given by the ghost in charge with the same expression as an old man on the subway looking at his phone. She had taken down 19 ghosts—so why did she only end up with 39 tokens? No way, right? No way! Zhao Guogu got 30 tokens from just 8 kills—was this the damn luck of the Europeans?!
Mu Anqi looked at the 50 tokens in her hand in total, unsure… if it would be enough to get an S-rank.
"Now that everyone can clear the stage, um… do you still want to keep trying out the attractions?" Mu Anqi scratched her head and asked, "Just to be safe, I don't know how many tokens are needed for an S-rank, but having more is always more reassuring. It's not dark yet, so how about I treat you both to a meal first?"
Zhao Guogu and Si Suying exchanged a glance and nodded in unison.
With such a powerful control-type player around, who wouldn't want to farm a few more tokens in this dungeon and try for an S-rating? That meant a whole 1,000 points! Since entering this game, Zhao Guogu had never seen such a huge sum.