Chapter 50
As expected, Shen Wu won the bumper car game with a crushing victory.
The light sign above his head displayed an astonishing number: 78.
And Xia Fanxing’s face was full of despair, “…”
The bumper car staff offered a reward of either a prop or a clue.
The wonderful clock Shen Wu already had could make a designated person stand still for ten minutes, but whether it could be used to turn the tide of the battle still depended on luck. Instead of using a prop to trick others, it was better to work harder himself.
He said without thinking, “I want the clue.”
“Okay…” The staff member paused and suddenly exclaimed in a theatrical manner, “Eh! We just received a new piece of news. I heard that Mr. Wonderful is in the amusement park. If you find him, you might get an unimaginable surprise!”
Shen Wu’s curiosity was piqued, “Mm?”
The staff member smiled with satisfaction, “Then, do you want a clue about the treasure, or a clue about Mr. Wonderful?”
Shen Wu understood. With his many years of gaming experience, he estimated that this was a key plot point that needed to be triggered by the guests, and he had just happened to catch it.
The surprise had fallen from the sky, but Shen Wu’s reaction was flat.
Meng Huaizhi said from the side, “Choose whatever you want. Don’t worry about anything else.”
The staff member’s smile stiffened slightly. He asked again, deliberately emphasizing the four words “Mr. Wonderful.”
Shen Wu frowned. He already knew that the treasure clue was a good thing that could double the value of the treasure, but the show’s team was insisting that he trigger an unknown plot.
Since Meng Huaizhi had said so…
“I want the clue about the treasure,” Shen Wu was not greedy.
“…” The staff member was silent for a few seconds and then put on a stiff smile again. “Mr. Wonderful might bring a bigger surprise. Are you sure you don’t want to think about it again?”
“Then… why don’t you just give them both to us?” Shen Wu boldly made a request and was also very confident. “Anyway, no matter how many times we play bumper cars, I’ll definitely win. Why waste time?”
The staff member stroked his chin, “That seems to make sense.”
He took out a phone and pretended to ask his boss. The person on the other end was most likely the director, Fang Ci.
After the consultation, he said to Shen Wu, “Alright, seeing that you’ve broken the highest record, I can give you a clue about the treasure and half a clue about Mr. Wonderful.”
At this moment, the bullet screen:
[Shen Wu, you kid, you look so honest, but you’re so good at tricking people. Although you’ll win no matter what, you have to pay an entrance fee to play bumper cars, right?]
[The NPC probably didn’t realize it, hahaha. You and your boss don’t seem very smart.]
Fang Ci: “…”
Shen Wu happily put the two clue notes into his pocket, planning to look at them after Nan Dengwei and Xia Fanxing had left.
Seeing that he was not sharing the clues, Nan Dengwei turned around and walked back into the bumper car area.
Xia Fanxing followed him, “By the way, there might be some treasures we haven’t found here.”
Shen Wu and Meng Huaizhi also returned the way they came.
Nan Dengwei looked at them and generously informed them, “We found that there are treasures at every amusement park ride, and also at the rides with tasks.”
Shen Wu suddenly realized that in the haunted house, the hidden treasures might have been found and taken away by Lin Yanran and the others.
And the structure of the bumper car area was very simple and could be seen at a glance. Besides the dozen or so bumper cars, there was a circle of shock-absorbing strips around it.
Three tires were stacked on top of each other, and groups of stacked tires were connected to form the shock-absorbing strip.
Those tires looked similar. A single tire was not light. Xia Fanxing chose to check the bumper cars, wanting to see if there were any treasures hidden inside. Nan Dengwei, on the other hand, went to check the tires.
They started moving without stopping. Shen Wu was still unhurried and stood in place.
Meng Huaizhi guessed, “You think the treasure is a tire?”
“Mm,” Shen Wu nodded, his gaze sweeping over the layers of tires.
Suddenly, he started to walk and confidently walked in a certain direction.
Nan Dengwei, on the other side, noticed their movement and rushed over. By the time he arrived, Shen Wu had already accurately taken one out of the pile of tires.
He flipped over the huge tire, revealing a price tag—[Tire: 500 yuan].
Xia Fanxing was both regretful and surprised, “How did you find it so accurately?” Is his luck that good?
Shen Wu showed him the tire in his hand, “Only this one is a hard-edged tire. The others are soft-edged tires, for shock absorption.”
Xia Fanxing reached out and poked the tire in his hand, then poked the others, “They’re not that soft. They feel about the same.”
“Of course,” Shen Wu said. “If the tires were too soft, how could they support a car that weighs several hundred pounds?”
Shen Wu was an expert in his field. This time, no one thought he was just lucky.
Nan Dengwei asked curiously, “How did you see it?”
“Different brands of tires, and tires used in different places, have subtle differences in their texture and pattern. You’ll know after you’ve seen enough,” Shen Wu said, and then used Meng Huaizhi next to him as a more easy-to-understand analogy. “It’s like music. If you mess up the arrangement of the notes, it will become a new song.”
Meng Huaizhi nodded lightly, “That’s right.”
Xia Fanxing didn’t understand and cooperatively showed a look of having been taught a lesson.
But he thought to himself, no matter how he looked at it, the soft-edged tire and the hard-edged tire looked exactly the same, right? At most, when he punched them, the pain would be slightly different.
The audience in the live broadcast room, on the other hand, did not hold back and directly typed their thoughts on the screen.
[I don’t believe Huai-ge can see it. He clearly didn’t even look.]
[Yes, in someone’s eyes, there’s only Wuwu. He said it was right without even looking.]
[Xingxing: I’ve contributed more than seventy points and it’s still not enough. Do I have to become a part of your play too?]
[MHZ, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just listen to what he says. If you take it seriously, you lose~]
Nan Dengwei pondered for a moment and made a request out of the blue, “This tire, can you give it to me?”
He paused and then added, “Give me the tire, and I won’t bother you anymore.”
Of course, Shen Wu would not find the enthusiastic and genuine Nan Dengwei annoying.
He was about to ask for Meng Huaizhi’s opinion when the latter spoke first, “You can give it to him.”
Nan Dengwei had been helping Shen Wu since the last episode’s inheritance saga, and Shen Wu was also willing to help him once. But no matter how he looked at it, Nan Dengwei was showing an overly positive attitude towards this tire that he found troublesome at first glance.
That was why he had hesitated.
Meng Huaizhi directly asked Nan Dengwei, “You have a clue about the tire, right?”
Nan Dengwei’s face changed slightly. After a moment, he actually smiled and frankly admitted, “Mm, I can buy the tire with gold coins.”
“No gold coins,” Meng Huaizhi refused flatly. “Exchange it with a treasure.”
Hearing this, Nan Dengwei lowered his head, fumbled in his pocket, and finally took out a rainbow lollipop and handed it to Shen Wu, “A 300 yuan lollipop, plus two gold coins.”
He was only willing to give a treasure and gold coins of equal value to the tire.
Meng Huaizhi snatched the lollipop, with a hint of an impatient eagerness, “Okay, then you can go.”
Nan Dengwei took the tire, looked at Shen Wu one last time, and left without any reluctance.
The audience who had been following the live broadcast for several episodes was the clearest about the undercurrents in the confrontation between the three.
[Xiao Nan: Although I’ve lost love, I must win the game.]
[Hahaha, go, Xiao Nan. I’ll be your career fan from today on.]
[Wuwu: Got a lollipop, happy alone.]
[LMAO, what is this kid so happy about?]
It was not convenient for Shen Wu to carry a lollipop with him during the recording of the show, and he couldn’t walk around with a plastic stick in his mouth. What would that look like?
Quitting smoking was a long battle. He had worked hard for several months and was no longer anxious due to the lack of nicotine. But if he didn’t have something in his mouth, he always felt that something was missing.
So much so that his eyes were shining as he stared at the rainbow lollipop.
But Meng Huaizhi lowered his hand and hid Nan Dengwei’s lollipop on the side where he couldn’t see it.
Nan Dengwei’s choice to exchange it with a lollipop was most likely intentional.
He and Shen Wu worked together on the film set and knew that Shen Wu had a habit of eating lollipops. If Shen Wu couldn’t resist and ate this lollipop, he would not only lose a 500 yuan treasure, but it would also be equivalent to eating the food he had given him.
“This kind of rainbow lollipop is all food coloring. It’s not good to eat,” Meng Huaizhi said. “Let’s go to the Miu Miu store, sell it, and then buy something else. I remember the store also sells food.”
Shen Wu came back to his senses and quickly denied, “…I don’t want to eat it!”
Meng Huaizhi must have some misunderstanding about him, thinking that he would drool over a game prop?
Meng Huaizhi chuckled and still said, “Mm, let’s sell it first.”
As the most frequent seller and customer of the Miu Miu store, the two of them sold the lollipop for five gold coins and spent them on the spot.
The clerk was very pleased, thinking that there could be more customers like this.
All the products in the Miu Miu store were priced exorbitantly, starting from 100 yuan. Meng Huaizhi made a decision on his own and bought a lollipop and a piece of chocolate, easily spending 200 yuan.
To get Shen Wu to take the lollipop, he handed it over with the chocolate, “You take it. Eat it when you’re hungry. The competition is four hours long, and the store sells food. They must have thought that we would be hungry and let us spend our money in the store.”
“I knew it!” Shen Wu took the two sweets indignantly. “They probably don’t even want us to take a single penny out. The sightseeing car can be paid for later, and you can get a loan for the tasks. Maybe someone will be in debt after the game is over.”
Meng Huaizhi looked at him with a smile, “Mm.”
“We still have 500 yuan left,” Shen Wu counted the gold coins. “Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?”
“No hurry. Let’s look at the clue from just now first.”
Shen Wu held the lollipop in his mouth and checked the clue from the bumper car game reward.
One was a clue about a treasure, a combination of a scarf and gloves. They had not seen these two treasures, so they put it aside for now.
The other was a clue about Mr. Wonderful, but the staff member had said that this was only half a clue.
Mr. Wonderful may appear in the following three locations:
A. Mermaid Fountain
B. Dream Castle
C. Rose Garden
The clue ended there.
“No wonder it’s half a clue. It’s letting us choose one out of three,” Shen Wu said.
They then went to check the map by the road to confirm the locations of the three places.
The Rose Garden was on the far right of the map, an area they had not yet explored, and the farthest from them.
The Dream Castle and the Mermaid Fountain were both in the central area of the amusement park, not far from each other. They had passed by before and remembered that if they stood high by the fountain and looked, they could even see the porch of the castle from the right angle.
The two of them immediately decided to go to the two locations A and B first.
The terrain around the fountain was open, with an uneven stone brick ground surrounding the mermaid statue fountain. There was no sign of the mysterious person.
But a snack stall by the road was open for business.
Shen Wu had thought that “Mr. Wonderful” might be one of the staff members. They walked over slowly, but the person did not hide or run, but was single-mindedly frying hot dogs, and did not look unusual.
When the staff member saw a customer, he greeted them loudly, “What would you two like to buy? It’s already twelve o’clock, time for lunch. If you’re hungry, you can come and try the Miu Miu Amusement Park’s special giant hot dog~”
Shen Wu smelled an extremely tempting aroma.
It was the wonderful taste of a mixture of sugar and oil, and the hot dog sausage and mozzarella cheese wrapped in the golden batter, continuously exuding the aroma of a mixture of meat and dairy products.
Just now, it was Meng Huaizhi who thought he was hungry. Now, it was he himself who was really hungry. The strawberry lollipop in his mouth suddenly became tasteless, and his nasal cavity was filled with the wonderful mixture of sugar and oil.
The staff member had just finished frying a batch of giant hot dogs. He picked one for himself first, held it up high and took a bite. The steaming cheese pulled out a long string.
Shen Wu’s Adam’s apple swallowed, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Teacher Meng, do you want to eat?”
Meng Huaizhi nodded, “Okay.”
But the staff member told them a bad news, “A freshly made giant hot dog, special price of 300 yuan each.”
He even pretended to say, “It’s a small business, and we operate with integrity~”
The remaining 500 yuan they had was at most enough to buy one hot dog.
“Then let’s buy one to try,” Meng Huaizhi made a decision. “It’s only the price of two and a half chocolates. I’m not hungry, you eat.”
Shen Wu gave three gold coins with a pained heart.
When he got the hot dog, he first politely handed it to Meng Huaizhi, “Do you want to try a bite first?”
Meng Huaizhi still refused, “You eat.”
Shen Wu no longer held back, chewed up the strawberry-flavored lollipop in his mouth and swallowed it. Then he blew on it and took a big bite of the hot dog.
He slurped a few times before he could roll all the long strings of cheese into his mouth.
Meng Huaizhi just stood by and watched him eat.
The bullet screen’s sharp review:
[This hot dog looks so delicious. I’m drooling too…]
[Huai-ge, are you really not hungry? Or are you full just by looking at Wuwu?]
[Huai-ge is probably full from love.]
[Hahaha, goddamn full from love.]
